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device reboots itself all the time :((((

this is sux... how to fix it?
i tried to do hard reset but still the same problem.
usually it reboots when i'm listening a music but today it has rebooted when i was using simple "light" application...

Sounds like you have a defective phone if it's happening frequently while your phone is awake. I've had the same thing happen one time in six weeks, not enough to call it a problem, but if you're having it daily or more something is wrong with the phone. I'd exchange it if it were me.

Are you still stock?
rom
kernel
launcher
theme
Help us, help you...
good day.

lilirose said:
Sounds like you have a defective phone if it's happening frequently while your phone is awake. I've had the same thing happen one time in six weeks, not enough to call it a problem, but if you're having it daily or more something is wrong with the phone. I'd exchange it if it were me.
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yeah, almost daily...
i was thinking about exchange but i waited 3 weeks for my device from germany to my country... so if i send them it back i will have to wait another 50-60 days...

chopper the dog said:
Are you still stock?
rom
kernel
launcher
theme
Help us, help you...
good day.
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yeah, stock, no root, no custom, stock launcher

Well of course try to do a factory reset and very selectively install apps and see if something is causing it. If nothing specific is causing it you're probably looking at a defective device.

Nine times out of ten the reboots are caused by some apps that you are using or that runs in the background. If you wiped your phone and set it up again, do not install apps. DON'T. See if it crashes like that or not. If it still crashes then you likely have a hardware defect of sorts.
Of all apps, stay away from any apps that interfere with Android as a system. Battery life managing apps are by far the worst, for example.

Yeah, kristovaher makes a good point- it could possibly be a rogue app. Avoid not only battery manager apps but also task killers and any other app that supposedly increases battery life. None of them are really necessary or useful anyway.

i have done factory reset
installed only Go Keyboard, turned on unknown sources and usb debugging like i allways do.
copied all my mp3s to the device and was listening a music... and it reseted again...
p.s. btw, sometimes when i'm listening a music and screen is locked, the music starts lagging (slows down)... it plays normal if i press power off button so the screen highlight.

definitely an orange

guys do u really think i should return this?
it will take another 1.5-2 month untill it reachs the shop or return back to me.. not sure if they even will answer via e-mail when i'll ask for relace... i'm not sure but i think it started reboot much after 4.0.2. maybe new 4.0.3 will have positive effect. some people from my local forums also advised me to flash any custom ROM (some of them had such a problem and it helped them, reboots gone... liek they said)

This random reboot has happened to so many people. So please, don't tell him that he got a lemon. You can google up "galaxy nexus random reboot" and see how many complaint of similar issue have been posted. I also got random reboot every two days or so. But if the OP got it every day or more frequently than that, just exchange it.
If you want to proudly say your Gnex does not randomly reboot, EVER, then just use it for phone calls, browsing the internet, and Facebook only.

How often is it happening?
If its more than once a day its certainly defective. That is not normal behavior. If its every few days then deal with it.

It's happened twice under the same set of circumstances:
1. Streaming Pandora
2. Charging
Not sure if they're related but it started happening after upgrading to 4.0.2.

phiquantu said:
This random reboot has happened to so many people. So please, don't tell him that he got a lemon. You can google up "galaxy nexus random reboot" and see how many complaint of similar issue have been posted. I also got random reboot every two days or so. But if the OP got it every day or more frequently than that, just exchange it.
If you want to proudly say your Gnex does not randomly reboot, EVER, then just use it for phone calls, browsing the internet, and Facebook only.
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I do everything with my gnex, and aside from adw launcher ex, have seen NO reboots in the month I have had it.

Aridon said:
How often is it happening?
If its more than once a day its certainly defective. That is not normal behavior. If its every few days then deal with it.
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well, last 1.5 weeks after i stopped using NRG player and turned to stock google music player, i had no reboots... but few days ago it started to reboot again.. can't say every day, maybe in 2-3 days but only once per day... mostly when i'm listening a music.
phiquantu said:
This random reboot has happened to so many people. So please, don't tell him that he got a lemon. You can google up "galaxy nexus random reboot" and see how many complaint of similar issue have been posted. I also got random reboot every two days or so. But if the OP got it every day or more frequently than that, just exchange it.
If you want to proudly say your Gnex does not randomly reboot, EVER, then just use it for phone calls, browsing the internet, and Facebook only.
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if it's mass problem then it's really sad....

why dont you flash 4.0.3 and rule out whether it's 4.0.2 or the phone... if it's the phone i'm assuming you're on GSM, cause if you weren't, you could walk into verizon, switch it out, and have a new one 15 minutes from now.

I had the same problem yesterday, I tought it was a problem with the kaspersky launcher. isn't that a problem of kaspersky?

asheg said:
p.s. btw, sometimes when i'm listening a music and screen is locked, the music starts lagging (slows down)... it plays normal if i press power off button so the screen highlight.
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This is a known issue with certain encoding bit rates on music files. Enable the EQ music effects and it keeps the cpu speed high enough to negate lag, even when screen is off.

Almost all the complains about reboots are connected with 4.0.2 update. Letw wait for 4.0.3. When I was on 4.0.1 no reboots.

Does your Galaxy Nexus reboot itself (or freeze requiring a battery pull) regularly

I love this phone. But it freezes. A lot.
Mine does, my workmates does, as does my friends. So that's three people including myself and all of our phones are faulty. They are using stock roms and kernels. I'm using MCR, but I've experienced it on stock, and every other rom that I've tried. The absolute longest uptime I've seen is probably 2 days, and it reboots even when it's just sitting on my desk doing nothing. Does yours?
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I also use stock kernels, no OC/UV

No mine is very stable. I have up time of over 1000 hours before I rebooted my phone.
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Had mine coming around on 2 weeks. Haven't had a single reboot / freeze / sleep of death. Running stock 4.0.2 unlocked bootloader.

b0unceee said:
I love this phone. But it freezes. A lot.
Mine does, my workmates does, as does my friends. So that's three people including myself and all of our phones are faulty. They are using stock roms and kernels. I'm using MCR, but I've experienced it on stock, and every other rom that I've tried. The absolute longest uptime I've seen is probably 2 days, and it reboots even when it's just sitting on my desk doing nothing. Does yours?
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Have never had my phone freeze. Rare reboot on 4.02 and no reboots on 4.04 so far.
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Not any longer
I did do (lock-ups, battery pulls), yes - when I was on ITL41D. But not since I got the ICL53F update. I think that ITL41F was susceptible to lock-ups too, from memory.

Nope. Not on stock or otherwise. Only reboots I have had is when I undervolted too much, other then that, rock soild.
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Mine has been fine other than with UV Kernels and UVing too much. But, I mean, duh.

OP...list your apps that you have downloaded.
Most likely an app not liking ics is the culprit.
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Haven't had any lockups. Do you guys have certain apps in common?

Nope.
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Slacker.com - which i love - causes my phone to revoot everytime i use it. Nothing else jas done it before. I agree, i bet there is a common app causing the problem.

I had random reboots in stock with NO apps installed but since updating to 4.0.4 haven't had anymore. If your phone locks up, instead of pulling the battery try holding power and both volume keys to force a restart.
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The only time it's happened to me was with the Chrome Beta. Did it twice, batt pulled, then did it a third time (after I was playing with the phone for an hour after the second reboot). Basically, fired up Chrome, went to a page, crash, reboot.
Uninstalled, wiped, no issues.

bwcorvus said:
I had random reboots in stock with NO apps installed but since updating to 4.0.4 haven't had anymore. If your phone locks up, instead of pulling the battery try holding power and both volume keys to force a restart.
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I thought the same since going to 4.0.4. But as I was At dinner last night, I had the phone on the table and saw it reboot. And thanks for the tip, I never knew that you could force a reboot like that - I will test next time
As for the apps that I have installed, I went a bit nuts during the Google sale recently, so there are quite a few.
But the apps that I use regularly are:
Whatsapp, Kakaotalk, stock browser and Google chrome (not chromes fault since I've only just started using it), Instafetch, Alarm Clock Extreme, Facebook, RSA Secure ID, Gmail, Tasker (have tried turning this off, no difference), camera, gallery, YouTube, phone, Lastpass, TripView, Trackball Alert Pro (also tried removing this, no diff), SwiftKey X (tired removing this - no diff), Root Explorer, Titanium Backup Pro, ROM Manager Pro
Apps that have running services:
WhatsApp, TelstraOne, Tasker, Trackball Alert Pro, KakaoTalk, Dropbox, SwiftKey X, misc Google services, HaxSync
There have bpeen times when one or another app has been removed to troubleshoot the issue (At one point I thought it was Juicedefender).
Stiill no dice.
This sucks!

