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Can't chown/mod /system/xbin error

Hello guys,
I am getting the following error when i want to update my G1 to a Hero rom. Can't chown/mod /system/xbin ( no such file or directory ) E: Failure at line 12: set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 06755 SYSTEM:xbin
If I do a search on this error i get answers like upgrade to the new SPL but i have the new SPL and the Radio I installed the radio first and then the SPL. Can someone help me ? I don't have this error if i update it to The Dudes cupcake 1.3RC2

lexi1986 said:
Hello guys,
I am getting the following error when i want to update my G1 to a Hero rom. Can't chown/mod /system/xbin ( no such file or directory ) E: Failure at line 12: set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 06755 SYSTEM:xbin
If I do a search on this error i get answers like upgrade to the new SPL but i have the new SPL and the Radio I installed the radio first and then the SPL. Can someone help me ? I don't have this error if i update it to The Dudes cupcake 1.3RC2
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when you go into fastboot, camera+power, the second line says hboot1.33.2005?
I got this error, i thought i was on the newest SPL as well, but i was wrong. just double checking.

temporizer said:
when you go into fastboot, camera+power, the second line says hboot1.33.2005?
I got this error, i thought i was on the newest SPL as well, but i was wrong. just double checking.
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Damn your right its saying HSPL10.95.3000 but i just tried to install the SPL again. My Radio is 2.22.19.26I btw.
How can i install the SPL
edit: Nevermind i think it installed ok now i will report if it's ok i am now flashing my rom back
Yes it now says hboot1.33.2005 i will try to flash a Hero rom thanks for your help "temporizer"

lexi1986 said:
Damn your right its saying HSPL10.95.3000 but i just tried to install the SPL again. My Radio is 2.22.19.26I btw.
How can i install the SPL
edit: Nevermind i think it installed ok now i will report if it's ok i am now flashing my rom back
Yes it now says hboot1.33.2005 i will try to flash a Hero rom thanks for your help "temporizer"
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Very welcome. glad i can help

JF 1.43 Recovery + Newest SPL will do the trick
Been getting the same error every time I tried to install Hero ROM. Then, I spent a couple of hours researching on this forum and the steps below are the result of my search. Hope this can save some migraine to some of you.
1. Get the JF 1.43 recovery image from JF Andblog|rename to update.zip|Alt+S to install
2. Verify you have the latest SPL 1.33.2005 by holding camera button on R side of G1 while pressing Power button, if HBoot does not read 1.33.2005; then you need to get latest SPL
3. Obtain your favourite HERO Rom, and flash away.

ma2ga said:
Been getting the same error every time I tried to install Hero ROM. Then, I spent a couple of hours researching on this forum and the steps below are the result of my search. Hope this can save some migraine to some of you.
1. Get the JF 1.43 recovery image from JF Andblog|rename to update.zip|Alt+S to install
2. Verify you have the latest SPL 1.33.2005 by holding camera button on R side of G1 while pressing Power button, if HBoot does not read 1.33.2005; then you need to get latest SPL
3. Obtain your favourite HERO Rom, and flash away.
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I have a hero rom now and its working great

I can't seem to get the SPL to update properly.
When my phone (UK G1) boots it says:
Code:
Android system recovery utility
Build: JFv1.43
A fastboot shows the following:
Code:
DREA110 PVT 32B
HSPL10.95.3000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
So I've got the latest radio update.
I've downloaded the HardSPL file and gone through the installation of it several times. The HSPL line never changes to anything else.
I've downloaded the SuperHero v1 Beta2, but every single time I try to install it I get the same error as the thread starter: can't chown/mod /system/xbin etc. etc.
What on Earth am I doing wrong? What have I done to mess this up in the first place?
Can someone please help?

Sorry for the souble-post, but I downloaded the spl-signed file instead this time and now I have the different SPL line in fastboot.
I don't know how that never happened in the past, but I guess I must have missed that.

essteeyou said:
I can't seem to get the SPL to update properly.
When my phone (UK G1) boots it says:
Code:
Android system recovery utility
Build: JFv1.43
A fastboot shows the following:
Code:
DREA110 PVT 32B
HSPL10.95.3000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
So I've got the latest radio update.
I've downloaded the HardSPL file and gone through the installation of it several times. The HSPL line never changes to anything else.
I've downloaded the SuperHero v1 Beta2, but every single time I try to install it I get the same error as the thread starter: can't chown/mod /system/xbin etc. etc.
What on Earth am I doing wrong? What have I done to mess this up in the first place?
Can someone please help?
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essteeyou said:
Sorry for the souble-post, but I downloaded the spl-signed file instead this time and now I have the different SPL line in fastboot.
I don't know how that never happened in the past, but I guess I must have missed that.
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So, you were able to flash Superhero?

