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This has been happening to me more and more lately.
In the morning I grab my Iconia and take it off charge and the device freezes on the lock screen. I have to hold down the power button to turn it off and then turn it on again. It's happened 3 of the last 4 days. It never happened before the OTA update either. Sometimes it freezes with the screen on and when I next go to use it the battery has taken a hit. Today it froze but if I pressed the power button it asked if i wanted to shut down, but the touchscreen was unresponsive. Is anyone else getting this?
This has happened to me a lot, too. I have rooted the device and changed the wpa_supplicant file, but that is all. I'm considering returning it because my first experience with android is proving to be a major disappoitment.
just letting you know that this bug has nothing to do with you plug/unplug the charger...etc
it happened when the device is left in standby for a long time...
only some reported it... some do not have this bug...etc ( with so many different build # out there... can't really troubleshoot since people are allover the map with different build # )
things might iron out with new updates...etc
one of the "workaround" I heard/read was to disable the screen lock/password ...etc
worth a shot
Having this issue myself. I feel it's also just coincidence with the charging, it's likely just after the device being in stand by for so long.
Some times it'll turn on for a minute, then if I don't touch the screen for about 30 seconds it freezes and won't respond.
This issue didn't start until after the update.
This happens to me too
In fact every morning now since the update.
I plug it in when i go to sleep and in the morning i unplug it, unlock it and open an app and it freezes. Today i read an email in k9 and then opened tapatalk and it froze.
But i just got that problem in the morning, never had it during the day.
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I've had the same issue since and OTA update at the end of last week. I can't find any consistency in when it does it though.
Ever since the update i had from 1.104 - 1.139.05_com_gen1 if i leave the tablet in standby by the morning it will not wake from sleep.
Not a real issue as i just power down instead of sleep now but an irritation caused by the update.
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Well guys I had the issue before the update when I was on 1.104.05_com_gen1. Now I'm on 1.141.07 issue is still there but a quick reboot fixes it for the day. I would just say give Acer time and hey you have a 1yr mfg. If they don't fix it in the original builds exchange it down the road for a newer one.
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Come'on Acer, this is a issue that should have been fixed before releasing the tablet.
I for one will never buy an Acer again, but hey, we all make mistakes.
For an additional data point
I also have this issue and it happened for me both before and after the OTA update. If this doesn't get fixed soon by Acer, I'm going to be massively pissed off since I'm beyond the time where I can return it
This looks to me pretty similar to the Sleep Of Death problem that plagues a lot of Transformers.
If you leave the tablet go to stand by, and it is not connected to the charger, you may be forced to power off the device (keep power pushed for several seconds to shut it down, then power on again).
I was hoping the Acer didn't show this problem, but it seems it has something to be with honeycomb rather than hardware itself.
On the TF subforum there are lot of ideas: low voltage to keep the CPU working while in suspend seems to be the more appropiate one.
Regards.
This morning it did not hang but it restarted itself.
Unplugged charger, opened facebook app, read a message and bam restart
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This morning no hanging or restarting. At least not yet.
But i didnt charge it over night
This could be a coincidence
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Every couple of days I'll have this problem - I always plug the tablet in to charge overnight and use both Gentle Alarm app followed by an alarm from the standard clock app. I can shut off both alarms with no problems, but when I later pick up the tablet for my morning web stuff, sometimes the tablet freezes on about the 4th or 5th "touch" action after I've unplugged it. Have to turn it off to fix.
Happening more and more frequently for me. Was once a day after update but happening every few hours now. Does not matter if its on charge or not.
Love the a500 and will wait before giving up on this but it is becoming a pain as reboot takes a little while.
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Mine happens on the unplug. How do I know? The screen time is when I unplugged it, it will just stay that way forever, unless I reboot it.
Any luck on finding a solution for this issue.
Hey guys,
My Transformer took it's second "sleep of death" early Saturday and it is still in its "coma" state.
It won't turn on or respond to any buttons. Should I contact ASUS about this problem? Any tips on bringing it back to life?
Thanks
Don't have one, but everybody does the same: keep power pressed for several seconds, so the tablet will power off, then power it on again.
Check this forum and the development one, and you will see several threads for the SOD problem. You can turn it on again, but it seems that, right now, there is no failproof method for keeping the tablet to lock while in standby. Well, it seems it doesn't happen if you have the tablet plugged to the charger while in stand by.
Anyway, as I told you, check other posts to see what the people are trying / suffering.
Regards.
If you have it in the keyboard dock I would remove it. Then press the power button in for several seconds.
