Smartphone noob, Galaxy Nexus (Sprint)

[ch33zw1z]

Have a Galaxy Nexus, picked it up used and it was loaded with Cyanogenmod 10. Recording video's always had trouble like this: Record a video, saves ok...subsequent video recordings would fail with this: "Error connecting to camera". Reboot, works for the first video, repeat.

So I figured it was just a software bug. Loaded cyanogenmod from their installer instructions. Now it's at version 11, and the camera isn't working well at all...as in pictures and video's aren't being saved anywhere (apparently) and non of the video's "stored" in the camera app will play. Looks like version 11 is 4.4.4 "kitkat" and won't be supported on the Nexus, so I probably shouldn't have loaded new CM on it.

I don't have any personal information that I need to keep. Not sure what I should do with this phone to make it more usable. I was thinking that I would follow instructions for putting factory image back on: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Is there a different version on Android that would be more fitting?

 

[cpacini]

Your best bet is to install the factory image form Google, I doubt anyone it's still developing custom Roms for that phone at this point

 

[ch33zw1z]

ok, thanks

 

[ch33zw1z]

After some reading and trying, I managed to get the factory image installed. Not exactly easy for a noob, but a good learning experience.

1. Install Android SDK including "platform-tools"

2. Get correct image for phone. There were two to choose from, initially I chose the 4.2.1 version, md5 checked out, but the phone wouldn't load it correctly. 4.1.1 worked just fine. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

3. found some install instructions, after a couple times reading them I gave it a shot. The biggest problem I had was the phone not being recognized by the PC correctly all the time. After a while of fiddling and frustrated words, I believe it's just the phone connector being flaky.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ne...3923-guide-nexus-4-factory-image-restore.html

All in all, mission accomplished. Camera and video recording work just fine.