same error as OP, but on different line - line 41
Radio and SPL double checked with fastboot, they are fine (see my sig), recovery is the 1.4 CM + JF.
Can't flash many roms here around....... especially hero build......

dianotea said:
same error as OP, but on different line - line 41
Radio and SPL double checked with fastboot, they are fine (see my sig), recovery is the 1.4 CM + JF.
Can't flash many roms here around....... especially hero build......
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you need Haykuro's "Danger" SPL in order to load Hero on the G1 because of the bigger partition sizes.

temporizer said:
you need Haykuro's "Danger" SPL in order to load Hero on the G1 because of the bigger partition sizes.
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I have the same issue too, and I adb shell into the G1 device, and see the /system is full. I also create 2 partitions in my SDCARD (one fat32/one ext2), but that doesn't solve the issue. here is my partition status:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 47.8M 0 47.8M 0% /dev
/dev/block/mtdblock4 67.5M 1.2M 66.3M 2% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 762.3M 92.9M 669.4M 12% /sdcard
/dev/block/mtdblock3 67.5M 67.5M 0 100% /system
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and the recovery console shows like this during apply update.zip :
Installing update...
Deleting files...
Deleting files...
Formatting SYSTEM:...
Copying files...
E:Can't chown/mod /system/xbin
(No such file or directory)
E:Failure at line 80:
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 06755 SYSTEM:xbin
Installation aborted.
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SPL I used:
DREA100 PVT 32B / HSPL10.95.30000
Hero Rom I updated:
JACxHEROSki-v2.0
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BTW, why Danger SPL can fix this issue? Does it adjust the partition size to fix the issue?
I have not yet tried it before I understand how this works.
Thanks

I had the same error on line 80 - i reformatted my sdcard so had 3 partitions - and still the same - I then found out I was on the wrong SPL not the one that displays hboot - flashed with the hboot spl and it installed the hero rom - rebooted and got the first boot screen then blank screen for about 5 mins then the word htc then about 30 seconds later a screen asking for country then asking to type in 'simple' then got the hero screen.
so fix your spl, ensure your memory card correct and you should be ok

Bootloader 'not allowed'

Dear XDA-Helpers,
First of all I want to apologize. Because likely the most of you will think the answers on my question are already posted. But I've searched and searched and I don't have found the solution. (Yes I saw this thread too: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487187 It's the same question but that didn't help too.)
So this is what I did:
I wanted to test out the Eclair 2.0 Rom, so I flashed that over Cyanogen. Then I wanted back to 1.6, and used this method. ( http://www.gphone.org.hk/cgi-bin/ch/topic_show.cgi?id=60&bpg=1&age=0)
So I was on 1.5 and rooted with the one click method. Then I flashed the signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip ROM. When that was finished I reboot my G1, and then I wanted to flash Cyanogen, but when I went back to recovery mode, the orignal HTC recovery was back and I was unrooted, now I also cannot flash any DREAIMG.nbh because when I go in bootloader it says "not allowed".
I really don't know what to do now.
Some specs about my G1:
Android G1 with Donut 1.6
Kernel Version: 2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37 [email protected] #19
Build Number: dream_devphone-userdebug 1.6 DRC83 14721 test-keys
About the error of the bootloader:
0028002 not allowed
DREA110 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CLPD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.261
Sep 2 2008
serial0v
Thanks!

You're not unrooted. You just didn't read the instructions carefully enough.
Use fastboot to flash a modified recovery (I prefer CM's).
Code:
start your phone in fastboot usb mode.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
Once that is done, go into the recovery and you can flash roms again.
This time FOLLOW the instructions...
After you've flashed the htc recovery image, do NOT restart the phone, simply flash cyanogens rom right after that, THEN reboot.

next time please post in the QnA section
you might also like to try RA-Dream-v1.5.2 - there are lots of extra options in there like partitioning your card for swap, apps2sd etc

garok89 said:
next time please post in the QnA section
you might also like to try RA-Dream-v1.5.2 - there are lots of extra options in there like partitioning your card for swap, apps2sd etc
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Sorry for wrong section, I was used to use RA-Dream recovery, but since I don't have root anymore, I cannot flash a other recovery..

