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Just to begin, normally i am pretty on top of stuff when it comes to messing with hardware/software, so i figured this flashing will be easy.
I started off with rooting my Rogers HTC Dream, which worked out just fine.
Then i tried to install the cyanogen mod, and now i cant boot past the rogers logo.
since then i have tried installing android 1.5 radio, cyanogen's recovery image (1.3.1)
i couldnt find a guide for installing any of these, so essentially the only thing i did was enter fastboot, run fastboot boot recovery.img (the same one i used for rooting) and update from update.zip on each of the things i tried to install.
Seems that I missed out on the initial preperation.
Also, Nandbackup didnt work when i tried to use it, it would just fail every time, so i am left without a backup file of my previous state.
So my question is: What can I do to A:get cyanogen's mod working, or B:restore the unmodified rogers-branded rom to my phone
Thanks guys, any help is greatly appreciated. Just got this phone yesterday, and I love it, but now i seem to have gone and messed it up
I have a bunch of bad backups, they have only the boot.img part of several backups.
K here is the order I did anything.
Rooted->cyanomod 3.6.7.2->recovery 1.3.1 (tried to install it through the raw file, didnt seem to work) radio for 1.5 android-> recovery 1.3.1 (through update.zip, worked)
I figured cyanogen's was compatible kuz on a post about rooting the rogers phone, a link was posted, by cyanogen linking to his mod.
Don't believe its compatible...I read your thread in the development section. Like soulife said, try getting a fellow Rogers G1 user to get you a system dump.
yea that requires a fellow rogers user with a g1 xD
all my friends have dumbphones for now, so no luck
PurpleFries said:
yea that requires a fellow rogers user with a g1 xD
all my friends have dumbphones for now, so no luck
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Try posting in the "Rooting Rogers Dream" thread in Dream General. Maybe someone will provide you a system dump in there?
yea i posted one saying i need a nandroid dump
lets hope someone can get one
PurpleFries said:
yea i posted one saying i need a nandroid dump
lets hope someone can get one
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Lol best of luck
EDIT: I see you made a new thread. Haha I posted in a more populated thread asking for people to take a look at yours. Hope you don't mind
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I have found these files off a rogers G1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=521240&page=13
What exactly do I do now to return my phone to it's initial status.
I already have adb, rogers sdk, random rooting stuff downloaded
Thanks
when i try to restore latest backup in the recovery mode, it starts erroring saying the device has no space
any ideas?
Hey Guys
I really hope I'm posting this in the right place. Please forgive my ignorance
For the past few days I have tried to get simple and UP TO DATE instruction on how to root the G1. There is so much information scattered out there that its quite overwhelming. Unfortunately I only understand half of the stuff I'm reading (at best) and was hoping one of you smart folks can help a complete amateur in my desperate quest to get root
Can someone please help me with the following:
1) are these steps for downgrading to RC 29 and rooting still applicable for cupcake?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
2) what does it mean to update the radio, SPL, and ROM and how do I do that.
3) where can I find the latest versions of all the stuff I need?
4) will I be able to reinstall all the apps I've bought as long as sign in with the same email after rooting?
5) will some market apps be blocked for me after rooting?
I realize this sounds really ignorant but would appreciate any help I can get!
Think about how many times a day the same inquiries roll these boards. If you've been reading the boards for the past few days and didn't find the answer to the majority of those questions something ain't right meng. I'm not trying to be funny. I'm just saying. The foundation of everything you may or may not learn is slap dab one of the first posts in this forum.
I'm not going to get into that..but you need to. the answers to all your questions are here in front of you. It just gets frustrating (it was to me at least) at times because you might stumble upon 3 different but totally correct answers to one question. Thats exactly where i was right HERE. that was two weeks ago. jumped on the boards one friday night a wreck, by sunday night i was peacefully rooted. Slow down, think about what your doing and what you're reading. make sure you have some free time...TO YOUR SELF. get a pen and some paper right stuff down. take into consideration you might not make it in a day. yeah u might botch your way to ROOT, but unless you REALLLY understand and know how to get there...you could be setting yourself up for alot of frustration. thats all i have to say about that. you caught me on a good night...just had a glass of wine bout call it quits. sorry about any typos. good luck!
doctorfugazi said:
Think about how many times a day the same inquiries roll these boards. If you've been reading the boards for the past few days and didn't find the answer to the majority of those questions something ain't right meng. I'm not trying to be funny. I'm just saying. The foundation of everything you may or may not learn is slap dab one of the first posts in this forum.
