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Hello i just bought a used nexus s and well here it goes...
the story goes like this he bought it a month ago and just this past week he dropped it in a puddle but was quick enough to retrive said phone he then did the rice trick and now there is no sign of water damage aside from the 2 white seals faded red he said the phone worked for a bout a day and now just freezes in a google logo,...
now this leads me to believe a software issue so i am going to stiack with that for now
i am lookin at any ideas of what it could and what i should do now keep in mind i only paid 50 bucks so if it is repairable i have no issue in doing so for this phone as i wanna be able too use it sometime and toss this optimus one away lol
than you very much
can you adb to it while it is in the google loop?
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well it is just the google screen with a lock at the bottom of the screen right i also tryed the power and volume hard restart and it took me to the bootloader options for recovery but i think my usb needs to be hooked up maybe as should i have the andriod software for it like im not really used to this and i really would love to see this phone work
Buckii said:
well it is just the google screen with a lock at the bottom of the screen right i also tryed the power and volume hard restart and it took me to the bootloader options for recovery but i think my usb needs to be hooked up maybe as should i have the andriod software for it like im not really used to this and i really would love to see this phone work
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If you can get into the bootloader and it is just a software issue check this thread for info on returning to stock system in the bootloader http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078213
Did you get it to work?
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Not yet it charges fine but when i got to turn it on it goes to a black screen with the google logo with a lock on it also goes into fast boot recovery fine im just have an connectin it to the pc due to lack of knowledge and finding proper usb drivers... the pc picks it up fine just cant seem to find what it asks for... kinda upsetting cause its a nice phone and being that it seems to be a software issue im willing to have ot proffessionally done...
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what is the model of your phone and also the operating system of your computer? You want to be careful about using the correct ROM for your phone. Read up about adb. The process is simple enough if you provide enough information.
adb load cwm
adb flash ROM
and you should be good to go.
Not 110% sure if some one were to tale it and tend too itt i would pay for shipping completely i just wanna try to use it
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I'm betting the NFC/"SIM Card" daughter board is hosed. If that's the case, you may be screwed, since I'm pretty sure your ESN is stored there. Tear apart the phone and look for corrosion and/or PCB trace delamination. Spray all PCBs down with a mild contact cleaner and fully dry.
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As the title says really the screen on my nexus s has broken, I now can't see a single thing on it.
Basically I need to get some Data of the phone is their a way to get it into mass storage mode with out using the screen?
After getting some stuff of the phone I then want to clear all the data off the phone, I'm thinking I may need to use Odin?
Any help really appreciated!
stennett said:
As the title says really the screen on my nexus s has broken, I now can't see a single thing on it.
Basically I need to get some Data of the phone is their a way to get it into mass storage mode with out using the screen?
After getting some stuff of the phone I then want to clear all the data off the phone, I'm thinking I may need to use Odin?
Any help really appreciated!
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if youre bootloader unlocked and have a custom recovery, you can access your sd storage through the recovery. what happened to your phone that made the screen not work?
the phones rooted, however I never unlocked my bootloader sadly.
Basically I'm not to sure, the phone was dropped and was fine at first but then the following day the screen was unreadable at the top about 3cm down, within three days it just spread down the phone, Now I can't see anything, the screen isn't smashed or broken. I know nothing about this sort of thing so have brought a Galaxy s2 I'm just hopping I can get some photos off ect.
But I don't know how much it will cost to get the screen repaired or if it's worth it.
wait is that even possible to be rooted and have the bootloader locked ?
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YourMainDude said:
wait is that even possible to be rooted and have the bootloader locked ?
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Yes. You can root then relock the bootloader or use an exploit like gingerbreak
You can also buy a replacement screen on eBay for 75 bucks... also do you not have warranty?
Well if nothing else you learned your lesson about relocking that bootloader. Unnecessary to do so.
I never needed to unlock the boot loader, so I certainly haven't relocked it.
