New to G1 and have a problem. Bought a G1 and it came with elcaires rom I think it was.
So I downloaded UK RC7, renamed it to Update, and placed it on the root of my card.
Held the home and power button, and tried to install but I'm getting installation aborted each time. I've also tried to wipe, but that gets aborted too.
I rebooted and now its stuck on G1 screen
I hope somebody can help, had the phone an hour and I've mucked it up already.
Thanks in advance
Im also "bricked" at the loading screen, i turn it on and it gets frozen at the tmobile screen. Home+power, camera+power, Alt+L etc dont work.
Is this fixable?
sirlewis said:
Im also "bricked" at the loading screen, i turn it on and it gets frozen at the tmobile screen. Home+power, camera+power, Alt+L etc dont work.
Is this fixable?
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No. It's Not.
if its not than what should he and i do?
Are you trying to boot into recovery while its in the G1 screen?
yo my name is sammy as well and i swear i just did the same thing with my g1 on eclair. hit me up dude on [email protected]. we can try and help each other out. plus i love the uk man. i never been, but plan too very soon. i love the music and the accents of the women, oh god. hit me up bro!
If you cannot access recovery or bootloader, you have a rather expensive paperweight. If you can, then you have hope.
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If you cannot access recovery or bootloader, you have a rather expensive paperweight. If you can, then you have hope.
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It is not so expensive since it be can brought for less than 100>$$
You can fix it by replacing the board with one from a working phone which is not the easiest thing to do.
hey ill take one of those paper weights... I need a new screen...
in the same boat cant get into anything hung up on splash screen
maybe our only option is jtag, ive never bricked before i always put cm 4 then go and install cm5 above that and it worked but this time it told me to go kick rocks and and and it was a customers phone so i gave him mine which is running eclair.
you guys arn't bricked. If you can turn on the phone than your perfectly fine.
You just gotta learn how to use it
G1 hanged at white screen!
Hi all,
I really need a help here. I have a G1 rooted with CM rom ver5. it was working fine since 3 months but suddenly now the phone doesnt boots up, it goes to white screen with 3 droid skaters and highlight on Hboot. It is freezed then and nothing can be done. I removed battery and tried booting by home + power ; camera+power etc etc . nothing happens it goes to that screen only. i have amons recovery and also nand backups in sd card. but the system doesnt let me go any where!! Please help......
attached is the snapshot
Either your back-button hangs, or something messed up your phone completely.
But as long as you have the fastboot mode, it's not bricked. I would suggest you to clean everything, i.e.
Code:
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
and then flash recovery again, i.e.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recover.img>
After that you can boot into recovery and restore your latest backup.
Please note: fastboot is a command you execute on your PC and you have to connect your phone with USB to your PC.
If after that procedure your phone boots again into hboot, most likely your back-button is defect.
I myself I think got a bricked G1...
I first installed many custom roms and thought that they were slowing my g1 so I wanted to get my g1 back to normal... For that I googled and was gone to the htc official website and ported the radio and rom from there but unfortunately I read it somewhere and it said that the rom is for only developers phone.
Everything first went very good... no error on clockwork recovery but when I reboot my phone, it got stuck on T-mobile G1 logo screen? I now can not even go to recovery mode or in fastboot mode? I need help...
Someone told me to use odin multi loader? but how do I use it or do it?? I need some instructions?
What should I do now? All I want to do right now is to get rid of my g1 by fixing it and selling it at once!!!
before flashing radio, spl, rom...anything...u need to check out the warnings and compatibility-MUST!!!!
there are 32B and 32A devices...both have different stuffs for themselves....which can be bricked if u dont follow the guidelines and try to act in sort of a haste to accomplish something new!!!
for those who can get to the camera+power (hboot) screen, but cant do anything else...u need to format ur sdcard...FAT32...then download dreaimg.nbh file...keep it in the root of ur sdcard...
then boot into the hboot menu, and ur phone should read the dreaimg.nbh file and prompt u to take an action(flash it)....do that and it'll get ur phone to the stock rom thingy....
then later u gotta root ur device again(telnet, great)....then install amon ra's recovery...change radio and what not and play again....
u gotta be patient...that's the only thing!!!
check this too
http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Get_Root
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Edit: ****, ok so my phone isn't booting up now..the phone just freezes at the g1 splash logo.
