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Accidentally formatted nexus 4

I have accidently formatted y nexus 4. Now there is no os in the device. how can i install os in my device now . Please assists what to do? I just have clockworkmod recovery v6.0.1.9 installed. I have tried to download and install the factory iamge from nexus 4 toolkit but it didnt work for me. Cause the tool kit could not download the factory image and install in my device.

if you can go to fastboot, then do it manually if you want: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
Download the occam here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images (remember to choose the right model).
Then use the downloaded file for tools such as Nexus Root Toolkit.

opticaldh said:
if you can go to fastboot, then do it manually if you want: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
Download the occam here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images (remember to choose the right model).
Then use the downloaded file for tools such as Nexus Root Toolkit.
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Thanks for the quick response. Yes i can go into the fast boot. And my bootloader is unlocked for your information. But what to do next from the fast boot? Please assists me step up step if you dont mind. I have downloaded the os and put in the push files to device folder in the nexus 4 toolkit and tried to pushed it to my device but it didnt work. Total knoob here . Please assist.
I have nothing in my device. Its totally emty.

jake220 said:
Thanks for the quick response. Yes i can go into the fast boot. And my bootloader is unlocked for your information. But what to do next from the fast boot? Please assists me step up step if you dont mind. I have downloaded the os and put in the push files to device folder in the nexus 4 toolkit and tried to pushed it to my device but it didnt work. Total knoob here . Please assist.
I have nothing in my device. Its totally emty.
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For the manual, Follow the instruction, step by step http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
For the toolkit, you dont have to push it to your phone, leave it in your computer, go to fastboot then use the Restock function in the toolkit to restock your phone.
If you didn't download the stock image by the toolkit, it will ask you to download the image, just choose an option that allows you to pick the img from your computer.

jake220 said:
Thanks for the quick response. Yes i can go into the fast boot. And my bootloader is unlocked for your information. But what to do next from the fast boot? Please assists me step up step if you dont mind. I have downloaded the os and put in the push files to device folder in the nexus 4 toolkit and tried to pushed it to my device but it didnt work. Total knoob here . Please assist.
I have nothing in my device. Its totally emty.
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If you download one of the images from the link inside it will be a batch file (flash-all.bat) you can just double click that and it will do everything for you.

U didn't format your Device. You prob screwed up your partitions or folders that contained system files. I would recommend what the other guy said.
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I really appreciate all the helps.Everything went well. But got stuck on the X animation. Os is not loading . I waited more than 20 mins.

Turn your phone off, then go to bootloader, choose the option to go to Recovery Mode. You'll see the android dude lying with a red triangle. Press power or power+up+down or some combinations like that, I dont really remember, to enter the Options of Recovery mode. Wipe cache and do a factory data reset. Reboot.

How on terra do you even managed to "accidentally" format your phone?

Everything good now. Got my nexus up and running again.

I'm more surprised on why people don't read up on everything BEFORE rooting the phone in the first place? Surely it's common sense to know how to recover the phone should something go wrong?...

EddyOS said:
I'm more surprised on why people don't read up on everything BEFORE rooting the phone in the first place? Surely it's common sense to know how to recover the phone should something go wrong?...
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XDA has went mainstream. Common sense is not practiced by the majority of the people here now.
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Sully6789 said:
XDA has went mainstream. Common sense is not practiced by the majority of the people here now.
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Very true...

Sully6789 said:
XDA has went mainstream. Common sense is not practiced by the majority of the people here now.
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We used to burn newbies for asking how to preform simple tasks such as rooting because the instructions are always in the stickies, but if we do it now everyone will think we are mean. *shrug*
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jake220 said:
Everything good now. Got my nexus up and running again.
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What you did to work?

ramadhani84 said:
What you did to work?
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Just restore a nandroid.

jd1639 said:
Just restore a nandroid.
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Did it several times and still with same problem...
Installed CWM Recovery, wiped cache partition, wiped data/factory reset and still with same problem...
Now it stucks in "Google" text... doesn't even show the "X" animation...

jake220 said:
Everything good now. Got my nexus up and running again.
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Hi sorry to bother but how were you able to get your nexus up and running? I am having the same issue. Thank you in advance

