Phone reset itself! (+ other issues...)

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My brand new Nexus is behaving really strange...

After just a copule of days using the phone I noticed that all my photos was gone. I got really mad and hooked it up to my laptop. There, I saw that the photos was still on the memory, strange huh? I switched the phone off, and when turning it on again, the photos was back. It sounds kind of like an error some of you have written about here on the forums, but let me go on.
This last weekend a bunch of apps suddenly crashed. Not only installed apps, but a great deal of apps part of the android-system, I couldn't even use the phone for messaging or calling properly! After turning it off and on again the problem still remained, and about ten crash-messages greeted me when the phone booted up. I clicked a couple of error-messages to check the stacktraces of the crashes and all of them was due to various sql-calls trying to write to some database which was write-protected. Weird.
I had just installed a couple of games (really standard stuff like Angrybirds and such) and thought that I might try to uninstall them. Well, I did, but after rebooting the phone they had reappeared :confused: I tried to erase the internal storage (settings->storage->erase usb storage), thinking that the corrupt database might reside there, but that did nothing to improve on the error. Since I hadn't used the phone for so long I thought that a hard reset wouldn't be too much of a trouble. And yay! That fixed the error. An hour of setting the phone up again followed...
Yesterday I noticed that the pictures I took one day earlier (after resetting the phone) was gone, I sighed and thought: verywell, last time I just turned the phone off and started it up again so I might aswell do that again. BUT NO!! When booting up the phone asks me for my Google-account! It had reset itself and all data and apps were gone! Aaargh! :mad: I got really angry and directly started to write a support-email to Samsung. I had to remove the battery in order to check the serialno and after turning the phone on again I realised that all my apps (gone a couple of minutes ago) were back again... BUT all account-settings were still missing. So the phone was reset, but not completely... Now, I'm afraid of using the phone, hahaha... ;) I'm getting really frustrated here...

Has anyone heard of something similar?
 
My brand new Nexus is behaving really strange...

After just a copule of days using the phone I noticed that all my photos was gone. I got really mad and hooked it up to my laptop. There, I saw that the photos was still on the memory, strange huh? I switched the phone off, and when turning it on again, the photos was back. It sounds kind of like an error some of you have written about here on the forums, but let me go on.
This last weekend a bunch of apps suddenly crashed. Not only installed apps, but a great deal of apps part of the android-system, I couldn't even use the phone for messaging or calling properly! After turning it off and on again the problem still remained, and about ten crash-messages greeted me when the phone booted up. I clicked a couple of error-messages to check the stacktraces of the crashes and all of them was due to various sql-calls trying to write to some database which was write-protected. Weird.
I had just installed a couple of games (really standard stuff like Angrybirds and such) and thought that I might try to uninstall them. Well, I did, but after rebooting the phone they had reappeared :confused: I tried to erase the internal storage (settings->storage->erase usb storage), thinking that the corrupt database might reside there, but that did nothing to improve on the error. Since I hadn't used the phone for so long I thought that a hard reset wouldn't be too much of a trouble. And yay! That fixed the error. An hour of setting the phone up again followed...
Yesterday I noticed that the pictures I took one day earlier (after resetting the phone) was gone, I sighed and thought: verywell, last time I just turned the phone off and started it up again so I might aswell do that again. BUT NO!! When booting up the phone asks me for my Google-account! It had reset itself and all data and apps were gone! Aaargh! :mad: I got really angry and directly started to write a support-email to Samsung. I had to remove the battery in order to check the serialno and after turning the phone on again I realised that all my apps (gone a couple of minutes ago) were back again... BUT all account-settings were still missing. So the phone was reset, but not completely... Now, I'm afraid of using the phone, hahaha... ;) I'm getting really frustrated here...

Has anyone heard of something similar?

you should purchase mybackup pro from the market if you are not rooted, if you are rooted you can use titanium backup.
back up your system and also backup your contacts to your google account

then try a factory restore
 
I've already performed a factory restore. That was what I meant when I wrote "hard reset". I'm not 100% sure on all techincal terms :)
 
I've already performed a factory restore. That was what I meant when I wrote "hard reset". I'm not 100% sure on all techincal terms :)

did you restore all the apps after the reset or did you just run essentials?
 
I didn't install much at all. I just setup sync to my work email and calendar, installed some apps like facebook, goggles, the app of my bank and such... none that I find not trustworthy.
 
I didn't install much at all. I just setup sync to my work email and calendar, installed some apps like facebook, goggles, the app of my bank and such... none that I find not trustworthy.

You are not using a task killer or anything right?

Well I'dont know then if you did a factory reset and you are stock you shouldnt have problems like that for no reason, i would bring it in for replacement maybe.
 
the picture thing happened to me this weekend as well (2.3.2). I plugged in the USB and saw they were there on the internal storage. Went back to the gallery they appeared again.

I haven't had too many other crashes thankfully.
 

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