Ok so I did the 1 click root and flashed the newest cyanogen mod and then put the enoch theme on, and I realized that I couldnt make any phone calls, so I tried to flash the new radio and I did the update.zip thing.
after that it showed a picture of the g1 with an arrow coming out of a box then it rebooted to the system recovery and now it says "formatting cache...."
what do I do?! im freaking out (((
Now when I reboot it gets past the "G1" screen and to the mod screen then it just goes to a black screen.
HELP ME SOMEONE!
Also since using the 1 click root method, Do I need to flash a new SPL and Radio?
if so, which are the newest?
Ummm. That's normal
It's normal for it to stay at a black screen!?
For awhile, if it takes longer than 5 mins, just pull the battery out and reboot, if still hangs just wipe and reflash your rom
ok ok cool
im reflashing the radio, how long should it say "formatting cache"
Normaly just a minute, up to 5, I just did the one click root for a guy yesterday and when I flash the hard spl for him and it hung for 10 so I just reboot and it was fine
Do I need to flash the SPL first before the radio?
No, you do not have to, if upgrade to the danger spl, than radio first, and your not making calls issuse was prob on account of the theme and not the radio, so reflash rom
I just wiped the phone and it just loads too the android screen and then to black
idk what to do
Did you wipe and before you ask, wiping does not wipe your radio or spl, they are lower in the system, so wipe, and flash rom
how do I re flash the rom?
I cant hook my phone up to the USB to put the rom file back on
How do I flash the rom if I cant mount my phone to the USB to put the rom file on it
Go to your recovery options list, goto in the console, hit enter when it comes on, than type ums_enable to mount your phone, put rom on, type ums_disable to unmount then typ reboot
You are my god!
10 billion thank you's!
What should I do after I re flash the rom, should I try to flash the radio and SPL then put a theme one?
Enjoy your phone, that' all, you only have to upgrade to the danger spl if you want to use a hero rom or jac's xrom, if not you do not need to upgrade the spl
One last question, How do I fix the problem with the enoch theme
When I put it on my phone it wouldnt let me make calls and it make my MMS service force close
It might be an issuse with your theme, try another one. Another important console command is fix_permissions whenever you get force closes or when you wipe, it fixes the ids of your apps, mostly paid ones
Ok cool, I really liked that them but its not worth that scare again.
Thank you soo much, I would have been so lost without the help.
No problem, just read up, learn more about how android works, than help the next person
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I think i bricked my phone by fallowing this tutorial.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3874647&postcount=406
It happened after flashing the spl.
My phone will not go past the white "t-mobile g1" splash screen.
thank you for reading.
Damn, another brick? Did you make sure you had a PVT board and not the DVT-1, DVT-2 boards? It's a known problem with the Special SPL that it pretty much bricks DVT board phones...at least so far. (check by booting with camera+power if possible, board type is shown on the first line of text)
Can you boot using home+power? Are you just stuck at the Splash screen? If so, after about 10 mins the screen will change, giving you an triangle error symbol. At this point push Alt+L. This should give you the recovery utility, where you will have access to wipe (you should prob do one) and reflash a rom.
Of course this is all assuming you have root already.
i dont know if i actually got root i fallowed some tutorial on that too today i can do both of those boots but dont know how to flash anymore updates with my phone stuck like this
aronissleeping said:
i dont know if i actually got root i fallowed some tutorial on that too today i can do both of those boots but dont know how to flash anymore updates with my phone stuck like this
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Ok, so what you need to do is this:
1. Wait for the error message //remember it sometimes takes 10 mins or so
2. open keyboard, hit Alt+L //this will toggle your phone to the recovery utility
3. If you have root, you may have a recovery utility that says "JF version 1.43", if not you have the stock recovery utility
4. If you have root, you could try to DL pretty much any rom although I might try the Ion rom for its stability and simplicity //there are tons of instructions for flashing a new rom
5. If no root, search in the Dev section of the Dream forum for an OTA ( Over The Air, ie. stock) rom. In particular, search for Dreaimg.nbh, and read the instructions for reflashing it. This will help you gain root.
