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Hey guys, I have a 32g Nexus 5, rooted, running cwm recovery but no matter what ROM I download, my storage is reading as a 16g phone and saying I only have a little over one gig !? But yet when u look at the storage bar, its not even half full! Please help me anyone who may know what the problem is?? I really want my 32g back bad! Thanks in advance for any suggestions. I've never had this issue before.
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This has happened to me before, the way I fixed it was reflashing the stock factory rom. You still have 32gb, it's just being reported wrong.
bmg1001 said:
This has happened to me before, the way I fixed it was reflashing the stock factory rom. You still have 32gb, it's just being reported wrong.
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Thanks man, I'll give it a shot. I found some people with the problem on google but no real straight forward answer on a fix. One person said they fixed it by re-locking and the unlocking their boot loader?idk why but I'll try anything at this point.
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Ibkevin said:
Thanks man, I'll give it a shot. I found some people with the problem on google but no real straight forward answer on a fix. One person said they fixed it by re-locking and the unlocking their boot loader?idk why but I'll try anything at this point.
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Hopefully it works out man! Either way, you'll eventually get it fixed.
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Thanks man, I'll give it a shot. I found some people with the problem on google but no real straight forward answer on a fix. One person said they fixed it by re-locking and the unlocking their boot loader?idk why but I'll try anything at this point.
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Flash stock recovery. Do a data wipe. It is safe to restore nandroid after. Doesn't make much sense, but it works.
If anyone has any info on a fix forhis, I can really use the help! I'm at a loss on this and pulling my hair out! My 32g Nexus 5 is reading as a 16g and I can NOT get it back to 32g!? I so far have completely un-rooted and returned to stock at least twice now and re-rooted as well. I've tried every which way of returning to stock and re-rooting possible. From manually flashing the stock image to using toolkits, to using Cyanogen's install app, and still after every return to stock, my storage still reads as a 16g !!!??? There has to be something I'm missing, idk? I've even tried going into stock recovery after flashing the stock firmware, n wiped cache n did a factory reset, still 16g! One area of recovery that I'm not too familiar with is mount/unmount. Idk if / anything I can do under mount that can help fix this? Being I'm not familiar with what anything does exactly. The other thing I have not tried is to wipe internal storage or format SD card, but if I wipe the SD card I'll have no Roms at all on the phone or stock images to reboot to, so how would I go about formatting the SD without bricking the phone, and would that even help? This is beyond frustrating and there's not too much I have found in searching for a solution. Any answers I have found as a fix, I have tried. Which was to manually flash the stock image. I did this, several times and still no luck. Please help! Anyone!!
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Flash the userdata.img and cache.img via fastboot and then perform a factory reset.
It should fix it.
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vin4yak said:
Flash the userdata.img and cache.img via fastboot and then perform a factory reset.
It should fix it.
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OK I'm willing to give anything a shot at this point. Where can I find those two files? And when I do flash them, do I need to flash the stock image again ? In other words, I should probably be complete stock un-rooted right? So basically the steps I wanna take after downloading those two files is to just unroot again by flashing the stock image thru fastboot again, but this time, also flash those two files, is that correct? Sorry for all the questions, I just wanna be sure I know what steps I'm taking this time and what order they should be done in.
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OK I'm willing to give anything a shot at this point. Where can I find those two files? And when I do flash them, do I need to flash the stock image again ? In other words, I should probably be complete stock un-rooted right? So basically the steps I wanna take after downloading those two files is to just unroot again by flashing the stock image thru fastboot again, but this time, also flash those two files, is that correct? Sorry for all the questions, I just wanna be sure I know what steps I'm taking this time and what order they should be done in.
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Looks like you're not familiar with flashing factory images. Follow the link in my signature which says 'un-root your device, flash factory images'. You will get all the info, files and steps needed to flash the img files.
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vin4yak said:
Looks like you're not familiar with flashing factory images. Follow the link in my signature which says 'un-root your device, flash factory images'. You will get all the info, files and steps needed to flash the img files.
