4.4 storage issues and question?? - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i just wiped my whole phone and used fastboot to flash the 4.4 from google. my phone is 16 gb and after all that it only says i have 5.66gb??? what the *^% is going on? has google lost their mind? completely robbing us of our storage.where is all my gb's?

Use the search.

eksasol said:
Use the search.
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use what search??? my storage is gone. that was no help at all

podagee said:
i just wiped my whole phone and used fastboot to flash the 4.4 from google. my phone is 16 gb and after all that it only says i have 5.66gb??? what the *^% is going on? has google lost their mind? completely robbing us of our storage.where is all my gb's?
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Don't overreact, this is common issue, I had it yesterday. To fix it just boot into stock recovery, clear cache, then perform a factory reset from there.

Dark Emotion said:
Don't overreact, this is common issue, I had it yesterday. To fix it just boot into stock recovery, clear cache, then perform a factory reset from there.
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already doing so thanks

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Can't run Sense based ROMs

My wife and I both have MyTouch 4Gs and both of our phones exhibit this problem. Whenever I load a Sense based ROM both phones reboot without warning. The last time I had a Sense based ROM on her phone it would continuously reboot when plugged in to the charger. I loaded a Sense based ROM on my phone last night to try out and it would reboot every few minutes. I've probably tried six or seven different Sense based ROMs and the rebooting issue always happens. Both of our phones are currently running a CM7 based ROM and working fine. Anyone else see the same issue?
greenmaze said:
My wife and I both have MyTouch 4Gs and both of our phones exhibit this problem. Whenever I load a Sense based ROM both phones reboot without warning. The last time I had a Sense based ROM on her phone it would continuously reboot when plugged in to the charger. I loaded a Sense based ROM on my phone last night to try out and it would reboot every few minutes. I've probably tried six or seven different Sense based ROMs and the rebooting issue always happens. Both of our phones are currently running a CM7 based ROM and working fine. Anyone else see the same issue?
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Did you verify the MD5SUM post pushing the ROM to the SD Card.
neidlinger said:
Did you verify the MD5SUM post pushing the ROM to the SD Card.
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+1 this
And/or are you flashing anithing else right after flashing the rom? If you are, don't. Just flash the from and reboot. Also, make sure you're found a full complete wipe. Wiping data, cache and dalvik before flashing.
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That problem can also be caused by the phone being overclocked a little too much. Try changing speed and voltage to match stock.
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neidlinger said:
Did you verify the MD5SUM post pushing the ROM to the SD Card.
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Yes, I verified this.
coupetastic-droid said:
And/or are you flashing anithing else right after flashing the rom? If you are, don't. Just flash the from and reboot. Also, make sure you're found a full complete wipe. Wiping data, cache and dalvik before flashing.
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No, not flashing anything else. Yes, I wiped data, cache, and dalvik before flashing.
eqjunkie829 said:
That problem can also be caused by the phone being overclocked a little too much. Try changing speed and voltage to match stock.
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I'm not sure what those ROMs were overclocked too, but I'm running CM7 at about 1209MHz right now and have no issues.
greenmaze said:
Yes, I verified this.
No, not flashing anything else. Yes, I wiped data, cache, and dalvik before flashing.
I'm not sure what those ROMs were overclocked too, but I'm running CM7 at about 1209MHz right now and have no issues.
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You need to do a complete factory restore via the recovery image. the /system is the most important part to make sure is wiped. And from that statement you're not doing that.
neidlinger said:
You need to do a complete factory restore via the recovery image. the /system is the most important part to make sure is wiped. And from that statement you're not doing that.
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Is a complete factory restore simply finding and flashing a stock image?
greenmaze said:
Is a complete factory restore simply finding and flashing a stock image?
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No. Neidlinger is referring to a full wipe of /system /data and both caches prior to flashing a new rom.
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greenmaze said:
Is a complete factory restore simply finding and flashing a stock image?
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eqjunkie829 said:
No. Neidlinger is referring to a full wipe of /system /data and both caches prior to flashing a new rom.
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@EQJUNKIE829 hit the nail on the head. Just flashing a new OS isn't wiping the old one. You need to do a nandroid backup of your current OS, then do a complete factory reset. It WILL NOT wipe the recovery image or the hBoot. Then flash the new OS.
No matter how many threads I say to wipe the bloody system partition in, there is always this problem. Its frustrating.
Help my phone acts weird.
Did you do a full wipe?
Yes
Are you sure? You wiped the system partition?
Umm, I dunno. I think so.
:faceplam: Wipe system, data, cache and dalvik cache and reflash.
That fixed it. Thanks!
Sure thing! :hangs self:
estallings15 said:
No matter how many threads I say to wipe the bloody system partition in, there is always this problem. Its frustrating.
Help my phone acts weird.
Did you do a full wipe?
Yes
Are you sure? You wiped the system partition?
Umm, I dunno. I think so.
:faceplam: Wipe system, data, cache and dalvik cache and reflash.
That fixed it. Thanks!
Sure thing! :hangs self:
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This person only has 5 post on XDA you could go a tad lighter.
neidlinger said:
This person only has 5 post on XDA you could go a tad lighter.
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Oh no. I wasn't upset with them. Just in general. Its almost ALWAYS a wipe issue, and people just don't get it. I'm just griping period
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Clean wipe before install and check md5um

