Hi, It may not be completely bricked but as far as I am concerned it is. I tried to free up some space on the phone by formatting everything in ClockworkMod. Factory resets did nothing and the phone showed I had used over 10 GB. I figured formating was just going to clear out all the backups and old files.
As of now I can get into recovery but that's about it. When I try to reboot all it does is bring up the words GOOGLE. My PC wont recognize it as I cant enable USB debugging. I thought if I could just drag a new rom, gapps, zip file into the internal storage I would be good. I also thought I might be able to restore it to stock with a toolkit but again they request USB debugging on.
I am real new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. Is there a way to bring this phone back to life in some sort of straight forward way?
PS. As of this morning things seem to have gotten worse. I used a toolkit to try and get things working and now I cant boot into recovery. All I get is the robot on its back with red triangle icon. I can press power, then volume up and get another menu but I am really at a loss. Any further help would be great. Thanks.
Thanks
You're definitely not bricked.
You must restore the factory image, which you can find from Google... Google "nexus factory image" and restore in bootloader mode.
I'm not going to go into detail on how to restore, there are dozens of threads on how to do that. Start by Googling "how to flash nexus factory images"...
I'm assuming that since you've dabbled with modifying your Nexus that you are familiar with the super duper important ADB/Fastboot procedures? If not, you've got a lot to learn before you start messing with your phone...
Edit: You can also attempt to ADB push a stock rooted ROM (only so you don't have to mess with gapps at the moment) through your custom recovery. Again though, do your due diligence and read before messing with this sort of thing.
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Just sideload a rom with adb.
adb push a ROM into your memory via cmd prompt. I think you can adb push data using the Nexus 4 toolkit in the stickies.
When you figure out how to push files into your phone, flash the new ROM.
Alternatively, use efrant's guide from my signature. The only correct & educative way of returning to stock. Avoid toolkits!
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recently i rooted my nexus 7 16gb w/4.21 with the toolkit and did everything and installed all program and features that i needed and went smooth but then wanted to flash a custom theme to it and did it but then my nexus 7 tab froze in menu and wont load into menu dont know if bricked tried to unistall wipe lock and unroot everything possible but no luck now i cant even turn on without usb connected and receovery doesnt load properly so i can do anything could i get help on how to recover in to stock
if the theme was bad, all you had to do was reflash your rom. but you used a root toolkit and didnt learn about what you were doing. next time take a little bit of time to learn about the proper procedures and processes, and root your device the right way, without a root toolkit. when you learn how to do things right, youll see its much easier than a toolkit. get back to stock--> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
If all else fails, you can always download the stock factory image from Google and flash it onto your device via the toolkit or adb fastboot. This will install the stock ROM, recovery, and bootloader.
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Yes i know. I ****ed up. But somehow i was tinkering and managed to delete the entire internal storage. I can still get into fast boot and.twrp. Can someone please help me?
What was i trying to fix? Check my other thread about the headphone jack.
Edit:Also. Twrp says i dont have an os above every swipe screen...
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Have you tried reflashing stock?
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If you have an OTG cable and a USB key you should be able to make ROMs or other backups which you preserved OFF THE TABLET available to TWRP.
If not, take the above poster's advice and install pure stock to copy stuff (ROMs, recovery images, etc) back on to the tab via MTP.
I too blew away all of /data once with that "format data" button in the touch version of TWRP; I feel your pain.
Um.....I may have made a mistake and swiped on all the clear screens...including internal memory...so...T_T Am i screwed???
JoshuaXedos said:
Um.....I may have made a mistake and swiped on all the clear screens...including internal memory...so...T_T Am i screwed???
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You're not really screwed, you should be able to flash another ROM from recovery.
As long as you can get into fastboot, you'll be fine. The easiest way is to download and install Nexus Root Toolkit, then use the "back to stock" part to flash the factory image following the instruction.
I have got something even worse
My nexus 7 tab started freezing during use and then after booting in safe mode and wiping cache in recovery mode it now doesn't even go past the google screen. I haven't even flashed anything to it at all and it's showing these crazy symptoms (The bootloader is still locked and the device is not even rooted). I still have access to the adb sideload mode and fastboot but I am confused af as to what has happened
Any ideas guys?
