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XV6800 wierdness. Dying?

I've had my 6800 for several months now, running a DCD ROM from about 2 months ago. Love the phone, love the ROM. This morning however I lit the phone up and everything seemed OK until I needed to make a phone call. I tapped the "call" button and nothing happened. Tried the "messages" button and same thing. Every button is inop except for the power button (well, the networks button worked once but then it stopped working as well.) I did check the "buttons" setup and everything was mapped correctly. I've rebooted multiple times. I noticed that the unit was getting unusually hot. I use it all the time and have never felt it this hot. Then out of the blue it throws a low battery warning (at 1pm? Never, ever happened before.) I've got it charging now, but something is certainly wrong with the phone. Anyone run into this before?
Chris

chrispete said:
I've had my 6800 for several months now, running a DCD ROM from about 2 months ago. Love the phone, love the ROM. This morning however I lit the phone up and everything seemed OK until I needed to make a phone call. I tapped the "call" button and nothing happened. Tried the "messages" button and same thing. Every button is inop except for the power button (well, the networks button worked once but then it stopped working as well.) I did check the "buttons" setup and everything was mapped correctly. I've rebooted multiple times. I noticed that the unit was getting unusually hot. I use it all the time and have never felt it this hot. Then out of the blue it throws a low battery warning (at 1pm? Never, ever happened before.) I've got it charging now, but something is certainly wrong with the phone. Anyone run into this before?
Chris
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Your phone might over heat if you leave the phone charging for too long or if you are using it extensively while your charging it.
Also if you leave your phone charging for more then it is supposed to, It will lower the performance of your battery. So once your battery is done charging you should unplug it from the power cord.
I am not sure about why your buttons are not working. It would be that it got stuck in in standby mode because of lack of memory. I usually soft reset once a day or once every two days to keep my phone running smoothly.

I see where you're coming from, but the overheating is happening with it in standby with no charger connected. It really starts to cook when I bring it out of standby and use it. I've also done multiple soft resets at this point.
Chris

chrispete said:
I see where you're coming from, but the overheating is happening with it in standby with no charger connected. It really starts to cook when I bring it out of standby and use it. I've also done multiple soft resets at this point.
Chris
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Is your phone running alot of processes in the background? how much free RAM do you have at startup?
Also, the worst case scenario is that you have a faulty battery or phone.
My phone has never over heated but it has heated up when I leave it on the charger for too long.

Phone died then came back to life

I wonder what the hell happened to my phone this morning, I thought it was dead. This morning at 4am, I pressed the home button, the clock and date were there as usual on the lockscreen. But there was no lockscreen, just a completely black background. I tried swiping it, nothing. Pressed the power button and the phone became completely dead, nothing happening, couldn't even get the time and date back. Connected to mains charger, nothing, no icon. Left it overnight till just now. Pressed power button, nothing. Connected to USB, nothing. Took battery cover off, removed sim card ready to put back in my old phone. Removed battery which was firmly in and then put battery back in after a few seconds. Everything fired up fine and it said 100% battery charge since obviously charging overnight.
Something up with the battery connection? It's not like the battery was loose in the compartment, it was slotted in as it should be as far as I could tell since I installed it when the phone was new 2 weeks ago. Yet removing the battery and putting it back seemed to cure the issue.

Seems it was a crash my phone experienced. Normal to have crashes or faulty phone? Only have launcher pro installed, no rooting, no drops, knocks or shocks to the phone.

Strange problem you had. I've had several crashes already, but all the ones that involved the phone itself crashing resulted in automatic reboots. I have a lot of stuff installed, but most of the time it's a game that'll crash it.

you could have solved this problem much earlier honestly.
in such cases it is very common to first take out the battery, wait a while and reinsert it. would have brought you the same solution in probably 10 minutes

v1rtu4l said:
you could have solved this problem much earlier honestly.
in such cases it is very common to first take out the battery, wait a while and reinsert it. would have brought you the same solution in probably 10 minutes
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Well if I'd known to do that straight away, don't you think I would have done?

now you know

Proof? The sgsll really IS the son of god ! )

turned Nexus 7 off. wont turn on !!!

great..
i had about 50% battery.
after using it, i turned it off, then i went to turn it back on... and it never did.
i plugged in charger and no charge icon even shows....
any one else have this issue?
its on the charger now just in case but like i said i powered off at 50%

Did you try long pressing the power button, 20 seconds or more, then letting off and short pressing? Other than that I can't help, sorry.

