Hey guys i just got my Nexus 7 today and i am in love with it. Been doing the setup for all the stuff to root it and flash a new ROM onto it but ive come across a small problem. I used the Nexus 7 Toolkit V5.0.0 created by Mark Skippen and was able to finally unlock and root my device, the only problem is it wont let me boot into recovery mode and it just shows a little deaad android guy with the x thing coming out of his stomach or whatver it is. Im on 4.2.2 and am using the JDQ39 build. Any suggestions on what else is needed to be downloaded would be greatly appreciated!
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Reinstall the custom recovery using Fastboot.
Thx!
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So i recently bought a new N7 and i was searching for a good rooting guide on rooting but i couldn't find any.... So can anyone give me a link to a guild(i would like a simple and easy method) to unlock bootloader and flash recovery and root my grouper please.......
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2012 or 2013 model. You say new but also say grouper so just trying to make sure you know what you have as many people are clueless. If 2013 you need to go to that forum if 2012 do an actual search query for rooting a nexus 7 it's a common topic. Many people want to use tool kits to do it but it is recommended you read up on fastboot and adb in the event a problem crops up it is easier to fix.
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SlowCobra96 said:
2012 or 2013 model. You say new but also say grouper so just trying to Maher sure you know what you have as many parole are clueless. If 2013 you need to go to that forum if 2012 do an actual search query for rooting a nexus 7 it's a common topic. Many people want to use tool kits to do it but it is recommended you read up on fastboot and adb in the event a problem crops up it is easier to fix.
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i use grouper and not the new one
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can u link me to a detailed stepwise guild to do so?
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Rooting for both devices takes 30 seconds to do manually with the same steps except the recovery image.
akashpatel said:
can u link me to a detailed stepwise guild to do so?
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There are these things called stickies. They reside in the top section of each forum. You should read some.
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I updated to android 4.4 Kitkat from Google factory images today on my 2012 Nexus 7 wifi 32gb and if you take a look at this video I just recorded (sorry about the quality), at second 14 approximately, you will see that when booting up, after the Google logo and before the new moving Dots boot animation, there is a weird effect on the screen that last a fraction of a second.
Is this happening to everyone on their nexus 7 wifi 2012 after updating to kitkat or is it just me??
Please tell me if yours has the same weird effect as mine or not.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Here's the video.
https://plus.google.com/117696059667514325440/posts/TiRpbTedr3v
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That's some sort of a bootloop? I see your unlocked, are you rooted?
I had issues with it stuck on the 4 circles boot, ended up fastboot flashing both the boot and system image and now up and running fine.
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yolo2die said:
That's some sort of a bootloop? I see your unlocked, are you rooted?
I had issues with it stuck on the 4 circles boot, ended up fastboot flashing both the boot and system image and now up and running fine.
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No, actually it's not on a bootloop, the nexus 7 is up and running fine, the problem I'm trying to show is the graphical glitch that you can see on the video at second 14 when the tablet is booting up between the Google logo and the new color dots animation.
I need to know if someone is experiencing the same problem as me after updating to kitkat and turning it on.
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Same Thing
Yeah, it happens to me too.
I only noticed it after a few restarts, but I think it happens every time I reboot.
Yep, same thing here. On my end it looks like light-colored text output on a black background. It flashes by in a split second. Otherwise it boots and runs just fine.
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hassanfadil said:
Yeah, it happens to me too.
I only noticed it after a few restarts, but I think it happens every time I reboot.
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CatThief said:
Yep, same thing here. On my end it looks like light-colored text output on a black background. It flashes by in a split second. Otherwise it boots and runs just fine.
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Thank you guys for checking this out for me and letting me know!!
I was afraid that I was the only one with this problem
Do you think Google is actually aware of this problem??
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I just side loaded the update to my n7. When I rebooted it glitches like that. It looked like 4 boot loader screens, then it went to the boot animation.
Could be harmless.
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I managed to grab a screenshot from my own video. Turns out it's the "Backup Complete" screen from the system backup I did yesterday though TWRP. Why on earth would that flash by on every subsequent reboot? Very weird.
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CatThief said:
I managed to grab a screenshot from my own video. Turns out it's the "Backup Complete" screen from the system backup I did yesterday though TWRP. Why on earth would that flash by on every subsequent reboot? Very weird.
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That's odd, but I don't even have TWRP recovery on my Nexus 7, mine is completely stock.
I need to know if someone who is running completely stock kitkat is having the same issue I have please.
Thanks in advance!
