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[Q] phone not booting!

So I was following all the steps from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
and I did flash the stock 4.2 img. Now, after unlocking the boot loader, i didnt exit the fastboot mode and stayed in. And continued the steps of section D (all of it). Then I did a fastboot reboot , and Google appeared and below it unlocked lock and then the jellybean logo. It's been almost 20 min and it hasn't passed that screen yet. The rainbow colour X.
What do I do to fix this?? I can go back to fastboot mode, but not sure what to do. I did the fastboot erase cache before rebooting my phone!

Look at the notes of section D.
You have to reboot into recovery, clear cache and factory reset.
Sent from my Nexus 4

El Daddy said:
Look at the notes of section D.
You have to reboot into recovery, clear cache and factory reset.
Sent from my Nexus 4
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I did this though: 13) Erase the cache partition: fastboot erase cache
14) Reboot: fastboot reboot
Okay, and I will try to do that now.

El Daddy said:
Look at the notes of section D.
You have to reboot into recovery, clear cache and factory reset.
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I booted myself into recovery via fastboot and it shows android laying down with a red triangle and inside that its " ! "
What now?

Press volume up and power at the same time. It will open the menu.
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LimitsX said:
I booted myself into recovery via fastboot and it shows android laying down with a red triangle and inside that its " ! "
What now?
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Flash it again using fastboot and the official Google image. Recent nexus devices are strange, i never had problems before but softbricked both nex4 and 7 just like that. If you can enter fastboot mode all is well though.

Ps. That tutorial, that was the longest one I've seen in my life. Are you aware that Google images contain clickme.bat files? You literally click it and it's done. Just make sure you have fastboot and adb installed. You can extract them from nexus toolkit as well.
If you do wanna make it by hand, also no problem. Download the image from here:https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
And type:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-maguro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-maguro-i9250xxkk6.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-yakju-icl53f.zip
Exchange the correct names of course. And make sure you're in fast boot mode.

El Daddy said:
Press volume up and power at the same time. It will open the menu.
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Do I do that on that screen? I did, and it went into completely black screen.

molesarecoming said:
Ps. That tutorial, that was the longest one I've seen in my life. Are you aware that Google images contain clickme.bat files? You literally click it and it's done. Just make sure you have fastboot and adb installed. You can extract them from nexus toolkit as well.
If you do wanna make it by hand, also no problem. Download the image from here:https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
And type:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-maguro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-maguro-i9250xxkk6.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-yakju-icl53f.zip
Exchange the correct names of course. And make sure you're in fast boot mode.
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Okay, im gonna go and do that! Thanks!
I was trying to mount the sdcard with nexus 4 but it wont do that with CWM and TWRP.

okay I think I just lost access to everything on my phone :|. I am still on TWRP, is there anything I can do with that?
I accidentally wiped the system files ugh. So I lost bootloader which means my phone is empty and useless and im still active on TWRP.
This is what I did in TWRP:
went to WIPE menu and did the following:
1)Wipe Cache
2)Dalvik Cache
3)Factory Reset
4)Wipe System
5)Wipe External storage ( didn't work - failed)
6)Wipe Internal storage (deleted)
So I have a boot loader still ?? or is that gone too? I am still active in TWRP. What are my options to fix this mess I've gotten myself into =\.

molesarecoming said:
Ps. That tutorial, that was the longest one I've seen in my life. Are you aware that Google images contain clickme.bat files? You literally click it and it's done. Just make sure you have fastboot and adb installed. You can extract them from nexus toolkit as well.
If you do wanna make it by hand, also no problem. Download the image from here:https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
And type:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-maguro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-maguro-i9250xxkk6.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-yakju-icl53f.zip
Exchange the correct names of course. And make sure you're in fast boot mode.
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Yeah the thread is verbose, but its more of a tutorial than a "fix my fone nao!!!" Thread.
Efrant wrote it like that so users understand what they are doing.
Sent from my Nexus 4

so basically I have a dead phone?! =\. Anyone..help or point me in the right direction?

Nevermind. I figured it out and fixed it :victory: !!

El Daddy said:
Yeah the thread is verbose, but its more of a tutorial than a "fix my fone nao!!!" Thread.
Efrant wrote it like that so users understand what they are doing.
Sent from my Nexus 4
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sure, didnt want to apply its not good or anything. its nice to know that google gives you some sort of emergency option, i've used it countless of times.

LimitsX said:
okay I think I just lost access to everything on my phone :|. I am still on TWRP, is there anything I can do with that?
I accidentally wiped the system files ugh. So I lost bootloader which means my phone is empty and useless and im still active on TWRP.
This is what I did in TWRP:
went to WIPE menu and did the following:
1)Wipe Cache
2)Dalvik Cache
3)Factory Reset
4)Wipe System
5)Wipe External storage ( didn't work - failed)
6)Wipe Internal storage (deleted)
So I have a boot loader still ?? or is that gone too? I am still active in TWRP. What are my options to fix this mess I've gotten myself into =\.
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for the next time, you better learn what all this stuff is and means which you are flashing. i cant help but thinking its dangerous what you're doing there. if you are in twrp you're free to install any rom, your phone is pretty much safe if you can access it. wiping system wont kill your bootloader, system is a partition, your rom gets installed in there. you can wipe it, most roms even do it by default in the installation script. if your bootloader is gone you'll know.

Nexus 4 only with 5 GB partition!?

Hello gents,
After messing around with the fastboot yesterday i got back to stock Android and realised i have only a 5GB partition....
I formatted the phone and installed again the stock Rom but that didn't work.
Anybody as any idea on how to solve this problem? thanks:good:

Anyone?

Fix for 16GB N4 showing as 8GB
I just experienced the same exact problem, and wasn't able to find a solution until I followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
Make sure you have the latest occam image https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occam
Use 7-Zip to extract the files from within the .tgz file, and then the .tar file.
Shift + Right Click in the folder to Open a Command Prompt, and run the following commands:
Code:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-mako-makoz20i.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-occam-jwr66y.zip

jsteg94 said:
I just experienced the same exact problem, and wasn't able to find a solution until I followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
Make sure you have the latest occam image https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occam
Use 7-Zip to extract the files from within the .tgz file, and then the .tar file.
Shift + Right Click in the folder to Open a Command Prompt, and run the following commands:
Code:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-mako-makoz20i.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-occam-jwr66y.zip
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Its a common error after flashing the factory images and all you usually have to do is this:
-Boot into STOCK RECOVERY (If you are running a custom recovery you must flash to stock)
-Clear cache
-Factory reset
which is right at the top of el daddy's thread

kzoodroid said:
Its a common error after flashing the factory images and all you usually have to do is this:
-Boot into STOCK RECOVERY (If you are running a custom recovery you must flash to stock)
-Clear cache
-Factory reset
which is right at the top of el daddy's thread
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Thanks, kzoodroid. I didn't realize that you had to be in Stock Recovery. Every time I followed the above steps on el daddy's thread, I was using TWRP, which never solved the problem.

Well i´ve been trying and trying... its simple to follow the guide but wen i get to this step fastboot -w update image-occam-jdq39.zip the CMD crashes all the time...
I´ve restarted the computer and everything but it crashes always...
And also i can´t get into stock recovery... The droid with the triangle come up the i press power and then vol up but nothing happends...

Yeah, i think i just found a easy way to go around this problem!
Very simple:
1. After flashing the stock rom use Nexus Root Toolkit to do a OEM Lock
2. Run CMD fastboot and use this command: fastboot oem unlock. You will see a prompt on your device. This will wipe your entire device (including the /sdcard folder). Accept.
3 Restart and that's it! Your back to 13GB again
Thanks to all for your help. I will share this info on El Daddy thread.

SWEagle said:
Yeah, i think i just found a easy way to go around this problem!
Very simple:
1. After flashing the stock rom use Nexus Root Toolkit to do a OEM Lock
2. Run CMD fastboot and use this command: fastboot oem unlock. You will see a prompt on your device. This will wipe your entire device (including the /sdcard folder). Accept.
3 Restart and that's it! Your back to 13GB again
Thanks to all for your help. I will share this info on El Daddy thread.
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I've had this issue come up more times than I can count, and just the other day I wasn't able to get back to the full storage allotment after several attempts following the steps to erase all the partitions and reflash. I did exactly what you did by flashing the factory images, re-locking the bootloader, then unlocking it again, and my storage was back to normal. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I discovered this works, just as you did

hp420 said:
I've had this issue come up more times than I can count, and just the other day I wasn't able to get back to the full storage allotment after several attempts following the steps to erase all the partitions and reflash. I did exactly what you did by flashing the factory images, re-locking the bootloader, then unlocking it again, and my storage was back to normal. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I discovered this works, just as you did
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Cool! :laugh:

SWEagle said:
Well i´ve been trying and trying... its simple to follow the guide but wen i get to this step fastboot -w update image-occam-jdq39.zip the CMD crashes all the time...
I´ve restarted the computer and everything but it crashes always...
And also i can´t get into stock recovery... The droid with the triangle come up the i press power and then vol up but nothing happends...
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With my phone I have to press power and volume+ a bunch of times to get it to finally go into stock recovery it never does it on the first few tries and can take a few minutes of playing to hit them perfectly to get it to open.

SWEagle said:
Yeah, i think i just found a easy way to go around this problem!
Very simple:
1. After flashing the stock rom use Nexus Root Toolkit to do a OEM Lock
2. Run CMD fastboot and use this command: fastboot oem unlock. You will see a prompt on your device. This will wipe your entire device (including the /sdcard folder). Accept.
3 Restart and that's it! Your back to 13GB again
Thanks to all for your help. I will share this info on El Daddy thread.
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Wow, that's actually a lot easier. Thanks for finding a simpler way, SWEagle! I'll try that next time.

jsteg94 said:
Wow, that's actually a lot easier. Thanks for finding a simpler way, SWEagle! I'll try that next time.
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Instead of using the toolkit you probably could just use fastboot to lock the device too.
fastboot oem lock

kzoodroid said:
Instead of using the toolkit you probably could just use fastboot to lock the device too.
fastboot oem lock
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I thought about that too. It might work. If it does it's even easier

Recover data from a N4 without battery

Guys I have a big problem...one piece linked to battery is broken on the motherboard (I don't know how to explain it)..the problem is: how to recover data? The phone works only in fastboot mode with only usb cable connected, if I try recovery mode it shuts down, and abd commands are not working in fastboot mode..I had custom 5.0 rom with twrp and unlocked bootloader. Please help me!

marcof93 said:
Guys I have a big problem...one piece linked to battery is broken on the motherboard (I don't know how to explain it)..the problem is: how to recover data? The phone works only in fastboot mode with only usb cable connected, if I try recovery mode it shuts down, and abd commands are not working in fastboot mode..I had custom 5.0 rom with twrp and unlocked bootloader. Please help me!
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Flash recovery from fastboot using "fastboot flash recovery". Then you can use adb from the custom recovery.

athibanvasanth said:
Flash recovery from fastboot using "fastboot flash recovery". Then you can use adb from the custom recovery.
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I can't boot in recovery, I don't have battery.. I wrote, I already have a custom recovery, butI'm without battery

marcof93 said:
I can't boot in recovery, I don't have battery.. I wrote, I already have a custom recovery, butI'm without battery
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What part is broken? Can you post a picture?
(I replied to your FB post)

nitin.chobhe said:
What part is broken? Can you post a picture?
(I replied to your FB post)
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Oh yes understood, unfortunely I can't..it's the part where you hook the battery. But now I have a new phone, I only need to know if there is a way to recover data without a battery plugged in, so a command in fastboot mode.

marcof93 said:
Oh yes understood, unfortunely I can't..it's the part where you hook the battery. But now I have a new phone, I only need to know if there is a way to recover data without a battery plugged in, so a command in fastboot mode.
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There are no commands in fastboot to recover data. Only adb, which if you can't boot into recovery or the os you're sol.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app

jd1639 said:
There are no commands in fastboot to recover data. Only adb, which if you can't boot into recovery or the os you're sol.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app
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I immagined it...and are there commands to erase everything? apps and personal data?

marcof93 said:
I immagined it...and are there commands to erase everything? apps and personal data?
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fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
fastboot -w
I'd then flash the factory image with fastboot. That way the partitions will be written to twice.
Edit, if you're able to use fastboot have you tried booting into a custom recovery?
fastboot boot twrp.img
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jd1639 said:
fastboot format userdata
fastboot format cache
fastboot -w
I'd then flash the factory image with fastboot. That way the partitions will be written to twice.
Edit, if you're able to use fastboot have you tried booting into a custom recovery?
fastboot boot twrp.img
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Yes of course, it shuts down during boot..anyway, thanks bro.
EDIT: IT WORKED THAT WAY!! MANY THAAAAANKS!

LS997 rebooting into yellow Rpm crash screen

Hey guys I'm in need of some help..I replaced my V20 screen and when I turned my phone on it booted into a yellow screen that's says Rpm crash...Lge crash handler etc etc..Says something about a system dump..I can boot into TWRP..I wipe the device clean..Even installed a new rom..Still won't get past this yellow screen can you guys help.

flymalikcool said:
Hey guys I'm in need of some help..I replaced my V20 screen and when I turned my phone on it booted into a yellow screen that's says Rpm crash...Lge crash handler etc etc..Says something about a system dump..I can boot into TWRP..I wipe the device clean..Even installed a new rom..Still won't get past this yellow screen can you guys help.
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can you take a photo and post.
push a new boot.img to your phone
depending on model if you have fastboot access you can try to do this
Fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase fota
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase data
then reboot the device back into twrp, re-flash a rom and make sure the kernel is included.
sounds like you flashed a bad boot.img causing the phone not to boot. Or your new screen is causing a issue

Team DevDigitel said:
can you take a photo and post.
push a new boot.img to your phone
depending on model if you have fastboot access you can try to do this
Fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase fota
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase data
then reboot the device back into twrp, re-flash a rom and make sure the kernel is included.
sounds like you flashed a bad boot.img causing the phone not to boot. Or your new screen is causing a issue
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Here goes a picture

flymalikcool said:
Here goes a picture
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Yeah its a bad boot.img
Get a boot.img for ur device..
Flash it with twrp or
Fastboot flash boot.img and reboot
Or rerun dirty santa step 3 and reboot.

Team DevDigitel said:
Yeah its a bad boot.img
Get a boot.img for ur device..
Flash it with twrp or
Fastboot flash boot.img and reboot
Or rerun dirty santa step 3 and reboot.
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Thanks for the help I downloaded the Sprint boot image for my phone flash through TWRP..Same results..TWRP gave me options for partitions I choose boot..

flymalikcool said:
Thanks for the help I downloaded the Sprint boot image for my phone flash through TWRP..Same results..TWRP gave me options for partitions I choose boot..
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it didn't work went right back to yellow screen

flymalikcool said:
it didn't work went right back to yellow screen
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Humm.. Try the wipe commands. Then flash my Rom if ur on ls997.
Can you mount all ur stuff with twrp?
Does it show 0byte free space?

Team DevDigitel said:
Humm.. Try the wipe commands. Then flash my Rom if ur on ls997.
Can you mount all ur stuff with twrp?
Does it show 0byte free space?
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Thanks for the concern and speedy response..Yes I can mount all my stuff..As far as the wipe commands are you speaking about the fastboot commands you posted earlier..

flymalikcool said:
Thanks for the concern and speedy response..Yes I can mount all my stuff..As far as the wipe commands are you speaking about the fastboot commands you posted earlier..
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Yeah..
Put into fasboot and wipe everything
Fasboot erase
Misc
Fota
Cache
Dalvik
System
Data
Boot
Then boot back into twrp.. Mount everything and flash a stock ls997 rom.
I had this happen before to me. I believe i had to fix partitions on my device using advanced wipe and ext4 wipe options 1 by 1. But it showed free space 0 for everuthing also.
Do you have a backup on twrp that has ur efs?