I can still get into recovery console/bootloader, can I save my phone? Help!
I do have other theme's in /sdcard/themes/
I don't know if I can delete the current update.zip in my root and move one of them to the root and rename it, then flash that on? Someone please help!
-Ok so, I have the sdk...
-I'm in fastboot mode
-I have the correct driver for the phone, windows picks it up
but when adb doesn't pick up the devices, is there something I need to do to "get started" so to say? I'm trying to install some themes and push the browser.apk into the phone but, im stumped
tehseano said:
Edit: ****, ok so my phone isn't booting up now..the phone just freezes at the g1 splash logo.
I can still get into recovery console/bootloader, can I save my phone? Help!
I do have other theme's in /sdcard/themes/
I don't know if I can delete the current update.zip in my root and move one of them to the root and rename it, then flash that on? Someone please help!
-Ok so, I have the sdk...
-I'm in fastboot mode
-I have the correct driver for the phone, windows picks it up
but when adb doesn't pick up the devices, is there something I need to do to "get started" so to say? I'm trying to install some themes and push the browser.apk into the phone but, im stumped
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First, you are at the wrong screen. You should not be in fastboot mode in the bootloader for updating themes, you should be in recovery mode.
I suggest you perform a wipe to possibly bring your phone back to normal at least. It can be done by turning off the phone, then pressing and holding the back and home button until you enter recovery mode.
From there press alt + w to wipe the phone.
Then restart by pressing back + home.
Next, before installing the theme, make sure its the correct one for your phone. Check with the author if it was made for RC30 or RC8, and if it is a non-wipe theme, because if it is not, you will be stuck at the Tmobile G1 splash screen (aka be in an indefinite loop) like your current situation.
If you are trying to install browser.apk (im assuming the multitouch browser - please correct me if im wrong) you will need to install JF 1.41 first. By default it will include the multitouch version of browser.apk
Please provide more information about your situation, and keep us posted.
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First, you are at the wrong screen. You should not be in fastboot mode in the bootloader for updating themes, you should be in recovery mode.
I suggest you perform a wipe to possibly bring your phone back to normal at least. It can be done by turning off the phone, then pressing and holding the back and home button until you enter recovery mode.
From there press alt + w to wipe the phone.
Then restart by pressing back + home.
Next, before installing the theme, make sure its the correct one for your phone. Check with the author if it was made for RC30 or RC8, and if it is a non-wipe theme, because if it is not, you will be stuck at the Tmobile G1 splash screen (aka be in an indefinite loop) like your current situation.
If you are trying to install browser.apk (im assuming the multitouch browser - please correct me if im wrong) you will need to install JF 1.41 first. By default it will include the multitouch version of browser.apk
Please provide more information about your situation, and keep us posted.
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Sorry, I should have provided more information, and explained that the 2nd half of this post was my original post, which was just me asking how to correctly use ADB. I do already have JF 1.41, I upgraded yesterday. It wasn't my first theme I installed either. I was using Vintage War (for the Dream), but it hadn't been updated for 1.41, so I was trying the standalone apk adb push method found in this forum, which is where this post first oriented.
I was in recovery mode for installing themes, I'm using JF 1.41 RC30, with the HardSPL bootloader. Initially after installing the theme it would go blank after the g1 splash, so I had tried to install it again hoping it would fix it, unfortunately my thumb is a bit to fat and I hit alt W instead of S, anyways that is what put me into this infinite loop.
But like I said this wasn't my first time trying to mod the phone, I've had it rooted for a month or so now, and have been keeping up-to-date.
