Nexus 4 stuck on boot animation - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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...

badboy47 said:
Avoid using twrp recovery.
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Why?

Just fastboot flash all the image files (boot.img,recovery.img....) from the factory image.

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damn boot loops...

hey guys, It seems that i cant get my phone out of boot loop. This ocurred last night while i was switching roms. I went from PA jan11 build downgrading to the beta 8 build. I was able to downgrade successfully, but when i tried to upgrade to the latest experimental feb1 build I then got bootloops. Now when i tried to flash back to the older build it still wouldnt work.. My phone was at very low battery at the time(under 10%) through the whole process. I charged my phone over night and when i tried flashing PA again it still doesnt work. I am still able to enter recovery and fastboot. I tried to go complete stock through fastboot(and erased all data through fastboot) and now im able to see the Nexus X logo. This is where im stuck. I also upgraded twrp to latest 2.4.1.0 and it told me my data was encrypted. I fixed this by wiping the entire system through twrp. Then I went back into fastboot reflashed the rom again and im still stuck here with a Nexus logo. Any help?
EDIT: NVM I fixed it, installing cfx through twrp seemed to work. please close this

[Q]Nexus 4 refuses to boot in 4.3

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

[Q] Problems restoring to 4.3 stock

Hello,
I've only yesterday rooted my phone for the very first time and followed a guide on how to flash PA. In the guide it told me to flash a radio and boot loader, which apparently I wasn't supposed to flash because I was on 4.3 already. So I didn't have service, someone told me to reflash 4.3 which I did using the stock rom downloaded from android dev page. But It won't flash the system it returns an error regarding the usb port. I flashed 4.2.2 which did flash the system but is apparently stuck on the loading screen (nexus X) for about 20 mins or so. Any help on how to reflash stock 4.3 and then reflash just PA 3.99 and Gapps?
cheers
RabbeV said:
Hello,
I've only yesterday rooted my phone for the very first time and followed a guide on how to flash PA. In the guide it told me to flash a radio and boot loader, which apparently I wasn't supposed to flash because I was on 4.3 already. So I didn't have service, someone told me to reflash 4.3 which I did using the stock rom downloaded from android dev page. But It won't flash the system it returns an error regarding the usb port. I flashed 4.2.2 which did flash the system but is apparently stuck on the loading screen (nexus X) for about 20 mins or so. Any help on how to reflash stock 4.3 and then reflash just PA 3.99 and Gapps?
cheers
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Go into recovery and do factory reset, that should get u past the nexus X... Then just flash pa and gapps your done, flashing a radio and bootloader shouldn't have hurt anything unless u flashed wrong ones, recheck your versions on the files. U should be on a radio that ends in 84 (it works on 4 2.2 so dont worry... U dont need to be on 4.3 to flash pa, just factory reset first
drawde40599 said:
Go into recovery and do factory reset, that should get u past the nexus X... Then just flash pa and gapps your done, flashing a radio and bootloader shouldn't have hurt anything unless u flashed wrong ones, recheck your versions on the files. U should be on a radio that ends in 84 (it works on 4 2.2 so dont worry... U dont need to be on 4.3 to flash pa, just factory reset first
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I wanted to do that but my sd had been wiped, but it's been solved

Replaced Screen, unable to boot phone.

