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in some of our recent videos we've shown you some very very cool custom roms that you can apply to your Android powered smartphones and tablets but what happens after you've tried them and you decide that they may not be for you or you want to revert your device back to stock I'm Joe Levi for PocketNow and this is how to restore your Google Nexus to factory stock condition next thing you're going to need to do is head over to this website I'll have a link to it at pocketnow.com so you can just click and get there quickly you're then going to need to find your device in this list mine happens to be a nexus 7 Wi-Fi that we're going to show you today and I have two choices either Android 4.1.2 or 4.2.1 I want to go with the latest version 4.2.1 that's the latest version of jellybean though if you think it's a little laggy or like the previous version you can flash back very easily if you want it to do that go ahead and click find your link to download it is relatively large we're talking close to 300 megabytes so download and go get yourself a drink next you're going to need a program that can uncompress our downloaded file it's in a tgz format so the the app that I like is called WinRAR it's free I'll have a link to where you can download that over in the article as well next if you don't already have it you're going to need to download at the Android SDK or a slimmed down version that has fastboot and ADB and all the required tools so that you can hook your device up to your computer to get the Android SDK I'll give you a link also in the article once the Android SDK is installed you'll have a platform tools or a platform directory depending on the version and what platform you're using to install all of these tools upon it looks something like this what I'm going to do now is just copy all of my Naga see I think I said that wrong last time although getting this ugh I'm not even going to try all the Nexus 7 files over into this folder and yes I do need to have administrative privileges so I'm going to continue this time I'm going to say yes to all items because there's half a dozen or so close that folder and now I've got everything over here that I need this is where things get easy you need to reboot your device into fastboot mode the way I've done that is held down the volume up and down button when the device was off and press and hold the power button until it comes up to mass boot you can tell cuz it says so right there next and of course I've got this hooked up to the computer next I'm going to change into this folder using Windows 7 or Windows 8 you can just highlight that line copy it come over here and type in CD for change directory right click paste and enter and there you go I was already there but that's the fast way to do it clean that up the next thing this is where it's all easy we want to flash all simple simple flash all now if you are on Linux or on Mac it's going to be a little bit different you'll want to follow the instructions again I'll have a link to those instructions at the article but you can see from here it's going ahead and flashing and erasing and erasing and flashing everything is going to be replaced it's going to be all back to factory stock except it's still going to be unlocked now over on my device it's gone ahead and rebooted and you can tell here I've now got that mounted as a device looking at it you can also see I am now at my welcome screen this is still not Om locked if you want to OEM lock it you need to reboot into fastboot mode again and run another command which I'll have for you over in the article at pocketnow.com so there you go you can now quickly and easily restore your Nexus device back to factory image and even om lock it again so that you can resell it so that you can give it to a family member so you can send it in for warranty repair whatever the case may be thanks very much for watching if you liked what you saw give the video a thumbs up why not tell your friends about it over on Google+ PocketNow is over there too all have a link to our Google+ page as well for Pocket nail showing off how to dig out of the hole you may have dug yourself into with custom roms I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching