Can't access recovery - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Just received an ota and found out I lost root. However when i go to the recovery through the normal way it shows an android with its stomach open with a red exclamation point.. Help
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poyskie said:
Just received an ota and found out I lost root. However when i go to the recovery through the normal way it shows an android with its stomach open with a red exclamation point.. Help
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Reflashing the recovery and root.zip should work
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What your seeing is actually stock recovery, I know people tend to get worried when they see the android with the exclamation mark. You can access the stock recovery commands by pressing volume up and the power button at the same time.
You probably want to flash recovery though. Assuming you are already unlocked and have fastboot drivers etc, you need to download the latest image of your desired recovery and flash using fastboot with the following command:
fastboot devices (to check the device is even connected)
fastboot flash recovery <filename>
It should flash successfully. All you need to do now is get the latest supersu zip and flash through recovery.

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can't get into Clockworkmod recovery

Hi,
I was trying to root my nexus 4 using this tutorial. I got to the part where I needed to get into recovery, I hold down both the volume keys and the power button. I got into fastboot mode and selected 'Recovery mode' which is supposed to launch Clockworkmod, am I right? right after I hit the power button to get into recovery a lying bot with a red triangle and an exclamation mark inside it appeared. I let the device to lay down like this for a little bit and it simply rebooted to it's normal state.
When I installed Clockwordmod it came up just fine the first time so I have no clue of what went wrong..
My boot loader is unlocked and I can see that while in fastboot mode.
Any kind of help is appreciated!
prhing said:
Hi,
I was trying to root my nexus 4 using this tutorial. I got to the part where I needed to get into recovery, I hold down both the volume keys and the power button. I got into fastboot mode and selected 'Recovery mode' which is supposed to launch Clockworkmod, am I right? right after I hit the power button to get into recovery a lying bot with a red triangle and an exclamation mark inside it appeared. I let the device to lay down like this for a little bit and it simply rebooted to it's normal state.
When I installed Clockwordmod it came up just fine the first time so I have no clue of what went wrong..
My boot loader is unlocked and I can see that while in fastboot mode.
Any kind of help is appreciated!
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Did you flash recovery in fastboot or with a Toolkit?
In fastboot : fastboot flash recovery recovery-touch-mako.img. recovery-touch-mako is what i renamed the CWM file. Don`t add .img at the end of the name, just recovery-touch-mako or whatever you name it.
I think that you just booted CWM.
The droid with red triangle ils the default recovery. You can flash CWM by typing this : fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Just rename the cwm image in recovery.img and drag it to the ADB/FASTBOOT folder.
I hope it'll help you
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But I've already flashed it and booted into it for the first time. I forgot to tell you that I have a Mac.
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You can try to flash it again with fastboot.
It seems that this is a known issue. Here's a tutorial to force flash a custom recovery but it only work on Windows :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1956984
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Broken recovery after 4.3 update

I sideloaded the 4.3 update on my Nexus 7. The update went fine, but afterward I used ADB to reboot to recovery because I wanted to re-root it. When I boot into recovery the screen shows the Android lying on its back with an exclamation mark, and fastboot can't find the device. How can I fix my recovery? I did flash recovery when I updated to 4.3.
Thanks
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After posting this I tried booting with Vol- held down. It worked, recovery behaved as normal and I was able to use fastboot to flash TWRP.
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[Q] Android 4.3 recovery problem

