I just installed TWRP on my N4 and have never used it before. I always used CWM and I just wiped it through recovery. My issue is that I wiped EVERYTHING. It says "no OS detected" and won't boot past the Google logo. Can't install drivers when connected to the computer, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to flash a stock image, or fix it with the nexus root toolkit. Could someone PLEASE give me a walkthrough for a noob of how to go about fixing this? I don't understand a lot that deals with ADB and all that. Thank you.
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Google tool adb fastboot drivers. Then Google nexus 4 factory image and download that. Use 7-zip to extract it. Flash the flash-all.bat while your phone is in fastboot mode and connected to your pc
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Do I she the factory image it originally had which was 4.2.2 or do I use the image I updated to which was 4.3? Don't know if it matters, but I've never done this so I don't want to make anything worse.
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If you don't understand, this time right now seems a good reason to learn about it right?
As to you problem, can you boot into recovery..the twrp? If yes, then it is easy. Just sideload a rom (preferably a 4.2.2 rom as it was the last rom on your device). Oh and yeah, sideload does use a bit of adb command (see how important it is for us, the nexus user?).
The other way is to simply use toolkits (which is a shortcut, not good as you will learn nothing of the whole process and it just takes all the fun away). Look in original android dev section for wugfresh toolkits (but I really, really, really hope that you learn ADB. After all, we need to learn to count before we start using a calculator right? ). Good luck. Don't sweat it so much.
p/s: That video there can be used for any android version and any rom of nexus 4.
Sounds easy enough. My only issue has been that I couldn't install any drivers. I can boot into twrp, but that's it. Any guide I've researched says to turn on USB debugging, which I can't figure out how to do since it won't boot past the Google logo, and the drivers won't install correctly when I connect the nexus to a computer.
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Use wugfresh nexus root tool kit to flash a stock rom.
USB debugging is not required to flash a stock ROM via fastboot.
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Sounds easy enough. My only issue has been that I couldn't install any drivers. I can boot into twrp, but that's it. Any guide I've researched says to turn on USB debugging, which I can't figure out how to do since it won't boot past the Google logo, and the drivers won't install correctly when I connect the nexus to a computer.
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The easiest in my opinion would be sideloading a new rom, like cm11, paranoidandroid etc. Then you could easily install it on your n4
See here how to do it: http://teamw.in/ADBSideload , http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559200 , http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45798359&postcount=825
Tried the toolkit yesterday. Didn't work because it couldn't install the drivers
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Install drivers manually. Just Google "nexus 4 USB drivers" download and install. Then get toolkit and flash stock image.
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I'll try again. I was able to figure the drivers out. Tried flashing a stock image I downloaded, but I still wouldn't boot past the Google logo. I flashed it to the system partition, but I didn't know what partition to flash it to. Do I need to use the modified boot image it wants me to download, or am I supposed to flash it to a certain partition?
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FIXED IT!!! thank you all for your help.
For anyone else with this problem, I downloaded "universal naked drivers" and installed them manually, use the Nexus Root Toolkit selected "soft brick, than flash stock/unroot, let it download RETORT and the modified boot image, flash it in fast-food, then when it booted up, re-rooted. (You lose root access when you do this).
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Just rooted my nexus 7, 1-click with the toolkit and i wanted to install the tablet UI patch. I installed the Odex version of the patch, and now im stuck at the big Nexus X on the boot screen. It wont loop, it just sits there. I dont know what to do. Cant pull the battery like im used to because, well, you know. Any suggestions?
Edit: Made it into bootloader/fastboot/recovery. Im still stuck. I dont have any back up, this should of been a simple little patch and i would be done. is it possible to transfer files while in fastboot or recovery?
What recovery? Some can mount usb and then drag-n-drop. But if your in recovery and have the right drivers, you can push the file adb. Or use a toolkit.