6. reboot, and enjoy (hopefully)
If none of that works, you can find the "Bricked G1's" thread on the Dev section too. I think your prob out of luck, but it's possible someone has/or is coming close to a fix.
re flashing ill let you know the out come
lol you didnt brick it since u can access the recovery image.
anyways what happened to me yesterday, i flashed latest radio, the latest spl and it wouldnt boot. i flashed a new system image but still no boot (t-mobile screen). I wiped the system (data partition) from recovery boot, and reflashed with a new system image, worked ok... so from what i get, u need to wipe / reflash system, if you upgrade spl...
is by using a card reader on a pc the only way to flash a different img if this happens to you?
my phone is in root and i'm on the same g1 screen. if i take the battery out i can boot to recovery mode but my only options are alt-w and alt-s. i've tried wiping and reflashing with the same spl img and it's not resolving anything.
Hi all
I tried to install latest SPL (1.33.2005) on my G1
I think I tried to flash it 10 times , using 5 different guides, in all cases the outcome is the same - i receive notification that the install went kwel, but the SPL just does not install.
I'm currently running Engineering SPL - HBOOT-0.95.3000 (I thought at first that maybe I have to install HardSPL first and only then go for 1.33.2005, but based on what I found on the Net that's not required.
Also I'm using 1.3.1 CYanogenMod recovery , I've thought that I need to downgrade my recovery in order to install the SPL , and once again , found out it's not correct.
I'm flashing the bloody 26i radio every time , downloading the SPL from HAYKURO site, wiping , installing the same version after the SPL as I had before, rebooting into recovery when I should , waiting for 10 minutes before puling the battery out when it stuck on G1 screen ,you name it.
Method 1
1) Place Radio 26i on sdcard , change to update.zip , reboot in recovery , flash it , reboot back into recovery (automatic), reboot normal
2) Place SPL on sdcard , change to update.zip , reboot in recovery, flash it (it take 3 seconds and give notification that install is finished)
3) Still in recovery, remove sdcard , place sdcardN2 (with CYanogenMod rom named update.zip , like the one I had before).
4) Still in recovery, open console , reboot manually to recovery (no auto reboot, have to reboot by "reboot recovery").
4) Flash the CYanogenMod , reboot
ALL WORK, NO SPL
Method 2
1) Place Radio 26i on sdcard , change to update.zip , reboot in recovery , flash it , reboot back into recovery (automatic), reboot normal
2) Place SPL on sdcard , change to update.zip , reboot in recovery, flash it (it take 3 seconds and give notification that install is finished) , open console , reboot manually to recovery (no auto reboot).
3) Reboot normally - Stuck on G1 screen.
4) Take the battery out , remove sdcard ,place sdcard N2 (with CYanogenMod rom named update.zip , like the one I had before).
5) Return the battery , boot in recovery , flash the rom , reboot normally
ALL WORK, NO SPL
SO what can go wrong ? Any1 ? What am I missing ?
Your sure its not installing, as in your bootloader doesnt show 1.33.2005? Or your not sure, and it just gets stuck on g1 screen every time?
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Your sure its not installing, as in your bootloader doesnt show 1.33.2005? Or your not sure, and it just gets stuck on g1 screen every time?
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I always get to install my original version eventually , but on checking the bootloader , it show me the old SPL I had
BEFORE you do any of this make sure your have a PVT boar. Well why are you flashing your old bootloader? after the new spl says its complete, reboot, it will get stuck on g1 screen, I AM ALMOST positive you can pull the battery now and then put sd in with rom. Put battery back in and power on holding home to get to recovery. Flash rom and then reboot. After all of this once your rom is up and running, power on into bootloader and see if it says 1.33.2005.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534461
This thread has the best instructions imo.
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BEFORE you do any of this make sure your have a PVT boar. Well why are you flashing your old bootloader? after the new spl says its complete, reboot, it will get stuck on g1 screen, I AM ALMOST positive you can pull the battery now and then put sd in with rom. Put battery back in and power on holding home to get to recovery. Flash rom and then reboot. After all of this once your rom is up and running, power on into bootloader and see if it says 1.33.2005.
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Yep , tried that as well.
Got PVT , flashed SPL , rebooted into never-ending G1 screen , took the battery out , switched to sdcard with rom , placed battery back , booted in recovery , flashed rom , rebooted - all fine, rom running but still old SPL in bootloader
Darn
maybe you need the hardspl before you can do it?
see if you can flash another SPL like HardSPL
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maybe you need the hardspl before you can do it?
