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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] eyecon82:
Thanks, doesn't bother me either, but was wondering if that was the norm
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] xdviper:
Over the next few months your going to gather more, why so worried? Just enjoy the damn device. I'm loving mine.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] fsalazar504:
Have those minor scuffs as well
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] detonation:
Unless you put it in a case. But I'd say if you have that big of a problem with it, take it to the store and exchange it.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] eyecon82:
Worried because I thought I may have bought one that was returned or the factory workers played football with it

If it's the norm, I don't care
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dvash27:
Hey guys

I thought I'd just let you all know that my ambition to get 4.3 and lack of knowledge, led to my phone getting bricked today. I'm so devastated. I was following efrant's guide and flashed everything correctly and then as usual I lost half my storage and I followed the other guide to restoring the lost storage, once again i followed everything but i didn't get the storage back, then i did some cmd commands like the guide did. Next thing you know I may have done something wrong and I was at the bootloader screen and I couldn't reboot or go to recovery. Read and read nothing helped, called Google and they couldn't help me. I am now getting a replacement. SO there you go guys, just the greed of getting 4.3 caused me to brick my phone as well as my lack of knowledge I guess. Can't complain. Thought I'd share this with you all.

Div

P.S Moderators if this isn't suitable you guys can delete it no harsh feelings :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fataldesain:
Hey don't feel bad we all learn the hard way at some point. 4.3 is a minor update not worth it.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teambestyrandy:
If you can still access bootlader just download the toolkit and download the 4.2.2 image and flash it back to stock via toolkit...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fabrizziop:
Just flash the stock android image again, after all you have access to the bootloader,

everything is fine
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TToivanen:
This. You're totally not bricked.

Please follow the instructions in this thread:

[HOW-TO] How to flash a factory image / return to stock / unlock / root #

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nqk:
Yeah, Nexus is hard to brick.

What is the best way to brick the Nexus 4? Maybe trying to flash HTC bootloader on it?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayiskon:
it's totally worth it ;)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stubborn_d0nkey:
Perhaps

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LoVeRice:
Thats not greedy, your just too excited for 4.3
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dvash27:
So I tried doing this but, in the command prompt window that opens up with the toolkit when unrooting and going to stock it says

Archive not found recovery.sig

Archive not found system.sig etc.

and it fails....
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniAndroidian:
In this particular situation i wont recommend you using a toolkit. Is much esier with a good guide if it fails with the toolkit (btw while i flashed 4.3 factory image the cmd told me also about "missing recovery and system.sig" but now ive got a fully working 4.3 ROM on my N4.

You can do it via ADB. You just setup ADB on your computer. And put all the files from the factory image in the "platform-tools" adb folder. If your phone is in the bootloader menu and its recognized by your computer you just run a file that is called "flash-all.bat" and it should flash the 4.2/4.3 image on your phone. Thats how i did it a few hours ago.

Have a look at this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1907796

But remember all the files in this guide are for the Nexus 7 so use the N4 factory images and the proper commands for your device (i mean the last step of this guide which shows various commands. you shouldnt use them becuz they are for the N7 and the proper commands for the N4 are written in the "flash-all.sh" use those commands or use the "flash-all.bat" which is included in the 4.3 factory image [i dont know if its included in the 4.2. f.i.]. All those files have to be in the "platform-tools" folder in order to let the .batch file do its job.

I hope u understood what i wrote. If not let me know.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dvash27:
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It WORKED! I realised that I didn't flash the zip, I was flashing the the individual images in the zip and that wasn't working. THANK YOU, I couldn't even sleep knowing I potentially bricked my phone
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniAndroidian:
Glad to know that it helped you mate :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leiftorem:
What about content on phone

I have also a phone that is dead after the upgrade. It was just "looping" on the "Updating Apps" screen, so I turned it off, now it won't start. When the "Nexus X" apperas, it just loops on this screen and nothing happens...

I would very much like to keep pictures and texts before resetting the phone! Can I do that in any way??
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TToivanen:
Is your bootloader unlocked? Was your phone 100% stock before updating? How did you update? Can you reach bootloader by holding power and volume down button?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leiftorem:
My phone was stock, it is locked in all mathers :) I can reach the bootloader...

And I have ADB installed....

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I can see my phone listet under "Advanced Utility, but I cannot seem to pull the files from my phone!

I am getting really frustrated here now!

Anyone??
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Kostik:
Flash ClockworkMod or TWRP and using one of them wipe cache, dalvik cache and data (not storage). Apps and settings will be gone, but your music and pictures will still be there.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leiftorem:
This sounds GREAT! Where can I download them! And, will my texts be gone?? (That is not the worst thing, still annoying...)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Kostik:
Oh well you should look in one of those threads on how to root and so on, flashing a recovery using a toolkit should also work. Texts will be gone.