Not regularly but yeh this happened to me yesterday, screen wouldn't come on and had to pull battery. Nearly shat myself because the last time that happened it went into a boot loop and I had to wipe my phone, luckily it didn't this time!

My GNex doesn't regularly reboot, but when it does, its always while its charging and while I'm in the messaging app. In fact, just a few hours out of the box. No additional apps, etc. Stock. The messaging app seems to not be as stable as it should be. When it does start to reboot, it freezes and has a glitchy screen with black lines in random places =/.

mine seems to freeze on the lock screen quite a lot. the physical buttons work but the soft buttons don't and the screen is unresponsive to touch commands to unlock ( i have the slide pin screen).
this has happened around 4 times in as many months thought - so not a major problem. it does, however, randomly power cycle sometimes - even when not in use at all!

The only time any of my Android phones ever have freezing or reboot issues is when I screw with the kernel and clock speeds. I haven't messed with the kernels or clock speeds on my nexus and haven't experienced any rebooting or freezing.
Just my $0.02.

Mine does on stock as well annoying when u are showing off to Steve's followers.
Google needs to continue upping the game. Not yet there. By the way on 4.02 GSM
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My CDMA/LTE version is stock/locked. I've had it for about 2 weeks and it's bootlooped twice that I know of. My Samsung Galaxy Tab 7+ does the same thing from time to time.

[Q]random reboots on my xperia play

Guys I've been having random reboot issues lately and i can't figured out what is actually happening. Sometimes it just reboots itself, randomly every time.
I thought flash another rom or kernel would solve the issue but it doesn't seems to work, any ideas?
I'm currently on DFR3.0.5 rom and DF kernel.

Are you overclocking and/or undervolting?

not really, i only overclock when i play certain games, otherwise i'll set it back to normal.

Is this question sounds stupid? It seems that nobody else would bother to reply it?

i have it some times like every 6weeks believe it or not its currently on stock, but that's made no difference had it happen on custom Rom's also and its allways at about 5 am just sitting there rebooting over and over. not sure if that's what you are getting?

it just sometimes rebooting itself, so i have no idea how and why

Try reflashing back to stock and don't change ANYTHING. Install your programs or whatever, but don't root it or any major system changes.
Use it for a while and see if it reboots. If it doesn't, you did something to it, overclocking/volting, and you need to figure it out.
If it keeps doing it, I hope it's under warrenty. But it also could be the battery.

Hardware isse
I have had 2 XP's and both returned as they randomly rebooted. When I called Dial-a-Phone(UK) to enquire they put me through to their support department. I had to do a factory reset, then install an update from Sony's website and try it out. Still did not work so they said it is a hardware issue. Fortunately I returned mine withing 28 days so got an instant replacement. Pity the second one did the same. I have returned that too and am awaiting my 3rd phone(what can I say, I love the phone). If this one does the same thing I will be moving though cannot be without a reliable phone at the moment(expecting baby) I hope you are covered by the warranty. Good luck.

Annoying as f*** I know mine are fairly rare they were more often when I was all stock two things that reduce it are an apkiller and everyday reboot
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I reflashed my df rom and never overclock it.....(since i didn't play asphalt nowadays)....it seems like the probs has been fixed, or maybe not happening yet

Mines been rebooting randomly for the last three days now. In fact it just rebooted while I as reading this.
Sometimes tends to happen when I slide in or out the keyboard. It's breaking my heart as I love this phone :-(
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Growling Clover said:
Mines been rebooting randomly for the last three days now. In fact it just rebooted while I as reading this.
Sometimes tends to happen when I slide in or out the keyboard. It's breaking my heart as I love this phone :-(
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If you have tried to repair the phone software via PC Companion and not installed any third party app's and it still reboots it needs to be checked at a repair center.
Contact your local support team for info about repair centers.
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/support/contact-us/contact-info/

I have had the same problem, but my phone is only rebooting during games(especially HD games). Almost everytime I play Shadow Guardian HD, Backstab HD, or NBA Jam. I never have problems with FPSE and psx games. I am using DOOMkernel v. 11 and I OverClock to 1.14 or 1.21 max and 249 min when I am ready to start up my games. I am also using supercharger V.6 on 512 hp. Should I be overclocking at a higher voltage to stop reboots?

