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Freeze at G1 Splash SCreen, I Need Help!!

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.

andonnguyen said:
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.

Datruesurfer said:
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!

tehseano said:
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

Error trying to get rom

I am very new at the whole root and rom process so i took the time to read through to forums to see if i could walk through it to get a rom.
When i tried to root my phone everything was okay, but when it was finished it said press the action key, instead of rebooting. when i pressed the action key it went back to the original screen and said serial0.
I went through all that because when i tried to install the rom, it said no signature and verification failed.
can some one help me fix this?
thanks in advance.

shockaj said:
I am very new at the whole root and rom process so i took the time to read through to forums to see if i could walk through it to get a rom.
When i tried to root my phone everything was okay, but when it was finished it said press the action key, instead of rebooting. when i pressed the action key it went back to the original screen and said serial0.
I went through all that because when i tried to install the rom, it said no signature and verification failed.
can some one help me fix this?
thanks in advance.
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What ROM are you trying to install? It's a problem with the ROM most likely, not your phone.

shockaj said:
I am very new at the whole root and rom process so i took the time to read through to forums to see if i could walk through it to get a rom.
When i tried to root my phone everything was okay, but when it was finished it said press the action key, instead of rebooting. when i pressed the action key it went back to the original screen and said serial0.
I went through all that because when i tried to install the rom, it said no signature and verification failed.
can some one help me fix this?
thanks in advance.
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It's hard to tell how far you got in the root process.. When you reboot into recovery (Home+Power) what does the screen look like?
Like the other poster said, it could be a problem with the ROM. But it could also be that you have the stock recovery image (which won't flash a modded ROM, since it is signed with the wrong keys).

i am trying to install the newest Cyanogen rom and i probably have the stock recovery img... how do i get a new one, i believe i downloaded my from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480 but there is a possibility i didnt..

Not knowing where you are in the process of getting root, it's probably best to assume you don't have it, and go ahead and make sure your phone is fully rooted first. I read a few guides when I was starting - the first one that really made a lot of sense was Gizmodo's:
http://gizmodo.com/5146797/how-to-hack-android-for-multitouch-web-browsing-on-the-t+mobile-g1
Follow that, step by step. If any step doesn't react the way they say it will, you may need to start over. Once you finish that guide, you should be able to flash nearly any other ROM (other than Hero ROMs that need the "Danger" SPL - avoid until you study more).
After you've completed the guide for rooting, you can upgrade to the Cyanogen recovery (awesome because it lets you backup & restore your phone on the go, no PC needed) and CyanogenMod 3.6.5
Download this:
http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/cm-recovery-1.3.1-signed.zip
Rename it to update.zip
Put it on the root of your SD card
Reboot into recovery (Home+Power)
Alt-S to flash it
Home+Back to reboot
Then download this:
http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/update-cm-3.6.5-signed.zip
Rename it to update.zip
Put it on the root of your SD card (replace the last file we put there)
Reboot into recovery (home+power)
Alt-W to wipe
Alt-S to flash
Home+Back to reboot
Then you're all set. If you get lost at any point, just come back and tell us what's going on.

thanks Saiboogu. i got to the telnet, but when trying to connect to local host is says error while connecting to server error while receiving from server: null

shockaj said:
thanks Saiboogu. i got to the telnet, but when trying to connect to local host is says error while connecting to server error while receiving from server: null
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OK - So you flashed DREAIMG.NBH, right? Go to Settings > About phone and scroll down to Build number - make sure it says RC29 somewhere in that string.
If that's right, just make sure you are launching telnetd correctly..
Press Home
Press Enter
Press Enter
type telnetd
Press Enter
You should wind up in your contacts searching for "telnetd" - if that's what you see, you probably did it right.
Then try the telnet client again. If that doesn't do it.. Sorry, I'm stumped. Hopefully someone else will chime in.

When i typed in [enter] [enter] telnetd [enter] nothing happens. it just remains as being searched...
also it is RC29

shockaj said:
When i typed in [enter] [enter] telnetd [enter] nothing happens. it just remains as being searched...
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That sounds right -- All you'll see is the phone searching your contacts for telnetd, but if you did that exactly right, it should have run in the background. Then, run the telnet app on the phone and connect to localhost... Work this time?

Thanks that was the porblem.. i was able to get into the root and install the Cyanogen fine, but now that it is booting up the android screen tries to load then flickers, and it is stuck in this rotation....

That's a boot loop. Did that happen as soon as you installed CM3.6.5? Sounds like you need to flash again, maybe download and then flash again - sometimes the download can get corrupted. Also, make sure you wipe *first,* then flash. If you do it the other way, things can break.

nevermind i just wiped it again then reinstalled it and it worked, thanks so much for your help, i would have never finished this without yuo!

