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How to not get your Punkt MP02 to overheat and shut down when in internet sharing mode

The short answer: don't leave it in your pocket.

An illustration showing a Punkt phone overheating and shutting down in a pocket, and one happy when next to a laptop and sharing his internet connexion.

I'm using a Punkt MP02 phone as my phone. The nice thing about this dumb phone is that it's pretty great for sharing interenet to my Mac when I'm working in the train.

The not so nice thing, is that it has a tendency to overheat and then shut down while I'm working.

The dumb and super simple trick I found that fix this is... to not keep the phone in my pocket when I'm using it in hotspot mode.

Yeah, apparently I have to hot legs for that phone.

But once you know that, it makes that phone a tiny bit less frustrating to use.

written and sketched by hand

This article was written on a refurbished Remarkable II tablet with a type folio cover. The illustration was made drawn by hand on the same tablet.