Here's the screenshot of my video
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cammel said:
That's odd, but I don't even have TWRP recovery on my Nexus 7, mine is completely stock.
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I actually recall seeing this oddity after applying the 4.4 update on stock recovery, unrooted. I used fastboot commands to flash boot.img and system.img from the Google factory image file. It appeared when I restarted. I didn't give it much thought at the time but did see that it kept happening on each reboot after that. I'm thinking what I saw might have been stock recovery. That's exactly what I am seeing in your screenshot, even the Android lying on his back.
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I actually recall seeing this oddity after applying the 4.4 update on stock recovery, unrooted. I used fastboot commands to flash boot.img and system.img from the Google factory image file. It appeared when I restarted. I didn't give it much thought at the time but did see that it kept happening on each reboot after that. I'm thinking what I saw might have been stock recovery. That's exactly what I am seeing in your screenshot, even the Android lying on his back.
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Yeah your right! That's the android bot lying on his back from recovery!!
I haven't noticed it!
So what the heck is wrong here??
Maybe I will try to flash back stock 4.3 image and see if this still happens, and if not, we'll know that is a little bug because of kitkat... Right?
Thanks for all your help!
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cammel said:
Maybe I will try to flash back stock 4.3 image and see if this still happens, and if not, we'll know that is a little bug because of kitkat... Right?
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I would say KitKat for sure. Nothing like this ever happened on prior updates. Please do report back if you still see it after flashing back to 4.3. I'm assuming after that you'll be flashing 4.4 again.
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CatThief said:
I would say KitKat for sure. Nothing like this ever happened on prior updates. Please do report back if you still see it after flashing back to 4.3. I'm assuming after that you'll be flashing 4.4 again.
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Ok, no problem. I'll let you all know how it went.
I'll flash 4.3 back to check if the problem is still there, and then I'll wait for the OTA and see what happens, cause maybe the OTA doesn't have this problem... But I doubt it... AND if the OTA takes to LONG to arrive I will be manually flashing kitkat again and see if the problem comes back...
I'll let your know!
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Well I did it and I realized that with 4.2 to 4.3 with the "X" animation this graphic glitch doesn't appear but than even after an OTA update from 4.3 to 4.4.2 this issue came back. Is this normal or does anyone have a solution for this?
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Ok, no problem. I'll let you all know how it went.
I'll flash 4.3 back to check if the problem is still there, and then I'll wait for the OTA and see what happens, cause maybe the OTA doesn't have this problem... But I doubt it... AND if the OTA takes to LONG to arrive I will be manually flashing kitkat again and see if the problem comes back...
I'll let your know!
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rico_zuares said:
Well I did it and I realized that with 4.2 to 4.3 with the "X" animation this graphic glitch doesn't appear but than even after an OTA update from 4.3 to 4.4.2 this issue came back. Is this normal or does anyone have a solution for this?
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*BUMP*
Has anyone any further info on this issue? Granted its not a major one, but just an annoying niggle with what has been a decent update to 4.4.2. This problem along with the ones below are the remaining bugs I have on my stock rooted N7.
Laggy lockscreen when woken up and rotated - Part of the screen get stuck in portrait/landscape while the other has rotated.
When in an app and pressing back to exit out of it, sometimes it bounces back to another app.
Small pixelised graphics glitch at the top of the screen when switching users.
I can not get stock recovery for 4.3 stock to install. I try wugfresh and ncry. Can someone help me?
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Keep getting the android with red triangle.
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bmakk2055 said:
Keep getting the android with red triangle.
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Have you tried doing it the manual way? Using fastboot. The command is pretty simple as long as you have actually have the recovery file.I believe its fastboot flash recovery name of recovery.img.
There is probably a walk through in the forum.
Hi. I recently deleted and formatted everything even lost all my recoveries and back ups and am trying to put nexus 4 stock rom back on to my device. What do I do? I still have clockworkrecovery mod but that's it and a computer to work with.
Download the factory images of your choice and flash them. It is the 15th time today that I am telling this to some one.
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I've just done this and used Nexus Root Toolkit, absolute god send. Just plug your phone in, as long as you can get to fastboot, then flash stock + unroot and in a short amount of time you should be back to good.
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Download the factory images of your choice and flash them. It is the 15th time today that I am telling this to some one.
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ok that's what I was doing but I was going to try to install zip from sideload cause I don't even know how to get to my sd card and the android 4.3 stock rom I was downloading earlier was taking hours and my computer got shut off so that never completed.
Flash rom with adb. You will be fine
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Then start with your computer first. Fix it and then fix your phone.
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