yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 7 General] tEthiC:
I'm on stock 4.2.1 (not unlocked nor flashed nor rooted). Haven't got HD widgets (unless that HD widgets app is installed out of the box) and I'm also experiencing random reboots (got the N7 32GB version). Happened to me while using Youtube app, but as other people also have this problem, I'm quite sure it has nothing to do with youtube.
[Nexus 7 General] Elaba:
After i updated HD widgets 2nd update , i haven't had any more reboots so far.

Verstuurd van mijn Nexus 7 met Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 General] xlr23:
Had no reboot anymore since i disabled location based services last week until this morning...

I just installed the new updates for youtube/google films apps and.... soft reboot at the end of installation...

I'm tired, gonna try to sell this buggy device and go wp8 instead i think.
[Nexus 7 General] kwabby:
Lol ($pam)

Nexus 4 & 7
[Nexus 7 General] superman0218:
FYI the latest version of HD Widgets seems to have fixed (or rather worked around) the issue. Uptime of over 100 hours at the moment, no random reboots.
[Nexus 7 General] ukphish:
Random reboots gone?

I'm running at 3 days 10 hours since my last crash - before that I was getting a crash every few hours. I'm not sure which app was refreshed on the 7th in the afternoon?

FIngers crossed!
[Nexus 7 General] Alucard291:
Well as the poster above said. I'm also vaguely tempted to sell this piece of trash. Every effin' update google made for this device made it basically worse. And yeah changing languages on an external keyboard still requires going through all the settings...

Maybe I'll clean wipe it and give it away as a christmas present...
[Nexus 7 General] isjr:
Stock 4.2.1 here. I don't have HD Widgets. I have been getting these reboots since the 4.2.1 update on my N4. I have noticed it more while I was in the process of updating an app, almost 80% of the time. The other day it happened while updating Instagram and today Google Calendar. Two days ago I got scared because it turned off and when I held the power button it would not come back on even though it was only at 50% battery, I had to plug in the charger for it to turn back on. When it came back on and started charging, it was saying 0% but other apps were saying 50% battery still.
[Nexus 7 General] Sveke:
Just root it and you won't have these issues and you'll stop the piece of trash non sense.

Never have issues when rooted, you just wipe it and start clean.

Cmon people, its a nexus, its meant to be rooted.

Sent from my Gimp Grouper
[Nexus 7 General] xxx4reggie:
only had mine rebooted once since owning it. on 4.2.1 not rooted or unlocked

i dont have hd widget

wife has been having the reboot issues alot, 4.2.1 not rooted or unlocked and no hd widget.

before 4.2.1, we never had this issue
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
Sad part is you're confusing "rooting" with putting a custom ROM or kernel on. Or you're in the wrong thread...
[Nexus 7 General] Sveke:
I'm not confused at all. The sad part is you comment with no knowledge.

You need to root to do any of what you said. Also, you can run a stock rooted device, put a custom recovery on it, and proceed to wipe cache and dalvik when experiencing problems.

How you like them apples?

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] revmra:
Please read the thread before posting. Mine is rooted. Mine was completely wiped before installing 4.2.x. I still got the reboots. Others have said the same thing. This was made clear earlier in the thread. Seemingly the only way to stop the reboots for sure is to disable location access. Your method will not help in this situation. Period. Google has already admitted that this is a problem with 4.2.x and they are working on a fix.
[Nexus 7 General] darkmatthew:
+1
[Nexus 7 General] Sveke:
Yeah i did read it thanks...wipe your cache and dalvik in recovery and uninstall garbage HD widget app...profit.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] fastredponycar:
my nexus 4 showed up thursday. updated to 4.2.1. zero reboots so far.

I unlocked/rooted it this afternoon and dropped franco's kernel on it. so far, it's been flawless.
[Nexus 7 General] JesseMT4G:
I have been running 4.2 for over a week without issues. I haven't had one reboot. I did immediately update all apps and don't have HD Widget and has worked just as well as 4.1.2. I was very skeptical with this update, but been pleasently surprised.

