Hi, hope Im not double posting or anything, but I havent found a solution to my problems yet.
I recently purchased Nexus S 4G, thinking it was working, but it is not. It powers up, but doesn't get to the main system. It sticks on the Nexus colorful flashing things and wont get past that. Sometimes it sticks on the Google logo. Is there anything I can check, or somehow restore it or something to get it to boot up? I can also get to the fast boot menu, but when I get there, and try recovery, it just gives me the sad dead Android with his tummy open with a red triangle.
aaps59 said:
Hi, hope Im not double posting or anything, but I havent found a solution to my problems yet.
I recently purchased Nexus S 4G, thinking it was working, but it is not. It powers up, but doesn't get to the main system. It sticks on the Nexus colorful flashing things and wont get past that. Sometimes it sticks on the Google logo. Is there anything I can check, or somehow restore it or something to get it to boot up? I can also get to the fast boot menu, but when I get there, and try recovery, it just gives me the sad dead Android with his tummy open with a red triangle.
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If you can get into fastboot just flash CWM http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager and SU http://androidsu.com/superuser/
Put SU on phone SD card
Reboot phone into bootloader mode
Open a command prompt and go to the folder in where CWM is
Now execute this fastboot command to flash the CWM recovery. Change the filename to the file you have downloaded.
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.1.0-crespo4g.img
Now go to recovery.
There, using the options, navigate to the install the superuser zip file
Reboot.
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I am trying to unroot my nexus s. I can't get back into recovery mode at all. I get the android guy and a ! screen. trying over and over still gets me back to this screen...... what to do?
Vol UP and POWER will take you to the bootloader.
fastboot boot clockworkrecovery.img
you should now be in clockwork recovery. It will revert back to stock on reboot, so you will need to mount system and rename the install-recovery.sh to install-recovery.old
I believe it is in the system/etc/
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery clockworkrecovery.img (this will replace the stock recovery)
I dont have clockwork recovery on my device..... I kind of need a dumbed down walk though. I tried the unlokr's walkthrough and thats when I found my device won't go into recovery mode. It tries and then goes to the above mentioned screen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000722 read through this long thread that I took a user to install Clockwork Recovery (or just look at the stickied thread in General in regards about rooting.. it includes flashing Clockwork)
this 7 page thread is dumbed down to the point where it cannot be dumbed down any more.
If its still stock after you select recovery it will show you the image and then you have to hold even power and volume up again or just volume up I can't remember.
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that thread helped me in no way shape or form......
carolinaguy99 said:
I am trying to unroot my nexus s. I can't get back into recovery mode at all. I get the android guy and a ! screen. trying over and over still gets me back to this screen...... what to do?
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If you can see that android with exclamation mark, i think you are already unrooted.
carolinaguy99 said:
that thread helped me in no way shape or form......
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You are unrooted and completely stock it sounds. If you want Clockwork installed you will have to unlock the bootloader, fastboot OEM unlock, then root or leave it unrooted
JD
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ScotchtapeLoser said:
Vol UP and POWER will take you to the bootloader.
fastboot boot clockworkrecovery.img
you should now be in clockwork recovery. It will revert back to stock on reboot, so you will need to mount system and rename the install-recovery.sh to install-recovery.old
I believe it is in the system/etc/
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery clockworkrecovery.img (this will replace the stock recovery)
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yeah, but what if the user cant find the "install-recovery.sh" file? for instance my "etc" folder doesnt have that file and i'm rooted.
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yeah, but what if the user cant find the "install-recovery.sh" file? for instance my "etc" folder doesnt have that file and i'm rooted.
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then the stock recovery won't keep reinstalling itself and CWR will be default.
When I turn the device on I still have an unlocked bootloader. im trying to re-lock it, and nothing is working
I had trouble going to the recovery menu when trying to manually update to 2.3.3: when you see the android robot with the exclamation sign after selecting recovery, you're supposed to press vol up + power again to access the file selection menu. However, pressing the combination would do nothing for me unless I pressed it like 10 times. Then I would glimpse the recovery menu and the phone rebooted unexpectedly.