Dead Nexus 7
loueber said:
great..
i had about 50% battery.
after using it, i turned it off, then i went to turn it back on... and it never did.
i plugged in charger and no charge icon even shows....
any one else have this issue?
its on the charger now just in case but like i said i powered off at 50%
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I got my Nexus 7 on Tuesday evening. After about 6 hours of playing with it
and checking things out I decided to go to bed, so I put it to sleep (not turn it off).
A few minutes later I decided that there was one more app I wanted to download,
so I went to wake it up and it wouldn't!
I tried everything -- short press, long press, try to reset, connect to computer (not recognized), etc.
I decided to let it charge overnight (no charging icon showed up).
The next day still dead, so I called google play and they will be sending me a new one.
On one hand it kinda sucks, but I feel good on how they handled it.
The tech said it was a dead battery, I am not so sure I believe that but ...

Mine was like that out of the box. It's already been repackaged back into its box and I'm waiting for google to send a replacement.

I hope you guys get your replacements soon.
Rik.

Same thing happened to me - you need to realllllllllllly long press, for 30 seconds or more.

neilrl79 said:
Did you try long pressing the power button, 20 seconds or more, then letting off and short pressing? Other than that I can't help, sorry.
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ok,
yes i tried holding the power button in for about 30 seconds and it powered on.
This is crazy... is this something i should be worried about? is it worth going through a return and all that?

cfh said:
I got my Nexus 7 on Tuesday evening. After about 6 hours of playing with it
and checking things out I decided to go to bed, so I put it to sleep (not turn it off).
A few minutes later I decided that there was one more app I wanted to download,
so I went to wake it up and it wouldn't!
I tried everything -- short press, long press, try to reset, connect to computer (not recognized), etc.
I decided to let it charge overnight (no charging icon showed up).
The next day still dead, so I called google play and they will be sending me a new one.
On one hand it kinda sucks, but I feel good on how they handled it.
The tech said it was a dead battery, I am not so sure I believe that but ...
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did you try like a 30 second hold on the power button? thats what got mine to reboot

Did that to me once. Must've been an update of some sort. Anyhow, long pressed as others have suggested and it's been fine every since. No need to waste everyone's time shipping it back.

happened to me too. You just have to push the button kinda hard for a looong time until it turns on. try multiple times

CooLoserTech said:
happened to me too. You just have to push the button kinda hard for a looong time until it turns on. try multiple times
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now that i think about it, i turned off after a few market updates.. maybe you are right.
not to hijack the thread, but does otheres google latitude widget not work? mine shows unknown location and the refresh keeps spining.
But when i open latitude it works fine in maps. its just the widget

David Horn said:
Same thing happened to me - you need to realllllllllllly long press, for 30 seconds or more.
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OMG thank you so much, I just had a big scare. My Nexus 7 crashed so bad it turned itself off, and I have never had to turn it on yet (came turned on, and rebooted by itself after the 4.1.1 update), and using long press like I do on my Galaxy Nexus or Galaxy Tab 10.1 would not turn it back on. I tried plugging it in, no battery icon... I was really starting to think it was dead, then I saw your comment and just sat there counting...and eventually IT TURNED BACK ON. Phew, what a relief, thank you so much for posting this!

David Horn said:
Same thing happened to me - you need to realllllllllllly long press, for 30 seconds or more.
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Yep, same thing happened to me. I freaked! But just had to keep pumping those defibrillators until it came back on :good:

so i wonder what is up with this..seems like a very comon issue here...
maybe it was doing something in the background?

loueber said:
did you try like a 30 second hold on the power button? thats what got mine to reboot
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I tried several times at 30 seconds and a couple of times for 90 seconds
still no good
What kind of bothers me is that I was told that on my return, I have to put the new/replacement nexus 7 on my
credit card. If they deem that the warranty was voided, they will charge me for a 2nd device!
I would rather send them the broken device and if they decide the warranty is voided, send the broken
device back to me and I will try to fix it myself! I don't want to buy two of these devices!
And even if they don't charge me, I still have to check the device over. I have read where some people have
dead pixels, microphones that don't work, bad screens, and even dead devices like mine. I don't want to
have to do this a 3rd time
UGH

Work for me 30 second hold power button
I try like a 30 second hold on the power button
and work for me, thanks to all for ur tips
this is my first table

Mine was packed up ready to take back to PCWorld
Mine was packed up ready to take back to PCWorld then I checked Google again and found this thread!
Many thanks chaps. You saved me some grief

google should send out some sort of network message for those that already have a nexus 7 , and any new ones that ship they should insert a notice..
either that, send out an update to fix this issue...

My so called "flawless" N7 did this today ( wouldn't turn on until I plugged it in, when it booted it still had 11%. Checked my mail and the whole think turned black grey and white and moved up and down quickly then shut off. Now it won't power on and makes a buzzing sound when plugged in. Think the display is dead
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda app-developers app

Whew. This just happened to me and the 30 second press worked perfectly. Thanks giys !
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

Nexus 4 wont turn on

Hey everyone, Im having a problem thats making me worry. I was using my phone today and for some reason the phone wont turn on after I turned it off. I havent dropped the phone at all and it hasnt been abused in any way. The last thing I was doing before I turned it off was trying to send feedback for the Yahoo Mail app because it wouldnt sync automatically, but even that was unsuccessful because it wouldnt send. So I thought I should just reboot it but afterwards its not turning on at all.
I tried holding the power button for at least 20 seconds and still nothing is happening, and I tried plugging in the power cord to see if that would help but it hasnt. Has anyone gone through a similar issue? Please Help
Thanks.

Leave it plugged in for fifteen minutes without touching it.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Try holding volume up + power to see if you can get into recovery then reboot from there.
Also, give some more details about your setup...
Rooted/Stock/What Rom/Kernel?

Yea I left it alone for a bit and then I held the power button while holding down both volume rockers and somehow it turned on. I dont know why this happened but I'm just glad it turned back on, it gave me a good scare though. I just hope it doesnt happen again

Mine is completely stock, I havent done anything with it yet

And may I ask what was your battery percentage level like after the short charge? Maybe the phone drained it all just being turned off... There were some cases of this here...

i wanted to add that i had a similar problem with my phone not turning back on. However, I managed to fix what was wrong by just plugging in the usb cable. I know you've tried it, but just in case someone else stumbles upon this thread (like me!) and has a problem turning on their nexus, I wanted to share my experience.
I haven't done anything to my phone other than add my old apps to my Nexus since I received it 1.5 weeks ago. It's stock. I've never dropped it or gotten water on it or anything. I charged it overnight last night and stuck it in my purse on the way to work. I think I briefly saw a working screen after I unplugged it this morning. However, the first time I tried to access my phone today was after I got to work. It wouldn't turn on, though that pinkish light at the bottom was still blinking. I tried calling it and the Nexus wouldn't ring even though the call went through a few rings and then onto voicemail. I tried holding down the power button for a while and also holding the power button with the volume keys to see if that would work, and it did not. Finally I borrowed a usb cable to plug it in, hoping the jolt of power would wake it up. That worked. It gave me the charging symbol for a little bit and then gave me the startup/loading screen with the glowing x made of arrows. I checked my battery and it was at full charge. Well, it was at 85%, which is odd since I plugged it in for about 9 hours last night to charge and there has only been 3 hours of non-use since I unplugged it. Also, if it was really turned off during those 3 hours it shouldn't have ate up any battery. Anyway, I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents in case anyone else has this problem. My brother, who gave me the Nexus, told me that he only has 2 weeks to return it if there's something wrong with it or I don't like it. Needless to say this gave me a scare, since the 2 weeks is almost up.

