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So, my Nexus 4 has been running great. I left the phone on my desk while I watched some TV and when I returned it wouldn't start. I thought this was odd as it had 30% battery when I left. I thought perhaps something was running in the background and managed to run it down. But even after connecting the phone to the charger, it wouldn't restart. However, I was able to reboot the phone into Fastboot mode by holding down the Volume Down + Power key. It restarted and I had 26% battery, so that wasn't the issue. Something must have caused it to lock-up. My question is what I can do to determine the cause. Are the log files that might be of assistance?
I used the Nexus 4 toolkit to unlock + root the phone. About an hour prior to this issue, I flashed the new CWM 6.0.1.9 Touch Recovery using ROM Manager. Other than that, I have no idea what could have caused this. Prior to that, I had the stock recovery installed. As for running software, I just had Gmail, Chrome, Speedtest
It might be because of the Rom try flashing back to stock
The ROM is stock 4.2 with the latest OTA. Do you mean that I should reflash the stock image because my system may be corrupted?
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jasonwc said:
The ROM is stock 4.2 with the latest OTA. Do you mean that I should reflash the stock image because my system may be corrupted?
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Everything should be ok man. Don't re flash or anything. I did the same to my phone as you and have had amazing battery. Just let it die all the way and recharge. See if it happens.
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On AOKP 4.2.1 the phone app crashes when I receive a call. I've reflashed a fresh downloaded GAPPS on here and it does the same thing. When coming to this ROM I wiped all data and factory reset everything. I've tried that again and it's still doing this. Starting to get on my nerves. Anyone have this problem?
MERKJONES said:
On AOKP 4.2.1 the phone app crashes when I receive a call. I've reflashed a fresh downloaded GAPPS on here and it does the same thing. When coming to this ROM I wiped all data and factory reset everything. I've tried that again and it's still doing this. Starting to get on my nerves. Anyone have this problem?
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try a different rom. you can also try to delete the data for the phone app(then wipe dalvik after).
simms22 said:
try a different rom. you can also try to delete the data for the phone app(then wipe dalvik after).
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I tried clearing the data from the phone app. I can reboot and clear dalvik again. I also flashed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2127498 and it's still acting up.
are you using any mods or themes?
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are you using any mods or themes?
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Nope.
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Nope.
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did you dirty flash your rom or did you make a clean install? also, after you installed aokp, did you restore system apps with titanium backup? and, have you tried a third party phone app?
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did you dirty flash your rom or did you make a clean install? also, after you installed aokp, did you restore system apps with titanium backup? and, have you tried a third party phone app?
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I did a clean install and manually installed all of my apps again. I managed to fix it by dirty flashing the 4.2 version of AOKP. However; my phone still has that random reboot issue. The thing that's odd is, when it comes back online it loses it's settings. So I'll have to setup Google Wallet and Google Voice again. My keyboard goes back to the default AOSP one.
I think I might just RMA this phone and start over. I do love it, and the negatives don't outweigh the positives.
rma? dont.
wipe that thing clean with a factory reset. all your problems will be gone. then, if you like, start trying out roms again.
but bugging lg and nexus because you trashed your phone, thats not so cool. i can kinda understand samsung tries hard to lock their bootloaders sometimes.
links here: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-jop40d-factory-ca7602f0.tgz
theres a batch file inside, make sure fastboot is around and click it (you must be in fastboot mode aswell). in a couple of seconds youre back to stock.
molesarecoming said:
rma? dont.
wipe that thing clean with a factory reset. all your problems will be gone. then, if you like, start trying out roms again.
but bugging lg and nexus because you trashed your phone, thats not so cool. i can kinda understand samsung tries hard to lock their bootloaders sometimes.
links here: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-jop40d-factory-ca7602f0.tgz
theres a batch file inside, make sure fastboot is around and click it (you must be in fastboot mode aswell). in a couple of seconds youre back to stock.
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Um... I had the problem on stock 4.2 as well, factory from Google themselves. It rebooted at random for no reason. I have wiped everything... multiple times. It's still doing it.
same thing happened to me this whole week. I have been flashing custom ROM custom this whole week. People have been texting saying my phone dont work. I called in to re-fresh with TMobile network and still the same thing. I also got a new micro sim card still the same. i have to revert back to stock with root in order for the phone calls to work. i have been searching for a fix.
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toanau said:
same thing happened to me this whole week. I have been flashing custom ROM custom this whole week. People have been texting saying my phone dont work. I called in to re-fresh with TMobile network and still the same thing. I also got a new micro sim card still the same. i have to revert back to stock with root in order for the phone calls to work. i have been searching for a fix.
