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So i am completely

So i tried to put a factory image on my Nexus because my phone kept on boot looping. Putting a factory image and restoring everything and unrooting was my last resort. I literally tried everything. So now as I'm in terminal about to be finish the process, my computer freezes and crashes. Now my phone sits on the boot loader screen. Not doing . I tried turning it off and turning it on and it only goes back to the boot loader screen. Anything I do it goes back to the boot loader screen. Doesn't even show the google logo anymore. NOthing at all. Only the boot loader screen. So anyone have any advice?

ANYONE????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!

If you were flashing via fastboot and your computer crashed you may be totally effed.
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Hold both the volume buttons + the power button down for 20 seconds and see if the phone powers off.
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If you can get to the bootloader you should be able to flash the factory image. Have you tried running that again?

raptir said:
If you can get to the bootloader you should be able to flash the factory image. Have you tried running that again?
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What he said. If you can boot into the bootloader, you have hope.
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raptir said:
If you can get to the bootloader you should be able to flash the factory image. Have you tried running that again?
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I tried, but terminal isn't listing any devices attached. I think its because I have to enable debugging

choboii said:
I tried, but terminal isn't listing any devices attached. I think its because I have to enable debugging
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Nope, debugging isn't required in bootloader. You on Windows or Mac?
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0dBu said:
Nope, debugging isn't required in bootloader. You on Windows or Mac?
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Mac

Okay, I'm assuming you have ADB/Fastboot set up. Do you have the factory image components in the same folder as fastboot?
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0dBu said:
Okay, I'm assuming you have ADB/Fastboot set up. Do you have the factory image components in the same folder as fastboot?
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Yes. Do you have an email or something where we can communicate quicker?

choboii said:
Yes. Do you have an email or something where we can communicate quicker?
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I sent you a PM

0dBu said:
I sent you a PM
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Sent you an email

choboii said:
Sent you an email
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OP please calm yourself and I have Edited your posts.....it is understandable about your frustration but the profanity is not needed....as per the Forum Rules and good luck & thanks.

Judge Joseph Dredd said:
OP please calm yourself and I have Edited your posts.....it is understandable about your frustration but the profanity is not needed....as per the Forum Rules and good luck & thanks.
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Good editing skills lol. It looked really bad before. Thanks

Mount TWRP

Ok guys... I accidently deleted everything in my SD card...
Now that I'm in TWRP, how exactly can I put files back on the storage so I can flash something?
I can't seem to mount the storage on to the computer in TWRP
Edit: Using the Toolkit, I flash zip.. Now I'm stuck on Google logo and my computer says "waiting for device..."
Any ideas? D:

go in to twrp click advanced then click ADB side and follow this
1. Reboot into TWRP
2. in TWRP, Hit andvanced and find Sideload
3. Swipe to start Sideload
4. Open a CMD Prompt window and Change Directories to where your adb.exe is
5. type adb devices and it should show your device conntected and say sideload
6. Your ZIP file should already be in your adb folder
7. You are now ready to push the zip.....
8. type adb sideload nameofzip.zip
9. Wait until it says 100% and reboot back into recovery to flash the ROM
10. If hitting power does not make the screen come one, type adb reboot recovery
11. if adb reboot recovery does not work, hold power and volume down until it reboots to fastboot then go to recovery

Cool. Worked!
Thanks.

You do realize you cab recover much of what has been lost with data digger or other such tool. I recovered about 80% of my photos with it.
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floepie said:
You do realize you cab recover much of what has been lost with data digger or other such tool. I recovered about 80% of my photos with it.
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On the nexus 5?
I haven't seen anything that can recover data on FUSE devices yet. Please can you link?
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rootSU said:
On the nexus 5?
I haven't seen anything that can recover data on FUSE devices yet. Please can you link?
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this seemed to work on the galaxy nexus.... so in theory it should work for the nexus 5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705

Zepius said:
this seemed to work on the galaxy nexus.... so in theory it should work for the nexus 5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
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Yes.
In fact I have a link to that thread in my data recovery thread for nexus 5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534010
What I really want to know is if datadigger has been used on a n5 successfully because I have never found any app that can retrieve data on FUSE
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rootSU said:
Yes.
In fact I have a link to that thread in my data recovery thread for nexus 5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534010
What I really want to know is if datadigger has been used on a n5 successfully because I have never found any app that can retrieve data on FUSE
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i doubt it. i also have never heard of an app to recovery data on a fused storage system.

