4.3 problem. - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a problem with my nexus 4. I noticed that my phone sometimes is getting slow and then I can't do anything, and after a few seconds there is a System FC window. Only reboot helps me.
I use official 4.3, no root, even bootloader is locked.
Any ideas what can I do?
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kissme99 said:
I have a problem with my nexus 4. I noticed that my phone sometimes is getting slow and then I can't do anything, and after a few seconds there is a System FC window. Only reboot helps me.
I use official 4.3, no root, even bootloader is locked.
Any ideas what can I do?
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Try a factory reset after backing up everything, that usually solves the problem. You should try it in recovery first, wipe everything. After that do a factory reset in Android. Should work like new. I had problems after installing 4.3 (FC, lags and playstore not working) the factory reset solved it.

Oh, I hope it'll help me.
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Google Books!

I downloaded Google Books today just to play around with it and now I cannot uninstall it. I don't want to root my phone just to get rid of it. Will a hard reset help?
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Not sure bout a hard reset. When i got my phone, this was already preinstalled. Your phone might think its a system app and not clear after a hard reset.
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Hmm.. that sucks.
By the way, is there any difference between a factory reset done via the settings menu and the hard reset done by booting into the special menu?
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athani said:
I downloaded Google Books today just to play around with it and now I cannot uninstall it. I don't want to root my phone just to get rid of it. Will a hard reset help?
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All Nexus Ss come with Google Books preinstalled after the 2.3.1 or 2.3.2 ota. So nothing can remove it unless you root. Why so annoyed by it? you never noticed it being installed on the phone before and it doesn't take any resources if you disable books syncing from Accounts and Sync under the system settings.
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My phone did not have google books preinstalled. I installed it yesterday just to see what it was and now I'm stuck with it.
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Pretty sure it's still the same as it use to be
Soft reset is like rebooting
Hard reset is like unplugging something while its on( removing battery without turning phone off first).
Factory rest wipes it to stock, or original rom that you may have flashed. All setting revert to default.
Don't quote me though
athani said:
Hmm.. that sucks.
By the way, is there any difference between a factory reset done via the settings menu and the hard reset done by booting into the special menu?
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pierre1321 said:
Pretty sure it's still the same as it use to be
Soft reset is like rebooting
Hard reset is like unplugging something while its on( removing battery without turning phone off first).
Factory rest wipes it to stock, or original rom that you may have flashed. All setting revert to default.
Don't quote me though
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Actually, I wanted to know if there is any difference between the two methods of performing a factory reset -
1. Settings> Privacy> Factory Data Reset
2. Power off phone. Power on while pressing the volume up button. And then reset.
Does the latter method perform a "deeper" reset?
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Its a preference thing.
If I'm on stock, prolly do it through settings.
Or through bootloader if i can't get it to boot.
If rooted and unlocked and custom rom, i do it through recovery. Cause i can flash and clear stuff in 1 shot.
athani said:
Actually, I wanted to know if there is any difference between the two methods of performing a factory reset -
1. Settings> Privacy> Factory Data Reset
2. Power off phone. Power on while pressing the volume up button. And then reset.
Does the latter method perform a "deeper" reset?
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I want to "root" my phone only for the purpose of getting rid of some pre-installed stuff. I do not want to have a custon ROM, at least not now.
I've seen this thread which explains rooting the Nexus S, giving 4 steps in which to do it.
At what step can I stop if I want just a simple root as stated above? Or will I have to go through the whole process?
Will the procedure erase anything from my phone? If yes, how do I backup?
I believe both reset methods do the same thing, which is format the /data partition (and maybe a bit more?).
matt2053 said:
I believe both reset methods do the same thing, which is format the /data partition (and maybe a bit more?).
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Thanks for the reply but I'm just as clueless as before.
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athani said:
I want to "root" my phone only for the purpose of getting rid of some pre-installed stuff. I do not want to have a custon ROM, at least not now.
I've seen this thread which explains rooting the Nexus S, giving 4 steps in which to do it.
At what step can I stop if I want just a simple root as stated above? Or will I have to go through the whole process?
Will the procedure erase anything from my phone? If yes, how do I backup?
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The process will wipe your data, and you need to do the whole thing.
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I just checked, it only takes up 4M, which is nothing. I wouldn't worry about it so much.
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No system updates option

Hi,
Does anyone know why I don't have the SYSTEM UPDATES option in > about phone?
I am on version 4.2
Did you try rebooting or doing a factory reset?
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Problem fixed. After I unlock the boot loader and root it.
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Unlocking and rooting would have absolutely no effect at all on what you're describing.
But it does wipe the phone, which is probably what fixed it.
Wiping doesn't effect the ROM installed that way either.
Wiping your user data has no effect on the actual framework of the ROM. Nothing you can as a user can make it go away

Reboot problem

Hello. I have a problem with my nexus 4 randomly rebooting. I press the power button to bring on the screen but instead get a reboot followed by the powering down screen. I then have to power on again to get back to normal. Anyone else had this problem? My phone is unlocked rooted stock.
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Are you uv'ed at all? That sounds like instability due to low voltage. I've had that happen before on wake.
Edit: I know you said "Stock" but I thought I'd ask.
No just stock settings. Logcat shows lots of errors that i dont understand including SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE and Fatal Signal 13
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purpse said:
No just stock settings. Logcat shows lots of errors that i dont understand including SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE and Fatal Signal 13
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many of those "errors" you see really arent errors. anyways, if you wantca log of a random reboot, you need to run a last_kmsg after you boot back up. itll show why you had a random reboot. if you rebooted manually after your bootup after the random reboot, then its too late. last_kmsg is produced by your phone when the device reboots on its own.
purpse said:
Hello. I have a problem with my nexus 4 randomly rebooting. I press the power button to bring on the screen but instead get a reboot followed by the powering down screen. I then have to power on again to get back to normal. Anyone else had this problem? My phone is unlocked rooted stock.
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Try re-install stock 4.2.2. Install toolkit in you PC, and downlaod STOCK 4.2.2, flash and report. . .http://forum.xda-
developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469
Already reinstalled stock. I was using stock with franco and thought that was the problem. I used toolkit to go back to stock but still have the issues (but it was ok for a couple of days)
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MixaDJ said:
Try re-install stock 4.2.2. Install toolkit in you PC, and downlaod STOCK 4.2.2, flash and report. . .http://forum.xda-
developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469
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Did you just recommend he use a toolkit?
Get out.
Use the real method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
estallings15 said:
Did you just recommend he use a toolkit?
Get out.
Use the real method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
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Ok, good method. Try Flash PA 3.60 good rom, install custom recovery, download zip and gapps, stock no good, no customizations, custom rom best.
Went back to stock everything using fastboot. Locked bootloader unrooted no apps installed and no stock apps updated and yet still getting reboots. Decided to take back to shop. It behaved itself in the shop but they were helpful and exchanged my unit. I now have a model with the tiny feet
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Factory reset takes me 5 seconds.

I dont understand whats going on here. I have twrp 2.6.3.4 for the verizon version installed and when i do factory reset it takes like 5 seconds. Tehn I try to install clean rom and when I reboot I am only on a black screen. Only way to get back is to restore my stock backup.
I have the att version and wiping takes like 5 minutes.
Why isnt this wiping on my verizon g2?
This is driving me mad.
Ive even tried cwm, same thing.
What version of twrp for the att version?
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My factory resets are very quick as well. Is this just the processing power or something wrong? Always get improper root after 4.4 installation as well.. so sick of this. Never have had this issue before with previous phones
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DurbanPoison24 said:
My factory resets are very quick as well. Is this just the processing power or something wrong? Always get improper root after 4.4 installation as well.. so sick of this. Never have had this issue before with previous phones
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Didnt the Factory Reset take awhile on earlier versions of TWRP?
I remember having to wait at least 5 mins for a factory reset using TWRP
XERO_Racer said:
Didnt the Factory Reset take awhile on earlier versions of TWRP?
I remember having to wait at least 5 mins for a factory reset using TWRP
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Unfortunately I wouldn't know. I've always used CWM. This is the first time I've ever used TWRP. But CWM would take considerably longer than the very quick factory reset speeds I'm seeing now.
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XERO_Racer said:
Didnt the Factory Reset take awhile on earlier versions of TWRP?
I remember having to wait at least 5 mins for a factory reset using TWRP
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Hey, did you ever find out why factory reset happens so quick and or if you fixed it??
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DurbanPoison24 said:
Hey, did you ever find out why factory reset happens so quick and or if you fixed it??
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Try this version IIRC this one didnt have that issue http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670
I just recently switched to CWM for the same reason
To be honest idk whats the purpose of having a "slower" cache formatting than the one that takes 5 seconds?
Maybe it actually does its job? i have no idea

[Q] Google play store crashing

I have a Nexus 4 running CM 11 M8, i installed M7 through the CM installer and got an update to CM 11 M8, on updating, the google play store started crashing like crazy, its virtually unusable now, is their anyway to fix this? should i downgrade?
Try wipe playstore and playservice datas, then go to recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and reboot
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Umm, it didnt work, thanks anyways
fhf758 said:
Try wipe playstore and playservice datas, then go to recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and reboot
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it didnt work, the app still crashed to point of being unusable
Are you getting a force close error or is it just abruptly closing to the home screen without any errors?
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umm yeah.
lolcakes203 said:
Are you getting a force close error or is it just abruptly closing to the home screen without any errors?
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The app just closes to the home screen everytime i open it and even when i dont open the app i get a notification on screen that the app has crashed, this happens so frequently that my phone is becoming near unusable. the app is completely unuseable. is their any way to fix this short of a factory reset or flashing a new rom?
You already tried to wipe its data, so I think the next step could be to reflash the ROM you are using.
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It wont let me reflash.
lolcakes203 said:
You already tried to wipe its data, so I think the next step could be to reflash the ROM you are using.
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after my update from M7 to M8, my CWM recovery was replaced by CM simple recovery which gives me a signature verification error when i try to flash anything, is their any way to disable signature verification?

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