[Nexus 5 General] caitlin.:
wow. please help, i need my phone

Hi :)

(just to let newer users know in case its not apparent most of my comments such as "backups are worthless are meant very very sarcastically. most of what i explain in here is exactly what you shouldn't do and im pretty embarassed posting it .)

I consider myself to be reasonably educated about rooting, flashing, reovery, etc .. oh yeah, that part about backing up, too. I have been active

(ly lurking, learning, and loving) the XDA forums since I got the milestone :) So first I just have to recognize all the awesome people who take the time to develop, mod, fix, teach others, basically spend hours of their time to help others and allow us to have this incredible resource. .Thank you thank you thank you all. :good::good::highfive:

Second, well.. I did a really dumb thing the other day and in attempting too solve that made another dumb mistake, and so on... I am not sure why and I don't think I remember all of the bad decisions (Im pretty sure that each one was the least logical for the situation though). I am a tiny bit embarassed but please please please help if you can. Thank you so much in advance.

So I am currrently a zombie as I have spent like 2 days trying to understand guides about making your own usb otg device with a flash drive and other cables. and then just trying them out while I read them because "I'm sure it will make sense" :crying: My pas electrical experience consists of... attaching banana plugs to speaker wire. (I do have a dual usb drive btw, but haven't been able to find it in months. I have very little money so I guess that was my reasoning here. Anyway that went horribly.

This all started because I used to constantly try new mods and features but for realized the other day that I guess I just stopped in 2014 sometime. I was still running SlimKat and they didn't have any updates. Oh wow this is already a novel I'll try to be concise. I decided I should immediately flash stock and see what updates were availble. Backed up apps with Titanium Backup, took too long so I skipped the recovery backup and wiped all but data. Everyone here knows how pointless backups are im ssure ...:eek::eek: It finished, i accidently slid factory reset, freaked out about losing that precious data (probably just all the data from a bunch of games, and held the power button . :confused::(:mad::laugh:

I don't even know what or why. I guess I was just on autopilot. Dicovered I just deleted everything including the OS but I did still have the stock 4.44 image to save me. Except apparently it never downloaded or is in a very random place because I definitely don't have it on my phone. Meaning.... cant use adb., cant pull rhe stock image to my device So I figure the on;y chance I have is to buy another mini flashdrive and do it over otg, but just wanted to see if anyone might have any suggestions. If not, I hope it at the very least prevents someone else from ending up here. This is why reading, making sure you understand, and then actually following intructions is stressed so much.

Sorry this is so long and thank you in advance for any advice you can offer. I know I don't derserve any probably I have no idea what I was thinking

PS totally f'ed making my own OTG thing up too haha but it was actually kinda fun. and of course any insults and jokes are welcome... :)