EddyOS said:
I'm more surprised on why people don't read up on everything BEFORE rooting the phone in the first place? Surely it's common sense to know how to recover the phone should something go wrong?...
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Common sense used to be practised by all the nexus community. Yet nowadays noobs are everywhere.
There's nothing wrong with being a noob but senseless noobs ?
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EddyOS said:
Very true...
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2many android devices with bloatware coming out what makes it, 70% shame on Samsung(they releases lots and lots of low end devices per country)
os, i know i registred in june of this year, but i use xda since 2011

[Q] boot.IMG issue

I have a razrm xt907 the ROM I am currently running is deadrage and I wanna flash in the liquidsmooth ROM but every time I attempt to flash liquid smooth in it does work but the old deadrage boot.IMG remains I have wiped everything more than three times and the old logo still remains any help to resolve this would be useful I'm sure its a stupid fix but I am a newbie in this

Musiv said:
I have a razrm xt907 the ROM I am currently running is deadrage and I wanna flash in the liquidsmooth ROM but every time I attempt to flash liquid smooth in it does work but the old deadrage boot.IMG remains I have wiped everything more than three times and the old logo still remains any help to resolve this would be useful I'm sure its a stupid fix but I am a newbie in this
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Goodies! stockboot logo.zip
flash from recovery

Musiv said:
I have a razrm xt907 the ROM I am currently running is deadrage and I wanna flash in the liquidsmooth ROM but every time I attempt to flash liquid smooth in it does work but the old deadrage boot.IMG remains I have wiped everything more than three times and the old logo still remains any help to resolve this would be useful I'm sure its a stupid fix but I am a newbie in this
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DeadCalm(Rage) has the boot logo in 2 locations. The normal place, system/media, and another, I think in system/data. Use a file explorer to find the one that's NOT in the system/media folder and just delete it. You're looking for something by the name of "bootanimation.zip."

I have looked in the file you stated I have had no luck finding it
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Musiv said:
I have looked in the file you stated I have had no luck finding it
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Sorry, it took me a while to respond. I had to try to figure out if I told you correct locations. The boot animation should be in system/media, however I told you it could also be in system/data on this ROM. However, I looked around a little and I think it's actually in data/local or data/media. I saw this in another thread, but I wasn't able to check in phone because I'm running a different ROM. Delete the one in data/local and leave the other one in system/media.

boot.img issue
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Sorry, it took me a while to respond. I had to try to figure out if I told you correct locations. The boot animation should be in system/media, however I told you it could also be in system/data on this ROM. However, I looked around a little and I think it's actually in data/local or data/media. I saw this in another thread, but I wasn't able to check in phone because I'm running a different ROM. Delete the one in data/local and leave the other one in system/media.
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thank you for responding
is it possible that the deadrage logo was somehow embedded between the rom and recovery and thats why i cannot delete it and if so how do i get rid of it
btw are you one of the original developers of the rom
i have attempted to delete the file in the location you stated but to no avail

Musiv said:
thank you for responding
is it possible that the deadrage logo was somehow embedded between the rom and recovery and thats why i cannot delete it and if so how do i get rid of it
btw are you one of the original developers of the rom
i have attempted to delete the file in the location you stated but to no avail
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So this did not work?
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...calm-v14-7172013-412-base/page-30#entry340420

Musiv said:
thank you for responding
is it possible that the deadrage logo was somehow embedded between the rom and recovery and thats why i cannot delete it and if so how do i get rid of it
btw are you one of the original developers of the rom
i have attempted to delete the file in the location you stated but to no avail
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Sorry, I'm a little dense sometimes, it just clicked in my head that you were talking about the image and not the animation. This needs to be flashed in recovery. There is a thread on Droidrzr.com and, I think on here, that have flashable boot images. Again, I apologize for being slow.
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Oh believe me I am not complaining thank you for the help I believe I know what to change
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Musiv said:
Oh believe me I am not complaining thank you for the help I believe I know what to change
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Here's the thread on DroidRzr. It gives you two options, you can make your own or you can DL the flashable .zip. Personally, I take the easy way and choose the flashable .zip. Just DL and flash in recovery.
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/23376-mega-collection-of-bootlogos-request-thread/

[Q] Cannot change boot animations/sound

Before you all start yelling at me for not looking around on the forum, i actually did look around, but most answers were different and were confusing me.
Im running bobcat Rom and the boot animation and sound are horrible! I tried alot of methodes to install boot animations but always failed.
Can someone please help me out with this stupid thing?
Thanks ♥

From where you are downloading bootanimation? It must be flashable zip file?
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tollboy said:
From where you are downloading bootanimation? It must be flashable zip file?
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I tried boot animation app, and i tried some bootanimation from here, which i installed trough "install update from ZIP".

Yea..im quite confused with the bootanimation and bootsound file structure of this phone. Usually it will just be sitting there, bootanimation.zip, but here, all I see is .qmg?
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snowyfoxy said:
I tried boot animation app, and i tried some bootanimation from here, which i installed trough "install update from ZIP".
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I guess you forgot to paste the boot-animation link.
Your fone must be rooted as you are installing custom rom. you can manually replace the bootanimation file using root explorer.
Try this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993710
Let me know if you still have issue.

Yeah same all i see is .qmg
and tollboy, Isnt it obvious when someone has a custom rom, that hes phone is rooted? lol

snowyfoxy said:
Yeah same all i see is .qmg
and tollboy, Isnt it obvious when someone has a custom rom, that hes phone is rooted? lol
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I was implying the same..:victory:

Ok, but can someone ****ing give the solution already to this easy problem?

I have the same issue, is someone have found a solution yet????

you can copy/paste files to the phone in the followingstructure:-
/system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
/system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
/system/media/bootsamsungmini.qmg
/system/media/bootsamsungminiloop.qmg
/system/media/audio/ui/PowerOn.ogg
/system/media/audio/ui/PowerOff.ogg
/system/media/video/shutdown/shutdown.qmg
/system/media/video/shutdown/shutdown.qmg.cover
first 4 files are to do with boot animation, next 2 are the boot and shutdown sounds and the last 2 are shutdown animation.
once you copy them accross, you msut set permisions on all files to rw-r--r--
an example of a flashable zip is attached, and this just saves the bother of doing it all manually. just flash it from custom recovery (and maybe need to wipe dalvik and cache, I've heard that changes to system files on odex roms require this?)
p.s. the attached file is the s5 boot animations and sounds. i didn't make it....can't remember where i got it, so apologies to the creator

Bricked nexus 10? Help mee

Okay So I unlocked bootloader via NRT..
So after unlocking I got into recovery and earsed the data(as mentioned in the instructions)..
Now basically the tablet doesn't boot up to home.

First. Dont use toolkits. No disrespect to the dev but it is way better to do it manually.
Second which recovery did you use?
Third what exactly did you wipe?
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mrgnex said:
First. Dont use toolkits. No disrespect to the dev but it is way better to do it manually.
Second which recovery did you use?
Third what exactly did you wipe?
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I wiped everything..
There is no OS in my tablet now.. :/

theserpent said:
Okay So I unlocked bootloader via NRT..
So after unlocking I got into recovery and earsed the data(as mentioned in the instructions)..
Now basically the tablet doesn't boot up to home.
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You can re install the rom by going to https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#mantaraykot49h and picking the image you need.
Just hold the power button and the both volume buttons down at the same time to get into the fastboot mode before you run the image restore
program. I hope this helps. Good Luck
Make sure you go down to the Factory Images "mantaray" for Nexus 10.

braider said:
You can re install the rom by going to https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#mantaraykot49h and picking the image you need.
Just hold the power button and the both volume buttons down at the same time to get into the fastboot mode before you run the image restore
program. I hope this helps. Good Luck
Make sure you go down to the Factory Images "mantaray" for Nexus 10.
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I'm sorry im a complete noob in all this..
Sorry to trouble you,but how do I
run the image restore
program
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You download the file from Google and unzip the *.tgz into a folder on the computer, then you run the flash-all.bat from the folder you unzipped the file in.
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Good advice but for a noob needs a bit more about being in command line with the adb and fastboot commands in path. I use Linux desktop. I bricked a n7 last week due to a dodgy connector socket/cable during a flash and had to type the flash-all script commands myself a few times til it worked.
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braider said:
You download the file from Google and unzip the *.tgz into a folder on the computer, then you run the flash-all.bat from the folder you unzipped the file in.
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Okay,Did that But sending system is not completing at all,I waited for like 2-3 hours No USE :/

theserpent said:
Okay,Did that But sending system is not completing at all,I waited for like 2-3 hours No USE :/
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On my bricked N7 I pulled cable reinserted and retried. Keep retrying each command in the script. Worked eventually for me.

nigelhealy said:
On my bricked N7 I pulled cable reinserted and retried. Keep retrying each command in the script. Worked eventually for me.
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Will give it a few last trys.
Last option,I'll send my nexus 10 with my uncle back to USA.
Will they charge to fix it?

Hi,
You may want to seek for the guide in the Nexus 10 Q&A regarding flashing stock again.
Can you please go a little further in details about how "bricked" it actually is? What exactly happened? There seem to be missing some important info regarding your issue.
Please be a little more descriptive and maybe I can help you .
~Lord
"All I Ever Needed Was A Little Piece of Hope" - World of Fantasy (Helloween)
Sent from my monstrous Xperia Z1

Thanks for all the help guys,The tablet booted

i'm ok
the same problem, but perfect, i see the reply, and my device is ok new!:good::good:

Trying to change emoji's - having issues

At first, they all disappeared...... Then I finally got them to change, but return to stock with every reboot?
Forgot to do a backup before starting this..... So I'm stuck with what ever I end up with

tele_jas said:
Of course, I forgot to make a backup before doing anything.....So, is there any way I can get my emoji's back?
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you have an idea where's the emoji's location?
i can pull those files and upload them for you or anyone else
P.S. Dude, Always Backup.....first rule while messing with root,system changes, etc :cyclops:

DrakenFX said:
P.S. Dude, Always Backup.....first rule while messing with root,system changes, etc :cyclops:
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Yeah, I've been doing this for 4 years..... I just got over-excited and did a stupid thing
I think I know where they're located and I've replaced them with a different set, then rebooted and tried the emoji switcher again and I now have the "Emoji One" emoji's :highfive:
[EDIT] But every time I restart, the stock emoji's return?
Also flashed a different font

tele_jas said:
Yeah, I've been doing this for 4 years..... I just got over-excited and did a stupid thing
I think I know where they're located and I've replaced them with a different set, then rebooted and tried the emoji switcher again and I now have the "Emoji One" emoji's :highfive:
[EDIT] But every time I restart, the stock emoji's return?
Also flashed a different font
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awesome dude,
P.S. you are show quiet the info there (phone number) just FYI LoL

DrakenFX said:
awesome dude,
P.S. you are show quiet the info there (phone number) just FYI LoL
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Yeah, I realized that after I posted it....Was editing it when you replied

To have your changes persist you need to disable system write protection:
Code:
adb shell reboot disemmcwp
As discovered here:
http://androidforums.com/threads/zte-write-protection-for-zmax-and-other-zte-phones.1040331/
originally for other ZTE phones but works with the Axon 7 too.

Nameless One said:
To have your changes persist you need to disable system write protection:
Code:
adb shell reboot disemmcwp
As discovered here:
http://androidforums.com/threads/zte-write-protection-for-zmax-and-other-zte-phones.1040331/
originally for other ZTE phones but works with the Axon 7 too.
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Awesome, that did it! Thank you!!

tele_jas said:
At first, they all disappeared...... Then I finally got them to change, but return to stock with every reboot?
Forgot to do a backup before starting this..... So I'm stuck with what ever I end up with
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It's been a while since I've rooted. Do you have a file or file link to the emoji one emoji for the whole system and also a font package zip?
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osmosizzz said:
It's been a while since I've rooted. Do you have a file or file link to the emoji one emoji for the whole system and also a font package zip?
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I'm using "Emoji Switcher" from the play store (Root required). I don't have the actual .ttf file. There is a "write protection" on the system, once I rebooted, they came back (to stock)..... After I removed the write protection, I was able to successfully change my emoji's using the app. :good:
The font I got here off of XDA, I only have the "China Cat" font .zip

tele_jas said:
I'm using "Emoji Switcher" from the play store (Root required). I don't have the actual .ttf file. There is a "write protection" on the system, once I rebooted, they came back (to stock)..... After I removed the write protection, I was able to successfully change my emoji's using the app. :good:
The font I got here off of XDA, I only have the "China Cat" font .zip
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Awesome man. Thanks. I used to use that app but stopped because it stopped working on Samsung devices after MM. Going to give it a try when I get a chance. Haven't unlocked my bootloader because I don't want spend 3 hours setting up the phone again. Maybe I'll wake up early Saturday and get it done
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osmosizzz said:
Awesome man. Thanks. I used to use that app but stopped because it stopped working on Samsung devices after MM. Going to give it a try when I get a chance. Haven't unlocked my bootloader because I don't want spend 3 hours setting up the phone again. Maybe I'll wake up early Saturday and get it done
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Backup your phone (system and apps) to your SD card using the WeShare app included on your phone..... It will cut your restore time down quite a bit!
It's not perfect, but sure saved me a lot of time setting back up.