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singapore htc dream root need help

JesusFreke said:
Thanks goes to Geo411m from here on XDA and over at Android Community.
Download this file RC30 or this one for RC8, extracted all the files to the root of the SD Card. Shut down the phone and turn it on holding the power and camera button. Follow the instructions on the phone to downgrade to RC29/RC7. Once you're on RC29/RC7 it's time to install the test keys.
Reboot the phone, When it has finished booting hit enter twice and type the following at the home screen. It will start searching your contacts, but don't worry about that. Also, you won't see any visible sign that the first command worked. Just go ahead and type the second command straight afterwards:
Code:
cd sdcard<press enter>
sh install<press enter>
After a moment your phone should reboot itself.
switch off the phone again and then hold down the home key while you switch it on. Keep the home key held down until you see the recovery screen (with the "!" triangle and the picture of the phone). Then press Alt+L on the keyboard and if you see "Using test keys" on the second line of text then the modified recovery image is installed and you can now install the modified firmware by hitting Alt-S. You should now be on JF 1.41 RC30/RC8. Enjoy...
*Optional but highly recommended*
To install the modified bootloader rename Hard_SPL_update.zip to update.zip and switch the phone off and then hold down the home key while you switch it on again. Keep the home key held down until you see the new recovery menu, hit Alt-S to apply the new bootloader. Congrats you now have the modified bootloader with the skating androids.
You can only see the skating androids when you power up holding the Power and Camera buttons, it replaces the multicolor recovery bootloader. The boot loader allows you to use fastboot in recovery mode. Once you've done with the files on the SD card they can be discarded.
For those of you that don't have a data plan you can check out this post here written by JF himself explaining how to register without a dataplan or sim card. I also recommend you download the ADP1.1 version here as you can reset your phone when ever you want and still sign back in on the phone bypassing the google activation. Keep in mind that the following is NOT included in the ADP1.1 version, myfavs app, all IM's except google talk and t-mobile ringtones.
To install, copy it over to your SD card and rename it to update.zip, reboot your phone and and hold the home button while turning it on. Use Alt-S to install like you did with RC30/RC8.
The download in this thread contains all the files need to successfully root your phone. Use RC30 if you're from the US or RC8 if from
the UK.
At this point you can install any "Roms" to your liking, from post 1.
So you may be asking yourself why should I root my phone, what does rooting do? Well, rooting your phone allows you to have administrator access to your phone and thus due thing not normally possible on standard android. With it you can have all your apps and caches run from your SD card, apply themes, tether your phone, enable auto rotation and the list goes on. Here's a few links of interest to help you get the most out of your rooted phone.
This post has a script for moving the apps and caches to your SD card.
You can find many Themes here including my Macdroid theme.
To enable auto rotation, open Browser, click menu then down to settings.
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i cannot even get to the first step
hold cam n start button , it show "not allow"

The firmwares are region specific. RC30 would be US and RC8/9 would be UK. Unless you create and use a goldcard, I don't suppose you could flash a US or UK firmware to your Singapore phone.

pegasus21 said:
The firmwares are region specific. RC30 would be US and RC8/9 would be UK. Unless you create and use a goldcard, I don't suppose you could flash a US or UK firmware to your Singapore phone.
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so wonder anyone can create firmware for singapore phone, it is so plain n boring

you may want to refer to the Singapore User Group.. Someone did it with his Singtel Dream already in the forum and it was discussed here http://www.codeandroid.org/forum/?wpforumaction=viewtopic&t=9.1
About the Singtel Dream firmware, look here http://www.codeandroid.org/2009/02/28/hacking-your-singtel-dream/.. I will send JF the rom onces its available to download from OTA. Right now there is no way for me to get the Singapore image as its rooted.

hope to hear good news soon

raven1019 said:
hope to hear good news soon
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There's still no good news for singapore htc dream, too bad.
Hi guys, just fyi, never buy android phone from singtel anymore.

u need to have the gold card to root the g1, i've root my g1 from singtel. Try google to find how to create gold card.

jim_lwloon said:
u need to have the gold card to root the g1, i've root my g1 from singtel. Try google to find how to create gold card.
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Thanks, I have tried the gold card refered to the related artical, like this one http://erlern.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/rooting-htc-dream-singtel/
but the problem is my G1 has been updated by Singtel to 1.6/DRD20 when I got it, so can't root it with gold card any more. So frustrated.

