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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kalavere:
I've had exactly two, and they have always been when playing with root programs overclocking and under volting.

Day to day I never get freezes or lockups and I don't think I have seen an FC on ICS since I got my Nexus.

*Edit* AOKP B23 with Franco Kernel 16.2 and Exodus theme. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kalinf:
Force close has perhaps been replaced with random reboot...

Nah, I've experienced a couple of force closes and they have both been with the default browser.

I haven't rooted my phone and all my crashes and random reboots have occurred whilst using the native ICS apps. As a couple of other people have mentioned my experience has been that I can go for a couple of weeks before encountering a reboot. I had just over 500 hours between the first and second occurrence (so actually 3 weeks). Normally after the first reboot it will then reboot again within a few minutes and then be okay.

If it is something like a slow memory leak and requiring time to grow into a problem then perhaps people are avoiding it by actually turning off their phones or flashing roms - or maybe not using their phone in the same way i.e. running the app/apps that are causing the possible leak as frequently.

I've read comments from a number of people saying that they are seeing the phone rebooting when they are not even touching it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kalavere:
It's feasible I suppose, I seem to spend more time in Recovery flashing things than I do with the ROM booted. :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] b0unceee:
Many, many times, unfortunately :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jmurph3:
I do believe reading about the newer leaked updates have not been rebooting. Could be something in OS as it is for 4.0.2.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATnTdude:
That has been my experience. I even found out which app was causing the random reboots on 4.0.2. Uninstalling it stopped the reboots. Reinstalling and using the same app on 4.0.4 has caused no problems. It has to be the OS, because there is no way an app can (in theory) force a reboot without root permission. In reality, an app can uncover a fatal bug in the OS, which causes the hang and reboot.

Stock, unrooted, unlocked in both cases, BTW.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] appel_:
I've experienced a few kernel panics (graphics driver related), cold restarts (power issue according to log) and system_server leaks memory causing issues after about 10 days uptime. Stock 4.0.2.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AntonyStark:
I had about 3 on 4.0.1, and about 5 on 4.0.2 while in another country for 3 weeks. Now I'm back and have about 5 in less than a week. Don't know if its because I'm playing music and using Wi-Fi more now I'm home but something isn't right!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fl1f1sh:
I had reboots in 4.0.2 stock. They seem to have disappeared after loading Codename Android ROM (rooted) and Franco kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dmtalon:
Another random (screen off, nothing playing/running) sitting on my desk it rebooted.

Been watching This thread for about two weeks and decided to install it after the reboot this morning. I've heard the later roms (4.0.3+) don't seem to do this as much. time will tell :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Neo3D:
No problems whatsoever with mine.

4.0.3
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cablemike01:
I've had mine for 2 weeks and I've experienced 2 random reboots. But every android phone I've had has had its own issues so I'm not complaining. Its the nature of the beast. Android and the hardware is evolving at such a frantic pace how can it possibly be perfect? That iOS strength that its been basically the same with just small changes each year and not a rewrite like Google keeps doing. Hopefully they stick with the current framework and improve on it instead of making drastic changes in android 5.0 otherwise the fragmentation and bugs will persist.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
That's not true for me. HTC phones I've owned like the Incredible and Sensation have gone 2-3 months easy without a reboot or crash. Even then I turned them off myself. Their skin is annoying but they ship stable code IMHO.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
Hate to be a downer but my gnex has never misbehaved or rebooted. Honestly the best Android I've had

LTE EX Galaxy Nexus - 4.0.3 AOSP

Asus Transformer - Revolver OC/UV
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tearsinrain:
Galaxy Nexus GSM/HSPA+, running stock software builds (yakju)

On Android 4.0.1: rebooted itself once around one or a few days with no apparent trigger pattern.

On Android 4.0.2: the frequency of reboot is greatly reduced but it just rebooted an hour ago, when I disconnected it from the USB cable and later touched the power button when the phone was sleeping. I was using the phone as a tethering device as it was being charged to 100%.

