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[Q] Flashing Bugless Beast bootloops, but everything else works

Hello, guys. I have the newer line of the 16GB nexus 7's(C90K, iirc), which I just got the other day. Bootloader is unlocked, TWRP is recovery, device is rooted. I checked the md5 of the Bugless Beast flash and all matched up. Yet, every time I flashed it resulted in a bootloop that wouldn't fix itself. I thought maybe I was doing something wrong so I looked at how others were doing it: everything was just right. I factory reset and wiped system for good measure, wiped caches, and installed the ROM.
To make sure that I really wasn't doing anything wrong, I took Paranoid Android and flashed it. It was running in like two minutes. I tried the latest and the second latest of BB releases, so I don't think it's his release but something on my device? I'd appreciate some assistance, guys.

I don't mean to double post, but any ideas?

How long did you let it try booting? I noticed my newer nexus 7 takes longer to flash and first boots seem to be a lot longer as well.
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Warrior1975 said:
How long did you let it try booting? I noticed my newer nexus 7 takes longer to flash and first boots seem to be a lot longer as well.
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It was a bootloop rather than actually getting anywhere/loading anything. I let it bootloop for 30 minutes a couple times just to see, though.

[Q] bricked N7 after cyanogenmod update

So I have a rooted Nexus 7. For the longest time I had a late 2012 build of Cyanogenmod that was working great. I decided recently to update CM, and that update caused programs to crash, etc. So I decided, in my infinite wisdom, to try flashing it back to an earlier CM7 build, and now it wont even fully boot. It either gets stuck on the Google screen, or the CM7 splash. I have tried all the windows apps for flashing it back to stock, but they all require USB debugging to be on. I dont know what to do. I just want it back to stock.
Any help is appreciated.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43132228&postcount=19

Thanks for the reply, but i am a little confused. When I click on Root in the app, then OK, it searches for ADB, and doesnt find it.

agoramilio said:
Thanks for the reply, but i am a little confused. When I click on Root in the app, then OK, it searches for ADB, and doesnt find it.
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Go to Advanced Utilites > Quick Tools > Select Fastboot - Bootloader.

no dice...still says bootloader not found

What does your bootloader say?

If your 7 is turning on, it's not bricked.

GldRush98 said:
If your 7 is turning on, it's not bricked.
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I believe the term is "soft-bricked".

its in fastboot mode, its locked....hard to read the rest

lol...so i was able to boot into recovery and wipe the device....works fine now...other than cyanogenmod is still on there....

agoramilio said:
its in fastboot mode, its locked....hard to read the rest
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That's weird to be locked... Atleast you have fastboot on meaning you can unlock it. Follow the directions with the unlock tool in the toolkit.

Unlock wipe everything. Make sure do a backup using a dB
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agoramilio said:
So I have a rooted Nexus 7. For the longest time I had a late 2012 build of Cyanogenmod that was working great. I decided recently to update CM, and that update caused programs to crash, etc. So I decided, in my infinite wisdom, to try flashing it back to an earlier CM7 build, and now it wont even fully boot. It either gets stuck on the Google screen, or the CM7 splash. I have tried all the windows apps for flashing it back to stock, but they all require USB debugging to be on. I dont know what to do. I just want it back to stock.
Any help is appreciated.
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Am I the only one noticing that CM7 is Android 2.3?
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Username invalid said:
I believe the term is "soft-bricked".
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Well you believe wrong. That term is a made up term by n00bs for n00bs. Your device is either "bricked" or "isnt bricked". The phrase "soft-bricked" is nonsensical.
Just because a device doesnt boot to system it doesnt mean device is any sort of bricked.
BlackFire27 said:
Am I the only one noticing that CM7 is Android 2.3?
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No, I was just about to post same thing, seems the OP has been flashing wrong device rom.
Absolutely no sympathy whatsoever if that is the case.

[Q] Help!!!!!!

Ok i was updating my rooted nexus 7 (2012) of the air to 4.4 kitkat. It downloaded and installed but when it was time for it to boot it just got stuck at the 4.4 booting screen (the circles) so i looked on the forums and it said to format everything (cache, system, sd) via clockworkmod so i did. When i tried to reboot it just got stuck at the Google loading screen.
1st Forum i will use this heaps more if the community can help me out

Pippindog said:
Ok i was updating my rooted nexus 7 (2012) of the air to 4.4 kitkat. It downloaded and installed but when it was time for it to boot it just got stuck at the 4.4 booting screen (the circles) so i looked on the forums and it said to format everything (cache, system, sd) via clockworkmod so i did. When i tried to reboot it just got stuck at the Google loading screen.
1st Forum i will use this heaps more if the community can help me out
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try to wait longer, for me it also took a lot of time

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_crue_ said:
try to wait longer, for me it also took a lot of time
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that was a quick reply.
Darn i should have waited but now im stuck at this google screen how long does it normally take ??