Any more information I can provide, please let me know. My phone is my livelyhood, I need it. So if anyone can help, the sooner would be better. Either way I am entirely greatful for any help anyone can provide. Thanks in advance!
tehseano said:
I was in recovery mode for installing themes, I'm using JF 1.41 RC30, with the HardSPL bootloader. Initially after installing the theme it would go blank after the g1 splash, so I had tried to install it again hoping it would fix it, unfortunately my thumb is a bit to fat and I hit alt W instead of S, anyways that is what put me into this infinite loop.
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It is weird how a wipe caused you to go into an infinite loop. Which apk's did you try to push to your phone?
I would suggest to go without using the theme for now. JesusFreke had pointed out that some themes were causing problems for the new 1.41. update. You should check with the author of the theme to see if its compatible with the new 1.41 (which it should be since RC30 1.3, RC30 1.31, and RC30 1.41 are all compatible)
andonnguyen said:
It is weird how a wipe caused you to go into an infinite loop. Which apk's did you try to push to your phone?
I would suggest to go without using the theme for now. JesusFreke had pointed out that some themes were causing problems for the new 1.41. update. You should check with the author of the theme to see if its compatible with the new 1.41 (which it should be since RC30 1.3, RC30 1.31, and RC30 1.41 are all compatible)
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....How do I get out of the loop. My phone doesn't get passed it. There has to be something I can do in console or recovery or something. I'm really sorry if I'm coming off as rude or demanding but I really need a phone, and I need it right now. I don't know what more I can tell you before someone can finally give me a solution (sorry)
1. Download RC29
2. Copy it onto your sdcard
3. Reboot your phone into the SPL with Power+Camera
4. When prompted, press the end key to start the reflash.
Note: this will completely wipe the flash chip on your phone and revert everything back to factory. You will need to re-root your phone and update to JF1.41
Next time, use nandroid to backup before installing themes, etc.
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1. Download RC29
2. Copy it onto your sdcard
3. Reboot your phone into the SPL with Power+Camera
4. When prompted, press the end key to start the reflash.
Note: this will completely wipe the flash chip on your phone and revert everything back to factory. You will need to re-root your phone and update to JF1.41
Next time, use nandroid to backup before installing themes, etc.
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Alright, I'm doing it now. And I did use nandroid and make a backup, no one said anything about how to restore it. Regardless thank you so very much, you are my Savior right now!
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Alright, I'm doing it now. And I did use nandroid and make a backup, no one said anything about how to restore it.
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That's easy. Just grab a copy of the fastboot utility and the images off your sdcard in the 'nandroid' directory and boot your phone into the SPL. Plug your phone in via usb and press the back button once and you should see "Serial0" change to "FASTBOOT" Then open up a windows command prompt in the location of the exe you downloaded and run:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata data.img
fastboot reboot
Your phone will come back up with all of your applications, settings etc from when you did the backup. Keep in mind you need the HardSPL to do this though(look for three androids on skateboards in SPL). The G1 factory bootloader does not support fastboot, only NBH images that come from the factory.
Hi, my situation is a bit worse:
I have a Dev Phone, upgraded to JFv1.41.
Today, I got the pop up message telling me to do a "system holiday update 2 of 2". I press "Update now" and the phone got reboot. Since then... I could not get through the first screen that has the word "Android" at all, not even to the screen where Android icon is flashing. It just freezes right there.
The only way to turn off is to take out battery. I could not enter recovery mode through pressing Home+Power. One time, the screen actually turned into weird color patterns. Is there anything I can do? consider that I don't have any nandroid back up image at all?
I tried to download the DREAIMG-RC29.zip, unzip and copy to the sdcard, then reboot into the SPL with Power+Camera but nothing happens, just a 4 color screen said "serial0".
Thanks in advance.
Isn't the 4 color screen the standard bootloader that ships with retail G1's (not a dev phone bootloader)?
lugiamx said:
Hi, my situation is a bit worse:
I have a Dev Phone, upgraded to JFv1.41.
Today, I got the pop up message telling me to do a "system holiday update 2 of 2". I press "Update now" and the phone got reboot. Since then... I could not get through the first screen that has the word "Android" at all, not even to the screen where Android icon is flashing. It just freezes right there.