I'm not going to get into that..but you need to. the answers to all your questions are here in front of you. It just gets frustrating (it was to me at least) at times because you might stumble upon 3 different but totally correct answers to one question. Thats exactly where i was right HERE. that was two weeks ago. jumped on the boards one friday night a wreck, by sunday night i was peacefully rooted. Slow down, think about what your doing and what you're reading. make sure you have some free time...TO YOUR SELF. get a pen and some paper right stuff down. take into consideration you might not make it in a day. yeah u might botch your way to ROOT, but unless you REALLLY understand and know how to get there...you could be setting yourself up for alot of frustration. thats all i have to say about that. you caught me on a good night...just had a glass of wine bout call it quits. sorry about any typos. good luck!
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off topic here.... but you may want to change your sig.....
SPL before RADIO = FAIL
1) downgrading to RC29 has not changed. it is only different if you do not have a us or uk g1 (you will need to use a goldcard method otherwise)
2)
radio is here
(ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip )
http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html#s3
HardSPL found here w/ descriptions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455860
3)what stuff?
4) yes your apps will be there
5) depends on the rom but most have all apps enabled
B-man007 said:
off topic here.... but you may want to change your sig.....
SPL before RADIO = FAIL
1) downgrading to RC29 has not changed. it is only different if you do not have a us or uk g1 (you will need to use a goldcard method otherwise)
2)
radio is here
(ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip )
http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html#s3
HardSPL found here w/ descriptions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455860
3)what stuff?
4) yes your apps will be there
5) depends on the rom but most have all apps enabled
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Thanks so much! I realize hearing these basic questions about root over and over must be increadibly frustrating for you and appreciate the patience!
Any recommendations as to what ROM I should install? Not quite sure how the different versions compare.
off topic here.... but you may want to change your sig.....
SPL before RADIO = FAIL
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OUCH! Good looking out.
OP, I followed the instructions you linked to just a few days ago and it worked like a breeze. Much easier that I thought it would, and i have no experience with this. I would suggest that when you get to the final part where you are upgrading to a new ROM to try cyanogen's stable build 3.6.8.1. It is just like cupcake (what you had) with a ton of new options.
also, his pimped out recovery.img can be used... version 1.4. I followed that guide to a T, then learned of this new and improved recovery.img file he made. So, basically the next day I changed to this version and it is a lot better.
Partition your sd card when you finish this and his rom will put all of your apps on your SD card, which frees up a ton of internal memory. I went and d/loaded about 60 apps after doing this. His rom does it for you automatically... like, no thought needed, you want even know unless you go to settings and look at the memory.... or, you may b/c of the speed of your phone. This was also much easier than I though, basically just keying a few lines of text in terminal emulator (which you will have after loading his rom above).
Any of the other experienced people have any issues with what I said?
I would also suggest cyanogen's builds. It has a lot of features and is both relatively noob friendly, feature-packed, advanced capabilities for advanced users, and fast. His 4.0 stable is just around the corner with even more features than his current stable version. There are many other ROM's out there as well, you'll have to try em out yourself and see if you like them or not. (Be careful of the ones that say you need the updated SPL, such as the hero ROM's. If your not careful when updating to that SPL [Haykuro's 1.33.2005 SPL] you could brick your phone. )
Cyan's recovery is a must
its great no matter what ROM you choose to use
If you need anything else, feel free to PM me or post here
This is how I got it to work!!!
(SD CARD READER NEEDED)
Got it to work using this tutorial. If I had found it before I wouldn't have started a new thread. Will look harder in the future!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533731
Followed steps until step 16
After step 16:
I had to install the JesusFreke rom cause it wouldn’t let me flash the cyanogen recovery image otherwise (permission denied problem as mentioned by author)
Installed cyanogen recovery image
I skipped partitioning the sd card at this point cause I didn’t plan on installing the Hero rom. If you want to flash the Hero rom you shouldn't skip partitioning
Installed latest Radio
Installed latest SPL
From here on I did my own thing:
Couldn’t boot after updating SPL cause rom got wiped by updating SPL. I had to put the new rom (Cyanogen v3.6.8.1) onto sd card, rename as update.zip and boot into recovery mode to flash it. This is were the sd card reader comes in handy.
