Root Return your NS4G back to factory

[Shabbypenguin]

Ok first things first until ACS makes a nice easy odin tar this will prolly be the fastest way:

download this file
run setup.exe
now run the samsung tool that installed
follow the onscreen prompts

tada its like you just bought it

also theres a irc channel setup for nexus s owners its on:

freenode #nexuss4g

 

[alexvega]

thanks!

 

[DucatiDude]

How do you accomplish this on a Mac? Thanks.

 

[Shabbypenguin]

on a mac youd have to use the stock imgs, and then use fastboot to flash them on. then fastboot oem lock

 

[GhostRed]

I'm new to Android and just got a Nexus S a few weeks ago.

I'm interested in rooting it just for the hell of it, but I only have one main concern: If I got back to stock, can I get OTA updates again?

I understand I could flash the stock update manually, but I really want to be able to do it over 4G; it's just easier.

I like the option of being able to relock the the bootloader, and I'm assuming this is what prevents some phones from being able to revert to OTA updates.

Any help you can provide would be awesome.

PS - thanks for the tips on returning to stock ROM

 

[Shabbypenguin]

you can return this phone (assuming you know the commands) to stock out of the box like you bought it, in under 5 mins

 

[GhostRed]

you can return this phone (assuming you know the commands) to stock out of the box like you bought it, in under 5 mins

Awe.some.

 

[GhostRed]

This doesn't appear to work.

I got it to the yellow triangle screen as shown in the Samsung app, but it fails when trying to download.

I manually relocked the bootloader and now when attempting to get to the Yellow Triangle screen w/holding both Vol & Power just takes me to the "unlock bootloader" screen.

This is wierd.

 

[jwpilly]

How can we get these posts stickied?

 

[jdizzle]

Does anything need to be done if a custom rom has been flashed to the phone? Such as having to flash back to a stock rom before running this .exe file or can we just run the .exe file from or custom rom and it will bring it back to stock?

Thanks for all your help guys

 

[Shabbypenguin]

Does anything need to be done if a custom rom has been flashed to the phone? Such as having to flash back to a stock rom before running this .exe file or can we just run the .exe file from or custom rom and it will bring it back to stock?

Thanks for all your help guys

this will return it to stock.

This doesn't appear to work.

I got it to the yellow triangle screen as shown in the Samsung app, but it fails when trying to download.

I manually relocked the bootloader and now when attempting to get to the Yellow Triangle screen w/holding both Vol & Power just takes me to the "unlock bootloader" screen.

This is wierd.

the difference between fastboot mode and download is you need to pull the battery to get into download mode (yes every time)

 

[jdizzle]

thanks again for all your help shabby!

 

[jrdatrackstar]

this does nothing but error out for me.....I run the exe and it gets all the way to the stage where it is trying to start the download and it just errors out....

 

[GhostRed]

this does nothing but error out for me.....I run the exe and it gets all the way to the stage where it is trying to start the download and it just errors out....

Yep, that's what happened to me. Tried twice and then used a different method, but I wanted to make it work this way.

Shabbypenguin, do you know if this actually uses **SAMSUNG'S** files to return to stock?

I'm uncomfortable with using another user's provided files to return to FACTORY status.

That's one nice thing about iPhone/iPod touch jailbreaking: you can always return to stock via Apple's files.

 

[GhostRed]

Yep, that's what happened to me. Tried twice and then used a different method, but I wanted to make it work this way.

Shabbypenguin, do you know if this actually uses **SAMSUNG'S** files to return to stock?

I'm uncomfortable with using another user's provided files to return to FACTORY status.

That's one nice thing about iPhone/iPod touch jailbreaking: you can always return to stock via Apple's files.

PS - I tried the battery pull before my last post. No dice.

 

[Shabbypenguin]

i actually never used this myself as im on linux, what i did was installed it on my gf's windows computer, pull teh files out of it extract them and flash em in heimdall.

yes i assure you that these are stock samsung files, anyone coming from the epic 4g can vouch that ACS has had a long history of providing leaked software

 

[ACEinthehole]

Broken link Shabby... can you fix it please?

 

[Shabbypenguin]

fixed

 

[billbunton]

The link in the original post still seems to be broken.

 

[Shabbypenguin]

ah crap he removed the file, ill check and see if i have the file still and mirror it for yall

 

[danders23]

ok so i finally rooted my ns4g useing shabbys one click root and wouldnt you know my phone broke yesterday so i have to take it to sprint now heres my problem , i tried to unroot back to stock useing this samsungsimple dl d720 zip and it did put me back to stock but the padlock is still on the boot up screen and when i go into the fastboot page it still says unlocked now im not to good with the whole cammand terminal deal thats why i used the one click to root but i really need to get this thing locked so i can take it to sprint , so if anyone can help thanks in advance and please give me step by step instructions on how to do this and please give me the simple instructions as im not a noob but im not advanced either

 

[Shabbypenguin]

ok its actually pretty easy
all you need to do is this

boot into fastboot mode

open up a cmd window

drag and drop fastboot.exe from teh one click to the cmd window

type in oem lock after wards so it should look like so

c:/path/to/where/the/shit/is/fastboot.exe oem lock

and that should get ya situatiated