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Nexus 4 July 2013 Serial Number 04d5c89bd6d9d292

  1. Boot phone into bootloade mode
    1. Power off
    2. Hold Vol - and Power until it comes up in debug mode
  2. Hook phone to USB
  3. Should see on pc, check with
    fastboot devices
  4. FORMATS STUFF!! Device needs to be unlocked first WARNING Says erasing! I think it is formatting things
    fastboot oem unlock
  5. Flash the recovery image
    fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.2.0-mako.img
  6. Start the recovery image
    1. Select “START” with the volume keys
    2. Press the power button to select

NOTE: It booted two times on me, but did end up loading the recovery image NOTE: Drive is empty or cannot be mounted. You are hosed.

  1. Install adb & fastboot on the system
    1. Download android sdk
    2. Install in c:\dev or somewhere short
    3. Add to your system environment variables path to tools
      C:\dev\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140702\sdk\platform-tools
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