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You're kind of right, I'm not super familiar with it. I have flashed the factory image to my nexus 5 already though, and just maybe two other phones ever. One being a note 3 which was in oden obviously, but this time I'm actually using an iMac. I downloaded the stock factory image, and the ADT bundle and I had what I think was everything that was needed? I have adb, fastboot, bootloader.IMG, radio.IMG , the stock image/firmware of course, and the flash-all.sh, and flash-base.sh. That all sound about right? Not sure if you're familiar with the iMac methods or not? They're really similar to windows though. But yes, I've unrooted twice back to stock by flashing the factory stock image using fastboot commands. The one time it was a flash-all.sh command like above, but the other article/video I followed had me enter all the commands one by one, but like you said, I'm not to familiar with all this. Even though I've done it a hand full of times with success, and I've tried reading up on it as much as I was able to, but I'm obviously missing something somewhere. Was I missing the two files u mentioned? Or did I do something wrong, idk? Everything succeeds and passes fine, but after flashing the factory image twice now ( I rooted originally, then flashed to stock, then rooted again when the storage didn't fix after going to stock recovery and wiping cache and doing a factory reset as well ), and still I'm showing 16g? Sorry for the long response's man. I really appreciate everyone and anyone who can help me and takes the time. Thank u.
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Ibkevin said:
You're kind of right, I'm not super familiar with it. I have flashed the factory image to my nexus 5 already though, and just maybe two other phones ever. One being a note 3 which was in oden obviously, but this time I'm actually using an iMac. I downloaded the stock factory image, and the ADT bundle and I had what I think was everything that was needed? I have adb, fastboot, bootloader.IMG, radio.IMG , the stock image/firmware of course, and the flash-all.sh, and flash-base.sh. That all sound about right? Not sure if you're familiar with the iMac methods or not? They're really similar to windows though. But yes, I've unrooted twice back to stock by flashing the factory stock image using fastboot commands. The one time it was a flash-all.sh command like above, but the other article/video I followed had me enter all the commands one by one, but like you said, I'm not to familiar with all this. Even though I've done it a hand full of times with success, and I've tried reading up on it as much as I was able to, but I'm obviously missing something somewhere. Was I missing the two files u mentioned? Or did I do something wrong, idk? Everything succeeds and passes fine, but after flashing the factory image twice now ( I rooted originally, then flashed to stock, then rooted again when the storage didn't fix after going to stock recovery and wiping cache and doing a factory reset as well ), and still I'm showing 16g? Sorry for the long response's man. I really appreciate everyone and anyone who can help me and takes the time. Thank u.
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You asked me where you could find those files (userdata and cache img) and since you didn't know about this, I assumed you didn't know how to flash these files as well. If you've flashed factory images manually before, you obviously must have come across these files. They are included the factory zip itself and can be extracted with a tool like winrar.
No, I haven't used fastboot on mac but the steps are are same. Flash these img files again via fastboot: system, boot, userdata, cache and recovery. After flashing these, head over to stock recovery and perform a factory reset. It should fix it.
I know you might have performed these steps earlier but somewhere in the middle you might have gone wrong so there's no harm in trying it again. Even after doing the above steps, if it still reads it as 16gb, try using the LG Flash tool.
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You asked me where you could find those files (userdata and cache img) and since you didn't know about this, I assumed you didn't know how to flash these files as well. If you've flashed factory images manually before, you obviously must have come across these files. They are included the factory zip itself and can be extracted with a tool like winrar.
No, I haven't used fastboot on mac but the steps are are same. Flash these img files again via fastboot: system, boot, userdata, cache and recovery. After flashing these, head over to stock recovery and perform a factory reset. It should fix it.
I know you might have performed these steps earlier but somewhere in the middle you might have gone wrong so there's no harm in trying it again. Even after doing the above steps, if it still reads it as 16gb, try using the LG Flash tool.
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OK I'll give it a shot again today and report back. Yeah they are the steps I performed already but like ya said, it won't hurt to try again. I haven't tried the LG flash tool though. What's that? Is it just like LG's version of a toolkit or something?
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Ibkevin said:
OK I'll give it a shot again today and report back. Yeah they are the steps I performed already but like ya said, it won't hurt to try again. I haven't tried the LG flash tool though. What's that? Is it just like LG's version of a toolkit or something?
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Yeah, kind off. It doesn't flash the same files though. If fastboot doesn't help, try it!