You can find the Cyanogen ROM here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537204
After flashing the rom it was stuck on the loading screen so I rebooted into recovery mode and did a clean swipe. Loaded just fine after that.
Created ext2 partition using Paragon Partition Manager (see threat below), rebooted and was good to go
Partitioning using Paragon Partition Manager:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...artitioning+sd
Thanks again for your help guys!
I just used cyan's recovery 1.4 and loaded the radio.zip, spl.zip, and rom.zip onto my sdcard and flashed them in that order. I didn't need to take my sdcard at all
ThR1LL said:
I just used cyan's recovery 1.4 and loaded the radio.zip, spl.zip, and rom.zip onto my sdcard and flashed them in that order. I didn't need to take my sdcard at all
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lol i c u used my guide.
Hope it was helpful hahahaha
nephron said:
lol i c u used my guide.
Hope it was helpful hahahaha
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There's a guide on this?!?! WTF!!! I like freaked out over a week trying to figure out how to flash the new SPL without taking out my SD card until I found this post and made it work with cyan's new recovery. Someone should sticky your guide bc I had no idea it existed lol.
ThR1LL said:
There's a guide on this?!?! WTF!!! I like freaked out over a week trying to figure out how to flash the new SPL without taking out my SD card until I found this post and made it work with cyan's new recovery. Someone should sticky your guide bc I had no idea it existed lol.
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ya . Right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548924
o and right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
(scroll down to fastboot)
nephron said:
ya . Right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548924
o and right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
(scroll down to fastboot)
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Ohh lol see I didn't bother reading that ADB guide since I already had adb since pre-cupcake when I attempted to root my phone the first time.
Hi
I have flashed my G1 T-mobile following the the one-click process in here! i have now root access. The ROM is CyanogenMod-3.9.11.2
After all that i bought a trascend SDcard 8GB class 6, formatted about 600MB to EXT4 using gparted on a live cd, winxp and my G1.
The first thing i noticed is that the phone is slower to load up. it stays about 35secs on the G1 logo and then move to android for a total of about 1min to be ready.
Second thing my free space on internal memory went from 38MB to 68MB, i believe somehow the phone moved the cache on the sdcard...if i install new programs they get installed on the phone memory as far as i understand...however i could be wrong on this. i never started the phone without sdcard since, I'm not sure if this could damage the phone in some way.
I would like to have some feedback on this (the slow boot and memory thing) if someone has experienced a similar situation.
I'm thinking to flash my phone again and move to a stable version of Cyanogen so that i can use app2Sd and Cyanogen updater!!
- how can i flash a new room, considering that i have the latest radio but not HARDspl. (as far as i understand the oneclick method doesn't change the SPL)
I was looking at using again the small oneclick software and flash the Cyanogen 4.0 this time, would that make sense since i have already root access on the phone?
thank you for the help
kirk
update
After installing and unistalling few softwares i found out that all programs are actually on the SDcard however the Mobile uses still the internal memory for the cache. This doesn't bother me for now since i still have about 68MB free. Basically if you install CyanogenMod and you don't have a partitioned SDcard all software get installed on the internal memory however as soon as you put in an partioned card all programs get transfered automatically after the first boot. At least this is what happen to me. Somehow i got what i wanted and because of this i don't need to flash my phone anymore... maybe I'll flash it again when android 2 is out, if i don't have to change spl, image recovery or anythingelse too risky
I used the 1-click method as well, and I just download the latest cyanogen rom, rename it to update, boot into cm-recovery and apply the update.
One more thing, the latest versions of Cyanogen's rom have auto apps2sd built into the rom. It will automatically move all apps to the sd card as long as you have an ext2/ext3/ext4 partition on your sd card.
Your still going to have the same boot time. It's still going to take awhile to boot, just because you have a custom rom doesn't mean it will boot faster. And to load a new rom either rename to update.zip and update or if you have the newest recovery then you can just flash whatever rom without renaming because you can flash any .zip file.