I was happy that I rooted the phone and got Japanese fonts working.. but I wanted the ability to adjust the gain/volume of my mic headset and tried to install a rom to do that. I used the Nexus Root Toolkit to root the phone and do an entire backup. Then I flashed the rom. It didn't take and I really had no idea why (being noob). So I go on youtube and see what i can find for flashing a rom. I see that you have to delete your old OS in order to install the new one.. ok.. risky but I did a full backup right? Well when I tried using Nexus Root Toolkit to install said rom the phone ended up with a screen with a menu with some options including to delete the OS. So I did that. Then I tried to install the zip file which was now on the phone thanks to Nexus Root Toolkit.. but it still didn't take. Okay. I gave up. I rebooted.
But I have no OS. And my Win7 machine can't see the phone. I tried deleting and installing drivers again and it doesn't work. I can boot to the fastboot screen (the one with the Start at the top and cycle through options like recovery mode). But the computer can't see the phone. Nexus Root Toolkit seems to be of the opinion that I need to enable USB tether debugging mode on the phone.. but there's OS to do that.
Is it hopeless?
btw I think this phone is great. I would prefer maybe a slightly smaller phone but i can't believe how cheap it is, beautiful screen, fast, responsive. Amazing.
Flash the stock image, comprehend what you are doing while you flash the images, and never use a toolkit again.
Here's all the info you need. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
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Sorry i accidentally clicked your thanks button. If you have a recovery installed then just flash a rom.
windows 7 can't recognize the device now
Thanks very much for the reply. I still am thinking it's hopeless... I followed your link and I'm attempting to follow the directions...but here's where the problem is. And basically why the toolkit can't help me either.. (I agree it's better to understand all steps and yet I'm lazy..)
Attempting to install drivers for Nexus 4...
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Locate and expand Other device in the right pane.
Right-click the device name (such as Nexus S) and select Update Driver Software. This will launch the Hardware Update Wizard.
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The phone doesn't exist in device manager. Perhaps its lack of an OS keeps windows from realizing what the heck it is?
Do you have a custom recovery installed?
no custom recovery
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Do you have a custom recovery installed?
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Not on purpose. So probably not. Actually I doubt it. I am looking at Nexus Root Toolkit and I see the checkbox for Custom Recovery and I know I did not check it when I rooted.
soft brick?
The computer does acknowledge the device to the extent that it installs Android ADB (if memory serves which who knows).. but otherwise it doesn't know it's a Nexus 4. It thinks it's an MTP USB Device.
I am playing with Nexus Root Toolkit a bit (it did do the backup of the phone afterall... ) and it apparently flashed the stock kernel.. that's the 1st thing I've been able to do to between the phone and the computer. Now Toolkit is telling me to wait 7 minutes before assuming soft brick.
I am thinking it is soft bricked? gonna wait a few more minutes.
well I ignored the lack of nexus 4 drivers...
and just followed all the directions anyway for the command line install. When you go to the LGE website to get drivers.. you don't find any. At least I couldn't. Just manuals to download. But I got success messages all along and it rebooted when I told it to and stuff.. but it's just sitting at google. It isn't going past the google screen. The computer calls it an MTP USB device with a big exclamation point next to it.
clockword recovery
I might have it. It might have been installed when I did my full backup perhaps. If it's the reclining robot with a red triangle and an exclamation point then yes. I can wipe cache, wipe data/factory reset, and apply update from ADB, or reboot. I've wiped the cache and done a factory reset... I'm gonna try:
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Again.
And hope.
It's a new phone so I am still within the 14 days they give to return it.. of course if it's a brick when they get it back... heh. Okay it's a 100% brick it does turn on just not boot up...
it works omg
El Daddy said:
Flash the stock image, comprehend what you are doing while you flash the images, and never use a toolkit again.
Here's all the info you need. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
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Well 2nd time through was the charm.. and not worrying about nexus drivers too much.
