yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S General] t1n0m3n:
There is a very noticeable difference in speed in open-soju vs cyanogenmod.

CM+netarchy seems fairly clunky right now. open-soju+netarchy seems to be the most snappy rom (even snappier than stock) that I have had on my NS4G so far.

I don't get as many waits on CM vs open-soju though.

MIMUI (or whatever that rom is called) will not be tested. This doesn't lend confidence for me personally: "i have no clue what to do with ****ty ass cdma stuff." So no MUMUI for me. The dev actively hates on the NS4G. No thanks.
[Nexus S General] rougegoat:
You make a good point. As far as I'm concerned, the dev is as important as the rom. If I don't care for the dev, I'm not going to use his product. That being said, it's nice to see a rom with a different look to it. Getting tired of Launcher Pros and ADWs being the everything.
[Nexus S General] thepolishguy:
REQUEST

Could you add some links to the latest Sprint PRL's? Might be helpful for some people that have flashed "test" prl's and would like to manually flash back.

thanks for all you are doing in maintaining the thread.
[Nexus S General] duckdown:
Hello all, if I am on Mobilicity Canada using the Nexus S, supposedly it is the "AWS" version.

I installed CM7 and cannot figure out which kernel to install. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks !
[Nexus S General] rougegoat:
Does Mobilicity Canada use CDMA or GSM or GPRS? Look for a kernel that says it supports that, and has the features you want, and use that.

I personally use the netarchy one, mainly because it supports CDMA and GSM but also because it's got some other nice features to it.

(edit)I am not aware of any cellular network that actually uses GPRS, but I'm also unaware of any of the specifics of any cellular network in Canada.(/edit)
[Nexus S General] mquinn24:
Congratulations
[Nexus S General] duckdown:
I am not sure which it is, I am a novice user :( All I know is that my version of the Nexus S is not compatible on the Bell or Rogers network.. Bell is CDMA I thought and Rogers was GSM but this one is "AWS"

The phone is currently running CM7 and seems to be working
[Nexus S General] duckdown:
Apprently Mobilicity is AWS / UTMS , does that help ?? I have no idea what to do

Thanks
[Nexus S General] fixxxer2008:
we need the devs to start making their roms compatible for us ns4g users.
[Nexus S General] XxsydenxX:
Well I never thought id say this but as of right now the miui nexus S 4G port is my daily... I tried open Souj too which is a fantastic rom, but spite miui not having 4G its still really stable for me.

And ive been up since early this morning without charging it with regular use and im at 38% battery.
[Nexus S General] deku_nut:
This thread needs to be moved to the new NS4G Section
[Nexus S General] jerbeck24:
Was just going to say this. ^^^^
[Nexus S General] theimpaler747:
Moved to 4G forum :)
[Nexus S General] jinsoku3g:
getting pretty far behinddd
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Oh yeah? How so?

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] michaelpeerman:
visit my link here xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1103727
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Added it to guide
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Everything has been updated :)
[Nexus S General] rougegoat:
don't forget to add the Trinity Kernel.
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Its already there, I'm going to change the name though to avoid confusion
[Nexus S General] bnitty:
i'm trying to boot into recovery so i can backup before i flash a kernel & ROM but it just sends me back to the fastboot screen. any suggestions?
[Nexus S General] Maximilian Mary:
Try reflashing recovery or flashing a different recovery version. Verifying the md5 sum might not be a bad idea, also, in case the download was corrupt.
[Nexus S General] bnitty:
i finally got it to stick. it seems that when i flash cwm in ROM Man i have to immediately boot into recovery or i'll lose the stick, but i'm finally using a custom ROM, KingsRom & Netarchy kernel & OC'd at 1.2ghz :cool:
[Nexus S General] rougegoat:
Weird. Then again, my experience with flashing the recovery via Rom Manager is that you always have to flash it, reboot, go back into Rom Manager, and flash it again if you want it to actually stick. It's...not the best manager for recoveries from what I've seen so far on it.
[Nexus S General] bnitty:
this is my 4th different android phone & i've never had this problem, but i can't complain bkuz it did finally work lol.
[Nexus S General] Igotsanevo4g:
I rooted my friends tmo NS, and it took awhile to get the right drivers and everything.

