Have the Community Noticed? It's not just me. CRB43... - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Well I've been around the net lately especially here, and have been noticing a number of people Not being able to Root there phone because of something thats sound simple but in the end is actually pretty Complicated. I myself have encountered this problem when attempting to Re-Root my G1.
Heres an example of whats going on in two diffrent ways, there still might be more I'm unaware, but this is mainly what I'm Seeing.
1 Reason
User attempts to Format G1 via USB
When attempting to do so computer fails at this process because the G1
ejects itself for no reason at all. And when putting the sd card back G1 doesnt accept it so it prompts you to reformart it, which by the way doesn't work because if you put the DREAIMG.nbh on the card after formatting it from the phone,it repeats the above.
2nd Reason
User is able to format card sucssesfully
And user is able to put DREAIMG.nbh on card but, when attempting to downgrade to RC9/RC7 from the bootloader menu it flashes the message
"No image file" (In green text or not pressing the Send key to enter fastboot wont work)
And to top it off, (Goldcard, Rogers, Another SD Card and XP Machine options do not work(Well for me they dont)
So XDA Community, I am asking (and so are many others) is this a Phone Problem
A Card Problem or did Google finally "blacklist" the DREAIMG.nbh file, so you cant downgrade to RC9/RC7
And if not please solve What the Muck is going on here!!!.

It sounds like a card problem. You are still able to downgrade to rc29 or rc7.

sd card
I had the same problem, it was my sd card. I think caused by not using the HTC usb cable. I believe it corupted my card.

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SD CARD won't FORMAT

Okay well this is my first time on this forum better yet my second day having the G1 and I've already seemed to get in trouble with this phone. Okay well I was attempting to jailbreak a G1 with no data plan. After I had put the Dreaimg file in my F drive I had to go to that rainbow screen and all. After that the phone was locked again so I activated my phone VIA WIFI using Jesus Freaks thread. Then after I got back in the phone I continued to attempt to jailbreak/root my phone so I tried to put the recovery.img and upload zip file in my F drive but it said something about an I/O error. I kept messing with it trying to think of solutions now when I try to click the F drive it says, "The disk in drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" when I press yes and check "Quick Format" it crashes my computer. I am on an XP computer. PLEASE HELP! ):
Well your first problem is that you are using windows.
Just playing, you could always try a card reader. Your card needs to be fat32. If your phone still reads the card, try going into sd in settings and format it through your phone, then retry it on your computer
Its in FAT32 thus I was trying to jailbreak it. Although my phone can't read it, as it seems. When I go to SD in settings all I see is "Total Space", "Available Space", "Unmount/eject SD card". And they are all dark so that I can not press it. And I'm sure I have an SD card in there.
Ok your card is possibely corrupted, since you do not have a recovery image we can't go that way to reformat, hmmmm, card reader, I know reboot your phone, it will pull up a notice that your card is not formatted and it will ask you to format it now right there on the phone
I just rebooted it nothing happened. Also another piece of info, the problem was happening yesterday as I woke up today my phone popped up a message saying Upload now? or something like that and I pressed yes and it fixed but I did the same thing, and tried to jailbreak it, and now I'm back to the same problem. ): Got AIM to help me faster?
Don't got aim. So nothing popped up, you updated by what the ota update if so you are back to your previous build, if you are having serious problems with formating, my best suggestion is a card reader, you can get one for like $15 at walmart. Or try a different sdcard
If you are feeling froggy and are broke, you can try downloading a linux distro and burn a live cd or use unetbootin to make it on a thumb drive. Ubuntu linux has a partion editor that would be able to read it no problem and format it and even partion it for you since you will prob want apps2sd and a linux swap
Ugh I'm a big noob at G1's as I've only had it for one day now. Do you have MSN? Yahoo? something please. I need live help I don't want to brick my phone.
I don't use any of the messaginers, sorry, but the only way you can really brick you phone is to mess up installing the danger spl, anything else you can come back from, the most I can offer is my # and walk you through that way but your easiest option would be the card reader
Eh, can you message me your number?
I'll pm it to you in a sec

SD Card Issue?