Money2g said:
Hey everyone, Im having a problem thats making me worry. I was using my phone today and for some reason the phone wont turn on after I turned it off. I havent dropped the phone at all and it hasnt been abused in any way. The last thing I was doing before I turned it off was trying to send feedback for the Yahoo Mail app because it wouldnt sync automatically, but even that was unsuccessful because it wouldnt send. So I thought I should just reboot it but afterwards its not turning on at all.
I tried holding the power button for at least 20 seconds and still nothing is happening, and I tried plugging in the power cord to see if that would help but it hasnt. Has anyone gone through a similar issue? Please Help
Thanks.
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Yes this happened to me the other night. I was making a phone call and accidentally hit the power button. I then tried to turn the screen back on in order to hang up the phone and it would work. I tried holding the button for 15 seconds, tried pressing the volume up/down keys, and still nothing. I then put it back in my pocket for a minute or so and tried again. When I did that the screen came back on and the call was still active. Very strange, and I hope it doesnt happen again....

Money2g said:
Hey everyone, Im having a problem thats making me worry. I was using my phone today and for some reason the phone wont turn on after I turned it off. I havent dropped the phone at all and it hasnt been abused in any way. The last thing I was doing before I turned it off was trying to send feedback for the Yahoo Mail app because it wouldnt sync automatically, but even that was unsuccessful because it wouldnt send. So I thought I should just reboot it but afterwards its not turning on at all.
I tried holding the power button for at least 20 seconds and still nothing is happening, and I tried plugging in the power cord to see if that would help but it hasnt. Has anyone gone through a similar issue? Please Help
Thanks.
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Same thing is happening to me right now.
Running stock. Not rooted. Phone charge was around 70% and I was on twitter and the app force closed. So I decided to restart my phone then went to turn it back on and it wont respond. Tried holding down the power button for 20 sec. Volume up and power, volume down and all 3 at the same time. Still nothing. Leaving it on the charger for awhile and the screen is blank no battery logo or anything.
Not quite sure what to do now?

That's scary

shotlimesalt said:
Same thing is happening to me right now.
Running stock. Not rooted. Phone charge was around 70% and I was on twitter and the app force closed. So I decided to restart my phone then went to turn it back on and it wont respond. Tried holding down the power button for 20 sec. Volume up and power, volume down and all 3 at the same time. Still nothing. Leaving it on the charger for awhile and the screen is blank no battery logo or anything.
Not quite sure what to do now?
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Plug it in with the original charger, leave it alone for a couple of hours, try again.
Sent from my Nexus 4

I get the same. I use Dophin Browser . After that i reboot my Nexus 4.
I try to hold Power Button for 1 minutes or more. But nothing change. I
I try hold Power + Volum Down - or Volum + but get same result.
I plug in Adater and wait for it. I will check it 2 hour later.
My Nexus 4 use Stock Rom, Rooted. and this first i get this problem. Please advise me on this case. Thank
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I'm having similar problems. Lots of random rebooting and refusals to turn back on sometimes, even though the LED at the bottom is flashing so i know the phone is still powered up. Also, sometimes when i have it plugged into a computer through usb it will get extremely hot and completely shut down, not turning back on for a long time. I called the google play store and someone is going to get back to me. I love my nexus 4 so i hope i can get this fixed or a replacement.

Nexus 4 crashed and would not power on
shinobi-wan said:
I'm having similar problems. Lots of random rebooting and refusals to turn back on sometimes, even though the LED at the bottom is flashing so i know the phone is still powered up. Also, sometimes when i have it plugged into a computer through usb it will get extremely hot and completely shut down, not turning back on for a long time. I called the google play store and someone is going to get back to me. I love my nexus 4 so i hope i can get this fixed or a replacement.
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I had this issue too a couple of times playing Pandora through my car's Bluetooth. That was when the Nexus 4 had 4.2.1. I have not had this issue with Pandora since the upgrade to 4.2.2.
However, I just now had this issue with Movie Studio app and exporting a video I edited. It turned off its screen like normal screen timeout but then would not come back on.
I had to Volume Up + Power button for a few seconds and then release to get it to reboot.

