{"id":909,"date":"2012-04-14T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T23:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2012-04-14T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T23:27:43","slug":"restoring-to-default-galaxy-nexus-firmware-or-upgrading-to-the-latest-android-release-from-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/restoring-to-default-galaxy-nexus-firmware-or-upgrading-to-the-latest-android-release-from-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring to default Galaxy Nexus firmware, or upgrading to the latest Android release from Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8781ca4f97038dd0d58a1ad8af045721\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6411751809866006\";\r\n\/* BlogHorizontalSlim *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6442664612\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>A couple of people have asked me after trying CyanogenMod or MIUI how they can restore back to the latest official builds from Google.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully it&#8217;s nice and easy!<\/p>\n<p>No screenshots, but we&#8217;ll dive right in and get moving, it should only take 2-3 minutes once you&#8217;ve got all the files.<\/p>\n<p>Before we begin, now is a good time to backup your SMS messages using SMS Backup &amp; Restore:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll save it to a .xml file on your phone that you can easily restore afterwards. Copy this off your phone to your PC, as everything will be *wiped*. By wiped I mean *everything*, completely 100% gone from your phone.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll start by grabbing Fastboot &amp; ADB. These are required for flashing your phone back, so rather than make you download the full SDK and stuff, I&#8217;ve got them here in a small .zip file:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/fastboot-adb.zip\">fastboot-adb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s approx 275KB so won&#8217;t take long.<\/p>\n<p>Now you need to go here and get the official firmware from Google:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/nexus\/images.html#yakjuimm76d\">http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/nexus\/images.html#yakjuimm76d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will take you straight to the part of the page with ICS 4.0.4, which was the latest at the time of writing. This download is much bigger, approx 186MB.<\/p>\n<p>Download it and extract it to your C: Drive. You should then have a directory called &#8220;yakju-imm76d&#8221;. You&#8217;ll want to extract the fastboot-adb.zip file to that same directory.<\/p>\n<p>Now, get your phone turned fully off. Give it a second or two, then you&#8217;re going to boot in to Fastboot mode by holding the Vol-Down, Vol-Up and the Power button. Keep them all held down until you see this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/fastboot-galaxynexus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-911\" title=\"fastboot-galaxynexus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/fastboot-galaxynexus-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/fastboot-galaxynexus-256x300.jpg 256w, http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/fastboot-galaxynexus.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perfect! Plug your phone in and it&#8217;s time to get flashing.<\/p>\n<p>Fire up a command prompt. In Win7 click on the start button then type &#8220;cmd&#8221;. In WinXP click Start &#8211;&gt; Run &#8211;&gt; cmd<\/p>\n<p>Now type:<\/p>\n<pre>cd \\yakju-imm76d<\/pre>\n<p>If you type &#8220;dir&#8221; you should see the listing of all your files, the fastboot &amp; adb files, as well as a few firmware files for your phone. Perfect, you&#8217;re in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>Now, type:<\/p>\n<pre>fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-maguro-primela03.img<\/pre>\n<p>Watch down the bottom of your phone as you type this and you&#8217;ll see a very small line with information about its progress. It&#8217;ll only take a couple of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Then type:<\/p>\n<pre>fastboot reboot-bootloader<\/pre>\n<p>Cool, your phone is now rebooting with the updated bootloader, it should only take 3-4 seconds to reboot. Now we flash the Radio with:<\/p>\n<pre>fastboot flash radio radio-maguro-i9250xxla02.img<\/pre>\n<p>Then reboot the phone again with:<\/p>\n<pre>fastboot reboot-bootloader<\/pre>\n<p>Give it a couple of seconds to come back up. Finally we&#8217;re about to flash the actual firmware, by typing this:<\/p>\n<pre>fastboot -w update image-yakju-imm76d.zip<\/pre>\n<p>That should be it, it&#8217;ll take a moment or two and you&#8217;re all done and dusted!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to reinstall SMS Backup &amp; Restore from the Play Store to restore your SMS messages.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of people have asked me after trying CyanogenMod or MIUI how they can restore back to the latest official builds from Google. Thankfully it&#8217;s nice and easy! No screenshots, but we&#8217;ll dive right in and get moving, it should only take 2-3 minutes once you&#8217;ve got all the files. 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