I've tried searching the forums but haven't been able to find any answers to my problem.
I'm currently running a MT3G with Super D 1.9.2 so I figured I would post in the G1 Q&A since this is a 32B phone and might be more receptive to a better answer. Anyway...
So for a few months since I've flashed many different custom roms, I've had an issue with USB mounting. The SD card will correctly mount to my PC and my PC can view the files on the microSD card. BUT, whenever I try and copy a file to my SD card, my file explorer freezes and my phone starts lagging like crazy and I have to pull the battery.
I've tried doing this on 2 other PCs with 2 different Operating Systems on them but they do the exact same thing. I've also tried a different microSD card but it does the same thing...
Is this a known issue with ROMs? Or is there something I may be overlooking?
It would be nice to fix this issue because it's just a nuisance. It's not the end of the world if I don't get it fixed as I can use my SD card reader, but it would be more convenient if I found a solution.
Any help is appreciated.
I have never had a problem with it. Don't rule out the possibility of a hardware failure.
Did you ever try to let the phone do its thing or does it just lockup for a long period of time?
I almost always use adb to push files instead of mounting, give that a shot. There are a ton of guides that tell you how to set it up, an easy google search guide you.
Yes, I have tried letting the phone do its thing, its very slow but I *could* shut it off that way if I wanted, but the lag persists.
I have been messing around with adb pushing system files, I will try and push files to the sdcard. I found the topic in the sticky showing how to do this.
Also, it might be worth noting that the same behavior happens when trying to mount from Amon_RA's recovery.
Thanks.
Try formatting the card again from the recovery, or whatever way you wanted. But if it keeps happening on the stock firmware, different roms, different cards, it sounds like hardware failure.

