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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mcgon1979:
I've had this issue twice too.

I do not have spotify installed, and the phone was NOT hot at all. Not even warm!

I was just in gmail, sent a mail, then pressed the home button, and black.... gone.

Had to pull battery.

Thinking of having phone replaced by Handtec. I know this is probably a software glitch, but the volume bug, and the fact my unit was one that handtec had "tested" etc, I might just ask for a brand new one from the new flashed batch due next week.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vapotrini:
Wtf! Just how wide spread is this??? Seems like too many people are having this issue.

Phone hasn't even arrived yet and I'm already starting to question my purchase.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] madhat73:
1 more bug and im cancelling my order !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MysteriousDiary:
Well, it's the first device with ICS so I expect there will be a few bugs in the future which will need to be fixed. That's the reason why I'll go for the Nexus ... it's a nice piece of hardware but even more important is that it will be the device which gets the fixes first.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tjotte:
Did anyone check to see if you've had an OTA for the volume ghost fix and this problem has spawned instead? Seems like a fairly new problem if you have followed the forum.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bmorecolts:
I have had my Nexus for 2 weeks now. I went the first 12 days without any issues. But the last 2 days the problem started happening. Yesterday my phone turned off while sitting idle. I had to pull battery to get it powered on. Last night i put the phone on charger when i went to bed. I woke up to a powered down phone. Again i had to pull the battery to get it powered up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Bruno_Arrais:
had this problem two times. I was in market app during these two crashes. The phone rebooted itself soon after. Google must solve this asap.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ssss25:
4.0.2 is out... anyone has it and tested with it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Amaiya:
sleep of death

I'm not a very experienced Android user, I switched from the iPhone one week ago to get my GN.

I noticed the so-called "Sleep of death" twice within two days: Both times the GN was laying on a table for nearly +-1 hour, not charging.

After pulling the battery the area near the camera at the backside was really hot and the battery-power had dropped "instantly" by nearly 20% just right after the pull.

I am not having a lot of apps installed (Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Angry Birds, Light flow, google standart apps and some regional apps)

Also, I was using a flip case on my phone both times it crashed. I figured I'd remove the case, as it maybe might just provoke the overheating : Since then (3 Days ago) it didn't happen again.

It's a stock GN, I didn't root it or change anything. It's a yakjuwx build, so I did not receive 4.0.2 yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xXJay_RXx:
I've had this happen to me before twice recently. I had Hotplug enabled while having the CPU underclocked on the hotplug governor I'm setcpu. I learned my lesson. Took off the hotplug governor while keeping it enabled from Franco's app. I never experienced this before til yesterday. It is quite annoying
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RandomGroover:
Had the problem 3 times now in 3 weeks. Last time was today when the phone was asleep in my pocket whilst at lunch. So no charger connected, no interaction with apps.

Started to notice it getting warm. Battery had discharged completely this time to 0% - I think because it took me a while before I noticed it. Previous times as I noticed the screen freeze I removed the battery quickly and didn't notice much charge reduction.

Do we know yet if software or hardware issue?

Cheers!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Bruno_Arrais:
Another reboot today. I was watching some vids in youtube app.

This is my third reboot :mad::mad::mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lilirose:
Update from my end- no more SOD issues at all since I got 4.0.2. My phone is currently showing an uptime of 7 days and 4 hours. Not sure if it was 4.0.2 that fixed it or some random app that I updated or uninstalled.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UsrX:
I don't know if I should cry or laugh. Went back to retailer with my phone, they sent it to service. Got it back today with a service message that they have upgraded the software and that all tests were OK. The first thing I see when I start my phone is the unlocked padlock!! wtf?

And I think it takes 3 minutes after boot before I have my first SOD. And by the way, they upgraded it to 4.0.1... wait a minute?!

I'm afraid this will be a long story, the service company my retailer uses is called "Anovo" and their reputation is everything else but good.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RandomGroover:
Am on a yakjuxw so still on 4.0.1. However, interestingly it happened to mine whilst in sleep mode and not connected to a charger. Didn't notice for a while until it got hot (in my pocket) and the battery had fully discharged to 0%!

