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So I can't root my nexus s I don't know why I have had all the great androids since day one but this baby wont budge. Will any of those one.click apps work never tried one?
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dskyers said:
So I can't root my nexus s I don't know why I have had all the great androids since day one but this baby wont budge. Will any of those one.click apps work never tried one?
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There's no one click method I know of for the Nexus S.
What do you mean you can't root & it won't budge? This phone is about as easy they come (without some one click app): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931865
Install the android sdk on your computer.
Put the su.zip file on your sdcard partition of the phone.
Put the phone in fastboot mode.
Fastboot flash the recovery.
Select recovery.
Select install zip from sdcard.
Flash it.
Reboot.
You're done.
If your computer doesn't recognize the phone while it's in the bootloader, you gotta install the google Nexus S drivers or the one from PDAnet. That was where I got stuck at 1st when I tried rooting. Fastboot couldn't find my phone because I had the generic windows drivers.
Also if you have PDANet on, turn it off before putting your phone in fastboot mode.
Actually there is a one click method...brb with it
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/easy-one-click-root-for-nexus-s-full-guide/
Or search superboot nexus s
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Either will work PC or mac.
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vapor311 said:
Actually there is a one click method...brb with it
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/easy-one-click-root-for-nexus-s-full-guide/
Or search superboot nexus s
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Either will work PC or mac.
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Interesting. So the steps on the referenced one-click method you posted are:
1) put your phone in fastboot
2) do the fastboot oem unlock command manually.
3) run a batch file that contains two lines (fastboot-windows.exe flash boot boot.superboot.img & fastboot-windows.exe reboot).
I guess that's easier than putting your phone in fastboot directly and typing in a command to flash clockwork, then selecting a zip file to install from clockwork, but not much.
The drawbacks here are of course that it's superboot, and that it requires you to unlock the bootloader. I guess it's useful if you're really noob, but it only saves you typing one command.
The noob part is very true. However I prefer my bootloader unlocked anyhow.
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vapor311 said:
The noob part is very true. However I prefer my bootloader unlocked anyhow.
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Why do you prefer it unlocked?
I like the unlocked lock! No seriously custom roms etc.
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main reason i think there is no one click root is because its so simple to do on this phone
vapor311 said:
I like the unlocked lock! No seriously custom roms etc.
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You do not need an unlocked bootloader (currently) to use custom roms, or to root, or to flash clockwork recovery, etc...
On day one that wasn't a known entity.
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On day one that wasn't a known entity.
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Of course, but since you contradicted my statement earlier that one disadvantage to the posted method here was that it had you unlock the bootloader by replying that you like having yours unlocked, I was trying to pin down if there was an advantage to unlocking the bootloader that had been discovered that I hadn't heard yet.
There's indication on git for our phone that the next update includes a change to the bootloader being able to use the fastboot boot command while locked. Unknown what that will actually do in terms of just fastboot flashing clockwork to apply root and custom roms.
I c wut u did there. I'm not sure how the update is going to affect things ATM. I keep it unlocked for "in case sh*t" happens. Never know what an update will bring in changes to rom management.
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When I saw the port for ICS come out I got really excited and flashed it right away. Then I realized for whatever reason I didnt have SU permissions so I couldn't tether to my computer. I was disappointed but I thought, "no biggie, I'll just restore from my back up." When I flashed my back up the SU app was in my app drawer but I still couldn't tether. As a matter of fact I can't do anything that requires SU but the bootloader still reads unlocked. WTF?
I can't flash a new recovery either. I tried installing from ROM manager, I tried pushing it from my computer but I can't get to the recovery any more. ROM manager says that I have CWM 5.0.2.0 currently installed but I can't get to it at all. Again, WTF?
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^clearly the phone is working perfectly fine with the stock ROM from the back up but obviously I want my SU back.
Root your phone and read the development thread versus making blog posts.
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Flash this http://www.tylerwatt12.com/XDA/ics/root_and_theme.zip and please post in right section
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Thanks for not answering my questions. The bootloader is unlocked but I don't have root and I don't have access to recovery mode even tho ROM Manager says I have Clockwork Mod 5.0.2.0 currently installed. I cannot access the recovery mode AT ALL. I cannot flash or push a new recovery but it fully boots into Gingerbread w/o any issues. What is wrong with my phone and how do I fix it.