I brought the phone 10 months ago, need to check my warranty to be honest but I'm pretty sure it will be void anyway due to rooting?
That's why I wanted to put the phone back to factory state to see if I can get it fixed under warranty
I take it there is no over way to get the phone into mass storage?
Thanks for your help.
How do I get my android back? Or, Can I?
This will become obvious, so here it is... I/Me = Noob. Thanks for the patience in advance.
I did a good month of research & playing around before, then finally installed ClockWorkMod & rooted my S2. Was up late trying to get something done on it & had just installed cwm. I choose the option within cwm to "backup" and let it run it's course, assumed (never, I know) this was done correctly & I was free to do what I love, customize - optimize - edit - etc. Well, apparently is was not done. I realized this last night and immediately scrambled (panicked) & may have made my matters so bad that I will be walking into the Sprint store with my tail, & ego, between my legs forking over some hard earned cash.
I formatted all files within "Mounts and Storage," cleared all "caches" and did a "wipe data/factory reset" - Basically did every option I could at least 2x's.
I did look for the back up - but it was not there (prior to all wipes)
I feel like I can get my phone back witch is stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S2 screen when on, and the battery pic when on charger. But, I need access to the external SD drive so I can install the files that I have on my CPU. I have researched this all day! Took off work today, and tomorrow seemingly. If this is a hopeless task, for the love of all things righteous, someone please put me out of my misery!
BTW - First post ever on any site. I am smart enough to know that when it comes to this stuff I cannot keep being hard headed and not asking for help. I just hope its not to late.
Thanks. Apparently l only the cool people are allowed to post and actually get a response. I am so glad I paid for this bull$hit. Middle finger at ya
If you can only access cwm them you should be able to download a ROM for your phone and flash it within CWM.
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Seriously? That's definitely a good attitude to hold when you don't receive help. Just get hostile with the people you are requesting help from! But I digress. Well, if you did indeed botch a backup somehow, it sounds like all you need to do is just flash another ROM or something and you should be golden. The backups are stored in your external SDcard for future reference though, under CWM -> Backup.
In response to the attitude... what else would you have me do when I need help, I ask, and I am ignored? Plus, my tactic worked, but, I digress.
In the days of emptiness with no help, I list cwm and now have real problem. I can still access default recovery mode, and a screen that says got to kies and do recovery mode. My main issue after several hours troubleshooting, is, I cannot get my phone to be recognized by any drive on my laptop. It will also not respond to being charged.
I have already replaced the dam phone, but I am not giving up on the seemingly fubarred one.
Without sarcasm, thank you for your response and attempted assistance. I do appreciate it, despite what you feel about any prior comments.
Hello. Since this is my 1st post as "M4TGS" few words about me: I'm new MT4GS owner and new Android user, coming from WinMo world (been using PocketPCs since WinMo 2003 SE) so if something sounds noobish please forgive me, I haven't had Android phone before (or linux on my PCs).
Please correct me if/where I'm wrong.
My phone is:
LOCKED
S-ON
HBOOT-1.45.0013
with T-Mobile's ROM full of useless junk (I knew that would be the case when I bought it, I had WinMo phones from T-Mo before and they always were loaded with garbage, which I always flashed with modded ROMs, I don't know why I just assumed all Android phones are easy to root and flash shouldve done some reading here first...)
So, after reading a lot of threads here today it seems that:
1 - I cannot change my ROM (due to S-ON and bootloader version that hasn't been cracked yet), is that correct?
2 - I cannot get rid of T-Mobile's junk from my stock rom either, because even if I use the "temp-perma-SuperUser" method, delete the "bloatware" apk, the bootloader will do crc check on next boot and restore them all again, is that correct?
3 - Assuming I understood 1 and 2 correctly, is there a way to stop the "bloatware" from starting at boot? For WinMo 6.x we had few different utilities that basically work on the phone similar to batch scripts on Windows, and a lot of automation could be achieved with those; if there is something like this for Android could it be automated to stop some of the bloatware and remove their shortcuts from menu at every boot?
