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Apologies - noob rooting questions

I did search, honest! I'm halfway thru rooting my phone (downgraded and hardspl's, now just trying to find an up to date image)
real quick - once i'm back up to date on a recent android build can I still:
1. use market?
2. buy apps?
3. use google apps (maps, gmail etc)?
seen various comments on these questions and just want to get the latest info...
thanks!

yes sir, you absolutely can. and if you have already purchased some paid apps, you will be able to recover them post upgrade via market without paying for them again. a very cool feature IMO

jomtones said:
I did search, honest! I'm halfway thru rooting my phone (downgraded and hardspl's, now just trying to find an up to date image)
real quick - once i'm back up to date on a recent android build can I still:
1. use market?
2. buy apps?
3. use google apps (maps, gmail etc)?
seen various comments on these questions and just want to get the latest info...
thanks!
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Cheers guys really appreciate the help!
trying to choose a rom now - are the new ones based on the Hero stable on a G1/ worth trying yet? Any major advantage to them?
Thanks again

JACHero is definitely worth trying.. but to use that you need to upgrade your radio and spl.
Just in case it hasn't been said enough times yet, YOU MUST FLASH THE RADIO BEFORE THE SPL OR BRICK WILL ENSUE!

Ok cool - saw some comments about lag / RAM deficiencies on the G1 - have these been ironed out?

Mostly.. jachero uses linux swap now and it's running pretty fast. Just follow the instructions in the first post of the thread to partition your card.

Ok thanks. Are there major advantages in the Hero ROM? It looked a bit 'gloss' in the video if you know what I mean.
Also how's the battery life working out?

jomtones said:
Ok thanks. Are there major advantages in the Hero ROM? It looked a bit 'gloss' in the video if you know what I mean.
Also how's the battery life working out?
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Main advantages to the hero rom are the swish interface, really useful widgets, integration with facebook, twitter and flickr, exchange imap and pop3 support, bragging rights.
I don't see much difference in battery life between this and cyanogen tbh.. but I keep my phone plugged in most of the day sp ymmv.

wow, sounds pretty good! I've started with a cyanogen just to begin with - weird though it's just been paused on the 'android' logo for about 15mins (still animating) ... he mentions:
17. It's taking forever to boot!
The first boot will take longer than normal because dexopt needs to run. If you are nervous, connect USB and run "adb logcat" to watch the progress.
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in the FAQ but is this normal? (I haven't installed all that adb stuff) ... Wary of pulling the battery and screwing things up ...

Just let it load it does take a bit the first time.
If not, go into recovery again and do a wipe ALT+W and then update ALT+S
that's one thing i would go into the first few times.

Thanks wddglr ... trying that now (it was hung for like 20mins)

Great, that worked straight away! Looking good, I'm gonna give Hero a blast soon

Just make sure you follow the SPL upgrade instructions to the letter. That thing has caused enough bricks to defend china from the Mongols.

Heh, ok! Update radio 1st right? ... btw is there any way to exit the recovery console other than pulling the battery?

hmmm ... ok went here: http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/
and installed radio, then rebooted and installed SPL - now it hangs on the G1 screen. Any ideas?
update: browsing another forum I tried booting with the camera button down and I get this skating android screen!
Home+power also works - Can I do an ALT+W without wiping the radio / SPL? ...

I got the same thing and I don't mind telling you that I was crapping myself
As long as you did the radio first (just in case there is anybody who didn't get that ) all I had to do was do another wipe (just wipes user data\apps etc - not radio or SPL or other "firmware stuff") and then that should work.
It didn't in my case but I just re-applied the ROM update and it worked OK but my heart was racing for a good 30 minutes
Also, you should look into flashing a recovery image onto there - I use Cyanogens (1.3.1 i think) and it's great - can do everything with the trackball etc...
Cheers,
Smiffy.

Home and back exits the recovery console and just incase you didn't know, the 2 phone buttons plus menu is like CTRL-ALT-DEL

Brilliant thanks Lordsmiff .. I just found these instructions along the same lines!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534461
Nice one

'jacHero' didn't work the 1st time, trying a wipe and reinstall now...
what threw me was I expected it to reboot each time I made a change, didn't realise I had to use a card reader to add the main rom!
cheers

looking to hero! Some questions

Hello all,
I'm curious about somethings for turning my g1 to the hero (rosie?) rom (wow it looks beautiful).
The first being Where can I actually find it? I found two sites that offer it but doesn't seem like its from the developer themselves (who I'd trust more).
Secondly, which developer has the best performance (e.g. speed, ect.). I've read that it is a deadly slow Rom and I already lack patience for my g1 now (It's the stock firmware). The hero its self looks much smoother, am I wrong?
If I can't risk my phone being bricked should I bother trying it? (I had it JF rooted in the summer which I did successfully on my first try, and I un-rooted it.)
Is there a text document with how to install with a video that coincides?
Lastly, Is Cyanogen a better rom? (this has next to nothing to do with the hero rom )
Hopefully I didn't miss a thread on this I searched for like an hour.

skratched1 said:
The first being Where can I actually find it? I found two sites that offer it but doesn't seem like its from the developer themselves (who I'd trust more).
Hopefully I didn't miss a thread on this I searched for like an hour.
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You cant just start driving, you have to learn the basics.When you get in a car there a many things that you need to do first is learning and even taking test.
You must have root first and a recovery image and im guessing your all stock.The dream section has all the info needed to root now is up to you to decide if you want to read it.
-Best regards

Thank you. I am very comfortable with the rooting process. I just don't want to do it unless the rosie rom is worth it!

Basically, Hero is incomplete. It doesn't have Bluetooth nor full Google Voice integration, and it runs 1.5. However, at the rate the devs are going on Hero 2.1 the version it runs could change very soon.
For now, stick with Cyanogen as it is a better Rom. Hero doesn't really work on the G1, it's slow and there is a lot of core function missing. It will never be an everyday ROM. I think of it like a concept car. Its cool in a "look what we can do" sort of way, but just wait for the next HTC Android phone.

skratched1 said:
Thank you. I am very comfortable with the rooting process. I just don't want to do it unless the rosie rom is worth it!
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video here:follow in order
1.http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/05/how-to-unroot-your-t-mobile-g1/
2.http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-root-the-mytouch-3g-or-g1-in-one-click/
3.http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/ho...ps2sd-onto-your-g1-or-mytouch-3g-best-method/
-Best Of Luck To You!
P.s. Better get started

Wii60 said:
Basically, Hero is incomplete. It doesn't have Bluetooth nor full Google Voice integration, and it runs 1.5. However, at the rate the devs are going on Hero 2.1 the version it runs could change very soon.
For now, stick with Cyanogen as it is a better Rom. Hero doesn't really work on the G1, it's slow and there is a lot of core function missing. It will never be an everyday ROM. I think of it like a concept car. Its cool in a "look what we can do" sort of way, but just wait for the next HTC Android phone.
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Its not slow...You must be running a super old version..Hero 2.1 roms and 1.5 roms are both very fast...King's 2.1 is very fast and close performance to cyanogen, please dont misinform people.All current hero roms are fast, in a 2.1 rom you can achieve 20mb+ free ram which is about the same to a cyanogen rom. Maybe you used a old jac rom months ago.
-"Times are changing boy, you need to catch up"

Ace42 said:
Its not slow...You must be running a super old version..Hero 2.1 roms and 1.5 roms are both very fast...King's 2.1 is very fast and close performance to cyanogen, please dont misinform people.All current hero roms are fast, in a 2.1 rom you can achieve 20mb+ free ram which is about the same to a cyanogen rom. Maybe you used a old jac rom months ago.
-"Times are changing boy, you need to catch up"
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I'm sorry to say, but no I have tried many Hero configurations on my class 6 as recently as a month ago. The fact is that even if there were drivers for all of the hardware over time Hero really starts to bog down. It will not always perform after that post-setup peak it has.
If you want working hero wait until the first 2 weeks of January when the Passion comes out.

Ace42 said:
video here:follow in order
1.http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/05/how-to-unroot-your-t-mobile-g1/
2.http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-root-the-mytouch-3g-or-g1-in-one-click/
3.http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/ho...ps2sd-onto-your-g1-or-mytouch-3g-best-method/
-Best Of Luck To You!
P.s. Better get started
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Going to try this tonight. Read and watched the videos. seems very simple. thank you!

need help!
When following this guide http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/ho...ps2sd-onto-your-g1-or-mytouch-3g-best-method/ (I already did the one click root with no issues)
In part II of the guide
. Download the custom SPL for your device:
T-Mobile G1 – Here
MyTouch 3G – Unneccessary, skip this section and proceed to Section III.
3. Plug in your phone and mount the SD card (pull down on the notification bar and select the SD card notification then click Mount in the pop up window).
4. After the SD card shows up on the computer, put the SPL zip file on to the memory card.
5. Once it is done transferring to the memory card and you have renamed it, unplug the phone from the computer.
6. Turn off the phone and then turn it back on by holding down the Home and Power button to get to recovery mode (keep holding it until the recovery screen with the writing and black background come up). Here i get to the ! so I hit Alt + L to get to the recovery screen. It gives me the menu to reboot, apply zip, wipe. However at the bottom of the screen it says E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command
7. Once the recovery screen is up, click on Wipe Data. Once that is done, click on Apply Update.zip and wait for it to finish. I wipe the date and then apply zip. I then get this message __ Install from sdcard... Finding update package... Opening update package... Verifying update package... E: No signature (5 files) E: Verification failed Installation aborted
I'm assuming this means the SPL file is corrupt but I don't know much and probably am wrong.
How can I fix this? I got this far with no issues and so close to being done!

skratched1 said:
need help!
I'm assuming this means the SPL file is corrupt but I don't know much and probably am wrong.
How can I fix this? I got this far with no issues and so close to being done!
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Just rename to update not update.zip and make sure the sd is Fat32 not Fat or NTFS.
radio goes first i think make sure you did that section.

Ace42 said:
Just rename to update not update.zip and make sure the sd is Fat32 not Fat or NTFS.
radio goes first i think make sure you did that section.
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SD is fat32 and the update.zip just says update
My radio is 2.22.19.26I that is the most current, right?
tried again still the same message. Any other suggestions? should i unroot and start over again?

skratched1 said:
SD is fat32 and the update.zip just says update
My radio is 2.22.19.26I that is the most current, right?
tried again still the same message. Any other suggestions? should i unroot and start over again?
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Yes you have current radio no need to flash it again unless you want a new paperweight.

Def no paper weight!
I tried again and Still the same message. What do I Do? thanks for all the help.

skratched1 said:
Def no paper weight!
I tried again and Still the same message. What do I Do? thanks for all the help.
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Try to redownload the file.

did that twice once from the link in the video and once from http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/
both gave me the same results.

UP AND RUNNING JACHERO
Thanks a bunch ace. In the two minutes its been up it's looked as good as I wanted it to!

so my son grabbed it this morning, it froze i took the battery out. Now it keeps going to the hero screens over and over again. what should I do?

If I were you I would try re-flashing. Do you have a custom recovery.img? Like Cyan's or Amon-Ra's? If you do, try wipe cache, wipe ext part, wipe cache, and then re-flash. That's always the first thing I do when my phone starts getting buggy.

help!!!!

so i was watching a video
to SUPER D 1.5.1 WITH NEXUS LAUNCHER
followed the steps to install it
but now i get an abort alert
saying E:cant symlink/system/xbin/bb]
E:failure at line 59:symlink/xbin/busybox SYSTEM:xbin/bb]
installion aborted. whats going wrong

also it tries to boot up and boots right in to recovery?

Can you give us more information? Like wich recovery you have, what radio, spl...

well i got it back to normal so its now on 1.0 rc29
i would really like things to work but its seems not to go my way
i know it may be simple to the vets but to me rooting is a bit hard

Might be a build.prop problem. Someone may have edited it incorrectly.
Got a link to this information?

tehseano said:
Might be a build.prop problem. Someone may have edited it incorrectly.
Got a link to this information?
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ok so i got it right thanks to the unlockr and a guy on here named jackslim(props to that guy)
it seems that i rebooted my phone which made the phone overwrite the recovery img with its own.
i so i fixed that problem
now im running super D 1.5.1 with nexus launcher and i must say it is awesome!!!!!!!!

pfkis2010 said:
ok so i got it right thanks to the unlockr and a guy on here named jackslim(props to that guy)
it seems that i rebooted my phone which made the phone overwrite the recovery img with its own.
i so i fixed that problem
now im running super D 1.5.1 with nexus launcher and i must say it is awesome!!!!!!!!
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Do you have a link to it? I'd love to have that function.

The quintessential startup/shutdown sequence update.zip ...

