What's the best way to wipe Nexus S - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have the nightly on my Nexus S and going to be selling my good old Nexus S, because I picked up the SGII. I tried to to do the wipe resotre, but doesn't work just gets stuck. I powered off again and restored to the first back up I had before applying the Nightly ROM, but don't want to run the Factory Data Restore unless I know this won't mess anything else.
I am leaving the phone rooted so not worry about removing this.
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Fastboot will allow you to easily erase data and userdata.
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Restore to a factory nandroid and wipe after that relock / unlock bootloader
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OK thanks for the info will give that a shot.
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[Q] Help Cynagenmod setting forces close!!

When I try to open cyanogenmod settings or the browser it just forces close. I'm running on nscollab 1.0.60 with Trinity kernel!
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Try installing setcpu and seeing if that fixes it.
Just install it no need to open it.
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Have you tried a fresh install? Always works ;-)
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What do you mean by a fresh install?
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A fresh install means wiping the dalvik cache and factory resetting the phone in recovery mode before flashing the rom. Best use titanium back up if you want to keep your apps
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heavy_metal_man said:
A fresh install means wiping the dalvik cache and factory resetting the phone in recovery mode before flashing the rom. Best use titanium back up if you want to keep your apps
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Like he said. Just go into recovery. And do all that and flash CM again.
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devgee said:
What do you mean by a fresh install?
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Have you tried installing setcpu yet?
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I Tried IT. still forces close!!
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are you just did a theming to your phone??
usually causes by mod of theme...
fastest way is fresh install new rom
al_madd said:
are you just did a theming to your phone??
usually causes by mod of theme...
fastest way is fresh install new rom
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Do you remember doing anything to your phone before the fcs started?
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If it always has been like this, you've most likely corrupted the ROM file during download.
Download it again and install it after doing a factory reset & caches wipe.
Greetz
Thanx bro it worked!!!!
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Flashing clockwork without a pc

I just flashed to ics and I'm on the road for the rest it the weekend. Is there anyway to flash clockwork recovery back. My boot loader is already unlocked and I have all the files.
Please help
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No. You need a computer.
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would it allow me to flash back to 2.3.3 if I did some sort of hard reset
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Nope.
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damn! That's what my curiosity gets me. May have to borrow so.wines computer and download the sdk files
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Too bad you weren't rooted because rom manager would have been the ticket
BEST DAMN PHONE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE BEST DAMN DEVELOPERS!
You may be able to actually. Brainmaster made a flashable cwm it doesn't work for me sadly. It may work for you though. Give it a shot
I'd post a link but I'm on tapatalk. Search the nexus development forum.
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OK thanks
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Text not sending right?

Hey guys i just upgraded my gf phone to the new update OTA and ever since i installed it when i send her a text or she sends me one i don't get it or she doesn't get mine? any fix for that? whats going on?
I think that would be the network
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You probably didn't wipe the phone before the ota. So the update is kinda messed up. Just flash the stock again
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can I just do a factory reset and wipe cache and daik or what ever it's called ?
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Try it
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xxjrsmith3xx said:
can I just do a factory reset and wipe cache and daik or what ever it's called ?
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that's your best bet.

[Q] soft bricked

I don't have much time have to ship back my phone to verizon soon. I rooted my phone and installed a cwm so i can transfer my game data to my replacement and i unrooted and i was trying to flash a stock verizon rom so that everything was factory before shipping it and now its stuck on bootload loop. I need some help quick.
Pull battery then boot into stock recovery and perform factory reset.
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Now it's asking me for a SIM card and won't let me do anything else
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Thanks I got my situation under control.
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Adb push

I know how to use adb and I'm not too inexperienced with it. Is there a way that I could push files to the system partition without having root on the device? I'm on stock ROM and I do not want to unlock the boot loader or root it, I just need to push a file to the system partition.
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I am pretty sure you can only push files to the SD card without root. Rooting/ unlocking doesn't hurt. Try helium for a backup.
I know it doesn't hurt, I just came back to the stock ROM after using my own compiled ROM. I just didn't want to mod it except that one file, thanks though
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You should be able to do it in custom recovery
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Am I able to boot into one without flashing it while my bootloader is locked? I do not want to unlock my bootloader
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Not without unlocking your bootloader.
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Okay, if I decide to unlock, I can use adb to backup my data partition before the unlock and then restore it after I unlock right?
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Hmmm. Not sure if you can access /data without root via adb. Helium backs everything up so maybe it can. Try it. Im never unrooted enough to know
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Sparx639 said:
Okay, if I decide to unlock, I can use adb to backup my data partition before the unlock and then restore it after I unlock right?
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Here's a good guide to use when performing an adb backup. No you do not need root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/guide-phone-backup-unlock-root-t1420351
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El Daddy said:
Here's a good guide to use when performing an adb backup. No you do not need root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/guide-phone-backup-unlock-root-t1420351
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Thanks! I was actually reading this not long ago, I plan do do it soon
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