Happens about once per week.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oskan.lindgren:
I have been waiting for the 4.0.2 update before sending it back to my retailer but I have not got the update yet and last night I had enough. It happend twice, and the second time almost dirdctly after the first one. This time the phone began to sound like a whistle and the screen got a strange green grid all over, and it didnt look good, only thing that worked was a battery pull..

I did, as some of you, noticed that it was very hot next to the camera at the back. Could it be because Im using a flip case made of plastic and leather and the phone gets to hot and flips out? Are you using cases of some sort?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hgjkg:
I have had some unexpected reboots before this, but today I too got the SOD. However the phone would not turn on even after pulling the battery, it would not even charge through the PCs USB port. I was slightly concerned, and got to reading through this thread.

The phone would not charge nor turn on even after several battery pulls.

I plugged the phone in the USB 3.0 port to see if it made a difference, but still no charge...

I tried nudging the battery pins in and wiggling the battery, as noted earlier in this thread. And the phone booted! Though this lead to a different issue, my PC got a bluescreen and would not start. Changing back to the USB 2.0 port fixed this.

Just prior to the SOD I installed and configured Light Flow, but I still believe it was the battery that caused this.

If this happens again I might have to replace the phone, or at least the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dimes-jth:
My Experience with SoD

GSM Galaxy Nexus

Unlocked UK model

First week:

no SoD

no random reboots

Second week: SoD in mornings

plug phone into charge on nightstand

sometimes put on clock app

Phone never wakes, alarm never goes off

Remove Battery, everything back to normal

The only real changes were two things:

Activated Exchange email with full encryption profile(phone is now fully encrypted)

Turned on "Stay Awake" in Developer options.

I have now(this morning disabled "Stay Awake").

Ill post if this makes a difference.

I post this just to "clarify" at least the issue I am having. There seems to be a lot of broader issues with crashing, hangs, and software bugs being posted to this thread. I just wanted to state that outside of SoD in the mornings I have had no other issues and the phone performed very well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] allio:
Just to add my experience...

Have had the phone (international GSM model, running stock 4.0.2) about two weeks and got my first sleep of death this morning. It was plugged into the bundled Samsung AC adaptor overnight and the clock app was active, I think, as I'd set an alarm right before going to bed. I woke up naturally and grabbed my phone to check the time. The notification light was pulsing green, indicating that it was fully charged (I'm using the app 'Galaxy Nexus LED'). However, it was completely unresponsive - definite sleep of death. I popped the battery out and back in and it booted up like normal, battery fully charged.

The only recent change I've made was that my case (Diztronic Rev. 3) arrived yesterday and the phone was wearing that for the first time. Perhaps it contributed to some kind of overheating problem, though I can't say I noticed the phone was particularly hot.

Although this problem has only happened once, it's a bit worrying. I rely on my phone as an alarm clock and really do not want this to be a regular occurrence. I definitely can't rely on waking up by myself every day! Might have to dig out my old Nokia until this is sorted out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UsrX:
I haven't had a SOD in one week today, even though it might be to early to celebrate I give it a try! I mean, from every single night to none (so far) in a week!

I got tired of waiting for 4.0.2 OTA so I followed a simple guide for how to manually upgrade to 4.0.2 and then lock the bootloader.

The guide can be found here, though I take no responsibility if you decide to try it:

h t t p://androidtobe.blogspot.com/2011/12/galaxy-nexus-installing-ics-402-from.html (copy 'n' paste and remove the spaces in h t t p)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bop12:
Been using the unlocked international version of the GNex since it came out late last year. I've never had this issue-currently using stock 4.0.2.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stktd:
Iv read though this entire thread, dont think anyone else is having this quite the same as me.

Mine only happens when making or receiving calls. The phone will ring, ill pick it up and the phone is unresponsive , touch screen, hard buttons nothing . The same when im dialing out, a lot of the time when click dial the phone locks up same this wont respond to anything the only thing is to do a battery pull.

