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The New 7 has been very buggy for me. Got it the first day it came on the market, would randomly reboot. Couple of days later it started to shutoff by itself. G

The New 7 has been very buggy for me. Got it the first day it came on the market, would randomly reboot. Couple of days later it started to shutoff by itself. GPS would not hold a signal and the Screen would randomly flicker... Returned mine after a week. Second one had similar problems so gave up. Looks like I am not the only one: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/mG4JXaT-SHs[1-25-false] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile/mG4JXaT... Disappointed with the quality of a Marquee new product from Google. Hard to believe that they put this thru much quality control.

psbp 13y ago
Same thing happened last year too. I bought mine as soon as it launched on Play and you could already see the screen lift issue within a week, so I returned it. I bought it again a few months later and I got a device that has no issues whatsoever.
- cheapsteak 13y ago
  I wonder if it was a hardware issue or something that can be fixed with an update
what_ever 13y ago
The random shutdown and reboot problems are because of the apps which are not yet updated. I think Netflix was one those apps. The GPS problem seems to be fixable with software update. Apparently the problem arises when two or more apps try to use the GPS.
- georgemcbay 13y ago
  I would argue that if apps can randomly shutdown and reboot the device without even explicitly trying to do so then the OS is at fault, even if it turns out that updates to those apps resolve the problem. This isn't the 1980s or early 90s, consumer OSes (even those on small mobile devices) should not come crashing down because of something an app has done.
  - richardwhiuk 13y ago
    The reason is that some apps use different functionality which can expose deadlocks in the OS. If the OS hits a deadlock, than the watchdog service will reboot the phone to prevent it being locked in a certain state. I'm aware of an example of a reboot exacerbated dramatically by using sticky intents / broadcasts on 4.1.1 - see https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=46806 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=46806

psbp 13y ago

Same thing happened last year too. I bought mine as soon as it launched on Play and you could already see the screen lift issue within a week, so I returned it. I bought it again a few months later and I got a device that has no issues whatsoever.

cheapsteak 13y ago
I wonder if it was a hardware issue or something that can be fixed with an update

what_ever 13y ago

The random shutdown and reboot problems are because of the apps which are not yet updated. I think Netflix was one those apps. The GPS problem seems to be fixable with software update. Apparently the problem arises when two or more apps try to use the GPS.

georgemcbay 13y ago
I would argue that if apps can randomly shutdown and reboot the device without even explicitly trying to do so then the OS is at fault, even if it turns out that updates to those apps resolve the problem. This isn't the 1980s or early 90s, consumer OSes (even those on small mobile devices) should not come crashing down because of something an app has done.
- richardwhiuk 13y ago
  The reason is that some apps use different functionality which can expose deadlocks in the OS. If the OS hits a deadlock, than the watchdog service will reboot the phone to prevent it being locked in a certain state. I'm aware of an example of a reboot exacerbated dramatically by using sticky intents / broadcasts on 4.1.1 - see https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=46806 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=46806