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[Q] nexus s just shows google logo after rebooting

So i tried to root my phone using one of the tutorials and ended up with a padlock screen on my phone. after researching i ALOT i decided on hard reseting my phone from the recovery menu. but all i see now is the google logo i believe i have deleted the 2.3.4 while reseting. can someone guide me from here. i am a n00b and i have had this phone for just 2 days. thanks in advance

anyone who can help?

youngballer said:
anyone who can help?
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Please be more specific.
What tutorial did you use?
Did you download clockwork recovery?
Do you have the superuser zip?
If you can enable fast boot and fastboot flash recovery you should be able to mount your usb storage in CWM and then install a ROM and the su zip.

stuck on the nexus s boot screen
Babydoll25 said:
Please be more specific.
What tutorial did you use?
Did you download clockwork recovery?
Do you have the superuser zip?
If you can enable fast boot and fastboot flash recovery you should be able to mount your usb storage in CWM and then install a ROM and the su zip.
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i used the one mentioned in addictive tips website (http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-root-nexus-s-with-a-single-click-using-superboot/). i basically followed what these guys had mentioned.
since this failed i read that the other option is to go through fastboot > recovery > and clear everything but this did not change anything.
can someone give me a step by step guideline on how to continue. i dont mind going back to the stock 2.3.4 android. i just bought the phone yesterday

Which version do you have? The sprint or t mobile? Check if you can go into fast boot hold down volume up and then powerbutton. If not you may have to Odin it if not. That super one click looks old..
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chewbz said:
Which version do you have? The sprint or t mobile? Check if you can go into fast boot hold down volume up and then powerbutton. If not you may have to Odin it if not. That super one click looks old..
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I am in Canada but the model is 19020 A. I can get to the fastboot mode but don't know what to do after that.

I have the 4g so I don't want to give you the wrong information and never encountered this situation so sorry dude. Hopefully a more experanced user can help you out.
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Btw if all fails you can Odin it
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its all good thanks for trying to help

If your ROM flashed incorrectly, it would lead to your phone being in a state where it just shows a GOOGLE with a Padlock; kind of like turning on a computer without an operating system.
You would have to read the instructions on rooting your phone, which involves using fastboot and flash recovery from fastboot (All this is in the rooting guide). Simply reflash the recovery so you boot up back in recovery and try flash the rom again.

The same happened to me, I fixed it buy flashing a stock boot.img
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thanks for the replies. how do i flash from the fastboot mode? when i plug it in to my computer i cant see the drive but my computer can detect the nexus s is plugged in

Set up adb first, they have the guides in the dev section, I used wolverines guide, you'll have to look for the software img, I don't know where it is at for the GSM model. Good luck
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Sounds like you're rooted and have recovery installed, but your OS is hosed.
Flash a ROM.

thanks for the replies guys. i have the adb setup on my laptop. i took it to one of the stores and he said he cant reflash it for some reason. he said he needs to get some software off samsung and it will take him a day. my phone is brand new and i didnt wanna trust him. do u guys think i should use odin? one of my friend has a galaxy s and he said odin should work fine on my phone.

Can you get into the ClockworkMod recovery menu? Turn the phone completely off then hold VolUp and Power until you get into Recovery.
If you get there, you're golden. Just download a ROM (I recommend Deck's) and away you go.

i can get into recovery but it gives me option like wipe everything and i selected that. but when i reboot the phone the same locked screen pops up. anyone from toronto here who i can contact?

youngballer said:
i can get into recovery but it gives me option like wipe everything and i selected that. but when i reboot the phone the same locked screen pops up. anyone from toronto here who i can contact?
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Basically with those wipe commands you make the Rom unuseable. You have to flash a new one or apply it via Odin. There are various guides on this forum section. Odin requires less technical knowledge but is a bit more risky then flashing via recovery. Odin and the Roms for that method can be obtained from samfirmware.com. Zipped roms can be found in the development section here.
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AT&T Galaxy S4 Wont Boot into Recovery

I have a client's Atnt galaxy s4 that will not boot up normally and will not boot into recovery also.
when i try to boot into recovery i get the blue lettering in the top left and it just sits there i have let it sit for sometime like that with no change.
this is not my first go around with flashing android devices so please even give me Dev only options if that is what you think will fix it. i feel bad because he just bought this phone 2 weeks ago and cant use it. not sure what the other guy that tried to root it did and neither does he so i am shooting in the dark so any help would be great.
I have tried flashing the stock Odin package with no luck.
Also tried Kies Firmware upgrade with no luck
Most of the custom recovery for this phone from what i read are not flashed threw odin anymore, but if i am wrong please link me and i will give it a shot.
Dose anyone have any ideas someone told me to use the .PIT file and re-partition the device and reflash the stock odin package. but i have had no luck locating the .pit file for the I337 galaxy S4 could anyone grab it from there phone and upload it for me or any ideas on how i could possibly fix this issue.
Thanks in advance

Since you already tried ODIN, why don't you try KIES.

