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Hello everyone!
So I bought the Nexus 5 about 2 months ago and it occasionally would hang and I would need to force reboot it. I found out Slimkat was very stable and fast so I flashed that almost immediately. I had absolutely no problems until after the 4.4.3 update, which quite literally, a few days after, my phone emitted an odd noise (almost like the N64/NES freeze noise) and shut off. It would refuse to reboot. I contacted my carrier and they told me it'd be 150 to replace it. I decided to try and fix it.
I used a toolkit to put everything stock on the phone.
Now, I'm running 4.4.2 OTA. I'm still having frequent crashes with the same noise. After a crash it takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes for the phone to actually boot.
It essentially boots, shows the Google screen and freezes there or just completely goes black.
Or, it goes into the bootanimation and freezes or goes black.
I finally got a logcat though and have two separate lists. The errors and the whole logcat.
Error log: http://pastebin.com/ZTwJXntG
Full logcat: http://pastebin.com/2DNy99b2
If anyone could provide insight and possibly a way to fix this, it would be very appreciated. I don't have 150 dollars to fix this right now lol
Why would it cost $150 to replace it? It should be covered under warranty with Google/LG, not your carrier.
Pirateghost said:
Why would it cost $150 to replace it? It should be covered under warranty with Google/LG, not your carrier.
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I bought it from my carrier and have insurance. I work in an industrial setting and my screen cracked, so they require it to go through the insurance which has a 150$ deductible. I doubt my warranty will cover a hardware/software fault with a cracked screen.
No one has any idea?
your logs dont tell me much, its just a plain logcat. what would be helpful for me is a last_kmsg. you would grab one of these AFTER it shutdown by itself or reboots. at least it would show why exactly it shut down or rebooted.
I've wiped, I've cleared the cache, I've done just about everything. Please someone help me <3 I'm on a US Verizon S8+ and the touchscreen just doesn't work, it boots to the phone setup then I can't touch anything.
Edit: after a few soft restarts I got the touchscreen working for short periods of time in which I setup the phone, now every couple restarts the touchscreen will work for 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
Cal17 said:
I've wiped, I've cleared the cache, I've done just about everything. Please someone help me <3 I'm on a US Verizon S8+ and the touchscreen just doesn't work, it boots to the phone setup then I can't touch anything.
Edit: after a few soft restarts I got the touchscreen working for short periods of time in which I setup the phone, now every couple restarts the touchscreen will work for 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
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Take it to Best Buy. Samsung factory authorized repair center. Screen replacement will cost $249.
If it's not cracked and doesn't have any major dents, you could get it repaired for free under warranty. All current S8/S8+ are under warranty since the phone was released not even a year ago. If you dropped your phone and it wasn't bad enough to damage anything, but touch doesn't work, then the phone is very weak. Personally, for a 1200$ device to act up like that, I would treat it as a defect.
I was watching a video on my pixel when suddenly the display freezed and turned off. Since then it has been restarting and crashing again and again. I have already done factory reset. I am unable to attach image here which would have given a better idea of the problem ibb. co/ jDdU6b . Remove the spaces in the link to see the photo.
Instead of a factory reset have you tried flashing the factory image via fastboot? I would attempt to backup what is important and run the flash_all.bat with the file unaltered. This will allow the image to be flashed and all user data would be wiped giving a clean install.
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chaitan123 said:
I was watching a video on my pixel when suddenly the display freezed and turned off. Since then it has been restarting and crashing again and again. I have already done factory reset. I am unable to attach image here which would have given a better idea of the problem ibb. co/ jDdU6b . Remove the spaces in the link to see the photo.
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Just for humor, it is the same concept!! https://youtu.be/kKAjay0iWwI
Bro, let me know what you find out because this ****ing phone has got me sick and tired of these reboots. It just ****ing reboots at random times and even when it boots up after a reboot it will freeze and reboot again. Honestly, I have never said this to anyone because I am a hardcore nexus user but **** this phone, google really ****ed this one up.
I been having this issue, and preformed a factory reset on Jan 1. I cant say I have seen it re-appear. I am 7.1.2 by the way. If it is across the board with 8 and 7.1.2, then it may be some wonky google app that is common to both. It was not any specific application that it happened on either.
I just did an RMA, my warranty ended in dec 27 and they still sent me a new one. I hope the new one doesn't have problems, it probably is a google app.
Return it before your warranty runs out. This happened to me on december 15th. My warranty expired nov 17th and google refused to do anything and ubreakitifixit cannot fix it. This is a known issue, but google won’t stand behind their product. Eventually your phone will shut down and never turn back on.
carm01 said:
I been having this issue, and preformed a factory reset on Jan 1. I cant say I have seen it re-appear. I am 7.1.2 by the way. If it is across the board with 8 and 7.1.2, then it may be some wonky google app that is common to both. It was not any specific application that it happened on either.