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Try from rom manager to reinstall a previous recovery version.
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That doesn't work either. It goes through the prompts but it doesn't actually reboot do the installation.
I just tried unrooting and then re - rooting but that didn't work and I think that actually wiped my phone completely. I don't even know where an SD card would get into this thing.
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Use adb on your computer and push a clockworkmod recovery.img. And we are trying to help u no need for the sarcasm
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I'm sorry but I'm just really frustrated right now. Nothing I have tried has worked. Maybe its my commands? To push that recovery image what would I type?
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I also I can't download that zip you linked to. Every time I try it just says failed.
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obsydian2k7 said:
I'm sorry but I'm just really frustrated right now. Nothing I have tried has worked. Maybe its my commands? To push that recovery image what would I type?
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I get it
Fastboot flash recovery recovery-xxxxxxxxx.img and hit enter
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Esteway.619 said:
I get it
Fastboot flash recovery recovery-xxxxxxxxx.img and hit enter
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Get cwm image from here CWM Recovery
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relock the phone then unlock it again i had the same problem
I tried relocking and unlocking again then pushed the recovery I just (finally) downloaded but it didn't work. Terminal says error cannot load 'recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo4g.img'
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obsydian2k7 said:
I tried relocking and unlocking again then pushed the recovery I just (finally) downloaded but it didn't work. Terminal says error cannot load 'recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo4g.img'
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Is that the right name of the recovery img? Try renaming it to just recovery and see if that works.
Edit: make sure your phone is in debugging mode. And uninstall then reinstall the drivers on your computer
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Esteway.619 said:
Is that the right name of the recovery img? Try renaming it to just recovery and see if that works.
Edit: make sure your phone is in debugging mode. And uninstall then reinstall the drivers on your computer
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manually go into recovery with volume down and power flash the su.zip and u should be good to go that wat I did
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No suggestions have worked so far. It does not matter what the recovery image name is, whenever I try the flash it Terminal says that it cannot load "***.img" or if I try an install command it says that it cannot find "***.zip" I'm on a snow leopard iMac so I don't need drivers n such.
Let me pose the question like this, what would I do to completely restore the phone to factory condition and try to root it again? Like I said before, the bootloader says that it is unlocked but I do not have any root privileges, could not access the recovery I had before nor install a new recovery after having locked the unlocked the phone's bootloader again.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13773677&postcount=1
go to the link above and follow the directions for returning to stock.
find yourself a one-click root method on XDA that includes superuser, busybox, and CWM.
EDIT: Also, double check the md5 sum for the CWM .zip. use
Code:
md5 recovery-aaaaaa.img
in the terminal and make sure the output matches whatever is given on the CWM site. if they dont have one up, ask for it
NS4g one-click root app:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2jx8xtx2602hi23
this will:
unlock the bootloader
install cwm 5.0.2.0
root
No commands, no messing with pushing files manually, etc. This thing has already saved me from major headaches while restoring my phone once and I've only had it for 3 weeks lol
hp420 said:
NS4g one-click root app:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2jx8xtx2602hi23
this will:
unlock the bootloader
install cwm 5.0.2.0
root
No commands, no messing with pushing files manually, etc. This thing has already saved me from major headaches while restoring my phone once and I've only had it for 3 weeks lol
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im assuming this is for windows. he said he has a mac so that wouldnt work for him. here this is for mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1129759 just copy and past everything thats there in terminal
Esteway.619 said:
im assuming this is for windows. he said he has a mac so that wouldnt work for him. here this is for mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1129759 just copy and past everything thats there in terminal
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I missed that...my mistake
Hello forgive me if this is the wrong place on this forum for this topic.
I unlocked my phone with the wugfresh method and did keep it stock ROM. Now my sweet google phone wants to update OTA but it won't do it.
Can someone help me. I want to go 4.3 and keep it stock, and rooted: )
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Do it manually by downloading the Google factory images and flashing them yourself. Can either flash them through a toolkit like I did (which most people wouldn't recommend), or you can flash them yourself with fastboot. A quick search or look around will show you how to do it
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Do you mean that selecting the download/install button will not do anything?
Did you install a custom recovery?, you need a stock recovery for it to work, I have the stock recovery image itself if you need it.
