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[Q] Stock Nexus S Stuck On Boot Animation

I just installed the weathernetwork weather app and it froze my phone. Upon rebooting I get stuck with the boot animation playing continuosly.
Is there any way to get my phone working again without having to do a total wipe?
My Nexus S is stock. I'm also a total android noob, so please try to give step by step instructions if possible.
Thanks
Update: I tried doing a wipe and factory restore through the recovery menu. Phone is still stuck at the rainbow x boot animation. Could this problem be caused by the 2.3.4 OTA I ran a few days ago? Also is there anything I can do or should I submit the phone under warranty?
Thanks again in advance

I forgot to post the first time that I have the 9020A version of the phone, just incase that helps anyone.
Thanks

You could try booting to recovery (when the phone is off, hold down the volume-up button and press and hold power until it starts) to see if you can do anything useful. Another option is to install the Android SDK and platform tools and Google USB drivers on your computer and use the adb ("android debug bridge") command from a console on your computer to try uninstalling the offending app.
Also, bear in mind that, assuming you've set your phone to sync to Google, you may not lose much by wiping it and starting over - in which case I recommend rooting it and installing a 3rd party recovery and custom ROM. Doing so won't lose things like pictures and music on the SD card part of the phone's memory. And the Android Market remembers your apps, both purchased and freebie.

[Q] If you can help me, please do

Ok be prepared, this post may be rather long winded however I will try my best to prevent that. I have a Tmobile G2x I purchased on launch date. Ive not attempted to Root, change roms, or anything of the sort. (as much as I always wanted to, I always felt that my skills were not good enough to attempt these ideas no matter how easy they may seem. I just did not want to be the cause of screwing up my phone that I paid dearly for)
So I have a friend who claims to be the master (of disaster so it turns out) of rooting androids and such. He stops by my house just to hang out and eventualy convinces me to let him root my phone and install CM7. Within a few minutes the phone was rooted (super1click) and was running CM7 release candidate. (I really dont know what all these things truly are but I drilled him for answers once he jacked up my phone and left me with a half-bricked phone) So he installed Rom manager and convinced me to upgrade to the premium version via marketplace so I did. He was then showing me how easy it was to flash new roms at the touch of a few buttons. He put on some other rom which looked like CM7 but claimed to have extra tweaks. It worked fine. A few minutes later he put on some Faux Rom which gave a boot up screen like my old Nexus One did. (Multicolored X) It seemed to work fine as well. Then he said lets check out the nightly CM7 Rom so he put it on. (however I dont think it ever actually put CM7 back on.-still on Faux?) Thats when things got crazy.
Now I get the com.google.process.gapps force close message all the time. He tried to fix it for 4 hours and finally gave up. Here is what I know he/we tried: After searching the internet for hours we tried everyone elses ideas. Clearing calenders cashes, un syncing, etc. We did about 40 factory resets. We have tried to install my backup (which was from BEFORE he even touched my phone) and upon holding both volume rockers and plugging in USB (no battery installed) and it still does nothing. Windows recognizes device but phone screen stays black. Tried Debug mode while doing this as well. If we hold the volume down button and power the little install bar comes on the screen and it does its thing (whatever that is) and goes right back to the way it was. I keep getting the gapps message all the time. After factory reset I cant even type in my gmail address to start the initial setup of the phone. The force close keeps cutting me off. If I type fast, I can sync the account but I cant use market whatsoever. Tried installing Rom manager to re-flash but just sticks at starting download and gapps pops up again.
My son is starting school tomorrow and he has a medical condition. I NEED this phone to communicate with the school nurse via emails and such. As of now I can only text, call, or surf web all while dodging force closes. If ANYONE out there can please help me get my phone back to normal Id greatly appreciate it. Im sure its something easy but as I said before, Im not good at this thing and thats why I never attempted it myself. Your welcome to submit answers here or PM me your phone # if you want to walk me through it on the phone. (I have a landline phone to talk to you on) Thanks in advance for everyones time and Im sorry this ended up being so long.

Download latest Gapps.zip from Cyanogen site to your phone's SD card, boot into recovery, wipe data and cache then flash the Gapps.zip file. Let me know if this helps.