In reading your post I think you said you wanted to use the small 1 click software to download cm4.0 You are done rooting your phone you no longer need to use the 1 click software.
Just copy new rom (cm4.0.4) to sd card
unplug phone from computer
turn off phone
boot into recovery (home and power at the same time)
flash new rom
when you use one root, it flashes cm-recovery 1.4 so there is no need to rename, just put on the root of your sd and flash from recovery
supremeteam256 said:
Your still going to have the same boot time. It's still going to take awhile to boot, just because you have a custom rom doesn't mean it will boot faster. And to load a new rom either rename to update.zip and update or if you have the newest recovery then you can just flash whatever rom without renaming because you can flash any .zip file.
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Are you aware of any reason for the slow boot after partition of the sdcard??
is it the stock 1GB sdcard?
Cause it has to read from the sd during boot up and it has to run the script for the apps2sd
Fingerlickin said:
is it the stock 1GB sdcard?
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no is a transcend 8GB class 6.
gridlock32404 said:
Cause it has to read from the sd during boot up and it has to run the script for the apps2sd
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As far as i know i'm not using app2sd yet. I partitioned my SDcard ONLY after i flashed my phone. however like i said i think the phone is somehow using the ext4 partition for something.
You reckon this would be a normal boot time i mean it takes between 50secs and 1.05 min to be ready. Phone is stable as far as i can tell.
I myself am not concerned with the boot time, the ext4 is another filesystem that it has to read and recongize, you basicly have a little mini computer in your hands so how long does your pc take to load up, there are many files and system checks that it has to go through starting up not to mention all the settings and components it has to turn on
Bottom line, if you want something to boot up quickly than get a basic phone because there is a very good way to speed up a mini computer to do the same
gridlock32404 said:
I myself am not concerned with the boot time, the ext4 is another filesystem that it has to read and recongize, you basicly have a little mini computer in your hands so how long does your pc take to load up, there are many files and system checks that it has to go through starting up not to mention all the settings and components it has to turn on
Bottom line, if you want something to boot up quickly than get a basic phone because there is a very good way to speed up a mini computer to do the same
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Well i'm aware of all this and i'm not concerned too much about the boot time. I'm only trying to gather information and learn a bit more from other ppl experiences. I come from windows mobile and android OS is all new world for me.
have you a similar configuration to my G1? Do you run app2sd? is yor boot time similar to mine??
maybeoneday said:
Just copy new rom (cm4.0.4) to sd card
unplug phone from computer
turn off phone
boot into recovery (home and power at the same time)
flash new rom
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Just a quick question for future reference...
do i need to put Cyanogen recovery image on the root of the sd card when i boot into recovery mode?
thank you
Kirk
Why did you root your phone? You have no desire to search to even do one of the most well documented things to your phone in these forums. What you need to do is take a DREAIMG.nbh file and put it in the root of your sdcard (or in no folders), then open up terminal emulator and type su then reboot bootloader once that happens wait for it to flash that image. Then you will have the most pimping room on your phone. Also you have amazing boot times. Everything you want.
david1171 said:
Why did you root your phone? You have no desire to search to even do one of the most well documented things to your phone in these forums. What you need to do is take a DREAIMG.nbh file and put it in the root of your sdcard (or in no folders), then open up terminal emulator and type su then reboot bootloader once that happens wait for it to flash that image. Then you will have the most pimping room on your phone. Also you have amazing boot times. Everything you want.
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Hi David
I had specific reason to root 2 different G1 and this is not to play with it or try a new ROM or even experiment new things. I may change my ROM again when a major relase is out (i.e. Android 2 if it has something that i need)
Going back to reflashing the phone.
You now suggest me to use DREAIMG.nbh which is actually mentioned on the guide "hoe to downgrade-root-flash your phone" here
....am I missing something here?? thank you for taking the time to reply anyway.
..I have read quite a bit on this forum and i decided to use the one-click method (because is the quickest and safiest one). I thought reflashing should be as easy. go in safe mode wipe and reflash it. Anyway for my nature i tend to ask/investigate one thing before go and actually do it. My questions are:
- if i press home power right now, considering that i have nothing on my sdcard would it take me to the safemode screen?
