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Help - Constant reboots

I received my Nexus 7 yesterday from google play. I played with it all night and everything was great. No manufacturing defaults that I can detect. I charged it up when I went to bed. I woke up this morning and played with it for about ten minutes and everything was cool. Now I'm at work and it starts rebooting every 20 seconds or so. I'm using Nova launcher so I enabled the default launcher. No good. I factory reset and its still boot looping. I was tethering to my phone so I disabled wifi. No change. Turned off GPS...no change. Can anyone think of anything else I can do? I really don't want to wait on hold with Google.
Thanks.
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My Nexus 7 is on pre-order here in Australia, but I do have an Asus Transformer tab which reboots to no end.. I was kind of hoping the reboot issues wouldn't exist in the newer Asus-manufactured tabs .. this is not encouraging!
11 months after buying the TF101 and 3 RMAs and several OTA firmware updates and countless hard-resets, the random reboots are occurring.
My advice to you is bite the bullet and send it back ASAP and argue for a replacement. Don't think that you can just put up with it for a bit and wait for firmware updates, because trust me, it will drive u nuts!~

Yeah, I'm on hold now and have been for about an hour. I have to get this thing replaced as its useless. Its funny that if idle it is fine but as soon as I do anything it reboots. I was really looking forward to playing with it this weekend. I just hope they can ship a new one quickly.
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84 minutes on hold and finally spoke with a Rep. They will email me within 48 hours for RMA. Its a shame since this is a beautiful tablet.
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SoldierOfCatan said:
I received my Nexus 7 yesterday from google play. I played with it all night and everything was great. No manufacturing defaults that I can detect. I charged it up when I went to bed. I woke up this morning and played with it for about ten minutes and everything was cool. Now I'm at work and it starts rebooting every 20 seconds or so. I'm using Nova launcher so I enabled the default launcher. No good. I factory reset and its still boot looping. I was tethering to my phone so I disabled wifi. No change. Turned off GPS...no change. Can anyone think of anything else I can do? I really don't want to wait on hold with Google.
Thanks.
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If you're tethering, doesn't that mean you also rooted too? Did you change anything else?
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Let me clarify. My phone is rooted and had wifi hotspot on. My tab is not rooted. Completely stock. I am still getting reboots after factory reset with wifi GPS and syncs turned off.
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I'm starting to have rebooting issues too. It's not as often but it is happening and is very random. Hopefully it's nothing with the hardware.

Restore stock ROM before to ensure rooting didn't introduce any issues before wasting anyone's time with RMA.

mi7chy said:
Restore stock ROM before to ensure rooting didn't introduce any issues before wasting anyone's time with RMA.
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I wish mine was something that simple. I've only had mine for 4 days so far and haven't done any mods to it. I'm going to try a factory wipe though to see if that helps.

Order placed for RMA for the reboot issue. Its currently not even booting. Its just giving me the boot animation. Very odd especially since I didn't root it. Anyone know if it will ship next day?
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Nexus 10 Rebooting

I have noticed that my nexus 10, which i received today, reboots itself whenver i put it in sleep mode. Also, when charging it turns itself off. These problems never occur during use, just when it is in sleep mode. Anyone else have this problem? Any solutions?

Gosfgiants said:
I have noticed that my nexus 10, which i received today, reboots itself whenver i put it in sleep mode. Also, when charging it turns itself off. These problems never occur during use, just when it is in sleep mode. Anyone else have this problem? Any solutions?
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I've seen this once. I'd just put the tab down, lock screen active but display still on and bam! I was pretty shocked.
I'd be much more pissed off if it happened during use though!

Mine has locked up about 5 times since yesterday.....
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This was happening on mine as well. It stopped after I updated the device, so I think it might be a software issue.

There's a long thread on this in the Q&A section. A lot of people are noticing it. Hopefully Google fixes it in a software update soon.
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Mine has stopped rebooting, but it still turns itself off after a few minutes of being asleep. Any solutions? Or should I consider a return?

4.2 definitely needs an update. Freezing everywhere, gesture typing is sluggish, reboots and lock-ups.....was not expecting this :/

Honestly, I've not experienced any of this. I'm only playing a few games and browsing mostly though so maybe I'm not doing something that triggers it. One of the N7's I bought did that, and I returned it. If you reflash the stock image and clear data and it still does this I would suggest getting a return. I've had no real software problems with mine.

