14 DAY TRIAL // The Xiaomi Mi Note Pro has been barely out into the sunshine and we’re already hearing reports that the phone is overheating. Does that sound familiar to you?
After months of waiting, Xiaomi has finally made its Mi Note Pro flagship available for purchase on the Chinese market. The handset was the second to be announced with the pesky Snapdragon 810 chipset under the hood, which has the fame of overheating quite a lot.
But Xiaomi waited that long to launch the phone on the market so that it could fix the issues the Snapdragon 810 had been plagued with.
In the end, the Mi Note Pro was fitted with a revised version of the Snapdragon 810 chip, referred to as v.2.1. The silicone piece was put through benchmarks and showed improved performance, almost as high as that of the Exynos 7420 inside the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge.
The performance increase has been said to be caused by an improved clock speed and better thermal management, which implies the chipset doesn't throttle so much and can function at its full potential.
Xiaomi has also said the Mi Note Pro can maintain a decent operating temperature of 36.3 degrees Celsius (97.3 F) in 20 minutes of gaming.
Snapdragon v.2.1 didn't help
Poor Xiaomi applied for five different thermal patents that were designed to prevent the overheating problems, but Snapdragon 810’s tendency to get overly warm didn't go away.
Some users of the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro are now reporting that the phablet has overheating issues. Even as the device has barely made it out into the world, we’re already hearing stories about units failing completely with burned motherboards (as seen at Gizmo China).
Others say they have been shipped units with burned-out screens, or displays that don’t recognize touch inputs. Some have been saying the phone badly overheats while charging. Ooops.
Among all this drama, Qualcomm has been heard countless times refuting the overheating issues saying that the chip never caused any problems on any commercial device. Customers, however, beg to differ.
All in all, the Snapdragon 810 might actually not be the real culprit here, but since Xiaomi hasn't said anything about the problem, we can only guess.