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I thought it was the MicroSIM too - I got a brand new one with them, but nope - it's been all strange. Do you have 4.2 Stock rooted anywhere? I can only seem to find 4.2.1. I just wiped everything, restored factory etc etc and threw stock 4.2.1 on here, got the reboot issue. Phone has been working lately finally. I had to dirty flash AOKP 4.2.1 build-1 over build-2.
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I thought it was the MicroSIM too - I got a brand new one with them, but nope - it's been all strange. Do you have 4.2 Stock rooted anywhere? I can only seem to find 4.2.1. I just wiped everything, restored factory etc etc and threw stock 4.2.1 on here, got the reboot issue. Phone has been working lately finally. I had to dirty flash AOKP 4.2.1 build-1 over build-2.
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i just used the stock 4.2.1 ROM and kernel. I am using the backup I made for my phone when i first rooted my phone. I don't a copy of the that. try using WUG rooting kit. u should be able to load it in that way. good luck. i missing flashing custom ROM, but I need my phone call to work. and by the way my last custom ROM was AOKP.
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You can always follow efrants guide to go fully back to stock.
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Did you make any changes to the dpi in the build.prop? I remember messing with that on my nexus s on ics, and the phone app would crash.
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tokuzumi said:
Did you make any changes to the dpi in the build.prop? I remember messing with that on my nexus s on ics, and the phone app would crash.
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No. And even on stock 4.2 I'm now having the sound disappearing problem. Where it'll just stop for no reason.
i am trying download a new gapp and see if that fix the problem. stock is very boring
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toanau said:
i am trying download a new gapp and see if that fix the problem. stock is very boring
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I tried to get a new gapps in case the download was bad. I'm just going to RMA it. I'm on 4.2.0 stock, unrooted with default everything and it's still acting up. Phone.apk works now; which is lovely, but it reboots at random and Music stops working after 3 minutes.
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I tried to get a new gapps in case the download was bad. I'm just going to RMA it. I'm on 4.2.0 stock, unrooted with default everything and it's still acting up. Phone.apk works now; which is lovely, but it reboots at random and Music stops working after 3 minutes.
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Everything is good now. Just flash new AOPK mr1 build 3 with newly doiwnload gapp. So far so good. Make sure you download the gapp from 12/12/2012
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Okay, so I was listening to a YouTube video via Popup Browser BETA. When the song finished, I tried closing the window, but it wouldn't let me interact with the window. Not sure why. I just figured since the app was in beta it was just confused, so I went to the settings->running applications->I force closed the app. But for some reason, the little window still wouldn't go away. So I decided to reboot my device. Bad idea, apparently...
Now whenever I boot up my phone it'll vibrate, display the Google logo for a few seconds, and then... it goes to a blank black screen. Not a clue why. I've tried:
- Leaving it to charge and rebooting
- Leaving it in the blank black screen
- Booting into recovery, then trying to reboot the device from there
- Clearing cache partition
Nothing works. I still can't boot up my phone again.
I'm running Slimbean 4.2.1 (not the latest version). There really isn't anything that might have triggered this. I can still charge my phone (the charging animation still occurs) and I can still go into CWM Recovery. I'd really rather not have to install a new ROM or anything... but if I have to, is there a way to extract the data I have on my phone now while in recovery or something?
Any suggestions?
EDIT: This has been FIXED. Moderators, if you see this, you can close this thread. If anyone else has this problem, try reflashing your current version of your ROM, that's how I fixed mine. I'm not responsible for damage to your device.
Why haven't you tried reflashing your rom without wiping data?
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mitchdickson said:
Why haven't you tried reflashing your rom without wiping data?
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I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
Surpass said:
I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
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It's not going to hurt anything. Make a CWM backup of your data if you want.
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Surpass said:
I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
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No way of corrupting your data, as long as you don't select to wipe data partition or data is already corrupted. But this is strange that your phone gone crazy like this. Try to reflash your rom without wiping data and see if your phone will boot up
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mitchdickson said:
It's not going to hurt anything. Make a CWM backup of your data if you want.
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I've not got enough free space on my phone I don't think (it's only 16GB, I got about 2GB free).
Unless I'm mistaken the backup will take more than that, yes? Considering I've got a few games apps that probably equate to about 4GB.
gallardo5 said:
No way of corrupting your data, as long as you don't select to wipe data partition or data is already corrupted. But this is strange that your phone gone crazy like this. Try to reflash your rom without wiping data and see if your phone will boot up
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Should I reflash with a newer version of the ROM or should I reflash the old one that I'm running?
