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I've had my G1 for about 1 year now... about 1 month ago it just stopped working. WHEN I TURN IT ON I GET AN ERROR IMAGE (its an exclamation point inside a triangle with a g1 phone right under it)
What the heck does it mean?
The phone is pretty much useless, cant do anything to it.
I've taken out the battery put it back in and nothing....still get that image.
I have no idea what to do.
Can anyone Help me???
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/3986746644/
see if you can get into bootloader with camera and power.
Have you been running a cooked ROM or a stock ota release?
OTA. Anything I got on the phone i got through the market place or from t-mobiles updates and stuff. i really dont know anything about "cooked roms"....
Didn't Work
david1171 said:
see if you can get into bootloader with camera and power.
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It didn't do anything. no bootloader, no nothing. it was still on that same image.
thanks anyway.
lmvcorp said:
It didn't do anything. no bootloader, no nothing. it was still on that same image.
thanks anyway.
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Sounds like a brick.....RIP lmvcorp's G1
I need a new screen for my spare G1 and would be willing to take it off your hands......
don't give up on it just yet, i remember reading about this somewhere and someone getting this fixed on a rooted phone, i don't now bout stock but let me look
I agree that its better not to give up, but with an unrooted phone, it seems unlikely that there is a fix. Root gives so many more options in the way of workarounds. Without those workarounds, it will be a miracle to get a somewhere on a phone that can't get into the bootloader. Would it be worth running a logcat and posting it? I can't remember if ddms will recognize a device that is on that screen or not.
Grid, any thoughts on that?
i am trying to look up the info, the screen means kernel or rom corruption, can prob still be adp push. i keep getting distracted and i am not used to being up this long
to the op, try sliding out your keyboard when on that screen and press alt + and w and report back if it does anything
i knew i knew this, duh. you are stuck on the stock recovery, try what i said then, pull the battery and reinsert it and power the phone back up by holding the camera and power buttons if you get into the tri color screen,report back and everbody here can tell you what to do next
you could put DREAIMG.NBH in the root of your sd card, camera+power and run update and go through the rooting process..Many tutorials all over the web
jndd333 said:
you could put DREAIMG.NBH in the root of your sd card, camera+power and run update and go through the rooting process..Many tutorials all over the web
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he cant get into bootloader.....
if its only going to that one screen, just take it to tmobile and have them replace it. you didnt mod it or anything
Tried it...
The Reverend Gridlock said:
to the op, try sliding out your keyboard when on that screen and press alt + and w and report back if it does anything
i knew i knew this, duh. you are stuck on the stock recovery, try what i said then, pull the battery and reinsert it and power the phone back up by holding the camera and power buttons if you get into the tri color screen,report back and everbody here can tell you what to do next
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OK. I did what you said. I press ALT + W and nothing happened so i pushed it a couple of time and another screen came up... it wasnt the the tri color screen. I got a screen with a "box, an arrow coming out of it....with the phone outside and a loading bar at the bottom" I'm assuming this is like a un-boxing process. but right after that the phone just restarts and the process starts all over again.... G1 screen, then the error screen. I've also tried to press CAM+POWER after that in so many ways and nothing..... taken the battery off and nothing. tried so many combinations.....
(sorry it took me a while to report back, i was on vacation, then i caught the flu.)
i wish
B-man007 said:
he cant get into bootloader.....
if its only going to that one screen, just take it to tmobile and have them replace it. you didnt mod it or anything
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Yeah... you know what TMOBILE ppl are jerks....
i was paying for insurance but then i cancelled it because i was trying to lower my bill and that within 1 month the whole error thing happened...
and i asked them if i could get it replace or fixed....
i told them i payed all this time and u guys cant do anything for me...
they just said sorry.
i'll try another t-mobile store.
Link
jndd333 said:
you could put DREAIMG.NBH in the root of your sd card, camera+power and run update and go through the rooting process..Many tutorials all over the web
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Can you post some LINKS????
Thanks.
