I purchased this phone and I am coming from an S3. If i had any trouble with my S3 I could always use ODIN to go back to stock. The nexus 5 doesnt have ODIN so my question is if something goes wrong in the future and I cant use TWRP or clockwork, how do i go back to stock? I am assuming I have to flash the stock image through fastboot. How do I go about doing that? Where can I find the stock nexus 5 images?
This is more of a learning process for me so your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
I downloaded the Hammerhead Stock image and after extracting it, it gave me a .tar file. How would I go about flashing that?
You use fastboot which is equivalent to Samsung's Odin but easier to use and less buggier.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerhead = stock images.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312 is a guide for N4... respond accordingly to N5.
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I can't figure out for the life of me how to flash my G2X back to stock using the stock firmware. Can you please help me figure out what to put into NVFlash to get the stock rom back onto this phone. Please don't tell me to search, I've been doing that all day. I have the LG Firmware file. I was stupid and put that pre-release gingerbread on it, but thats worse than what came with it.
To flash the phone back to its original recovery you do this
Restore LG G2x Stock Recovery
Flash Stock recovery only when you want to send your phone in to T-Mobile. Otherwise do not flash Stock recovery. Stay on ClockworkMod Recovery.
Remove the battery.
Goto NvFlash directory and Double Click "OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe".
Make sure the USB cable is unplugged from your phone.
Hold Volume Up and Volume Down at the same time keeping them held down. (Keep them held until you see the "S/W Upgrade" screen on your phone after you complete step7!).
Plug in the USB cable to your phone.
Click the "Flash Stock" button.
You should see it send a bunch of files to the device and the phone screen should say "S/W Upgrade - Please wait while upgrading...". Once the files are sent and the program is finished running in the command window, you can just pull the USB cord while it still says "S/W Upgrade - Please wait while upgrading...".
Put the battery back and you are done.
Now if its the ROM that your having issues with then just flash another ROM to it man
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I think doing the 1st step gives you back everything to its oringal state. NOt sure though.
I already did flash the recovery I want to flash the original shipped rom to it and I can't figure it out, obviously it can be done, and well I feel like quite the disgrace since i used to work for google in mountain view lol
Oohhhh the ROM
Well lets see isn't this it?
The only thing though is that its rooted.
I'll keep tryna check for you though
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
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I can't figure out for the life of me how to flash my G2X back to stock using the stock firmware. Can you please help me figure out what to put into NVFlash to get the stock rom back onto this phone. Please don't tell me to search, I've been doing that all day. I have the LG Firmware file. I was stupid and put that pre-release gingerbread on it, but thats worse than what came with it.
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First you'll want to use the Nandroid file (linked already in post #4) to return to stock rom. Then you'll want to use NVflash to get back to stock recovery. Then use SuperOneClick to unroot. That's the only way to get unrooted stock.
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First you'll want to use the Nandroid file (linked already in post #4) to return to stock rom. Then you'll want to use NVflash to get back to stock recovery. Then use SuperOneClick to unroot. That's the only way to get unrooted stock.
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This is correct. I've done it a handful of times this way. And if you have a question, post in Q&A. This is the wrong place for this.
So I still for the life of me can't figure out how to flash the stock rom LG V10F rom on this thing.
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So I still for the life of me can't figure out how to flash the stock rom LG V10F rom on this thing.
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Download the file in this thread. Extract the contents to your SD Card. Boot into Clockwork Recovery. Restore a backup. Select the folder where you extracted said file. Fix permissions. Reboot. Enjoy stock rom.
Doesn't work, it says MD5 Checksum mismatch. I want to flash the stock LG Flash File. The AP and CP bin files.
iv acidently flashed stock p999 rom via nvflash to a p990 phone need help please ,how can i flash back my old baseband?
Several months ago I purchased a NS4G on Craigslist. I wanted to use it as an iPod touch without the data. It came rooted with SuperUser. The phone keeps prompting me to OTA to 2.3.7 (it's currently on 2.3.5) I used Gingerbreak to unroot and it worked, SuperUser is now gone. However, ClockWorkMod Recovery is still present and 2.3.7 won't install. The phone reboots, goes to about 1/3 of the progress bar, and then fails. I just want to get the phone on completely stock 2.3.7, in preparation for the coming 4.0 OTA.
Hopefully the solution doesn't involve flashing a custom ROM, I've never done that before. Thanks!!
No need to get it OTA, you can just flash the stock ICS ROM found in the stickies of the development forum of this phone. Of course follow instructions closely.
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But I'm selling it and need it to be completely 100% original and stock, which is what the buyer requested..
You want to use fastboot to flash a stock recovery. Peter Alfonso has them all listed on his site.
Thanks. I'm really not familiar with fastboot, and is there any way you could give me a link with instructions or the files I need? My build number is GRJ90.
And if there's anyway for me to avoid a rooted stock ROM, that'd be great. Just pure stock 2.3.7.
The stock image on Rom manager has the recovery bootloader included.
Flash a stock gb rom from cwm. You will find a list of them in either general or android development threads, not sure which. Completely stock, unrooted and as far as I remember the stock recovery is included. If not then the person will never know anyway as if someone doesn't want any non stock features then they won't know how to get to recovery anyway.
Actually I don't think they have stock recovery. Just flash the stock rom and then fastboot flash the stock recovery like was mentioned above. All you need to type is:
Fastboot flash recovery xxxxx.img
Xxxxx.img is the name of the image file you download.
Don't cheat the buyer...Tell him exactly what he's buying...And that you returned thedevice back to stock again.It's just not worth it.
I tried flashing an ICS ROM on this I9020 via CWM and the phone would just keep tying to boot over and over...
I tried flashing a GB ROM (GRH78) through ODIN and now I'm unable to get into recovery.
My goal is get this thing back to stock rom with no root so it can receive OTA updates. Any odin files I can use to get me going? I haven't had any luck finding anything useful. Just fastboot references which I'm unfamiliar with.
Thanks to anyone that can help
Correct me if i am wrong, but there aren't any official odin tar files for Nexus devices since they get updates from Google.
I think you have to flash the stock rom using fastboot method, here are the stock roms: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063664
Thanks for the response...I was finally able to use fastboot to get CWM installed (Phew). Now I want to restore this phone to factory (stock) settings so it can get OTA updates. How do I do that? I've been searching but all I see is GB ASOP.
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Well I finally got it working. The issue I was experiencing was that I needed to root the device to be able to flash a stock ROM. Once I was able to root the i9020a, I was able to get it back to stock. I even had a Nexus 4G rom on the phone at one point. I had a hard time, but once I read about 37 different posts I was able to piece it together. So if anyone is having trouble getting back to stock, I'd recommend rooting the phone and using CWM to flash a stock ROM. Hope that helps anyone else that may have been struggling the way I was.
I did some searching before asking this and could not find my answer...
I am preparing to unlock, root and flash a custom recovery.
Before doing so I wish to backup the Stock Recovery.
I assume this can be done and if so what is the most painless way to do so?
Maybe someone has already posted the after OTA individual Stock images including Recovery?
TIA
I found my answer...
Flashify does exactly what I was looking for.. Plus a lot more!
Flashify
Thanks cgollner!
You can also download the stock images directly from Google
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Yeah, no need to back it up. Google provides it as part of the factory image:
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerheadkrt16m
You can flash the full image to get completely back to stock or flash each component individually.
Hi there.
So I am planning on rooting my Nexus 5 but I am thinking ahead (maybe too much but that's how I am). So in every tutorial I see that you have to flash a custom recovery and as I am thinking ahead, maybe some day I want to turn it back to the stock recovery (maybe due to guarranty or something, I don't know). I've looked it up everywhere and I found THIS tutorial but it seems like they never mention a stock Recovery. They do mention a stock bootloader but not a Recovery. Is this because they come together in some way? Why is it? I also read that there is a tamper flag that will tell if the phone has been modded or not. Is there a way to turn it back to normal? Can anybody explain this to me?
Thank you very much.
Have a read up on wugfresh's nexus root toolkit its awesome and will more than likely be the easiest way to go back to stock I've used it many times its awesome ?
Skip the tool kit. You'll find everything you need in this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53439068
It's very easy to flash the stock recovery.img using fastboot. In fact, you can flash any of the partitions with fastboot. Bootloader, recovery, system, etc.
And yes, there is a tamper flag that can be reset. Easiest way, if your rooted, is to get bootunlocker from the play store.
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