Stuck on Samsung Logo

Hey guys,
I have an S4 that is stuck on the Samsung logo. I have left it for over an hour at a stretch with nothing happening except the phone is smoking hot.
I have booted into Recovery (stock) and wiped the cache and rebooted with the same result.
I am completely stock and unrooted ... any ideas?
I would try a factory reset in recovery
jd1639 said:
I would try a factory reset in recovery
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I assume I would lose all data and programs and have to re-set up the phone?
llcooljayce said:
I assume I would lose all data and programs and have to re-set up the phone?
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Yep, but you phone should with again
llcooljayce said:
I assume I would lose all data and programs and have to re-set up the phone?
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Have you tried wiping Dalvik cache in recovery as well?
MrKhozam said:
Have you tried wiping Dalvik cache in recovery as well?
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He's on stock recovery
jd1639 said:
He's on stock recovery
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Ah, my mistake. Yes, so only option left is wipe data/factory reset.
llcooljayce said:
Hey guys,
I have an S4 that is stuck on the Samsung logo. I have left it for over an hour at a stretch with nothing hapfixes. g except the phone is smoking hot.
I have booted into Recovery (stock) and wiped the cache and rebooted with the same result.
I am completely stock and unrooted ... any ideas?
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See the Samsung guy at any Best Buy. He has the Samsung Tool and will reflash it for free. You will be back to MK2. Easier than fiddling with various fixes. This happened to my wife's Sgh-i747. Init.d prop build error. Recovery flashing updates didn't work. Odin didn't work. Kies same.
llcooljayce said:
Hey guys,
I have an S4 that is stuck on the Samsung logo. I have left it for over an hour at a stretch with nothing happening except the phone is smoking hot.
I have booted into Recovery (stock) and wiped the cache and rebooted with the same result.
I am completely stock and unrooted ... any ideas?
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Just re-flash the stock firmware from odin. Use the pda button, check auto-restart and f reset flags only. Use PDA button to browse to the downloaded IMG file. You can get your stock firmware from Samsung-updates.com . just make sure you get the i337m or the i337 (whichever you have, as they are not the same) for your region.
MrKhozam said:
Ah, my mistake. Yes, so only option left is wipe data/factory reset.
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Did a factory wipe and reboot and I am back in business. Crappy that it happened that way but happy that I was able to recover
Back to the same problem!
I lost my LTE connection and reset my phone ... now I'm stuck back on the Samsung logo.
I assume I have a faulty phone ... any idea what could have happened?
llcooljayce said:
Back to the same problem!
I lost my LTE connection and reset my phone ... now I'm stuck back on the Samsung logo.
I assume I have a faulty phone ... any idea what could have happened?
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So you say LTE dropped and you did another factory reset? If your APN settings are correct, then this shouldn't be happening unless there's a data block set on your account with your carrier. In this case, I would say something is wrong with the modem on your phone.
MrKhozam said:
So you say LTE dropped and you did another factory reset? If your APN settings are correct, then this shouldn't be happening unless there's a data block set on your account with your carrier. In this case, I would say something is wrong with the modem on your phone.
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Figured out that it was the microSD card that was causing the issue. I used the program App2SD to move programs from my main memory to run them on the SD card. Somehow the files that were moved over corrupted the boot sequence somehow. Total chance that I removed the card to send out for warranty repair and tried to boot it one last time.