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...orial-how-to-flash-factory-images-lg-t2713833
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I'm still stuck showing as a 16g instead of a 32g!!! I haven't tried the LG Flash tool yet, because I can't seem to find out whether or not it can be run on an iMac? I have re-flashed the factory image again though using adb fastboot on Mac, but once again, after flashing the factory image and returning to stock, I went into stock recovery, wiped cache, did factory reset, and still it reads wrong!! Wtf!!!???? I can NOT fix this!!! It's literally driving me nuts! LG flash tool seems to be my only hope cause obviously I can flash the factory image till I'm blue in the face on my iMac and it still does nothing but give me an incorrect reading on my storage, and when I google search "can LG flash tool be used on a Mac" , I get nothing saying whether it can or not!? Please anyone with any advice that may help me, I'm all ears. I just wanna be able to use my phone already and put my apps n customization back on my phone. Just want my 32gigs back already ?
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It's a windows executable.
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It's a windows executable.
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That's what I figured but thanks for confirming. I guess I'm gonna have to see if I can get a friend to bring their PC by and try on that because for whatever reason its just not going back to 32gb flashing the factory image on my iMac.
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So I was able to get my hands on a windows PC and I flashed the factory image thru adb/fastboot, and I'm still showing as a 16g!? I can't believe I can't get this phone back to a 32g! I have no clue what I did to this phone to get it stuck at 16g even after several factory resets and image flashes!? I'm going g to try LG Flash tool now that I have a windows PC. It seems to be my last hope really.
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Ibkevin said:
So I was able to get my hands on a windows PC and I flashed the factory image thru adb/fastboot, and I'm still showing as a 16g!? I can't believe I can't get this phone back to a 32g! I have no clue what I did to this phone to get it stuck at 16g even after several factory resets and image flashes!? I'm going g to try LG Flash tool now that I have a windows PC. It seems to be my last hope really.
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Have you tried to flash the cache.img in fastboot? Worth a try, then factory reset in the stock recovery
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jd1639 said:
Have you tried to flash the cache.img in fastboot? Worth a try, then factory reset in the stock recovery
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Yeah I actually flashed the cache.img just this last flash. I'm going try again in fastboot then to lg flash tool I guess. Idk why its not working but its becoming super frustrating that's for sure. Thank you though, I appreciate any and all advice or suggestions.
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I read somewhere that using twrp recovery, go to wipe/format data, and that would fix my issue and show 32g again instead of 16g. Anyone know if this is true? Or worth a shot? If I format data won't that also wipe away everything except my twrp recovery? Then I'd have no OS installed correct?
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Thanks to Shabbypenguin for his fastbootable partitions of the Photon Q and thanks to mhous for modifying parts of the Atrix HD .xml file into the Photon Q.
This RSD Package contains 2 xmls for use, one standard one named after the build number, and one that does not flash the stock bootloader and is named as such. Put the one you want for use into RSD Lite and fire away. Have plenty of battery power (or use a Motorola Factory-Style cable or converter from Team Black Hat and you don't have to worry about that) and ALWAYS have your email from Motorola including the unlock code (UNIQUE_KEY) for your device backed up or saved somewhere. Just in case the fastboot locks it without you wanting it do, you'll have that code.
Use this file with Motorola's RSD Lite 5.7 or higher, and with the latest Motorola USB drivers.
Photon Q RSD Files / FXZ files: http://crackflasher.com/dev/mattlgroff/PhotonQ/7.7.1Q-6_SPR-89_ASA-36_SIGNED_CFC.zip
MD5: D864AB70881AF86EB225F0BF1D0A911B
RSD Lite 5.7: http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTEM/DEVELOPMENT/UDPATES/-RSD-LITE/RSDLite57.zip
32 Bit Drivers (5.9): http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTE..._End_User_Driver_Installation_5.9.0_32bit.msi
64 Bit Drivers (5.9): http://rootingmydroid.com/FILESYSTE..._End_User_Driver_Installation_5.9.0_64bit.msi
Happy flashing!
oh if you needed the xml i have that too. in fact i need to talk with you privately about some of the files. i posted up enough to fix anyones phone, but not everything in the zip
Do not flash this, it has bricked my phone... the MD5 for the system image is wrong, and even if you update that in the XML, it still fails to flash and remains stuck at fastboot flash failure. :crying:
Does anyone have the correct system image? I have sent shabbypenquin a PM trying to figure this out.
Gave this a try w the newest drivers & can't get past the system img. Tried several times, decrompressing new each time with no success. Even tried different cables & ports, still no luck.
Anybody have any thoughts on this?
