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[Q] Best way to fully wipe, and install newest CM? (Currently on older version of CM)

Hey I've been reading conflicting information about this, a lot of which was posted more than a year ago, so I wanted to make a new post just to see if there are any ways that are the most popular/easier now...
I'm currently rooted and running CyanogenMod M2. My phone has been having lots of issues no matter what ROM or Kernal I'm running (just battery life issues and just general slowness).
So I bought a new higher capacity battery and looking to just start my phone over fresh, completely wiping the phone's "SD" card. My goal is to completely wipe the phone, install the newest CyanogenMod and a new kernel.
I've heard two more popular ways, one would be to just relock then unlock the bootloader again which would completely wipe it (I'm confused exactly where that would leave me after I unlocked the bootloader again.. what ROM would it be currently running and would I be rooted, etc).
the other is to just completely wipe it using the option in Clockwork Mod Recovery, but I'm not sure how to install a new OS after I just wiped it since the .zip for the new CM would have been wiped when I did that.

Just reflash factory images through the provided scripts by Google - as you may know, they're available for Linux and Windows, then reflash a custom recovery, reboot. Let it boot once, don't setup Google account now; copy your ROM of choice + gapps if needed (refer to instructions on first post of the ROM thread), custom kernel, whatever. reboot to recovery, factory reset, format /system, flash ROM, kernel, gapps, reboot. Wait for it... Done. This is a clean flash. Setup your device.
Sent from my Nexus

[Q] Problems going to Paranoid Android 4.4 for Ssamsung SGH-T989 / tmobile

Reposting as this was posted in wrong section:
Hi
I have been trying to upgrade from CM 10.1 (build 03212013 ) to Paranoid Android 4.4, since I see the new version has BLN support (I'd stuck with the old CM for so long due to this).
Anyways upon trying this I discovered I had to (always ran clear cache, and ran the T989 script super -wipe)
- update my modem to the latest t-mobile - upgraded to the latest which is needed - UVMC6
- was trying to install with CWM 5.8.x - but it would just 'hang' at "installing ZIP" further research indicates I need to upgrade CWM
- Upgraded to CWM 6.0.4.3 per more searching, tried erase flash, just hangs - further research indicates this CWM has a known issue
- used ODIN to goto TWRP 2.7 - flashed, and booted, tried numerous times hangs at "teamwin' screen when trying to boot into recovery
Ended up giving up and Odin flashing back CWM 5.8.1.3 and loading my old CM 10.1 build again
Anyone have any hints why this is so difficult for me?
Need some help if possible please!
thanks
Jonathan

Found work around
Just want to update
I managed to find a work around of sorts. I needed to restore my phone back to CWM 5, and to do that I needed to use ODIN to flash it.
After flashing CWM5 back to the phone, I was able to restore previous ROM (CM mod 10.x), and boot up. After that I used the rommanager to re-install CWM 6.0.4.3, and reboot the phone into recovery.
When in recovery I went to mountand storage, and formatted , /cache, /system and /data. After doing that I choose to install ZIP from SDcard, and selected the Parandoid Android 4.4.x I was trying before. This completed, and installed without any error messages.
Hopefully this helps someone else out.
Thanks,
Jonathan

Problems after installing CM12.1 nightlies

Hi everyone,
Today I installed the new CM12 nightlies, after rebooting my HTC one m8 it showed me a popup message that google play services stopped working. I also couldnt launch particular apps. So after looking for a solution I tried reinstalling Gapps hoping this would solve the problem.
I downloaded the minimal Gapps ZIP file and flashed it using TWRP recovery, after I wiped the cache and dalvik cache. Once rebooted I started to get the anoying pop up notifications '' Gmail stopped working'' and ''youtube stopped working''. These two messages won't go away and makes my phone unusable. I think the reason why these messages keep popping up is because i flashed the minimal version of Gapps so I downloaded the normal version of Gapps on my computer since my phone isnt accesable because of the pop-up notifications that won't go away. What I did next was plug in my phone to my computer and moved Gapps L-3-14-15.zip to my SD card and installed it again. I also wiped the cache and dalvik cache. after I did a reboot and everything seemed fine for the first 20 seconds... It didnt last long. Im still having the same problem as before Gmail and youtube has stopped working. Do any of you know how to fix this without doing a system recovery?
Thanks in advance
HTC one m8
Cyanagonmod 12.1
Rooted
TWRP
S-on (don't know if this is relevant)

