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[András Mamenyák <mamenyaka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please try to flash your phone manually, avoid using phablet-flash.
Try flashing a recovery in fastboot first, then use the recovery to wipe
everything, then install the ubuntu .zips.


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Visegrádi István <visegradi@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Today I've tried to update my Nexus 4 image to a newer touch release (it
> was last updated about 3 weeks ago). The update went "fine" but the phone
> was not able to reboot to Ubuntu after it is finished.
>
> Since the phone was still able to boot the bootloader, I have tried to
> recover the original android to start from scratch again. Unfortunately the
> android flash did resulted an error
>
> "writing 'system'...
> FAILED (remote: flash write failure)".
>
> I believe I have seen this in some earlier conversation and the instructed
> next step was to call LG support :-(.
>
> Now, after the long story, my short question is that:
> -Does the phablet-flash can handle the failures correctly?
>
> My thinking is here that probably the phablet-flash also run into the
> flash failure but did not reported it... otherwise it would be a pretty BIG
> coincidence that when my ubuntu update fails the next time the android
> restore also fails with flash write...
>
> Please see all logs that were reported on screen during flash.
>
> With regards,
> Visi
>
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