[Q] Help! Phone bricked itself trying to update. Factory Reset isn't helping!

Last night my phone wanted to update to 4.4.4 because it's been wanting to for a while, but I know it wouldn't work because my phone is rooted. It had tried this at least 3 times before and everything was fine; download update, tries to install, fails, boots right back up. I wanted to get rid of the Update notification in the top bar, so I just ran it again thinking it'd be okay. Well, this time it bricked my phone, leaving me at a neverending loop at the boot animation. I first tried to wipe the cache and dalvik cache, which did nothing. Then I tried a factory restore, which also did nothing. Then I reinstalled the stock 4.4.3 rom I had been using, which did nothing. Then I wiped the SD card completely and reinstalled a stock 4.4.4 rom through sideload, which has done nothing. My phone just sits at the boot animation and taunts me. Worse yet, I have a 16-hour drive tomorrow and my phone was going to be the majority of my sanity during that time.
What should I do?? Is there anything I can do? Normally I would just contact Google to get a replacement (I've done this before when the 4.2 update was causing a lot of bricks,I think it was 4.2 anyway, I forgot) but I'd like to have a working phone for my 16 hour trip..... if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
Well, I never had heard of any devices that still stuck in the bootanimation after flashing the factory image. There is something really wrong.
Did you already tried flashing a custom rom? Can you boot into recovery?
CCody said:
Well, I never had heard of any devices that still stuck in the bootanimation after flashing the factory image. There is something really wrong.
Did you already tried flashing a custom rom? Can you boot into recovery?
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I had a Vanir 4.4.3 rom on my phone that I tried to flash as well, but for some reason it went right into "Optimizing Apps" after the first boot, something I hadn't seen before. Then it got stuck at "Starting Apps...", then after a restart, it too was stuck at the boot animation.
I can boot into recovery luckily, but that's all I can do. I have CWMR v6.0.3.5. I've tried just about everything I can think of. [edit] I was able to contact Google for some live chat support and am now #2 in the queue. Hopefully they can either help me or get a replacement going. Either way, I'd still love any help you guys can give me, I'd really like to get it fixed rather than waiting for a replacement.
Okay, try this: Wipe everything via recovery and with everything i mean really everything! Cache, dalvik, storage, your whole system. There must be nothing left on your phone. Then flash a rom of your choice. Wipe cache and dalvik afterwards and see if it works
CCody said:
Okay, try this: Wipe everything via recovery and with everything i mean really everything! Cache, dalvik, storage, your whole system. There must be nothing left on your phone. Then flash a rom of your choice. Wipe cache and dalvik afterwards and see if it works
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I've done that already, Factory Reset + wipe cache + wipe dalvik cache + format system/data/cache/sdcard/data/media. The phone was completely bare and that's when I sideloaded the stock 4.4.4 rom (otherwise it's stuck at the Google boot screen). I'll try it again, though.
Okay right now I'm using the Nexus Toolkit to flash the stock 4.4.4 .tgz image directly from google and unroot my phone (checking the option that the phone is Soft-bricked/Bootloop.
....Okay that finished and I'm still stuck at the boot animation and now I don't have CWMR. ****. [EDIT] But I can still boot into a custom recovery through the toolkit, which is good.
RawrNate said:
Okay right now I'm using the Nexus Toolkit to flash the stock 4.4.4 .tgz image directly from google and unroot my phone (checking the option that the phone is Soft-bricked/Bootloop.
....Okay that finished and I'm still stuck at the boot animation and now I don't have CWMR. ****. [EDIT] But I can still boot into a custom recovery through the toolkit, which is good.
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Damn, I really am stumped right now. That's really strange. Normally everything should be fine after a factory reset...
I've search several threads with bootloop problems, but none of them have this persistent bootloop. I believe you have damage your storage somehow, so that the system can't read the files and boot up properly. Maybe because of this 4.4.4 OTA update. Man, that's kinda sucks right now...
CCody said:
