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[Nexus S General] TinaSport:
Please help anyone?

Sorry if the question is stupid, but how go back to 2.3.6? I got the ICS and my battery life sucks and also can not use MMS messaging anymore... Please help!
[Nexus S General] aitlbach:
To return to 2.3.6

Wipe all partition from recovery mode

Install the full 2.3.6 stock rom package
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
how to do that using stock recovery? all I'm getting is a blank screen!?
[Nexus S General] aitlbach:
You need clockworkmod recovery to do that
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
Will 5.0.2.0 work?
[Nexus S General] aitlbach:
to be safe flash the 5.0.2.3 from the Link
[Nexus S General] alexxdj:
Hi, before updated to ics i made a backup of 2.3.6 (stock rom)with rom manager . Can i use it to return to 2.3.6?
[Nexus S General] mosd:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138755

use this guide very easy and quick, you cant se anything because the backlight doesnt go on with ics, use that guide and go back to gb
[Nexus S General] alexxdj:
I used this to root my phone and to unlock the bootloader. I will use it again to go back to gb??
[Nexus S General] mELIANTE:
Hope they fix the MMS bug when the rollout begins (again)...
[Nexus S General] sperelli:
Here too, eu i9023 shorter battery life and no bootloader... now testing glados 2.2 + custom 4.1.0 ... no differences....
[Nexus S General] brazilianoob:
I used the update for the 2.3.6 version (128 mb file). it worked just fine and my battery life has been the same so far. I am having the recovery issue, though. It is not there anymore. What should I do? Flash it again?
[Nexus S General] mosd:
yes it will give you cwm and then u can just flash gb thru cmw!
[Nexus S General] knkartha:
Not able to understand

What I am unable to understand is that Google rolled out Nexus S ICS updates to its employees and none of them had issues with CPU or battery drain? They were under pressure to push something out to manage perception in the market.

This is where Apple, does a decent job. The OS is published and it is ready to use with no major issues.

It is unlikely that Google has not noticed this issue within the internal release to employees. Either way, wait and watch. Cleaner the OS, the better. Worth waiting.
[Nexus S General] armoredkin:
iOS no major issue? Seriously, they got major issue at first n release an update as well. My phone doing great with ICS, there must be some explanation behind this different behaviour.
[Nexus S General] farjamm:
i wonder why google not mention wifi bug(not turning on) in some countries:mad:
[Nexus S General] juliano_q:
This issue is not happening with everyone. I have no problems and two friends that updated are also not having it.

Also, the last update from Apple also had a major issue with battery life.
[Nexus S General] Rickythemaniac:
Stock kernel, CWM 5.0.2, ICS OTA 4.0.3
[Nexus S General] armoredkin:
Yup, same thing goes to Windows Phone for the record.
[Nexus S General] m-p{3}:
I guess it's definitely not affecting everyone, as I do not seem to be affected. I used the update.zip method, and fully wiped everything to start with a vanilla system. My phone uptime is 84:17:44 at this very moment.

Sorry, my OS is in french.
[Nexus S General] ekerazha:
Android OS drain (21% here) is definitely high compared to Gingerbread
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
in a related note

anyone wishing to upgrade to 4.0.3 you can still do it manually as many have done

they seem to have only halted the OTA, but you can click on any of the links posted in the manual upgrade methods and they still work
[Nexus S General] fireb33:
same here.... Android OS drain is high but CPU time is very low, and wake time is nearly the same as screen on time
[Nexus S General] :
1 week ago everybody was urging about when the update will come and complaining about the nexus s being not the first to get ICS.

Now people are complaining about the issue with the update. First you can always not do the update or revert back to gingerbread.

Second I guess Google is working on an update to fix theses issues.

Third maybe people could try a full wipe before reporting issues on this or that (I don't say that battery drain or cpu usage aren't relevant issues but i've seen a lot of problem reported wich could have been fixed with a full wipe).

It is obvious that our phone is one year old and that with the new memory managment settings and the easy switch between all the apps runing background it can sometimes get a bit slower. Live wallpaper also doesen't help it in this case.

I think you can give at least a bit of time for the devs to adapt ICS to the NS for the better.

If you don't like ICS (for me battery usage is almost the same as with GB and it looks and feel pretty fast with a lot more widgets and live wallpaper running) then downgrade to GB and if you like iOS or Apple policy better then buy an iPhone. And if you actually think you'd be better at testing than Google employes then try to past their test to get a job there.

Sorry for this long and useless post but reading some posts of this thread really made me jumpe out of my chair. I'm not blamming anyone as everyone is free to express his opinion and it may be usefull to create thread to report bugs so that devs can actually work on it but complaining is always easier than actually making something.

Cheers
[Nexus S General] fireb33:
quoting every single word...

here's the truth:

http://www.androidcentral.com/ice-cream-sandwich-battery-bug-seems-hit-or-miss-something

(I don't know if I can post this, if not please delete the link!)
[Nexus S General] wchrisyu:
Screen will eat battery if I pass out watching vids on Youtube. I should have benched my phone through it's various updates. I swear the last GB update ate power worse than ICS is.
[Nexus S General] IIIV:
"Just don't hold it that way." - Steve Jobs
[Nexus S General] nandihno:
I get better battery than on gb

Don't get excellent performance but just a bit more than what am use to

Before I upgraded I wipe everything in recovery and then proceeded with the install wonder if that had an effect
[Nexus S General] the_real_nwags:
Battery Drain

My battery has been draining like crazy with ICS 4.0.3 because I haven't stopped tinkering with it! I didn't understand what people were saying like "smooth" and "polished", but I know now. I will admit is not 100% snappy, but for me it is usually because I am switching multiple apps and tapping the screen like a mad man. I think it just takes some getting used to and it will be rock solid after an update or two.

I am going to keep it running. I do miss Google Wallet, but it is probably a good thing, I was spending money just to see how people responded when I told them I was going to pay with my phone.

I have a I9020A running Brainmaster's (final) tweaked ROM with the stock kernel and recommended developer settings. I was previously on stock 2.3.6 with stock kernel, unlocked and rooted.
[Nexus S General] purpl3rain:
Battery life is definitely bad on mine.

Unplugged from charger at 8:20am. Listened to music on max volume on the train ride and walk to the office (about 20-25 minutes), and sent out a couple texts. By the time I got to the office, battery was at 89%. Since then, I've sent a few more texts, installed/uninstalled an app. Some very light data usage. And now it's at 65%.

When I had my iPhone or Samsung Focus, I'd end up with about 45% at the end of the work day with moderate-to-slightly-over moderate usage, but definitely more than I can use on my Nexus. Hope a fix is out for this soon.

i9020a

nexus beam 4.1

stock kernel
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
the main problem for leaving OTA ICS for now is the WiFi issue!

Can't use WiFi + my SIM card, I wish Google will solve it soon!
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
ahh... no, they did not put a break on the 4.0.3 for that reason

they did say it was due the HIGH CPU usage, draining he battery issue

which is not really happening to everyone
[Nexus S General] evcz:
where did they said that?

is there an official source?

on the google forums the referecend posts talks about just delay in certain countries while they wait for feedbacks.......
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
there was a link to the news floating in the forum, with the screenshot of the Nexus S showing a

Debug screen from a Google engineer of their Google+ comments
[Nexus S General] ChrisJ:
To put things into perspective...

Some people have issues (me included), some don't.

It will be either fixed or improved soon, either way the world isn't going to end.

It's Christmas soon everyone, enjoy the holidays guys and girls.
[Nexus S General] jesusice:
I actually experienced this today. Noticed my pocket was getting warm and saw in battery stats that Android OS had been keeping my phone awake for the last 38mins. Using Aosp's oICSv41.
[Nexus S General] dartdog:
FWIW OTA ICS resumed

My Daughter just got the OTA via t-mobile here in AL.. FWIW I had already DL and installed mine via the links here
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
I didn't test any other issue cause I can't use my Nexus S without WiFi :)
[Nexus S General] mosd:
how many have wifi issues?
[Nexus S General] prakashpn007:
Standby backup is excellent. Consumes a mere less than 5% battery in my sleep time of 6-7 hours,with data off.
[Nexus S General] pkilla:
Just manually update u got nothing to worry

The update is flawless ones I.c.s adjust to your nexus s

Is just perfect...galaxy what nexus s all day after the update

I don't even think a upgrade to GS is necessary
[Nexus S General] Zardos66:
I'm not really having any issues with the official update. Battery life is like it was on Gingerbread. Its nice and snappy.
[Nexus S General] kaimyn:
In case anyone is still reading this thread, I'll add my two cents. This issue can crop up after normal function. My phone was running just fine for the first several days, but today it ran out of power in about 6 hours with CPU usage at 60%.

