yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus S General] Darrien13:
so basically google-usb_driver does not need to be used thanks :)
[Nexus S General] panthar:
This a most excellent guide for people new to the phone unlocking game - not much of a game on the Nexus phones though ;) This is my second one and I love how we can crack it open with Google's full blessing. I hope a lot more people get this phone and use this guide to have a lot of fun with this device!
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
@Darrien13 so you got it sorted?

I think the google-usb-drivers are for adb

@panthar thanks for that
[Nexus S General] Darrien13:
I think im good as long as I dont need the google-usb-drivers I believe I can follow the tutorial
[Nexus S General] pendo:
wanted to say thanks to op. I expanded just a bit on his idea to put together an entire "root-pack" I used this to help a n00b root his N-S and everything went exactly as you would expect. Forced install of the x64 drivers.

One thing I'd add to the op is that you need to add "platform-tools" to your path variable as well.
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
Thanks pendo

The contents of "platform-tools" are in with the tools folder (where they should have been before google moved them).

It is easier to do it this way then you only need to add one folder :D
[Nexus S General] DroidRC1:
my ADB driver is installed and shows a serial number so Im good there but..

I can't adb remount is says operation not permitted??:confused:
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
@DroidRC1 have you rooted your nexus s?
[Nexus S General] DroidRC1:
yes unlocked the bootloader and gained superuser..

it works for my nexus one but not nexus s??
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
you will have to use a boot.img like this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=886965
[Nexus S General] DroidRC1:
which one do I use reext4 or cm7?
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
one of them, just make sure it allows adb remount
[Nexus S General] DroidRC1:
K thanx..Ill see if this works
[Nexus S General] Vulpix:
Can someone please upload this to hotfile or mediafire? Pretty please with a cherry on top? Fileserve hates my country. :(
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
sure, I was going to upload to mirrors anyway
[Nexus S General] twallden:
thanks, works great.
[Nexus S General] wickedsaint:
Bootloader unlocked and rooted NS

I was having problem with the drivers when I tried to unlock and root from my laptop (XP) following the first post. Then I tried from my desktop (Windows 7), and it worked like a charm. Unlocked through ADB and rooted with superboot method. :D
[Nexus S General] PeartFan40:
Please HELP!

Just got a brand spanking new Nexus S from Best Buy last night. Updated it to 2.3.1 and now I am trying to unlock the bootloader, with no success. I have SDK, ADB, all Drivers, PDAnet, etc.In command prompt, I am able to run cd Android, cd Android-sdk-windows, cd tools. When I type fastboot oem unlock, it just goes to cd Android tools. Nothing else happens. When I connect the phone to the computer while in fastboot mode, a pop up from PDAnet says "click here to connect", when I do, it's stuck on "please wait, connecting" and that is it. I noticed at the very bottom of my phone, it says fastboot status-fail Invalid command. I would really appreciate some help.

I'm running windows 7 64 bit.

Please text or email me

peartfan40@gmail.com

(413)-459-5392 (cell)

Thank you in advance. Have a safe and happy new years!!

:eek::confused::mad:
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
first off, you don't need pdanet. All the drivers are in the first post.

second, did you follow the first post to get the drivers to work?

and lastly did you move the platform-tools into tools?
[Nexus S General] shrivelfig:
So I finally managed to unlock it, after quite a few hours of frustration.

I was using my trusty old AOpen 1557 laptop with WinXP, and ADB worked flawlessly. But I had no luck with fastboot at all. I couldn't install the fastboot driver! With the phone connected in fastboot mode, no new devices showed up in the device manager, there was nothing to update or force install. Very strange :confused:

So I tried a different install of XP on the same machine. No luck. I installed Xubuntu. No luck. I installed regular Ubuntu. Still no luck. ADB worked flawlessly, fastboot didn't work at all. I even tried to fiddle with BIOS settings, to no avail :mad:

Perhaps it was time to fire up my brand new Eee 1015 with Win7 Starter? Everything worked perfectly on the first try, no problems at all :cool:

Sometimes the hardware just won't play ball, no matter what OS you try.
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
well I'm glad you managed to unlock it :D

too bad it took so long. :(
[Nexus S General] omar302:
That is a very useful tip, but, when I tried to flash the recovery, the recovery.img had to be "C:\" only (not in C:\Android\tools), otherwise fastboot would show "failed to load recovery.img".
[Nexus S General] MurtazaY:
2. Right-Click "Unknown Device" or whatever it's called, and click "Update Driver Software..."