Bavilo said:
You're not unrooted. You just didn't read the instructions carefully enough.
Use fastboot to flash a modified recovery (I prefer CM's).
Code:
start your phone in fastboot usb mode.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
Once that is done, go into the recovery and you can flash roms again.
This time FOLLOW the instructions...
After you've flashed the htc recovery image, do NOT restart the phone, simply flash cyanogens rom right after that, THEN reboot.
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Well, when I typ 'su'/'sudo' in Terminal Emulator, it says no permission or something, so I think I don't have root anymore.. will your method fix my Bootloader? I used to get a screen with some skateboard but now I get a screen with a few colours.. and then it says 'not allowed'

Well when you flash the htc recovery image and then reboot the phone it will flash the stock recovery. That's why you need to flash cyanogens rom right after it.
But I don't really see why you're at the stock bootloader again now.
So you're on 1.6 with the stock bootloader? And the bootloader won't flash the .NBH, Looks like you need a goldcard.

Thanks for your answer!
Bavilo said:
Well when you flash the htc recovery image and then reboot the phone it will flash the stock recovery. That's why you need to flash cyanogens rom right after it.
But I don't really see why you're at the stock bootloader again now.
So you're on 1.6 with the stock bootloader? And the bootloader won't flash the .NBH, Looks like you need a goldcard.
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yes I'm on 1.6 with the coloured boot loader and I can't flash a .NBH file, it says not allowed. What is a goldcard? You mean this? http://revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html
It says I need to give them my SD Card Serial (CID), but I have no idea what it is and where I can find it..

Here now the problem is that you cannot flash anything from the bootloader coz its telling 'Not allowed' And not even flash through recovery coz its the non - Rooted Stock one...
So here you go may be this would help you to get out of this problem.
First try this...
1. Get Amon_RA Recovery image into any folder.
2. Then Start your Phone in Boot loader mode
3. Open Command Prompt on your PC (Windows > Run > Type 'cmd' > Enter)
4. Browse to the folder where the Recovery image is located using cd <folder>
5. Connect the Phone to the PC via USB
6. Type fastboot boot <recovery_img_name.img> in the cmd window.
The Phone may boot into the Rooted Recovery...
If Not Try this..
Remember when G1 was first rooted ?
We had to type telnetd and then it installed the telnet application...
Try it...
Put the downloaded recovery image into the sdcard means /sdcard/recovery.img
1) Go to the Terminal emulator & type "telnetd" and press enter.
2) Press Home
3) Goto the market and download "Telnet"
4) Open Telnet and connect to localhost : 23
5) Press enter and you should see a #
6) Now type the following and press enter at the end of each line
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd sdcard
flash_image recovery cm-recovery-1.4.img
cat /sdcard/recovery.img > /system/recovery.img
7) Now try going into Recovery mode hope this might work...
Then Post ur info here...

Thank you!
sangeet.003 said:
Here now the problem is that you cannot flash anything from the bootloader coz its telling 'Not allowed' And not even flash through recovery coz its the non - Rooted Stock one...
So here you go may be this would help you to get out of this problem.
First try this...
.....
If Not Try this..
...
Then Post ur info here...
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Thank you for your answer!
The first method did not work because, when I go in Bootloader my PC don't detect that the G1 is connect, it just don't do anything.
The second method didn't work too, because when I typ in terminal 'telnetd' it says no permission...

He can't flash from the boot loader as he doesn't have the engineering boot loader installed.
The other option might work though. If not, a goldcard will be the only way out.
This process is a bit tricky though.
First of all you will need the cid of your sdcard, to get this, type the following command in the terminal emulator.
Code:
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid > /sdcard/serial.txt
The cid will be saved within the root directory of your sdcard.
Now comes the tricky part, you need to reverse the string byte-wise. Here is an example.
This is what your cid can look like.
Code:
03534453553038478021021a320087be
Now split it up in pairs.
Code:
03|53|44|53|55|30|38|47|80|21|02|1a|32|00|87|be
Next, reverse the string byte-wise.
Code:
be|87|00|32|1a|02|21|80|47|38|30|55|53|44|53|03
Your reversed cid will look like.
Code:
be8700321a0221804738305553445303|
Now, take that cid and plug it into the goldcard generator you posted earlier and enter your email.
https://ssl.webpack.de/revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html
You will be send an goldcard.img file.
This last part is important and requires knowledge with linux and the dd command
1. Format your sdcard with Fat32.
2. Open a shell and type dd if=location_of_goldcard/goldcard.img of=/dev/sdx(where x is the letter that stands for your sdcard)
3. When it gives you a prompt saying the write was successful, drag the .NBH to the root of the sdcard, plug it in your G1, and try again.
You are welcome to hit me up on MSN if you need further assistance.

thierrz said:
Thank you for your answer!
The first method did not work because, when I go in Bootloader my PC don't detect that the G1 is connect, it just don't do anything.
The second method didn't work too, because when I typ in terminal 'telnetd' it says no permission...
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That's because you're on 1.6. I believe this only worked in 1.0 where the keyboard was attached to a root console, so anything you typed on the keyboard would go straight to the console with root permissions. This flaw has been fixed.

Bavilo said:
Code:
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid > /sdcard/serial.txt
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And again, permission denied

Problem solved, a goldcard was needed.
This thread can be closed.

Solved!
okay, it's solved! Thanks to Bavilo for helping me out on msn
Thanks al others for helping!

First ever attempt at rooting...problem..!

So I followed a guide on youtube for rooting the g1 (should have followed ones on these forums ).
1. I am from the UK so downgraded to the DREAMIMG-RC7.zip first.
2. Then I installed the hardspl (update) and recovery.img.
3. Then did the telnet commands
4. Then downloaded command emulator and entered the commands
5. Finally I updated with the update.zip.
this is where it went wrong
6. I then tried to install open eclare but got this error :
E:Can't chown/mod /sytem/xbin/su
(no such file or directory) E:Failure at line 240: set_perm 0 0 04755 SYSTEM:xbin/su
Installation aborted
7. I rebooted it by back and home but it now gets stuck at the tombile g1 logo part.
I can press home and power to get to the screen, and camera and power does work.
Question...can I just start again by connecting the sd card to my computer card reader and then putting back the DREAMIMG-RC7 and starting again?

Which recovery image are you using?
You might want to try a different rom before openeclair, it needs the death spl, which you don't want to touch just yet. I recommend superD or htcclay fasttest.
Upgrade your radio as well if you haven't already. If you go near the deathspl with the original radio, you'll find out why it's called death.

You got the error because that rom requires the 1.33.2005 spl. Link for radio and SPL are in my sig.

0028002 Not Allow

I want to root my g1.
i did this steps
1. Plug your USB cable into your computer and then plug your phone in.
2. Mount your SD card by sliding down the notification bar and selecting mount.
3. Go to My Computer and access your SD card.
4. BACKUP ANY FILES THAT YOU WANT ONTO YOUR COMPUTER. VERY IMPORTANT!
5. Go back to my computer and right click on the drive that is your sd card. Click format. Choose FAT32 from the drop down and hit the format button. This removes all data from your memory card.
6. Once the format is complete: drag and drop "DREAIMG.nbh & Update.zip files that you downloaded into the sd card. (DO NOT create a folder or anything, just put it right in the SD card)
7. Unmount your phone by going through the notification bar and then unplug your phone Turn your phone off. from your computer.
8. Press and hold the camera+end key until until you see a screen with colored bars, then let go. This is the bootloader. The screen will turn gray with blue writing on it.
But 0028002 Not Allow problem.
i need a help
sorry for my bad english
thanks

Because those instructions are very us centric.. and maybe a tad dated.
If you have a T-Mobile phone look up androot and installing a custom recovery (re-recovery) this won't require the downgrade and is thus easier/safer. Particular than flashing an out of region rom.
If its not T-Mobile more info on the phone will help.

i'm root my phone with universal androot 1.6.1
what's next ?
i want to cyanogen mod 6. (2.2 froyo)
phone info:
Model Number = T-Mobile G1
Firmware version = 1.6
Build number = DMD64

Well you are at a good point.. rooted and operating just need to break out of the T-Mobile system some to replace everything on the phone..
The following will give you an idea.. but please read it all carefully first or you may find yourself while probably not bricked without a functioning android install.
You will want the following
1) Download and install both the android SDK and fastboot http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s2
2) Download the flash image tool http://cyanogen-files.carneeki.net/flash_image.zip
3) Download ra-recovery http://rapidshare.com/files/387558152/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img MD5Sum: 11ae63afee9813a9b76cb3f7fd5ac2ad
unzip flash_image.zip and put the resulting flash_image in the same place as recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img
form your computers command line run the following (preferable from the same directory as flash_image and recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img, some people find it easier that this also be the tools directory adb is contained in but if you are comfortable at the command line this is not needed)
Code:
adb push flash_image /data/local/flash_image
adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image
adb push recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img /data/local/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img
adb shell
this will now place you on a command prompt on the phone continue:
Code:
su
flash_image recovery /data/local/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img
exit
exit
now power down the phone and turn on while holding down the home button you ought to now be in ra-recovery optionally run a nandroid backup and then you can continue to install 1.33.2003
After 1.33.2003 is installed you can either continue the instructions on that link to 1.33.2005 *OR* check out Custom MTD
Once all of that is done its off to http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Upgrading_from_CyanogenMod_4.2_to_CyanogenMod_5/6 to install the rom.

can i follow this guide from II) Flashing a Recovery Image ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727688
because i think its easier than your guide for me

Two things,
1) flashreq expects a root exploit that wont exist on your rom I'm unsure if it will fall back on using su for root
2) if you feel its easier you don't like or are confuses with installing the sdk/fastboot, while there may be ways around it (rom manager comes to mind) if you ever run into trouble in the future you will need it.. once you learn how it works some you will find it easier thank messing with the apk.. as for the shell commands they will be cut copy and paste..
3) I don't recommended rom manager because if something goes wrong and you find yourself without a rom or recovery you will have a hard time getting your phone to boot without a gold card (once the engineering spl is installed 1.33.2005 you can take that route)
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As I said before your phone is still running the T-Mobile rom take your time and understand the process and options to installing the rom.

My english is bad
i dont understand this post.
what must i do to root my phone now ?

Problem Installing SPL and Updating Radio

Hi Everyone,
I am sorry to bother you guys, but I am writing since I am having a hard time upgrading my g1 to the hardspl or any spl for that matter after downgrading and then re-rooting. As per the directions I have:
1. First reformatted my sd card to fat32 in Windows.
2. Downloaded RC29 DREAIMG.nbh file and placed in main sdcard.
3. Turned off the phone off and rebooted holding the Camera button and the Power button until the phone is in bootloader mode.
4. Followed the directions and installed DREAIMG.nbh; and then rebooted the phone via Call button, Menu button & Power button all at the same time.
5. Used t-mobile sim card with data to log in.
6. Then pressed “enter” and type “telnetd” and then “enter.”
7. Next downloaded telnetd from Market.
8. Gained access via telent and did the following
Code:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd sdcard
flash_image recovery recovery.img
cat recovery.img > /system/recovery.img
The recovery image that I used was the Cyanogen AmonRa recovery from ttp://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Dream:_Rooting
9. Step 8 was not fully successful in adding in the recovery image. So I downloaded AndExplorer from Market and installed it. And then I installed Flash Recovery as well, and used Flash Recovery to install the Amon Ra Recovery.
10. After that I rebooted the phone into recovery and did wipe and factory reset.
11. Then I Partitioned the SDCARD to 512mbs for ext2 and fat32 for the remainder. Then Partition SD Card > SD: ext2 to ext3.
12. Then I did USB toggle and loaded up the radio ota-radio-2_22_19_26I, Hard SPL, update-cm-4.2.15.1-signed, and signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.
13. First I flashed the ota-radio-2_22_19_26I and rebooted to apply.
14. Then Hard SPL and rebooted to apply
15. Then did factory reset/wipe.
16. Then applied signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721 followed immediately by update-cm-4.2.15.1-signed.
After doing the above 16 steps, I was able to boot in Cyanogen 4.2 and when I checked the radio, it still shows the original old 1.22.12.29 radio. And when I reboot the phone via “Power” and “Back”, in fastboot it shows the rainbow screen with the info
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
Radio-1.22.12.29
Sep 2 2008
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So it means that the HardSPL is not installing, neither is the radio.
I have tried repeating the above steps with installing the radio then DangerSPL and then Cyanogen 5, but the phone remained stalled on the loading Android screen for 1 hour. So I pulled the battery and followed the above steps to restore the phone back to Cyanogen 4.2.
So can anyone please give me advise on what I can do to get HardSPL and the latest radio to install. Btw this originally an ADP1 that I got installed with the Tmobile stuff. If there was an ADP1 image, I would definitely restore it to that, but I have not come across one yet T.T
Thank you in advance for your help everyone.

So no one has any idea on what i can do to install the hardSPL? I even went here ttp://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Dream.2FG1.2FADP1 and rebooted everything. And at this point I am running Android 1.1 with RC30 by jesusfreak with his recovery.img. Yet, I am still unable to install the hardSPL.
When I go through recovery mode and run the hardSPL installation, it the installation bar goes to 50% or so visually and then says everything is complete. And after that it tell me to press "home + back" to continue and it does the reboot and reboots back into recovery as well. So after that I reboot the phone and press "power + back" to enter into fastboot and it still shows the rainbow fastboot.
Sigh. So what is missing or what am i doing wrong. As i said I am still running Android 1.1 RC30 JesusFreak mod and I do not want to go up higher unless I am sure I can install the HardSPL.
Please any help would be much appreciate. Happy Holidays everyone .

I almost said flash the radio via fastboot *facepalm*
Are you sure you're using AmonRa's recovery? If you're using Cyan's you can't flash via 'any update.zip on sdcard' or whatever. It *must* be called update .zip and you must flash using alt-s, *not* using the trackball.