same problem guys!
I'm having the same problem! couldn't downgrade that build number. And i couldn't even create a goldcard. Whenever i do what the website says and then i plug it back in into my G1 it just tell me damaged SD card and i'm suppose to reformat it.
*back to square one!
I've been on it for 3 days figuring D' goldcard part Please help me out!
Have tried like 10 microSD cards 1GB - 8GB all didn't work! D;
Am on stock donut 1.6, Build DRD20, latest radio!
Please help me out on this! it's 3 days full straight i couldn't do a single thing if i dun downgrade that build number!

help.
since we're all in sg. Could some guys here maybe lend me his goldcard or something. I seriouslly dunno what went wrong for my case.
I think it's D' editing the goldcard.img to the SDcard part using HxD editor.
It's my fourth day trying this whole thing out like four days STRAIGHT. omg
Please help!

snOwrOse said:
I'm having the same problem! couldn't downgrade that build number. And i couldn't even create a goldcard. Whenever i do what the website says and then i plug it back in into my G1 it just tell me damaged SD card and i'm suppose to reformat it.
*back to square one!
I've been on it for 3 days figuring D' goldcard part Please help me out!
Have tried like 10 microSD cards 1GB - 8GB all didn't work! D;
Am on stock donut 1.6, Build DRD20, latest radio!
Please help me out on this! it's 3 days full straight i couldn't do a single thing if i dun downgrade that build number!
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your supposed to use the gold card in the spl....

can't rollback to get root

I'm not a total noob to rooting as I've already rooted my G1 and am running cyanogen's mods for months now. My problem is on a different phone.
This dream was dropped in water months ago (that's when I purchased my 2nd on craigslist). The touchscreen wouldn't work so I was stuck at the setup screen. I read on many forums, xda included that it might eventually dry out and today I found that it was indeed working fine.
It works fine on stock 1.5 ota update crc1 but now that I rooted one I want this one rooted as well. This is where my problem starts. I'm trying to rollback using the dreaim.nbh found inthe latest "how to root" thread in the dev forum. Problem is I can't load the image. I powe up holding camera and power button, get to the multicolored bootloader, insstructions on the grey/whitish screen say press power button to load, and then I am stuck.
Power button does nothing and the phone is stuck on that screen until I pull the battery. Been through this process 5+ times, with redownloaded image (file is not corrupt) My concern is Ill end up bricking but I really want root. I'm think their might be water damage on the phone but everything else works fine.
Any suggestions for a workaround or a way to troubleshoot the problem? Thanks in advance!
-Air

nbh
heres a link to where you can get the nbh dwnload this one nd try agian.
http://coolpstuts.blogspot.com/2009/07/all-download-links.html

no dice
pistol thanks for the try but it didn't work. same 87.3mb file, rc29, same result.
the greyish white screen loads, but the update (rollback) never starts. Does anyone know of another way to load the dreaim.nbh image? or heard a similar issue?

are you sure you grabbed the t-mo image?? go to the original how to root your phone thread and grab the t-mo image, nothing has changed so there is no reason for us to have an updated thread other than to confuse people even more

my problem is not the rc29 image
tubaking, my problem is not the rc29 dreaim.nbh image. I have consistently found the same image in many threads on xda. my problem is that i cant get it to load. this thread was not created for general rollback issues and def not to confuse people with another how to.... i am trying to figure out why my US G1 (with a noted history of physical abuse) won't load the image.

Was not implying that this thread would be a how-to and confuse people, merely that we have so many and people are constantly asking how to do something even though the steps didn't change. The physical abuse your phone has sustained "should" have no effect on the image flashing. I would suggest you format your card again(not in windows as windows seems to screw up a lot), so long as you are using the correct image and a fat32 formatted card you shouldn't have any problems, does the screen pop up and say "no image found"

airmaxx said:
tubaking, my problem is not the rc29 dreaim.nbh image. I have consistently found the same image in many threads on xda. my problem is that i cant get it to load. this thread was not created for general rollback issues and def not to confuse people with another how to.... i am trying to figure out why my US G1 (with a noted history of physical abuse) won't load the image.
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hmmm, have you tried re-formatting your card?

trying it now
reformatted at home using gparted but I'll try paragon now that I'm at the office.
tubaking, thanks for the advice and willingness to help. it does not say no image found. It actually shows the steps that it needs to install including, radio_vz, and a few other things i cant recall right now...
hopefully the reformat will do the trick. I will try to format the entire card fat32 for now and then add my ext3 after. reporting back shortly....

still not working
so reformatted again to fat32, used paragon, gparted, and built in format on the G1 still the same result
grey white screen, reads the image.... then stuck at:
Code:
DREAIMG.nbh -
BOOTLOADER -
RECOVERY -
BOOT -
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_VZ -
Press power button
to start update image
Press action button
to cancel update image
and then I'm stuck

