Wanted ask if it will be possible in the future to update to the official cm10.2 with reinstall and wipe. I ask because I got friends and family all on nexus 4's cm with Franco kernel and I should them how to update but I just don't want to have to reinstall because that is too many people around the world.
I am talking about updating like thru settings how I do with the nightly.
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Fataldesain said:
Wanted ask if it will be possible in the future to update to the official cm10.2 with reinstall and wipe. I ask because I got friends and family all on nexus 4's cm with Franco kernel and I should them how to update but I just don't want to have to reinstall because that is too many people around the world.
I am talking about updating like thru settings how I do with the nightly.
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CM10.2 uses Android 4.3, while 10.1 use 4.2.
So no, it will never be possible, too many system changes.
For the most part, will be okay. I've done it a few times without any major undesirable effects.
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CM10.2 uses Android 4.3, while 10.1 use 4.2.
So no, it will never be possible, too many system changes.
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I think it is possible if you flash bootloader and baseband! If it doesnt boot then do a clean install.
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I think it is possible if you flash bootloader and baseband! If it doesnt boot then do a clean install.
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you dont have to flash the bootloader/baseband, thats just an option.
you can always try dirty flashing, usually it works, sometimes it doesnt. make a nadroid backup just in case. if it doesmt work, you can either restore your nandroid or wipe everything and flash.
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you dont have to flash the bootloader/baseband, thats just an option.
you can always try dirty flashing, usually it works, sometimes it doesnt. make a nadroid backup just in case. if it doesmt work, you can either restore your nandroid or wipe everything and flash.
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Doesnt it cause problems sometimes if you dont have the latest baseband and bootloader?
I never tried to dirty flash a rom, only for updating CM10.1 nightlies I did. (And I only had it on 4.2.2, now CM10.2 unoffical)
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I was able to flash CM 10.2 over CM 10.1 with no issues. Make sure to also flash the new Google Apps!
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Hi XDA.
After growing a pair of balls I've decided tonight is the night that I am going to unroot my phone, put it back to stock ROM and get it off of franco.Kernel. I am doing this because I want to start fresh and get it on Paranoid Android.
(I currently have a January nightly of CM 10.1, franco.Kernel r53 and unlocked bootloader whatnot)
I am looking for the stock kernel for the Nexus 4, but am worried about flashing the wrong one. I'm not saying like I'm going to flash a Samsung kernel or something stupid like that, I just mean that since I am on android 4.2.1 and if I flash a kernel that is made for android 4.2 can I screw up my Nexus 4?
Any tips?
Thanks a ton.
Edwin
As long as the kernel is for the Nexus 4 then you should be okay. You can get all the resources here.
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As long as the kernel is for the Nexus 4 then you should be okay. You can get all the resources here.
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Will I get a softbrick/where can I get radio and whatnot?
Thanks
Make a backup if you are worried. What kernel are you going to flash?
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Make a backup if you are worried. What kernel are you going to flash?
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Making a backup won't save you if you flash a kernel that's not for your phone
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Making a backup won't save you if you flash a kernel that's not for your phone
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Just flash the stock images from Google. Contains rom, kernel, bootloader, and radio.
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make sure your download isn't corrupted and you downloaded for the correct device. Should be fine.
What's the point of going through all the time to unroot and flash back to stock?
Why not just do a full wipe and flash paranoid android?
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chromium96 said:
What's the point of going through all the time to unroot and flash back to stock?
Why not just do a full wipe and flash paranoid android?
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I was wondering how nobody else asked that question earlier because that's exactly what I'm thinking.
He's going from 4.1 to 4.2 he needs to flash the new bootloader and radio too
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Making a backup won't save you if you flash a kernel that's not for your phone
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What are the risks of flashing wrong kernel on a phone? I got a samsung s3. Just wanted to ask the risks. Couldn't i recover using nandroid backup? I saw this post of yours stating not. Why?
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What are the risks of flashing wrong kernel on a phone? I got a samsung s3. Just wanted to ask the risks. Couldn't i recover using nandroid backup? I saw this post of yours stating not. Why?
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I have heard of the digitizer blowing from flashing wrong kernels. I suggest only flashing kernels made for your specific device.
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You should add one more ball to that actually make it two more as you are at it. First you should install latest cwm recovery and root your phone. Then go to the recovery and make a backup. After that you can continue with flashing custom Roms and kernels.
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I got the Android 4.3 OTA update more than two weeks ago. Since that time strange vertical lines starts to flicker when I do not touch the screen (See attached screenshot). The first time when I can see these ugly lines after turning on my device is the PIN code entering screen. After that I can see them on the home screen and every app as well. The problem does not occur if I charge my device.
This issue has nothing to do with developer options. I tested it with "disable HW overlays" option and other settings as well but it does not change anything with this. I also tried a factory reset and restoring a clean Android 4.3 using google's factory image for nexus 4.
It can not be a hardware issue because you can see it on the screenshot that was taken with my device. Furthermore, I had no problem with Android 4.2.2.
Has anyone encountered this problem? Can anyone help me?
Ewww, looks like a kernel graphical glitch.
You will have to reflash the kernel, do you have a custom recovery?
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Ewww, what is enabled in developer options?
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Currently nothing is enabled. I turned off every developer options. But I tried with different options from the "Hardware accelerated rendering" category. These options have no effect on the problem.
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Ewww, looks like a kernel graphical glitch.
You will have to reflash the kernel, do you have a custom recovery?
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No I don't. What does a custom recovery mean? I don't want a custom OS. I want to use stock Android 4.3
are you rooted? Custom kernel?
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are you rooted? Custom kernel?
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No, my phone isn't rooted and I don't use a custom kernel.
Do a factory reset ? If that doesn't work you can always flash the img file through adb. But in order to that you would have to unlock boot loader
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Do a factory reset ? If that doesn't work you can always flash the img file through adb. But in order to that you would have to unlock boot loader
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I have already done that but I got the same result.
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No I don't. What does a custom recovery mean? I don't want a custom OS. I want to use stock Android 4.3
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A custom recovery is a recovery like on a computer but it is not stock so on Android there are Recovery's such has TWRP and CWM.
Flashing the stock kernel via recovery will not replace the Android OS, just the broken kernel.
Basically a custom recovery let's you wipe your device in many ways, repair the OS, Backups, Flashing kernels/ROMs/Fixes/Addons and much more.
If that fails then unlock the bootloader, go to the bootloader and use this tool to get everything back to normal: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occamjwr66v
EDIT: Oops, flashing a custom recovery does not fix the kernel in the same time of course, you will have to flash that kernel using the flash feature.
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I haven't update 4.3 yet but I want to try out the latest PA rom. Should I just wait until it becomes stable or just factory restore and head into 4.3 and root. Also does nandroid works on Android 4.3 or i am going to lose everything?
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I think this is more of your dilemma than an actual issue.
As long as your custom recovery works, nandroid should work.
Should you wait till it becomes stable? Up to you.
Just factory restore and head into 4.3? Up to you.
I dont see why you would wanna OTA to 4.3 and then flash PA. Why not just flash PA straight?
I use Multi Boot. PA is a solid ROM. CM10.2 is too. I boot between them. If I stayed with stock not possible to do this.
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I think this is more of your dilemma than an actual issue.
As long as your custom recovery works, nandroid should work.
Should you wait till it becomes stable? Up to you.
Just factory restore and head into 4.3? Up to you.
I dont see why you would wanna OTA to 4.3 and then flash PA. Why not just flash PA straight?
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I thought you have to ota 4.3 then update to the latest PA
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I thought you have to ota 4.3 then update to the latest PA
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Nope. If you flash the latest PA, you would be wiping your ota-ed 4.3. So there would be no difference at all. You do however, need to flash your new radio for 4.3
Hey all, I'm having a problem with my nexus here and its driving me crazy. Basically i was behind on updates and running 4.2.2 (Paranoid Android) until today. I decided I would upgrade to the newest Paranoid android 3.99 RC2. First off, i downloaded the stock nexus 4 images, and flashed em all through fastboot. Then i flashed the newest CWM (6.0.3.8 i think) and proceeded to flash PA.
But when i booted into PA, i had no cell connectivity as well as unknown baseband, imei, and imei sv, even though the baseband is clearly shown in fastboot (its 0.84). I tried reflashing the baseband, no luck. So i reflashed the stock google img's and my imei and everything came back.
