Rainbow screen error? Please Help - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

To start off, yes I know that there are several threads describing the rainbow screen situation, but none of them go with what happened to my phone.
I have a white G1 that I bought off somebody else. On friday I downloaded an application and after i turned it off because I was in a meeting. Once I turned the phone back on it was stuck on the rainbow screen giving me the following error:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.28
Sep 2 2008
Serial0
I don't know if this phone was rooted before, or anything. I have tried to flash it back to RC29 but nothing works.
I have tried the following:
Format SD card to FAT32
Put the DREAIMG.nhb file in it, and the update.zip
Press Home + Power then i get the triangle with the exclamation point.
then Alt + W to wipe (once i this it automatically goes to the rainbow screen again and then it jumps to a grey screen with blue letter and tells me to press Power to install the DREAIMG.nhb image).
The file installs fine and once its done it tells me to press the action button to continue. When I do this it goes back to rainbow screen.
After this i tried running the update by pressing Home + Power and then Alt+S but the update gave me a failure. I tried this several times and nothing happened. I'm still in the rainbow screen.
Please help

Those instructions are wrong, I don't know where you got them but try the guide that is sticky at the top on this forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563679
The DREAIMG.nbh file isn't flashed in recovery.
Format sdcard to FAT32
Place DREAIMG.nbh file on the root of your sdcard (NOT in a zip file)
Turn your phone off
Hold Camera+Power
follow on-screen instructions

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Flashed 1.4 recovery img no more recovery mode.

I flashed the 1.4 recovery image from terminal emu.
Here is what I'm running.
CM 4.1.8
radio 2.22.19.26
Now when I hold home and end it shows the G1 logo then goes black shows the G1 logo again then black then nothing happens. no text or anything. The lights on the keys do light up but nothing happens.
Any insight?
reflash the recovery image. do you have adb installed?
I have a similar problem. I was using EnochXTra, and went straight to the part where you flash the "1.6 recovery image". I figured it would wipe the theme off, and then I could flash Cyanogen's 4.1.99. But now when I hold "home", I get a screen that has (description) "a triangle with a "!" in the center of it, facing a phone laying down" (end description). If I don't hold home, I get to where it says "Android" and it starts cycling (not rebooting, just the word "android"'s animation freezing, flickering off for a split second, then resuming). in both situations I have to pull the battery to get out of them.
Anyone know where I failed and how badly?
Tactical Fart said:
I have a similar problem. I was using EnochXTra, and went straight to the part where you flash the "1.6 recovery image". I figured it would wipe the theme off, and then I could flash Cyanogen's 4.1.99. But now when I hold "home", I get a screen that has (description) "a triangle with a "!" in the center of it, facing a phone laying down" (end description). If I don't hold home, I get to where it says "Android" and it starts cycling (not rebooting, just the word "android"'s animation freezing, flickering off for a split second, then resuming). in both situations I have to pull the battery to get out of them.
Anyone know where I failed and how badly?
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that would be the radio updating.......
what phone region do you have? can you access bootloader? Cam + power
to op, the recovery didnt flash right. do it again
Cam + Power? Yeah, I can. It's the only thing i can reach.
I was using EnochXTra, and went straight to the part where you flash the "1.6 recovery image"
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how exactly did you flash this "1.6 recovery image"?
I changed the name to "update.zip", rebooted while holding "home", then applied "update.zip from sdcard".
... I screwed up big time didn't I?
No that's the correct way to do it. Just making sure you didn't flash_image recovery ........zip in the terminal. Since you can reach the bootloader (Camera+Power) follow THIS
K, I managed to flash the update.zip, and now my phone works. I renamed cyanogen's rom to update.zip, but under the recovery mode menu (the one with the triangle and "!"), I don't get a list of options, but when I go "alt+S" (like I did earlier) it "tries" to flash but gives up less than a second later. Also alt+W wipes and reboots.
While it's working, I installed cyanogen's updater, but when it tries to get root, nothing happens. Did I just unroot my phone?
Do you have USB Debugging enabled?
Fingerlickin said:
Do you have USB Debugging enabled?
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Yes. When I checked, it was enabled by default.
hmmmm. and what rom are you running?
http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
I used the recovery image as per cyanogen's instructions for version 4.1.99.
ah ok, have you installed 4.1.99 yet? ADP1 handles root requests a little differently.
No. While at the recovery screen (with the triangle and "!"), i have the update for cyanogen at the / of the sdcard named update.zip (like I have for all roms I've used), but alt+S won't do anything.
can you do this?
1) Goto the market and download "Telnet"
2) Open Telnet and connect to localhost : 23
3) type su (enter)
4) type flash_image recovery cm-recovery-1.4.img (enter)
5) Press the home button
Fingerlickin said:
2) Open Telnet and connect to localhost : 23
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"Connection Refused."
boot using camera+power
give us the details shown. specifically radio and spl versions
DREAM PVT 32B ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-1.33.2005 (DREA10000)
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Apr 20 2009, 15:30:43
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I don't see anything that says "spl".
look at the sticky for fastboot, you need to use fastboot to flash cm-recovery-1.4.img

Help Required!! For the T-Mobile G1

Hi,
I'm really tired from looking and searching and downloading files which are most coruptted or link is not found etc......
I have totally wiped out my HTC T-mobile G1 ...... the only thing i see now is either a big G1 in the middle or when pressing the Camera+Power button just showing a white screen and some writings on the top of the screen and in the middle a yellow line and a (Serial 10 or 01) wittin on it.
so what i did so far is i downloaded almost every file that i been reading about on the posts about the same problem on XDA forums but im still getting the same thing.
i downloaded
DREAIMG.nbh
flashrec-1.1.2-20090909.apk
radio-2.22.27.08.img
recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
and many other files either old or new versions of the same files
i copy them onto the SDCard and press the cam+power buttons on the screen shows that it does actually loading the files and then it says press the power button to proceed or the green button to cancel but none of the buttons works!?? nothing nada
i would really appriciate your help guys im getting a hard timne fixing this phpne.
quist80 said:
Hi,
I'm really tired from looking and searching and downloading files which are most coruptted or link is not found etc......
I have totally wiped out my HTC T-mobile G1 ...... the only thing i see now is either a big G1 in the middle or when pressing the Camera+Power button just showing a white screen and some writings on the top of the screen and in the middle a yellow line and a (Serial 10 or 01) wittin on it.
so what i did so far is i downloaded almost every file that i been reading about on the posts about the same problem on XDA forums but im still getting the same thing.
i downloaded
DREAIMG.nbh
flashrec-1.1.2-20090909.apk
radio-2.22.27.08.img
recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
and many other files either old or new versions of the same files
i copy them onto the SDCard and press the cam+power buttons on the screen shows that it does actually loading the files and then it says press the power button to proceed or the green button to cancel but none of the buttons works!?? nothing nada
i would really appriciate your help guys im getting a hard timne fixing this phpne.
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k im not 100% on this but im pretty sure you cant flash that 2.22.27.08 radio right off the start when you havent had recovery flashed on yet.. i suggest following this method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR0HpUVv-BY but read description first because you got to downgradeto 1.5 if your device was on 1.6.. did you try to boot in recovery mode? holding home and power.. what happens when you try that. if i had a lil more info i can help you out..
also were you already rooted before this happened? and if you were do you remember where your device left off before this happened..? radio, hboot, recovery etc...??
what exactly does it say when you power on with camera+power?
sorry for so many posts lol but another suggestion would be trying to un-root and starting from scratch http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491350
Hi,
Thanks for the quick Reply when i press the home+power button i get the .T..Mobile G1 screen and it freezes there when i prees cam+power i get the 3 skating androind on the bottom of the screen and some writing on the top which it is:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HSPL 10.95.3000
CPLD-4
RADIO- 1.22.12.29
Oct 20 2008
and it freezes there also when im not using the SDcard
if i copy some files like the DREAIMG.nbh and few other files on the SDcard and try to reboot again using the cam+power it shows me that it does somthing like loading files which are :
DREAIMG.nbh -
BOOTLOADER -
RECOVERY -
BOOT-
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_V2 -
and then ill have either to proceed by pressing the power button or cancel by pressing the action key(the green key) but nothing works if i press any button
I really dont know if the phone has been rooted before
quist80 said:
Hi,
Thanks for the quick Reply when i press the home+power button i get the .T..Mobile G1 screen and it freezes there when i prees cam+power i get the 3 skating androind on the bottom of the screen and some writing on the top which it is:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HSPL 10.95.3000
CPLD-4
RADIO- 1.22.12.29
Oct 20 2008
and it freezes there also when im not using the SDcard
if i copy some files like the DREAIMG.nbh and few other files on the SDcard and try to reboot again using the cam+power it shows me that it does somthing like loading files which are :
DREAIMG.nbh -
BOOTLOADER -
RECOVERY -
BOOT-
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_V2 -
and then ill have either to proceed by pressing the power button or cancel by pressing the action key(the green key) but nothing works if i press any button
I really dont know if the phone has been rooted before
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k well first i would suggest the un-root method in that link i put in last reply.. and if that doesnt work than try loading a different hboot (dreaimg.nbh) try to get one that is 2005 or something.. i have one.. the only problem is mine is in a zip file (meant to flash in recovery after root method i posted in previous comment) so you would need to find a different one in .nbh form
P.S. the action key is the trackball (press it in) lol but that doesn't help because its to cancel..
i tried that too but since it says hit alt+s and since nothing si working even after loading the DREAIMG file i think ill take your suggestion downloading an old version of the .nbh file so can u providfe me with a link for it or can we chat on messnger or somthing ?
Also when you are rooting your device or just doing anything to it you always want a sdcard inside. specialy when your attempting to root
wait so did you get the exlamation point screen at all? its like a triangle with an exclamation point and i think a pic of a phone..
no nothing at all it stopps where it shows the loaded file and nothing after that
quist80 said:
no nothing at all it stopps where it shows the loaded file and nothing after that
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i mean when your trying to load the update.zip.... what kind of messenger do you have? would make this a lot easier.. lol
so when you hold home and power it always freezes? or do you get to a screen wit the triangle on it?
this is what im getting after booting using the cam+power button
try this file http://www.4shared.com/file/MnKYPHSr/DREAIMG.html
quist80 said:
this is what im getting after booting using the cam+power button
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yeah thats normal you should get that.. the only reason it wouldnt work is if your teying to load the same one thats on already.. try formatting your sd than put it back in your device leaving it empty, than boot up with cam+power and when you get the skateboard guys press and hold green button, red button and menu. that should reboot so you dont have to remove battery... try that than tell me exactly what happens
sorry but its doing the same thing and stopps right where its showing in the picture in my previous post
quist80 said:
sorry but its doing the same thing and stopps right where its showing in the picture in my previous post
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it stoppes when you try using the dreaimg i posted? are you letting it sit for a minute? it takes a lil bit to start the update..
dood do you have a messenger or something so i can talk to you faster? would make this a lot easier for both of us.. i wanna help you but i gotta leave in like 2 hours lol the way this is goin it could be quick or take long...
yea its (quist80) at yahoo . com
quist80 said:
yea its (quist80) at yahoo . com
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At that screen you need to press the red power button for it to update. It's waiting for your action.
quist80 said:
yea its (quist80) at yahoo . com
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k sorry for the delay lol i jus added you im zackcolc

