A lot of people are running into a "missing system.img" error when trying to flash the Android 5.0 factory image. After struggling with it for over an hour I found a solution. All you have to do is flash the .img files manually. When you extract the factory image you'll have a .zip file. Unzip that and you'll see all the .img files. Move the radio and bootloader .img files into the same place you just extracted the zip. Now it's just a matter of running commands. fastboot flash bootloader <bootloader file name here>.img fastboot flash radio <radio file name here>.img fastboot reboot-bootloader fastboot flash recovery recovery.img fastboot flash boot boot.img fastboot flash system system.img (this one will take the longest) To perform a full wipe do this: fastboot flash cache cache.img fastboot flash userdata userdata.img That's it. Reboot your phone fastboot reboot Has anyone else ran into this error?
I had a few missing sig files, but all the img files were present. Then again, I was lazy and just did a flash-all.bat ...
I had a brief moment where I'd wiped the phone completely and couldn't flash the image, turned out in the end the flash-all.bat was for the N10 image I'd flashed previously lol!!
Whew! And here I thought I was the only one who tried to flash the N5 image onto my N5 (after downloading both), and trying about 5 times before realizing what I had done wrong!! And then, the flash-all for the N5 failed making me check (what I was flashing) over and over again before trying to flash the individual files. Sheeeeeesh!
