I always plug my phone in to charge overnight and recently its started freezing. Its happened 3 or 4 times in the past week and a half. A couple of times the fully charged light was on but nothing would wake the phone up so I had to pull the battery. Another time it looked like it was off and no lights were on or anything but it wouldn't turn on so I pulled the battery and then it fired right up (battery was low so it wasn't charging). I set an alarm before I go to bed on my phone and that doesn't go off either so it's not just a problem with the screen or something.
The only major thing I've changed on my phone recently is installing the GO Launcher and using that as the default. It started happening about a week after installing that so I don't know if that could have anything to do with it?
I'm running a themed Cyanogen 6.1 and have been running it for the past few months. Does this sound like it could be a hardware problem with the phone or a problem with the ROM? Because randomly about a month ago the USB mass storage connection stopped working but I tried it through clockwork and it worked so it is a problem with the ROM.
Thanks for any help guys!
You need a new usb cable. Im confident that is the problem. If i am wrong simply return the newly purchased chord
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I agree that it's the cord, same identical thing happened to me and when I switched cords, it was all fine.
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I was using my nexus on facebok last night with a virtually full battery when fb stopped responding and a few seconds later the phone just switched off.I tried to restart it it but it would not come back on.I tried al combinations of buttons to try and reset but still nothing.I plugged the charger in to try,nothing.I left it on the side board,I forgot to leave the charger in all night.got up this morning plugged it in the charger and it turned on,left it for 5 mins unplugged the charger and it turned itself straight off again.I have a feeling that my battery has just instantly died,the phone is only about 3 weeks old at the moment.I will be charging it for a few hrs and see if it will come back alive.Fingers crossed it will.Its strange to go from a full battery to off in an instant.
Err did you try to pull the battery when the phone originally crashed.
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I didn't pull out the battery as i didnt think it was nessasary.After a few hrs charge it came back on but it is worrying that this could have happened to such a new phone
This happened to my first nexus. Totally just randomly died.
I returned it as faulty.
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potsykate said:
I didn't pull out the battery as i didnt think it was nessasary.After a few hrs charge it came back on but it is worrying that this could have happened to such a new phone
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Basically what happened was that when your phone "died" it actually stayed on but became unresponsive. Because you just left it for the whole night it drained the battery dry which is why you found it like that the next day.
Anyway next time when your phone crashes just do a battery pull and it should fix itself. The crash seems to be a common ICS bug and a few people have reported it. (including me) Hopefully Google fixes it soon.
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it's not just because it's a nexus. it's been an issue with various android-based phones over the years. granted, not a common one... just somehow something 'screws up' and you have to do a battery pull to reset the issue.
I've run android for a while now and have had various lock ups, but this was totally different. It actually locked up and turned off and no matter what buttons for reset or just a normal boot would do anything the battery was totally flat and only a charge would do anything.i could not even boot into recovery as it was flat. Its going back fire a replacement in the next few days
One thing I have noticed since it happened is the battery life has gone terrible in that it is draining very very quickly yet nothing has changed on my phone
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I experienced this too yesterday. I was on call with headset and I had USB plug. Suddenly phone call ends and phone was dead. I have unplug from USB and pull battery.
Mine did exactly this while on charge last night. Pulled the battery and it fired up straight away. Second time its crashed since i got it. My iphone 4 only crashed once in the 18 months i had it. Guess android isnt as stable yet.
Happened to me yesterday, and then wouldn't charge. Did a battery pull then put it on to charge. When I got it back on checked Battery temp and it was 45C I think that was the issue. after half hour it was down to 31C.
Omg.. something like the G2X random reboots?
I just experienced the same problem. Using my phone and it just went black. First thought was to try powering it on. No luck. Second thought, pull the battery. No luck. Went back to my desk and plugged it into USB so it would charge. No indication it is charging. Tried turning it on. No luck. Leaving it for an hour or more and will see if that does the trick.
Googling to find this thread I actually found dozens of threads on various sites talking about this issue. Hopefully it is a bad batch of devices and quality control has rectified the situation.
Anyone have any successful resolution to this issue? I've been using my phone for around a month now.
I've had my nexus since November and its been working fine. I upgraded to 4.0.2 about 2 weeks ago when it was pushed to my phone.
Last night, my phone ran down the battery, even while in airplane mode. I've found that it keeps waking itself and it thinks its being charged. The battery icon has the charge icon on now, even though its not plugged in.
Anyone else had this problem? I've tried power off and re-seating the battery, but still the same problem.
Unlock, root, then flash custom rom, can almost guarantee it will fix your problem
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Had the same problem couple days ago. Plugging and then unplugging from the charger fixed the icon.
Mabey the new update added the "self charging" feature.. It's defiantly the future but I think it's still in beta testing... Luckily you were one of the few that got the feature! Hehe...
I just like the title to this thread makes it seam like your phone is alive and confused with what's going on lol poor guy .
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i had this problem this morning. Screen kept coming on and showing the chargin icon over the battery and on the lock screen and kept waking the device!
I plugged the charger in and out a few times and that seemed to stop it for a few hours. Since then i have flashed the latest build of AOKP and havent had the issue yet... I'll wait and see if it returns now i've said that!
