I dropped my Tab 10.1 today. Only about 2 feet. It was in a case. Getting out of my car, it hit the asphalt. There's absolutely no visible damage whatsoever. Not a scratch.
But now it won't turn on. This was only a short time after having it plugged in all night, so the battery should be fully charged.
Any suggestions? Am I toast? Should I send it in for repair?
You try the volume down and power?
Drop it again and see if it fixes itself.... Haha only kidding ;-)
Keep the power button down for about 15 seconds and see if you get any life, if that's a no go, it's unlikely, but possible, that a flex ribbon has come undone inside, the fix for that is, open it up and re-insert it.
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Have you tryed pluging it on the AC to see if it powers up?
Thanks for all the suggestions. Turns out, about an hour later, I pressed the power button and it now works. Odd, but it's been working ever since.
it's like the doctor, it got into an healing coma!
Now, try to kill it to see if it regenerate into another tab!!
TabGuy said:
Thanks for all the suggestions. Turns out, about an hour later, I pressed the power button and it now works. Odd, but it's been working ever since.
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Probably the bits were thrown into chaos. ;-)
If it happens again it would most likely mean some of the cables inside is a bit loose, if you are a bit handy you can open it yourself and check. But for now just be happy it's working again..
TabGuy said:
I dropped my Tab 10.1 today. Only about 2 feet. It was in a case. Getting out of my car, it hit the asphalt. There's absolutely no visible damage whatsoever. Not a scratch.
But now it won't turn on. This was only a short time after having it plugged in all night, so the battery should be fully charged.
Any suggestions? Am I toast? Should I send it in for repair?
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Probably it fell in the sweet spot lol
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Installed CM7 on the EVO 4G three days ago and everything has been working fine. Until today when I went to turn my phone on, nothing happened. It vibrated like normal when its booting up, but nothing came up on the screen. Since then, nothing is happening at all. No charging light when plugged in, no sounds, no vibrations, nothing on the screen, not showing up on computer.
What do I try to get this thing to respond?
Did I cause this or is this a hardware problem that just happened to be about the same time I rooted this thing?
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Installed CM7 on the EVO 4G three days ago and everything has been working fine. Until today when I went to turn my phone on, nothing happened. It vibrated like normal when its booting up, but nothing came up on the screen. Since then, nothing is happening at all. No charging light when plugged in, no sounds, no vibrations, nothing on the screen, not showing up on computer.
What do I try to get this thing to respond?
Did I cause this or is this a hardware problem that just happened to be about the same time I rooted this thing?
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What method of rooting did you do? You try a battery pull and hold the power button down for 15 secs with the battery out and try to boot it.
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What method of rooting did you do? You try a battery pull and hold the power button down for 15 secs with the battery out and try to boot it.
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A bricked phone will have a red triangle looking thing that won't go away lol. One that doesn't respond is usally spanked silly lol. Tho there may still be hope your's isn't try the pull method on batt.
I pulled the battery, held power button and volume down while plugged into wall, no response. Should I leave it unplugged and not try the volume button with it?
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I pulled the battery, held power button and volume down while plugged into wall, no response. Should I leave it unplugged and not try the volume button with it?
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Try it without being plugged in and with battery out just hold power button down. Usally clears some big issues. If it doesn't work then it could be spanked. Bad unit.
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I pulled the battery, held power button and volume down while plugged into wall, no response. Should I leave it unplugged and not try the volume button with it?
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Do you have an extra battery to try out, or temporarily borrow from a friend? Are you sure your battery was charged up, and it didn't die? It sounds odd that it just did that out of the blue. I'd be suspicious of.a dead battery. They can die to the point that they will not take a charge, and they're totally dead.
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Do you have an extra battery to try out, or temporarily borrow from a friend? Are you sure your battery was charged up, and it didn't die? It sounds odd that it just did that out of the blue. I'd be suspicious of.a dead battery. They can die to the point that they will not take a charge, and they're totally dead.
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That's true lol SBC kernels can spank battery quicker. Id try new battery if it's not it then Id swap it out at sprint.
I do not have another battery to test with, I will have to go to a sprint store to do that. I dont have the unit with me to test tonight, but I will take these suggestions home with me. Thanks guys. Lets hope I didn't brick my girlfriends two week old EVO. She loved the Cyanogenmod that I put on there.
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I do not have another battery to test with, I will have to go to a sprint store to do that. I dont have the unit with me to test tonight, but I will take these suggestions home with me. Thanks guys. Lets hope I didn't brick my girlfriends two week old EVO. She loved the Cyanogenmod that I put on there.
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So what kernel were u running?
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Hey guys, my LCD broke, It was a AMOLED not SLCD, I bought this piece off ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/260900702599?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
I put everything back for the second time now, first of all the device doesn't come on, but when I plug the AC power it shows charging light.
I'm pretty sure my old screen is AMOLED..
I made sure all the connectors where tight on the board. any help?
It wont power on, did I break something?
I'm pretty screwed guys, been at it for like 5 hours I'm done for tonight
Here is what I've conluded. I detached the digitizer from the lcd I made a mistake and removed the factory "tape"
Is and in the process the little power button came off.
So what are my chances now?
Can the digitizer be taped back to the lcd? or Do I need to get a new digitizer which includes an LCD? so as to preserve the factory tape?
As far as the power button goes, I'm not talking about the plastic bit, I'm talking about the actual button underneath. It seemed to be holding on my a little thread anything. Is that "thread" a connector or the button functions fine without it?
I put iit back and sealed the phone up, it seems to be pressing. But of course the phone wont still come on :/
Have you tried the "jump start" method for people with broken power buttons? ie, plug the phone into the wall with the battery out and insert the battery. It might take a few insertions for it to work.
