question: installing dreaimg.nbh without an sd - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i wanted to know if you can install dreaimg.nbh through android sdk without using the sd card? i want to know this because i cant use my sd card at all and all of a sudden ive been getting force closes for every single action i make on the phone (main one i get is process com.android.inputmethod.latin and i cant text or go to my contacts. in short it force closes everything). i want to bring it back to factory and was thinking that might fix my sd problem. so please help, im getting annoyed with this and i dont want to go back and use my crappy samsung mysthic.

bluizzo said:
i wanted to know if you can install dreaimg.nbh through android sdk without using the sd card? i want to know this because i cant use my sd card at all and all of a sudden ive been getting force closes for every single action i make on the phone (main one i get is process com.android.inputmethod.latin and i cant text or go to my contacts. in short it force closes everything). i want to bring it back to factory and was thinking that might fix my sd problem. so please help, im getting annoyed with this and i dont want to go back and use my crappy samsung mysthic.
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does anyone know how to plz i have the same problem wit the sd card reader i wipped my phone and its not allowing me to flash anything from the zip card and its ot the card its the reader so does anyone know how to fix??

First, both of you need to rule out SD card falilure/user error. Does your card work in your computer? Can you format it to FAT32? If you can and your phones can't see it or any other cards.... you might as well get a new phone. As far as LatinIME FCs, go download any VK from the market or install HTC IME (which is way nicer anyway), go into settings-locale&text and uncheck stock VK, check whatever new VK of your choice is. That will stop FCs

borodin1 said:
First, both of you need to rule out SD card falilure/user error. Does your card work in your computer? Can you format it to FAT32? If you can and your phones can't see it or any other cards.... you might as well get a new phone. As far as LatinIME FCs, go download any VK from the market or install HTC IME (which is way nicer anyway), go into settings-locale&text and uncheck stock VK, check whatever new VK of your choice is. That will stop FCs
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thanks that fix one of my issues. know i cant txt or go to my contacts without them FCing, dammit i do need a new phone

borodin1 said:
First, both of you need to rule out SD card falilure/user error. Does your card work in your computer? Can you format it to FAT32? If you can and your phones can't see it or any other cards.... you might as well get a new phone. As far as LatinIME FCs, go download any VK from the market or install HTC IME (which is way nicer anyway), go into settings-locale&text and uncheck stock VK, check whatever new VK of your choice is. That will stop FCs
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but is their no way that i can install a rom or anything thru adb or sumthing cuz like my phone doesnt have any rom on it right now so yeaa i havent used my g1 in like maybe 2 weeks=( so like i just wana load a rom and be able 2 use my phone i really dont care for da sdcard

If your SD card is broken, get a new one.
How can you logically expect to use the phone without one? I'm aware you CAN, but I mean there are so few ROM's out there that don't use A2SD, let alone you can't make nandroid backups, and some apps can't store data. Maybe I missed something, but is there a reason you can't just use a different SD card? You can buy an 8gb class 6 MicroSD for under $20. If you can afford the $200-500 phone....

Crazydrumerkid13 said:
but is their no way that i can install a rom or anything thru adb or sumthing cuz like my phone doesnt have any rom on it right now so yeaa i havent used my g1 in like maybe 2 weeks=( so like i just wana load a rom and be able 2 use my phone i really dont care for da sdcard
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It is possible if you unpack the update.zip and manually copy everything over to the right place, then flash the boot.img with fastboot.
Surely it's simpler to just buy a cheap card though? Without a2sd your choice of what to flash is going to be severely limited.

the sd slot does not work at all. i have 2 sd cards a 1gig and a 4 gig(class6), the problem is the rom is acting up and i cant correct the phone without reverting back to stock, but in order to do that i need the sd card slot to be working. thats why i want to know if you can push the file to the phones ram and try booting it from there or even do it from the computer. and i also wanted to see if bringing the phone back to stock would probably fix the sd slot. so if someone has an idea im open to trying it out

