HI all,
My nexus 4 just won't boot no matter how i flash any 4.3 version on it.
Tried google's factory image's bat file, efrant's guide, fota, ota file and some custom roms.
Tried each with wiping cache followed by factory settings.
I'm really lost, how could it be?
At which point does it stop?
bootloop, x screen.
You tried using the factory images from google's website? I had to wipe mine recently and flash the bootloader, reset fastboot, flash radio, reset bootloader, and then flash zip with the Boot/System/UserData/Etc in it and then once it was complete booted up fine. Might want to give it another shot, but don't forget to reboot the bootloader between flashes. It does help.
MisterRich said:
You tried using the factory images from google's website? I had to wipe mine recently and flash the bootloader, reset fastboot, flash radio, reset bootloader, and then flash zip with the Boot/System/UserData/Etc in it and then once it was complete booted up fine. Might want to give it another shot, but don't forget to reboot the bootloader between flashes. It does help.
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I got stuck on this. I was really worried that I'd have to leave my brand new N4.
I ended up flashing Google's stock 4.2.2 images for everything, relocking bootloader then unlocking it. Then at that point, when you are in fastboot make sure you click start. It'll then show the android with a progress bar, just wait from there and it'll boot. I'm sure Google will fix these issues with 4.3.1
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Hello all, I just had a quick questions for those of you who have unlocked / rooted your Nexus 10 and installed the factory image:
1. Did you all use the toolkit in the Android Dev Forum for Nexus 10 to achieve the root?
2. Once you flashed a custom recovery was installing the factory image as simple as downloading the zip from google (https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#mantaray) and then flashing it via recovery and rebooting AFTER you unlock the bootloader etc?
I was under the impression that once you Unlock / Root, you have no OS on your device, is this correct? Or can I root and Android 4.2.1 will still be there, albeit completely wiped of my user data from before.
Thanks for the help, don't wanna get started on this until I know what I'm doing! Don't want a $400 makeshift frisbee disk
You can achieve root in a number of ways including flashing the SuperSU zip found in the How-to Root thread(s) or flashing a ROM with root already built in through the custom recovery.
Unlocking the device does not usually (is not supposed to) remove the OS but it does wipe data back to factory default. There has been, however, an issue with 4.2 on the N10 that causes it not to boot until you go back into Recovery and either factory reset there again or flash the stock image from Google.
Fromako said:
You can achieve root in a number of ways including flashing the SuperSU zip found in the How-to Root thread(s) or flashing a ROM with root already built in through the custom recovery.
Unlocking the device does not usually (is not supposed to) remove the OS but it does wipe data back to factory default. There has been, however, an issue with 4.2 on the N10 that causes it not to boot until you go back into Recovery and either factory reset there again or flash the stock image from Google.
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Thanks! I think I will go through with using the toolkit tonight and see if I can get it to boot into the factory image. Glad that it sticks around (hopefully) if not I can just flash 4.2 from google via TWRP...thats what I needed to know
So really all I need to root is this:
1. fastboot oem unlock
2. fastboot flash recovery [recovery.img]
3. Boot into recovery
4. Flash SuperSU.zip? --- Where can I download SuperSU.zip ?
5. Wipe Cache / Factory Reset via TWRP wipe data
6. Reboot
7. Profit?
I won't use the toolkit if I don't have to since I am familiar with some fastboot stuff
TheEmpyre said:
I won't use the toolkit if I don't have to since I am familiar with some fastboot stuff
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Sounds like you know enough to do it without resorting to a toolkit, yeah. This zip file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1997227 is one place to get fastboot drivers and the SuperSU.
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/Nexus10/Nexus10RootNew.zip
I'd recommend (although it may not be necessary) making sure your devices fully boots after unlocking and wiping before going back to recovery to flash SU. Again, this is just because of the unlock boot loop issue that didn't happen on pre-4.2 nexus devices like the Galaxy Nexus.
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Sounds like you know enough to do it without resorting to a toolkit, yeah. This zip file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1997227 is one place to get fastboot drivers and the SuperSU.