Hi, when android 4.3 launched, i went back to 4.2 complete stock with no custom recovery and locked the bootloader to receive the update OTA.
Now I have 4.3 with Z20i bootloader and when i flash cwm, phone gets stuck on the GOOGLE splashscreen and after 1/2 hour moves to the X screen and gets stuck there. Recovery does not works. I had to flash stock recovery and wipe all data to make it work. when trying
Code:
fastboot boot recovery.img (recovery-clockworkmod-6.0.3.6-mako.img)
, it shows a black screen after google and then reboots in safemode whenever any button is pushed.
RohMish said:
Hi, when android 4.3 launched, i went back to 4.2 complete stock with no custom recovery and locked the bootloader to receive the update OTA.
Now I have 4.3 with Z20i bootloader and when i flash cwm, phone gets stuck on the GOOGLE splashscreen and after 1/2 hour moves to the X screen and gets stuck there. Recovery does not works. I had to flash stock recovery and wipe all data to make it work. when trying
Code:
fastboot boot recovery.img (recovery-clockworkmod-6.0.3.6-mako.img)
, it shows a black screen after google and then reboots in safemode whenever any button is pushed.
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Normally you have to execute
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Try it with the latest cwm image
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mihahn said:
Normally you have to execute
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Try it with the latest cwm image
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flash installs the recovery but nothing works. i have to do a wipe and install the stock recovery to boot it. i wrote it on top
Put your device on the bootloader menu and use this: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occamjwr66v
Always use the stock bootloader like pretty much everyone who owns the Nexus 4.
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andyabc said:
Put your device on the bootloader menu and use this: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occamjwr66v
Always use the stock bootloader like pretty much everyone who owns the Nexus 4.
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It is on the stock bootloader that comes with the nexus 4. The problem is after 4.3 update, i am not able to install cwm on my phone. using fastboot boot command gives black screen while fastboot flash boots a recovery whose none of functions work as it is unable to mount any partition, etc. and i have to install factory image of recovery and do a factory reset to boot the device again to android.
RohMish said:
It is on the stock bootloader that comes with the nexus 4. The problem is after 4.3 update, i am not able to install cwm on my phone. using fastboot boot command gives black screen while fastboot flash boots a recovery whose none of functions work as it is unable to mount any partition, etc. and i have to install factory image of recovery and do a factory reset to boot the device again to android.
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Oh, I thought that was some custom bootloader, apologies.
Em yeah you will have to install the factory image.
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andyabc said:
Oh, I thought that was some custom bootloader, apologies.
Em yeah you will have to install the factory image.
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Did that. it has made me more mad as it took 3 hours to download and when your phone is not working, even ever minute is like an day.
RohMish said:
Did that. it has made me more mad as it took 3 hours to download and when your phone is not working, even ever minute is like an day.
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Did you try installing an other recovery like either the latest version of CWM or TWRP?
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andyabc said:
Did you try installing an other recovery like either the latest version of CWM or TWRP?
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tried an older version of cwm, touch, everything. but all are having same issues
RohMish said:
tried an older version of cwm, touch, everything. but all are having same issues
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Older is worse!
Try TWRP 2.6.0.0.
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andyabc said:
Older is worse!
Try TWRP 2.6.0.0.
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trying it now.
any ways i can switch to cwm after that as i prefer cwm any day of week. will fastboot boot command word as i dont want to sit flashing the factory image and let the apps and all download again
UPDATE: Tried twrp via fastboot boot command. nothing. just a blank screen after the reboot from bootloader (and after google boot screen) for a few seconds, andd then shuts down.
RohMish said:
trying it now.
any ways i can switch to cwm after that as i prefer cwm any day of week. will fastboot boot command word as i dont want to sit flashing the factory image and let the apps and all download again
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The issue is that fastboot boot recovery doesn't work on 4.3. The new command if fastboot - c lge.kcal=0|0|0|x boot recovery.img
BLACKED OUT LTE N4
spaceman860 said:
The issue is that fastboot boot recovery doesn't work on 4.3. The new command if fastboot - c lge.kcal=0|0|0|x boot recovery.img
BLACKED OUT LTE N4
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not working. says 0 is a not a command. this is as | works as a batch separator in windows
Update: as i remembered modifier <"> will prevent | from kicking into next line, i tried that, and it works!
fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot recoverycwm.img. but still no action. tried a backup, it starts to backup but files are corrupted. and nothing else work.
This is from efrant guide
Open a command prompt in the directory mentioned above and type: fastboot boot customrecovery.img Note: If you are running the latest bootloader (z20i), the command would be: fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot customrecovery.img Thanks hwti & el_charlie
BLACKED OUT LTE N4
spaceman860 said:
This is from efrant guide
Open a command prompt in the directory mentioned above and type: fastboot boot customrecovery.img Note: If you are running the latest bootloader (z20i), the command would be: fastboot -c "lge.kcal=0|0|0|x" boot customrecovery.img Thanks hwti & el_charlie
BLACKED OUT LTE N4
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i loads up but is kind of broken.
any way i can copy the files to my pc to do some analysis. currently the folder which used to save the files has nothing. adb pull /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup/ /android/adbbackupfiles/nexus4 is yielding nothing.
OK. so now i tried using the touch version, and this time there are some files(Still copying). but those are very different than what it was on my older phones and my initial backup. Sorry, I had got away with this due to studies. now the files are .a and.b and the orignal file which is 0KB

JWR66Y Update Recovery No Command

I used the OTA recovery to update to JWR66Y, and this worked correctly. I flashed the update using clockworkmod, then clockworkmod asked if I wanted to also flash the recovery part of the update and I did. Now the phone will not boot into recovery mode. It now says no command with the exposed android and an exclamation rather than any recovery option. I attempted to use fastboot to reflash clockworkmod but the phone doesnt show up in adb devices after the adb reboot bootloader command, and when I use the fastboot flash recovery recoveryxxxx.IMG command, it just says waiting for device and nothing happens.
Anyone have any ideas? My apologies if this has already been covered but I did not find it trying to search.
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It now says no command with the exposed android and an exclamation rather than any recovery option.
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This is the stock recovery which includes now the "no command". To access the menu of this stock recovery press power then press volume up while you keep pressing power.
Good luck.
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Install the Universal Naked drivers then adb/fastboot will work.
You had the right idea.
Is there a Linux fix for this issue, or do I need to bite the bullet and do a windows install, eek.
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Android red triangle. Boots up fine

I can't seem to fix this problem where I'm getting a red triangle on droid robot.
I am able to boot my phone into bootloader but when I hit recovery mode I get the error.
I am also able to boot the phone normally without problems. I started getting this error once I updated my phone to 4.4.4. I've been searching for 4 hours now and can't seem to find any solutions :crying:
Is there a way in which I can install CWM or TWRP on my phone again.
Thanks guys.
For twrp or cwm, I recommend twrp, find an image file for your device. Google nexus 4 twrp image file. (I googled it for you http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/mako) Then in fastboot use the command
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img where recovery.img is the name of the twrp image file
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It's normal, from the red exclamation mark (no command) you hold vol-up then tap the power button.
jd1639 said:
For twrp or cwm, I recommend twrp, find an image file for your device. Google nexus 4 twrp image file. (I googled it for you Then in fastboot use the command
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img where recovery.img is the name of the twrp image file
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Took me a while to figure out what you were saying. Then I realised you meant open a command prompt in the platform tools folder.
Anyway, thanks bro. Successfully rooted that motherf***** :highfive:

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