This same thing is happening to me. Haven't found a specific cause...

Just got the same issue
Today got mine not turning on.
Managed to turn it on by holding volume up and power button together for about 30 seconds while phone was on a stock charger. After that I saw blinking orange led. When I resolved buttons there was a battery pictogram. After pressing and holding power button I finally got turning on vibration and Google logo.
The only things a made after the charging were making few photos of my cat (from the lock screen) viewing them in gallery. Then I locked the screen and put the phone on a shelf. In a hour I was not able to turn it on.
My phone has stock rom and only few third party apps installed.
I got muy Nexus 4 on 21-Dec-2012. 4 days ago I flashed to Android 4.2.2 which phone dowloaded itself. After flashing phone was rebooted.
What I noticed is that it shows 70% battery. But It was fully charged few hours ago.
30% in 2 hours! In my opinion some service/app drained these 30% by using 100% of processing power that caused overheating and/or hanging.

I too have just had this problem. And I've had it previously when making calls, the screen simply won't respond at all, its quite annoying.
This morning my alarm went off and the screen wouldn't turn on, it went on for so long I almost threw the phone across the room. I eventually held the power button and volume down/up button and then the led blinked orange a few times and the phone reset, now it seems fine.
Its a very annoying problem, and could be very serious depending on what you are doing, might have to phone the play store and tell them.

Money2g said:
Hey everyone, Im having a problem thats making me worry. I was using my phone today and for some reason the phone wont turn on after I turned it off. I havent dropped the phone at all and it hasnt been abused in any way. The last thing I was doing before I turned it off was trying to send feedback for the Yahoo Mail app because it wouldnt sync automatically, but even that was unsuccessful because it wouldnt send. So I thought I should just reboot it but afterwards its not turning on at all.
I tried holding the power button for at least 20 seconds and still nothing is happening, and I tried plugging in the power cord to see if that would help but it hasnt. Has anyone gone through a similar issue? Please Help
Thanks.
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This has happened to me twice now. First time was a month ago and the second time was this morning. Phone was at 100% just woke up checked my messages turned off phone 10 min later it will not turn on. Un plugged cord re plugged cord nothing finally pressed up/down vol and power for about a minute (long minute) and the phone rebooted. YIKES!
Every thing seems normal now but I hate that scare and the fact that it has happened to me twice. Full Stock, not rooted.

zz_zz_ said:
Today got mine not turning on.
Managed to turn it on by holding volume up and power button together for about 30 seconds while phone was on a stock charger. After that I saw blinking orange led. When I resolved buttons there was a battery pictogram. After pressing and holding power button I finally got turning on vibration and Google logo.
The only things a made after the charging were making few photos of my cat (from the lock screen) viewing them in gallery. Then I locked the screen and put the phone on a shelf. In a hour I was not able to turn it on.
My phone has stock rom and only few third party apps installed.
I got muy Nexus 4 on 21-Dec-2012. 4 days ago I flashed to Android 4.2.2 which phone dowloaded itself. After flashing phone was rebooted.
What I noticed is that it shows 70% battery. But It was fully charged few hours ago.
30% in 2 hours! In my opinion some service/app drained these 30% by using 100% of processing power that caused overheating and/or hanging.
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Happened second time.
I was able to turn it on again by following the same steps. But this time I got some strange issue: after resolving vol+ and power buttons I saw battery pictogram with some frame with a blue background; when phone finally booted up this frame and blue background were visible through the my desktop background an screen itself was much lighter with pure colors. Only after about 5 soft resets screen seems to became nice again. Each reboot caused blue frame to become less visible. I'm confused and worried.
Also during all these reboots this frame with blue background was visible even in behind "Google" and "X" logos during booting up.
Another strange thing is that on screenshots I made this frame is not visible.

