Warranty may be void of your device if you follow the procedures given on this page. You only are responsible for your device. We won’t be liable if any damage occurs to your device and/or its components. Before you begin with guide instructions below, make sure your android device is adequately charged — at least 50% battery of the device. To make sure your device is eligible with this, you must first confirm its model no. in ‘About device’ option under Settings. Another way to confirm model no. is by looking for it on the packaging box of your device. It must be E960! Do not use the procedures discussed here on any other variant of Nexus 4 or any other device of LG or any other company. You have been warned! Back up important data and stuff before you start playing around here as there are chances you might lose your apps and app-data (app settings, game progress, etc.), and in rare case, files on the internal memory, too. For help on Backup and Restore, check out our exclusive page on that linked right below. ► ANDROID BACK UP AND RESTORE GUIDE: APPS AND TIPS You must have proper and working driver installed on your windows computer to be able to successfully flash TWRP Recovery on your Nexus 4. If you are not sure, follow the link below for a guide to install driver for your Nexus 4 on your computer. ► NEXUS 5 DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS (Nexus 5 drivers are compatible with Nexus 4) Skip this step if your device is already bootloader unlocked. Use must first unlock the bootloader on your Nexus 4 before proceeding with the guide below. Without unlocking the bootloader you won’t be able to use fastboot commands to flash the recovery on your device. Check out our step-by-step guide (linked below) on unlocking the bootloader on Nexus 4. ► How to Unlock Nexus 4 Bootloader Download the TWRP Recovery Image and One click recovery installer file given below. Transfer both the files to a separate folder on your computer. DOWNLOAD LINK | File name: openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.0-mako.img (8.8 MB) Download latest version available of TWRP from here. DOWNLOAD LINK | File name: one-click-recovery-installer.zip (920 KB) Important Note: Backup important files stored on internal SD card of your device, so that in case a situation arises requiring you to do a factory reset after flashing TWRP Recovery, which might delete internal sd card too, your files will remain safe on PC. └ The only file that matters for you is one-click-recovery-installer.bat, you can ignore others (but DON’T delete any). That’s it! You have successfully flashed TWRP Recovery on your Nexus 4. It was easy to install, right? Let us know how you plan to use it in comments below. Your suggestions and queries, if any, are most welcomed! WARNING!
GUIDE: TWRP RECOVERY FOR NEXUS 4
STEP 0: CHECK DEVICE MODEL NO.
STEP 1: BACKUP YOUR DEVICE
STEP 2: INSTALL LATEST DRIVER
STEP 3: UNLOCK BOOTLOADER
STEP 4: INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
DOWNLOADS
TWRP RECOVERY IMAGE
ONE CLICK RECOVERY INSTALLER
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
└ Both the one-click-recovery-installer.bat file and recovery.img file should be in the same folder along with all the other files we got in Step 3.
└ Note: In case the script gets stuck on < waiting for device > (see image below) for more than a minute or so, then it means you don’t have proper drivers installed on your computer for your Nexus 4. Follow the drivers installation guide provided above for troubleshooting driver and other connectivity issues.
BOOTING INTO NEXUS 4 RECOVERY MODE