Rooting Stock 4.1.2 with broken power button - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all!
I have a nexus s which suffered from a power button failure. Took it to Samsung London Angel Islington and they didn't do anything! Charged me to get my phone back, its a long story. I would like to install CWM - the phone is fastboot unlocked and has stock 4.1.2 - I flashed the latest factory image before sending it back to samsung. I have tried several different methods of root.
All the methods I have tried require USB connectivity via fastboot. I try to fastboot flash the CWM image but the phone won't connect through USB. I think the problem is due to the faulty power button. ADB will connect when the phone is powered on.
Any other alternative methods that I haven't tried?
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you

Well since it is fastboot unlocked (I hope you mean boot loader unlocked) you can probably install superuser and then ROM Manager and through ROM manager CWM.
Mind you because you have a broken power button you'll need to buy the CWM touch or else CWM isn't going to do you any good( the non touch version I mean)
Hope I helped
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kkricardokaka95 said:
Well since it is fastboot unlocked (I hope you mean boot loader unlocked) you can probably install superuser and then ROM Manager and through ROM manager CWM.
Mind you because you have a broken power button you'll need to buy the CWM touch or else CWM isn't going to do you any good( the non touch version I mean)
Hope I helped
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Wrong and wrong.
He has fastboot unlocked, but he isn't rooted. He won't be able to install superuser then ROM Manager.
He doesn't need CWM touch either because his power button is broken, because you can scroll down with the menu softkey and up with the home key, and select with the search key on the non touch version (also works in the touch version). No need to spend on ROM manager, they also offer the touch version for free if you flash it manually.
Although it is fastboot unlocked, without a way to fastboot a custom recovery, you're SOL. Some people had luck unsticking their broken power button by blowing compressed air, others by taking the phone apart and cleaning it. If you get it to a semi reliable state, or at least working once so you can boot to fastboot you'll be able to flash a recovery.

Hmm... Without the USB he can't even fastboot.
The USB problem. Even I have it. Try to keep the USB connected for like 5-10 minutes. Usually detects after that. I don't know what's the problem. I don't care enough to find out.
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Infinity won't boot after reboot into recovery.

I was on bb4 Rom, and tried to reboot into recovery to flash the official jelly bean, but now I get no output on the screen. I can use various combinations of the buttons, and it will vibrate, but won't boot. Can anyone help?
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ishamm said:
I was on bb4 Rom, and tried to reboot into recovery to flash the official jelly bean, but now I get no output on the screen. I can use various combinations of the buttons, and it will vibrate, but won't boot. Can anyone help?
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If you don't have fastboot or adb working there's not much to do for your device.... sorry mate. At least other two users had the same issue lately, i wonder what's causing it.
oh good...
what would be the combination to boot into fastboot? i wander if its possible to get into it, and just the screen is not working during boot?
ishamm said:
oh good...
what would be the combination to boot into fastboot? i wander if its possible to get into it, and just the screen is not working during boot?
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To get in fastboot mode press Volume down + Power and release the buttons when the white text message, you have about having 5 second to press Volume Up shows...if this work you will get to a menu with the "USB icon" which means boot in fastboot mode.
Thanks, couldn't remember which buttons or was, different from my phone XD
Unfortunately I get nothing but vibration from the tablet. Bricked?
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soft brick
I had .30 stock & flashed a copy of the JB OTA via TWRP.
I did a full wipe (everything except SD cards (so I thought)
Somehow my micro SD card was wiped, but not the Dock SD card.
Want to guess where my TWRP back up copies were?
I boot flashed TWRP again but it doesn't appear to work with JB yet.
(doesn't see any files on any sd cards).
Next thing I'm going to try to do is fastboot a copy of the .30 blob.
I'm checking out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803343 but it appears that process is dated.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated
I have tried various things to fix this, tried booting fastboot, adb etc, but to no success. Can anyone help? I've never seen a problem be too much for xda XD
update: so the device appears too have been on last night, as the battery was dead (no vibration when power button held), I plugged it in, got a vibration to say it's charging. Could it be the screen is actually broken, as in a hardware fault, just with coincidental timing that I was trying to get into recovery?
Thanks
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ATT One X accidental wipe memory with TWRP, stuck on HTC loading screen.

