About a week ago I updated my post-911 fix Rogers HTC Dream to Cyanogenmod 4. It ran quite slowly, obviously, but it was much better than having Android 1.5 apps and a useless "smartphone". After just recently reading about Froyo and Cyanogenmod 6 I decided that the apparently streamlined update would be a good idea. I heard it was significantly faster. And then the trouble started.
I updated my recovery image to RA-dream-v1.7.0R (R because as I understand it the post-911 fix is EB1I) because the wiki said the cm recovery had troubles with CM6. After looking over the appropriate information that said I did have DangerSPL (fastboot says RADIO-3.22.26.17, and HBOOT-1.33.2005) and so on, I continued. I downloaded CM6 and the appropriate Google Apps package, moved them to the root directory of the SD Card, installed the zips (CM6 first) with Amon_RA and restarted the phone.
When I did so, the phone would not boot past the Rogers logo (which formerly appeared before the HTC and Cyanogen boot screens). After about 15 minutes I had to pull the battery. I went back into the recovery and enabled USB mass storage, when I looked at the SD Card it was completely empty.
Yeah.
So, I've put CM5 and CM6 as well as their corresponding Google Apps packages on the sdcard.
If I haven't bricked my (already useless Rogers Wireless 1.5 and not updating) phone, what should I do next?
Thanks for any help.
Flash CM6, Flash Gapps, Flash EBi1 port (you can get it from here http://briancrook.ca/android/cm-ports/bc-6.0.0-ebi1-signed.zip)
Official instructions found here
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/5286-cyanogenmod-6-for-ds-shoehorn-sledgehammer-v600-08272010/
Enjoy
Wow. So it was just the radio I misunderstood?
Given that this is my regular phone, you truly made my day. Thanks for taking the time, Sleeepy2.
you have to flash the ebi1 for every Rom
So recently I've been experiencing a rather serious problem with my factory 911patched Rogers Dream and no matter how many different solutions or workarounds I've tried, I can't seem to correct it. Rather than continue to clutter anyone else's threads I figure that if I compile everything here that I've done/tried so far, then perhaps someone who actually knows what they're doing can push me in the right direction.
The summary
911 Patched Rogers Dream, Rooted the day the exploid method came to light, and at that time installed CM5.0.8
Downgraded to 2x Radio to be able to use Ebi0 roms
Didnt find anything to my liking on ebi0, so reflashed 3.22 Radio, recovery & DangerSPL
Now I can't install any new roms. No matter how many times I try to erase system -w and boot via 'Fastboot erase' there seems to be something stuck somewhere that causes a loop any time I try to install a rom from SD via recovery (1.6.4, 1.7.0, 1.7.0R, all with matching Radio/SPL's)
The only things I've been able to successfully loadup on my phone since i tried to upgrade back to ebi1 are
The Nand Backup I did just before downgrading to ebi0
the orange-1.58.73.2.nbh "reset" nbh Terry linked to in his 2708-enabled custom kernel thread
The rogers rogers_1.89.631.1.nbh that puts me back to stock Rogers Dream. I've since ReRooted with Exploid and installed DangerSPL again, and done a Nand Backup, so at the very least i have a "clean" Rooted install (that I know of)
I guess my question is, what can I try now? All my rom installs keep failing, so my only option now is to restore back to the craptastic Rogers 1.5 build, or a broken CM5 with ghost traces of Apps2SD references and all sorts of FC's
I also just learned about the wonders of posting Logcat data, so this is what my Rogers 1.5 bootup gives me, if it helps...
hxxp://cyanogenmod.pastebin.com/qpuN59ew
I don't want to be the person who says "fix this" for me, I just feel like there's something outside of my skill level that's wrong here, and I'm just looking for a helpful push in the right direction, so to speak.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far with this.
hxxp://cyanogenmod.pastebin.com/YDkVaCEv
This is the logcat for my unsuccessful Cm5.0.8 install. After the rogers splash, it just goes to a black screen, I don't get the Blue or Multicoloured X that should come up on first install
is anyone building a froyo rom for i896 captivate from rogers, there has been alot of problems with people flashing to at&t roms and failing to restore their original stock rogers rom. This is the only reason keeping me back from flashing to an already available 2.2 froyo rom. I know nothing about linux, programming or any of that stuff and was wondering how difficult it would be to build a rogers 2.2 froyo rom or are there pieces missing to build it?
look at this tutorial:
http://www.mmacleod.ca/blog/2010/10...sung-galaxy-s-captivate-to-android-2-2-froyo/
stavs said:
is anyone building a froyo rom for i896 captivate from rogers, there has been alot of problems with people flashing to at&t roms and failing to restore their original stock rogers rom. This is the only reason keeping me back from flashing to an already available 2.2 froyo rom. I know nothing about linux, programming or any of that stuff and was wondering how difficult it would be to build a rogers 2.2 froyo rom or are there pieces missing to build it?
