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Don't phones get really hot if you record video for long periods of time? Edit: Whoops - the article mentions that.
I've been curious about why that is, surely it's just pumping data from the camera sensor, through a hardware-encode unit, then straight to flash?
No need for a system one if there's an app... But... Is there a FLOSS dashcam for Android? Nothing that I could see on F-droid when I looked a few months back.
FTA: > We also wonder about how Personal Safety will be able to do this type of always-on recording without generating excess heat, especially if your phone needs to be mounted in a position that’s likely to see a lot of direct sunlight. That's what I immediately thought of. I can't see this working too well unless they solve the overheating issues. I had my Google Pixel 7 Pro shut down due to overheating, on a reaso…
A mount that moves AC air directly to phone should work.
this issue needs to be handled by the device and not with external resources
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A mount that moves AC air directly to phone should work.
you can have direct sunlight heating up the phone on a day that AC is not needed this issue needs to be handled by the device and not with external resources
FTA: > We also wonder about how Personal Safety will be able to do this type of always-on recording without generating excess heat, especially if your phone needs to be mounted in a position that’s likely to see a lot of direct sunlight. That's what I immediately thought of. I can't see this working too well unless they solve the overheating issues. I had my Google Pixel 7 Pro shut down due to overheating, on a reaso…
My Pixel 6 Pro gets too hot on my dash that it stops working when it's in the sun. There's even a notification from the device that tells me it's too hot to operate normally! So I doubt this will work too well unless Pixel >=7 phones perform better under high temperature than mine does.
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Nothing in the settings shows any way to upload the videos to the cloud.
Not necessarily the video itself -although I don’t even trust google studio app-, but the meta data google will collect: when did you use the cam, duration, location, and other data that will be collected “to enhance the service” that’s already crap from the get go.
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A mount that moves AC air directly to phone should work.
you can have direct sunlight heating up the phone on a day that AC is not needed this issue needs to be handled by the device and not with external resources
That sun is murder on hot phones.
FTA: > We also wonder about how Personal Safety will be able to do this type of always-on recording without generating excess heat, especially if your phone needs to be mounted in a position that’s likely to see a lot of direct sunlight. That's what I immediately thought of. I can't see this working too well unless they solve the overheating issues. I had my Google Pixel 7 Pro shut down due to overheating, on a reaso…
The Exynos based Tensor, made by Samsung is very hot. Google should've collaborated with QC or MT and used TSMC to make their SOC.