- Consequently do i need to have Cyanogen image revovery together with the ROM on my sd card in order to flash a new version of CyanogenMod?
Thank you
Kirk
you can boot into recovery at any time by pressing home and power when the phone is powered down. it will go into recovery no matter what is on the sdcard.
Also the recovery image you have on your phone does not determine what rom you can flash.
wow... i am at a loss for words...... do you even know why you did any of the things you did? did you even read the release notes for cyan's rom's? ALL OF THE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS ARE THERE...
if you have an ext partition on your sd card....it WILL AUTOMATICALLY be used for apps2sd with 80%-90% of the ROM's out there today... ITS IN ALL OF THE ROMS' CHANGE LOGS/RELEASE NOTES
I had specific reason to root 2 different G1 and this is not to play with it or try a new ROM or even experiment new things. I may change my ROM again when a major relase is out (i.e. Android 2 if it has something that i need)
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if you didnt root to try a new rom or experiment with new things, your better off with the stock firmware...which is why david suggested you flash DREAIMG.nbh
go in safe mode wipe and reflash it
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going into safemode wont flash anything.... i suggest you search and find out what exactly safemode is, especially since there was a thread only a few threads below yours detailing it.
All you need to flash a new ROM is the rom on your sd card and a working recovery, as well as anything that the ROM your installing has required which are noted in the changelog/release notes....
nothing else is needed on your SD card, except maybe specific partitioning, which will be noted in the ROM's requirements.
I try to help out here as much as i can when i have time (most of my posts are in Q&A helping out people) but it seems as though no one even bothers to look at the actual forums anymore. They just create an account, create a thread, bug people till a simple question is answered, and disappear forever.....
I came to this site simply to get roms, but i stayed because there was so much to learn and i created an account to help out people as well...i did all of my major modifications without asking any questions....all the questions are already answered somewhere...
i understand its hard to go through all the clutter, but it is starting to look as if no one even cares anymore
@B-man007 i am starting to feel like you do, i had my phone rooted and all that good stuff at least a month before i made an account just to download something uploaded to the forum. I wish i could see how many post i have in a ceratin forum bc i imagine at least 450 or 500 of them would be in this one helping people. Its getting to the point where i no longer care to help people and i thought i had a lot of patience. I porbably do but people are sinking to new lows with the questions they ask...
I think I have maybe 5 posts in dev, most of my posts are q&a and general, but then again half of those posts are from hijacking threads. I just got tired of answering the same questions over and over and over
gridlock32404 said:
I think I have maybe 5 posts in dev, most of my posts are q&a and general, but then again half of those posts are from hijacking threads. I just got tired of answering the same questions over and over and over
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u hijack the hell outa threads. there should some type of entrance exam for xda. like do u know how to search, can u read do u have a brain. i mean god i actually helped a guy who couldnt open the terminal
I have decided not to delay any longer getting these files to the dev community here. I expect these may be removed from Megaupload by Motorola very quickly so grab them while you can!
This is a dump of the complete system directory for a recent GRH55 2.3 Gingerbread development build for the Atrix dated 1/21/2011.
I extracted it from the CG60 SMG file which was split from the SBF file using SBF Recalc 1.2.9.1 and then opened as a disc image in WinHex 15.5 Specialist version.
We will also post an archive of the raw CGs which include a number of other partitions that may be of interest as well as the boot files that were packaged separately with the SBF.
Please be very careful when trying to use any of these files on your stock consumer phone. The system includes many debug features and binaries etc. for development that are not found in stock builds and are of little use to end users and in some cases decidedly unwanted on your phone.
Hopefully the developers here will quickly set to work finding out what is most useful and safe for end users and everyone can enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Have fun and remember that there is no custom recovery yet for these phones nor an SBF file to restore with. You are completely unable to recover your phone at this stage if anything goes wrong that prevents it from booting normally!
The reason we are not going to post the SBF file itself is twofold.
First, they are proprietary Motorola files and we have received C&D orders from Motorola in the past and don't wish to have that happen again here.
Second, these engineering builds are strictly for unsecured development devices and will brick a consumer device if you tried to flash it.
