9 Installation Guides

Battery

Front Panel Assembly

Motherboard

Rear Camera

Rear Inner Frame Replacement.

Rear Panel

SIM Card

SIM Card Board Replacement

Speaker

1 Teardown

Nexus S Teardown

Support Questions

Tools

Common tools used to work on this device. You might not need every tool for every procedure.

Plastic Opening Tools

Phillips #00 Screwdriver

Heat Gun

Tweezers

Metal Spudger

Background ¶ 

The Nexus S is the second Nexus phone from Google. Co-developed with Samsung instead of HTC, the phone features a curved LED display, and (as of December 16, 2010) is the only phone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Technical Specifications:

  • 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 Hummingbird Multimedia Applications Processor based on the ARMv7 architecture.
  • 16 GB internal storage capacity
  • 512 MB total RAM
  • Super AMOLED 4.0" WVGA (480x800) Contour Display with curved glass screen
  • 5 MP rear facing camera and a VGA (640x480) front facing camera.
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g
  • Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
  • Near Field Communication (NFC)
  • Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Additional Information ¶ 

Google's Official Nexus S Page

Nexus S on Wikipedia