Ok guys i need to put my nexus 10 back to stock. I used mskips toolbox to unlock, root, and install twrp. Everything went great,but when i try to use the toolbox to flash the factory image it says image not found, then says it is downloaded and asks if i would like to flash. I answer yes and it says image not found....... error. I have tried 3 different peoples computers here at work and all 3 say the same thing. I did donate to mskip and he did send me the donate code and yes i updated the toolbox on each computer i tried to use the toolbox with. Now i'm still rooted and i can't lock the bootloader until i flash the factory image. I did however download the factory image from google not using the toolbox and i was wonderng how to get the toolbox to read the image from inside the computer from my download folder. Or how can i install the image where the toolbox can read it. I'm not that good at running command prompts so i was trying to make this as easy as possible. That way i don't mess my new nexus 10 up before i send it back. Any help would be greatly apprecated. Thanks in advance.
BTW.... the factory image is in TAR file format. How can i use that to flash the image on my nexus 10? i also downloaded something called fastboot-windows-zip.
Edit... nevermind i figured the tar file information out. the boot image is in tar file and i need to inzip it. still need some help getting mskips toolbox to read the image i have on the computer so i can flash back to stock.
I can't offer help specifically to the toolkit you are referencing but IRC that it has not been updated to support 4.2.1.
Thus, i would go into the forums and fin the Nexus Root toolkit, install it and ensure that the drivers are installed correctly. (there is a large tab dedicated to this on the program, Can't miss it)
Then, I would Click the option to lash Stock image and re-lock. Viola!
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I can't find help in any threads so here's my story.
1.) Get Nexus completely stock back from LG, version 4.2
2.) Do OTA update to 4.2.2
3.) Things are going great, let me re-root this. Google a guide, unlock bootloader, download THIS file: download DOT chainfire DOT eu/315/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.25.zip (I believe this is where I went wrong. Wrong file?)
4.) Get CWM up and install zip, try to reboot, now phone is dead. No backups, the commands I'm trying won't send the factory image over to the SD card and when trying to sideload it using ADB I keep getting errors. Any suggestions?
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995688 toolkit.
Hi,
Last night i was playing with my N4 (with some root applications) and an app asked for a reboot. I just pressed yes so that the phone will reboot (I have done this earlier without any issues). Suddenly the device doesn't boot up. My N4 is stuck at a black screen. While trying to boot up, the Google logo appears and then a black screen. It doesn't advance to the 'X' logo. I'm running on stock, rooted phone (used N4 toolkit by Wugfresh to root).
I'm able to boot into recovery although. I tried all the possible means, wiped cache, dalvik cache, did a factory reset, backed up the system and tried to restore the same. Nothing happened.
Then i tried the "Back to Stock" option in the N4 toolkit and chose the option "Soft-brick/Bootloop" to recover my N4. These are what happened:
Downloaded the 4.2.2 image from Google servers and tried to flash in the device with prior instruction from the toolkit. Everything went fine until the flashing process. In the last step the CMD window opens up saying it is unrooting and flashing stock and immediately it'll bring up a complete message saying the flashing is complete and to wait until the device boots up. But nothing happens again.
I tried the automatic flashing and on the downloading window it saying download failed and hash checks failed meaning its not downloading.
I searched all the possible threads in a day to find a similar problem but in vain. I'm not a noob but i'm too lazy . But i would do anything to bring my N4 back to life. Anyone please show me a direction.
In short:
Status: Soft-Bricked (guess so), black screen after Google logo
Version: Stock 4.2.2 (rooted+busybox+supersu+twrp)
Able to boot to recovering: Yes, bootable to recovery and bootloader.
Tried Nexus toolkit recovery: Yes but in vain.
Gave up: No and never, I'm searching and searching for answers and I'm worried if I'll end up in a hard brick. :crying:
Guys, please help.
Thank You!
Aghil
I'm just taking a wild guess here - I'm not responsible if anything bad happens, and you might want to wait to someone else seconds my suggestion in any case (although I can't imagine things getting worse as long as you flash N4 stuff). But have you tried flashing a new boot.img/reset kernel from recovery or via fastboot/toolkit?
ameinild said:
I'm just taking a wild guess here - I'm not responsible if anything bad happens, and you might want to wait to someone else seconds my suggestion in any case (although I can't imagine things getting worse as long as you flash N4 stuff). But have you tried flashing a new boot.img/reset kernel from recovery or via fastboot/toolkit?
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Err...nope I haven't tried any and will wait until someone seconds you. Meanwhile I have wiped off the ROM through the option in recovery. Still will I be able to do what you said? Also if could direct me to a "how-to" thread would be great. Just that I don't wanna mess up again.