Thank you very much for the link. I can't say I really understand everything more but I am happy that I seemed to have killed the phone in the worst way and yet still got it working.
I was going to go back to the iPhone 5 (and lose a lot of money haha). I'm glad this one is working. I genuinely like it more than the iPhone and I save several hundred dollars.
If anyone's googling in a similar situation.. what I did the 2nd time through was use recovery mode on the phone to restore factory default and clear the cache. Then I did all the steps outlined in the above link again. I think that if it doesn't work the first time it's worth doing it again carefully.. and maybe a third time if needed. Wow. It works XD.
kraemder said:
Well 2nd time through was the charm.. and not worrying about nexus drivers too much.
Thank you very much for the link. I can't say I really understand everything more but I am happy that I seemed to have killed the phone in the worst way and yet still got it working.
I was going to go back to the iPhone 5 (and lose a lot of money haha). I'm glad this one is working. I genuinely like it more than the iPhone and I save several hundred dollars.
If anyone's googling in a similar situation.. what I did the 2nd time through was use recovery mode on the phone to restore factory default and clear the cache. Then I did all the steps outlined in the above link again. I think that if it doesn't work the first time it's worth doing it again carefully.. and maybe a third time if needed. Wow. It works XD.
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Awesome! Glad you figured it out. Sorry I wasn't around to help you through it. I was out and about this evening.
Thanks for the beer, I appreciate it!
Hello guys
For some reason I decided to test out the CM and Slim 4.4 roms, but did not see that there were issues flashing with TWRP... so flashing failed with both these ROMS. I did not read the ops on Slim and did not see any warning about TWRP on the CM, so began wiping stuff to try make the flash happen, eventually wiped too much, and now I cannot boot the tablet. Worse is I have also wiped the zip files from the tablet so now I have PhilZ Touch CMW recovery but nothing to flash and this Recovery does not suppot OTG memory, so I have nothing to flash.
SO, tried my full version of Nexus 10 Toolkit to sideload the zip, but Toolkit never gets past "Toolkit Waiting for ADB mode".
I don't know the manual commands to try flash one of these roms, but at this point, I would be happy to just go back to stock, and cant figure how to get to Download mode, there is no home button on an N10.
It seems my safest bet, if possible, would be to get to download and flash a rom there.
Any ideas, much appreciated,
Mark.
fredphoesh said:
Hello guys
For some reason I decided to test out the CM and Slim 4.4 roms, but did not see that there were issues flashing with TWRP... so flashing failed with both these ROMS. I did not read the ops on Slim and did not see any warning about TWRP on the CM, so began wiping stuff to try make the flash happen, eventually wiped too much, and now I cannot boot the tablet. Worse is I have also wiped the zip files from the tablet so now I have PhilZ Touch CMW recovery but nothing to flash and this Recovery does not suppot OTG memory, so I have nothing to flash.
SO, tried my full version of Nexus 10 Toolkit to sideload the zip, but Toolkit never gets past "Toolkit Waiting for ADB mode".
I don't know the manual commands to try flash one of these roms, but at this point, I would be happy to just go back to stock, and cant figure how to get to Download mode, there is no home button on an N10.
It seems my safest bet, if possible, would be to get to download and flash a rom there.
Any ideas, much appreciated,
Mark.
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From recovery power down your tablet and get into fastboot by holding volume buttons and power buttons at the same time. If this works then you'll be fine because from there you can get back to stock. Download wugfreshs nexus toolkit. Use the option to return to stock and check the one that says stuck in bootloop but can access fastboot (or something like that) then plug your tablet in while its in fastboot mode and go through the steps. It'll have to download stock factory image unless you already have it and browse to it but the toolkit will do everything and get your tablet working again. Don't worry too much its usually not as bad as it seems. The same thing happened to me and I panicked and it turned out to be an easy fix. If you need any more help or more detail on what to do just ask
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Thanks Abdel, that worked fine... though I did spend about an hour on Wugfresh last night, it kept on starting to do stuff, then got to recovery mode and it stopped with wufgresh saying waiting for device or something... maybe shutting computer helped too... anyway, thanks for the advice, somehow it worked!
