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[Mitchell Reese <projects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/10/14 08:29, Charles Kerr wrote:
> Nexus 4 mako.
>
> It's stuck at the "Google" boot screen, can't even get it into the 
> bootloader.
>
> Here were the commands leading up to this:
>
> charles@ghidorah:~$ adb reboot bootloader
> charles@ghidorah:~$ XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp ubuntu-device-flash 
> --developer-mode --channel=ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed --bootstrap --wipe
> 2014/10/09 15:29:40 Expecting the device to be in the bootloader... 
> waiting
> 2014/10/09 15:29:40 Device is |mako|
> 2014/10/09 15:29:42 Flashing version 275 from 
> ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed channel and server 
> https://system-image.ubuntu.com to device mako
> 2014/10/09 15:29:42 ubuntu-touch/utopic-proposed is a channel alias to 
> ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed
> 955.23 KB / 955.23 KB 
> [==============================================================================================================================================================] 
> 100.00 % 453.31 KB/s
> 44.56 MB / 44.56 MB 
> [==================================================================================================================================================================] 
> 100.00 % 2.38 MB/s
> 319.58 MB / 319.58 MB 
> [================================================================================================================================================================] 
> 100.00 % 5.14 MB/s
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-signing.tar.xz
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed/mako/version-275.tar.xz
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-master.tar.xz
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/pool/custom-ba77049bb9a0184744e4c3cf38a2fb37407fca18e814a21da5bb972db8f188ad.tar.xz 
>
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/pool/device-491606a4e1da693361cc4bc94e0f86eef43df481e70dea1d7f049b46ea97a5ce.tar.xz 
>
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Start pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-signing.tar.xz to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Start pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed/mako/version-275.tar.xz 
> to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Start pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-master.tar.xz to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Start pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/pool/custom-ba77049bb9a0184744e4c3cf38a2fb37407fca18e814a21da5bb972db8f188ad.tar.xz 
> to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Start pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/pool/device-491606a4e1da693361cc4bc94e0f86eef43df481e70dea1d7f049b46ea97a5ce.tar.xz 
> to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Start pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/pool/ubuntu-5c26bf7d28633ba6753c25feaf0f7c7a36a3cf7a7aabf546d4a914ca94acf59d.tar.xz 
> to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Done pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-signing.tar.xz to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Done pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-master.tar.xz to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:01 Done pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/ubuntu-touch/devel-proposed/mako/version-275.tar.xz 
> to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:02 Done pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/pool/custom-ba77049bb9a0184744e4c3cf38a2fb37407fca18e814a21da5bb972db8f188ad.tar.xz 
> to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:14 Done pushing 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/pool/device-491606a4e1da693361cc4bc94e0f86eef43df481e70dea1d7f049b46ea97a5ce.tar.xz 
> to device
> 2014/10/09 15:31:45 Cannot push 
> /tmp/ubuntuimages/pool/ubuntu-5c26bf7d28633ba6753c25feaf0f7c7a36a3cf7a7aabf546d4a914ca94acf59d.tar.xz.asc 
> to device: free space on /cache/recovery is unknown
>
> I am able to "adb shell" into the device:
>
> $ adb shell
> initctl: unable to determine sessions
> initctl: unable to determine sessions
> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ls
> Documents  Downloads  Music  Pictures  src  tmp  Videos
>
> "adb reboot bootloader" does reboot the device, but the bootloader is 
> never reached. The screen stays stuck on the black-and-white Google 
> boot screen the entire time. ubuntu-device-flash just waits for 
> bootloader mode.
>
> Any suggestions?
Hi Charles, I've found this each time I update lately - answer has been 
to get into recovery mode and wipe the cache. Then phone reboots fine. 
Not sure why this happens. Hold the power button until your device goes 
off (up to 10 seconds), let go of the button, hold in down volume key, 
then hold the button in again. Phone should come up in bootloader. 
Choose recovery, then wipe the cache. You should be able to reboot 
system from there. Good luck with it.