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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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So I replaced the screen on my buddies cracked N4 with this: this. Everything went fine except when I put it all together the phone will not boot into the OS. I can still get into recovery and the bootloader just fine, but it doesn't matter what I flash it always bootloops.
I have tried WugFresh's tool kit and flashed the factory image, I flashed the latest TWRP, wiped, and flashed CM10.2M1. Everything seems to go fine, it will just never get past the boot screen.
Any ideas?
In case anybody missed it, yes I did wipe the device.
Relevant info:
PRODUCT_NAME - mako
VARIANT - mako 16GB
HW VERSION - rev_11
BOOTLOADER VERSION - MAKOZ20i
BASEBAND VERSION - M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.84
CARRIER INFO - None
SERIAL NUMBER - ****
SIGNING - production
SECURE BOOT - enabled
LOCK STATE - unlocked
**** UPDATE **** Fixed the problem! ****
So I ended up flashing the 4.2 image and everything worked fine. I was able to install a new recovery and custom ROM after that. So far everything works.
Use the latest cwm recovery. Sometime twrp recovery doesn't work properly.
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Flashed the latest CWM recovery. Same thing. I let it sit for about 30 min on the boot screen waiting for it to boot.
When u used the toolkit; did it went all well? Or did it got stuck on boot screen aswell. I see you flashed CM10.2. Try downloading 4.3 stock rom + 4.3 stock kernel.
Follow these steps:
- wipe factory reset
- flash stock ROM
- flash stock kernel
- wipe cache partition + dalvic cache
- reboot
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badboy47 said:
When u used the toolkit; did it went all well? Or did it got stuck on boot screen aswell. I see you flashed CM10.2. Try downloading 4.3 stock rom + 4.3 stock kernel.
Follow these steps:
- wipe factory reset
- flash stock ROM
- flash stock kernel
- wipe cache partition + dalvic cache
- reboot
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Everything is processed fine when looking at the tool kit log. No error messages. When the tool kit finishes it reboots like it is supposed to but stays on the boot screen. I am going to try a 4.2 image and see what happens.
Have you ran a logcat? See if anything comes up why its sitting on the boot screen?
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IRX120 said:
Have you ran a logcat? See if anything comes up why its sitting on the boot screen?
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I never ran a logcat, however I did flash the 4.2 factory image and it finally booted. I tried to flash the 4.3 image after that and it got stuck again.
I was just happy it booted, so I flashed the 4.2 image back and put TWRP on it and flashed a 4.4 ROM. Everything works fine so far.
Thanks for all the help everybody, I appreciate the responses!
Glad you made it worked!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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...
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Avoid using twrp recovery.
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Why?
Just fastboot flash all the image files (boot.img,recovery.img....) from the factory image.
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
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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.
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?
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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
So I decided to finally flash OmniROM 9.0 on my XC, and started having some problems.
Basically, I went completely from stock (already unlocked the BL):
1. Installed TWRP 3.3.1-0
2. Rebooted to TWRP and did a factory reset (because it said so on the install guide: https://docs.omnirom.org/Installing_Omni_on_your_device)
3. Flashed OmniROM 9.0 Weekly from the SD card
4. Unsuccesfully installed Open GApps because error 64 (apparently was supposed to use the ARM64 version, even though CPU-Z stated I was on ARM)
5. Installed Magisk 19.3
6. Wiped Dalvik/ART cache and Cache partitions
7. Installed TWRP app to /system and rebooted
Now it gets stuck on the Sony logo every time I power it on.
I tried leaving it for about 15 minutes to see if it was taking so long because of a fresh install, but previously I tried installing Paranoid Android and the boot up took only a few seconds, so obviously that wasn't going to work.
I tried rebooting multiple times, wiping the cache partitions again, uninstalled the TWRP app, did another factory reset, tried fixing contexts, and it still gets stuck on the Sony logo.
At this point I'm not sure if I should just give up, because none of the ROMs I tried flashing actually worked, which includes Resurrection Remix, Paranoid Android and LineageOS, and now OmniROM as well. So far, I haven't found anyone with the same problem as me, except https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyXperia/comments/acot9y/trying_to_install_omnirom_on_my_x_compact_stuck, but that's not quite the same.
EDIT: After flashing the ODM image, the phone booted up, but it's asking me for a password. I tried typing "password", and it said the password was correct, but my data was corrupt. It offered me a factory reset, but it made no difference. This is nothing new to me, the same thing happened when I tried flashing Paranoid Android. Should I do a clean install, like, wipe Internal storage and System?
1. The device has the latest stock ftf
2. The device has an unlocked bootloader
3. The ODM image zip (version 9) has been downloaded from HERE, and the ODM image has been extracted from it
4. The WEEKLY zip file has been downloaded and copied to the device
Looks like u skipped Step #3
z0mg.jer1Cho said:
1. The device has the latest stock ftf
2. The device has an unlocked bootloader
3. The ODM image zip (version 9) has been downloaded from HERE, and the ODM image has been extracted from it
4. The WEEKLY zip file has been downloaded and copied to the device
Looks like u skipped Step #3
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Right, I'm an idiot. I'll try again and see if that works.
ŽeljkoLončar said:
So I decided to finally flash OmniROM 9.0 on my XC, and started having some problems.
EDIT: After flashing the ODM image, the phone booted up, but it's asking me for a password. I tried typing "password", and it said the password was correct, but my data was corrupt. It offered me a factory reset, but it made no difference. This is nothing new to me, the same thing happened when I tried flashing Paranoid Android. Should I do a clean install, like, wipe Internal storage and System?
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Did u boot the Phone after u've installed the default firmware?
z0mg.jer1Cho said:
Did u boot the Phone after u've installed the default firmware?
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Yes, I did. Went through the setup and everything. Ttied it multiple times, didn't make a difference.
ŽeljkoLončar said:
Yes, I did. Went through the setup and everything. Ttied it multiple times, didn't make a difference.
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Dont boot the Phone after installing the Factory Firmware. After u've installed it, just go on with the flashing procedure as told you in OPs thread
Same issue
I have exactly the same issue. Recovery successfully flashed, did a factory reset, successfully installed Omnirom, and then I reboot into a permanent white screen with the Sony logo in the center...
After several tries I gave up and installed the stock firmware again using Sony's flash tool Emma.