Pippindog said:
that was a quick reply.
Darn i should have waited but now im stuck at this google screen how long does it normally take ??
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first boot after flashing for me it took ~5-10 minutes, i don't remember. I tired to wait and go to get a lunch )))

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_crue_ said:
first boot after flashing for me it took ~5-10 minutes, i don't remember. I tired to wait and go to get a lunch )))
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I have turned it on and still its not booting after at least 20minutes the photo in the attachment is what its stuck at

Pippindog said:
I have turned it on and still its not booting after at least 20minutes the photo in the attachment is what its stuck at
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Try reflashing it again.

All working just had reinstall some recovery thingy if anyone has this problem I will post a link to the solution
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Pippindog said:
All working just had reinstall some recovery thingy if anyone has this problem I will post a link to the solution
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Much appreciated if you would.
Son's N7 is stuck at boot logo.

Downloaded this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42407269
Then someone showed me how to use it.
Hope this helped
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NoSubstitute said:
Much appreciated if you would.
Son's N7 is stuck at boot logo.
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What did you do before it got stuck? And which recovery are u using? bootloader etc
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JayDream said:
What did you do before it got stuck? And which recovery are u using? bootloader etc
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TWRP and I forgot that I shouldn't let it "fix" broken root.
I just used the basic guide on how to flash a factory image of 4.3 in smaller pieces with fastboot, skipping userdata (so I could keep mine), and then sideloaded the two KRT OTA followed by flashing SuperSU 1.75. I did all that in one go, on my second Nexus 7, before booting it the first time.

NoSubstitute said:
TWRP and I forgot that I shouldn't let it "fix" broken root.
I just used the basic guide on how to flash a factory image of 4.3 in smaller pieces with fastboot, skipping userdata (so I could keep mine), and then sideloaded the two KRT OTA followed by flashing SuperSU 1.75. I did all that in one go, on my second Nexus 7, before booting it the first time.
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1st Make sure you are on the latest twrp. 2nd it would be easier just to flash a stock ROM in recovery instead of flashing the factory images.. Is there a particular need for using the factory images or do u just want a working ROM?
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JayDream said:
1st Make sure you are on the latest twrp. 2nd it would be easier just to flash a stock ROM in recovery instead of flashing the factory images.. Is there a particular need for using the factory images or do u just want a working ROM?
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I didn't want to lose any data at the time.

[Q] Updated Nexus 7 to 4.4, stuck with the bouncing circles logo

Hi everyone,
I let my Nexus 7 update via the OTA update. It seemed to go OK but now when I boot I just got the Google logo, then these "bouncing" circles that appear to have taken the place of the original boot animation.
It doesn't seem to boot any further? Can anyone help?

I had this last night when my device updated, I just turned out off and back on and it seemed fine but I did lose root access,
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Foxman2k said:
Hi everyone,
I let my Nexus 7 update via the OTA update. It seemed to go OK but now when I boot I just got the Google logo, then these "bouncing" circles that appear to have taken the place of the original boot animation.
It doesn't seem to boot any further? Can anyone help?
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Do you have twrp or cm installed?
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Foxman2k said:
Hi everyone,
I let my Nexus 7 update via the OTA update. It seemed to go OK but now when I boot I just got the Google logo, then these "bouncing" circles that appear to have taken the place of the original boot animation.
It doesn't seem to boot any further? Can anyone help?
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I had this problem when I had a custom kernel on the device. If that's the case for you, just fastboot flash the boot image from the Nexus Binaries page.
Otherwise, you might need to adb logcat to see what's going on. For me it wasn't obvious what was up, it just kept getting to a certain spot in the boot and dalvik was crashing. I just figured it out by trying stuff.
If all else fails, you can try flashing the whole system as well, start fresh in case you've made other modifications to the ROM, although OTA's usually fail in those cases.

I do have cwm installed.

