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Serious stability issues unrooted Galaxy Nexus

I've been having some pretty big issues with this phone ...it's unrooted running stock ITL41F still on 4.0.1 in the UK
Its been 7 days that I've owned this phone now. And few times it has just crashed. I could be in the middle of typing something, or anything else just coming out of an app, and the screen will freeze go black. And done! Crashed.
And crashed such that it doesn't start I have to take the battery out and reboot. It just dies. It happened a few times but I was setting my phone up so I let it go but now this is just downright annoying. It happens once in two days or so.
Second, and this is even worse. The phone is not dying but goes in a sort of coma. The screen becomes unresponsive.. and the keyboard doesn't work!! And in most apps only selective touch input works...let's say in whatsapp I was talking to a friend and it was working okay but suddenly it stopped accepting my input for a new mesg. And then I couldn't open another chat. Lots of things started being unresponsive...
I went to the home screen and even the Google search bar ..when I clicked on it the keyboard came up ( which it wasn't coming while middle of whatsapp chat) but it didn't accept any input.
I tool the battery out. Rebooted. And it worked initially but then after a few minutes. Exact same problem.
Rebooted again. But again same problem !! That was a bit of a horror really
Right now it seems to be accepting my text input but ... really don't know what the heck is going on for both these issues above. Any advise will be appreciated
Also yeah I do have quite a few apps installed on this device ... considering its stock ROM this should be safest against a vulnerability but any advise on if I should install one of those anti virus apps on it? Or any sorts of apps that I should avoid which cause such major stability issues with ur phone ??
Cheers
Dhruv
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I've only experienced few of your issues.
Coma and reboot happened a couple of time while I was on 4.0.1.
But since getting 4.0.2 a few weeks ago those issues went away.
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4.0.2 ftw.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.

There are a few threads here with people experiencing similar problems. My screen goes black and also requires a battery pull.

@rbiter said:
4.0.2 ftw.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
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4.0.3 ftw. Either flash a custom rom or get the 4 0.2 update to help with your problem.
Definitely a software issue that you're having.
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I refuse to believe it is 4.0.1 it has been long delayed in the UK
That wouldn't be the case by Google if it was fixing such serious stability issues with the phone
Why do you come here doling out suggestions when you have no clue?
I am having the same problem again now everything is very slow and even the keyboard doesn't open in even Google search most functions unresponsive

And now most apps are force closing on me
IMDB and now xda app too. The phone is half dead the back buttons don't work either
This is the same thing that happened earlier in the day when I posted, and then the phone worked okay but now its back killing my phone
Anyone has any clue what could be going on ? Also this is the GSM version in the UK on 4.0.1 so only if you have a clue please respond else thank you very much

Now even settings page says its not responding
I can post on xda and it works but when I press back that doesnt.
Back doesn't work in any screens. The settings page not working was a classic screenshot will attach here from a PC.
Sorry for the continues rant folks. Just giving as much info as I can to those knowledgeable folks who might be able to help

The crashes arent stopping ..and the 4.0.3 isn't coming to the UK for some reason either ( which leads me to believe that it has some fixes for LTE which isn't available here anyway)
Aren't other users in the UK facing this crash problem - like once in 2 days or so??
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Uninstall some of the apps you've downloaded that run in background. Battery Monitory was causing my phone to randomly reboot every other day or so. I uninstalled it and it was fine.
If that doesn't work, there's always Factory Reset.

games problem

any body having problem playing games on the galaxy s3 like force close or not opening at all
my galaxy s3 is just stock rooted

mrej201 said:
any body having problem playing games on the galaxy s3 like force close or not opening at all
my galaxy s3 is just stock rooted
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Nope, what games specifically are you talking about
*edit* accidentally clicked thanks instead of quote post...I guess you got lucky? *
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well ione of the angry birds wont open ant smash there more idk im just wondering if not i will just reset the phone
and thanx for saying ty lol

When I had facebook app installed I couldnt get draw something to work. Its still glitchy but at least now I can play.

loveshinesthru said:
When I had facebook app installed I couldnt get draw something to work. Its still glitchy but at least now I can play.
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I suggest factory reset XD but remember that it will delete everything so put it all on your computer first.
What ive noticed is most S3's require a factory reset before everything seems to work correctly.