EDIT: Woops sorry about double post.
Surpass said:
Should I reflash with a newer version of the ROM or should I reflash the old one that I'm running?
EDIT: Woops sorry about double post.
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Reflash the same version you were running before this accident, as the newest version requires clean flash. If you want to run the latest version and have your data back, reflash the same version you were running before, then backup your data, wipe phone, flash the latest version and restore your data
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gallardo5 said:
Reflash the same version you were running before this accident, as the newest version requires clean flash. If you want to run the latest version and have your data back, reflash the same version you were running before, then backup your data, wipe phone, flash the latest version and restore your data
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Okay I'll give that a go, thanks for the help and I'll report back my results. :good:
EDIT: Tried downloading the Zip from their site and now it's saying I've got to log in, but no place to register... grr. I might be a bit longer..
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Okay I'll give that a go, thanks for the help and I'll report back my results. :good:
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Good luck then and if you will have any problem, just write here and don't forget to quote my post so I will get an email notification
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gallardo5 said:
Good luck then and if you will have any problem, just write here and don't forget to quote my post so I will get an email notification
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WOO! Thanks a lot! Booted up perfectly, and no loss of data or anything like that. Only odd things is it seems to have changed my DPI... but I can change that easily so it's not really a bother. It also made me have to update the Virus Definitions on Avast!, not sure why either.
I shall now proceed to thank all of your posts.
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WOO! Thanks a lot! Booted up perfectly, and no loss of data or anything like that. Only odd things is it seems to have changed my DPI... but I can change that easily so it's not really a bother. It also made me have to update the Virus Definitions on Avast!, not sure why either.
I shall now proceed to thank all of your posts.
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Great to hear it worked for you now comes the best part, flashing the latest rom
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gallardo5 said:
Great to hear it worked for you now comes the best part, flashing the latest rom
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Yes either that or perhaps switch to a new one, I've been with semi-stock Android for quite a while now I'm really liking the port of MIUI V5...
As the title says my nexus 4 just started rebooting out of no where, while one the phone, in an app, doesnt really seem to have a pateren.. I believe it started when she got the 4.4 update and now has 4.4.2. anyone els experience this issue? I think im going to try a factory reset to see if that helps. any input would be appreciated.
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As the title says my nexus 4 just started rebooting out of no where, while one the phone, in an app, doesnt really seem to have a pateren.. I believe it started when she got the 4.4 update and now has 4.4.2. anyone els experience this issue? I think im going to try a factory reset to see if that helps. any input would be appreciated.
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Are you rooted? If so and you have a custom recovery, I would do the factory reset via the recovery, that way you should still have your apps. If not, then you will lose everything and have to start from scratch.
Could be due to one of two things or a combination of things. One is a hardware issue, which I hope isn't the case. I would check the apps first before resetting, then do the reset. If it continues, try re-flashing the stock image. If after that and you're still having problems, going to 4.4, or 4.3 since it started with 4.4.
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Are you rooted? If so and you have a custom recovery, I would do the factory reset via the recovery, that way you should still have your apps. If not, then you will lose everything and have to start from scratch.
Could be due to one of two things or a combination of things. One is a hardware issue, which I hope isn't the case. I would check the apps first before resetting, then do the reset. If it continues, try re-flashing the stock image. If after that and you're still having problems, going to 4.4, or 4.3 since it started with 4.4.
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Its bone stock, ill have to take a look at her apps just to check whats up there but i doubt thats a culprit. I may be wrong but if I flash stock ota update it wont delete the user data and storage correct?
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Its bone stock, ill have to take a look at her apps just to check whats up there but i doubt thats a culprit. I may be wrong but if I flash stock ota update it wont delete the user data and storage correct?
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If you flash stock, it WILL wipe out everything unfortunately. If you at the least had an unlocked bootloader, you could have flashed the ota.zip and kept everything intact.
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If you flash stock, it WILL wipe out everything unfortunately. If you at the least had an unlocked bootloader, you could have flashed the ota.zip and kept everything intact.
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And unlocking the BL wipes it as well correct?
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If you flash stock, it WILL wipe out everything unfortunately. If you at the least had an unlocked bootloader, you could have flashed the ota.zip and kept everything intact.
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And unlocking the BL wipes it as well correct?
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Yep!
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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.
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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 #
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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 #
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I hope you haven't tried it yet
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I have tried it. Still no boot.
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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?
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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.