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[Q] Galaxy Nexus keeps turning OFF

I have a problem with my Galaxy Nexus turning OFF at night.
I goto bed at night and open the clock app and click the screen to dim it. When I wake up in the morning the phone is OFF. I have to pull the battery in order to boot. The battery is fully charged.
I returned the phone after this happened twice and received a brand new one. I have the same problem with this new device. I have changed the power socket and the charger yet still the problem persists.
Is anyone else experiencing similar problems?
I have Skype installed and running which maybe the cause. I will keep it OFF for the next few nights to see if this has a positive effect.

Try it without any off your apps installed. If the problem goes away you know it's an app causing the problem. Then start adding them back in batches until the problem re-occurs. Eventually you'll narrow the issue down to one app.

mark_w said:
I have a problem with my Galaxy Nexus turning OFF at night.
I goto bed at night and open the clock app and click the screen to dim it. When I wake up in the morning the phone is OFF. I have to pull the battery in order to boot. The battery is fully charged.
I returned the phone after this happened twice and received a brand new one. I have the same problem with this new device. I have changed the power socket and the charger yet still the problem persists.
Is anyone else experiencing similar problems?
I have Skype installed and running which maybe the cause. I will keep it OFF for the next few nights to see if this has a positive effect.
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This is happening to me too.
At random times, the phone will refuse to wake from sleep.
Nothing but a battery pull will fix it.
I don't have skype installed.

Have a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360880&highlight=sleep+of+death

Mine started today. Really hope this does not keep happening or I need to return this right away. Missed a few phone calls today and didnt realize until I looked down any my phone was just simply black. Will not wake up or do anything at all. You have to pull the battery. Right before this happened my data was dropping non stop about every 5 minutes for an hour.
I'm trying to stay calm because I love this phone, but between the data drops and the phone turning off im loosing patience quick.

This is happening to me as well. With TWO different phones. The first one I returned to Verizon and now its happening on the second one.
Phone will power off while doing random tasks. The two I've noticed is browsing on the stock browser and texting on the stock texting app.

I'm having the same problem. It's happened twice in the 3 days I've had the phone. It hasn't happened while I'm using it, both times it was when the screen was already off -- it just wouldn't waku up. Nothing short of pulling the battery, letting it sit, then powering on would work.
Couldn't have come at a worse time either, my daughter is in the hospital and I get updates from the surgeons via phone. So now I have to check every 5 minutes and make sure the phone is still on.
Phone is bone stock, out-of-the-box.
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i just had my first turned off this morning... my friend's SGN happened 5 days ago too. very unreliable....

I had that happen to me as well. Turns out I forgot that I had an app scheduled to do a backup at like 3 AM.
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CodenameDroid 1.2 cdma & Franco 14.4

My sgn turned off every night now. Anyone got any ideas why? I turned my verizon backup already.

reboot durring skype call
mark_w said:
I have Skype installed and running which maybe the cause. I will keep it OFF for the next few nights to see if this has a positive effect.
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it does it when i have skype running too. also i have other other audio apps open. (power amp, tunein, pandora) It's happened twice to me and each time it has been during a skype call while the other apps were running. (in widget form)

shock sensitive in the area right below the camera?
My device just "randomly" switches off (sometimes several times a day). After a long search for a reproducible cause, it seems safe to say that at least some devices seem to be extremely shock sensitive in the area right below the camera (on the back of the device). Even minuscule shocks to this area switch these devices off. Youtube-user 'jardinepatten' demonstrates this problem nicely in a video called "Galaxy Nexus Turning Off".

Random reboot and shutdown

Lately my galaxy nexus has been shouting down or restarting. If it doesn't restart by itself I have to pull the battery to get it to turn on. It should be noted that each time this has happened Skype has been on in the background. (audio only)
Also there are other audio apps open in the background (power amp) that were occasionally playing during the call. I have headphones on also. I'm on Verizon and my nexus is 1 day old. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks.
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Hi there,
I noticed that you mentioned you used Poweramp and I think this could be your problem. I had the same issues: random reboots, and a few times, my phone would vibrate in my pocket and turned off itself. I returned the phone (luckily still under warranty) and received a brand new replacement.
I started to install the apps one-by-one, and within a couple hours of downloading poweramp (which i had also used in my previous device), my phone froze and shut down without turning on. I had to battery pull a few times, and thankfully, it turned on again.
I uninstalled poweramp, and there has been no issues since (it's been 3 days without poweramp).
Hope this helps.

Gnex randomly shutting off?

So... maybe someone else can help me out here. My phone started doing this really cool thing about a week ago where it will just shut off out the blue. I've been scouring Google for similar problems, but cannot find anything. Lots of people complaining about reboots or sleep of death, but not hard shut downs. I don't have to pull the battery to reboot or anything, and it's not restarting, it just shuts off.
Sometimes it will only do it once or twice a day, other times it will do it 5+ times an hour. There seems to be no pattern to it either. Sometimes I will just pick up my phone and its off. Sometimes I will be listening to music with it in my pocket and it goes out. Quite a few times I've been texting or something and watched it just shut off.
It was right around when I flashed AOKP M5, so I assumed it might be that. I tried a new kernel first, which didn't help. Today I flashed MIUI, hoping it would fix my problem, but nope. Still getting reboots. So it does not seem ROM related.
Anything else I should try before trying to get my phone replaced? Who would the warranty even be through. I bought the phone from Amazon wireless. Them? Verizon? Samsung?

go back to complete stock, then see if the problem occurs

Maybe try using the samsung stock rom, without root. If you still have the problem, I think you should contact amazon. Be sure to reset the flash counter before you send it away
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There isn't a flash counter on the GNex.

Please help!! Phone reboots randomly even on complete stock unrooted.

Okay, I've had my S3 since July of 2012. It has worked perfectly up until about 3 weeks ago. It has just started rebooting randomly and it says it's not sending texts, but the people I'm texting say they receive the message that supposedly fails to send like 5 or 6 times. I've spent the last 2 weeks trying to find a solution online and couldn't find anything. I have flashed probably 15 different roms, including stock rooted. Now I am on complete stock unrooted with stock recovery and I'm having the same issues. I used odin to return to stock. I only have 4 apps installed aside from the bloatware that comes with the phone. I'm sure the texting issue is with T-mobile's service, but the rebooting can't be. It's random, but I can always tell when it's about to do it because the screen will come back on right after I lock it and a few seconds later it will reboot. I have also taken the phone apart to see if the power button is jammed and it wasn't. I removed the actual power button and put it back in just to be sure. The phone still reboots randomly. Is anyone else having this issue and if so have you found a way to stop it? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you for looking.

I guess nobody has had these issues.

Sounds like a defective phone.
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It would of been easier if you had warranty on to just return it instead of going through all that hassle.
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I have the same issue, pretty sure its the power button sticking. I'm using the home button to wake it up and a widget on the lock screen to lock it for now until I send it in.
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It stopped. I don't know what it was, but I ran stock for a few days and it just quit. Didn't do anything, but flash it back to stock, It did it for a couple of more days after I flashed it back to stock and then it just randomly quit. It's been almost a full week now and no random reboots. If it starts happening again then I will probably just get a replacement. I do have the insurance through T-mobile, but I don't want to pay the deductible.

Could some dust etc. making power button stuck causing reboots? It could also be unstable rom. If you are oc/uv 'ing the phone that could also do that
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I had a similar problem with my Amaze, turns out one of the connector pins to the battery was miss aligned and would on occasion cross the line and short. Luckily nothing catastrophic but the phone would just reboot, sometimes continuously. After I straightened it out, problem solved.

Evo4eva said:
Okay, I've had my S3 since July of 2012. It has worked perfectly up until about 3 weeks ago. It has just started rebooting randomly and it says it's not sending texts, but the people I'm texting say they receive the message that supposedly fails to send like 5 or 6 times. I've spent the last 2 weeks trying to find a solution online and couldn't find anything. I have flashed probably 15 different roms, including stock rooted. Now I am on complete stock unrooted with stock recovery and I'm having the same issues. I used odin to return to stock. I only have 4 apps installed aside from the bloatware that comes with the phone. I'm sure the texting issue is with T-mobile's service, but the rebooting can't be. It's random, but I can always tell when it's about to do it because the screen will come back on right after I lock it and a few seconds later it will reboot. I have also taken the phone apart to see if the power button is jammed and it wasn't. I removed the actual power button and put it back in just to be sure. The phone still reboots randomly. Is anyone else having this issue and if so have you found a way to stop it? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you for looking.
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I'm actually having this exact same issue, as well as crashes which seem to happen when copy/pasting text. Reboots, spamming people supposedly failed messages, the works....
And I'm with Sprint.
This is the SECOND S3 that has done this to me. I returned my first one after being fed up with it, guessing it must have been a hardware problem since I couldn't find anyone else that had this issue.. but this one has done it too, so I just figured I had to accept it....

phsh I wouldn't accept a piece of hardware that acts like that... bug 'em til they fix it or get you something else like the s4
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Interesting to read this. I got my S3 in October, and it just started doing this. Twice it has simply rebooted, both times have been after I uninstalled an app. My phone is completely stock, unrooted. Never been rooted. I took it out of the box and updated it to JB and haven't done anything else. I'm not getting any messaging issues, just the reboots. I'm using Nova Prime, and uninstalling by dragging the icon to the trash can.

I'm not sure what caused mine to stop, but it did. It hasn't done it again since it stopped either. I flashed back to complete stock, unrooted and used triangle away. It was still doing it for maybe a week or two after that, but then it just stopped. It has been working fine ever since. That includes trying 4 or 5 different roms after it stopped just to see if it would do it again. Been running wicked on the same phone for months now without any of the issues I previously had. If your phone is doing this then I suggest either waiting to see if it stops on it's own like mine or get it replaced.

LG Q7+ Freezes

I've bought this phone a little over a month ago from Metro PCS through the $100 promo and was liking it's useful features. However, like a week later, it started to randomly freeze almost daily for almsot a whole minute. It got so bad I couldn't use the phone at all and has to do a quick reeboot (Holding down Volume down and powerbutton). This worked the first few times to fix the freeze. One time for some reason when I tried to quick rebbot to revcover from a freeze the phone actually got stuck on the LG boot up screen :confused. It took me almsot 2 hours to get it back on and when I did it was freezing horribly and stuttering. I decided to do a factory reset to see if that fixed. It fixed the horrible stutters and frequent feeezes, but as of now I still have issues with random freezes. It'll freeze at the strangest times and annoys the heck out of me especially during YouTube binges. Is my "new" phone actually refurbished, or is this a software/hardware issue. Has anyone else expericed this?

my q7+ freezes all the time in games. some are unplayable because of it