Cheers
Mark.
abdel12345 said:
From recovery power down your tablet and get into fastboot by holding volume buttons and power buttons at the same time. If this works then you'll be fine because from there you can get back to stock. Download wugfreshs nexus toolkit. Use the option to return to stock and check the one that says stuck in bootloop but can access fastboot (or something like that) then plug your tablet in while its in fastboot mode and go through the steps. It'll have to download stock factory image unless you already have it and browse to it but the toolkit will do everything and get your tablet working again. Don't worry too much its usually not as bad as it seems. The same thing happened to me and I panicked and it turned out to be an easy fix. If you need any more help or more detail on what to do just ask
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fredphoesh said:
Thanks Abdel, that worked fine... though I did spend about an hour on Wugfresh last night, it kept on starting to do stuff, then got to recovery mode and it stopped with wufgresh saying waiting for device or something... maybe shutting computer helped too... anyway, thanks for the advice, somehow it worked!
Cheers
Mark.
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Your welcome I'm glad you got it working. Make sure to that k wugfresh as well for his awesome tool
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Ok guys, I'm in deep trouble here. Kind of extremely desperate.
Please bare with my wall of text!
So I had just backed up my ROM, copied over the previous nandroid over to my computer and deleted it to make space for the new one. Made the new one, copied over the kernel I wanted to flash. Rebooted into recovery and simply flashed the kernel. That's where the screw-up started.
Wiped my cache and rebooted to a flashing purple and blue screen. Turned my phone off immediately and went to restore the backup I had just made. Not even midway through, I got "error while restoring /system". Nandroid is apparently no good?!
Now, I don't have anything on my SD to flash, not even a clean CM, another backup, nothing. I can only boot to recovery, if I try to reboot, I just get the google logo, then it goes off and back on, and so on. If I connect the phone to my PC, it obviously isn't detecting it.
I need a way to push or copy another nandroid backup or just a ROM over to my SD to flash something! I can't have bricked my phone!
Not too familiar with adb commands, haven't used them in ages!
I appreciate any help you can give me!!
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Ok guys, I'm in deep trouble here. Kind of extremely desperate.
Please bare with my wall of text!
So I had just backed up my ROM, copied over the previous nandroid over to my computer and deleted it to make space for the new one. Made the new one, copied over the kernel I wanted to flash. Rebooted into recovery and simply flashed the kernel. That's where the screw-up started.
Wiped my cache and rebooted to a flashing purple and blue screen. Turned my phone off immediately and went to restore the backup I had just made. Not even midway through, I got "error while restoring /system". Nandroid is apparently no good?!
Now, I don't have anything on my SD to flash, not even a clean CM, another backup, nothing. I can only boot to recovery, if I try to reboot, I just get the google logo, then it goes off and back on, and so on. If I connect the phone to my PC, it obviously isn't detecting it.
I need a way to push or copy another nandroid backup or just a ROM over to my SD to flash something! I can't have bricked my phone!
Not too familiar with adb commands, haven't used them in ages!
I appreciate any help you can give me!!
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Have you thought of using a toolkit like WugFresh NRT?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
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Berrydroidcafe said:
Have you thought of using a toolkit like WugFresh NRT?
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If you're talking about this one, reading the thread right now. About to download the windows version and try to flash stock and unroot, then root again.
Do you recommend anything else? I didn't want to lose root.
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If you're talking about this one, reading the thread right now. About to download the windows version and try to flash stock and unroot, then root again.
Do you recommend anything else? I didn't want to lose root.
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As far as losing root, you shouldn't lose it, and there's no reason to believe that you might have already lost it, but if you are planning on flashing stock and unrooting then it wouldn't matter anyway.
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Berrydroidcafe said:
As far as losing root, you shouldn't lose it, and there's no reason to believe that you might have already lost it, but if you are planning on flashing stock and unrooting then it wouldn't matter anyway.
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I'm stuck!!!
