[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shosterman:
Hello all,

Been a reader for a long time, but not much of a contributor. This community helped me put Cyanogen 4 on my original G1. :-) But this is about my Nexus One which I've had since orders were announced on the live feed! Rooted it at 2.2.1 and then a couple months later updated to over the air 2.3.3 when it was available.

Here are my issues:

1. Battery.

Getting progressively worse. Previously used from 8am - 11pm and have 30% left. Now dead about 6pm. Also, battery warns me 15% left and then shuts down about a minute later. To test the dead at 15% issue, I would start charging it, power it on and it says 1%. So it seems like stats or usage data is incorrect.

What, if any, is the best way to refresh the battery? Should I just buy a new battery?

2. Service Unavailable Messages.

I get pretty bad service in my house and have always had service issues, but lately it's been terrible. Can be holding my phone surfing web and cell service goes out. Have to put phone down for service to come back. If it's out more than a few minutes, it won't come back at all. Meaning I go into settings, manually search for operators and select T-Mobile.

Maybe related, but I can only ever use T-Mobile (my service). Trying to register on AT&T gets "Unable to connect" or "SIM card not supported" (forget exact message). Shouldn't I still be able to use AT&T for roaming calls?

Although rare, sometimes I have to reboot my phone to get the service back.

3. Data Connection Issues

Lately. (Notice a trend?) My data service won't connect. Sometimes I'm coming from a wifi spot or coming out of a bad service error and my data never connects. No 3G, no G, no EDGE. I'll even have full bars on service but no data. Have to go into settings, check "Use only 2G Networks," then uncheck to get data back. Again, sometimes have to reboot phone.

With all that said, I was thinking about moving to a new ROM or wiping and starting over, with the hope that a new ROM would fix problems and give me root back, which would be nice.

Problems... And this seems silly, but I would like to keep my game progress in games like Angry Birds, Drag Racing, and Robo Defense. Tank Hero and PewPew2 would be nice, but not end of the world if I lose them.

I purchased Titanium Backup, but that requires root. Seems if I want to flash to get root I lose data, so in a Catch 22 here.

All other data, Google has got me covered for mail, contacts, Google Voice, etc.

Considering CyanogenMod 7, but guide isn't very helpful for my questions.

Step 1, unlock bootloader.

Shouldn't I already be unlocked from my previous root. How do I verify?

Step 2, install ClockWork or Amon Ra.

I apologize, but can't remember if I did this. Again, how to verify?

From here on I can finish things, just need a good tutorial on the games backup/restore process.

One last thing, it's been awhile since I did the root and longer since the G1 flash, but how are the terminal commands handled on Windows 7?

Ok, so I've got a long list of topics and problems here and understand if it might be a bit overwhelming. However, if anyone has answers to just a few things here, even that would be greatly appreciated.

I love my Nexus One and hate to see it in such bad shape. Plus, I really want to tinker with it and get it back to working order, but from my post you can see I'm not sure where to start.

Thank you,

Steve