[Q] Help! Corrupted internal SD Card and can't find a way to wipe

First, some background:
I've had the S for 2 months now and about a month ago I applied JG5/Modaco r2 and Mimocam lag fix. All was well, 1800+ benchmark figures and no lag at all. That was until a few days ago....
As I was reading on the device, a number of errors started to pop up, force closes, etc. It stopped responding completely so I took the battery out and rebooted. Straight away I was hit with multiple force close and 'process stopped unexpectedly' messages. Basically, it was an unusable brick.
When I took the SD card out the errors were different so, figuring it was related to the Mimocam fix, I decided to undo it. I removed the symlink to the sd card and copied everything to the local data directory.
That didn't work, so I did a hard reset. Which also didn't work. Worse than that, I now can't get the phone to connect in any way to the PC so can't reflash and I can't access any settings on the phone because the error messages keep appearing and obscuring the screen.
Last thing I tried was repartitioning the SD card to see if the ext3 partition was corrupt and that hasn't helped either.
Which is where I am now. What I really want to do is wipe the internal SD and effect a total factory reset but I can't think of any way to do it. I can't access the phone through adb (device not found), Kies (keeps trying to connect but never does) and I can't do it through the phone. I also can't send it back because it has 'flashed rom' written all over it, especially when a root request pops up in the background.
I'm all out of ideas, short of trying to degauss it somehow.
Help! Please!
You cant get it into download mode ?
Kilack said:
You cant get it into download mode ?
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Or recovery mode: format sd card, clear cache etc ?
Turn the phone off, hold Home + Vol -, then press Power.
I don't see how you can get error messages there...
Doesn't work, I can't get it in to recovery mode. Neither vol up or down work using the 3 button hold. I've tried repeatedly and it just boots as normal, although the animation doesn't display while it boots but it does play the audio.
So I take it I'm f***ed then?
bumping this up and subscribing. I hope you find a solution soon, man.
if you know what your firmware was, get it from samsung-firmwares, get odin, and flash your phone. maybe that will solve your problem.
Keep in mind that I wont be responsible if your phone gets bricked if you mess up the procedure (however the chances of it being bricked is very less if you follow the instructions properly).
search the forum for flashing via odin.
emclondon said:
if you know what your firmware was, get it from samsung-firmwares, get odin, and flash your phone. maybe that will solve your problem.
Keep in mind that I wont be responsible if your phone gets bricked if you mess up the procedure (however the chances of it being bricked is very less if you follow the instructions properly).
search the forum for flashing via odin.
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He said he cant get it into download mode so would be quite hard to flash with odin then...
No, I've tried over and over and d/l mode doesn't work. The phone just reboots.
LeeJS said:
No, I've tried over and over and d/l mode doesn't work. The phone just reboots.
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Try the Vol + Recovery mode. The timing is a bit tricky.
On my phone, if I keep Vol+, Home and Power button held down, the phone goes into a reboot loop (it keeps showing the logo, blank, logo, blank). After the logo appears the 2nd time, wait 1 second then release the Power button. Then it goes into the Recovery mode.
If you can't get it to work, try it without the USB/power plugged in as well.
Tried settings/sd card and phone storage/unmount internal sd/format? Or u could do settings/security/factory reset
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I can't really try that because, as I said, I can't get past any of the error messages that pop up on the phone.
Have had to bite the bullet and take it in to T-mo for a repair and hope they don't notice
Will find out in 28 days.
I had a similar problem with JPC. After a while both the internal and external sd cards crapped out. After pulling the external sd and many tries I was able to boot into recovery mode where it says something like E: cant mount etc.
After pulling the ext sd card I was able to get into download mode and downgrade to JM7 with odin. After formatting with odin. It took two tries.
I still don't have access or storage on both the int and ext sd. I have roughly 2gb storage on the internal non-sd memory of the phone (i am not sure what it is but its enough to run android and I can make calls).
I can't install apps use the camera or anything that uses either of the sd cards for storage.
I did try a new sd card that was installed on the phone when it was stock FW but it doesnt work either.
I have a thread posted about it.
LeeJS said:
First, some background:
I've had the S for 2 months now and about a month ago I applied JG5/Modaco r2 and Mimocam lag fix. All was well, 1800+ benchmark figures and no lag at all. That was until a few days ago....
As I was reading on the device, a number of errors started to pop up, force closes, etc. It stopped responding completely so I took the battery out and rebooted. Straight away I was hit with multiple force close and 'process stopped unexpectedly' messages. Basically, it was an unusable brick.
When I took the SD card out the errors were different so, figuring it was related to the Mimocam fix, I decided to undo it. I removed the symlink to the sd card and copied everything to the local data directory.
That didn't work, so I did a hard reset. Which also didn't work. Worse than that, I now can't get the phone to connect in any way to the PC so can't reflash and I can't access any settings on the phone because the error messages keep appearing and obscuring the screen.
Last thing I tried was repartitioning the SD card to see if the ext3 partition was corrupt and that hasn't helped either.
Which is where I am now. What I really want to do is wipe the internal SD and effect a total factory reset but I can't think of any way to do it. I can't access the phone through adb (device not found), Kies (keeps trying to connect but never does) and I can't do it through the phone. I also can't send it back because it has 'flashed rom' written all over it, especially when a root request pops up in the background.
I'm all out of ideas, short of trying to degauss it somehow.
Help! Please!
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am wondering, did your phone ever work with the three button mode to enter download/recovery ? or did you always flash using "adb reboot recovery" ?
solipsism said:
I had a similar problem with JPC. After a while both the internal and external sd cards crapped out. After pulling the external sd and many tries I was able to boot into recovery mode where it says something like E: cant mount etc.
After pulling the ext sd card I was able to get into download mode and downgrade to JM7 with odin. After formatting with odin. It took two tries.
I still don't have access or storage on both the int and ext sd. I have roughly 2gb storage on the internal non-sd memory of the phone (i am not sure what it is but its enough to run android and I can make calls).
I can't install apps use the camera or anything that uses either of the sd cards for storage.
I did try a new sd card that was installed on the phone when it was stock FW but it doesnt work either.
I have a thread posted about it.
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Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
mkurzum said:
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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It is posted in several threads in all of the 19000 forums that there is no fix for this. Your only option is to send it in for repair.
mkurzum said:
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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it would be nice if there was a way.
I agree with Electroz.
there is a new software out by Samsung
new PC Studio, it comes with a feature to "Emergency Restore"
you can try that, and see if that does anything to the internal SD
links are on the SGS wiki, click my link
AllGamer said:
it would be nice if there was a way.
I agree with Electroz.
there is a new software out by Samsung
new PC Studio, it comes with a feature to "Emergency Restore"
you can try that, and see if that does anything to the internal SD
links are on the SGS wiki, click my link
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I'll give it a shot, downloading now.
I'm not sure where to send my phone in, I called samsung, they sent me to bell, but I bought my phone from best buy and I'm with fido...
It sees both drives, but that's about it, when I try to click on them it just says "insert the disk into drive ..."
There has to be a way to format the internal card with a third party application. I'm gonna keep looking.

