I purchased an 8 GB N4 off Craigslist tonight. it had an AOSP verison of Lolipop per the previous owner. it worked and I could sign in etc.. I came home and wanted to clean it myself and reinstall a factory image.
I used wugfresh tool kit and flashstock unroot option and chose 5.01. it downloaded the file, flashed it and that went fine. device rebooted and I saw the Lollipop boot animation but that was it.
I let it sit for 30 min but no change. I forced reboot but when I go to the android factory recovery it says:
E:\failed to mount /cache and it repeats that several times.
i tried factory reset and cache and finally that goes away but still it will not boot.
I flashed 4.4 factory image and that worked fine but I am unable to flash 5.0 or 5.01 at all even after flashing 4.4 successfully.
is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong?
nextelbuddy said:
I purchased an 8 GB N4 off Craigslist tonight. it had an AOSP verison of Lolipop per the previous owner. it worked and I could sign in etc.. I came home and wanted to clean it myself and reinstall a factory image.
I used wugfresh tool kit and flashstock unroot option and chose 5.01. it downloaded the file, flashed it and that went fine. device rebooted and I saw the Lollipop boot animation but that was it.
I let it sit for 30 min but no change. I forced reboot but when I go to the android factory recovery it says:
E:\failed to mount /cache and it repeats that several times.
i tried factory reset and cache and finally that goes away but still it will not boot.
I flashed 4.4 factory image and that worked fine but I am unable to flash 5.0 or 5.01 at all even after flashing 4.4 successfully.
is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
this thread might help you, if you have not seen it already (you dont need to install the drivers)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/how-to-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2010312
Related
Guys I know there are a ton of threads with this problem but no matter what I try, i'm still stuck on a boot loop.
So basically I had PA Rom 3.99 RC2 on my nexus and everything was fine. I then tried to flash PA AOSP kit kat build
but my phone would not boot so I went with a factory image occam 4.3 Phone booted and all was good. I was liking the
stock experience and then about 4 days later after a reboot, phone got stuck on the boot animation X. It would not get out of it
so I decided to flash PA Rom 3.99 rc2 again via ADB push zip. factory reset, installed the rom and gapps, wiped caches and thought i was good to go. Well the phone again would not get past the boot animation of PA.
i then decided to go with the Factory image occam 4.3 via fastboot and installed it and everything. Again stuck on the X. So then I tried PSX rom 4.3 again via adb push, did my factory reset and flashed the rom and gapps and superSu. Also got stuck on the boot animation. Left it for over 2 hours bootlooping and nothing.
Going crazy I went and fastboot the 4.2.2 JDQ39 img and downgraded bootloader, baseband. Installed it and again, stuck on the X animation. just hangs there.
Any help? i don't know what else to try, currently using my HD2 and it is sooo slow :cyclops:
Make sure to use latest cwm recovery. Avoid using twrp recovery. Use the toolkit and flash stock image. It will wipe everything in the phone but it will fix it.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
badboy47 said:
Make sure to use latest cwm recovery. Avoid using twrp recovery. Use the toolkit and flash stock image. It will wipe everything in the phone but it will fix it.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the suggestion but still nothing. Updated CWMR to 6.0.4.3 and tried the 4.3 stock image. Still hangs on bootup. android file transfer recognizes the device is plugged in via usb but just gives me the error "could not connect to device"
Oh man I don't know what's wrong with my nexus
bump bump
I'm having this same issue, and it happened just like you. I flashed CM 10.2 nightly 20131114 this morning and I tested it to make sure everything was working. I decided to reboot the phone, and after that I keep getting stuck at the boot animation no matter what I did. To no avail, I reflashed a working zip, restored a backup, restored another backup, flashed the 4.4 factory image (wiping the entire phone), the 4.3 factory image, and then I read that the 4.2 baseband can fix it, so I flashed the 4.2 factory image. That 4.2 image gets it to boot, but without baseband. Right now I'm trying different radios just to see if I can get service again. If it matters, I was running the hybrid 33/84 radio for T-Mobile's LTE when this happened. Very, very peculiar situation here. I've never had anything like this happen, and especially remain an issue after wiping the entire device. I'm hoping it's not a sudden hardware issue.
i jst flash factory image of 4.4 n nw my phone is stuck o the boot animation screen plz help
Hmmy 4444 said:
i jst flash factory image of 4.4 n nw my phone is stuck o the boot animation screen plz help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
just re-flash 4.2, it'll work. I've been doing that since Monday. but I want kitkat too!!
my device is stuck on the boot animation too. is there a way to reinstall the default 4.3 recovery and just rerun the update or something basic like that? my device was almost at stock before running the update. the only two things: twrp and rooted via recovery. so i thought everything will work fine and now there is no backup...
badboy47 said:
Avoid using twrp recovery.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Why?