After an hour or so of random unwanted reboot cycles, I pulled the battery out, put it back in, tried again the exact same way I had just been trying and it eventually worked.
Don't know if it has anything to do with your issue but maybe it helps?
Actually I figured out how to get into recovery with the exclamation mark and andriod moniker on screen.
Use the vol up and power key and simply press them at the same time and release both immediately.
Hey everyone,
I got a Nexus S that gets stuck on the Google logo when it starts up. I can get the phone into the bootloader and I can also clear the data from the phone but that hasn't fixed it. If you have any suggestions, please respond to the thread. Thank you!
I had this issue once for some reason... I had to take out the battery and put it back in, then boot into recovery and wipe the cache/davlik cache... Have you tried that yet??
brenix said:
I had this issue once for some reason... I had to take out the battery and put it back in, then boot into recovery and wipe the cache/davlik cache... Have you tried that yet??
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Yah, i just did it and it didnt solve my problem but thanks for the suggestions
Sounds to me like you flashed an incompatible kernel. Have you recently flashed anything?
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Sounds to me like you flashed an incompatible kernel. Have you recently flashed anything?
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No but the person I purchased it from might have. Does anyone know how to load stock android becuase I'm not experienced with rooting.
Looks like he bricked it, lucky for you, it's a Nexus. You have to find a stock Gingerbread ROM and flash it with ODIN or maybe through recovery. Look around for a stock ROM.
Sent from my Xoom
any solution?
hi guys.i have the same issue.does anyone have a solution for this?
i had the same problem.....what i did was cleared everything on recovery and flashed cyanogenmod and now is all good (this was of course after changing my underwear lol )
Smokexz said:
Looks like he bricked it, lucky for you, it's a Nexus. You have to find a stock Gingerbread ROM and flash it with ODIN or maybe through recovery. Look around for a stock ROM.
Sent from my Xoom
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how can I do it?
I got the same problem.
Nexus S stuck at Google lOgo
I have the same Issue
Here is the Boot Loader Details.
Boot Loader version is : I9020XXKA3
baseband : I9020XXKB1
Locked sTate : LOCKEd
I have downloaded the stock nandroid , but not able to put it on the phone memory.
then tried to unlock the BOOT Loader in order to install Clock..Recovery , but there also after selecting Yes while Running Fastboot oem unlock , phone does not do anything.
then tried to load the file using ADB mode, but when i run adb devices , it doesnt show any device. or when i run adb remount it says "Error device not found"
Please help me get out of it.....
Similar problem
Ahoy!
I have a similar problem. Bought the phone in the States so I'm not in a position to go into psychological warfare with some poor high school kid working in Best Buy. Plus, all this is totally my fault...
I dropped my phone down the can (if it was a Blackberry I would have flushed) and manged to rescue it through handy desiccant (open shoe box gel packets) and rediscovering religion *cough* until this is sorted *cough*.
When I eventually fired her back up (the battery had flatlined btw) I'm stuck on the Google screen. So battle commenced...
The phone was stock 2.3.4, never rooted, no CW Recovery.
T-Mobile I9020T.
I sorted the Win 7 USB device issue
Can see it with fastboot but not adb.
Can access the bootloader screen so tried the Recovery option but it just goes into Google splash screen each time.
Flashed various versions of CW recovery (herring, mecha) to it but hitting the Recovery menu on the bootloader screen just keeps going to the Google splash screen.
This is where I complicated things because I'm a complete and utter noob to the rooting game.
I'm fairly sure I was careless early on with the appropriate versions of the full stock and singular recovery images I was trying to flash, so this might be useful information.
I downloaded ODIN and tried it briefly but it didn't seem to recognise my phone (I keep reading the ODIN needs to be tricked into recognising the phone). I also keep reading the ODIN is unnecessary if you have fastboot access so let this line of inquiry slide.
I downloaded a full Clockwork Mod Stock Nandroid (Stock-GRH78-Nandroid) and attempted to flash it all. The boot img failed due to a "FAILED exceed blocks" problem, so I tried this (classic noob try anything):
"Got a failure when trying to flash back a 8Mb boot.img?
From example above I started from a boot.img smaller than the full boot partition but if you create a new boot.img or start from an image of the full partition taken manually or with clockworkmod, boot.img will be 8Mb-large (8388608) and fastboot fails with "FAILED exceed blocks 0x00000020 > 0x0000001e".
I'm not really sure about what size the file should be but as it's filled with zeroes till reaching 8Mb, I decided to cut it:
0x00000020 => 0x0000001e means for me 8388608 / 0x20 * 0x1e = 7864320, so I did:
dd if=boot.img of=boot2.img bs=262144 count=30
fastboot flash boot boot2.img"
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This worked! noob W1NNAR!!!11one111!!
I got the same thing with the recovery and the same "trick" worked. When it got around to the system img it eventually failed with a "Magic number" problem. Checking this problem out made me realise I can't keep messing around and should "get help".
As a further note I'm aware that the recovery can get flashed each time to stock after a reboot so I've been flashing CW Recovery and then trying to boot into Recovery straight away. Still getting stuck on the Google Splash screen.
I haven't found anyone with my problem that couldn't get sorted with CW so I'm either completely boned or missing something ridiculously easy. Been trying things for over a week - I'm getting close to selling her for scrap.
Have you turned S-Off?
-Remember, Android hell is a real place and you will be sent there at the first sign of defiance-
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As a further note I'm aware that the recovery can get flashed each time to stock after a reboot so I've been flashing CW Recovery and then trying to boot into Recovery straight away. Still getting stuck on the Google Splash screen.
I haven't found anyone with my problem that couldn't get sorted with CW so I'm either completely boned or missing something ridiculously easy. Been trying things for over a week - I'm getting close to selling her for scrap.
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Do "fastboot erase recovery" then flash a different ClockworkMod build. Try 3.0.2.4
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Thanks Matt.
Just tried erasing (hadn't before) and flashing 3.0.2.4 - no dice. Tried erasing and 3.0.2.5 and no luck either.
twitch153 said:
Have you turned S-Off?
-Remember, Android hell is a real place and you will be sent there at the first sign of defiance-
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Maybe I'm missing a blindingly obvious step.
My exact steps are:
Starting phone into bootloader screen (Volume + Up)
Erasing the recovery (as of Mike's post above)
Flashing the recovery (ensuring the recovery file is named "recovery.img")
On success of that selecting the Recovery menu item.
Each time I get Google Splash screen.
hand_of_henry said:
Maybe I'm missing a blindingly obvious step.
My exact steps are:
Starting phone into bootloader screen (Volume + Up)
Erasing the recovery (as of Mike's post above)
Flashing the recovery (ensuring the recovery file is named "recovery.img")
On success of that selecting the Recovery menu item.
Each time I get Google Splash screen.
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Try to use fastboot to go into recovery directly instead of flashing recovery and choosing it from the bootloader menu.
"fastboot boot recovery.img" and see how this goes.
Edit: try this recovery as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
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How long do you wait on the splash screen? I recall this happening to me once but I thinkbi just let it sit and recovery eventually showed up after a while.
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asafru said:
Try to use fastboot to go into recovery directly instead of flashing recovery and choosing it from the bootloader menu.
"fastboot boot recovery.img" and see how this goes.
Edit: try this recovery as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
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Thanks asafru,
I tried booting into recovery but again, no luck. I did it with one of the recovery builds you suggested (the cyan recovery but having trawled that thread I'm not sure what the difference is between the colours).
matt2053 said:
How long do you wait on the splash screen? I recall this happening to me once but I thinkbi just let it sit and recovery eventually showed up after a while.
