Help! Bootloop - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

hey so i got my nexus stuck in a boot loop, flashed something i shouldn't have and didn't android... i know. also, deleted all the roms off my sd card. i can get back to cwm but theres nothing to flash, is there anyway i can mount usb storage from cwm and put a rom on there?
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i tried the method below, flash went well with odin, but im stuck at the boot animation, any other solutions? Is there some sort of sure fire way to return to stock? I thought odin would be it but its not happening
Fixed!! this seemed to work for me. had to run fastboot commands
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366806

anybody? somebody?

I'm having the same issue, which sucks. Been working on trying to adb file push a rom zip to the phone, but have not been having much luck. Anyone know how to do this correctly? I think it would solve the problem for both of us.

I don't flash ROMS but couldn't you get into fastboot and flash the stock image to the phone?

While your in recovery:
adb push file.zip /data/media
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

Another option is to use odin and flash chainfires 4.0.2 image...just gotta get the device into download mode. Im actually suprised odin is not being utilized more on this device.

That is where I am running into problems. I keep getting the following error:
'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Thank you for your assistance.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394051

droidstyle said:
Another option is to use odin and flash chainfires 4.0.2 image...just gotta get the device into download mode. Im actually suprised odin is not being utilized more on this device.
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Come to think of it, thats a good point. On the GSII I was running a few months back Odin was how to do most of the flashing, ect.
I'm downloading the .tar now and going to give it a try.
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droidstyle said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394051
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That is the exact link I was downloading from. Thank you for the help. Worked perfect! I totally forgot about Odin.

your welcome...glad it worked! Honestly I hope more development is geared towards using odin before I get a gnex.

droidstyle said:
your welcome...glad it worked! Honestly I hope more development is geared towards using odin before I get a gnex.
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As much as I love Odin, I came from a Vibrant, fastboot is more flexible.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

awesome thanks droidstyle, that should be a sticky, my phones in download mode but the drivers included with pda werent what my pc was looking for, now on the hunt for drivers to flash this

bahhh no luck, anyone have drivers to get windows 7 32bit to recognize the phone in download

I was stuck but found a post that said to just oem lock then oem unlock again, and it worked! Takes about 5 minutes so just wait after the oem unlock but it worked for me...
Can't use adb in fastboot by the way so that is no good...

silow said:
As much as I love Odin, I came from a Vibrant, fastboot is more flexible.
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Yea but odin is more reliable... .tar files are much better than .zips, less of a chance for something to corrupt.
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Thatg, try these drivers....
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe

hey so i finally found some drivers for download mode, flash the pda file through odin and im on the boot animation forever, any other ideas?

Try going back to stock and then leaving the phone well alone?

daleski75 said:
Try going back to stock and then leaving the phone well alone?
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Thats the part im having trouble with. I cant get back to stock. Could there be something i flashed thats preventing the phone from booting? Everything went through in odin. It flashed the rom kernel and radio but wont go past the boot animation

thatg said:
hey so i finally found some drivers for download mode, flash the pda file through odin and im on the boot animation forever, any other ideas?
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Grab this if you don't already have the adb and fastboot tools. It also contains Paul O'brien's boot image that will root for you.
ADB & Fastboot Utilities
Grab this for the Samsung ADB usb drivers - helps detect fastboot.
Samsung ADB USB Drivers
Download the images for your respective device from Google. This is a tar and zipped file (not to be confused with an Odin tar file). If you use something like 7zip to untar it you will get a file with no extension. Add the .zip extension to it and then you can unzip it.
CDMA ICL53F Images
GSM ICL53F Images
Boot your phone into fastboot and plug it into your computer. Install the ADB Interface drivers from the Samsung ADB USB drivers I posted. Run a "fastboot devices" to check if everything is connected, installed, and working (it would be "fastboot-windows devices" if you used the fastboot tool from the download I posted above). Once you confirm connection then follow the steps in this thread to using fastboot to restoring your phone to factory 4.0.2. The instructions are for the CDMA phone but if you are GSM replace the necessary files with your respective device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399210
I decided to pull the fastboot commands from that thread and put it in this post. These are the fastboot commands you need to issue to flash the bootloader, radios, and ROM images for a CDMA phone. You can choose to skip flashing the bootloader.
4. Type the following commands, allowing each to finish before moving onto the next:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip
fastboot reboot-bootloader
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silow said:
Grab this if you don't already have the adb and fastboot tools. It also contains Paul O'brien's boot image that will root for you.
ADB & Fastboot Utilities
Grab this for the Samsung ADB usb drivers - helps detect fastboot.
Samsung ADB USB Drivers
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hey thanks, yeah just did this right before you posted it, worked like a charm