Sent from a galaxy far away!
[Nexus 7 General] dalanik:
So I got it back and it turned out it was hardware failure. They replaced the motherboard (I can see it has new Mac adress and on Play it is recognized as another device). Since I got it back, it was on 4.2 and I did OTA to 4.2.1 and no reboots.

but I am not satisfied with it anymore. It is lagging, or better said, "stuttering"... It was perfect on 4.1.1 .... even on 4,1,2 there was only 1 issue (home screen swipes issue), but this 4.2 is terrible... :( I'm considering downgrading
[Nexus 7 General] Sveke:
Again, there are VERY talented developers that support this device. If you unlock and root it, you can run a stock ROM but use a custom kernel. I'm running at 1.5 GHz right now with overclocked GPU and LP. Its smooth as can be with no lag and better battery.
[Nexus 7 General] schism70:
Don't know what has changed but I'm not having the random reboots any longer, uptime of 124+ hours. Still have HD widgets installed, still stock and locked/unrooted.
[Nexus 7 General] shinji257:
I don't know how often mine is happening but I'm seeing it too. It will just randomly flat out reboot. Rooted with TWRP but otherwise stock on Nexus 7 3G (tilapia). Android 4.2.1 on the device.

EDIT: Looks like I can trigger it on demand. Not sure why though. So far I got a reliable reproduction of the reboot even on 4.2.1 using both Beautiful Widgets and HD Widgets during

uninstall

. I'm checking to see if having a widget on the lock screen is the trigger. It didn't reproduce on Xiia Live Pro which I had a home screen widget active at the time. The big difference here is both of the apps I reproduced on had lock screen widgets active.

EDIT 2: Got it. The presence of a lock screen widget is triggering it for me. If you have one when you update/uninstall the app then it will cause the device to reboot. The exact reason is unknown but likely an OS issue.
[Nexus 7 General] dalanik:
Hm, I had Desire HD for a year and a half before rooting, there simply was no need. I tend to think the same of Nexus. I simply see no reason to root :) If one thing makes me root it will be that stupid status bar at the top. I really liked when I saw screenshots of status bar at the bottom (i.e. wifi icon, etc).

Anyways, I've had my Nexus 7 back for like 10 days, and no reboots in that time. I only had one crash of app (Cut the Rope HD game just closed), but seems fine. Keeping my fingers crossed.
[Nexus 7 General] Elaba:
I would like to root my nexus, but can't as i'm traveling around asia and have no pc available atm. The reason for me to have root would be because i want read and write permissions for OTG external memory cards. Overclocking would be handy too, for some games.

Verstuurd van mijn Nexus 7 met Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 General] rb14:
I had a similar problem but not quite the same. My unrooted, stock 32gb 3g screen would just go blank. No rhyme nor reason. Hit the power button and it would briefly show the screen before blanking again. Eventually I'd either get bored and long-press the power button for a reboot, or it'd come back up magically.

You know what was causing it? The case. I'd open the case and it'd spark in to life. Then I'd fold the case back on itself - as it's designed to do. Some point later, it would blank. Open the case and leave it open like a book, no problem; screen stays on. It was the magnet in the case working through the back of the Nexus.

Moral? Leave the case open, don't fold it back on itself.
[Nexus 7 General] Winesnob:
Having same issue due to Beautiful Widgets app updates, below is response from BW help request:

From: Sally

Subject: reboot on 4.2 after BW update

HI,

This is a known issue which is due to Android itself. When uninstalling / updating a paid app while one of its widget is on the lockscreen, the device may reboot.

Google is working on a fix for this and unfortunately, there is nothing we can do for that on our size.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards

View this Discussion online: http://support.levelupstudio.com/di...oken=fd47b8d22f6376867217f390024a0cb229e688e3
[Nexus 7 General] alferret:
Although I have been on 4.2.1 since day one and have suffered random reboots for the last week as far as I can tell I have had none. Still running the same **** just no random reboots, go figure!

From my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] magpie22:
I have not had any reboots for weeks now even with HD Widgets installed.

What has cured it for me is not using any lock screen widgets apart from the stock clock that is there by default.

Happy days are here again.
[Nexus 7 General] isjr:
Did again today for like the 20th time while updating my apps, then again while doing the same thing later on. I have never had HD Widgets.
[Nexus 7 General] joefrog1996:
It only happened 2 times 4 me. However I suspect it happens when I overheat the CPU or GPU (or both). This is because the first time happened when watching youtube, and the second happended downloading GTA VC while playing GTA 3.
[Nexus 7 General] Konstigt:
Had about 10 random reboots, had the Nexus 7 for about a week. Last reboot was writing a URL in Chrome. No HD Widgets installed.
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
My Nexus 7 is at 25 days uptime right now...
[Nexus 7 General] AFAinHD:
Damn :eek: how can you go that long with out flashing a new ROM??!!

