Battery is extremely hot and fan is always running

Battery is extremely hot and fan is always running. Regardless if I am watching a video or writing a document

SMC Reset, check the power and magsafe links
Hold option and click on the battery icon to check the condition, may be going bad.
Don't let it get too hot, it may go pop. It's been known to happen, but not so much on Mac's.
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    I recentely installed windows 7 on my Macbook Pro 15' late 2008 maybe 10-15 minutes into browsing the internet or watching a youtube video it gets really hot and the computer fans seem to be making a lot of noise. Is there any way to resolve this issue?

    Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

  • My iPod is fixed on streaming. It reset and go back to streaming. Battery is extremely hot

    My iPod Touch is hanging. I tried to reset it, but as soon as it finished starting up it goes back to streaming. The battery is very hot and there is no option for me to turn it off.
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    Try:
    - iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
    - Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
    How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
    - If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
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      Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar              
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  • PowerBook running warm/hot & fans almost always running

    Does anyone else have their fan(s) constantly running? I can be doing something as simple as checking my e-mail on a flat table like surface and before I know it both fans are running. Back a couple years ago Apple replaced my fan under the screen under AppleCare, now it is buzzing again and being out of AppleCare coverage I'm not rushing to have it replaced. Any ideas why my book's fans are always running? Anyone else have this?

    Hi, PBJohn. Assuming for the moment that your hardware is working properly and your fans are running to remedy an excessive heat buildup, plausible reasons for the heat might include:
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    2. multiple CPU-intensive processes running at once, including processes running in the background that you've forgotten or never known about;
    3. insufficient heat-transfer paste between the processor and the heat sink;
    4. lack of routine maintenance and periodic cache cleanup;
    5. an overly full hard drive;
    There are probably others I'm forgetting, but this list gives you some things to check.
    For 1, flip back the keyboard and blow the interior out with compressed air, then remove the bottom panel and do the same to the underside of things. Make sure the air intake and outlet vents are unobstructed.
    For 2, open Activity Monitor and see what's running. If you have Tiger installed, turn off Widgets — they're incredibly CPU-intensive. Drive indexing can also consume a lot of CPU cycles and produce constant hard drive activity.
    3 is quite unlikely, unless you've dismantled the Powerbook and separated the processor and heat sink yourself, wiping off the transfer paste and then forgetting to apply any when reassembling.
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    Mac OS X: How to force background maintenance tasks (logs and temporary items)
    For 5, make sure your hard drive has at least 3GB and preferably at least 5GB of free space available at all times.
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  • My Iphone4 Is getting extremely hot and shutting off...

    My iphone4 Is getting extremely hot and shutting off... this is going on while it is not in use... and it has not gotten wet...IS there a malfunction somewhere?

    Its Is Heavy Usage Or Hardwear Malfunction
    Cheak How Much Apps Are Running By Pressing The Home Butten Twice And Hold One Of The Apps Untill The Red Line Comes Up And Close Them. If Thats Not The Problem Take Your Iphone To The Local Apple Store

  • Hi there, i bought my macbook 1 week ago and its working fine. BUT the fan is always running and it is very annoying? what should i do

    hi there, i bought my macbook 1 week ago and its working fine. BUT the fan is always running and it is very annoying? what should i do

    Take it back to the store where you bought it for a hardware check and/or exchange/refund.
    If they say "that's normal" then get your money back.
    Nothing worst than a annoying fan you can't do anything about.
    I has a eMac that did that, sounded like a vacuum cleaner running all the time, I'm so glad I trashed it and will never buy a machine I can hear running in a near silent library.
    Some advice, the higher end models with a dedicated graphics do tend to operate cooler, it's the one's with only CPU graphics (Intel) regardless if a Mac or PC that tend to make a lot of noise.
    Graphics should have never been put on the CPU, it just doubles the heat and doubles the fan noise.

  • Is it free to take my macbook air to an apple store to get a check because the fan is always running?

    is it free to take my macbook air to an apple store to get a check because the fan is always running?

    Yes, the diagnosis at the apple store is free, ....have them find out what is wrong for you
    However its totally normal for the fan to be always on, on your macbook Air.
    SMC (System Management Controller) could be causing the fan to misinterpret temp.  an SMC reset would likely fix this.
    If you can HEAR the fan all the time, it might be running noisy due to dust/junk in the fan blades and hub.
    If you have pets or a dusty room, fans trap dust and pet fluff like a magnet.  Might just need a cleaning.

