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[Q] HELP!! Samsung Nexus S Crashed, Cant do anything

Hi
I have a Samsung Nexus S for past 5 months. I recently upgraded to the ICS. Last week, I was listening songs on my phone and all of a sudden out of nowhere the phone re-started.
After couple of minutes, saw a message on screen saying “encryption unsuccessful, you have lost all your data. This phone will now need to rebooted”.
Underneath this message, there was only 1 option of REBOOT NOW. I had to press the button since I had no other option.
After this the phone restarted but never went past the start up animation screen. After couple of days, I gave it another shot and after going past the welcome screen, it gave me the option to register the phone again. But as soon as that screen comes up, I get all these small messages saying, email has stopped, music has stopped, android process has stopped, calendar has stopped................ at this point the phone virtually hangs itself and I can’t do anything.
Can someone please advise what is wrong with my phone and how can I fix it?
Any help would be very much appreciated.

Try this, power the phone off, now press and hold the volume up & power botton at the same time, a menu should appear, now use the volume up/down buttons till "RECOVERY" is highlighted green, now press the power button, the phone will now reboot and in to recovery and show an android on the screen, at this point you need to press and hold the power button then press volume up briefly, a menu should appear, use the volume up/down buttons to highlight "wipe data/factory reset" and press the power button, now use the volume up/down buttons to highlight "Yes -- delete all user data" once this is done select "reboot system now", this process will wipe the phone and put it back to factory settings, it won't delete usb storage though so you may need erase usb storage once you're up and running again.

d.chatten said:
Try this, power the phone off, now press and hold the volume up & power botton at the same time, a menu should appear, now use the volume up/down buttons till "RECOVERY" is highlighted green, now press the power button, the phone will now reboot and in to recovery and show an android on the screen, at this point you need to press and hold the power button then press volume up briefly, a menu should appear, use the volume up/down buttons to highlight "wipe data/factory reset" and press the power button, now use the volume up/down buttons to highlight "Yes -- delete all user data" once this is done select "reboot system now", this process will wipe the phone and put it back to factory settings, it won't delete usb storage though so you may need erase usb storage once you're up and running again.
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I would wipe cache while you're in there too.
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i tried doing that. i cant get into recovery mode, when I press volume \up and power i get into that screen where it displays all the options such as recovery, bootloader etc etc. I select recovery (I dont see a android exclamation sign instead for a split second I see android and a triangle) and press volume down/up + power button, nothing happens. after some time it reboots and hangs itself at the animation screen..........any suggestions? your help is much appreciated.

puriaditya1234 said:
i tried doing that. i cant get into recovery mode, when I press volume \up and power i get into that screen where it displays all the options such as recovery, bootloader etc etc. I select recovery (I dont see a android exclamation sign instead for a split second I see android and a triangle) and press volume down/up + power button, nothing happens. after some time it reboots and hangs itself at the animation screen..........any suggestions? your help is much appreciated.
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I think that you have to push clockworkmod recovery image like when you root your device.
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is there any 'how to' guide to do that?

puriaditya1234 said:
is there any 'how to' guide to do that?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
Check this thread.
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yeah, try using clockwork recovery.
that's much more usfeul than the stock one

i tried doing clockwork recovery, I cant unlock the bootloader, i did all the steps ie installed android drivers, went to command prompt, typed the command, I can see the option of unlocking bootloader on android but when I select yes, it still says locked. I guess I will have to give up on this phone.

puriaditya1234 said:
i tried doing clockwork recovery, I cant unlock the bootloader, i did all the steps ie installed android drivers, went to command prompt, typed the command, I can see the option of unlocking bootloader on android but when I select yes, it still says locked. I guess I will have to give up on this phone.
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Try using one click root v6 by shabbypenguin. That will work for you. Its what I used and its so easy. Just look for it here on xda
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How to get into recovery in CM9

After flashing the CM9 ROM Revolver was released and I want to move over to it. I can't get into recovery using any of the methods I know about, I tried reboot recovery in TE, I tried the button combo, I tried using the reboot recovery in ROM Manager...Starting to get a little pissed off.
Any suggestions to keep me from losing my mind?

What happens with the button combo?
I found that the best button combo is to first hold the down volume only, then press power for 2 seconds and let go, then when you see the text hit the up button.
I used to start with both down and power but the text disappeared too fast.

Malandro2011 said:
What happens with the button combo?
I found that the best button combo is to first hold the down volume only, then press power for 2 seconds and let go, then when you see the text hit the up button.
I used to start with both down and power but the text disappeared too fast.
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Same thing happened to me ... where the text disappeared quickly what I did was I would try the button combo again immediately after and it would shut down and allow me to boot into recovery
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use your ADB
Code:
adb reboot recovery
That should boot you into recovery.

power off - hold volume and down - hit up then you should be in cmw/recovery
or try installing a new rom with rom manager and see if it works

Simple "Boot To Recovery" App?