Its worth adding that the call keeps going in the backround.

I am able to recreate this by dialing hang up.....ect

Il post the logcat here if anyone is interested?!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DreamcastDC:
Just had this happened to me just right now after installing the NFL Superbowl app, had to pull the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hkxforce:
My friend had brought international GSM Galaxy Nexus for two weeks, and it starts SoD randomly today. She put it in a cloth case, and sometime she found it had shutdown when take it out. Simply press power button it will comes to live again. There are still 70% battery when this happens.

The only action did to the GN before SoD happens was installing Google Translate. I think that shouldn't cause SoD... The cloth case had been using for two weeks. I've tried the touch screen sense nothing when putting in cloth case, so shouldn't be accidentally unlock problem.

Planning to get a replacement from retailer. :(

BTW, it there any way to capture system log, in order to check what event trigger the shutdown??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stktd:
Yeah try this https://market.android.com/details?id=org.jtb.alogcat&hl=en

Mine goes off to samsung on monday for the second time not happy
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] grdm:
happened to me again, had to wipe and reinstall from scratch

woke up, phone on but unresponsive

battery down to 60%

running android rev hd 2.1.3

clockwork mod would not even let me pick a ZIP from SD card, only thing i could do was factory wipe, and it took FOREVER to load up again.

so i installed from scratch again and made a clean nandroid

my guess is this has something to do with the OS, not any apps

going to try the WAKE LOCK app from the market, and put it on the lowest setting, (partial lock) to keep the CPU from shutting down.. if this works i will post here in a few days
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrPenguins:
Hey guys if anyone on 4.04 could get back to this thread with any sleep of death

I havent had one in over 2 weeks but it is stilk in the back of my mind

Running 4.02
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] carn1x:
I've had this problem both on 4.0.1 and 4.0.2. Still unable to replicate reliably, however I did feel like it was much more frequent when I was using the "Always Awake When Charging". Turning that off seemed to get rid of the issue for a few weeks, but it seems to have returned recently, just before I got the 4.0.2 OTA
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gilean86:
I didnt have this problem before 4.0.2 update. it came with last one,

i read most of the thread but is there any solid reason to do this? Any solution?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gilean86:
it seems it is about wifi connection, if you left idle all the time, it turns off.

i turn off manually problem seems solved.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] diSke:
I've had my Gnex for about 2 weeks now and I've encountered 2 SOD's.

But what's remarkable about my SOD's is that it happens whilest downloading an app from the android market on my phone and I lock my phone.

I then cannot unlock or wake the phone and I have to do a battery pull.

After that the app I was downloading didn't install but everything else is fine, battery didn't go down or anything. Just didn't want to wake up...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
You people all "report" but none give any logs of any kind. How do you want to know what caused it? I'm almost 100% sure this issue is app/cpu control/UV related. Learn how to debug. ADB, DDMS.

Personal experience: have the phone since november, never had any SOD. tested 4.0.1 stock (factory installed), switched over to my own aosp builds, never happened. no soft reboots either.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sthauge:
Have not had a SOD after I cleaned the battery connections (both battery and phone connections). Did this for over a month ago (see my previous comment in this thread). It does not mean that there can be several causes of SOD, but my phone is OK now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] junkk29:
I'm having the same problem too :( my GNex has done it twice today and I'm having a bad feeling about this. The second time I pulled out the battery, put it back on and it took me a while to turn it back on; I thought I had bricked it or something. I'm on AOKP Maguro Build 24 ROM with Franco nightly Kernel. But it's been doing this since before I had the ROM on it. Wonder if there's a solid solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stktd:
Well after sending my GNex off 3 times to Samsung twice they did nothing but put new software on it and the 3rd they fixed it not sure what they did but it had a brand new screen on it ( great as I'd scratched the first one )

