Hi guys,
i have a tricky problem.
I bought a used nexus S, without any hope to recover it.
This is the state at the moment (after installed SDK and drivers).
I think the device is in his standard state (all locked up, never rooted, stock rom)
It boot up and ask for a password to encrypt device (works : volume and emergency call).
If i connect usb, he tries to mount USB storage but he dosen't success.
I connect to pc and pc see an Android ADB device in the devices list.
BUT if i lauch 'adb devices' i dont see anything.
I start it in bootloader mode (Vol Up + Power) ... it starts.
BUT Vol Up and Vol down didn't work. I can only press power and return again in bootloader. (volume work if i normally boot)
In bootloader state i tried 'fastboot devices' and i didn't see any device.
So the state is :
Bootloader i think "broken" (volumes dosen't work and fastboot dosen't see device)
Debug usb disabled (adb don't see my device)
Device encrypted
Any idea ?
I think is a nice problem to let your brain works on :laugh::laugh:
Thanks in advice.
Daniele
Hey guys, there is anybody out there ?
I dont think that no one could try to solve this problem.
Thanks
Do you have the drivers installed onto your PC? You will need to get the adb drivers and fastboot drivers. Download Samsung Kies and that will take care of your ADB drivers. Click here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/5a7gou9droidi53/drivers.rar for your fastboot drivers. Hope this helps.
I've already installed drivers.
But i will give a try to the ones you linked.
Thanks you.
sirhaplo said:
I've already installed drivers.
But i will give a try to the ones you linked.
Thanks you.
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I'd suggest just booting Linux and doing whatever you need to do in there.
The kernel already supports communicating with the Nexus S, no need to mess with drivers like on Windows.
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Hey, I'm having trouble getting my phone recognised in Fastboot mode. I can get to the bootloader, but Windows 7 64 bit doesn't recognise it. And -- I think this is important -- I don't see the USB Control Init/USB Control Init End messages which usually appear when it's connected. Added to that, the Vol Up/Down keys don't work in Fastboot, but they do work in recovery and when ICS is running.
I've tried most, if not all, of the guides on Fastboot with Windows 7 64 bit. Yes, I've tried using the PdaNet drivers and all that. It used to work before, even without the PdaNet drivers.
All the symptoms are:
- Vol Up/Vol Down don't work in the bootloader. They do work in stock recovery and when the OS, ICS, is running.
- No USB Init messages appear at the bottom of the bootloader screen when the phone is connected to the PC (Win7 x64).
- Not recognised even PDANet drivers. adb devices lists the device, fastboot devices doesn't list the device, and fastboot flash recovery recovery.img says <Waiting for Device>
- i9020T with ICS 4.0.3 (Stock)
Any help would be great, thanks guys/gals.
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My phone fell from a desk about waist height and now the Power Button doesn't work. Trying to get Fastboot working so I can install a ROM with Volume Wake since I'm running stock.
I'm having this EXACT same problem. Someone please help!
I'm also have this issue. Any help would be great
Tom Foolery said:
I'm also have this issue. Any help would be great
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Same issue here.
Has someone solved?
Sorry guys/gals, I didn't manage to get it resolved. I ended up getting a Galaxy Nexus.
hi there.
maybe I am using wrong words but I cannot find any post similar to my subject.
I am on stock ICS but it is not working well - I wanted to downgrade, but it looks like it is not possible to downgrade on stock recovery. I know I have to change the recovery to sth else like ClockWork.
I know about fastboot way - and here my problems starts.
I have all the drivers, phone is visible in Device Manager while it is booten into Android. I can go into Fastboot mode BUT
when phone is in fastboot mode it is not visible in Windows Device Manager at all.
It is not a driver problem. There is no new device I can use the driver for.
I tried different computers. Win7 64bit and 32bit and WinXP 32bit
My phone does not show up on any of them.
I think it ia a problem with the bootloader - my current version is XXKL1 - as when I am in the fastboot mode my volume keys are not working, while they work perfectly well in recovery or in the OS.
Any ideas appreciated.
Cheers
My phone wasn't showing in w7 i had turn on usb debugging in settings -> developer options. I m not sure if this helps but might be worth a try
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Thx gm'
It is not an issue for me to connect to Windows when I am booten into android.
Only when I am in fastboot mode the phone is not discovered by windows - and in fastboot mode thre is no USB debbuging - but thx anyway
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vstar said:
Thx gm'
It is not an issue for me to connect to Windows when I am booten into android.
Only when I am in fastboot mode the phone is not discovered by windows - and in fastboot mode thre is no USB debbuging - but thx anyway
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Know what u mean.
Windows finds u phone but not in recovery mode.
Download pdanet for android and this will solve ur problem buddy.
http://junefabrics.com
I just realize that what I done a while ago.
You don't need install pdanet app on ur phone as long u have drivers u might get some errors if u press not install but will work anyway.
