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G1 possibly bricked; stuck in recovery console [researched]

i will try to be as detailed as possible. im coming from the kaiser community so go easy on me
when i had recieved the phone it would turn on go past the tmobile g1 screen and go into the recovery console. the console read. JF 1.41.
after reading around the best option i got was reverting everything back to factory settings.....and so i did. i installed the factory spl went back to rc29....then updated to rc 30 and installed the new cupcake.
everything was fine except for i couldnt get the phone activated given im an AT&T user.
this morning i finally recieved the unlock code from tmobile and when i turn the phone on with the att simcard, it gave me the triangle with the exclamation screen.
so i hit alt +l then alt w and after a reboot it would bring me back to the same screen. Also this recovery screen is diff from the jf 1.41 (im guessing this is the factory console).
now im out of ideas as to how to get this phone back in order. i would love flashing the DREAIMG.NBH but sadly my phone refuses to go in bootloader.
ive been trying to hold camera+ power and its jsut loads up the tmobile g1 screen.
any and all advice/helps are appreciated.
-thank you

so this is totally weird. i leave the phone unplugged with the battery out for about 3 hours. came back to work on it....turned it on and well it loaded and got me to the home screen ( no sim card ).
so i powered off the phone and inserted the AT&T simcard turn it on and it shows me the same screen again with the triangle and exclamation point.
how do u explain that ?!
pressed power for 3 seconds and then let go and held down the back key. it flashed the bootloader tricolor screen and then said ""everything will be reset to factory defaults .press send to reset"" and when i did that there was no change........nothing happened. ended up pulling the battery out..

Same problem..
I have very similar problem.. but mine takes much more than 3 hrs to come back.. and even then , the task manger keeps popping up from time to time in the home screen ,, so i guessed my home button was stuck or something...
After i found your "problem Sovled" post in another theread on 11th oct ..i thought i better take your suggestion before taking phone apart..
I was on 1.5 version and 2.22.19.26I radio. also i do not know whether i'm in RC29,30,33 ..
i'm really confused about all this radio,firmware ,recovery things....
Please Guide me ..

well first you need to get in your ph to find out if u have rc29. if you are able to get to home screen just hit menu - setting - about phone - all the way down it'll tell you what you are running.
i followed this guide to help me flash it to the cyanogenmod rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563679
hopefully it helps. but if you are able to get into bootloader unlike me then jsut flash the rc29 hopefully it will solve your problem.
my home key acted like it was stuck but now everything is working fine.

Thanks for Replying so quickly ..
I managed to go to the bootloader screen(tricolor) ..actually it went without even pressing the camera button(any idea why??) after leaving the phone without battery for about 5 hours.. and i flashed the Dreaimg-RC29 file .
Since then i'm Stuck in recovery mode again.. but this time the recovery utility is different (yellow letters)..i.e hopefully RC29 is succefully installed.
I wanted to complete doing your suggested guide before asking any more questions, but now i unable to so what shud i do now?
IS the task manger popping up involuntarily sometimes for you in the cM builds?
Can it be that you had a hardware button issue, which somehow rectified itself when going to Cyanogen..
I really appreciate your taking time to answer my questions ..

well sounds like jsut what had happened to me.
make sure you have tmobile simcard on you with a dataplan.
you're going to have to leave your phone off without the battery or just turned off for a while. from here on out it was trial and error. i kept trying to turn the phone on hoping it would go past the recovery screen once it did i activated the phone and finally completed the root process.
as for the cyanogen mod rom i think you are right. though on my initial flash i had a bunch of force closing apps but it all fixed itself upon a restart. ever since then i haven't seen the recovery mode every time i boot it.
PS: that reocvery mode that you see is the stock recovery meaning yes u have flashed RC29 sucessfully.

so i jsut flashed to CM 4.2.3.1. and well im back to square one. im booting into the recovery by default. obviously confirming my doubts about the hardware problem.
im going to try and leave the phone off for a while and see if i can get it to load up. usually that solves my problem.

Oh..
Thats depressing.. Anyways... Lets do it together then I have kept my phone unsed for about 16hrs now.. hope it works ..
Have you tried the HTC Diagonistic program for g1 (DREADIAG.nbh) ?.. I am yet to try it out as i cannot go to the bootloader..
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7NRX7H40
which version of cyanogen were you using before this happened?

i have not tried diagnostic. iw as going to use ADB to push the recovery on there but it went into bootloader.
i was using cyanogenmod rom 4.1.9999. now i have updated to 4.2.3.1.
actually iw as working on it last night. i re did that whole guide except for downloaded the new rom and flashed it.
so as of now once again that hardware flaw is gone and the phone is working fine.

mtkhalid said:
i have not tried diagnostic. iw as going to use ADB to push the recovery on there but it went into bootloader.
i was using cyanogenmod rom 4.1.9999. now i have updated to 4.2.3.1.
actually iw as working on it last night. i re did that whole guide except for downloaded the new rom and flashed it.
so as of now once again that hardware flaw is gone and the phone is working fine.
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Did you update from 4.1.9999 straight into 4.2.3.1? If so, that's the problem (maybe).. I suggest you install the HTC 1.6 ADP Rom (link in the cyanogen 4.2.3.1 post) then upgrade to 4.2.3.1. Make sure everything is updated.... rom, recovery & spl (before you upgrade SPL make sure you have the most recent radio version first! or you'll brick the phone). then give it a try and see what happens...

you are right. the first time i just flashed the new rom. the second time around i followed the guide except for i flashed the latest cyanogen rom.

