I had a small mishap with my G1, i out it in a wet cup holder and it got the bottom area of the phone wet (buttons/trackball area). I dried the phone out for a couple of days (used the rice method) and started it up...
The phone charges and powers on but I get the triangle with an exclamation mark icon. I've tried putting different firmware versions onto the SD card and naming them update then used the Alt+S and I get errors. I've tried probably around 40 different RC's ranging from RC 29 to God knows what...
an example of the errors I'm getting is:
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command
--Install from sdcard....
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
Installing update....
E:Error in check_prereq (status 256)
E:Failure at line 1:
run_program PACKAGE:check_prereq 1242268990
Installation aborted
I would greatly appreciate any help with this! I NEED to fix this phone! Thank you in advance!
PS: sorry for posting this in the sticky thread, i did it by mistake while reading that thread!
I did not know there was 40 rc s, try getting yourself the rc29 dreaimg.nbh, do not rename to update.zip, put it on the root of your sd and enter the bootloader by pressing power and camera and see if that will load it
where can i download the rc29 dreaimg.nbh?
Check out one of the threads for rooting your phone, should find a good d/l there, it's the one that you use to downgrade your phone, you will lose root and have to unroot it the old fashioned way now
oh ok, thank you! my phone was never rooted so that's not an issue. i just need it up and running so i can live my life again... I'll give it a shot!
Well I hope it works for you, now would be a good time to think about rooting your phone since you will already have done the first step, if you want stock, you will have to wait for the ota updates which can take up to 72 hours to receive, so you will have none of the cupcake goodness like auto rotate or widgets. There is ways to get the update quicker but I am unaware of them
Download the RC29 dreaimg.nbh HERE.
Let us know if this flashes for you. Remember, you just put this file on the root of your SD card and enter bootloader by holding Power+Camera.
thank you for everybody's help, but i still haven't resolved the solution. i put dreaimg.nbh on the root of my SD, held camera and power. the G1 logo screen shows up, then the phone just goes back to the trianlge with the exclamation mark...
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I'm not a total noob to rooting as I've already rooted my G1 and am running cyanogen's mods for months now. My problem is on a different phone.
This dream was dropped in water months ago (that's when I purchased my 2nd on craigslist). The touchscreen wouldn't work so I was stuck at the setup screen. I read on many forums, xda included that it might eventually dry out and today I found that it was indeed working fine.
It works fine on stock 1.5 ota update crc1 but now that I rooted one I want this one rooted as well. This is where my problem starts. I'm trying to rollback using the dreaim.nbh found inthe latest "how to root" thread in the dev forum. Problem is I can't load the image. I powe up holding camera and power button, get to the multicolored bootloader, insstructions on the grey/whitish screen say press power button to load, and then I am stuck.
Power button does nothing and the phone is stuck on that screen until I pull the battery. Been through this process 5+ times, with redownloaded image (file is not corrupt) My concern is Ill end up bricking but I really want root. I'm think their might be water damage on the phone but everything else works fine.
Any suggestions for a workaround or a way to troubleshoot the problem? Thanks in advance!
-Air
nbh
heres a link to where you can get the nbh dwnload this one nd try agian.
http://coolpstuts.blogspot.com/2009/07/all-download-links.html
no dice
pistol thanks for the try but it didn't work. same 87.3mb file, rc29, same result.
the greyish white screen loads, but the update (rollback) never starts. Does anyone know of another way to load the dreaim.nbh image? or heard a similar issue?
are you sure you grabbed the t-mo image?? go to the original how to root your phone thread and grab the t-mo image, nothing has changed so there is no reason for us to have an updated thread other than to confuse people even more
my problem is not the rc29 image
tubaking, my problem is not the rc29 dreaim.nbh image. I have consistently found the same image in many threads on xda. my problem is that i cant get it to load. this thread was not created for general rollback issues and def not to confuse people with another how to.... i am trying to figure out why my US G1 (with a noted history of physical abuse) won't load the image.
Was not implying that this thread would be a how-to and confuse people, merely that we have so many and people are constantly asking how to do something even though the steps didn't change. The physical abuse your phone has sustained "should" have no effect on the image flashing. I would suggest you format your card again(not in windows as windows seems to screw up a lot), so long as you are using the correct image and a fat32 formatted card you shouldn't have any problems, does the screen pop up and say "no image found"
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tubaking, my problem is not the rc29 dreaim.nbh image. I have consistently found the same image in many threads on xda. my problem is that i cant get it to load. this thread was not created for general rollback issues and def not to confuse people with another how to.... i am trying to figure out why my US G1 (with a noted history of physical abuse) won't load the image.