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/Nexus10/Nexus10RootNew.zip
I'd recommend (although it may not be necessary) making sure your devices fully boots after unlocking and wiping before going back to recovery to flash SU. Again, this is just because of the unlock boot loop issue that didn't happen on pre-4.2 nexus devices like the Galaxy Nexus.
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I just finished successfully rooting...got hung up after I unlocked the bootloader and flashing TWRP but all I had to do was Format the Data and wipe cache after to successfully boot into the OS. After that I was able to load SuperSU to my SDcard and then flashed it, reboot, did root-checker and I'm all good! Thought I was screwed there for a sec cuz I didn't pre-load SuperSU or the factory image in-case it hit the fan and I wasn't able to mount my SDcard storage via TWRP...Figured it all out though thanks for the help! Glad I was able to do it without the tool-kit!
Guys I know there are a ton of threads with this problem but no matter what I try, i'm still stuck on a boot loop.
So basically I had PA Rom 3.99 RC2 on my nexus and everything was fine. I then tried to flash PA AOSP kit kat build
but my phone would not boot so I went with a factory image occam 4.3 Phone booted and all was good. I was liking the
stock experience and then about 4 days later after a reboot, phone got stuck on the boot animation X. It would not get out of it
so I decided to flash PA Rom 3.99 rc2 again via ADB push zip. factory reset, installed the rom and gapps, wiped caches and thought i was good to go. Well the phone again would not get past the boot animation of PA.
i then decided to go with the Factory image occam 4.3 via fastboot and installed it and everything. Again stuck on the X. So then I tried PSX rom 4.3 again via adb push, did my factory reset and flashed the rom and gapps and superSu. Also got stuck on the boot animation. Left it for over 2 hours bootlooping and nothing.
Going crazy I went and fastboot the 4.2.2 JDQ39 img and downgraded bootloader, baseband. Installed it and again, stuck on the X animation. just hangs there.
Any help? i don't know what else to try, currently using my HD2 and it is sooo slow :cyclops:
Make sure to use latest cwm recovery. Avoid using twrp recovery. Use the toolkit and flash stock image. It will wipe everything in the phone but it will fix it.
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badboy47 said:
Make sure to use latest cwm recovery. Avoid using twrp recovery. Use the toolkit and flash stock image. It will wipe everything in the phone but it will fix it.
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Thanks for the suggestion but still nothing. Updated CWMR to 6.0.4.3 and tried the 4.3 stock image. Still hangs on bootup. android file transfer recognizes the device is plugged in via usb but just gives me the error "could not connect to device"
Oh man I don't know what's wrong with my nexus
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I'm having this same issue, and it happened just like you. I flashed CM 10.2 nightly 20131114 this morning and I tested it to make sure everything was working. I decided to reboot the phone, and after that I keep getting stuck at the boot animation no matter what I did. To no avail, I reflashed a working zip, restored a backup, restored another backup, flashed the 4.4 factory image (wiping the entire phone), the 4.3 factory image, and then I read that the 4.2 baseband can fix it, so I flashed the 4.2 factory image. That 4.2 image gets it to boot, but without baseband. Right now I'm trying different radios just to see if I can get service again. If it matters, I was running the hybrid 33/84 radio for T-Mobile's LTE when this happened. Very, very peculiar situation here. I've never had anything like this happen, and especially remain an issue after wiping the entire device. I'm hoping it's not a sudden hardware issue.
i jst flash factory image of 4.4 n nw my phone is stuck o the boot animation screen plz help
Hmmy 4444 said:
i jst flash factory image of 4.4 n nw my phone is stuck o the boot animation screen plz help
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just re-flash 4.2, it'll work. I've been doing that since Monday. but I want kitkat too!!
my device is stuck on the boot animation too. is there a way to reinstall the default 4.3 recovery and just rerun the update or something basic like that? my device was almost at stock before running the update. the only two things: twrp and rooted via recovery. so i thought everything will work fine and now there is no backup...