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thats teh word on the street. unfortunately the system.img is pulled from sprints files i dont know what else i could do to fix it
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Gave this a try w the newest drivers & can't get past the system img. Tried several times, decrompressing new each time with no success. Even tried different cables & ports, still no luck.
Anybody have any thoughts on this?
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What state is your phone in? I can try to replicate as long as you're not soft-bricked.
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thats teh word on the street. unfortunately the system.img is pulled from sprints files i dont know what else i could do to fix it
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Well... $hit...
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What state is your phone in? I can try to replicate as long as you're not soft-bricked.
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Thanks KP, I'm not bricked; this is how I got into my "sticky" situation (pun totally intended). After system img failed, I was left in fastboot I flashed my recovery & restored. Other than the sticky fastboot, running fine. Well, I still haven't fixed my original problem but, that's for another thread.
Is this the same issue we are having w system.img?
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/swing-and-miss-motorola-razr-i-kernel-source-almost-here/
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any updates on a working rsd file?
Maxpowersxp said:
any updates on a working rsd file?
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hopefully Motorola will release one. they said in the FAQs that they are choosing not to at this time, but hopefully they will at some point.
in the meantime, i wish we could make one. at this moment it seems we don't have any way of downgrading back to the original modem? (it was mentioned that there was a new modem in the update?)
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hopefully Motorola will release one. they said in the FAQs that they are choosing not to at this time, but hopefully they will at some point.
in the meantime, i wish we could make one. at this moment it seems we don't have any way of downgrading back to the original modem? (it was mentioned that there was a new modem in the update?)
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This package does not contain system.img!
This is here in case you break something that recovery does not touch.
If anyone has a problem with this being posted, let me know and I will pull the link. Props to mattlgroff for the original.
I edited the original file so that the broken system.img does not flash, everything else is unchanged. I tested this and it works fine.
I offer no support for this & it will wipe your internal sd card, you have been warned.
Modified 7.7.1Q-6_SPR-89_ASA-36_SIGNED_CFC.zip
md5: 851D8157D2A5ADE91E60ACCA0F04EA15
No problems whatsoever. I wanted to personally thank everyone on this forum for all of the dev help. When I unlocked my bootloader, I couldn't get CWM to flash properly, and I wound up erasing my ROM (don't ask lmao) and after 2 frustrating hours the posted boot.img & system.img files saved my phone. I am in everyone's debt, and I am willing to try out anything experimental for y'all now that I have TWRP and two good Nandroids. Thank u again for all of your help and hard work.
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I do have an issue each time i install the moto/sprint 77 update, my phone does nothing but reboot. I have a nandroid that is pre-update, but am I missing out on anything by not installing it? I rooted, installed arrgh's kernel and deodexed system before the update. Should i do an odexed system, stock kernel then update?
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I encourage all of you to
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drakeheart77 said:
I do have an issue each time i install the moto/sprint 77 update, my phone does nothing but reboot. I have a nandroid that is pre-update, but am I missing out on anything by not installing it? I rooted, installed arrgh's kernel and deodexed system before the update. Should i do an odexed system, stock kernel then update?
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That's what I hear... You would probably get a better response and more help if you posted in the correct thread tho. The update thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1966998
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Ooops sorry thanks for the correction!
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fallnSaint said:
If anyone has a problem with this being posted, let me know and I will pull the link. Props to mattlgroff for the original.
I edited the original file so that the broken system.img does not flash, everything else is unchanged. I tested this and it works fine.
I offer no support for this & it will wipe your internal sd card, you have been warned.
Modified 7.7.1Q-6_SPR-89_ASA-36_SIGNED_CFC.zip
md5: 851D8157D2A5ADE91E60ACCA0F04EA15
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This kind of worked for me. I was able to get out of the bootloader screen, but now it's stuck on the initial screen with just the red Motorola circle.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Stefenatefun said:
This kind of worked for me. I was able to get out of the bootloader screen, but now it's stuck on the initial screen with just the red Motorola circle.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
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Without more details as to what caused your problems originally I am kinda in the dark. I would guess that you have a problem with your system img, this RSD package should revert everything except system to stock. The bad news here is that if you did have a custom recovery, you don't anymore. If you have a good backup you will have to fastboot flash recovery again before you can use it. If you don't have a backup see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33391825&postcount=9
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fallnSaint said:
Without more details as to what caused your problems originally I am kinda in the dark. I would guess that you have a problem with your system img, this RSD package should revert everything except system to stock. The bad news here is that if you did have a custom recovery, you don't anymore. If you have a good backup you will have to fastboot flash recovery again before you can use it. If you don't have a backup see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33391825&postcount=9
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What I did was I went into the bootloader, flashed the zip, and rebooted after it finished. Now I am unable to access the bootloader, as the phone won't boot. By now, the battery's dead, anyways. Whenever I turn the device off, it turns on a couple seconds later. I would rather not take it apart, but if I have to, I'll do it.
The only thing I can access is the recovery, which just results in this:
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Hey everyone,
I am new to the android phone arena and would appreciate some help.
I bought the nexus 5, rooted it and was attempting to flash CyanogenMod 11. I didnt realize I need a windows computer to do and was trying to do it through the phone itself. (i know, i know...terrible, like I said, I'm new)
The phone froze and will not even restore from a factory reset. It is like it is trying to reset from the CyanogenMod ROM (which wasnt installed properly in the first place). I have tried restoring from a backup, but none exists. I tried mounting a flash drive with the stock hammerhead ROM on it, but it will not mount. I am using ClockwordMod Recovery v6.0.4.4.
Can anyone help me?
Fastboot flash the factory images
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Pirateghost said:
Fastboot flash the factory images
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can you walk me through how to do that? I honestly have no idea. sorry.
kdmylin said:
Hey everyone,
I am new to the android phone arena and would appreciate some help.
I bought the nexus 5, rooted it and was attempting to flash CyanogenMod 11. I didnt realize I need a windows computer to do and was trying to do it through the phone itself. (i know, i know...terrible, like I said, I'm new)
The phone froze and will not even restore from a factory reset. It is like it is trying to reset from the CyanogenMod ROM (which wasnt installed properly in the first place). I have tried restoring from a backup, but none exists. I tried mounting a flash drive with the stock hammerhead ROM on it, but it will not mount. I am using ClockwordMod Recovery v6.0.4.4.
Can anyone help me?
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Ok lets try decrypting this first.
It sounds like you got through the rooting process,and got yourself a custom recovery. Ok
You flashed CM11, but it started to boot loop on you.You tried to revert back to stock, but you failed to make a backup. Now you are stuck since you cant mount the phone as a disk from recovery and restore a working rom.
Is this what is going on?
If so, you still have hope. You can use adb from the boot loader and push the stock firmware back on.
Follow this thread and start over from the beginning.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
Yes, Un-root, go back to stock and try this again. Next time, make a backup before Flashing like mad.
kdmylin said:
can you walk me through how to do that? I honestly have no idea. sorry.
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Google provides the factory images and the instructions on how to do it. The onus is on you.
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Wow haven't seen pirateghost since the HTC vivid days.
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devoureddreams said:
Wow haven't seen pirateghost since the HTC vivid days.
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Been hanging out in the nexus devices
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Follow egofreak's guide. Good rule of thumb: if it boots, you can fix it.
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Hi guys,
I upgraded my rooted Nexus 5 to 4.4.1 from TWRP and after reboot it, it does not work anymore. No signal, no IMEI, SDcard error... I don't know exactly how to fix it, I guess that is a baseband, ROM or something like that problem. Can someone help me?
Thanks a lot!
pep0te said:
Hi guys,
I upgraded my rooted Nexus 5 to 4.4.1 from TWRP and after reboot it, it does not work anymore. No signal, no IMEI, SDcard error... I don't know exactly how to fix it, I guess that is a baseband, ROM or something like that problem. Can someone help me?
Thanks a lot!
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Looks like your EFS is screwed up
Did you made a nandroid backup ?
Also, try flashing full stock if you didn't
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Yup, sounds like EFS got b0rked somehow.
I really hope you made an EFS backup before flashing anything, as that holds all your IMEI and radio configuration data.
If you have, simply restore that backup and you should be good to go. If not... I dunno. Take it back and see if you can get it swapped out?
I don't think flashing back to stock will help, as EFS is flashed at the factory to set the IMEI. Stock restore images have no way to know what your IMEI should be, so they can't re-set it.
And yes, this should be in Q&A.
It happened to me before with my nexus 5
Just flash Factory Images and you will be fine
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerhead
When you people say backup your EFS is that automatically backed up in a nandroid backup? Or is there something special you need to do?
Hi, I had this same problem a while back and flashing the factory image worked for me too.
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@Hand76 In TWRP you can specify the partitions for the backup, I assume CWM has a similar option somewhere, I don't use it so can't say for sure.
Had the same problem. Flashing factory image solved the issue.
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macacao said:
Had the same problem. Flashing factory image solved the issue.
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+1. You might be able to just flash the cache.img.
Hand76 said:
When you people say backup your EFS is that automatically backed up in a nandroid backup? Or is there something special you need to do?
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Well, I know TWRP does backup when doing a full backup. Not sure about CWM
There is also a thread in original dev section, containing a script to backup EFS separatly
That's the first thing I did before flashing any ROM
Just fyi, if flashing the factory image fixes the problem, then the efs are never truly gone...
When I lost the efs on my Nexus 's, it was game over, needed new hardware... Seems to only really be a major problem with Samsung phones
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Your cache was probably corrupted. Flash the stock cache.img and report back.
Hey,
Thanks for your answers. Was a bit lost but finally I fixed it with Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2517778
It seems my cache was broken (even something else xD) but flashing factory image solved the issue.
I'm having this same issue I've tried everything I can think of I have a ESF backup but it's not bringing my sdcard or baseband back I've tried factory restore & wipe I just can't figure this out help me guys please
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ddloco said:
I'm having this same issue I've tried everything I can think of I have a ESF backup but it's not bringing my sdcard or baseband back I've tried factory restore & wipe I just can't figure this out help me guys please
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Fastboot flash the cache.img. problem solved
Synyster06Gates said:
Your cache was probably corrupted. Flash the stock cache.img and report back.
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what exactly did you do in the toolkit I can't seem to get it to fix the cache or radio issue
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ddloco said:
what exactly did you do in the toolkit I can't seem to get it to fix the cache or radio issue
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Don't use a tool kit! Just flash the cache.img in fastboot.
ddloco said:
what exactly did you do in the toolkit I can't seem to get it to fix the cache or radio issue
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That's your problem. Use ADB and flash the cache from the stock image (found in the how to return your phone to stock thread in the general section). No tool kits.
okay guys ive done every thing i can ive followed instuctions for restoreing factory image iv tried the fastboot command for cachen i finally got my efs zip 9onto my phone but it still hasnt fixed it i dobnt know what else to do i have a last log with somew crazy stuff going on for some odd reason my sdcard is /data/media/0 but i know for sure it should be /storage/emulated/0 this is strang i dont have the money to rma this is my only phone please man help me
no signal/ sdcard in strange spot / camera /gallery hangouts force close upon boot im so sick to my stomache behid this one god damn twrp if i do get it fixed or replaced in wikll be cwm from know on
ddloco said:
okay guys ive done every thing i can ive followed instuctions for restoreing factory image iv tried the fastboot command for cachen i finally got my efs zip 9onto my phone but it still hasnt fixed it i dobnt know what else to do i have a last log with somew crazy stuff going on for some odd reason my sdcard is /data/media/0 but i know for sure it should be /storage/emulated/0 this is strang i dont have the money to rma this is my only phone please man help me
no signal/ sdcard in strange spot / camera /gallery hangouts force close upon boot im so sick to my stomache behid this one god damn twrp if i do get it fixed or replaced in wikll be cwm from know on
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Im in the same boat dude. im working on returning it.
benbailey84 said:
Im in the same boat dude. im working on returning it.
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ddloco said:
okay guys ive done every thing i can ive followed instuctions for restoreing factory image iv tried the fastboot command for cachen i finally got my efs zip 9onto my phone but it still hasnt fixed it i dobnt know what else to do i have a last log with somew crazy stuff going on for some odd reason my sdcard is /data/media/0 but i know for sure it should be /storage/emulated/0 this is strang i dont have the money to rma this is my only phone please man help me
no signal/ sdcard in strange spot / camera /gallery hangouts force close upon boot im so sick to my stomache behid this one god damn twrp if i do get it fixed or replaced in wikll be cwm from know on
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Did you guys ever manage to bring your Nexus 5's back to life? or where they completely bricked?
Hey everyone,
So I think I may have done something strange and i'm not sure how to fix it. Long story short, screen cracked, so I bought a new one and I used TWRP to backup my original phone. So now, i'm just trying to unlock and root, you know, the usual. BTW, I tried using ABD/Fastboot, which I never typically do, but I heard it was more efficient and whatnot so I thought I try. I think the unlocking of the bootloader went well. And I even think I flashed recovery properly. But when I tried to access recovery, it prompted me for a password.
I read on the TWRP site I was supposed to let the phone boot as normal before accessing recovery. Oops. So I tried formatting all the data on the phone and no I have no OS or any files to recover from and adb push keeps giving me "Device not found" and now I don't know what to do.
Help?
EDIT: In case anyone has this issue searching threads, I just used Wug Toolkit to flash everything back to stock and then used the same Toolkit to unlock and root. TWRP isn't going to recognize a backup from a different phone. To my understanding, there is a way around that, but I didn't look into it. Oh, and apparently, don't flash the EFS partition lol
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Hey everyone,
So I think I may have done something strange and i'm not sure how to fix it. Long story short, screen cracked, so I bought a new one and I used TWRP to backup my original phone. So now, i'm just trying to unlock and root, you know, the usual. BTW, I tried using ABD/Fastboot, which I never typically do, but I heard it was more efficient and whatnot so I thought I try. I think the unlocking of the bootloader went well. And I even think I flashed recovery properly. But when I tried to access recovery, it prompted me for a password.
I read on the TWRP site I was supposed to let the phone boot as normal before accessing recovery. Oops. So I tried formatting all the data on the phone and no I have no OS or any files to recover from and adb push keeps giving me "Device not found" and now I don't know what to do.
Help?
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I never heard of this problem before, maybe you can use Odin to flash the recovery again
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mpalomba3 said:
I never heard of this problem before, maybe you can use Odin to flash the recovery again
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Oh, that reminds me, TWRP wasn't able to mount any of the directories, it seems. I think it can, now, but I remember seeing those errors in the log before I wiped everything. Thanks for that suggestion, i'll give it a shot.
No problem, report back if it works
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I can't seem to find on the internets which odin version is compatible with the Nexus 5. I'm not finding any hits to directly correlate and I don't want to damage further. Which one would you recommend?
Odin is for Samsung devices
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New Jer-Z said:
I can't seem to find on the internets which odin version is compatible with the Nexus 5. I'm not finding any hits to directly correlate and I don't want to damage further. Which one would you recommend?
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Odin is a Samsung thing. Not LG.
What you'll need to do is flash the 4.4.2 factory image. Follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
El Daddy said:
Odin is a Samsung thing. Not LG.
What you'll need to do is flash the 4.4.2 factory image. Follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
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OK!
So, I used the Wug toolkit to basically flash everything to stock, and then root it. I installed TWRP using the app and I tried using the app to restore from my earlier back up. So, it boots into recovery but nothing happened. Looking at the log, it says the TWRP isn't able to locate the files. Trying to just restore from recovery isn't helpful because when I hit "Restore" nothing pops up. As if the SDCard partition isn't being accessed. I can't see any of the files in any directory. Anyone have any ideas?
You need to let the phone boot into android before flashing a custom recovery.
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El Daddy said:
You need to let the phone boot into android before flashing a custom recovery.
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I realize that now lol. Well, I fixed that, but now have a new issue. Any ideas for me?
Flashing the factory image erases everything. Such as backups stored on your phone.
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El Daddy said:
Flashing the factory image erases everything. Such as backups stored on your phone.
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I had a copy saved on my desktop, so I transferred it back.
New Jer-Z said:
I can't seem to find on the internets which odin version is compatible with the Nexus 5. I'm not finding any hits to directly correlate and I don't want to damage further. Which one would you recommend?
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Sorry about that, I have a gs4 so I thought Odin was for all devices
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I had a copy saved on my desktop, so I transferred it back.
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Did you put the backup on the root of the sdcard? I think it needs to be in the TWRP folder. You should first make a backup of your current rom even if it's stock rooted.
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housry23 said:
Did you put the backup on the root of the sdcard? I think it needs to be in the TWRP folder. You should first make a backup of your current rom even if it's stock rooted.
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Someone explained to me TWRP won't recognize a backup with a serial number from a different phone. So essentially, I will just have to forego it. I used Wug Toolkit to fix this issue and just flashed everything to stock and had the same toolkit unlock and root. Using ADB was a fail and cost me a whole afternoon lol
Wasup fellas?
Pardon my crappy grammar, im writing on a french keyboard and its not familliar.
I was trying to do the HTC one m8 verizon to full t mobile compatibility change but something went wrong. Im stuck in the white screen and the only thing that works is recovery. I thought i backed it all up but when i went to restore, lo and behold, no file. So here I am. Stuck with the "no image wrong image!" message. It seems that my computer recognizes the phone because when i write "fastboot" in cmd a long list of stuff pops up.
This guy had the same issue; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789965
Somebody said "Flash stock rom and its recovery from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2701376 "
But the thread is huge and I dont know what im looking for nor how to install it since my phone doesnt show up in my computer in the way that a USB key does, so i cannot put files in it.
There seem to be other threads on this issue out there but to be honest i cant understand the technical mumbo jumbo. Im not completely computer illiterate but i am new to this whole phone hacking thing. So, in layman terms, what am I to do?
john805 said:
Wasup fellas?
Pardon my crappy grammar, im writing on a french keyboard and its not familliar.
I was trying to do the HTC one m8 verizon to full t mobile compatibility change but something went wrong. Im stuck in the white screen and the only thing that works is recovery. I thought i backed it all up but when i went to restore, lo and behold, no file. So here I am. Stuck with the "no image wrong image!" message. It seems that my computer recognizes the phone because when i write "fastboot" in cmd a long list of stuff pops up.
This guy had the same issue; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789965
Somebody said "Flash stock rom and its recovery from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2701376 "
But the thread is huge and I dont know what im looking for nor how to install it since my phone doesnt show up in my computer in the way that a USB key does, so i cannot put files in it.
There seem to be other threads on this issue out there but to be honest i cant understand the technical mumbo jumbo. Im not completely computer illiterate but i am new to this whole phone hacking thing. So, in layman terms, what am I to do?
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No image wronge image is not your problem. That simply means you don't have an RUU file on your SD card. The bootloaderr checks each time you enter it looking for an RUU file because that's how it flashes them.
fastboot flash TWRP. Boot the phone into TWRP (recovery). Copy the rom you intended to use to your SD card/internal storage. Flash that rom in TWRP.
dottat said:
No image wronge image is not your problem. That simply means you don't have an RUU file on your SD card. The bootloaderr checks each time you enter it looking for an RUU file because that's how it flashes them.
fastboot flash TWRP. Boot the phone into TWRP (recovery). Copy the rom you intended to use to your SD card/internal storage. Flash that rom in TWRP.
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Hey,
thanks for the assistance. I'm not quite sure what I should do. I'm in recovery / install and I have two files in there, Android_revolution_HD_one_M8_43.0.zip
and ElementalX-m8-0.4-Sense.zip
I've tried installing both (flash=install, no?) but I run into the same issue.
Edit: I was basically trying to follow this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2710720
What should I flash?
Thanks
john805 said:
Hey,
thanks for the assistance. I'm not quite sure what I should do. I'm in recovery / install and I have two files in there, Android_revolution_HD_one_M8_43.0.zip
and ElementalX-m8-0.4-Sense.zip
I've tried installing both (flash=install, no?) but I run into the same issue.
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Did you do a factory reset in twrp before flashing?
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dottat said:
Did you do a factory reset in twrp before flashing?
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I did not. I shall try that now. Spanx.
Nevermind I found it
dottat said:
Did you do a factory reset in twrp before flashing?
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OK I tried it, didn't work. Still the same error message.
john805 said:
OK I tried it, didn't work. Still the same error message.
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Now just try flashing ahrd rom and not the kernel
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dottat said:
Now just try flashing neos rom and not the kernel
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Not really sure what that means.
I googled it and this came up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Y-xaVAGkQ
john805 said:
Not really sure what that means.
I googled it and this came up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Y-xaVAGkQ
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I mean just flash ahrd. Don't flash elemental
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dottat said:
I mean just flash ahrd. Don't flash elemental
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I tried flashing "Android_revolution_HD_one_M8_43.0.zip"
but I get the same end result. If that's what you mean. I'm not really sure. If not, how do I flash anything if the phone doesn't seem to show up on my computer where all my hard drives are. Can I do it through the command prompt?
I'm totally lost, I tried googling what you said but a whole bunch of super complicated stuff shows up. I'm gonna need to take some baby steps here. What file exactly am I flashing and how?