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File Corruption on MINI SD CARD

back then i have always been getting file corruption on my sd card and i have read up a lot on it but nothing really works. After i switched to Open Touch v3.0 it was fine until yesterday my sd card got corrupted again and i lost a lot of pictures.. Anyone have any solution?
porkch0p said:
back then i have always been getting file corruption on my sd card and i have read up a lot on it but nothing really works. After i switched to Open Touch v3.0 it was fine until yesterday my sd card got corrupted again and i lost a lot of pictures.. Anyone have any solution?
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sounds like you have a bad micro sd card. Corruption was common problem with the stock T-Mobile rom but not usually a problem with other roms.
Maybe you can take it out and format it. Hard Reset the phone and try it again.
You can format your card with Windows and that should work fine. Also I've had this program for awhile which is supposed to be far superior to any other program for formatting Micro SD Cards, but I've never used it. Here it is if you'd like it.
any special way to format it or should i just right click and then format?
porkch0p said:
any special way to format it or should i just right click and then format?
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It might be best to take the card out of the phone. Put it in a card reader and format it on your PC, then put it back in the phone. Making sure you hear it Click in.
SD-Card
porkch0p said:
Anyone have any solution?
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I think there are some possible reasons causing troubles like this.
- Files where not cleanly closed at poweroff.
Alway make sure, all programms and applications are terminated before you shut down.
- Incompatible SD-Card
Always refrain from cheap and/or unbranded Cards. I use a Toshiba 2GB SDCard. Never had any problems. Even with the orginal stock ROM with WM5.
- defective SD-Card
Kinda hard to detect if you have just one card. Plug the SDCard into your PC and do a "surfacescan" on the virtual Drive.
- unstable SD-Card connectors
Try to clean the connection-pads on the card and inside your device with a small brush or paper tissue. Never use any other fluits than water to clean connection-pads on the card and just a little drop of it. Make sure everything is dry before you turn your device back on or some parts could get seriously damaged!
I think its also a good advice to see your SD-Card and Systemmemory as a very unsafe and unstable place for critical data. Always do backups as often as you can.
Sorry, for my bad english. Its late and I already had some drinks PLUS I am not very used to speak english anymore..
Monarch73 said:
I think there are some possible reasons causing troubles like this.
- Files where not cleanly closed at poweroff.
Alway make sure, all programms and applications are terminated before you shut down.
- Incompatible SD-Card
Always refrain from cheap and/or unbranded Cards. I use a Toshiba 2GB SDCard. Never had any problems. Even with the orginal stock ROM with WM5.
- defective SD-Card
Kinda hard to detect if you have just one card. Plug the SDCard into your PC and do a "surfacescan" on the virtual Drive.
- unstable SD-Card connectors
Try to clean the connection-pads on the card and inside your device with a small brush or paper tissue. Never use any other fluits than water to clean connection-pads on the card and just a little drop of it. Make sure everything is dry before you turn your device back on or some parts could get seriously damaged!
I think its also a good advice to see your SD-Card and Systemmemory as a very unsafe and unstable place for critical data. Always do backups as often as you can.
Sorry, for my bad english. Its late and I already had some drinks PLUS I am not very used to speak english anymore..
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Thanks for your help don't worry about the english, i still understand you and thats all that matters. i am using Sandisk 2gb.
BTW, zcink
the file you gave me doesn't work, it doesn't even let me extract it
Don't install any programs that may be running at any given time on your SD card. If you have a program running (that's installed on the SD card) and you phone hibernates/shuts down after not being used ... will cause SD corruption.
Nothing with a Today plugin that you use ... nothing that you may accidently leave running.
duprade said:
Don't install any programs that may be running at any given time on your SD card. If you have a program running (that's installed on the SD card) and you phone hibernates/shuts down after not being used ... will cause SD corruption.
Nothing with a Today plugin that you use ... nothing that you may accidently leave running.
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and still every benchmark test shows...
... reading main memory = FASTER
... reading storage card = SLOWER
even with SDHC card!!
So I install all apps to mainmemory...
porkch0p said:
BTW, zcink
the file you gave me doesn't work, it doesn't even let me extract it
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You are right. It was not zipped right. I took it down. Zipped it correctly, tested it and reuploaded it. The one thats there now is the new one. This is supposed to be Professional software. The guy I got it from said it was the Best thing on the Market. I had never used it before, but I tested it today and it works fine.
Cheers!
Mine corrupted too
Hi, just few minutes back I was trying to copy some files from external harddisk to my wing's stock supplied Sandisk 1 gb memory card and looks like it got corrupted. All I see is some junk characters and boxes as file name. I lost all my (memorable)photos and softwares . I was trying to copy directly from my external disk to phones storage card and I am not sure whether this caused this issue. I have Open touch 2.7 biggy.
I have two questions.
a. Where does active sync stores all the files, contacts, calendar entries in computer (the directory path). I tried searching in the computer but could not find it.
b. Does active sync saves my storage cards file too? I dont believe so. Is there a way to ask active sync to backup files from SD card too?
Thanks in advance

