For people having bugs....... - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I bought my nexus 5, 2 days ago, performed the update, Then started using the phone, I had random reboots, app crashes, sleep of deaths.
I used wugfreshes toolkit, unlocked my phone, then downloaded the official firmware (4.4) from Google, and flashed it. After it flashed, I then let it start up, then immediately rebooted into stock recovery, wiped data (factory reset), Then I wiped cache.
Rebooted.
Phone has been alot more stable since, a huge difference!!! I would strongly advise doing this if your having issues.
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Phone restarts if it gets stuck on some apps

I just recently had this problem. I tried flashing PSX ROM and managed to mess it up. So I had to restore back to my original backup. Before trying to flash a ROM, my phone never had problems. Today my phone restarted on its own 5 times within 10 minutes. I have Franco kernel right now. Anyone else have any restarting problems by any chance? If not, I'm about to unroot
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choboii said:
I just recently had this problem. I tried flashing PSX ROM and managed to mess it up. So I had to restore back to my original backup. Before trying to flash a ROM, my phone never had problems. Today my phone restarted on its own 5 times within 10 minutes. I have Franco kernel right now. Anyone else have any restarting problems by any chance? If not, I'm about to unroot
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You don't need to unroot. Just wipe system, data, and the caches and then restore your backup.

(Q) (Help) Problems flashing Roms - can't mount system

Let me start by saying that I am not new to flashing Roms on my devices, that being said I have never had an LG phone till now.
When I go in to Twrp and try to flash a new rom or even wipe it tells me it can't mount system. I've tried fixing permissions but nothing helped. I ended up having to use Nexus tool to restore phone to stock. (lost everything on phone)
I got the phone rooted and flashed carbon rom but decided that I wanted to flash a rom with 4.4.1 and same thing happened with phone not able to mount system. This time I was able to restore a Twrp backup I had and then flash the stock 4.4.1 rom available on this forum.
Is there something with this phone that is different then flashing on others? Can't seem to flash more then once without going back to stock? I have 2 nexus 7's 2012 & 2013 models and everything seems fine on these have flashed numerous Roms without a hitch.
I came from GS3 and have Asus prime, Motorola, HTC and just about every other manufacturers device in my house. Why is this one giving me so much issues.
Also battery won't charge past 77% now. Any ideas?
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nelomen said:
Let me start by saying that I am not new to flashing Roms on my devices, that being said I have never had an LG phone till now.
When I go in to Twrp and try to flash a new rom or even wipe it tells me it can't mount system. I've tried fixing permissions but nothing helped. I ended up having to use Nexus tool to restore phone to stock. (lost everything on phone)
I got the phone rooted and flashed carbon rom but decided that I wanted to flash a rom with 4.4.1 and same thing happened with phone not able to mount system. This time I was able to restore a Twrp backup I had and then flash the stock 4.4.1 rom available on this forum.
Is there something with this phone that is different then flashing on others? Can't seem to flash more then once without going back to stock? I have 2 nexus 7's 2012 & 2013 models and everything seems fine on these have flashed numerous Roms without a hitch.
I came from GS3 and have Asus prime, Motorola, HTC and just about every other manufacturers device in my house. Why is this one giving me so much issues.
Also battery won't charge past 77% now. Any ideas?
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the battery percentage should be an issure with your custom rom, for the mounting problem... are you using the latest version of twrp? - and maybe you could try cwm ( i recommend that always ) - also, no there isn't a difference in flashing things on an lg device, as log it's an nexus one
nelomen said:
Let me start by saying that I am not new to flashing Roms on my devices, that being said I have never had an LG phone till now.
When I go in to Twrp and try to flash a new rom or even wipe it tells me it can't mount system. I've tried fixing permissions but nothing helped. I ended up having to use Nexus tool to restore phone to stock. (lost everything on phone)
I got the phone rooted and flashed carbon rom but decided that I wanted to flash a rom with 4.4.1 and same thing happened with phone not able to mount system. This time I was able to restore a Twrp backup I had and then flash the stock 4.4.1 rom available on this forum.
Is there something with this phone that is different then flashing on others? Can't seem to flash more then once without going back to stock? I have 2 nexus 7's 2012 & 2013 models and everything seems fine on these have flashed numerous Roms without a hitch.
I came from GS3 and have Asus prime, Motorola, HTC and just about every other manufacturers device in my house. Why is this one giving me so much issues.
Also battery won't charge past 77% now. Any ideas?
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I would try: fastboot flash cache cache.img. use cache.img from the 4.4 factory image.
golem95 said:
the battery percentage should be an issure with your custom rom, for the mounting problem... are you using the latest version of twrp? - and maybe you could try cwm ( i recommend that always ) - also, no there isn't a difference in flashing things on an lg device, as log it's an nexus one
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Thanks for the response. The battery issue has resolved itself by running battery down to 0%and recharging.
I will give CWM a try. Maybe.
I've noticed that before I started flashing Roms I ran stock go 2 weeks and was consistently getting almost 5 hours of screen time. Coming for the GS3 I was amazed but since I've started using custom rooms I'm barely getting 3.
Going to test this out some before I do too much more flashing.
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I've used cataclysm rom with franko kernel and have gotten 24 hours with over 7 screen on
nelomen said:
Thanks for the response. The battery issue has resolved itself by running battery down to 0%and recharging.
I will give CWM a try. Maybe.
I've noticed that before I started flashing Roms I ran stock go 2 weeks and was consistently getting almost 5 hours of screen time. Coming for the GS3 I was amazed but since I've started using custom rooms I'm barely getting 3.
Going to test this out some before I do too much more flashing.
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wow, 5hrs i get barely 3h +/-
golem95 said:
wow, 5hrs i get barely 3h +/-
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Check it out. That was on stock in the first couple of days of getting the phone. But once I started flashing Roms it has only been about 3. Going to try stock for another while see if I can reproduce the amazing battery life I first had.
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Maybe u must change ur cwm
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nelomen said:
Check it out. That was on stock in the first couple of days of getting the phone. But once I started flashing Roms it has only been about 3. Going to try stock for another while see if I can reproduce the amazing battery life I first had.
(not sure if pics attached but they are of my 5hrs screen time)
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nelomen said:
Let me start by saying that I am not new to flashing Roms on my devices, that being said I have never had an LG phone till now.
When I go in to Twrp and try to flash a new rom or even wipe it tells me it can't mount system. I've tried fixing permissions but nothing helped. I ended up having to use Nexus tool to restore phone to stock. (lost everything on phone)
I got the phone rooted and flashed carbon rom but decided that I wanted to flash a rom with 4.4.1 and same thing happened with phone not able to mount system. This time I was able to restore a Twrp backup I had and then flash the stock 4.4.1 rom available on this forum.
Is there something with this phone that is different then flashing on others? Can't seem to flash more then once without going back to stock? I have 2 nexus 7's 2012 & 2013 models and everything seems fine on these have flashed numerous Roms without a hitch.
I came from GS3 and have Asus prime, Motorola, HTC and just about every other manufacturers device in my house. Why is this one giving me so much issues.
Also battery won't charge past 77% now. Any ideas?
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When your in TWRP and your trying to flash a ROM try restarting recovery by pressing reboot then reboot recovery then flash the ROM
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OptimusVDarwin said:
When your in TWRP and your trying to flash a ROM try restarting recovery by pressing reboot then reboot recovery then flash the ROM
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Thanks, I've never tried that but am willing to give it a shot after I finish my testing of battery life on stock compared to custom roms.
For some reason I am getting about 2 hours more screen time with stock then with custom rom.
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Dalvik and cache wiping in TWRP.