Copy important files to computer. Factory reset. Set it up as new device.

ikeny said:
Copy important files to computer. Factory reset. Set it up as new device.
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To me it sounds like you installed a gapps 5.0 package not a 5.1 package. With the CM Nightly you need to make sure you're using an updated gapps package designed for android 5.1+.
I always use a minimal gapps package but usually CM has a link available on their page. Double check that you're installing a gapps 5.1 package. I am currently running the 5.1 nightlies and they're great thus far... 4/20 and 4/19 are both confirmable as working on my end. Good luck.
To correct Wipe /data /system /cache and dalvik reinstall the nightly and flash a 5.1 gapps package.

jcole20 said:
To me it sounds like you installed a gapps 5.0 package not a 5.1 package. With the CM Nightly you need to make sure you're using an updated gapps package designed for android 5.1+.
I always use a minimal gapps package but usually CM has a link available on their page. Double check that you're installing a gapps 5.1 package. I am currently running the 5.1 nightlies and they're great thus far... 4/20 and 4/19 are both confirmable as working on my end. Good luck.
To correct Wipe /data /system /cache and dalvik reinstall the nightly and flash a 5.1 gapps package.
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I guess the minimal Gapps package that I first installed wasnt for 5.1
In order to get rid of the pop up notifications I started my phone in safe mode. This worked and I saw there was a new update for cm12.1 after the update finished and I booted up my phone the pop up notification werent there anymore but google play services was also uninstalled. What I did next was installing the newest google play services pack. After it was done I installed the 5.1 Gapps version on my phone and now everything seems working fine again. I did get some notifications that an app such as chrome stopped working but a simple reinstal of the app fixed the problem. Somehow the apps that I moved to my external SD card arent here anymore but im glad I didnt have to do a factory reset.
Thanks for your help

jcole20 said:
To me it sounds like you installed a gapps 5.0 package not a 5.1 package. With the CM Nightly you need to make sure you're using an updated gapps package designed for android 5.1+.
I always use a minimal gapps package but usually CM has a link available on their page. Double check that you're installing a gapps 5.1 package. I am currently running the 5.1 nightlies and they're great thus far... 4/20 and 4/19 are both confirmable as working on my end. Good luck.
To correct Wipe /data /system /cache and dalvik reinstall the nightly and flash a 5.1 gapps package.
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every time i update my cm12 nightlies it has its own recovery (cyanogen recovery) but my zip files are not working with that recovery. (ex. cmzip.gapps, and kernels). for my device it works on PhilZ touch recovery. so the tendency is i have to flash fastboot boot.img(philz touch)again and again.
using Thunderzap kernel 4.15 im stock on bootloop.
running cm12.1 nightlies (4/20/15)
also gapps not compatible.

decoction said:
every time i update my cm12 nightlies it has its own recovery (cyanogen recovery) but my zip files are not working with that recovery. (ex. cmzip.gapps, and kernels). for my device it works on PhilZ touch recovery. so the tendency is i have to flash fastboot boot.img(philz touch)again and again.
using Thunderzap kernel 4.15 im stock on bootloop.
running cm12.1 nightlies (4/20/15)
also gapps not compatible.
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I use twrp and I've not had any issues with a cm recovery replacing twrp. On the 420 nightly I don't even see a recovery.img in the cm zip so I'm assuming you're updating via cm itself. I think there's a setting in there to choose to update cm recovery or not.
To flash Phillz recovery you're syntax would be "fastboot flash recovery recoveryimgname.img" the boot.img is your kernel. I'm not sure how many aosp 5.1 kernels the m8 has but I've not really been able to find any so I just use the cm one.
To correct your issues I would flash twrp 2.8.6 via fastboot flash recovery. Wipe everything from recovery (cache data dalvik system) and reinstall. If it was me I'd update cm via zip from now on if it was causing me these issues. Good luck
HTC One (M8) ViperOne + Hypernova

Everything seemed working fine again until 30 min. ago...
I got the notification chrome has stopped working. (Haven't had this message all the morning and chrome worked just fine.)
I restarted my phone and the first thing I noticed was that some of my apps have disapeared from my home screen, they are still in the app tray tho. Also my keyboard input mode has been set back to AOSP while normaly I use Swiftkey keyboard as my standard input. Chrome was still pushing me not working notification so I reinstalled chrome and now it works fine again. Not sure for how many time...
Its kinda anoying but maybe tonights nightlies will solve the problem somehow. If not, do you have any sugestions how to fix this?

jcole20 said:
I use twrp and I've not had any issues with a cm recovery replacing twrp. On the 420 nightly I don't even see a recovery.img in the cm zip so I'm assuming you're updating via cm itself. I think there's a setting in there to choose to update cm recovery or not.
To flash Phillz recovery you're syntax would be "fastboot flash recovery recoveryimgname.img" the boot.img is your kernel. I'm not sure how many aosp 5.1 kernels the m8 has but I've not really been able to find any so I just use the cm one.
To correct your issues I would flash twrp 2.8.6 via fastboot flash recovery. Wipe everything from recovery (cache data dalvik system) and reinstall. If it was me I'd update cm via zip from now on if it was causing me these issues. Good luck
HTC One (M8) ViperOne + Hypernova
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Thank you for that info. it really helps. by the way i got problems when i updated it to the cm12 4/21/15 update. got this message "trebuchet has stop working" so i decided to use cm resurrection remix.

decoction said:
Thank you for that info. it really helps. by the way i got problems when i updated it to the cm12 4/21/15 update. got this message "trebuchet has stop working" so i decided to use cm resurrection remix.
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Yeah I mean nightlys merge with code that it's being worked on and may break or fix certain things. Nightly builds may be perfect or they may not even boot. You kind of have to just flash them and see. Cm is very generic coding and depending on your carrier may not have the non open source vendor blobs necessary to make, say, your speakers work properly. It really depends. I don't believe Verizon had released their kernel source for lollipop so sometimes downgrading firmware to known source (ie 4.4.4) may help alleviate connectivity issues with Wi-Fi and things of that sort. Team UBs build and lollipop dream 5.0.2 have been my go tos as of late. The lollipop dream build is the smoothest running cm build I've ever used even on nexus devices. Very well made.
HTC One (M8) ViperOne + Hypernova

Any gotchas trying to install CM13 on OH1?

Hi all, relative newb here.
If there is an RTFM on this, I'm all ears, and won't mind one bit.
I want to take a stock SPH-L710 to CM13, and read the thread. First step is to install CWM. I will try this first step later tonight, but question I have is whether I need to be rooted first.
Reason I ask is prior to taking OH1, I "tried" to get CWM installed on ND8 version, and it wouldn't take. I tried first via Odin 3.07, allowing after the SUCCESS message to let the phone reboot itself, and when I shut down and tried to get into recovery mode, it would just go tot he stock "download mode" screen. i then tried to flash via Odin, and not allow reboot, pulled the battery, and restarted into recovery, and the stock download screen still came up.
In reading the thread about CM13, the thread says to load CWM. The version that is linked to on the clockworkmod page is 6.0.4.5, which is not the version I was trying to install above (it was an older version). Can I assume that installing this version will allow boot into the CWM recovery, so I can get to the next step?
I also searched, and found useful pages on how to convert a .img to at tar.md5, so I think I'm good to use the version on the cwm url.
I've searched hard to find any mention of not being able to boot into CWM, and it has something to do with OTA updates. Asking these questions now, since for some reason, I can only get this site up here at work, not at home using IE on a 32 bit machine.
TIA...and pointers to RTFMs greatly appreciated.
Eric

ejaf said:
Hi all, relative newb here.
If there is an RTFM on this, I'm all ears, and won't mind one bit.
I want to take a stock SPH-L710 to CM13, and read the thread. First step is to install CWM. I will try this first step later tonight, but question I have is whether I need to be rooted first.
Reason I ask is prior to taking OH1, I "tried" to get CWM installed on ND8 version, and it wouldn't take. I tried first via Odin 3.07, allowing after the SUCCESS message to let the phone reboot itself, and when I shut down and tried to get into recovery mode, it would just go tot he stock "download mode" screen. i then tried to flash via Odin, and not allow reboot, pulled the battery, and restarted into recovery, and the stock download screen still came up.
In reading the thread about CM13, the thread says to load CWM. The version that is linked to on the clockworkmod page is 6.0.4.5, which is not the version I was trying to install above (it was an older version). Can I assume that installing this version will allow boot into the CWM recovery, so I can get to the next step?
I also searched, and found useful pages on how to convert a .img to at tar.md5, so I think I'm good to use the version on the cwm url.
I've searched hard to find any mention of not being able to boot into CWM, and it has something to do with OTA updates. Asking these questions now, since for some reason, I can only get this site up here at work, not at home using IE on a 32 bit machine.
TIA...and pointers to RTFMs greatly appreciated.
Eric
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The thing is CWM is outdated, i believe to install CM13 successfully, you'd have to install twrp.
Here is the link to the latest, grab the first tar flash it via odin & you should be good to boot into recovery to flash roms.
https://dl.twrp.me/d2spr/

Lonelyskatter12 said:
The thing is CWM is outdated, i believe to install CM13 successfully, you'd have to install twrp.
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Interesting news...thanks. The "Official" thread says that only CWM can be used. Of course, since that thread has a gazillion replies, I couldn't get through it. Of course...I just noticed that the thread I was reading was not specific to CM13, so I have to do more reading.
Main question....haven't got a hit on whether, after installing custom recovery, I need to root or not.
I am also at a disadvantage, since I can't get this site up at home, only at work, so I can't dowload anything while reading.
Thanks for the reply.

ejaf said:
Interesting news...thanks. The "Official" thread says that only CWM can be used. Of course, since that thread has a gazillion replies, I couldn't get through it. Of course...I just noticed that the thread I was reading was not specific to CM13, so I have to do more reading.
Main question....haven't got a hit on whether, after installing custom recovery, I need to root or not.
I am also at a disadvantage, since I can't get this site up at home, only at work, so I can't dowload anything while reading.
Thanks for the reply.
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Yes, the official thread is CM13, you don't need Cwm, pretty much twrp supports marshmallow now.
And i believe you would need root.
If there's any way for you to be able to download the files, id be happy to give you step by step instructions :good:

THANKS BIG TIME!!!
Cool beans! I got TWRP 3.0.2.0 installed! And when exiting, I installed superSU, followed instructions, updated via play store, and disabled Knox.
I am in the process of downloading CM13 Nightly from cyanogenmod (cm-13.0-20160428-NIGHTLY-d2spr.zip). I don't see an "official" release there, so I guess a nightly is the best I can do if I want CM13 (weird though, since the unofficial thread started in November, and I only see nightlies starting in April.
So this is what's next correct?:
- wipe the device
- flash rom
- flash gapps
- reboot system
TIA...Eric
FYI...I couldn't take it anymore, didn't feel like tracking the IE issue, so I downloaded chrome

ejaf said:
THANKS BIG TIME!!!
Cool beans! I got TWRP 3.0.2.0 installed! And when exiting, I installed superSU, followed instructions, updated via play store, and disabled Knox.
I am in the process of downloading CM13 Nightly from cyanogenmod (cm-13.0-20160428-NIGHTLY-d2spr.zip). I don't see an "official" release there, so I guess a nightly is the best I can do if I want CM13 (weird though, since the unofficial thread started in November, and I only see nightlies starting in April.
So this is what's next correct?:
- wipe the device
- flash rom
- flash gapps
- reboot system
TIA...Eric
FYI...I couldn't take it anymore, didn't feel like tracking the IE issue, so I downloaded chrome
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Yeah the Unofficial thread was being maintained by a Developer, who stopped as soon as the officials came out.
And yes
1.) Wipe Data, Cache, System, & Internal Storage (So backup anything on there)
2.) Flash Rom, Gapps, SuperSu 2.71 (If you want root)
& should be good to go

Just found this post here on the "Unofficial" CM thread, which causes me some concern:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65865323&postcount=207
This basically states:
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An example of the steps with the assumption someone was coming from the stock android with TWRP installed and everything to be flash stored on the external sdcard. Assuming the user is in TWRP to start.
Issue a full format of the following partitions, /system, /userdata, /internalstorage, /cache, /dalvik
Add the rom to the flash queue (eg. cm-13.0)
Add an android 6 compatible gapps to the queue
Add the Virgin fix to the queue
Run the flash queue (or flash the above file individually without rebooting)
Reboot into system for the first time
Once booted reboot into TWRP
Add the same rom zip to the flash queue
Add the Virgin fix to the queue
Run the flash queue (or flash the above file individually without rebooting)
Reboot to system
Everything should be functioning (at least mostly)
Enjoy
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Not sure about the APN stuff, so I guess i have to read more about that as well.
Thanks for getting me through the "baby" steps though...I'm infinitely further than I was before

ejaf said:
Just found this post here on the "Unofficial" CM thread, which causes me some concern:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65865323&postcount=207
This basically states:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
An example of the steps with the assumption someone was coming from the stock android with TWRP installed and everything to be flash stored on the external sdcard. Assuming the user is in TWRP to start.
Issue a full format of the following partitions, /system, /userdata, /internalstorage, /cache, /dalvik
Add the rom to the flash queue (eg. cm-13.0)
Add an android 6 compatible gapps to the queue
Add the Virgin fix to the queue
Run the flash queue (or flash the above file individually without rebooting)
Reboot into system for the first time
Once booted reboot into TWRP
Add the same rom zip to the flash queue
Add the Virgin fix to the queue
Run the flash queue (or flash the above file individually without rebooting)
Reboot to system
Everything should be functioning (at least mostly)
Enjoy
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Not sure about the APN stuff, so I guess i have to read more about that as well.
Thanks for getting me through the "baby" steps though...I'm infinitely further than I was before
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That's the order, now about the apn im not sure, i just use mine for wifi and stuff.
That Cyanogenmod build "04282016" wasn't running so well for me, so I'm on AICP for now.
But i would suggest, OctOs , AICP, or Exodus Roms. Those are the most stable roms for this device.
Same steps just different ROMs.
But i did hear Exodus gives you data right off the bat, so that'd be good to try

Interesting...thanks for the tips. Hopefully I won't have to bother any of you all again, since I really don't have much in the way of knowledge to return
E

FYI...was able to boot up into CM 12.1 over the weekend. Jury's still out on whether to go to a 6.0.1 based ROM, but appreciate all the help.
Eric

I found the APN fix didn't work with the CM13 rom (I've used it previously with 12.1 fine). I also found that the build-in cm update failed on 20160505 nightly. Not sure if this was just that day or a known bug.

Trouble Flashing Custom ROM

So I rooted my 5X with the help of the Nexus root toolkit. I have successfully flashed Elementalx kernel through TWRP and have tried flashing the ROM and GApps through the toolkit and through TWP but always end up in a bootloop at the Google screen. What am I doing wrong?
I'm just looking to load a Custom ROM to possibly squeeze some extra battery life out of my 5X.

Bootloop
Hi mate,
Did you try and clear cache & dalvic after installing the rom through TWRP.
Also did you install the kernel after the rom & gapps, also try another kernel maybe, or use the stock one with the rom ( if possble ).
or grab the factory image and go back to stock & lock the bootloader.
Also, I did read if you do not use the SDK toolkit from Google ( contains Fastboot and ADB ) , you can have issues like this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206930
I will do some reading and see what else I find.
Later

Which ROM are you flashing? Most have a decent installation instruction you should follow precisely.
Basic steps in correct order:
Download ROM and Gapps.
Clear data and caches (always clean install a new ROM).
Flash ROM
Flash Gapps
Flash custom kernel
Root.
Boot (on pre 7.0 first boot may take 10+ minutes)

slysurfer said:
Hi mate,
Did you try and clear cache & dalvic after installing the rom through TWRP.
Also did you install the kernel after the rom & gapps, also try another kernel maybe, or use the stock one with the rom ( if possble ).
or grab the factory image and go back to stock & lock the bootloader.
Also, I did read if you do not use the SDK toolkit from Google ( contains Fastboot and ADB ) , you can have issues like this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206930
I will do some reading and see what else I find.
Later
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I chose options to clear cache and dalvik when using the Nexus root toolkit and then again manually when I tried to flash through TWRP. I don't quite remember which order I tried to install the kernel. I'm assuming from your question the kernel always always has to be flashed after flashing a ROM? (Even if the kernel was previously flashed?)
I'l look into doing it the 'old fashioned' way as it seems it should iron out any issues. Thanks for the help and please reply if you have a chance!
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Which ROM are you flashing? Most have a decent installation instruction you should follow precisely.
Basic steps in correct order:
Download ROM and Gapps.
Clear data and caches (always clean install a new ROM).
Flash ROM
Flash Gapps
Flash custom kernel
Root.
Boot (on pre 7.0 first boot may take 10+ minutes)
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I'm attempting to flash the latest version of Pure Nexus, Gapps, and Elementalx. From what little research I've done it seems like people are able to run this ROM and kernel combination without issues.
I followed these steps to a T and cleared cache/dalvik after every flash. I am on Nougat right now and the phone would get as far as the Google bot logo. The longest I waited was probably 10-15 minutes. Could it possibly take longer on Nougat? Does that have anything to do with encryption?
Thanks all!
Andrew

Angdvl089 said:
I chose options to clear cache and dalvik when using the Nexus root toolkit and then again manually when I tried to flash through TWRP. I don't quite remember which order I tried to install the kernel. I'm assuming from your question the kernel always always has to be flashed after flashing a ROM? (Even if the kernel was previously flashed?)
I'l look into doing it the 'old fashioned' way as it seems it should iron out any issues. Thanks for the help and please reply if you have a chance!
I'm attempting to flash the latest version of Pure Nexus, Gapps, and Elementalx. From what little research I've done it seems like people are able to run this ROM and kernel combination without issues.
I followed these steps to a T and cleared cache/dalvik after every flash. I am on Nougat right now and the phone would get as far as the Google bot logo. The longest I waited was probably 10-15 minutes. Could it possibly take longer on Nougat? Does that have anything to do with encryption?
Thanks all!
Andrew
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It's unclear to me if you did a clean flash or not.
Check out post #2 in the pure Nexus thread for detailed installation instructions. Follow them to the letter and you should be fine.
I've been running pure Nexus with elementalX for some time now and never had any problems. Are you sure you aren't using the nougat version of elementalX? 3.05 is NOT the correct version for running pure Nexus at this moment as the ROM is still based on 6.01.

peltus said:
It's unclear to me if you did a clean flash or not.
Check out post #2 in the pure Nexus thread for detailed installation instructions. Follow them to the letter and you should be fine.
I've been running pure Nexus with elementalX for some time now and never had any problems. Are you sure you aren't using the nougat version of elementalX? 3.05 is NOT the correct version for running pure Nexus at this moment as the ROM is still based on 6.01.
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THAT must be the problem! I didn't know it was running on Marshmallow. I'll give that a try now. Thanks for the obvious answer!
Andrew

Angdvl089 said:
THAT must be the problem! I didn't know it was running on Marshmallow. I'll give that a try now. Thanks for the obvious answer!
Andrew
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So not only did I need the Marshmallow version of ElementalX but I also needed to update my vendor image for the PN ROM. Thanks for the help! All set from here on out.
Andrew

Angdvl089 said:
So not only did I need the Marshmallow version of ElementalX but I also needed to update my vendor image for the PN ROM. Thanks for the help! All set from here on out.
Andrew
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Glad to be of help. Have fun with your phone!

First of all make sure you're on the correct firmware for whatever rom and kernel your wanting to use or it will not boot. It will bootloop if on say a Marshmallow build amd your trying to install a Nougat rom.. Now if all matches you can proceed.. This is how I've installed roms for 5-6 years: in twrp wipe: data, system, cache, delvik cache, flash rom, flash gapps (open gapps mini is what I use) flash either SuperSu zip or PHH superuser, next reboot. Some roms (example: DU and AICP) come with SU already inside so no need to flash it.. You can tell because in twrp during flash process you'll see SU being installed If rom comes with it. If you choose to use PHH Superuser you'll need his app from Google play store. Just grab it (search PHH Superuser) and open it and you should be good to go. I use SuperSU as I've had issues using other SU with ARISE sound which is also something i use. Hope that's not confusing. Hmu on hangouts if you need help and I'll help when I'm available: [email protected]
Sent from my LG Nexus 5X using XDA Labs

Need any help
Hi mate, i have now unlocked bootloader, installed twrp and installed pure nexus rom. Did not use the toolkit, i used adb and fastboot using commands... It was easy. If you need a hand with anything give us a yell . [quoter=Angdvl089;68875927]So I rooted my 5X with the help of the Nexus root toolkit. I have successfully flashed Elementalx kernel through TWRP and have tried flashing the ROM and GApps through the toolkit and through TWP but always end up in a bootloop at the Google screen. What am I doing wrong?
I'm just looking to load a Custom ROM to possibly squeeze some extra battery life out of my 5X.[/QUOTE]