Phone Overheating Issues - Battery Won't Charge

[2X98]

My phone is overheating, and it stops charging, which then causes the battery to run out quickly and shut the phone off. I have been watching Netflix on the phone which is the cause of the overheating, but what is the point of having Netflix on your phone if you can't even watch a movie without this happening. I didn't have this big of an issue with my Droid 1. Could this be a common issue for this phone? Is there something that I can do to prevent this from happening when I'm watching a movie?

[zandarillis]

My wife has the same problem when tethering or watching netflix with it plugged it. Gets real hot and doesn't charge, did you come up with anything?

[hookbill]

Since I don't know a darn thing about the D4 I quickly went and checked out that it does indeed have a dual core processor. Seems odd.

The only thing I can think of is maybe go to your applications running in your settings and kill the ones that are running that you maybe don't need.

[moccor]

When dropbox was doing their experimental builds and offering 5GB free space for testing the auto-upload of photos and videos, I recorded 10min videos with my Droid X in 720p, overclocked. I knew it wasn't a good idea, so I laid my phone on top of my computers fan vent and recorded nothing haha. It kept my phone cool and it worked perfectly fine. It's not really a fix to your problem, but if you have a laptop cooling pad laying around, it makes a difference for something like recording long HD videos. Same with using Netflix.

[Grimsin]

I have this same issue simply using the wired tether to the computer causes it to over heat and not charge. I really hope there is a better fix then fans or this problem will kill it for me...