okay so i just got my nexus and coming from htc one s i fariley decent at flashing and rooting and all that cool stuff.
but im right now im stuck in a bootloop at the google screen with pad unlock i tried relocking the bootloader and then unlokcing it again and flahsing cwm and factory reseting but still stuck at bootloop. ( if anything i had already updated to 4.2.2 ) so i need help thanks
Download wugresh root toolkit for nexus devices, and then use the Flash stock+unroot and select current status as soft/bricked/bootloop
this is a known issue with some units after unlocking the bootloader.
boot into fastboot again and flash custom recovery .img file with terminal
run recovery and clear cache, dalvik cache, and fix permissions then reboot.
your phone should boot in under a minute.
(this took me about an hour of watching the boot animation to figure out...I wanted to pull my hair out lol)
thanks man im trying this now and it looks like it's working ill get back to you on the status and thanks to the other guy who had suggestion
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Hello Guys!
I guess i bricked my nexus 4!
I wanted to update to 4.2.2 so i used the nexus 4 toolkit to toss the custom recovery. also got rid of franco kernel since that would have blocked the ota as well.
Now i ran the update, didn't work. charged battery again, downloaded ota again and tried anew, but with no luck..
and now is where the bad stuff happened. I figured i'd just get the .tgz from the google dev site and flash it to the device with the toolkit. Did that, now nothing works anymore.
What i can do:
Boot into fastboot, lock and unlock the bootloader, boot the boot.img
what i cannot do:
boot or flash recovery, it will be stuck on the google screen.
When i turn the device off completely (5sec off ) and then it turns on again, nothing shows up on the screen. just the backlight of the screen is visible.
i can flash system.img but no help, i can flash boot.img or recovery.img but i won't get anywhere close to recovery.
any help guys? or should i relock the bootloader, call customer service and hope they'll replace it for me?
Kind regards and thanks!
Solved it! I must have made a mistake since i didn't download occam from google dev but i guess the nexus 7 .tgz. Hence i flashed wrong system, boot and recovery...its all fine again now and running 4.2.2 wow i am glad
I have this 8GB Nexus 4 I purchased when it was first released as a gift for someone. Anyway, when 4.3 was released the person I gifted the phone took the update and after that the screen was stuck on the X screen for about 12 hour. He finally unplugged the power and waited for the battery to drain.
The phone isn't rooted, doesn't have a custom recovery on it. It's basically a stock device.
I have the phone now and this is what I've done so far. As soon as I received the phone, I went into the recovery and cleared both cache and reset the device to default. It still didn't boot (stuck on X screen). Then I used fastboot to clear everything and reinstall the factory image for 4.3. it still wouldn't boot. I then used fastboot to flash the radio from 4.2's factory image and it booted to the main screen.
I don't know why the phone won't boot with the radio bundled with the factory image for 4.3. I waited until 4.4 became available (today) thinking that would solve my problem. No, it didn't. The phone is stuck on the new multi color (4 dots) boot screen after flashing 4.4.
Can anyone help me figure out how to get the proper radio on this phone? I don't know what else to try.
benso37 said:
I have this 8GB Nexus 4 I purchased when it was first released as a gift for someone. Anyway, when 4.3 was released the person I gifted the phone took the update and after that the screen was stuck on the X screen for about 12 hour. He finally unplugged the power and waited for the battery to drain.
The phone isn't rooted, doesn't have a custom recovery on it. It's basically a stock device.
I have the phone now and this is what I've done so far. As soon as I received the phone, I went into the recovery and cleared both cache and reset the device to default. It still didn't boot (stuck on X screen). Then I used fastboot to clear everything and reinstall the factory image for 4.3. it still wouldn't boot. I then used fastboot to flash the radio from 4.2's factory image and it booted to the main screen.
I don't know why the phone won't boot with the radio bundled with the factory image for 4.3. I waited until 4.4 became available (today) thinking that would solve my problem. No, it didn't. The phone is stuck on the new multi color (4 dots) boot screen after flashing 4.4.
Can anyone help me figure out how to get the proper radio on this phone? I don't know what else to try.
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after flashing the factory img, and it doesnt boot, go back into the stock recovery and wipe everything. then try to boot again.
simms22 said:
after flashing the factory img, and it doesnt boot, go back into the stock recovery and wipe everything. then try to boot again.
