After updating my SPL, i continue to update the radio, now my g1 is stuck at the g1 screen. What to do?
bigdookie said:
After updating my SPL, i continue to update the radio, now my g1 is stuck at the g1 screen. What to do?
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Your supposed to update your radio first, then the SPL
But if your spl installed right anyway and your radio failed, you still may have a brick. If you can boot into recovery (Home + Power) or SPL/Bootloader (Cam + Power) then you could potentially recover. If you cannot access either of these or the ROM, your phone is bricked.
bigdookie, don't panic, try this method. Disconnect usb, take out the battery and plug it back it, connect usb, boot the phone into the recovery mode, go to the console.
Enter then type this: echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
You now can access to ur sdcard from your computer, download a rom, change it to "update". Reboot the phone again, now try to wipe and install the update. After you install the update, flash the radio first, then the SPL. Let me know how it works out for you.
phuthanvinh said:
bigdookie, don't panic, try this method. Disconnect usb, take out the battery and plug it back it, connect usb, boot the phone into the recovery mode, go to the console.
Enter then type this: echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
You now can access to ur sdcard from your computer, download a rom, change it to "update". Reboot the phone again, now try to wipe and install the update. After you install the update, flash the radio first, then the SPL. Let me know how it works out for you.
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Yeah, assuming he can get to the recovery console. I think he flashed the SPL, then tryed to get in to recovery to flash the radio but he couldn't and ended up with a brick. That's the only thing that would make sense.
This seems to be happening to so many people, it's hard to have sympathy when there are warnings plastered everywhere..
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i searched the forums and couldnt find a thread on how to unbrick the G1 and i dont know if there is one, but i tried to install a ROM i think it was like G3 or soemthing like that. and i installed the radio and after i installed the SPL thats when it stayed on the G1 T-Mobile screen. what can i do to fix it? thank you
well you probably have a brick. can you get into recovery(home and power) or bootloader(camera and power) if not, you have a brick.
yes i can get into both of those. home+power and camera+power
supermanology said:
i searched the forums and couldnt find a thread on how to unbrick the G1 and i dont know if there is one, but i tried to install a ROM i think it was like G3 or soemthing like that. and i installed the radio and after i installed the SPL thats when it stayed on the G1 T-Mobile screen. what can i do to fix it? thank you
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You searched the forums and COULDN'T find a thread on how to UNBRICK?! You're a liar.
supermanology said:
yes i can get into both of those. home+power and camera+power
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When you click on Camera+Power does it look like android skateboards or is it the rainbow screen? If it's at the skateboard screen what you'll need to do is load a ROM to the sd card. After you install the SPL it leaves the phone with no rom. Find an SD Reader and put a rom on it. Put the card back in the phone and boot into recovery (which hopefully you put on 1.4 so you don't have to rename the ROM to update.zip) click on flash any zip choose the one you see there and then allow it to install. Once it's done reboot the phone and you'll be good to go!
supermanology said:
and i installed the radio and after i installed the SPL
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There's your fail right there. You sir, have a brick. Might want to look into a new phone.
since you can get into recovery, go to the recovery console and type
Code:
ums_enable
that will mount your sdcard, then put your rom on it. and type in the console
Code:
ums_disable
that will unmount your sdcard. then type into the console
Code:
reboot recovery
then once you get into recovery again, flash your rom and you should be set
What you need to do now is
TAKE OUT THE SD CARD, PUT A ROM ON THERE (A STABLE CYANOGEN ROM WOULD BE THE BEST) REBOOT INTO RECOVERY (HOME AND POWER AT THE SAME TIME) AND APPLY THE UPDATE. thats assuming you have recovery 1.4? IF NOT rename the cyanogen rom "update" if your using vista (without quotes) OR "update.zip" (again without quotes) if your on a mac. then reboot into recovery, apply the update, and reboot. that should work.
xsnipuhx said:
There's your fail right there. You sir, have a brick. Might want to look into a new phone.
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What are you talking about radio then spl is right, and he can get into bootloader and recovery.
thanks for all the help guys! i randomly have no micro sd card reader so im gonna go pick one up and try it
supermanology said:
thanks for all the help guys! i randomly have no micro sd card reader so im gonna go pick one up and try it
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You don't need one!!
as David said, go to the recovery console and plug in your usb cable.