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That's a fair point - I had expected to see the recovery screen fairly sharpish.
I've waited 15 minutes now on the splash screen for flashings of cw 3.0.2.4, 3.0.2.5 and the mysterious cyan build of 4.0.0.2.
I imagine this is an appropriate amount of time for the recovery to kick in?
I've tried all these recoveries using the Recovery menu item and also using the booting directly recovery method that asafru suggests above.
i was trying to re-root my phone after an update i did with my nexus s. i was following the step by step root by allgamer http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=895545. i skip the unlock bootloader since it was already unlocked skipped to the flash img part and did it then after that i went to recovery. now it just get stuck at a google logo. if im right i had 2 recovery files in the tools folder, i didnt know another recovery img was in the folder so im guessing this is why it gets stuck, but im sort of new to rooting so im not sure what im suppose to do to fix it. thanks
stock ROM? try reflash recovery
yeah stock recovery. sorry for late reply been busy.
it seemed to fix itself but when i install clockwork recovery, it doesnt seem to work.
it just shows an exclamation mark "!" and a android figure.
I used rom manager to flash to clockworkmod recovery the other day. When it prompted me to confirm my device it said "Huawai U8160" this was wrong my device is ascend II M865. I figured since it was the same company and it didn't give me any other option maybe it would work on my phone too but no dice. When I go to recovery, it just stays at the white huawai splash screen. I have downloaded the ascend II recovery img file from the rom manager site, but don't know how to install it. I looked all over with no luck. Do I need to put it in a specific directory for the 'use other clockwork recovery' thing to recognize it, or does that just look for them online? I read one post that said to replace the .img file in /sdcard/clockworkmodrecovery/download or something but the only file in there is 'tether' and .settings. pls help i need my recovery back
you need to download this here ----> http://playfuldroidz.com/media/recoveries/Ascend2/CWM_4.0.1.4-M865.zip
it's clockworkmod recovery for your device, within the zip are varies files, if you are familiar with fastboot then you can flash manually using that.
If you are not then extract the zip to the root of your C drive, connect your device to the computer with a USB and boot the phone on with volume down and the power button which puts you into fastboot (it may be volume up but i think for your device it is volume down) then double click on the install-recovery-windows.bat and you should be ok
well it wouldn't boot into fastboot it just stayed at the white splashscreen, so i ran the three files from cwm and it worked! So if anybody else has this problem, if you can't boot into fastboot(recovery mode) you can still load the files from your pc using the standard method. I didn't think I could but it worked! Thanks for your help matt!
No worries, and just an FYI fastboot mode stays at the splash screen, so you were actually in fastboot mode
lmao well that exlains a whole lot i am great with computers but phones are new to me learning fast tho..
So, I got my new phone today, and immediately rooted it. This was the first time I'd ever done something like this to any phone, so I was really in the dark on the whole matter. I managed to root it successfully, and proceeded to install Cyanogen, which took ages to install, and I remembered that I'd forgotten to wipe the phone, so I restarted, went into recovery mode and ACCIDENTALLY WIPED ALL OF MY FILES with TWRP. Once I realised what I'd done, I panicked, restarting the phone, which landed me, stuck, on the 'WARNING, BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED' screen. I panicked again, and went to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
And tried to follow everything, but I didn't really understand what I was doing and was in a state of panic. I can go into details of what I did if needs be, but long story short, whenever I boot up my phone I get the bootloader unlocked screen and do not boot into the OS. I cannot also access the Recovery window, and it has the android mascot lying on its back with a red triangle.
All I want to do is fix my phone, if anyone could guide me through this, I'd be forever grateful.
tl;dr: F**ked up, possible bricked my phone and don't know what to do.
Many thanks for any response.