I started getting random reboots under .62. And hooking it up to logcat I was getting ANR errors from a ton of background 3rd party apps.
I think my issue was related to moving from Link2SD to App2SD. I forced all my apps to .android_secure and I think there was one app that didn't play nice. Anyhoo, restored back to .42 and my sd-ext and it works like it did.

3rd one going nuts!!!
An update to my previous posts. Received my third one late last week and have been really using it to make sure it does not randomly reboot. No problem there I am happy to say. The problem I had a day or so ago, is that when I was typing a text message fast, my screen went bonkers and started typing by itself. It then opened my phone app and selected a contact to call, it then opened and closed some apps and closed them. I pressed the home screen but nothing, so powered down and booted it up again. It just carried on going crazy so powered down again and took the battery out, the sim card and also the SD card too. This seems to have "fixed" it for now as I have not been able to replicate the problem. Anyone else had this issue?
FYI - I have been playing Asphalt 6 HD with absolutely no problems at all, as well as a couple of other games.

I think i just had a reboot yesterday night by itself...the reason i know it is the application will kinda er....reset it's position in drawers, some apps shortcuts disappears from my home and so on.....
just when i thought my problem has solved.........

I think it was batter
Masters2150 said:
Try reflashing back to stock and don't change ANYTHING. Install your programs or whatever, but don't root it or any major system changes.
Use it for a while and see if it reboots. If it doesn't, you did something to it, overclocking/volting, and you need to figure it out.
If it keeps doing it, I hope it's under warrenty. But it also could be the battery.
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I also got this problem after changing with china battery. But when using an original battery it was ok. I buy extra for gaming. But now my original battery already missing. Hadoii...

To determine if your phone rebooted overnight, you can install "Android Terminal Emulator" from the Play Store and run the command "uptime", it tells you how much time has passed since the last boot
Or find an app that tells you that...
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xperia play reboots
DesmondH2O said:
Guys I've been having random reboot issues lately and i can't figured out what is actually happening. Sometimes it just reboots itself, randomly every time.
I thought flash another rom or kernel would solve the issue but it doesn't seems to work, any ideas?
I'm currently on DFR3.0.5 rom and DF kernel.
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I too was having the same issue I had flashed various roms and kernals but no luck I then flashed GB 2.2.3 uk generic here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2184897

[Q] Galaxy Nexus freezing

Hi,
I recently bought a Galaxy Nexus and rooted it right then and there. A couple of weeks later it went into the bootloop (disease) and I had to restore my phone from scratch (loosing all my SD card stuff as well ). So I decided to go with AOKP M4.
Again a couple of weeks later AOKP just freezes while I was trying to access Maps. No buttons work and the screen stays ON. Had to pull out the battery to bring the phone back to life.
This time I said, let's go for ARHD 3.0... all works fine and I flash to ARHD 4.0 with complete superwipe. Then last night it freezes again when I was trying to access GTalk. Same thing, had to pull the battery out to bring it back to life.
Now I'm wondering if there's a problem with the GAPPS on the GNex? Or there's something else brewing in the background while I carry on my daily tasks. The phone is great, but this freezing is making me go crazy.
If you guys have had similar issues before, and have found any solutions to those, I'd appreciate your help in that.
Thanks.

could be one of your apps

I had a few lockups on stock 4.0.1 when I first got my phone, but after it updated to 4.0.4, and my subsequent move to custom ROMs I haven't had any issues with my phone freezing.
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could be one of your apps
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This. Were there any shared circumstances between your lockups? I noticed that my phone lockups on 4.0.1 all occurred under the following circumstances: I was listening to music and writing a text message when a new message was received. Every time.

I definitely haven't had any freezes like that so far for the life of my 3 months. It certainly sounds like something unique with your setup is following you around. An app most likely.

