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Need to go back to stock without a cable

Anyone willing to help me get this zip package I found in the Epic forum to run on a Nexus S 4g?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904
"epic4g.stock.recovery.ec05.zip
The Samsung stock recovery, for uninstalling ClockworkMod, useful for turning in the phone to Sprint.
Do not flash the stock recovery unless your phone boots into system, and you need to turn the phone in."
I recently broke my USB plug inside my phone and am only able to charge (even charging is going out). I think many people could take advantage of it when they are not in front of a computer to return to stock.
Thanks whomever is able to help

You had to go and make this post in two sub forums of the nexus s forums eh...

Don't install that, just flash a stock rom that's unrooted and it should over ride your custom recovery.
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dunkerya said:
Don't install that, just flash a stock rom that's unrooted and it should over ride your custom recovery.
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Does this apply to the Nexus S 4g?

Drizzzle01 said:
Does this apply to the Nexus S 4g?
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I wasn't able to find any non-rooted stock rom's for the Nexus S 4G. Could anyone point me towards the right direction?

Try peter alfonsos website? One should be under "crespo4g" in the downloads section.
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I wasn't able to find any non-rooted stock rom's for the Nexus S 4G. Could anyone point me towards the right direction?
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Drizzzle01 said:
I wasn't able to find any non-rooted stock rom's for the Nexus S 4G. Could anyone point me towards the right direction?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445655

Neither of those sites contain a non-rooted stock ns4g roms. They only contain rooted roms and OTA updates which require stock non-rooted roms to use.

The one Sean posted are the ones you are looking for
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The ones Sean posted only contain OTA incremental updates. I still need to have an unrooted stock from installed to use them. I've tried all variations using all the stock rooted roms from Pete and they do not update. Error parsing file each time.
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Did you try the software image on peters site ? That's exactly what you need if I'm hearing you right. Not the rooted stock ROMS but the image
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Am I supposed to flash the image from CWM because my USB port is damaged and can't run adb.
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Drizzzle01 said:
Am I supposed to flash the image from CWM because my USB port is damaged and can't run adb.
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I know what tour talking about. When I had my epic they had a non ROOTED stock rom that was flashable via cwm then the had a stock recovery that would remove cwm which was also flashable through cwm
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I'm not sure if that's what you need to do , I thought you just wanted the image and you knew how to do the rest. I don't want to tell you something that might just brick your phone
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ROM Manager should have your stock GB to download and flash. You would then be unrooted when you are done. It always works for me.

Here is the ns4g 2.3.5 full ota rom: http://android.clients.google.com/p...882446e0.signed-sojus-ota-138666.504d8824.zip. This will unroot you and return you to the stock rom and recovery.
This will not re-lock your bootloader, though. In order to lock the bootloader without a cable, you'll to build a modified kernel to use Ezekeel's hack. (To state the obvious, this would require root access and a custom recovery, so you'd want to do this before flashing the stock rom .)

Maximilian Mary said:
Here is the ns4g 2.3.5 full ota rom: http://android.clients.google.com/p...882446e0.signed-sojus-ota-138666.504d8824.zip. This will unroot you and return you to the stock rom and recovery.
This will not re-lock your bootloader, though. In order to lock the bootloader without a cable, you'll to build a modified kernel to use Ezekeel's hack. (To state the obvious, this would require root access and a custom recovery, so you'd want to do this before flashing the stock rom .)
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Thank you. I ended up flashing stock rooted from Pete, and with no questions asked, they handed me a refurbished one.
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Ota update keeps failing

Can't install 4.2.2 ota and from what I have read its because I have custom recovery? How do I go back to stock recovery or is there a flashable stock 4.2.2 update I can use ?
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Use the search option next time please.
[HOW-TO] How to flash a factory image / return to stock / unlock / root #

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
Use fastboot and the recovery image available through a link in that thread to go back to the stock recovery.

Or you could simply flash 4.2.2 through your recovery;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2147281
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caliga4221 said:
Can't install 4.2.2 ota and from what I have read its because I have custom recovery?
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Yes, the custom recovery is what's causing the OTA self installation to fail. You must download the update to your phone, boot into twrp or cwm, and install the update zip.

Visa Declined said:
Yes, the custom recovery is what's causing the OTA self installation to fail. You must download the update to your phone, boot into twrp or cwm, and install the update zip.
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Isnt the eazyest and simplest way to go back to stock via Nexus Root Toolkit???

Karlo666 said:
Isnt the eazyest and simplest way to go back to stock via Nexus Root Toolkit???
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No toolkits! Get out.

caliga4221 said:
Can't install 4.2.2 ota and from what I have read its because I have custom recovery? How do I go back to stock recovery or is there a flashable stock 4.2.2 update I can use ?
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I put together a guide about OTAs. Its a sticky in general.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145848
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Isnt the eazyest and simplest way to go back to stock via Nexus Root Toolkit???
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Using a toolkit is most likely the reason why the OP doesn't know how to flash recovery. Using a toolkit again would continue the cycle...
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please help me

I have a nexus 4 with android 4.3 and root on it but when I go to recovery mode it shows me the dead android with a red sign so what should I do next to go to the normal recovery mode because I want to install a custom rom (paranoid android) ?

The picture you describe is the stock recovery.
You need to reflash cwm or twrp recovery in order to install a custom rom
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Alex240188 said:
The picture you describe is the stock recovery.
You need to reflash cwm or twrp recovery in order to install a custom rom
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thank you
I used twrp and now it works as I wanted to

missing sprint splash screen

when i turn on my phone the splash screen is not there and when i turn my phone
off it is not there how do i get it back.

Are you on a custom kernel? Sometimes they have not boot animation. If there's no stock boot animation zip you can flash stock kernel.
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No I am on stock kernel I am on stock everything
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No I am on stock kernel I am on stock everything
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Did you have a custom rom or anything else installed before? What was listed above should do you. If that fails but it's really that important to you then you can start from scratch and Odin a stock image. You WILL LOSE EVERYTHING by doing that though. The only time I ever see that sprint stuff is if I restore to stock after a fubar moment. LOL

Here is a flashable zip that will give you back the stock bootanimation. You can lose it when you flash ROM's that are not made for your device. I know from experience. Here is a dropbox link for it. Just flash it in recovery and it will be back.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hqu1wasnfg45i6q/sprintboot.zip

Question on returning to stock

Hello wonderful XDA Peoples. I am planning on returning my Nexus 4 in the near future as part of T-Mobile Jump. I'm currently on a stock ROM; but unlocked with CWM recovery installed.
To return to stock, would I need to fastboot the entire stalk image (via flash all.bat) or would I just need to flash the stock recovery image, then relock the boot loader? Thanks guys! Keep up the absolutely spectacular work.
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You could just flash the recovery.img and then re-lock it
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joshvader8 said:
Hello wonderful XDA Peoples. I am planning on returning my Nexus 4 in the near future as part of T-Mobile Jump. I'm currently on a stock ROM; but unlocked with CWM recovery installed.
To return to stock, would I need to fastboot the entire stalk image (via flash all.bat) or would I just need to flash the stock recovery image, then relock the boot loader? Thanks guys! Keep up the absolutely spectacular work.
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on the nexus 4 rom,kernel .... index there is a stock recovery flasher, if you dont wanna use the pc
if you have root you can lock bootloader via an app
or else just via pc.

n-cry toolkit
With n-cry toolkit is posbly.
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So, just flash the stock recovery image and then lock it? In that order? Thanks for the reply
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joshvader8 said:
So, just flash the stock recovery image and then lock it? In that order? Thanks for the reply
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Yes.