Flash stock image using fastboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
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hi im new to the whole nexus 7 scene just got it today and its also my first nexus device. came from a highly locked down dx2 then to htc and now im trying this. i used the nexus root toolkit v1.5.5 to unlock and root and flash custom recovery. but when i hold power down+volume down i get into the boot loader and i choose recovery then GOOGLE splash screen comes up and it does absolutly nothing while no usb chord plugged in. with usb chord it stays at the google splash screen for but a moment then just boots into android.
i tried the advance utilities and flash the cwm that way but same results. im still on 4.1.0 jrn84d. what am i doing wrong? i don't fully understand adb so if there is quite litteraly a step by step please give me a link or write it down if no such link exists. my last hdd that had adb all setup and ready crashed so its not setup and i was talking to someone who helped me get it going. all i know is i need to use command prompt but getting it into adb and then using it to push and get into cwm i have no clue.
i would love to make a nandroid and then install a kernal to gget the full power out of this thing. it is unlocked and rooted already.
They using ROM Manager app to install CWM and also boot into recovery. Will work for sure as long as you're rooted.
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dante32278 said:
They using ROM Manager app to install CWM and also boot into recovery. Will work for sure as long as you're rooted.
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If you follow the steps correctly, it should have a custom recovery installed. check if your rom is actually rooted.
EDIT: What the hell are you doing on 4.1.0? I thought factory stock was 4.1.1.
Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195
Get GooManager from the play store. It can download and install TWRP recovery which I prefer. GooManager will let you reboot into recovery too.
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EDIT: What the hell are you doing on 4.1.0? I thought factory stock was 4.1.1.
Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195
Get GooManager from the play store. It can download and install TWRP recovery which I prefer. GooManager will let you reboot into recovery too.
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lol i dunno just came with it. its the 16gb version dunno why it came with 4.1.0 but it did. and when i installed rom manager i flashed cwm with that then choose to boot into recover that way and it worked. i am unlocked and rooted and now have a nandroid. have yet to try going to cwm with power+volume down being pressed i will give it a shot later on and make another nandroid before i accept the update im being propted for.
ty guys for the help.
There was a bug that required the N7 to be connected to a PC-USB connection before it would work. They didn't fix the bug until 4.1.2.
Your best bet, if you can boot into Android, is to download a Reboot-to-Recovery app or use CWM or GooManager to reset into recovery. If you are boot looping, throw a USB connection into the mix when trying to do it. I believe it is VolDown+Power+USB connection. Drivers may also be a factor.
Thanks for the reply. I finally updated it. Had to do three updates though. First to 4.1.1 then to 4.1.2 and then to 4.2. I have a nandroid at 4.1.0 so if I need to do anything I'm just going back. I used ota root keeper and the cwm that's from rom manager allows you to choose to protect your custom recovery as well as root. But I don't know if that was working in tandem with ota root keeper since I made sure to back it up first before I did anything.
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Ok every guide I looked at said you can easily flash something to gain root again well in order to flash anything you have to have root so it doesn't make any sense and I didn't see any guides on this or related posts and I'm running 4.2.2
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fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
boot into recovery
flash the supersu.zip root package.
What is so complicated about that?
you dont need root to flash something, you need an unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery.....
i swear the word root has lost all meaning these days. everyone wants it, but it seems so very few actually understand what it is.
Pretty sure you just need to fastboot flash a custom recovery, then you can flash the superuser binaries by chainsdd (Google the package), then install superuser or superSU from the market.
Not familiar with nexus 7, but this is how I rooted a galaxy nexus. There should be a sticky in your device specific forum with links to the process and files.
From my Evo LTE, yup.
I went to fastboot but when I go into recovery I get an error
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I went to fastboot but when I go into recovery I get an error
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An error?
if you want help, provide info
I'm in the car ATM but when I turn my device off and I go into boot loader I push either up or down like 2 times it shows recovery mode I click it and it shows a android guy with a red thing in the center of him
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Class_of_punk26 said:
I'm in the car ATM but when I turn my device off and I go into boot loader I push either up or down like 2 times it shows recovery mode I click it and it shows a android guy with a red thing in the center of him
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thats stock recovery.....did you ever FLASH a custom recovery, like all the guides tell you to?