I tried flashing stock and unrooting, but I had issues with what it said could be either my drives not being installed, or my USB Debugging not being enabled. I don't think I ever enabled USB debugging after this last time I flashed CM. I tried going through full driver installation, but I still hit the same wall with USB debugging not being enabled!!
What should/can I do?
Boot into recovery and connect your USB cable on it. Download an ADB standalone and place the files you want to transfer there, open it and type:
adb push (local of the rom/kernel/wharever) (path to sd/internal storage). it would be something like that
adb push rom.zip /sdcard/0/
this will transfer the file to the root of the internal storage.
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I'm stuck!!!
I tried flashing stock and unrooting, but I had issues with what it said could be either my drives not being installed, or my USB Debugging not being enabled. I don't think I ever enabled USB debugging after this last time I flashed CM. I tried going through full driver installation, but I still hit the same wall with USB debugging not being enabled!!
What should/can I do?
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Did you go through the steps in the Full Driver Configuration Guide?
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sky0165 said:
Boot into recovery and connect your USB cable on it. Download an ADB standalone and place the files you want to transfer there, open it and type:
adb push (local of the rom/kernel/wharever) (path to sd/internal storage). it would be something like that
adb push rom.zip /sdcard/0/
this will transfer the file to the root of the internal storage.
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Tried sideloading, sideloaded CM over. Seemed to work, but when I rebooted, got through to the CM logo and got stuck in a bootloop.
Rebooted into recovery and wiped device again.
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Did you go through the steps in the Full Driver Configuration Guide?
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I tried, but I got stuck because I couldn't do Step 1 without having USB Debugging enabled!
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Tried sideloading, sideloaded CM over. Seemed to work, but when I rebooted, got through to the CM logo and got stuck in a bootloop.
Rebooted into recovery and wiped device again.
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Just a thought, have you considered using TWRP? Are you sure it was actually a bootloop and not a boot that is just taking a little longer than usual to finish?
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Berrydroidcafe said:
Just a thought, have you considered using TWRP? Are you sure it was actually a bootloop and not a boot that is just taking a little longer than usual to finish?
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I waited for over 5 minutes, turned it off, and tried booting it up. After another 3 minutes of nothing, I gave up.
Tried sideloading an old backup but wasn't able to sideload anymore..
Currently trying to do the driver things in the toolkit..
I may have screwed this up even more.
While doing Step 1, I again couldn't do the whole USB Debugging enable/disable, so I just went and did everything else that I could. Step 2 installed, Step 3 couldn't recognize my phone, just went back to Google bootloop.
I don't think I can even try sideloading stuff anymore.
I may have screwed this up even more.
While doing Step 1, I again couldn't do the whole USB Debugging enable/disable, so I just went and did everything else that I could. Step 2 installed, Step 3 couldn't recognize my phone, just went back to Google bootloop.
I don't think I can even try sideloading stuff anymore.
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Ok, sideloading CM again. Currently at 70%. I'll keep you guys posted.
Sorry to post 4 times in a row, but still stuck in the CM bootloop.
Is there anything better I should try sideloading? Maybe a factory image?
Something that would completely restore everything?
Sorry to post 5 (FIVE) times in a row!
FIXED IT! **** YES! I was running out of time too, have to wake up in four hours for work, hahahah.
I really don't know what happened this time. Tried running the Flash Stock + Unroot again, and it went through!
Going to enjoy stock for a while, this scared me way more than my previous adventures with rooting have, and I'm not entirely (but mostly) new to this!
Thank you so much for your help man, couldn't have done it without some support. Really feel indebt to the guy that made the toolkit, though. Thanks all around!
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Sorry to post 5 (FIVE) times in a row!
FIXED IT! **** YES! I was running out of time too, have to wake up in four hours for work, hahahah.
I really don't know what happened this time. Tried running the Flash Stock + Unroot again, and it went through!
Going to enjoy stock for a while, this scared me way more than my previous adventures with rooting have, and I'm not entirely (but mostly) new to this!
Thank you so much for your help man, couldn't have done it without some support. Really feel indebt to the guy that made the toolkit, though. Thanks all around!
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Great! :thumbup:
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