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Thanks for the quick response. I've done that twice now. No joy.
benso37 said:
Thanks for the quick response. I've done that twice now. No joy.
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Same here, went in stock recovery and formatted all.. funny thing is that in openrecovery or clockwork the data partition cannot be mounted so also not formatted ; in stock no message about mounting issues so seems to be working, but I am not sure,,
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cannot mount cache, sdcard either
is it unlocked?
opssemnik said:
is it unlocked?
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Yes
PoloB12 said:
Yes
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manually wipe data and cache using fastboot
make your phone boot into bootloader mode and connect to pc
on pc open fastboot and type fastboot erase cache and fastboot erase userdata, if there are erros probably your phone is eMMC failed, if no erros let it boot for like 20 mins
It works now, I relocked the bootloader en reboot. Then unlocked and into revovery wiped everything. Flashed all and worked.
I was trying to unlock my Nexus 4. I've done this before on a Galaxy Nexus, successfully but something went wrong here.
Just got CWM Recovery on. I tried to reboot using the recovery and it provided me with two prompts:
1) Do you want to disable the stock recovery install? [ I hit NO ]
2) Do you want to root your device (I believe this is what it asked) [ I hit YES ]
Now my phone is stuck in a reboot loop. I can get into recovery with no problem (and it is still the CWM one). I've tried reloading the recovery to no avail. What are my options to try to fix this?
I have tried fastboot erase cache but it did not restore my phone.
Update your recovery or try to flash another recovery. Twrp is recommended here. Cwm also gave me some hard time with bootloop and stuff
CCody said:
Update your recovery or try to flash another recovery. Twrp is recommended here. Cwm also gave me some hard time with bootloop and stuff
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I tried flashing TWRP, but I get the Can't mount /data, Can't mount internal storage, etc etc. I can't flash .zips at all and I feel like my only way out is to use fastboot to deal with things. Even now, I'm trying fastboot and it's stuck trying to send the factory Nexus 4 4.4.4 ROM over...
I have no idea how to safely fall back now. I just want my phone back ASAP.
Just tried flashing 5 out of the 6 imgs to my phone using fastboot (didn't flash recovery). and I'm STILL stuck on the loading screen (10 minutes). Which means I'm still having the problem...I have no idea what to do now.
limenuke said:
Just tried flashing 5 out of the 6 imgs to my phone using fastboot (didn't flash recovery). and I'm STILL stuck on the loading screen (10 minutes). Which means I'm still having the problem...I have no idea what to do now.
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Flash recovery in fastboot. This'll put the stock recovery on. Do a factory rest in the stock recovery. Then flash the twrp image in fastboot and re-root
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limenuke said:
I was trying to unlock my Nexus 4. I've done this before on a Galaxy Nexus, successfully but something went wrong here.
Just got CWM Recovery on. I tried to reboot using the recovery and it provided me with two prompts:
1) Do you want to disable the stock recovery install? [ I hit NO ]
2) Do you want to root your device (I believe this is what it asked) [ I hit YES ]
Now my phone is stuck in a reboot loop. I can get into recovery with no problem (and it is still the CWM one). I've tried reloading the recovery to no avail. What are my options to try to fix this?
I have tried fastboot erase cache but it did not restore my phone.
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Flash it again. Remember to clean out the cache and dalvik cache every time you flash a zip.
This is why most phones get stuck in a boot loop when flashing a new ROM.
As long as you have the custom recovery, you don't need to flash custom recovery
Hope this helps!
I would also recommend PhilZ's recovery. Best of both CWM and TWRP.
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I have unlocked bootloader, flash modified boot.img and recovery but when I boot the device I get 'Your device is corrupt and may not work properly' I then get stuck on the google boot screen. When I go into TWRP recovery it cannot mount anything so I cannot even perform a factory reset.
Please help
did you make a back up?
I didn't unfortunately, I can get into recovery and as long as I leave it as 'Read-Only' it seems to mount everything. I think I need to get a stock image.
Resolved - used a Toolkit to go completely back to stock, kind of scared to try again now.
Follow directions and that won't happen again. Make sure you are on the correct version MDB08K BEFORE you start (you have the OTA), format not wipe in TWRP and you won't get caught in the boot loop.
Failing to do those two things will put you in a boot loop.