Man, you all have me really worried. My wife bought me a n10, and it's sitting in the closet because it's a christmas present. If it's having software issues, that's one thing....hardware issues are a whole other animal..I need to make sure the hardware isn't bad before I miss out on the return period.

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Man, you all have me really worried. My wife bought me a n10, and it's sitting in the closet because it's a christmas present. If it's having software issues, that's one thing....hardware issues are a whole other animal..I need to make sure the hardware isn't bad before I miss out on the return period.
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I had similar issues with the first one I received. CONSTANT reboots, occasional freezes and shutdowns. Returned it for a new one, which I received today, and for what it is worth, I haven't noticed the same problems at all yet with the new unit. So, at least in my case, it does appear to have been a hardware issue...

Tablet bricked itself?

Bought a refurbed 32GB WiFi from sears on Jan 2nd and had no issues except for a screen flicker. I was running a CM10.1 build from around Jan 26th and the latest Motley Kernel.
Yesterday I was using the tablet as usual, but I hadn't charged it in a couple of days
so the battery was getting low. After I got home from work I went to use it but the screen wouldn't come on. I figured the battery had died so I went to charge it, but I never got the powered down battery animation. I've tried holding down all 3 buttons for at least a minute and nothing is happening, and when I connect to my computer I get a USB not recognized error.
I have about one day to return the device to sears with the 30 day warranty, but I just thought I'd check to see if anyone else was able to resolve a similar issue before I do so that I don't lose all of my data, and the fact that if they do get it running again that its rooted and running CM.
Any suggestions, or should I just take it back?
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Sounds like the Nexus has had it, take it back is most likely the best option
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AW: Tablet bricked itself?
One thing I learned from here, is that I never ever should let the nexus 7 run out of juice. Seems to be a death sign..
Jup, take it back.
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Not a death sign.
You just need to let it sit on the charger for about 1/2hr, then it should boot right up. People panic when the device doesn't respond or screens start flashing, but it won't boot and they start mashing buttons and posting about their 'I think I bricked my device'. After a device has run down it might take a long press of the power button to get it to boot and/or sit on the charger for a bit.
Running the battery down should not be confused with the Sleep Of Death (SOD). The fix for an SOD is also a long press of the power button.
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Dirty AOKP 3.5 <&> m-kernel+ a34(t8)

try connect to charger at least a half an hour, then press just power button for 1 minute. i had similiar issue, and it worked for me. if dont work, maybe you got battery connector loose problem. try search in general section about that.

Shuts down while sleeping

A couple of weeks ago my Nexus 10 started shutting down after being on sleep for a while. Really annoying having to boot it up every morning.
Is anyone else seeing this problem? Is there a fix? I don't think it's a setting that's causing this.
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That is probably a sleep of death. Which if that is the case then it isnt exactly shutting down, just getting locked up and requiring a reboot to get it working again. The causes of his can be:
Too low CPU voltage
Too low GPU voltage
hotplugging is turned on for your CPU governor (some tablets dont like this feature)
severe bug in your ROM or kernel

Mine did this and I tried to troubleshoot it for 2 months before I gave up and RMAd it. New unit does not do this. View my profile posts if you want all the gory details.
I think you should RMA.

I have the tablet since December, this only started happening now
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But have you installed a custom kernel? Or ROM? Did you change anything in the last week? Did an app update in the past week?

Stock here, No root or custom rom. I did the 4.2.2 upgrade recently.
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Android 4.3 Bugs

I've been having problems with stock and unrooted rom.
1. Volume keys don't work at all and have to reboot to fix.
2. Nexus 4 would freeze and would have to reboot.
3. I don't know if its software or hardware, but nexus 4 would be unresponsive to turn screen back on and would have to hold the power button to reboot
Anybody with these issues?

reiko09 said:
I've been having problems with stock and unrooted rom.
1. Volume keys don't work at all and have to reboot to fix.
2. Nexus 4 would freeze and would have to reboot.
3. I don't know if its software or hardware, but nexus 4 would be unresponsive to turn screen back on and would have to hold the power button to reboot
Anybody with these issues?
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your not Alone im experiencing symptoms 2 and 3.

