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Can't boot into Clockwork Recovery

Hi guys,
So just received my Nexus 7, the device is rooted and i'm trying to flash clockworkmod to the device.
So far, i've tried both of the toolkits in the developement section, ROM Manager and also flashing the recovery through ADB with the images in the development section too...
With some of them, after selecting recovery from the bootloader, it just stays on the "Google" logo, on other, it just boots up.
The device has no issue's booting, it's just Clockwork that won't boot.
Any ideas please?
Thanks.

SWFlyerUK said:
Hi guys,
So just received my Nexus 7, the device is rooted and i'm trying to flash clockworkmod to the device.
So far, i've tried both of the toolkits in the developement section, ROM Manager and also flashing the recovery through ADB with the images in the development section too...
With some of them, after selecting recovery from the bootloader, it just stays on the "Google" logo, on other, it just boots up.
The device has no issue's booting, it's just Clockwork that won't boot.
Any ideas please?
Thanks.
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Have you rebooted into recovery after flashing and made it perminent? Otherwise the stock recovery will get flashed back (immediately)..
http://www.androidauthority.com/nexus-7-root-unlock-bootloader-clockworkmod-recovery-cwm-100890/
Usually I temp boot CWM, but today I flashed it on both my GNex & Nexus7. Can easily go back to stock recovery if required...

Thanks for the link mate, hadn't seen that one before and indeed, CWM is now working.
Much appreciated.

SWFlyerUK said:
Thanks for the link mate, hadn't seen that one before and indeed, CWM is now working.
Much appreciated.
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No problem. When you exit CWM it tries to fix it anyway. Not sure if it just moves the file or what, but the key is to boot into CWM straight after flashing it (I made the same mistake this morning)..

I'm having the exact same issue...so If I re flash the Recovery as Markey Said will I lose the contents of my Internal memory or not?

hope this helps
MassiveDRS said:
I'm having the exact same issue...so If I re flash the Recovery as Markey Said will I lose the contents of my Internal memory or not?
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if your using cwm i found to boot into recovery you have to have the 7 plugged into your computer with the micro usb..i dont know why but it worked for me..are you using the side bottons to get into recovery..if so plugged the cable in first then try to enter recovery

Easiest way is grab quick boot from the play store and it will let u reboot to cwm.. As above said a pc is needed because of a bug.. U can also do it connected to a phone if u have otg cable
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or you can use ROM manager and reboot from there in cwm

capoooro said:
or you can use ROM manager and reboot from there in cwm
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That's what I do. Works great.
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kuczmad said:
if your using cwm i found to boot into recovery you have to have the 7 plugged into your computer with the micro usb..i dont know why but it worked for me..are you using the side bottons to get into recovery..if so plugged the cable in first then try to enter recovery
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Yup it is working now Thanx bro
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capoooro said:
or you can use ROM manager and reboot from there in cwm
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I already Know that
but I'm asking about the button combo approach because, it is very important ; in case you brick your device and you can't boot it and obviously you cant lauche rom manger

MassiveDRS said:
Yup it is working now Thanx bro
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I already Know that
but I'm asking about the button combo approach because, it is very important ; in case you brick your device and you can't boot it and obviously you cant lauche rom manger
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You can access CWM through the power, up, down method and choosing recovery mode.... the tablet MUST be plugged in though... at least for me it does. Running CWM6 Touch....

HELP: I screwed up my Nexus 4 after fully formatting it.

I feel kind of sick...
I hope someone can assist. I screwed up, big time.
I decided to full wipe my device and choose to flash stock using Toolkit. However, usb debugging isn't shown as being enabled (I think) and I'm unable to get back into a ROM to enable it, since fully wiping my entire storage.
I have tried reinstalling drivers on so many occasions, I've tried pushing files, using sideload. Nothing works. I literally cannot find a way to flash any rom onto the device. I have CWM recovery, but no way of getting zips onto the device. I cannot access usb debugging. Toolkit always reads the serial for fastboot but never shows any active devices for ADB.
I'm stumped and currently have no way of using my device.
I should've never tried to wipe it to begin with.
Thanks to anyone who might be able to assist. I'm sorry to burden you all.

if you can access via fastboot just flash your system.img to the phone with fastboot flash system system.img!
too bad google pulled the nexus 4 factory image

I have the factory image for the Nexus 4. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the link to it on my Drive.

Use the nexus 4 toolkit to download the stock image for the phone and use keys on phone to boot to fastboot. Then connect phone to your PC and run the nexus 4 toolkit. It should detect your phone in fast boot mode and allow you to flash stock rom
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endursa said:
if you can access via fastboot just flash your system.img to the phone with fastboot flash system system.img!
too bad google pulled the nexus 4 factory image
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Many thanks for your response.
Where might I find my system.img? I've never needed to look for it before but would know how to flash it via fastboot if I could find it! :good: (as long as this would solve my issue?)
URPREY said:
I have the factory image for the Nexus 4. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the link to it on my Drive.
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I've PM'd you. Thanks so much. Can the factory image be flashed via fastboot without ADB? Thanks so much for responding. I feel so stupid.

uberNoobZA said:
Use the nexus 4 toolkit to download the stock image for the phone and use keys on phone to boot to fastboot. Then connect phone to your PC and run the nexus 4 toolkit. It should detect your phone in fast boot mode and allow you to flash stock rom
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I did try it but received this error:
Download now starting
--2013-01-07 17:31:39-- http://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-jop40c-factory-cd
3dc140.tgz
Resolving dl.google.com... 173.194.41.66, 173.194.41.69, 173.194.41.67, ...
Connecting to dl.google.com|173.194.41.66|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-01-07 17:31:39 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Completed
Your image is now ready for flashing [your device must be in Fastboot Mode]
Do you want to flash the image now? [type yes or no]:
It doesn't actually download, despite attempting to. I'm not sure why.

Google pulled the files on Dec 12 hence no download. What toolkit are you using? The one from WugFresh has a link to the images on goo.im.
Otherwise look at this thread for a link in the first post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971169
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

I was in your situation about a week ago I was in front of my PC for about 7 hours, until I downloaded wug tool kit funny enough the stock ROM that toolkit downloaded worked fine. When I saw my baby boot up I a bit of wee nearly come out. Try it and holla back :thumbup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469
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djemgee said:
I was in your situation about a week ago I was in front of my PC for about 7 hours, until I downloaded wug tool kit funny enough the stock ROM that toolkit downloaded worked fine. When I saw my baby boot up I a bit of wee nearly come out. Try it and holla back :thumbup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469
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There's a thread on here somewhere where a guys got googles stock ROMs if you can find it. I'll take a look aswell
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URPREY said:
I have the factory image for the Nexus 4. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the link to it on my Drive.
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Many thanks man. The factory image worked like a charm. I didn't even have to extract it. I just flashed in via toolkit. I dropped the file into the put_google_factory_image_here folder and then flashed it using option 9. I'm so relieved to have a working device again.
Thanks to all that attempted to help my situation. I appreciate every effort made. Thanks for being so very patient.
Please feel free to use the thread to discuss similar matters further. I'm sure many in the future will find it very informative to refer to. It saved me and my N4 from a lifetime of despair! :good:
BIG LOVE!

hospital349 said:
Many thanks man. The factory image worked like a charm.
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Cool. Glad to help!

Bricked N4, stuck on bootloop(Tried clearing caches)

Hello guys, bear with me please.
i was trying to root my N4 and followed the procedures to manually do that as toolkits are not good as they say here.
Everything went fine, i unlocked the bootloeader, flashed the CWM and when i rebooted it got stuck into bootloop of Nexus logo,
Then i cleared all caches, dalvik caches and tried but again got stuck on the same place.
Now i cant even get into the bootloader menu
Tried all the things, now what can i do?

Does your pc recognise the phone?
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Neefy said:
Does your pc recognise the phone?
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somehow i managed to get into bootloader mode again hew:
now what should i do? how to flash stock rom? pls help me out here

Yeah, have you tried wiping all?
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And just find a thread with stock, but it sounds like you were already on stock?
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ssbnasa said:
somehow i managed to get into bootloader mode again hew:
now what should i do? how to flash stock rom? pls help me out here
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Get in to Bootloader, once in bootloader, volume up until you get RECOVERY.
From there you'll have the Android with the Exclamation point, press the POWER keep it pressed and then Volume + . You will end up with the recovery screen. Do a factory reset from there and then reboot.
hit thanks! I just had this on my Nexus 4 too and got it to work.

all done, somehow i manage to factory reset from stock recovery heww:
Its back to 16gb again
and sorry for stupid queries last night, i guess i was freaked out xD

Phone bootloops

Hey guys so I made a huge booboo. I was using the nexus root toolkit 1.72. And I wanted to flash stock. I downloaded the stock files and tried to install but it said my baseband which was .33 was too old and needed .84. So I tried to flash the Google stock image. However when I did that I never backed up the previous cyanogen I was running. Now the phone is stuck in a Boot loop. When I try to go to recovery it doesn't allow me to. It brings up an android guy that's on his back with a red hazard symbol. Oh and also when I try to re install the Roms it won't work says adb isn't present but I have all the drivers. I can't put the phone into USB debugging because it won't turn on so its like I'm screwed no matter what. Do you guys have any idea how I can fix my bricked nexus 4? I'll do anything.
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flash the factory img via fastboot, the right way. look for the flash the factory img thread here on xda.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312

OK but how do I flash if I am unable to get into recovery? And my nexus root toolkit will not complete the flash correctly...I feel clueless right now which is strange because I've done this before on other phones.
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it gets flashed via fastboot while youre in the bootloader. no root toolkit needed, the way its supposed to be done.

