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The manufacturer is supposed to limit either the hardware or the software to prevent the CPU from running at a speed that would generate enough heat to do that.
If for some or other reason it did overheat, there should be a fail-safe to cut the power so as to prevent it from getting hotter and damaging something.
Either your phone is a dud or the HTC Vivid is poorly designed and has none of the aforementioned methods of protection.
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If you rooted it and overclocked it, then it's your own fault (and not covered by the warranty)
...otherwise I'd send it in and see what they have to say about it.
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If it's still covered under warranty I'd actually keep going to see if I can burn it out, then send it in and get a new one that's hopefully not prone to overheating.
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Yeah. It's not supposed to do that.
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The manufacturer is supposed to limit either the hardware or the software to prevent the CPU from running at a speed that would generate enough heat to do that.
If for some or other reason it did overheat, there should be a fail-safe to cut the power so as to prevent it from getting hotter and damaging something.
Either your phone is a dud or the HTC Vivid is poorly designed and has none of the aforementioned methods of protection.
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If you rooted it and overclocked it, then it's your own fault (and not covered by the warranty)
...otherwise I'd send it in and see what they have to say about it.
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If it's still covered under warranty I'd actually keep going to see if I can burn it out, then send it in and get a new one that's hopefully not prone to overheating.