SQL Query Not Loading No Error phpmyadmin - mysql

Question

I've seen several instances across the web of a people running a SQL query in phpmyadmin and experiencing the loading screen, but it never retrieving information. I'm experiencing a similar issue and have been unable to find any solution.
Here's the query:
SELECT Comments.device_id, Comments.Author, Comments.Ack_type,
Comments.Entry_Time, Comments.Comment_ID, Comments.Comment,
History.datetime, History.device_status, History.status_name
FROM `Comments` LEFT JOIN History ON Comments.device_id = History.device_id
GROUP BY device_id
Here are the issues:
My apache2 and mysql error logs don't return any information. The Chrome console produces no errors for the elements on the page It just says loading.
No Chrome Errors
The phpmyadmin console doesn't error out but instead loads and locks down phpmyadmin
phpmyadmin loading
Fails to ever return any information from the query.
Things to note:
Simple queries work and wrong queries produce error codes.
In order to get phpmyadmin running properly again after running this query I have to either clear my cookies, restart my web browser, or restart mysql on the server side.
Here's the server information:
Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server type: MySQL Server version:5.7.23-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 - (Ubuntu)
Protocol version: 10
Server charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
Here are the table structures:
table structures

Answer 1

Try changing GROUP BY device_id to GROUP BY Comments.device_id
Try adding LIMIT 1 to see if there is too many records