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need help wiping G1

i need help on getting my G1 back to stock. i know how to do it but i have a problem. my sd card cant be read by the G1 and when i do a wipe i cant wipe anything except the factory reset and data. and when i do the factory reset and reboot i still have my rom and i tried another sd card and it says that the sd is removed. so what do i do?

bluizzo said:
i need help on getting my G1 back to stock. i know how to do it but i have a problem. my sd card cant be read by the G1 and when i do a wipe i cant wipe anything except the factory reset and data. and when i do the factory reset and reboot i still have my rom. so what do i do?
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and one more thing, i had to change the trackball, so does anyone think its something that helps read the SD card?

Wiping will not revert your current rom back to the stock rom. You will need to unroot.
There are a sperm load of threads out there in regards to unrooting. Have a blast!

kay so i tried to unroot the phone but when i go to the fastboot screen it just sends me to hboot. is there another way to get the phone to read the sd card?

Can anyone help, please?

Sorry to everyone in advance, I am new to this. I rooted me sprint hero, flashed a new recovery image, and flashed a new ROM. I don't know what I did, but now everytime I try to boot, my phone freezes. Is there anything that I can do to fix this? I should also tell you that, somehow everything that was on my sd card got wiped off.
Thanks.

Did you try wiping first? You might just try wiping the reinstalling the ROM. Fixes a lot of these kinds of hangups. Hold down home when booting and choose wipe all(i cant get to the menu to tell you what the menu says exactly as im on the phone typing this).
What steps did you follow and what ROM did you flash?

Do you have Apps2sd enabled? Mine freezes if I set it to an ext3 or 4 partition, Hero kenerel doesn't support those file systems...yet.
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I guess I should elaborate on a solution.
Go back into recovery. Chose format SD card. Set SWAP and EXT Parts to 0. Press home to format. Then Format again set swap to whatever, i don't think we use it yet so 0 is fine, set ext2 to 512 or however much you need for your apps. Then press home again to format again.
Reboot. see what happens.

Are you sure it is freezing?
The first boot can take a long time, is it "freezing" on HTC?
Give a little more detail..
Which rom, which recovery? Did you wipe everything, or nothing, etc.

Awesome! Thank you very much. That worked! Again, I'm sorry for my idiocy.

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You could just go into recovery mode (hold down the home key when you boot), select wipe then I believe it is the first option to factory reset the phone. Itll run its process then inform you upon completion. Then go ahead and start installing the rom over again. What rom are you using anyway?
Things like this happen a lot but I've found that people on here are pretty quick to help out.
Quick tip, back up often. It saves you a lot of headaches.

jlafran1 said:
Awesome! Thank you very much. That worked! Again, I'm sorry for my idiocy.
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Wait, which suggestion worked? Which ROM? AHHH!!! WE NEED ANSWERS MAN!!!!!!

Yeah, it was freezing. I wiped everything and now it's working. Thank you again to everyone.

UCCS said:
You could just go into recovery mode (hold down the home key when you boot), select wipe then I believe it is the first option to factory reset the phone. Itll run its process then inform you upon completion. Then go ahead and start installing the rom over again. What rom are you using anyway?
Things like this happen a lot but I've found that people on here are pretty quick to help out.
Quick tip, back up often. It saves you a lot of headaches.
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Damn everyone already beat me to it

I'm using the DamageControl ROM.

did i brick my hero? never ending boot up loop

i have been running damagecontrol 2.0.8 and over the last few days had some weird forced closes and then last night my sense clock and stuff dissapeared. When trying to go into settings - > application management it would force close also. So i downloaded the damagecontrol rom again, put on my SD, went into recovery and wiped everything. For some dumb reason i also wiped the SD card.
so i put the rom back on SD, and flashed. nope, i didnt nandroid after deleted it. OOPS! and of course im an idiot and didnt ever copy my nandroid to PC
so anyways, i have flashed the rom a few times now and im stuck in a never ending HTC/Sprint boot up loop. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing will boot the phone.
Any ideas or am i screwed?

Nope youre bricked......
ok so do this:
Make sure you wipe everything, sd card included (0 for ext, 0 for swap, all for FAT)
The copy the rom back to the phone and flash again...
Worst case is to run the RUU1.56.
Oh yeah post this in general next time.
Mods will probably move it - if so thats where your thread went.

lol your NOT bricked. Bricked means no way to recover. If you can still get to your recovery screen your fine. Like the last post says boot to recovery go to the wipe screen and wipe every category Data / sd extension / other ones arent really necessary. Pick a ROM put it on your card flash and enjoy. oh then MAKE A BACKUP!

menzo44 said:
lol your NOT bricked. Bricked means no way to recover. If you can still get to your recovery screen your fine. Like the last post says boot to recovery go to the wipe screen and wipe every category Data / sd extension / other ones arent really necessary. Pick a ROM put it on your card flash and enjoy. oh then MAKE A BACKUP!
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Forgot my <Sarcasm> </Sarcasm> tags again

power off, remove your sd card, and power on.
You most likely have something screwy in your ext partition.

Had this same issue...
I wiped everything (factory reset, davlik cache, etc)...flashed the ROM again. Had no luck. My phone came back for about 2 minutes...and was running insanely slow and freezing up after every button press. Tried running a nanoid restore...with no avail. I ended up getting my phone replaced with a reconditioned model. And it actually feels better than the new one I was using, lol.

I don't know what peoples problems with a reconditioned piece of equipment is. If I have the option to buy refurb at a store I do - simply put: A company cannot afford to test EVERY thing that is spit of the production line, they grab every say 100th one.
IN THEORY:
Each and EVERY refurb is tested and inspected, so its really almost garunteed that you will get a better product. Unless of course the QA person is a moron/lazy - which actually maybe the case with refurb heros...have seen a few horror stories.

I had something like this happen too. It would get stuck on the boot screen in a loop. I was able to get into recovery, but it could not read the SD card at all. I had to format the SD card and flash a new rom. I'm wondrering if it's because I dropped the phone and that cause the SD card data to be corrupted.

Urgent [Q] I may have screwed up badly..

Ok, I might have bricked my phone. I had the cm7/Aosp gingerbread mod. But I didn't have apps2sd enabled. So I downloaded rom manager, flashed the newest version of clockwork recovery, and rebooted to recovery, where I partitioned for apps 2 sd with a size of 256 mb and 128mb swap-space . I then factory reset, and formatted Boot, cache, data, everything. After that I went to mount as Usb, and I copied the Rom, gapps, and a battery icon mod back to the phone. But the phone didn't recognize any installable packages on my sd after I un-mounted, so I shut my Hero off in hopes it would when I turned it back on p) . When I turned the Hero on, it went to a Usb-fastboot mode, and I couldn't get it to turn off so I removed the battery from the back of my phone, then put it back in. Now my phone won't turn on at all. Does anybody know what I did wrong and can I fix it?

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f60/how-to-apps2sd-for-droid-34800/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=666420
not sure if this will help but maybe you can find some info there

Hopefully that squared you away. But for future question, please post it in the general or question section. This area is specifically for devs and their projects.

oohaylima said:
Hopefully that squared you away. But for future question, please post it in the general or question section. This area is specifically for devs and their projects.
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Alright sorry, I think I meant to post it there but then kinda freaked out >.<

spleef said:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f60/how-to-apps2sd-for-droid-34800/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=666420
not sure if this will help but maybe you can find some info there
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Thanks Spleef, but I was wondering how to get my phone to turn on again as it seems to have just quit on me

Whenever a ROM doesn't boot up properly, boot loop, freeze, etc, I usually have to pull the battery out. Then when I restart it, I hold down the Volume Down and Power buttons at the same time to boot into recovery. Try doing this while the phone is plugged into your wall charger and see if that helps.
Also, I'm not 100% on how to get the apps2sd working, but I had a question about which version of Clockwork you were using. I thought with CM7 Gingerbread we were supposed to use version 3.0.0.5 of Clockwork. I know there is a new version, 2.5.1.7 I think, that shows up in ROM Manager. Unless something has changed, I don't think it will work with CM7.
I'm still pretty new to this, so hopefully someone else will chime in here for you.
Good luck.

i did the same thing one time you gota wipe everything again i mean even the sd card and extthen take ur sd card adapter and put rom gapps any extras on ur sd card then put it back into ur phone then flash it in the order of rom,gapps,extras,and kernel last if u are using one hope this helps
p.s this was using CWM 2.5.0.1

This just happened to me the other day, except I was trying to use firerats partition mod. See if it will boot by holding volume down or up while powering on. It worked for me, but I had to ruu back to stock and had reroot with z4root.apk
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Ok anytime you do a factory reset from the phone you most likely will loose root. And leave your phone charged over night it should come back on. And your swap is to big IMO. For apps to sd try a 28 or 32 swap and 512 partition. Then upgrade you ext from ext2 to ext3. And you were supposed to wipe everything before you flashed the apps to sd file. As in wipe everything data,cache,dev-cache and ext. Then flash your rom,google-apps,and kernel last. Boot up sign into your account and let it sync. Then boot to recovery and flash the apps2sd zip. After that you should install your apps. And I think you should ruu and reroot. Sounds like you lost root when you did factory reset from with in the phone. Just my opinion. Hope it helps good luck.
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Plese help asap!!!

I installed "Battery Icon Mod v1.01", applied the mod, restarted, and I do see the AT&T screen, then I see the Galaxy moving screen, and after, I see the black screen, and nothing else, and I feel the phone vibrates (almost the same way, when the program crashes). I need to get back on the phone somehow, without restarting from scratch. Any way without loosing all of it?

Can you get into recovery with battery pull and up + down volume + power?
If so try reflashing or flashing a different battery mod and see if it works

VOL UP+VOL DWN+PWR does not work when battery is out.
VOL UP+VOL DWN+PWR works when battey is in
and i get the following choices
reboot system now
reinstall package
delete all user data
delete cache data
format internal sd-card

zheka1 said:
VOL UP+VOL DWN+PWR does not work when battery is out.
VOL UP+VOL DWN+PWR works when battey is in
and i get the following choices
reboot system now
reinstall package
delete all user data
delete cache data
format internal sd-card
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Looks like youre running stock recovery which = stock ROM. How did it even flash without failing verification? (not asking you, whoever else)
IMO you're hosed and need to odin back to completely stock (everything is lost) Unless someone else can think of a way to fix system files with stock recovery

I did flashed my phone with froyo 2.2 when I got the phone, and it was back in September or something. It was also rooted, so maybe that why it allowed to mod? I'm not too good with the phones and stuff, as i am more of a computer IT.

zheka1 said:
I did flashed my phone with froyo 2.2 when I got the phone, and it was back in September or something. It was also rooted, so maybe that why it allowed to mod? I'm not too good with the phones and stuff, as i am more of a computer IT.
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If you're really in IT you'd know that information is key to solving any problem. Stock 2.2 or a custom 2.2 ROM?

What I was trying to say, is I am not good with phones, and phone software and stuff

If you had usb debugging checked , you can use adb to push your original framework back to the phone. If you did a backup you can just install the backup. Otherwise your only recourse is to reflash the rom.

no i dont have any back and stuff. is there anyway to get the SMS? or my MEMO's?

You can flash a rom through odin...does not have to be stock...it will not wipe the info you have saved on your internal sd or external. if you sync your contacts with google gmail it will return all your contacts.
With that said, you will lose any programs you downloaded and installed unless you have them backed up (titianium back-up, etc).
It's not the end of the world, your phone will live again...
Just a thought...why not take this opportunity to flash one of the excellent custom roms in the development section?

This is why you will be backing up from now on...if no adb debugging then i dont this you can do adb pull or anything so .just flash another rom bud.we all make mistakes .yours isnt too big of a mistake tho. Sorry
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as long as I can keep my data, I'm not worried about loosing my applications, I can always reinstall them. I remember I tried to flash Froyo 2.2, and it took me forever to get it done. Could someone point me to a good ROM (preferably 1.2OC) where I can keep all my data.

Nope. You're pretty much out if luck with no backup. If you were on stock 2.2 then the reason you're in a bootloop is because you tried to install a mod to your framework that only works in deoxed roms.

TigerEnigma said:
You can flash a rom through odin...does not have to be stock...it will not wipe the info you have saved on your internal sd or external.
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what is this means then?

i guess the solution is to clear cache and factory reset ...
but u will loose ur data....

No roms will delete your internal SD card unless you do a master clear. Without pushing your framework back and having no backup all your data (SMS, memos, call logs) is gone. No way around it. Flashing with Odin still deletes your user data.

can somebody point me to the best 1.2GHz rom?

That's in the kernel. Which can be swapped out on any rom, I believe there is one for stock froyo.

Im kinda confused, I've been googling and searching this thread, and not sure what I have to do next. How do I began from scratch? What do I need to install the very first image? Where do I get it? I keep on searching all the threads this forum has, but its so much stuff here, that I get really confused.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919816