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Why?
Just fastboot flash all the image files (boot.img,recovery.img....) from the factory image.
Ok do I did search first but can't find anyone with the same problem.
Started with stock 4.3 rooted, unlocked,TWRP.
Got the update notification, told it to update. It auto rebooted to TWRP and applied the update with no error. When it was done (assuming it was done progress bar finished) it went to the main TWRP menu. I told it to reboot and it just sits at the new 4.3 splash screen animation. I assumed it may take a bit so I let it sit for about 20min with no change. Rebooted it a couple times, also tried applying the update again via twrp (errors out as i woukd expect). Wiped dalvik and cache. Didn't do a factory wipe because I'd like to avoid that but still no change.
Any suggestions? Should I manually load the full 4.4 package via TWRP?
Thanks!
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Same exact setup... Say exact issue... Oh and before rebooting I wiped Dalvik and Cache as "Sandard Operating Proceedure" ... I'm going to just do a clean flash at this point....
Tracy
Hi
I have the same problem. had a rooted 4.3, and after the update the screens remains on the splash thing. restarted a couple of times, did wipe data, factory reset, and it still remains stuck at the boot. What should i do. pls help
step944 said:
I have the same problem. had a rooted 4.3, and after the update the screens remains on the splash thing. restarted a couple of times, did wipe data, factory reset, and it still remains stuck at the boot. What should i do. pls help
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Prior to the installation of the OTA it is safer to re-install stock recovery. Root is lost but re-installing a custom recovery and SuperSu bring back root.
gunner1937 said:
Prior to the installation of the OTA it is safer to re-install stock recovery. Root is lost but re-installing a custom recovery and SuperSu bring back root.
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How can i install stock recovery?
You *could* unzip the factory image and then fastboot the recovery.img file. A lot easier is to download the wugfresh nexus root toolkit and use that:
http://www.wugfresh.com/
ty, but do u think it works, because i cant open my nexus 10 memory from the pc, since it is stuck at start up
Wug's toolkit has an option to restore to stock from a bricked system. All you need to be able to do is to get to the bootloader (press the power button while holding down both volume buttons -- you should get a dead android with a red triangle on chest).
Hello everyone, I thought I've got a big problem here...
My nexus 4 originally crashed and stuck into a boot loop several days ago, and I flashed stock factory image(4.4.2), then it works again. After that, I imported my backup files into internal storage and using titanium backup restored my apps and data, unfortunately, crashed and boot loop again...So I flashed stock factory image again to find out what reason of this. After several restore from stock factory image, I found that my sms message and many mp3 files could lead to crash, after flash factory image, works fine, use it, reboot it ,fine, but after copy many mp3 files and restore my sms backup(about 2,000+ messages), reboot, stuck into boot loop... Now I try to flash stock image again, however, with no luck to boot my phone...
During my privious several times of flash stock image, it's always hard to boot the machine normally at the first time, I always try to wipe cache, factory reset in recovery even several times to manage to boot the machine normally.
This time when I flash stock image again, I just can't boot my nexus 4 anymore, even wipe cache, factory reset from recovery, whatever other tries...:crying:
Now I even tried several ways to flash stock image(4.4.2, which I used to managed boot up before):
1 Using the newest Nexus Root Toolkit: Boot into bootloader mode and click "Flash Stock+Unroot(soft bricked/boot loop)", everything says OK, however, it just can't boot and stuck in Google logo screen, even after I waited for 2 hours...
2 Using the flash-all.bat: Extract the .tgz image file into a folder which contains adb.exe and fastboot.exe, then execute flash-all.bat, everything reports OK, but just can't boot up, still stuck on Google screen.
3 Manually flash: Extract the .tgz and the .zip, put all files(including boot.zip, system.zip, recovery.zip etc) in one folder, flash bootloader and radio first, then "fastboot flash [partition] *.img", and everything says OK, just can't boot up and stuck on Google screen.
