iPhone Temperature Warning Screen Discovered!

**sayam** · 05-09-2009, 07:06 AM

We've seen various weird iPhone screenshots before, including that of the Prototype OS, but this one is nice and new... and hot.

A guy named Jeff posted a screenshot of the iPhone indicating the iPhone got overheated. There's no doubt if it's fake or real as the same can be found even in the Apple Knowledge base, but most of us have never actually seen it.

Don’t sit next to a pool in Scottsdale Arizona when it’s 104 degrees or your iphone will melt away! So how to fix it fast? I put the iPhone between 2 cold beers and it worked!

If you've seen this screen before, let us know about your experience!

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**LastSonOfKrypton** · 05-09-2009, 07:16 AM

I've seen it before but that was googling for a lockscreen background. I just wrote it off as being fake...Damn!

**Shady6** · 05-09-2009, 07:20 AM

I've seen it. I left my phone in the car and when I finally realized it was there and got it out it was so hot I could barely touch it. It took about 20 mins to cool down enough for the warning screen to go away and be usable again. The whole time I was in panic mode thinking I cooked it was gonna have to get a new one.

Luckily it seems to still work fine.

**mooncheese** · 05-09-2009, 07:23 AM

Yeh hade the same screen before accidently kept it in the car on obviosly hot day was like grabbing a tray out the oven, actually drop the fone and cracked the screen had to go get myself a new phone

**Zamphire** · 05-09-2009, 08:39 AM

For a while I was using my phone for internet connection and the only way I could get 3G was by taping it to my window. My window faces the East, so during our hot days the sun would beat down on the phone. That coupled with the natural temperature from the iphone working on 3G it would get this screen often.

**ibo2001** · 05-09-2009, 08:48 AM

its true , i worked on localizing the iPhone , and i found this text.

**tattoojack** · 05-09-2009, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Zamphire

For a while I was using my phone for internet connection and the only way I could get 3G was by taping it to my window. My window faces the East, so during our hot days the sun would beat down on the phone. That coupled with the natural temperature from the iphone working on 3G it would get this screen often.

lmao
tape it to the window???
that is toooo funny.
and your sig has "the 1.1.3 jailbreak tutorial"???
thats old school yo!
man, the crap we go through for this phone.
i have never seen the overheated lockscreen. thank god!
but i can relate to the pullin it out of an oven from bein in a car on a hot day comment.

**wolverinemarky** · 05-09-2009, 10:14 AM

wow never seen this screen before but its just now getting hot here so maybe it will come up sooner then later i dont know, going to cali next month and everyone has been telling me how hot it was so will let u know if it pops up

**qwe11rty22** · 05-09-2009, 10:28 AM

um...what about the guys iphone that melted, burning his leg.

he didnt get this message; at least it wasnt in the story..

lol

**adsonjustin** · 05-09-2009, 10:32 AM

hey I'm from Scottsdale Arizona... Interesting... Nope have never seen this screen, and I hope I never will. But then it gets hot in arizona.

**BIMPtacular** · 05-09-2009, 10:47 AM

I had that happen to me the first day I brought my 3g home. I was jailbreaking and restoring my apps, then I saw that screen. All I had to do is turn off my phone for about 10 min and it was fine after that......I haven't seen that temp warning since!

**sayam** · 05-09-2009, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by qwe11rty22

um...what about the guys iphone that melted, burning his leg.

he didnt get this message; at least it wasnt in the story..

lol

exactly what i thought of!

**afkrazy** · 05-09-2009, 11:05 AM

I've seen this screen before. I accidentally left my phone on my bed where I have it charging. This particular time I also left it in my heating blanket. When I picked it up it was really, i mean really hot! I took the case of and put it under a fan.

**steveleepete** · 05-09-2009, 11:08 AM

it's real. tanning in my backyard listening to music on my phone...all the sudden the music stopped so i thought someone was calling...phone had the damn temperature warning. tanning session ended...

**mfleigle** · 05-09-2009, 11:15 AM

It's definetly real here are the strings inside the springboard.strings file:

<key>THERMAL_ALERT_STRING</key>
<string>iPhone needs to cool down
before you can use it.</string>

There is also a file you can edit if you want to disable the alert:
private\var\preferences\SystemConfiguration\OSTher malStatus.plist

I only have this file on my 3G not 2G

**WalkingBird** · 05-09-2009, 11:53 AM

Well iguess its real... Hope it doesnt happen all the time when 3.0 and tethering are released, like the early days of PDA-Net when it overheated the iPhone! by the by does anyone know someone that can put my iPhone UDID on their dev account???

**bigdrdok** · 05-09-2009, 11:57 AM

YEA I LIVE IN ALASKA AND I GET THIS SCREEN ALL THE TIME...HAHAHAHAHA

**Fallguy** · 05-09-2009, 12:09 PM

I took mine in a sauna once . Never got this message , I got kicked out because I still had my clothes on . LOL

**Dash-2** · 05-09-2009, 01:15 PM

Weird. I've got a friend in Scottsdale, Arizona. And I am going down there for Dane Cook later this month! I'll be careful

**joey00760** · 05-09-2009, 01:39 PM

I used a cradle in my car where my iphone sits on my dash and have seen this before as well
worried but your right in about 20 min it restarted and works normally
:-)

Totally not a fake

Palm Springs here where it is hotter than AZ

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