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Have you tried the "jump start" method for people with broken power buttons? ie, plug the phone into the wall with the battery out and insert the battery. It might take a few insertions for it to work.
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How many seconds? It didn't work :/, the charging light just comes back on.
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How many seconds? It didn't work :/, the charging light just comes back on.
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Might have to give it a few tries. Like up to 10.
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Have you tried the "jump start" method for people with broken power buttons? ie, plug the phone into the wall with the battery out and insert the battery. It might take a few insertions for it to work.
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this happened to me last weekend when i replaced my trackball. my power button gave out.
That cable is a major issue with our N1s. You can order a replacement on ebay (or other sites) for usually around $40. It is called the flex cable.
The jumpstart method should work assuming nothing else is screwed up. But it isn't an exact science. Usually if you have your charging cable plugged in, you pull out the battery and put it back in, the phone will vibrate after a few seconds and start booting. If it doesn't, pull the battery out and try again.
Before I owned the Note, I owned a S2.
I was impressed by the fact that it is the smoothest Android phone on the planet at that time.
But one day, I was using my computer to do some stuff.
The phone was just beside me.
I noticed the phone's battery is going to kapoot.
I even seen it going to sleep.
Too busy, I didn't notice the phone actually died.
When I was about to use my phone, it wouldn't wake up.
I tried every single method to turn on the device, but it wouldn't work.
I even put my friend's S2 battery, but it wouldn't turn on at all.
Left it for a week in the charger but to no avail.
So in the end, I sold my DEAD S2, and bought a Note.
And yesterday, I left my Note to charge.
This morning, I tried to wake it up, it wouldn't turn on.
But miraculously after removing the battery for five minutes
then putting it back, it turned on.
So yeah I almost swore I wouldn't buy another Samsung.
I'm still in Samsung camp and in love with my Note.
PLEASE DON'T FAIL ME AGAIN.
That's my story, thank you.
Cool story bro
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Livewings said:
Before I owned the Note, I owned a S2.
I was impressed by the fact that it is the smoothest Android phone on the planet at that time.
But one day, I was using my computer to do some stuff.
The phone was just beside me.
I noticed the phone's battery is going to kapoot.
I even seen it going to sleep.
Too busy, I didn't notice the phone actually died.
When I was about to use my phone, it wouldn't wake up.
I tried every single method to turn on the device, but it wouldn't work.
I even put my friend's S2 battery, but it wouldn't turn on at all.
Left it for a week in the charger but to no avail.
So in the end, I sold my DEAD S2, and bought a Note.
And yesterday, I left my Note to charge.
This morning, I tried to wake it up, it wouldn't turn on.
But miraculously after removing the battery for five minutes
then putting it back, it turned on.
So yeah I almost swore I wouldn't buy another Samsung.
I'm still in Samsung camp and in love with my Note.
PLEASE DON'T FAIL ME AGAIN.
That's my story, thank you.
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I experienced the same thing with your S2 but on my Note. I ended up with having a DEAD Note. I sent it back to the service center for repair and hopefully for replacement since it still has warranty. I had to admit, I haven't tried to remove the battery on my Note for five minutes before putting it back in.
Please see my posts in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1406849
Check out this thread: My phone suddenly shut down I think your phone may not have died, but the screen just wouldn't turn on. A kind of coma-like thing, rather than a sleep of death. It's been happening to a few of us and seems to be benign, so far. It's happened to me just 4 times in 2 months. One of the times I was able to get the screen to turn back on when pushing the home, power, and volume buttons randomly. A battery pull always works, but rebooting by holding the power button for 10 seconds also works.
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Check out this thread: My phone suddenly shut down I think your phone may not have died, but the screen just wouldn't turn on. A kind of coma-like thing, rather than a sleep of death. It's been happening to a few of us and seems to be benign, so far. It's happened to me just 4 times in 2 months. One of the times I was able to get the screen to turn back on when pushing the home, power, and volume buttons randomly. A battery pull always works, but rebooting by holding the power button for 10 seconds also works.
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As I mentioned in the other thread, I did every button combination even after a battery pull. I even tried to use a different battery altogether but to no avail. I'm just curious, how long did you have to wait before you put the battery back into the phone after pulling it out?
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Check out this thread: My phone suddenly shut down I think your phone may not have died, but the screen just wouldn't turn on. A kind of coma-like thing, rather than a sleep of death. It's been happening to a few of us and seems to be benign, so far. It's happened to me just 4 times in 2 months. One of the times I was able to get the screen to turn back on when pushing the home, power, and volume buttons randomly. A battery pull always works, but rebooting by holding the power button for 10 seconds also works.
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I'm very sure it's not a coma. It's permanently dead. Used a JIG, it wouldn't turn on either. Left it charging for a week without removing, wouldn't turn on. But if my S2 didn't die, I wouldn't be owning a Note now.
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As I mentioned in the other thread, I did every button combination even after a battery pull. I even tried to use a different battery altogether but to no avail. I'm just curious, how long did you have to wait before you put the battery back into the phone after pulling it out?
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Not to forget, I even did the holy three be-jesus button but nothing appeared.
Well you know what they say, either they have the same disease or the same doctor!! .
On a more serious note though, I'm happy everything ended well.
Maybe there is some power spikes at your end? Having both phones the same problem seems too much against the odds.
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Maybe there is some power spikes at your end? Having both phones the same problem seems too much against the odds.
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No one has the same problem with me? Power spike seems too much to be the cause.
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.
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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
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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
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Whew. This just happened to me and the 30 second press worked perfectly. Thanks giys !
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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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tweaked said:
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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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 ?
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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 ?
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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...
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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...
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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.