Foxman2k said:
I do have cwm installed.
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I had/have twrp.
I chose the quickest path by using the "nexus root toolkit".
Saved a lot of hassle in the long run
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Foxman2k said:
I do have cwm installed.
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You need the latest version.
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zard said:
You need the latest version.
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I ended up just flashing the stock image file. Kind of wanted to do a stock install anyway.

Deadliest bootloop ever. Nothing seems to fix it.

I recently fixed an infamous bootloop i had by letting the battery die 100% (yeah I know it is bad), and then it booted. Well i went to flash a new rom and it never rebooted. I then went to flash stock from google. Still a bootloop. tried like 3 roms, still a loop. I then tried the killing my battery thing. Still a loop. Please, i know the phone isn't hard bricked, is there anything else i can do to boot it other than just flashing stock and factory resetting. Thanks.

Another thing, when i try to flash 4.2.2 the phone doesn't go to the boot logo.

Anybody? I need to fix this phone soon.

Wrong thread sorry

YFBanana said:
Anybody? I need to fix this phone soon.
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Fastboot flash the factory image. Then boot into the stock recovery and do a factory reset.
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jd1639 said:
Fastboot flash the factory image. Then boot into the stock recovery and do a factory reset.
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unfortunately that doesn't work, i have tried it many times.

YFBanana said:
unfortunately that doesn't work, i have tried it many times.
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Then you have an issue with your device. What happens if you lock the bootloader and then reboot? Does it stay locked or is it still unlocked?
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jd1639 said:
Then you have an issue with your device. What happens if you lock the bootloader and then reboot? Does it stay locked or is it still unlocked?
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It stays locked. I am guessing thats a good thing?

YFBanana said:
It stays locked. I am guessing thats a good thing?
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Yep, if it didn't your emmc flash memory would be bad. I'd try re-downloading the factory image and trying again. Are you using the flash-all.bat to flash? You might try flashing all the components separately and see if any of them fail.
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You flashed stock firmware and it didn't work? What did it do when you flashed it?
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jd1639 said:
Yep, if it didn't your emmc flash memory would be bad. I'd try re-downloading the factory image and trying again. Are you using the flash-all.bat to flash? You might try flashing all the components separately and see if any of them fail.
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None of the flashes failed. I have tried redownloading and i have also checked the md5's, so i dont think that would be it. I have also tried reformatting through twrp, and then flashing stock. Still nothing.

flashing 4.4.4 separately got me on the starting apps step, but that seems to be the place where it gets stuck.

I need to decide if i wanna take another month trying to fix the nexus 4 or just get the nexus 5. Nothing is working and i think i should just leave it now. But at the same time, i just wanna fix it so i don't have to spend money on a new phone. I have run out of things to try and revive the phone so i don't know what to do anymore.

YFBanana said:
I need to decide if i wanna take another month trying to fix the nexus 4 or just get the nexus 5. Nothing is working and i think i should just leave it now. But at the same time, i just wanna fix it so i don't have to spend money on a new phone. I have run out of things to try and revive the phone so i don't know what to do anymore.
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so now you can boot to 4.4.4 ROM but your phone stuck at the "Starting apps" box rite?

groovepeppy said:
so now you can boot to the ROM? but never pass the "Starting apps"?
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I think it was just the order i flashed the img files that made it go to that point, but i am pretty sure starting apps is where it gets stuck every time.

YFBanana said:
I think it was just the order i flashed the img files that made it go to that point, but i am pretty sure starting apps is where it gets stuck every time.
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You can fastboot your phone i believe, you should try [HOW-TO] How to flash a factory image / return to stock / unlock / root #
Start from point C
I hope you haven't tried it yet

groovepeppy said:
You can fastboot your phone i believe, you should try [HOW-TO] How to flash a factory image / return to stock / unlock / root #
Start from point C
I hope you haven't tried it yet
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I have tried it. Still no boot.

YFBanana said:
I have tried it. Still no boot.
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there's must be a way cause you can boot on 4.4.4 but unfortunately i'm not that good in these kind of problems
but i hope you can find the cure soon

You can obviously get into flashboot, have you tried booting the latest twrp, wiping /system /data /cache and sideloading something different, like Paranoid Android?

Bootloop fix
First thing is that you have use Wug's Tool and flash the 4.3 stock image. In the Wug's tool select the option 'SOFT BRICK or BOOTLOOP' option and then flash the stock image in the fastboot mode. Definitely, I hope the phone will launch without any problem. The same problem I had faced with my nexus 4 and I flash the 4.3 stock image with the help of Wug's tool. Try it I hope it will fix the problem.