rootSU said:
On the nexus 5?
I haven't seen anything that can recover data on FUSE devices yet. Please can you link?
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I followed the guide quoted above but I found diskdigger from the app store to be just as good if not better. But be sure to do it sooner than later as you will begin to overwrite your lost data.
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floepie said:
I followed the guide quoted above but I found diskdigger from the app store to be just as good if not better. But be sure to do it sooner than later as you will begin to overwrite your lost data.
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ON the nexus 5?
Please link to the app. The only one I see is about secure data.
If they have honestly become the first company to restore data on fuse, they're onto a goldmine
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Zepius said:
i doubt it. i also have never heard of an app to recovery data on a fused storage system.
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Wait. Sorry I had to do this during the last days of my N4 and it worked quite well. Didn't the N4 have the same drive as the N5?
The app is called diskdigger undelete.
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[Q] Nexus 5 most likely hardbricked what do I do? Please help

I think my nexus 5 is hardbricked doing a paanodandroid ota update
This happened on latest paranoid android + latest franco kernel + TWRP
I wanted to update pa gapps (first 2 downloads md5 checksum failed, third time it worked) and when the phone booted afterwards, systemui failed and I couldn't do anything. I Thought this wasn't a big problem since the phone managed to boot. I long pressed the power button to shut it down so I could boot into recovery to restore my backup I had recently made. When I tried to boot into recovery it wouldn't do anything. Not boot into recovery and not into fastboot. How is this even possible by simply flashing gapps?
What should I do?
I've tried all the button combinations for more than 15 seconds.

michaelsplus said:
I think my nexus 5 is hardbricked doing a paanodandroid ota update
This happened on latest paranoid android + latest franco kernel + TWRP
I wanted to update pa gapps (first 2 downloads md5 checksum failed, third time it worked) and when the phone booted afterwards, systemui failed and I couldn't do anything. I Thought this wasn't a big problem since the phone managed to boot. I long pressed the power button to shut it down so I could boot into recovery to restore my backup I had recently made. When I tried to boot into recovery it wouldn't do anything. Not boot into recovery and not into fastboot. How is this even possible by simply flashing gapps?
What should I do?
I've tried all the button combinations for more than 15 seconds.
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Have you tried powering it on again mine sometimes won't bit straight away after long pressing power button but works after 5-10 mins
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kevtrysmoddin said:
Have you tried powering it on again mine sometimes won't bit straight away after long pressing power button but works after 5-10 mins
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Yes I've tried it a few times already the last 45 minutes

michaelsplus said:
Yes I've tried it a few times already the last 45 minutes
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I take it that it doesn't respond in any way to the charger or p.c.
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kevtrysmoddin said:
I take it that it doesn't respond in any way to the charger or p.c.
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Indeed it doesn't . The pc only recognizes it's an unknown usb device

michaelsplus said:
Indeed it doesn't . The pc only recognizes it's an unknown usb device
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You could have a faulty memory issue
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So, at this point it doesn't boot at all? Do you have a link to the gapps you flashed?
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michaelsplus said:
Indeed it doesn't . The pc only recognizes it's an unknown usb device
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If you plug the N5 when he's off, do you see any led?

jd1639 said:
So, at this point it doesn't boot at all? Do you have a link to the gapps you flashed?
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It doesn't boot at all no.
It was downloaded through the paranoid android OTA app. It was the 20140531 version: http://goo.im/devs/paranoidandroid/roms/gapps
OverSpeed301 said:
If you plug the N5 when he's off, do you see any led?
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No. No activity whatsoever.

michaelsplus said:
It doesn't boot at all no.
It was downloaded through the paranoid android OTA app. It was the 20140531 version: http://goo.im/devs/paranoidandroid/roms/gapps
No. No activity whatsoever.
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I think it was just a coincidence that it failed after flashing gapps. I'd RMA it. Sounds like the emmc went bad. It's happened on a few n5's.
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jd1639 said:
I think it was just a coincidence that it failed after flashing gapps. I'd RMA it. Sounds like the emmc went bad. It's happened on a few n5's.
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Will they help me out when the bootloader was unlocked and a custom rom and kernel installed?

michaelsplus said:
Will they help me out when the bootloader was unlocked and a custom rom and kernel installed?
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If it doesn't boot who will know? Google's pretty cool about RMA's
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jd1639 said:
If it doesn't boot who will know? Google's pretty cool about RMA's
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That's a bit good news . Thank you
As i mentioned I managed to boot once into the (not working) rom after the (corrupted I think) gapps package had been installed, does that mean that the gapps file cannot have messed up the bootloader since I already managed to boot once after installing the package?