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[HOW-TO] Take LTE back to 100% Stock

I am not taking credit for this in anyway. But since i had to to it and had never done it before i had to look around on how to do it.
This is pulled from
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/1...the-bootloader-and-return-to-a-factory-state/
1. Download the Android 4.0.2 factory images to your PC. Download
2. Unzip the file and its contents into your SDK/Tools folder (wherever your adb.exe and fastboot.exe files
are).
*Make sure they are not in their own folder, but have all been extracted to Tools.
3. From within your Tools folder, open a command prompt (SHIFT + right click – “open command prompt here”):
4. Type the following commands, allowing each to finish before moving onto the next:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot oem lock
5. Reboot your phone by highlighting “Start” and pressing the lock switch.
6. It really is as simple as that. Your phone is now back to a 100% stock, unrooted and locked state.
thanks.. nice work
Eh... All I'd want is the back cover with just a Google logo, at this point in time I don't even care if there's bloat. Great guide though, might do it if I'm bored.
Would the files being extracted into tools have anything to do with the files used to root if i decided to re-root? Also my adb.exe and fastboot.exe are in the /platform-tools folder is that ok?
this should get sticky'd in case it becomes an "emergency" in the future and the thread's gotten burried.
how do i get the zip format
i can download the file but it doesnt come as a zip file? im on windows vista.
mikedfromaz said:
i can download the file but it doesnt come as a zip file? im on windows vista.
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Popular tools like winrar and 7zip will still be able to extract it.
7zip
so i got 7zip to load but the second prompt in the sequence says error cant load bootloader-prime image??
i couldnt see the folder with all the files using winrar, i recommend using 7zip only
I tried these steps 3 times now. Everything seems to go just fine until I'm booted. Cant get a data signal on 3g/4g. Calls/text messages come through fine just missing something with the radios. Anyone else have this problem?
Same issue here. I've tried recovering to a different back up. Also updated radio to the newer leaked ones. Eventually reverted everything back to stock and I am STILL without any data connection.
Rageful said:
Same issue here. I've tried recovering to a different back up. Also updated radio to the newer leaked ones. Eventually reverted everything back to stock and I am STILL without any data connection.
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I am in NYC and I do not have any data connection either....
I think (hope) it is a Verizon Network issue!!!
Verizon is having a nationwide outage, it affects everyone differently so no worries about loss of data access.
http://phandroid.com/2011/12/21/yes-verizons-data-network-is-experiencing-nationwide-outages-again-new-radios-for-galaxy-nexus-leak-in-the-meantime/
i did all of this this morning, but now everey time i do fastboot reboot-bootloader. i get a waiting for device. prior to this i was able to reboot the bootloader through adb just fine. both of my pc's have the same problem. Is there a problem with the bootloader on the image uploaded versus the one the phone came with? iknow i can boot to the bootloader with vol+ vol- and power. but its just better to doit trough adb. please advice.
Does this also restore the stock recovery? I don't see any fastboot commands to flash recovery. Or is that included in the stock img?
It's in the zip file when you run "fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip"
Thank you so much for this! I was trying to root my phone and somehow managed to screw something up and wound up with an infinite boot loop. Followed these simple steps and was able to successfully get out of that mess.
So this puts the stock kernel back on there as well right?
GazaIan said:
Eh... All I'd want is the back cover with just a Google logo, at this point in time I don't even care if there's bloat. Great guide though, might do it if I'm bored.
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Same here man. I'm coming from a Nexus One on at&t and I hate how Verizon has to put their branding on everything.
Does this still work if I have cwm and a different rom installed or are there more steps to do?
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BRICKED Galaxy Nexus - please help me restore/advice