The only way to turn off is to take out battery. I could not enter recovery mode through pressing Home+Power. One time, the screen actually turned into weird color patterns. Is there anything I can do? consider that I don't have any nandroid back up image at all?
I tried to download the DREAIMG-RC29.zip, unzip and copy to the sdcard, then reboot into the SPL with Power+Camera but nothing happens, just a 4 color screen said "serial0".
Thanks in advance.
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I had the same problem, almost verbatim. ADP1.1, JFv1.41, ran the Holiday update 1 of 2, no problems, did the 2 of 2 update, got stuck at the flashing Android boot screen. Pulled the battery, rebooted, same thing, waited 2-3 minutes at the flashing screen and was just about to pull the battery again and then all of a sudden the damn thing came to life, the OS loaded up and now everything's working fine. Gave me quite a scare.
ummm actually the fastboot utility wont work for my computer soo what shoud i do.... if anything i need a really good reply something long cause im new to this and my fone wont get off the android sign.
chinoman said:
ummm actually the fastboot utility wont work for my computer soo what shoud i do.... if anything i need a really good reply something long cause im new to this and my fone wont get off the android sign.
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Why have you just hijacked a 5 month old thread? You haven't given use any details either. Fastboot is available for all OS's, it will work on your computer, you just probably don't know how to use it. Please make a new thread in the Q&A section where we can help you out there.
This should be closed or moved to Q&A.
hey man just unroot ur phone and root it again u soft bricked ur phone its ok
hey just try to unroot k
hey if u want me to fix it for u just email me at [email protected] and ill help u
I think i bricked my phone by fallowing this tutorial.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3874647&postcount=406
It happened after flashing the spl.
My phone will not go past the white "t-mobile g1" splash screen.
thank you for reading.
Damn, another brick? Did you make sure you had a PVT board and not the DVT-1, DVT-2 boards? It's a known problem with the Special SPL that it pretty much bricks DVT board phones...at least so far. (check by booting with camera+power if possible, board type is shown on the first line of text)
Can you boot using home+power? Are you just stuck at the Splash screen? If so, after about 10 mins the screen will change, giving you an triangle error symbol. At this point push Alt+L. This should give you the recovery utility, where you will have access to wipe (you should prob do one) and reflash a rom.
Of course this is all assuming you have root already.
i dont know if i actually got root i fallowed some tutorial on that too today i can do both of those boots but dont know how to flash anymore updates with my phone stuck like this
aronissleeping said:
i dont know if i actually got root i fallowed some tutorial on that too today i can do both of those boots but dont know how to flash anymore updates with my phone stuck like this
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Ok, so what you need to do is this:
1. Wait for the error message //remember it sometimes takes 10 mins or so
2. open keyboard, hit Alt+L //this will toggle your phone to the recovery utility
3. If you have root, you may have a recovery utility that says "JF version 1.43", if not you have the stock recovery utility
4. If you have root, you could try to DL pretty much any rom although I might try the Ion rom for its stability and simplicity //there are tons of instructions for flashing a new rom
5. If no root, search in the Dev section of the Dream forum for an OTA ( Over The Air, ie. stock) rom. In particular, search for Dreaimg.nbh, and read the instructions for reflashing it. This will help you gain root.
6. reboot, and enjoy (hopefully)
If none of that works, you can find the "Bricked G1's" thread on the Dev section too. I think your prob out of luck, but it's possible someone has/or is coming close to a fix.
re flashing ill let you know the out come
lol you didnt brick it since u can access the recovery image.
anyways what happened to me yesterday, i flashed latest radio, the latest spl and it wouldnt boot. i flashed a new system image but still no boot (t-mobile screen). I wiped the system (data partition) from recovery boot, and reflashed with a new system image, worked ok... so from what i get, u need to wipe / reflash system, if you upgrade spl...
is by using a card reader on a pc the only way to flash a different img if this happens to you?
my phone is in root and i'm on the same g1 screen. if i take the battery out i can boot to recovery mode but my only options are alt-w and alt-s. i've tried wiping and reflashing with the same spl img and it's not resolving anything.
Hi,
I had a 1.5 G1. I rooted it and updated to a JF1.5.1
I decided to experiment a little bit more and I tried to install HardSPL. It said to have installed correctly, but after the reboot, it is stuck continuously at the G1 screen. I tried to get to the bootloader or the recovery console, but it is not happening.
I have tried home+power, camera+power, back+power, but no matter what it just goes and sits in the G1 screen. I took a nandroid backup before installing the hardspl, but if the phone doesnt boot up at all, I dont know what to do.
Can someone please please help me out? Is there anything at all I can do? I will be lost if my phone is bricked. I have got it from US to India and I don't think I can get a replacement warranty here. ((((
Thanks in Advance.
Sorry but...I think it's bricked if it can't access recovery or bootloader
There's no fix out yet... take a look at this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533004
i think i got a solution cuz i dont think its brickedcuz this happened to me and i found that it my recovery.img got corrupt and all i did was redownloaded the recovery.img to my computer and extracted it to my sd card and sucssesfully booted into recovery mode try this maybe itll work if not your bricked
he already said he can't get to recovery
Doesn't the SPL or Recovery appear before the G1 screen? I'm pretty sure he's tried pulling the battery, holding down HOME (or CAMERA depending on which mode he wants to go into) then putting the battery back in... If not then he should give it a go...
NeoBlade said:
Doesn't the SPL or Recovery appear before the G1 screen?
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No it does not.
Thanks guys for all your support... until something new comes up, I guess I am screwed. I dont think anyone else would have bricked their G1 in just 3 days.
I had rooted it and it was working fine until I let curiosity get the better of me and I decided to see what else I could flash on to the device. Sucks...
I brick mine the second day, so i guess i hold the record
Interesting. This did happen to me when I was messing with the JAChero Rom. During some of the steps it asked you to install the the latest SPL. It tells you in the steps that it will hang on the G1. You'll need an SD Card reader but put a stable rom on the SD Card, rename it update.zip and reflash. This did work for me. Hope the same out come for you!
So I have this g1 sitting here for a few months- great looking phone, not a scratch on it...total virgin- no water damage or anything... a true spectacle compared to me daily driver (water damaged g1 with cm 5.07 on it... broken camera, broken wifi module <or so i am guessing since its been that way through all of the different roms ive tried... just shuts off> )
Back to the point-
This spectacle of a g1 - has but one issue... the digitizer doesn't work. No clue why- just wont respond... the g1 has been wiped so I have been stuck @ a "touch the android in its naught spot to continue" screen for a while...
Just decided today that I would try and get cm 5.07 on it... I was remembering (correct me if I am wrong) that android 2.1 didnt bother you with that "touch me" screen when you first booted it up.
So I began with a wipe through recovery- ... formated my sd to fat 32, and threw my DREAIMG.NBH (RC29) on it.
hit the boot loader (camera + power) - boots up as normal- grey screen for the update, and continued with it. Got an OK on each item down the list...looking good.
Update done- hit the power button to finish it- goes back to boot loader displaying the rainbow screen with:
DREAM100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
Sep 2 2008
Serial 0
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So at this point its all looking great to me- I hit call + menu + power and phone begins to reboot.
But gets stuck @ the freaking tMobile G1 Screen...
I can still access the boot loader... but Ive tried 6 different downloads, re formatted the sd card 3 times, tried a second sd card... tried a copy of RC30 ... nothing works... I get stuck at the G1 screen every time.
I cannot access recovery! Just sticks at G1 screen.
What now? Is this G1 a paper weight?
THANKS!
I don't know if this works with a stock rom, but did you try to get a logcat while it hangs at the g1 screen? Might be useful...
Logcat
I cant do anything :/ Only ability I currently have is to boot the phone via fast boot with a DREAIMG.NBH or sit at a boot screen.