I will try this now. Thank you

Im unable to get anywhere. It still has stock recovery and I cannot get to the screen where I can wipe. Im not great at this sort of thing but Im trying.

Omnichron said:
Download latest Gapps.zip from Cyanogen site to your phone's SD card, boot into recovery, wipe data and cache then flash the Gapps.zip file. Let me know if this helps.
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i think you would be better off starting from scratch
1. remove your sd card from your phone and plug it in your computer
2. download the latest rom here
3. download gapps from the download links at the bottom of this page
4. transfer both files onto the sd card and put it back into your phone.
5. with your phone off, boot your phone into recovery by holding vol down+power
6. wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache
7. flash only the cm7 file
8. reboot normally
9. reboot into recovery
10. flash gapps
11. reboot normally
after you flash one file, it is highly recommended that you reboot before you flash another file (if your friend didnt do this, this may have been the problem)

HurtsBad said:
Im unable to get anywhere. It still has stock recovery and I cannot get to the screen where I can wipe. Im not great at this sort of thing but Im trying.
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to flash custom recovery, use this (method two on the page)
EDIT: original post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847)

Thank you guys for all your help. The instructions helped me out. Im very thankful. I can now rest better knowing that my sons school nurse can contact me if needed. Have a great night.

no more force closes? sounds good
feel free to post again if you have any more problems

sweetnsour said:
i think you would be better off starting from scratch
1. remove your sd card from your phone and plug it in your computer
2. download the latest rom here
3. download gapps from the download links at the bottom of this page
4. transfer both files onto the sd card and put it back into your phone.
5. with your phone off, boot your phone into recovery by holding vol down+power
6. wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache
7. flash only the cm7 file
8. reboot normally
9. reboot into recovery
10. flash gapps
11. reboot normally
after you flash one file, it is highly recommended that you reboot before you flash another file (if your friend didnt do this, this may have been the problem)
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....touché

[Q] A CHallenge for Developers (partial brick) Please Help

[SOLVED]
MESSAGE TO DEVELOPERS/ANYONE WHO CAN HELP
Long story short, i edited my build.prop incorrectly and reset (yes i know very stupid) now my motorola cliq opens up to the motoblur screen but repeated messages saying "Sorry! the process X has shut down" show up.
Literaly, nearly nothing can open up but i am able to enter usb mode if i fight with the endless popups. i can also enter recovery mode because my phone was rooted before this. The problem is that my recovery image doesnt have any options that could help me
(reboot, apply sd card:update.zip, and wipe data/factory reset)
i've tried putting an official motorola update.zip onto my sd card then running the apply.. but like i told you before my build.prop is messed up a little so an error shows up saying:
Installing update...
E/:Failure at line 1: assert file_contains("SYSTEM:build.prop", "ro.build.fingerprint=motorola/morrison_two_us/morrison/morrison:1.5/CUPCAKE/1.4.8:user/rel-keys" == "true" || file_contains("SYSTEM:build.prop", "ro.build.prop", "ro.build.fingerprint=MOTO/morrison_two_us/moInstallation aborted
Press Menu+Back to reboot
All i need to do is fix the line of code i messed up but i cant reach my systems files,...i attached my original build.prop and a copy of my corrupted one to show you.. I also cannot use the phone service or network service (even wifi) because like i said, nearly ALL the services are unable to stay on, they immediately shut off at startup.
Ways to fix this would be to REACH/EDIT THE SYSTEMS FILES
1. I cant use an app like root explorer since i cant access any apps on my phone even things like my settings
2. Turn on usb debugging somehow (I cant access my settings app so im lost on this one)
1. ingenious DESKTOP program that can somehow access my phone's system files without adb (if it can access the sd there has to be a way..)
3. Ive looked around to maybe find a custom image recovery that had options like editing system files (shouldn't be hard to make..) but ive found none with that option and im not sure how i would install it without adb...
What i CAN do
1. ENTER USB MODE (that has to count for something so Developers Please help me)
2. I can play with the motoblur intro screen to some degree to make it go away, then a blank black home menu appears. If i wait a while for the popups to stop at the motoblur screen, i follow the instructions but it gets stuck at registering a new account or existing one since you need network access.
3. ENTER REVOVERY MODE (but the only option that looks helpful is the sdcard update which gave me an error...) I havent tried the wipe data/factory reset because the factory reset doesnt touch the build.prop so its pointless
WHat should I do? WHoever sees this please give me advice or direct me somewhere to get it... THANK YOU
[EDIT]
BTW what i was trying to do on the build.prop was replace this line (ro.build.fingerprint=generic/sdk/generic:3.2/HTJ85B/140714:eng/test-keys)
with (ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.1-update1/ESE81/29593:user/release-keys)
but i messd up and put
(ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.1-update1/ESE81/29593:user/rel)
youll see this in the attachments...what this does is unlock my 1.5 firmware market to ALL the apps (updating to the official 2.1 using recovery wouldve handled this but i didnt even know of this update till after my mistake)
I just thought id mention...

