Galaxy Nexus randomly turned off?

**androidconvert84** · 12-18-2011, 03:33 AM

I was watching an HD video on youtube then the phone just turned off with at least 70% battery then rebooted. Anything to worry about?

**jhtheking** · 12-18-2011, 04:36 AM

Not sure.. the same thing happened when I unplugged mine from the wall charger the other day.. it's been fine since though.

**kesnik** · 12-18-2011, 05:52 AM

I was being guided by the voice queues in Google Navigation. Which was a problem because the screen was off and the voice queues just stopped. worst thing of all, it shut down and didn't reboot. I had to power it back up.

Every other smartphone that I have owned has rebooted at somepoint but this is the first smartphone that didn't restart automatically.

-Kesnik

**ClinchDroid** · 12-18-2011, 07:11 AM

Mine froze and rebooted on me when I went into the camera app. It acctually sat frozen for about 30 seconds. I was going to pull the battery when it rebooted. Its been fine since.

**Scottee28** · 12-18-2011, 12:03 PM

I had one random reboot yesterday, battery was about 30%, I turned on screen to check a text message then put it down, about 30 seconds later I noticed the boot animation. Dont know why it reboot, random.

**jerrod6** · 12-18-2011, 08:16 PM

One odd shutoff today while holding down the microphone on the Google search bar so I could see the predefined search terms in help. The display just went blank. At first I thought it was the screen timeout, but then I had to hold down the power button and watch the phone start up again. So I guess the phone just turned off without a reboot.

Anyway this is a shut down occurrence that needs to be looked into

**edweb1** · 12-18-2011, 08:51 PM

mine rebooted on two separate occasions in the same day while using google nav.

**jhpk13** · 12-20-2011, 08:07 AM

Battery at 57% , listening to pandora, and searching market. Phone shutdown and had to power it back on holding power button. Never experienced on previous phones.

**creccaj1** · 12-20-2011, 08:13 AM

My randomly shut off the first day and hasn't done it since. Didn't reboot or anything just did a full shut down and my battery was around 70% at the time just connected to my car's bluetooth idling. Wasn't on the phone or anything... thought it was odd but hasn't done it again since so *cross fingers* it was just a one time thing.

**VideoEngineerAJS** · 12-20-2011, 08:21 AM

Up until the last few replies, I sensed a theme, but now who knows. For the ones that were doing a ton of stuff at once and/or were using navigation, I could see it possibly being an overheating type of situation and the phone just turns off so it can cool the battery down.

However, the ones who weren't doing anything I have no idea.

**marcw** · 12-20-2011, 08:46 AM

mine rebooted right after i "disabled" the vz backup.

**tcmeiss** · 12-20-2011, 08:46 AM

Mine did it twice yesterday. Once it rebooted and I wasn't even doing anything with it. I just looked down at it sitting on my desk and the "Google" logo was on the screen. Then after I had fully charged the battery and was about to shut down to install the new extended battery, it rebooted when I unplugged the charger (100% charge). So I pulled the battery and installed the extended one. Charged to 100% and it's been fine since.

EDIT:

So it just rebooted again for no aparent reason. It's not even plugged in to the charger, just sitting on my desk. I had a text message waiting, and next thing I know, there's the boot animation. WTF? This needs addressed real soon...

**diverbelow** · 12-20-2011, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by marcw

mine rebooted right after i "disabled" the vz backup.

I also disabled VZ backup the second I left the store on 12/15. Then on 12/17 my phone rebooted while opening up the camera with the front facing camera. Then it rebooted yesterday evening while in messaging. The uptime was 44 hours, and 6 hours later is when my phone rebooted on me.

**TerryMasters** · 12-20-2011, 11:50 AM

Same thing happened to me trying to fire up Grand Theft Auto III, then I tried it again and half the text on my homescreen went black. Upon restarting the dialer was missing from the bottom of my homescreen and the Google+ widget couldn't pull any pictures. Restarted again and everything seems to be fine though GTA still craps out.

**droid fascinated** · 12-20-2011, 12:12 PM

I had 3 reboots yesterday while listening to music with the Google Music app. Every time it happened I was changing the equalizer preset.

I've had no other reboots or shut downs.

**mcaspe1** · 12-20-2011, 12:32 PM

Mine self shut off while I was in the market. Looks like we have a glitch somewhere in the OS that google needs to fix.

**soogriff** · 12-20-2011, 12:47 PM

Mine randomly shut off twice when I was editing contact photos. No clue why. My device had plenty of battery life left.

**Shimmy** · 12-20-2011, 12:56 PM

I had a reboot when putting it into the clock mode at night. Phone was plugged in. It's the only time it's happened so far since I got it last Thursday.

**metsnfins** · 12-20-2011, 12:59 PM

its happened to me when i was watching some Flash videos

**forkball316** · 12-20-2011, 12:59 PM

Had 2 random reboots today for the first time. Fully charged & plugged into my computer. Thought it might have something to do with just updating Nova Launcher. Maybe not though if others are having problems...

**tx_tuff** · 12-20-2011, 02:30 PM

My rebooted twice on Sunday (3 days ago, 3 days after I bought it) and both time I was in the Android Market.

Oh and last night my wife's iPhone 4 rebooted while listening to music LOL

**diverbelow** · 12-20-2011, 03:01 PM

At least this has already been submitted to Google:

**TopJimmy2** · 12-20-2011, 05:22 PM

I've had about 4 of these same random shutdowns after I installed Go EX Launcher shortly after getting the phone. I used Go for a few days and after removing Go, I haven't had another one happen. Today I had a lockup where it stuck on the same screen (pulling down the notification bad and it got 1/2 way before freezing) but this was different in that the screen froze for 5 or so seconds and didn't go black and then rebooted itself. The previous issues I attributed to Go. I've not tried another launcher since.

p.s. I disabled VZ backup the minute I got the phone.

**Iceman0803** · 12-20-2011, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by mcaspe1

Mine self shut off while I was in the market. Looks like we have a glitch somewhere in the OS that google needs to fix.

Same thing happened to me while I was searching for an app in the market.

**ohiomoto** · 12-20-2011, 08:22 PM

Mine rebooted and did the *22899 thing on me the first day I had it. It was fine and the it rebooted 3 times today. I think it might have something to do with the LTE radio. I was using Navigation the first 2 times amd Pandora the last. I think it may have lost 4G each time and didn't switch to 3G. I am going to keep it 3G only for a few days and see what happens.