To enable usb mode type:
ums_enable
To disable usb mode type:
ums_disable
make sure you do use ums_disable before "reboot recovery" so you can flash a ROM.
david1171 said:
since you can get into recovery, go to the recovery console and type
Code:
ums_enable
that will mount your sdcard, then put your rom on it. and type in the console
Code:
ums_disable
that will unmount your sdcard. then type into the console
Code:
reboot recovery
then once you get into recovery again, flash your rom and you should be set
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i went to recovery and typed that but nothing happens. it just has the list of commands like alt + w, alt + s, alt + l...and it doesnt do anything
do you mean bootloger mode?
supermanology said:
i went to recovery and typed that but nothing happens. it just has the list of commands like alt + w, alt + s, alt + l...and it doesnt do anything
do you mean bootloger mode?
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what does the background of your recovery screen look like? is a orange triange? a picture that looks like it could cause a seizure? or a green android?
try hitting alt+x to get into the recovery console
flash SPL , and radio is new 2.22.19.26I ,
now , The phone would only display the black and white T-Mobile G1 screen
con`t jion Recovery , bricked ?
what can i do?
If you can't go into recovery yeah, you've gotta brick.
Which did you flash first: SPL or Radio?
Hint:Radio then spl
Radio and it flashed
Damn are you able to get to recovery at all?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491350
were you trying to downgrade?
No
i try now
what mean?
NOTE: if you have flashed a custom splash screen to splash2 then you will need to erase that before step one with this code plug phone into usb in fastboot mode.
Code:
fasboot erase splash2
HOME+POWER nothing
Ah if you dont know what that is dont bother doing it just try and get stock back,i think youi might have bricked your phone
jimmy23 said:
HOME+POWER nothing
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Yeah you're bricked. Call T-Mo and have them replace it.
OMG = =
thk
jimmy23 said:
OMG = =
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if home and power doesnt work, try this, get the SDK and get adb up and running. then
adb shell
# reboot recovery
see if it boots into recovery that way/
also in order for you to boot into recovery, you have to power off the phone and HOLD POWER AND HOME to boot the phone. you dont push home and power at just anytime.
when i press HOME and POWER together the g1 splash screen comes up but then it just restarts
before this the g1 worked fine UNTILL i flashed back to STOCKED ROM and tried ROOTING it again.
im at the step where u have to HARD SPL it.
PLEASE HELP ME i can only go onto bootloader mode (camera+power)
i need to know asap
bstylz911 said:
when i press HOME and POWER together the g1 splash screen comes up but then it just restarts
before this the g1 worked fine UNTILL i flashed back to STOCKED ROM and tried ROOTING it again.
im at the step where u have to HARD SPL it.
PLEASE HELP ME i can only go onto bootloader mode (camera+power)
i need to know asap
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Have you flashed the SPL?? If so some of the SPLs actually wipe out the phone so it's left "romless" Use an SD card reader to put a ROM on the then flash again....
But after reading your post again it seems like you cant get to recovery. If that's the case then the only thing that we can do is use fastboot to get the recovery img back. When you get to your SPL is it the Rainbow screen or is it androids skateboarding? If it's the Rainbow screen you may have hit a massive roadblock. If it's the skateboarding you're in luck. Now you do have to have ADB/Fastboot configured on your PC (Click Here to find out how)put a recovery image (named recovery.img) in the C:\[whatever you extracted the ADB stuff to]\tools and then using Command Prompt:
Code:
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
What this does is erase your current recovery and then reloads your new recovery. If you continue to have issues you could always go back to stock, reroot and see if you're running into the same problems. (This part I think is easier)
Ok well I downloaded a 1.6 update and flashed it to my G1 from the Android Dev website off a link I found. It turned my phone into a 'Dev Phone 1' and just seemed to add the new market. Well I decided to go with it and through my day I started to have my first problem. When my phone was locked and I pressed the menu key with the *keyboard slide in* they keys would light up but the screen would stay off. I had to lock the phone back up and slide the keyboard open then press menu to see what I was doing.
I decided to just flash back another ROM i had on the card, and I noticed the 1.4 recovery was gone and it was back to stock looking. Well I got home and none of the ROMS would flash, from early customs to newest. It just aborted after 'verifying'. So I decided to try the Unroot my phone thing to just start all over. After putting the .nbh file on the sdcard and booting into camera/power It just wouldnt load up. I dont know what to do..
Also they phone will not boot up into regular or recovery mode with the screen on unless the keyboard is open
If you have root cant you just download the terminal emulator and reflash cyans 1.4 recovery.
^^Im not sure how to do that exactly
do you have ADB installed on your pc?
Yup I have it on my computer
I would suggest getting Amon_RA's recovery image. It is nearly the same as Cyanogens recovery, only with more options. You can get it here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669
turn phone off
connect usb cable to pc
turn phone on with Menu+Power to boot into fastboot
load your cmd window up and navigate to your adb directory
(you can make sure its ready by typing fastboot devices. this should list your phone)
from there type the following
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-dream-v1.2.2.img
Then reboot your phone into recovery Home+Power to make sure it took. If it does not take, I don't know what to tell you.
Ok, recently I rooted a g1 version 1.6 ( Donut), I downloaded Rom Manager. I downloaded their recovery so I can boot up in recovery mode and do a factory reset. But I couldn't do to the fact that when I pressed the back + power bottom it didn't boot up in recovery mode, I tried also pressing the down volume + power didn't work neither, tried up volume + power didn't worked neither, all of the 3 tries fails. the back + power sends me to the bootloader mode. and the others don't work.
So tried to download a custom ROM, while that happened I forgot about it and decided to change the sim card to another carrier, I did not know if the download was finish or not. But when I changed my sim card and tried to turn it on the the phone started to loop in the G1 LOGO, i know its not brick, but some how I cant do a factory reset.
Because I was not able to start the g1 in recovery mode, I wasn't able to factory reset. So what is left to do? Can someone guide me, Please.
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More info:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.23.02
Sep 2 2008
Serial0
Thats all my G1 shows in the bootloader. Can you actually update the radio, or bootloader, to a more updated version, or to a old version so that way it might lose the root, or so that it can return to a state where u can access the recovery mode.
You said you can access bootloader. Then using fastboot push recovery. For best results erase the sd card before putting recovery file in sd root. In fastboot do an "erase system r-w" and then push recovery. Hopefully it will work.
If you dont know what fastboot is or how to use it, you should thoroughly search and study fastboot guides for G1 in XDA.
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ok for g1 t's
Home+Power=Recovery
Back=Power=Fastboot/Bootloader
Camera+Power=Hboot/Bootloader
what happened exactly when you prssed Home+Power? did you get a yellow triagngle and this thing ! ?
if you did that means you have stock recovery, you need to hold 'alt' and press 'L' on the keyboard to access recovery options..
so try that and tell me if you get anything to happen.?
try using this guide to properly root yur device... [Guide] (8-18-11) G1 How-to: Root, Un-Root & Everything in-between
ldrifta said:
ok for g1 t's
Home+Power=Recovery
Back=Power=Fastboot/Bootloader
Camera+Power=Hboot/Bootloader
what happened exactly when you prssed Home+Power? did you get a yellow triagngle and this thing ! ?
if you did that means you have stock recovery, you need to hold 'alt' and press 'L' on the keyboard to access recovery options..
so try that and tell me if you get anything to happen.?
try using this guide to properly root yur device... [Guide] (8-18-11) G1 How-to: Root, Un-Root & Everything in-between
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no, i did not receive that, i cant access recovery mode by pressing back+ power.
@ dhacker809 - Reading your OP, one thing that you should not have done (happens to me when I first started) was trying to use ROM Manager. It will lock you out of Recovery mode. Amon RA is the best recovery option from my experience.
If Camera+Power option works, I would suggest that you re-flashed nbh file and start from there.
BTW back+power will not give you recovery mode.
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BeenAndroidized said:
@ dhacker809 - Reading your OP, one thing that you should not have done (happens to me when I first started) was trying to use ROM Manager. It will lock you out of Recovery mode. Amon RA is the best recovery option from my experience.
If Camera+Power option works, I would suggest that you re-flashed nbh file and start from there.
BTW back+power will not give you recovery mode.
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That Worked for me, Thank You So Much.
You are welcome, I am assuming that everything works well.