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Do you have a custom recovery installed on the phone?
If so, you just put the zip on the internal storage and flash it via your recovery.
Once in recovery just go into the install menu and then install zip from sd card (or similar; the wording varies a bit in different recoveries) and browse to the location of your zip file.
If so, you just put the zip on the internal storage and flash it via your recovery.
Once in recovery just go into the install menu and then install zip from sd card (or similar; the wording varies a bit in different recoveries) and browse to the location of your zip file.
Do you still have the recovery.img saved in your fastboot directory?
If not, grab the latest from HERE.
Place that in the same directory as your fastboot tools. Use fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
"recovery.img" will be the exact name of the file. Your download will probably look like this: openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-mako.img so you can either rename the file to recovery.img and type the command like this: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
or you can leave the file name intact and the command would be: fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-mako.img
If not, grab the latest from HERE.
Place that in the same directory as your fastboot tools. Use fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
"recovery.img" will be the exact name of the file. Your download will probably look like this: openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-mako.img so you can either rename the file to recovery.img and type the command like this: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
or you can leave the file name intact and the command would be: fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-mako.img
acejavelin
Android Expert
Don't forget you need to go into /system (root required, must have r/w access to system) and remove or rename the file called 'recovery-from-boot.p' otherwise it will reflash the stock recovery on every boot if it is not the "correct" (ie. stock) one.
I don't think everyone has this issue... I've never heard of it until now and from what I saw when I looked it up, only some people seem to have this file.
It's directly in the system folder. Would probably show up at the bottom or close to.
If you reboot your phone and are still able to boot into cwm recovery, and not the stock recovery, you should be good to go.
It's directly in the system folder. Would probably show up at the bottom or close to.
If you reboot your phone and are still able to boot into cwm recovery, and not the stock recovery, you should be good to go.
acejavelin
Android Expert
It depends on the rooting method used, many all-in-one or root specific toolkits take care of it for you. If you manually root, you must do this since 4.3.1 on Nexus devices.
For all nexus devices? I'm using nexus 5 4.4.2 (obviously
) and I never had to do this. I manually rooted as always, because I just prefer to do so.
acejavelin
Android Expert
For all nexus devices? I'm using nexus 5 4.4.2 (obviously
I don't know that... I assumed so (we all know well that usually ends) but on my N4 that I manually rooted, I had to do it.
0utSid3r
Well-Known Member
acejavelin
Android Expert
ok how step by step do i get back to stock? so i can re-root, unlock bootloader and flash eclipse rom+gapps. i'm sorry im being so difficult with this but im for sure a noob when it comes to nexus 4.
Google dude... Its super easy... Or use Wugfresh's toolkit, it will do everything for you.
trying out eclipse rom now!