Also, is there a way to transfer a ROM to N4 through fastboot? So that I can install the ROM through TWRP.
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Err...nope I haven't tried any and will wait until someone seconds you. Meanwhile I have wiped off the ROM through the option in recovery. Still will I be able to do what you said? Also if could direct me to a "how-to" thread would be great. Just that I don't wanna mess up again.
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No, my suggestion would require that the ROM is still on the phone, so you should restore your ROM prior to my suggestion. And I'm by no means an expert (therefore the disclaimer), but I *think* that since it's a bootup problem, it could be solved by flashing a new boot.img (which is essentially flashing a new kernel to the system).
But yeah, let's see if others think this might help, haven't researched it, is at work right now. Just throwing in a suggestion, that's all...
Also, is there a way to transfer a ROM to N4 through fastboot? So that I can install the ROM through TWRP.
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I *think* (again, I'm totally not sure about this, as I haven't tried it) that you can sideload a ROM via zip file from recovery, but since I haven't tried it I'm not sure - can anybody confirm???
EDIT: Chromium's suggestion is better, by pushing the ROM.zip to the device and flashing from recovery (check md5 first, just in case).
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Also, is there a way to transfer a ROM to N4 through fastboot? So that I can install the ROM through TWRP.
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Yes there is. Your nexus is not bricked and this is why you shouldnt use toolkits to do things. This is honestly an extremely easy and simple fix. Use adb to push a rom onto the n4.
Code:
adb push \path\to\rom.zip /sdcard
Boot into recovery, do a full wipe, and flash the rom.
You said you downloaded the Google images.
Just boot your phone into the bootloader and run the flashall.bat that is in the Google image folder.
Note this will probably fully wipe you're phone in the process
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try this it may help u this toolkit is damn easy to use :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995688
Okay, thanks guys. I'm on it. Will let you know when I'm done.
That same thing happened to me once. I had to extract the google file and look for the 4 img files(bootloader, system, userdata, recovery) and flash them with toolkit manually and it fixed it, but it erased everything on my sd
I tried to load the file "occam-jdq39-factory-345dc199.tar" into my phone using the ADB sideload feature in the toolkit. I don't have the SDK installed hence I depended the tool again. But now the tool only loads .zip file and not .tar as the one that i downloaded. Am I doing it right?
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I tried to load the file "occam-jdq39-factory-345dc199.tar" into my phone using the ADB sideload feature in the toolkit. I don't have the SDK installed hence I depended the tool again. But now the tool only loads .zip file and not .tar as the one that i downloaded. Am I doing it right?
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K if you have a custom recovery installed, there isnt much you need to do to fix the issue.
First setup adb/fastboot by reading this
Then boot the phone into recovery, and plug it into the computer. Open a new command prompt window and use adb like this:
Code:
adb push \path\to\rom.zip /sdcard
Then you can unplug the phone. From recovery go to the install menu, find the rom that you just pushed, and flash it.
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K if you have a custom recovery installed, there isnt much you need to do to fix the issue.
First setup adb/fastboot by reading this
Then boot the phone into recovery, and plug it into the computer. Open a new command prompt window and use adb like this:
Code:
adb push \path\to\rom.zip /sdcard
Then you can unplug the phone. From recovery go to the install menu, find the rom that you just pushed, and flash it.
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Okay, installing the SDK. And the command saying "rom.zip", the file that I have is like "rom.tar". Does it matter? I downloaded the rom from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
aghilvr said:
Okay, installing the SDK. And the command saying "rom.zip", the file that I have is like "rom.tar". Does it matter? I downloaded the rom from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
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No the tar wont work through recovery. You should download a rom from here or here.
If you want to flash the stock rom through recovery you can download it here.
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No the tar wont work through recovery. You should download a rom from here or here.
If you want to flash the stock rom through recovery you can download it here.
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Oh that's why it didn't work all the time
Thanks chromium :fingers-crossed:
Hey thanks guys, my device is back to normal. Chromium a special thanks for you for helping me out. See you guys with my next problem/queris!
Hi Everyone,
I've been using these forums for along time and have not really had the opportunity to give back until now. Let me give you all the details to my problem and the solution to help anyone else in the same if not similar situation. Apologies if this thread has any errors just let know and I'll try to fix them. Also I am confident enough to use command line to do the things I talk about below, so you'll have to be as well if you want to use the methods described. I assume you have some level of technical ability to do this.
Phone details:
Nexus 4, bootloader unlocked, twrp custom recovery installed, rooted, running 4.4.2.
Problem:
I managed to drop my phone after having it for a year. The screen on front cracked and i couldn't use the touch. This caused a problem using the custom recovery (I use TWRP) because it was touch as well. Most of the information on my phone was backup up, my whatsapp is set to backup and push to my box account nightly using titanium backup, my pictures get uploaded to dropbox, instagram has my instagram, etc, etc. But, there were a few files I really needed in my downloads folder. I spent the whole weekend looking for articles and forum posts to help get my data off. Many required installing an app of sorts and then remote controlling the device. I could install the apps using the play store, but as couldn't get passed my lock screen, which is a combination of widget locker and the standard pin unlock screen I couldn't authorise or configure anything.
Solution:
Anyway, here is what i did. I already had WUGFresh's Nexus Root Toolkit and used adb to pull the files and fastboot to flash clockworkmod custom recovery with no touch. Here are the details.
I loaded the phone into recovery which allowed me to use adb. To use adb I opened the WUG Fresh Nexus Root Toolkit, clicked launch Advanced utilities (bottom left). Then used Manual Input (Launch CMD Prompt). Here I used the command 'adb pull /sdcard c:/pull' which grabbed all my files and dumped on the c: in a folder called pull. You can probably also use this method to copy other files from the phone, but i didn't try that.
In order to clear all my data (which i needed to do so the insurance company couldn't read it), I needed to flash clockworkmod custom recovery without touch. I got this from the CWM website and downloaded the appropriate img file for my device. I then booted my phone into fastboot. I used the fastboot help command to find out what the command was to flash a new recovery and did it. The command was 'fastbboot flash recovery c:/put/path/to/file.here'. This loaded the CWM recovery so i could wipe all my data. I just loaded into recovery and wiped all my data.
Summary:
I recommend you use a utility like titanium backup to automate a backup of all your important apps and their data on a nightly/weekly basis so if you ever get into a situation like myself you have some data to easily recover.
I hope this helps people going forward.
Arun.
You didn't need wug's, you could have just used adb to pull the files in recovery. You also could have run fastboot -w and it would have wiped your device. No need to put cwm on your device
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jd1639 said:
You didn't need wug's, you could have just used adb to pull the files in recovery. You also could have run fastboot -w and it would have wiped your device. No need to put cwm on your device
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Thanks for the extra information, but I only used WUG's NRT because I already had it installed on my computer. The fastboot note is useful though, I don't think I read through the help list properly otherwise I would've done that. I also wrote this for people with a little amount of technical knowledge, and installing WUG's NRT is really simple to do and has a GUI.
Is there is an easy to do this without having to wipe everything and start over fresh?
Will this work? http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/paid-software/flashfire-t3075433
WiFivomFranMan said:
Is there is an easy to do this without having to wipe everything and start over fresh?
Will this work? http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/paid-software/flashfire-t3075433
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I'm on the same boat, but I think our answer will come soon. Today I found out that WugFresh will be updating the NRT Toolkit to support the Nexus Player. See this post.
Why not just download the image and flash it? Plenty of guides on how to do this
lafester said:
Why not just download the image and flash it? Plenty of guides on how to do this
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I didn't know that there were difficulties with 5.1.1. I used Wugfresh's tool to install 5.1.1 with the "no wipe" option and I had 5.1.1 just fine - but can't figure out how to get root back!! And I need root to expand the storage!! Right now I have a fresh, clean, 5.1.1 install on my NP.
I tried Wugfresh's tool, I sure wish it told me that it didn't work with the firmware that it had already detected!!
I also tried the Chainfire root.img that I used back on 5.0 and it seems to work until I tell SuperSU to update the binaries. At that point it basically times out and asks me to reboot.
What next?! Wait for Wugfresh? Is there another way to root?
I flashed the cm recovery from dhacker and used it to flash the newest beta of supersu. After that the app didn't show up until I installed it from the store but now it works fine
I just want to upgrade it without losing all my stuff (Saved games for my NES ROM, etc...)
Why don't you locate the save data in es file explorer and copy it to the cloud. Reimage nexus player and set up es file explorer, cloud and copy the saved data back to where you stored it.
would anyone be so kind to point me to one of the guides on how to use factory image/OTA to update from 5.0 rooted to 5.1.1? I don't care about keeping my settings, and I don't care about root. just want the latest and greatest.
thanks in advance
The Nexus Player is a Nexus device, and you can always upgrade to the latest version by using the factory images found here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images. The procedure to flash a factory image on any Nexus device has not changed since the Nexus One was released, so you can look at any of the guides for Nexus devices.
Essentially it boils down to this: The factory image contains a few files in an archive format. There are a few images within that you need: bootloader (I can't remember what the name of the file is but it's something like xxxxbootloaderxxx.img), system.img, boot.img, recovery.img). Extract those images from within the archive and flash them. You do this by booting into the bootloader, opening a command prompt in the same folder that you downloaded the image files) on your PC and type the following commands:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot format cache
If you also want to start fresh and wipe all your data, execute the following command: fastboot format userdata
Then execute: fastboot reboot
Done.