cant find it
[Nexus S General] spences10:
Hi,

am struggling with this atm, i have been trying for the past 2 hrs with no joy

i am using win xp

i have downloaded the drivers and the sdk, followed the instruction to the T with nothing doing using the adb/fastboot devices command

is there a freenode channel for us to use, i know there is on for #koush

EDIT: noonee helped me out on #koush but still coulndt get anywhere http://pastebin.com/8Sp0PKUC
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
It should be called Android 1.0
[Nexus S General] MurtazaY:
hmm cant find it:( i found only

ANDROID USB DEVICES > HTC BOOSTLOADER

maybe its this?
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
No, that is the device that is already install.

The Nexus S is a samsung phone not HTC.
[Nexus S General] MurtazaY:
thnx for the guide
[Nexus S General] Jaskwith:
Anyone know if this guide would work for a MT4G running cm7 Gingerbread code?
[Nexus S General] Byte_76:
Hi,

I have Win7 x64 and i can't get fastboot to detect my Nexus S.

When I boot my SNS to bootloader an android 1.0 device is detected but the drivers failed to install. i downloaded the r09 SDK from the android website because it was the only one available for me to download. After that I used the SDK Manager to download the Google USB drivers.

In device manager I selected to update the Android 1.0 device and browse my computer for the drivers, selected "let me pick..." and then chose "show all" which allowed me to select the driver location. i browsed to the google usb driver and then selected usb bootloader from a list of 3 options. It installed successfully but when I run fastboot oem unlock it just shows "waiting for device"

I have repeated this process multiple times without success. Please help!

Edit:

I managed to solve the problem by installing PdaNet while the phone was booted and then rebooting to bootloader and updating the driver by pointing it to PdaNet folder in Program Files and allowing it to find its own driver.
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
I'm glad you got it sorted :D
[Nexus S General] oz666:
After 3 hours i realized that the path for the recovery file has to be explicit; sdk was on another partition with path added to evirement settings :)

C:\Windows\System32>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

error: cannot load 'recovery.img'

C:\Windows\System32>fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (3980 KB)... OKAY [ 0.646s]

writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 0.494s]

finished. total time: 1.140s
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
you don't have to do that.

What I do is write out the command then drag the file onto the window and it inputs the full path to the file.

eg.

fastboot flash recovery C:\users\maz\desktop\cwm3014.img
[Nexus S General] texas83:
cAN someone point me in the right direction? seems like these instructions are outdated and i want to root this Nexus 4g!
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
This is not for rooting. It just for setting up your computer ready for.
[Nexus S General] stillblood:
Im stuck.....

installed the sdk. when i go to install drivers i dont have android phone as an option just android usb device

in device mngt with phone in fastboot mode i do get android 1.0 but it has an ! under it

if i go to let me pick / android device / slect mfg it brings up my htc, htc my touch and my touch slide? this is odd to me
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
right click on the android 1.0 and select update drivers.

follow the instruction in first post
[Nexus S General] evohog:
im having issues, when i go to the android device it says adb interface not android 1.0. when i open up cmd id tells me wrong batch. any help would be appreciated. thanks
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
could you take a screenshot of the cmd window.
[Nexus S General] bender_123:
It doesnt work the same on the 4G.

I used this one and it worked perfectly...

http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/complete-guide-to-rooting-nexus-s.html

Hope this helps!
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
still uses the same drivers.

also updated instructions for ns4g
[Nexus S General] bender_123:
The only difference seemed to be to use ADB to reboot into fastboot, otherwise, your guide was great! Thanks a ton.

