Nexus 4 CM13 Boot Stall - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm running CM13 20160204 with 20160204 Gapps and latest Xposed on my Nexus 4, although I've been having this problem with the nightlies for a few weeks. My storage is encrypted (has to be for work).
After doing a clean install, everything is fine for a few days. Eventually, the phone will randomly reboot. It reaches the PIN entry screen, and I'm able to enter the PIN with no problem. HOwever, it proceeds to the flash screen and just stays there. The flash animation continues, but it never proceeds further.
I'm able to access /data through TWRP without problem. I've tried wiping system, cache and dalvik and reinstalling with no success. I really don't like having to factory reset every week.
Does anyone have any ideas?

farside268 said:
I'm running CM13 20160204 with 20160204 Gapps and latest Xposed on my Nexus 4, although I've been having this problem with the nightlies for a few weeks. My storage is encrypted (has to be for work).
After doing a clean install, everything is fine for a few days. Eventually, the phone will randomly reboot. It reaches the PIN entry screen, and I'm able to enter the PIN with no problem. HOwever, it proceeds to the flash screen and just stays there. The flash animation continues, but it never proceeds further.
I'm able to access /data through TWRP without problem. I've tried wiping system, cache and dalvik and reinstalling with no success. I really don't like having to factory reset every week.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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If anyone is following, I went without Xposed this week and had the same problem.

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*Chasmodos version of the super-clean install didn't say to format the cache as well although I had tried just formatting the system and it didn't fix the issue. So I thought I'd try the same process with a cache format as well and now all issues seem to have been rectified.
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