Hope this will help.
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XXK1 sounds like the baseband/radio to me. Granted I never actually looked in the bootloader for a model number. You sure that's not the radio?
What rom is on the phone now? Does it work? Are you rooted? If you got working phone with root you can flash custom recovery from inside the os. Boot directly into it via terminal or adb or any app that does it.
The volume buttons not working sounds odd and does worry me though
did you try to boot into bootloader/fastboot without being connected to any machine (holding vol up + power) to check if your volume keys work or not?
your issue might not be driver related, but you can always try if the test above was ok.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138755
best of luck
OK guys. I am on 4.0.3 stock. Works almost fine. This phone is unlocked but not rooted. So no chance for any other recovery but the stock one as far as I know. So I am not able to downgrade easily. Yes I can boot into fast boot without being attached to USB. Volume keys still not working here. But working in recovery mode no problem. GM no drivers will help if phone does not show in windows device menadzer at all. I have tried Linux approach but it looks phone is not being discovered there in fast boot mode as well. I have tried unbrick software - does not discover the phone.
And yes it says on fast boot screen boot loader : I9020XXK1
I have run out of ideas.
Downgrade would be best but how to put any recovery manager without root privileges
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you can use ROM manager to jump back to 2.3.x
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I am not rooted so I cannot use from manager and I do have stock recovery not clockwork so I cannot install superuser.zip
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And for SuperOneClick phone needs to be visible in fastboot mode.
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And for SuperOneClick phone needs to be visible in fastboot mode.
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for SuperOneClick phone needs to be visible in usb debugging mode.
Sorry mate but it only starts in USB Debug/Android mode - then it reboots the phone to fastboot shell and then same issue - phone is not discovered by windows hence nothing else happens.
Is there no other way of gaining root access instead of fastboot option - this would solve all my pains
Thx everyone for input
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i suggest just follow zedomax tutorial on how to root your ics phone. He also have the download links for all the files that you will need. once your phone is rooted then you can download the old stock version of your phone.
http://nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-root/how-to-root-nexus-s-or-nexus-s-4g-on-ics-or-gingerbread/
Looks like a driver issue, when phone isn't discovered by windows in fast boot mode. (You are booting with vol up+power, right?)
Forget about any one-click-stuff etc - unlocking and cwm is the way to go. Everything else just makes troubles.
What I don't get is how you unlocked your phone without fastboot working?! That's not possible... for the moment forget about rooting - superuser isn't needed to flash stuff via fastboot/cwm.
Concentrate on getting fastboot to work. After that it's a piece of cake. Check you have drivers and fastboot set up properly on your PC.
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By this I mean following the sticky-guides, using the sdk from Google (not any downloads pretending to make it quick'n'easy. Go the official way!)
You should also give the 4.0.4-stockrom (ported from ns4g-leak) a try - it's way better than 4.0.3!
Edit: talking about this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1474878
OK guys - I have no idea how should I say it in different way - this is not a matter of a driver - the phone is physically not visible to the computer. There is no unknown device of anykind so I have nothing to use a driver for. It is not that fastboot command does not recognize the phone - the phone does not exists in Windows Device Manager. Looks like when phone is in fastboot mode the usb port is dead. So no chance of rooting in standard way.
And I have unlocked it as it was working before. I did realize it is not working when I tried to downgrade recently.
Election Day: I have tried 3 different cables, couple of computers and 3 different operating systems - ubuntu included. How this trick with hairdrier works? If it is a flash why does it work for everything else but not fastboot mode? Should I heat it up without cover and battery? Any specific area? Should I plug in while hot?
Thx guys.
usb working with sys booted up, but broken on bootloader?! makes no sense at all, i hope you can see that for yourself. can't be a hw-failure (then it would be broken everywhere).
have you reinstalled the driver from the sdk? the problem is on your pc, not the phone...
and forget about rooting for the moment, you don't need that to flash a rom. or are you mixing things up?!
that nonsense about heating up the phone with a hair drier was a joke, right?
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im trying to unlock my bootloader but i cant!
the drivers are installed but when my device is in that mode from pressing volume botton down and power button the pc doesnt recognizes it!
i checked a few many times and its just telling me the the latest drivers are installed..
when i write the fastboot oem unlock it says (waiting for device) what should i do?
thanks!
adi90004 said:
im trying to unlock my bootloader but i cant!
the drivers are installed but when my device is in that mode from pressing volume botton down and power button the pc doesnt recognizes it!
i checked a few many times and its just telling me the the latest drivers are installed..
when i write the fastboot oem unlock it says (waiting for device) what should i do?
thanks!
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Did you follow this, especially the Driver Instalation part?
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adi90004 said:
im trying to unlock my bootloader but i cant!
the drivers are installed but when my device is in that mode from pressing volume botton down and power button the pc doesnt recognizes it!
i checked a few many times and its just telling me the the latest drivers are installed..
when i write the fastboot oem unlock it says (waiting for device) what should i do?
thanks!
