[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JediNinjafication:
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turns out I had my virginal immediatly after oem unlock stock twrp backup. See, I only had twrp a week and went to cwm so this lovely gem of a file was hiding away..lucky for us. I need to run a couple scans on computer before I attempt to hook phone up and then I will dropbox a twrp unrooted and twrp rooted recovery, this baby hasnt even been signed into yet! Title will reflect when posted. bear with me a for a bit, might be a couple hours but they will be up tonight.

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I lied, its not solved but I do have the stock backup files for ya and its from a 32gb gnex not a 16gb. didnt know they even made one. lovely. no root either. i tried. this is a folder with a stock twrp recovery I made the day after got my phone right after i unlocked bootloader. hope it helps someone. gross...im stock no root.

http://db.tt/5WvJiS4s

I have never ever seen anything like this before. My phone has gone nuts! It started with a slight flicker of a menu screen when tried sharing from the Google news to Facebook. I tapped the menu button in right corner and it was there, not there. There, not there. Basically flashing at me. I hit the power button and turned screen off then on again and was fine. Thought nothing of it again. Couple days later i had a random reboot and when it was fully loaded the screen blinked. Nothing really but i noticed it.

Jeez, my phone has been doing so many strange things I don't even know where to begin. I tried copying some posts i had but apparently that was not the way to go...whatever..anyway I thought it had to do with either Google admobs, adblocker, and my xda app conflicting because it seemed lag flicker etc was more prevalent when on xda, or swype because it just isn't working like normal. I went into sprint programming and changed my HA to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 because it's something i normally do anyway and installed openvpn to try and bypass the servers and use googles dns settings while tunneling to my router. I couldn't get the tun.ko path going. Was loaded, just couldn't find the path so that didn't work. Uninstalled swype. That didn't work.

Decided to hook phone to computer and dump cwm and go back to twrp. If phone on normal, adb devices returns serial. As soon as bootloader boots...nothing. Tried open script on goo. Said nothing available for my device. I don't know how i got it to finally install openscript but I now have twrp again (and am about to smash phone due to keyboard right now).

Decided was going reflash my current system, move original stock rooted backup off phone, wipe sd, move stock back. or however was gonna do it. I flashed new ROM and gapps. Booted. entire screen green like an old school video game. Toggled the power button and it went to normal. Immediately went to forum to ask for kernel that's good because i don't know anything about then but have the Franco updater, just had to reinstall it. I go to play store and it's blank. Like white screen with search bar. I hit the menu button and don't have an option for my apps. It's gone. So i search..anything i search says no results found. I restore, get the app and am golden..i thought. Just a little bit ago i was on google plus and a box pops up with options for dropbox or gmail. I didn't hit anything for that to ask in first place so cancelled. Go back to web to try to search stuff bout phone. It's now nothing more than a search bar. I hit menu d from nav bar. I get a window on bottom of screen(odd) that says search, go live, settings(more odd). None work so hitback button. No dice. Only exits if hit home. Now wtf is this?

Toro plus. Baked black bean. Franco milestone 5. I do not think it's ROM. I think it's app related. I'm only person having problems on this rom. Thanks

Please do not suggest a toolkit. I use adb

HERE IS THE FIX111

ok, so heres the deal with the fastboot issue. The gnex WASNT in the setup.inf file in the driver folder so I had to write it in. I found a random link somewhere after going to my devices while it was stuck in android 1.0 and looked at my hardware id for the driver. here is an example of what I wrote into the file between the nexus s and the nexus 7. Change numbers as needed.

;Google GalaxyNexus

%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_18D1&PID_4E30

%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB

\VID_18D1&PID_4E30&MI_01

%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB

\VID_18D1&PID_D001&REV_0216

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_04E8&PID_6860&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB

\VID_04E8&PID_6860&REV_0216&MI_01

obviously with wird wrap off they will be setup proper. Good luck!

*This Jedi master be a Ninj-ESS*