I'm running NexusBeam with Glados 2.2.
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
anybody with WiFi issue got it to work using Stock 4.0.3? If I changed the kernal will it work?
[Nexus S General] X1111:
some countries have wifi problem with stock kernel...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=24e8cc08903e706a&hl=en
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
I changed the WiFi Country Code and now it's working... :)
[Nexus S General] rasengan82:
So did the OTA halted worldwide or just regions with issues?
[Nexus S General] bertans:
Same here. Original ICS build 4.0.3...
[Nexus S General] gavingreystone@gmail.com:
I believe that's one of the major reasons they pulled the update..CPU spikes and random battery drain :)
[Nexus S General] bozzykid:
Plenty of T-Mobile users in the US are still getting the update today. So it is apparently by region (or perhaps carrier) that they are halting the release. My guess is it has little to do with battery issues but signal issues and wifi issues.
[Nexus S General] sundyx:
It seems that I haven't encountered the problem you are discussing. The CPU usage and the battery are normal as before, maybe because I am using a third party kernel.
[Nexus S General] 1024k:
I think by region.

Get a T-mob nexus s and live in Italy, no update available here.
[Nexus S General] jspookss:
Everyone experiencing battery drain, do you have Google backup enabled?
[Nexus S General] zenithz:
Yes. But I don't use data connection on my phone - only wifi, and I don't regularly turn the wifi on. Still the battery problem persists
[Nexus S General] mosd:
the main issue that is see is not battery drain but wifi issues
[Nexus S General] onthecouchagain:
Using my device for a week now, I can say for certain now that battery life is worse with ICS than GB on my Nexus S. Doing almost the exact thing I do every day, I notice the battery drain is more than it was before. For example, getting into my office in the morning, I usually had about 85% batts left after unplugging. Doing the same thing now, I get in with about 75% give or take. Ditto when I leave. Used to leave with about 50-60%, now more like 40-50% ish.
[Nexus S General] TRIUMF:
I could live with everything if i could make calls :)
[Nexus S General] sn0pzer:
Battery life sucks on 4.0.3. Can't last a whole day...
[Nexus S General] shrivelfig:
Two days without problems.

I updated by doing a factory reset, installing 4.0.3, doing yet another factory reset, installing all apps fresh from market, and restoring data backups for as few apps as possible.
[Nexus S General] nandihno:
I haven't had any problems too before I updated I did a compete wipe and no problems whatsoever
[Nexus S General] 91franz:
any news about the next ota???
[Nexus S General] OCedHrt:
Well, I was able to get the 4.0.3 ICS OTA on the 22nd.
[Nexus S General] novagol:
i flashed back to stock 2.3.6, factory reset evertything, even locked the phone again via fastboot and still got no update promt :( it's been 12h now and i'm getting impatient, i think soon i will just download it from thier servers, because i won't be able to hold off any longer :)
[Nexus S General] Lazer Bear:
No need to fastboot oem lock. Flashing to stock is enough. Depending on your model it might be better to wait a bit until next ota is pushed out, some Nexus versions have been experiencing bugs.
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
so Google didn't manage to get the OTA working properly until now and all Samsung and HTC devices got the OTA!!?
[Nexus S General] jai134:
I have to ask because I have an i9023 unlocked phone running ICS 4.0.3 and it is running really great. It has been on for 41 hours and still 50% battery lefr. I haven´t used it for media but some surfing and kommunicating. I installed the OTA and after that I did a factory reset to have a "clean" install. I´m in Sweden. Is it really possible that the ota-update is that different from usr to user
[Nexus S General] eberaldo:
i flashed the ota manually some days ago, like the 22nd of december...

works like a charm, i got a i9023 and got greater batterylife than before, even though i use the device much more, because it's gotten so much more freakin awesome.

i love me some nexus s. (staring at you sammy for not upgrading your flagship phone i9000 because of crapware TW....)
[Nexus S General] kibmcz:
That is how it usually goes unless its major mess up smaller bugs can vary user to user.