*Flashaholic for life *
[Nexus 7 General] AFAinHD:
Please don't leave android for this problem. I don't know if you were thinking of doing this, but I really can't figure out why you guys get random reboots, my tablet has only done it once the entire time I've been on 4.2. Have you tried flashing smoothrom? It seems to be pretty stable on 4.2. Maybe a different kernel.
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
I flash ROMs when there's a good reason. I've seen no reason with the Nexus 7. If I tried anything, it'd be a PA type rom for DPI twiddling, but then I'd never twiddle it, just like I did with my phone, so I just cut out all of the setup time and keep what I have ;)

Still up btw, so what, almost 30 days now?
[Nexus 7 General] icebox4u:
"Still up btw, so what, almost 30 days now?"

He can count! lol (psst, what comes after 48? j/k.. I know, it's 72 lol)

Been having a few random reboots occasionally here too.. Nothing serious though. More of a rare annoyance than anything. Stock, rooted as well. Longest up-time I had was, oh wait, 48! (gosh I love numbers, they are entirely absolute).

Wished it weren't such an inconsistent issue. No HD Widgets here either. This 'incremental' update that encompasses a fix for the issue would be greatly appreciated, especially by my wife, who has been having a few more restarts with her N7. She does very little gaming and executes non-cpu/gpu intensive apps (Evernote.. FB occasionally. Mostly used for school)

(just messing with you khaytsus :p )
[Nexus 7 General] richarddwyer10:
A few reboots here ,maybe 3 each week but I read somewhere to turn of location services off which I did and no reboots for 3 weeks .I only turn location services on when I need it :D
[Nexus 7 General] reidar.ostrem:
I had about 3 reboots a day when using HD widgets. I'm using HD widgets fine with my nexus 4 and there is no problem there.

Un installed HD widgets on the n7 and no more reboots. I also tried to install again after the "workaround" done by the developers and just use the battery switch on the home screen and the reboots started imedliatly.
[Nexus 7 General] Dark Jedi:
Never had a reboot on stock unrooted or any ROM I have flashed and going on a month now. I know this as I check my battery stats and there's no break in the timeline.
[Nexus 7 General] BobMiles:
This is no real evidence - I have no gaps in my battery stats after a random reboot.

If you use BootLog Uptime you can monitor your reboots and crashes reliably.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 10 mit Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
Or Settings->About.. I have the Uptime Widget on my desktop, as I also monitor wake% with it.
[Nexus 7 General] michalurban:
When researching how to find information after random reboot (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2077988), user ghardashyan mentioned hes been having random reboots when watching youtube videos. And I had mine reboot when watching trailers in the IMDB app. Anybody else encountered the same behavior?
[Nexus 7 General] Dark Jedi:
Nob RR while watching YouTube.
[Nexus 7 General] michalurban:
What does that mean? :laugh: Is it "Nobody received random reboot while watching youtube"?
[Nexus 7 General] primetimelive:
Mine reboots while watching Youtube videos.

I notice that the video would develop artifacts such as hanging on a certain frame of the video then suddenly it reboots.
[Nexus 7 General] davidstech11:
I had a couple random reboots. But I am stock. I have not seen it in a while. If it happens more I couple just replace it.
[Nexus 7 General] CrazyPeter:
The only reboot I have ever seen is when the play updater tries to update the only lock screen widget.

So if you have removed the default (and crap looking) clock on the lock screen and replaced it with something from the market (HD widgets or anything else) when that widget updates (which may be at seemingly random times if you have auto update apps enabled) any android 4.2 or 4.2.1 device will reboot.
[Nexus 7 General] uberNoobZA:
I read somewhere that the random reboots could be related to a bug in the location services in android 4.2+. This was reported by HD widgets and apparently Google have confirmed this. As HD widgets uses location services to update it's widgets, adding threse widgets to home screen or lock screen can cause reboot. Since I stopped using non stock clock widgets on my nexus 4 and nexus 7, I have not had a random reboot

-edit- found website http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/21427/android-42-random-reboots
[Nexus 7 General] jocke_lulle:
Sv: 4.2 random reboots

I have random freezes and reboots at least 1-2 times a week and it really starts to annoy me. I don't use any clock widgets apart from stock and I don't use HD widgets. I have tried a factory reset but it didn't help (in fact the reboots have been more frequent since then). I didn't have this problem before 4.2. Let's hope for a Google fix soon!

through Tapatalk HD with my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] uberNoobZA:
HD widgets is not the cause of the reboot, it simply accesses a core system function which results on a reboot, in the same way that any other widget or function that accesses location services could also result in a reboot.

Try to disable all location functions to see if that helps.
[Nexus 7 General] jocke_lulle:
I will try that!
[Nexus 7 General] Sveke:
Never had one random reboot.

Are you guys rooted and on a custom ROM or stock?

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] jocke_lulle:
Sv: 4.2 random reboots

All stock, unrooted.

through Tapatalk HD with my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] Sveke:
That's your problem. Root it and flash a custom ROM. Google makes the source public for a reason.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] uberNoobZA:
Stock, rooted. And it also happened to me on cm10.1 so I guess being stock and unrooted isn't my problem.
[Nexus 7 General] Sveke:
Well I haven't had one reboot and haven't run stock or CM10.

So maybe it is still the problem. Both stock and CM10 run stock kernel. Reboots are usually kernel related.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] uberNoobZA:
Fair point.

I am sure there are people that have not had a reboot that are running stock. Just lucky I guess.

Also, since I stopped using widgets that show weather, I have had no more reboots, so yes you are correct that the issue is present in the stock ROM, but it possible (At least in my case) to stop it from happening without flashing a different rom or kernel.
[Nexus 7 General] Divine_Madcat:
The flaming stops here guys. This is not the thread for it; let cooler heads prevail, and come back another day.
[Nexus 7 General] revmra:
I downloaded the 4.2.2 OTA and installed it via CWM yesterday. I turned back on all location services. Thus far, no reboots. I'm checking Catlog periodically. Plus I also set an Astrid task to be due today. The tell-tale sign of a reboot for me (even when I'm not looking) is the fact that the Astrid reminder will be gone. One day isn't really a significant enough amount of time to declare this fixed. If there's still no rebooting after a week or two, I'll feel more comfortable declaring it fixed.

After disabling all location services in 4.2.1, I only had one reboot over about a month and a half, as compared to a day and a half before. That one reboot was while watching a YouTube video. Most recently, I allowed location via WiFi but left GPS off. Things still stayed stable. Now with 4.2.2 I've got GPS back on. I may even put an HD Widget in the lock screen to see if I can tempt fate further :)
[Nexus 7 General] dexterslab:
This is good news, waiting for the update for mine, i'm properly fed up with the reboots
[Nexus 7 General] TheLawIX:
I've never experienced a random reboot.
[Nexus 7 General] johndoe99:
Turned wireless location service back on and enabled Google Now after getting 4.2.2 update . I have HD Wigets installed and use their lock screens. 5 hours after it rebooted. So back to disabling location service for me I guess.
[Nexus 7 General] bharris25:
I haven't had a single reboot since the 4.2.2 update, I also have HD widgets and use the lock screen.
[Nexus 7 General] dexterslab:
Mine has been behaving itself too, gonna give it a week or so before i make a final judgement!
[Nexus 7 General] mettadas:
Went from a couple reboots per day before the update to two weeks without one after. Thought all was well and now 3 reboots in 24 hours. No new apps installed recently, but of course there are often updates.
[Nexus 7 General] chronster:
Just witnessed my first random reboot. I'm using HD widgets. Noticed others said the same.
[Nexus 7 General] dexterslab:
Uptime on mine is now 909 hours, last update fixed it for me thankfully
[Nexus 7 General] NiteTrekker:
I only use my Nexus 7 on the weekends but it reboots every few hours on 4.2.2. Pretty frustrating. I removed HD Widgets and it looked ok for awhile but the reboots returned. I think any widget that updates periodically seems to cause it.
[Nexus 7 General] ghardashyan:
Artifacts of video before reboot! This is EXACTLY what happens on my device! And it happens only after some heavy watching of Youtube ( maybe not only ) videos.

I had this issue on 4.1.2 -> 4.2.1 -> 4.2.2 -> CM 10.1.2 ( 4.2.2 )!
[Nexus 7 General] johndoe99:
Same issue. So far when sitting idle is when it is happening. I installed bootlog uptime to track how often it is happening. So far once or twice a day since 4.2 update. Problem was not occurring prior to receiving the OTA update.
[Nexus 7 General] zjnow:
I got same problem here after receiving 4.2 OTA and the device is not rooted. I am not sure if the problem is related to multiple user as I always meet this problem when using another user (not primary user). The problem happens when reading articles(Chrome, Google reader, Google current, etc ), the screen just shutdown if I didn't touch anything for about 1 minute, and the device auto reboot after that...
[Nexus 7 General] bfranclemont:
Same here. Unlocked, unrooted, stock 4.2 I was at 17% battery. It reboot then right as it got into the OS it would reboot again. It did that boot loop about 15 times until I forced it into recovery mode and shut it down there. I charged it for about an hour until it would stay powered on. Never had anything like happen on any device. I've been with Android since verson 1.5
[Nexus 7 General] alvefa:
Was thinking about calling Google in the morning since it happened to me twice today. The last reboot actually happened 20 minutes ago. I'll wait a couple of days for the apps to catch up since that's what everyone's saying is causing the reboot.
[Nexus 7 General] AraDreamer:
Stock rooted, I can't deal with resetting my phone and tablet until Tuesday, but are we sure that's the only fix right now? And for the love of god, does anyone know hot long until we get stickmount working again? -Ara
[Nexus 7 General] MagiusRerecros:
I'm also getting the random reboots after updating to 4.2. Stock, unlocked, rooted.
[Nexus 7 General] mortek:
48hours after the factory reset and I had no reboots (using the same unupdated apps I was using when I had the reboots).

Seems it has something to do with the user/system data management.
[Nexus 7 General] kyo171:
last_kmsg

i just got a random reboot, while playing demolition inc HD. FYI I did not just encounter reboot playing this game, it will reboot when i am only using chrome or Youtube apps.

I attached the last_kmsg right after i come back from a reboot. Can anyone help to see if there's anything wrong.
[Nexus 7 General] Alucard291:
I may have isolated it for my own N7 at least - When I change the keyboard layout from English to Russian via a key combo on my bluetooth keyboard it always goes into a reboot.

Instantly on any of the screens and on any of the apps. So maybe something wrong with language change process? (No clue)

Upon further experimentation I found that its any external keyboard (such as via usb otg cable) that causes ctrl + space to reboot it.
[Nexus 7 General] Rolandh:
Ctrl + space on an external keyboard could come in handy as a quick way to reboot since there is no reboot on the power menu.

Been on stock 4.2 locked & in rooted since I got my N7 on Friday and had no random reboots.
[Nexus 7 General] reidar.ostrem:
Can confirm that I also get random reboots after 4.2, all the same stuff as when I was on 4.1.2
[Nexus 7 General] alferret:
Have had 3 random soft-boots, YouTube for 2 and Firefox the other. These are not a full reboot as it goes straight to the nexus X logo and 10-15 seconds later it's back in to the desktop.

Its like a crash that causes a restart as the OS can't handle the exception.

Stock 4.2 locked and not rooted.

Side loaded 4.2 then done a factory reset.
[Nexus 7 General] andygeog:
I'm running 4.2 on a Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7. Stock, unrooted.

Both randomly reboot.

The Gnex will also periodically wake.

Andy
[Nexus 7 General] nigelw:
Same here, entirely stock Nexus but it's rebooted about 3 times since the update to 4.2 earlier this week. Most recent was about ten minutes ago when I was using Tapatalk to access forums, but no obvious pattern.
[Nexus 7 General] bolagnaise:
Yep reboots here as well. 3 today so far. Stock , rooted.
[Nexus 7 General] jazzespresso:
I have not have any reboot since I updated 4.2 two days ago until this morning. As other said, it went straight to Nexus logo and come back to desktop (home screen). I previously mentioned that I still believe this random reboots has something to do with apps not fully compatible with newest 4.2. When I got my first 'reboot' this morning, I was not opening any apps, or any active apps, but as you may guess, there are several apps run on background and I am thinking this probably the root cause.

I read from another thread that people who updated their apps getting less random reboot, so probably good idea to keep check play store my apps section, and see if there are some apps waiting for update. Even if you do enable app update notifications, not always it prompts you to tell you have apps to be updated.
[Nexus 7 General] emylia777:
mine facing the same problem as well. I was reading news feed on Pulse, then had this annoying reboot. What could be the cause to this...? :mad:
[Nexus 7 General] Alucard291:
Well that would be true of course if it would allow you to have a way to change keyboard layouts with some other key combo :D

Otherwise changing typed languages is painful :|
[Nexus 7 General] pankomputerek:
Same here, I keep getting it once I lock the device, it then often seems to reboot itself.
[Nexus 7 General] gotzaDroid:
Add me to the list. Stock, no root and OTA 4.2. Happened to me twice while in Opera.