I have searched for this issue but couldn't find anything about it...
So I got my GSM Galaxy Nexus from Rogers 10 days ago. It has been working dandy with maybe 1 force close the whole time and no random reboots. I also unlocked the bootloader and installed 4.0.2 (yakju) keeping the radio that came with it intact.
I also installed Google Wallet on it and successfully used it. Other than that, I haven't done any tweaks, and like I said, it has been working perfectly with no problems whatsoever.
Enter today: I woke up this morning and went to check my phone. Instantly like 3 applications force closed (ones that weren't even running in the foreground too). Now for the past 3 hours hours or so, applications force close (some won't even have a chance to run for a second) and the phone reboots randomly. I think it has rebooted around 30 times in the past 3 hours. Sometimes it reboots as soon as it has booted up, sometimes it works for a few minutes before rebooting.
Every time it reboots it shows my old battery stats (I think.. from before I went to sleep), and notifies me of the same emails. I managed to install one app before it did a random reboot once, but after the reboot it was gone. (Think Groundhog Day).
I have no idea how to fix this short of doing a factory reset. Anyone have any ideas as to what may be happening or how to fix it?
Thanks.
stenzor said:
I have searched for this issue but couldn't find anything about it...
So I got my GSM Galaxy Nexus from Rogers 10 days ago. It has been working dandy with maybe 1 force close the whole time and no random reboots. I also unlocked the bootloader and installed 4.0.2 (yakju) keeping the radio that came with it intact.
I also installed Google Wallet on it and successfully used it. Other than that, I haven't done any tweaks, and like I said, it has been working perfectly with no problems whatsoever.
Enter today: I woke up this morning and went to check my phone. Instantly like 3 applications force closed (ones that weren't even running in the foreground too). Now for the past 3 hours hours or so, applications force close (some won't even have a chance to run for a second) and the phone reboots randomly. I think it has rebooted around 30 times in the past 3 hours. Sometimes it reboots as soon as it has booted up, sometimes it works for a few minutes before rebooting.
Every time it reboots it shows my old battery stats (I think.. from before I went to sleep), and notifies me of the same emails. I managed to install one app before it did a random reboot once, but after the reboot it was gone. (Think Groundhog Day).
I have no idea how to fix this short of doing a factory reset. Anyone have any ideas as to what may be happening or how to fix it?
Thanks.
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Is it doing a full reboot or just a "warm start"?
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What's a warm start? It seems to be doing a full reboot.. Screen goes black, then Google logo appears, then the boot animation.
It seems that I cannot do a factory reset.. selecting it in the menu brings me to the android robot on its back with a red exclamation mark, and selecting wipe data from that menu doesn't actually wipe anything even though it says it does.
Try unlocking and relocking your boot loader if you are going to factory reset anyways
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It's already unlocked.. You mean locking it and unlocking again? Also, is there any way to batch reinstall all the apps tied to my account? And also, any clue how this issue could have originated? I want to avoid it in the future.
No idea.. all I can think of is an app using all of your memory as that's what causes a force close.. and sure try relocking and unlocking if a normal factory reset won't do it. If you have titanium backup you can use that to batch reinstall but if it is an all causing this issue you should install them one at a time to see of there are any adverse effects.
I don't know if it is an app but that is my best guess.
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I hadn't installed any new apps prior to this.. and everything was working fine before, which is why I'm confused as to what could have caused this. Also, not just one app force closes, but like 4 at a time.. usually the Google apps for some reason. I checked the memory and the CPU and it seemed to be running at normal levels.
Have you tried an old-fashioned battery pull?
Haven't had this happen to me, but a pull usually does the trick.
Yep, and it hasn't worked.. Every time the device reboots, it will either reboot again right away, or if i don't touch it, it will idle. Then if I try to do anything, 3 or 4 apps will crash instantly, and then it will freeze and instantly restart.
If I manage to install an app, I can run it, but then it crashes and reboots again with no sign of the app. Deleting apps is also useless as they are back after reboot. Strange issue.
Guys, I really need help.. I finally had time to sit down with my phone and figure out this issue so I decided to just do a wipe. As I wrote previously, I am unable to wipe it from within the OS due to it rebooting when I do, so I decided to re-lock the bootloader.
When I typed "fastboot oem lock", it changed the lock state on my phone to locked.. as I was expecting.. however, when I rebooted the bootloader, it was unlocked again. WTF? Now I am trying to flash stock 4.0.2 to it again (which it was already), but it's been stuck on "writing 'system' ..." for half hour
Could the flash memory be corrupted somehow?
Ok, I have deduced that it is most likely corrupted flash memory.. I didn't even know that could happen, especially in 10 days.. I guess that's good ol' "Made in China" at work. Still, am I the only one who has had their flash memory fail on them?
Crossing my fingers that Rogers will replace my Galaxy Nexus even though it's rooted and bootloader unlocked :/
Hey stenzor,
I am facing same problem of rebooting...
But I haven't flashed it to yakju.
Did rogers replaced your?
Ok here's the deal, I have my device about 3 months and never had a problem. Since last week my phone kept turning off when I'm on the home screen, restarts when screen is off. So I was advice to try and hard reset my device which I did bunch of times and problems still continues. I did not install any apps when I hard reset it and I don't know what to do????
tsanchez31 said:
Ok here's the deal, I have my device about 3 months and never had a problem. Since last week my phone kept turning off when I'm on the home screen, restarts when screen is off. So I was advice to try and hard reset my device which I did bunch of times and problems still continues. I did not install any apps when I hard reset it and I don't know what to do????