michaelsplus said:
That's a bit good news . Thank you
As i mentioned I managed to boot once into the (not working) rom after the (corrupted I think) gapps package had been installed, does that mean that the gapps file cannot have messed up the bootloader since I already managed to boot once after installing the package?
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I just think it was a coincidence that your memory went bad after you flashed. Out would have happened even of you didn't flash the gapps. That's my theory anyway
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michaelsplus said:
I think my nexus 5 is hardbricked doing a paanodandroid ota update
This happened on latest paranoid android + latest franco kernel + TWRP
I wanted to update pa gapps (first 2 downloads md5 checksum failed, third time it worked) and when the phone booted afterwards, systemui failed and I couldn't do anything. I Thought this wasn't a big problem since the phone managed to boot. I long pressed the power button to shut it down so I could boot into recovery to restore my backup I had recently made. When I tried to boot into recovery it wouldn't do anything. Not boot into recovery and not into fastboot. How is this even possible by simply flashing gapps?
What should I do?
I've tried all the button combinations for more than 15 seconds.
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Don't send it to an RMA follow this guide. BSOD/NoBootloader
This is a guide I created following the exact same issue you had. If THIS doesn't work then send it in to RMA

wolfirotisha said:
Don't send it to an RMA follow this guide. BSOD/NoBootloader
This is a guide I created following the exact same issue you had. If THIS doesn't work then send it in to RMA
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Saw your guide, and thanks for it. But if the device doesn't boot it won't get into the alternate bootloader
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jd1639 said:
Saw your guide, and thanks for it. But if the device doesn't boot it won't get into the alternate bootloader
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Does the PC detect it when plugged in? If so then its not hardbricked.
If you have hangouts I can try to help better.
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And should my guide fail there is always this one. LG FlashTool

wolfirotisha said:
Does the PC detect it when plugged in? If so then its not hardbricked.
If you have hangouts I can try to help better.
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And should my guide fail there is always this one. LG FlashTool
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Thank you. I tried both these guides but none of them worked. I can't get any life in the device.
The PC ony recognizes it as 'unknown usb device'

[Q] Wiped with no rom to install, only have recovery now...

So yeh i wiped and thought i had a rom to install, didnt though. mistake on my part i know. can someone link or help me install the correct drivers so i can get adb working to push a rom so i can my phone up and running again?
when i boot into recovery it is only showing up as 'AOSP ON HAMMERHEAD' with the little yellow error triangle in device manager.
like i said i just need help getting a rom pushed on my phone
EDIT: im thinking about just restore stock unroot cause you can just do it from fastboot. is there anyway to get my data off before that or would you suggest just pushing a rom?

Google 15 second adb install xda. Should be everything you need. Then push a rom onto your device.
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jd1639 said:
Google 15 second adb install xda. Should be everything you need. Then push a rom onto your device.
Edit, if you get adb working you could pull your sdcard. Personally I think it's easier to get a rom working and then using mtp to drag and drop what you want off your sdcard to your pc
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jd1639 said:
Google 15 second adb install xda. Should be everything you need. Then push a rom onto your device.
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yeah i used that but it still says 'AOSP ON HAMMERHEAD' in device manager when im in recovery. will that matter at all?
they all also explainhow to use adb and get it running with a rom. is there anything special i need to do for my situation?

fergdizzle9090 said:
yeah i used that but it still says 'AOSP ON HAMMERHEAD' in device manager when im in recovery. will that matter at all?
they all also explainhow to use adb and get it running with a rom. is there anything special i need to do for my situation?
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Right click on that>update driver software>browse my pc>let me pick from the list of drivers>android adb interface

varuntis1993 said:
Right click on that>update driver software>browse my pc>let me pick from the list of drivers>android adb interface
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yeah everytime i try and do that it says it doesnt work. the 15 second tool worked for when it was booted in a rom but now its in recovery and the driver isnt correct. might just completely wipe and unroot and go back stock...

fergdizzle9090 said:
yeah everytime i try and do that it says it doesnt work. the 15 second tool worked for when it was booted in a rom but now its in recovery and the driver isnt correct. might just completely wipe and unroot and go back stock...
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Restart both the devices and try again. If that doesn't work again then
download the latest google drivers and try with them.
edit-http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
But since its working for you when android is booted I see no reason for it not working in recovery mode. obv it needs to be installed correctly. Btw what recovery r u using?

varuntis1993 said:
Restart both the devices and try again. If that doesn't work again then
download the latest google drivers and try with them.
edit-http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
But since its working for you when android is booted I see no reason for it not working in recovery mode. obv it needs to be installed correctly. Btw what recovery r u using?
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TWRP. i updated to the latest one to install 4.4.4 and now when i try to install catcalysm it fails. im thinking it may be a source of some other issues

ended up using a toolkit to install a universal driver and wipe out all others. recognized it from there. thanks! now back to my original issues..

