I've aquired this Nexus 4 from a friend who has somehow wiped the recovery and rom, I can boot into fastboot, but that's it, if I go to the recovery option through fast boot it gives me the android with the exclamation point, implying there is no functional recovery.
So! I've finally borrowed a friends laptop and am having trouble getting fastboot setup, Drivers/Fastboot has always been my downfall.
I recently used this same computer to root a nexus 5 so I should have proper **** for that, would that work? can anyone maybe help me out a little.
I check device manager (Windows 7) and there's no category that has anything to do with the nexus 4 or removable devices. I've tried installing drivers a couple different ways, but am having no luck of course. I would try to delete the previously installed drivers but I have no entry to device manager to click, The only will only boot as far as fastboot so I'm just kinda stuck as fastboot hasn't really been my thing, I have fastboot.exe on this pc from previous use, I tried to go to the folder and "open command prompt here" and type adb devices to see if it would show the device and got nothing so I'm kinda lost, someone please help me out as I only have this laptop for as long as my friend is here and theres no others near to me use. Please and thank you
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I check device manager (Windows 7) and there's no category that has anything to do with the nexus 4 or removable devices. I've tried installing drivers a couple different ways, but am having no luck of course. I would try to delete the previously installed drivers but I have no entry to device manager to click, The only will only boot as far as fastboot so I'm just kinda stuck as fastboot hasn't really been my thing, I have fastboot.exe on this pc from previous use, I tried to go to the folder and "open command prompt here" and type adb devices to see if it would show the device and got nothing so I'm kinda lost, someone please help me out as I only have this laptop for as long as my friend is here and theres no others near to me use. Please and thank you
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If you can only boot into fastboot use fastboot devices, not adb. adb only works in recovery. Adb and fastboot are different
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Thank you so much. If you're really nice will you subscribe to this thread and help me out a little more.
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Thank you so much. If you're really nice will you subscribe to this thread and help me out a little more.
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What are you trying to do?
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jd1639 said:
What are you trying to do?
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You'll probably need to flash the factory image, get it from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Un- zip it and inside you'll see a flash-all.bat. while you're booted into the bootloader double click on the bat.
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My thoughts are since the recovery is screwed I just need get fastboot functional and flash a recovery, I'm a custom ROM kinda guy. So if that's all I need than cool, (I currently have a nexus 5) I know mako has other bootloaders and radios and **** and I'm not sure exactly what version of android this is on or anything. Bit my situation is definitely having a phone that'll only go to fastboot, when I try to boot regularly it just sits at the Google logo.
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My thoughts are since the recovery is screwed I just need get fastboot functional and flash a recovery, I'm a custom ROM kinda guy. So if that's all I need than cool, (I currently have a nexus 5) I know mako has other bootloaders and radios and **** and I'm not sure exactly what version of android this is on or anything. Bit my situation is definitely having a phone that'll only go to fastboot, when I try to boot regularly it just sits at the Google logo.
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Not sure if just flashing the recovery will work, but download the factory image and unzip it. Inside is another zip, unzip that too. There you'll find the recovery.img
In fastboot use fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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Thanks a lot man. I can't get the damn laptop charger to work now so I can't even get it on!! But still thanks.
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Okay, I'm about to hand the phone off to a noob whom has a PC, and link him this thread, what all will I have to do/download/install to be able to properly use a fastboot command?
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Okay, I'm about to hand the phone off to a noob whom has a PC, and link him this thread, what all will I have to do/download/install to be able to properly use a fastboot command?
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Google tool 15 second adb xda
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So I really don't need any commands, I just need fastboot functional and to double click the flash all file (with phone connected and in fastboot) afterwards I can handle installing a recovery.
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So I really don't need any commands, I just need fastboot functional and to double click the flash all file (with phone connected and in fastboot) afterwards I can handle installing a recovery.
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If all you want to do is flash the factory image just use the flash-all.bat that's inside the factory image. Extract the image then with you device in fastboot mode and connected to the pc, just double click the batch file
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jd1639 said:
If all you want to do is flash the factory image just use the flash-all.bat that's inside the factory image. Extract the image then with you device in fastboot mode and connected to the pc, just double click the batch file
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Also, when you've booted into recovery and you have that dead droid, have you hit the vol up key? This'll probably get you into recovery
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That did get me into the stock recovery. Which I did a factory reset in there for ****s and giggles but it still sits at the Google logo (not a surprise) this phone used to be on PA, with CWM. And all that. What do you think he did to it? Haha
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Actually. It eventually went to the boot animation. But the "stock" android one. It just might boot after a while, I dont know.
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That did get me into the stock recovery. Which I did a factory reset in there for ****s and giggles but it still sits at the Google logo (not a surprise) this phone used to be on PA, with CWM. And all that. What do you think he did to it? Haha
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Not sure what he did. I would flash the factory image and start over again. Google nexus 4 custom recovery xda. That should get you everything you need to get rooted and running custom roms again
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I definitely plan on flashing the factory image but I don't have a PC handy and my friend has an evil dog. So I'll have to just hope that he can succeed once I hand it off.