Does the NS4G use the same drivers?
[Nexus S General] SA-07:
Try my Matr1x kernel! It now supports the nexus s 4g as well! Check the nexus s 4g android development section! ;)
[Nexus S General] decalex:
i donno why but, lol.
[Nexus S General] leescharf:
Could someone please post an updated guide to rooting the NS4g with a MAC - apparently kenvan19 has left xda never to return.

I'm a bit confused about using PDANet (or not having to use it) and whether to use CWR 3.0.0.5 or 3.1.0.1 4g?

Thank you.

PS I come from the Land of the Pre and this is my first Android experience. Loving it (and this community) so far. Cheers.
[Nexus S General] Maximilian Mary:
I might do this if I have time, but to answer your questions:

You do not need pdanet. That's just to get the drivers, which mac does not need. ;) This recovery is about the most up to date. Just be sure to use one of the ns4g versions.
[Nexus S General] bonao1851:
soju and netarchy

Running Soju and netarchy on my nexus s 4g and my score with smartbench was 3971, the fastest phone I have so far, a month trying to get the right combination of rom and kernel. Love it.
[Nexus S General] johnbibbs:
The link for the stock kernel is dead. Is it possible to get another one?

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S General] Windst:
edited. found it
[Nexus S General] EnViiDisLoCo:
Which recovery r u guys using I flashed the recovery that came with ROM manager and now it doesn't boot in recovery at all....
[Nexus S General] beave4:
Does anyone have a working link for the stock nexus s 4g kernel? The links that I founds seem to be dead. I am currently using the netarchy kernal but I want to revert to stock so I can update my phone.

Thanks!
[Nexus S General] tailsthecat3:
does anyone have the stock kernel for the nexus s 4g or a link to it? every link i find is dead! thank you!!!
[Nexus S General] debh945:
HERE's the stock Kernel for the NS4G that I downloaded back in May.

Mirror (In case my network is down)
[Nexus S General] tailsthecat3:
thank you

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[Nexus S General] GeezyAF:
Thank you for this thread. I just got my NS4G yesterday and this thread pointed me in all the right directions for rooting my phone.
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Not a problem, happy to have helped.
[Nexus S General] PMDColeslaw:
The Oxygen Rom is in the non 4G dev section. how can it work on the NS4G? I thought the two were incompatible. :confused:
[Nexus S General] jakkz:
I am looking for the latest kernel version 2.6.35.7-g3cc95e3 on build GRJ90 with voodoo. Not interested in OC or BLN, just the enhancements voodoo provides to the stock kernel.

The only kernel I was able to locate was in the GSM dev section, by Supercurio himself; it does not appear that he has been responding to his thread in couple of months.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
[Nexus S General] jakkz:
For clarification, I am talking about a kernel for the 4g nexus.
[Nexus S General] Maximilian Mary:
James Bond has the fewest extras, and does not oc. Nor does Netarchy by default. Even though these support bln, it is not enabled by default. Matr1x boots at 1200, but is a very nice kernel. Just use Set CPU to set max_cpu back to 1000, and check Save on Boot.
[Nexus S General] GeezyAF:
A lot of dev's for the 3G made a lot of their stuff compatible for the 4G.

In Oxygen's case, you will notice that the title says NS+NS4G, I believe.

Something along those lines.
[Nexus S General] kxxstarr:
probably a stupid question, but i have not flashed between multiple roms on my nexus s like i did on my Evo 4g because i am wondering about the usb storage partition being erased when i flash between roms. of course i can back everything up to my laptop but i'm wondering if this is necessary.
[Nexus S General] Maximilian Mary:
The only time the "sdcard" gets wiped is when you

fastboot oem unlock .

Flash away!
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Once I get home from work I will be updating this thread :D
[Nexus S General] fergie716:
Sounds good! Thanks for maintaining. This sticky is already really complete
[Nexus S General] duce102:
sorry, double post :(

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[Nexus S General] duce102:
sorry for being a nexus noob.... i own the epic 4g and my gf has the nexus s 4g.... i know we (the epic community) has journaling on (more stable) and off (faster).... i see you all have bfs and cfs... which one is more stable (bfs or cfs)?
[Nexus S General] GeezyAF:
CFS.
[Nexus S General] method2madness:
Just switched from the Leo (HD2) to the Nexus and wanted to say thanks for all the work on this conglomeration!
[Nexus S General] gitit20:
Any plans to keep this updated?
[Nexus S General] s9ortner:
Could someone please post a copy of the stock kernel? The link in the OP leads me to a site that will not allow me to register so that the file can be downloaded. Thank you.
[Nexus S General] tailsthecat3:
Try this. It's a flashable 2.3.7 kernel I've been using.

