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December 23rd, 2011, 18:36 GMT · By

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Bricked Nexus S with Ice Cream Sandwich Can Now Be Recovered

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A few days ago, Google started to push out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS to its Nexus S users, causing a lot of issues on many devices, including rendering some of them unusable.

Those who have tried to install the new OS flavor and ended up with a bricked Nexus S instead, have now the possibility to fix their devices, and get them back online.

An unofficial tool for that is available for download, courtesy of XDA-Developers member AdamOutler.

Called Unbreakable Resurrector, the application has just been upgraded with support for Nexus S devices that have been affected by the recent roll-out.

The major drawback here is that you will need to run the tool on Linux, preferably on Ubuntu. The said recovery tool, along with instructions on what you need to do to use it, is available on this thread over on the XDA-Developers forum.

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Comment #1 by: woodstockblues on 04 Mar 2012, 01:29 UTC reply to this comment

Yes! My brand new, still under warranty, Sprint/Samsung Nexus S just "bricked" two days ago. Never dropped, never exposed to moisture, never rooted, only used marketplace applications. Still has months to go on the warranty. Sprint refused to make good on it. Said that they would give me a "used" phone to replace it. Not acceptable. I'm wondering what the incidence of "bricked" Nexus S phones is. Google has some responsibility for all of this mess too.

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