We obviously do not want to see anyone brick their phone especially at this early stage when their is no recourse or means of recovery.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Nobody is responsible for what you do to your phone except you!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y232E9J0
very interesting, thanks for the post and info. hope a developer can make uses of this
Not that I will know what to do with these files at all, but I am going to keep a copy just in case someone needs to re-upload the files once Moto takes them down.
cellzealot said:
I have decided not to delay any longer getting these files to the dev community here. I expect these may be removed from Megaupload by Motorola very quickly so grab them while you can!
This is a dump of the complete system directory for a recent GRH55 2.3 Gingerbread development build for the Atrix dated 1/21/2011.
I extracted it from the CG60 SMG file which was split from the SBF file using SBF Recalc 1.2.9.1 and then opened as a disc image in WinHex 15.5 Specialist version.
We will also post an archive of the raw CGs which include a number of other partitions that may be of interest as well as the boot files that were packaged separately with the SBF.
Please be very careful when trying to use any of these files on your stock consumer phone. The system includes many debug features and binaries etc. for development that are not found in stock builds and are of little use to end users and in some cases decidedly unwanted on your phone.
Hopefully the developers here will quickly set to work finding out what is most useful and safe for end users and everyone can enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Have fun and remember that there is no custom recovery yet for these phones nor an SBF file to restore with. You are completely unable to recover your phone at this stage if anything goes wrong that prevents it from booting normally!
The reason we are not going to post the SBF file itself is twofold.
First, they are proprietary Motorola files and we have received C&D orders from Motorola in the past and don't wish to have that happen again here.
Second, these engineering builds are strictly for unsecured development devices and will brick a consumer device if you tried to flash it.
We obviously do not want to see anyone brick their phone especially at this early stage when their is no recourse or means of recovery.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Nobody is responsible for what you do to your phone except you!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y232E9J0
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thanks for sharing
cellzealot said:
I have decided not to delay any longer getting these files to the dev community here. I expect these may be removed from Megaupload by Motorola very quickly so grab them while you can!
This is a dump of the complete system directory for a recent GRH55 2.3 Gingerbread development build for the Atrix dated 1/21/2011.
I extracted it from the CG60 SMG file which was split from the SBF file using SBF Recalc 1.2.9.1 and then opened as a disc image in WinHex 15.5 Specialist version.
We will also post an archive of the raw CGs which include a number of other partitions that may be of interest as well as the boot files that were packaged separately with the SBF.
Please be very careful when trying to use any of these files on your stock consumer phone. The system includes many debug features and binaries etc. for development that are not found in stock builds and are of little use to end users and in some cases decidedly unwanted on your phone.
Hopefully the developers here will quickly set to work finding out what is most useful and safe for end users and everyone can enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Have fun and remember that there is no custom recovery yet for these phones nor an SBF file to restore with. You are completely unable to recover your phone at this stage if anything goes wrong that prevents it from booting normally!
The reason we are not going to post the SBF file itself is twofold.
First, they are proprietary Motorola files and we have received C&D orders from Motorola in the past and don't wish to have that happen again here.
Second, these engineering builds are strictly for unsecured development devices and will brick a consumer device if you tried to flash it.
We obviously do not want to see anyone brick their phone especially at this early stage when their is no recourse or means of recovery.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Nobody is responsible for what you do to your phone except you!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y232E9J0
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I have no Idea also what to do with these files but just incase someone else need them I downloaded them, You never know.
Hopefully something with the modem firmware can be pulled from this to turn on HSUPA.
Do you guys have access to an engineering spl ?
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
humancyborg said:
Do you guys have access to an engineering spl ?
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
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That is something that applies to HTC with a Nand lock from my understanding.
We don't have a complete picture of the boot process on this device but Motorola does things differently than HTC and on our OMAP/Qualcomm chipset devices there is no SPL involved in the bootchain.
hey i have a tester atrix from motorola. How would i go about installing this on that?
hassanjanjua2002 said:
hey i have a tester atrix from motorola. How would i go about installing this on that?
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You would need the full sbf file and a program named rsdlite.
The test model I have is on 4.0.2340.MB860.Attt.en.us which trying to update to 4.0.2350 but keeps failing. With the ! screen showing up mid install. Is there any sbf file or update.zip that i can use at the moment because I don't know how to update it regularly. For either this ginderbread or any version thats newer than mine...
hassanjanjua2002 said:
The test model I have is on 4.0.2340.MB860.Attt.en.us which trying to update to 4.0.2350 but keeps failing. With the ! screen showing up mid install. Is there any sbf file or update.zip that i can use at the moment because I don't know how to update it regularly. For either this ginderbread or any version thats newer than mine...