question about wiping

I am going to soon install the Hero Rom but I have a question about updating it...I would like to have a lot of apps on my Ext partition so it would be problematic to keep wiping it and lots of trouble to keep all my music and photos as well...so since I would have a different SD card partitioned with all my stuff...would it be possible to take that sd card out...and use the stock sd card to update the Hero ROM's on my phone...like just having the update on that card, wiping and flashing and then putting in my partitioned card with all my apps and music... would that work..that way updating is as simple as switching sd cards to keep all my stuff???
Sorry for the long paragraph but if this works this will make me want to flash ROM updates more often.
Wiping doesn't effect your SD card, other then it breaks alot of apps. Your best bet is to reinstall ALL apps after a wipe so that way they don't FC. Putting the update on the SD card is easy and won't effect it, all your music should be there after a wipe from recovery.
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Wiping doesn't effect your SD card, other then it breaks alot of apps. Your best bet is to reinstall ALL apps after a wipe so that way they don't FC. Putting the update on the SD card is easy and won't effect it, all your music should be there after a wipe from recovery.
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ummm...i had reset my phone before when something wasnt working right and the problem was fixed...no root then. but music and photos were wiped out...it took me forever to download my 80 apps... and i saw on some thread here that if you use apps2Sd then you have to wipe the partition as well...and since I still will have the stock sd I mighters well use it...so I just want to know if everything will work if I switch Sd cards like that.
Noobyflasher said:
I am going to soon install the Hero Rom but I have a question about updating it...I would like to have a lot of apps on my Ext partition so it would be problematic to keep wiping it and lots of trouble to keep all my music and photos as well...so since I would have a different SD card partitioned with all my stuff...would it be possible to take that sd card out...and use the stock sd card to update the Hero ROM's on my phone...like just having the update on that card, wiping and flashing and then putting in my partitioned card with all my apps and music... would that work..that way updating is as simple as switching sd cards to keep all my stuff???
Sorry for the long paragraph but if this works this will make me want to flash ROM updates more often.
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you dont have to wipe the ext all the time UNLESS you are goin to a different hero rom. i.e jachero to drizzy hero. i had to wipe my ext whenever i went to drizzy becuz i encountered a boot loop.
and whenever i do flash a new rom i always create a new folder on my desk top titled "g1 files (whatever date it is)" to create a back up my files just in case. and since swap recudes the sd card life its always best to create back up on the conmputer
brian_v3ntura said:
you dont have to wipe the ext all the time UNLESS you are goin to a different hero rom. i.e jachero to drizzy hero. i had to wipe my ext whenever i went to drizzy becuz i encountered a boot loop.
and whenever i do flash a new rom i always create a new folder on my desk top titled "g1 files (whatever date it is)" to create a back up my files just in case. and since swap recudes the sd card life its always best to create back up on the conmputer
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well Im going to go with latest drizzy for now and also I heard you dont really need swapper because with apps 2 sd its finallly fast enough...I am not going to update or flash much because i cant get internet on my phone for more than a couple of days...maybe Idk...but if this sd card switch method works i dont need to put my stuff on the computer at all...so someone please answer....will it work and keep all my files?