Hi I attempted to root my phone, got SU but was having problems flashing any roms, using any apps that required /root or accessing recovery. Figured something might not have worked and tried to unroot and start again. All steps were followed via http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...-root-unroot-unlock-your-vz-galaxy-nexus.html
I'm stuck in the Google bootscreen with my only other option being bootloader, it still says Locked State - Unlocked. But my computer can't see my phone, Odin doesn't work and I still don't have a definitive method of restoring my phone via a MAC.
This ISN'T Resolved. I get errors when attempting to fastboot the stock image
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/adb reboot bootloader
brings about the following error
"error: device not found"
I was already in bootloader and tried:
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/fastboot flash boot ~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/boot.img
I get:
error: cannot load '/Users/grnmons/Desktop/adb-fastboot/boot.img'
If anybody has any ideas please let me know, I really don't know what to do at this point.
grnmons said:
Hi I attempted to root my phone, got SU but was having problems flashing any roms, using any apps that required /root or accessing recovery. Figured something might not have worked and tried to unroot and start again. All steps were followed via http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...-root-unroot-unlock-your-vz-galaxy-nexus.html
I'm stuck in the Google bootscreen with my only other option being bootloader, it still says Locked State - Unlocked. But my computer can't see my phone, Odin doesn't work and I still don't have a definitive method of restoring my phone via a MAC.
If anybody has any ideas please let me know, I really don't know what to do at this point. Plan B is to use a PC which I can only access later in the week. If you know someone, or have a link I would really appreciate it. Also ask me anything if it can help make this clearer.
Thanks
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Okay your bootloader is unlocked which is good, but your MAC doesn't see your phone in bootloader mode?
grnmons said:
Plan B is to use a PC which I can only access later in the week.
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Can you bootcamp or use a virtual machine?
grnmons said:
Hi I attempted to root my phone, got SU but was having problems flashing any roms, using any apps that required /root or accessing recovery. Figured something might not have worked and tried to unroot and start again. All steps were followed via http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...-root-unroot-unlock-your-vz-galaxy-nexus.html
I'm stuck in the Google bootscreen with my only other option being bootloader, it still says Locked State - Unlocked. But my computer can't see my phone, Odin doesn't work and I still don't have a definitive method of restoring my phone via a MAC.
If anybody has any ideas please let me know, I really don't know what to do at this point. Plan B is to use a PC which I can only access later in the week. If you know someone, or have a link I would really appreciate it. Also ask me anything if it can help make this clearer.
Thanks
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Wrong section..but
I would def use a PC and use Odin ! Make your life easier...it takes like 3-5 Mins..takes it to stock!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
All you have to do is fastboot flash those stock images of 4.0.2 google gave us. There's not even any need for Odin. You can do this right on your Mac.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
Please uninstall and reinstall your phones drivers. Your just soft bricked is all. Once your computer sees the device you should be good.
sent from the Almighty One himself....
borgey said:
All you have to do is fastboot flash those stock images of 4.0.2 google gave us. There's not even any need for Odin. You can do this right on your Mac.
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I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Seems like that's what got me here in the first place, the mac version might be missing files I'm missing the steps to actually do that.
Can't find any forum/site/guide that tells me how to do that. Does anybody have this?
grnmons said:
I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Seems like that's what got me here in the first place, the mac version might be missing files I'm missing the steps to actually do that.
Can't find any forum/site/guide that tells me how to do that. Does anybody have this?
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fastboot flash (google on how to use these)
you do them when you're in bootloader mode. you need to have a ADB/Fastboot environment set up (look at root guides and do step one of it..... verifying the part of getting the environment, ignore drivers)
stock images are here: http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
zephiK said:
fastboot flash (google on how to use these)
you do them when you're in bootloader mode. you need to have a ADB/Fastboot environment set up (look at root guides and do step one of it..... verifying the part of getting the environment, ignore drivers)
stock images are here: http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
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Thanks. Can you confirm that these are the steps?
1) Download the latest stock image( i will leave finding that image to you since this post can become outdated)
2) Unzip the files, and place the images into the adb-fastboot folder you created on your desktop above.
3) Open a terminal and use the following commands:
Code:
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/adb reboot bootloader
4) Wait for bootloader to reboot on phone.
5) Then, in terminal use the following commands:
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/fastboot flash boot ~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/boot.img