In either case, the self-reboot incidents were nothing "regular". But one or two occasions involving charging the battery just up to 100%.

I hear from you guys the 4.0.4 update for the CDMA/LTE phone is fixing a lot of the reboot problems. I hope an update would become ready for the GSM/HSPA+ version soon. The 4.0.1 -> .2 upgrade fixed quite a few nasty bugs (such as the Launcher crashes) and I definitely expect more bugfixes for the Galaxy Nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] endone:
I woke up this morning to find my GSM gnex booting continuously.... I used to randomly reboot very rarely (once every 2 weeks?) but now my phone is stuck in this loop. I have tried to pull battery, wipe phone/factory reset (works for about an hour, then goes back to loop). Didn't install any new apps... only updated a few

Think I might have to just use the toolkit and flash stock + unroot + lock to see what happens =/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] knudsen81:
I had my phone a few weeks now and never had a single reboot, a few app is force close but I think it's because it's not ics ready

Sendt fra min Galaxy Nexus med Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] diegodbm:
Never happened to me....

Enviado desde mi Galaxy Nexus usando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] userfriendlyme:
Same here 3+ weeks and aside from a few issues that was cleared by updating to 4.0.4. Phones never rebooted or powered off on its own.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] curious_yellow_eyes:
Could it be Flash? I've noticed that mine locks and bootloops (straight to animation, keeps looping till battery dies ) when updating in the market. I thought at first it was just when updating multiple apps at once, but I noticed today it's the Flash update. Uninstalling flash in the market causes the freeze and boot loop too.

I'm completely stock, just rooted. I don't even have cwm yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
Just happened again this morning...all I was doing was scrolling my reader widget and then moving between homescreens - things I do day in and day out all the time. Guess how many days it had been since last one? 5!!!

There's definitely a memory leak somewhere. I've decided to turn off Bluetooth when I'm not using it...I usually leave it on 24/7 and I know Bluetooth since it's a kernel extension can easily cause the phone to reboot. Some of my older phones had problems with Bluetooth too so it's possible. I'll try keeping Bluetooth off until I need it and see if I can get it to last longer than 5 days!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tearsinrain:
I've been keeping Bluetooth off ever since I got my phone in late January and still experienced several spontaneous reboots. Not to counter your point though... just some added info hopefully to help (or further distract) us in this thread..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
Crap not what I wanted to hear. Still mine only reboots like every 5 days so it's not too bad. I'll still try toggling it and are if it makes a difference. I have a crap load of apps installed because of the sale over the holidays so God knows what else could be causing it. I still love this more than any other phone, just wish it was more stable.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
No, it's definitely not Flash. I haven't installed it since I got the phone a couple months ago and so far it's rebooted about 6 or so times. Once while my girlfriend was using the phone to record our dogs, twice while just sitting there, once while I was texting through Google Voice, and twice more while I was listening to Pandora at night. They're totally random.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] [hfm]:
If you ask me it's a core OS issue or driver issue. It seems to be all over the map with great difficulty finding any common ground amongst people experiencing the issue except the phone itself.

From what I understand 4.0.4 fixes it, hopefully. The issue is highly annoying and seems to happen completely randomly. The only time I haven't had it happen out of the 100 times it must have happened since I've had the phone in late November is when it's sitting there sleeping.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dilligaf56:
I've been running Winner00's pre-CM9 (4.0.3) kang for quite a while, along with Franco's kernels. Two days ago I updated the ROM to the 15 February build and the kernel to the 17.2 nightly. The past two mornings, after the phone's been charging all night, it's been completely unresponsive - appears to have powered down, but it doesn't wake up, even if I try to go into Odin or bootloader mode...I have to pull the battery, after which it boots up fine.

Anyone else seen this?

Obviously, I'll just reflash older versions or go back to my last (3 days ago) nandroid backup. I haven't seen anyone posting on the ROM thread on Droidforums or Franco's kernel thread here, so I just thought I'd mention it.

