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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] smacman:
Just had this issue for the first time (2 hours after unboxing the beast). I was having a text conversation in whatsapp when suddenly a few horizontal green dashed lines appeared near the top of the screen and the entire phone froze. About 15 secs later the screen shut off and I had to do a battery pull. Upon rebooting, the battery was at 1% (was at 25% before crash).

Apps Installed:

Whatsapp

Dropbox

Dropsync

Tasker

Google Current

Google Reader

Tweetdeck

RepliGo Reader

Astro

I do have a company Exchange email account (with security protocols) syncing to the email app.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klauskjelstrup:
:-) I trust you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] garysargent:
Another sleep of death after leaving the phone charging overnight.

The notification light was blinking, but the phone wouldn't wake up.

I have a Tasker application task to speak when the phone is connected or disconnected from the charger. This wasn't speaking when connecting and disconnecting the charger, so the Android system didn't seem to be functioning despite the blinking notification light.

Battery pull fixed it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] technogecko6:
I had the sleep of death happen Thursday, Friday and Saturday night in the same way: Go to bed with phone plugged in to wall power and the alarm clock screen saver going.

Last night I charged the phone BEFORE going to sleep, unplugged it and left it without the screen turned on... no sleep of death.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bleets:
i purposely left my phone on charge last night with the clock on (black screen, blue clock)...woke up at 9am when the alarm when off so i cant replicate it that way
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] technogecko6:
I also left the phone (When it was overnight charging) propped up on a flat plastic surface, instead of my wood desk as I might usually... wonder if this fanned the flames further and caused something to overheat (pun intended).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dj-1:
I've got the same problem for almost two weeks, everyday my GN had sleep of death

i guess the problem related with charging system, when i charged it with the laptop's USB and the original GN charger i got the problem, but now i use my samsung wave charger and for the last two days my GN is fine, i hope it'll continue like this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrPenguins:
Woke up halfway through the night to find mine SOD

Was plugged into the wall charger and on dimmed clock at the time

It was on the carpet next to my bed so I assumed it was a heat issue
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Luxferro:
For all the people that have it occur when charging... what kind of chargers do you guys use? Is it one intended for your country, or with some sort of adapter? just curious if there is some connection of some kind, since more then one person has had it happen when charging...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrPenguins:
I was using a non standard charger as I imported the phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nickparrin:
Ok. Doesn't seem to be the Exchange/Mail client either.

I've done some debugging and noticed it is going into a sleep/wake loop due to some device not going into sleep mode. Something with an alarm.0. Haven't been able to look further. I can post logs if needed.

Eitherway I'm really interested to know if this is just a new batch of phones that have the problem. I had a new GN with 4.01 preloaded and the volume bug fixed.

I booted up the boot loader using fastboot and saw my device is HW version 9. Hope some other people can provide me with their number. thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gabster21:
Happened to me today just as I was at lunch. I felt the phone getting very hot through my pocket, so I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't. Battery also dropped about 20%, I had the phone for 10 days without a single SOD.

I disabled NFC in the settings, will see if that helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] republitarian:
Just had this problem for the first time. Don't have Facebook nor whatsapp (whatever its called)

Overlapping programs

Astro manager

Beautiful widgets

Maps

I was texting and all the touch screen buttons stopped working (keyboard and bottom 3). I pressed the power button once to shut screen off, it lagged but after a few seconds did turn off. It refused to turn back on and sod'd on me, battery got very hot. I pulled the battery put back in and it turned right back on. Lost approximately 5-7 % battery life. Gap showing in graph
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joeykrim:
From a developer's point of view, bugs are helpful, reliable ways to consistently trigger the big are more helpful and logs containing the bugs are generally the most helpful. Can you post up logs?

ICS is open source, with debug logs we should be able to start back tracing which applications are experiencing issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nickparrin:
I was using Modaco's I5 release at that time with the JKK7 radio if I remember. The kernel has the volume fix in it. The reason I have moved from stock rom and stock radio is that I have serious problems. Once the screen goes off and it wants to sleep I have problems and it will crash within 5 minutes. If needed I can do another debug with stock rom / kernel / radio.

Oke here are the logs; /proc/kmsg, alarms and logcat output. You will notice it goes wrong after:

<6>[27919.573272] Powerdomain (core_pwrdm) didn't enter target state 1 Vs achieved state 3. current state 3

The next sleep will trigger: a <3>[27919.829132] pm_op(): platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x5c returns -16

After which it will hammer the sleep/wake routine causing a huge load, draining battery and eventually becoming unresponsive until a bettery pull. Thanks!

p.s. had to rar the file because it would not let me upload them with such a size and filetype combination.

edit #2: It might be faulty hardware in my case. Even with stock rom, stock kernel and radio, without any application, not even an google account synced, this happens.

edit #3: for people with this problem, there is some workaround. You can install "Wake Lock" and make it register a partial wake lock. This way the phone never goes into deep sleep/wake cycle. For me this makes the phone usable. Today I had 11 hours battery life and still 46% left; mild sms usage, phone calls and some browsing/facebook. It might even get better if you install setcpu and some battery saver to disable wifi wifi with screen off or switch 2g when screen off.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] keef319:
I've had the problem 3 times.

