i did a system wipe on my G1, but i can't get a wifi, so when it's verifying my e-mail, it won't work! also, I don't have edge, so don't tell me to buy it to solve that problem.
Well, if your on a cupcake rom, you could always try saying skip logging in? Or follow the guide to login without a google account in the dev section.
how do you get the cupcake rom?
what kind of wipe did you do? Recovery wipe, or a restore default settings? Are you rooted?
right now, im deciding if i should root, and i can do it for my g1 (my build number is crc1), and as you can see, im a real noob. really, its not frozen at this minute, just every-time i turn it on and off, applying a system wipe.
do root, and install the latest cyangon rom under dream android developement subforum. From there you should be able to install that. and skip the part where it asks you to sign in. Or borrow a sim card from someone who has a g1 plan. Read the tutorials on rooting.
Thank you!
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So, first hello and thanks ahead of time for answering a noobs' problem.
I wanted to search before posting but don't know really where to start.
I followed the Tutorial Ninja guide to rooting found here:
http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/06/27/root-jailbreak-an-android-g1/
(so you can see which ROM, img, etc I used)
Everything went according to plan, except that the second command listed gave an error, that "-f no such file or folder could be found." But commands 1 & 3 worked, so I proceeded.
The problem I ran into was that when I upgraded the ROM at the very end, it would not boot up, it got stuck at the metallic "android" screen and was just stuck in a loop.
So, not having a microSD card reader, I just restored to factory settings. However this time, the beginning screen called my phone a Developer Phone, which it isn't. So it must not have restored everything to factory.
It appears the phone has a lot of the cupcake features, like auto-rotate screen, soft keyboard, but how could it be cupcake if I did a factory restore?
Here's the details listed under About Phone:
Model number: Android Dev Phone 1
Firmware version: 1.5
Baseband version: 62.33.20.08H_1.22.12.29
Kernel version: 2.6.27.25-cm [email protected] )
Build number: dream_devphone-userdebug 1.5 CRB43 148830 test-keys
I'm used to looking for an RC#, like RC33, but since I used a diff ROM, I have no clue what I'm running and if I indeed have root access.
Anyway, the point of rooting the phone was to have tethering capability, so I downloaded the Tether App and when I attempt to tether it asks me if I want to "allow" access for root:root (I'm paraphrasing) so it seems it is rooted. Can someone help me figure this one out?
Also, since I'll have to manual updates, where should I go for them?
This is such an awesome forum, and look forward to being part of the community. Thanks
meanderingthemaze said:
So, first hello and thanks ahead of time for answering a noobs' problem.
I wanted to search before posting but don't know really where to start.
I followed the Tutorial Ninja guide to rooting found here:
http://tutorialninjas.net/2009/06/27/root-jailbreak-an-android-g1/
(so you can see which ROM, img, etc I used)
Everything went according to plan, except that the second command listed gave an error, that "-f no such file or folder could be found." But commands 1 & 3 worked, so I proceeded.
The problem I ran into was that when I upgraded the ROM at the very end, it would not boot up, it got stuck at the metallic "android" screen and was just stuck in a loop.
So, not having a microSD card reader, I just restored to factory settings. However this time, the beginning screen called my phone a Developer Phone, which it isn't. So it must not have restored everything to factory.
It appears the phone has a lot of the cupcake features, like auto-rotate screen, soft keyboard, but how could it be cupcake if I did a factory restore?
Here's the details listed under About Phone:
Model number: Android Dev Phone 1
Firmware version: 1.5
Baseband version: 62.33.20.08H_1.22.12.29
Kernel version: 2.6.27.25-cm [email protected] )
Build number: dream_devphone-userdebug 1.5 CRB43 148830 test-keys
I'm used to looking for an RC#, like RC33, but since I used a diff ROM, I have no clue what I'm running and if I indeed have root access.
Anyway, the point of rooting the phone was to have tethering capability, so I downloaded the Tether App and when I attempt to tether it asks me if I want to "allow" access for root:root (I'm paraphrasing) so it seems it is rooted. Can someone help me figure this one out?