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I wanted to update this as it is possible I might have stumbled across something.
After wiping it and restoring some apps, I had no issues with it until the week of the 22nd of January. I installed one app and it started to reboot randomly. That app was Android Pay. Once it started to happen I uninstalled it, and have not had any re-boots since again.
Best Regards
This just started happening to my girlfriend's pixel. Bone stock, never rooted. If you even have a HINT that your phone is rebooting for no reason, I suggest you send it in for repair as soon as possible. Her phone now just bootloops, and you can't boot recovery mode either.
Google support said that the warranty expired in October, and so they told me I can go pound sand.
Well I can call UbreakiFix... I got a quote of ~$500 to replace the motherboard + screen, and no one else sells it that I can find.
A flagship phone lasting barely more than a year is not acceptable to me. Google should be offering me a replacement device, and I'm rather pissed that they aren't.
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This just started happening to my girlfriend's pixel. Bone stock, never rooted. If you even have a HINT that your phone is rebooting for no reason, I suggest you send it in for repair as soon as possible. Her phone now just bootloops, and you can't boot recovery mode either.
Google support said that the warranty expired in October, and so they told me I can go pound sand.
Well I can call UbreakiFix... I got a quote of ~$500 to replace the motherboard + screen, and no one else sells it that I can find.
A flagship phone lasting barely more than a year is not acceptable to me. Google should be offering me a replacement device, and I'm rather pissed that they aren't.
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Yeah man same thing just happened to me, like wtf
Same here. Just bootlooping... Thanks google
This is what I get for updating my damn phone, Same problem here.
Now happening yet again to my Pixel and this is the 3rd handset I've had in 18 months. Now need to send this back to Google so that'll make 4 Pixels I'll have had before my contract ends and I can escape to a handset that works.
This problem seems to be pretty widespread. Mine Pixel’s been doing this for a while now - sometimes it’ll go days without me at least noticing a reboot, other times it will happen so often as to make the phone useless. I just tried a factory reset - anyone know if there’s a permanent fix to this? It sucks when I’m in the middle of a call and then all of a sudden the phone shuts down and starts rebooting.
I went through 2 pixel OG with failing hardware. The first one had failing mic and audio issue so I exchanged it with another refurbished pixel. The last one just boot looped suddenly 4 days ago. I've had it for 6 months and it were fine untill few weeks ago it turned off randomly at 30% battery. 4 days ago, the phone bootloop and recovery mode would not work. I brought it to repair service, they replaced IC power and battery but it still failing. After many debugging, it was found that the issue was the EMMC (or the motherboard?). The point is, most likely, I'll have to change the parts that will cost almost another pixel and still not guaranteed to fix the problem. Right now, it can enter the recovery mode but only shows [no command]. My country has no ubreakifix and pixel user are very scarce, finding hardware is very difficult.
Now, what should I do?
1. Find another broken pixel and use it to replace my faulty pixel sparepart?
2. Gamble my luck and try another refurbished pixel OG?
3. Buy refurbished pixel 2 (does pixel 2 has faulty hardwares and softwares too?)
I really really like pixel, but is it worth all these hassle? Should I just move on to another brand? If any of you has same experience, please share it here )
PLEAS ADVISE ME. MUCH THANKS!
I've not seen this with any of my Google phones but today the alarm went off and then the phone locked up while still playing the alarm sound. The screen was stuck at like 2am but it was like 6am at the time. Power and volume up buttons did not work to get to restart. I had to Google the fix and that was to hold down the power button for 30 seconds.
Video of it stuck.
This happened to my wife's Pixel 7 the first morning she had an alarm set with it.
Did you by any chance snooze it half a dozen times? It was only after she refused to get up that it locked. I think maybe it's a feature, not a bug.
That sounds familiar as if it might've happened once on my OG Pixel years ago, but I can't say for sure.
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It was only after she refused to get up that it locked. I think maybe it's a feature, not a bug.
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LOL! Good point.
No snoozing and it just locked up for the second time just now. The time is displayed but stuck at 8:16 and it currently 9:57, never had this issue on the 6. I'm wondering if I have bad RAM or something that is causing random lockups.
I do see that it vibrates when I press and hold the power button but I can't see what it's doing with the screen locked up.
Talking to support, they wanted the IMEI number and a picture of the screen? The screen looks normal but is locked up. ???
They have to put me on hold to talk to someone else for each part of the questions. I called Google support but it sounds like someone overseas.
I don't see what they can do, other than replace it. I copied everything from the old phone that was working fine.
They want me to back it up and do a factory reset. I just did that when I got the phone a few weeks ago.
Then they asked that I run the phone in safe mode for a few weeks to see if its a bad app that was installed.
I asked to speak with someone more knowledgeable and they needed to put me on hold again saying I could get an email from someone or wait to talk with someone. They then said I had to give consent for them to look at all my data. ??? After the long hold I was told that I'd be getting an email. Total waste of time.