I'm not rooted or running any tweaks or hacks.

I noticed on the last 2 occasions that after pulling the battery and rebooting, I lost around 15% juice!!! Also the time the phone has been on battery changes and is incorrect.

I've had no issue with a hot battery. Always around 30c

On a normal day I get about 14hrs between charges.

See image
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] brchickery:
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.

INFO:

Rooted, unlocked bootloader.

Also noticed the phone getting hot by the camera right before it happened. Off to the side of the camera not the top or bottom.

Not plugged in.

Was on a car ride and it died.

Phone was switching from 4g with barely 1 bar to 3g and back and forth with no data right before it, data dropping (happens all the time here with this barely 4g signal!!!) I completely loose data when this happens.

Could not do anything had to pull battery.

Battery drained a good 10%+

Towards the end of my charge. Had not even plugged in in 11+ hours.

Stock battery.

Stock rom.

Stock charger.

No stupid apps or task killers.

No tweaks.

4.0.2

Koush clockwork installed.

Was not using the phone at the time.

Never installed lightflo or spotify or any of those other apps so unless it's dropbox I find it hard to believe it's an app issue.

I cant post a picture because I'm new here but here is my battery pic. Replace the hxxp with http

hxxp://dl.dropbox.com/u/13108/Screenshot_2011-12-16-20-03-32.png
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MarcusVanSciver:
mine has done this on two nights in a roll.

I have it plugged into the wall charger and I'm opening the click app and dimming it. It was OK for a few hours I think as I looked at the phone for the time. However later in the morning the screen was off and wouldn't wake.

Had to do a battery pull.

Phone didn't feel hot but it may have been when it happened etc. Very annoying as I rely on my phone for the alarms but obviously failed twice now!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] republitarian:
I am pretty sure it is some app you installed. I had the same problem and has disappeared since I removed them one by one until I found the culprit.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frobie:
What was the culprit that you found in your one by one removal?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ulrih78:
Happen to me for second time, I was just browsing the net, the screen become unreasonable for about 10 sec and then the phone just switched off by itself.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] absintheminded84:
I've had this problem three times now - repeatable behaviour:

Alarm set on my nexus;

Left on charge overnight;

Hit snooze around 4 times in a morning.

Lead to sleeping in late and waking up very quickly (in panic) once I realised the phone wasn't responding at all.

Battery pull and a cup of tea later - everything was fine again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeekiz:
Funny this .. was just typing a text message with this screen open, next minute my phone crashes .. ;-(.

This happened to me this morning, nothing out of the ordinary, just plugged it in to charge last night, woke up and it was frozen >_<.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmhardy:
Previously I said that a wipe fixed the issue for me but now it seems to have come back.

This time it happened during the night with my phone charging and the Gentle Alarm night clock on. I am also running partial wakelock as suggested in a previous post.

Im running MCR IR6/Pre-IR7 with default kitchen options with too many apps to list.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nyijedi:
This has happened twice on my wife's Verizon GNexus, but never on my GSM one,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] apratomo:
Just happened to me :-(

Lost good 10% ish battery in graph. Not sure what happened. Been using it for a week now without any problem, all off sudden.

I'm in stock 4.0.1, unrooted locked bootloader though just in case this helps anybody else.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aware_of_vacuity:
i posted this already in the other thread on this topic, but as this one seems to be gaining more ground, i'll post it here too in case it contains any useful information:

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i have had this too a few times. the screen just turns off, and won't turn back on. have to pull the battery before i can turn it back on.

this last time, i was just in the sms app, reading a message. i noticed the text was rendering strangely, with sort of colours around the edges of the letters, as if it was a low-res screen. then just as i tapped the message (to try to see if the rendering would change if i highlighted it), the screen turned off, and the phone seems to be dead, requiring a battery pull before i am able to turn it back on.

i haven't pulled the battery yet, and the phone is still sitting apparently dead. however i also notice that despite the screen being off, and it sitting here for a while doing what seems like nothing, the top half of the phone is actually pretty hot (front and back). not due to the screen having been on either, because the bottom half is cold now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dmhardy:
Looks like something a lot like the SoD is on the Android issues register (The link is regarding the SoD occurring after a firmware update):

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22748&q=galaxy%20nexus&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars

Maybe worth adding our experiences to get some traction on the issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kristovaher:
I was notified that my green-pixel distortion freeze thing might be the Sleep of Death problem. I'm posting my original experience here:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cramjammer:
wanted to share my experience as well. i have the same issue...stock, 4.0.2 vzw Gnex. I have dead screen with no interaction at least twice day on average. I can't pinpoint a specific reason or app except this: The phone was (what i consider) hot when it would not come back on without a battery pull or reset.

my hope isn't to keep beating a dead horse, but give this some attention soon.