Or from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010312

But at some point you'd need a custom recovery anyway.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] turdbogls:
So, I've had my new N7 for a full day now and I have had about 5 random reboots that I have noticed. Anyone else getting this? Also my calendar app isn't syncing for some reason, get the sync error. Thinking a factory reset is already in order, but just wondering if I am the only one.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] cdmoore74:
Not one random reboot. I have about 7 hours of use under my belt.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] paranoid android85:
I would take it back and get a new one
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Simer03:
Definitely exchange it... Mine also hasnt done anything out of the ordinary
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] turdbogls:
Damn. Even after a reset it is still doing it.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] overlord727:
Mine kept doing this yesterday. Today, I tried to turn it on and it wouldn't boot up. Charging wouldn't even work! I didn't even unlock the bootloader or anything yet... Oh well, returned to Best Buy for now! At least they take it back NQA.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Zeon45:
I've had one random reboot since I got it yesterday
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] oneandroidnut:
Did you take both the updates?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] darll:
I experienced about 3 random reboots within a 3 hour window yesterday but throughout today its fine(NO REBOOTS AT ALL)

UPDATE- Just had a reboot while watching Netflix. I think this is an issue with the android 4.3 on the nexus 7(2013) and not the actual tablet itself
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] swagstr:
Me too. But haven't since taking updates and unlocking bootloader (and all that jazz).
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] fosser2:
Well i believe you jinxed me because shortly after reading this I had a hard reboot. I attempted to dump a last kmsg but it is not enabled in the stock kernel. I also saw that after reboot my SwiftKey was all messed up. I am rooted and unlocked. I am wondering if the way that SU is integrated into the system is what is causing these issues.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] yuyuyuyu1:
I don't think root is the cause of these reboots. My nexus 7 has rebooted twice already and it is completely stock as I have only used it for 2 hours so far. I installed both updates too.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] hoangtung619:
Luckily

Luckily mine has work totally fine. You can return it bro
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] moz90:
Probably need to return it for a new one only problems I've had are in chrome with pinch to zoom refreshing browser
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] lamenting:
I'm stock and have had 3 reboots since I got it yesterday. :/
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] turdbogls:
Just returned mine today and the new one has been going 6 hours without a reboot. Currents would cause the reboot for some reason. No such problem with the new unit
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] lorentholcke:
Bought a 32gb and a 16gb on Friday. My 32 has been flawless. My wife's 16 has been getting reboots quite often. Will probably return it. Just wondering if this is a 16gb problem or is it affecting both current models?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] casonswag:
My 32gig havnt gotten any rrs since allday yesterday to now running good

Sent From My Fresh Nexus 7(2013)
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] turdbogls:
I don't think this is a widespread issue yet. Something software wise was wonky. Battery drain was crazy, screen wasn't even showing up in the battery stats. New one has been flawless though. Crazy good battery and no reboots * knock on wood*
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] lorentholcke:
Thanks for the reply. Ya I am getting about an hour of screen on time per 10% battery drain. Battery exceeds expectations since it is a higher resolution screen, and a smaller battery compared to the previous generation. We found a office Max with one so we are just going to exchange the 16gb model and hope we don't get another wonky one.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nate2:
Apps like Reboot Logger keep Android honest. I mean, what kind of a dubious Operating System would keep log files like boot.log and /var/log/messages so well hidden from end users? Would it have been too difficult for Android to allow a simple cat command to display those files? What are they trying to hide? Hmm...

Linux systems don't hide those files: no special app required to view those files.

As long as Android users send Google any kind of message that unexpected reboots are OK, Google will keep releasing shoddy releases for everyone.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] cobyman7035:
im gettting reboots too, usually when i have WIFI on and i'll be clicking in an app, and BOOM, the nex7 locks up and freezes for like 2 seconds, then reboots to google

im unlocked, rooted with NO custom rom or kernel , im hoping its just a 'roque' app that i have installed but course i don't know which one as it have over 100apps :(
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] crachel:
Great. Thanks

With a bit of Googling, I come across this fairly recent CM report https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-1407

With this solution from Ricardo & Brandon Whaley

I'm not around my tablet right now or I would have a look and see about that netstats file and removing its contents
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] jdeslip:
It looks like a similar, but slightly different, error message in their case. It looks like their is caused by a broken intent in NetworkStats. My report shows a failed allocation in NetworkStats. It could be that the same fix will work, though...

-Jack
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] sfhub:
While I'm not an expert on expert on android, on the surface those don't look to be the same errors. They are in the same process, but one (ours) is complaining about an invalid or abnormally large memory request. The other is some problem with polling (which might be due to corrupted /data/system/netstats) Now it is possible they are both related to a corrupted /data/system/netstats file. However, that should get reset with a factory reset, but people here seem to continue getting their random reboots after a factory reset (since /data/system is wiped). It is possible of course that the netstats file then get recorrupted after a factory reset. Further, in our case this is happening on stock systems with plenty of space in /data (in that case, the person filled up /data)

Just throwing out thoughts, not saying it is or isn't definitely related to the problem.

The good news is if the log above is where the tablet is resetting, the problem is clearly in the OS and not a hardware problem.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] cobyman7035:
anyone eles nex7 only reboots when the wifi is on? i think mines wifi + app conflict = freeze = reboot

installed reboot logger from playstore
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] billd104:
My second one from Staples was a July build and I didn't see much difference. Reboots, reboots & more reboots. Add in some crashes & Bluetooth issues. :eek: Back it goes. I'm waiting for the 32GB LTE.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nate2:
The fact that processes are getting restarted repeatedly would indicate a memory/resource leak. If a 3rd party app that can be uninstalled is not the culprit, there is little you can do except root and try to freeze the hopefully non-essential processes.

I recall motoblur leaked resources on my DroidX, and there was little I could do except wait for an upgrade with a fix.

But the large number 1953439821 in your logcat segment above indicates some other kind of software glitch (memory/pointer corruption?).

See this (long) thread about things that go on behind the scenes in Android, that are only evident if you look closely at the logcat: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=126479
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Hyper4mance2k:
I got my 7-2 on launch day at Bestbuy. It started random rebooting on Sunday August 4th. It would be sitting on my desk, I would look over and it would be randomly rebooting itself. I tried to turn it on today and it is stuck at the boot animation. I will not lunch into safe-mode, it will not launch into recovery. I am furious as I have lost all the data and pictures that I used it for on a trip this past weekend. I don't even have a way to factory reset the device so my information is stuck on the HD. This is completely unacceptable for Google. I think I'm returning this for a Surface Pro.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] crachel:
Mine was stuck on the boot animation, I was able to hold down Volume Down or Volume Up (can't remember which) along with the Power button to get into Bootloader and then Recovery. You more than likely can pull the data from there
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Hyper4mance2k:
When I try to load recovery it shows the fallen down android icon and says "No command."
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] iforgot618:
So just incase it hasnt been said yet. Im pretty sure its wifi rerlated. i tried factory restart and no apps. but ive been able to get reboots by turing wifi on and off (not all the time) and toggling wps pin entry a few times. but thats just my guess
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Hyper4mance2k:
Yay! I got it into recovery mode, but a cache partition wipe did nothing. My PC doesn't even recognize a device is plugged in, so if I can't get my stuff I'm just going to have to do a factory reset before I return this POS. No point in exchanging it if everyone seems to be having the issue.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] rxnelson:
Do you have adb and fastboot installed on PC? I don't think it will mount as a device in windows until it boots? I'm thinking you'll have to use adb pull commands in recovery to get your stuff.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Hyper4mance2k:
i do, but i don't know how to use it lol
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] rxnelson:
Send it my way. :) I'll take a look. I got stuff to do now though. No time to walk you through it. Google it, you should find some answers.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Hyper4mance2k:
I don't know why, but it's not listing the device. Adb looks, but it doesn't list anything. I did not enable USB debugging before the thing decided to die on me, so I don't know if I can even access it.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] rxnelson:
What command are you using? When you are at the fastboot menu can you type in 'fastboot devices' and it lists something? If not maybe you don't have the drivers installed correctly? Further responses delayed...working out.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] cobyman7035:
No reboots yet after fulll day… fingers crossed.. installed reboot logger, froze chrome

Via my NeXus™ 7 FHD on Xda Premium
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nbsss:
Go to settings. Wifi. (Menu) Advanced. Untick scanning always available.

Thought I'd share that as its been 3 days with no reboots ;)

Edit: 5 days now ;)
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] sfhub:
The random reboots are likely happening because of a bug in the (Android) NetworkStats module.

During log file rotation it tries to allocate a 1.8GB array and that produces a fatal exception, which results in the reboot. The 1.8GB is obviously incorrect and might be due to some initialization problem or data corruption.

The following is just conjecture:

I presume anything you can configure and any behavior that you can modify to reduce the frequency of the NetworkStats log file rotation will result in fewer random reboots.

That is probably why when people adjust their network settings and/or stop using Google apps that produce a lot of network activity (both foreground and background) the frequency of random reboots decreases.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] ramdyc:
For what it's worth, I'm on 26 hours and 15 mins of uptime with no random reboots after flashing faux123's enhanced stock kernel.

::EDIT::

so after what I'm estimating was 29-30 hours, I came home to find my N7 unresponsive. It wasn't the standard random reboot though. I think the tablet was still technically on but the screen was just black. I held the power button down for several seconds a few times and it finally rebooted but with significant battery drain.

