[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigmatty:
Hola! Yes actually - I'm 26 of 26 hours into my RMA unit :) and so far its been a positive experience. Keeping my fingers crossed I can start to just "play with" my N10

I just couldnt take it anymore, I had to test: "try other hardware".

Some developments over the last week or so: Once again I had seen random problems pop up. Every time I thought maybe I was on to something another random crash would happen. I really started to notice that I simply never saw these happen, it was virtually everytime when the sceen was off. I think it was originally you :good: who pointed out that isnt the exact manifestation the majority describes. Another difference I could no longer ignore - I could NEVER get anything useful in the error logs. I mean, I had logcat writing every 1 line to the SD card, and always just ho-hum ****. My new theory on that unit - I think there was something wrong with the battery/voltage/clocking.

I think the unit was essentially acting like it was "getting the battery pulled" randomly throughout the day.

There was another pattern in my testing that I hadnt originally considered, but it started to nag at me. I prefer to have my devices fully charge the battery, then run it until its fully dead, then fully recharge and so on. (Thats a whole other discussion, but I firmly believe that is the best for the longevity of even the most modern of batteries.) But I know the majority of users just plug the device in either at night, everynight, or throughout the day when its convient. This keeps their devices more towards "full" more often. In my case, my device was only like that at the start of any testing, because I would charge it fully so that it could have the longest window of time for tests...

I think it may have been the case that when the battery was in say, anything lower than 70% it just started to crap out, and act like a battery pull, which would explain why the logs never showed an error. It would also make sense that this would surround screen on/screen off events.

Before I sent that other unit back I played around with under volting and over volting, as well as minimum clock speeds - but did not seem to matter.

So, still very early into this new unit. I hope I dont see the sleep of death again. Ill keep people posted on how it turns out. Who knows about my theory on battery hardware problems... seems to make sense to me, but literally every other theory I've had about the N10 troubleshooting of it seemed wrong so my track record dosent make me overly optomistic. (But damnit Google I didnt buy this model to try and fix it, I just want to play with it!!)

On the flashing light issue, like S1m0n (sorry I will have to edit this with correct XDA user name) was saying - you can plug the charger in to see if it instantly displays the charging icon. That is whay mine would do. So it was sadly enough, not: flashing indicator, but cant turn screen on - rather it was: unit has crashed and is off, but LED is still flashing! :) oh goodness... were these nuances what they wanted us to experince? :D But even that would tie in with a fundamental power/battery problem (in my guess.)

Hopefully back in a couple days with a positive report on my RMA.