So i tried a second time and it still didn't work. Seems like whenever i flash PA, i lose my imei and baseband.
Help me out guys
Anybody?
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Anybody?
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DID you do a full wipe before flashing?
I would be very careful and stay stock until you get an answer. Without IMEI your phone is illegal and won't work. I've stayed away from C /M as it's buggy and has too much trouble, like this.
Sorry
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Try using latest TWRP
I got this last time I flashed paranoid android. I had to use the LG tool and download mode
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If you are coming from 4.2 make sure to flash 4.3 Radio and Bootloader!!
Follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389721
Yes, I did a full wipe, even the SD.
I flashed the full 4.3 stock Google image through fast boot first. So I should be totally up to date.
I will try TWRP and see if its the new CWM that's messing things up.
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Hey all, I'm having a problem with my nexus here and its driving me crazy. Basically i was behind on updates and running 4.2.2 (Paranoid Android) until today. I decided I would upgrade to the newest Paranoid android 3.99 RC2. First off, i downloaded the stock nexus 4 images, and flashed em all through fastboot. Then i flashed the newest CWM (6.0.3.8 i think) and proceeded to flash PA.
But when i booted into PA, i had no cell connectivity as well as unknown baseband, imei, and imei sv, even though the baseband is clearly shown in fastboot (its 0.84). I tried reflashing the baseband, no luck. So i reflashed the stock google img's and my imei and everything came back.
So i tried a second time and it still didn't work. Seems like whenever i flash PA, i lose my imei and baseband.
Help me out guys
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The CWM version you used has a bug which derps your baseband when you flash anything. Simple fix: install any other version of CWM or use TWRP, then flash everything again (radio, rom, whatever). This happened to a lot of people. You'll be fine.
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The CWM version you used has a bug which derps your baseband when you flash anything. Simple fix: install any other version of CWM or use TWRP, then flash everything again (radio, rom, whatever). This happened to a lot of people. You'll be fine.
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Ah thank you very much sir. I got it working. Thanks a ton!
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Hey guys quick question my n4 is rooted and running cm10.1.3. I never bothered to upgrade to 4.3, so my radio, kernel and bootloader are stock 4.2.2. Is it better to get the ota update and be up on things or flash stock kernel, boot loader and radio for 4.4 when ever there available? Or maybe factory image?
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Just flash the stock images for kit Kat when they are available, right now back up all your data
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Hey guys quick question my n4 is rooted and running cm10.1.3. I never bothered to upgrade to 4.3, so my radio, kernel and bootloader are stock 4.2.2. Is it better to get the ota update and be up on things or flash stock kernel, boot loader and radio for 4.4 when ever there available? Or maybe factory image?
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my friend as this will pop up all over the forum the best thing to do is just wait for a rooted version to show up. I did not upgrade my bootloader and I have not had any issues with 4.3 which mind you is a great running OS you should try it.
I dont understand having root then unrooting to flash stock which you obviously dont like since you run cm and then wait to root it all over again to back an upgraded rooted version of cm...
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Just flash the stock images for kit Kat when they are available, right now back up all your data
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Alright thanks will do
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Question on the way for the custom recovery+kernel guys on 4.3 what is the best to upgrade besides wiping your entire phone and flashing the stock images entirely?.
I think i know 2 ways just not sure they are recommended, 1st is flashing stock kernel + returning recovery to stock (should get OTA)
2nd is flashing only the system.img and the bootloader me thinks.
Feel free to verify this.
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my friend as this will pop up all over the forum the best thing to do is just wait for a rooted version to show up. I did not upgrade my bootloader and I have not had any issues with 4.3 which mind you is a great running OS you should try it.
I dont understand having root then unrooting to flash stock which you obviously dont like since you run cm and then wait to root it all over again to back an upgraded rooted version of cm...
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You make a lot of sense ,its more of curiosity and so I won't brick my nexus. So I can get away with not upgrading my bootloader for 4.4?
What about kernel, do I need to update that for 4.4 or is that judgement call?
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sacramento458 said:
You make a lot of sense ,its more of curiosity and so I won't brick my nexus. So I can get away with not upgrading my bootloader for 4.4?
What about kernel, do I need to update that for 4.4 or is that judgement call?
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you are asking questions that trial and error are going to figure out for us. Kernels of course if you are on a 4.4 rom you would use a 4.4 kernel. Upgrading your bootloader may or may not be needed but we wont know until kitkat starts popping. everyone said you needed to upgrade bootloader for 4.3 but I have never had any issue at all.... Just wait it out and read read read
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Question on the way for the custom recovery+kernel guys on 4.3 what is the best to upgrade besides wiping your entire phone and flashing the stock images entirely?.
I think i know 2 ways just not sure they are recommended, 1st is flashing stock kernel + returning recovery to stock (should get OTA)
2nd is flashing only the system.img and the bootloader me thinks.
Feel free to verify this.
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Not to sure but as long as you're on stock ROM and stock kernel you should be fine although I don't know if custom recovery keeps you from getting update.
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playya said:
you are asking questions that trial and error are going to figure out for us. Kernels of course if you are on a 4.4 rom you would use a 4.4 kernel. Upgrading your bootloader may or may not be needed but we wont know until kitkat starts popping. everyone said you needed to upgrade bootloader for 4.3 but I have never had any issue at all.... Just wait it out and read read read
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Thanks for the clarification, appreciate the support.
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Thanks for the clarification, appreciate the support.
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no problem hopefully you can pass it on to others like you who may be unsure of what to do...
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no problem hopefully you can pass it on to others like you who may be unsure of what to do...
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Absolutely bro
You do have to be on stock recovery, stock bootloader for the update to go thru properly otherwise it'll fail.
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Question on the way for the custom recovery+kernel guys on 4.3 what is the best to upgrade besides wiping your entire phone and flashing the stock images entirely?.
I think i know 2 ways just not sure they are recommended, 1st is flashing stock kernel + returning recovery to stock (should get OTA)
2nd is flashing only the system.img and the bootloader me thinks.
Feel free to verify this.
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If you are still on stock rom and you just have custom kernel+recovery, U could do the following for not using any current apps or files.
- Wait till your favorite Toolkit (e.g Wug) get updated for 4.4 and then download the official factory rom.
- Extract it and keep all separate zips, like radio, bootloader,system etc.
- Unroot and flash stock kernel
- Flash all previous zips, EXCEPT user.img which will delete everything
- Reroot and U r ready to flash again custom kernel
Maybe a noob question but my n4 is rooted. Will this cause any problems withe the update?
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If you are still on stock rom and you just have custom kernel+recovery, U could do the following for not using any current apps or files.
- Wait till your favorite Toolkit (e.g Wug) get updated for 4.4 and then download the official factory rom.
- Extract it and keep all separate zips, like radio, bootloader,system etc.
- Unroot and flash stock kernel
- Flash all previous zips, EXCEPT user.img which will delete everything
- Reroot and U r ready to flash again custom kernel
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The original stock kernel of 4.3 is on the bootloader.img on the google source code aye?
Thanks, now we just need to wait for the official 4.4 on google's developers.
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The original stock kernel of 4.3 is on the bootloader.img on the google source code aye?
Thanks, now we just need to wait for the official 4.4 on google's developers.
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Here a direct link for stock kernel 0.84 from JWR66V factory image
http://d-h.st/cIJ
Hello,
My phone has already had the radio upgraded to latest so it can run 4.3. I am rooted, have TWRP 2.6.3.0, will I be ok to flash the PA 4.4 and gapps? I keep posts about folks losing their sdcard data and their custom recovery being removed (not sure how!).
Thanks.
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Maybe a noob question but my n4 is rooted. Will this cause any problems withe the update?
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Do you have a custom recover?
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Schur1k said:
Maybe a noob question but my n4 is rooted. Will this cause any problems withe the update?
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Do you have a custom recovery?
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maritimesbob said:
Hello,
My phone has already had the radio upgraded to latest so it can run 4.3. I am rooted, have TWRP 2.6.3.0, will I be ok to flash the PA 4.4 and gapps? I keep posts about folks losing their sdcard data and their custom recovery being removed (not sure how!).
Thanks.
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I'm sure that radio doesn't affect your ability to flash certain ROMs so you shouldn't have a problem flashing 4.4. As far as losing SD data not sure how that's happening.
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