Hi,
I recently got a Nexus S, 2.3.4
How do I know the model number ?
I have read about updating to ICS 4.0.4 by downloading some files and using boot loader. Can the update to ICS 4.0.4 be done using Kies ?
Thanks
What's a "kies" ?
muldy said:
What's a "kies" ?
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Kies is samsung's online update server. They used it to update their phones.
Since the nexus s is a Google phone, updates will come from Google. So no need to connect to a Samsung server. Your update should arrive ota. But if your impatient or just want an enhanced user experience, I'd advise looking around on the forum for directions on how to root and install custom roms on your phone.
You without me is like Harold Melvin without the Blue Notes....
I don't know about updating it with kies but under the general section in the stickies there is a thread on all updates and full from packages for all variants.. you will be able to find the right update in there and just download it to your phones root folder.. then go into fast boot recovery by I think the volume up button and power button when turned off, then go into recovery and when the android man has a exclamation mark press volume up and power button again and select the update zip file and it should finish itself off... provided you chose the right model for your phone....
Its the easiest way I know how to do it
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By the way that's without having to root your phone.. hope it helped
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Nexus S doesn't work with kies
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Ok got a question ive read the form on how to unroot the nexus s 4g. I know i gots to download the images file but do i need the ota one to and do i put the image file on the sd card or what. I ve asked in the thread but no one will respond. could someone please help
What ota? It hasn't been released yet. If you're on 2.3.4 then all is good. Just flash the img files via fastboot and you're golden. Btw I also used buglesspetes method as well.
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Ohh nvm I didn't fully read your post lol, how did you root your phone? Do you have the android sdk installed?
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You could always just wait for somebody to release a deoxed version of the 2.3.5 OTA when it is available. It shouldn't be too long. Or just wait until someone links the 2.3.5 OTA and you can flash it like that. The only thing the OTA does is give you a dialog box directing you to the link. But if the link is provided, you could get yourself to 2.3.5 OTA like that as well.
Yes I have adb set up but I rooted it with the one click method using pda. I've tried all these methods even the one with odin
let's say i'm still new in these things...
i'm still struggling with the gb official update in my region.
i'm kind of impatient somehow so i thinking of rooted my phone while waiting the update.
so can i make a undo the rooted phone after update have come to my region (or maybe the rooted phone can update to the gb )
Many thanks for one who answer my question
anyway i'm in indonesia (check google maps if you don't know. Since a lot of people doesn't know it... when i came to china, they thought i'm from tokyo ), i'm having a lg p500 phone with android version 2.2.1 install and have have the V10G_00 firmware (it's already like that since i bought it, so i have no experience in updating neither android or the firmware)
please anwer
bump?
answer it please
Most practical way of Unroot is to install new firmware for your phone.
pls open your phone on download mod and install original stok firmware.
AndroidHouse Team said:
Most practical way of Unroot is to install new firmware for your phone.
pls open your phone on download mod and install original stok firmware.
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Err does the rooted android can install an original firmware? Or maybe you can redirect me (link if there is a thread about it)
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Oh... I've figure it out by myself
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Hey i am not a noob but am spoilt by spoonfeeding.So please can someone casually explain how to be able to update from soju to yakju?
I am UNROOTED and want it PURE STOCK.Thanks,India
Nezam said:
Hey i am not a noob but am spoilt by spoonfeeding.So please can someone casually explain how to be able to update from soju to yakju?
I am UNROOTED and want it PURE STOCK.Thanks,India
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yakju is for galaxy nexus!
to update to jellybean 4.1.2 stock follow this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572307
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yakju is for galaxy nexus!
to update to jellybean 4.1.2 stock follow this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572307
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Sorry i was talking about soju only.
So does that link help me?
Nezam said:
Sorry i was talking about soju only.
So does that link help me?
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Are you completely stock (never flash anything and never root) or you root the phone and later unroot it? If you have a stock rom without any modification you have just to wait the official OTA if not the link have all information that you need to obtain a complete stock 4.1.2, in it you can find official google rom.
Yes i am completely stock.So currently which are the countries recieving the update?Any clue on how much ae we gonna wait?
ps.i am in india.
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Nezam said:
Sorry i was talking about soju only.
So does that link help me?
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Yes that link is for nexus s
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Nezam said:
Yes i am completely stock.So currently which are the countries recieving the update?Any clue on how much ae we gonna wait?
ps.i am in india.
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If you are completely stock you have only to wait, at the moment nobody have received OTA on Nexus S and nobody know when it will arrive but we can assume that we have to wait only some days...
Right now recieving the update hee in india.alhumdulillah
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my update is stuck at 15 mb remaining and cant seem to progress.. is there any way i can redownload the whole update again?
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Nezam said:
Right now recieving the update hee in india.alhumdulillah
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my update is stuck at 15 mb remaining and cant seem to progress.. is there any way i can redownload the whole update again?
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Try this: hit menu and go to application and to All Application. Search for Google Services Framework and select it. Delete Data and come back to system setting --> Info device --> System update and hit check now.
Thanx for trying to help
I did wat you said but now i can not getting the update downloaded no matter hw much i click check now..
Plz help.
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Nezam said:
Thanx for trying to help
I did wat you said but now i can not getting the update downloaded no matter hw much i click check now..
Plz help.
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Sorry but without unlock your bootloader and root I'm not able to help you but try to ask also here, we are talking about 4.1.2 OTA and there are a lot of users with a lot of experience:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1932832
Dont tell me that... there gt to b A way... r8?
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Nezam said:
Dont tell me that... there gt to b A way... r8?