I do have hotplug_enabled = 1, but that hasn't caused any problems in the past.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
Let's be clear, it's random to us. It's definitely not random in the cause. There's some bug or bugs out there causing it but it can be triggered under various conditions.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mcheda:
I've had the phone for 10 days now. Completely stock. I only had one random reboot, while the phone was completely inert sitting on my desk. Out of nowhere. I've never used bluetooth on it. Verizon gave me an early upgrade because of the constant reboots on my Fascinate. Now, that was constant. At least once a day. Battery pullers. One every ten days is heaven.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cyberpyr8:
I have had several reboots too. All of them have been related to a sound event. Spotify will reboot it at some point. I am running 4.0.2 stock unrooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 2manycells:
My phone is very stable. Never had a random reboot yet. Running 4.0.1 stock unrooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] curious_yellow_eyes:
OK, it's not Flash. I uninstalled flash with titanium backup and I still get the issue, but I CAN duplicate it by running "update all" in Market, so is it possibly a market issue? Pretty much every nexus has market running..?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] b0unceee:
Yep definitely not flash. As I said, I could be sitting there at work, then I'll feel a buzz and see the bootloader logo appear on my screen and the phone boots back up.. I think that the frequency has dropped with 4.0.4 though so let's see how it goes! Battery life has also improved on light usage. With normal usage, the massive screen still drains the poor old battery fairly quickly..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] synaesthetic:
I haven't had a sleep of death once, not once, and I run a modestly-undervolted custom kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] KrewCial:
Mine crashes every once in a while ever since I upgraded to 4.0.2. Never had a problem when I was at 4.0.1 though... hope 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 will come soon... :(

4.0.2 sucks, its slower as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] curious_yellow_eyes:
Hmmm... mine never goes to the bootloader logo, it just returns to the bootanimation.

Also, I know I said 'bootloop' but what I actually meant was 'boots up, then freezes again, then reboots again '
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jyar727:
Mine would also reboot at random times. But now its completely dead... I turned it off because my music stop playing and wouldn't restart so I wanted to restart it.. But now it won't start up again. No charging indicator. Battery was at 40% when I shut it down. I have done reset a million times to try to bring it back to life but nothing. Yes I did take battery off and sim and held the power button down for 15s and then tried to turn it on. Did this multiple times and nothing. Yes I have tried the charge reset thing too. NOTHING! My replacement is already on its way but what kind of phone just dies on you because you shut it down? wtf.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] richiesgr:
Hello

No reboot or freeze for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dmtalon:
What charging indicator? Are you talking about a Samsung Galaxy Nexus?

Sent from my Thrive
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
Well I had another reboot last night while texting. I had just swiped away all running apps (because it's just a force of habit) and opened up messaging and started to reply and bam! The screen went a little crazy, went completely black, and there's the Google logo grinning in my face. I have absolutely no leads on why this is happening...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] appel_:
Do a adb bugreport and look for kernel panic or other reasons for the restart in last kmsg.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jyar727:
I guess I have never looked at my phone while it was off and charging but I thought a light on the bottom would blink. But that is besides the point. Yes it is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Anyway I'm just saying you guys are lucky your phone actually started back up unlike mine. The only remedy to my situation is a replacement. I hope your phones do not end up like mine eventually since my started with the random reboots.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
If you run the battery down to 0% you risk battery failure. It happens to a lot of people who don't know much about lithium ion batteries. Did you run it this low? If so, replace your battery and don't be surprised if it turns on. :) The whole cycling your battery method is a complete sham!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sdobron:
I had a few lockups (requiring battery pull and all while using Facebook app...go figure) and random reboots when running beta kernels, but otherwise it's pretty rock solid stable.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jyar727:
Like I said, the phone was at 40% when I shut it down to restart it. The battery isn't the problem either because I went into the store to have them try their batteries. Trust me all possible troubleshooting steps have been taken. I'm not one to give up on a phone that quickly. But if I can't even boot it up its hard to do anything else with it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dew.man:
Had problems on and off with different roms and kernels, but with a clean install of aokp m2 and franco 15.2 kernel, my phone is rock solid and can go a lot longer without a reboot then i have patience :-)

And i get great battery life...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] curious_yellow_eyes:
I may have to seriously consider a custom ROM. I just tried updating apps one at a time and it locked and took about 20 battery pulls before it was usable again. I was actually getting ready to flash the stock image as a last resort when it came back on.

Curiously adb worked throughout while it was frozen, I managed to pull all my photos even while the device was unresponsive.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CyberPunk7t9:
2nd GNEX I own. Never had one lock up or error reboot.

Used customs ROMs starting first day with both.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dmtalon:
101:32 up time right now. On the stock/deodexed 4.04. It hasn't been rebooted since I installed it. My phone wasn't unstable on 4.0.2, but I did get reboots here and there (mostly listening to audio)

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] L0 Mann:
Have a GSM Nexus on stock 4.0.2 (getting a rom soon) and has only reboot itself about 2 times a week. I can say that when i try to open up Chrome Beta it will reboot itself, it worked for about a week perfectly though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
JUST happened after only 3 days this time and it was the same exact cause as a few trimes in the past. unlocked phone, pulled down notification list, swiped a notification from left to right and BOOM. Black screen and a few seconds later Google logo. So this is definitely some sort of kernel/system level bug that has nothing to do with apps. It seems swiping notifications away is a cause for me since it's happened a few times.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cyburger:
I got my GN mid december and for the first few weeks it was rock stable. Then I startet getting Sod, requiering battery pulls, and random reboots. This happened both during charging and normal use. Normal use meaning making calls, listening to music, surfing. The problem grew worse and after trying factory reset, I returned it for repair. The first attempt to fix it was reinstalling the software. Got it back and after a few minutes it started rebooting or freezing. At this point I got the 4.02 update OTA, and after that it went into bootloop. I then decided to return i for repair once more. This time they have replaces the mainboard. I'm still waiting to get i back to see if the problem is solved, but I guess in my case it is fair to say this was a hardware issue. I have the GSM version, was on stock 4.01, no mods or root.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] speedin:
I'm one of the Satisfied ones.. Reboot very seldom, at the moment it's running stable for 235:57:10 (236hr). Running on google stock 4.0.2 bootloader unlocked and rooted. Way better than my previous SGS
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vulpy:
Unstable on stock ROM.. Now just fine

Constant re-boots in endless loops on stock 4.0.2 (unlocked bootloader and rooted), a bit more stable in the factory default state (still rebooting once when listening mp3s).

Then decided to go for a custom ROM (couldn;t be worse anyway) ans surprise:... balzing fast and stable under heavy usage (corporate email/ phone/ gps/ wifi/ mp3 playback and much more)... 48 Hours now and no freeze/reboot or other nasty side-effects.

My config: unlocked.rooted.bigxie's_APEX_1.0.2

I will report back after a couple of extra days of additiional usage.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllBlaxx:
Like someone mentioned earlier in this thread, I've been experiencing lockups on the lock screen where the power and volume keys work but the touchscreen is unresponsive. Taking a couple of screenshots (Power button + Volume Down) will free it up sometimes but more often than not, I have to pull the battery. I thought turning off the lock screen altogether would solve the problem but it happened to me again this morning. I believe it may have been caused by the BW weather widget I was using on my homescreen (it may not play nicely with ICS) so I've removed it and I'm keeping an eye on the situation.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATnTdude:
If the battery permanently dies at 0%, then it was a bad battery. A properly functioning control chip should stop output well above the damage point of a lithium cell.

Exception being one of those Windows Phones (Nokia?) that will draw from the battery to light up the screen before it starts charging the cell. That's just stupidity and hopefully that design choice caused them millions of dollars in RMA work under the warranty.