Thx xda.

C-J
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] grdm:
Just happened to me this morning
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jspradling7:
If my phone is off (from battery ran dead or by manually turning it off) and I plug in a charger I will get a static white battery charge symbol on the screen. The battery will indeed be charging at that point. But if I try to start the phone while it is plugged in, or after I unplug it, nothing happens. The symbol just stays there. I have to pull the battery to get the phone to turn on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] republitarian:
Juice defender

Great little war game

Asphalt 6

Flight track

So I removed those programs over a period of two days last week and have not had 1 SOD incident since, no battery pull, no overheating, perfect phone like when I got it. Battery life lasting over 24 hours.

Completely stock 4.0.2 (1st batch of Nexuss' from Negri)

Unrooted and locked loader
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anotherbrick:
Seeing this behavior on VzW Galaxy Nexus.

On wall charger (stock one that came with the phone).

Go to sleep, check phone about 3-4 hours later phone is unresponsive (notification light is on though).

Pull the battery, phone is okay. Rinse, repeat.

I've tried this using the stock wall charger alone, and with the Y-cable that came with the Verizon spare battery charger. Also done with the phone laying flat and propped on its side in the charger dock.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kristovaher:
No freezes after doing what I described previously. It seems that there are different types of sleep of death though, mine was definitely about the badly charged battery (as I detailed in my previous replies).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anotherbrick:
I swapped in a spare battery today, we'll see what happens tonight. If the battery isn't the issue I'll factory reset and see if it continues, then add apps one by one to see if one is evil.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kristovaher:
How did it go? I still haven't had a single crash since charging my battery properly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anotherbrick:
Same thing, no change with a completely different battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stigmax:
Had my phone from day one with no sleep issues but work up this morning to a frozen phone. had to pull the battery.

It's either the few applications i installed or the charger. I have been using a old motorola charger until yesterday when i switched to the samsung one that came with the phone. I also charged the battery to full with the phone off to try to test the battery while I slept. This morning after i it booted up it was already at 71% (was at 100% before i went to bed)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] granporculio:
Hello everyone.

Some of you have noticed about what happens. It remimd me to the gpu death of xbox360. The screen freezes with some weird colours and then, all black. I'm pretty sure this is related to the graphics, maybe hardware or maybe a controller problem.

I had this issue the very first time i used the phone. Just after powering on the device, the screen froze. The only thing i could do as we all know was to take the batterie out.

It has happened to me again just right know for the second time, and i was only browsing a web. It happened all the same way. Screen weird and froze, 10 seconds and black screen and no response.

What should we do about this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oohyeah:
I started having this problem yesterday, first time after about 10 days of use.

Not sure if it's relevant, but I was vacationing in another country which had a different voltage (110) than my home country (240).

But here's the thing. I NEVER HAD TO PULL THE BATTERY! I would have turned the screen off, then after a while when I come back to it, it's like it has been switched off. So I simply hold down the power button, and the phone comes back on. It's happened about 5-7 times over the past 2 days.

So I'm very puzzled as to why all of you seem to have to pull the battery to get it back up. Is mine a different problem??!

btw, since returning back home, I have't experienced the problem again yet (touch wood).

PS - rooted with CWMod. Not running any of those apps you guys mentioned.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
I've had my LTE nexus since day 1 and never had sleep of death.

I ran stock 4.0.2 for over a week. Now I'm on a CM9 kang but used RootzBoat 4.0.3 rom for a while.

I just use stock kernels. Stock launcher mostly but I am using that new ICS launcher now posted in Apps. I'm also using the new radio/baseband.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anotherbrick:
That was helpful, and extremely relevant. =)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MikeyUK67:
Had this happen to me 3 times in the last month, twice whilst the phone was on charge overnight (with clock set to dim) - I needed to do a battery pull to restart the phone - and once whilst I was using Google Books (phone just turned itself off but I could restart it using the power button). All times battery was full (or almost full)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrBigFeathers:
This is the same exact issue I have. I will pull my phone out of my pocket and its just off. The I hold the power button to power it back on no battery pull. This happens about 5 tines a day. I have factory reset twice with no change. Wondering if its an app as I have only ever charged it with the supplied adapter.

