yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aloy99:
Well, I think that if sensitive data was on the phone, they should have wiped the data partition.even if they wiped the system partition they should have at least pushed gingerbreadto it somehow so the phone wouldn't be bricked and the purchaser could still use it. And imagine if Google was able to do this to every android phone. Pushing updates forcefully to your device, perhaps even tracking your location not so anonymously.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krohnjw:
In all likelihood the seller had no actual right to sell the device, therefore as the buyer you have no legal right to it even though you purchased it through a legal channel.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RED_:
No harm having a word with google and telling them you want gingerbread loaded on it or a new phone. The seller is the one to blame, he intentionally put it on ebay to sell so someone for obviously going to get it. Its not his fault for buying the phone so agree with them that of course they can have their software back or whatever but in return you want a new Nexus S since you did buy the device legally. Whether you got the correct product or not has nothing to do with you.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glukosio:
Can you do a dump of system with adb ? if you can, you will share IceCream in the world! :D
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tvtodd:
Absolutely correct. We all know that ICS is not released, so the device was either lost or stolen. If the OP was thinking clearly, instead of sending stuff to a blog, he/she would:

1. Contact Google and let them know what they have - and politely and nicely *request* (not demand) that maybe Google could thank them with a free Nexus Prime when available.

2. Ask for a job interview!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rahlquist:
However taking remote control of a system not in your possession and damaging it may be actionable. Otherwise why wouldn't all phone manufs offer the ability to remotely "destroy" the functionality of stolen devices thereby ending their value to thieves?

Because hacking into a system not in your possession physically means you could hack the wrong system and that IS illegal.

Assuming the purchaser can show he purchased the device on ebay the least Google should consider doing is recovering their phone and providing the purchaser with a refurbished unit of similar capability.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aloy99:
Job interview? Am I missing the joke?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clickwir:
They probably can remote wipe any phone and they are tracking tons of data about each and every phone. Google is an advertising company. Gold to an advertiser is knowing everything you can about when/where and how someone uses something. They track what you do on the phone in milliseconds, they know a lot more than most people think. Don't be naive.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Buying stolen property you didn't know wwas stolen doesn't give the rights to them dude.

HTC, Apple, Moto all offer remote wipe capabilities on their phones. Hell, a user can add remote wipe capabilities to the devices though device administration that's built right into the OS itself.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tvtodd:
No - you got it. #1 was serious though....
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j_r0dd:
OK so after reading all these ridiculous posts by the real TROLLS of this thread I will probably be leaving xda. The OP had no clue what he bought and then he comes here asking for help and everybody flames the hell out of him. Me, jcase, b16a2smith & mathkid95 spent hours on gtalk with the guy last night. /system & /data were wiped. Just like jcase said, corporations will take steps to protect their stuff, i.e. doing a remote wipe. Enough said.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clickwir:
No. They remote wiped a phone that was still a test sample. Their actions were correct and legal.

There needs to be different levels. One that they offer to consumers and one they reserve for themselves. If there aren't at least 2 levels, that's why they don't offer it. It also opens a huge can of worms in most people's eyes, "OMG th1nk of th3 haX0rzzz!!!"

Again, no. This is a test device that no end user could have properly agreed that it was their own and not still Google's property. It's pretty damn easy to identify a phone and make sure you have the right one.

The person that posted about this phone to the forum, does NOT own the phone. They have it in their possession, but it's not theirs.

That sounds like a reasonable action on both sides. But it would take both sides to complete that.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trig0r:
Has the OP contacted, or been contacted by Google?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bouncy:
You obviously dont know how ebay works. it increments your bid when you set a maximum bid. it will show like you have bidded many times but you simply set a maximum bid.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mills00013:
Legitimate question: did we try putting his phone into recovery, mounting system, and then using dd to clone the partition? There are tons of data recovery tools out there that might be able to unerase the information on the partition.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
@j_r0dd:

sad, but true. Everyone wants to copy or dump the system, a few wanted to help, to make the phone usable. Is the phone working?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wackadroid:
********************

Important lesson learned!!!!!

IF YOU HAVE A PROTOTYPE DEVICE IN YOUR POSSESSION PUT IT IN AIRPLANE MODE UNTIL YOU PULL EVERYTHING OFF THE HARD DISK!!!! HEEELLLLLOOOOOOOOO??????
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrome99:
True. Has anyone thought of this?

For the trolls -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJACFMc-Rb4
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giddorah:
Hmm...

Shouldn't data be able to be recovered?