if you have adb abilities you can push the old build.prop. If you do not know a out this then post back and I will help you.You said you can enter recovery, but that is stock original recovery that anyone can get access to. If you ever bootstrapped your phone you can try pull the battery out, wait about 10 seconds, then plug your phone charger in without the battery in. If your bootstrappped this will pull you into a more advanced recovery mode. The last option is to use rsd lite to flash an sbf to your phone if nothing else works. If you have never done this just look up sbfing motor cliq to stock.
Good luck, and remember to thank me if this helped

SOLVED!!
I fixed my phone on my own but THANKS to rootfan for being the first to answer.
HERES HOW:
I was able to access recovery mode and from there i discovered the sd update option.
It took hours of research and work but i learned alot about adb,motorola, cliq, etc.
Anyway, i originally found the Blur_Version.2.1.5.MB200.T-Mobile.en.US.zip and i tried to put that in my sd card (i could get into it from the phone) but when i tried to update using recovery it gave me an error so i decided to try the "latest 1.5 with Blur 1.6.1" which was actually very hard to find... you can get it here
motorola. com/staticfiles/Support/Experiences/sdcards/US-EN/tmo/cliq/downgrade-to-cupcake .html
Lastly, i put that on my sd as update.zip, went into recover, and the update was SUCCESSFUL! MY PHONE REBOOTED AND NOW IS ACTING NORMAL AGAIN. Now, im trying to update to the Android™ 2.1 (Eclair):
motorola. com/staticfiles/Support/Experiences/sdcards/US-EN/tmo/cliq/2-1_index. html
but im still getting that error whether i update using recovery or the settings/about phone/system update option... Thats strange but my phone is still working normally and ill find a way to update to 2.1...
ONCE AGAIN THANKS TO ROOTFAN AND HOPEFULLY THIS POST WILL WORK FOR SOMEONE ELSE WHO MAY BE HALF-BRICKED (no adb, no usb debug, no root explorer) THERS STILL HOPE IN RECOVERY+USB DRIVE+BLUR VERSION SOFTWARES

Thanks man, now this is probabaly a redicilous reply, since im sure you would have already tried this, but you can try going into settings, about phone, and click on update and see if the 2.1 eclair ota update will work on your phone.

i've got a simila problem on my samsung Galaxy S5570...
... and i need to prepare an update.zip .
Can you help in this, or you only downloaded a new rom ?

stepph said:
i've got a simila problem on my samsung Galaxy S5570...
... and i need to prepare an update.zip .
Can you help in this, or you only downloaded a new rom ?
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You can reflash a stock rom back if you wanna get it done easily - or even a updated gingerbread one from samfirmware.com
Search for S5570 in these fora for some guides

[q] heeeellllp!!!!!

Heeeeelllp! I was trying to get touchwiz 4.0 on my Samsung Galaxy S WIFI 5.0 running android 2.2.2 when it wouldn't let me move the apk to the system/apps folder. So i made a stupid mistake and moved the apps folder out of the system folder and into its parent folder what ever that folder is. While it was moving it started coming up with force close messages tell me that so and so had forced closed and it was just constantly repeating the force close vibration pattern. Then while it was still moving the screen went black (but still on) yet the force close vibration kept going. So i rebooted and the pattern was still going even when the boot animation was there and when the boot animations has finished i just displays a black screen but yet again there is still the force close vibration happening. It boots into recovery ok and i am rooted. No CMW or custom rom though. I was using a root browser, dont no wich one. Can you help me get my data back or even my galaxy working with my data. thanks

Now that's a realy nice title you picked there for your opened thread.
I ques a lot of people will understand your problem with that title.
Edit; maybe I'm being a bit of an ass like this sorry but I realy don't understand why people opening threads with a title like you use.
If everyone would start a thread with the title heeeelppppp imagine how far we would come.
Anyway, you write you are still able to come in recovery mode and that you placed the apps out of the system folder into another folder whatever that would be..
Can't you reverse it by digging into your folders, find the apps folder and place it back in sys?
I think that's the most easiest and only step to get your data back.

