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N7 has no OS, help!!!!

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

eljefe1018 said:
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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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
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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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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!

[q] help please!!!!!

when i was unlocking my nexus 4, the reboot process was taking far too long and a friend told me to restart so i held down the power button to restart it. After i did that, it would either bootloop on the colors or just stay on 'Google' screen! I have access TWRP but i can't fastflash anything! and when i look around TWRP, it says i have no OS installed! TWRP allowes the option to ADB but im not sure if it's properly installed. Please help!!!!

I'd re flash factory images with a tool kit

Zehlek said:
I'd re flash factory images with a tool kit
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i have wugfresh's Nexus Root Toolkit installed on my computer and tried to use those options but it won't do anything cause i dont have fastflash

datninjakyle said:
i have wugfresh's Nexus Root Toolkit installed on my computer and tried to use those options but it won't do anything cause i dont have fastflash
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Google 15 second adb install xda. That'll setup fastboot on your pc. Then flash the factory image in fastboot
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Yup do that
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[Q] broken N4

phone got wiped, os and all. can only get into team win recovery (no android with !). in recovery file manager there is NOTHING on the phone. can not get phone to be recognized by computer. used sdk to install drivers still nothing. can not activate usb debugging as there is no os. reboot in recovery gives warning no os on phone. there is nothing to restore, all folders in install tab are completely empty. is there anyway to save my phone? there is nothing on it...just enough for safe mode and recovery.

You need to get the computer to recognize your device. When booted into recovery and the device connected to your pc go to device manager and see what the issue is.
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jd1639 said:
You need to get the computer to recognize your device. When booted into recovery and the device connected to your pc go to device manager and see what the issue is.
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got drivers installed sees the device as "android bootloader interface...a link to what to do from this point would work or step by step instruction on how to get os on phone would be great.

Paltirian said:
got drivers installed sees the device as "android bootloader interface...a link to what to do from this point would work or step by step instruction on how to get os on phone would be great.
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You've got two options
1. Flash the factory image.with fastboot. You'll then have to re-install twrp amrd root
2. Push a rom onto your device using adb in recovery. Then flash that in twrp
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jd1639 said:
You've got two options
1. Flash the factory image.with fastboot. You'll then have to re-install twrp amrd root
2. Push a rom onto your device using adb in recovery. Then flash that in twrp
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ok...it is recognized in fast boot but not in recovery. as far as i knew i only need the usb drivers that come from sdk as it is a google device. is there another driver set i need from recovery. where could i find super simple instructions of how to flash image? and if i didnt care about re rooting could i just use fast boot to flash iamge and run with that?

Paltirian said:
ok...it is recognized in fast boot but not in recovery. as far as i knew i only need the usb drivers that come from sdk as it is a google device. is there another driver set i need from recovery. where could i find super simple instructions of how to flash image? and if i didnt care about re rooting could i just use fast boot to flash iamge and run with that?
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Simplest way is to download the factory image. Google nexus factory image. It's a .tgz file. Extract it using 7-zip. There's a flash-all.bat file in there. Boot into the bootloader and with your device connected to the pc just double click the flash-all.bat. It will wipe your device so if you can, backup first.
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You are my freaking hero. I'd give you a hug if i could. Will root tomorrow or so... Have you tried lollipop and would you recommend it over KitKat? Again ty so much

Paltirian said:
You are my freaking hero. I'd give you a hug if i could. Will root tomorrow or so... Have you tried lollipop and would you recommend it over KitKat? Again ty so much
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No problem, glad you got it working. I like lollipop. It looks different but once you get over the difference you like it. I'm running 5.0.1
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[Q] Tried to unroot, wont turn on

Hey guys. I tried to unroot my nexus 4 from cyangongenmod using the nexus root tookit and it was all dandy until my phone just cut out. It won't turn on. I got into recovery mode, but i cant figure out what to do from there. How do i know if its still rooted? or if all i need to do is lock it again? Can anyone help? I really need help. Thanks

amali7861 said:
Hey guys. I tried to unroot my nexus 4 from cyangongenmod using the nexus root tookit and it was all dandy until my phone just cut out. It won't turn on. I got into recovery mode, but i cant figure out what to do from there. How do i know if its still rooted? or if all i need to do is lock it again? Can anyone help? I really need help. Thanks
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This is why I don't recommend tool kits. I don't what you did to the device. I would try to do a factory reset in the stock recovery. It will wipe your device. Locking the phone won't do anything so don't bother with that.
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jd1639 said:
This is why I don't recommend tool kits. I don't what you did to the device. I would try to do a factory reset in the stock recovery. It will wipe your device. Locking the phone won't do anything so don't bother with that.
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So how would i do that? Sorry, Im rather slow with all this stuff. What i have so far is the zip file from google developer page. Should I flash that from the sd card? Or is there a better way?

amali7861 said:
So how would i do that? Sorry, Im rather slow with all this stuff. What i have so far is the zip file from google developer page. Should I flash that from the sd card? Or is there a better way?
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Boot into the bootloader. Then go to recovery and do a factory reset.
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jd1639 said:
Boot into the bootloader. Then go to recovery and do a factory reset.
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Just reset the phone. I can see that the screen is on, but it's staying black. And i tried to plug it into the computer, but it wont recognize the phone anymore. Any ideas?

amali7861 said:
Just reset the phone. I can see that the screen is on, but it's staying black. And i tried to plug it into the computer, but it wont recognize the phone anymore. Any ideas?
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It's sounding like a hardware problem. I would try flashing the factory image with fastboot. Is your device recognized by your pc when you're booted into the bootloader? If not, go to device manager on your pc. Is there a device with a yellow exclamation mark. If so right click on it and go to where it lets you choose from a list on your computer. Choose android adb composite interface.
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jd1639 said:
It's sounding like a hardware problem. I would try flashing the factory image with fastboot. Is your device recognized by your pc when you're booted into the bootloader? If not, go to device manager on your pc. Is there a device with a yellow exclamation mark. If so right click on it and go to where it lets you choose from a list on your computer. Choose android adb composite interface.
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You, my friend, are a lifesaver. Thank you so much for all of your help.

amali7861 said:
You, my friend, are a lifesaver. Thank you so much for all of your help.
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No problem!
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