So I flashed CleanROM 3.0.
The problem is, I always mess up the button presses when rebooting to recovery. On my Atrix (CM7), and my Transformer (Revolver), there was a simple "boot to recovery" option.
Anyone know of a method to get this done on the HOX?
Not really being a noob, but my fingers aren't very coordinated...lol.

silentecho13 said:
So I flashed CleanROM 3.0.
The problem is, I always mess up the button presses when rebooting to recovery. On my Atrix (CM7), and my Transformer (Revolver), there was a simple "boot to recovery" option.
Anyone know of a method to get this done on the HOX?
Not really being a noob, but my fingers aren't very coordinated...lol.
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In Clean ROM, just hold down the power button and choose reboot > reboot bootloader.
Or download a reboot app from Google Play such as Quick Reboot.

Quick boot works well

This is a bit silly but I can't seem to be able to get into the bootloader if my phone is off.
I can get into it by when it's on by holding Vol Down when resetting it but holding Vol Down while holding the power button when it's off doesn't seem to be working. If I let go of Vol Down, it just boots up normally.

most of the time I'm booting to recovery my phone is connected to my computer because I've just put a ROM on SD card storage
so I just adb reboot recovery

Ragingsheep said:
This is a bit silly but I can't seem to be able to get into the bootloader if my phone is off.
I can get into it by when it's on by holding Vol Down when resetting it but holding Vol Down while holding the power button when it's off doesn't seem to be working. If I let go of Vol Down, it just boots up normally.
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Don't let go of volume down at all until it's in bootloader.
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Ragingsheep said:
This is a bit silly but I can't seem to be able to get into the bootloader if my phone is off.
I can get into it by when it's on by holding Vol Down when resetting it but holding Vol Down while holding the power button when it's off doesn't seem to be working. If I let go of Vol Down, it just boots up normally.
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Disable Fast Boot (settings > power).

Yeah disable fast settings but I always have problems too. What I do, I hold power and volume down, and if it doesn't work I let go of power FIRST. Then the next time I try it almost instantly boots into BL. But most ROMs have "reboot into recovery" option under the reboot when you hold down the power button while the phone is actually booted up. Every ROM I've tried on here does including CM9.

Turns out I wasn't holding it down for long enough, especially compared to my old Desire which was much quicker.
Thanks.

Thanks guys, I completely missed the option in the power menu while hitting restart lol.
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[Q] Help, Phone isn't booting up

Hello all,
Slight problem...i just rooted my phone (ATT) did all that good stuff...and then when and flashed cleanROM's rom....cleared all the cashe etc....and now it seems that all my phone does it show the HTC start up page and go black. if i hold the power button, the lights on the bottom flashes about 7-8 times and then goes to the HTC start up page again. can someone help me get my phone working again?

Fastboot install the boot.img included in the Rom.zip
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or even better still, s-off then you won't need to worry about flashing boot.img ever again!

i can't get the phone into the bootloader or recovery. Is there another way i can get into that?

Azn_Noob said:
i can't get the phone into the bootloader or recovery. Is there another way i can get into that?
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To get into bootloader hold vol- while holding the power button. Don't let go until it reboots. It will now be in bootloader
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unforseenenemy said:
To get into bootloader hold vol- while holding the power button. Don't let go until it reboots. It will now be in bootloader
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You need to let go of power, but keep holding vol down. If you don't let go of power, nothing will happen (except the phone shutting off).
The most surefire way (works in just about any situation) is to hold power and volume down. Don't let go of volume down until I say so later. The capacitive buttons will flash after about 5 seconds. Then the buttons will stop flashing, the screen will turn off (if it was on). After that, release the power button, but keep holding volume down until the white bootloader screen shows up.
If the screen turns on at all, the phone will always be able to go to bootloader. Failure to get into bootloader is almost always a matter of the user not performing the button sequence properly, rather than an issue with the phone.

[Q] After ROM installation will not boot or reset

So after trying to install Android Revolution HD 8.1 it has beet on the bootloader screen for about 30 minutes now and hasnt done anything. I tried to hold down the power button so i could go back into recovery but it wont reset that way either. It also isnt far enough in the boot for it to be picked up by ADB either. Anyone have any other ideas?

vampyric_blood said:
So after trying to install Android Revolution HD 8.1 it has beet on the bootloader screen for about 30 minutes now and hasnt done anything. I tried to hold down the power button so i could go back into recovery but it wont reset that way either. It also isnt far enough in the boot for it to be picked up by ADB either. Anyone have any other ideas?
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Power and volume down should get you back to the bootloader.

I tried that. I tried just power button and even power + Vol up. So i am guessing my only chance is when the battery finally drains.

vampyric_blood said:
I tried that. I tried just power button and even power + Vol up. So i am guessing my only chance is when the battery finally drains.
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Hold down power + volume down & up for about 10 to 20 seconds or until it powers off then if you wanna get right back into the bootloader then hold down power + volume down right after it cuts off.
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S1L3nTShaDoWz said:
Hold down power + volume down & up for about 10 to 20 seconds or until it powers off then if you wanna get right back into the bootloader then hold down power + volume down right after it cuts off.
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Thanks a lot! It worked and i was able to restore using a backup.