This was by far the worst driver experience I have had in a very long time...
[Nexus S General] mikeyinid:
Hey mods, can we get this thread stickied? I think this thread is beneficial to every Nexus owner....
[Nexus S General] K@ng2011:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1096384

one click root for noobs NSG4 2.3.4.
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
And how is that relevant to this thread?
[Nexus S General] mikeyinid:
I cant believe this thread is STILL NOT STICKIED!!! Mods, where ya at??
[Nexus S General] kijp15:
Can you get drivers for the ns4g? If can't, its cool. Tried Googling it, but I don't know which drivers to download. :scratcheshair:
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
i installed the drivers, adb works, fastboot doesn't

when im in fastboot mode it shows android bootloader interface on my pc.

but when i type fastboot devices, it shows: fastboot is not recognized and blabla :(:(

can anyone help??
[Nexus S General] mazodude:
fastboot is no longer in the same folder as adb. you will have to add its path (just the folder location) to the path settings.

On the first page of my post have a look under the section called How to install ADB and Fastboot.

Insert the correct directory for the folder that has fastboot inside.
[Nexus S General] thegtfusion:
never mind ;) i fixed it..
[Nexus S General] SalsaForte:
Does someone knows where I can get MTP drivers (running ICS on my Nexus S) and Windows 7 does not have the MTP drivers included.
[Nexus S General] tominater12:
Hilarious, it seems that adb can not see my phone when it is in fastboot mode. Not matter thanks for the help.
[Nexus S General] bibi12:
Tnx but can't find the tnx button

Am I too old for this?
[Nexus S General] murfi:
are there any other usb drivers?

i installed them, but they dont help with writing speed at all. i'm stuck at 3-4 mb per second for writing, which is extremely low. any suggestions?
[Nexus S General] DarkhShadow:
Its a bug in ICS, drivers don't help that anyway

Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
[Nexus S General] xda<3:
WHy are the drivers a rar file?
[Nexus S General] EskDroid:
[QUOT=murfi;22087408]are there :confused:any o.her usb drivers?

i installed them, but they dont help with writing speed at all. i'm stuck at 3-4 mb per second for writing, which is extremely low. any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

32bit ore 6u4bit. I will have a look for you. Dont know wihts drive
[Nexus S General] The-Captain:
One of the SDK downloads is down, someone sent it to me, so I'm posting here. Can you remove it or replace it? Thanks

~ The-Captain
[Nexus S General] crocodanser:
Big thx
[Nexus S General] afraaa:
please ppl can u upload sdk for me ? i can not do it , iran is banned from google . just one developer man

here is my requested thread .. detail is there

http://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/sdk-23-0-5-android-l-api-21-api-20-api-t2915318
[Nexus S General] poudigne:
I need to root a Nexus S for my work. Is it possible to update the driver link ?

My phone is not detected by fastboot devices and doesnt appear in the Device manager

Using Win 10 x64 Enterprise
[Nexus S General] Setting.Out:
Get wuggs nexus root toolkit..
[Nexus S General] dijimi:
the sdk links don't work. where do I download it?
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meizuyujiaqi:
My Legend has upgraded to 3.15.405.3（via RUU）

Now the HBOOT version is 1.01.0000

How to downgrade the HBOOT to the early version？

THX

:confused:
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeCH-Guruz:
Not sure if you can downgrade the HBOOT but I dont see why you would need to. If it is because you need root follow these guides. Even if you already have a working goldcard make it again mine was working for other phones but wouldnt work for this.

Part 1

Part 2

Once you have finished them you should have HBOOT 1.01 with Android 2.1 full root with clockworkmod so you can flash any rom you would like.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meizuyujiaqi:
thanks a lot

I get the way to root,I only want to know how to downgrade the HBOOT

English is not my mother tongue,so my English is not so good

pardon
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i4o:
For now no way to downgrade HBOOT 1.01 to HBOOT 1.00 or 0.43 .....

We wait for a solution ....
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meizuyujiaqi:
THX

wait for a solution…
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlaY0:
Why do you want to downgrade it???

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGrammarFreak:
For kicks.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orgia82:
Now we have a "BECOUSE"...

AlphaRev has made S-OFF for our legends here.

alpharev . nl (without spaces)

But this is only possible with hboot 0.43

We will wait...
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheLegendaryJay:
S-OFF is only really useful for real devs, not leaches like the rest of us.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Romca:
S-OFF is good for anyone who wants to change things in system..no more signing zips :D
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGrammarFreak:
And system overlay didn't help with that because?
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oysteivi:
Seems you don't need to sign zips for flashing with ROM Manager. Works for me anyway.