Too bad on your new phone though, hopefully you will get your Money back or a new phone somehow. Thanks for sharing your find though!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrome99:
Wait, now that the original ROM is gone, no chance of recovering anything, why can't OP root, flash recovery and flash a custom ROM??
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mandrsn1:
Finally, somebody speaking the truth
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fremen567:
I really do not wanna read the whole thread and don't know if this was mentioned already but has he tried flashing new image via Odin. If he can get it to download mode he can flash GB, and use the phone.

Peace.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loginatnine:
The seller has another nexus s that has been sold with the same picture...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200654721846
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
system and data are gone, no recovering.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_acula_sxe:
i would like to claim shenanigans on this one.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jastonas:
Proof that it is not fake (especially for you dr_acula_sxe)

proof 1

Proof 2
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
as someone said too, would not possible to do a raw backup and recover some datas with some tools?

("no recovering.": short answers as usual will generate tons of other questions :))
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_acula_sxe:
so would u say that i have been...burned by this? im just asking, im a noob to this trolling thing.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
No, relying on partial firmware that was recovered. It was ICS.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
Short answers are generally proper when they are to the point no?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
ya, but out of curiosity why no data recover is possible? cause a zero-byte format? or he flash an other rom on it now?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pele78:
omg i lol'd so much i nearly choked to death LMAO
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassie1995:
I think you guys (trolls) didn't watch the video close enough.

There is no way that the GUI, for example the Camera and homescreen transition, can be reproduced at this time.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
How about they can only remotely access and wipe their developer phones ? I cannot see why not, specially for a case like this one.

[edit]Btw, I saw many comments about lag when he unlocks the device and it goes to the camera. Ofcourse there's a small delay, camera doesn't initialize instantly and it never has. That's a hardware thing.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jastonas:
I an not saying anything. You should do some reading first and then call whatever you want.

Once again, if you can reproduce what you saw in the video, then call it a fake. Otherwise ... Just don't do anything.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_acula_sxe:
i think people on here need to learn how to take a joke.

joke /jōk/

Noun: A thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, esp. a story with a funny punchline.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lynyrd65:
Damn you guys are stupid. It has been confirmed by the devs, this was real. This trolling has already lost you guys a dev. So quit being jackasses.

Next time give the guy a chance.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NardVa:
Would have been nice if the OP came to XDA first and let the pros get all of the important files off the phone before sending a video to Engadget. Google played it smart and acted quickly. We were that close to have an official working Icecream port.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassie1995:
I know how to take a joke, it's just that some people really are trolling and being annoying.

Anyhow, what does it matter. We've seen everything we could, and now we can't have it anymore.

Tough luck, but it'll be released within 2-3 months, so we'll survive.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jastonas:
Fair enough. But, it would be a joe if you said it in the first couple of pages.

It is annoying the fact that a troll that hasn't read any of the posts congress once every two pages to say this is fake.

It had become annoying. And boring. And other stuff as well.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] buckoman:
Thanks for making me laugh! :D Priceless.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Look. Google test devices are protected beyond what you would believe (presuming this is test hardware).

Conventional precautions won't prevent this. If it was consumer hardware running test OS, then perhaps it could have been dumped.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcallahan:
sooo just saying but mannnn even with the LWP going that nexus s with that ICS is buttery smooth all over the place and I would assume that isnt final soooo MAN! someones excited to say the least.

Now if verizon will just get a droid nexus or prime or whatever with vanilla android ICS ill be all over that biddy, if not... ill be switching carriers.

my 2cents
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_acula_sxe:
my bad...it wont happen again.

Im sorry everyone i didnt think i was out of place. just having some fun thats all.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryan75:
Meanwhile, at Google headquarters...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Masterface7:
I think you win quote of the thread. That is ebay's way to protect privacy. Check any bid history for any item on there.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voyager_s:
Well...from what I've seen in the video i certainly like the look of ICS if it is indeed what its gonna be like. It seems real smooth.

Quick question to the OP however. Did you manage to establish by any chance if GPU acceleration had been implemented into the UI?

That's my number one priority of features when it comes to ICS.

Thanks.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulletproof1013:
LOL.I like that

sent from my unbrickable modded captivate.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jt131:
I can remotely lock or wipe my device through Sense's web interface so I don't see why Google wouldn't be able to do something similar if they had to...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulletproof1013:
So what's the verdict on this?. Real ...fake ...?

sent from my unbrickable modded captivate.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_acula_sxe:
its real!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
Absolutely real, those calling it fake without verifying it are either trolls or fools.

We were able to pull the kernel and ramdisk from the device yesterday.

Those doubting google's ability to wipe it just need to look in AOSP, specifically look at toolbox's wipe function, and the service that uses it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benrees21:
It has to be real, I've never seen those sort of elements in any custom rom.

Sent from my Nexus S running NSCollab ROM and Mathkid's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Kernel!!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tahde:
So close. Sorry nothing could get done from this.

Nice try to the devs/members that tried to help the OP out. BIG PROPS to you all that did what you could!

I cant even imagine what was going through you guys head if you were able to get this pulled off. lol. Would of been a good day, thats for sure. :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babijoee:
This thread is going out of control. Before other members start posting if its fake or real take some time to read a few pages of the thread and STAY ON TOPIC.

A new member came here seeking for advice, yet so many flamed and accused him.

Some members and even developers are disgusted with such manner and have decided to no longer continue with xda, which is sad.

I truly hope they decide to stay as there will always be people who have different opinions yet voice it in inappropriate or offensive ways.

This is not the community we are and this thread has had enough.

I'm going to advise to moderator of this section to close this thread until further notice.

I suggest to the OP that if you'd like to try and continue to work on your device that i suggest you continue talking to the devs you are at the moment and atleast try to get your device functional.

Lastly I'd like to thank you for atleast trying to share your build whatever it may be and hope to see you on xda in the long run.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blunden:
Too bad you couldn't recover build.prop from system. Would have told us the date and time it was built, which would hopefully give us an indication on if we should expect the final build to have more changes or not.

Were the modified date something that made sense? If so, what was it?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheTodFather:
Thanks you OP for taking your time to share.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glukosio:
for whom who's phone is blocked, i think you should call google and ask about this
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krispy1:
ill just leave this here http://syndicateapps.com/main/All_Custom_Launchers.html
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danon.brown:
maybe someone could contact the seller for a dump of the phone
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vickypollard:
I'll just leave this word here: read.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lynyrd65:
sigged

_________
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eyc:
Wow. Stop being such a drama queen. This is a forum for individuals to publish their opinions about a specified topic. As long as they are staying on topic, why are you getting *personally* offended? And, you are threatening that you will leave XDA? Over some trolls who may very well believe what they say is true? Get some thicker skin.

Don't get me wrong. I owe a lot to the devs here and this forum, and I respect both tremendously. But claiming that you are going to leave XDA for something non-personal like this is childish, and frankly, not that impressive or threatening to any of us.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YourMainDude:
Hmmm the seller did write Android 2.3 as Operating System. Sooooo some are being fooled with this Rom... I'm thinking October 11 will show the true ICS
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lultima:
I HOPE IT'S A FAKE, THE GRAPHIC INTERFACE IT'S VERY "RANDOM"

1)Lockscreen seems to be taken by Tablet (Transparent).

2)Fonts are not the same (System and Clock Widget).

3)Cyano battery's icon color.

4)Orizzontal scrolling in drawer (I don't think google did it).

IMHO it's seems too randoommmm ...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bulletproof1013:
LOL someone pm me when ics gets here. I wanna flash it to the captivate.

sent from my unbrickable modded captivate.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASimmons:
Sorry but this isn't real, and getting mad and calling people trolls cause they don't believe is sad. While the phone could certainly be wiped remotely simply turning data off and not connecting to wifi would have been sufficient, not to mention you cant delete everything remotely there would still be the basic rom left.

Which leaves us with the burden of proof being on the person(s) making the claim, you simply can't claim something provide no evidence and then say were trolls and idiots for not believing... oh and occam's razor. Not to mention all the other trolls jobs we seen on here (webos on the hero, bought a touchpad from the internet with android already on it )
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danon.brown:
2.3 is the latest option for ebay
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haksam:
love the preview of ICS, a combination of both GB and HC, just the way I expect it to be

i think Google has been trolling with all of us to get media attention :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YourMainDude:
Lol someone owes this guy his money back...

*cough*Google*cough*
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lultima:
Mod: CLOSE THE THREAD IT'S A BIG Fakeeee!!!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YourMainDude:
Hmmm thanks for letting me know... lol didn't know that... =\ effin ebay banned me for life and I don't even know what I did wrong.. lmao was a member since 2010... never used it... once I found out nexus S i9020A was out... I wanted it... bought a few items... sold only my 3DS.... but when it came down to selling my brothers iphone4 ... Pfft! I got banned.. =_=
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark manning:
Here is some food for thought:

I have been watching this thread since yesterday and at first thought the OP was making all of this up. I then gave it more in depth thought and realized how everything went down that this was most likely planned.

