Stuck at "Installing update..." in recovery mode I am not able to flash my Nexus 4 with Cyanogenmod 11 anymore. The installation does not successfully finish, which is probably why it gets stuck in a boot loop after restarting the phone.

During the initial installation by sideloading the Cyanogenmod 11 zip, the process stops at the step Installing update..

It never says update finished. So I just restarted the phone manually afterwards. But it does not boot Cyanogenmod successfully.

The phone either...


...gets stuck at the Cyanogenmod boot splash indefinetely
...gets stuck at the window Android is upgrading.. / Starting apps.


I have formatted the following partitions beforehand to perform a  clean install: /system, /cache, /data, /persist, /firmware
I had suspected that formatting additional partitions like /firmware and /persist might be somehow related my boot loop - but I have no educated confirmation of this! Any CM aftermarket firmware that I tried would get stuck at the boot though.

The following solved my problem:


Install the (latest) Google Stock Android - this is just as easy as installing Cyanogenmod
Install ClockworkMod Recovery
Install Cyanogenmod Rom