No problem at all, glad you got it. Now that you're all set, make sure you boot into recovery and perform a Nandroid backup - gives you lots of freedom to try things, knowing you can come back to a good working copy.

thanks thats great advice knowing me its only a matter of time!

Issues with cynagen's recovery image

Something very odd has happened. I reverted my phone back to stock via the .nbh file. Now when i reroot it and install cynagens recovery image it completes and when i try to boot the phone into recovery it freezes at the T-Mobile G1 screen and i have to pull out the battery to turn off the phone. anyone know the reason why my phone does this?

firstly, wrong section
secondly....can you boot normally? or in to fastboot (camera+power)?
if you can do any of these, then contrats....you bricked it

Edit: Oh ok my bad My eyes passed over the recovery and I thought he meant just rebooting.
try connecting your phone to your computer and do an adb logcat to see if its doing anything.
if you manage to get adb working while the phone is in the G1 screen then try fastbooting a new recovery image.

Moved as not Android Development.

he cant wipe and reflash if he cant get in to recovery

did you try going into terminal and flashing another recovery? maybe the file was corrupt

garok89 said:
he cant wipe and reflash if he cant get in to recovery
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exactly.
I haven't been able to get ADB working with my phone. Yes i can boot normally and yes i can boot into fastboot. once I root the phone, I've tried to flash roms through the stock recovery, i cant seem to flash anything as i get an error. I have done this before multiple times on many of my friends phones. i followed the guide on wiki, stock g1 to cynagenmod, once I've flashed the cynagen recovery image my phone freezes at the T-Mobile G1 screen once I enter recovery.

SmokeyJBluntz said:
did you try going into terminal and flashing another recovery? maybe the file was corrupt
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Yes I tried flashing Amon Ra Recovery with the same result.

http://cyanogenmod.com/download/recovery/cm-recovery-1.4.img
Go to terminal emulator and type:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img [enter]

Did you try using fastboot to erase the existing recovery and then install a new one?

junkdruggler said:
http://cyanogenmod.com/download/recovery/cm-recovery-1.4.img
Go to terminal emulator and type:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img [enter]
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Yea, do that. There's no reason that should be happening. Did you use the good ol' fashioned flashrec.apk? That's how I got my first recovery and started flashing (from stock.)

whats the error you get flashing? i know when i rooted my phone i Fd up by doing the OTA update. it removed the flash command from terminal and console. i had to go at it again. start fresh. downgrade, root....

junkdruggler said:
http://cyanogenmod.com/download/recovery/cm-recovery-1.4.img
Go to terminal emulator and type:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img [enter]
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Just did this same result.

SmokeyJBluntz said:
whats the error you get flashing? i know when i rooted my phone i Fd up by doing the OTA update. it removed the flash command from terminal and console. i had to go at it again. start fresh. downgrade, root....
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when i run into an error i downgrade with the .nbh file that i got off the cynagen wiki and try again.

where do you get the error?(or is the "error" it not doing what you want?)
in terminal emulator? did you reboot to recovery from terminal after? or with the end button? (type: reboot recovery[enter] in terminal)
are you giving it enough time to actually flash the recovery before you pull the bat? (sometimes it takes a lil bit)

try erasing the recovery image via fastboot.
then flash the Amon_RA recover image.

junkdruggler said:
where do you get the error?(or is the "error" it not doing what you want?)
in terminal emulator? did you reboot to recovery from terminal after? or with the end button? (type: reboot recovery[enter] in terminal)
are you giving it enough time to actually flash the recovery before you pull the bat? (sometimes it takes a lil bit)
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Well the thing is, I'm not getting an error. Here I'll explain step by step what i did. Maybe I did something wrong.
1) Placed the DREAMIMG.nbh file from wiki in the root of my sd card.
2)Pressed power and camera button to get the phone to bootloader. Followed the onscreen instructions to install the image.
3)Went through the sign in steps to get my phone to the home screen.
4)Followed the steps on wiki to root the phone pressed enter twice and typed "telnetd".
5)opened market and downloaded telnet.
6)pulled out my sdcard and put the cm-recovery-1.4.img on my sdcard.
7)opened telnet hit connect.
8)typed flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img and waited for the ## after that. like it says in the wiki.
9)placed the files from the wiki on the sdcard.
10)reboot the phone to recovery via power and home button. but this is where my phone freezes at the T-Mobile G1 screen.
11)pulled out the battery after waiting 10 min and just pressed the power button and the phone booted up fine. tried again via the telnet and typed "reboot recovery" same result.
12) i reformated my sdcard placed the DREAMIMG.nbh and tried steps 1-11 with same result.
i have even tried a different recovery Amon Ra's recovery as well with the same result. and worst of all ive been a few days with the 1.0 software without an ota update.
any suggestions?
This isnt the first time ive done this with a G1. ive even done this on my wifes MT3G and it worked flawlessly. Ive done it on 2 othe G1's but mine wont seem to take it. whats the deal?