I'm not able to make it go to the home screen even after so many attempts..
i could only manage to go to the bootloader screen once and flashed the RC29 and i'm stuck there
Can you elaborate on how you got to the Home screen , like how long you keep it off or press which buttons to start ?
I'm not in the US , and have bought this phone from Ebay (new, never used) from a seller with good feedback for G1 (wanted this phone very badly). I was using the phone for barely 3 days when i did a factory reset from the phone and this problem started occurring .
IS there anything else i can do..?
Thanks for Helping..

Still waiting for your answer

SaiSantoshD said:
I'm not able to make it go to the home screen even after so many attempts..
i could only manage to go to the bootloader screen once and flashed the RC29 and i'm stuck there
Can you elaborate on how you got to the Home screen , like how long you keep it off or press which buttons to start ?
I'm not in the US , and have bought this phone from Ebay (new, never used) from a seller with good feedback for G1 (wanted this phone very badly). I was using the phone for barely 3 days when i did a factory reset from the phone and this problem started occurring .
IS there anything else i can do..?
Thanks for Helping..
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how did you flash the RC29? after pressing the power button
did it give you any errors? once its flashed, reboot by pressing home and back (or w/e the SPL tells you to)
it should boot into the rom

Home button problem (repaired/solved)
Firstly, thanks for responding ..
I had flashed RC29 when it had gone to the tricolor bootloader screen on its own
but after that it would not go anywhere other than recovery(exclamantion mark)
Now good news
4 hours back i opened the phone again(third time) , and took a safety pin and started scraping(gently) the non shiny parts of the connector ( daughter board to main board) .
I think it was previously shorted near that area , so by scraping removed the shorted metal joints .. and now the phone booted up to RC29 (just like that) and i even installed the cyanogen mod ..
Many thanks to u all .. hope this Comes UP in google search for people with similar problems(and there are many)...
KEYwords: Home button stuck on recovery no booting

Ah wow didnt think of that lol.. glad to see you got it to work

HTC diamond (BELL) bad flash, just keeps restarting

Hey, huge NOOb here, and first time using this!
I was trying to flash my ROM for the first time, and of course I ran into some problems :S
Anyway, the phone just keeps restarting, never reaching the loading screen. I can however still access the bootloader screen when I hold down the volume down button and back button, and when I try to reload the stock ROM that I got from http://uploaded.to/?id=ma0u71, it only reaches 89% before the RUU program enters the recovery mode. Once I attempt to recover the device and run the RUU again it makes it to 89% and stops once again..
Any ideas/guides as to how I can fix this problem? Thanks in advance, this has become a huge problem, and any help on the subject is much appreciated.

ummm did you unlock your phone successfully? if so then make sure you have the correct rom for your device. also try to hard reset first and if you can get into your phone make sure you format your memory

Yeah I figured out the problem, I just had to acquire the stock ROM from Bell and then reflash it with that one. Thanks for the reply tho, I really appreciate it!

ADP dead?

Hi,
I've got a very big problem:
Today I tried to install a new custom ROM to my ADP1.
I've tried a lot but finally got to the step where I wanted to update the bootloader. After running the update the device was starting again but was reset after 2 seconds.
Since that time I'm not able to start my device again. I can press the power button or other button combinations but no vibration or screen that is showing anything.
Guys, I know that it was dump to do that and my fault so please no comments on that.
Has anyone any idea what I can do to get my device started again and get into any menu?
meinereiner

first problem....wrong section
have you tried holding home+power or camera+power when turning on?
if either of these get you anywhere then it can be fixed
there is no reason why you shouldnt be able to if it was just a rom flash gone bad
if it works, SEARCH, if not, sell it or get a doner

Moved as not Android Development.

Sorry for taking the wrong section, thanks for moving ...
Unfortunately Ive already tried tried all these combinations. No chance to get it alive :-(

[Q] My Nexus One doesnt Access Bootloader

Hi...
I have a problem with my nexus one that started when i used to power it on .. it stucked with the boot menu ( the X that appears when u start the phone ) and doesnt boot to android so i rooted it and tried to install a rom but it didnt work... and now when i press the power botton it vibrates 3 times and doesnt boot... also when i try to access the bootloader it doesnt access it...
is there any solution that i can reset it to be able to enter bootloader?? because as i know that i cant do anything if i cant get to bootloader..
please help me with this problem because i am hoping that its not bricked and i dont wanna throw it away...
thank you...

yma900 said:
Hi...
I have a problem with my nexus one that started when i used to power it on .. it stucked with the boot menu ( the X that appears when u start the phone ) and doesnt boot to android so i rooted it and tried to install a rom but it didnt work... and now when i press the power botton it vibrates 3 times and doesnt boot... also when i try to access the bootloader it doesnt access it...
is there any solution that i can reset it to be able to enter bootloader?? because as i know that i cant do anything if i cant get to bootloader..
please help me with this problem because i am hoping that its not bricked and i dont wanna throw it away...
thank you...
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What do you mean you rooted it? Do you mean you unlocked the bootloader (that's entirely different, by the way), or something else?
What exactly have you flashed on it and how (specifically) did you do it?

It's kinda irrelevant how he got there. I can't think of any way to access a phone that won't boot - can you?

Sounds like a hardware failure

i meant by rooting that i unlocked it and installed a rom like cyanogenmod and modaco but both didnt work, i mean when i power it on, it get stuck on the X in the boot menu.. and now it wont boot to this menu and i cant access the bootloader..
well i thought that since i cant access the bootloader then i wont be able to do anything but i thought that i can ask here since guys u are expert with this phone so if u can think of anyway to reset the mobile... and i hope its not a hardware failure :S
anyway thank you so much for answering me

danger-rat said:
It's kinda irrelevant how he got there. I can't think of any way to access a phone that won't boot - can you?
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Not totally irrelevant. Depending on what he tried to flash it could be truly bricked. Sounds like it could be but didn't want to jump to that conclusion.

I have the same problem here... Cant access to the bootloader menu my phone cant do anything except charging and vibrating 3 times while I'm trying to power-on it
cant see nothing on the screen . always black screen
Before what is happening now I tried ROM Modaco & Cynogenmod with recovery image Amon_RA
Note: My Nexus One is bootloader UNLOCKED.
ThankYou Guys..

Not totally irrelevant. Depending on what he tried to flash it could be truly bricked. Sounds like it could be but didn't want to jump to that conclusion
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is it possible to be not bricked coz i kinda hope that its not, and since im newbie i thought asking the experts here might rise the hope
well what informations do u want me to give u that u can judge if we can find a solution??
thank you for following up with me

[Q] screen gone black!

hi guys im wondering if any of yous can give me some idea as to what happened to my galaxy note.first of all i will start by saying i am a noob at this?ok so i tried to update my note to ics using odin v1.83.i put in download mode and the box came up yellow and i clicked on pda and then i hit start.now i didnt do a backup because 1 im stupid and too i didnt think i needed to as there wasnt really anything on the fone that i needed or so i tought.anyways everything went fine until it didnt reboot.so i unpluged it and took out the battery and reinserted it.to find that that fone was starting up but with no visual on sccreen or nothing.please tell me im not screwed.iv left it back with vodafone as this is my network.just want to know whats gonna happen really.cheers guys any advice would be great?

fonepimp said:
hi guys im wondering if any of yous can give me some idea as to what happened to my galaxy note.first of all i will start by saying i am a noob at this?ok so i tried to update my note to ics using odin v1.83.i put in download mode and the box came up yellow and i clicked on pda and then i hit start.now i didnt do a backup because 1 im stupid and too i didnt think i needed to as there wasnt really anything on the fone that i needed or so i tought.anyways everything went fine until it didnt reboot.so i unpluged it and took out the battery and reinserted it.to find that that fone was starting up but with no visual on sccreen or nothing.please tell me im not screwed.iv left it back with vodafone as this is my network.just want to know whats gonna happen really.cheers guys any advice would be great?
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Lets hope you haven't hard bricked it like I did. Are you not able to get anything on the screen at all? Does PC Odin show a cable connection when you connect your phone to your PC via data cable?

Not sure what exactly do you mean by phone starting with no visuals. How do you know it's starting up if you can't see anything ?
Anyway, check if you can enter download mode again - power+home+vol.down. Even without screen, after that press volume up to continue - if it works, Odin should detect your phone. If it does, just flash it again. Probably just a bad/unfinished flash.

Akiainavas said:
Check if you can enter download mode again - power+home+vol.down. If yes, just flash it again. Probably just a bad/unfinished flash.
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Or you could try a USB JIG if that doesn't work.

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Please post questions in the Q&A section​

Ahem. Read guys. He said he gave it to vodafone for service.
OP just wants a hint at what might be wrong with it.

screen gone black
cheers guys.to answer some of the questions.first it still detects in odin and i have tried or roms or updates.still not working.2.you can hear the start music when i power on.then the screen is just black.