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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Handa10:
Works perfect !!!

Although I am noob

This took 3 days I m trying to understand what actually means

Very in depth review hats off!!

Btw do u belong to any programmer?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Belong? Lol, no.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
efrant's new name is george
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mxconnections:
When I was trying to boot the recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img

it said cannot load recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img

What did I do wrong?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
what did you type in the command prompt? did you put the recovery image in the same location as the fastboot.exe?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Handa10:
i thought you must be programmer in back stage for android development:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
:) I'm not a programmer or developer, I have no background in IT or Android, and I've never worked in IT (I'm a finance guy).

Everything I know about Android, I learned by reading (mostly XDA-dev) and experimenting. All the knowledge is out there - you just have to spend some time reading AND thinking. For example, don't blindly type in commands from a how-to guide - ask yourself what those commands are doing; think about what is happening, try to figure it out and understand.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Handa10:
I cant agree more !!

I am just a newbie to xda previously i was Downlaoder of net now m thinking become a great programmer like you are:)

I m bit of fear of experiments with Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vizkid2005:
Thanks efrant !!!

Updating to jelly bean as I write this this post ...

Thanks again
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] acesofbelkan:
For some reason when I try to open the Fastboot application, it immediately closes, anyone knows why? Im running windows 7 64bit
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 3rdstring:
Fastboot is a command line utility. You open a command window in the foder and type a command, i.e. fastboot oem unlock
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bourne-nolonger:
You don't execute the fastboot.exe like you would a normal .exe

fastboot.exe is a command line utility.

In order to use it under windows you need to open up a command prompt, cd to the directory where the fastboot.exe is, and type fastboot followed by its available options or switches
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mr.gibran85:
i'm on a custom rom should i follow the steps as it is to restock (GSM), i had used the galaxy nexus tool kit to install drivers/root/recovery will that be enough ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Follow the steps. If your drivers are already installed and working, no need to install them again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlitzWing00:
Thx for the detailed instructions, it worked great!

The only recommendation I have is maybe a note should be made if you backup your current build in step B.3 that you should then reboot back to Android before doing anything else and copy the backed up build to your computer. This is because when I got to step D.10 I was afraid to do this step as it said my /sdcard would be wiped along with my backed up current build. I was a noob and note 5 said not to skip it. What happened was it did boot loop at step D.16 because I skipped step D.10. I waited 30 mins as it said it would take a very long time. I rebooted and did the rest of note 5 and Jelly Bean did work after that. I copied the backed up build and decided to repeat all the steps in D again in case userdata.img was really important. Everything was fine from there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rourick:
Issue with installing the bootloader interface.

Hello guys,

I've run into this issue with the bootloader interface not installing correctly, after installing the universal naked driver in download mode, it shows up as "Samsung Android Interface", not "Samsung Galaxy Nexus BootLoader Interface". I tried uninstalling that driver from my system and ran the universal drivers again, but it returns the same. The ADB interface installed just fine.

Anyway after trying as I might I decided to keep it like that and try the next steps up to the cmd prompt (my directory was correct) to identify my device with "fastboot devices", as I entered that, it returned nothing and awaited the next command, so not knowing what I had to see there I then entered the next line "fastboot oem unlock" and it returned " < waiting for device > ", and just stays at that.

I'm guessing the problem lies with that little detail up top? Suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

- R
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GleepGlop2:
I am also getting this:

sending 'system' (396675 KB)... FAILED (remote: Exceed Buffer Size (0x16400000))

Here's my details and I'm a complete noob:

I'm on a mac, and I downloaded the mac specific bootloader and put it in the same directory as the android 4.1 files that I extracted using Ez7z (a mac version of 7-zip). ( I didn't do anything with the fastboot file though, I just opened up a terminal and did a 'cd' for the directory all of the files are in).

Everything went fine until i got to the step of flashing the system.img

edit: I just tried copying the .tgz to windows and using the official 7zip to extract everything and then copy it all back to my mac. I still get the FAILED message trying to flash the system.img

When I hold down the 3 buttons to boot into that special mode do I just leave it there or do I have to navigate into recovery mode?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
1) For the fastboot driver to install, you need to be in fastboot mode, not download mode.

2) If it is installed properly, "fastboot devices" will return a string of numbers indicating that your device is connected.

3) "Waiting for device" means the driver is not installed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
1) what is a "mac-specific bootloader"? Are you talking about the Mac fastboot file? That needs to be extracted from the zip right?

2) are you sure you extracted all the images from the zip that was inside the tgz? As the first post says, you need to extract ALL the archives, and end up with SIX files ending in .IMG
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GleepGlop2:
Yes I meant the Mac fastboot file. All of the zips were extracted and I have 6 .img files...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Sometimes it messes up and you have to close the command prompt window and open it again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thatar:
works like a charm on my mac

thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GleepGlop2:
OK I tried switching ports / cables / closing and re-opening terminal: I still get the same error.