ReapersDeath said:
I suggest factory reset XD but remember that it will delete everything so put it all on your computer first.
What ive noticed is most S3's require a factory reset before everything seems to work correctly.
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thanx im was planing on doing it just my mom galaxy 3not mine im going to get the note since its basically the same spec but a bigger screen

So far games work fine. Some have lag like Asphalt 7, but I think this is a problem that Gameloft had to fix.

[Q] Android Beam

Evening, guys.
I'm kinda having problems with my Android Beam on the GNexus.
I used my phone (GNexus 4.1.1) and my girlfriend's phone (NexusS 4.1.1).
Put them back to back and tried to send webpages, youtube videos, contacts, images, etc..
Both devices vibrate and have the "touch to beam" options.
When attempting to send the file after touching, the image of that file would just slowly getting smaller on the screen to a point it just "goes away" and nothing happens on both phones.
The device trying to send just stays on the Beam's screen and the other device trying to receive doesn't do anything.
(just ONCE we could share a video from youtube with no problem, as mine GNexus was at 4.0.4 yet)
Don't have any other device to test..
Bought mine 3 days ago, wondering if it could be a hardware (or whatever) problem.
Any ideas about that?
Thanks in advance.

Nobody?
Have just few more days to send it back to the store if it's factory problem.. needing help ASAP

Have you tried GW?

Mine does the same when beaming with friends galaxy s2 I don't know what happens

biscuitownz said:
Have you tried GW?
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Sorry about that, but what you mean about GW?
edit: oh, Google Wallet, right? I live in Brazil and NFC is an outer world thing, we don't have those things around here to try at.. lol
Hunter-Eastland said:
Mine does the same when beaming with friends galaxy s2 I don't know what happens
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Have you tried with other devices or just your friends S2?
Thanks for the replies
Best regards

No problem between my gnex and n7.
Beamed from my Grouper.

Have you tried touching and holding instead of just tapping, when it says to touch?

ArcticWolf91 said:
Have you tried touching and holding instead of just tapping, when it says to touch?
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Yeah, already tryied almost everything.. holding, double tapping, frenetic tapping.. lol
But they just do the same
Wish I had another device to test at..

I think this might be a software problem, if it was a hardware problem nothing would even show up.

[Q] Touch Screen multiple touches for one touch?

Anyone else getting many touches for one touch? For instance if I type "STUPID", I may end up with "STUUUPIIDDD". It's not quite that excessive, but wanted to get the point across. One touch results in multiple letters/clicks every now and then.
Think this is a hardware issue, or something they may be able to tweak with an update?
How 'bout you?

Yea. Not bothersome though.
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Crooke356 said:
Yea. Not bothersome though.
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Oh, it's hella-bothersome. Could be worse if it did it more, but it's still far too much for a "flagship" device.

i bet it's a 4.3 issue or something they overlooked..i remember when there were touch issues back on 4.1 i think ti was...remember on the Gnex, when after you'd touch recent apps, touch sensitivty would drop like crazy and you'd have to shut the screen off and turn it back on?
probably something stupid like that lol

jayochs said:
i bet it's a 4.3 issue or something they overlooked...
probably something stupid like that lol
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I think/hope you're right! :good:

I took the update bc I was having problems with touch problems with notifications, seems to have fixed it (I think)

IamPro said:
I took the update bc I was having problems with touch problems with notifications, seems to have fixed it (I think)
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I'm all updated, still seeing it. Not a lot, but enough to be irritating.

I'm having this problem as well. Just got my nexus about 2 hours ago and trying to set it up I'm seeing that long presses are sometimes hard to perform and sometimes scrolling lists will perform a button click on items when I was in the middle of a swipe gesture. I'm also seeing the keyboard issue. I thought it might be a stock keyboard problem but switched it out to thumb keyboard and I'm having the same issue.
My device forced an update right after I turned it on. It connected to wifi and then rebooted, ran the update, then restarted and had to go through the wizard again. Got into the OS and it said there was another system update. Checked version and it was 4.3 but did the update again. Still 4.3 after update. Was strange.
This keyboard issue is annoying enough that I'm thinking about RMA already. The device is pretty amazing other than that

Haven't seen that yet, but I'm using the latest phone version of SwiftKey.
Edit: I'm on JSS15J
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Haven't experienced this at all
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I think its just that the screen is super sensitive. I am finding it very difficult to type without having these issues. However I am getting used to it, so my typing is getting better and faster.
I bet in a month or so once you fully "learn" the response of the tablet you won't have these issues anymore.
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^^ Exactly. it'll take a bit of time to get used to it. Plus, "SSSTTTTUUUPPIIIIDDD" sounds nice... wonder if its the problem with STUPID only... or some other words too

I thought I was going crazy for a little bit. I'm getting the same thing on Swype.
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Power button

So a mate of mine has the z1c and says her power button isn't working properly... Its not waking the phone...
This happend to my z1c tonight... Annoying!
Anyone else had this, it seems to be an intermittent problem works fine then won't come on
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Not experienced anything like that
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samreedy said:
So a mate of mine has the z1c and says her power button isn't working properly... Its not waking the phone...
This happend to my z1c tonight... Annoying!
Anyone else had this, it seems to be an intermittent problem works fine then won't come on
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Had the same problem a few days ago, at first I thought it was faulty hardware or a bug with the stock firmware.
But it was working perfectly fine the minute before, so I suspected it may be related to something I was doing with the phone at the time.
After some experimenting, I have come to the conclusion that it's somehow affected by (multiple) Google Play apps downloading/installing. During this state, if the system idles and automatically turns off the display, there's a great chance that I can not wake up the phone. I did not try manually turning off the screen.
After the apps have all finished installing completely, I can't repro the problem. (Might have rebooted once, can't remember)
Maybe it's the same situation as yours or your friend's, hope this helps.

mhaha said:
Had the same problem a few days ago, at first I thought it was faulty hardware or a bug with the stock firmware.
But it was working perfectly fine the minute before, so I suspected it may be related to something I was doing with the phone at the time.
After some experimenting, I have come to the conclusion that it's somehow affected by (multiple) Google Play apps downloading/installing. During this state, if the system idles and automatically turns off the display, there's a great chance that I can not wake up the phone. I did not try manually turning off the screen.
After the apps have all finished installing completely, I can't repro the problem. (Might have rebooted once, can't remember)
Maybe it's the same situation as yours or your friend's, hope this helps.
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Yes, I have a feeling that this is the case.
My Z1C is fine, but I have experienced something similar with my Z Ultra.
It is hard to pinpoint exactly what the cause is, but multiple download and screen turning off reminds me of the situation when I run my U-torrent app on my ZU. At first I thought it was screen of death that was affecting some of the device back then on the older firmwares, but came to understand that it is the torrent app causing the probs.
So multiple play store apps download can possibly have similar issues!

Hmmm, no apps downloading at the time, just killed all of the background apps and seems to have worked
Cheers guys
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It's a common issue I've found with pretty much any Android device (experience of it on Samsung Galaxy S, HTC One X, and now Sony Xperia Z1 Compact).
It's rare, but whenever I notice it, it's always linked to the phone doing a complication of heavy task processing (such as installing apps) at the same time as heavy downloads (such as downloading apps).
If I've left my apps for a while, and then update say 30 all together, you'll get this issue on pretty much any android phone while it's trying to hammer away at the other tasks it's doing.

Have the same issue here, without any Google Play downloading going on. I didn't have that on my previous Android phone (Motorola Droid RAZR).
I noticed that rebooting the phone cures the problem for a while, but I would like to solve the problem once and for all.
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Steven1145 said:
Have the same issue here, without any Google Play downloading going on. I didn't have that on my previous Android phone (Motorola Droid RAZR).
I noticed that rebooting the phone cures the problem for a while, but I would like to solve the problem once and for all.
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Exactly the same for me too..... nothing to do with downloading or installing heavy or light apps..... even when nothing else is running......

Hi guys.. I have the same problem for the last few days... (Croatia)... Maybe it is global issue??
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thabull said:
Exactly the same for me too..... nothing to do with downloading or installing heavy or light apps..... even when nothing else is running......
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Any solution?? I have the same problem here...

a solution
I just had to deal with this. Power button gets progressively worse til it never responds again. You can remap other buttons but you're stuck once it powers off!
The cause is that the ribbon cable connector for the power & volume buttons worked itself loose. It can be fixed by putting a little foam pad on it to discourage it from coming loose again. I think it's amanufacturing fault - there should have been one put on at the factory. The connector is under the screen; you don't need to disassemble anything else, but the screen is very, VERY easy to break when removing - heroic patience required