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Stuck on G1 Screen... Please Please Help

Hi,
I had a 1.5 G1. I rooted it and updated to a JF1.5.1
I decided to experiment a little bit more and I tried to install HardSPL. It said to have installed correctly, but after the reboot, it is stuck continuously at the G1 screen. I tried to get to the bootloader or the recovery console, but it is not happening.
I have tried home+power, camera+power, back+power, but no matter what it just goes and sits in the G1 screen. I took a nandroid backup before installing the hardspl, but if the phone doesnt boot up at all, I dont know what to do.
Can someone please please help me out? Is there anything at all I can do? I will be lost if my phone is bricked. I have got it from US to India and I don't think I can get a replacement warranty here. ((((
Thanks in Advance.

Sorry but...I think it's bricked if it can't access recovery or bootloader

There's no fix out yet... take a look at this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533004

i think i got a solution cuz i dont think its brickedcuz this happened to me and i found that it my recovery.img got corrupt and all i did was redownloaded the recovery.img to my computer and extracted it to my sd card and sucssesfully booted into recovery mode try this maybe itll work if not your bricked

he already said he can't get to recovery

Doesn't the SPL or Recovery appear before the G1 screen? I'm pretty sure he's tried pulling the battery, holding down HOME (or CAMERA depending on which mode he wants to go into) then putting the battery back in... If not then he should give it a go...

NeoBlade said:
Doesn't the SPL or Recovery appear before the G1 screen?
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No it does not.

Thanks guys for all your support... until something new comes up, I guess I am screwed. I dont think anyone else would have bricked their G1 in just 3 days.
I had rooted it and it was working fine until I let curiosity get the better of me and I decided to see what else I could flash on to the device. Sucks...

I brick mine the second day, so i guess i hold the record

Interesting. This did happen to me when I was messing with the JAChero Rom. During some of the steps it asked you to install the the latest SPL. It tells you in the steps that it will hang on the G1. You'll need an SD Card reader but put a stable rom on the SD Card, rename it update.zip and reflash. This did work for me. Hope the same out come for you!

How to COMPLETELY reset phone? Please Read..

Is there a way for me to completely reset the phone to make it seem i never had root? or like if i just bought it brand new? im not talking about the wipe in the recovery menu.. I need a different way... ]:
Story: I was switching roms & i by mistake pressed Wipe battery informations or something like that, (using Amon Ra 1.5.2 recovery) The phone got messed up & i put the Dreaimg.nbh in the boot thing, & reset the phone.. i dont have root anyymore but when i go into recovery (non-root recovery, just plain with the exclamation on top of a phone) it says on the bottom of it : "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"
I'm sure that is messing with everything, since it wont let me root my phone once more..

Jose_95 said:
Is there a way for me to completely reset the phone to make it seem i never had root? or like if i just bought it brand new? im not talking about the wipe in the recovery menu.. I need a different way... ]:
Story: I was switching roms & i by mistake pressed Wipe battery informations or something like that, (using Amon Ra 1.5.2 recovery) The phone got messed up & i put the Dreaimg.nbh in the boot thing, & reset the phone.. i dont have root anyymore but when i go into recovery (non-root recovery, just plain with the exclamation on top of a phone) it says on the bottom of it : "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"
I'm sure that is messing with everything, since it wont let me root my phone once more..
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I'm assuming you don't actually want to reset everything, but rather just get root back. The way you flashed Dreaimg.nbh the first time was not through recovery but rather through fastboot. Look into how to root your phone again, but I'll put you on the right path. Power up by holding the camera button and power, and flash that image, then do the telnet thing and flash a new recovery image. Best of luck.

Ooglez said:
I'm assuming you don't actually want to reset everything, but rather just get root back. The way you flashed Dreaimg.nbh the first time was not through recovery but rather through fastboot. Look into how to root your phone again, but I'll put you on the right path. Power up by holding the camera button and power, and flash that image, then do the telnet thing and flash a new recovery image. Best of luck.
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It seems you misunderstood. Those directions you are giving me are exactly what i did. I made it all the way up to The Terminal emulator. It says there is no recovery.img in my system, when i check its there right after i have already downloaded it.. I'm not sure why it isnt working, but maybe do i need to unroot my phone?

Jose_95 said:
It seems you misunderstood. Those directions you are giving me are exactly what i did. I made it all the way up to The Terminal emulator. It says there is no recovery.img in my system, when i check its there right after i have already downloaded it.. I'm not sure why it isnt working, but maybe do i need to unroot my phone?
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Had the same problem but i then i switched over and used one click root and went straight to cyanogen.

androidboi209 said:
Had the same problem but i then i switched over and used one click root and went straight to cyanogen.
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Then what do you suggest for this situation? I'm really pissed since this Cache thing is making my phone unable to read anything in my SD card like things that have to do with root..

Dream Stuck in SPL Boot Loop

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

Bricked G1?

New to G1 and have a problem. Bought a G1 and it came with elcaires rom I think it was.
So I downloaded UK RC7, renamed it to Update, and placed it on the root of my card.
Held the home and power button, and tried to install but I'm getting installation aborted each time. I've also tried to wipe, but that gets aborted too.
I rebooted and now its stuck on G1 screen
I hope somebody can help, had the phone an hour and I've mucked it up already.
Thanks in advance

Im also "bricked" at the loading screen, i turn it on and it gets frozen at the tmobile screen. Home+power, camera+power, Alt+L etc dont work.
Is this fixable?

sirlewis said:
Im also "bricked" at the loading screen, i turn it on and it gets frozen at the tmobile screen. Home+power, camera+power, Alt+L etc dont work.
Is this fixable?
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No. It's Not.

if its not than what should he and i do?

Are you trying to boot into recovery while its in the G1 screen?

yo my name is sammy as well and i swear i just did the same thing with my g1 on eclair. hit me up dude on [email protected]. we can try and help each other out. plus i love the uk man. i never been, but plan too very soon. i love the music and the accents of the women, oh god. hit me up bro!

If you cannot access recovery or bootloader, you have a rather expensive paperweight. If you can, then you have hope.

AroundTheWorld said:
If you cannot access recovery or bootloader, you have a rather expensive paperweight. If you can, then you have hope.
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It is not so expensive since it be can brought for less than 100>$$
You can fix it by replacing the board with one from a working phone which is not the easiest thing to do.

hey ill take one of those paper weights... I need a new screen...

in the same boat cant get into anything hung up on splash screen

maybe our only option is jtag, ive never bricked before i always put cm 4 then go and install cm5 above that and it worked but this time it told me to go kick rocks and and and it was a customers phone so i gave him mine which is running eclair.

you guys arn't bricked. If you can turn on the phone than your perfectly fine.
You just gotta learn how to use it

G1 hanged at white screen!
Hi all,
I really need a help here. I have a G1 rooted with CM rom ver5. it was working fine since 3 months but suddenly now the phone doesnt boots up, it goes to white screen with 3 droid skaters and highlight on Hboot. It is freezed then and nothing can be done. I removed battery and tried booting by home + power ; camera+power etc etc . nothing happens it goes to that screen only. i have amons recovery and also nand backups in sd card. but the system doesnt let me go any where!! Please help......
attached is the snapshot

Either your back-button hangs, or something messed up your phone completely.
But as long as you have the fastboot mode, it's not bricked. I would suggest you to clean everything, i.e.
Code:
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
and then flash recovery again, i.e.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recover.img>
After that you can boot into recovery and restore your latest backup.
Please note: fastboot is a command you execute on your PC and you have to connect your phone with USB to your PC.
If after that procedure your phone boots again into hboot, most likely your back-button is defect.

I myself I think got a bricked G1...
I first installed many custom roms and thought that they were slowing my g1 so I wanted to get my g1 back to normal... For that I googled and was gone to the htc official website and ported the radio and rom from there but unfortunately I read it somewhere and it said that the rom is for only developers phone.
Everything first went very good... no error on clockwork recovery but when I reboot my phone, it got stuck on T-mobile G1 logo screen? I now can not even go to recovery mode or in fastboot mode? I need help...
Someone told me to use odin multi loader? but how do I use it or do it?? I need some instructions?
What should I do now? All I want to do right now is to get rid of my g1 by fixing it and selling it at once!!!

before flashing radio, spl, rom...anything...u need to check out the warnings and compatibility-MUST!!!!
there are 32B and 32A devices...both have different stuffs for themselves....which can be bricked if u dont follow the guidelines and try to act in sort of a haste to accomplish something new!!!
for those who can get to the camera+power (hboot) screen, but cant do anything else...u need to format ur sdcard...FAT32...then download dreaimg.nbh file...keep it in the root of ur sdcard...
then boot into the hboot menu, and ur phone should read the dreaimg.nbh file and prompt u to take an action(flash it)....do that and it'll get ur phone to the stock rom thingy....
then later u gotta root ur device again(telnet, great)....then install amon ra's recovery...change radio and what not and play again....
u gotta be patient...that's the only thing!!!
check this too
http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Get_Root

Am I screwed or what? Tmobile screen or red,green,blue, and white screen

I have a g1 that will get stuck in one of the two screens:
if camera+power is pressed it gets stuck in the red,green,blue, and white screen and will read:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT - 0.95.0000
CPLD - 4
RADIO - 2.22.19.26I
Sep 2 2008
Serial0
if the three finger salute is performed it gets stuck in the t mobile g1 screen.
now for the odd part i have lost my sdcard somehow and cant remember what i was doing that caused it to become this way. i am a noob, so if some says use the search function believe i have and cant make any sense of it still... any HELP is appreciated and thanks in advance!!

What happens when you start your phone by holding home+power, does it go into recovery? IF so, which recovery do you have? If you have any of the Amon_RA, JF, CM or ClockworkMode recoveries - then you can just wipe and flash a rom of your choice. You do need another SD card.
If you have a stock recovery or cant get into it- then you need to flash DREAIMG.nbh. Again, you need a new SD card for that.
Good luck.

borodin1 said:
What happens when you start your phone by holding home+power, does it go into recovery? IF so, which recovery do you have? If you have any of the Amon_RA, JF, CM or ClockworkMode recoveries - then you can just wipe and flash a rom of your choice. You do need another SD card.
If you have a stock recovery or cant get into it- then you need to flash DREAIMG.nbh. Again, you need a new SD card for that.
Good luck.
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If he has a stock recovery, he can always go with an OEM update.zip.

se-rated r said:
now for the odd part i have lost my sdcard somehow
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You have probably flashed a ROM that requires Hard SPL..Or just messed something up wtih your first try.
yea I would try starting over...check out one of cyanogens threads

Buy a new sdcard, they're cheap on amazon. You can easily find a 2 gb for $5-10 shipped, and bigger ones are not that much more. I bought an 8gb class 6 for $23 and it even included an sdcard reader. If you don't want to do that, borrow one and stick an DREAIMG.nbh on it, root it, then flash CM5.0.7 stable. What you have is not a brick, you just deleted the system and/or recovery partitions from your phone and must restore them.