What toolkit did you use because i myself have this issue with my nexus 6p
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I have unlocked bootloader, flash modified boot.img and recovery but when I boot the device I get 'Your device is corrupt and may not work properly' I then get stuck on the google boot screen. When I go into TWRP recovery it cannot mount anything so I cannot even perform a factory reset.
Please help
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That warning is normal, and should be ignored if you want unlocked bootloader, custom ROMs, etc.
Here TWRP couldn't mount because you forgot to decrypt after flashing the modified boot.img.
If you have further issues, let me know.
A quick advise - Avoid toolkits. They are handy and easy, but if something goes wrong, it will be hard to track down the cause. On the contrary, doing thing manually, will not only make it easy, but will also help you learn more about your Android, and how it works.
Here's what happened:
1. flashed wrong twrp version for 8.1 oreo, used correct CF-auto root
- tablet booted to stock recovery screen a few times but i figured it was part of the process so I just rebooted
-ended up getting a failed identification verification
-i know the auto root worked because my warranty is void :silly:
2. reset my tablet from the failed verification screen
-eventually got myself to a blue erasing screen loop
-flashed twrp again and got myself to a point where booting into recovery resulted in glitchy lines
3. attempted to factory reset from reboot with adp
-not sure if it worked tbh
-also tried to reboot to recovery screen and that didn't really do anything
4. found and installed the proper version of twrp (3.2.3-4)
-now stuck in feedback loop that occasionally shows the twerp screen so i know something's right
-won't boot to recovery screen but will boot to download page
-doesn't show up in adp devices during this loop
-- have CONTINUOUSLY tried flashing firmware (I've tried 6.0, 7.0?, and 8.1) none of them have worked, sporting some variant of secure check fail (PIT, bootloader, or RADIO)
-- have tried the mod here but it fails after param.bin and i can't use it directly after auto root without rebooting because it gets stuck on setup connection
-- most likely not a hardware problem because i had this tablet for basically a day before i did this to myself
--OEM is unlocked, not that i could change it even if it wasn't
---is there anything that anyone would recommend trying before i take this to geek squad (who may not help me but i'm still going to try) or should i just cry myself to sleep over wasting $300 :crying::crying:
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Here's what happened:
1. flashed wrong twrp version for 8.1 oreo, used correct CF-auto root
- tablet booted to stock recovery screen a few times but i figured it was part of the process so I just rebooted
-ended up getting a failed identification verification
-i know the auto root worked because my warranty is void :silly:
2. reset my tablet from the failed verification screen
-eventually got myself to a blue erasing screen loop
-flashed twrp again and got myself to a point where booting into recovery resulted in glitchy lines
3. attempted to factory reset from reboot with adp
-not sure if it worked tbh
-also tried to reboot to recovery screen and that didn't really do anything
4. found and installed the proper version of twrp (3.2.3-4)
-now stuck in feedback loop that occasionally shows the twerp screen so i know something's right
-won't boot to recovery screen but will boot to download page
-doesn't show up in adp devices during this loop
-- have CONTINUOUSLY tried flashing firmware (I've tried 6.0, 7.0?, and 8.1) none of them have worked, sporting some variant of secure check fail (PIT, bootloader, or RADIO)
-- have tried the mod here but it fails after param.bin and i can't use it directly after auto root without rebooting because it gets stuck on setup connection
-- most likely not a hardware problem because i had this tablet for basically a day before i did this to myself
--OEM is unlocked, not that i could change it even if it wasn't
---is there anything that anyone would recommend trying before i take this to geek squad (who may not help me but i'm still going to try) or should i just cry myself to sleep over wasting $300 :crying::crying:
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Flash twrp, FORMAT (not wipe) data, install Magisk.
Reboot.
ashyx said:
Flash twrp, FORMAT (not wipe) data, install Magisk.
Reboot.
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So just keep flashing it until i can boot to twrp recovery basically?
abstractartemis said:
So just keep flashing it until i can boot to twrp recovery basically?
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What's stopping you boot to Download mode?
ashyx said:
What's stopping you boot to Download mode?
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I can boot to download mode but i can't boot to recovery mode after flashing twrp. When I try I just get stuck in a reboot loop, so I can't try to boot to recovery from adp either.
abstractartemis said:
I can boot to download mode but i can't boot to recovery mode after flashing twrp. When I try I just get stuck in a reboot loop, so I can't try to boot to recovery from adp either.
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If you can flash twrp then not booting to twrp must be pilot error.
It MUST be done immediately after flashing in odin.