We'll this sucks! Sometimes i just feel like smashing it and going Apple lol I love stock android though

Chisle31 said:
your not Alone im experiencing symptoms 2 and 3.
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Try factory resetting the phone or simply just root your phone and get rid of this issues.. :good:
reiko09 said:
We'll this sucks! Sometimes i just feel like smashing it and going Apple lol I love stock android though
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Good morning, haven't used the phone. But hopefully it doesn't come to that. I used to be a crazy ROM flasher, and never got to enjoy the phone as it is. Its been months since I have flashed my phone lol I feel like I'm on rehab lol the reason why I don't want to factory reset or flash a ROM, it's because it takes about an 1 hr for me to set it up the way I like it lol thanks man! Hopefully they release a minor update to fix these bugs at least

reiko09 said:
I've been having problems with stock and unrooted rom.
1. Volume keys don't work at all and have to reboot to fix.
2. Nexus 4 would freeze and would have to reboot.
3. I don't know if its software or hardware, but nexus 4 would be unresponsive to turn screen back on and would have to hold the power button to reboot
Anybody with these issues?
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I haven't faced any issues with the stock 4.3 even when i was not rooted(few days ago).Actually i find stock 4.3 better than 4.2.

reiko09 said:
I've been having problems with stock and unrooted rom.
1. Volume keys don't work at all and have to reboot to fix.
2. Nexus 4 would freeze and would have to reboot.
3. I don't know if its software or hardware, but nexus 4 would be unresponsive to turn screen back on and would have to hold the power button to reboot
Anybody with these issues?
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I have face the symptom 3. Removed couple of newly installed files and no issues from last 14 hrs.

Now the reboots are getting worse; during a phone call it rebooted, screen off and doing nothing, and using chrome. I hate to do this but I'm going to factory reset. And by the way, what files did you delete?

Deleted word web & some regional specific app. Resetting phone should be fine without any issue.
I have formatted yesterday, its great no issues & battery life seems great.
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I've experienced Symptom 3 a few times. Tried a few kernels and same result. So far I've stuck with Franco kernel and I overvolted by +25mV -- seems to have improved things a fair bit.
May end up doing a factory reset and re-loading the 4.3 image to see if that clears up any outstanding issues.

I think I've figured out the solution. Chrome Beta 30 is the one that is causing reboots stated in the link. I would get random reboots and would blame it on my power button. Happens for no apparent reason, during a phone call and while listening to music.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...ce-reboots-but-a-fix-is-already-in-the-works/

Hi all,
I bought my phone one week ago, and during this week it froze on me once on stock 4.3, not even rooted.
Over the weekend I flashed CM official nightly and I got a 10 second "freeze"... I waited it out without doing anything, after 10 seconds it "unfroze". Anyways, I've been reading that update 4.3 isn't all that great... I hope they're able to pinpoint what's causing these random freezes soon!

It looks Google isn't going to release android 4.3.1. Since rumors are stating that they are releasing Android 4.4 on October 14. Its only a rumor though. I wish they would fix this bug at least.
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I'm getting the rocker volume issue and a couple of game won't play sound effects. Should of just left alone with 4.2.2
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I would get the same issue. I would be watching a YouTube video and the volume keys won't respond at all. I would have to reboot to get them working again.

Has anybody experienced this: Please insert storage on to the Nexus 4? When viewing the gallery. It won't let you view your pictures at all.

Seems like ur phone has multiple issues.
Just hard reset to get rid of these issues.
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Can someone explain why this huge drop in the battery graph?
Last evening phone was charged to 100%, before sleeping phone was at 64%. But when i woke up phone was in deep deep sleep mode, couldn't unlock the phone. After long press of power button phone got restarted & battery level was at 14%.
I am using stock rom 4.3 & not rooted.
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LarsPT said:
Hi all,
I bought my phone one week ago, and during this week it froze on me once on stock 4.3, not even rooted.
Over the weekend I flashed CM official nightly and I got a 10 second "freeze"... I waited it out without doing anything, after 10 seconds it "unfroze". Anyways, I've been reading that update 4.3 isn't all that great... I hope they're able to pinpoint what's causing these random freezes soon!
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Thats a deadlock, it's a known problem with 4.3 JSS roms like CM 10.2. If you flash a JWR based rom it doesn't have these issues, or a hybrid JWR/JSS rom like PA.

I keep getting these annoying errors, both on camera and on media folder.
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