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hmmm, have you tried re-formatting your card?
trying it now
reformatted at home using gparted but I'll try paragon now that I'm at the office.
tubaking, thanks for the advice and willingness to help. it does not say no image found. It actually shows the steps that it needs to install including, radio_vz, and a few other things i cant recall right now...
hopefully the reformat will do the trick. I will try to format the entire card fat32 for now and then add my ext3 after. reporting back shortly....
still not working
so reformatted again to fat32, used paragon, gparted, and built in format on the G1 still the same result
grey white screen, reads the image.... then stuck at:
Code:
DREAIMG.nbh -
BOOTLOADER -
RECOVERY -
BOOT -
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_VZ -
Press power button
to start update image
Press action button
to cancel update image
and then I'm stuck
So even after you press the power button to start the update, it just stays at that one screen and never gives any "ok"s next to any of the listings?
exactly
no oks, just hangs there
I've been letting it sit since before my last post, about 45 mins so far and still nothing. I may have imagined it but when i did this process last week it felt like it was getting hotter, but still nothing happened
also I remember doing this on my other G1 that is already rooted, so I know how easy this step should be
Stupid question, but are you making sure not to rename the original DREAIMG.nbh to anything else other than what it is? Some people make the mistake of thinking they have to rename it to update.zip or make the mistake of not leaving it in capital letters (although I don't know if that matters). You have said you have downloaded the file multiple times so I doubt this is the case but I'm just spitballing here
no rename
In my desperation I had considered that really stupid idea for a moment but thought better of it. I don't want to end up with a brick i haven't renamed it, consistently used dreaimg.nbh
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In my desperation I had considered that really stupid idea for a moment but thought better of it. I don't want to end up with a brick i haven't renamed it, consistently used dreaimg.nbh
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I wasn't suggesting to rename it, I just wanted to make sure that you never had renamed it to anything but the original filename DREAIMG.nbh
its all good
directmatrix, I understood your post. I was just saying i had considered renaming it to update.zip in an effort to get something going. I appreciate the spitballing, maybe we'll hit something that I missed!
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directmatrix, I understood your post. I was just saying i had considered renaming it to update.zip in an effort to get something going. I appreciate the spitballing, maybe we'll hit something that I missed!
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I re-read your original post and was curious as to whether the power button could be the culprit considering that its needed to flash the image. Perhaps the water may have damaged the power button interface. I can't imagine that it would be the problem considering your able to get into the rainbow screen via power+camera. Have you tried pushing it harder, many times, on the side etc?
i did, tried holding it for a 10 count, multiple presses, long press. I'm pretty sure the problem is not with the button itself because it works fine when I have the phone booted up and press power to turn it off.
When I first posted I was hoping someone might know of an alternative button combo that might have the same effect of loading the image from that greyish white screen
there is no way to write the image through adb right?
Fisrt let me start by saying hello to one and all great forum.
Right, to my problem i have had my g1 a month now and love it
have not rooted it yet as i have been reading over and over so that when
i do come to do it i wont f**k it up.
I was downloading and installing app from the market and i think i have installed one that is for a rooted phone only(well thats what the discriptive said) i didnt realise this until i had installed it and so i was testing the apps last nite then turned off my phone as usual when i went to bed, Well so turned it on this morning and it wont load past the Android Screen, i tryed to go into bootloader and itsjust a color screen with serial10 on it.
please tell me i havnt bricked my phone i didnt do anything to it
anyone help me please
You did not brick your phone, if worst comes to worst you can go ahead with the rooting steps and download the dreaimg.nbh from your rc package that is meant for your area and boot it through the bootloader
thanks whats happened to it, the serial 10 has now gone and its just the 4 coulours on screen with some text at top, i havnt taken out the battery i thought i might damage it is it ok to remove it
The multi color screen you are describing is the stock bootloader, I prefer people do not pull the battery out if at all possible, your phone is quite similar to a computer, would you unplug your computer when it crashes
no, your right i wouldnt, so really i have not a clue here what should i do now, i actually need this up and running its my only phone thanks
not bieng lazy either dude, trying to search but like i say i dont kow what i have done wrong so dont bnow solution to seach for
Find a thread on rooting your phone, there you can find your rc, and go from there, go ahead and root your phone while you are at it
not bieng funny mate but i dont want to root my phone until i am confident enought to do it, i upgraded this from 1.0 to 1.5 when i got it can i just not do that again with the 1.5 firmware, thanks
Sure, use the steps to downgrade for rooting, then just leave it go and within the next 72 hours you will get the cupcake ota update, so to recap, downgrade, wait for updates
ok, and thanks alot for the advice mate, i will root it but like i said when i understand exactly what i am doing, cheers
No problem, and thank you for taking your time to learn the system and getting familiar with what needs to be done, instead of rushing in and asking common questions
cheers mate, its the only way to learn, thanks again
sorry mate to bother agian, i just tryed to downgrade with 1.0 and white screen comes up it just says "not allowed" really stuck now
Did you do it in the bootloader(tri color screen) did you put the dreaimg.nbh on the root of your sd card and not change it to update.zip
What part of the world are you in so I can make sure you are using the right rc or it is a possiblity that you might have to make a gold card(which is a pain in the ass.....so I hear)
just realised now have to change it to update.zip
I am in Ireland
P.S. just changed the DREAMIMG-RC7.zip to update.zip and it didnt work
do i change the .NBH to update.zip
Nope,do not change it to update.zip, download rc7, extract the .nbh from inside and put it on the root of your sd, then use it through the bootloader
no. did that mate put the nbh on card into bootloader just said "not allowed" sorry for keeping you up man
does it make any difference that i deleted everything of the memory card by the way
i just thought of something this phone was bought in the U.S.A. would this make a difference when i iupdated it
it was with a U.K. 1.5 O/S
Hmmm, is your sdcard formated to fat32, it's the only filesystem that it will read in the bootloader, walk me through what it is doing
yes i formatted it, then copied the files back onto it that i had backed up, then i deleted them all again, so just putting the nbh onto a blank card
then start up the phone and bootloader, white screen comes up with "checking" then comes up "not allowed"
Hmmm....... I wonder why it is not allowing, maybe you are one of the unlucky ones who need a gold card, or maybe we can get a stock cupcake build to work in the recovery since it will be signed by your provider, let me look around a little bit and see if I can dig anything up
OK this is the deal, i bought a phone off someone from craigslist. i have no idea what this person has done on the phone it came as stock donut. no root or anything of the sort. and there is no way to contact the person to ask what or if they tried to do anything. i have been trying every which way and yes the search bar is my friend. and nothing. ive done this before MULTIPLE times i am not new to rooting and flashing. Everytime ive tried to load something it always says no signature(#), number sign for random file numbers, i have tried to downgrade everything spl, radio and down to rc29, and trying to figure out if i could downgrade the recovery to the original recovery not the 2 (e). ive stumbled upon the idea that i might be missing files. maybe the otacerts i believe. i searched that also and found someone only saying to reinstall rc29 THATS MY PROBLEM I CANT IT WONT LET ME. Please someone help before i bust my head open on my desk.
and sorry about the punctuation typing super fast and avoiding my boss.
No signature usually means the update isnt signed.... and you probably got the update.zip thats corrupt...
Ive tried 3 different downloads of every file aka different dev for each thing. Anything i try and put as Update or even left as Original such as the .nbh it all comes up no sig. is everything online corrupt?
You don't have a root hence no luck on roms.
.nbh is not flashed thru recovery. Put it on your sd, power down your phone and power up holding power and camera buttons. Phone should find DREAIMG.nbh and restore your device to RC29. From there, secure your root and it's business as usual. Good luck.
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You don't have a root hence no luck on roms.
.nbh is not flashed thru recovery. Put it on your sd, power down your phone and power up holding power and camera buttons. Phone should find DREAIMG.nbh and restore your device to RC29. From there, secure your root and it's business as usual. Good luck.
