Help Galaxy Nexus locking up in use

[Blorg]

I have this phone a bit under two weeks. Towards the end of the first week it locked up once- screen froze, unresponsive, then went black. Had to remove the battery to get it on again. This is now happening more frequently, maybe once a day on average. Generally the screen just freezes but once it froze and took on a jagged, sort of interlaced effect, reminiscent of an LCD cable being loose. So far the freezes have always been while I have actively been using it, it has never frozen in my pocket or overnight. My gut feeling is that it is a hardware issue.

Any suggestions?

 

[Dklas2k]

It's happened to me a couple times as well. Mine was on the frozen black screen when I check it the first thing in the morning. I had to do a battery pull to reset the phone. Another time, my morning alarm went off and when I pushed the "dismiss" button, there was the black frozen screen again. I hope it's just an ICS bug and will be fixed in the next update.

 

[Blorg]

Cool, thank you for that. I would be happier if it is an software bug, rather than a hardware issue... I bought the phone in Thailand and so returns would be a hassle; everything I have heard is that this is an awful place to try to get warranty service. I'll just keep at it for now and hope that it doesn't recur too much.

 

[runamonk]

I've had it happen about four times myself in the couple months I've had mine. It's annoying. Hopefully something that can be fixed with a software update.

 

[s.m.knipe]

I haven't had this issue, and it is possible that it is a hardware/software issue, but I know when I used to always be flashing the latest and greatest ROM back in the G1 days, this would happen and 90% of the time a factory reset would take care of it. Sometimes during the initialization/install of the software, a file doesn't copy right or something and causes a memory leak. Re-initializing (resetting) usually takes care of that.