If you cant get to the tricolor screen then DREAIMG.nbh wont help
You should take it to the store and tell them it happened after the update.
Are you sure your home button isnt stuck?
HELP PLZ
Ok. I've searched and searched... and I still don't know what to do. I found a method on trying a "master reset" but after it re-boots its still stuck in the "triangle, exclamation, phone" screen. Attached are photos of how the screen looks like after every step. I think the problem is that the software is damaged and that it cant be loaded correctly. Is there anything I can download into the SD CARD and load to "alt+s"???
hey guys i have a g1. its rooted.
i tried to get the latest custom radio. but idk why after wiped and then i used update frm sd. its did something then asked to reboot to finish installation . then the "Unboxing and an arrow to phone" came up. and its not going away .. its always there... i removed the battery fone ... tried to go to the recovery mode. nothing works .......
Need HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You said you cannot get into recover home + power
Can you get into the bootloader?? (camera + power)
If you can't boot into either of theese modes, then you probably bricked your phone during your radio update
nope.. i tried. the same screen comes up...
so there is no way to fix it now?
If you search around the forums abit there's a couple things you can try that will work in the chance that somehow it's just a softbrick....
However, not being able to boot with camera + power or home + power , is usually a sign of a brick
i think i got a softbrick.... cause its not the G1 sign.. the installation sign thats on the screen.. "Unboxing and an arrow to phone"
anyhow tnx dude
o7hafiz said:
i think i got a softbrick.... cause its not the G1 sign.. the installation sign thats on the screen.. "Unboxing and an arrow to phone"
anyhow tnx dude
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Doesn't matter what you can see on-screen, if you can't get in to the SPL (home+camera) and can't boot the phone itself, then the thing's dead. Simple as.
Only way to fix that is to take it back to HTC/Tmo and say that's what happened after an OTA update, or replace the motherboard.
What radio were you trying to flash? One from the Hero?
not looking good :/
That part where you said unboxing.. by forever did you mean atleast 10 minutes? sometimes this part can take forever.. If you yanked the battery while it was still updating the radio odds are you're sol :/
Also did you have the correct spl installed? sadly jacking up the radio install is the easiest way to perma brick your phone...
i tried to flash this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552591
then i tough it'll be better if used the latest radio as that ask... so i used "update-hero-radio-63.18.55.06IU_6.35.08.22-signed" i pasted it on my sd. then used update frm sd zip...
the installed and asked to reboot.. i did then i installed but that the end that screen came up =/
So in short you tried to update a G1 with a Hero radio image. I think that's the first time I seen this one. Not sure where to point you too at this point.....
jackslim said:
So in short you tried to update a G1 with a Hero radio image. I think that's the first time I seen this one. Not sure where to point you too at this point.....
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The "ROM Flashing for dummies" book? ;P
Moral of this story, don't flash radio images intended for other devices!!...Or ROMs for that matter. They won't brick but without the required drivers they aren't going to work.
so thats it.................. i just leave it like that......... trash that fone? lol
that radio was a mistake.. i didnt read that name.. i thought it was for g1's htc rom.. but w.e
tell what should i do... just leave it till i get a solution?
o7hafiz said:
so thats it.................. i just leave it like that......... trash that fone? lol
that radio was a mistake.. i didnt read that name.. i thought it was for g1's htc rom.. but w.e
tell what should i do... just leave it till i get a solution?
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Depending on how long you've had the phone, if it's been less than a year, you could call T-Mobile and say something to the affect of, your phone said it needed to reboot to apply an update and now it's stuck on this screen etc.. etc.. , and they would probably issue you a replacement, however if you get caught doing this, they could charge you an additional fee, and this is probably considered an insurance scam, you can decide what you'd like to do on your own, I just wanted to throw that little disclaimer in
nice to you find such matter funny.
anyhow ... i press and held the track ball and hit power button.. the blue like came out and the screen is black... O-o is that a good sign?
please help guys
Trackball does nothing but put it into "blue light mode", the ones you need working are home+power & camera+power. there are several pseudo solutions that claim to work even if these key combinations don't and perhaps they do for a few that are only softbricked. But, there are several hundred people with G1's in paperweight mode who'd beg to differ.
Alas, you've got alot of reading ahead of you, which could have been avoided had you done more reading in the first place :/
My suggestion, being that it seems you're fairly new, with a fairly new phone is follow jackslim's advice above and do alot more research next time...
thank you all of you...
ill go talk to T-mobile tomorrow see if they are able to help...=/
but i just wanned to show how the screen looks like
http://i27.tinypic.com/10rskyx.jpg
once again thanks for the advice
kinda odd tho. have you tried putting rc29's DREAIMG.NBH on the sd and holding camera+power...
Edit: then again, a hero radio on a "not hero" could definitely cause "odd"
oh and don't forget to atleast wipe your sd before going to t-mobile....
So, last night, I had a bit to drink and apparently threw my phone, according to my friends, and the screen is completely broke. I have my phone rooted, so I just want to make sure...i should probably put it back to stock software before i replace it, right?
it still works besides the screen, and i know i can probably get it into download mode, because the button combos work for me.
another question, once i flash back to stock, would i have to do a master clear as well? im just trying to not void my warranty.
Im not sure about the master clear question but I do know that you would need to return to stock or at least the 2.2 Froyo upgrade. If you cant get the warranty to work your looking at spending about 200$ to replace the glass and digitizer.
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Im not sure about the master clear question but I do know that you would need to return to stock or at least the 2.2 Froyo upgrade. If you cant get the warranty to work your looking at spending about 200$ to replace the glass and digitizer.
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yeah, im really hoping that i dont have to go the screen replacement route. hopefully this works and i can just spend the 120 for the insurance replacement. i just dont want to return it today and have them contact me later and screw me with a full phone replacement price...although i probably deserve the $530 or so that it is. haha.
ok, just flashed it back to stock, worked perfectly thank god. attempting a master clear now...not sure if this will work...started it and odin seems to be stuck on just the 'master clear started' line.
edit*** master clear isnt working, so does anybody know the set of files/ folders that are on the phone when it is freshly master cleared? i just dont want to leave anything on there that would let them know i rooted and flashed stuff. i can access the root of my phone on my computer, so i just would like to know which files i should have...anybody know this by chance? i have the following files:Android, bluetooth, data, DCIM, download, downloads, external_sd, LOST.DIR, media, and mirenbrowser
for some reason it wont let me delete mirenbrowser, but that shouldnt matter at all.
hey if it stays stuck at that screen then just take it back to the store and tell them thats whats caused you to throw it
dski165 said:
hey if it stays stuck at that screen then just take it back to the store and tell them thats whats caused you to throw it
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haha, i wish i knew why i threw it. and my phone didnt get stuck at all, just odin didnt work. probably dont have the right usb settings, and theres no way of changing those with how my screen looks. oh well. last time i replaced my phone i returned one with a bunch of files from custom roms, and didnt have an issue, so i think ill be fine.
If u think u will be fine. Why post this question?
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haha, i wish i knew why i threw it. and my phone didnt get stuck at all, just odin didnt work. probably dont have the right usb settings, and theres no way of changing those with how my screen looks. oh well. last time i replaced my phone i returned one with a bunch of files from custom roms, and didnt have an issue, so i think ill be fine.
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If you are making a warranty claim and paying the $125, why don't you just say you lost the phone?
I sent in a warranty exchange with a cracked screen while on a custom rom. Who cares, you are paying for the replacement, only thing that sucks is personal info left on phone
MIUI
welchertc said:
ok, just flashed it back to stock, worked perfectly thank god. attempting a master clear now...not sure if this will work...started it and odin seems to be stuck on just the 'master clear started' line.
edit*** master clear isnt working, so does anybody know the set of files/ folders that are on the phone when it is freshly master cleared? i just dont want to leave anything on there that would let them know i rooted and flashed stuff. i can access the root of my phone on my computer, so i just would like to know which files i should have...anybody know this by chance? i have the following files:Android, bluetooth, data, DCIM, download, downloads, external_sd, LOST.DIR, media, and mirenbrowser
for some reason it wont let me delete mirenbrowser, but that shouldnt matter at all.
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When you master clear make sure to follow these steps exactly:
Open Odin > Put phone into USB Debug Mode > Plug Phone into computer via USB > Click Master Clear
If that doesn't work, simply go to the phone and follow this:
Settings > Privacy > Factory Data Reset
Or try this:
Go into Recovery Mode (Turn phone off completely > Hold Power + Up and Down Volume Keys > Wait for phone to go through first screen cycle, and when the AT&T Screen comes up again, release the power button, while still holding the volumes keys until you reach recovery mode) Then choose "wipe factory data/factory reset" (it should be something like that) by moving up and down with the volume keys and select it with the power key.
Also, I broke my screen too (the same way sadly... ) but I found a replacement on Ebay for about $100. And it was one of the EASIEST replacements ever. There are videos on youtube, etc. Here is the cheapest I found on Ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/LCD-Digitizer-screen-at-t-Samsung-Captivate-i897-/250791260919?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6452f2f7
A friend of mine took apart my hero thinking he was going to help get the dust out from under my screen. I said if it was a problem I would do it myself, well <sarcasm> big shocker, it took only a few minutes to open up</sarcasm> but then an hour to get back together properly -.-
It worked for a while afterwards. flashed fresh Hero. Then after a few hours mid-day after a few successful restarts it decided it didn't want to boot. Didn't do anything special but power off for a battery swap with my Evo. Now it only hangs on the "HTC" splash screen. It can get into the bootloader, but so far it won't flash and hercimg.zip's I throw on it's micro sd card with a card reader. I've only found 2 though. Recovery doesn't work, just hangs on "HTC" screen.
Any suggestions? It's not much of a big deal, but my Evo is cracked and I hope to be replacing it soon. Incase Sprint deactivates or blocks the Evo's ESN.
I've given the Hero hours and hours to boot or load recovery. One time, I let it hang until the battery died!
****Don't reply saying "they won't deactivate your Evo", I already know they most likely will not. That isn't my problem! I need help on fixing my Hero****
iff u can get into fastboot u could try an ruu
If you or your friend didn't properly discharge before you took the phone apart or put it back together you might have temporarily or permanently shocked the mb. Id say try letting it sit over night with the battery out and see if it at least you can boot into recovery. If not then like Bierce22 posted try to ruu. You can try the ruu in zip format or try to ruu from your pc by tracking down an ruu.exe. You can find all the info you need on duces thread about how to ruu. If you can't from your pc you can try the ruu in zip format. If you can't boot into recovery or if your not s-off I'd recommend looking at jm's thread on how to use fastboot without being s-off. Also you would need adb to try that out and if you don't have adb installed then you can hit my avatar and look for my thread on how to install adb on windows it takes like 10 or 15 min tops. Take in mind this is all just a guess. So this is not a guaranteed fix. If you manage to get into recovery I'd say backup all your data and format sd. Then put all the data back on and do a full wipe and a fresh install of the rom of your choice. Or restore a nand. If you get that far run your phone for a couple of days and see how it performs if its straight then your good. If it behaves wacky I'd say put a stock rom on and try to do an insurance claim due to hardware failure. ""TRY""
If you don't get it booted back up then pm me if you want to try a few more steps to attempt to resolve your issue. I've been a victim of a friends so called experience and the whole "I know how to do it but your phone was my first attempt at it thing" Well hope this helps Good luck.
Root/Hack-Mod-Always*
Well, I'd done it to his phone before, but "see what had happened was..." Erf
I think it might've been that I didn't ground myself :/
Daniel, I told you I'd make it up xD you'll get a Droid Eris "sometime" :3
Does anyone have a guide on how to take it apart and put back together successfully? I need to replace my faceplate and thought I'd hijack here.
Also, anyone have a link for the best place to buy the full faceplate and rear door?
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hey so i have a Samsung captivate and i just installed continuum v5.5 but every time to turn off my phone all my apps get erased. what can i do about that?
You flash the rom from cwm 2.5? That's my guess...
Try reflashing from where there. With talon kernel that has cwm 3.
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You flash the rom from cwm 2.5? That's my guess...
Try reflashing from where there. With talon kernel that has cwm 3.
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im sorry but im really new to this and i have no idea what that means. All i have one is install the new package and now when i turn off my phone all my apps that i downloaded from the market get erased.
What you were on before you flashed that?
Anyway...from where you are now just boot into recovery
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache
Go into advanced and wipe dalvik cache
Then reflash the rom.
umm for some reason i cant get into recovery mode.........haha any tips on that first
Turn off the phone. Hold volume up and power...that should do it
The extended power menu while it's on...
Or adb...
I have been trying those. none work, all that show up is a white screen that have AT&t and that says world phone. what should i do?
wait up!! AT&T screen?? FOUND THE PROBLEM!!!!!! although i have no idea how you have been able to boot at all... you still have stock eclair/froyo bootloaders. thats a gingerbread rom requiring updated bootloaders..so how it even got into the os is confusing me?
use this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995143
then take a few days and READ!!! you skipped a HUGE step.
Im so confused now. it just stopped working? when i turn on my phone all that shows up is the AT&T world globe thingy and i cant get farther then that. I tired clicking the power and volume buttons but im just stick on the globe thing. is my phone like broken now??
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Im so confused now. it just stopped working? when i turn on my phone all that shows up is the AT&T world globe thingy and i cant get farther then that. I tired clicking the power and volume buttons but im just stick on the globe thing. is my phone like broken now??
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no. if it comes on its not broken.
what you need to do is pull the battery...and leave it off. come back to the forums and after you have spent several hours READING up on what exactly you are doing to your phone THEN you will have the knowledge to fix your phone.
this **** shouldnt be taken so lightly if you have literally no idea what you are doing.
yaaaaa i think im going to be done with all the rooting thing in till ive learned more about it. But is their a way to get it back to the way that i bought it.?
Yeah you just put it into download mode and use odin one click
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This is a perfect example of why I ask that everyone to spend at least a day learning about what they are doing before doing it. Flashing a Rom to your device has some very major side effects if even one step is done wrong.
I tried to put it in download mode. it doesn't work, my phone will turn on and off but will just sit in the start up screen but thats all that it will do?
You will need a jig to force download mode.
Go to mobiletechvideos.com he has a video on how to make one actually heres the link to that video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0... if you can't get yours to work or think it might be to difficult after watching the video he also sells them pre made for under 10 us dollars.
There are also quite a lot of useful videos for beginners to watch and learn about what you're doing.http://mobiletechvideos.com/blog/?page_id=31 that whole page is worth a look...
so theirs no other way to get the phone back to normal? If their isn't anther way to get it back to normal then can i just call AT&T to send me anther phone because this phone is only 3 days old??
thats what all of my posts have been trying to do. get you to normal.
especially the ones WITH LINKS!!
yaa ik, sorry what i was trying to say was that is their any other ways to get the phone into download mode that doesn't take making that JIG?
with phone off try holding both volumes and inserting the usb cable thats connected to your pc.
or take out the battery, plug it in and hold the volume buttons, then with the buttons still held indert the battery.
if those dont work the jig will. its easy to make...or if you cant manage its cheap to buy...
what is it with people so resistant to trying to make/buy a jig? both ways its under 10 bucks, and that beats the hell out of not having a phone, and the frustration of trying everything else before you get around to a jig. make/buy one now you will have it for future use. its never not handy to have. i made one before i flashed anything so i would have an out if it went bad.
Okay well thanks to everyone who helped, im going to try to make the jig thingy but if i can't make that then im just going to throw it against a wall and use the insurance to get a new one. thanks though