Notes:
1) You need to extract these files in the same directory as where you downloaded the images before proceeding.
2) if you are using Windows, you need to install the the driver (found here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html)
3) The procedure above assumes your bootloader is unlocked. If not, you will need to unlock it (using: fastboot oem unlock) and it will wipe all your data.
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1) There is currently no way to get root on 5.1.1 without modifying the kernel (so that it boots SELinux in permissive mode).
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I have root on my NP... I used SkipSoft's Toolkit - details are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/orig-development/toolkit-skipsoft-unified-android-t2967053
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I have root on my NP... I used SkipSoft's Toolkit - details are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/orig-development/toolkit-skipsoft-unified-android-t2967053
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You are correct. I was reading another thread talking about Android M, and then I replied to this thread, so my mistake.
I've edited my post.
efrant said:
You are correct. I was reading another thread talking about Android M, and then I replied to this thread, so my mistake.
I've edited my post.
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Ok - whew! I know that I went through the process but I couldn't be 100% sure because I have tried so many things to get expanded storage working to no avail that I've kinda given up for the time being...
It's a nexus - use custom recovery to flash supersu and your rooted.... Done
Toneman07 said:
It's a nexus - use custom recovery to flash supersu and your rooted.... Done
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Not necessarily... You still need a modified boot.img to get the whole thing working...
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Not necessarily... You still need a modified boot.img to get the whole thing working...
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Thats interesting considering both my nexus phone and samsung tablet are running stock kernels (boot.img) and rooted just fine using the above method.
I tried to root my Nexus 6P and now I'm stuck. It won't finish booting. I followed instructions found on the web. I unlocked bootloader with no problem. I copied the latest SuperSU file to the phone. I installed TWRP recovery. However, I could not find the SuperSU file when using TWRP. Nevertheless, when I went to exit, TWRP asked if I wanted to instal SuperSU. I recall reading somewhere that it will install the wrong version of SuperSU (not the one for 6.0.1). Somehow I must have hit the wrong selection because it installed it anyway. Now I have an infinite loop.
I have tried to factory reset with TWRP. That fails. I downloaded the 6.0.1 images files from Google. I tried to run flash-all.bat, but that doesn't work. I have pushed images and ZIPs to the /sdcard/ folder with ADB. ADB recognizes the device, but fastboot does not (when connected to my laptop) (which is why flash-all doesn't work). I have tried to install the images/zips with TWRP. However, I always get "failed" messages. I get messages that partitions won't load.
Stupidly, I do not have a nandroid backup (yes, I know, a dumb move).
Any suggestions on what to try next? I'm at my wit's end with this. I've searched the web all morning and found all kinds of helpful info, but I can't find anything to get me past this point. I am perfectly willing to wipe it all out and start over again if I could just force it to do that. I just bought it so I suppose I could return it (I think there's a 30-day return policy), but Google might not like it if it comes back in this state, I suppose. I had an AT&T Galaxy Note 5 for half a day but found out, after the fact, that I can't root it.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Why did you follow instructions found on "Web" when u have the beautiful guide by our @Heisenberg? Read this thread. Instead of running flash - all. Bat file, follow the instructions in this guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3206928
jaidev.s said:
Why did you follow instructions found on "Web" when u have the beautiful guide by our @Heisenberg? Read this thread. Instead of running flash - all. Bat file, follow the instructions in this guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3206928
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I saw that post. I wish I had followed it. However, the instructions are very similar to what I tried, although not exact. Where I went wrong is letting TWRP install SuperSU for me. I didn't mean to but when I touched the phone it installed it (of course, I hit something, but I don't know what). Fastboot does not recognize the phone in recovery. I can follow Heisenberg's instructions to get back to stock IF fastboot would recognize the phone. ADB recognizes the phone. Would it be possible to use ADB Sideload instead? How can I force fastboot to recognize the phone? If I could do that, I would be able to flash images back to the phone. Thanks!
U should try fastboot in bootloader / download mode instead of recovery mode..
OK, two comments: Duh (as I slap my head) and Bless You! That worked. I'm back to stock. At least the phone works now. I'll try again to root following Heinsenberg's instructions! Thanks. Where do I sent the beer money?
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U should try fastboot in bootloader / download mode instead of recovery mode..
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Well, I'm back to a stock phone, anyway. Flashing SuperSU per Heinsenberg's instructions did not give me root. Oh well. I'll keep trying. It did install and it did reboot just fine. However, root checker says I have no root and Titanium Backup won't run, either. Thanks.