CDMA Galaxy Nexus completely stock 4.0.2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jeffreyng:
I'm surprise there is still no word from google about this issue. It happens multiple times, whether or not its on charging with wall socket. Last time it happens when I'm holding it browsing online. The screen suddenly goes weird then froze for awhile and went black at last. Battery pull and re boot saved it.

This is getting very frastrated, I don't know when my phone will go crazy. Every time I pull the back cover it loosen the clipping hardware.

Anyone knows if google is working on it? Does 4.02 or will 4.03 fix this issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lauk75:
This seems silly but it appears that pushing the battery against the connection points several times like in this video helps to reduce the frequency of occurrence of the SOD. I thought it was silly when I first watched the video and perhaps it is silly and is just a coincidence but I used to experience the issue every other day and now occurrences are weeks apart. Does this mean the problem is battery related?

Out of interest, if you are having this problem did you fully charge your battery before first use? And if you're not having the problem, same question to you too.

Video Link: Sorry, unable to post, apparently because I'm a new user. Search for "samsung galaxy s 2 randomly switching off (fix)" in Google or YouTube.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] granporculio:
I did a full charge before using the phone, and one of the first things i experienced was a SOD.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] peachananr:
I also encountered this issue after I've installed BatteryXL. I've uninstalled it and it never happens again until I tried using JuiceDefender.

My guess is that the freeze up may have something to do with the battery or the battery saver apps etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jhuynh:
I've had this issue only once. Right after I turned on the force hardware acceleration it messed up. I turned it off and haven't had the problem again since.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrBigFeathers:
Well I found out what my issue was. My battery is moving and powering the phone down. I tested this by dropping my phone about a foot into my opposite hand back facing down. When I do this it powers down. If I do it with the back off the battery falls out. I don't know if this is just mine or the battery is a little loose in every nexus.

If anyone could give it a try and let me know I would appreciate it. That way I know if I need to do an exchange.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kristovaher:
I have not had a single sleep-of-death issue for a week now. So as I wrote in my detailed post some pages ago, mine was definitely an issue of mis-charged battery due to low voltage and using it at the same time.

Reading posts of others it is clear that not all sleep of death issues are the same, but it is very likely the problem of power source. Make sure you don't have some app that kills battery while it is charging or that your battery does not drain while you are using it while it is charging.

If proper discharge-charge won't fix your problem, make sure you don't have 'battery management' apps and whatnot that might cause an issue while running in the background. If those things don't work, then you must have a hardware issue more serious than that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sthauge:
Could this be the solution for SOD?

I've seen several places that it refers to that it could be a battery problem that cause SOD. I did not have this problem despite a number of (160 +) apps installed, many of them not ready for ICS. After two weeks I experienced SOD twice in a short time.

I have just done this and will be nice if more people can test it:

Remove the battery and use a sharp knife to scrape and clean the battery terminals (very gently and careful not to short circuit)

Do the same on the tips of the battery terminals on the phone (very gently!!!)

This will remove any corrosion in the connection between the battery and terminals caused by moisture from your hands or the environment.

Had the same problem and solution with my Palm Centro once or twice. A bad connection can perhaps be explained by any of the symptoms mentioned earlier in this tread.

Give feedback if it has any effect on your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nickparrin:
Oke people. My problem was solved by changing the phone. My new phone no longer has the multiple SOD per day. The new phone has been working for about 5 days without any SOD. Looks like some phones have hw issues.

Good luck others.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oohyeah:
OK, so I had this issue for about a 2-day stretch (after about 15 days of use with no problems), then I flashed Modaco's latest 4.02 ROM (with oc/uv) and haven't had an issue since. 4 days now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] roadhead:
While I've had a couple of sleep of deaths (Don't even have to remove the battery every time, holding down both volume UP and DOWN while pressing power would get it) I had an instance where the power button woke the phone, but no matter how many times I woke then slept it, the touchscreen didn't work.

This was stock, un-rooted even.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rkiechle:
SOD

Adding my 2 cents worth...

Running STOCK GSM version of GNEX (had for about a month now)

STOCK battery SOD about once a week during overnight charge, no other times...

Aftermarket battery #1 4 nights in a row while on charger

Aftermarket battery #2, NOT 1 for 2 weeks.

Went back to Aftermarket battery #1 and SOD this morning...

So i am switched back to Aftermarket battery #2 and lets see...

Not saying its the battery, but very strange coincidence...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TooLegit7:
had this problem using the s6e8aa0 control option in light flow. turning it off fixed it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ulrih78:
It did it again.I don't know how many times now but every time is after I charge the phone whit original nexus s charger.I'll stop using it from now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frusso:
Perfect it's works.