4 Manually flash using 3rd party recovery: Have tried to flash newest CWRP recovery and CMOD recovery separately first, then do manually flash as above.
I even do:
fastboot oem lock
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase system(or fastboot format system)
fastboot erase userdata(or fastboot format userdata)
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase cache(or fastboot format cache)
these commands before I try to do the four ways to restore factory image above, but nothing changed.
Now stuck on Google screen, what ever I wipe cache/factory reset how many times, it's just stucked... I even doubt if my flash memory was broken???
PELEASE HELP!
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Hello everyone, I thought I've got a big problem here...
My nexus 4 originally crashed and stuck into a boot loop several days ago, and I flashed stock factory image(4.4.2), then it works again. After
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PELEASE HELP!
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Flash CWM, wipe the partitions there (But not /boot or /persist, those will hardbrick if you reboot after wiping although I don't think it will let you wipe them), flash the latest radio (.98), and then flash a 4.4 ROM.
If that doesn't work, wait for more responses from others, then try this as a last resort. I suggest that you wait a few days, this can be dangerous
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/tutorial-how-to-unbrick-n4-t2347060
Follow carefully, and read multiple times before starting. Take it slow and don't panic if the process doesn't go as expected at 85% (Mine wouldn't reboot on its own for some reason, it kept erroring but it was fine and worked itself out)
It should put the phone on a complete clean slate for flashing
Thanks for your reply
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Flash CWM, wipe the partitions there (But not /boot or /persist, those will hardbrick if you reboot after wiping although I don't think it will let you wipe them), flash the latest radio (.98), and then flash a 4.4 ROM.
If that doesn't work, wait for more responses from others, then try this as a last resort. I suggest that you wait a few days, this can be dangerous
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/tutorial-how-to-unbrick-n4-t2347060
Follow carefully, and read multiple times before starting. Take it slow and don't panic if the process doesn't go as expected at 85% (Mine wouldn't reboot on its own for some reason, it kept erroring but it was fine and worked itself out)
It should put the phone on a complete clean slate for flashing
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Hi lopezk38,
Thanks for your reply! And I do as your instruction:flash newest CWM recovery, then factory rest, wipe cache, and under mouts menu format system/cache/data and firmware(but error), then flash a latest CyanogenMod image for nexus 4, with no luck, everything remains the same
However, I saw the link you provided to unbrick nexus 4, I'll read it carefully several times. At the same time, I'll wait for any other kind help that anyone can provide. If finally there is no other way to repair it, I'll go through with your link.
Thanks again for the tip!
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Hi lopezk38,
Thanks for your reply! And I do as your instruction:flash newest CWM recovery, then factory rest, wipe cache, and under mouts menu format system/cache/data and firmware(but error), then flash a latest CyanogenMod image for nexus 4, with no luck, everything remains the same
However, I saw the link you provided to unbrick nexus 4, I'll read it carefully several times. At the same time, I'll wait for any other kind help that anyone can provide. If finally there is no other way to repair it, I'll go through with your link.
Thanks again for the tip!
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Yeah /firmware was another that won't wipe, I just forgot to mention it. Best of luck
It sounds like you have faulty nand block (s). Before no critical parts of the firmware got written to it, so it developed problems when you wrote data to it. Looks like this time you didn't get so lucky, or more failed. If it's under warranty I would RMA it; if it's not, I'm honestly not sure what your best option is. Maybe get one that has broken screen etc, then do a logic board transplant. Good luck.
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lopezk38 said:
Yeah /firmware was another that won't wipe, I just forgot to mention it. Best of luck
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I'm going to do the work in the thread you provided now...and will tell you what I've got finally.
consolation said:
It sounds like you have faulty nand block (s). Before no critical parts of the firmware got written to it, so it developed problems when you wrote data to it. Looks like this time you didn't get so lucky, or more failed. If it's under warranty I would RMA it; if it's not, I'm honestly not sure what your best option is. Maybe get one that has broken screen etc, then do a logic board transplant. Good luck.