Did it do that overnight whilst docked? Mine did that There is a known issue with the dock discharging overnight when connected to the tablet. I think Asus are working on a firmware fix for that.
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If you have it in the keyboard dock I would remove it. Then press the power button in for several seconds.
Did it do that overnight whilst docked? Mine did that There is a known issue with the dock discharging overnight when connected to the tablet. I think Asus are working on a firmware fix for that.
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No I don't have the keyboard.
It has happened twice to me and it's always after charging the device (so far).
I woke it up earlier tonight. It charged fully on Saturday, and was completely dead today. This is probably not too good of an issue...
Only true lives kiss can wake the sleeping transformer from it's unnatural slumber.
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No I don't have the keyboard.
It has happened twice to me and it's always after charging the device (so far).
I woke it up earlier tonight. It charged fully on Saturday, and was completely dead today. This is probably not too good of an issue...
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did you ever succeed to wake it up? if yes how? whatever i did didn't work....
My original generation Tablet updated to ICS yesterday morning. The unit is 100% stock, no rooting, etc. ICS seemed to work well, and I used it a few times with no issue, but this morning I put it into sleep mode for about 2 hours and now it refuses to do anything but flash the ee Pad opening screen up over and over. I tried removing the microSD card, pushing the power button for >30 seconds, plugging it into the AC adapter, attaching it to the fully charged dock, plugging the dock into power - nothing works. The only problem I've ever had with the unit was the power button breaking at the start, which was repaired after being RMA'd to Asus. This may just be a coincidence but I'm wondering if anyone else has had this happen? Also, any ideas on what else I could possibly try before calling Asus and getting an RMA? This is getting to be a bit insane. I have multiple other gadgets including a NookColor, iPad, Acer W500, etc. and I have never had a piece of electrical equipment give me as much problem as this Asus. Hopefully this is just a lemon and not an indication of their general build quality!
I have the same problem. Stock version.
add me to the list!
completely stock. updated successfully to ICS yesterday.
it booted ok this morning but then i got a forced-reboot in opera -- while viewing this forum, ironically -- and since then no boot. it stays stuck on the EeePad splash loading screen.
i've tried docking it, charging it, booting while plugged-in etc. nothing works.
where to now? can i force a factory reset using some key combination?
EDIT: SUCCESS! phew! i finally got it to boot by holding the power button in for 10s on the stuck splash screen. the battery on the TF was very low (it seemed to discharge very fast last night on standby --wifi off -- that's another issue) so perhaps that was it (strange though as it's docked, and the dock is fully-charged). i'm going to do a factory reset today and re-install everything.
Same problem in my transformer
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We are hosed. At this point I have to believe that it is the update, although I guess it is possible that it is an interaction between ICS and some app that the other posters and I have.. I don't have anything unusual on it though, just the Asus stuff, one note, netflix, pandora, that type of stuff. I called the wonderful Asus support number which basically had me do what I had done before, plus trying the reset (small pin hole next to the hdmi out) three times - no help again. I also tried to see if my laptop would see it - no go. Now it's RMA time once again. This probably isn't the time for it but if someone wants to buy a 32gb 40 series Transformer with dock and case nows the time to make me an offer. As soon as I get it back this puppy is going onto eBay. It may just be a lemon, bad luck etc. but having to RMA an item twice that barely gets any use has just turned me off Asus. By the way, the power was about 60% when it went into sleep mode and it just stayed on sleep for about 2-3 hours, so if the battery drain is that huge in sleep mode there's a massive problem.
Same problem here after a few hours of sleep. Asus logo flashing on and off. Power and vol down til reboot worked. Battery really took a hit.
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We are hosed. At this point I have to believe that it is the update, although I guess it is possible that it is an interaction between ICS and some app that the other posters and I have.. I don't have anything unusual on it though, just the Asus stuff, one note, netflix, pandora, that type of stuff. I called the wonderful Asus support number which basically had me do what I had done before, plus trying the reset (small pin hole next to the hdmi out) three times - no help again. I also tried to see if my laptop would see it - no go. Now it's RMA time once again. This probably isn't the time for it but if someone wants to buy a 32gb 40 series Transformer with dock and case nows the time to make me an offer. As soon as I get it back this puppy is going onto eBay. It may just be a lemon, bad luck etc. but having to RMA an item twice that barely gets any use has just turned me off Asus. By the way, the power was about 60% when it went into sleep mode and it just stayed on sleep for about 2-3 hours, so if the battery drain is that huge in sleep mode there's a massive problem.
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That's not a reset switch... that hole is for the microphone.