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/fastboot flash system ~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/system.img
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/fastboot flash recovery ~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/recovery.img
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/fastboot flash userdata ~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/userdata.img
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/fastboot erase cache
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/fastboot oem lock
6) Reboot to System, and you should be returned to Stock and Unrooted
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/adb reboot bootloader
brings about the following error
"error: device not found"
I was already in bootloader and tried:
~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/fastboot flash boot ~/Desktop/adb-fastboot/boot.img
I get:
error: cannot load '/Users/grnmons/Desktop/adb-fastboot/boot.img'
anybody have any other suggestions to this? or a follow up?
It should be easy to fix. You do not seem to have the correct driver installed.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Understood, I think I definitely did a few things wrong here. But my problem requires some kind of steps to solve. I don't mean to sound lazy but I've been running around the forums for awhile and I'm in way over my head, I was hoping someone could just list a few steps, links, SOMETHING. I'm looking for solvency here.
grnmons said:
Understood, I think I definitely did a few things wrong here. But my problem requires some kind of steps to solve. I don't mean to sound lazy but I've been running around the forums for awhile and I'm in way over my head, I was hoping someone could just list a few steps, links, SOMETHING. I'm looking for solvency here.
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reinstall the android sdk from here that will get your drivers in order so your computer can see your phone
then fastboot flash recovery
then manually flash su (attached)
ogdobber said:
reinstall the android sdk from here that will get your drivers in order so your computer can see your phone
then fastboot flash recovery
then manually flash su (attached)
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Thanks muchly, I feel like I'm getting closer but could you elaborate on the manual flash su step? My **** is all over the place now, my desktop is littered with files, should I be in recovery for this or still fastboot? and what is the command if you have?
grnmons said:
Thanks muchly, I feel like I'm getting closer but could you elaborate on the manual flash su step? My **** is all over the place now, my desktop is littered with files, should I be in recovery for this or still fastboot? and what is the command if you have?
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download the gnex-su.zip and put in in the root of your sd card. then in recovery select "-install zip from sdcard" then "-choose zip from sdcard" then select the gnex-su.zip. this will give you root and install the superuser app
not to get ahead (previous post), but after your computer recognizes the phone you need to flash clockwork recovery
you need to open a terminal in the platform-tools folder of the sdk (also put the recovery.img there) and then
Code:
fastboot flash recovery name-of-recovery.img
Thanks for your help ogdobber, I'm incredibly frustrated and you must be too trying to help me, but I must have done something wrong as after I flash recovery, i still cannot access it - it continues to hang out in the Google screen.
Let me go through my steps with you and you tell me what I might have done wrong. So with my bricked phone, 1. I clicked your link and updated my SDK.
There's no indication that I did anything right here, it just shows that everything is installed and that's all I think I need here.
2. Opened up terminal fastboot flash boot (in this case) bootloader-toro-primekk15.img DONE!
3. Fastboot flash recovery (in this case) recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo.img
DONE!
Then... nothing. Recovery doesn't load for me. Just get a boot loop. Anything I might have done wrong prior or inbetween these steps? Also, besides flashing and running commands off terminal - i assume this is considered computer recognizes my phone. Could the problem be there?
Just got your last post, I'm unfamiliar with SDK but I've since put the recovery file in there, not sure how to flash recovery. I have tried flashing recovery through terminal and surprisingly it says "-bash: fastboot: command not found"
grnmons said:
Thanks for your help ogdobber, I'm incredibly frustrated and you must be too trying to help me, but I must have done something wrong as after I flash recovery, i still cannot access it - it continues to hang out in the Google screen.
Let me go through my steps with you and you tell me what I might have done wrong. So with my bricked phone, 1. I clicked your link and updated my SDK.
There's no indication that I did anything right here, it just shows that everything is installed and that's all I think I need here.
2. Opened up terminal fastboot flash boot (in this case) bootloader-toro-primekk15.img DONE!
3. Fastboot flash recovery (in this case) recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo.img
DONE!
Then... nothing. Recovery doesn't load for me. Just get a boot loop. Anything I might have done wrong prior or inbetween these steps? Also, besides flashing and running commands off terminal - i assume this is considered computer recognizes my phone. Could the problem be there?
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that is for the nexus s
check your pm
ogdobber said:
that is for the nexus s
check your pm
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If you are still having problems ...like I said before ...use Odin......since the simple process of fastboot is not working properly for you.Odin makes things so Much easier
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Mac OS X Fastboot Mode <Waiting for Device>