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I was actually hoping to have some confirmation regarding this point , actually , from what I found on the Net it's not required , but who believes the NET ?
When you flash the spl it should complete the flash and then you home+back to reboot. The phone should reboot and then you should see a box with an arrow. Then it will reboot again. This is where it will stick at the g1 screen. That's where you pull the battery and flash your build again. Did you see the box with the arrow?
try to use the actual button rather than use trackball. like alt+s to update rather than choosing the update menu using trackball.
i've heard people having this problem if they are on cyna recovery. Go back to JF recovery image before flashing SPL.
smurphete said:
i've heard people having this problem if they are on cyna recovery. Go back to JF recovery image before flashing SPL.
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Was just about to say the same. Its been widely reported that you have to flash this spl from jf's recovery.
dashed said:
BEFORE you do any of this make sure your have a PVT boar. Well why are you flashing your old bootloader? after the new spl says its complete, reboot, it will get stuck on g1 screen, I AM ALMOST positive you can pull the battery now and then put sd in with rom. Put battery back in and power on holding home to get to recovery. Flash rom and then reboot. After all of this once your rom is up and running, power on into bootloader and see if it says 1.33.2005.
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Just my observation on this. If you get stuck on g1 screen, which I did, you can wipe your phone without reinstalling the ROM. The next reboot will take 5-10 mins, but it will boot up fine.
chrisrj28 said:
When you flash the spl it should complete the flash and then you home+back to reboot. The phone should reboot and then you should see a box with an arrow. Then it will reboot again. This is where it will stick at the g1 screen. That's where you pull the battery and flash your build again. Did you see the box with the arrow?
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Actually, I never got the box and arrow after SPL reboot (like in radio) Hmmp...
h.nocturna said:
see if you can flash another SPL like HardSPL
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i've heard people having this problem if they are on cyna recovery. Go back to JF recovery image before flashing SPL.
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I'll try those as well ..
Thanks guys , I'll keep the post updated (10 tries and no brick yet )
SOLVED !!!!!!
The problem was in CYA 1.3.1 recovery , JF recovery worked like a charm
Thank you thank you thank you all.
Mods - feel free to lock this thread
That's wierd lol. Friend just flashed it on Cyan's recovery
I just flashed to jachero last night. I thought i had the most up to date spl but was getting an error. My problem was not mounting the sdcard before the push. After i did that it installed fine and im using Cya recovery.
You couldn't have installed JACHero without the latest spl, SPL: 1.33.2005
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You couldn't have installed JACHero without the latest spl, SPL: 1.33.2005
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Yes i realize.. i thought i had it.. but did not. So i had to update that first and that fixed my error so i could install JACHero. My main point was that i could push just fine in adb with Cyanogen's recovery.
First off...
G1 PVT 32B
recover img1.4
new radio 2.22.19.26I
intalled hard spl, in recovery img after installing hard spl phone rebooted to recovery then at the bottem said formatting cache:.... stuck there for 15 mins so I tried Alt S to reboot, After that it gets stuck on G1 screen. I can still get back to recovery. should I try to redown load spl, is it possible I got a bad download or did I do some else wrong
maybeoneday said:
First off...
G1 PVT 32B
recover img1.4
new radio 2.22.19.26I
intalled hard spl, in recovery img after installing hard spl phone rebooted to recovery then at the bottem said formatting cache:.... stuck there for 15 mins so I tried Alt S to reboot, After that it gets stuck on G1 screen. I can still get back to recovery. should I try to redown load spl, is it possible I got a bad download or did I do some else wrong
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first boot into bootloader(camera and home) and see if you have a white screen with 3 skating androids.
if you do then you have the hard spl.
sometimes when you flash a spl it will wipe your phone.
if you do have the hard spl just go ahead and flash whatever rom you want to use.
if you don't have a card reader go into the recovery console and type ums_enable to mount your sdcard and put the rom on your sdcard then type ums_disable to unmount the sdcard, then finally type reboot recovery and when it boots up flash your rom.
That did it David just uploaded CM 4.0.4 and its up and running. You have been alot of help tonight, kick you a little something for your help...
wait , you push alt-s, are you still using the orignal recovery, do yourself a favor and flash cm recovery 1.4, nandroid backup and restore, flash any zip.
maybeoneday said:
That did it David just uploaded CM 4.0.4 and its up and running. You have been alot of help tonight, kick you a little something for your help...