Just fastboot flash all the image files (boot.img,recovery.img....) from the factory image.
Ok do I did search first but can't find anyone with the same problem.
Started with stock 4.3 rooted, unlocked,TWRP.
Got the update notification, told it to update. It auto rebooted to TWRP and applied the update with no error. When it was done (assuming it was done progress bar finished) it went to the main TWRP menu. I told it to reboot and it just sits at the new 4.3 splash screen animation. I assumed it may take a bit so I let it sit for about 20min with no change. Rebooted it a couple times, also tried applying the update again via twrp (errors out as i woukd expect). Wiped dalvik and cache. Didn't do a factory wipe because I'd like to avoid that but still no change.
Any suggestions? Should I manually load the full 4.4 package via TWRP?
Thanks!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using xda app-developers app
Same exact setup... Say exact issue... Oh and before rebooting I wiped Dalvik and Cache as "Sandard Operating Proceedure" ... I'm going to just do a clean flash at this point....
Tracy
Hi
I have the same problem. had a rooted 4.3, and after the update the screens remains on the splash thing. restarted a couple of times, did wipe data, factory reset, and it still remains stuck at the boot. What should i do. pls help
step944 said:
I have the same problem. had a rooted 4.3, and after the update the screens remains on the splash thing. restarted a couple of times, did wipe data, factory reset, and it still remains stuck at the boot. What should i do. pls help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Prior to the installation of the OTA it is safer to re-install stock recovery. Root is lost but re-installing a custom recovery and SuperSu bring back root.
gunner1937 said:
Prior to the installation of the OTA it is safer to re-install stock recovery. Root is lost but re-installing a custom recovery and SuperSu bring back root.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How can i install stock recovery?
You *could* unzip the factory image and then fastboot the recovery.img file. A lot easier is to download the wugfresh nexus root toolkit and use that:
http://www.wugfresh.com/
ty, but do u think it works, because i cant open my nexus 10 memory from the pc, since it is stuck at start up
Wug's toolkit has an option to restore to stock from a bricked system. All you need to be able to do is to get to the bootloader (press the power button while holding down both volume buttons -- you should get a dead android with a red triangle on chest).
Ok
i am at a loss I have my mates nexus 4 (vanilla no root locked bootloader) just OTA updated to 4.4.2 stuck on Android is upgrading Starting apps two hours on that screen powered down reboot and boot loop from there in
So thinking i could rescue with a little trickery i took it home ...so far i have these results
tried wipe cache and factory reset from Google standard recovery ... nothing
installed CWM wiped everything (cache dalvik system data) .. nothing
gave up flashed factory google image (4.4.2) from bootloader ... same "starting apps" freeze again, reboot to recovery wiped everything then boot looped on trying a reboot
"
flashed factory image 4.4 same results boots once locks on starting apps then bootloop every boot after then
flashed 4.1 factory image (earliest build) ... Success got it to load everything working .. yay
OTA update came through to i think 4.1.3 that worked
OTA for 4.2.2 just installed and back to Android is upgrading "starting apps" and frozen there now for half hour
this is a clean install every inch of the phone has been completely reset no apps other than factory google apps are installed can someone PLEASE give me some advice im at a loss.
thanks guys
Myxin
Myxin_n said:
Ok
i am at a loss I have my mates nexus 4 (vanilla no root locked bootloader) just OTA updated to 4.4.2 stuck on Android is upgrading Starting apps two hours on that screen powered down reboot and boot loop from there in
So thinking i could rescue with a little trickery i took it home ...so far i have these results
tried wipe cache and factory reset from Google standard recovery ... nothing
installed CWM wiped everything (cache dalvik system data) .. nothing
gave up flashed factory google image (4.4.2) from bootloader ... same "starting apps" freeze again, reboot to recovery wiped everything then boot looped on trying a reboot
"
flashed factory image 4.4 same results boots once locks on starting apps then bootloop every boot after then
flashed 4.1 factory image (earliest build) ... Success got it to load everything working .. yay
OTA update came through to i think 4.1.3 that worked
OTA for 4.2.2 just installed and back to Android is upgrading "starting apps" and frozen there now for half hour
this is a clean install every inch of the phone has been completely reset no apps other than factory google apps are installed can someone PLEASE give me some advice im at a loss.
thanks guys
Myxin
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hello, I have just about the same problem as you do/did I haven't figured a way to fiz it. Any ideas?
I've got the exact same problem. Used the factory image to flash lollipop on my friend's Nexus 4 and it worked flawlessly. Next day he comes to me and says it froze and he force restarted and it wouldn't boot. Tried flashing the factory image again, tried flashing a several custom roms through twrp, and nothing will fully boot it will either loop or get stuck on starting apps. The only thing that has booted so far is the 4.1 factory image. Any ideas?
Nexus 4 with stock (originally 4.4.2), which wouldn't update to 4.4.3, due to TWRP being installed, so when 4.4.4 came around, thought I would download and flash myself. Not a huge expert, but have certainly flashed several phones successfully previously.
Initially using the Nexus Root Toolkit, unrooted etc, downloaded the correct file from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images, tried to update, and would not write the radio file (waited for ages), tried to do using adb etc, no go.
Finally downloaded the 4.4.2 image, and using fastboot, this successfully did everything up to userdata, erased userdata successfully, and sent file, but never completes writing. (writing 'userdata'...) If I reboot, just gets stuck on the 4 circles.
Have installed CWM and tried doing a factory reset, but can not mount data....
Anyone able to assist?
Thanks
hornetster said:
Have installed CWM and tried doing a factory reset, but can not mount data....
Anyone able to assist?
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Panic over...
Perseverence seemed to pay off. Just did more of the same, and tried installing the userdata by itself. Seems to have worked.
But now am stock, and still doesn't seem to want to install the updates....
Well, thought it was stock, but the latest OTA didn't install. Don't really know why, as I wasn't watching, but it did the download, then kicked off the install, but when I came back to it, was just sitting at the home screen, no messages and the update hadn't happened - still sitting on 4.4.2.
I had flashed 4.4.2, and I thought the only bit that hadn't worked was the userdata, which I flashed separately, recovery has been flashed to stock recovery...
Why hasn't it updated?
And how can I tell if 'everything' is stock?
Thanks.
My friend gave me his Nexus 4 to fix, for some unknown reason it does not boot. It earlier worked fine and was running Stock 5.1.
So I tried to fix it by loading the latest Factory Image from Google's website. I downloaded the latest build. extracted it, and followed the instructions given on their website. I was able to successfully install the OS by using the Flash-All script. The phone rebooted once the flashing process got over.
But the phone never booted, it got stuck on the circles flying around boot animation. I did the entire process again and waited for 45 minutes but it still did not boot. I went in the Stock Recovery and wiped the Cache and did a factory reset and still the same. I even tried locking and unlocking the bootloader again but still no result.
After doing all this I decided to install CyanogenMod 12.1 Snapshot, so I downloaded the latest version of TWRP and installed it. Booted into TWRP.
Wiped Dalvik, Cache, Data and System. Flashed the ROM, the ROM installed successfully. But now even CM12.1 won't boot!
How am I supposed to make this phone boot?
Please help me.
Thanks in Advanced.
Same problem
cyborgmanu said:
My friend gave me his Nexus 4 to fix, for some unknown reason it does not boot. It earlier worked fine and was running Stock 5.1.
So I tried to fix it by loading the latest Factory Image from Google's website. I downloaded the latest build. extracted it, and followed the instructions given on their website. I was able to successfully install the OS by using the Flash-All script. The phone rebooted once the flashing process got over.
But the phone never booted, it got stuck on the circles flying around boot animation. I did the entire process again and waited for 45 minutes but it still did not boot. I went in the Stock Recovery and wiped the Cache and did a factory reset and still the same. I even tried locking and unlocking the bootloader again but still no result.
After doing all this I decided to install CyanogenMod 12.1 Snapshot, so I downloaded the latest version of TWRP and installed it. Booted into TWRP.
Wiped Dalvik, Cache, Data and System. Flashed the ROM, the ROM installed successfully. But now even CM12.1 won't boot!
How am I supposed to make this phone boot?
Please help me.
Thanks in Advanced.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the same problem, and I am trying to download factory 4.4.4 image.
guys help us plz.
mose_nd said:
I have the same problem, and I am trying to download factory 4.4.4 image.
guys help us plz.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I also posted this is the Nexus 4 Community on Google Plus. I am going to try out what they said.
Here is the link:
https://plus.google.com/117172821556811787798/posts/dzVorg3JSUw
SOLVED!
mose_nd said:
I have the same problem, and I am trying to download factory 4.4.4 image.
guys help us plz.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey I fixed it! It finally booted up.
You need to use the first Factory Image, that is, the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Factory Image.
Once you have flashed the image, the phone will boot up quickly - Mine booted in around 5 minutes I guess.
Here is the link - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-jdq39-factory-345dc199.tgz