That's hilarious! That's what the "service rep" told me it was and he had me push in there 3 times - even though I couldn't feel any "switch" in there! Now on top of a dead unit (after the power died it simply won't respond even though I recharged it in the hopes that it would start up again) the mike is probably busted. No big deal, the RMA is already set up, but this thing is spending more time at the Texas repair center than it is being used!
Before you RMA give this a try.
Go to the Asus download site ( http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/#download ) and download the latest firmware (8.6.5.21) for your region(WW US TW ). If you dont see your country there it is probably WW.
Take this file and unzip it on your computer.
Copy the ASUS directory to a Microsd card
Take the file in the /asus/update folder and copy it to the root directory of your microsd
Rename the file(update launcher) in the root of your microsd to EP101_SDUPDATE
insert microsd to tab and reboot to recovery (power and volume down wait till you see words in the top left corner and press volume up)
Give this a try. maybe it will help get you back working ( athough it will be in honeycomb)
you can then try to update again( if you want)
Sorry if i double posted (browser is a little wierd still)
It's. The One Note app. MS is trying to sabotage. Hahaha
Updated yesterday, used it pretty much all day. Woke up this morning.. bricked. fml
Same boat
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Updated yesterday, used it pretty much all day. Woke up this morning.. bricked. fml
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Did you get it to boot? I'm in the same boat updated to ICS, all stock. Used it till drained and the screen hasn't woken up since. Recognized in both ADB and APX modes. It's been sitting pretty on the charger for more than 24hrs and tried all possible power button combinations..
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Did you get it to boot? I'm in the same boat updated to ICS, all stock. Used it till drained and the screen hasn't woken up since. Recognized in both ADB and APX modes. It's been sitting pretty on the charger for more than 24hrs and tried all possible power button combinations..
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nope I sent it in for repair.
Just a quick update. When I got my Transformer back from RMA they had wiped out everything, put in a "factory fresh" ICS and it appeared to be working - since I was at work I did nothing whatsoever with it except make sure it could connect to wifi, I did not enter my google account, install any apps, etc. - totally stock system. I noticed that the power level was at 75%. I turned it off totally (not sleep). When I got home four hours later I tried to turn it on - dead. Tried all the usual stuff, plugging it in to the AC adaptor, power for 10, power for 30, power and volume down - zilch. Called Asus rep. and RMA's it AGAIN. I carefully included a long letter explaining that if they simply wiped and replaced it again could they please turn the thing off, leave it for an hour and try to turn it back on. Apparently no one in Texas reads these things, since I got an email from an Asus rep. saying they had found nothing wrong with it. I told him what was going on and he said he would pass it on to the repair center. That was over a week ago and it is still "in repair" so who knows what's going on. I've purchased a Samsung Tab and don't really care what happens with the Transformer (no offense, I know that many of you have been lucky with yours but mine has been so unrealiable that I no longer trust it for anything besides games) but I am curious as to what's going on here. Most units seem to just have random reboots or other problems, but can always be rebooted. A few like the ones on these threads however, seem to totally die.
Been on ICS from day one with no real issues. Last night the tablet had been on battery for a couple of days it had about 75% left. I was checking it to my Galaxy 10.1 and trying to figure why once in a while they woke to the lock screen for no reason. I check the TF as my son said he was unable to view youtube videos and found it working fine then I a game he had loaded and I put it to sleep. I woke this morning and the TF was dead. I tried to reboot but no go. I plugged it in and after a couple of minute it I was able to turn it on. Once on I unplugged and saw the battery had completely drained and the TF immidiately turned off. So I plugged it in again and its presently charging. Any clues?
Thats just the normal RR/SOD, which often causes the TF to get stuck in a bootloop, draining the battery.
Welcome to ICS.
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Thats just the normal RR/SOD, which often causes the TF to get stuck in a bootloop, draining the battery.
Welcome to ICS.
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Any way to fix that bootloop problem? It is intermittent for me when this happens however mine hasn't fully bricked (thank god)
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Any way to fix that bootloop problem?
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Yes, go back to Honeycomb
just got the email that theyre fedexing it back to me.. hopefully it wont brick again. i wish theyd include what the hell happened..