You're right, though, one cannot train/cycle a lithium ion or lithium polymer battery. You can calibrate your phone to more accurately read the remaining %, but that just tells you when it will die, not extend the time it will last.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jimlad:
I don't want to be tempting fate but I've had no issues in a month, stock device & no provider.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] superchunkwii:
I'm sure the convo is well past the OP now, but, I've had the phone for over a month and it has only twice rebooted itself. I am fully stock and do not regularly reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
Please share what apps you have installed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] snubs:
Mine will, but its extremely rare. Once every few weeks, if that. I've tried to keep this phone less-cluttered than previous ones, though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vulpy:
After roughly 24hours additional time, added bluetooth mp3 playback into the mix = still rock solid. Can't say much about battery life but this is only a secondary concern...

Amazing how a custom ROM can be MUCHHHHH better than stock 4.0.2. Under this new configuration, I am absolutely thrilled with this machine as main business/travelling/multimedia device! (I was considering returning the phone after the first 2 days as unusable).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] masully84:
Mine used to until I updated to the 4.0.4 radios
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
From this dump seems to be related to GPU somehow. Makes sense since every time mine has rebooted is after some action that would have triggered GPU (slide down notification shade, slide notification off, scroll between homescreens, etc.)

Very interesting.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
Do we have a possible lead now? My reboots have been during these events:

-using camera (recording a video)

-messaging (mid text)

-listening to Pandora (and nothing else)

-swiping apps/notifications away
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jameslepable:
Had mine reboot once but it was approaching 10 days up time. and its happened only the once.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
Apart from Pandora (although that might also be related), the other 3 events are hardware accelerated so it could definitely be GPU related. This would definitely explain why it shuts off and then reboots. So is it just bad video drivers?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shamarshall:
using Milestone 3, was using LeanKernal set at 350 and 1200, w/ a few of the inverted mods/apps.

I was playing music on speaker for about 5 mins, the phone went to sleep as usual, and was playing fine. Then all of a sudden it went into a bootloop. i had to wipe everything and reflash the rom and gapps to get it to boot again. once i got it to boot, i tried to do a nandroid, and that failed. restarted and tried to restore my apps thru Titanium and after 2 apps it restarted again, and went back into the same bootloop. Wiped everything, flashed the rom to get back into the system and figured that i can restore apps one by one, or in 2's, but when i do 3 apps it crashes and goes back into the bootloop.

Ive had a few random ones before today, but nothing that a battery pull didnt solve
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tigajr:
No problem here. GSM with 4.0.2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] spruce_rd:
I did happen once. Funny thing I wasn't rooted at that time.

Now I'm running cdn and franco from the the beginning, no one battery pull.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
I think your theory is correct. Now I have a question... Do you think forcing the GPU in settings is affecting this as well? I've had that checked since day one. I never had reboots til 4.0.2 though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] b0unceee:
I've turned this off and still seen it reboot. I must say that on 4.0.4 it is MUCH more rare. But last night I was lying in bed reading on my iPad, then felt the bed vibrate, I looked over at my phone and it was rebooting.. fark!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] R1Ze_:
Post the end (everything bellow [ cut here ] and few lines above it) of your last_kmsg you get from your phone by executing following command. Maybe there will be something interesting and we can guess what the cause of the restart could be. You must connect your phone via USB (obviously) and enable USB Debugging. Also ADB drivers must be installed, otherwise it will fail.

adb shell cat /proc/last_kmsg > C:/last_kmsg.txt
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Beatsleigher:
My phone is very stable. It only crashes/freezes when I muck around with voltage control... Other than that, it works like it should ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
I haven't done this in a very long time. Would you or someone mind posting the exact steps? My alarm was going off just a couple minutes ago (screen was black) and as soon as I pushed the power button it made a loud pop sound and vibrated. I already knew what it meant...