(i.e. T-Mobile's-specific apps such as "My Account" or "Visual Voicemail", specially the latter bugs me the most because my canadian provider Wind doesn't have Visual voicemail and I can't just tap on "voicemail" without being nagged to enable visual voicemail every time I tap on voicemail in notifications, its so annoying)
4 - How on earth do I make videocalls with this phone and ROM? (yes I searched forum for that and found "Qik" which is not what I'm asking about - I can install i.e. Skype and it'll serve me better than this Qik)
On my last WinMo phone I just tapped the "camera" icon in the phone app and it did videocall using data connection. I can't find anything like it (nor anything pointing to videocall or datacall) on this phone, what am I missing?
Any answers appreciated, TIA!
Well ill just start by saying 1 is wrong so you might want to do some more reading chief, i didnt get through the rest of your post yet just wanted to say your first thought is wrong
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Thanks. It seems like you're right, as I just found in post from yesterday:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657414
What about my question 4 (videocalls)?
MT4GS said:
Thanks. It seems like you're right, as I just found in post from yesterday:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657414
What about my question 4 (videocalls)?
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Couldnt tell ya man, maybe it does it by gmail addresses? I never use my ffc, i have a iTurd for facetime thats it. My android is my pocket PC lol so mostly all text based things
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"iTurd" lol certain Steve blowjobs must be screaming in his grave for such sacrilege!
MT4GS said:
"iTurd" lol certain Steve blowjobs must be screaming in his grave for such sacrilege!
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I couldnt pass a pair of brand new 4th gens for 2 hundred man, only reason they were bought is because i dont live with my 2 year old daughter so we facetime when i dont see her
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I couldnt pass a pair of brand new 4th gens for 2 hundred man, only reason they were bought is because i dont live with my 2 year old daughter so we facetime when i dont see her
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Man, seems like same case here, my sonny is bit older than your dottie, but he too lives with his mother... that's my only reason for videocall need in this phone
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Man, seems like same case here, my sonny is bit older than your dottie, but he too lives with his mother... that's my only reason for videocall need in this phone
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Yeah hmm maybe find a friend that has a phone with a ffc and video call and see if once you add all the info to the address book it gives you the option to video call. I would say google talk has video call but its trash. Then again you might have to use a 3rd party app like qik, thats what comes stock right
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I know exactly what you mean. I came over to this phone about 2 months ago from a Touch Pro 2. Boy the difference is figuring out how to get around the security on it.
Anyway, just use HTC's unlock tool assuming you are on the newest software version. If you're not, then update to the newest. This will allow you to flash custom ROMs. Flash Clockworkmod recovery. Then just flash superuser through it. This will give you root and the ability to delete the bloatware.
You'll still be S-on, but will be able to flash any custom ROM you want, you just have to push the kernel separately through ADB instead of in a nice neat package.
Yes HappyKhicken it seems much more work to customize it than it was with any Windows Mobile. Not that it would discourage me its just an observation.
I'm still reading around, I have just found out about the "wire trick" to make radio S-OFF, so I want to learn as much as possible before I do anything other than hard reset.
Since you also had TP2 can you explain to me how do you make a videocall here?
I can't figure out how to make videocall at all
If you remember in WinMo (well, depending on ROM and dialer canvas version you had of course) when you tap phone there was the icon that looked like one of those old Logitech round webcams, when you tap this icon it switched to "videocall" to the person you were dialing, and if this person didn't have video capability it switch back to "voice". Can't find anything like this here.
Also probably stupid question: is it possible to restore unlocked/s-off phone back to being locked with s-on and full of junk stock rom? (in case I would need to send it back to htc for warranty repair or replacement, I don't have T-Mobile's option with Asurion insurance since I'm not their customer and I'm in Canada)
thx
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Anyway, just use HTC's unlock tool assuming you are on the newest software version. If you're not, then update to the newest. This will allow you to flash custom ROMs. Flash Clockworkmod recovery. Then just flash superuser through it. This will give you root and the ability to delete the bloatware..
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OK. I bit the bullet, went to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1532809
run the HTC unlock, and now my bootloader says ***UNLOCKED***
(this was easy-peasy, just somehow no one mentioned in htc unlock tool thread - or I didn't notice it - that an account on htcdev is needed, but I made some quick fake email acct and registered there with it, hopefully I won't need it again? I just realized I didn't save any info for these accts lol)
So, next step would be to flash recovery - either CWM or "Stock 1.55" as there are these 2 to choose from at fifth step on HTC Unlock Tool.
What are the difference between these two?
If I flash one of them now, can I flash the other one later?
I'm not going to flash any new ROM yet, I need to get accustomed to Android first, but I would want to get rid of some bloatware and T-Mobile-specific apps that came with stock ROM since I'm not on T-Mobile. I know I need to flash CWM or Stock Recovery to gain root access, but I don't know which one should I choose / what are the major difference / advantages / disadvantages ?
MT4GS said:
What about my question 4 (videocalls)?
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Skype works very well on this phone. I've done videochat with a few friends, one of them using another Android, the other friend on an iPhone 4S. We were using Skype since that is a common software for us. Oh, I forgot, I also did Skype video chat using my MT4GS to another friend in Turkey, he was using his laptop. Great thing about Skype is it works on 4G or Wi-Fi (I have unlimited 4G data so I don't worry about it).
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Skype works very well on this phone. I've done videochat with a few friends, one of them using another Android, the other friend on an iPhone 4S. We were using Skype since that is a common software for us. Oh, I forgot, I also did Skype video chat using my MT4GS to another friend in Turkey, he was using his laptop. Great thing about Skype is it works on 4G or Wi-Fi (I have unlimited 4G data so I don't worry about it).
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Thanks. Yeah, I installed Skype from Google Play (I think Android Market was better name) and indeed it works great. I think sound quality is way better than Skype for Window Mobile, maybe it is better than 'regular voicecall' too, or so it seems.
But it came to me clear now, and I can't believe it, but despite most of Android 'smartphones' having front cameras, the OS itself doesn't have videocall capability built-in, am I correct?
It's kinda let down if true? because AFAIR even my old TyTN II (thats ancient 2007 model) and every other WinMo smartphone with front camera I had after that also had videocall built-in right there in the dialer
Good god it took me two days to realize I needed to reenable usb debugging after the bootloader unlocked. AJSNFLASKDA
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Good god it took me two days to realize I needed to reenable usb debugging after the bootloader unlocked. AJSNFLASKDA
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OK... care to explain more, specially that you post the same comment in other thread (so I guess it is either important or spam)...
I'm sure I'm not the only noob to this phone and Android OS in general, so:
Why does the usb port need to be in debug mode and how do I start it if it is necessary?
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OK... care to explain more, specially that you post the same comment in other thread (so I guess it is either important or spam)...
I'm sure I'm not the only noob to this phone and Android OS in general, so:
Why does the usb port need to be in debug mode and how do I start it if it is necessary?
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To do many adb functions the device must be in debug mode.
The usb port itself isn't in debug mode, rather the whole device is.
In a very technical sense, a ROM is not 'polished' or 'finished' if it releases with usb debugging enabled - but I released mine that way because I use it so very often.
The setting is in:
Settings - Applications - Development
Sent from a digital distance.
Thank you Blue6IX for excellent explanation and thenpaxtongoes for the reminder
Now to root my unlocked phone:
volume down + power, to go into hboot, plug in usb, fire up HTC Unlocker Tool and install CWM or Stock recovery, but do I need to change on my phone's hboot menu screen down to Recovery first or do I keep it at default Fastboot to install one of the Recoveries?