Edit: For the Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S General] decalex:
What are the chances this could get updated? (Including the info threads). :)

. . NS4G . . CM7 . .
[Nexus S General] nmoreman:
The only time the "sdcard" gets wiped is when you

fastboot oem unlock .

I did not know this, I did this on 2 phones when new, nothing on them. Just unlocked daughter's phone last night (without backing up data on computer), thinking everything would download back thru Google Cloud.

Lost all her pictures, use App Backup and Restore, it didn't reload (wasn't rooted before), so have very, very unhappy girl.

I read a blurb in another thread that mentioned something about Superuser, putting in on the card. Is there anything that can be done or looked at to get any of these pictures back? I'm very unhappy with what I did, and so is she:(

Nothing has every done anything to any my cards before.

Thanks.
[Nexus S General] GeezyAF:
The phone warns you that the SD card will be wiped before you go through with an unlock.

You can try any PC file recovery program to get them back.
[Nexus S General] Raw415:
can't get into recovery nd can't flash a ROM

hey guys i just got my dad a nexus s 4g for his bday

nd well i used the OneClickRoot method everything went ok

until i downloaded a ROM from the forums.

tried going to recovery mode but it just gave me

the opened box logo nd then the android with the

triangle/exclamation mark

nd to make things worst after i took out the battery nd rebooted it

it won't recognize USB Storage. =/

idk wat i did wrong. not a beginner at this

Cuz i've rooted a

Samsung Vibrant

HTC G2

Samsung Epic 4G

HTC EVO 4G

and

HTC HD2

but i guess every phone is different. =(

plz help. thnks
[Nexus S General] Rimmir:
If i remember correctly you have to go into the phone's internal memory and overwrite the stock recovery with Clockwork's recovery image, or use ROM Manager to boot into recovery when you need to. I'll try looking for the exact directory where the stock recovery is stored...

---------- Post added at 11:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:45 PM ----------

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1071500

Bottom of first post:

"It’s normal to lose the recovery after the reboot, the steps to flash the CW recovery needs to be repeated every time you want to access the CW recovery.

This is due the build in protection in 2.3

As some one pointed it out on another topic, the good thing about this is that you’ll never lose the stock recovery of 2.3, thus minimizing the chance of a bricked phone.

If you want to the CW recovery to remain permanently, you’ll need to rename /etc/install-recovery.sh to something thing else"
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Started working on this guide to get it updated. There is a lot that needs to be added/removed/modified. Stay tuned.
[Nexus S General] MrDrumngun:
Where can I find the latest radio? I don't seem to even be able to find the gwk74 thread. Is the D720SPREK1 radio the latest?
[Nexus S General] toddlmr:
Yes
[Nexus S General] w8setter:
Amen been waiting and checking this thread for quite some time...
[Nexus S General] demass430:
THank You so much OP this is an awesome thread. I just got my Nexus s 4g(i know late to the party) and this thread makes life hella easy. THanks again
[Nexus S General] Krayvon:
Suggestions

Which Rom/Kernel would you recommend to get the best battery life on D720 (NS4G)? I am running stock right now and would love to improve it.

Also any of the ICS roms stable yet? Thanks fellas.
[Nexus S General] v3rk:
the gummynexus rom seems quite stable, i haven't given it a full day yet though.

i've gone through phases of trying all the latest ics roms and finally going back to gingerbread because i didn't think they were ready for prime time. gummynexus s 4g is as close to ready as i've seen.

try it with this kernel: http://goo.gl/4kqEd. i think it's eugene's kernel for the regular nexus s compiled to run on the ns4g. euegene's kernel is based on stock with some enhancements iirc, including voodoo and ezekeel's various awesome patches.
[Nexus S General] infamousteeboy:
Thanks for this gonna be taking a look at this later this evening.

