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Root Help! Nexus 5 Root issues!

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Adam Young

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Hi all!

I rooted my nexus 5 back in November just after the warranty ran out. All went well until mid December.
I can not find the name of the root I used :(

Since Dec my phone will not work with Fastboot or ADB! I have no way to re flash my ROM. Do you have any ideas how I can get a stock ROM on it without using the PC? Tried 4 different PC's and it's causing real issues ( No google play services)

Any helpful input more than welcome!

Tried win7, win8, 8.1 and Ubuntu 14. Usb 2.0 and 3.0 different cables.
Thanks, Adam
 
Hey Adam, I've moved your thread over here to our all-things-root area for you.

I'm guessing/betting you might have used Towel Root when you were still on JellyBean? (4.4)

I don't believe that rooting tool works on Lollipop, so that pretty much limits your ability to re-root to using your USB cables.

Can you view your N5's "SD card" from your PC otherwise? (i.e., is your USB port a goner?)
 
Yes, Used towelroot. All worked great for over a month.
Now towelroot says ''Phone not supported''

Yes I can view all of my storage. But my Pc can't view the phone properly and vice-versa. Almost as if the PC had no drivers (It does)
No matter what i've tried, The phone when off says ''No Command'' .

Yes the problem seems to be 5.0?
 
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Okay, let's try this for you adb issues (which won't help you with rooting, though):

1. Go into Settings -> Storage
2. Press the 3 vertical dots (ellipses) on the top right of the screen
3. Select USB computer connection
4. Put your device in Camera (PTP) mode

Now try accessing with adb devices (you might need to do an adb kill-server first).

I had to do/use this method to get my daughter's old N5 (water damage) to work w/adb.

This wouldn't be of any help for fastboot since Android isn't running then...

You've got the N5 Windows drivers installed, right? (one source for that: http://www.android.gs/download-and-install-google-nexus-5-usb-drivers-adb-fastboot/).

I've also read that it's often helpful to de-install/remove any old USB drivers (although I can't give you a process for that since I haven't experience that myself).

Also, seeing as how you mentioned you've used Ubuntu to try this (did you prefix your fastboot commands with sudo when you tried to access your N5? you need to give him superuser privileges even in Linux).

Other than the above, I'm not sure...I would certainly think that if you can still access things in some way from your PC over a USB cable that the issue would lie with a USB driver...

Hopefully other (smarter :p :)) folks will chime-in here with some helpful advice.
 
Ok, the camera PTP changed nothing.
The drivers are still not installing! :'(
''Just says unable to find driver'' Even though I took it to the correct path. I had previously tried this method.
Not worked since 5.0.
So i'm sure it's a driver issue. But none work for some reason. Even switching PC.

Yes it had Superuser privileges.

Thanks for your efforts!
 
If windows isn't installing drivers might want to look into that first, as for your Linux build what was it telling you as you tried to do what you were doing?
 
Don't remember what linux said. I tried it about 2 months ago. (bad memory) And I don't have access to it at this time
Windows : It's on 3 Different PC's! And two of them ADB/Fastboot is known to work! This is why I think it's the phone messing up somewhere.

Are there no ''unroots'' That can be ran without a pc? :(
 
Adam Young said:
Don't remember what linux said. I tried it about 2 months ago. (bad memory) And I don't have access to it at this time
Windows : It's on 3 Different PC's! And two of them ADB/Fastboot is known to work! This is why I think it's the phone messing up somewhere.

Are there no ''unroots'' That can be ran without a pc? :(
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Are you on windows 8/8.1? You may need to disable the signed driver enforcement feature on that version when installing Google drivers or pdanet drivers.
 
You also might want to check how the device shows up in device manger (in windows). MTP/PTP/DEBUG connections should list it as "nexus 5" under portable devices. Bootloader has it listed as "Android bootloader interface" under Android device. ADB obviously is "Android ADB interface." If you have an "unknown device" showing when you plug your n5 in any of these states, you have a driver problem.
 
Adam Young said:
Don't remember what linux said. I tried it about 2 months ago. (bad memory) And I don't have access to it at this time
Windows : It's on 3 Different PC's! And two of them ADB/Fastboot is known to work! This is why I think it's the phone messing up somewhere.

Are there no ''unroots'' That can be ran without a pc? :(
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I would get a Live CD/USB and try from there. I have not had an issue with Linux picking up any of my devices. I would recommend Fedora or OpenSUSE as both have android-tools in their repositories. Also you have made sure that USB debugging is on in the device? And the device is not awaiting for you to accept the RSA Fingerprint?
 
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