That would have to do with LCD or software..
As the battery & Google are just pictures that change. If you understand what in saying lol ?
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nexus 4 won't turn on. stock

having had my phone for about a week so far. been having great experience with it. then BAM! The phone just won't turn on anymore. looks like its completely dead. i mean literally dead. no led light flashing. holding down power button doesnt work either. what should I do now? contact google? is it a defect phone? There was no rooting no flashing. phone is completely stock. and no physical damage at all.
waited 2 month for something like this. I am really helpless and disappointed!

For how long did you hold down the power button?
I had the same issue with the nexus 7 and I fixed it by holding down the power button for 30 seconds or more...

Use an AC power socket and leave it charge for hours. Then try again. Then RMA is its still not coming on.

Blink191 said:
For how long did you hold down the power button?
I had the same issue with the nexus 7 and I fixed it by holding down the power button for 30 seconds or more...
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Use an AC power socket and leave it charge for hours. Then try again. Then RMA is its still not coming on.
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thanks guys. I managed to turn it back on. but what could have triggered this shutdown? there was no notification whatsoever. if the battery dies there should have been a notification or something right? could there be anything wrong with the phone?

Haswell said:
thanks guys. I managed to turn it back on. but what could have triggered this shutdown? there was no notification whatsoever. if the battery dies there should have been a notification or something right? could there be anything wrong with the phone?
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I had a similar issue with mine about two weeks ago and again twice today. 2 weeks ago and today, the phone was on the charger and seemed to go into a deep freeze. My alarms didn't go off as scheduled, and I was only able to turn the phone back on with a very long pressing of the power button. Then just a few minutes ago, I noticed my phone was unresponsive and had to do the same thing.
The phone is not rooted, and the battery was not dead during any of these episodes. In fact, it was on the charger overnight the first two times.
I'll probably call customer support tomorrow.

jaxonmills said:
I had a similar issue with mine about two weeks ago and again twice today. 2 weeks ago and today, the phone was on the charger and seemed to go into a deep freeze. My alarms didn't go off as scheduled, and I was only able to turn the phone back on with a very long pressing of the power button. Then just a few minutes ago, I noticed my phone was unresponsive and had to do the same thing.
The phone is not rooted, and the battery was not dead during any of these episodes. In fact, it was on the charger overnight the first two times.
I'll probably call customer support tomorrow.
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I just got mine yesterday, got it all setup. awesome. Put it on the charger overnight, with an alarm set....woke up just before my alarm to a phone in deep freeze...long power press (over 30sec) and then tried to turn on regular, and it worked fine.
Is this a defect, or just quirk..

This happens to my phone too but once. My nexus 7 keeps on doing it randomly.. But I had to hold my power button pass a minute..
Sent from my Nexus 4

Blink191 said:
For how long did you hold down the power button?
I had the same issue with the nexus 7 and I fixed it by holding down the power button for 30 seconds or more...
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thanks man :good: the 30 seconds power button also worked for me i also have this problem but the difference is that my phone freezes after i played a newely installed game .. it happened twice in a row now and can somebody give me a solution for this ?

xperiafanatic said:
thanks man :good: the 30 seconds power button also worked for me i also have this problem but the difference is that my phone freezes after i played a newely installed game .. it happened twice in a row now and can somebody give me a solution for this ?
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I haven't seen this... I haven't tried games yet on nexus 4, but on my Evo LTE it got quite warm with games... maybe wait till it's cooled down and try again. What game is it...maybe it's poorly programmed and uninstalling would help most...

snick8467 said:
I haven't seen this... I haven't tried games yet on nexus 4, but on my Evo LTE it got quite warm with games... maybe wait till it's cooled down and try again. What game is it...maybe it's poorly programmed and uninstalling would help most...
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yes at first the newely installed games like muffin knight and other umpopular games... but now even my game blood and glory(whos i installed from the first day i had my n4) also causes freeze in my phone .. it happened to me 4x now and i really dont know what to do ... maybe its already a hardqare failure since my b and g caused freeze ..

Volume UP + Power button for less then 5 seconds solved the problem for me.