Tell Siri I said SUCK IT!
[Nexus S General] bdubs4200:
:confused: Uuuuuummm where are the Modems/Radios ? i didnt believe this beauty had poor service till the other day i bought one.. STILL IN LOVE, yet very frusterated with poor wifi connection (old vibrant was full wifi on the couch) and poor data/browsing speed,1-3 bars, whereas the vibrant would be 3-4 (ALWAYS) on the same cusion... ive been looking and not surfacing much, are other people still dealing with the poor connections ?? or have i got a rotten apple? (no pun intended)
[Nexus S General] ucraj510:
vhgomez nexus s ics rom is the best download ASAP
[Nexus S General] infamousteeboy:
Downloaded just looking for another recovery other than twrp

Oh...And Tell Siri I said SUCK IT!
[Nexus S General] tailsthecat3:
I just got an evo 3d from a nexus s, still using nexus too, and the evo's radios are much better. I had a hero and an evo 4g before nexus and they both too had better radios in them.
[Nexus S General] jinsoku3g:
?

i see kd1 ke5 and ke1, but not the ek1..is it a typo
[Nexus S General] godsonbx:
no ICS roms friend?
[Nexus S General] jruhlen1980:
I've been using Gummy for a couple days now after trying several ICS roms and I like it the best. I'm using it with matrix cfs 15 and my speed and battery life is great. I specifically created an account to say thanks but I can't post on the dev forums yet, so it'll have to wait.
[Nexus S General] lanwellon:
MIUI is OK !!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Nexus S General] michalurban:
Am I missing something? Id say this thread is way out of date ... Also, I believe it could be misleading for new users if itns not up to date ...
[Nexus S General] plmiller0905:
K...I'll give a try...
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
They have info to unroot it in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1070959
[Nexus S General] a2k:
Thank heaven for this NS4G (Sprint) thread!

Why are the MODS stalling?
[Nexus S General] plmiller0905:
I just flashed the SuperAOSP 8.0 rom and it booted fine but I had no cellular service whatsoever.
[Nexus S General] zikronix:
Thats what I was trying to figure out...I dont think that rom is for our phones...
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Hmmm a couple people confirmed it was working fine for them. Check over at the thread and see if anyone posts any info about it.
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
You also had no cell service with it?
[Nexus S General] plmiller0905:
I'll check the other thread...but yeah...to confirm, I had no service bars. I attempted to log into Google and got the message that I had no data service as well and to connect via wifi.
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
It looks like when you flash the ROM it has no radio installed. Will post link for it when I find it.
[Nexus S General] plmiller0905:
oh ok..cool...thanks
[Nexus S General] zikronix:
Alot different when comming from the EVO....But Im still loving my phone.

Id like to see alot of roms ported and working.

Another question. This rom didnt have a radio. On the evo none of the roms ever had radios are things different on the nexus?
[Nexus S General] subliminal609:
WOW!

Wow man thank you so much I was about 2 sec away from starting to flash gsm roms, till i relized the model number was way different! I'm comming from an evo running CM7 and figured hell why not get a nexus (had a broadband upgrade available) and wait on my actually primary upgrade for the evo 3d, just something new to play with and hell i was already on a AOSP rom anyway (CM) so I'm looking forward to what this extremly sexy device will do. I have a EPIC as well but didn't think much of that even tho its very simular, i did miss the compression level on the camera vs the evo camera, and the rediculously gorgeous screen. Lets get a sense 2.1 rom fully working on the CDMA version of this phone, god I would love (i kno im weird) but to have sense on this awesome phone!! Thanks Dev's!!!!!!!!

+1+1+1+1+1+1
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
That's what I don't understand because all the ROMS I've seen don't touch the radio yet they say this one (SUPERAOSP) doesn't have one.

I'll do a little research and give you guys a update.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] herbthehammer:
Regarding the stock deodexed rom. Technically it's not "stock", it has a different kernel and a couple of other mods. I don't know how to do it but I would if I could. I don't know if I shared a nandroid backup of a rooted stock rom if my personal information would be in there too. That wouldn't be good.

I don't know if there is such a thing as a stock or stock rooted rom or ruu with this phone. It appears as if this is a different beast when compared to other samsungs I've had like the moment and epic. It would be nice to get a image of a unaltered unrooted stock rom that can be flashed in case you wanted to completely start over.