So the mac fastboot file just has to be in the same folder as all of the .img files? I don't have to actually do anything with that file, it gets used automatically? Again, all of the previous steps worked until this one. Once I hold the 3 buttons and get the android with the option that says "Start" I dont have to touch the phone, everything is done through the terminal on my mac?

Should I try verifying the MD5 checksum on the system.img file? I have no idea where I am going wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Yes.

Well, when you are in the terminal and you type ./fastboot xxxwhatever, you are using/executing/running it.

Which is kinda strange. Usually that happens when someone doesn't extract the zip within the .tgz

Correct. You just leave it on that screen.

Did you verify the MD5 of the .tgz that you downloaded?

Can you post a screen shots showing all the files in the directory, and a screen shot of the terminal showing the failed flash?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GleepGlop2:
OK I just verified the MD5 of the .tgz that I got from google. Here is the screenshot. Thank you so much for your help!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GleepGlop2:
Here is what it says on my phone:

FASTBOOT MODE

PRODUCT NAME - tuna

VARIANT - maguro

HW VERSION - 9

BOOTLOADER VERSION - PRIMEKK15

BASEBAND VERSION - I9250XXLF1

CARRIER INFO - NONE

SERIAL NUMBER - a bunch of numbers

SIGNING - production

LOCK STATE - UNLOCKED
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Not sure if it has anything to do with it or not, but you haven't flash the LC03 bootloader yet. You should flash that first, then reboot into the bootloader, and then proceed to flash the system image.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GleepGlop2:
THAT WAS IT!!! I somehow missed that step although I assumed I hadn't missed it! I am now on 4.1!!!

THAAAAAANK YOOOOOUUUU!!!!

The moral of the story is verify what it says on your phone with what it should be saying!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] felix021274:
I am getting a problem with part D;

9) Flash the system partition: fastboot flash system system.img

I am getting "FASTBOOT STATUS - FAILExceed Buffer Size"

Any ideas?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
This is the second time I need to let you know not to quote the OP. Fix it please, and I will attempt to help you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Have you flashed the LC03 bootloader BEFORE flashing the system image?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] felix021274:
Sorry - brain has not got in gear today!

Any help with this is very much appreciated.

---------- Post added at 10:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:15 PM ----------

No. I don't see that file in the folder I unpacked
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Maybe if your brain is not in gear today, you should hold off for a day... :D See below:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] felix021274:
All sorted! 4.1.1 installed and looking good :cool:

Was (obviously) not reading the instructions correctly!

Thanks a lot for your help (and patience) on this one. Really appreciated :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lectere:
new Galaxy Nexus, I want to update it

I just bought a new Galaxy Nexus, deliverd this week, and comes with Android 4.0.4. I really want to update to 4.1.1.

I've did the Google Services Framework trick like 50 times now, and the 'over the air update' just doens't come. I'm in The Netherlands/Europe, bougt it at a local store.

I develop android applications so I require my phone to be 100% original. Also when the next android version come, I want to be able to update over the air, as google intented it.

I want to keep every

Two question,

1-can I follow the google way to update my Galaxy Nexus (https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images) given that I want to keep it original.

2-I like Sushi, but I'm really not to keen on the names takju, nakasi, sojua? I just don't know what type I have (bought it in a local store here in the netherlands) Is there a way to determine what ?hardware version? (takju/sojua) I have?

Thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
1) thats what this guide does. flash yakju

2) look at the baseband version in the about phone section.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lectere:
Thanks,

But in the baseband version, I don't see names like Yakju etc. Is there a table somewere to convert those names?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
what does it say?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lectere:
It's at home, so I don't know now.

But under my other Galaxy Nexus it says; I9250XXLF1 (this one did update to 4.1.1 over the air)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
You need to look at the "Build number" in Settings->About phone. I can't list them off for you (I can't remember), but if you post it, I can easily tell you what it is.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lectere:
Thanks, will do tonight!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lectere:
It's the I9250XXLA2!

Over here they suggest its a phone brought out by Samsung, not Google, so it be slower to update to 4.1. But I want 4.1.1 really bad!

(http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/26027/jelly-bean-on-the-galaxy-nexus-forcing-an-update)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] X4m0n:
If I remember correctly I only skipped radios.

So now I need to open same directory I flashed from before, go to bootloader mode and do steps: 1, 7, 8 15?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Actually, all you need to do is open same directory you flashed from before, go to bootloader mode, and do steps 11, 12, 13, 15. Now that I think about it, the radio doesn't matter for the IMM76I update.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] X4m0n:
Sir, again thank you very much. One more thing I would like to know is will this allow that pesky update to install or I wont get it any more after this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
This will allow it to install.