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Thanks for your reply. Nexus 4 was not intend to sell to my country, so...Wish me luck
lopezk38 said:
Flash CWM, wipe the partitions there (But not /boot or /persist, those will hardbrick if you reboot after wiping although I don't think it will let you wipe them), flash the latest radio (.98), and then flash a 4.4 ROM.
If that doesn't work, wait for more responses from others, then try this as a last resort. I suggest that you wait a few days, this can be dangerous
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/tutorial-how-to-unbrick-n4-t2347060
Follow carefully, and read multiple times before starting. Take it slow and don't panic if the process doesn't go as expected at 85% (Mine wouldn't reboot on its own for some reason, it kept erroring but it was fine and worked itself out)
It should put the phone on a complete clean slate for flashing
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diligentpig said:
Hi lopezk38,
Thanks for your reply! And I do as your instruction:flash newest CWM recovery, then factory rest, wipe cache, and under mouts menu format system/cache/data and firmware(but error), then flash a latest CyanogenMod image for nexus 4, with no luck, everything remains the same
However, I saw the link you provided to unbrick nexus 4, I'll read it carefully several times. At the same time, I'll wait for any other kind help that anyone can provide. If finally there is no other way to repair it, I'll go through with your link.
Thanks again for the tip!
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Hi, I've carefully read the link several times, and finally go through with it without any problems, and I could flash 4.2.2 stock images and do the 8gb to 16gb part to restore my phone to 16gb storage...However I found that I only can flash 4.2.2 image to make the phone boot up normally, with 4.3 or 4.4.2 image, it fails at boot up. Most important and sad part is, when the phone complete initial setup and install some software, it crash and can not boot again:crying: I've given several tries but the same result.
Finally, I made decision to sold it to buyer who needs only a good glass screen for replacement purpose... Farewell, my nexus4...
I have a 2012 Nexus 7. At the time it had a locked bootloader but it was rooted with cm11 & TWRP on board. I downloaded the Nexus toolkit & tried to upgrade to lollipop when it was officially released. Somewhere along the line, I think the system partition got corrupted. I can manually flash all IMG files except system. I can get into bootloader & recovery. I even tried flashing TWRP again to reflash cm. TWRP took but cm failed to install. Anyone else have this issue? The tablet appears to boot but it just gets stuck at the Google screen with the lock at the bottom. Never goes past that point. Any help to revive this tablet would be much appreciated.
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I have a 2012 Nexus 7. At the time it had a locked bootloader but it was rooted with cm11 & TWRP on board. I downloaded the Nexus toolkit & tried to upgrade to lollipop when it was officially released. Somewhere along the line, I think the system partition got corrupted. I can manually flash all IMG files except system. I can get into bootloader & recovery. I even tried flashing TWRP again to reflash cm. TWRP took but cm failed to install. Anyone else have this issue? The tablet appears to boot but it just gets stuck at the Google screen with the lock at the bottom. Never goes past that point. Any help to revive this tablet would be much appreciated.
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Can you enter recovery or fastboot mode? If so, use either to attempt and repair (format) the system partition, then reflash the ROM of your choice.
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Can you enter recovery or fastboot mode? If so, use either to attempt and repair (format) the system partition, then reflash the ROM of your choice.
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I already did. I flashed stock recovery & factory reset. Still the same thing. I flashed TWRP, the roms flashed through there just fail
Bumping to see if anyone else can help...
Beast84 said:
I already did. I flashed stock recovery & factory reset. Still the same thing. I flashed TWRP, the roms flashed through there just fail
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In Twrp recovery,
1. go to wipe menu and advanced wipe.
2. select system partition then tap repair.
3.Flash your rom
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In Twrp recovery,
1. go to wipe menu and advanced wipe.
2. select system partition then tap repair.
3.Flash your rom
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Ok so that worked to flash cm but will this continue to happen if I try flashing the official lollipop update? I'm trying to return to stock so I can give the tablet to my nephew. I don't want him jumping into recovery or bootloader & wrecking it for good