Hi, I am trying to Re-Lock my Galaxy Nexus GSM version, I've downloaded the SDK files (adb-mac and fastboot-mac) and all the image files and I am trying to execute the following commands:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot oem lock
With the phone in normal mode I connect the USB cable to the computer, start Terminal windows and run the first command, "./adb-mac reboot bootloader" and the phone will boot into the "Fastboot Mode", then I try to execute "./fastboot-mac devices" to make sure the phone is connected and properly detected and I get nothing.
If I try to execute "./fastboot-mac flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img" I get the message <waiting for device> and it will stay there forever.
Do you know what might be the problem ?, is there other method to do this ?, go back to Stock ROM and Re-Lock the device ?, thanks
i use windows but i also get problems when i didnt had a break after the flash parts/ update parts
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Hi, I am trying to Re-Lock my Galaxy Nexus GSM version, I've downloaded the SDK files (adb-mac and fastboot-mac) and all the image files and I am trying to execute the following commands:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot oem lock
With the phone in normal mode I connect the USB cable to the computer, start Terminal windows and run the first command, "./adb-mac reboot bootloader" and the phone will boot into the "Fastboot Mode", then I try to execute "./fastboot-mac devices" to make sure the phone is connected and properly detected and I get nothing.
If I try to execute "./fastboot-mac flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img" I get the message <waiting for device> and it will stay there forever.
Do you know what might be the problem ?, is there other method to do this ?, go back to Stock ROM and Re-Lock the device ?, thanks
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I know nothing about using Macs but have you installed the device drivers? As you are getting no serial number returned when using fastboot devices im guessing not.
Mark.
On a side note please do not post questions in the Development Forums as that is not the place for them.
Thanks.
The device is being detected while running in normal mode, meaning I do have the drivers, the problem is when I go into FASTBOOT MODE, I can no longer see the phone
Craiq said:
i use windows but i also get problems when i didnt had a break after the flash parts/ update parts
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But for the simple command ./fastboot-mac devices should work and it's not
in bootloader mode u need other drivers
but dont know how to install them on mac
First thing, make sure your fastboot file is executable
from the folder containing fastboot-mac:
chmod a+x fastboot-mac
You do not need further drivers on a mac. Just make sure you are using the correct fast boot and have all of the images in the same folder. Try using a different USB port. I renamed my fastboot file to fastboot and copied it into usr/local/bin folder so it can be accessed without the ./ ...Hope this helps...I actually just got done restoring mine because its gotta go back to the store because the internal storage is all sorts of jacked up...Since you clearly have a mac, have you had any issues using android file transfer?
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First thing, make sure your fastboot file is executable
from the folder containing fastboot-mac:
chmod a+x fastboot-mac
You do not need further drivers on a mac. Just make sure you are using the correct fast boot and have all of the images in the same folder. Try using a different USB port. I renamed my fastboot file to fastboot and copied it into usr/local/bin folder so it can be accessed without the ./ ...Hope this helps...I actually just got done restoring mine because its gotta go back to the store because the internal storage is all sorts of jacked up...Since you clearly have a mac, have you had any issues using android file transfer?
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I just checked and Fastboot is executable, as a matter of fact it's running, the problem is that the phone cannot be seen from the FASTBOOT mode, and I can see from the phone screen that IT IS in Fastboot Mode, it says in RED letters "FASTBOOT MODE"
brosenz said:
I just checked and Fastboot is executable, as a matter of fact it's running, the problem is that the phone cannot be seen from the FASTBOOT mode, and I can see from the phone screen that IT IS in Fastboot Mode, it says in RED letters "FASTBOOT MODE"
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Well reboot your phone. Once up, try and boot into boot loader the manual way by powering off the device, holding both vol + and -, and press power... then try your fastboot commands. Are you rooted or no?
dhemke17 said:
Well reboot your phone. Once up, try and boot into boot loader the manual way by powering off the device, holding both vol + and -, and press power... then try your fastboot commands. Are you rooted or no?
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I've done that, going into FASTBOOT MODE manually and the same result. Yes I am rooted.
I just want to go back to stock and re-lock the phone, is there other way to accomplish that ?
NOTE: I've tried Mac and PC (Galaxy Nexus Root Toolkit 1.3), different USB cables, different USB ports, reinstalled all the drivers on the Windows computer, NOTHING, the phone it's not being detected in FASTBOOT MODE.
Is it possible to go back to stock and re-lock from the Recovery Mode ?, I have ClockWorkMode 5.5.0.2 installed and working fine.
You can flash a Stock Rom via cwm but you can only relock the phone via fastboot mode.
Has this problem only surfaced recently?
You say that you are rooted and have cwm flashed so how did you do that?
Do you have another usb cable that you can try?
Mark.
mskip said:
You can flash a Stock Rom via cwm but you can only relock the phone via fastboot mode.
Has this problem only surfaced recently?
You say that you are rooted and have cwm flashed so how did you do that?
Do you have another usb cable that you can try?
Mark.
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I used FASTBOOT to unlock and Root, no problem at all, use the phone for 10 days and them decided to go back to Stock and Re-Lock. If I connect the phone in normal operating mode to the computer it will be recognized and I can see the phone from the computer connected via USB, so the cabe, port on the phone and port on the computer are OK. I've tried different computer (Mac and PC), different OS (Mac OS X and Windows 7), different USB cable, different USB port.
Just make sure USB debugging is on...try getting on a PC and running the ODIN file from someone was kind enough to post us...to get into odin mode, just hold up while the phone is off and hit power. You need the drivers installed and the latest version of ODIN on your desktop as well.
dhemke17 said:
Just make sure USB debugging is on...try getting on a PC and running the ODIN file from someone was kind enough to post us...to get into odin mode, just hold up while the phone is off and hit power. You need the drivers installed and the latest version of ODIN on your desktop as well.
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I have Odin3 V1.85 installed in the PC, what I have to do with it ?, thanks
brosenz said:
I have Odin3 V1.85 installed in the PC, what I have to do with it ?, thanks
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Plug your phone in and then turn it off...download the odin file from xda...not sure who posted it...it will be a 7z file...inside there are two separate .tar files. Extract these from the .7z file but do not fully unzip them. Place the one without LTE in the name in PDA and the one with LTE in phone, turn your phone on while holding vol -... there is a box that turns yellow in odin once your phone is connected. then check your screen against the one posted where you get the odin full restore file from and verify it matches, then flash it...
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Plug your phone in and then turn it off...download the odin file from xda...not sure who posted it...it will be a 7z file...inside there are two separate .tar files. Extract these from the .7z file but do not fully unzip them. Place the one without LTE in the name in PDA and the one with LTE in phone, turn your phone on while holding vol +... there is a box that turns yellow in odin once your phone is connected. then check your screen against the one posted where you get the odin full restore file from and verify it matches, then flash it...
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I do not know why but Vol + does not work in my phone
brosenz said:
I do not know why but Vol + does not work in my phone
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My bad lol...down...volume down
I made a video on how to root and unroot the nexus s 4g using a Mac and also works with galaxy nexus. Just follow the video but make sure the files u are flashing are for your phone and not a ns4g. Here's the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIWEM8zBnTM&feature=youtube_gdata_player if u have questions u can pm me.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Esteway.619 said:
I made a video on how to root and unroot the nexus s 4g using a Mac and also works with galaxy nexus. Just follow the video but make sure the files u are flashing are for your phone and not a ns4g. Here's the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIWEM8zBnTM&feature=youtube_gdata_player if u have questions u can pm me.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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I just used your video to unroot my galaxy nexus 4.0.4 thanks a lot!