Damn, I really am stumped right now. That's really strange. Normally everything should be fine after a factory reset...
I've search several threads with bootloop problems, but none of them have this persistent bootloop. I believe you have damage your storage somehow, so that the system can't read the files and boot up properly. Maybe because of this 4.4.4 OTA update. Man, that's kinda sucks right now...
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Yeah haha, it's really really strange. I appreciate you trying to help me, though! Lucky for me I'm getting a "One-time exception replacement" since my warranty is expired but they must be super stumped with the issue as well xD
I forgot something! Did you also flashed the 4.4.4 binaries?
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#makoktu84p
I also read somewhere, that the LG Fashtool may help.
Try this out!
CCody said:
I forgot something! Did you also flashed the 4.4.4 binaries?
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#makoktu84p
I also read somewhere, that the LG Fashtool may help.
Try this out!
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Hm, I didn't think I'd need to with the factory image, but I'll try that. I tried the 4.4.3 factory image as well but that didn't work either. I also can't find anything about the LG Flashtool that's Nexus 4 specific, but I'll try to look more into it.
Wait, how do I flash the binaries since they're .tgz files?
RawrNate said:
Hm, I didn't think I'd need to with the factory image, but I'll try that. I tried the 4.4.3 factory image as well but that didn't work either. I also can't find anything about the LG Flashtool that's Nexus 4 specific, but I'll try to look more into it.
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This is really strange man. Flashing stock ROM is the last resort but even that seems to be failing for you.
Have you tried downloading the stockRom again (just to make sure it isn't corrupted). Also, maybe you can try using TWRP instead of CWM this time.
Good luck.
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Wait, how do I flash the binaries since they're .tgz files?
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No need to flash them, since you are on a factory image, sry.
Woah now, I've made progress! Maybe.... Anyway, in TWRP, I "fixed permissions" and mounted "system" but now I'm at the "Android is Upgrading, Optimizing Apps - Starting Apps" screen again (it only had to optimize 23 apps?). I was at this issue before when I was flashing roms last night trying to fix it, but going back to here is better than not getting it to boot at all. What else should I try next?
Note: I'm on the 4.4.4 factory image now and TWRP is just temporary through the Nexus Root Toolkit.
RawrNate said:
Woah now, I've made progress! Maybe.... Anyway, in TWRP, I "fixed permissions" and mounted "system" but now I'm at the "Android is Upgrading, Optimizing Apps - Starting Apps" screen again (it only had to optimize 23 apps?). I was at this issue before when I was flashing roms last night trying to fix it, but going back to here is better than not getting it to boot at all. What else should I try next?
Note: I'm on the 4.4.4 factory image now and TWRP is just temporary through the Nexus Root Toolkit.
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And? Did it boot up or just stuck in 'optimizing apps'? I would suggest to try another android version, like 4.3 or 4.4.2 at least.
CCody said:
And? Did it boot up or just stuck in 'optimizing apps'? I would suggest to try another android version, like 4.3 or 4.4.2 at least.
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30 minutes later and it's still at "Starting apps..."
I tried factory images of 4.4.3 and 4.3, still nothing.
RawrNate said:
30 minutes later and it's still at "Starting apps..."
I tried factory images of 4.4.3 and 4.3, still nothing.
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Jesus!
What about custom ROM? Cyanogenmod maybe? Make sure to downlaod the M7-Release.
Hm, alright, I'll give that a shot.
On a side note, is there a way to lock the bootloader again while in either recovery or bootloader? I fear that if it's unlocked, I won't get the $250 refund for the replacement.
RawrNate said:
Hm, alright, I'll give that a shot.
On a side note, is there a way to lock the bootloader again while in either recovery or bootloader? I fear that if it's unlocked, I won't get the $250 refund for the replacement.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbvuikfnks
CCody said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbvuikfnks
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Oh good that was easier than I thought xD