Another question is which recovery to install? It seems CWM is the one to go with but what are the advantages/disadvantages of CWM vs Stock 1.55 recovery? TIA
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I have just rooted my MT4GS and I want to get rid of some of the stock T-Mo apps.
There was a thread here I read half a year ago with a list of apps that can be safely deleted, but I just spend good 30min trying to find it... I guess it was a post in some unrelated thread or such.
I want all the T-Mobile-specific apps gone (and yes I did backup on SD card with clockwork recovery). :cyclops: Can someone point me in right direction?
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RESURRECTING an old thread
I have just rooted my MT4GS and I want to get rid of some of the stock T-Mo apps.
There was a thread here I read half a year ago with a list of apps that can be safely deleted, but I just spend good 30min trying to find it... I guess it was a post in some unrelated thread or such.
I want all the T-Mobile-specific apps gone (and yes I did backup on SD card with clockwork recovery). :cyclops: Can someone point me in right direction?
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What I find the easiest to do is just use something like My Backup Pro or Titanium Backup to "freeze" the things I don't want, usually those things from T-Mobile or HTC that startup in the background but I never use. Like the Group Messaging stuff (there are 3 processes associated with that, I freeze all 3), the SWM-C process, T-Mobile ID (a caller-ID type thing you have to pay for). Yes, they still take up storage space but that is negligible, by freezing them they no longer are taking up processing/battery time.
MT4GS said:
RESURRECTING an old thread
I have just rooted my MT4GS and I want to get rid of some of the stock T-Mo apps.
There was a thread here I read half a year ago with a list of apps that can be safely deleted, but I just spend good 30min trying to find it... I guess it was a post in some unrelated thread or such.
I want all the T-Mobile-specific apps gone (and yes I did backup on SD card with clockwork recovery). :cyclops: Can someone point me in right direction?
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Here is the original thread that was started a long time ago. I have still found it useful on occassion. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1222672&highlight=bloat
mum's phone screen is smashed,extract data as my mums mum has passed away&lost photos
Help if possible,
what is the best way to extract data from a broken s6 screen, I have tried to use drfone but before I pay the silly price of £60 I wanted to see if there is any other way to get the photos. the phone is my mums, she has never backed it up and her mum died, she has all photos and videos on the phone and as you can imagine is heart broken, I am in the recovery screen as I was able to bypass the screen lock and also was able to extract some files with a trail. and all torrents i found was all blocked. if i have to pay it i will just wanted to see if there was a cheaper way to do it. Thanks in advance she now knows to back up in future. it wold make my mums day as it is mothers day today. that would be a awesome present!!
You could try adb , i dont need to explain it here as there are guides
jk2k2 said:
Help if possible,
what is the best way to extract data from a broken s6 screen, I have tried to use drfone but before I pay the silly price of £60 I wanted to see if there is any other way to get the photos. the phone is my mums, she has never backed it up and her mum died, she has all photos and videos on the phone and as you can imagine is heart broken, I am in the recovery screen as I was able to bypass the screen lock and also was able to extract some files with a trail. and all torrents i found was all blocked. if i have to pay it i will just wanted to see if there was a cheaper way to do it. Thanks in advance she now knows to back up in future. it wold make my mums day as it is mothers day today. that would be a awesome present!!
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Sorry to hear that mate. You could install a custom recovery called TWRP (voids warranty). Boot into this custom recovery and use ADB to pull the data from the internal storage. There are many guides.
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Sorry to hear that mate. You could install a custom recovery called TWRP (voids warranty). Boot into this custom recovery and use ADB to pull the data from the internal storage. There are many guides.
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Thank you for your reply, the problem is the phone needs to go back to them for them to issue a new one.
jk2k2 said:
Thank you for your reply, the problem is the phone needs to go back to them for them to issue a new one.
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Oh, sorry to hear that, i think your only option is to root now, but since you can't do that there aren't much options :/
Ragazzza said:
Oh, sorry to hear that, i think your only option is to root now, but since you can't do that there aren't much options :/
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Thank you all for your help