But how do you do that through the recovery? I'm only using samsung's standard.

Is it possible to connect your device to pc and brows on it using explorer on pc?
If that's possible you could cut an past the map back to the system folder?
Karim.younus said:
But how do you do that through the recovery? I'm only using samsung's standard.
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Kies wont reconize it when i boot my device normally but when i put it in recovery or download mode it says connecting but never connects. my PC reconizes my device in the same modes but wont let me browse the files. Is there any way i can browse the files on pc.

Ok, iv'e now tried a factory reset and its still not working.

I'm going to try and flash an ICS ROM

I'm trying to get posts now so i can ask another question

Sorry but I do not understand what you are trying to explain.
If your pc recognizes the device put it in storage mode if possible.
Karim.younus said:
Kies wont reconize it when i boot my device normally but when i put it in recovery or download mode it says connecting but never connects. my PC reconizes my device in the same modes but wont let me browse the files. Is there any way i can browse the files on pc.
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If that's the case I'm affraid you lost all data.
What's not working?
Karim.younus said:
Ok, iv'e now tried a factory reset and its still not working.
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Just flash a stock rom...your phone should work then...
And remember for thr future, before doing changes with root permissions, take a backup of your data...
And don't create a thread like this in the development section...unless you want to trolled/flamed/get infracted...
Typed using a small touchscreen

My PC would only reconize it in recovery or download meaning I couldn't put it in to storage mode. Doesn't mater anyway now I'm trying to flash a new ics rom. Bit I don't know if you can flash any Rom with odin or not and if it needs a new kernel. Do you need USB debugging to install a Rom or kernel? Im new to all this you see.

You see I don't think the factory reset did anything.

OK, I'l flash a new stock rom and see if that works.

A) put phone down. Wait. Put it in a box . Then bury it.
B) read for a week. All about your phone specs, what adb is, what the difference between CWM (clockwork mod recovery) and rom manager is, how to flash partitions with Odin and heimdall, and any other info u can get your hands on.
C) after said time is up. Dig up your phone and fix it up .

Need help getting back to stock

i was on 6.0.1 stock marshmallow tw rom only rooted so i wanted a rom with the Grace UI (Note 7, Galaxy S7, J Varients, etc.) Flashed "Pure Note 7 v3 N9300 APGI(Snap based)" and it kept giving me an “Unfortunately the Process.com.android.phone Has Stopped” error consistantly. Now when i try to flash "G900PVPS3CPK1_G900PSPT3CPK1_SPR" or "G900PVPS3CPK1_G900PSPT3CPCA_SPR" it gives me a zip format error and i believe the files werent fully copied to my SD Card or Internal Storage so then i tried to sideload the stock roms and the damn error. Really stressed out at this point, I've been troubleshooting for 5+ hours. I even tried "SM-G900P NI3 Full Restore" program and it fails, like seriously wtf man. Pls help !!!

wait before anyone replies to this, i just figured out each of those zip files contained an MD5 files so ill try Odin with that and report back,god im so stupid !!!!

now im getting contacts, google play store, system UI, and context services has stopped working consistently. wtf man

now trying G900PVPU3CPCA because the other one is giving trouble

stuck on samsung logo help

1.Odin PK1.
2. Turn Off the phone (don't let it reboot)
3. Enter recovery and do a Factory reset.
4. Then reboot the phone, and wait.
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power the phone off, boot into download mode (vol down + home + power and release only power once it vibrates. hit vol up to accept terms.), connect to PC. Launch Odin with admin rights, flash this tarball, reboot and go on to root and add a custom recovery from there is you so chooce