jktledyit87 said:
Hey guys so I made a huge booboo. I was using the nexus root toolkit 1.72. And I wanted to flash stock. I downloaded the stock files and tried to install but it said my baseband which was .33 was too old and needed .84. So I tried to flash the Google stock image. However when I did that I never backed up the previous cyanogen I was running. Now the phone is stuck in a Boot loop. When I try to go to recovery it doesn't allow me to. It brings up an android guy that's on his back with a red hazard symbol. Oh and also when I try to re install the Roms it won't work says adb isn't present but I have all the drivers. I can't put the phone into USB debugging because it won't turn on so its like I'm screwed no matter what. Do you guys have any idea how I can fix my bricked nexus 4? I'll do anything.
Sent from my SGH-I747M using xda app-developers app
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If the toolkit doesn't work {although in my case always saved me in trouble} check this guide for manually fixing your problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
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[Q] Update bricked my device!!!!

Ok i have a unrooted Nexus 7 and it received the OTA update but stopped halfway through the update. Now the device will never pass the flashing LOGO symbol. this phone was never rooted and i never turned on the debug option. I tried using fastboot and adb but when i type the "devices" command it doesn't see the tablet. Also when i try to go into recovery mode it just shows the android with the red exclamation sign and says "no command". Can anyone help? Thank you.

Ksealy03 said:
Ok i have a unrooted Nexus 7 and it received the OTA update but stopped halfway through the update. Now the device will never pass the flashing LOGO symbol. this phone was never rooted and i never turned on the debug option. I tried using fastboot and adb but when i type the "devices" command it doesn't see the tablet. Also when i try to go into recovery mode it just shows the android with the red exclamation sign and says "no command". Can anyone help? Thank you.
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This happened to me last night except I was rooted and had CWM installed. I wound up having to restore to factory settings and then I was able to OTA from there, so I lost all of my data. Are you using Windows or OSX? There is a great Nexus 7 Toolkit from Skipsoft which will do everything for you automatically. If you are on OSX I used the one click unroot restore found here http://www.androidrootz.com/2012/12/nexus-7-one-click-toolkit-for-mac.html

danipoak said:
This happened to me last night except I was rooted and had CWM installed. I wound up having to restore to factory settings and then I was able to OTA from there, so I lost all of my data. Are you using Windows or OSX? There is a great Nexus 7 Toolkit from Skipsoft which will do everything for you automatically. If you are on OSX I used the one click unroot restore found here http://www.androidrootz.com/2012/12/nexus-7-one-click-toolkit-for-mac.html
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I am using windows. I guess i will search to see if i can find the windows version. Thanks.

Crap so I need to factory reset this, what about root ??
Sent From My Rooted G3

mobgod said:
Crap so I need to factory reset this, what about root ??
Sent From My Rooted G3
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I was rooted and factory reset was the only way I could get it. I know there are other people on here far smarter than I am at getting the tablet to speak with the computer so there could very well be another way. Honestly I'm glad I did the factory reset though, my tablet is smooth as butter again. I had a lot of junk on it before that was really making it laggy. Here is the website for the windows toolkit http://www.skipsoft.net/

danipoak said:
I was rooted and factory reset was the only way I could get it. I know there are other people on here far smarter than I am at getting the tablet to speak with the computer so there could very well be another way. Honestly I'm glad I did the factory reset though, my tablet is smooth as butter again. I had a lot of junk on it before that was really making it laggy. Here is the website for the windows toolkit http://www.skipsoft.net/
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Ok so that's to root it again also correct? After I factory reset do the ota than use that site right?
Sent From My Rooted G3

Ok now I'm really stuck can't get anything to work I'm stuck at the Google logo but I can bout into recovery what do I do now ok I can get into recovery just a fyi
Sent From My Rooted G3
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Ok looks like there is no os what do I do now??
Sent From My Rooted G3

Ksealy03 said:
I am using windows. I guess i will search to see if i can find the windows version. Thanks.
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There is a Nexus specific tool kit here which I have used for everything that I did to my 2012 N7 (unlock, root, reset etc.) and it couldn't have gone smoother. It's fairly intuitive and there are lots of "how-to's" anyway.

mobgod said:
Ok now I'm really stuck can't get anything to work I'm stuck at the Google logo but I can bout into recovery what do I do now ok I can get into recovery just a fyi
Sent From My Rooted G3
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Ok looks like there is no os what do I do now??
Sent From My Rooted G3
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Once in recovery, you might want to just try "Wipe cache partition" first, reboot and see if THAT fixes the issue. That way, you don't have to possibly lose all your app settings.
Otherwise, if that option doesn't work, then you need to select the "Wipe Data/Factory Reset" option. This WILL wipe out all your installed apps and their settings.
Hope this helps!