Moved accidently posted in HTC One X
Hello everyone. First of all I am new to the XDA forums. Second of all I am using or was a AT&T HTC One x. I tried to get CM10 on my phone at first and then Viper XL both fails. Go TWRP on successfully through Goo.Manager. Now I have accidently deleted and wiped the system delvik cache and everything. My phone won't even shut off ATM. I used as well Hasoon's All in one tool kit. I just want my phone back and working I don't even care what ROM or even if I have to go back to original software. I just need my phone back. Just please someone post instructions or a YouTube visual. Right now I have purchased a AT&T Z431 GoPhone for temporary use. Best part is I cant even seem to get the micro sim from the one x to fit in it.
Even better....
My parents would kill me if they found out but I am daring. And 18 and have a job and use my own money so I don't care. (Sarcasm.)
Just help
Sincerely: Friendly neighborhood superhero Techinstein.
Hold power and volume down until the phone turns off, when the screen goes back, release power. But continue holding volume down. This will take you into the bootloader. From there you can relock your bootloader and ruu, or you can go into recovery and flash a new rom
absolutelygrim said:
Hold power and volume down until the phone turns off, when the screen goes back, release power. But continue holding volume down. This will take you into the bootloader. From there you can relock your bootloader and ruu, or you can go into recovery and flash a new rom
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Once I get into bootloader mode if I ever do can you give me step by step instructions if I want to flash into Viper XL?
By the way I was trying to get my htc one x micro sim card into a regular sim card slot and touched the recievers on accident and probally bent the plastic part not the metal on accident am I still fine? Thanks for all your help so far.:good:
Techinstein said:
Once I get into bootloader mode if I ever do can you give me step by step instructions if I want to flash into Viper XL?
By the way I was trying to get my htc one x micro sim card into a regular sim card slot and touched the recievers on accident and probally bent the plastic part not the metal on accident am I still fine? Thanks for all your help so far.:good:
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Ok I got into bootloader mode I just need the instructions as mentioned before for Viper XL flashing with windows 8 please.
1. Boot into bootloader mode
2. Navigate to recovery option , then press power button to access recovery mode ( I assume you have twrp as you said above )
3. In twrp recovery , choose mount => mount USB => connect your phone to your computer
4. Copy viper xl Rom to your phone , when it done , disconnect you phone from your computer , then select unmount option in twrp
5. Wipe cache/ David cache , factory reset ..
6. Install viperxl
P/s :
- if you never unlock your bootloader or installed custom recovery. Then download att ruu 2.20 ( available in development section). Boot phone into bootloader mode, then connect you phone to your computer and run ruu.exe and follow instruction.
- if you know that
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tritran18518 said:
1. Boot into bootloader mode
2. Navigate to recovery option , then press power button to access recovery mode ( I assume you have twrp as you said above )
3. In twrp recovery , choose mount => mount USB => connect your phone to your computer
4. Copy viper xl Rom to your phone , when it done , disconnect you phone from your computer , then select unmount option in twrp
5. Wipe cache/ David cache , factory reset ..
6. Install viperxl
P/s :
- if you never unlock your bootloader or installed custom recovery. Then download att ruu 2.20 ( available in development section). Boot phone into bootloader mode, then connect you phone to your computer and run ruu.exe and follow instruction.
- if you know that
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I said I think that I don't have TWRP anymore somehow accidently gone and on windows 8 formatted hard drive so it works. Now only have bootloader and no os. But thanks.:good:
I've never ruu a phone to stock but wouldn't that work there's a couple guides for ruuing in dev section
I had to stock ROM RUU ITS 2.20 after reflashing well postlink I found for the RUU AT&T HTC One X later. Then I unlocked bootloader again. After that I downloaded Viper XL 2.4.0 and flashed it and TWRP through recovery.
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It sounds like you should stop messing with the phone until you read up and gain a basic understanding of what you are doing.
1) You probably just forgot to flash boot.img or factory reset when originally flashing CM10 or ViperXL.
2) Of course wiping System means the phone won't boot. You wiped the operating system
3) Cramming the MicroSIM into a SIM slot, really?
