Comments on: User Reports His LG Nexus 4 Randomly Died and Refuses to Turn back On

By: Nishan Bilazarian

Nishan Bilazarian — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:40:00 +0000

My Android Motorola smartphone did the exact same! It was working just fine and I had it all running well when suddenly I woke up one morning late this March to it all of sudden refusing to turn on again with just the start up icon showing but no further! I have tried everything which just doesn’t work. And whats absolutely amazing is to have this happen once. But for me my very previous smartphone (a blackberry) did the same thing completely freezing when I was restarting it. There’s probably nobody else on earth who has had it happen BACK TO BACK TIMES!!

By: Nishan Bilazarian

Nishan Bilazarian — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:40:00 +0000

I never dropped or got water on either of them ever.

By: Dave Jeffery

Dave Jeffery — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0000

This happened to me literally just this morning. Turned itself off and now refuses to turn back on. No amount of button combos work. Stock phone, no root/custom roms, never been dropped or had any liquid damage :(

By: Anis Gandhi

Anis Gandhi — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:41:00 +0000

It just happened to me. No root, no mods, no liquid, no heat, nothing. I’m really careful with my phones. But I’m in India, had the phone sent to me. How do I get Google to replace this thing? Send it back to the US and ask them to replace?? Please help me…

By: Narendra

Narendra — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:16:00 +0000

I was playing a game on my nexus 4 and suddenly it turned off and did not respond for half an hour. It started radiating heat from the phone, then i surfed on the internet and I pressed the decrease volume button and power button at the same time for 30sec.
Now it gained life again.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:49:00 +0000

My Nexus 4 died a few hours ago, after having it for less than 24 hours.

By: Cinnabar Afar

Cinnabar Afar — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:53:00 +0000

put alcohol into female end of usb mirco cord, and insterted onto male and this fixed problem , gunk on male usb micro

By: dreas

dreas — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:32:00 +0000

I have had then same problem with mine.. It shuts off randomly and I have to hold then pier button for about 10 seconds before it kicks back on.. Never dropped it or wet it.. Love the phone besides this weird problem

By: Nettieo

Nettieo — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:43:00 +0000

Had the same experience yesterday. Driving in the car, playing music via the GrooveMobile app, and suddenly the phone shut down. Battery was at 87%. Tried to reboot, got vibrate indicating reboot was commencing, but nothing on the screen. Phone was “on”, but no display on screen. Back began to heat up. Can’t pull battery, of course, so waited. An hour later I was able to reboot back to normal working order.

By: Geoff Stuart

Geoff Stuart — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0000

Mine has been doing it ever since I first put it on the charger. After charging, there’s a slowly-flashing white light at the bottom and the power switch does not work. Google Play Support, after guessing for a while, took a stab at holding Vol-Down and Power for 30 seconds. The phone starts up but it’s in some Bootloader status with the little green Android robot on his back with his hood up and a bunch of technoid geek-speak on the screen. Then I hit Power again and it powers up. Not good.