Method and device for cooling mobile terminal

The invention provides a method and a device for cooling a mobile terminal, and relates to the field of computers. The method includes acquiring system information and the temperature of the mobile terminal; judging whether the mobile terminal meets preset process shutdown conditions or not according to the system information; selectively shutting specified running processes in an operation system of the terminal according to the temperature of the terminal when the mobile terminal meets the preset process shutdown conditions. The specified processes cause the terminal to generate heat. The method and the device have the advantages that the processes which run in the operation system of the terminal and cause a CPU (central processing unit) to generate the heat can be selectively shut according to the temperature of the terminal, accordingly, computation loads of the CPU and the heat generated by the CPU can be reduced, and damage to hardware due to the excessively hot terminal can be prevented.