PLZ HELP!! Nexus 6p keeps booting into TWRP menu

Today and after deciding to simply restart my Nexus 6P, it booted into TWRP menu, I tried to reboot again, but no luck. can someone please help?
is there a way to get off the TWRP menu and boot my phone normally?
Note: The root used to simply work fine for about a month now.
Did you take an update? Rom details? You basically said you stuck a fork in a microwave and it sparked.
Gytole said:
Did you take an update? Rom details? You basically said you stuck a fork in a microwave and it sparked.
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Rooted my phone, and it was working fine for about a month, I done nothing unusual, All i did is restart my phone and it went to the TWRP menu, thats all. Im stuck there now.
I don't recall doing an update or whatever. Im using "BETA-SuperSU-v2.67-20160121175247.zip"
Any Idea how to get off the TWRP menu and boot my phone normally? Please help
MahmoudEMH said:
Any Idea how to get off the TWRP menu and boot my phone normally? Please help
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Have you tried wiping the caches and/or data? Have you tried reflashing whatever ROM you're using? Have you tried flashing the factory images with fastboot?
Heisenberg said:
Have you tried wiping the caches and/or data? Have you tried reflashing whatever ROM you're using? Have you tried flashing the factory images with fastboot?
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Yes to each one of those questions.
MahmoudEMH said:
Yes to each one of those questions.
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I will have to call you out here buddy. If you have indeed tried to flash all factory images, you won't even have TWRP in the first place.
Go to this wonderful guide by the wonderful @Heisenberg, and scroll down to "10. How To Flash The Factory Images (And Return To Stock)". You will find very clear instruction on how to return your phone to its factory stock state. This will most likely get rid of the problems you're facing.
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Yes to each one of those questions.
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If you had flashed the full factory images I don't see how it's possible at all to be in your current situation. Explain how you flashed them, and exactly what you flashed please.

Last update problem

There was a software update a couple of days ago. Am i the only one who is facing a problem with it? Scrolling has a pretty bad lag everywhere and multitasking has a problem as well. Is this common?
Mahmoud10896 said:
There was a software update a couple of days ago. Am i the only one who is facing a problem with it? Scrolling has a pretty bad lag everywhere and multitasking has a problem as well. Is this common?
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No it is not common, and please stop multiple posting the same vague issue. Wipe your phone, do a fresh install of the stock ROM and test it before adding apps and/or mods.
v12xke said:
No it is not common, and please stop multiple posting the same vague issue. Wipe your phone, do a fresh install of the stock ROM and test it before adding apps and/or mods.
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Nobody answered so i didn't have any choice plus.. i did already do all of that
Mahmoud10896 said:
Nobody answered so i didn't have any choice plus.. i did already do all of that
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If you did restore your phone to it's blank factory state (properly) then you wouldn't be experiencing this problem, because it doesn't exist on a stock ROM. Start by fastboot formatting System, Cache and Userdata. Then use the flash-all.bat script that comes with a full stock image. Please note I did not say "factory reset". Is your phone encrypted or un-uncrypted?
v12xke said:
If you did restore your phone to it's blank factory state (properly) then you wouldn't be experiencing this problem, because it doesn't exist on a stock ROM. Start by fastboot formatting System, Cache and Userdata. Then use the flash-all.bat script that comes with a full stock image. Please note I did not say "factory reset". Is your phone encrypted or un-uncrypted?
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It is unencrypted.. and i think that i misunderstood u at that beginning. What i did was a factory reset. I will do what u have been saying however i remembered a while ago that i an in beta and this might be the reason so i unenrolled my phone and i am waiting for the downgrade.. if the same problem continued i will restore it to its blank factory. Thank ?
v12xke said:
If you did restore your phone to it's blank factory state (properly) then you wouldn't be experiencing this problem, because it doesn't exist on a stock ROM. Start by fastboot formatting System, Cache and Userdata. Then use the flash-all.bat script that comes with a full stock image. Please note I did not say "factory reset". Is your phone encrypted or un-uncrypted?
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It is unencrypted.. and i think that i misunderstood u at that beginning. What i did was a factory reset. I will do what u have been saying however i remembered a while ago that i an in beta and this might be the reason so i unenrolled my phone and i am waiting for the downgrade.. if the same problem continued i will restore it to its blank factory. Thank ?
Mahmoud10896 said:
It is unencrypted.. and i think that i misunderstood u at that beginning. What i did was a factory reset. I will do what u have been saying however i remembered a while ago that i an in beta and this might be the reason so i unenrolled my phone and i am waiting for the downgrade.. if the same problem continued i will restore it to its blank factory. Thank
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I wouldn't hold my breath, and I certainly wouldn't take a downgrade... if it that ever comes. Thinking that "Oreo has caused some sort of problem so I must downgrade to N or MM" is just plain wrong. Why anyone with a Nexus or Pixel would want to be on N or MM is beyond me. It's your phone, so knock yourself out.

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