I tried downloading clockworkmod recovery from ROM manager but the download failed so I downloaded recovery manager from the play store and downloaded a recovery using the app it said the recovery installed
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Class_of_punk26 said:
I tried downloading clockworkmod recovery from ROM manager but the download failed so I downloaded recovery manager from the play store and downloaded a recovery using the app it said the recovery installed
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Dude,
As the guides tell you, and I lined out above, you need to FASTBOOT FLASH RECOVERY
unless you are already rooted, then downloading ROM Manager or 'recovery manager' from the app store doesnt do any good....
you need a computer to do this in fastboot mode.
Damn I was hoping I could avoid using my friends very slow comp lol
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I'm in the similar situation - I upgraded rooted 4.2.1 via modified OTA (original OTA was failing because of one apk) and now I have 4.2.2, but even though I had SuperSU which was ticked to "survival mode" (should keep the root), it apparently didn't. I don't have TWRP anymore, when I press power+vol dn I get the standard "start" screen (original recovery). Also, when I turn N7 on, it is displaying keychain that is OPEN, that means my bootloader is unlocked?
So my question(s)... my bootloader is probably unlocked? If I do the steps:
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
boot into recovery
flash the supersu.zip root package
will I loose all data/apps? I ask because when I first rooted with toolkit, I lost all apps/data.
Also, where to find supersu.zip ? That is different to the installed SuperSU.apk, right?
Damn I can't make ADB work... I tried 2 computers.... Damn google for making this so [email protected]#[email protected]$ .... Constant problems, nothing else. Any clues? I ofcourse, tried kill-server and start-server, no matter what my device is showing offline....
Just checked with my phone (SGNII) and it is working just fine... no clue why Nexus is showing as offline..
Hi all,
I'm freaking out here. I was trying to install a kernel on my N4 using the Toolkit and somehow it said it was done successfully but then my phone got stuck on the Google screen and was never able to start up again.
I do have a Nandroid back up but unfortunately it's on my computer and not on my phone.
I tried using the toolkit AND adb to push the files to my phone but I get the same message: "failed to copy to sdcard: No such file or directory".
I'm completely stuck now and am panicking. Somebody please help!
And this is why we don't use toolkits.
Read up on how to use fastboot and how to boot into fastboot.
Then read up on where to find stock images and how to flash them in fastboot. Then do it.
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Why would you use a toolkit to flash a kernel ...just download zip go to recovery cwm or twrp and flash...
Can you get into fast boot ??
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Might also be helpful if you specified which kernel you flashed. As long as you didn't flash a kernel for a different device (e.g. nexus 7) you can definitely recover. To reiterate what others have mentioned, fastboot is your friend. There are numerous tutorials on his to install and use it. Check the stickies.
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Why would you use a toolkit to flash a kernel ...just download zip go to recovery cwm or twrp and flash...
Can you get into fast boot ??
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Yeah I can get into fast boot and even into CWM. I tried factory resetting in CWM but it still gets stuck on the Google screen.
The reason I used the toolkit and not CWM to flash the kernel is because CWM kept failing to flash the kernel, giving me some error and "(bad)" message. It is the kernel to improve Nexus 4 sensitivity directly from another thread.
Can someone please provide me with specific links or detailed instructions?
Crisisx1 said:
Why would you use a toolkit to flash a kernel ...just download zip go to recovery cwm or twrp and flash...
Can you get into fast boot ??
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My main problem is I need to get my Nandroid backup onto my phone. For some reason, because it's stuck on the Google screen, it's not able to write to the sdcard. Can someone please help me get my files from my computer to my phone?
Flash stock first.
Follow Efrants guides.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34552123
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Unjustable said:
Flash stock first.
Follow Efrants guides.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34552123
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Thanks for your help. I've successfully follows the instructions and got back to Android 4.2.2.
I still want to restore my previous Nandroid though. Although I have placed it in the Clockworkmod backup folder, it's not being seen by CWM recovery. I tried backing up a new nandroid just to test and CWM sees the one it backs up.
Anyone know how I can get CWM to recognize the Nandroid which was done through the toolkit?
Thanks!
darkwolf1789 said:
Yeah I can get into fast boot and even into CWM. I tried factory resetting in CWM but it still gets stuck on the Google screen.
The reason I used the toolkit and not CWM to flash the kernel is because CWM kept failing to flash the kernel, giving me some error and "(bad)" message. It is the kernel to improve Nexus 4 sensitivity directly from another thread.
Can someone please provide me with specific links or detailed instructions?
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If the kernel wasn't installing in the first place you probably shouldn't of flashed it via toolkit
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If the kernel wasn't installing in the first place you probably shouldn't of flashed it via toolkit
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Yeah I realize that now. But any idea how to get CWM to recognize my Nandroid that I did with the toolkit? Anyone?
joshnichols189 said:
And this is why we don't use toolkits.
Read up on how to use fastboot and how to boot into fastboot.
Then read up on where to find stock images and how to flash them in fastboot. Then do it.
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There isn't really anything wrong with a toolkit for certain things, I just think it's a bit strange he tried to use it for something as trivial as this.
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There isn't really anything wrong with a toolkit for certain things, I just think it's a bit strange he tried to use it for something as trivial as this.
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Ok well to solve the problem I did download the stock images and flash them according to Effrants guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=34552123
Then the reason that CWM wasn't recognizing my Nandroids was because I had them in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backups, but they should be in /data/media/clockworkmod/backup.
I recovered everything and I'm back! Thanks for your help everyone.
Hi, I booted into TWRP recovery mode to attempt updating my rooted Nexus 7 from 4.2.2 to 4.3. I wiped system, dalvik cache and cache. I also (stupidly) wiped data and internal storage too. Now I cannot turn on my Nexus 7 fully, it only shows the Google insignia with the unlocked boot loader icon below it.
I can boot into recovery mode and I can USB host, I tried copying a zip of the stock 4.2.2 ROM for Nexus 7 wifi onto my flash drive and tried flashing under the "install" section on TWRP but it always fails (I do not know why).
I cannot connect my Nexus 7 to the computer. Can anyone help me out, please?
Use adb side load in advanced settings
adb sideload nameofrom.zip
adb sideload gapps.zip
Reboot
Profit
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Either flash a custom ROM from recovery or use the Wugfresh toolkit to flash a stock ROM.
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Either flash a custom ROM from recovery or use the Wugfresh toolkit to flash a stock ROM.
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Agreed, the toolkit works like a charm.
I had also deleted the whole Os and fixed it with the help of the toolkit.
Not sure why folks keep telling you to flash a custom rom when you ha e clearly stated that it fails. So, heres my two cents......
Since you already wiped the internal memory and there is no chance of data loss, just download the stock image and fastboot back to a fresh system. And for gods sake, dont use wugs. Just use good ole fastboot. There is a very easy how-to in the stickies of this section. This forum is full of problems arising from toolkits, that could have been easily avoided by fastboot.
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dimbo33 said:
Either flash a custom ROM from recovery or use the Wugfresh toolkit to flash a stock ROM.
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I SECOND that use the toolkit from wugfresh for this.
ADB sideload and Fastboot is a real pain with TWRP don't know why the file does not get pushed at all.
Save yourself time and just use the toolkit if it's a Nexus device if Samsung find a similar toolkit tool
The site for toolkit is wugfresh . com ( no urls so the space )
Hope this helps someone
Good luck
Martin
brenmartin said:
I SECOND that use the toolkit from wugfresh for this.
ADB sideload and Fastboot is a real pain with TWRP don't know why the file does not get pushed at all.
Save yourself time and just use the toolkit if it's a Nexus device if Samsung find a similar toolkit tool
The site for toolkit is wugfresh . com ( no urls so the space )
Hope this helps someone
Good luck
Martin
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Why are you necro'ing old threads to spam wug's website?
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