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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yatyuk:
Thank for your reply... but I can't turn on my phone even i connect to PC. My phone connected to PC, but no charging image, And i can get into any mode (e.g fastboot, bootloader), even can't turn it on.

What can i do..... i try the combine key with connection to PC..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michealtbh:
You flashed a kernel for a different device, what did you think would happen? It's most likely well and truly bricked.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katabroc:
I'm not an expert, but I believe that if you can't get into fastboot, you can't recover it by any means explained in this topic.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yatyuk:
which mean i am fully bricked :crying:???
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
My problem is that I can not get into recovery mode.... When I try to get it I can see google logo than screen goes off and the damn red led start blinking.... :(

Only fastboot, I've followed miku and then risktaker's when miku say untouched it means without any usb cable on it?

thank you
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
For the love of god, None of your devices are BRICKED! keep playing with your device. There are so many combinations to see some sort of action on your device.

Do you get a Battery icon when your device is plugged in the AC wall mount or the PC? If so your good.

Follow the steps in my post on Page 21 and onwards you should be alright.

Happy recovery!

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lol Bro how are you going to use ADB commands when your phone is not connected to your PC? Think about it.

Do this:

1) Get back in Fastboot.

2) Forget about Recovery for now, re-flash the Nexus 4 Occam image that I posted for "

katabroc

" earlier.

3) From there just follow the steps I mentioned before.

If you can get into Fastboot you shouldn't have any problems.

Again when your using those ADB commands try not to use the Reboot command, reverting in and out of the Fastboot is not a good idea at your state.

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I was EXACTLY at this level this past Friday. Someone else mentioned in the thread, "oh your device is f**ked & its truly bricked", but hey guess what, I have a fully operational device again.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
Risktaker I never had back my battery Icon since I start with red led issue; when you talk about your post did you mean this??!?

NOTE: This is all done while my Phone was connected to the PC

1) Once in Fastboot mode, through Nexus 4 Toolkit I flashed the Clock Work Recovery.

2) Then in the command prompt executed this command

Quote:

Reboot by typing: fastboot reboot-bootloader

3) Once rebooted back to Fastboot mode, I wasn't going to take any chances. So I followed " rayford85" advice and executed the erase cache command.

Quote:

fastboot erase cache

Then again,

Quote:

fastboot reboot-bootloader

4) Once I got back Fastboot after reboot, I selected the recovery mode and ran Factory reset and Viola! my phone is running Stock 4.2.1

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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Forget about the Battery Icon, Can you get into Fastboot or not?

If yes, Follow this

Now if you tend to get stuck at the animated Google X Follow these steps afterwards
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
Thank for your reply, this is the procedure I follow before, I've retried now (again) but instead of get stuck on Google X after the step 14) fastboot reboot

the led start blinking again...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Ok if you did all that its fine. Now Connect the phone to the PC and get into Fastboot. From there by the use of ADB commands Flash a custom recovery or TWRP (whatever you think works for you). I used the Toolkit, didn't have any issues.

Once in the Recovery or TWRP do a Factory Reset, Heck even clear the Cache Partition and the Dalvick(Sp?) Cache. Then give your device a reboot.

Hopefully this works out for you man, good luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abnormalreply:
Was your phone initially not turning on at all without being plugged in?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katabroc:
Hi guys. Risktaker84 is completely right, as long as your phone is getting into fastbook you can make it back.

I did everything he said on his last post, the only difference was that I did all miku's page 19 cmd commands and let the phone plugged in the PC for 15 min without touching it and after that I put it to rest on the wall charger for 3 hours (it was still blnking at that time).

After that I just followed the steps taking as much care as possible to not let it get back into red led light. How did I do that? In every possible boot, I stayed with the phone in my hands , unplugged it as soon as the screen went out and kept holding the vol down key when I plugged it back in the pc.

That was all. And after I got into recovery (remember my last post, the first time I booted into recovery I got a glimpse of the screen and it went dead again), i did go back to fastboot and into recovery (by choosing that option on fasboot and pressing menu) and when I got into recovery just did a wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, factory reset, then I went back to reboot menu and DID A POWER OFF. After that it was a 6 hours wait plugged into the pc when I could get the cell working again.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Yea that was the case at times. Although I always had the red light and the battery sign showcasing (when plugged in PC or AC for power) while I was messing around with the phone with different combo's.