Well the original GS is not really flagship any more ever since GS2 came out LOL and that's why Nexus rules old models get respect (abit late but respect).
[Nexus S General] neo_x22000:
Any thing on when googles gonna start rolling the OTA again?...and anything new for ns4g?
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
First time an HTC phone get the offical update before Google's!
[Nexus S General] Bls440:
I really wanted to do a full wipe before upgrading to ICS but I forgot about it. Now I'm stuck with no access to recovery (black screen, can't see anything even with a bright light on) and I don't want to unlock/root my phone or alter anything permanently. What can I do? Should I just wait for next OTA to pop up in the next weeks (ics 4.0.4?)
[Nexus S General] Pentium:
I did that once and got stock on ICS Stock Recovery, I didn't find a way to use it! so I flashed Clockworkmod recovery and done :)
[Nexus S General] Bls440:
Yea but flashing CWM is permanent right :/
[Nexus S General] itlnstln:
Nothing is permanent.
[Nexus S General] onthecouchagain:
Question:

So I got my sister a Nexus S for Xmas, which was bought a few weeks back. Upon opening and switching her SIM card over to it Xmas day, one of the first notifications was for the ICS update. She did it and she's updated to 4.0.3. I guess the update went to her before Google stopped it?
[Nexus S General] bozzykid:
Google only halted it in a few countries (the rollout continues in the US for instance).
[Nexus S General] ayiedendie:
Guys, try to install SetCPU and change the governor to Conservative. I saved a lot of battery life with it. Hope it'll help the battery draining issue :)
[Nexus S General] j1po:
can you enter fastboot > recovery ?

because I got blank recovery screen when force update 2.3.6 to 4.0.3 using full ROM zip (android and ! logo only shown a second then disappear)
[Nexus S General] novagol:
well I couldn't hold off any longer so I want ahead and downloaded then flashed the official update (the 160mb one), beforehand I wiped everything, system, boot, data, cache and everything works perfect... got the blank recovery after the update, but I don't mind as I flashed clockwork back anyway :)
[Nexus S General] bmszabo:
What I don't understand: Google tested ICS on the Nexus S BEFORE the Galaxy Nexus was born (as I understood they tested ICS on the Nexus S's of Google employees around the world); how the heck it can happen that ICS turns out to be buggy on the NS (technically longest tested device!) and not on the newborn Galaxy Nexus?

Did I miss something?
[Nexus S General] lsharir:
yeah, people don't pay for having ICS on NS but do pay for having GN with ICS
[Nexus S General] Harbb:
You could say that, and also note that the "Android OS" bug seems to be on many GN's too. The GN was built for ICS, while ICS was built for the NS. I'm also sure there was alot of testing within google with GN prototypes and the likes.
[Nexus S General] Lazer Bear:
Simple: they started testing ICS on NS and of course they had tons of bugs and problems which had to be solved, then as soon as a prototype of the GN was out, they shifted the majority of the devs on that and left a small group working on the NS. End result, the NS is buggier. Right now ICS on the NS doesn't net them any money, while GN sales do.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bb12489:
My phone is soft bricked i guess...it loads up to the boot animation, but then gets stuck in a boot loop. I can get to the recovery, but it won't show any blue text when it loads into stock android recovery. Is there anything I can do to factory reset?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bb12489:
nvm, i found out how to get stock recovery working....but now im still in a bootloop. It seems that i changed a system file that wasn't suppose to be changed and a factory reset doesn't fix that...

Is there anyway to flash a system.img?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TunaFlyBattery:
What version phone and image did you have?

There is lots of images and info in the dev forum.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bb12489:
iv got the VZW razr :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neidlinger:
Recently got a TF101. Total surprise. My mom [52] called me a few week ago and asked me to start researching tablets. She kept insisting that they were for her, but being I'm 29, and in the XYZ generation she wanted me to do the research for her.

So last Friday my wife and i went to meet her at our local best buy, and i said "we'll lets go get your transformer" and she said is that the one you recommend and i said yes it is. So we went picked it out, paid for it, and she handed me the bag and said "merry Christmas, my Acer Iconia is at home. Still in the shrink wrap".

So Christmas magic comes though.

