Use this tag if your issue is truly specific to the Samsung Nexus S (GT-I9020A, GT-I9020T, GT-I9023, GT-I9023T, SPH-D720) device.
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My Samsung Nexus S Power button
I own the Samsung Nexus S and one day the power button just stopped working and it sometimes just has spouts of working and nonworking. Recently I found an app to allow the volume button to turn on ...
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Connecting Nexus S to Internet via Bluetooth tethering
I have a Samsung Nexus S and has SIM problem. I also have a Samsung C3322 which has Bluetooth. So I want connect my Nexus S to Internet via Bluetooth connection to C3322. Is it possible? How can C do ...
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Nexus S and phone charger get unusually hot when plugged in
I was using my Nexus S today and it turned off suddenly. I plugged it in to charge and saw it load to the boot splash screen, and then I went to sleep.
When I woke up 2 hours later my phone was dead. ...
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nexus S partition scheme, can it be changed?
planning on moving from the Nexus One to the S.
the only thing I don't like about the S is the 512ram and the 1GB for apps.
I tried to search forums, but found nothing relevant about this quesiton:
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Boot loop data recovery
Cyanogen mod 9, ClockworkMod Recovery 5.8.9.2
I recently plugged in my phone after the battery completely died over night and the phone is stuck in a bootloop. I left it trying to boot for 30 minutes ...
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Can't update Nexus S. Stuck at “waiting for download”
I want to upgrade my Operating system (Nexus S I9250) which currently is Android 4.1 . My cell is not rooted and I have never tampered with the android system shipped, always upgraded it though. Right ...
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fastboot flashall -w Halts
I have a Samsung Nexus S.
I have erased recovery and boot pertitions using fastboot erase <partition>
and when I do fastboot flashall -w it stops on
sending 'boot' (XXXX KB)...
What might be ...
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Android speech recognition - how to get access to the audio files?
When doing speech to text using android mobile phone application, I've heard that the files are temporarily stored in /data/data/com.google.android.voicesearch/files after the user makes a recording. ...
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How to fix Cyanogenmod 7 hanging on boot animation after NO firmware changes
I've been using my Google Nexus S with Cyanogenmod 7 for about a year now. Sometimes it rebooted out of the sudden or locked up but all in all worked well.
Today I rebootet the phone und since then ...
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Backup using ADB without root or usb debugging
I have a Nexus S (on android 4, not rooted) device who's not able to boot. It opens and get stucks to the X screen. I can only access the recovery mode.
I tried to backup data via ADB, but the phone ...
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Disable (in software) Nexus S Power Button
My Nexus S has a broken power button that some days works fine, some days doesn't work at all, but most days just acts up and will randomly turn my phone on, even when it's sitting on the table.
I'm ...
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How to use OTG Data Cable with a Nexus S to access?
Having an OTG Data Cable, I connected different thumb drives to my Nexus S – running JB 4.1.2 – but my phone doesn't seem to read them. The thumb drives I tried are:
a 16GB Kingston G3 Data Traveler ...
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Nexus S 4G Sprint dead?
I put my phone in clock mode and went to bed. When I woke up, the screen had "Google" displayed on it, and was alternating between "Google" and the menu bar blinking.
It does not boot up.
I used ...
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Clock alarm doesn't turn off off, and camera zoom doesn't work on Android 4.1.2
I have a Nexus S, running Android 4.1.2.
Just noticed today that I couldn't shut off the alarm by pressing the volume keys or the power button. Usually, when the alarm goes off, the phone displays 3 ...
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bootloop without power button
I have a Nexus S which sadly has a broken power button. This means I cannot do anything in recovery mode. Recently, after downgrading from a Cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly to and experimental build, it got ...
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Google service connection + Corp wifi
When connected to the corporate wifi the signal bars turn grey suggesting that there is no connection to Google services. Gmail, web browsing, contact sync, calender sync, play music all appear to ...