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saddly not yet , were canadian , meanin we get phones 6 month later , most dev will ( eventually mod our own rom )
redjersey said:
look at this tutorial:
http://www.mmacleod.ca/blog/2010/10...sung-galaxy-s-captivate-to-android-2-2-froyo/
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ahh much appreciated, will look into this a bit. thankyou.
DAGr8 said:
saddly not yet , were canadian , meanin we get phones 6 month later , most dev will ( eventually mod our own rom )
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i dont see how it could be THAT difficult to take the at&t leaked froyo rom and make the necessary adjustments for the i896 captivate. I just dont want to lose my GPS function (its working very good) and i dont want the annoying AT&T splash screen
stavs said:
i dont see how it could be THAT difficult to take the at&t leaked froyo rom and make the necessary adjustments for the i896 captivate. I just dont want to lose my GPS function (its working very good) and i dont want the annoying AT&T splash screen
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If you know nothing (your words: first post), then how can you gauge the difficulty of doing such a thing?
I just helped one of my friends load the 2.2 AT&T i897 update, working fine on his Rogers i896. Soon as Cyanogen release something for the Captivate we plan to be updating him again.
At this point for the GPS to be fixed I'm pretty sure we need the source code or atleast a rom from ATT that it works 100% correctly with.
The cognition roms for the I897 work fine on the I896 -- thats pretty much how I've had my friends Rogers Captivate running froyo since launch week. You obviously have to load your own APN settings and whatnot though.
PS. Probably best to use the rogers modem file -- it's in the I896 thread.
Lots of people are running or have tried there. I do have some build prop changes and apn changes for the rom but until I have my friends phone back here to test them I don't want to share something that could very well just bootloop. Plus I want to try cognition b2.4 on there and adapt the changes to that since that just came out too.
stavs said:
i dont see how it could be THAT difficult to take the at&t leaked froyo rom and make the necessary adjustments for the i896 captivate. I just dont want to lose my GPS function (its working very good) and i dont want the annoying AT&T splash screen
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you get the drift , its nto complicated , its just we need someoen we same interest as us i.e a candadian dev or a bored US one
btw I use all the roms and I just flash our rogers modem on top of it so my gps is perfect
well one of the main reasons i want to flash to a 2.2 rom is because i have read that it improves battery life and fluidity of the OS, i could possibly live without flash 10.1 and the use of installing apps on my sd card for a little while.
I'm on my 7-8th charge right now, could be slightly more and my battery life is average at best. Had it running 2 hours before i went to school, fiddled with it a little (a little music, a little browsing, testing out GPS functions) then tested out the GPS using Ndrive to school. During this time i had some ocassional 3g use (<10 minutes), about 20-30 minutes of wifi browsing, and about 3-3.5 hours of listening to music. I also used the gps coming home to test out its accuracy and functionalities. By the time i got home my battery was red.
I've calibrated the battery also, and used several guides to help improve battery but nothing that i have done has made any dramatic difference. I was thinking maybe a 2.2 rom could help with that.
Sorry, i m very new to Android phone ~~~
I wanted to flash my i896 into Froyo 2.2
but so far, looks like there is no way to get off ATT split screen at bootup right ???
DAGr8 said:
you get the drift , its nto complicated , its just we need someoen we same interest as us i.e a candadian dev or a bored US one
btw I use all the roms and I just flash our rogers modem on top of it so my gps is perfect
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It's been hit or miss with that keeping the gps fixed (depending on the phone -- i flashed 3 -- and what it was coming from or what the user was playing with -- mostly different cognition versions). The key factor there seems to be doing a wipe even after a fresh reflash, then it seems to work well consistently. Thanks for the feedback on it. I don't have a captivate myself so it makes it impossible to do any realworld testing on my own.
ime2010 said:
Sorry, i m very new to Android phone ~~~
I wanted to flash my i896 into Froyo 2.2
but so far, looks like there is no way to get off ATT split screen at bootup right ???