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going to try this again
tried to root my g1 today and came stuck, i downgrade android from 1.6 to 1.0, and the next step was to download telnet from the market, but i couldnt get the market to download.
i can see the apps in the market but it just wont download. can anyon help this is the walkthrough i was following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480 , i got to step 6 in the Root your R29 or lower section.
please help
the rom i would like to put on is SuperCSDIv4, so any tips and advice would be good
well mate the rooting that work for me was
RC7-->manually update till i was able to bypass the signin screen then enable wifi (the os which i bypass was 1.5)then download linda file mannager from market/downloaded and install flash.apk and recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.1.img then followed the step as mentioned ...voola and as rooted
i recommand u to use 1-step rooting..it works and soo much easy
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-root-the-mytouch-3g-or-g1-in-one-click/
and search for recovery-RA-dream-v.1.5.2.img
its the same i m using
try this
thanks jamb, i followed your route and it was much easier. thankyou
thanks jamb, i followed your route and it was much easier. thankyou
Your welcome mate
when i ran though the steps, i got to the end and everything was how it should be.
as id been messin with it foe ages i decided to end there, and i posted all was well abouve.
ive tried to install to roms today both never worked so i must be doinf something wrong.
heres what ive been doing.
empty sdcard, put the rom on it still zipped and renamed to 'update' . insert sd into G1 then boot via home ad power. when ! screen apears press 'alt L' then sellect wipe data followed be install update.zip. then reboot.
once rebooted im still with the original 1.5 .
when i do the wipe and update.zip to me it seems to quick (like 3 seconds for both).
any help peeps
just noticed that that whan i attemp the updat.zip it states update terminated so ive fond my problem ive also noticet that the spl didnt update, even thou it looked last night if all was ok????
going to run through the steps again and see if anything changes. il update later
hi jamb can you gice me a diect link to the spl you used please i thnk that is where im going wrong
here ya go mate
DANGERSPL
sheers jamb, i just keep getting the same msg once i try the update.zip
varifying update package.....
E:No signiture (5 files)
E:Varification failed
Instalation aborted
im at a loss now. any ideas???
What recovery are you using? the alt L thing makes me think you are still using stock.
If you are using RA you don't need to rename it to update.
im using recovery-RA-dream-v1.2.3.img
ihave just tried to use the one u are using but flashrec wouldnt see it, imreally at a loss now.
i just tried to install android stoc 1.0, so that i could start again but that to wouldnt install. so it looks like i may be stuck with 1.5 for now atleast.
edit- it wernt the one u have it was the recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img i tried second
mate u have Uk model?right
just intall flashrec and 1.6.2 recovery image
start flashrec / in the box type something like
/sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img
then flash it dont interpt then process and u got root ...
note : put img file in the root(main) of ur sd card
thanks for your help jamb, but i seem to have damaed the boot loader somewhere on my rooting journey ,
i think i know where i done it as after post one, and before post two, i did (i think) get root and managed to flash superCSDIv14, (i got the custom spash with the android bot peeking from behind the A) but after the splash the phone just went black.
when i got your first post i decided to follow that post, i managed to flask android 1.0, then update to 1.5 then from that point i couldnt flash nothing, i even tried to flash back to 1.0 at one point.
last night i went to bed thinking that id be stuck with 1.5, but when i woke, i made the QTA upgrade msg on my phone so i ran it and now am back to where i started 1.6 (which is good cos google nav was released yesrerday)
as the OTA update worked all must not be broken so i decided to start again and tried to flash 1.0, it just faid so. my friend i am giving up, thank you for your time.
stephen.
its been two days now since i gave up on my root of the G1 and am starting to get the craving to start tinker with t againg, i dont want it to beat me.
can anyone outthere shed anylight on my plight. also give me some pointers.
ok so here's what's going on. my g1 has been off and in storage for a month now because i had the mytouch 3.5mm. i figured maybe i can just use my g1 as a device for around the house. so i plug it in let it juice up unplug it and turn the power on. it goes past the g1 screen and directly to the yellow exclamation with the g1 in front.now i aint no newb. ive rooted my phone a couple times and know how to search the forums for help. so i tried to update it press alt+l the alt+w to wipe and also tried to wipe cache..then update from zip. it reads the update gets all the way to installing update and then just aborts the installlation. now ive tried multiple updates and it does it to all of them. this is what i get
Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
installing update....
installation aborted..
so is stock g1 cant say anything else cause really cant get any where else..
also when i choose rebot phone it takes me to recovery page then to a bluee screen telling me to press send to restore phone to stock i press send and nothing happens.. read on this site to wait 8-12 mins cause it takes that long to write stuff and load.i waited 1/2 hr to an hr and still nothing happens..any one got a idea to help me out...i've tried alot of stuff and if u wnt me to get in details i can.. also if u want screen shots i can post them as soon as i get home..
thanks in advance.. i love this site like i said i come here for all the know how to stuff that i've learned and even refrerred some friends looking to root there phone to come here as well..