POCO F3 GT heating issues acknowledged by the company; fix coming soon

Jeet — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:44:37 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, Xiaomi-backed POCO launched its new POCO F3 GT smartphone which is a gaming edition of the POCO F3 and comes powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 processor.

However, some users are facing heating issues on the POCO F3 GT smartphone. The device gets a bit warmer than usual during regular usage and but quickly heats up when gaming. Not everyone seems to be having this problem. For some, the device gets too hot to use while for others, it just gets warm.

After getting complaints from users, the company has acknowledged the heating issues on the smartphone with the latest edition of the MIUI Bug Report For Poco Devices. It says that POCO F3 GT faces heating issues on MIUI 12.5.4.0.RKJINXM and will be addressed with an upcoming “temperature control strategy update”.

Currently, the company has not revealed any timeline for rolling out a fix for the heating issues but it’s likely that the update will be rolled out in a few weeks. Do note that this is just speculation and there’s no guarantee when the update will be released.

The smartphone features a 6.67-inch OLED screen that offers a Full HD+ resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, a 480Hz touch sampling rate, 500nits brightness, 10bit colors, and has a Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top.

In the camera department, there’s a 64-megapixel main camera with an f/1.65 aperture, an 8-megapixel superwide lens with a 120-degree FOV, and a 2-megapixel macro camera. On the front side, the phone features a 16-megapixel selfie camera.

Under the hood, the device is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 1200 and comes with up to 8GB of LPDDR4x RAM and up to 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The device runs on MIUI 12.5 flavored Android 11 and packs a 5,065mAh battery with 67W fast charging, Quick Charge 3.0, and USB PD 3.0.

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POCO F3 GT heating issues acknowledged by the company; fix coming soon