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Help Nexus 4 just keeps running the loading screen

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LoveAndHappiness

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Hi guys,

my LG Nexus 4 doesn't start anymore. When I hit the power on button I get the loading screen with the four coloured balls circling around and back and forth, but my Nexus 4 does not start.

I 've waited for 24 hours, still nothing happens except the loading screen running.

I tried to boot in recovery mode ["power button" + "Volume Down Button"], but this does not work either. The buttons just don't seem to have any effect and the phone won't switch on.

What can I do? To make it work again?
I've experimented before with ADB and Fastboot and "flashed" something maybe accidentally. Is it possible to somehow wipe out everything on the smartphone and reinstall the OS?

Also the smartphone charges via USB cable, but my Laptop suddenly stop recognizing the device and wants to search for drivers. [Windows 7]. Where would I find a nexus 4 driver for windows to access my device and reinstall somehow the OS? Or any other recommendations? If not, how to I reinstall the OS? And while I am it, are there any other OS you could recommend? Like maybe windows 10?
 
Well if you were seriously asking whether Windows 10 is an option for the Nexus, I can tell you that is isn't ;). All mobile OSes have to be built for each device they are installed on, so you can only install android, and only android that was built for the Nexus 4.

If you've flashed stuff via fastboot then you should know what it was. But if you damaged the OS that way you'd have known immediately (at the latest, when you next tried to boot android). So if it was working for some time after your experiments and has now suddenly failed then that wasn't the cause. If you do have any idea what might have started it, that would be useful information. Not being able to get into recovery mode is a bad sign. Can you get it into fastboot mode, as that is what you'll need to reflash it?

If you are in some intermediate state (powered but not booted) then I'm not sure that driver problems are very surprising.

Anyway, if you want to reflash the phone the best place to look is in our Nexus 4 forum. This thread looks like what you want, but as I don't own one myself I can't offer any particularly useful advice myself.
 
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