I don't have much need for S-OFF myself -- the only thing I can think of is that it should let adfree android work right after flashing CM. Saves me the extra reboot to flash my symlink-etc-hosts.zip..
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGrammarFreak:
?? You could merge it into one zip. You could flash both at the same time (fakeflash)
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Romca:
Because I didn't install it :D I was waiting for the S-OFF, now I'm glad I didn't have to upgrade my HBOOT :p

Wow, now it worked....thanks for the tip :)

EDIT: but the thig that you actually reboot your device in recovery is annoying
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeydrufy:
sorry guys, I would like to install modaco rom

I have read that Clockwork recovery is required, I have a legend with Hboot 1.01

what Can I do?

thanks
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheGrammarFreak:
For the 15 billionth time, fakeflash.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oysteivi:
Yeah, I know, I know. :p It's just me being lazy end letting ROM Manager do everything for me. Download through ROM Manager and then flash both zips from recovery might be the most convenient.

(..or just S-OFF, which I plan to do when I get back from vacation :))
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canttona:
waiting and waiting. We should be pacient.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmstlist:
I don't even own a Legend, but I've lurked around the Desire, Desire Z and G2 forums - and I own a Nexus One.

I've noticed that procedures for downgrading the HBOOT on these devices seem to involve making a modification to the misc partition, which then fools the phone into accepting a RUU/PASSIMG/etc that downgrades HBOOT.

I see here a procedure that downgrades from the Froyo OTA using a similar idea:

http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-legend-legend-modaco-com/323201/downgrading-from-froyo-ota/

But the resulting HBOOT is still 1.001.

Could this method be adapted to accept a RUU that will roll back the HBOOT even further?
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kot_Ik:
Nope. Current HBOOT (1.x) does not allow to fool itself and this is the main problem. You may play with misc and downgrade rom, but HBOOT remains the same. The only 0.43 version of HBOOT allows downgrading.
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AFX3D:
I got hboot 1.01.0000 ....

How do i downgrade and root this device without bricking it?

:confused:
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeubea:
I have got an HTC GRATIA too, and I have downgraded its hboot from 1.03 to 1.02 succesfully. From other member's idea, I developed a method for downgrading HTC Gratia HBOOT (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23381950&postcount=21). However, changing to appropiated main-ver for HTC Legend and applied to my Legend, I applied this method and installed Eclair RUU 1.31, but hboot was not downgraded to 0.43. Its weird, because HTC Legend is older than GRatia ...
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zupervisor:
you can unlocked your devices htc's officical web htcdev i think you don't need any other process
[Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeubea:
Not enoughly unlocked if you want change any firmware property. If you are just going to install roms, then it is fine.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knixx:
I rooted my 2.02 Evo

Every time I try to flash I get this

E :Can't symlink /system/bin/cat

E :Failure at Line 11:

Symlink toolbox SYSTEM:bin/cat

Installation aborted

and I can't get into the rom I have on now. Every time I turn it on it goes to the HTC EVO white screen, restarts, HTC EVO white screen again and then goes into Clockwork.

Please help, I just got the phone 3 days ago
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klquicksall:
Try holding down the volume button down while holding the home button it should take you to a white screen. There use the volume key to scroll to recovery. Then click on nanadroid backup and click on your backup. If all else fails go to htc.com click on your evo then support and download the flash file. Flash your phone back to factory. You will also need to download HTC sync. Hope it helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knixx:
I get

Restoring boot image...

Error while flashing boot image!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klquicksall:
Try a complete using HTC website this will erase all information on your phone but it might get your phone working.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knixx:
So I followed this

and in the recovery, I was able to flash Warm2.2 and I rebooted, not it's stuck at the htc EVO 4g screen
[G1 Android Development] SpeedNi:
Base: Android-AOSP-2.3_GRH55

Kernel: 2.6.35.9-cyanogenmod-ezterry@zack #1

Credits: Cyanogen, CM61 Nightly

Requirements.

1- Radio: 2.22.27.08|2.22.28.25

2- SPL:1.33.0013d(Dream/Sapphire )

3- Full Wipe and Erase sdcard: .-.android, .android_secure, .android, Android, LOST.DIR and temp from SDCard

4- Flash Rom from Recovery

5- Reboot

6- Register your google account with the market

7- Change the color of the clock and date from CyanogenMod Settings

8- Enjoy!