Is there a modified DREAIMG.NBH I should try and run?
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pcguru000 said:
This spectacle of a g1 - has but one issue... the digitizer doesn't work. No clue why- just wont respond... the g1 has been wiped so I have been stuck @ a "touch the android in its naught spot to continue" screen for a while...
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I had a G1 refurb from HTC on which the digitizer did not work properly. No matter what ROM I installed, same problem, no accurate touch response. It was a hardware issue with the phone. I know it doesnt help with the phone hanging on boot. As far as that, it's a tough one. If you only have the stock SPL (rainbow screen) and no modded recovery, you can't do much other than use a .nbh (release key signed ROM/stock ROM) to flash a ROM. Unless there another backdoor I'm unaware of. Good luck!
CM roms need danger SPL, if you're on the "rainbow" screen - you don't have it. You shou've not run NBH because that takes away the root and brings you back to RC29. Sound's like you're out of luck on this one. However, now would be a good time to swap out that digitizer for the one out of "mother-of-all-problems" phone.
Good luck.
danger
I know CM roms need Danger- but at the point I was at I had no way of flashing danger, I needed to first root the phone... the way I have rooted all my G1's was using RC29 first (DREAIMG.NBH) and then using the "type anywhere" exploit to give the phone root administrative rights.
After that i load up a good recovery image, do a nandroid back up etc etc...
Im just not sure why it just died half way through the process- its strange that I can still access the stock boot loader and flash an image but yet nothing happens.
Is it possible for me to flash an image OTHER than RC29- and where could I access that image download?
pcguru000 said:
I know CM roms need Danger- but at the point I was at I had no way of flashing danger, I needed to first root the phone... the way I have rooted all my G1's was using RC29 first (DREAIMG.NBH) and then using the "type anywhere" exploit to give the phone root administrative rights.
After that i load up a good recovery image, do a nandroid back up etc etc...
Im just not sure why it just died half way through the process- its strange that I can still access the stock boot loader and flash an image but yet nothing happens.
Is it possible for me to flash an image OTHER than RC29- and where could I access that image download?
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That all sounds like it should be working but I would try one more thing. You say you have a second G1. I would try formating the sd card in that phone. It may make a difference. If that does not work you may want to search this forum for "gold card" instructions.
Good luck.
I am so frustrated... Just got a G1 last week from a friend as a gift, fully functioning with 2.1, but then I decided to flash a 2.2 rom, so I downloaded everything I need, radio, SPL, and a 2.2rom...
So first I rooted it, and then I flashed the radio if I didn't remember wrong, and then I rebooted the device, and that's when the nightmare begins...
My G1 started to boot loop, and I can't get into recovery but only fastboot. Then I thought if I am able to get into fastboot then I guess I still have hopes, so I downloaded the dreaimg.nhb and successfully installed it! but no luck, it still boot loop at the T-Mobile screen and couldn't access recovery...
I brought it to some guys to flash the IC as I thought it's bricked, but they told me it's probably not the IC's problem since it could access fastboot, and they told me it's probably because some hardware is broken and told me to change the mother board... but I was like hell no, cuz I could go get a new phone with that price...
I have seen some other ppl have the same problem on other threads, but no one gave a full answer, and I am pretty sure it's not hardware problem! so hopefully someone could give me some advice, thnx!
(Just so u know I am in China, so please don't tell me to bring it to the T-Mobile store... lol)
did you do a clean install of a rom once you flashed the .nbh file?
nah, I couldn't even get into recovery... if I hit the home bottom + power it will just start boot looping... or could I actually flash rom via USB?
once you flashed .nbh it will erase the recovery if i am not mistaken. since you have already flashed the .nbh your phone is very basic. might as well go for the newer spl+radio straight away.
go to here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831139
read the whole guide a few times and understand it properly before you execute them. what this combo of spl +radio would do, is it provides extra ram for our g1.
what is the current details that you get when press camera+power?
try to flash stock dreaimg.nbh and re root you phone.. follow this guide...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098899