[Q] Phone only starting in Clockwork and Fastboot

After attempting to install franco kernel, my nexus was stuck at the Google logo upon startup. After attempting to recover via clockwork recovery, I found it to be missing (temporary install perhaps?). Currently I have installed clockwork recovery via nexus toolkit. The problem I am now trying to address is that I have no way of putting .zip files on my phone. Some Google searches did not come up with anything quite like this. I am new to this, so any information is good information. Thanks in advance
luminuss3 said:
After attempting to install franco kernel, my nexus was stuck at the Google logo upon startup. After attempting to recover via clockwork recovery, I found it to be missing (temporary install perhaps?). Currently I have installed clockwork recovery via nexus toolkit. The problem I am now trying to address is that I have no way of putting .zip files on my phone. Some Google searches did not come up with anything quite like this. I am new to this, so any information is good information. Thanks in advance
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Your boot image is missing...
When your phone boots in bootloadermode, it should (now, anyway) say: boot.img missing. Or something of that nature. Check this, flash it via fastboot, then everything should be back to normal...
EDIT:
It works with both: CDMA & GSM
luminuss3 said:
After attempting to install franco kernel, my nexus was stuck at the Google logo upon startup. After attempting to recover via clockwork recovery, I found it to be missing (temporary install perhaps?). Currently I have installed clockwork recovery via nexus toolkit. The problem I am now trying to address is that I have no way of putting .zip files on my phone. Some Google searches did not come up with anything quite like this. I am new to this, so any information is good information. Thanks in advance
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do you know how to use fastboot and adb?
Excuse my lack of knowledge, but how exactly do I flash something over fastboot? Thanks in advance again.
Edit: And I do know how to use adb, however it does not connect. I do not know how to use fastboot
After some playing around with fastboot, I now have a basic understanding. However, I am not sure where I should be flashing that file you have linked.
Today, a friend suggested I try mounting via, and copying roms over that way. However, even with all the drivers installed on my computer, I get nothing.
If anyone has ANY insight on this problem, it would be be greatly appreciated. My new toy is a brick at the moment
Thanks in advance!
luminuss3 said:
Today, a friend suggested I try mounting via, and copying roms over that way. However, even with all the drivers installed on my computer, I get nothing.
If anyone has ANY insight on this problem, it would be be greatly appreciated. My new toy is a brick at the moment
Thanks in advance!
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I'd seriously try to go back to stock first. I'm not a Windows user but if you have adb, fastboot, and your drivers setup, it should be easy. Mark is a great help in this thread and you can use his script I guess:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400871
You need to also realize that if you have wiped everything to install a new rom, you have nothing to boot to. Also there is install-recovery.sh file that keeps re-writing your recovery to stock erasing custom recovery (CWR) until you rename or erase that file. So going back to stock would be the safest and then you can try again.
You can use adb in recovery and fastboot in bootloader. If you have everything setup correctly (sdk, adb, fastboot, drivers for windows) either of these commands should recognize your phone:
In Bootloader (the first screen you see with big arrow on top):
Code:
fastboot devices
In recovery:
Code:
adb devices
If you don't have a recovery, then use the first one. If you see your phone's serial number like this
Code:
List of devices attached
HT12HS005115 device
you can now use it to flash things onto your phone. As I said I am not a windows user so I can't be specific, sorry. But adb and fastboot, once you are at their prompt, should work the same.
In general, when fastboot is recognizing your phone in the bootloader, you can use:
Code:
fastboot flash zip YOURFILENAME.zip
changing yourfilename of course. This zip file could be a stock imaqe or a custom recovery. Again, you need someone with windows to give you exact steps, this is just general stuff.
if your phone is yakju build then you can get the stock images from google.
download and unzip the files to your fastboot folder and use these commands, the file names in these commands are for the Android 4.0.1 (ITL41F) build so you will have to change the filenames if you use a different build.
Code:
fastboot devices (to make sure your phone is connect to fastboot)
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-maguro-primekj10.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-maguro-i9250xxkk1.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-yakju-itl41f.zip

[Q] Wiped Nexus, new rom didnt work, have nothing to restore to.