If you want to not have it install, and get rid of the notification, I can show you how to do it, but I would recommend installing it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kknundy:
Thank you

And once again my trust in the inherent goodness of men is justified. Thank you.

since I'm not allowed links yet.

kknundyDOTthinkbiosolutionDOTcom/file/Screenshot_4.0.4.png

P.S. For what definitely isn't the first time, the manual step-by-step procedure, making no assumptions, worked, where the "toolkit for lazy noobs" approach didn't.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] opa_roa:
Hi, can i make this in LInux(Fedora 16) i have looking for was must be install, but no sucess.

Can you say my was must be install
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Yes, you can use linux.

Just put a ./ before each fastboot command.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] opa_roa:
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some applications to install!?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
No. You do not need drivers in linux.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] opa_roa:
Thanks efrant
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jwildman16:
Verizon

Hi -

I just wanted to check in and see if you had posted this walkthrough yet for the Verizon version. Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
I haven't yet, but it is essentially the same. The only thing that would be different (aside from making sure you download the mysid image, and not the yakju or takju image) is that there is one extra command for the toro's second radio. So just add two steps in Part D, between 8 and 9 (let's call them 8a and 8b), as follows:

8a) Flash the CDMA radio: fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img (or whatever the name is of the radio image that you downloaded).

8b) Reboot: fastboot reboot-bootloader

That's it. Guide is now toro-compliant! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jwildman16:
[/QUOTE]That's it. Guide is now toro-compliant! :)[/QUOTE]

Thanks so much! Really looking forward to doing this tomorrow morning.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dendirk:
Efrant, thanks i finnaly went from yakjuxw to yakju following your guide, works perfect now.

The only worry i have how to put the backup i made from my original rom back and relock the bootloader.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gucci.Nexus:
drivers and fastboot issues

I have read this entire thread, and all the listed help threads but I am still having troubles. I don't know if I am uinstalling/installing the drivers properly, or how to get the command prompt. I read 1wayjonny's thread, but I still don't understand. I am a noob for android

These are the steps I am doing. Can someone please help correct me:?

1) Connect my phone, go to device manager, click portable devices

2) I don't see any drivers other than the portable devices > galaxy nexus. So, I click galaxy nexus, and update the driver, using the directory 'Universal_Naked_Driver_Beta_0.6'.

3) Disconnect the phone. Start the phone in fastboot, and connect it to the pc. I go to device manager and click android 1.0. and update driver using the directory 'Universal_Naked_Driver_Beta_0.6'.

Can you also please help me understand step 8 - 'open a command prompt in the same directory.' How do I open a command prompt? I have tried clicking the fastboot icon, and the adb icon, but all that happens is a ms dos type window pops up for a second then disappears... i don't know where/how I start typing all those commands for flashing.

I have extracted all files into one directory using 7zip.

Please help,

{EDIT} I ended up figuring it out....got 4.04 takju flashed and it seems to have helped improve dropped calls, which is very beneficial. I flashed all images (all optional steps). After the phone seemed to be stuck on a screen with white Google writing and a unlock image. It was stuck for a long time. So I re-flashed all the steps again (except the optional ones) and it worked. The reason i flashed takju is because i wanted wallet... but I now realize being in Canada, wallet is not even available. So I might flash yakju now because efrant said it updates sooner. If i want to flash yakju, what steps do i need to follow? I also want to start figuring out what radio is the strongest, so that I can flash it, in hopes that I will get a better signal in my bedroom. Does anyone know of a good forum that discusses radio and their assumed signal strength. Thanks so much efrant and to everyone contributing. It is cool starting to learn this stuff!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LifeInAnalog:
...Hey! Just have the window open for the directory that you want to be in (click an open space in the window, just to be sure) and hold shift, and right click. You'll see an "open command prompt here" option.

That's it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
How did you create a backup? If you used CWM, you cannot restore it and keep yakju. If you restore it, you will be back on yakjuxw. If you want to restore your app settings, you needed to backup them up using Titanium Backup or something like that.

Your procedure for the drivers should work. Getting them installed is the only difficult part of the process.

As for you the command prompt, just do what LifeInAnalog suggested.

By the way, these are items that are not related to Android -- these are issues related to knowing how to use Windows...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gucci.Nexus:
Thanks for trying to help. That method doesn't work in xp... so I finally figured out to click start and run. Enter cmd. Then it took me a while to figure out how to use the command line properly. Thanks again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
All you have to do then is copy the backup into the same folder that it was when you created it, boot into fastboot mode, make sure you are in the same directory as your fastboot.exe file and the cwm.img file, and type: fastboot boot cwm.img.

Then restore the backup in CWM, then re-lock your bootloader by going back into fastboot mode and typing: fastboot oem lock
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 3rdstring:
That's the baseband. Efrant is asking for the build number.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lectere:
It was the IMM76K build, samsung managed, i had to buy a white one for my girl ;). But I allready loaded the android 4.1.1 manually.