My screen froze and became unresponsive when I swiped down for notifications while watching non-fullscreen video on Youtube TV. The audio continued to play. I recovered by holding down the power button for 60 seconds to force a reboot. I can't duplicate it though.
I have had these screen freezings too. By pressing power button for 30 sec it boots the phone back up. Then after a minute or an hour it happens again. Had to do factory reset two times already. That's the only thing that helps.
I have no idea of what is causing that.
Mine has done it three times now, had to power cycle it as mentioned above, and each time it was a different app
Here is their suggested fix:
Here are some additional steps to take to try to resolve the issue with your Pixel phone:
Troubleshoot your apps
Perform a factory reset
After each step, check to see if your issue is resolved. If not, continue to the next section.
Tanquen said:
I've not seen this with any of my Google phones but today the alarm went off and then the phone locked up while still playing the alarm sound. The screen was stuck at like 2am but it was like 6am at the time. Power and volume up buttons did not work to get to restart. I had to Google the fix and that was to hold down the power button for 30 seconds.
Video of it stuck.
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SystemUI has crashed a few times on mine, which causes a lockup. Rebooting seems to fix it, for the most part.
Tanquen said:
Here is their suggested fix:
Here are some additional steps to take to try to resolve the issue with your Pixel phone:
Troubleshoot your apps
Perform a factory reset
After each step, check to see if your issue is resolved. If not, continue to the next section.
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You can report back that the factory reset fixes the bug for a while. But if I have to do a factory reset every week, I'm going crazy.
miimaa said:
You can report back that the factory reset fixes the bug for a while. But if I have to do a factory reset every week, I'm going crazy.
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Just rebooting the phone fixes it for a little while. That's the trouble with random inconsistent issues. It could take a week or two or more for it to do it again. With a number of others having similar issues I don't think a factory reset again is going to do anything. I just got the phone a month or so ago and it was at factory default. What good would it do to put it back to factory again? Sounds just as unreasonable as using my phone for several weeks in safe mode to see if it's another program causing the problem.
Woke up this morning and the phone had rebooted.
RMA your device keep trying until you get someone that understands your issue. Google support is absolute rubbish and if the rep doesn't understand that you're losing all touch input just hang up and try again. It's frustrating but it's sadly the only way you'll be able to get your phone swapped out. I had this problem on my P6P and only a RMA solved my problem.
They offered to let me send it in and let their techs look at it for 2-3 weeks or take it to a local shop. I was surprised that there was an authorized shop in my city but what are they going to do with a phone that reboots every 5 or 6 days? I've not even had it 30 days but they said it was too long just be able to return it. You have 15 days. I pushed back and they set up a replacement but not before telling me about the option to mail it in a wait a few weeks. Who can be without their phone for a few weeks. I have to buy a new one and then have 30 days to return this one.
I do wonder if it's a software issue that Google will fix at some point but don't think so. There is a thread on their support forum that has not been locked yet with a number of folks with what sounds like the same issue.
Oh wait it's 21 days to return it.
"Remember that if we don’t receive your old item 21 days after your replacement ships, you will be charged $968.67, which is the full value of your replacement item."
Tanquen said:
I've not seen this with any of my Google phones but today the alarm went off and then the phone locked up while still playing the alarm sound. The screen was stuck at like 2am but it was like 6am at the time. Power and volume up buttons did not work to get to restart. I had to Google the fix and that was to hold down the power button for 30 seconds.
Video of it stuck.
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I would attribute it to buggy software. My 7 pro locked up about a week into ownership. The last time I had a phone lock up was my last pixel phone (the 3). Not sure what it is but it always clears up after a couple updates. Maybe the same will happen for you.
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They offered to let me send it in and let their techs look at it for 2-3 weeks or take it to a local shop. I was surprised that there was an authorized shop in my city but what are they going to do with a phone that reboots every 5 or 6 days? I've not even had it 30 days but they said it was too long just be able to return it. You have 15 days. I pushed back and they set up a replacement but not before telling me about the option to mail it in a wait a few weeks. Who can be without their phone for a few weeks. I have to buy a new one and then have 30 days to return this one.
I do wonder if it's a software issue that Google will fix at some point but don't think so. There is a thread on their support forum that has not been locked yet with a number of folks with what sounds like the same issue.
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I believe it's part of their call flow offering the repair shop or mail in option. There's always the advanced RMA option where they put a hold on a card you provide and the temp charge is removed once they receive the defective device. If you don't want the chance at getting a refurbished replacement do the advanced RMA sooner rather than later.
The phone froze on me 3 times already - 2 times using Samsung browser, 1 time on Chrome.
Android 13 QPR1 Beta 3.1 introduces a GPU fix, which will hopefully resolve this issue:
Fixed issues where a device's GPU drivers sometimes caused the system UI to freeze during normal device use.
I'm swapping it out for a new(?) one. Hopefully all goes well.