Dwang's 1.7 rom

hey guys, i tried to post this in dwangs rom but it gets lost in the tread and not answered.
My phone has been running a bit slow lately, i want to switch to this "fast" rom.
I am currently on cyanogen's rom
My spl is 1.33.2005
My radio is 3.22.20.17
my phone is 32B, the important part is that my phone is EBI1
would I be able to flash his rom to my phone and would i need to wipe? does that mean that i need to reinstall all apps and songs and stuff?
I think you will need to load all apps again.
I am a bigtime noob, but I think I asked that question and I was told whenever you put a new rom on you have to load all the stuff again. I imagine if you have songs and apps on your sd card it is easier to install again. I want to know if having a larger or faster sd card helps it process faster? I mean, can the phone use the card as ram to help it process more,it is it more like a hard drive so just gives faster access to the programs loaded on the card?
yes it is possible to do that ram hack, search button it. Alot of ppl dont do it for a number of reasons including the 3d graphics arent as good after it. But does anyone know about the compatibility of my phone with the rom?
jeffrimerman said:
I am a bigtime noob, but I think I asked that question and I was told whenever you put a new rom on you have to load all the stuff again. I imagine if you have songs and apps on your sd card it is easier to install again. I want to know if having a larger or faster sd card helps it process faster? I mean, can the phone use the card as ram to help it process more,it is it more like a hard drive so just gives faster access to the programs loaded on the card?
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A Class 6 Card will make a small difference on your phone since you're running APPS2SD it'll be able to access information from your EXT partition faster than a Class 2/4 card.
There is Swapper (search in market)... Almost like a Page file for windows. You can also set the Swap file to be on your EXT partition so when you mount your sdcard it won't get corrupted, etc.
Has anyone done this.

Rooted g1 no longer recognizes sd card

So I rooted my brothers g1 a few months ago and everything was great except that it could not connect to pc via usb. I told him not to worry about it but then he wanted to put music on his phone. He was messing around with the phone and he says he formatted something and now he has lost the ability to access the market as well as other apps he downloaded. For the life of him he cannot tell me what he did. So I check the sd card via card reader and I see that signed cyanogen mod (4.2.2.etc) is still there as well as other files. So I have no clue what he did and now the phone won't recognize the sd card even though its loaded and I can't flash him another rom so he can get the market back. Does anyone have a clue on what I should do???? Please help!!!!!!!
also tried other sd cards formatted to fat32 and fat with no luck.
i guess you gotta try a sd adapter, and put the files on there, as for the market app, looks like he needs to reflash the 1.6 firmware, and then reflash cyanogen if its the market apps, and google apps you are referring to.
This is a prime example of why you should never root someone else's phone if they don't know how to do it themselves. With great power comes great idiocy.
nexus2 said:
So I rooted my brothers g1 a few months ago and everything was great except that it could not connect to pc via usb. I told him not to worry about it but then he wanted to put music on his phone. He was messing around with the phone and he says he formatted something and now he has lost the ability to access the market as well as other apps he downloaded. For the life of him he cannot tell me what he did. So I check the sd card via card reader and I see that signed cyanogen mod (4.2.2.etc) is still there as well as other files. So I have no clue what he did and now the phone won't recognize the sd card even though its loaded and I can't flash him another rom so he can get the market back. Does anyone have a clue on what I should do???? Please help!!!!!!!
also tried other sd cards formatted to fat32 and fat with no luck.
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He probably formatted the ext partition. You may want to re-partition the card and reboot and see if it will pick everything back up. You may also need to start over.
When done, make a bart backup and tell him never format anything.
Thanks fort the advice guys. I'm gonna try to re partition the card. If I have to start over can I wipe to factory settings and will it return to the original firmware? if so I may do just that. In any case thanks for the input guys , love this forum.
Ok so I wiped the phone and got the market back. All the apps that he downloaded are in the downloaded section so no worries there.
I checked to see if the sd card still had multiple partitions, using a sd reader and paragon partition manager, and it does. The first being FAT32 and the second being linux. I still do not know why the phone won't recognize the sd card or any other for that matter. Any help would be soooooooooo appreciated!
Please help guys so I can get my lil bro off my back! ;P
Oh yeah I tried to re-partition the card with the paragon manager and its not going through. Any other type of manager I can use. I'm on windows7 64bit. This is really frustrating and I wanna get this fixed. Also when I plug the usb cable will recognize the external drive but when I click on it it says please insert drive.

