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Well I've been around the net lately especially here, and have been noticing a number of people Not being able to Root there phone because of something thats sound simple but in the end is actually pretty Complicated. I myself have encountered this problem when attempting to Re-Root my G1.
Heres an example of whats going on in two diffrent ways, there still might be more I'm unaware, but this is mainly what I'm Seeing.
1 Reason
User attempts to Format G1 via USB
When attempting to do so computer fails at this process because the G1
ejects itself for no reason at all. And when putting the sd card back G1 doesnt accept it so it prompts you to reformart it, which by the way doesn't work because if you put the DREAIMG.nbh on the card after formatting it from the phone,it repeats the above.
2nd Reason
User is able to format card sucssesfully
And user is able to put DREAIMG.nbh on card but, when attempting to downgrade to RC9/RC7 from the bootloader menu it flashes the message
"No image file" (In green text or not pressing the Send key to enter fastboot wont work)
And to top it off, (Goldcard, Rogers, Another SD Card and XP Machine options do not work(Well for me they dont)
So XDA Community, I am asking (and so are many others) is this a Phone Problem
A Card Problem or did Google finally "blacklist" the DREAIMG.nbh file, so you cant downgrade to RC9/RC7
And if not please solve What the Muck is going on here!!!.
It sounds like a card problem. You are still able to downgrade to rc29 or rc7.
sd card
I had the same problem, it was my sd card. I think caused by not using the HTC usb cable. I believe it corupted my card.
I am following these instructions to bring my phone back to stock, before I send it in for a replacement (Alt key isn't working):
1. get the original SPL for your phone, go to the SPL thread at the top
2. rename it to update.zip and flash it to your phone
3. download the DREAIMG.nbh from the thread where you rooted your phone
4. place DREAIMG.nbh on the root of your SD card and start phone in bootloader(camera+power)
5. hit power to start the update DO NOT INTERRUPT!! i can not stress this enough
6. hit action(trackball down) and your phone will reboot
7. YOU NOW HAVE STOCK FIRMWARE, it will update on it's own in a little bit
I downloaded G1OrigBootloader_nocheck.zip, copied it to my SD card, renamed it to "update.zip", turned the phone off, powered up holding HOME and POWER and then pressed ALT+W for wipe and then ALT+S to apply the update. So far, so good.
Then I deleted update.zip from the SD card and moved DREAIMG.nbh onto it. I powered off the phone, then pressed the camera button and power. It has the white screen with the blue text "Loading..." and then the screen briefly flashes with "No image file!" before going to the bootloader screen.
Help! I don't know what to do next. Many thanks!
ETA: Should I install the DREAIMG.nbh *before* installing the stock SPL?
ETA 2: I formatted my SD Card just for grins (I could swear I had done that before) and now it's working fine. So. For anyone else who gets the No Image File error, try formatting your SD Card and then transferring files. Also, I re-downloaded the DREAIMG.nbh file so it might've even been that which fixed it. At any rate, I no longer need assistance and I don't know how to delete a post. I'm assuming you can't.
In case anyone else comes across this thread while having this problem...
I had the same problem with my Rhodium. The problem disappeared when I switched from formatting that particular SD card with FAT to FAT32.
So, try FAT32 and see if that helps!
captbunzo said:
So, try FAT32 and see if that helps!
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Yup^ android cant read fat partitions.
Also why do you want to unroot?
I was helping a friend unroot for a warranty return and I encountered this problem. While I realized that it was a simple, and some what dumb typograpghical error in my case. Have you checked, and I mean really checked the filename? I realized that I had a space in between the "G" and the "." (DREAIMG .nbh, rather than DREAIMG.nbh) I have the RC29 and RC30 .nbh images backed up on my home computer for just such purposes and I have them labeled accordingly (example: DREAIMG RC29.nbh). So when I went use it, I copied the file, edited the name, and forgot to take the space out. It therefore displayed no image for me as well. Just something simple to check.
Hi team,
Having some trouble rooting my g1 and upgrading to CM 4.2.4
I have been following a tutorial from here: http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-root-a-t-mobile-g1-and-mytouch-3g-android-phone/
... to achieve my goal. Followed all of the steps fine and to a tee. Installed all of the suggested files from the suggested places.
Succesfully upgraded the radio image, then moved onto upgrading the SPL. Ran through and rebooted phone, until the never ending "Formatting Cache" notice came up on the automatic boot into the Recovery Mode.
(FYI: radio and SPL images were from http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/)
Moved on to installing CM 4.2.4 after realising that the format was complete... Alt-W then Install from zip. Installed CM. Waited for prompt for completion... pressed reboot... then the boot hangs on the G1 startup screen.
Only way I could get out was to remove the battery. Went through the process again (Alt-W, SPL install, reboot, Alt-W, CM install, reboot, hang) numerous times, all with the same outcome.