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Success by the way. Thanks a lot.
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Success by the way. Thanks a lot.
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Your welcome
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Alright, I'm gonna wake this back up, I've had the nexus 4 for a while and have just been using the stock modem becuse when I tried to hybrid ones I'd either lose mobile data or the phone would sit at the splash screen for at least 10 minutes before booting.
Which modem should I be using?
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I have a nexus 4. On 4.4.2 running a very recent cyanogenmod nightly however I usually run pa, I can't really think of any other relevant information to give you to help.
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I've searched a little and I didn't find what I wanted.
Here's my problem- flashed back to stock via Google developer site and fast boot (I use only Linux).
Installed touch cwm 6
installed cm10 + gapps
I have a 16gb nexus....but now I only have 5+GB of free space. Anyone help? Please and thank you!
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what I did was,
extract the stock image and pull recovery, userdata, boot, system
fastboot flash each of them
boot into stock recovery and u will get stuck at the laying android
push volume up + power til it enters stock recovery
do factory reset and u should be good to go.
reflash custom recovery, and reflash custom rom.
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Yea you flashed a rom specifically setup as a 8gb. I've seen this before. No worries. You just have to flash all the above like the poster above said.
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player911 said:
Yea you flashed a rom specifically setup as a 8gb. I've seen this before. No worries. You just have to flash all the above like the poster above said.
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the rom is universal. I think the issue is the sdcard not being wiped first. maybe even a fastboot erase userdata will do it bit I haven't tried.
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smirkis said:
what I did was,
extract the stock image and pull recovery, userdata, boot, system
fastboot flash each of them
boot into stock recovery and u will get stuck at the laying android
push volume up + power til it enters stock recovery
do factory reset and u should be good to go.
reflash custom recovery, and reflash custom rom.
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Love you. Lol
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Love you. Lol
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Had the same problem few weeks back, running the flash-all.sh will do.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
Anyone think this will help with my apps not being able to access internal memory? ie dropbox pictures won't load, can't save a picture from camera, amazon books won't download.
Mach3.2 said:
Had the same problem few weeks back, running the flash-all.sh will do.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
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i haven't figured out how to use the flash-all.sh lol. care to explain that a bit more? plus im more of a do it manually kind of guy.
and, will the next nexus have a longer screen? who knows lol
it's pretty simple just run sudo bash flash-all.sh from the console, that's all there is to it
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it's pretty simple just run sudo bash flash-all.sh from the console, that's all there is to it
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hmm, so for us windows users, do we just extract the zip, open a command prompt in that unzipped fold and do bash flash-all.sh?
smirkis said:
hmm, so for us windows users, do we just extract the zip, open a command prompt in that unzipped fold and do bash flash-all.sh?
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No, the 'sh' files are for Linux operating systems only.
On Windows, just extract the ZIP, make sure platform-tools is in %path%, then open flash-all.bat
If you're on Windows, you don't need a command prompt. You can just open the bat file, because Windows already has bat files registered under the defaults program thingy.
So here is my dilemma. I was having problems with my Google apps for whatever reason. Manually updated to 4.2 and still has the same problems. Did a factory reset and the problems went away. Decided I wanted to get rid of root and relock the bootloader since I'm going to give her thus one because I'm upgrading to the 32GB model. Wanted to get rid of the superuser icon in the app drawer mainly. I went to googles site and downloaded the factory images for 4.2. Used it in conjunction with the nexus 7 toolkit. Long story short for whatever reason the process didn't complete. Pretty sure I don't have a factory image at all at this point. I tried to use the nexus 7 toolkit but of course now it won't see my device. My tablet is still unlocked. I'm assuming I'm going to have to manually push the image to the phone. If any body can start me off in the right direction it will be greatly appreciated. Especially if someone were able to provide links to the info I may need. In the mean time I'm looking around on Google. Haven't found anything concrete yet. As a side note if anyone could tell me how to actually turn off the tablet do I can preserve the battery it would be appreciated. I can only get it to show fast boot mode or the Google screen. Can't power down.
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Nexus 7 toolkit?
Fastboot mode?
That's all you need.
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Alejandrissimo said:
Nexus 7 toolkit?
Fastboot mode?
That's all you need.
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Dunno... after trying to update yesterday, twrp, cwm, stock wasn't having it, had to put stock boot loader back on, everything wiped, not a problem....nandroid backup....toolkit shows it working but nothing, toolkit said everything was there....only unlock and root worked, everything else was borked.
And I had to use Windows for the tool kit. Doh.
Toolkit has been a bane for me, finally got 4.2 using root keeper.
Off-topic.... maybe.
Lesson learnt... definitely.