So I replaced the screen on my buddies cracked N4 with this: this. Everything went fine except when I put it all together the phone will not boot into the OS. I can still get into recovery and the bootloader just fine, but it doesn't matter what I flash it always bootloops.
I have tried WugFresh's tool kit and flashed the factory image, I flashed the latest TWRP, wiped, and flashed CM10.2M1. Everything seems to go fine, it will just never get past the boot screen.
Any ideas?
In case anybody missed it, yes I did wipe the device.
Relevant info:
PRODUCT_NAME - mako
VARIANT - mako 16GB
HW VERSION - rev_11
BOOTLOADER VERSION - MAKOZ20i
BASEBAND VERSION - M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.84
CARRIER INFO - None
SERIAL NUMBER - ****
SIGNING - production
SECURE BOOT - enabled
LOCK STATE - unlocked
**** UPDATE **** Fixed the problem! ****
So I ended up flashing the 4.2 image and everything worked fine. I was able to install a new recovery and custom ROM after that. So far everything works.
Use the latest cwm recovery. Sometime twrp recovery doesn't work properly.
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Flashed the latest CWM recovery. Same thing. I let it sit for about 30 min on the boot screen waiting for it to boot.
When u used the toolkit; did it went all well? Or did it got stuck on boot screen aswell. I see you flashed CM10.2. Try downloading 4.3 stock rom + 4.3 stock kernel.
Follow these steps:
- wipe factory reset
- flash stock ROM
- flash stock kernel
- wipe cache partition + dalvic cache
- reboot
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badboy47 said:
When u used the toolkit; did it went all well? Or did it got stuck on boot screen aswell. I see you flashed CM10.2. Try downloading 4.3 stock rom + 4.3 stock kernel.
Follow these steps:
- wipe factory reset
- flash stock ROM
- flash stock kernel
- wipe cache partition + dalvic cache
- reboot
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Everything is processed fine when looking at the tool kit log. No error messages. When the tool kit finishes it reboots like it is supposed to but stays on the boot screen. I am going to try a 4.2 image and see what happens.
Have you ran a logcat? See if anything comes up why its sitting on the boot screen?
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IRX120 said:
Have you ran a logcat? See if anything comes up why its sitting on the boot screen?
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I never ran a logcat, however I did flash the 4.2 factory image and it finally booted. I tried to flash the 4.3 image after that and it got stuck again.
I was just happy it booted, so I flashed the 4.2 image back and put TWRP on it and flashed a 4.4 ROM. Everything works fine so far.
Thanks for all the help everybody, I appreciate the responses!
Glad you made it worked!
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Nexus 4 won't boot any ROM!

My friend gave me his Nexus 4 to fix, for some unknown reason it does not boot. It earlier worked fine and was running Stock 5.1.
So I tried to fix it by loading the latest Factory Image from Google's website. I downloaded the latest build. extracted it, and followed the instructions given on their website. I was able to successfully install the OS by using the Flash-All script. The phone rebooted once the flashing process got over.
But the phone never booted, it got stuck on the circles flying around boot animation. I did the entire process again and waited for 45 minutes but it still did not boot. I went in the Stock Recovery and wiped the Cache and did a factory reset and still the same. I even tried locking and unlocking the bootloader again but still no result.
After doing all this I decided to install CyanogenMod 12.1 Snapshot, so I downloaded the latest version of TWRP and installed it. Booted into TWRP.
Wiped Dalvik, Cache, Data and System. Flashed the ROM, the ROM installed successfully. But now even CM12.1 won't boot!
How am I supposed to make this phone boot?
Please help me.
Thanks in Advanced.
Same problem
cyborgmanu said:
My friend gave me his Nexus 4 to fix, for some unknown reason it does not boot. It earlier worked fine and was running Stock 5.1.
So I tried to fix it by loading the latest Factory Image from Google's website. I downloaded the latest build. extracted it, and followed the instructions given on their website. I was able to successfully install the OS by using the Flash-All script. The phone rebooted once the flashing process got over.
But the phone never booted, it got stuck on the circles flying around boot animation. I did the entire process again and waited for 45 minutes but it still did not boot. I went in the Stock Recovery and wiped the Cache and did a factory reset and still the same. I even tried locking and unlocking the bootloader again but still no result.
After doing all this I decided to install CyanogenMod 12.1 Snapshot, so I downloaded the latest version of TWRP and installed it. Booted into TWRP.
Wiped Dalvik, Cache, Data and System. Flashed the ROM, the ROM installed successfully. But now even CM12.1 won't boot!
How am I supposed to make this phone boot?
Please help me.
Thanks in Advanced.
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I have the same problem, and I am trying to download factory 4.4.4 image.
guys help us plz.
mose_nd said:
I have the same problem, and I am trying to download factory 4.4.4 image.
guys help us plz.
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I also posted this is the Nexus 4 Community on Google Plus. I am going to try out what they said.
Here is the link:
https://plus.google.com/117172821556811787798/posts/dzVorg3JSUw
SOLVED!
mose_nd said:
I have the same problem, and I am trying to download factory 4.4.4 image.
guys help us plz.
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Hey I fixed it! It finally booted up.
You need to use the first Factory Image, that is, the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Factory Image.
Once you have flashed the image, the phone will boot up quickly - Mine booted in around 5 minutes I guess.
Here is the link - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-jdq39-factory-345dc199.tgz

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