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Apple Keyboard and Magic Trackpad on Nexus S
I got inspired by the Apple Keyboard and Magic Trackpad on Nexus 7 video, but until I'll get my hands on a Nexus 7, I'm still proud of my good old Nexus S.
Now, I did turn on my Bluetooth, put both ...
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Missing Gapps after 4.1.2 was built in Nexus S
I built Android 4.1.2 from source for my Nexus S using these instructions. Later I found that there are no Gapps on the phone and so I cannot set up my Google account or use the Play Store or Google ...
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How do I make wi-fi calls from a cell phone with no number now associated with it?
I recently got tired of paying $65+ a month for cell service when I get mostly email. So I dropped my Sprint service in favor of $20 a month, no-contract phone and a Nexus 7, because WiFi is seemingly ...
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Update to 4.1.2 on a Nexus S with CWM and broken USB port
I have a Nexus S, rooted, with CWM and a stock 4.0.4 ROM. The USB port is broken(only charging works), so how do I go to stock 4.1.2 update?
If there is a way to manually apply OTA, that'd be great. ...
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Erase successful, but not automatically formatting. Can't determine partition type - Jelly bean 4.1.2 with Nexus S
While I ran the command - fastboot flashall -w I got the following error -
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Bootloader Version...: I9020XXLC2
Baseband Version.....: I9020XXKI1
Serial ...
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Getting “E:Error in /sdcard/.zip (status 7)” while upgrading Android Nexus 4.0.1 to 4.1.x (Jelly bean)
I tried to install Jelly Bean (4.1.1) onto the Nexus S handset following the instructions from here.
Later, I noticed that the Nexus should have at least 4.0.3 to upgrade to 4.1.x.
So I tried to ...
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High CPU usage from UEventObserver and inputmethod.latin (Nexus S)
I have kept my Google Nexus S up to date with the latest Android O/S since I've owned it and its always had performance problems to varying degrees. I'm currently running:
Android version: 4.1.2
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Remap search key to power button on Android 2.3
I have a Nexus S, and Button Remapper that I see suggested is not working on 2.3 gingerbread for remapping the search/assist button as a power button (because Nexus S power button is known to be ...
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New Nexus 4 - transfer photos and other stuff from old Nexus S
So obviously I can't just "swap the SD card" as neither the old phone nor the new phone have an SD card slot.
Similarly I don't really want to copy everything across from the old phone, so I don't ...
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Problems with installing stock ROM for Nexus S
I'm trying to install a stock Nexus S ROM from Google's site, but I keep getting the error E:signature verification failed
Any ideas how I can fix this?
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Can't move any applications to SD Card- “Couldn't Move App” error
I'm trying to move any application that I install to my SD card (Nexus S, so its technically internal storage) and regardless of what I choose, I get a
"Couldn't Move App"
error. I fired up logcat ...
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MS Exchange with Default Email App is Randomly Draining Battery!
I'm using my Exchange email account for work with the default Email app on my Nexus S running Jellybean... usually everything works just fine, but within a week or so it'll start consuming massive ...
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How to monitor signal strength?
I own a Samsung Nexus S 4G on Sprint, and I am having terrible but intermittent problems with my signal quality on my phone. I have reasonably high certainty that this is a hardware issue (my wife has ...
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My Google Nexus S won't connect to network
I have a problem with my Google Nexus S. Yesterday I was out in the city and my battery meanwhile died and the phone shutdown. The next day when I charged the phone, I noticed that it is showing no ...
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Why doesn't my device ever show 100% charged?
I have a Samsung Google Nexus S I9020A which showed fully charged @ 92%. 100% charging doesn't seem possible. What is the reason?
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Nexus S bootloops after trying to apply OTA update
I have a Samsung Nexus S which I bought off my friend. A system update popped up and I hit accept without even thinking about it but the phone said I had to charge it so I did and left it for an hour ...
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Google Nexus S won't turn on
My Samsung Nexus S is over a year old now. This morning I was doing a restart (just power down and back on) and it would not finish booting up. The word "Google" on the initial screen comes up, blinks ...