Wish you the best. After I told them what happened they've been "repairing" the unit for about 2 weeks - whereas the last time they had it in "repair" for a day before they sent it back. I think that a quick "repair" means that they reflash the unit, which in my case promptly rebricked the first time it was shut down. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
HELP,
yesterday, I was using my nexus 7 for normal use, wasn't playing game, just browsing with chrome. the battery was 8 percent when I last saw it. I then proceed to charge it, but the thing suddenly just shut down itself. I thought I misread the battery percentage, so I charge it anyway. about an hour later, i checked on my nexus 7, turn it on, got to the boot screen, got to the home screen, use it for about 15 minutes, and suddenly, the screen black out, it was flickering like crazy, and making some white noise ish sound. I panicked so I hold down the power button and turn it off. I turn it on again, and after about 30 seconds, the same thing happened again. I was using motley's kernel with 520 GPU, and I thought, maybe my nexus 7 cant handle the GPU OC. So I went to recovery, tried playing with recovery for about a minute or so, but the screen didn't flicker at all on the recovery. So I flashed the 484 GPU version of motley's kernel. When I reboot to system, the same thing happened again. So I thought, maybe if I restore to my old backup, it would not be like this any more. so I wipe the data, dalvik, and cache, and I restore my old backup. But the same thing happened again, only this time, after I turn it off, it make a high pitched sound.
I waited for about 6 hours, and now when I turn my nexus 7 on again, it works normally.
So, what has happened to my nexus 7?
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I'd say it is the overclock. Graphic cards do some weird stuff when overclocked. You can burn up your GPU doing that and cause it to forever freak out. I always shied away from GPU overclocks.
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would that cause any permanent damage?
keni.mardira said:
would that cause any permanent damage?
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It should be ok if you reflash back to stock rom to make all the hardware back to reset mode. A warning always given when we try to flash rom with oc created.
i also experienced this one, also received a battery warning and then suddenly screen went blank. then same weird thing happened as the one above. I'm on paranoid android rom and i'm quite sure it's not overclocked or something. Was only able to get back to normal by holding the power button for around 15-20 seconds...
Happens to me
This will happen to me a lot when my nexus 7s battery dies, I plug the tablet in and then immediately try to start it up. It will work for around 30 seconds then look like an old TV without a signal. I am on stock everything, no rooting or custom Roms (yet). I always thought it had something to do with battery calibration being off and the tablet not having enough power to run, because it always works fine when I charge it before attempting to boot.
I have also noticed that every once in a while the screen will have a vertical line of pixels flicker.
Same thing happened to me yesterday...
I got the "low battery" warning and after some time the screen started flickering in many colors and there was a weird static noise.
I pushed the on/off button, but it wouldn't turn on again. After a few minutes of charging, I could turn it on again.
This isn't normal behaviour, is it? Shouldn't the N7 perform a regular shut-down when the battery has no juice left?
I'm on the rooted stock rom btw.
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This will happen to me a lot when my nexus 7s battery dies, I plug the tablet in and then immediately try to start it up. It will work for around 30 seconds then look like an old TV without a signal. I am on stock everything, no rooting or custom Roms (yet). I always thought it had something to do with battery calibration being off and the tablet not having enough power to run, because it always works fine when I charge it before attempting to boot.
I have also noticed that every once in a while the screen will have a vertical line of pixels flicker.
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+1 bro. I am having the same problem. what do we need to do ? it is same with all nexus 7's . should we claim the warranty or just neglect it ? wat say ?
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+1 bro. I am having the same problem. what do we need to do ? it is same with all nexus 7's . should we claim the warranty or just neglect it ? wat say ?
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I faced the same problem. I dont know when the battery might have drained out, but on starting the tab on low battery, it suddenly started showing black screen with little grains and suddenly stopped with a noise. I charged, started the tab again while charging, and the battery reading stuck at 21% even after charging for 20 mins. Within 5 mins, it happened again. Now after 35 mins of charging, I start it again, it boots normal, and now its reading the battery percentage in an incremental value (started with 22%) and now its again stuck at 23%
Is this a HW related issue? Or do you think it is more of SW related issue? If it is more towards the HW side, we better have it replaced. Mine is C70 model.
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just happened to me... it may have run out of juice... didn't turn on when I tried, so I guess it did... then I put it on the charger, tried booting it, went away for a sec and when I came back I also got this black screen with some flicker and a static noise...
will now try to charge it over night before trying again...
Nexus 7/Google problems
I received my Nexus 7 on Aug 21 after hearing the rave reviews. It didn't come with app for a camera, so I downloaded one.