I tried that allrdy just forgot to add it to the list updated first post

Copied this from another thread, guy was having same issue.
EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
Phone goes into download mode ok?
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C13v3r0n3 said:
Copied this from another thread, guy was having same issue.
EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
Phone goes into download mode ok?
Sent from my SGH-M919 using xda app-developers app
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ok i will have him give it a try
and yes it goes into downloading mode with no issues at all.

if the os isnt hosed just download goomanager and install the recovery then download a touchwiz rom that has an extended reboot menu, you can then just boot into recovery from the OS.

C13v3r0n3 said:
if the os isnt hosed just download goomanager and install the recovery then download a touchwiz rom that has an extended reboot menu, you can then just boot into recovery from the OS.
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The OS wont boot that is why we are having such a issue cause we have to get into the recovery to fix the phone
thanks thou

If you can get into download mode and odin it should wipe everything, it should work. Maybr its hardware?
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In addition to letting go of the power button after the vibrate, here are a couple of other things that appear to have worked for other forum members. I didn't discover any of these fixes, I just did a lot of reading and saw where others have had similar problems and found ways to solve them. That is what makes the XDA community great:
Uppercuticus said:
I've had this happen to me several times while playing around with flashing. Basically (without fail in my experience), hold power+volume up+home as you'd normally do until you see the booting recovery message and let go. It will do one of two things - boot into recovery- or - restart and vibrate-. If it restarts and vibrates, immediately hold power+volume up+home until the booting recovery message pops up again and let go. It should then boot into recovery and you shouldn't have trouble in subsequent attempts.
It took me a while to figure this out and I actually thought I had permanently bricked my phone as the phone wouldn't boot and I couldn't get into recovery. Hope this helps.
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RiNo808 said:
Those trying to boot into recovery mode, dl quick reboot from the play store. That's what I use and it works great.
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Just flash a different custom recovery tar in odin. If ur using CWM, then flash TWRP, or vice versa.

C13v3r0n3 said:
If you can get into download mode and odin it should wipe everything, it should work. Maybr its hardware?
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After using ODIN, make sure to do a software (factory reset) to get rid of any data and settings that stayed behind. The firmware packages that we have for Odin, do not wipe everything on their own.

C13v3r0n3 said:
Copied this from another thread, guy was having same issue.
EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
Phone goes into download mode ok?
Sent from my SGH-M919 using xda app-developers app
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Thanks - was having the same problem. At last somebody explains it properly. It worked.
(Why on earth is the script on the stock recovery screen so small. You need a microscope to read it. I am going to install CWM right away....)
Cheers LJ

S4 on veriozon only boots into download mood
Im having the same problem. I can ONLY get into download mood! Everytime I go and try to reboot all it does is vibrates. I was installing a rom before and it was installed fine then it says I lost my root and turned off. Now i can't turn my phone back on. I try to the NAND erase all but that does not work. Is my phone bricked? I have Verizon BTW. Could some body please help me ASAP!

Yankeetim92 said:
Im having the same problem. I can ONLY get into download mood! Everytime I go and try to reboot all it does is vibrates. I was installing a rom before and it was installed fine then it says I lost my root and turned off. Now i can't turn my phone back on. I try to the NAND erase all but that does not work. Is my phone bricked? I have Verizon BTW. Could some body please help me ASAP!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2316

any luck? im having the same problem after enabling the t-mobile aws bands on my i337. i could only get into odin mode, recovery boot sits there on end and i have no access to the phone settings. ive tried the odin with stock firmware but nothing.

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2316
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you are not playing fair sir...but a good one.

TheAxman said:
you are not playing fair sir...but a good one.
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My unrooted s4 phone gets stuck with the blue colour legend Recovery booting with any mentioned method. I am unable to enter safe mode, any ideas? been surfing google for 6hrs with no proper answer. Thanks!!

C13v3r0n3 said:
Copied this from another thread, guy was having same issue.
EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
Phone goes into download mode ok?
Sent from my SGH-M919 using xda app-developers app
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Thanx bro, This is solve my problem.

Having allmost the same problem with my S4...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498285

continuation of SGH_1337 will not boot into recovery
norml said:
Just flash a different custom recovery tar in odin. If ur using CWM, then flash TWRP, or vice versa.
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here are all the details;
Rooted ATT Galaxy S4 MK2 with Busybox. all went well until I tried to flash and boot into recovery. Installed ClockworkMod Recovery, tried to reboot into recovery...permission error. Installed Team Win Recovery, same problem.
investigated... Superuser.apk for some reason is NOT present in app directory. hmm. checked for root, have root.
installed ClockworkMod Superuser from play store... asks to update superuser... fails with signature error.
There seems to be no way to flash this phone. I have the original backup I made with ClockworkMod but restore fails with signature error.
The phone works fine, has root but I am concerned I will not be able to update to 4.4 when it's available. I am also NOT able to flash any alternative ROM. frustrating.
I see there are relatives to this issue all over xda but as far as I can tell after a weekend of trying is there's NO WAY to boot into recovery with write permissions being allowed.

