Hoping I'm not screwed.... - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I went to update my n7 to 4.4. I downloaded the factory images and did the fastboot bootloader on the bootloader image. Once that was done I ran fastboot update -w on the Nakasi image. It seemed to be running but was taking a very long time (> an hour ) . It would periodically print status updates, I believe the last one I saw was sending boot OK.
About 90 minutes into it, my laptops battery died. That was late last night... This morning I tried to turn the n7 on and it appears to be unresponsive. I've tried the power button as well as the vol down + power button but so far no sign of life. I plugged the n7 in to charge before I left the house this morning but I tried turning it on again after it had been charging for a half hour or so but no luck....
Am I screwed?
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Sounds like it. I also used both N4/N7 factory images and it does take a while, not like an hour or anything.
Now, can you tell me one thing, did it already flash the bootloader image? And are you sure you downloaded the one for the right nexus 7?
ex, Nexus 7 2012 wifi only = Nakasi/Grouper
Nexus 4 2012 = mako/occam
Nexus 7 2012 3G only = Nakasig

Yep it was grouper... Flashed the bootloader first which went fairly quickly and seemed successful
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Did you not have the 4.23 bootloader?
In fastboot should have just flashed the factory boot IMG then system IMG on top of the 4.3 stock
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It's alive! Came home and it booted right up. Oddly it booted into 4.3 JWR66V when before I attempted the flash I was at 66Y... But whatever I'm just happy it booted. Guess I need to try a different approach for updating to 4.4
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[Q]Tab freezing on Google screen when going into clockwork...

Hey guys, did a backup last night. Then this morning I wanted to flash an update to 4.1.1 so I held the volume down and power. Took me to the android laying down and I pushed up to Recovery just like before. But now when I click it it just shows the Google screen with the unlocked lock below it. I waited 5 minutes but nothing changed. Could anyone please give me opinions on what happened and how to restore CWM.
Thanks
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Fixed my own issue. Reinstalled cwm with adb and now I'm back in action.
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Nexus 4 Hard Lock - How to troubleshoot?

So, my Nexus 4 has been running great. I left the phone on my desk while I watched some TV and when I returned it wouldn't start. I thought this was odd as it had 30% battery when I left. I thought perhaps something was running in the background and managed to run it down. But even after connecting the phone to the charger, it wouldn't restart. However, I was able to reboot the phone into Fastboot mode by holding down the Volume Down + Power key. It restarted and I had 26% battery, so that wasn't the issue. Something must have caused it to lock-up. My question is what I can do to determine the cause. Are the log files that might be of assistance?
I used the Nexus 4 toolkit to unlock + root the phone. About an hour prior to this issue, I flashed the new CWM 6.0.1.9 Touch Recovery using ROM Manager. Other than that, I have no idea what could have caused this. Prior to that, I had the stock recovery installed. As for running software, I just had Gmail, Chrome, Speedtest
It might be because of the Rom try flashing back to stock
The ROM is stock 4.2 with the latest OTA. Do you mean that I should reflash the stock image because my system may be corrupted?
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jasonwc said:
The ROM is stock 4.2 with the latest OTA. Do you mean that I should reflash the stock image because my system may be corrupted?
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Everything should be ok man. Don't re flash or anything. I did the same to my phone as you and have had amazing battery. Just let it die all the way and recharge. See if it happens.
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Updated SmoothROM and my Nexus 7 stopped working! Can't get back into recovery.

I have had my Nexus 7 with SmoothROM on it for a long time now, I use it here and there, but I noticed it acting kind of glitchy lately especially when using the keyboard. I got 2 notifications from GROUPER (i think thats the name of it...) saying I had an update to SmoothROM (v 4.2) and that google apps needed to be updated... I did the normal crap, wiped everything, flashed the new smoothrom, flashed on the google apps, but when I rebooted it just keeps popping up saying "Unfortunately, the process blah blah gapps has stopped", then when i press ok it says Unfortunately, Setup Wizard has stopped".... and when i press ok on that it just keeps popping back up... will NOT go away no matter what I try...
On top of this... I tried going to fastboot and putting it in recovery mode but then it just goes to the main boot screen that says Google with a lock at the bottom, and it is just stuck there...
So what would be the easiest course of action here? I can't get it into Recovery mode I don't think, although I forgot how to do it in the first place, I thought it had to do with sliding the lock somewhere at the boot screen but I have tried that and nothing seems to work...
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Update: I managed to get into the settings and put USB Debugging on
so now it gets recognized by my computer and I can view and transfer files.... But I still can't get it into recovery mode so what should I do now lol?
Should I be looking for something like this " Google Nexus 7 Toolkit V3.2.0 " ?
Use wugs to restore to stock and start over
If you go back to smoothrom make sure you download it again might have been a bad download
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When you power on your nexus press volume down and up and power button together for a couple of seconds. Your screen will go off and then "Google" will come up. Continue pressing and you will be in the boot loader menu. Go to recovery and install the ROM you want. (Can you get there?) Or else try to install it from your PC with cmd. Let me know if the first way works.
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Same here, I dirty flashed it from stock instead of full wipe. Always do full wipe just in case.
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is the lock under the Google logo open or closed? if you installed a custom ROM, it should be open. if it is closed, the bootloader somehow got locked again.
however, i think the issue you are experiencing is related to gapps. you either have a bad download of gapps or flashed the wrong gapps (some roms require custom gapps). try the volume down+power thing to get to the bootloader, then go to recovery. if you can't, flash a recovery using fastboot or use one of those toolkits to flash a recovery. before you re-flash your ROM and gapps, i'd recommend verifying the MD5 sum, since that will tell you whether the downloaded file is good or not.
Sorry for the late reply guys but as it usually goes my ADHD got the best of me and before I came back to read this i ended up using that Google toolkit thing that I asked about and did what somebody said (option 9) to download and then install the stock ROM (but thank you!!) BUT in case anybody would like to know the lock was open and I could put it in fastboot but it wouldn't boot me into recovery. Hopefully anybody else updating smoothrom that ends up in my position will find this thread. I also suggest just downloaded the ROM and flashing it with the recovery that was my first time using that update ROM thing and it screwed up lol.
Again thanks a ton! Is there any new ROMs out there for the Nexus 7? Anything better than SmoothROM (or stock, lol)?
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Is there any new ROMs out there for the Nexus 7? Anything better than SmoothROM (or stock, lol)?
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Rasbeanjelly with Franco kernel. I think it's the best out there.. I got 5k on quadrant with no overclock anywhere. Games play with no lag, it's very good
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Maybe I'll try that... I'm gonna do quadrant right now I DLed it right after I got stock on but haven't tested it yet
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I have seen a huge difference also in the overall speed of the system, very responsive and fast every second you should try it out
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Stock Nexus 7 wont boot after 4.2.2 update & factory reset

Got OTA after clearing framwork services, decided to factory reset from settings/backup reset.
After it shut down it proceeded to boot, gets past the google logo and about 20 seconds into the "X" then the screen brightens briefly then it shuts down, was totally stock and locked.
Totally stumped as to why this has happened, and help/ideas would be greatly appreaciated.
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AW: Stock Nexus 7 wont boot after 4.2.2 update & factory reset
Put it on the charger for some time, at least half an hour, then try to start again. Looks to me as if you battery is too low.
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1 - unlock the bootloader
2 - flash stock 4.2.1 image from fastboot
3 - flash the ota zip
if doing so it doesn't work, you'll need someone more experienced than me to help you
Battery was at 70%+
Recovery showed no command
Left it on charge for about half hour, tried booting and it still didn't work then when I next picked it up it was showing the language selection screen. So go figure, its back up and running.
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alferret said:
Battery was at 70%+
Recovery showed no command
Left it on charge for about half hour, tried booting and it still didn't work then when I next picked it up it was showing the language selection screen. So go figure, its back up and running.
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same has happened to me could not get past the "x" so i factory reset still cant get past "x" put it on charge and will try again soon
alferret said:
Got OTA after clearing framwork services, decided to factory reset from settings/backup reset.
After it shut down it proceeded to boot, gets past the google logo and about 20 seconds into the "X" then the screen brightens briefly then it shuts down, was totally stock and locked.
Totally stumped as to why this has happened, and help/ideas would be greatly appreaciated.
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Why would you do a factory reset after flashing the OTA? Anyway, if all else fails, return to stock 4.2.1 and update through OTA again, or better yet sideload the update.
Leonhan said:
Why would you do a factory reset after flashing the OTA? Anyway, if all else fails, return to stock 4.2.1 and update through OTA again, or better yet sideload the update.
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cant get mine pass the "x" all i done was updated ota then i factory reset it and its just stuck on "x" not to sure what to do im a newbie at flashing etc its in waranty so i may just talk to google/asus.
brianzion said:
cant get mine pass the "x" all i done was updated ota then i factory reset it and its just stuck on "x" not to sure what to do im a newbie at flashing etc its in waranty so i may just talk to google/asus.
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Try flashing stock rom again, then OTA via the system updates in the settings menu.

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-
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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-
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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
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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
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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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