So even after you press the power button to start the update, it just stays at that one screen and never gives any "ok"s next to any of the listings?

exactly
no oks, just hangs there
I've been letting it sit since before my last post, about 45 mins so far and still nothing. I may have imagined it but when i did this process last week it felt like it was getting hotter, but still nothing happened
also I remember doing this on my other G1 that is already rooted, so I know how easy this step should be

Stupid question, but are you making sure not to rename the original DREAIMG.nbh to anything else other than what it is? Some people make the mistake of thinking they have to rename it to update.zip or make the mistake of not leaving it in capital letters (although I don't know if that matters). You have said you have downloaded the file multiple times so I doubt this is the case but I'm just spitballing here

no rename
In my desperation I had considered that really stupid idea for a moment but thought better of it. I don't want to end up with a brick i haven't renamed it, consistently used dreaimg.nbh

airmaxx said:
In my desperation I had considered that really stupid idea for a moment but thought better of it. I don't want to end up with a brick i haven't renamed it, consistently used dreaimg.nbh
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I wasn't suggesting to rename it, I just wanted to make sure that you never had renamed it to anything but the original filename DREAIMG.nbh

its all good
directmatrix, I understood your post. I was just saying i had considered renaming it to update.zip in an effort to get something going. I appreciate the spitballing, maybe we'll hit something that I missed!

airmaxx said:
directmatrix, I understood your post. I was just saying i had considered renaming it to update.zip in an effort to get something going. I appreciate the spitballing, maybe we'll hit something that I missed!
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I re-read your original post and was curious as to whether the power button could be the culprit considering that its needed to flash the image. Perhaps the water may have damaged the power button interface. I can't imagine that it would be the problem considering your able to get into the rainbow screen via power+camera. Have you tried pushing it harder, many times, on the side etc?

i did, tried holding it for a 10 count, multiple presses, long press. I'm pretty sure the problem is not with the button itself because it works fine when I have the phone booted up and press power to turn it off.
When I first posted I was hoping someone might know of an alternative button combo that might have the same effect of loading the image from that greyish white screen

there is no way to write the image through adb right?

Please Help phone wont start up

Fisrt let me start by saying hello to one and all great forum.
Right, to my problem i have had my g1 a month now and love it
have not rooted it yet as i have been reading over and over so that when
i do come to do it i wont f**k it up.
I was downloading and installing app from the market and i think i have installed one that is for a rooted phone only(well thats what the discriptive said) i didnt realise this until i had installed it and so i was testing the apps last nite then turned off my phone as usual when i went to bed, Well so turned it on this morning and it wont load past the Android Screen, i tryed to go into bootloader and itsjust a color screen with serial10 on it.
please tell me i havnt bricked my phone i didnt do anything to it
anyone help me please

You did not brick your phone, if worst comes to worst you can go ahead with the rooting steps and download the dreaimg.nbh from your rc package that is meant for your area and boot it through the bootloader

thanks whats happened to it, the serial 10 has now gone and its just the 4 coulours on screen with some text at top, i havnt taken out the battery i thought i might damage it is it ok to remove it

The multi color screen you are describing is the stock bootloader, I prefer people do not pull the battery out if at all possible, your phone is quite similar to a computer, would you unplug your computer when it crashes

no, your right i wouldnt, so really i have not a clue here what should i do now, i actually need this up and running its my only phone thanks
not bieng lazy either dude, trying to search but like i say i dont kow what i have done wrong so dont bnow solution to seach for

Find a thread on rooting your phone, there you can find your rc, and go from there, go ahead and root your phone while you are at it

not bieng funny mate but i dont want to root my phone until i am confident enought to do it, i upgraded this from 1.0 to 1.5 when i got it can i just not do that again with the 1.5 firmware, thanks

Sure, use the steps to downgrade for rooting, then just leave it go and within the next 72 hours you will get the cupcake ota update, so to recap, downgrade, wait for updates

ok, and thanks alot for the advice mate, i will root it but like i said when i understand exactly what i am doing, cheers

No problem, and thank you for taking your time to learn the system and getting familiar with what needs to be done, instead of rushing in and asking common questions

cheers mate, its the only way to learn, thanks again

sorry mate to bother agian, i just tryed to downgrade with 1.0 and white screen comes up it just says "not allowed" really stuck now

Did you do it in the bootloader(tri color screen) did you put the dreaimg.nbh on the root of your sd card and not change it to update.zip

What part of the world are you in so I can make sure you are using the right rc or it is a possiblity that you might have to make a gold card(which is a pain in the ass.....so I hear)

just realised now have to change it to update.zip
I am in Ireland
P.S. just changed the DREAMIMG-RC7.zip to update.zip and it didnt work
do i change the .NBH to update.zip