I need help

Hello!
I had my S4 rooted and nandroid back up. I was trying to install this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316308
I installed it and gapp installed too and rebooted. I got this message appears
"System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone"
upper corner in orange says "kernel Failed"
That means I did something wrong?
I read about odin. Does Stock rom get you back to fully stock?
Thanks

Did you run loki doki? see.your on at&t..locked bootloader and i dont think that rom is autolokied. Boot back into recovery flash ld.and see if it boots.
Yes odin will put your phone back to.stock,been there done that lol.
sent from my CleanRom 1.5 i337m

force70 said:
Did you run loki doki? see.your on at&t..locked bootloader and i dont think that rom is autolokied. Boot back into recovery flash ld.and see if it boots.
Yes odin will put your phone back to.stock,been there done that lol.
sent from my CleanRom 1.5 i337m
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Ok, I been reading some threads about recovery, I didn't relieze, i was away from s3 so long. I just restored from backup data and it boots into this stuck Samsung screen with custom unlocked logo. Bootloop?

Havent seen that particular screen but yeah sounds like your bootlooped. If.you can three finger back into recovery and have a nandroid i would full wipe then Restore your back up (even though people.say restoring wipes anyway..id wipe.if u.are using twrp do not format data!).if.your still looped you may have to try and odin back to stock.firmware can be found on sammobile.com had to do this the other night due to a bad nandroid..lots of fun lol.
sent from my CleanRom 1.5 i337m

force70 said:
Havent seen that particular screen but yeah sounds like your bootlooped. If.you can three finger back into recovery and have a nandroid i would full wipe then Restore your back up (even though people.say restoring wipes anyway..id wipe.if u.are using twrp do not format data!).if.your still looped you may have to try and odin back to stock.firmware can be found on sammobile.com had to do this the other night due to a bad nandroid..lots of fun lol.
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Thank you!:victory:
My heart dropped like fainting ghost after I see the at&t software showed up. I wiped factory reset and goes past the samsung with unlocked logo into at&t boot up like new phone. It took 5 mins to get into welcome screen. All is working.
Now, I begun to wondering why my logo says it bootloader unlocked and I download correct at&t rom is in? I use this causal download from this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297900
I am trying to understand and pick my first rom. Was thinking downloading pure google rom. Had to read again

That mod.will loki your kernel,prolly why it says unlocked. I.have the.canadian. version..unlocked already thank.god lol.
A.simple wipe can work wonders..if you can get into.recovery and have something.to.flash most times your gona be okay.
Glad your back in.business!
sent from my CleanRom 1.5 i337m

Flash another kernel made for your device, or go thru the ODIN thing, your choice. this is for anyone who have that triangle.

Yes, I read some thread and the roms need kernel, without kernel installed which was has leaded me into that warning att screen. I tried again with roms above link with ktoon kernel and made it through. I was probably be dumb. Pardon me, lots to relearn here.
I own iPhone 4s but I went back to android.
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You should be able to get rid of that boot screen with the lock on it by using triangle away. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

Does anyone know what that com2s and the one below it is? And anyway to delete them?
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[email protected] said:
Does anyone know what that com2s and the one below it is? And anyway to delete them?
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delete em (un-install), junk, are you getting spam and such? Did you install those? Do you have any protection on your device? Just curious.
Thank you

TheAxman said:
delete em (un-install), junk, are you getting spam and such? Did you install those? Do you have any protection on your device? Just curious.
Thank you
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I can't find them to uninstall them just to force stop and unable them. Not getting any spam but I have used 4shared and and downloaded some stuff that didn't work and just download to my storage. No protection for my device. Any suggestions? I haven't had an android since the mytouch on T-Mobile years ago and I'm still new to this.
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[Q] Safestrap TWRP Galaxy S4 MF3

I just have a few concerns after "rooting" my MF3 S4. I want to run CM.10 nightly rom, and the only way I can install the CM.10 rom is by the Safestrap TWRP method as a "temporary solution" for locked bootloader because of the OTA update to MF3. Backing up a "Rooted Stocked Rom" right after I flash the "custom recovery" (I know it's not really a real custom recovery), will I be able to "Clean Install" CM10 by wiping everything before installing CM.10? Will the backup be reliable source to recover in the Safestrap TRWP "recovery"??? Thanks for reading and thanks for any help to my question and even possible success stories in advance.