Phaydze said:
So, I got my new phone today, and immediately rooted it. This was the first time I'd ever done something like this to any phone, so I was really in the dark on the whole matter. I managed to root it successfully, and proceeded to install Cyanogen, which took ages to install, and I remembered that I'd forgotten to wipe the phone, so I restarted, went into recovery mode and ACCIDENTALLY WIPED ALL OF MY FILES with TWRP. Once I realised what I'd done, I panicked, restarting the phone, which landed me, stuck, on the 'WARNING, BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED' screen. I panicked again, and went to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
And tried to follow everything, but I didn't really understand what I was doing and was in a state of panic. I can go into details of what I did if needs be, but long story short, whenever I boot up my phone I get the bootloader unlocked screen and do not boot into the OS. I cannot also access the Recovery window, and it has the android mascot lying on its back with a red triangle.
All I want to do is fix my phone, if anyone could guide me through this, I'd be forever grateful.
tl;dr: F**ked up, possible bricked my phone and don't know what to do.
Many thanks for any response.
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Recovery has been deleted by u accidentally
Go to bootlander (power + volume down) try to install TWRP recovery again through adb n install cm11 directly through adb sideload
Phaydze said:
So, I got my new phone today, and immediately rooted it. This was the first time I'd ever done something like this to any phone, so I was really in the dark on the whole matter. I managed to root it successfully, and proceeded to install Cyanogen, which took ages to install, and I remembered that I'd forgotten to wipe the phone, so I restarted, went into recovery mode and ACCIDENTALLY WIPED ALL OF MY FILES with TWRP. Once I realised what I'd done, I panicked, restarting the phone, which landed me, stuck, on the 'WARNING, BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED' screen. I panicked again, and went to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
And tried to follow everything, but I didn't really understand what I was doing and was in a state of panic. I can go into details of what I did if needs be, but long story short, whenever I boot up my phone I get the bootloader unlocked screen and do not boot into the OS. I cannot also access the Recovery window, and it has the android mascot lying on its back with a red triangle.
All I want to do is fix my phone, if anyone could guide me through this, I'd be forever grateful.
tl;dr: F**ked up, possible bricked my phone and don't know what to do.
Many thanks for any response.
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Since you managed to root, im assuming you have ADB and Fastboot on your PC?
Download a recovery.img file from XDA. I recommend this one ----> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639583
Place the recovery.img file in the same file folder/location as your fastboot and ADB files.
Open a command window from the same location as the adb/fastboot/recover.img files.
In the command window type "fastboot device" and make sure some type of serial number shows up in the window.
Once you know your device is connected via fastboot, type: "fastboot flash recovery __________.img"
Where the ______.img is, you would put the name of the recovery.img file.
For example, the file that gets downloaded if you download philz touch (the link i gave you), is called "recovery.img"
So in fastboot you would type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
Once thats been flashed, you should be able to boot into recovery, sideload a rom, and flash it to your device.
Good Luck!
Phaydze said:
So, I got my new phone today, and immediately rooted it. This was the first time I'd ever done something like this to any phone, so I was really in the dark on the whole matter. I managed to root it successfully, and proceeded to install Cyanogen, which took ages to install, and I remembered that I'd forgotten to wipe the phone, so I restarted, went into recovery mode and ACCIDENTALLY WIPED ALL OF MY FILES with TWRP. Once I realised what I'd done, I panicked, restarting the phone, which landed me, stuck, on the 'WARNING, BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED' screen. I panicked again, and went to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219
And tried to follow everything, but I didn't really understand what I was doing and was in a state of panic. I can go into details of what I did if needs be, but long story short, whenever I boot up my phone I get the bootloader unlocked screen and do not boot into the OS. I cannot also access the Recovery window, and it has the android mascot lying on its back with a red triangle.
All I want to do is fix my phone, if anyone could guide me through this, I'd be forever grateful.
tl;dr: F**ked up, possible bricked my phone and don't kn.
go to this link for any response.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2744058
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