[Q] Blank SD card or has Unsupported File System Error

The AMOLED screen on my Nexus One broke, so, I sent it for repair to a dealer cause there is no official HTC support for Nexus One in India. Before I sent the phone I took a backup of my SD card and also removed it from the phone.
After I got the phone back with the new screen installed, I put in my SD card and it says Blank SD card or unsupported file system. So, I tried different SD card and the same thing popped up with every card I put in. It would ask me to format the card and even if I formatted, it would not mount the SD card. The SD cards work in all other phones and SD card readers.
So, I sent the phone back to the repair guy and he said that its most probably a software bug because if it was a hardware bug then the error message would not pop up at all. He said that it would be best to reflash the ROM but then he tried and the ROM could not be reflashed.
Now the Phone is with me and everything works except for the SD card. Plugging the phone in the computer also doesn't help as the card is not being mounted by the phone at all.
The phone I am using is a Nexus One with stock ROM Android 2.3.4 (never rooted or hacked).
Please help me find a solution to this. I'm even ready to install a custom ROM but can't do so without an SD card.
Please help!!!
Ok well android can't find the SD card but lets see if your bootloader can if not then send it in for repairs again because it's not software. Check my sig there is a link that says passimg try those instructions and tell me what you get.
Hey,
Thank you for the response but most of the instructions require the SD Card. However, in my case as you know the SD Card itself is not functioning. So even if I download the Passimg file, I can't place it on the SD card.
Is there a way to use ADB to wipe the phone completely and then reinstall the original factory stock ROMS?
I did go back to the vendor and asked him to repair the device but after a heated argument he just said that the device's SD card is working but it is not recognizing the cards in it which he said is because of a software bug and for that you need to re-flash the device completely but he didn't have the means to do it, so now I'm left with an unusable phone.
So, in shot can I do the whole reflash thing without the SD card working?
Thank you for responding, you're the only one so far whose come to the rescue. Waiting to hear from you.
Thanks
Hey,
So I just understood the full extent of your recommendation. You wanted me to check if the bootloader detects the Passimg file or not given that booting into Android is not doing that.
As per the instructions on the passimg page I need to download the FRG83 ROM and apply the update. But I'm just wondering if I do this and if the bootloader actually detects the update on the SD card, won't I also need to downgrade the HBOOT version or is it jut safe to apply the downgraded FRG83 over the GRJ22 build that I currently have on the phone?
The details of my phone are as follows:
Nexusone pvt Ship S-ON
HBOOT-0.35.0017
MICROP-0b15
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0103
RADIO-5.08.00.04
Oct 12 2010, 14:33:16
Please guide as per your convenience,
Thank you.
I'm not 100% sure but I'd assume that if you do as what you're planning to do.. the HBOOT should also be flashed automatically with the rom. double check incase!
Hi Again,
So, I took the risk and downloaded the FRG83 ROm loaded it into my SD card using a different phone and then put that card into the SD card slot of the Nexus One.
I went into the boot loaded and it automatically detected the PASSIMG.zip file and asked me whether I want to install the Update - I chose YES.
The update installed successfully and I booted into Android. After finishing the Wizard, I checked the Android Version and it says FRG83 but when I look at the notification bar it still shows me the same error "Blank SD card or has Unsupported File System".
So, we can conclude that the SD card and the SD slot work fine.. Any thoughts on what could be done next?
Well that's weird ok well lets see what the computer says. Put the card back in that other phone and connect it to the computer then on the computer go to computer then right click the card (probably E: maybe F: ) then go to properties and check file system make sure it's FAT32.
Not sure if it's wort posting on this thread still, but lots of people come searching for a solution to this problem so I figured I'd post at least another thing to try.
I've had this happen several time on various Android phones. I've been able to bring the card back every time. I throw the card into my micro usb reader, pop it in my computer, and run disk utility (I don't know what equivalent would be for Windows). You should see your SD card come up and see your main data partition there below it. Click on the partition and click repair in the bottom right.
It will run through some stuff and you'll be able to see if it's found anything in need of repair and if it repaired it.
The few times this has happened to me Disk Utility said it was an empty block at beginning of some data or something...
YMMV
Not sure if it's worth posting on this thread still, but lots of people come searching for a solution to this problem so I figured I'd post at least another thing to try.
I've had this happen several time on various Android phones. I've been able to bring the card back every time. I throw the card into my micro usb reader, pop it in my computer, and run disk utility (I don't know what equivalent would be for Windows). You should see your SD card come up and see your main data partition there below it. Click on the partition and click repair in the bottom right.
It will run through some stuff and you'll be able to see if it's found anything in need of repair and if it repaired it.
The few times this has happened to me Disk Utility said it was an empty block at beginning of some data or something...
YMMV
When I had this exact problem, I had to replace the SIM/Micro SD flex board to fix it. They were $15 shipped on eBay at the time.

