The smartphone is equipped with a Snapdragon 615 chipset

May 22, 2015 19:06 GMT  ·  By

Good news for Xiaomi Mi4i owners who reported overheating issues, as the Chinese company has announced that it has managed to find the problem and has already delivered a fix.

“We’ve heard from some Mi 4i users that their devices can get warm under strenuous conditions such as complex 3D gaming and benchmarking apps. To address these concerns, we’ve optimized our thermal control algorithms to better regulate the temperature."

"The new thermal controls adjust frequency, voltage and the number of cores in use depending on the chipset temperature," said Jai Mani, product manager, Xiaomi India.

The Mi4i is a slightly lower version of Xiaomi's popular Mi4 smartphone. It comes equipped with a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon Snadragon 615 chipset that accommodates an octa-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz and an Adreno 405 graphics processing unit.

It looks like Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 chipset wasn't the only one having overheating issues, but since these problems can be addressed via software update, we believe there isn't such a big issue after all.

Xiaomi Mi4i owners should now check their smartphones for the new update, which is about 805MB in size and adjusts the thermal control algorithms to regulate the temperature much better. The update is pushed OTA (over the air), so it should pop up on your smartphone.