Yes I have my efs backup

After fastboot commands im having a problem mounting system

flymalikcool said:
After fastboot commands im having a problem mounting system
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need to wipe the phone using twrp now to mount system again,
if not if it shows 0 bytes the repair system to ext4 and flash a rom..
lastly, if this repair was done with a knock off screen thats your issue, the oem screen and the 3rd party
probably dont spec the same, and the drops in voltage cause the phone to kernel panic and fail, this is a common issue across many phones after
doing a little digging Via google.

flymalikcool said:
After fastboot commands im having a problem mounting system
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Mi A1 Hard Brick

Hi, friends please help me
My phone is dead, I am trying to flash via miflash tool. It takes more than 4000 seconds, it's stuck in userdata.img flashing,I disconnected USB from my pc. Now it's booted in Mi logo and it's shows erasing

Wait till erasing logo vanishes , try to boot into fastboot mode and then reflash the IMG i.e stock ROM if logo doesn't erases , try to force the rebooting into fastboot mode

Custom rom 243 said:
Wait till erasing logo vanishes , try to boot into fastboot mode and then reflash the IMG i.e stock ROM if logo doesn't erases , try to force the rebooting into fastboot mode
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Trying to flash via miflash tool, it take time more than 4500 seconds

fasilpoochengal said:
Trying to flash via miflash tool, it take time more than 4500 seconds
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Stuck in userdata.img flashing
What do, Plz help

fasilpoochengal said:
Stuck in userdata.img flashing
What do, Plz help
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fasilpoochengal said:
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Go into EDL mode from Fastboot using command:
Code:
fastboot oem edl
Then flash stock ROM from there using Mi Flash and choose Clean all and Lock option
If by any chance your bootloader is locked because of flashing stock rom before, please unlock your bootloader as it works only on unlocked bootloaders.
Warning: This will erase all your data.

Try selecting clean all and lock option located at bottom of the mi flash tool . But data will be lost . Period

I had that problem too once. Definitely unlock your OEM via fastboot command:
Code:
fastboot oem unlock
And try again. If no result fastboot boot TWRP by Deadman
Code:
fastboot boot „name of the TWRP” .img
and go to wipe»advanced wipe»select all beside otg and USB (system, dalvik, cache, internal storage) and try again. If no result either do the same but flash some custom ROM following the guide on the ROM's thread and stay on it or try again.
If nothing helped just go to service center they will do it sometimes even that same day.
If I've helped, please press that "Thanks" button!
Best regards

The tool is changing the device name after the first reboot it makes, you only have to close the tool, re open it and then start the process again.

fasilpoochengal said:
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just update/repair usb driver or try with other pc

DaveCZ said:
I had that problem too once. Definitely unlock your OEM via fastboot command:
And try again. If no result fastboot boot TWRP by Deadman and go to wipe»advanced wipe»select all beside otg and USB (system, dalvik, cache, internal storage) and try again. If no result either do the same but flash some custom ROM following the guide on the ROM's thread and stay on it or try again.
If nothing helped just go to service center they will do it sometimes even that same day.
If I've helped, please press that "Thanks" button!
Best regards
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Unable to mount storage

fasilpoochengal said:
Unable to mount storage
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:crying:

fasilpoochengal said:
:crying:
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Unable to mount storage

fasilpoochengal said:
Unable to mount storage
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Then use the option next to advanced wipe. Ignore any errors it may give you as long as there is "success" on top of the screen! Then proceeded to installation of the ROM. Also remember to after the wipe and any flash reboot to bootloader and boot TWRP again. The process is anoying but it may fix your problem.