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Yeah I'm too nervous to do much digging around there -- I think the first one is being kept along with the bootloader. Some other folks on here were trying to sort that out. The second part of the bootscreen is easy to change. I think we're going to be stuck with the ATT one until we see something from Rogers (2.2) or someone does some very tricky and potentially dangerous work. I just wouldn't worry about it for now I were you. In theory most if all damage you'd do could be repaired with ODIN but definitely don't quote me on that.
so far my flashes have been pretty rough.
I came from a nexus one where i could just load the .zip file and install easy as pie from there. This bul**** odin flashing drives me up the damn wall, but i can get it done, I have had this phone for a week and have tried many roms. I tried going back to stock rogers and it was a complete fail. When odin flashed back to rogers, i still had the stupid att logo, but whatever i dont see it all the time, and it would randomly try to download things from the market. Tried reflashing, and the same thing, except 5 mins later and the market just wouldnt download a damn thing for me. I dont have a reason for this but whatever.
I have tried going to stock i897 att rom and my phone will not boot, it just just a boot loop, so i cant even go to perception build, so i had to odin flash to cognition 2.2.
So far I am pretty happy with it... battery life is better than stock, no lag, it comes pre-rooted, but my signal isnt strong like when i first got the phone on factory stock OS. I want to flash the modem files only but i havent been able to find the files or the instructions how to.
I am thinking of going back to the nexus one, but am willing to make this phone work for me. Only one more thing i dont like about this phone, is the camera! Out of all things the camera kinda licks a sweaty nootsack.
i896 i897 i9088
I think i896 is the same as i897。You can use adb to enter download mod, and use i897's rom. In china, we have i9088 wich is Chinese captivate. It can also use i897's rom. No Bug, no problem.
I have Cognition 3.1 and Clockwork Rom installed.
Can I flash the stock Rogers rom with Clockwork? I'm just asking in case there are any known issues with doing this.
My plan is to download the stock rogers rom found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-I896
Then put it on the SD Card and flash it with Clockwork.
Any help is appreciated, Thanks.
Make sure you disable lag fix. If you don't you will have problems
The cognition lag fix is built in. I never had to run OCLF.
Cognition uses voodoo lag fix I believe, all ext 4 filing. Stock uses rfs filing. Didable voodoo before trying to flash a rfs based filing system or you will have problems. Like omg my phone won't boot
Thanks Pal. I just disabled Voodoo in the boot menu. Next step flashing the Rom.
I am doing this because I am selling my phone and bought an iPhone4.
This is my 2nd android device and I'm just tired of random bugs and allways having to tweak my device. I just want a phone that works.
I will sure miss all of the customization, I will most def keep an eye on android for the future, but at this point, I feel like it needs to mature a little.
hello. new to the forum. i've scoured the net for solutions but i haven't found anyt that applied directly to my situation and came here for help.
first off, im a bit new to the android world--being an iphone geek my whole life so here goes.
ive got a htc dream (g1) rooted running 2.3.4
Mod Version is COS-DS i wanted to test out. But i dont care for it and wanted to go back to an earlier version, maybe cyanogen 6.1 but that runs 2.2
i was wondering if it would be as simple as grabbing the 6.1 ROM and flashing it onto my phone from my sd card
my HBOOT version is 1.33.0013d
my Radio version is 2.22.27.08
I had 6.1 on my sd card and flashed the rom because i saw a video of someone else who had the same radio/hboot version as I and it was working so i thought it would be that simple, but when i flashed it i was caught in a bootloop at the G1 Tmobile screen.
Luckily i was able to recover, (i backed up my info using the Clockwork Recovery from Rom Manager)
Any ideas? Any are welcome. And once again my apologies for my blazing noobishness.
CM 6.1 is bootlooping due to your radio/SPL combination. You need a special kernel for this, which needs to be flashed on top on CM 6.1. Terry's kernel from the ezGingerbread thread should worl, I guess.
You can also downgrade your radio/SPL, but I do not suggest so, because you will lose the additional memory provided by that combination.
Sent from my Gingerbread on Dream using XDA App