My phone heats up from tethering... Wifi+3G are both on full use..
It never got HOT... just WARM....
It never got HOT... just WARM....
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Tethering may physically harm your iPhone
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I had the first gen iPhone, and the phone would get pleasantly warm when surfing for a while, but this was nothing like I'd ever felt from my phone. While I never got a system warning, the app would crash and the phone wouldn't charge until it cooled down. Crazy stuff, I use it sparingly obviously.
SSH Encryption?
I made the same opservation, with iPhoneModem, the iPhone would get very hot and run down the battery rapidly, while now I use pdanet and the phone is just warm.
My explanation is that iPhoneModem uses an encrypted connection via ssh to tunnel data to the iPhone and back, so both sides have to encrypt all the traffic which is no problem for the Mac, but for the iPhone it can be demanding, maybe.
That would explain it becoming hot and of poor battery life with iPhoneModem, while with Netshare and Pdanet, communication goes non encrypted and therefore needs less processing power on both ends.
Anyway, that threat here got me aware of Pdanet, great little program, now I wish I could somehow "store" an ad-hoc network, it always goes away when I close everything on both side and to create a network, as easy as it is each time, is still not the "push that big button an boom" feeling I want from my Apple machinery
Any help on that?
I made the same opservation, with iPhoneModem, the iPhone would get very hot and run down the battery rapidly, while now I use pdanet and the phone is just warm.
My explanation is that iPhoneModem uses an encrypted connection via ssh to tunnel data to the iPhone and back, so both sides have to encrypt all the traffic which is no problem for the Mac, but for the iPhone it can be demanding, maybe.
That would explain it becoming hot and of poor battery life with iPhoneModem, while with Netshare and Pdanet, communication goes non encrypted and therefore needs less processing power on both ends.
Anyway, that threat here got me aware of Pdanet, great little program, now I wish I could somehow "store" an ad-hoc network, it always goes away when I close everything on both side and to create a network, as easy as it is each time, is still not the "push that big button an boom" feeling I want from my Apple machinery
Any help on that?
When I tether my iPod touch to my pc with iPhone tunnel suite, it gets kinda warm, and i let it rest for awhile, but it has never gotten too hot.
i am afraid i will ruin my iPod by keeping it on too long and letting it get too warm in my hands, but my iPod has never gotten too hot to the point where I think i need to stop tethering.
i am afraid i will ruin my iPod by keeping it on too long and letting it get too warm in my hands, but my iPod has never gotten too hot to the point where I think i need to stop tethering.