Frustrated with data transfer on G1 - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My basic problem is a failure to connect to google servers on my phone. The part I don't understand, is that it did work at one point in time. To explain everything...
I bought my phone on ebay and I logged into my gmail account and everything synced and worked great. I wanted to root my phone and install Cyanogen, so I used the guide to downgrade. I used the dreaIMG.nbh file and then installed cupcake and when I tried to log into google server it kept timing out. I wiped everything and re-tried, same thing. I switched sim cards with the other phone on my account (we have even more unlimited everything family plan with tmo) and it logged in and everything worked and I was at firmware 1.5. As soon as I put my card in I got a sync error and I could not use my data plan at all. I used wifi to download the Linda file manager and the one thing I messed up on is booting into the recovery img and I turned it off instead of connecting it to the pc and installing Cyanogen. It went back to the boot menu after that and I tried to log in and it wouldn't let me. I tried other sim card and that one didn't work.
After all that frustration I wiped the system, re-applied the dreaIMG.nbh and then cupcake and it still wont let me log in. Is there anyway I can fix this? It is the thing that drives me insane. I feel like I wasted my money on this expensive phone for it to not be able to use my data plan. Please help me I have been trying for hours to get this to work!

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I figured out that I did have to go back via the 8 re-boot method and I went back to stock. All good now. Figured I would post this answer in case others have the same problem.
I had this same issue today and I just plugged the sd card back in and ran the exploit again. Everything works great

[Q] Youtube Not Launching and Market Not Downloading Apps

I used AutoNooter 3.0 on my gf's NookColor, and everything went great, but I set up all the logins under my accounts since she was gone. When she got back, I deregistered my account so I could set up her account. I accidentally left the SD card in, so I'm not sure if that's where my troubles came from. Now, youtube won't open, Gmail won't refresh, and the market is not downloading apps.
It looks like I could use ADB to get these fixed, but I can't for the life of me get ADB working even after following the exact steps. I've tried reflashing, but it's still remembering the wifi password and behaving the same way.
Do I have to do that 8 times reboot step, or is there something else I can do since it seems rooted to me except for the google apps?
Got it running. For anyone having this same issue in the future, here's what I did:
Erased and Deregistered
Reburned the .img onto the SD card
Reflashed
It was actually pretty simple. Now I just need to get to 10 posts so I can post in the development thread in the future.

random problems with captivate

I been having weird issues with my captivate. Latley on wifi connection I would have no internet, YouTube, or market. Even sometimes on 3g my YouTube will say no communication or server error as well as android market. It started happening a month ago where my phone kept saying force close cause of facebook and android something and I had to reset it back to default. (People said there was no fix).
Last night I had to reset it again because it kept saying it was downloading a program from the market and never stopped for 2 days. It also disabled any downloadable update. So before I reset I unrooted it with z4 mod and reset. Also wiring stopped working.
It was OK until I rooted with z4 and now I'm starting to get connection issues. It doesn't matter what house I'm at its the same. I rooted it before by using the computer and busybox and it was fine
If the issues only happen when its on wifi....YouTube will never work. It will say error or no network and refuse to do anything even on 3g. And it will never ever let me log into my Google account anymore. I know I'm using the right password cause I can log into my home computer
Also my TV out is all static and blurry regardless of pal or NTSC output and it doesn't work regardless of the plug I use and TV. I even switched all rcas to make sure the video isn't in another output
I'm on eclair 2.1. I am really irritated and tired after a day of searching. Thanks!
An easy way to check to see if its software and not hardware would be to flash stock with Odin. And test again.
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Unfortunately I didn't back it up: :/
Also I never flashed before
I was going to try to learn how to flash and I just remembered this phone would never go into its boot menu. I used to be able to use sdk to do it but after my last reset it doesn't work
I'm not dumb I done every method that people said many times with no luck. It has never went to it manually
Try using Titanium Backup to back up important data you might have on your phone. If you're having market problems, connect your phone to your computer and manually backup files. Then, follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989 to get Odin3 One-Click and the necessary drivers, and then use it to flash back to stock JF6 (2.1). Then, once you're back in stock JF6, enable USB Debugging in your phone settings, change USB Connection type to Mass Storage, and with Odin3 open, plug in your phone and mount the internal SD card, then click on Master Clear in Odin3, which will wipe all your user data. Then, if you decide to install ClockworkMod Recovery, use it to format cache, user data, and Dalvik cache. Hopefully, this will solve all of your problems
OK...there is nothing much on my phone. All the goods are on the SD card that I can easilly put back on the computer.
I will try what you say. I really want to get everything working before I start having fun with themes and other things to make my phone unique
Thanks. Ill report back later tonight!
My phone works, and for the first time ever I was able to go into the boot screen! lol.
I did the flash, and then master reset.
So what now, should I root it again? Or wait, or fiddle with themes? Or just run stock to see if I have issues?
Will this correct my video output to?
Well I went to the dark side. I felt overconfident in flashing my phone so I decided to learn how to install another ROM. Now I am running cognition 4.3.
I like the new look. The speed is crazy compared to stock 2.1 eclair.
I want to officially thank you for the help that you given me. Its hard to understand sometimes on this forum. But with the assistance of the tutorials on this site, and YOUTUBE everything works out ok. I wish you guys lived closer, id hook you up with some beer lol.
Now I got to figure out why ADB doesnt work on my computer =).
Ill check my video output tomorrow as well.
No problem, I'm just glad your phone works again
And btw, no need for beer because I'm only 16 lol

[Solved] Trying to activate G1 RC29 over WiFi

I just got my old G1 back from my sister who had been using it for a few months. It was unrooted running stock 1.6. She wiped the phone and gave it back to me. I'm wanting to play around with some ROMs. Right now, I'm following this guide in order to install CM6. I had been having trouble flashing RC29 until I switched SD cards. I got RC29 successfully installed and then I was able to successfully connect to my WiFi network using the guide here. Well, I think I'm connected to my WiFi network; the WiFi icon is there in the notification bar.
Now, here's where the trouble is, when I attempt to sign in with my Google account, it sits there for about a minute or two at the "Signing in..." screen and then throws up an error saying "There is a problem communicating with the Google servers." I've tried signing in about 10 times now with two different Google accounts, and none have worked.
Anyone know what's up? I've done this process countless times before, last time back in August, and it worked just fine. Thanks.
Edit: Just popped in an active AT&T SIM in, added the proper APN (found here), and it seemed to do the trick. Am now activated. Not sure why it wasn't working before with WiFi.
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[Q] google account not connecting

Hello! i have an experia z (obviously) and a long while ago i changed my password on my google account. A few days ago, i was doing something (i dont remember what) and it said that it cannot access my google account. so i went into settings and removed the account and tried to relog in. but now all im getting is a screen saying it cannot get a stable connection to the server and asks me to use wifi for more stability. Sadly, i was already using wifi so i still went through the guided setup to select my wifi and try again. still didnt work. so i turned off wifi and used my 4g and it still wouldn't let me log in. So now im trying to troubleshoot ways to log in because i have none of my contacts and stuff like that.
it still lets me log into the account in the browser window and in the gmail app and in the email account setting in account. just not in the guided setup for making it the primary account. (i tried to add it as email and sync to think "just maybe it will work" but it only syncs emails :X)
my device is rooted and using stock rom
Here are things I've tried to do (some are from suggestions online that aparently helped others):
Reboot phone
remove data/cache from google play store
uninstall updates for google play
unchecking auto time
checking auto time
making sure time is right
checked for software updates
restarted phone, took sims card out and tried logging in
tried to log in through youtube app (which goes through the says black screened log in guide)
turned on airplane mode, turned off phone, turned it back on, then tried wifi and data again.
and i think that is all i have tried. But it tried alot of things so im not sure. Once again. i can log into the account on my phone in other places just not in this black windowed log in guide and yes im typing in the right password and username... i can add pictures if needed.
Bump also tried factory reset and going to website and did the trouble shooting guide. Still nothing
Bump threw phone at wall and drowned it in tub. Still not doing it
Also I called customer service. And like I assumed, all he did was tell me to reset cache and data and restart device. Then asked if I could try to factory reset and then couldn't find any other solutions. So im stuck

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