So I'm an idiot. I deleted everything off my Nexus 7 then I was going to flash to a new ROM, didn't work, I don't know why but it won't install. I have nothing else to install, not any other ROMs and no backups. To make the whole entire thing worse, my Nexus wont connect to my computer. Before you say to reinstall the drivers or plug it into another computer, I have, I've tried everything and nothing works. So my question is; Am I screwed or is there somehow a way to install a new ROM (seems impossible) or put the stock ROM back on? I tried the adb sideload method but I was completely unsuccessful as well as every other method I've seen/could come up with. After trying weeks to get anything back on my Nexus 7 I'm just about ready to toss this paperweight in my drawer and forget abaout it
Which modes can you get into?
TWRP allows you to mount USB OTG. Try flashing something from there.
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Sent from my dead Nexus 7 2013 LTE! ???
Yes, like aniket0317 wrote: if all else has failed, put a ROM on a flash drive, connect it with a USB OTG adapter, and use TWRP.
I've lately had trouble getting my N7 recognized while in recovery mode, though everything's fine while in the bootloader and Android. But with TWRP it's easy to mount external flash storage and install from that.
RecklessBrandon said:
So I'm an idiot. I deleted everything off my Nexus 7 then I was going to flash to a new ROM, didn't work, I don't know why but it won't install. I have nothing else to install, not any other ROMs and no backups. To make the whole entire thing worse, my Nexus wont connect to my computer. Before you say to reinstall the drivers or plug it into another computer, I have, I've tried everything and nothing works. So my question is; Am I screwed or is there somehow a way to install a new ROM (seems impossible) or put the stock ROM back on? I tried the adb sideload method but I was completely unsuccessful as well as every other method I've seen/could come up with. After trying weeks to get anything back on my Nexus 7 I'm just about ready to toss this paperweight in my drawer and forget abaout it
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are you able to go into fastboot mode? if so you still have hope
kmaq said:
are you able to go into fastboot mode? if so you still have hope
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I'm not allowed to post pictures yet but I believe I can get in fastboot mode and I am sure that I can get into ClockworkMod Recovery
RecklessBrandon said:
So I'm an idiot. I deleted everything off my Nexus 7 then I was going to flash to a new ROM, didn't work, I don't know why but it won't install. I have nothing else to install, not any other ROMs and no backups. To make the whole entire thing worse, my Nexus wont connect to my computer. Before you say to reinstall the drivers or plug it into another computer, I have, I've tried everything and nothing works. So my question is; Am I screwed or is there somehow a way to install a new ROM (seems impossible) or put the stock ROM back on? I tried the adb sideload method but I was completely unsuccessful as well as every other method I've seen/could come up with. After trying weeks to get anything back on my Nexus 7 I'm just about ready to toss this paperweight in my drawer and forget abaout it
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I'm not allowed to post pictures yet but I believe I can get in fastboot mode and I am sure that I can get into ClockworkMod Recovery
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download the 4.4.4 image
go to fastboot mode, connect the usb cable to laptop/pc
open command prompt and go to the folder where you have extracted the 4.4.4 image
fastboot oem unlock
type flash-all.bat
if all goes well device should reboot (initally will take some time) if it took more time, reboot again into fastboot mode
this time you can try manually commands one by one
in the folder where you have extracted the 4.4.4 image you will fine "image-razor-ktu84p.zip", extract this zip file as well
execute the following commands one by one:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-flo-flo-04.02.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot
device should reboot and if it displays language screen then cool complete the wizard, reboot in to fastboot mode again to lock the bootloader
fastboot oem lock
fastboot reboot
and enjoy!!! do report back what happens.
fastboot -w update stockrom.zip
I'm a little confused on the instructions, also, as mentioned, my Nexus isn't recognized by my computer no matter what I try.
How does it appear in Device Manager? Have you downloaded and installed the drivers?
http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
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I'm a little confused on the instructions, also, as mentioned, my Nexus isn't recognized by my computer no matter what I try.
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in the fastboot mode, after connecting your device to laptop/pc,
if you type "fastboot reboot-bootloader" in the command prompt
what happens?
I am having the exact same problem, it was installing got stuck on "erasing userdata" for over 2 hours and now nothing will work except for fastboot, and some how the device locked itself again. Only thing i can get to is fastboot mode, the computer recognizes the device. When I try to unlock it, it gets stuck in "erasing userdata" I let it run over night last night hoping it would some how work with no luck. I am unsure of what to do. Is there anyway to install a factory OS without unlocking? Every guide I've searched for has me doing an fastboot oem unlock and then the tablet freezes on erasing userdata. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
kmaq said:
in the fastboot mode, after connecting your device to laptop/pc,
if you type "fastboot reboot-bootloader" in the command prompt
what happens?
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Reread your initial instructions, and it worked! Thank you so much!!!

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