That does sound similar. I plugged in my charger at work and it worked OK for a while, but the problem has returned
You are having this problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21840063#post21840063
.. and you are not alone.
It's a hardware problem, and you should RMA your phone or change the USB charging board.
I had the same problem, and temporarilly fixed it several times with unplugging rapidly, half-way insterted plug, toothpick to pick on the USB pinns.. It sometimes worked, but after a while it was permanently broken. I fixed it by changing the USB charging board.. this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150713366355
I had this same issue on the Galaxy S 2. Simple replacement there. Should be same here
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Yup, i had same problem on SGS2 is well. Paid 30€ for USB port replacement.
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I'm having a similar problem with my Galaxy Nexus. The problem comes and goes. Sometimes the problem persists for a few days and then goes away for some time.
My experience:
The phone sometimes thinks it's charging when it's not.
Sometimes it thinks I'm janking the charger out and plugging it in non-stop. (the screen lights up a second after I turn it off. And this can go on for hours).
Either way, I can't charge it.
Things I've noticed:
When plugging it in to a computer it sometimes recognices it as a USB device and the phone also recognices that it had been plugged in, but it wont charge.
Plugging the charger in and out rapidly many times sometimes cause it to start charging for real.
The built-in charging-icon and the 3rd party icon from "Battery indicator" (by Darshan Computing, LCC) don't alway show that it's charging at the same time (could be a problem in the 3rd party app, or a problem in the system).
Rebooting the phone may sometimes cause the battery percentage to show a different value than before reboot.
I've been having this problem since I got the phone. Neither updates nor factory resets has made a difference.
I haven't tried rooting it and installing a custom ROM, and I wont, since I will get a repair/replacement on the warranty.
Either send it in for repair or get a small knife, put it in the charger port under the pin and very gently push down so it moves the pin by a fraction of a mm. This worked for me and was caused by a cheap charging dock from eBay, I fixed and replicated the problem so I know this to be true
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I've had my stock unrooted HOX for about a year and a half now. Recently it sometimes won't charge when it's plugged in, even though the LED lights up and the phone tells me it's supposedly charging.
It has happened when it's been at 0% and will only turn on for a minute before dying again, and it has happened when it's been at 100% and started to drop when I've started using it when it's plugged in.
This can happen from a few weeks without an incident to not charging every night, it varies a lot.
I have replaced the charger with another "official" one.
Strangely if I plug it into the USB port of a computer it will start charging just fine, but doing that isn't practical for me.
My question is basically to ask if anyone else has had the same problem and found a solution that doesn't involve sending it off to T-Mobile/EE. I have already sent it off once to fix the common wifi issue, which they didn't fix anyway.
Hi everyone,
my phone simply won't turn on anymore. It was still working fine yesterday and before I went to sleep I plugged it in the original AC charger like everyday (the phone was on ~50% battery and still working after I plugged it in). But when I tried to wake up to phone in the morning nothing happened. I disconnected the charger and tried to turn on the phone again but still nothing. Then I tried connecting it to my computer but that did not work either. The phone does not show any signs that it is "alive".
I checked the charger and usb port of the phone if their is any visible hardware damage but there wasn't. The phone is only 3 weeks old and was working fine until yesterday. It was running on MDB08M and the bootloader was unlocked so I do not know if I can send it back on warranty.
Anyone here who got the same problem and found a solution?
(sorry for my bad english)
I would try connecting it to the PC and check device manager for any signs of life.
I had a similar problem, the charger died but luckily I had a spare charger
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I have tried connecting it to my computer but there is no sign of life.
I guess there is no other choice than sending it back to google with the bootloader unlocked ...
My phone has died almost the same. It started to reboot itself like almost everytime ((( and same with unlocked bootloader.... I had mine for 2 weeks. Now I wonder if its common issue with N5X... Did you send your to repair???
This just occurred on my phone. Working just fine with 80% battery. Started GMaps to get some directions. Hung for a couple of seconds then just turned off. Won't respond to button pushes and won't go into recovery mode either. It's like the phone is dead dead.
All these threads about 5xs dying. I guess I better really start saving for a op3t. ? I've had mine a year and it's been fine but from what I've gathered from reading, someone said that's when they usually bite it is a year+... ?
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Not sure if it has anything to do with it or not but I never leave mine plugged in all night. I zap it an hour and roll out... Always scared it would melt for some reason..lol
having a problem where the phone will either completely freeze or die on the charger and i will have to do a forced reboot to turn it back on. when it comes back on it has 100% battery, so its obviously charging at some point in the night. this has happened 5 times now, 2 of them resulted in me being late for work as the other 3 times my wifes alarm woke me up in time. has anyone had a similar issue? i just replaced the usb/headphone board because it stopped charging and the battery sat dead flat for a week until i got the parts so might that have caused the issue? is there something i should have done after i replaced it? im running arhd 14 (android 5.1) on stock kernel with s on htc unlock and xposed, but i shouldnt have anything running or installed that would cause this issue. i never had this issue before i had to replace the usb board.