Is it working now? I wouldn't try to insert a broken SIM, you may end up damaging the tray. SIMs are free from AT&T. Damaged SIM tray . . . much more expensive.
They have adapters to fit MicroSIMs into "regular" SIM slots.
redpoint73 said:
It sounds like you should stop messing with the phone until you read up and gain a basic understanding of what you are doing.
1) You probably just forgot to flash boot.img or factory reset when originally flashing CM10 or ViperXL.
2) Of course wiping System means the phone won't boot. You wiped the operating system
3) Cramming the MicroSIM into a SIM slot, really?
Is it working now? I wouldn't try to insert a broken SIM, you may end up damaging the tray. SIMs are free from AT&T. Damaged SIM tray . . . much more expensive.
They have adapters to fit MicroSIMs into "regular" SIM slots.
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I had it romed with viper then RUUD it in which I well post link for AT&T One X OTA 2.20. The sim works perfectly fine lol. I don't even need the other back up phone. I am probably going to sell it. After RUUing my phone and relocking it I am going to delete all my android SDK adb files then download clockwork and cyanogenmod. But thanks for the suggestions.
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I think you forgot to flash the boot.img found in the roms zip file. Do it in windows from fastboot usb. There's a couple quick tools out there. I used the one from onexroot.com
Maybe Techinstein isn't the most accurate username?!
timmaaa said:
Maybe Techinstein isn't the most accurate username?!
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My Idea it is. Because I invented it, I am on every forum and game. I invented it because I thought Einstein - E + Tech = Techinstein. I also get straight As at least in 12th grade. But I haven't learned how to code yet or anything. I do know how to use MAYA and UDK (Unreal Engine.) For game design. I'm good at video games but not hacking things. At least yet but I would like to learn wouldn't you?
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You guys should read my earlier post I said I fixed it already, anyhow.
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Techinstein said:
You guys should read my earlier post I said I fixed it already, anyhow.
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Sorry to hijack this thread, I have the same issue, accidentaly wiped phone, only problem is, no matter how many times I try, I cannot get into recovery by holding down the volume down and power keys. Currently the phone is stuck on the green on white HTC screen.
shivan82 said:
Sorry to hijack this thread, I have the same issue, accidentaly wiped phone, only problem is, no matter how many times I try, I cannot get into recovery by holding down the volume down and power keys. Currently the phone is stuck on the green on white HTC screen.
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Hold power until the feedback buttons at the bottom blink 5-7 times and the screen goes black. When it goes black, let go of power and press and hold volume down until the bootloader comes up
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exad said:
Hold power until the feedback buttons at the bottom blink 5-7 times and the screen goes black. When it goes black, let go of power and press and hold volume down until the bootloader comes up
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I tried that no luck. I have a backup, I just need to get to recovery to restore it.
If that's not working and you're positive you're doing it right you'll have to open up the phone and disconnect the battery.
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ATT One X accidental wipe memory with TWRP, stuck on HTC loading screen. Response.
If anyone has had or is having the problem of being stuck at the Htc booting screen, I want to add in my information about what I did.
Here is what I did:
I pressed the volume down button at the same time while pressing the power button. Boots it into programmer mode.
Than I used volume buttons to highlight recovery. Press power button. Goes into Recovery.
From there I went down to mounts and storage. Press power.
From there I went to MOUNT USB STORAGE. Press power.
Than Unmount. Press power. Now you should connect in your usb cord to computer. Go into your phone drive.
Now go into http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24962323 and download the stock rom drive of your language. English is Arabic version.
Now put freshly downloaded, don't have to compress it, into your phones drive.
Now turn off phone, boot back into recovery mode.
Press install zip from sdcard. Power.Choose zip from sdcard. Pick whatever you installed onto your phone. Let it install.
And than reboot.
There you go. It should boot up HTC logo, "Quietly brilliant" and will put you onto the setup screen and pick your language you want.
I was to pleased when I got this working again.
(New user, Htcuserkassen)