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Random restarting can happen with custom ROMs. It's happened to me with CM a while back. With you being on a custom ROM, that may be what is causing your issue.
Only way to really determine the cause is to view your logcat, which is tricky because it is cleared on a reboot. This app: aLogcat (free) might be useful. You can set it to save your logcats to your sdcard in intervals, that way it is persistant through a reboot.
You can monitor that and see what exactly is causing your issue.
You can also flash back to stock and see if the issue persists.
If you are running stock rom then your main board might be going bad. Someone sent me an article the other day about this happening to people. Apparently Samsung fixes it for free.
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Hey guys, i recently debloated my rom and everything was fine for over a week until i did a factory reset, after doing a factory reset i now have an issue where everytime i restart my phone it makes me go through the setup process (like i just bought a new phone) and won't allow me to open recent apps menu
Has anyone had this issue before? or does anyone know what app being removed would cause this?
EDIT: I just found the rogue missing app that was causing this issue, it was the "App updates" app, apparently you can't factory reset properly without this app.
I also noticed somthing weird when my phone was acting up, when my phone couldn't connect to this app my phone was REALLY COLD even with the screen on, but after installing app updates my phone becomes warm again but atleast stuff works again
Anyone else experiencing an excessive amount of reboots? For as long as I've had my N4, my phone has never restarted by itself. But after updating to 5.1.1, my phone restarts at least 5-6 times a day on any app (snapchat, facebook, camera etc). Should have been a hint to backup my phone because now my phone is on a loop and wont boot up after the AT&T animation. Last resort is obviously a Factory reset. Any help would be appreciated!
EDIT: Wiping my cache partition did not fix the issue.
EDIT: Plugging the phone in the charger while rebooting somehow fixed it. Hope that helps someone having the same issues.
Not me.
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My device has never rebooted itself since I owned it (bought on 10/30/14). Yesterday, I tapped the camera icon to use the camera and it rebooted. Took forever to boot up because I'm encrypted. Once booted, I again tried to enter the camera and again, rebooted. Now at this point, it will not stop rebooting. It was on a loop that seemed like every 15-20 seconds it would reboot itself and I'd see the Samsung GN4 splash screen. I pulled the battery to stop this since everything else was unresponsive. I restarted the device in recovery mode and cleared system cache. Seemed to work at the time. All was well for a few hours with light usage until I tried to use the Genius Scan+ app. As soon as I tapped the camera button within the app, the device rebooted. Once back up and running, I deleted an app that I sideloaded the day before called Parchi (it's a Microsoft Garage project app not available in the US Play Store). I figured it might have something to do with it since it's the only app I've installed in days. The app seemed to work for the first 24 hours however, I deleted it anyway just to see if that was causing the issue. So far, no further issues with rebooting and my battery life has been great as well. Prior to deleting this app, my battery went from 100% to 35% in like 3 hours with very light usage and maybe 20 minutes of OST.
Back to the issue at hand though, I've had 5.1.1 on my device since day one when AT&T pushed it and no issues with rebooting until yesterday.
Hello. Basically,the problem is with the flashlight,when I turn it on at the quick settings menu,the phone freezes and the only thing I can do is restarting phone via holding power button. Today I tried taking video with flashlight and phone also froze. I updated to Nougat and the problem is still here. The only thing is, I don't actually know if the problem was here when the phone had 6.0. MM out of the box, I did not test the flashlight and updated to 6.0.1.. Phone is not freezing when I take photos at night with flashbulb.
The phone is 2 days old, it's basically brand new.
Ah, I forgot to tell,I did factory reset twice and started from fresh,also wiped cache partition and nothing has changed.
crispyz said:
Hello. Basically,the problem is with the flashlight,when I turn it on at the quick settings menu,the phone freezes and the only thing I can do is restarting phone via holding power button. Today I tried taking video with flashlight and phone also froze. I updated to Nougat and the problem is still here. The only thing is, I don't actually know if the problem was here when the phone had 6.0. MM out of the box, I did not test the flashlight and updated to 6.0.1.. Phone is not freezing when I take photos at night with flashbulb.
The phone is 2 days old, it's basically brand new.
Ah, I forgot to tell,I did factory reset twice and started from fresh,also wiped cache partition and nothing has changed.
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Happens sometimes with me too
If anyone provides a WORKING solution. I'll give 5 thanks
This random freeze issue is bugging me a lot .. because I can't use my phone to the fullest because of this random freeze
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crispyz said:
Hello. Basically,the problem is with the flashlight,when I turn it on at the quick settings menu,the phone freezes and the only thing I can do is restarting phone via holding power button. Today I tried taking video with flashlight and phone also froze. I updated to Nougat and the problem is still here. The only thing is, I don't actually know if the problem was here when the phone had 6.0. MM out of the box, I did not test the flashlight and updated to 6.0.1.. Phone is not freezing when I take photos at night with flashbulb.
The phone is 2 days old, it's basically brand new.
Ah, I forgot to tell,I did factory reset twice and started from fresh,also wiped cache partition and nothing has changed.
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Exchange the phone for a replacement.
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