Also, since I'll have to manual updates, where should I go for them?
This is such an awesome forum, and look forward to being part of the community. Thanks
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Doing a factory restore merely does a wipe of the data folder. You will still keep your ROM, SPL, radio, etc things that you've flashed. Those things stick with you. If its asking you for root, press always allow. You have root.
Firmware Version: 1.5 = cupcake. 1.1 = noncupcake. So you succeeded.
If you want to double check, go into terminal emulator (just download from market if you don't already have it)
When you open it, you should see:
$
from there, type su
$su
if you get:
# <- this means you have root permissions.
You can download custom ROMs from the developers forum. Just find one that you like and try it out, most of them only require you to wipe/flash the ROM from recovery (Home+Power). Cyanogen's are always a nice choice, or you can try Haykuro's or JesusFreke's (JF). But always check to make sure you have to the requirements to flash the ROM before doing so. They're usually located on the first post of the first page, so don't ask if you need this or that.
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Hi, you do indeed have rooted cupcake my friend when you do a wipe, it's like a factory restore, it doesnt reflash the firmware the phone came with, it just re sets everything so the phone is "as new". This fixed the bootloop you had for some odd reason so your phone now boots up. It shows as an Android Dev Phone because you flashed the dev phone firmware.
That's it really, everything appears to be fine
I was beaten to it by the poster above because I was typing on my G1 Oh well, the 'su' in the terminal is a good point though.
Off the top of my head I'm not sure what version you're running, but yes - it is rooted. Does tethering work? If so, you're all set.
Well, mostly. Your radio is out of date. Use the link in my sig to snag the latest, apply it in recovery like the update.zip you did to flash your ROM.
What to do for updates is up to you.. There are many different ROMs out there, just need to pick which one works best for you. Personally, I suggest Cyanogen. But a new user shouldn't use the link in my sig.. Go over to the Development section of the forum and find the CyanogenMod 3.6.8.1 version - it's currently the stable version. If you want regular updates (new patches from Google, community developed features, etc) CM is the way to go.
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h.nocturna - I did get #, I have root! everybody dance. Good to know about the factory restore
AdrianK - thank you. i guess i got kinda lucky fixing it myself, mostly due to lack of options. hehehe
Saiboogu - I have yet to get the tethering working. I tried today at work with a Mac Pro via Bluetooth, was able to pair, but could not establish a connection. I'm going to try later with my Ubuntu laptop which is what I will be tethering to in most cases anyway. I heard Bluetooth is the best way to go, but not sure why. Definitely convenient if you forgot your cord.
I'll check the dev forum to see about upgrading to the latest ROM, but I'm nervous, as I don't want to screw up my phone again. I was out-of-commission for half a day with this trial. But updating ROM should be easier that gaining root right? You don't need any special commands, just reboot and flash?
Again, thanks!!!
meanderingthemaze said:
h.nocturna - I did get #, I have root! everybody dance. Good to know about the factory restore
AdrianK - thank you. i guess i got kinda lucky fixing it myself, mostly due to lack of options. hehehe
Saiboogu - I have yet to get the tethering working. I tried today at work with a Mac Pro via Bluetooth, was able to pair, but could not establish a connection. I'm going to try later with my Ubuntu laptop which is what I will be tethering to in most cases anyway. I heard Bluetooth is the best way to go, but not sure why. Definitely convenient if you forgot your cord.
I'll check the dev forum to see about upgrading to the latest ROM, but I'm nervous, as I don't want to screw up my phone again. I was out-of-commission for half a day with this trial. But updating ROM should be easier that gaining root right? You don't need any special commands, just reboot and flash?
Again, thanks!!!
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I'm pretty sure the bluetooth stack doesn't have transferring enabled at this point. You can only connect to headsets and whatnot, you can't transfer data. Try Wireless Tether (app from Market) to do your tethering.
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Right again h.nocturna.
I am using the WiFi to type this post!
Thanks
meanderingthemaze said:
I'll check the dev forum to see about upgrading to the latest ROM, but I'm nervous, as I don't want to screw up my phone again. I was out-of-commission for half a day with this trial. But updating ROM should be easier that gaining root right? You don't need any special commands, just reboot and flash?
Again, thanks!!!
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Don't be worried about flashing ROM's, the recovery console (power+home) is always available when you soft-brick, so you can always recover. My advice before you go any further is a) flash your radio if you haven't done so already, if you don't you may notice problems with calls, texts. data ect. b) grab cyanogen's recovery image and flash that. It will let you make an image of the phones memory (a nandroid backup) and then restore it if you soft-brick and are in a hurry to get your phone working again.
Ok, so i was on the latest firmware and recently downgraded to RC29. I'm on the 5.99 data plan and on the latest firmware it worked fine, but now on RC29, the EDGE is not working, i ccan't even activate the phone. Could it be a difference of the settings on the two firmwares?
I did get it to activate on wifi, however, edge is not working no more as it was before downgrading to RC29.
Second question, I have downgraded to RC29 and was asked to activate the phone again. Will this happen again in the process of rooting? because its reallly frustrating to activate over wifi. it took me like 5 hours
Yes "signing in" what you call activating is a normal process every time you load a new rom. And as for "edge" not working. Its possible you had a bad download. Just redownload the rom and reflash it. Don't forget to wipe = ]
The signing in step will come up every time you wipe your phone. It shouldn't take 5 hours though. thats weird.
Anyone else care to comment. I'm always open to learn more = ]
well it took me 5 hours cuz i had never done it before and had trouble installing the drivers. maybe edge will work if i upgrade to a newer version
anyway, how do i go about installing one of these "roms" you speak of?
oh, and whats wiping?
jadi929 said:
well it took me 5 hours cuz i had never done it before and had trouble installing the drivers. maybe edge will work if i upgrade to a newer version
anyway, how do i go about installing one of these "roms" you speak of?
oh, and whats wiping?
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all of your questions can be answered in here
you install a new by flashing it through the recovery image you installed on your phone during the process of rooting it.
you wipe your phone from the recovery image. it, as the name implies, wipes the phone of all personal things. it clears data and cache and resets them to factory standard.
I've been on XDA today for atleast 3 hours and havent gotten anywhere, I have owned my G1 since dec. 08, rooted it, and kept the firmware at 1.1. I have jesus freak recovery 1.41.
Like I said, I've been on XDA forums for 3 hours already and haven't had any clarity what so ever and am just frustrated right now. Without being 100% I managed to upgrade to 1.6 withy cyanogen 4.2.15.1 I lost everything that was on my phone, it hurts but I'm just frustrated to the point right now that the phone is functioning slower than before and theres lag between the screens and functions. With the upgrade, all of the phones original fucntions "contacts, alarm clock, calculator, etc." force closed and nothing worked, i tried to factory reset and because of the stupid sync issue from the begining skrewed me and about half of my info saved to my google account. I'm so frustrated right now.
I need to know how to install the newest recovery to hopefully work with Nand because I had to Manually rename the DRC83_base_defanged to update.zip and then had to manually rename update-cm-4.2.15.1-signed to update.zip to install each one at a time without having the ability to freely choose what zip i wanted to install.
I haven't been able to find what issues there are with using another phones firmware on the G1, i've seen the Hero firmware, the home screen looks gorgeous and runs like a dream, but I haven't been able to find anything saying that it is okay or a BAD idea to attempt to install it, also I havent been able to find any info on finding the newest g1 firmware or any mods to be able to make the g1 firmware look like the hero, or any other android platforms. I have just found constant cooked firmware after firmware with a hard time decyphering why one may be better than the other. If someone could help me, I would GREATLY appreciate it.
I continute to run into threads "how to root" or "down load this, and download this, and assuming you have something with options you dont have, make it work like this"
Please someone help.
First you need to upgrade your recovery b/c the one you have is very very Ancient with a capital A....You have to wipe before you flash the defanged then flash cyan w/o rebooting.
I want to upgrade my recovery, but I haven't found anything that can help me upgrade the thing. any links to tell me how to do it? and is there no order that I have to install the firmware? instead of having to go from 1.1 to 1.5 to 1.6, can i just go from 1.1 to 1.6 in one hit?
step 1: search the development forum for amon ra's recovery. read the instructions to flash it.
step 2: go to cyanogenmod.com and read the instructions for upgrading from scratch.
once you've done those two things, you'll be much happier.
maniacallyhappy said:
I want to upgrade my recovery, but I haven't found anything that can help me upgrade the thing. any links to tell me how to do it? and is there no order that I have to install the firmware? instead of having to go from 1.1 to 1.5 to 1.6, can i just go from 1.1 to 1.6 in one hit?
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You don't re-root when you need to change roms you just wipe in recovery mode
You need amon_ra
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4647751#post4647751
Like the other guys have said, upgrade to Amon_RA recovery. This allows you to flash updates from any filename, not just update.zip. The link is in my signature, or it's on the G1 Dev Forum in the sticky threads.
After that, boot into recovery and go to the Wipe section. Wipe all the things there, not just data. I never used to wipe everything either and I found that was the source of alot of my problems when changing ROMs. Obviously if you have your SD card partitioned and you choose to wipe your ext then you will lose what is on there.
Cyanogen has good instructions on his Wiki, but basically you want to flash DRC83_base_defanged, DO NOT reboot, and flash CM over the top straight away, then reboot your phone and you'll have a nice clean CM install.
This flashes the HTC Developer image which includes legal Google apps (Gmail, Maps, etc) and then flashes CM over the top which includes all his cool changes but does not delete the Google apps which we aren't supposed to distribute because it's illegal. Perhaps you are not aware, but Cyanogen got a Cease & Desist letter from Google, which is why we now do the defanged base method. More ROMs are moving to this method as time goes on, Pay's ROM and Super D are two which do this.
As an aside, I have found CM is not the fastest ROM. Some people have had better success with a ROM called Super D which is quite popular and includes many of the Eclair bits and pieces which CM does anyway. I personally use Dwang's ROM which is a much more plain Donut image however it absolutely flies. Both of these are linked in my sig, and are usually within the first few pages of the G1 Dev Forum anyway.
Thank you guys so much! I really appreciate how helpful the community has been. I've been having some issues with the the upgrading and maintaining because of my memory card slot dying out. A lot of the times the system will not register that I have my micro sd card in it or it'll say the sd card is blank. I just hope the phone lasts the extra 6 months till the end of my contract
Sent from my T-Mobile G1 using XDA App
maniacallyhappy said:
I've been having some issues with the the upgrading and maintaining because of my memory card slot dying out. A lot of the times the system will not register that I have my micro sd card in it or it'll say the sd card is blank.
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I used to have this problem too, but it went away when I moved to 1.6 (coincidentally the same time I replaced the SD Card that came with my phone with a new Class 6 card). So either the upgrade of the OS or the SD Card fixed it.
In going to have to try the new men card cause the system is already at 1.6 but the phone is still trying to kill itself.
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I'm as green as it gets when it comes to Andriod and all of these custom roms for it and the phones. I am extremely technical, senior dev for 10 years. I know a bit of *nix as well, so command shells aren't new to me and the concept of mounting. I've loaded lots of ROMs (and donated!) on my Windows Mobile device (Touch Pro), so that I have licked fine. Just, now I have an andriod device...
But for the like of me, I am having a hard time finding simple basic instructions on how to load a ROM. All I see are things like "boot to RA". Yes, I've searched and searched with VBulletin's limited forum search (used google to crawl the site too, nada).
What does "RA" mean, and how to do I get to it? LOL See my delima! Does it mean "Root Access", and does that mean I have to root my phone (I am assuming that?). Just don't want to brick my brand new phone!
I just picked up a Sprint Hero and want to load Fresh ROM on it. I have not even activated it!
OS is: 2.27.651.5 I assume this is the "2.1" that people are talking about?
So, if this is the 2.1... Does that mean I cannot root it? And therefore, I cannot load any custom ROM on it?
For example, here are the instructions to load Fresh ROM (and my questions):
•Download and copy the zip to the root of your sdcard
Ok, no problem. The zip is on my flash card. But, do I need to expand it?
•Reboot to RA and do a data wipe / factory reset (REQUIRED)
Again, Reboot to... "RA" what? Root Access?
Also, in the rooting instructions, I don't see anything about "data wipe / factory reset" from whatever this "RA" is.
•You may also need to wipe sd:ext if you are having troubles booting.
How do I do that?
•If you are running Fresh Toast and ext4 then you’ll need to partition back to ext3 if you want to use apps2sd
Say what? How do partition, ext3? ext4? What are those? apps2sd?
Yeah, very new...
The rest of the instructions seem easy enough.
Thanks in advance guys!
You need to root your phone first.
After that the RA everyone is talking about is rebooting into recovery. If you have the android sdk loaded you can send a command like adb reboot recovery or you could also turn on the phone while holding the home button. Then you can do all the wiping and loading of ROMS(just make sure they are for a CDMA hero)
You will need to go into settings -> About phone -> Software Information and look at your firmware version. If it is 2.1 then you can't do anything until an exploit is found. If you are 1.5 then you can root your phone. The easiest way is with fresh kitchen. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655225
Thank you centran! Fresh Kitchen looks super clean. I'll give that a shot (when I can...).
Humm. The phone came with 2.1-update1 as the firmware.
So I guess that means I am SOL?
yep. sorry
Is there a way to use the normal HTC Utility and flash the ROM to an older version? Sprint has pulled the older versions of the ROM from the site. But, I am sure there's one floating around here somewhere.
Thanks again!
Nope, HBOOT fails to flash, and even though we maanged to bypass HBOOT, main version check still fails.
Looking forward to the hack when it's accomplished! Thanks!
Hahahaha... And as soon as I give up hope, handed it to the wife and said, "Sorry, we can't hack it at this time", I see on xda's homepage that the Hero 2.1-update1 has been rooted!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694572
Now, does this mean I can snag any of the custom ROMs here and slap it on it? Or, do I need to/should wait for an RUU-hacked version?
Yep, just Root it and then flash away. No need to wait for anything.
Thanks again for the reply!
Okay i have a sprint cdma hero i sm running 2.1 sense. I started out wanting froyo i knew i had to root so i did with universal androot and then got rom manager i didn't partition sd card because i thought it wasn't needed i still dont know if it is? but anyway after that i rooted the phone then went into rom manager, made a clockwork backup then I did what i was suposed to too root it then it was about to boot up and instead of froyo it was back to sense and had restored to factory. I repeated the same thing multiple times and tried different roms it still didn't work. After all this i restored my phone and its back to normal but google "can't establish sever connection" so mail, market, talk and all that does not work! I dont know what to do. I have tried hard reset, clearing data, cache, force stop, adding another account, signing out of talk and going back in and nothing has worked. and now in my notification bar it says sign in error! with my google name and then if i touch that it will bring me to a sign in screen, i enter the password but nothing works. I dont know what i should do help! by the way I live in america, internet works, phone calls work, sms works just not google apps, I have sprint to. And if there is any way you could help me root and run froyo the easitest way please help. I am kind of new at all this.
Thanks again- Luke
Did you make a nandroid backup? If so, restore the phone. I am pretty new to this too but maybe you can try to flash the google apps, you can find the zip on here with a search.
Did you do "wipe all data" before installing? You have to do that.
Make sure you also "nandroid" and make a backup in case you need to restore.
Ok put the cm6 rom on your sd and also google gaps .
make a nanidroid back up then wipe your phone then flash the rom then the google gaps. Then reboot
i did make a clockwork mod backup and restored my phone to that that is how it is the way know i will try and get google apps and reinstall them and if that works i will do the cm6 rom but where should i get it and do i need to partition sd card? thanks