::EDIT 2::

And had 2 random reboots after.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] appelflap:
Quick question for those that are suffering from the random reboot problem. Do you also have times where the device becomes totally unresponsive? I have this relatively a lot when using Google+, mostly when I type comments (with the standard built in keyboard as well as a third party keyboard)
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] sensboston:
Thanks, man, your advice is a real issue solver! Should be added to the Nexus 7 (2013) FAQ (until Google fixes the issue in OTA update).

I'm followed your advice and have no random reboots now! Other topic advises (disabling Chrome, location sensors etc.) are worthless.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] ocman40:
Agreed, same here. No more issues.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] eyecon82:
Went into a staples today and the display unit was completely frozen

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Just went to go use my tablet and it has been powered off for last 2 hours even though I haven't shut it down
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] jdkadius:
I did this, but still got a random reboot.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] boricua95:
Going on 6 days / 17 hours with my new unit, nothing disabled.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] fosser2:
Was messing around with the new Google Location stuff today and had a reboot. I was going to pull a log on reboot but it went into a boot loop. After a long power press and another reboot it loaded right up fine. Here is a dmesg after boot (the second time). Obviously I am running stock and am rooted. There are many things I am seeing from that log that do not look right, specifically related to the internal sd card. I would love to have a few other sets of eyes look through this and determine what exactly is happening here.

http://pastebin.com/LHFPhWSc
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] player911:
Mine hasnt rebooted on it's own outside the first day. I had 200hrs uptime on stock and so far about 80hrs on CM10.2 Kanged rom
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nate2:
Lines 640 - 700 look very depressing: filesystem corruption, and attempts at recovering blocks.

userdata looks adversely affected, which is a bad thing.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] fosser2:
Ya thats what I see too. Do you think this is hardware related? I know someone was talking about wifi or GPS doing this to the tablet.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] appelflap:
Unfortunately didn't work for me.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nbsss:
How frequent are the reboots?

Could you try using Faux's kernel and also turn off 'scanning always available'? I'm using 'mainline'
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Moscow Desire:
Off Topic Thread Cleaning

Got called in to do a little trollin cleaning.

You folks keep it on topic and don't let the flaming get out of control. If you don't own the device, and can't provide testing scenarios, then maybe it's best to stay out of the conversation. Trying to compare with other devices is just completely asinine.:eek:

Carry on and keep the flaming to a low level (non-existent)

Thread Cleaned

MD
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] :
My device shuts off. No reboots. Even worse -.-
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nate2:
Anyone tried installing a previous release of Android on the 2013 Nexus 7 to see if the random reboots still occur?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nbsss:
How would you go about doing that lol
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Brava27:
Just got two reboots. I believe I was my live wallpaper and Facebook notification.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] fosser2:
I was hoping that a fresh copy of android (JSS15J) would help. I flashed a brand new copy last night and had a reboot this morning. Actually I work up to it rebooting so nothing really triggered it from what I could tell. I did manage to pull a last_kmsg and I'm hoping this can help. From the looks of it the tablet attempts to enter "deep sleep" many times. Each time it enters into the deep sleep it snaps out of it seconds later. I believe that the repetition of this is what is causing the device to crash. I would love to see some other developers comment on this, but to me, this is a software error.

http://pastebin.com/kRUCkFqs
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] sensboston:
It's a pity :( Looks like, it's a different issue - mine was solved by unchecking "scanning always available" flag in settings (device still running, no reboots in 3 days). Hope, Google will release OTA update soon - for me, it's looks like a software issues.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] davidstech11:
Stock, no issues
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] ramdyc:
So I exchanged mine for a new one at a different best buy and it hasn't rebooted once yet. I'm on 43 hours of continuous up time. Running CM10.2 and stock kernel.

The old one had a serial that started with 06db. The new one has a serial that starts with 0585. Not sure if that'll be of any significance.

::EDIT::

3 weeks in I've had 4 random reboots. 2 just today, 2 others within the past week.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] joeshmoo:
Just to add to the available info, I'm averaging 2 reboots a day on a serial starting with 0585.

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nate2:
Did your 2013 N7 come with JWR66V?

http://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images indicates 2013 N7 does not have a JWR66V stock image.

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Glad you asked, lol.

Differences between JSS15J vs. JWR66V, anyone? (they are both 4.3 images for the Nexus family).

Looks like one has to build a previous release from scratch, ref: http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] rowntreerob:
I did 2 cycles of OTA updates to get to JSS15J. I think u can do by going to settings/ about device / system updates where u can check for new updates. Otherwise - look here for 'razor nexus 7'
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Nate2:
Thanks for the info. I'm going to take a closer look at JWR66V here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2403526

(didn't want to clutter this thread)