Erratic volume issue arises on European Galaxy Nexus Handsets (Update 23/11/11)

The world's first Android 4.0 ICS handset is encountering it's first problems.The XDA Developer forums are exploding with the amount of users complaining about the issue portraying that this is a serious problem for the Samsung made handset. Basically the problem involves the volume control seeming to have a mind of it own, flitting at random between mute, full blast and anything and everything in between! So far the problem has only been reported on handsets using the GSM 900MHz band intensifying as the cellular modem either boosts itself in a low reception area or when switching between 2G and 3G data connections. A user poll on the XDA Developer forums indicates that around 60% of all European Galaxy Nexus devices suffer from this issue.

The video below demonstrates the issue:

Update 23/11/11: Google are officially acknowledging the issue say that "We are aware of the volume issue and have developed a fix. We will update devices as soon as possible." indicating that the problem lies within the ICS code rather than in the Galaxy Nexus hardware.