Only thing that I can think of that I am doing wrong is pulled straight from CyanogenMod Wiki explanation: "I've noticed on some devices that when you fresh install the first time and you update with the rooted adp package from htc, reboot and then update to latest CM, some people get stuck at the tmobile logo. What I did was install the rooted adp package from htc, reboot and sign in all the way to home screen, then rebooted and installed the latest CM. That should get you past the first screen freeze if it happens to you."
As I am a noob, I have been unable to try this for the following reasons: 1. Where can I find the HTC rooted adp? and 2. How do I get this image onto the SD card when I can't boot in? I have tried without booting and my computer won't let me access via USB...
I was going through the process from factory settings. Is this my problem... Very confusing.
Realise that there are currently two active threads running in this section that are similar... but these guys seem to have done the wrong thing and are trying to right the ship... I can't seem to figure where I've gone wrong.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
As well: could booting with camera + power get me into the Dreaming.nbh OS to get HTC root OS onto the SD card?
http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
Download the 1.6 recovery image. It is actually the 1.6 Android Dev Phone ROM, flash that via recovery console... then flash the cm update. Make sure you wipe before you start flashing.
As well, do you have your SD card partitioned? It would be a good idea to do that as well. Two ways to do it, manually, or download and update to RA's recovery image 1.2.3:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669
I would update to that recovery first, use the option to part my SD card, upgrade to ext3, wipe, flash 1.6 recovery, flash cm update, good to go!
Thanks for the quick reply! Very handy info... How do I get the images onto my SD card without being able to boot though?
Do you have another device like a camera, or mp3 player that can take a microsd? If so just hook it up and transfer.. otherwise you may need some additional devices.. I bought an adapter so my sd can plug directly into a usb.. other than those couple options, I haven't any more suggestions to offer ya. If you cant get past the boot screen to mount, I don't see how you can do it through your G1.. there might be some terminal commands you can try to mount to a computer.. but that's beyond me.
Nathanial said:
Thanks for the quick reply! Very handy info... How do I get the images onto my SD card without being able to boot though?
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You take it out of the phone, while the battery is pulled, put it in an micro SD card reader, plug that into your computer, tada! If you computer doesn't have a slot for the standard SD card adapter, you can get microSD to USB adaptors most everywhere that sells electronics.
Or if you have cyan's recovery installed... you can hold Home+power
go to console, press enter and type
ums_enable
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and it will mount the sd on your pc.....
put ums_disable to unmount
Sorry to be a noob, but what benefit does partitioning do?
If you have an EXT3 partition, you will have app2sd. If you also have a linux-swap partition, you will be able to have a swap file (in simple terms its like adding more ram)
The ext partition is for apps2sd, and the Linux-swap partition is to give a little extra memory for the ROM.
Thanks for all of your help lads! Up and running. Muchly appreciated!
I’m going to try to keep brief so I don’t lose you. In short, I seem to be locked out of my G1 after root attempt. It won’t read sd cards, and can’t communicate to it through USB. It will run, but normal start up goes directly into 3 pages of T-mobil google setup.
1) Ebay G1, 1.6= donut, worked great but not unlocked so no phone no net.
2) Installed dreaIMG.nbh for root root ala "unlockr’s" method. Followed to a t
3) Try to run update (to cupcake) rom, no go. Rebooted (update) every witch way, battery in and out, formatting & reformatting 4g sd on PC. Try other SD’s, purchase a new 4 gig sd, All I get is the following message:
First:
Android system recovery utility
E:Can’t open /cache/recovery/com
mand
Home+back – reboot system now
Alt+l etc,etc
Etc.
Etc.
After executing Alt+S:
Installing from sd card…
Finding update package…
Can’t mount /dev/block/mmblk0
P1 (or /dev/block/mmblk0)
E:Can’t mount SDCARD:update.zip
Installation aborted.
USB hookup shows up on PC as “HTC Android mass storage”. HTC SYC., DroidExploer, ADB and whatever else I’ve played with on the P.C. won't connect.
Please help if you can. I’ve only had this a week, tried to root, and have spent the last 2 days googling around trying to figure it out how to fix it. If I could somehow just get past the T- mobile crap or through the USB I could probably straighten it out.
Regards, PK
What format is the SD Card??
Try reformatting to fat32 full format instead of quick and try again
Also you don't need to upgrade to cupcake to root your phone you can root it from RC29/RC7 which is the build your on after using DREAIMG.nbh
You can either use the flashrec program I believe they show you in the unlckr video
Or
You can follow the guide on Cyanogen's Wiki
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.p...eam_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod#Rooting_the_phone
Depending on which ROM you plan on using you can either follow the whole guide to use Cyanogen or you can just follow the steps through getting your own recovery image and then you can flash another ROM at that point if you're going with a diffrent ROM
Thanks much for the reply.