My advice send it off for repair, its a pain but this is a hardware issue and it won't go away!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Migamix:
you have got to be kidding

we will make sure to run that debugger for you 24/7

hear that everyone... we now need to cart around laptops now... I'm not meaning to be a trolling jackass but your asking for a log report of a random occurrence is not as easy as it sounds... if it were an app crashing ... yeah... "catlog" is good for that... since the phone is rebooting .. an app level logcat will not do... sorry everyone here cant compile a rom and kernel like special you ... let alone install eclipse to run debuggers all the time in hopes of catching the SOD bug... we are all trying to narrow it down.. then we may be able to reproduce the issue... I personally think its a kernel issue... and I'm actually trying to put eclipse on my netbook.. so I can get a lot... but I have a time consuming day job ... so sorry about that

" great shooting kid... don't get cockey "
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nodstuff:
Proc/last_kmsg

It really is that simple. Don't need a laptop or netbook or cables.

Don't be a smartass, he was right.

Look at what I have highlighted above.

Edit: anyway what the hell are you doing trolling here when that post was from February.

That is intentional trolling. Plain and simple.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fig Bucker:
Happened me last night.

Charged to 100%, unplugged, set alarm and went to bed to wake up late with no alarm.

Seemed to drop sharply at about 4am by 12/13%.

I have lightflow installed, I disallowed it full control of the LED, no reference to the s6e8aa0 option which was mentioned earlier. I denied it root access in super user so I'm hoping I don't get the problem again.

I checked the logcat via aLogcat app but it's mumbo jumbo to me, not sure how far the logs go back as I can't see a time stamp anywhere but if I filter to show errors only the latest ones refer to led notification error of some sort.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Smokeey:
That's it. Widget locker was giving me a run for my money when the phone wouldn't come out of sleep.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] carn1x:
Just to update, I've not had a SOD since upgrading to 4.1 when it was first released arond GoogleIO (haven't gone 4.1.1 yet).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] grym:
Clean install of 4.0.4 with related boot, recovery, etc. and OTA to 4.1.1 did the trick. And now with clean Android I have no any SOD for more than two weeks!

Only thing I disabled Google Media and Google Assistant.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrDopeFreshness:
SOD today

This "sleep of death" happened to me today. I'm still waiting right now for it to respond. I was sending a text message and boom. It shuts off. It isn't turning on at all. I've tried everything. I even contacted samsung support but they didnt help at all. I also have light flow installed. This is really annoying.:mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kyokeun1234:
We need more info. What version of Android are you on? Any thing that you've recently done that might've cause this problem? Also, this is silly question, but pulling out the battery and back didn't help at all?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] withbloodskies:
Hmm sometimes I get this all on jb, various ROMs.

Battery pull recovers the phone. Normally I change ROMs if it happens.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] boardrx182:
I get this on a lot of ROMs with various kernels so I'm inclined to think it's hardware or possibly app-related. I'm currently running one of the latest AOKP JB nightlies and Imoseyon's Leankernel and it continues to happen to me randomly. Sometimes it doesn't happen for quite a while, sometimes it happens multiple times in a day. Incredibly frustrating and looking for answers.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fjkum:
The problem seems to lie on the GPU settings in ExTweaks...if you have it set to Default profile, you should be fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kombadzomba:
I am using Samsung galaxy S2 and had SoD each day only when not charging even without data and wifi on. Problem solved with SIM card replacement. Good luck!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] radecks:
I've the same problem as many members here. Gnex falling down during in sleep mode. I checked last_kmsg file, and I had seen some particular. I attach mirror for last_kmsg file. Thank you for whatever..