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There is a way to manually update without root and unlock, you have to download your version of OTA from the thread that I suggested you and you have to learn to use adb commands. I personally tested this method on my device and it work.
You have to find a guide to install Android SDK on your PC and to learn how send adb command with android sdk (you have to open DOS command prompt and go to directory where you have installed android sdk to the folder adb...).
With this correctly installed, without any root and unlock, with some terminal commands you can manually update your device, at the end it will be completely stock without ony modifications.
After you have installed android sdk, procedure to update is this:
Connect your phone to your PC.
Reboot your device in recovery mode so power off nexus, power on by pressing both power+volume up, select recovery with volume keys and push power to confirm. And android with red triangle appear, push power and volume up to enter in recovery mode.
Select "Apply update from ADB".
On your PC copy the OTA from downloaded from the other thread in the folder with the ADB binary (adb.exe) in your SDK installation and rename the OTA as update.zip (not necessary but in this way is more easy).
On your PC open command prompt and go to folder with the ADB binary.
On your PC command prompt write "adb devices" to see if your nexus is correctly connected (have to appear a long serial number)
If yes, write this command: "adb sideload update.zip"
At the end reboot and you have a completely stock updatewithout modifications.
Nezam said:
Dont tell me that... there gt to b A way... r8?
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A second method that I read is to try to delete your google account and later insert it again and wait sync. I didn't try this, I prefer to learn how to use adb...
Thanks for helpin me out.i cleared data 2 - 3 times before i got the update again.It took me all day to download 15 mb though even after having a hi speed connection.
Thanks for the adb tip.
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Nezam said:
Thanks for helpin me out.i cleared data 2 - 3 times before i got the update again.It took me all day to download 15 mb though even after having a hi speed connection.
Thanks for the adb tip.
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No problem, for me data clearing didn't worked this time, I didn't want to wait anymore so I decide to use adb!
If I helped you, just click on "thank" button at the bottom of my post.
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S2 X from koodo and I was wondering if I can just straight up update my phone the way it is now through Samsung Kies when the JellyBean update arrives for my device in April? I have no custom roms NOR have I flashed anything on this device as far as I am concerned. The only thing I've done after rooting my phone is download root required apps on Google Play and APK files off the internet. I know for a fact that my root would disappear and I'm not concerned with that, since I don't want my phone to be rooted anymore anyways. So i figured I can hit two birds with one stone if I was able to update my phone and get rid of my root in the process. What's stopping me is that I have read that updating through kies while rooted can brick your phone. Or does that only happen if you have custom roms installed?
Don't you already have a thread about this?
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Don't you already have a thread about this?
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He does. OP, double positing is not allowed
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It's been successfully rooted with POOT.
It has also been rooted via CWM by Area51 Here for CWM and then Here for Root! I did find some ROM development going on at Area51 as well here. Area51's CWM does not appear to play nice with any phone rooted with Poot however so it's best to install CWM from Area51 first and then use their root method.
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It's been successfully rooted with POOT.
It has also been rooted via CWM by Area51 Here for CWM and then Here for Root! I did find some ROM development going on at Area51 as well here. Area51's CWM does not appear to play nice with any phone rooted with Poot however so it's best to install CWM from Area51 first and then use their root method.
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The root method used at A51 is out-of-date, and can't be updated. Therefore, you'll continuously receive an update notification and won't be able to stop it.
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The root method used at A51 is out-of-date, and can't be updated. Therefore, you'll continuously receive an update notification and won't be able to stop it.
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Not True! All you have to do is just not install the update when it boots you into CWM. This will be fixed when they complete the ROM they're working on. I don't get update reminders after accepting the first one and just not installing it once in recovery mode at the install screen!
My roomate just got this phone, gonna root it for her. Thanks for posting methods.
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zounduser said:
My roomate just got this phone, gonna root it for her. Thanks for posting methods.
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You might want to wait for Area51 to complete their first ROM for the phone. Currently it has an annoying update that keeps trying to install over the rooted stock OS that will break root if you install it. Of course you can just keep clicking on accept and then selecting NO when you get to the install update screen in CWM like I do, but it's an annoyance.
Is area51 still working on a ROM?
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alex_is_the_1 said:
Is area51 still working on a ROM?
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The ROM is now available at Area51 as well as an updated ROM with new boot animations and themes.
http://androidarea51.com/centura-root-cwm/
We also almost have CM9 working.
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We also almost have CM9 working.
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Any luck on that CM9?
Galaxy Centura 4.X
Is there any roms for the Samsung Galaxy Centura on StraightTalk that is Android version 4.1, 4.2 or above?
Not yet. Something that Samsung broke in the kernel is preventing the ROMs from booting up.
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Not yet. Something that Samsung broke in the kernel is preventing the ROMs from booting up.
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Bummer
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Cool just rooted one of these and uh, any recommendations on a root required app to use the phone as a wifi hotspot free of charge?
I just installed cwm with Odin and I did a backup. I downloaded all the files for root and place it in clockwork backup folder. When I go to cwm and restore backup folder I get a md5 mismatch error. Is their anyway to fix that?
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I just installed cwm with Odin and I did a backup. I downloaded all the files for root and place it in clockwork backup folder. When I go to cwm and restore backup folder I get a md5 mismatch error. Is their anyway to fix that?
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Did you rename the backup? If it has spaces, it will cause that error.
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What's the best method of returning this phone back stock is there a flashable firmware or tar file?
Does anyone know what has become of Androidarea51 ??
I've been trying to access that site for some time and it always fails to load.
It has been mentioned in this thread as a source for rooting this model of phone and I've just been given one & would like to root it...
Thanks.
Did anyone get the ROM to boot up? I've been trying but all I get is a black screen