[Q] Need Serious help !!!

hello everyone
i got the incredible S 3 weeks ago and all was gr8
a day ago something happened while it was connected to my comp and my
phone SD card was formatted, now the SD has no files and no folders - its completly blank - and back on my phone maps and stuff tells me "files are missing" blah blah you got the point. seems like neccery files came ON SD card now its now finding it - and its not apps i installed - its things came with the phone. also HTC sync install files are gone and basically every thing that was originally on the SD card as i got it from HTC factory is gone.
now i know HTC sync is downloadble but you get the point of me wanting everything back as it was right of the box.
so i did factory reset but still files are missing cuz it cleand my phone bun didn put the originally SD stuff back, its still empty.
so
1.how do i get all the FACTORY DEFAULT files as i got them before they were deleted ?
2. what does it really do if you format your SD Card? aside to delete pics and video i made? does it really a problem or im just going crazy for nothing?
3. how do i get my phone to be as just the way i took it out of the box, inside and out, phone and SD card...all..?
tnx!!!
Are you looking for some specific things on sd card?
For maps, go to locations and download the map of your country.
For htc sync, download on your pc and copy to sd card.
I dnt think any other files would be missing
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App
thats the problem - i donk know what have been gone...
for example the LOCATIONS App is asking me to download files that are missing on the SD card, but it wont work...dk why
so thats why im asking :
1.how do i get all the FACTORY DEFAULT files as i got them before they were deleted ?
2. what does it really do if you format your SD Card? aside to delete pics and video i made? does it really a problem or im just going crazy for nothing?
3. how do i get my phone to be as just the way i took it out of the box, inside and out, phone and SD card...all..?
1. and 3. Install an RUU file. These are Rom Update Utilities files. They will flash your phone to untouched stock files. It depend on where you are from, but get one from there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1066949 (If you are in Europe, the first one should work fine)
2. To me, if you format your sd card, you only lose your media files (pics, videos, mp3s) and also the data files from downloaded application that have been installed on it (the Apps to SD thingie introduced in Froyo). But your phone should still be working nonetheless. Though maybe Google Maps and stuff were installed on the SD out of the box by HTC.
Anyway the RUU should restore your phone to the state you need.
Good luck with that.
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But your phone should still be working nonetheless. Though maybe Google Maps and stuff were installed on the SD out of the box by HTC.
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exactly - and its these stuff i want, stock SD card, and stock phone...
im afraid i meesed up mine with all thr resseting and stuff
MaorIncredibleS said:
exactly - and its these stuff i want, stock SD card, and stock phone...
im afraid i meesed up mine with all thr resseting and stuff
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Maybe you did. But it's not the end of the world, even if some useless "HTC Locations" don't come back yet, you will find that, eventually
Try with an RUU as I said, and then you will see if more stuff is missing. This is the closest to the "Out Of Box experience" there is, anyway.. or so I think.
dont know whats RUU or what sould i do from now with the link
sorry, need help - im new to this
MaorIncredibleS said:
dont know whats RUU or what sould i do from now with the link
sorry, need help - im new to this
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