14 DAY TRIAL // Sony’s current global flagship, the Xperia Z3+, is one of those phones that was released with a Snapdragon 810 chipset on the inside.
Naturally, shortly after being rolled out into the wild, we’ve started hearing reports that the Xperia Z3+ overheats. Sony, for its part, has tried to fix things by launching a small software update to fix these problems. The company was also forced to throttle performance on the device, in order to maintain acceptable temperature levels.
But the lucrative folks at the xda-developers forum have managed to discover a workaround to resolve the throttling.
Is your Sony Xperia Z3+ overheating?
A user of the aforementioned forum has found that using simple kitchen foil and a case for the phone might help with the performance drop. Six layers of foil were applied on the back of the handset and were held in place with the help of an Xperia Z3+ case.
He then proceeded to run several benchmark test on the phone, first on its own (no foil or case attached), then with a case attached, and lastly with foil inside the case.
The results showed that the performance drop is lower when the handset is covered in layers of foil. With no foil included, the performance was 75% in the initial test, while with foil, 80% of the initial performance test was maintained.
Another user claims he obtained similar performance benefits using copper foil.
So, in case you have been experiencing similar overheating troubles on your Xperia Z3+, you could go ahead and try this DIY method. But keep in mind that if you decide to utilize this solution, you’ll not be able to use NFC.
Sony’s Xperia Z3+ has been a pretty big fiasco. Putting aside the Snapdragon 810 and its issues, Sony hasn’t really bothered to add any real changes to the Xperia Z3+ compared to the Xperia Z3.
To redeem itself, the phone maker is prepping to launch new flagship products which will apparently make a debut online as the Xperia S60 and Xperia S70. The phones will apparently become available on the market as early as mid-August, before IFA 2015. We’re pretty curious to see what Sony managed to cook up.