I grew tired of doing this manually via the command line every time I re-flashed so I followed what others did and pieced this together. This takes cares of startup/shutdown audio and video. It basically eliminates anything that remotely resembles T-Mobile and gives that extra long shutdown sequence (60 frames). UPDATE: It works great with UVJI5. In fact, the new ROM is the reason why I created this and thus the only ROM I've tested it on. UPDATE: As expected, it works with UVJI6. You will just have to re-root. ROM Manager's automatic process was acting up so I had to go into its manual mode and choose the file myself.
You will need to flash this via ROM Manager.
Best,
DCC
UPDATE: Attached to post; VapidShare gave up on us prematurely.
UPDATE: I apologize for being a little vague, unintentionally ... this gives the phone the stock SGS I9000 startup/shutdown animations. There is another update out there that accomplishes the same thing but for whatever reason only offered 14 frames in the shutdown. This is the full 60 frames of the S breaking up into little pieces. It's the reverse of the startup, essentially.

Reserved by OP for future use
Totally joking of course ... I just always wanted to do that!

Works great, thanks! First time I have seen the shutdown longer than 14 frames. Hooray!

Does this work on the new firmware?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk

rUsTyRuSs said:
Does this work on the new firmware?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk
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Great question ... I forgot to mention in my original post: this update works great with UVJI5 ... in fact, it's what led me to create it. Jacking around with Kies for an hour in vain left me with no energy to deal with extricating my phone from those horrid T-mobile startup/shutdown sounds and graphics.

Do you have a mirror rapidshare keeps giving me an error message

Same here with error msg
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Download doesn't work anymore
I'm currently using this on JI5
here you go

demo23019 said:
Download doesn't work anymore
I'm currently using this on JI5
here you go
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This looks like the same one I already had I want to one with the extended shutdown animation like the OP had posted

IDK the one i posted replaces tmobile with the original galaxy s boot/shutdown
removed link

Sorry guys, I am at work and my client's firewall does not let me through to rapidshare ... if I can find a few minutes of downtime, I will seek alternatives. I can't even download the file to attach it to a post in this forum (it's almost 8MB, BTW; I don't know if I'm even allowed to). I will see if it's at least still on my phone.
Yes, this removes the T-Mobile start-up shutdown animations (audio and video) with the stock SGS I9000 ones but it has the extended version of the shutdown. As I originally mentioned, I pieced it together from others' updates.
UPDATE: I attached the file to the original post! My apologies to all who were inconvenienced by the RapidShare link.

NP no rush here.

dcchristopher said:
UPDATE: I attached the file to the original post! My apologies to all who were inconvenienced by the RapidShare link.
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Thanks, much appreciated

Installed through Rom Manager with no issues.

Very nice. Thank you very much.

the reason the original only had 14 frames is because the original shutdown would only play 14 frames and stop.

Does this work on the stock roms and some of Eugenes.
I haven't ventured out into the JI5 stuff simply because I'm waiting for all the smoke to clear.

got it working

kizer said:
Does this work on the stock roms and some of Eugenes.
I haven't ventured out into the JI5 stuff simply because I'm waiting for all the smoke to clear.
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It should work just fine with any ROM. It is a very simple script. It just removes the existing PowerOn and Shutdown sounds and replaces the two bootsamsung QMG files and overwrites the shutdown animation folder. In the worst case, it would just do nothing.
Folks, feel free to download it and see the constituent files. There is an update-script in the META-INF/com/google/.... directory.
Good luck,
DCC

demo23019 said:
what option in rommanager u using?
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Click "Install ROM from SD Card", then choose this file (GalaxySBoot.zip or whatever), don't choose any "Pre-installation" options, and just click OK. Since it's not named update.zip, it shouldn't conflict with ROM Manager's "process" (for some people, ROM Manager needs to lay down its update.zip in order to ensure that when booting into the stock recovery it is able to load itself via said file).
I hope this helped.

stock android lock screen

looking for android stock locking screen. i tried the on rom manager and it does not work is there a zip file around or provide a link

see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=873160
Those are for DJ05 and after flash first boot will be longer. If you are not running a theme now just grab the stock one.
good day.

chopper the dog said:
see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=873160
Those are for DJ05 and after flash first boot will be longer. If you are not running a theme now just grab the stock one.
good day.
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Thanks, needed to find this. Sometimes searching through the cruft for what you need is harder than it seems.
Okay, not what I thought it was but it could come in handy.
Still need the AOSP lockscreen. I am not sure whether or not it is changed in the theme I am using or not but the all I can see is the buttons for unlock and mute with no oval thing around them, trying to bring that back.