Due to an (un)lucky coincidence I have a mixture of questions, ranting and GA that are all related to the topic of heat... More or less... Well... Don't question this too much, please :-P

Okay, first the question the poll is about: Someone made a topic about summer avatars and I thought: "Hey, that will be easy with your normal avatar" so I switched to something more sunny... only now that I look at it, I feel more reminded of other things. What do you think?

Second, ranting: My stupid phone seems to be kinda broken. It had some occasional random reboots and in the last few days it's gotten to the point where it happens pretty much 24/7... Unless I leave it a while and then only use it very sparingly. So I feel like something inside is overheating. It also feels hotter to the touch then usual.
It's only slightly older then a year, so it's going back to the manufacturer for a warranty check/repair, but this still means I'll be without it for a while. And even if I get it back in perfect condition, I'll still have to get it back to the way I liked it with my config and stuff. There are lots of backups etc but still... Meh!

And lastly, I have a copy of Mad Max lying around from the humble monthly bundle cause I won it shortly before it got into the bundle. It's behind a sg tools check that is mainly set to not let in rule breaker, people with a low ratio or people that mainly do group or region restricted GAs... if some of the restrictions are too high we can discuss it. :) And if you wonder why that's related, Mad Max makes me think of deserts, which are hot.

Speaking of things that are hot... oh wait... I wanted to stay SFW :P


Update: Just came back from court to find my phone has arrived at LG (only posted it, like, 18h ago). Let's see how fast they are.

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What does my new avatar look like?

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thanks dude

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Speaking about hot stuff - here I am!

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i managed to make it

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That's why I keep my old mobile phones in case of emergency. You know, the actual mobile phones, not the smartphones.

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I haven't had one of those in AGES... but I still have my last smartphone with the broken screen, or the one before that using WebOS... And probably even the one before that using WindowsMobile... ;)

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If they can't fix your phone, you can glue a travel mug to it and use it as a portable kettle.
Or just use it to keep warm when it's cold. Like in Summer.

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Your new avatar is perfect :P

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Praise the Sun!

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Hello, SilentGuy. I just wanted to let you know that when I first saw your new Avatar, I was reminded of those old Raisin Bran commercials. Do you know the ones I am talking about? You might not, as I am an old fart (42).

Thanks for the giveaway, my friend.:)

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The problem here is probably more that I'm from Germany where Raisin Bran sold as such... at least as far as I know...

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If you Google 'raisin bran sun', you may bear some fruit.;)

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God damn, I instantly forgot your previous avatar as soon as I saw the new one...

Speaking of warranty, at least here, you're more likely to get it back even more broken than before ^_^

Also, I'm curious about the rules... Looking at the description, I was quite sure I wouldn't be able to pass it, but somehow I did...

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Rules are:
either less then 30$ won
OR
ratio above .5 and at least 25% region free and 25% not in groups.
(all about real CV)
combined with having activated all your wins, no multiwin in the last 2 years, and not tradebanned.

Hm never gotten anything back worse then before (not that I use warranties too often) but slightly fear being told I'm wasting their time/imagining things/... cause if it wasn't used for a while it's not immediately evident...

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Oh okay, I guess invite only giveaways count as not group giveaways so that explains it...

You can't really waste their time, they get paid for it anyway :D

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Sieht für mich mehr aus wie eine Sonnenblume. Von daher ist Sonne wohl am nächsten dran.

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Oh, that reminds me, still gotta go and watch part two but a friend asked me to wait till we can watch it together... hmmm

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Face→Sun→What is next?→BUMP

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Hot bump.

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What's wrong with your avatar? I found it looks like a sunflower. Considering the current weather I really appreciate the idea of somethin warm or even hot :)

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Okay, sunflower instead of sun is close enough to be what I wanted it to be :)

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I am willing to second the sunflower.

Have you check if any new app is running in the background? Overheating may be a sign of malware.

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Even if it were that, I feel It should not react by just rebooting... Esp considering that the reboot time is not long enough to significantly cool down so it often reboots again and again. It should forcekill some apps, tell me it's too hot and shut down, ...

But I managed to get it to reboot an a completely fresh OS... took a bit longer, playing with the flash and a game that has a tendency to use too many resources, but then again after not using the normal one for a while, it took a bit of use to die as well...

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The rebooting may be a safety meassure by the CPU, without any OS interaction.

Dann viel Glück, wenn du noch Garantie hast.

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Mad bump XXXL Super ultra limited over kill edition.

Also, if you have an android phone, you can probably flash some kind of recovery and pull a complete nandroid backup that has everything. TWRP is the one of choice.

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Been there, done that :)

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Cool, then you can probably restore everything in one go. Your original wording made me think that you had just pulled individual app backups or smth equally fussy to restore :P

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thanks bro bump for you

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  1. Winter ftw and your avatar doesn't remind me of anything but the sun
  2. My phone sucks too. I will try to choose another virtual keyboard since it is failing a lot lately
  3. Thanks
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its not lion, it is kon from bleach :D but still hot, if you ask :D

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Yes, cause that was the first sun shaped lion image that popped into my head :)

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Black bg makes it look a bit like a sticker to me… Sticker of a sun :D

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You ever wonder why those cars never over heat in Mad Max? They run out of gas eventually, but I don't ever remember them over heating. Seems like that would happen before the gas. HEHEHE..I know its fantasy but thinking of heat, desert and cars....

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One other thing. The way they run out of gas seems like they would some how figure away to use the gunpowder in all the ammo they use like crazy. To propel their cars...Hmmm an alternate fuel source brings about peace in the Mad Max world 8]..the movies would be boring lol. have a nice day 8]

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Thanks for the gib. My rant - it is hot as hell in my town, time is 11pm, Temp is 97°F

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well, let's hope that they're able to fix that phone, smirky sun.
your Avatar looks like a smirking sun to me :)

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bump

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