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Indeed de download/install button didn't do anything. I have custom recovery twrp on it.
I did downloaded the nexus 4 image and unpacked it. And tried to install true a toolkit but with no luck.
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ow godd im now stuck at the bootloader with no image on it. i tried it with a toolkit but with no succes. it whiped my device but didnt install image or rom.
im now stuck at the bootloader when i say start it just shows a black screen. have to reset the device 10 hold the power button.
im a bit flipping here
please help
bmwsensation said:
Indeed de download/install button didn't do anything. I have custom recovery twrp on it.
I did downloaded the nexus 4 image and unpacked it. And tried to install true a toolkit but with no luck.
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Use this with your phone in bootloader mode: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occamjwr66v
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still trippin and want to use my whatsapp
i guess the google image isnt on the sd card anymore. how do i put the google image on the sd card.
i am using the wugg fresh method now
Use fastboot to flash the image from your computer. Efrant has a guide for returning to stock in General.
This, yet again, is why people shouldn't use toolkits.
gues thanks my nexus is back alife with the post in the general, id managed it. thanks guys.
this method brings me some old dos memories back :highfive: hhehe was fun afterwarts
now running stock again with 12gb memm
I've aquired this Nexus 4 from a friend who has somehow wiped the recovery and rom, I can boot into fastboot, but that's it, if I go to the recovery option through fast boot it gives me the android with the exclamation point, implying there is no functional recovery.
So! I've finally borrowed a friends laptop and am having trouble getting fastboot setup, Drivers/Fastboot has always been my downfall.
I recently used this same computer to root a nexus 5 so I should have proper **** for that, would that work? can anyone maybe help me out a little.
I check device manager (Windows 7) and there's no category that has anything to do with the nexus 4 or removable devices. I've tried installing drivers a couple different ways, but am having no luck of course. I would try to delete the previously installed drivers but I have no entry to device manager to click, The only will only boot as far as fastboot so I'm just kinda stuck as fastboot hasn't really been my thing, I have fastboot.exe on this pc from previous use, I tried to go to the folder and "open command prompt here" and type adb devices to see if it would show the device and got nothing so I'm kinda lost, someone please help me out as I only have this laptop for as long as my friend is here and theres no others near to me use. Please and thank you
Shponglized said:
I check device manager (Windows 7) and there's no category that has anything to do with the nexus 4 or removable devices. I've tried installing drivers a couple different ways, but am having no luck of course. I would try to delete the previously installed drivers but I have no entry to device manager to click, The only will only boot as far as fastboot so I'm just kinda stuck as fastboot hasn't really been my thing, I have fastboot.exe on this pc from previous use, I tried to go to the folder and "open command prompt here" and type adb devices to see if it would show the device and got nothing so I'm kinda lost, someone please help me out as I only have this laptop for as long as my friend is here and theres no others near to me use. Please and thank you
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If you can only boot into fastboot use fastboot devices, not adb. adb only works in recovery. Adb and fastboot are different
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Thank you so much. If you're really nice will you subscribe to this thread and help me out a little more.
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Shponglized said:
Thank you so much. If you're really nice will you subscribe to this thread and help me out a little more.
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What are you trying to do?
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jd1639 said:
What are you trying to do?
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You'll probably need to flash the factory image, get it from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Un- zip it and inside you'll see a flash-all.bat. while you're booted into the bootloader double click on the bat.
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My thoughts are since the recovery is screwed I just need get fastboot functional and flash a recovery, I'm a custom ROM kinda guy. So if that's all I need than cool, (I currently have a nexus 5) I know mako has other bootloaders and radios and **** and I'm not sure exactly what version of android this is on or anything. Bit my situation is definitely having a phone that'll only go to fastboot, when I try to boot regularly it just sits at the Google logo.
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Shponglized said:
My thoughts are since the recovery is screwed I just need get fastboot functional and flash a recovery, I'm a custom ROM kinda guy. So if that's all I need than cool, (I currently have a nexus 5) I know mako has other bootloaders and radios and **** and I'm not sure exactly what version of android this is on or anything. Bit my situation is definitely having a phone that'll only go to fastboot, when I try to boot regularly it just sits at the Google logo.
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Not sure if just flashing the recovery will work, but download the factory image and unzip it. Inside is another zip, unzip that too. There you'll find the recovery.img
In fastboot use fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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Thanks a lot man. I can't get the damn laptop charger to work now so I can't even get it on!! But still thanks.