Motorola Atrix (AOKP JB)
Nexus 7 (Stock+ Root)
Desire HD ~ overheating rebooting.
N900 ~ usb broken off.
Alejandrissimo said:
Nexus 7 toolkit?
Fastboot mode?
That's all you need.
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Can't use the toolkit bcuz it doesn't see my device. Can't enable USB debugging. Unless there is a way around that?
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I was trying to flash a rom and I guess I accidentally wiped EVERYTHING and now when I try to boot it says no OS is installed ): any helpp will be appreciated. I still have access to fastboot and recovery, adb also recognises it when connected
Use the toolkit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195 and flash a factory image. :good:
eljefe1018 said:
I was trying to flash a rom and I guess I accidentally wiped EVERYTHING and now when I try to boot it says no OS is installed ): any helpp will be appreciated. I still have access to fastboot and recovery, adb also recognises it when connected
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Is this the stock recovery?
If you have access to fastboot, then flash a factory os. That simple.
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rebel1699 said:
If you have access to fastboot, then flash a factory os. That simple.
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Yeah. This.
What's so hard about doing this?
rebel1699 said:
If you have access to fastboot, then flash a factory os. That simple.
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I've tried to using two different toolkits and niether will accomplish the task. Is there an alternative way? i.e manually doing it using ADB?
And thanks for helping
eljefe1018 said:
I've tried to using two different toolkits and niether will accomplish the task. Is there an alternative way? i.e manually doing it using ADB?
And thanks for helping
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As I said, use fastboot. Google "restore Nexus 7 with fastboot"
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rebel1699 said:
As I said, use fastboot. Google "restore Nexus 7 with fastboot"
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I decided to make another attempt with the toolkit, as I was reading the command line I saw that the Factory Image wasn't properly donwloading so I downloaded it manually and put it in the necessary folder and my baby just robooted back thanks for everything
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I decided to make another attempt with the toolkit, as I was reading the command line I saw that the Factory Image wasn't properly donwloading so I downloaded it manually and put it in the necessary folder and my baby just robooted back thanks for everything
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Glad you are back up and going!
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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?)
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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.
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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
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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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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!
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Many thanks man. The factory image worked like a charm.
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Cool. Glad to help!
I tried rooting my device and i flashed twrp, but when I tried using things such as wipe cache and dalvik cache in twrp it said that it failed. So I tried wiping the system but that failed as well. I then just rebooted my device. Then when it got to the Google logo it stayed there for 5 mins and now its stuck at the nexus logo. Please can someone help me, this was my first attempt at rooting and I think that I bricked my phone. Can I just send it back to google as an RMA because I am still under warranty.
Do not RMA your device. Google didn't get you in this situation, you did.
On a happy note, you can easily fix whatever you did wrong. Follow the instructions in the link below. If you run into problems note where it happened and let us know.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2018179
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Its fairly hard to brick a nexus, worst case scenario just follow a guide to return to stock
But for now how about just wiping clean through fastboot, reinstalling recovery (check md5sum and make sure its for mako) then use adb side load to install ROM of choice
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Now boot to recovery and choose sideload under advanced options
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I just want to thank you all for the help, I was able to get my device back to stock. I plan on trying to root my device but I'm not sure what went wrong last time.
neogamma said:
I just want to thank you all for the help, I was able to get my device back to stock. I plan on trying to root my device but I'm not sure what went wrong last time.
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Glad you got your device back to stock! I was stuck at the boot loop the first time too! When I followed the instructions and such the second time it seemed to work fine.
I can try to help if you have any other questions or wanna do it again
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Its fairly hard to brick a nexus, worst case scenario just follow a guide to return to stock
But for now how about just wiping clean through fastboot, reinstalling recovery (check md5sum and make sure its for mako) then use adb side load to install ROM of choice
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Now boot to recovery and choose sideload under advanced options
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Glad to see you made the jump to the n4. Loved all the stuff you did on the g1 and g2 forums
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Warbuff said:
Glad to see you made the jump to the n4. Loved all the stuff you did on the g1 and g2 forums
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Haha thanks! Good to see ya around! Still playing with your old qwertys at all?
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Haha thanks! Good to see ya around! Still playing with your old qwertys at all?
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G1 i flash random Roms from the forum and let my little sister play with it. I'm using the g2 as a companion for learning how to develop apps for android. Is currently running mimicry. You ever solve that reception issue for your sister in NYC.?
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Turns out when you're in a first floor apartment surrounded by thick concrete walls reception is poor... Go figure
But she recently switched to windows8 Nokia and is getting slightly better but yeah shes in good shape now [/OT]
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demkantor said:
Turns out when you're in a first floor apartment surrounded by thick concrete walls reception is poor... Go figure
But she recently switched to windows8 Nokia and is getting slightly better but yeah shes in good shape now [/OT]
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Alrighty sry for OT. See you around the threads.
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