  • My iPhone 5 is getting extremely hot and my battery is only lasting,at most, 4 hours! What should I do?

    My iPhone 5 is getting extremely hot, especially when it is charging! It was gets hot when my battery starts getting low. My batteries is also not lasting nearly as long as it used to! It last at max 4 hours if I'm lucky! I don't low what I should do!

    Hello landry morgan. Just shared. Turn your brightness to auto. If you just buy this phone. Let the battery totally drain couple of time and fully charge again. It will became great after that.my phone take 2 days to totally drain.awsome. If your location to far away from network transmitter it will became little bit hot at the battery.if you very near to wifi you will feel  your iphone5 it surf like a ferrari + no heat at all. P/n; dont look at pecentage of your battery. Just take note how many hour until its totally drain.

  • My iPhone is getting extremely HOT and losing battery charge by 50% in one hour.

    my phone is getting too hot and in an hour or so it will loose the battery life and will turn off ..
    i just had a word with the apple care they were like you can get the phone replaced from the country were you bought from, as such i bought this phone from Dubai and now they are like it cant be replaced in india..
    its really frustrating

    Where you are sounds far hotter than anyplace I would like to be...in any case, here is some info on acceptable temperatures and other temperature related info..
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2101
    from this article...
    Operate iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (4th generation) in a place where the temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F). Low- or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause the device to temporarily stop working properly.
    Store the device in a place where the temperature is between -20º and 45º C (-4º to 113º F). Don’t leave the device in your car, because temperatures in parked cars can exceed this range.
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  • HT201412 iPhone 4S extremely hot and turned off. What causes this? is it safe to plug in charger?

    My iPhone 4S is extremely hot. It just turned off and wont turn back on. It had 65% battery and now its sahing to plug in to.charge. Im afraid to plig into outlet since its hot. What does this mean?

    Hi Mende,
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    I got an 8G iphone yesterday. It went through one full charge in only 4 and 1/2 hours and is extremely hot to the touch, as in it burns my ear. Is this a defective battery I should return to the Apple store or do these batteries just run hotter?
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  • After I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 6, it is extremely hot and a full charge depletes in less than an hour.

    What is the issue?

    TJH wrote:
    What is the issue?
    I don't think that you would understand if I explained....
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  • MBP (retina) get hot and fans run so fast

    Dear All,
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    I notice when I'm running Adobe Ps and Ai with (Firefox or Safari of Google chrome) and Parallels, ( also online movies)
    getting very hot and I little nosie speed fans
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    it's need to return it to App store?

    the things you are describing are all very process intensive in their own rights and very much so if all running together on the mac at once. this would be expected product behavior while doing the things you mentioned.
    you can do SMC reset which regulates the fan in the mac this article tells how to do that:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
    basically unless you can limit the types of apps you run at one time this may be ongoing issue for you since it's normal for the mac to run hot when the processor is running hard

  • Computer gets very hot and fan stays on

    I have a HP with i7 it gets very hot and the an stays on. I think somthing must be running in the back ground but I can"t find it. I have all the cooling tables etc. any ideas any one?

    What is your laptop model?
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  • Fan is alway running on my new dv7-4290us. Should I exchange for a new one or is this normal?

    I just got my new dv7-4290us from the HP store and after a little while of playing with it, I noticed that the fan seems to always be running. It's not spinning very fast, just kind of a soft blowing or purring sound but audible for sure. Is this normal for this notebook or notebooks with quad cores and dedicated graphics? I called HP tech support and asked them if it was normal for the fan to run all the time, but they where kind of clueless with, 3 different guys giving me 3 different answers. I did mess around with some power management settings and the HP Thermal program but that didn't help. Turning off the fan always on setting in the bios just causes the fan to blow up every 20 seconds, so that is not a solution. There wasn't a bios update on the driver page, so I don't know about that as a fix. Otherwise everything seems to be functioning properly with no BSOD or lockups so far.  The computer doesn't seem to be running hot (core temps stay under 50°c under light load) and the fan doesn't sound unhealthy like it has a bad bearing or anything. I just want to know if the fan always running at a low speed thing is normal on these machines. From my expereince with notebooks the fan alway running is a sign that your system is not cooling properly, so I wanted to get a second opinion from fellow users before I go through the hastle of exchanging this for a new one.

    Does this happen on AC power only?  There maybe an option in BIOS for 'Fan always on while on AC power'.
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