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Okay, I'm about to hand the phone off to a noob whom has a PC, and link him this thread, what all will I have to do/download/install to be able to properly use a fastboot command?
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Shponglized said:
Okay, I'm about to hand the phone off to a noob whom has a PC, and link him this thread, what all will I have to do/download/install to be able to properly use a fastboot command?
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Google tool 15 second adb xda
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So I really don't need any commands, I just need fastboot functional and to double click the flash all file (with phone connected and in fastboot) afterwards I can handle installing a recovery.
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Shponglized said:
So I really don't need any commands, I just need fastboot functional and to double click the flash all file (with phone connected and in fastboot) afterwards I can handle installing a recovery.
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If all you want to do is flash the factory image just use the flash-all.bat that's inside the factory image. Extract the image then with you device in fastboot mode and connected to the pc, just double click the batch file
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jd1639 said:
If all you want to do is flash the factory image just use the flash-all.bat that's inside the factory image. Extract the image then with you device in fastboot mode and connected to the pc, just double click the batch file
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Also, when you've booted into recovery and you have that dead droid, have you hit the vol up key? This'll probably get you into recovery
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That did get me into the stock recovery. Which I did a factory reset in there for ****s and giggles but it still sits at the Google logo (not a surprise) this phone used to be on PA, with CWM. And all that. What do you think he did to it? Haha
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Actually. It eventually went to the boot animation. But the "stock" android one. It just might boot after a while, I dont know.
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Shponglized said:
That did get me into the stock recovery. Which I did a factory reset in there for ****s and giggles but it still sits at the Google logo (not a surprise) this phone used to be on PA, with CWM. And all that. What do you think he did to it? Haha
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Not sure what he did. I would flash the factory image and start over again. Google nexus 4 custom recovery xda. That should get you everything you need to get rooted and running custom roms again
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I definitely plan on flashing the factory image but I don't have a PC handy and my friend has an evil dog. So I'll have to just hope that he can succeed once I hand it off.
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Success by the way. Thanks a lot.
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Shponglized said:
Success by the way. Thanks a lot.
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Your welcome
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Alright, I'm gonna wake this back up, I've had the nexus 4 for a while and have just been using the stock modem becuse when I tried to hybrid ones I'd either lose mobile data or the phone would sit at the splash screen for at least 10 minutes before booting.
Which modem should I be using?
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I have a nexus 4. On 4.4.2 running a very recent cyanogenmod nightly however I usually run pa, I can't really think of any other relevant information to give you to help.
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So I took the N preview and broke my TWRP install, it refuses to mount system no matter what I put in, how I have the password set etc.. I know it has been covered ad nauseum. I just have not had the time to work on it or revert to factory. Today I got the notification for the new N Preview OTA and I would like to take it but when it downloads and reboots it goes into TWRP and asks me to mount the partition (which does not work). Anyway around this? Any help would greatly be appreciated.
I cannot even get into TWRP, I get stuck on the splash screen. How did you actually get into the menu? Are you using 3.0.2?
I tried on 3.0.2 and 2.8.7.2 (Which is what is currently installed) Both would get passed the menu, neither would mount. I just want to take the OTA if possible!!
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use the Nexus Root ToolKit to go back to stock.
tatico28 said:
use the Nexus Root ToolKit to go back to stock.
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Might as well just flash the new image instead of taking the OTA, right? Same effect just one less step?
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You can flash the stock recovery too.
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tatico28 said:
You can flash the stock recovery too.
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NRT - Boots TWRP to flash the stock recovery, and when you can't mount it fails when it does the push. After your suggestions, first thing I tried!! If I don't mount and click cancel I can get into TWRP and it accepts commands from cmd line or NRT but no storage mounted.
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Have you tried ADB?
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tatico28 said:
Have you tried ADB?
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ADB can't run as root in production builds is what I get when trying to go through the steps to flash the factory recovery.img
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Got it.. Fastboot worked.. I feel stupid for not having done that to start with. Thanks!
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Not a problem, just hit thanks!
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Ya looks like twrp has to be updated for the newest n preview. no big deal im sure it will come soon
Dirty flashed the preview 3 version of N, no problems.. yet.
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