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Android Jelly Bean: fix search button [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Samsung Galaxy S3 - after AT&T over the wire update - google search doesn’t find installed apps
I just upgraded my Nexus S from Android 4.0.something (I forget the ...
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Power button stopped on my Nexus S
My power button has stopped working on my Nexus S, everything else works but this!
How can i get my power button back?
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3G Modem sim on my Nexus S
I have a 3G modem, and have tried it's sim card in a couple different modens with success.
However, I tried to put in on my Nexus S and use wifi tether, but it didn't work - although it seemed to ...
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How do I manually update my Nexus S to Jelly Bean?
I bought a used Nexus S that is on version 2.3.6.
It does not seem to be reading any SIM cards and the baseband version is listed as unknown. I think it may be on a custom ROM because of this. I want ...
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Cannot copy files in recovery mode which made Google nexus S unusable
I have a Google Nexus S, bought last year and it was working fine till last week. It came with Android Ginger Bread, and I rooted the phone and installed several custom ROMs including Cyanogenmod. ...
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Where is current wallpaper stored on Jellybean?
On my Nexus S running 4.1.1, I am unable to find where the current wallpaper is stored. I referred to Where is the background image saved?, but my /data/data/com.android.settings/files folder is empty ...
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Trying to install ADB USB Drivers, but Nexus is never appearing in Device Manager
I'm trying to install the google-adb-drivers.zip file (obtained here) on a Windows 7 64-bit system. The phone is the Nexus S 9020T. USB connectivity works correctly for file transfer mode. When I ...
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Changing the voice used on Nexus 7 for Google Now search
I have recently bought a Nexus 7 from the Google Play UK store and it seems to be configured as a US tablet in that the voice on the Google Now search is an american woman, whereas on my Nexus S when ...
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How can I boot my Nexus S with a broken power button? Can only boot to “Do not turn off target”
My Nexus S power button has stopped working and Samsung will not honor the warranty. The farthest I've gotten is to the Downloading screen with the yellow work ahead sign, that says "Do not turn off ...
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Why does my Nexus S not see the Jelly Bean update?
My Nexus S is running the stock "soju" build of ICS from Google (build IMM76D). However, I have not seen the OTA update for Jelly Bean. Am I running the wrong version? Do I need to change some ...
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Doing a clean install of Android on Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7
Recently I had a problem where my Nexus S phone would not upgrade to Jelly Bean. During the upgrade process I was getting an error message saying one of the files on my current system is corrupted, so ...
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What's the difference between Android Beam vs S Beam?
What is the difference between Android Beam on the Galaxy Nexus and S Beam on Galaxy S3?
Are these two features inter-compatible? Can I transfer data between the two devices?
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Jelly Bean OTA Update failing on Nexus S (“assert failed”)
I've got a Nexus S phone. It was never rooted or modified. It currently runs the most recent version of Ice Cream Sandwich (that was installed as an Over The Air update, without any issues).
Couple ...
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Android Nexus S Boot Freeze
My Android Nexus S does not boot anymore.
If I start it normally, I get a screen like the following and it won't ever change (tried for hours):
I can still go into the boot loader with PowerOff + ...
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Strange text messages at five minute intervals with no sender
So I've been having this problem recently where I get these extremely strange text messages being sent to my phone. They have no sender associated with them, and just look like a bunch of gibberish. ...
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Contacts disappeared after adding new google account
I am using a Google Nexus S I9023 mobile phone (Android 4.0.4). For whatever reason my google account was deactivated. So, I registered a new one and added it to the phone.
Afterwards, 80% of the ...
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Has anyone flashed an Android build (i.e. a Crespo build) onto a Nexus S phone manually before? How does one do this?
I need to find a way to manually add in the system.img file of the Crespo build for Android onto a Nexus S phone.
Has anyone flashed a Crespo build image (I think it boils down to a system.img file) ...