[Q] Internal/External SD Card not mounting

I was running fine on CM7 like I have been for months now and I go to use my phone and its frozen. I can turn the display on and off but everything else is frozen. I try to reboot and it won't boot up past the kernel screen. So I decided to try to flash back to stock and now my external and internal SD cards won't mount. I can boot up my phone on stock JF6 but cannot access either SD card. And it would only boot up when I had my external card in the phone. I have never had this problem and I did nothing to change anything that I've been running for months.
Is my phone screwed and semi-bricked?? I will be pissed if it is when I didn't even do anything to it. Its well past the time to get a warranty replacement since I've had this phone since last August. I've flashed 100s of times and never had any problems and now I don't do anything and its screwed up. Please someone give me some good news.
All these views and no one can help? Im thinking I'm screwed. I'm within 6 months of an upgrade so I think I could get them to allow me to upgrade if they don't replace my phone.
Have you reformatted the external SD (in a computer, outside of the phone)? Does ADB see your device when connected?
I can get to download mode and recovery,but cant flash cwm recovery since it cant find either sd cards. My pc sees my phone, I can flash with odin but it doesnt do any good. I cant see the sd cards on the pc though, can just see it in odin. Havent tried adb yet.
What program did you use to flash back to stock?
If it was Odin, I believe that there is an option (in the full version of Odin) to repartition. It might be worthwhile to see if you can find a package that will make use of that reparitioning option, and give that a whirl to see if it fixes your file system.
You could also do it with the latest Heimdall (1.3.1, I believe), but I'd recommend asking Benjamin Dobell (the person who made it - here on XDA) about using it for repartitioning.
I used odin one click which repartitions. I've used it tons of times and I dont think its the problem since it was screwing up when I still had cm7
You said Odin can see your SD cards. If you take your external SD, put it in an adapter, and stick it in your computer (assuming you have the tools for this, of course), does the computer recognize it? If so, is the size of the card read correctly, and what format does it recognize the card as?
The card reads fine. My main concern is my internal as well. Neither one of them are recognized by the phone. Says something like incorrect mounting points. In settings, the option to format/mount are grayed out and in total space it says unavailable for both. The external reads fine on my wife's phone, so its definitely something hardware on the phone. I just don't understand how it could all of a sudden break with me not changing anything.
jjtitus098 said:
The card reads fine. My main concern is my internal as well. Neither one of them are recognized by the phone. Says something like incorrect mounting points. In settings, the option to format/mount are grayed out and in total space it says unavailable for both. The external reads fine on my wife's phone, so its definitely something hardware on the phone. I just don't understand how it could all of a sudden break with me not changing anything.
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If you can use ADB on the phone, you could try using the ADB shell and seeing if you can pull/check the /etc/void.fstab. It might give you a clue as to why Android is running but not seeing your internal or external SD.
For reference, mine says:
## void configuration file for the emulator/SDK
volume_sdcard (
## This is the direct uevent device path to the SD slot on the device
emu_media_path /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0/mmc_hst/mmc0
media_type mmc
mount_point /sdcard
ums_path /devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0
)
Well, can't get adb to work. Surprisingly, I don't really know how. I've never needed it in the year and a half that I've had the phone. Luckily, I called Samsung and they said my phone is still under warranty since I've had to get a replacement once before. So ill be taking my phone to the at&t repair store and see what phone I can get out of them.

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