I'm not new to XDA or Androids, but i just wanted to drop a line and say hi, and if you see me lurking around, you'll know why.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] baseballfanz:
Welcome and congrats on the new Transformer
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ranklepup:
Haha, that is really cool.

Welcome XD
[Eee Pad Transformer General] MalekoUK:
Damn it, I want mine now! lol

I think I've been able to persuade the wife to let me have it Christmas eve with the reason of, it needs 8 hours charge before use :P
[Eee Pad Transformer General] goodintentions:
I was playing with the displays at best buy when a woman asked a worker there which tablet he'd recommend. He told her the ipad 2. She said her husband doesn't like it because there's no memory expansion. I interrupted and told her about the transformer and the upcoming prime. Turned out the sales guy had no clue about the prime or even the 1st tf. Probably an iFan. She went ahead and asked me about each one of the tablets on display. I'm actually one of the few people who have been through several tablets and know what's in what. After our conversation, she told me she'd definitely get the transformer for her husband. She said she'd talk to him to see if he wanted the 101 or the prime.

I just think its unacceptable to have a sales guy standing there who knows nothing about tablets other than the ipad.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Gary13579:
Do you honestly think Best Buy salesmen are interested in selling products? They only want one thing, to sell you warranties and installations so that they can keep their job. Best Buy doesn't hire technically competent employees because if they did, they wouldn't sell as many $80 HDMI cables and rip off warranties.

Sent from my Transformer TF101
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ranklepup:
This is all too true...Why would someone that has no interest in technology want to work at Best Buy? Personally, I would love a job there. Maybee the reason there are so many isheep is because of the retardness of sales people XD.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neidlinger:
It's really funny you mention that. I went to my local BB to buy a HDMI cable and they tried to sell me a Monster branded cable and i told them no. I wanted the cheapest thing they had. Since all HDMIs are the same. And it was forty dollars. Still a rip off so i told him I was going to buy them from Monoprice. He insisted that i wouldn't find one cheaper than that. Needless to say he was surprised when i showed him an invoice for 4 x 10 foot HDMI cables with a total price less than 20.00.

And i know for a fact that if the don't get x amount of people to sign up for the best buy buyers card per month they get wrote up.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Spidey01:
That's a cool way to get a transforming Christmas tablet!

I know what y'all mean about the HDMI cables, every time I've looked at something like that in a Best Buy, it's always "WHAT THE ****!? I'd rather wait on the USPS."
[Eee Pad Transformer General] theraffman:
Welcome to the family bud! I hope you enjoy your tf as much as I do.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] antuus:
False. They don't get written up. Former BBY employee here before I got a real job. Stores push the card apps but they are in no way mandatory.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neidlinger:
Well My sisters fiancee lied to me then. #justsaying.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] knoxploration:
If it makes you feel any better, there's a near-certainty that the sales guy knows absolutely nothing about the iPad either -- he just pushes that one because experience has taught him that being the most popular, it's the easiest to sell.

The salesman at big-box stores who knows even the vaguest facts about the products he's selling is a very rare beast indeed, and Best Buy in particular like to boil their products down to about 3-4 key specs at the most. As far as Best Buy corporate is concerned, anything that's not printed on their shelf card for the product is simply an opportunity to confuse customers and lose the sale -- if it's not printed on the card, they'd rather you didn't know it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Rumbleweed:
During a recent Technology purchase at a big box store, I asked about I/O ports. I was referred to their technical expert. His solution to answering my problem was to log into the store computer and give me access to the web to look it up myself. Although doing it this way assured me I got the right answer, I had to question the title technical expert.:confused:
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Spidey01:
Aich is why I make sure of data signal on store and keep a barcode scanner handy, but what does this havea to do with the OP?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] djjonastybe:
Do you guys want it? I have it 99% ready...

It's actually a GUI for fastboot.exe so you don't have to open the terminal and all that other neat stuff.

Let me know!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] polobunny:
Just post it instead of trying to build some sort of hype... :rolleyes:
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] instigator008:
Hells to the yeah!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mayankchopra:
share us lets c wt u hv got fr us
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] fatypaul:
yes..................
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] challl88:
Can you share it?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] hammysink:
I would love to see what you've done.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] SimDroid:
Do we have to pay for it?