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You should install drivers 2 times..
Once when it is booted..
And again when it is in fastboot mode..
Since mode changes, your pc recognizes your device as new one.
So install drivers again after connecting in fastboot mode..
adi90004 said:
im trying to unlock my bootloader but i cant!
the drivers are installed but when my device is in that mode from pressing volume botton down and power button the pc doesnt recognizes it!
i checked a few many times and its just telling me the the latest drivers are installed..
when i write the fastboot oem unlock it says (waiting for device) what should i do?
thanks!
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You have to install the drivers manually. You can do this by downloading the drivers in the SDK manager and installing them in the device manager.
This might help you solve the problem...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2532297
This may be just me but its a good plan to make sure your pc can see your device when developer Mode is enabled before you go into fastboot this will make sure all the drivers are in order, Not sure if this makes a difference but i also make sure when enabling Developer mode that MTP and Camera Are both unchecked as it can mix up the drivers on my system anyway
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to unlock the bootloader for root my Nexus S. I've tried to many tutorials inside the XDA Forum and outside to root and installing drivers. Unsuccessfully, i'm making this post to get any help.
Think the problem is that my power button is broken and when i'm in fastboot mode the phone is frozen because the vol + and vol - doesn't work. With that the phone don't show up when i run 'fastboot devices' and when i go to device manager i don't have any driver because the phone isn't recognize.
When the phone is on 'adb devices' works just fine and i can see the driver in device manager.
Can I disable my power button without rooting the phone? Anyone has a solution for this?
I appreciate any help.
riftleft said:
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to unlock the bootloader for root my Nexus S. I've tried to many tutorials inside the XDA Forum and outside to root and installing drivers. Unsuccessfully, i'm making this post to get any help.
Think the problem is that my power button is broken and when i'm in fastboot mode the phone is frozen because the vol + and vol - doesn't work. With that the phone don't show up when i run 'fastboot devices' and when i go to device manager i don't have any driver because the phone isn't recognize.
When the phone is on 'adb devices' works just fine and i can see the driver in device manager.
Can I disable my power button without rooting the phone? Anyone has a solution for this?
I appreciate any help.
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You desperately need fastboot to work. Try a different PC to install the drivers.
Hello
I need help with my TF700.
I had this tablet for some time. It was unlocked with TWRP and ZOMBI-POP.
Last week I wanted to upgrade it for KIT-Kass 7.1
I wanted to update my TWRP for kang wersion ( 2.8.7.4) through TWRP and during the process it rebooted.
Then I've got a bootloop on normal starting. I can't get into recovery mode through power + vol up - tablet has no respond for that
I can only go to fastboot through power + vol down but when I connect it to windows with adb drivers or to linux(FWUL) it sees no device and no respond for any command.
Do You have any idea what to do ?
Thank You in advance
Sorry to say this but, if you can't send it commands then you are most likely hard bricked. What OS are you running on the computer with fastboot on it? - NP
Nektopoli said:
Sorry to say this but, if you can't send it commands then you are most likely hard bricked. What OS are you running on the computer with fastboot on it? - NP
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This sounds not so good. I use windows 10 but as I said also I used FWUL to try.
marmacapp said:
This sounds not so good. I use windows 10 but as I said also I used FWUL to try.
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Do you have access to a Windows 7 computer/laptop. There's an issue with Windows 10 and the fastboot drivers not working together, and causing a problem like yours. - NP
marmacapp said:
This sounds not so good. I use windows 10 but as I said also I used FWUL to try.
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Found this in another thread, windows 10 fix. - NP
"I used Windows 10 and had to disable driver signature enforcement. Once I did this the PC recognized the tab without issue. "
To disable;
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-driver-signature-enforcement-windows
Thank You for the info, but I have laptop with Windows7 and still the same.
But if I have text on screen like this Starting fastboot USB download protocol can the device still be hard-bricked ?
Maybe I am missing some drivers ?
I would d/l Minimal ADB and Fastboot from here;
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
and Universal_Naked_Driver_0.72 here; - NP
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263822
For now the problem is I can not install the "naked driver" because devices manager can not see TF700 when it is connected, so I can't update the driver
Have you tried sending the [fastboot reboot] command to see if the tablet will reboot. When I bricked my TF201t my laptop didn't see it but it still took the commands allowing me to wipe the recovery partition and install the correct TWRP. - NP
Dear Guys
I know that this topic is quite old, but I am still fighting with this problem.
I tryied different drivers, 3 different computers ( two with windows 10 one with windows 7) and I can;t connect to fastboot.
The tablet is in this mode, but when I will use adb and type any command like fastboot reboot - it displays "waiting for device"
Do You have any idea what else can I try ?
Best regards
Hi,
me too! I was using it at lunch - no problem. Got home and turned it on and unrecoverable bootloader error.