Does anyone know why it takes so long for TWRP to wipe the dalvik and cache? Is it because of the new ART? What used to take only a few seconds now takes at least five minutes and sometimes I wonder if it's frozen up.
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Your not using the latest version. Use 2.6.3.4
Are you updated to the latest twrp? Mine doesn't take that long. Longer than it did on my GNEX, but not five minutes
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I used to have this issue, would take up to 10 minutes to wipe cache and dalvik.
However it's been fixed now, not sure if it's the TWRP update, or the 4.4.1 update, but between them it now only takes a few seconds.
Latest 2.6.3.4 fixed that issue.
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Downloaded latest TWRP. Problem solved. Thanks
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Thanks for this thread. I was literally about to ask the same question. I'm glad to see this has been fixed. Sitting around for five minutes seemed a bit insane for wiping cache.

Need Help asap!!!

Last night i tried to flash purity kernel on my nexus 5, it rebooted fine. then after about 5 mins it rebooted again, this time for only about a minute. so i rebooted to recovery, then reflashed faux kernel. ever since then, no matter how many times i wipe cache and dalvik cache, it wont reboot. it goes to the 4 circles thing after the google logo, but never restarts. I've reflashed my rom, and the kernel several times. I'm in the army and currently over seas so this my on;y way to talk to my family besides borrowqing my friends phone. any help is appreciated
What are you wiping prior to reflashing your ROM and kernel?
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just cache partions and dalvik cache. incase it does reboot, i dont want to lose all my seetings and mods and such
Sounds like you may need a complete wipe(excluding internal storage). Then reflash your rom
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****. thats what i was hoping i wouldnt have to do. thanks for the help anyways
Please could you use more descriptive thread titles moving forward?
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I will next time. Sorry
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Problem solved. Please delete
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Reboot frequently and data/setting lost

My phone is meeting a issue of high frequently reboot, and when after reboot, some app lost it's data, and some system settings are restored, such as wifi password lost.
I tried going back to stock rom, but this issue still happens.
So, can anyone who knows what is wrong with my phone?
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Sounds like a corruption during flashing of the ROM. Try wiping all data/cache and Dalvic cache, and flash again.
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Nucleonic said:
Sounds like a corruption during flashing of the ROM. Try wiping all data/cache and Dalvic cache, and flash again.
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I have tried several ROMs included Stock ROM, it all happens so...
I think it has no relation with ROM.
If it's happening on all roms, including stock, it's most likely a hardware issue. I'd warranty the device
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