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thank you very much
Thanks!!
I was having the same issue... ( I have the pimped recovery as well)
The first couple times I tried, I was getting no changes to the spl...
I tried one more time, wiped to be sure, proceeded to install spl
I then made it to same point, "formatting cache..."
I decided to start the reboot process and quickly pressed
"cam + power" when the screen went black and BAM,
got the 3 skateboarding androids
and it says "HSPL 10.95.3000"
I then reinstalled latest Cyan, and partitioned the sdcard with sdparted.txt
8gig Class 6 (100MB Swap, 1024MB ext4, 6893 Fat32)
Rebooted and
Thx!!
I am trying to unroot my friend's G1... I found a tutorial on XDA (link) and it worked fine without any problems on my phone, however when I go into recovery mode (CyanogenMod v1.4+JF) and I hit Alt+S, it starts to install the update.zip and it reboots and starts up in recovery and gets stuck on Formatting CACHE:... I've let it sit for quite a while and still nothing. I can reboot the phone, but it just starts back up in the rooted mod. When I start into the bootloader (camera+power), it's not the three android's on skateboard, it's the colored screen, and it doesn't give me the option to install DREAIMG.nbh file. I'm not quite sure what to do, especially since I had absolutely no problem testing this tutorial on my own phone.
EDIT: I figured out that the bootloader is downgraded and working. Now when I load the bootloader, it goes to the grey screen and says Loading... No image found! I have searched the forums and google for a solution to this program and so far nothing I've found is working. I've reformatted my SD card many times to FAT32, as well as redownloaded the DREAIMG.nbh file... Any help would be great!
EDIT 2: I'm not sure what the problem was or what I did to get it to work, but after formatting over and over and downloading and redownloading, and trying different SD cards, it finally started to work.
Ok. I have done everything that was suggested up above. I also get the 3 android skateboarders and I have tried to install the new
[ROM] CyanogenMod - Keeping You Legal For Less (STABLE) [UPDATED 10/31 - v4.2.3.1]
Which installs just fine. But then I reboot the device and it continues to be stuck on the G1 Splash Screen.
I can verify that I updated the Radio first and confrimed it was updated then updated the SPL and got formatting cache and waited like 15 mins and then now I am stuck.
So I what david1171 suggested and still nothing.
Any suggestions would be nice.
Thanks
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
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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.
Hello,
I managed to install the CyanogenMOD recovery image through flashrecc 090909.
I wiped all the data and following another tutorial I installed directly cyanogenMOD ROM 1.4.xx. I restarted the phone and it won't boot, the Orange logo remained there for 40 minutes, after which I restarted it.
I wiped all the data again.
I installed update.zip, the phone restarted and the recovery console popped automatically with the message Formatting CACHE, and it's doing that for an hour and counting.
What should I do?
Did I bricked it? or is it a soft brick, if so how can I make boot? ANY ROM, not specially the cyanogenmod.
Hope I didn't bought me a 250Euros paperweight :|
Thanks, ARthur.
A link to the the tutorials you followed could help me in seeing where you went wrong. From reading it, the part that confuses me, is the Orange Logo. Of which are you speaking of?
what was the update.zip you installed, it sounds like the htc image or the radio or maybe an spl, after you can use the recovery console (basically like 30 seconds of formatting cache on the screen) you can flash the rom.
The Orange Logo is actually the main Android software's image. When you turn it on, depeneding from where you bought it, the operator logo/company usualy is onscreen.
(Before you see the android logo)
BUT I think I was to in a hurry, I have the Dev software now workingm I fell asleep and now it works, just have to try the same with CyanogenMOD.
update.zip is the HArdSpl / older HBOOT
m3s_4ev3r said:
The Orange Logo is actually the main Android software's image. When you turn it on, depeneding from where you bought it, the operator logo/company usualy is onscreen.
(Before you see the android logo)
BUT I think I was to in a hurry, I have the Dev software now workingm I fell asleep and now it works, just have to try the same with CyanogenMOD.
update.zip is the HArdSpl / older HBOOT
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Best thing you can do is a complete reinstall of the spl radio and of course the rom i recomend using a old cyanogen mod this should fix and problems if nt unroot and reroot the phone hopefully wont come to that