franchize1989 said:
I just have a few concerns after "rooting" my MF3 S4. I want to run CM.10 nightly rom, and the only way I can install the CM.10 rom is by the Safestrap TWRP method as a "temporary solution" for locked bootloader because of the OTA update to MF3. Backing up a "Rooted Stocked Rom" right after I flash the "custom recovery" (I know it's not really a real custom recovery), will I be able to "Clean Install" CM10 by wiping everything before installing CM.10? Will the backup be reliable source to recover in the Safestrap TRWP "recovery"??? Thanks for reading and thanks for any help to my question and even possible success stories in advance.
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You can't use cm roms, only tw based roms in safestrap.

thanks for the help. is there any Roms similar to CM.10 that will work? and is a back up of the "root stock ROM" reliable to flash if there are any issues?
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Closest you can get that I know of is the gpe 4.2.2 rom.
Sent from the other side of the Milky Way with my S4.

My MF3 S4's recovery is gone. I rooted then tried installing the TWRP Recovery through Goomanager. The phone works, but I can't factory reset it in anyway possible. Is there a way to fix my recovery image when its fine because of Loki? or, is there a way to install the twrp recovery through Goomanager? maybe keep on trying? any experience?
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franchize1989 said:
My MF3 S4's recovery is gone. I rooted then tried installing the TWRP Recovery through Goomanager. The phone works, but I can't factory reset it in anyway possible. Is there a way to fix my recovery image when its fine because of Loki? or, is there a way to install the twrp recovery through Goomanager? maybe keep on trying? any experience?
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There is a guy that said he took the stock images from his buddies MF3 phone and used ADB to push the image back on his MF3 phone.the thread is in the forum.
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franchize1989 said:
My MF3 S4's recovery is gone. I rooted then tried installing the TWRP Recovery through Goomanager. The phone works, but I can't factory reset it in anyway possible. Is there a way to fix my recovery image when its fine because of Loki? or, is there a way to install the twrp recovery through Goomanager? maybe keep on trying? any experience?
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Took mine up to best buy. If your phone says custom status on it use my guide to fix it and you'll be good to go. All they really do is hook up your phone put it in dfu mode and flash the mf3 firmware back to stock takes only like 5-10 mins
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[email protected] said:
Took mine up to best buy. If your phone says custom status on it use my guide to fix it and you'll be good to go. All they really do is hook up your phone put it in dfu mode and flash the mf3 firmware back to stock takes only like 5-10 mins
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Because I didn't set my phone in "download (Odin)" mode, that's why when the worker connected the phone to the Samsung Tool it read "my device is not supported."? Before the worker connects my phone to Samsung Tool, put my phone in "download" mode?
I've went to best buy Samsung to try to reflash, but somehow my "device is not supported" when they connected my phone.

franchize1989 said:
Because I didn't set my phone in "download (Odin)" mode, that's why when the worker connected the phone to the Samsung Tool it read "my device is not supported."? Before the worker connects my phone to Samsung Tool, put my phone in "download" mode?
I've went to best buy Samsung to try to reflash, but somehow my "device is not supported" when they connected my phone.
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They can manually select your device from the list. It said my device is not supported but the girl at best buy selected the phone att sgh-i337 and than put it in download mode and ran the flash and it was up and running in 10 mins
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[email protected] said:
They can manually select your device from the list. It said my device is not supported but the girl at best buy selected the phone att sgh-i337 and than put it in download mode and ran the flash and it was up and running in 10 mins
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thanks for the help. I'll try this out tomorrow and report back on this thread with my result. I just didn't want to tell the worker how to do his job, but I'll be more direct when I try again with the information I have gathered since last time. thanks.

[Q] Stuck on AT&T logo

Hi,
I am stuck on AT&T logo on my Galaxy S4. I had previously installed safetrap recovery and a ROM on it, but I am always using Stock ROM. I forgot about safetrap last night when I had to encrypt and use my device for work related stuffs. So, I factory reset my phone, I encrypt the device and after that I am stuck on AT&T logo. Safetrap still shows up during booting but I can't create any ROM slot, I believe it is because of encryption. Can someone please help me?

Your not on MF3, are you...

How long do you wait on the att screen? If you factory reset it. Sometimes it takes a long time on the att logo and it should boot up back to factory. But if it deleted important files you'll have to take it to best buy to get it fixed or run the new mj6 via odin but safestrap will be on it until you manually remove it via adb or terminal emulator.
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Double post....
Same question asked and replied to here.

[email protected] said:
How long do you wait on the att screen? If you factory reset it. Sometimes it takes a long time on the att logo and it should boot up back to factory. But if it deleted important files you'll have to take it to best buy to get it fixed or run the new mj6 via odin but safestrap will be on it until you manually remove it via adb or terminal emulator.
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Thanks for trying to help. I was planning to go to best buy but I tried clearing cache from stock recovery and somehow I got out of bootloop . Thanks.