SD: All 3 of the SD cards I've been using are fat32. One is a brand new virgin. One, I reformatted fat32 many, many times. (The only question is, within "format fat32", there are many "allocation unit size", settings possible from 32 kb to 1024 bytes). Make a diff?
CUPCAKE not needed: Yes, I sort of reached that conclusion (after about 8 hours of study), and you confirmed, that I could flash things other than cupcake. Indeed tried many including Cyanogen Ithink.
The CRUX:It's just my G1 SD drive won't read anything. I would love to start over. Intuitively, compared to all the other rooting methods, this seemed to easy. If I could just get in past TMobile stuff, I'm sure there are switches to flick to solve prob.
Little more info: It was after "successfully" flashing dreaimg that I was locked out. In addition to the getting into (but not out of...can't finish cause I can't connect) of the Mobile setup screens, "menu" button puts me in to "change APNs (wonder if I should, to ATT). Also, replacing inactive T-mobile SIMM with ATT puts me in an ATT screen too enter code. Wonder if I should by one.
BTW: Any recomendations for reputable, fast &, resonable T-Mobil unlockers.. any one?
Thanks again,
PK
P.S. Format: Actually I was doing a full format about every other tim (I was trying lots of different stuff),
hello i am having problems with flashing a custom ROM. I've formatted a micro sd its 2GB. Then I added the ROM file, renamed it to kovsimg.nbh and started the phone as stated (by pressing the vol down button). Then the tri colour screen pops up then a quick screen comes which says no image path I have also... installed the hard spl thingy. Where am I going wrong? Please help !!!all want is reinsstal my xperia x-1 a new windows 6.1 how i can do this plz help my phone is give me this alert SİMCARD NOT İNSERTED'' Plz help me
Do you have press and hold the vol down and the power until the screen show"loading"???
i did bur it says no image ...what i can do?
Says no image??I don't have this problem...so I can't help you,sorry...
Hello you're not alone in the dark
My Xperia do it in the same way. So i hope we will get an answer.
Additional i have problems to use the Internet yet. After receiving a config SMS the applications which are using internetdata didn't get some. The connecting to provider or wifi seem OK but no data for the application.
Provided the card is read, make sure you formatted your card properly with FAT32 and placed renamed ROM file into the ROOT.
It's possible to read the card (after booting the phone). The card is Fat32 fomatted and the imagename is set. But it's not only the problem to flash using the CD-card. Also trying by using the sync-methode will fail. I get the splashscreen with the bar showing the percentage. In the state of 0% i get an error message. No recovery is needed, but i never get the phone flashed.
My problems is exackly the same
If it doesn't work use the USB method, it always works.
Hi VingZTV,
You're wrong please read my post #7 in this thread.
I called it sync method, cause you are using active sync.
cu HAndi
I encountered this problem too. My present X1 (3rd already) refused to hardSPL or do anything with both PC (stucked at 0%, connection errors etc) and SD method ("no image file" later stuck at "loading"). Previous ones worked with either SD or PC method
This time I tried different cables and PCs and couldn't hardSPL
nor was the SD card method working, tried different cards and formatted one to fat32 before putting image file
it seems the problem might be on X1's where SPL is stock 0.78 ?
Anyways for me it worked finally when I tried hardSPL with RUU to 0.52olinex ("X1_HardSPL.exe" file) on a different PC and cable with a formatted card inserted where 0.78olinex was renamed to kovsimg.nbh (so ready to flash hardSPL with SD method which didn't work befere). The phone was set to bootloader by the program and then started flashing the image on the SD! (the program reported error as usual)
phone flashed it once, restarted, did it again and was ready!
Then I had no problem to flash a ROM with SD method normally
So I don't know what could be the reason it worked or it was a coincidence maybe try to:
WARNING: AS ALWAYS YOU DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK!
- insert a freshly formatted card with hardSPL file (0.78olinex perhaps) renamed to kovsimg.nbh
- sync with PC and try to hardspl PC way like above and maybe the phone will finally flash the SPL from the SD
- let us know if it worked
It still doesn't work
I used 128m microSD and formated to FAT32, only copy 0.78RUU_Signed.nbh to SD card, renamed to kovsimg.nbh. After I used VOL- and power bottom. It only showed me loading.....
I also tried 0.72, looks same. DID I do some thing wrong?
Thank you very for any response!
wmw6608 said:
I also tried 0.72, looks same. DID I do some thing wrong?
Thank you very for any response!
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Try the way described above by me (leave the card with the image and use X1_HardSPL.exe to try to change SPL and so force phone to bootloader mode)
Btw i cant boot into windows
only freeze at SE logo
Any solution
kainjinez said:
Btw i cant boot into windows
only freeze at SE logo
Any solution
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HardSPL and reflash
Try the way described in my post above if u have probles
Agreed I also tried already with the same method
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