I was updating my Mom's Nexus 4 to 4.4 (with the intention of bringing it to the current version to address various security issues -- like stagefright), but it appears to have "soft-bricked" as some people are calling it.
- locked bootloader
- not rooted.
- stock firmware
It goes into a "bootloop"? Where the Google logo displays forever (at least 30 minutes) w/o doing anything.
Normally I'd have spent more time doing this (e.g. backing it up, etc). But due to various personal mishaps in the past year, my tech environment is incomplete and a mess. I've never had problems w/ OTA updates so I foolishly went ahead w/o an adb backup -- which would have at least given me most files (even if I have to redo the entire setup). Also, due to poor timing, I was in a rush to get this done so she'd have a week or so before her trip to get used to the small changes (yes, she freaks out over small changes like the camera UI being different). So, whenever you're doing 2 things at once, you never pay attention to one thing fully. And this is also what happened to the OTA update -- so if there were ANY error messages or anything during the update, I did not notice. =(
Unfortunately I also don't have the device in front of me (things like work get in the way of personal masochism -- aka playing with tech).
Anyhow... I'm not exactly certain if it was going to 4.4. When I downloaded the OTA images for the Nexus 4 for 4.4 and tried to flash using the flash-all tool, it complained that the bootloader was not the right one. When I pulled down 4.3 and tried to flash, it did not complain about that bootloader version. So perhaps it didn't properly flash the bootloader? In any case, is there any chance of getting at the files now before a wipe?
What confuses me, is why I cannot flash w/ a STOCK image. Aren't they signed? Even with a locked bootloader, couldn't it in theory let the right images in?
Also, I'm normally in a windows environment, but due to my machines all being down, I'm on the work MacBook Pro instead. So unfortunately I can't try WugFresh's rootkit -- although I'm not sure it would help w/ a locked boot loader.
So... the questions are:
1) Is there a way to flash to a stock OTA image w/o losing data?
2) Or if that's not possible, is it possible to get the data from the phone?
3) Or I'm out of luck and I shouldn't waste any more time trying to recover what's lost?
(Btw, I didn't lose everything -- e.g. I have photos, sms and call logs backed up. WhatsApp used to be backed up, but it seems like both the 3rd party solution and WhatsApp themselves have stopped supporting some sort of offline backup. So mainly just concerned about files in Downloads or Documents or something -- everything else I've made sure was "on the cloud".)
- locked bootloader
- not rooted.
- stock firmware
It goes into a "bootloop"? Where the Google logo displays forever (at least 30 minutes) w/o doing anything.
Normally I'd have spent more time doing this (e.g. backing it up, etc). But due to various personal mishaps in the past year, my tech environment is incomplete and a mess. I've never had problems w/ OTA updates so I foolishly went ahead w/o an adb backup -- which would have at least given me most files (even if I have to redo the entire setup). Also, due to poor timing, I was in a rush to get this done so she'd have a week or so before her trip to get used to the small changes (yes, she freaks out over small changes like the camera UI being different). So, whenever you're doing 2 things at once, you never pay attention to one thing fully. And this is also what happened to the OTA update -- so if there were ANY error messages or anything during the update, I did not notice. =(
Unfortunately I also don't have the device in front of me (things like work get in the way of personal masochism -- aka playing with tech).
Anyhow... I'm not exactly certain if it was going to 4.4. When I downloaded the OTA images for the Nexus 4 for 4.4 and tried to flash using the flash-all tool, it complained that the bootloader was not the right one. When I pulled down 4.3 and tried to flash, it did not complain about that bootloader version. So perhaps it didn't properly flash the bootloader? In any case, is there any chance of getting at the files now before a wipe?
What confuses me, is why I cannot flash w/ a STOCK image. Aren't they signed? Even with a locked bootloader, couldn't it in theory let the right images in?
Also, I'm normally in a windows environment, but due to my machines all being down, I'm on the work MacBook Pro instead. So unfortunately I can't try WugFresh's rootkit -- although I'm not sure it would help w/ a locked boot loader.
So... the questions are:
1) Is there a way to flash to a stock OTA image w/o losing data?
2) Or if that's not possible, is it possible to get the data from the phone?
3) Or I'm out of luck and I shouldn't waste any more time trying to recover what's lost?
(Btw, I didn't lose everything -- e.g. I have photos, sms and call logs backed up. WhatsApp used to be backed up, but it seems like both the 3rd party solution and WhatsApp themselves have stopped supporting some sort of offline backup. So mainly just concerned about files in Downloads or Documents or something -- everything else I've made sure was "on the cloud".)
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