[Q] Can't access fastboot...

Hey guys,
first of all, my powerbutton stopped working some weeks ago. I thought that not much of a problem, so I remapped this thing and perfect.
I noticed, if I turn off my phone, take battery out and back in, it restarts instantly. Seems to be stucked at "ON" or something.
Well I also noticed without touchrecovery, it's quite a problem to navigate through cwm recovery.
But there's still fastboot... naaah I couldn't find the phone in Windows to install drivers, thought that's a problem of Win8, but after that I tried same thing in ubuntu with manually installed drivers... still nothing.
Okay next thing, is, there are so many apps in the market, which install some recovery, autoflash stuff... Did that, (yeah I gave root access and so on) and still nothing happened, I'm still stuck with this cwm recovery and can't install new roms.
Now my Question(s):
Is there an Option to install some new recovery?
Is there a way to get Fastboot working?
Is there a way to get the Powerbutton in this state back to work?
Or kinda best worst case, is there an option to get my Nexus back to Stock and unroot to send it in, I still got warranty but this would require stock phone...!
Thanks!
30floh00 said:
Hey guys,
first of all, my powerbutton stopped working some weeks ago. I thought that not much of a problem, so I remapped this thing and perfect.
I noticed, if I turn off my phone, take battery out and back in, it restarts instantly. Seems to be stucked at "ON" or something.
Well I also noticed without touchrecovery, it's quite a problem to navigate through cwm recovery.
But there's still fastboot... naaah I couldn't find the phone in Windows to install drivers, thought that's a problem of Win8, but after that I tried same thing in ubuntu with manually installed drivers... still nothing.
Okay next thing, is, there are so many apps in the market, which install some recovery, autoflash stuff... Did that, (yeah I gave root access and so on) and still nothing happened, I'm still stuck with this cwm recovery and can't install new roms.
Now my Question(s):
Is there an Option to install some new recovery?
Is there a way to get Fastboot working?
Is there a way to get the Powerbutton in this state back to work?
Or kinda best worst case, is there an option to get my Nexus back to Stock and unroot to send it in, I still got warranty but this would require stock phone...!
Thanks!
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Yes, yes, yes... and yes!!! What you need is a shop that repairs phones or a store that sells new phones...
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Can you boot all the way up into your android os?.. If so, you can use NEXUS ROOT TOOL KIT to flash to stock and relock it so it's "stock" for waranty..
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFr16--8W0o1xpv2Qtf0lDDwdGYJA
Setting.Out said:
Can you boot all the way up into your android os?.. If so, you can use NEXUS ROOT TOOL KIT to flash to stock and relock it so it's "stock" for waranty..
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFr16--8W0o1xpv2Qtf0lDDwdGYJA
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Well ADB works but when NEXUS ROOT TOOL KIT reboots into fastboot it looses connection... Tried that to change recovery... Seems to be the same with relocking isnt it?!
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30floh00 said:
Well ADB works but when NEXUS ROOT TOOL KIT reboots into fastboot it looses connection... Tried that to change recovery... Seems to be the same with relocking isnt it?!
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Hmmm.... Ebay..
have you tried flash touch recovery with ROM Manager app?
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Try capacitive buttons on your current recovery. On my current recovery the search button makes the same that the power button, so if in your recovery the button have the same behaviour then you can easily flash a stock rom
Okay, i just got told: "If the power button is always pressed, fast boot does not react on input from keys or over adb.."
Hope that's not the "notsolution" for my problem... ^^
mykos5 said:
have you tried flash touch recovery with ROM Manager app?
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Try capacitive buttons on your current recovery. On my current recovery the search button makes the same that the power button, so if in your recovery the button have the same behaviour then you can easily flash a stock rom
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doesn't work, too....
30floh00 said:
Okay, i just got told: "If the power button is always pressed, fast boot does not react on input from keys or over adb.."
Hope that's not the "notsolution" for my problem... ^^
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On my recovery the capacitive buttons react even with the power button pressed...
Can you get into download mode ???if so http://db.tt/88pntL6T flash this twrp recovery in Odin make sure auto reboot is checked and not repartition it should boot you right into recovery and then do whatbu got to do .... if you can not get into download mode get a jig always a life saver with android I've had no power button for 3 years and when it dies I Odin the recovery every time :thumbup:
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okay guys, just flashed touch recovery via Flash_image
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-custom-recovery-to-an-android-phone-device/
hope it helps you, if you cant access fastboot, too.. It's a bit tricky, but totally worth it

HTC One Mini (No OS/Data wiped) HELP!

I need some help, I'm a total noob at all this stuff. So basically, all what I wanted to do is root my phone. So I unlocked bootloader, installed twrp, had super user and everything but while I was on the twrp menu rather than hitting the install button I hit the wipe button then accidentally (really) confirmed wiping. Now my phone is completely wiped no OS nor data, at least it boots up but the booting up loading screen stays there forever. I can also get into the bootloader screen but for some reason when I try to install twrp again it doesn't install, there's like that small green bar at the top right of the bootloader screen it only does half way 50% and never increases. I'm really hopeless, lol. Please help, what should I do? How to install HTC's One mini OS from scratch without having any problems?
l3raveHeart said:
I need some help, I'm a total noob at all this stuff. So basically, all what I wanted to do is root my phone. So I unlocked bootloader, installed twrp, had super user and everything but while I was on the twrp menu rather than hitting the install button I hit the wipe button then accidentally (really) confirmed wiping. Now my phone is completely wiped no OS nor data, at least it boots up but the booting up loading screen stays there forever. I can also get into the bootloader screen but for some reason when I try to install twrp again it doesn't install, there's like that small green bar at the top right of the bootloader screen it only does half way 50% and never increases. I'm really hopeless, lol. Please help, what should I do? How to install HTC's One mini OS from scratch without having any problems?
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Did that too with my HTC One M7UL once upon a time. You can push files to your device, when it's in fastboot, via adb fastboot. So push a system/zip to your device and flash it in TWRP, when you get there. As long as you can do adb in fastboot, there's hope for you!
Good luck
Thanks for your reply.
Do you by any chance know where to get HTC One Mini's system zip?
Hello, put your phone out by holding the powerbutton till it is really out.
Then hold volume up and the powerbutton, this will get you to TWRP.
Now you can use ADB sideload to push a rom to your phone by using adb.
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Zoeriva said:
Hello, put your phone out by holding the powerbutton till it is really out.
Then hold volume up and the powerbutton, this will get you to TWRP.
Now you can use ADB sideload to push a rom to your phone by using adb.
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Thanks for the reply really appreciate your help, but when I try to push a file using cmd it says ''error device not found'' What could be causing this error to happen and how to fix? Thanks again.
It's a good idea to update the drivers for the phone, if you don't already have that. Btw, that's the HTC syncing program. Try the command: adb devices. That will show connected devices.
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[Q] Help

I flashed an AOSP version of 5.0 lolipop. When this happened, I lost root. My bootloader is unlocked, but when i go to Recovery, i see the android with the text "no command" underneath. I no longer have CWM, google apps, or anything useful. What I want is to go to a factory stock. I dont care about root. If i have it, great, if not, oh well. Now in a normal world, i would plug phone into pc and go through the fastboot. But the data channel in my microUSB doesnt work. I can transfer files through airdroid? What can i do?
caseylitz said:
I flashed an AOSP version of 5.0 lolipop. When this happened, I lost root. My bootloader is unlocked, but when i go to Recovery, i see the android with the text "no command" underneath. I no longer have CWM, google apps, or anything useful. What I want is to go to a factory stock. I dont care about root. If i have it, great, if not, oh well. Now in a normal world, i would plug phone into pc and go through the fastboot. But the data channel in my microUSB doesnt work. I can transfer files through airdroid? What can i do?
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What you have is the stock recovery, push power and vol up and release the keys after 1 second. Without a pc you're pretty much sol getting a custom recovery and root or flashing the factory image
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jd1639 said:
What you have is the stock recovery, push power and vol up and release the keys after 1 second. Without a pc you're pretty much sol getting a custom recovery and root or flashing the factory image
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so, what can i do with the stock recovery? Is there anything I can download to pc, then send over wifi to phone?

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