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[Verizon] VZW Gnex will not stop rebooting

schleppy

schleppy

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My Verizon Galaxy Nexus has been flawless since the day I bought it (launch day). This morning I woke up, grabbed my phone, and did an update to Feedly. Phone rebooted. Odd, maybe there is a bug in Feedly. I eventually got the phone to boot and uninstalled Feedly. Didn't make a difference, phone kept rebooting (running an older 4.1.2 Jelly Belly ROM at this point).

I tried the usual cache clearing, permissions repairing, etc. Nothing made a difference the phone wouldn't stay on for more than a minute before rebooting. I also tried two different OEM batteries, and two aftermarket. No difference.

At this point I thought I'd try a new ROM. No matter what I tried I could not copy anything to the SD card. Tried two different machines, ADB, Wugs Kit, etc. Nothing would copy it. It would error out about half way through xfer (yes, I tried different USB cables, no difference)

Eventually I decided to just flash the phone back to stock using the latest Google 4.2.2 image. Even after returning it to 100% stock (locked bootloaded and all), the phone would keep rebooting.

I'm at a loss here. This really seems like there is a serious hardware issue in the phone.

Any ideas? I'm pretty sure I have Asurion, so I may see if I can get this swapped out.

Thanks all!
 
Hey there,

Really sounds like it is hardware, especially because it is still happening on stock. I'd get the thing replaced. Sorry, wish I had better news.
 
Yeah, it sounds like the phone is toast. I was hoping someone may have experienced this before, but it sounds like it's done.

Thanks anyway!
 
Yeah man,

I actually had a issues with my GNex back when Jelly Bean came out. Somehow my SD got corrupted and I was getting bootloops. However, upon restore to factory settings the phone booted just fine.

If you can get into recovery, which it sounds like you may be able to, try doing an adb pull of the contents of your SD so you at least have all your files backed up before you get a replacement.

Let us know if you need help with that. If so, please specify if you are on Windows, OSX or a Linux distro.

Good luck!

jmar
 
Sadly I didn't think to pull the SD contents whilst in recovery. Thankfully I didn't have much on there. I appreciate the advice though!

I found out today that I had the extended warranty, and Verizon is overnighting me a new one now. Hopefully that one holds up until the next Verizon Nexus device comes!
 
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