Is everything on your ends resolved or your waiting for your new device to come in?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
what happen to me is that I can not get into recovery, every time start red blinking after google logo...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaarimitassa:
Its not an issue of the hardware just software fault try following miku3191 steps this will help ..... He had the red light problem but solved by charging it so chill.... And any progress do mention... :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abnormalreply:
I've had my replacement for almost a month now. I was never able to resolve the issue before I RMA'd. Even after re-flashing the stock images, the problem persisted. It's good to see at least some people are able to get it fixed, though it seems that some still can't. I'll link to your post in the OP so others can have a look at it too.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Yea sure, but do you mind clarifying the problem? I mean if you were able to get into Fastboot and also flash stock images; where did you get stuck after that?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
Ok I give up, I've folloved all the procedure in this thread but I get stuck at the end when I want to enter in CWM. After the google logo the screen tun off and start red blinking. I'm pretty suure my battery is in fault.

I'm outside US so I'll have to wait at least 2 month to have the replacement. Good work LG+Google, this is the first Nexus bricked for a nandroid backup...

thank you guy for the support!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
Did you have problem when RMA with a custom rom?

Thanks.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
Was your screen on when it was "bricked"? Thanks.

I've seen anything on my screen other than red led.

I've never been able to access fastboot, either.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abnormalreply:
After flashing the stock images, it still would turn on only when plugged into the computer or AC. Even though it was turning on, it would still loop at the Google logo. If I tried to go into Recovery from the bootloader, it resulted in the same loop. So really, I was able to flash any image I wanted, but the main problem was that it wouldn't turn on without being plugged in and when it turned on, it would loop regardless of what images I had flashed. I'm not sure what else I could've tried. I spent hours in fastboot everyday while waiting for the replacement to arrive.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Is the Red LED permanent? Or it only comes and goes when you try to play with the combinations of Power and Volume keys?

Did you ever get a Battery sign when you had it connected to the PC or AC for power?

Ok try this, I don't know if its gonna work or not but plug your phone in the wall receptacle for AC Charge and leave it for a while. On AC, the phone most likely, if completely dead, will stay idle but most likely jump back to Battery sign showing its charging or not.

When that happens, leave like that for a hour or two.

Let me know what happens. Good luck.

EDIT: The way I bricked my device, It was down to 20% and then I felt like changing my Kernel from Franco to Faux123. So went to CWR and I Flashed the Kernel the wrong way and BOOM the device died on me on the spot.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] undercover:
It could have been me. How did you manage to get out of dl mode?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Always had the Red LED light (not permanent only showcased when I use Power and Volume buttons) and Battery Sign popped whenever I had it connected to the PC or had it charging with AC power.

Then someone brought up interesting point to get into Fastboot and worked out for me. I just handled everything from there.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yatyuk:
Did you ever get a Battery sign when you had it connected to the PC or AC for power?

For my case, Battery sign never appeared at all

RED led appeared only when I use power + Vol- with connection to PC

Someone say press Vol- and then connect to PC, and I did this and no response

Now, i try to connect AC overnight. See what will happen.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Yea try that out and it should boot into Charging mode (hence you should see a Battery logo).

Good luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
No, red led never lasted over three seconds no matter I connected my phone to AC or PC.

No, I've seen a battery icon no matter I connect my phone to AC or PC. Actually I haven't seen my screen on even for a second.

Every time I connect my phone to AC, the red led starts to blink right away. It may go idle after charging for a while, and it starts blinking again.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sato84:
I have the same problem with you, they will send me a new one. I think the battery has a big problem.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faiz2036:
Can someone specific what kernel or recovery u use before this "brick" happen? Maybe we can use this data to know what the main cause of this "brick" happen.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma678:
Franco r19 with TWRP 2.3.3.2.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faiz2036:
1 for franco kernel

1 for twrp recovery.

else?"
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brom25:
CWM & Franco, Antutu brick too !
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faiz2036:
now:

2 franco

1 twrp

1 Cwm
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AppReviewBros:
It's hard to say what exactly causes the problem as some people have reported that their phones just stopped working in their pockets, however, in most cases it seems it is benchmarking that causes the issue due to the device overheating.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faiz2036:
i just want to make some survey.. more data, dev can make some research.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
AMAZING WORK risktaker84 ! :) Now guide me ... I was busy wid exams ! :P LOL ... I am stuck with "X" logo ! ... :)

See i read your stuck with "X" procedure,

BUT ONCE I FLASH CWM, AND WHEN I REBOOT, IT GOES RED BLINKING MODE AGAIN .. AS SOON AS IT REBOOTS ! THAT RED **** STARTS ! :(

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1 BRICKED KERNEL !!!!

2 franco

2 twrp

1 cwm

"many" due to ANTUTU ! ..

GUYS DONT OC AND PERFORM A BENCH !!! PLZ ! ... IT RUINED MY DEVICE !! HOPE I FIND THE SOLUTION SOON ! :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faiz2036:
UPDATE:

2 FRANCO

1 BRICKED KERNEL

2 TWRP

1 CWM

2 ANTUTU

2 user got red light blinking after using ANTUTU
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3m0x:
I use Faux Kernel

But guys, this is strange... I flashed the kernel in the night, 12/30/12 and the next day in the night I was preparing my cloth and all that stuff for the new year event and, i put my n4 to charge with ac, and when i finish the whole preparations, the n4 was charging soooo slow but i dont care about it in the right moment, then when im in the party i saw how n4 was discharging so fast and, when n4 got discharged i was trying to turn on again but the led got red... I dont want to think this sh*t is meess up...

sorry for my bad english.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AppReviewBros:
Now that's strange... Try leaving it on charger and try turning it on later again.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
I was on stock rom with trinity, kernel.

I was doing a nandroid backup using twrp

Inviato dal mio MZ601 con Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katabroc:
Just do all CMD on page 19 and then follow risktaker84 instructions on page 21 (or my posts) .

As he said, you DO NOT have a bricked device as long as you can get into fastboot. I recovered my phone 2 days ago and it´s working like a charm, and I hate some stock features, so I´m using AOKP and it´s really fine.

DO NOT loose your hopes, the phone is NOT dead as long as you can get into fastboot, I learned that the hard way, and after many many tries I could get it back, it MIGHT be a hardware problem, but you can solve it!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
Page 19 commands were posted by me only ! LOL ;) although i did that again, NOW STUCK WITH "X" LOGO

and as risktaker explained the "X" unbrick procedure, I tried to do that, but when i

fastboot reboot bootloader

It again starts flashing RED ~!!~
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Sorry for the late reply, recovering from a Hangover.

Ok when you get stuck at the X logo and then you restarted your phone and got into Fastboot right?

How were you able to flash recovery or twrp? I mean what method did you use? Toolkit or ADB CMD's?

I don't think you should start with this CMD

fastboot reboot bootloader

, Rather jump to

fastboot erase cache

and go on from there. Let me know what happens.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
LOL !! its ok... dude ... i m still high ! ... i m hoping to do that right when i m high ! ;)

When i see the "X" screen, and i reboot ( WITHOUT CONNECTING TO THE PC OR CHARGER !!!) nothing happens !!!!!

then when i connect to the PC or CHARGER , it shows "X" !

then when i m still connected to the PC, I can access the FASTBOOT !!! ONLY WHEN I M CONNECTED !!!

when i am disconnected it doesnt do anything !!! Its like dead !!!

And then only I can access FASTBOOT ! ;) :)

Now guide me plz ! :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
Ok lets do this, for this whole procedure don't disconnect your phone from the PC. Let it stay connected.

Once in Fastboot mode:

1) On your PC, use the ADB Command

fastboot erase cache

2) Then with the use of Nexus 4 Toolkit or basic ADB CMD's flash CWM or TWRP

3) After the CWM or TWRP is flashed use this ADB CMD again

fastboot erase cache

4) Now try to reboot the bootloader with this ADB CMD

fastboot reboot-bootloader

Now with this you should be able to boot back into Fastboot mode and try going to CWM or TWRP from here.

Once inside do:

1) Wipe data/Factory reset,

2) Clear cache partition

3) Wipe Dalvik cache

Then Reboot your device, if all goes well you should be able to boot in Stock Android 4.2.1

Good luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
Hey ! ... I reached a stage, where, when i simply connected the device to the WALL CHARGER, I could get a BATTERY ANIMATION ! but it animated for more than 4 Hrs... and when i tried to reboot, after detaching the device, it didnt work !

And when i again connected to the wall charger it started flashing RED...

Should i leave it for more than 6 Hrs. ? or so ?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
miku3191 did you simply follow the described procedure?? I was with your same issue, but I could not been able to enter in recovery or get battery Icon; always red led blinking...

I've tried dozen of time to erase chace flash and enter into CWM (manually via fastboot) whitout success...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risktaker84:
NO NO NO, Don't D/C the phone from PC! Let it stay connected. I honestly don't know what your doing wrong man. You should be able to recover your phone from Fastboot.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Firemil:
Seems like the thing everyone with a void warranty would have. Hardware failure on a custom rom.

Technically, your device is faulty and LG made a mistake in quality. You would get a replacement if you didn't unlock the boot loader in the first place.

I won't even unlock the loader of this N4, it has stock android, it's blazing fast and smooth, is stable, has all features I need.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
if you see that X your phone is fine. its the android firmware that makes that X glow. i'd not fool around here. get a factory image, tap the clickme.bat inside and you're good. there is no way you'll end up with a bootloop afterwards. all you gotta do is make sure fastboot and adb is installed (you can extract them from the toolkit, dont forget the dll's) and your device is in fastboot mode (power + vol-down).

must say though, i have never seen as many bricking topics before, not even on the s2 forums where they hammer bits and bytes via odin. somethings really fishy. flashed a kernel myself that discharged the phone in minutes just by lying there, got hot aswell. i think im gonna revert to stock kernel, its obvious theres something evil going on - there are virtually zero bricking threads for gnex and nex7, here its running rampant.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
youre not helping dude. if you look for chit chat about templerun i don't believe a forum geared towards development is the right place. people go here because they want to squeeze more out of their open-plattform pocket-computers. this whole ha-ha told you so thing is not what you want to hear if your device is going to ****s.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pa.pn2:
abolutly agree

i had the same, flashed xylon with trinity, did no overlocking or benching and phone was lost in my pocket

seemd to be dead, all tips did not work for me

there must be something with the battery i think...dont know exactly cause im not a technician:(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sz4kerto:
I'm another guy with a completely bricked phone -- just unlocked/rooted it, no custom ROMs, no overclocks, nothing at all. I planned to install a VPN software on it in the future, hence the rooting.

Disappointing. :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
For everyone that was not able like me to access recovery try to install latest twrp downloading it from the site and not using any toolkit (that install older version)

Then erase cache; reboot bootloader and try to enter recovery....

I've restarted the whole procedure but I was finally able to get into custom recovery...

Inviato dal mio MZ601 con Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3m0x:
Same to me... I like Google, but come on... now the way its RMA...:(

My N4 dont turn on, when i plug in to AC or USB red led appears, no charging animation, NO NOTHING!!

And to be honest, If I have the chance to decide if buy another one, I dont know if buy again a N4.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zainiak:
If this happens, and you RMA it, can Google tell that you unlocked the bootloader??
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
risktaker84 - Hmmm... exactly speaking i dont know what i did ! :( But i reached that step !

Although whenever i disconnect the phone, it again gets the same old problem... Although i think i gotta opt ur procedure once again ! ;) Lemme try ! :)

molesarecoming - clickme.bat ? !!

i could enter fastboot by (vol - )! only !!! when pressing POWER + VOL -, it shows fastboot and in a jiffy, it goes blank again ! isnt this correct ?

Although i see my device in fastboot mode when i do " fastboot devices" ! so i guess no issues ?! with the key combination !?

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If you keep it STOCK ! no point in using a developer phone !!!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
I've made some step to solve my issue...

so now using latest twrp I'm able to enter in recover...

IIn wipe I've wiped factory reset and Cache + Dlavik chace... After the reboot still have the red led blinking...

So I've reloaded the recovery and I've noticed using this commad:

adb shell cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/capacity

2396280

that the battery seems charging!!!!

the number is increasing...

So I think to wait some hour and retry the reboot.... I've a little hope now!!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
Man ! How are you using the ADB commands ?! :P I guess i sound foolish ! but i m confused ! ... I was using only fastboot commands !
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] undercover:
Guys, just a wild thought. CWMr had a bug on Sensation when it wouldn't charge when off. Could it be similar issue here? Are all "bricked" people on CWMr?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
flash latest TWRP then enter in recovery mode. now you should be able to run

cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/capacity

directly from twrp terminal or

adb shell cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/capacity

if you do it from a connected pc where android sdk tools are installed.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
MAN VIOLA !!! I M IN TWRP RECOVERY !! NOW WHAT !! TELL ME ! i did factory reset , wiped CACHE + DALVIK CACHE

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THIS COMMAND IS GIVING ME "0" as an output !!!

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When i manually browsed to /sys/class/power_supply

THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE "BATTERY" !! ? :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pa.pn2:
no,there were also people with twrp..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meangreenie:
I guess people have tried wiping the battery stats ?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] undercover:
That has no effect on the situation here. Battery stats are only to report what has been draining your battery and how long your screen was on for in settings-battery.

Battery controller could have some bad stats, but that is beyond our access.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meangreenie:
hmm... i thought it was for recalibrating your battery
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] undercover:
Old myth that's been busted by Google engineers.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miku3191:
OK GUYS i found certain files inside power_supply/

battery

usb

pm8921-dc

wireless

but ADB command of "capacity" still shows "0" !!!

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anyone knows how to flash custom ROM! ? if not in internal SD ? from external media ? kind of, connecting it to PC ?

I dont have USB-OTG ! and that usb also needs to be flashed in ext4 ? i guess !
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayford85:
If your in recovery, just push a rom zip with adb

Adb push rom.zip . /sdcard
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lupick:
now after a reboot without success I'm also stuck with capacity = 0

if I try

adb shell cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/status

it say charging

I've pushed latest CM 10.1 but when I try to install it after 20 sec phone turn off and red led start again..