Thanks for this great guide guys, and thanks for the help!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] krymfa:
Thanks!

Exploring my first android device. Your post was invaluable to me. Thanks for providing this to the community!

K
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anil76:
Will this work in JB as well ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zixin:
Gratefull

Thank you very much, I found this most useful. :highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anil76:
Thanks.. I just re-read the instructions and realized that I will have to unlock my bootloader. If I unlock my boot loader & root my device (I will still stick with stock rom), will I continue to get OTA update from google ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Yes!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leovyn:
efrant, i have question on installing the drivers.

i followed Bourne-nolonger's post on how to install drivers. but i have problem when i am trying to install the driver which need to check USB debugging, after i check USB debugging in developer options, Windows did not fail to install the driver, it installed it successfully, therefore i dont have Android 1.0 under Other devices and therefore i could not continue the steps which need to right click it and choose update driver software. what should i do to solve this? and can i proceed to the next part which is to install another driver using fastboot mode without complete installing the first driver?

other than that, i have another question which is about fastboot my handset. in order to boot my handset into fastboot mode, i need to press and hold volume up + volume down + power key, right? but how long do i need to hold it? is it just a second? or until fastboot screen pop up?

thank you for you time and i look forward to your reply :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Not sure. Try uninstalling the driver that Windows automatically installed, or try updating it with the one you downloaded.

Just until it turns on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bourne-nolonger:
Going with what efrant suggested... try removing all the drivers and disabling the windows auto install of drivers. Then toggle the USB debugging on and off again and see if windows will fail to install.

When you uninstall the driver, check and seen if there is an option to "uninstall and delete driver..." (or something to that effect) . Its not always available. But check and see.

Cheers
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leninselvaraj:
Thanks a lot efron.

I just converted my gnex. Converted from yakjuwx to yakju ics 4.0.4. Now jellybean update is available for me but it is saying that downloading available for wifi only until 17th August. I don't have wifi but I do have 3g.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
You could have flashed the JRO03C images instead of the IMM76I images.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
is your first name zack, efrant?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
LOL!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chamanlal:
Google wallet stopped working, forgot to do reset before flash

I flashed takju but I did not do google wallet reset before flashing, and now wallet is not working. Is there a way to get google wallet working back again?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 3rdstring:
Do you have a nandroid of your previous ROM with Wallet working?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zxizxi:
hi,

i have the same charging issues after flashing yakju.

i'm on WindMobile is the issue came back?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chamanlal:
No i do not. I didn't think it would be necessary. Since I was going from stock yakjuxw to stock takju.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UnknownFearNG:
Dumb question, but by reverting to the latest stock ROM, am I going back to pure vanilla, as in AOSP stock?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mr.gibran85:
wish someone could make a video tutorial so that noobs don't brick their phones, is there a way to flash files just like it's done on other samsung devices "ODIN"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Yes, stock is "pure vanilla". It's not really AOSP. AOSP usually refers to ROMs built from from source by others (not really Google's ROM built from source). But it's just semantics.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
You canNOT brick your device following this method. It's not difficult, and you shouldn't really need a video to follow the steps.

Yes there is, but unlike the method in this thread, you CAN brick your phone using Odin.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
So I am in Canada and I dont get updates on yakjuux so I went ahead and did the tutorial for 4.1 yakjux jellybean. I recived a buffer error when flashing the system.img. I did not know I had to make a backup of anything. Did not see a step for it other than to backup personal data. Now my phone is stuck on the "google" screen and shows the boot loader unlocked and just sits at this point. Pretty frightnening.... Really need help asap to get back running. Would be happy even to be back at stock... Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Did you flash the LC03 boot loader BEFORE attempting to flash the system image? Flash it the re-flash system.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I assume your talking about this note here.

"6) Jelly Bean requires a newer bootloader. I would not flash anything earlier than LA03, or you may have issues."

No i did not flash the LC03 bootloader. I did not see a step for it. my phone will not boot up but I can see the fast boot screen on my phone it says bootloader versuin PRIMEKK14. Should I try to install 4.0.4 instead?I hear a badflash of the bootloader can brick the phone :S

Sorry edit:

I just noticed this file "bootloader-maguro-primelc03.img" in my directory. So i need to flash this before flashing to 4.1. So would be redoing all the steps over and adding this before the system.img fix my phone and have it on jellybean? is the command similar to flash lc03. Also how come there is no step for flashing lc03? Could you wrap my head around the whole checksum thing? :P

thanks efrant!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Look at step D5...

Flash all the images again starting with the bootloader.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Oh my I feel stupid!!! I will try this right now! I saw the optional not for noobs. and thought to myself yes, yes I am a noob skip that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] doublewings:
First ever smartphone. Converted successfully with 1st attempt. Thanks efrant!