![]() There were so many listed without any helpful instructions as to which image to download. The hardest part of this process was finding the correct factory image to download for the Nexus 5. You can change USB options to “File transfers” if you wish to browse files (such as pictures) located on the phone. If you disable USB, you will see a new “USB for charging, Touch for more options” message. If USB debugging is enabled, you will see the “USB debugging connected, Touch to disable USB debugging” message. On the connected phone, drag from the top, and you will see a message relating to the USB connection. Note: You can see the status of and control how the USB connection behaves. Open a Command Prompt window and run “adb devices”.If your operating system fails to do so, you may need to find and install the driver for your phone manually.) (Windows 10 was able to automatically find and install the Nexus 5 driver. Plug the phone into the computer and answer “OK” when prompted with “Allow USB debugging?”.Near the top, you will see an option “USB debugging”.Once done (you’ll see a “You are now a developer!” popup message), go back to Settings and you will see a new menu “Developer options”.(Ex: “You are now 3 steps away from being a developer.”) You’ll see popups telling you how many times more to press to enable “Developer options”. Click on the “Build number” seven times.On the phone, go to Settings, “About phone”, and scroll to the bottom until you see “Build number”.I got “Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.39” as the response.Įnable USB debugging so adb can talk to the phone: Launch a Command Prompt window and run “adb version”.Add that directory to the %PATH% environment variable.Unzip to a directory, say “C:\Program Files\platform-tools”.Download the SDK Platform Tools package I downloaded “platform-tools-latest-windows.zip”.Thankfully, Google has separated these tools from the Android SDK into a smaller “SDK Platform Tools” package. These are the Android Debug Bridge (adb), used to communicate with an Android device, and fastboot, used for writing directly to a device’s flash memory. We need to install the software tools necessary to flash an Android phone. Note: Please backup your data because a factory image flash will destroy everything! I did the re-image using my Windows 10 desktop, but you can also do it on a Mac. The instructions below should also work for the Google Pixel phone. Because I haven’t done this in a long while, I thought I would document what I did. I needed to re-image a Google Nexus 5 Android GSM smartphone with its stock factory image. ![]()
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