Mod Edit: Confirmed Fake, thanks XDA Moderator Jamezelle for finding this: Scroll Right to see android:versionName="2.2.1"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" @h@android:versionCode="8" [B][COLOR="Red"]android:versionName="2.2.1" [/COLOR][/B]package="com.android.settings"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
@h@ <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="8" />
<original-package android:name="com.android.settings" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.gm.permission.WRITE_GMAIL" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.gm.permission.READ_GMAIL" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DEVICE_POWER" />

What not working:

so far everything works.
[G1 Android Development] Ace42:
Ignore post
[G1 Android Development] Ace42:
Does Wifi/Bt on yet or is that broken.

I thought 2.3 wasnt on g1 yet cause of some of the other ginger threads saying it's not supported anymore..
[G1 Android Development] El_Nino9:
LOL

might try it in the morning when i remove my g1 from the ps3 lol but looking forward to this "AOSP 2.3" build

"everything works"

wonder if its a 2.2.1, cyanogen 6.1 with a theme on top and build.prop edited to show 2.3

by all means im not slagging your work. i will test in the morning and edit post accordingly
[G1 Android Development] sada23:
Exciting news. Will test. Thanks for the Share.
[G1 Android Development] roalex:
Good try :)

In any case a nice froyo theme.
[G1 Android Development] junior_8791:
-_-'' FROYO WITH THEME!!!!!!!!!!!

:mad:
[G1 Android Development] illogic6:
*golf clap*
[G1 Android Development] oj0043:
Yea flashed it got to the Google sign in then it fc about framework the rest of the time good to see we atleast got a 2.3 that booted up good job!
[G1 Android Development] ForTehWolf:
Wait, is this actually real?
[G1 Android Development] shadowch31:
Seriously why lie? :(
[G1 Android Development] Mardenator:
just a suggestion: when you post screenshots of the Market, you might want to find one where the Market is working. "no matching content in Android Market". You fail, sir.
[G1 Android Development] ForTehWolf:
Wow, the themes not even complete -_-

The menus are white not black, the settings aren't supposed to be colored like that, and the dialer is the old one from froyo/eclair

Troll harder, bro
[G1 Android Development] bigmoew:
So can anyone give final confirm: Is this actually a 2.3 based rom, or just a themed CM?
[G1 Android Development] ForTehWolf:
Themed CM

/thread
[G1 Android Development] junior_8791:
ITS NOT 2.3~~ :mad:
[G1 Android Development] bigmoew:
Oh wow, thats epic-level fail :mad:
[G1 Android Development] Captainkrtek:
Under Investigation

Confirmed Fake: android:versionName="2.2.1"

See OP post for my edit
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Soulweaver:
Is there an app that gives you a battery icon like the iphone one in the notification bar?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] d1mz:
I know I cannot be the only person who absolutely loves the euro galaxy s notification pulldown. The colors, icons, everything. Can anyone assist in creating a morph or another way in allowing this to happen on JL4 2.2. Thanks in advance.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] mentalex2:
I may be interested in porting this. Do you have any screenshots?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] zephiK:
Earlier versions of Macnut features the I9000 pulldown.

http://www.blogsolute.com/img/2010/10/SGS-2.2-Froyo-update-2.jpg
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] d1mz:
Yes that is the one.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Cezar`:
Is your ROM deodexed?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] d1mz:
Yes it is. You have any suggestions?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Cezar`:
I'll take a look.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Cezar`:
Donnow if is gonna work

Try it and report back.

Copy twframework-res.apk from /system/framework to your sdcard

Then copy the one downloaded from here in /system/framework/

Restart your phone and see what happends.

If it force closes or it looks worse than before, then copy back the one you had before.

If you cant copy because of your system crashing, ill make an update.zip to return to the one you had before.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] redhorse:
^ any feedbacks on this? I wanna try it on Ginger Clone by Eugene
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Emama:
it works, but doesnt look really good
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Five0nIt:
I'm trying to hookup my brothers HD2 with the JDMS 1.6.2 rom, but when I click either CLRCAD or HARET i get an error saying "The file HARET/CLRCAD cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate or one of its components cannot be found"

he was running android fine, then he formatted his SD card to start fresh and now is getting these errors. anyone know how to fix this?