I am getting at error when flashing any 4.4 custom rom onto my Nexus 4

[owen wilson]

Apologies if this has already been answered, but i did a quick search on androidcentral and xda and couldnt find anything helpful.

Basically back around the 1st November, PA posted and AOSP 4.4 KitKat Rom, which i successfully flashed using MultiRom TWRP with MultiRom Boot IMG.

However after that my TWRP would switch back to the non MultiRom version i had and i couldnt access any of my Backups.

When trying to install any other custom roms TWRP would return the a error like below:

Failed: "Error executing updater binary in zip"

Initially i thought this was just the 4.4_rom.zip I downloaded, but it happened with all 4.4 roms i attempted to flash.

As a result i decided to return to stock JWR66Y 4.3.
The method i used was performing this all through fastboot - wipe, flash boot, flash recovery, flash data, flash system etc.....

After that i flashed twrp 2.6.3.3 through fastboot and then flashed SU1.44 to gain root access.

I then tried once again to flash a 4.4 rom and TWRP is still returning the same error.

Sorry if this is trivial.... Am i being stupid, have i missed something like updating the bootloader or similar??

Many Thanks for any assistance. Owen

 

[JohnBB101]

Hey Owen,

There are many possible reasons, one is that you don't have the mako version of 4.4, which is extremely unlikely.
Try updating TWRP to the latest version.

 

[owen wilson]

Is 2.6.3.3 not the latest verison of TWRP? and

The Custom Roms i have attempted to flash are definately all Mako (i checked this in the updater-script).

 

[fernandezhjr]

Try using CWM. Peeps seem to be having a much better success rate flashing 4.4 with it.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

 

[owen wilson]

Try using CWM. Peeps seem to be having a much better success rate flashing 4.4 with it.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Better luck with CVM, thanks, still would like to know what is happening and why.... Have 4.4 AOSP on nexus 4 agian, so happy for now.

 

[JohnBB101]

Better luck with CVM, thanks, still would like to know what is happening and why.... Have 4.4 AOSP on nexus 4 agian, so happy for now.

Great to hear! Strange to hear that TWRP was causing the problem...