fergdizzle9090 said:
ended up using a toolkit to install a universal driver and wipe out all others. recognized it from there. thanks! now back to my original issues..
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When you type
Code:
adb devices
does it list your device?

theesotericone said:
When you type
Code:
adb devices
does it list your device?
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yep it does now after i tried several different drivers. that was my problem initially is that wasnt showing up when in recovery. now im onto my next problem to figure out why i cant make outgoing calls... i think its a sprint/4.4.4 issue...

fergdizzle9090 said:
Wiped with no rom to install, only have recovery now...
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A clean slate. I love it. A little too much some times, I think.

nice

[Q] app to unlock android in future

Is there any app to unlock android if i forgot password in future ?

Don't forget your password. There is no app
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jd1639 said:
Don't forget your password. There is no app
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i found app " Screen Lock Bypass Pro " , Unfortunately it's no for free :3

Just dont forget your password.
OR install a custom recovery so everyone can bypass your locksreen

If you can bypass your security with an app, you may as will forgo a password right now.

Wakamatsu said:
If you can bypass your security with an app, you may as will forgo a password right now.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...flash-zip-bypass-nexus-5-lock-screen-t2781247
If you have a custom recovery and if someone really wanted to get in, it isn't hard lol.

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...flash-zip-bypass-nexus-5-lock-screen-t2781247
If you have a custom recovery and if someone really wanted to get in, it isn't hard lol.
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If you have custom recovery, its almost pointless. Unless you have philz
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rootSU said:
If you have custom recovery, its almost pointless. Unless you have philz
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why? twrp can be passcode protected as well. anyways, its easy to get around the recovery security features as well, if a person really wants to use the phone. you can always get a stolen phone that protected in the phone and recovery, then just flash the system img on it, and itll be a "new" phone after.

simms22 said:
why? twrp can be passcode protected as well.
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Oh that's new then. He said he would "never" add that feature.
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rootSU said:
Oh that's new then. He said he would "never" add that feature.
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well, not that new..
doesnt matter anyways, as all this security isnt real security, all it does is discourage the people against breaking in, unless they REALLY want to.

simms22 said:
why? twrp can be passcode protected as well. anyways, its easy to get around the recovery security features as well, if a person really wants to use the phone. you can always get a stolen phone that protected in the phone and recovery, then just flash the system img on it, and itll be a "new" phone after.
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The point is data protection rather prevention of use.
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rootSU said:
The point is data protection rather prevention of use.
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speaking of, i just a read article a few days ago, i dont remember where.. if you wipe your phone completely, and sell it, the new user can easily still get all your info off of it, even though it was wiped.

simms22 said:
speaking of, i just a read article a few days ago, i dont remember where.. if you wipe your phone completely, and sell it, the new user can easily still get all your info off of it, even though it was wiped.
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Yes same with any filesystem, nothing is ever deleted. It isn't easy though... But if you follow the link in my data recovery thread you can see its possible.
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Just further to the above.
When you do a basic format or wipe, it just clears the filesystem entries but leaves the files. If you could mount the media in a pc, you could use standard data recovery methods.
Of course you can't mount mtp devices as a drive. You could take a userdata.img and uncompress it then mount it as a loop device on linux. There are windows alternatives too.
Only way to prevent is to overwrite the blocks with other data, even if it's empty data (eg you could dd an image. ).
Not sure if fastboot unlock does something similar.
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Little bit of a shameless plug. But I made a thread/video a couple of days ago about using NFC to unlock your phone. If you have root/xposed framework you can download the module, authorize an NFC tag and just leave the NFC tag somewhere safe. This way if you forget your password you can unlock your phone with the NFC tag.
Here's my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/accessories/quick-unlocking-nfc-smartwatch-t2826592
Or....just write the password down and keep it somewhere safe. I guess that would be the most simple solution.

That's it. I'm dunking my phone in the toilet just in case I lose my phone later.
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simms22 said:
speaking of, i just a read article a few days ago, i dont remember where.. if you wipe your phone completely, and sell it, the new user can easily still get all your info off of it, even though it was wiped.
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Not necessarily easily, but data is theoretically recoverable if there's enough of the storage medium left to stick under an electron microscope. The best you can hope for is to make recovery too financially prohibitive for the attacker to consider.

Lethargy said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...flash-zip-bypass-nexus-5-lock-screen-t2781247
If you have a custom recovery and if someone really wanted to get in, it isn't hard lol.
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that is what i needed , thanks a lot ^_^ :good: