Hello i need serious help, i messed around with the new htc hero rom and everything was fine but there were still problems with this rom so i tried a factory reset/wipe and tried to install a differ version of the rom and when i rebooted the phone it keps getting stuck and reloading the hero image, so i tried to go back to the way i had the phone and short and simple now i am stuck at the skateboard screen no matter which way i boot the phone. please help
Have you tried removing the battery and re-inserting it?
yep millions of times lol, i cant even get a recovery image up only the fastboot. does anybody know if theres files i need to put on the sdcard to reflash it to factory default
If your on that screen just load up rc29 and see what it does. Start the process over.
ya i tried putting rc29 on my sd and named it update.zip but when it loads the sd it says this
SD Checking...
Loading...[DREADIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[DREADIA2.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading...[DREADIAG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
SD Checking...
Loading...[DREADIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[DREADIA2.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Have you tried flashing a nandroid backup via fastboot?
u mean a back up that i created myself , yes does nothing but know i cant even get back to the recovery place to do any of the alt+* options. if you are talking about something else let me know
DREADIAG.nbh
I think you are suppose to put rc29 on your storage Card but not change the name it should still be called DREAIMG.nbh. Then reboot holding the camera button and follow the instructions.
If you can't get to the recovery for alt+*, you can flash the boot/data/system images from within fastboot.
from fastboot i dont have any options to do within its self???. im gonna try doing the rc29 thing again but rename it what u told me.
Whatevere you do, DONT FLASH RC29!!!!! You were trying hero so you must have the modified spl.. rc29 contains an old radio image and it WILL BRICK YOU.
It sounds like your recoverey image might be corrupt.. Use fastboot from your pc to flash a new one.
paul89 said:
from fastboot i dont have any options to do within its self???. im gonna try doing the rc29 thing again but rename it what u told me.
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You need to run fastboot from the pc to flash your phone in this mode.. theres a noobs guide to adb and fastboot somewhere round here..
yes!!! thank u guys so much i tokk the file out of the zip folder and put it on my sdcard and now im back with a fully functioning rc29!
Glad to see you're back up and running
Wait.. what..? I was sure rc29 included a radio image..? Im confused
RC29
I think that rc29 does have a radio in it but it also has the stock spl. Maybe?
ya it has a radio in it but i think the hero radio was gone so thats why i was good!
paul89 said:
ya it has a radio in it but i think the hero radio was gone so thats why i was good!
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I had a similar situation. Actually I'm still in that situation. After you went back to RC29 (which I've done 100 times now), were you able to flash new ROMs again?
I can only flash RC33, everything else takes me to fastboot.
RC29 includes the SPL radio and rc29 rom, but NOT the recovery image
ya im back to jf1.51....but now after doing this a couple of times cause i want the damn htc hero rom but now i cant seem to get it to work, my paid apps are gone???
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It's an old problem I never got solved, but simply been putting up with. Now that Cyanogen ROM's can be updated OTA, I'd really like to get my phone back to normal...
Problem started after flashing DangerSPL. I may have flashed old radio while having DangerSPL, however, my phone is not bricked.
Symptoms:
1. Everytime I flash a new ROM, wipe or no wipe, I come back stuck at the T-Mobile G1 boot screen. The only way I've found to get through is to take out battery and boot into ADB (the Camera + Power screen) and "fastboot flash boot boot.img". This almost always work.
2. Nandroid stopped working. Nandroid always errors during the process of backing up, and I'd only have splash1.img and splash2.img in the nandroid folder of my SD card.
3. "Insufficient storage available" with Dude's and Cyanogen's builds. I'm not sure if this one is related to recovery or SPL. This might be caused by past attempts at doing apps2sd (I've done both symlink and unionfs).
I've tried flashing the old HardSPL, but everytime I've done that, I either get stuck at the T-Mobile G1 boot screen, or the phone always boots straight to the SPL screen (3 Android skateboards) w/o me holding the Camera button.
Only way I've been able to make my phone usable is my going back to DangerSPL.
this may suck but have you tried downgrading to rc-29 and rooting again?
btw, this is newport country
david1171 said:
this may suck but have you tried downgrading to rc-29 and rooting again?
btw, this is newport country
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What should the process order be? Flash rc-29 first then try and revert the SPL?
start at the beginning of this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
david1171 said:
btw, this is newport country
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Yessir, I agree with you 100%.
Went back to start over the rooting process, and now I'm back at booting straight the SPL screen.
I think the problem starts after I upgrade the radio to the latest. I was booting fine into rc29, but I upgraded the radio and ROM (Cyanogen) at the same time, though I'm leaning towards radio starting the problem, not the ROM.
As a workaround, does anyone know how I can flash the boot.img file to the system w/o using ADB (through recovery console)? This would remove the dependence of a computer, making my problem more acceptable.
I tried to do a "flash_image boot boot.img" but it tells me file not found. I can't see files in my SD card while in recovery console.
Figured it out, but still issues:
after "mount /sdcard" and "flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img", I get...
"header is the same, not flashing boot"
cigar3tte said:
Figured it out, but still issues:
after "mount /sdcard" and "flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img", I get...
"header is the same, not flashing boot"
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What if you renamed boot to something else and tried to flash it? Maybe it won't flash it cause it's the same file name and the system won't flash because of it. Just my .02.
But another thing I was thinking was not to update the radio if your on RC29 since the new radio version wasn't out at the time of RC29 so it may be buggy. Then upgrade to a new rom then flash the new radio. Again just a suggestion.
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What if you renamed boot to something else and tried to flash it? Maybe it won't flash it cause it's the same file name and the system won't flash because of it. Just my .02.
But another thing I was thinking was not to update the radio if your on RC29 since the new radio version wasn't out at the time of RC29 so it may be buggy. Then upgrade to a new rom then flash the new radio. Again just a suggestion.
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I had it named 4192-boot.img actually, just was lazy to type it out on this thread.
I left the phone at the boot-straight-to-bootloader state and called T-Mobile, a replacement is on the way.
cigar3tte said:
I had it named 4192-boot.img actually, just was lazy to type it out on this thread.
I left the phone at the boot-straight-to-bootloader state and called T-Mobile, a replacement is on the way.
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awhh how sweet lol. thats one way to get it working.
So I'm in the process of recovering my phone from a near brick. Unfortunately I replaced CM recovery with the factory one, and now I get an error whenever I try to flash any rom, and I can't drop to console to install CM recovery.
When I try to flash, it verifies it, and starts to install it, but instantly stops and says "Installation Aborted" and quits. No other error whatsoever.
Thanks for any help.
same issue here
Easiest solution for both of you is to start over and reroot using THIS guide.
Downgrading will reflash spl, radio, and rom
update your recovery image??
I tried to update my recovery image, but when I went to type the command, flash_image was not found.
On another note, I just tried to put RC 29 SPL on it, but it failed, again with no errors.
Also, my phone will now only boot into bootloader mode.
UndeniablyRexer said:
On another note, I just tried to put RC 29 SPL on it, but it failed, again with no errors.
Also, my phone will now only boot into bootloader mode.
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How did you try to flash "RC 29 SPL" ? By the way RC29 is not an spl, it is an entire phone image including rom, radio, recovery, and spl.
Fingerlickin said:
How did you try to flash "RC 29 SPL" ? By the way RC29 is not an spl, it is an entire phone image including rom, radio, recovery, and spl.
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Thanks for the correction.
I put DREAIMG.nbh from the link from your post on my sdcard and booted using camera + power. It asked if I wanted to start the update image so I pressed power. The loading bar almost reaches the end, but then stops and says that it terminated and the update failed.
I looked around a little and someone mentioned that sometimes the camera button gets stuck and therefore appears to only boot into bootloader mode. I took off my back panel and fiddled with it, but the camera button didn't appear to be stuck, and it still boots into bootloader every time.
My assumption is the DREAIMG.nbh got corrupted somehow, and my only option is to buy a microsd card reader and copy a new image.
The loading bar almost reaches the end, but then stops and says that it terminated and the update failed.
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Try downloading the RC29 file again from HERE, you may have a bad copy.
I bought a microsd reader and downloaded a good copy. I have yet to try to install CM recovery or flash a rom, but thanks for getting me this far.
I just finished your guide, and it all seems to work. Thanks for your help. I had another question, though. I have an ADP, but I followed your guide exactly, do I now have a rooted G1 as opposed to an ADP?
I'm glad everything worked out for you. There are minor differences but yes you have a rooted G1 with a batt cover worth bragging about.
Hi all, this might be a n00bish question, ive searched and ive noticed some people having a similar problem but i havent read a solution.
My G1 and specs are in the signature. I am on Radio 1.22.14.11 and im trying to update to the 26I from HTC's site but everytime i flash it and I hold Power+Camera it still says im on the 11 radio...why wont it let me upgrade? I didnt use the trackball btw, if that has anything to do with it...i renamed it update.zip and everything. idk why it wont upgrade. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Hello, I had issues like this, I noticed it the first time with a jf rom and onne other time with the recovery, somethings not being saved right on ur end. I wouldn't know the exact answer to this question, however, my fix was a complete start from scratch, back to dreaimg.nbh and formating.partioning of the sd. Srry for weak suggestion, I'm sure there's a reason and an answer but if all else fails a fresh start never hurts! Hope u fix it!
Try to use cyan 1.4 recovery.
The reason I say this is because I think there is a bug with amon_ra's new boot image where it will select an option by pressing the home button, thus doing the same thing as using the trackball to press the reboot option.
Thanks guys. it seems like theres no simple fix for it. i tried flashing in cyans recovery a few weeks ago and it still didnt work. I wonder if any of the others who had this problem solved it. Ill admit if it wasnt for the Recovery Flasher app that came out a while ago, i would never have been able to root. Im still a n00b, but im learning a lil more as i read along here. Thanks guys ill keep looking for info.
flash the radio through fastboot.
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery
doing all that, you can also flash the recovery image that you tried to before, but could not.
sorry for the extremely late response.
Ive installed the sdk successfully but each time i install the drivers and connect my phone itll sense it for like 30 seconds and then the phone wont be sensed anymore, this happens on my win 7 64 bit laptop and on my windows xp desktop. I updated to RA's 1.5 recovery image and gave it another shot but it still shows up as the old radio in the phone settings.
i just realized you said fastboot. idk if i can use that since i have stock spl. forgive me if im wrong like i said im still new to this
No you can't, you have to use the hard/enginering spl
Hm....I don't think I can upgrade my spl if I can't upgrade my radio, is that right? I don't know why it doesn't flash through recovery. It writes the image and boot, then shows a picture of the htc logo and reboots into recover and says clearing cache. I don't know what could be causing the problem, I even tried formatting my memory card and wiping everything but still it remains on the 11 radio....
I posted this in the "Brick" thread but I have not garnered any attention and IRC has moved too fast to get any reliable help.
Hello,
I've done some searching and I cannot find any definitive answers to my problem.
I was on CM 4.2.9.1 and tried to upgrade to 4.2.10.1 and had a bad flash (stuck at android boot). I noticed there was a new update, 4.2.11.1 the next morning and thought I would wipe completely and update from RC29. I downloaded all the files necessary and used spl to downgrade to RC29 which booted fine. From there I got root and started the upgrade part. I installed the RArecovery 1.5.2 which went fine. I then installed the defanged HTC recovery image and CM 4.2.11.1 then the newest radio and rebooted. That went directly back to the RA recovery after installing the radio. From there I installed the Hard SPL. After that finished and rebooted the phone booted to the Hard SPL or the recovery image.
Thinking I had messed something up I though I could start over and try again. I then booted to the SPL bootloader and flashed the RC29 DREAIMG.NBH to start over.
After that completed the phone will only boot to the SPL bootloader, which is now the original SPL. I have tried to flash the DREAIMG.NBH multiple times with the same result. When holding down Home and Power I get the ! screen.
Is my phone bricked? Or is there an image that I can flash to save it?
Thanks for any help.
David Perlik
[email protected]
Does it boot up into RA recovery? from there you can flash any zip... If you got root and the right radio and SPL. Put the latest Cyan on your SD and boot into recovery and flash away... If you can get it to recovery you are not bricked...
Okay... i reread... may be beyond my limited knowledge...
3rd time... I would pop out your SD and put recovery.img fromhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480... and make sure HardSPL is on there... when you boot into recovery and get the "!" hit ALT-L to get the menu... then ALT-S to apply the update.zip(HardSPL)... heck just follow the steps from the link above...
GOOD LUCK
No recovery at all. I'm assuming it was flashed back to RC29 specs.
You're not bricked because you can boot into SPL. You still have a recovery image on there, not that it's a good one, it's just a basic HTC recovery. What you do have is a hardware problem with you camera button most likely. See if you can blow some compressed air in there, try tapping it a little bit, it may fix it.
Good luck
I got stuck in a bad situation like this a bit ago...
If nothing else, you should still be able to get the dreaming.nbh on there, upgrade to donut and then reroot.
It's not a problem with the camera button as I can still get to the SPL and flash the DREAIMG.nbh.
The DREAIMG.nbh flashes fine, everything gets an ok, but when I restart the phone it boots directly to the SPL.
Just a quick update:
I've gotten a hold of a different micro sdcard than the one that I was using in hopes that some weird formatting error was happening with my old card. Alas, even with this new and freshly formatted card the DREAIMG.nbh will still not take correctly. All parts report ok while flashing, but my phone still boots directly to the SPL on startup.
Can anyone help?
Im having the same problem, but I can get into recovery, sd only has an fat partition, I made a thread here, can the Mods delete it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=619180
okay I followed regs guide and when I reached the part to where I have to run the command to flash the custom recovery image
regaw says it may take many seconds for it to complete
when I do it it takes less than 1 second and when I run the final command to reboot the phone into the recovery menu it simply boots up normal
I have tried booting while holding the home button and still a no go
I think the recovery image isnt flashing into my phone for some reason...
but cmd says it was successful , any help apreciated
can anyone help?
please, I've followed everything as it should be.
I've tried 3 computers(2 running XP , 1 running windows 7)
I've Hard reset the phone everytime I have tried to perform the root
Everytime I flash the recovery img it says its successful but when I place the comand to reboot into recovery my phone freezes and I have to do a battery pull.
I don't get what I'm doing wrong
I have all the files in the correct directory
I have usb debug on
I have set the phone to charge only
I have htc sync installed
any help apreciated :/
just mount your sdcard copy the recovery to it again then try to flash it once more. it could have corrupted the image on the first copy. if that doesnt work. try to download the 1.6.2. recovery image and flash that.
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just mount your sdcard copy the recovery to it again then try to flash it once more. it could have corrupted the image on the first copy. if that doesnt work. try to download the 1.6.2. recovery image and flash that.
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can you point me to where I can find that download?
Thanks I will try to mount the card now
No luck putting the files directly into the card ; ;
what else should I try?
I'm having the same issues. I'm running a brand new hero not even activated yet that has 1.5 (sprint send me new one bc couldnt revert.. didnt know root was coming) ANYWAY I need help.
I have root and I've copied damage controls zip to my sd card. I tried rebooting into recovery mode and i get an error picture so I had to reboot.
this is frustrating.. can someone give me step by step including commands that I should type? I can load the sprint 2.1 and unlock (have old version) but right now im as frustrated as all the other noob's.
it sounds so easy but im clearly doing something wrong..
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No luck putting the files directly into the card ; ;
what else should I try?
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1.5.2 http://www.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2.img
1.6.2 http://rapidshare.com/files/360288584/recovery-RA-heroc-v1.6.2.img
it worked with 1.6.2 thank you!
no problem
sporty9xterra said:
I'm having the same issues. I'm running a brand new hero not even activated yet that has 1.5 (sprint send me new one bc couldnt revert.. didnt know root was coming) ANYWAY I need help.
I have root and I've copied damage controls zip to my sd card. I tried rebooting into recovery mode and i get an error picture so I had to reboot.
this is frustrating.. can someone give me step by step including commands that I should type? I can load the sprint 2.1 and unlock (have old version) but right now im as frustrated as all the other noob's.
it sounds so easy but im clearly doing something wrong..
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this is the walk thru you should do with 1.5 just used the 1.6.2 Recovery I posted, it has less issues with flashing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4930043&postcount=1