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You can not update that phone, you will be stuck on your version because your phone is not able to pass the hash checks in the update.zip. your hope lies in a released sbf file.
hassanjanjua2002 said:
The test model I have is on 4.0.2340.MB860.Attt.en.us which trying to update to 4.0.2350 but keeps failing. With the ! screen showing up mid install. Is there any sbf file or update.zip that i can use at the moment because I don't know how to update it regularly. For either this ginderbread or any version thats newer than mine...
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do you have a sbf for your phone ? if so please upload so that i can split it and use to compare with other sbf from other dev unit build
Ok thanks for the responses. How do i grab the sbf from my phone? From android sdk?
hassanjanjua2002 said:
Ok thanks for the responses. How do i grab the sbf from my phone? From android sdk?
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You don't grab it from your phone at all. An SBF file is a proprietary firmware file from Motorola that is flashed with a service ware utility called RSD Lite.
These files are only available to the public via leaks from unofficial sources.
Having a development test phone in this case is a difficult problem unless you have access to internal files for engineering devices.
On another note, I am very surprised that devs are not all over this dump pulling out the framework and libs and apks for use on consumer phones.
There is plenty here that should be able to be safely used.
I am sure that will change once recovery methods have been achieved.
cellzealot said:
On another note, I am very surprised that devs are not all over this dump pulling out the framework and libs and apks for use on consumer phones.
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Well, what should we be pulling out? Transplanting 2.3 libs and frameworks into 2.2 isn't a good idea, and if it's just a stock MotoBLUR build for 2.3, then nothing's truly different besides it being Gingerbread. Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless there's something wildly new in this build, it's just another version of what we have?
(I'm newer to Android development, but I know multiple languages (Java, C, C++, Obj-C, etc) and have been hacking/dev'ing for the iPhone since 1.0. Just thought I'd state that so I don't like like a huge idiot if this is extremely useful haha)
Smith7018 said:
Well, what should we be pulling out? Transplanting 2.3 libs and frameworks into 2.2 isn't a good idea, and if it's just a stock MotoBLUR build for 2.3, then nothing's truly different besides it being Gingerbread. Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless there's something wildly new in this build, it's just another version of what we have?
(I'm newer to Android development, but I know multiple languages (Java, C, C++, Obj-C, etc) and have been hacking/dev'ing for the iPhone since 1.0. Just thought I'd state that so I don't like like a huge idiot if this is extremely useful haha)
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It actually looks like stock android.
Smith7018 said:
Well, what should we be pulling out? Transplanting 2.3 libs and frameworks into 2.2 isn't a good idea, and if it's just a stock MotoBLUR build for 2.3, then nothing's truly different besides it being Gingerbread. Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless there's something wildly new in this build, it's just another version of what we have?
(I'm newer to Android development, but I know multiple languages (Java, C, C++, Obj-C, etc) and have been hacking/dev'ing for the iPhone since 1.0. Just thought I'd state that so I don't like like a huge idiot if this is extremely useful haha)
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Yaotl said:
It actually looks like stock android.
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you've been pwned sir.
Yup...this is a completely Blurless build and we have one like it for the Droid X as well.
I should caution that some primary functionality appears to be stripped out from the DX build regarding hardware sensors and some other things that are missing entirely.
It's fascinating because it is in many ways what everyone has been whining for since the DX came out with the locked bootloader. It is pure AOSP with virtually no amendments to the libs and very limited or no proprietary Motorola drivers.
There is no WebTop in this build and many other feature again appear to be missing entirely.
So, a very interesting challenge to the developers here to take this mythical beast and turn it into a useable build for consumer hardware by re adding the desired components and shoehorning them back into this build.
Pretty unique opportunity I would say!
Just knowing this file could potentially become a workable 2.3 build for my Atrix makes me VERY excited.