[Q] G1 always rooting back to HBOOT/Fastboot Screen

Hi All,
i had rooted my G1(32B) long time back with new SPL and Recovery. I was running Froyo by lazzo lately. but yesterday suddenly it started behaving weird. I was not able to give any sort of input in touch screen or use the physical buttons(scroll, end button etc). So i switched off my mobile by pulling battery. Later once i added battery, it always goes to Fastboot/Hboot screen irrespective of button i press. Its not going to recovery screen also.
The screen display below details at top.
DREAM PVT 32B ENG S-ON
HBOOT-1.33.0013d (drea10000)
CLPD-4
RADIO-2.22.28.25
OCT 21,2009,22:33:27
and details of commands and 3 slating Androids at bottom. Here also screen none of commands mentioned works like "Menu = power off, Send = reset". It only goes to HBoot mode and when pressed "back" button give the spl/recovery details.
I had installed ADB in my system but didnt tried anything until i get some suggestion from experts. So wanted to know whether i bricked my phone. ?
Can i recovery back my mobile with some instruction or flashing radio image etc. Please help. I badly need you guys suggestion.
What was the last thing you did before it goes like that?
Hi
i removed battery as i wanted to change the phone sim. after that i switched on.and it went to Rom's lockscreen. then it started working weird as mentioned above so i removed battery again
When booting up, try holding home+power key. See if it goes into Recovery mode.
hi,
i followed your suggestion and it is not going to Recovery screen at all and always goes back to Fastboot mode. I followed ezterry's suggestion
"If you find yourself stuck without recovery!!
Dream
1) Download: orange-1.58.73.2.nbh (MD5: aca4dee0c1ece7e9773f2ecbdfbba7c0) (mirror)
2) enter fastboot and run 'fastboot flash nbh orange-1.58.73.2.nbh'
3) wait for the entire nbh to flash
4) boot into the bootloader again (it will be an engineering SPL 1.42.2000)
5) You can now re-flash the radio/hboot/recovery via fastboot that you wish to have installed."
Everything went fine and then i re-flash the radio/hboot/recovery via fastboot as mentioned above.
But still i cannot get into recovery screen. i tried many times and only once i was able to see recovery screen but it didnt hold up for long time(i mean it went off after seconds).
So what should i do ?
Try it again, this time flash the latest radio/SPL. Also, reflash Amon RA using ADB.

[Q] Nexus One Stuck in hboot mode - Volume up/down and Power button not responding

I installed the eViL-NXSense-HD-v.1.1_BETA in order to get HTC Sense on the Nexus One. I followed the instructions set out on this forum post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791151 I got everything up and working and it looked great. After approximately 2 weeks after I had everything working, the phone restarted and would only boot into hboot mode. The volume up/down and power button are no longer responding, so I am unable to get into recovery or and other mode for that matter. I can't get into fastboot either. I tried pulling the battery several times for different lengths of time (2 days being the max) and still would only boot into hboot mode and the buttons pushes would not do anything. Is there anything I can do to recover this phone, or is this one bricked?
One other thing I noticed. After one time rebooting, the buttons did respond and I was able to get into recovery. After getting into recovery, the track ball would work, but I couldn't push it down to select anything. After about a minute, the screen flickered and I lost all control again even though it was still in recovery. I am assuming something happened to the hardware, but wanted to post here first.
Hboot Screen shows the following:
"""""""""
*** UNLOCKED ***
NEXUSONE PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT - 0.35.0017
MICROP-8615
TOUCH PANEL-SYNTO1B3
RADIO-5.03.00.04
Oct 12 2010, 14:33:16
HBOOT
"""""""""""
When the image checking begins
"""""""""""""
SD Checking...
Loading... [PASSDIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading... [PASSDIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading... [PASSIMG.zip]
No image!
Loading... [PASSIMG.zip]
No image or wrong image!
""""""""""""""
Your volume buttons don't function well - most likely VolumeDown is stuck, and that's why your phone boots to HBOOT and you're unable to navigate there. It's most likely a physical problem, not SW.
In that case try booting up while holding vol+ that way the phone might get confused since it thinks that only one can be pressed at a time then maybe it will boot into the ROM, just a theory may or may not work but it's worth a try. And if it boots then you'll know.
Also try holding the trackball when you boot up it might boot into fastboot then from there you can fastboot boot recovery.img

help

my friend got a g1 and it was stuck in clockwork when get got it. im able use clockwork
here is some info
goes into clockwork,
goes into fastboot with Serial0 when i try to go to the bootloader
hboot v .95
fastboot 32B
put DREAIMG.nbh in the root of the SD card
when i start the phone and hold the camera +power it goes to fastboot, white screen flash and screen quickly flashes back into fastboot with the colored bars and white one on bottom. with serial0 as the only text in middle, when i press back button, that text disappears but still siting on the same screen hoping someone here can help me flash this back to stock i can do the rest myself
thanks!
edit: it was the SD card format. nvm

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