The camera didn't work. I re-booted it & it worked this time. Downloaded Skype - whole reason for getting the tablet - to stay in touch with family that is far away. Tried to Skype - camera wouldn't work. Rebooted - worked this time again (getting tired of having to reboot for something I want to use to work). On Sept 2, sent message to Google inquiring about camera & app I downloaded. Only response - "thank you for contacting...blah, blah, blah - check out Q&A." All along, the tablet would shut itself down & reboot randomly (battery fully charged sometimes). On Sept 13, I shut it down & charged it. After a full charge, I tried to power it back on. Tried again several times that night & then the next morning. Called Google (who I bought it from). Told them I didn't want a piece of junk that wouldn't work. He told me it was past my remorse period. (The only remorse I have is buying their piece of crap instead of a reputable one.) I finally did get it to come back on, but camera hasn’t work since even after a complete factory reset. Any way – in order to get this one fixed, I have to “buy” a new one, then send back the old one & be reimbursed. Is this a legitimate business practice?
hi,
since today i have the same issue. did nothing special, just swichting from g currents to chrome. stock rom, no modifications, not rooted, everything original
n7 suddenly had a black screen(battery was at 28%). nothing worked, no powerswitch(10-30 secs). when connected to original power supply and cable, it boots up.. google logo .. glowing X.. lockscreen. then, approx. 30 sec later it turns off again(screen black). usb cable still connected. after some time it comes up again.. and repeats the procedure. after some cycles it stops, and when i reconnect the usb calbe it starts over again. sometimes, before it turns black, it shows a flickering screen and sometimes fizzling sound.
any suggestions?
I had this same issue right after the 4.2 ota update, after leaving it on charge overnight it seems fine now after a couple of discharge / charge cycles
Its like after the update it was over estimating the battery level
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Same thing!
I have a completely stock Nexus 7, and the EXACT same problems are happening to me too! The first couple of times it happened my tablet would reboot normaly. But now, my tablet won't boot up at all. Any suggestions on what I should do? Also, remember, I have no mods installed.
Happening to me too.My N7 shut itself down because of low battery a couple hours ago and I haven't been able to get it to boot since. When I plug it into the charger it shows a flickering screen like a tv with no signal but with less white flickers. I've tried multiple chargers and cables but I could only get it to boot up a couple times and both times it did not show that it was charging even though it was plugged in and the battery was at 0% so as soon as it boots up it shuts itself down again because of low battery.
So now I've got it on the charger, screen all a'flicker, waiting for it to get a charge but I've got a feeling its not even charging because, like I said, the few times it has booted it showed the battery at 0% and not charging.
I guess I'll try to leave it alone for a while and see if it will start up after being plugged in for a bit.
EDIT: I let it sit there and charge for about an hour or so (with the screen flickering) and I was finally able to get it booted. It said it only had 3% battery but now it seems to be charging as fast as usual.
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EDIT: I let it sit there and charge for about an hour or so (with the screen flickering) and I was finally able to get it booted. It said it only had 3% battery but now it seems to be charging as fast as usual.
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Yup... I've let mine sit there turned off and charging over night... helped!
Just had a problem with the Nexus 7 not charging when battery was likely fully depleted. Putting a charge cable in was automatically booting the Nexus 7 up and wouldn't charge shutting down right after. Loops going on and off. What I did was plug a charge cable in and hold power+both volumes and now I believe I am charging at the bootloader screen. It stays on so I will leave it like this and if it doesn't resolve the issue I will try recovery once it is charged.
I've just started having the same issue. Has happened twice when battery gets to 8%, suddenly jumps to 0, shuts down, then after a few seconds restarts itself. Gets to home screen for a few seconds, battery showing 8, then jumps to zero, switches off and has flickering blocks on screen with static noise. This keeps repeating, only way I have found to solve it is to load into bootloader, then select power off. Device charges normally then and once charged works fine. I am unlocked and rooted but running stock 4.2.1, think I'll just have to return it for a warranty claim.
Based on what you experienced, the lesson here is your device can't handle the GPU over clock of more than 446mhz or it will do some crazy stuff.
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So one morning I woke up to turn on my Nexus 7 (16gb wifi) only as usual and found that the screen put out some random lines or garbled. The kind of stuff you see on a TV without an input. Did a restore of complete stock and still same thing. I then left it there for about 3 days to drain complete battery. When I get to it the next 3 days, before I plug it in to recharge, I held down POWER+VOL DOWN and plug it in. Now it goes into recovery, and I did a POWER OFF, waited few seconds and Power it up to turn on as normal...amazingly the sucka came back to life.
Phew...I thought I have to RMA it.
Thought I throw it out there in case someone has the same issue.
Had this happen exactly to me today while watching Netflix. Had it working fine for 4months. All of a sudden I'm stuck on the glowing X. Every so often after restarting it, I would go into the 'static tv' screen. Still haven't been able to resolve it. Been trying to solve it all day.
Use the search feature. Your problem has been posted about and the solution given repeatedly. Good luck!