Nope,do not change it to update.zip, download rc7, extract the .nbh from inside and put it on the root of your sd, then use it through the bootloader

no. did that mate put the nbh on card into bootloader just said "not allowed" sorry for keeping you up man
does it make any difference that i deleted everything of the memory card by the way
i just thought of something this phone was bought in the U.S.A. would this make a difference when i iupdated it
it was with a U.K. 1.5 O/S

Hmmm, is your sdcard formated to fat32, it's the only filesystem that it will read in the bootloader, walk me through what it is doing

yes i formatted it, then copied the files back onto it that i had backed up, then i deleted them all again, so just putting the nbh onto a blank card
then start up the phone and bootloader, white screen comes up with "checking" then comes up "not allowed"

Hmmm....... I wonder why it is not allowing, maybe you are one of the unlucky ones who need a gold card, or maybe we can get a stock cupcake build to work in the recovery since it will be signed by your provider, let me look around a little bit and see if I can dig anything up

Help help help root problem

OK this is the deal, i bought a phone off someone from craigslist. i have no idea what this person has done on the phone it came as stock donut. no root or anything of the sort. and there is no way to contact the person to ask what or if they tried to do anything. i have been trying every which way and yes the search bar is my friend. and nothing. ive done this before MULTIPLE times i am not new to rooting and flashing. Everytime ive tried to load something it always says no signature(#), number sign for random file numbers, i have tried to downgrade everything spl, radio and down to rc29, and trying to figure out if i could downgrade the recovery to the original recovery not the 2 (e). ive stumbled upon the idea that i might be missing files. maybe the otacerts i believe. i searched that also and found someone only saying to reinstall rc29 THATS MY PROBLEM I CANT IT WONT LET ME. Please someone help before i bust my head open on my desk.

and sorry about the punctuation typing super fast and avoiding my boss.

No signature usually means the update isnt signed.... and you probably got the update.zip thats corrupt...

Ive tried 3 different downloads of every file aka different dev for each thing. Anything i try and put as Update or even left as Original such as the .nbh it all comes up no sig. is everything online corrupt?

You don't have a root hence no luck on roms.
.nbh is not flashed thru recovery. Put it on your sd, power down your phone and power up holding power and camera buttons. Phone should find DREAIMG.nbh and restore your device to RC29. From there, secure your root and it's business as usual. Good luck.

borodin1 said:
You don't have a root hence no luck on roms.
.nbh is not flashed thru recovery. Put it on your sd, power down your phone and power up holding power and camera buttons. Phone should find DREAIMG.nbh and restore your device to RC29. From there, secure your root and it's business as usual. Good luck.
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going to try this again

Help Stuck at G1 loading screen have no idea were to go now

Ok I had the latest 1.61 update (I think that was the version), followed the instructions at
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Dream_Rooting
To the letter however now I am thinking that I have a rogers dream.
I downgraded to rc 29 and followed the directions flashing with CyanogenMod 4.2.12.2
When booting I get stuck at the g1 boot screen, going into bootloader mode looks different than before instead of the colors I get three android icons at the bottom on a skateboard and in a yellow line says serial IO.
I'm kinda lost at this point can anyone help? I pray I didn't brick my phone.
I'm pretty new to Android, recently switched from WM. Be gentle...

can u go into recovery mode? home + phone button
p.s. mind you that this isnt the proper place to be posting "problems"

wrong section, sorry
i will request it be moved to the correct section where you are more likely to get a useful reply

oops, sorry about the section...I know better than that =( I can access recovery mode. Problem is that sd card is no longer recognized by computer =( Was hoping there was something stupid and small I missed but looks like I'll need to get a new sd card and re-flash update to original.

Are you able to go to recovery console if yes go to recovery console and flash the rom again.

sounds like u killed ur sd card :-x and your sd card is exactly what was allowing the rom to boot... it was a hero rom wasnt it lol
nevermind i reread your post...doesnt sound like a cyan caused problem....but cyanogen requires you to flash something before u flash his newer stuff...you should pay attention to BaconMod's stuff

Did you flash the 1.6OTA update from HTC that is required first?

Well Looks like I killed the sd card somehow. I put the sd card into my camera and back into my phone and works fine now...go figure.

dragonedge said:
Well Looks like I killed the sd card somehow. I put the sd card into my camera and back into my phone and works fine now...go figure.
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hey add me to my gtalk and i helo u step by step i think i know what u did cuz the same thing happened to me when i rooted the first time and those guys are being rude so if u want my help this is my gtalk [email protected]