Link to last_kmsg file in .txt h*t*t*p*:/*/uloz.to/xMPZ9mv/last-kmsg-txt please remove the '*' from the url, i am new member and i am not competent to writings urls.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] turtlepa:
U can reproduce the sod if u have two batteries I found out. I charge one phone sgs4g then switch the battery with mine when it gets low. When I switch battery it will either boot then after 3 min it will do sod then if I try turning back on it qill sod during boot. Works every time
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kombadzomba:
Sorry for misleading info... SIM replacement did not help. After 10 days SoD happened again. Had to turn back Samsung Galaxy S2 to store.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cristianu:
did you solve the problem

did you solve the problem ?

what did the store official about the problem? I have some probelm and I don't know what to do ....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kombadzomba:
I went to store first time with phone in SoD state to show them the problem. They kept it for one day and gave me back the phone. They probably did just factory reset. After that, I've used the phone but very little, installed just few apps... After 7 days problem occurred again. Store officials were trying to blame me for installing some "faulty apps" although I've never rooted the phone so I snapped and asked them for money back. They didn't know how to fix the phone and suggested a replacement of the same model. I didn't want to see them ever again and that phone too so I insisted for money back and that was it.

I was hoping to fix the problem by myself but after two months of trying to get rid of SoD I gave up. People who are payed for that job should fix the problem not us, regular users. I suggest you not to waste your time. Try to replace the phone in store! The only way to make the problem noticed by officials is to report the faulty devices as much as possible.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klobkelosh:
Do you have animations turned off? Try turning on to .5 or 1x. Cured my sod problem and seems to have helped several others. There's also an aosp bug tracker report on this. Hope this helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cristianu:
I have animations 1x... as default...

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klobkelosh:
Sorry. Best of luck
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrSmileyJr:
I'm having the same issue. Updated to 4.2 when I bought the phone 2 weeks ago. Happens to me at least once a day if not once an hour.

Can you be more clear on where these settings are? thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klobkelosh:
They are in developer settings.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrSmileyJr:
thank you.

I just found on another forum that its antivirus that causes it... http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...-solved-my-sleep-death-hard-boot-problem.html
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aviv2001:
http://thelucalblog.blogspot.co.il/2013/04/hello-and-welcome-to-yet-another-blog.html

The only thing that helped me
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Skysurfer69:
I had this happen last night, also no spotify installed. I ran the Google Sky Map then closed it and locked my phone. A short while later couldn't get out of the screen lock and phone was effing hot. Battery pull did nothing to resolve, so I thought it might have discharged the battery. Plugged in the charger and had no effect... Charged all night, phone was again effing hot this morning and when I finally got it back up the charge hadn't happened at all.

Battery Usage meter in settings shows a pretty awesome picture of what happened but I haven't figured out how to do a screenie yet.

Sky
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MysteriousDiary:
Press and hold powerbutton + volume down for a second or so.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] garysargent:
I had the screen of death also after leaving the phone on charge last night. Woke up to find it unresponsive to anything - had to pull the battery.

The previous night had been fine.

Only real difference was I'd change the SIM (put a new one in from Orange as the old one was deactivated).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AmesCell:
Weird. I can't get mine to sleep. I've uninstalled almost every app and it still never sleeps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] robaldred:
I'm kind of in agreement with mike here.

Mine first happened when playing with the new movie maker.

I left the phone on the table and it wouldn't wake when I returned to it.

The SDK said the phone was online but couldn't connect to it or get process list.

I tried movie maker again last night after reading this and this morning it was dead again, same issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evileddie:
Ive had my phone 8 days and its crashed 5 times.

I was listening to music and the song just crashed and started repeating itself, the phone then went dead and unrresponsive. Only ejecting the battery has got it to coe back on....

This has happened 5 times now, i dont have spotify and not installed that many apps....

Hardware or software??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gambiting:
I have managed to see what's going on today - I was reading a book using the kindle app, when the screen got weird - there were green lines all over, and it became unresponsive. After like 10 seconds the screen switched off and that was it, I had to pull the battery to reboot it. It seems like a system crash to me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] infernalman7:
I can confirm it does not have anything to do with the OTA since I had this problem the first day I got the phone (which was Friday).

And I thought it was Light Flow that induced the problem. But now that you guys mentioned the Movie Maker I think that's a possibility (since the first day was the only day where I tested all the apps, including Movie Maker). Didn't get that ever since.