Hmmm ... thanks for your help. I have seen the phone freeze twice in two days. Battery pull restores it every time however.
I don't have anything installed which plays around with my settings (ex: setcpu etc.) Except Tasker!
I can try disabling the app for a week to root cause it!
Thanks.
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Nexus 5X reboot problems

If you're having reboot problems please post here - if there are problem apps or bad devices out there it would be good to know!
Got a new Nexus 5X yesterday for my partner. Plugged it in and charged all day (oh what patience). 10pm started setup and added account to it. Phone immediately did an update which succeeded. Then it started to install the saved apps from the Google account, about 50 in all. After all the apps were installed I handed it over to her to play and log into all those apps with logins. Tedious.
Within about 30 minutes she tried to take a photo and it rebooted. Then a bit later she was using it and it rebooted again. Before going to be it rebooted a few more times. Then again this morning. There wasn't one particular app or other that was in use when these crashes happened. During the day she saw a message about "Google needs to restart". Also the camera often comes up with an all black screen and can't be used.
I called Google tech support and they wanted to do a factory reset and maybe a cache partition wipe. They would also like to investigate if a rogue app is causing the crashes by using it without any apps installed. Because reinstalling apps is so tedious I decided to have her do a cache partition reset I'm awaiting news. I'm hoping we don't have to do the other... I can't imagine how a bad app could be causing such repeated crashes (well I can, but it just shouldn't happen). That's lame...
It would really help if it was easy to get a crash log and find out the cause - unfortunately unless you're rooted this doesn't seem to be easy, and may well be impossible.

I've been having a lot of similar-sounding issues with my 5X. It's never rebooted while I was using it, but once or twice a day I'll pull it out of my pocket and it will be off, awaiting the unlock pattern to boot up.
The camera has been atrocious as well. I've seen the black screen you describe, tons of rotation lag, hanging, etc. Not just in Camera, but in other apps using the camera (such as when attaching a photo to a Hangout). Hoping this is something software-related and not a hardware problem.

I've had mine spontaneously reboot twice so far, both times I've pulled it out of my pocket and it required the PIN to unlock, then it booted up. I'm a bit concerned, as I have no idea when this happened, and, since it's encrypted a reboot essentially puts me offline until I notice it.

I just now had mine reboot during active use for the first time. I was long-pressing a wifi network in order to forget it (which is another 5x problem I keep having—wifi turns itself off or connects to the wrong networks).

My 5x was working fine and the crashing started happening yesterday...
they only app that i recently installed before the crashes started was firefox... are you guys using firefox by any chance???

Mine is still working fine, I do not have Firefox.

Same problem for me when using Firefox. The phone seems to crash and reboot when loading news websites containing photos and videos.
Not seen the issue when not using Firefox.

I've had my nexus 5x since mid/late November 2015. I've had the problem described below happen prior to today, and more than once.
Today, I cant turn my phone off - it seems to be in the middle of a reboot... the four coloured circles (google logo?) with colours going round and round. I powered it off cos it had started going slow... thought a reboot might fix the problem... but now its not starting and I cant even turn it off or do anything with it.. I've tried pressing the power button, I've tried holding the power button down, and I've tried different combinations... nothing seems to make a difference... (has been in that state of un-useablity for at least 30 mins now)
Anyone else also having wi-fi issues where facebook has an error and "cant connect" ?

I had the same thing happen and returned the phone, it's the only solution I found. I factory reset multiple times, called up Google and they told me to safe boot. Right.. I was completely stock and it rebooted multiple times / day and I know what I'm doing too, for the most part anyway. Got a replacement device and it has not once rebooted no matter what I do. Camera, Chrome random apps caused a reboot, it's not that. It's a defective device and you need to get it replaced period.

I have the same thing and can't sent it back to google because I live outside the US.
I believe it is a manufacture defect as I tried everything with no success really annoying.
Stuck with a brick...
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I used my phone completely stock for weeks and had zero issues, whereas I have a friend who ordered and received the phone at the exact same time (likely same mfg batch) and had issues. Difference between us two is that I'm a minimalist and only have about 50 apps installed, and he has a ton that he rarely uses and restores them every time.
I know it seems ridiculous, but having an android phone gives you more customization and your apps more power of the phone, so it's completely feasible for ONE rogue app to destroy performance and/or battery.
You guys might all want to try uninstalling apps one by one and figuring out which apps are killing performance. In particular, check out the running services (developer options -> running services) and see which apps are constantly running, since those are more likely to be the ones causing issues.
For example, I've used firefox (for adblocked browsing) for weeks recently, and can definitely say it's a pretty slow app, so if you're having issues on it, you may want to just use chrome or lightning browser.

I just ordered a replacement as well. Mine would reboot about 1 to 2 times a week right after the fingerprint unlock. Annoying as hell today because I was in the middle of a conf call.
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