[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kthomasms:
Hey Guys,

So I have been all threw the forum over the past week plus trying to find a solutions and have tried the majority of the ones on the site. Here is what happend:

HOW I GOT HERE:

I was running a CM10 nightly build from 01/15/2013 that was installed via CWM. I had been running it for about a week. When I went to bed I set my phone on the nightstand. About 2 hours into sleep the phone rebooted as I eventually woke up and noticed it thinking it was just the phone wonking out. When I up fully 6 hours later the phone was still rebooting. Since then when ever I cut on the phone it will no get passed the Google logo with the padlock. I can boot into fastboot and recovery. I am running the latest CWM 6.0.2.5.

PHONE VITALS QUICK GLANCE

Android ROM version: CM10 01/15/2013 Nightly Build

Baseband: D720SPRLC1

Bootloader: D720SPRKC5

Recovery: CWM v6.0.2.5

WHAT I HAVE TRIED

Restoring from backup

My first fix was to flash three different roms via recovery (doing full wipes each time)

Then I tried flashing a new recovery

Formatting /system, /cache, /data, and /boot and then flashing a new rom

Then I focused on trying to get the USB storage to mount so I tried using adb shell to repair the file system and that worked

Then I tried new roms and things got REALLY weird. When I would place a rom on “sdcard” it would be available to flash. When I flashed it though it would not take and upon returning to recovery it wouldn’t be there or when I mounted the storage again. After about 10 times of this I figured let me make sure I am not crazy and try the following.

Format the internal storage. In windows when I tried this windows would show that the device formatted and was empty one I dismounted after putting items on it and go back to storage by both remounting it or by recovery the old data would come right back. In Ubuntu when I tried formatting it both via disc recovery and gparted they both said the device was empty but that they were unable to create a partition.

So then I went down the path of all of the debricking tools out there including the one from AdamOutler's (I think it is called ressurector), ODIN, and the Nexus Root Tool all with varying results.

Ressurector kept saying injection failed

ODIN just does not work on the nexus s from what I can tell (spent a day researching and no one seems to give a definitive answer on this one)

And Nexus Root Tool attempts to flash back to stock but runs into an error with the baseband.

So next I decided to try and flash back to stock using the Google images. Using Ubuntu I ran the flash-all.sh that comes in the zip and kept running into the baseband issue.

So next I found OldBlue910’s post with all the OTA updates and I went after trying to use that to fix my phone. Thanks to the amount of instruction he gives I got a lot further and got the flash-all.sh in his stock zip to give me a better error message telling me which baseband I needed to have to go back to stock which when I double checked he includes in the zip. The problem is when I try to flash that radio fastboot tells me I was successful but the bootloader still reads as D720SPRLC1 and does not change regardless of what I do. When I try flashing the stock images again after flashing the radio I receive the same errors.

So now I think I have hit the real brick wall and unless someone has any advice I will need to go and buy a new phone. Hoping you guys can help. I figured if you guys can figure out a hard brick then this is still doable, I have just exhausted my own realm of knowledge.

Please and thank you’s to anyone with advice.