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Probably soft-bricked my N4

Hi folks,
It appears that I managed to soft-brick my device, while trying to revert everything back to stock.
To make a long story short, I'm working by efrant's guide, but once I try to flash the radio, it takes ages and doesn't really go anywhere, i'm waiting more than 20 minutes now.
In addition to the bootloader (which is unlocked and the computer recognizes), I can also access the recovery (TWRP) - BUT, when I tried to wipe all the data, it wiped stuff and then claimed that there's no OS installed. when I rebooted my device, it got stuck on google's logo and I had to force reboot into bootloader again.
Luckily, the bootloader is the only thing that currently works in this phone, whilst the recovery keeps "claiming" that there is no OS installed and i can't really do something with it.
so i try to flash the bootloader, it works. once i try to flash the radio, it gets stuck. i try to flash system.img, the same.
What do I do?
A lot of thanks in advance!
*update* - I managed to flash it back to stock, eventually. yey.

just flash any ROM and Gapps and It should work.

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 stuck on boot animation

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

bump bump

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.

Nexus 4 Stuck at starting app when not on Stock

Short Story: My phone works fine when its stock 4.4.4 , no root. If i root it and flash a custom recovery using WUG it gets stuck on starting ups.
Long Story: I was running the latest version of PA, rebooted my phone because of a franco kernel update, and it got stuck on the bootscreen. Tried everything, couldnt get it to boot, so I finally flashed stock using WUG, it worked. I then rooted and flashed custom recovery, and it got stuck on starting apps. Flashed stock again and it worked, repeated the root, and it got stuck on starting apps.
Anybody know whats going on?

wasa67 said:
Short Story: My phone works fine when its stock 4.4.4 , no root. If i root it and flash a custom recovery using WUG it gets stuck on starting ups.
Long Story: I was running the latest version of PA, rebooted my phone because of a franco kernel update, and it got stuck on the bootscreen. Tried everything, couldnt get it to boot, so I finally flashed stock using WUG, it worked. I then rooted and flashed custom recovery, and it got stuck on starting apps. Flashed stock again and it worked, repeated the root, and it got stuck on starting apps.
Anybody know whats going on?
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You should do a CLEAN install, wipe dalvik / cache / System and Data, the last two ones are very important to wipe, otherwise you got stuck on boot.
It is best to flash your rom using recovery and forget the toolkit, just upload your rom on your N4, get to recovery => install => choose the rom, that's it.

blusydays said:
You should do a CLEAN install, wipe dalvik / cache / System and Data, the last two ones are very important to wipe, otherwise you got stuck on boot.
It is best to flash your rom using recovery and forget the toolkit, just upload your rom on your N4, get to recovery => install => choose the rom, that's it.
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I did all that before, and it still didn't work.

I think your problems are related to flashing the recovery, did you try to revert back the the old one ?

Stuck at boot logo after trying to flash any custom ROM (marshmallow or nougat)

Like the title says, my phone gets stuck at the boot logo (not bootloader) after I try to flash any custom ROM to which I solve by restoring to a stock rooted nandroid backup of 6.0.
Here's my flash process:
1. Reboot to TWRP
2. Do clean wipe
3. Flash ROM (DU for example)
4. Flash gapps
5. Reboot
TWRP flashes the ROMs and necessary gapps without any issues but no matter what it gets stuck at the boot logo after rebooting. This wasn't a problem in the past as I was using Orion, DU, AICP, etc. Would using the restore-to-stock tool help in this case? The only thing stopping me from using it is the fact that it would wipe my internal storage. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: I decided to restore to stock and wipe user data and I'm now finally able to get past the the boot logo

How long are you waiting? First boot can exceed 20 minutes just sitting there looking like it's not doing anything...

Sometimes first boot take.more than half an hour

Sorry to revive this but Im getting the same problem... Did u managed to install any rom after u flash the stock rom? Should I do that? How long should I wait on first boot?