I agree with many of the comments in this thread. I am all for some organization between the variants instead of this hodge podge mish mash way things are all over the place now. I remember when beginning with my moment that I stumbled across a forum that apparently they started their separate forum because they were tired of the disorganized mess that this place had become. People tell the noobs to read, but it would be much easier to get up to speed with some organization instead of relying on search so often. Search most of the time doesn't give results of what you're looking for. More times I haven't found anything with a search than times that I have found stuff.
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Added a little more info about the stock ROM, thanks herbthehammer for the heads up.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] herbthehammer:
I don't know, that's why I'm asking but would google have a stock rom in their development section somewhere? One that would work for a full flash back to stock for the ns4g. To me at least, this is the third most important thing besides root and recovery, a way to get everything back to out of the box stock easily in case we f up the phone and need to start over.
[Nexus S General] netarchy:
Most roms aren't bundling a radio image, and they shouldn't. Any dev that is bundling a radio image with a custom rom is making a very bad decision.
[Nexus S General] jaguar4002:
i just got mine today :)

and i had an update. mine says 2.3.4

can u please just Deodexed this? with out adding anything?

would be greatly appreciated! :)

Cheers on the good work
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Exactly. So the question is when they flash a ROM like they did with SuperAOSP why is it that they appear to have no radio installed thus resulting in having no signal. Unless its erasing the current radio they have?

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] spdwiz18:
you could flash my theme template and it will deodex your rom for you. you dont need a full rom to deodex.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1071161
[Nexus S General] netarchy:
Because SuperAOSP is not build for the ns4g, it's built for the ns. It doesn't have the cdma stuff in it.
[Nexus S General] zikronix:
Makes perfect sense to me.

It also appears the BLN app doesnt work on this device...

netarchy, do these devices suffer from the charging issues (sbc) like the evo did...is there any reason of an sbc on this.
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Damn so Devs are going to have to do a lot of work to make their ROMs universal? Or possibly need to have two separate ones.
[Nexus S General] oubravs2b:
As an FYI - I tried when I got mine on Friday to install CM7 for NS (and also SuperAOSP 8.0 yesterday), and got no cell service on either of them. I don't know anything beyond those two, but for now, I'm using the stock rooted. Hoping for some ported ROMs as well.

Being a flashaholic and not having any choices is killing me :p
[Nexus S General] shabbypenguin:
well tbh once source hits later this weke you can just download aosp source and build a stock restore...
[Nexus S General] heffzilla:
Probably a dumb question, but, I followed directions to the letter and if I type "fastboot devices" nothing shows up. Installed drivers using PDAnet method and everything goes well, but adb doesn't seem to recognize my phone. Any help is much appreciated. For what it's worth i've used adb many times on my fascinate and am pretty familiar with it....but i'm stumped
[Nexus S General] kwan:
I ran into the same dumb problem. A reboot of my PC seemed to resolve it. Maybe the USB doesn't recognize it until you reboot
[Nexus S General] XxsydenxX:
Fixxxer, didnt you develop a rom or two for the CDMA hero.

(Sorry for the off topic)

Thanks for the reference guide, it will make things easy when i finally decide to root my nexus S
[Nexus S General] tcd2004:
Has anyone confirmed that the guide for MAC's works with the CDMA nexus? Also, should it still work on 2.3.4 even though the guide is for 2.3.3?
[Nexus S General] stillblood:
I did the Gregg's root method with the full wipe and now my phone will not connect to sprint's network! I tired to update prl and profile. Nothing! Please help
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
That's odd it shouldn't do anything like that since its only rooting your device. Did you flash a ROM after?
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Did you do the New Part 2? Only the first two (Part 1 and Part 2) appear to work fine.
[Nexus S General] stillblood:
just part one and two. after the fact i flased the decodx rom without making a back up :\ now im really stuck id like to put the shipped rom back on. i also tried the new radio pr img that was posted (CDMA) no luck

please help
[Nexus S General] zikronix:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13658357#post13658357

I also didnt have the file to rename....so I dont know what the heck...its definitly different than my evo...so im going to try to go back to stock and start all over.
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
What ROM is this? Shipping ROM?
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Nevermind saw what it was. Let us know if it works fine so I can post it for people having problems.
[Nexus S General] zikronix:
My nexus wont even do what its saying in the instructions for this. for some off the wall reason my device is no longer detected in fast boot. it was to root it, I noticed that i was miussing some files in the root process now I want to return it and reclock it just to start over and I cant even do that. My recovery cwr and its stuck. I thin thats part of the reason why this new samsung thing wont work.
[Nexus S General] zikronix:
ok i have all the img files from that program. is there a way other than fast boot to load these.
[Nexus S General] zikronix:
well now I got it to give me the yellow triangle jesus christ. LOL
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
If you are having problems then the only way I know is via ADB/Fastboot.