1. Why would someone new to android buy a Nexus S (used) off of ebay when they can get a brand new one for $99 right now? They wouldn't

2. If they were new to android how would they know they were looking at ICS and realize what they were looking at? They wouldn't

3. How would they then know to leak it to engadget? They wouldn't

4. How would Google know exactly what device to wipe? They wouldn't

5. If you worked for Google would you risk your job by selling that device? You wouldn't

This is nothing but an extremely well thought out plan from Google's marketing department. Google purposely leaked this video to reignite the rumor mill and had an employee come here to peak the curiosity of previous Nexus owners as well as other members here on XDA. Think about it this way, a thread in the General (now moved to Q&A) section will get over a 100,000 hits in less than 24 hrs. If Cyanogen released CM8 today he would even get that may hits on his dev thread that quickly.

So after seeing any of this who now wants ICS or the next Nexus phone?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
A) Its real, enough parties verified it including myself.

B)

Taken from toolbox code

} else if (0 == strcmp (whatToWipe, "all")) {
fprintf(stdout, "Wiping /system and /data\n");
wipe ("/system");
wipe ("/data");
fprintf(stdout, "Done wiping /system and /data\n");

C) webos android was proven, the rom was provided and uploaded for everyone.

D) fool and trolls.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YourMainDude:
Google would know because they look for what device is running what... some employeeshave tthe phone running it.. but if it was sold and sent out of state.. my guess is that they located a run away operating system and bam... but yeah Ill believe it when Oct.11 hits
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
1) $99 + contract

2) Basic research

3) Money, media attention, good fun?

4) not too many ICS devices out there, find person reporting missing device, use c2dm to wipe specific phone with that user's account on it (they cant just wipe any device)

5) stolen or lost by employee.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ming930919:
dude read the whole thread first -.-
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andQlimax:
teorically ebay or the seller should give the money back to the OP

google just wiped HIS dev phone with ICS

anyway i think now the op could flash a stock/custom gingerbread rom or even better contact google
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASimmons:
Although I agree with all your points I don't think this was leaked by google... its a hoax held up by a few xda devs who are dieing for some geek cred. Even if the phone was wiped in would take all of 30 minutes to rummage through it and confirm and POST that it was or wasn't ICS. I would think google could come up with something better.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhu1:
Whatsoever it is, real or fake, this is really a good timepass and intresting! But i think the op is too stupid, isnt that doubtful! Maybe he is faking the stupiness !

hit thankxx if i helped.sent from my mind through telepathy (ya its possible)!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark manning:
your a big part of this thread, isn't there a couple of Google offices in Washington?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
In fact if a senior mod (or forum mod I know) with a tmoble Nexus S wants to hit me up, I can prove the this all.

The rest of you can simply look at my history, while I am an ass, i am nothing but consistent and reliable in my information and my leaks of information and firmware.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
It was rummaged through, we recovered the boot partition, and it was POSTED that i WAS ICS, however you failed to read.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASimmons:
Like I said no proof, I'll kindly say sorry and say you were right when I see more than the below proof....

Clearly
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j_r0dd:
Dude I am not here to impress you by any means. Just like you said I can state my opinion it is an open forum, right? You're a douche. I didn't call any one person out for the flaming/trolling and you want to call me out personally? Piss off fool.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
What proof do you want? I offered to prove it to a mod

<troll>clearly im entirely unreliable with information </troll>
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greenfieldan:
Perhaps it was already mentioned...but did anyone notice the fact that he had a voicemail notification? While it's possible he had a voicemail, isn't that notification present in AOSP ROMs that OUR developers make? While I don't know enough to call this real or fake, this whole thing seems very fishy.

tl;dr: Stock Android phones don't have the never disappearing voicemail notification. Community built AOSP ROMs (and this one) do.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark manning:
I personally believe you but would also like proof to us not a mod. What good would proving this to a mod do?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
Mods are generally considered trustworthy.

You wanting the proof yourself, is you wanting a leak.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASimmons:
ding ding ding.... looks like the old ghost email notification from cm mod. wow must made its way into ICS.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark manning:
na, don't have a NS. There are other ways to prove its real, assuming it is and you don't work for Google Seattle or Google Kirkland or something like that.