SCRCPY is the best screen mirroring tool available for mirroring Android devices to Windows PC. It's free, easy to use and is super customisable. It's also super reliable but there are a few little problems you may come across depending on your phone. So if you are using SCRCPY and your phone is getting hot, you'll need to do the following.
Takeaways:
- How to stop your phone from overheating when using SCRCPY.
- Fix Phone getting really hot while using SCRCPY.
- What causes phones to overheat while using SCRCPY?
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How to Fix SCRCPY Causing Phone to Get Really Hot.
Like most issues, there are a couple of different ways you can solve this problem and prevent your phone from overheating while using SCRCPY. So work your way through the steps below and you should fix overheating pretty quickly.
Run SCRCPY with the Device Screen Off.
This should solve the problem for 99% of people who are screen mirroring using SCRCPY and that is to mirror to your computer with the phone screen off. This will dramatically reduce resource consumption on your device thus lowering the temperature.
Below is a full guide on creating a custom shortcut with this feature enabled by default. However, You can simply press Alt+O on your keyboard to turn the screen off and Alt+Shirt+O to turn it back on again if you need to. With the screen off you should see a huge improvement in phone temps.
How to create SCRCPY Batch file shortcuts to run multiple commands
How to use SCRCPY Command Prompt Shortcuts
If you are having problems with your keyboard and mouse not working with SCRCPY it's usually because you have a Chinese brand phone that has extra options you need to enable in Developer Options. Check out the guide below to solve that problem.
Mouse and Keyboard not working with SCRCPY
Try Running SCRCPY with Performance Optimisation, not Quality.
If you don't have a high-end phone and have a lot of issues including overheating you can try running SCRCPY with a performance configuration. This will optimise your device to run using fewer system resources, though it does come at a cost of quality. The process is fairly customisable as well so you can tweak the performance settings as you like. The guide below will take you through all of the steps for perfect settings for most devices.
How to Setup SCRCPY with the Best Performance Settings.
Alternatively, you can also experiment with Ultra Quality mode but that will more than likely cause even more overheating problems.
SCRCPY Best Quality Settings - scrcpy Maximum Quality.