HOPE
Hoping someone has a minute to inform me of how to repair my bionc from vzw. I had safestrap 3.73 on and upgraded to safestrap 3.75 with rooted stock moto image from way back when. I saw a lineage 14.1 image install and thought what the heck. couldnt hurt. so I did a nandroid backup with compression to the external sdcard of all partions(securedata,system,data,webroot). did another backup to the internal partion. had the prefrered storage device as intenrnal memory. I then wiped system-data-cache-dalvik and left webtop and secure partion alone. I tried unlocking the bootloader from moto bye getting my device info in fastboot but fastboot did not understand the "oem" command. I remember I was able to boot multiple boots but it had to share the same kerenl so I firgured what the the heck. I could always safestrap back and restore if lineage os failed. my mistake. I assumed. I then found there was a file called moto-fastboot but not sure if it was any different than google's fastboot. before I get things anymore screwed up I thought I would kindly ask for someone to throw me a lifepreserver because I wanna get me and the brick outta the water.
anyhow now it tries to boot, reboots and gets a dead android bmp screen. I can get into fastboot still
any help greatly appreciated. I have not used rsdlite in a while nor can I find the cdma_targa_9.8.2O-72_VZW-22_1ff.xml.zip file to manually doit through fastboot. (my own diagnoses but hey I'm an advnace noob with super cape and no superpowers)
yes my weaknesses are no-fear and stupidity based on not reading, reading and then reading a little more.
rp201 said:
Hoping someone has a minute to inform me of how to repair my bionc from vzw. I had safestrap 3.73 on and upgraded to safestrap 3.75 with rooted stock moto image from way back when. I saw a lineage 14.1 image install and thought what the heck. couldnt hurt. so I did a nandroid backup with compression to the external sdcard of all partions(securedata,system,data,webroot). did another backup to the internal partion. had the prefrered storage device as intenrnal memory. I then wiped system-data-cache-dalvik and left webtop and secure partion alone. I tried unlocking the bootloader from moto bye getting my device info in fastboot but fastboot did not understand the "oem" command. I remember I was able to boot multiple boots but it had to share the same kerenl so I firgured what the the heck. I could always safestrap back and restore if lineage os failed. my mistake. I assumed. I then found there was a file called moto-fastboot but not sure if it was any different than google's fastboot. before I get things anymore screwed up I thought I would kindly ask for someone to throw me a lifepreserver because I wanna get me and the brick outta the water.
anyhow now it tries to boot, reboots and gets a dead android bmp screen. I can get into fastboot still
any help greatly appreciated. I have not used rsdlite in a while nor can I find the cdma_targa_9.8.2O-72_VZW-22_1ff.xml.zip file to manually doit through fastboot. (my own diagnoses but hey I'm an advnace noob with super cape and no superpowers)
yes my weaknesses are no-fear and stupidity based on not reading, reading and then reading a little more.
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Howdy! Sorry it's taken three months for your question to get any attention. Bionic forum's pretty dead, eh? I'm amazed it's still an officially supported Lineage device. Go team!
Sadly, the no one ever found a bootloader unlock, as a fellow informed me here two years ago. Unless some clever hacker happens upon a Bionic and decides to crack it for kicks, it's not likely to happen. But at least we have SafeStrap and Lineage!
You may know this already, but you didn't mention it in your post, so I'll go ahead and say: when installing a ROM like Lineage on the Bionic with SafeStrap, you need to install it on ROM Slot 1, not the Stock ROM Slot. I imagine that might be why you bricked your phone (I've done it myself a few times too ).
Now that I've given you the skinny on the Bionic's limitations, let's see if we can't get you back afloat. Whenever I bricked mine, I never used RDS Lite—I found a utility called House of Moto. You can find the home page here, but you'll need to create an account to see the important stuff and the downloads (you'll also need to install Java). But if you're more familiar with RDS Lite, feel free to use that instead
System images for the Bionic are hard to find nowadays. I seem to have found one link to an article with a direct download link to an update file at the bottom, which I'll link to here. Whether the update file is the same as an FXZ file RDS Lite/House of Moto requires, I'm not sure. Give it a try and see how it goes! If not, I may have a copy of the file on my old computer at my parents' house. If the linked update file doesn't work, I'll see if I can't get ahold of my image file.
Finally, if you do happen to get things up and running happily, I've got a list of optimizations that help Lineage run more smoothly.
Best of luck! :good: