Did you read the line just above "Part E" in the first post?
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In my panic I failed to see that step... I did that and it resolved the "X" issue. Thanks a lot, I can breathe now. lol
Did you read the line just above "Part E" in the first post?
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So when one flashes the system.img, does it typically take a long long time for that command to finish running? Mine has been stuck at "sending 'system'..." for several minutes now. I mean I guess the system.img file is much larger than all the others, but just wondering if this was normal...?
Hi efrant,
I am going to attempt to flash the factory image later tonight. I have already downloaded all the necessary files and I am ready to go. I just have a couple questions regarding the instructions in the OP.
After you flash the bootloader the instructions prompt us to reboot the bootloader. Then flash the radio and reboot the bootloader afterward as well. Then it instructs us to flash the system, userdata, boot, and recovery partitions. But it does not mention to reboot the bootloader after flashing each one. Is it recommended to flash system, reboot, flash userdata reboot etc etc? Or is it not necessary to reboot the bootloader when flashing system, userdata, boot and recovery?
Thanks, just want to be thorough and make sure I do it correctly.
Unnecessary to reboot into the bootloader after flashing those images. Only after flashing the bootloader and Radio.
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Sure, I can explain (although I answered this twice already).Can someone explain to me why all the guides on how to flash the stock images use the most convoluted and complicated way ?, Google supply a 'flash-all.bat' that does the whole process for you.
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Note: There are other methods that are abbreviated and/or faster, but I wanted to spell out each step in the process for the purposes of learning. I'm a big believer in doing things manually before using a "toolkit", much the same way that, in school, we are taught to do math first, before being allowed to use a calculator. See here for some further explanation.
One last question efrant before I give this a try:
As per the OP
Notes:
1) Yes, you will receive the OTA update notification (when it is available) for the next update.
Just want to make sure, as long as I have the stock bootloader, radio, system, userdata, boot and recovery I am safe to root and still receive OTA updates? I assume that is the case, but just want to be 100% sure.
Thanks
It happened to me the same thing... I did everything right just as suggested in every step, but my phone won't get past the X logo... I solved it by going to the stock recovery (unhide the menu by pressing POWER+VOL. UP), wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition. Reboot (to me it rebooted automatically after wiping the cache partition) and everything went fine, it took very few time to get past the X logo...
Hope it works for you too.
efrant, wouldn't fastboot flash zip image-occam-jop40d.zip do essentially the same job?
The flash-all.bat in the zip/tgz will accomplish the same thing (won't re-lock the bootloader, of course), but if I'm not mistaken efrant's purpose with this thread is to try to help explain why everything works like it does so people have a greater understanding of their tech. If you already know what it all does then using the bat accomplishes the same thing.
efrant, wouldn't fastboot flash zip image-occam-jop40d.zip do essentially the same job?
It's exactly as schemKC stated. It works fine, but: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35053402&postcount=87
Had a custom Rom on my nexus and used this guide to get back to stock (thanks!)
But now everything sees my 16 gig nexus 4 as the 8 gig (windows and settings ->Storage) show I only have ~5 gig free. Before the custom ROM and coming back to the stock rom I had the full ~12 gig free.
Whats the deal?
No errors, I checked the MD5 of the factory image and it's fine. I even re-downloaded it. I did every step as listed in your procedure (even the optional ones). The phone is dead now, it's charging. It spent over 20 minutes on the X. Everything seems to work per your instructions. I don't get it. Could something be corrupted on my phone itself? System/Boot/Recovery images are all dated Jan 1/09, but I assume that's correct (it's from Google after all). Should I try directly flashing CWM recovery instead of stock during the initial process? I dunno...
I will try your method from the beginning again tomorrow.
I assume I'm not bricked if I can still do this stuff. It doesn't bode well if you don't know what's wrong either. I appreciate any further help/suggestions...
It's the bootloader.
It happens since the 4.3 leak and the z20i bootloader.
You can try flashing the old z10o bootloader (it boots 4.3 just fine) and then fastboot boot command will work.
It's very annoying because I use to keep the stock recovery and only use CWM or TWRP to root. Now I have to flash a custom recovery, do my thing and reflash the stock one again.
Cheers!