I am noticing a something when under original recovery. Something that i havent seen until now. when i press alt + L it brings up the text and it says " Android system recovery utility E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command"
then it brings up usual commands like Alt + L, Alt+S, and Alt+W. but when i try to install even the official updates it says
Installing from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:No signature (5 files)...
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted.
Press Home+Back to reboot
could this mean anything or be the reason for the problems im running into?

it might just be that the ROM you were trying to flash wasnt signed correctly.

ernvillanueva90 said:
Well the thing is, I'm not getting an error. Here I'll explain step by step what i did. Maybe I did something wrong.
1) Placed the DREAMIMG.nbh file from wiki in the root of my sd card.
2)Pressed power and camera button to get the phone to bootloader. Followed the onscreen instructions to install the image.
3)Went through the sign in steps to get my phone to the home screen.
4)Followed the steps on wiki to root the phone pressed enter twice and typed "telnetd".
5)opened market and downloaded telnet.
6)pulled out my sdcard and put the cm-recovery-1.4.img on my sdcard.
7)opened telnet hit connect.
8)typed flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img and waited for the ## after that. like it says in the wiki.
9)placed the files from the wiki on the sdcard.
10)reboot the phone to recovery via power and home button. but this is where my phone freezes at the T-Mobile G1 screen.
11)pulled out the battery after waiting 10 min and just pressed the power button and the phone booted up fine. tried again via the telnet and typed "reboot recovery" same result.
12) i reformated my sdcard placed the DREAMIMG.nbh and tried steps 1-11 with same result.
i have even tried a different recovery Amon Ra's recovery as well with the same result. and worst of all ive been a few days with the 1.0 software without an ota update.
any suggestions?
This isnt the first time ive done this with a G1. ive even done this on my wifes MT3G and it worked flawlessly. Ive done it on 2 othe G1's but mine wont seem to take it. whats the deal?
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http://zenthought.org/content/project/flashrec
try to downgrade and use it. thats how i originally got r00t.

[Q] bricked htc magic 32b?

hey guys, i hope somebody can help me...
i tried to load a new rom to my magic and rooted it. after some flashing i cant get into fastboot or recovery menue. i onle see the "htc magic" screen at my vodafone branded magic.
so is there anybody who can help? - i cant establish a connection via usb too

are you keeping hold of home+back whilst turning the phone on to enter fastboot?

I just posted this for someone on the cyanogenmod forum, hopefully it helps...
I had the same problem the night before last, I was flashing the newest ra revovery through terminal and I believe I made some typos or did not wait long enough and of course I forgot to type su the first couple times... silly me
but after trying a couple times I got it back through terminal.
You can try it through terminal, although theres issues with doing this in cyanogen mod 5.0.7, I'm not sure if the newer roms have the same issues.
but I believe the problem was a few people lost their recovery completely (which obviously wont matter to you) I've done it succsessfully from a donut rom, but havent tryed it from anything higher so I cant promise it will work.
if you want to try:
Open terminal emulator
type: su
hit enter and allow superuser permissions.
type: flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
(or the name of whatever ra recovery is on your sd card)
hit enter and wait a few minutes just to be sure.
then close terminal and try to reboot into recovery.
if it doesent work the first time check and make sure everything was typed correctly and try again.
Also you can just re-root the phone, that should fix it, its a pain though lol

I just rooted & flashed my Rogers Dream with cm 5.0.8 last weekend and it would freeze on the boot logo (Rogers) and I thought the same thing had happened. I could get to the recovery though.
I realized that you have to install the ROM and the Kernel Patch (I didn't do this) and once I applied the Brian Cook Kernel Patch, the phone booted immediately.
I don't know if this is the same problem you have but hopefully this info will help.
Cheers.

I would try re-rooting if you can. Unlockr . com has kinda an interesting method that might work.
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[Q] Boot loop after installing Danger SPL, Cyanogenmod 6.1 and Google Apps

I'm helping a friend with a hand-me-down G1 upgrade from 1.6 to CyanogenMod 6.1 using the wiki cyanogen links, which basically told me to downgrade to RC29 / RC7 DREAIMG.nbh file after reformatting the sdcard, then root the phone using telnet, flash Amon_Ra's Recovery using telnet, flash 2.22.23.02 radio using recovery, then install dangerspl, cyanogenmod 6.1 and tiny google apps.
As far as I know, I followed every step. I did get stuck a couple of times while installing DangerSPL. I'd fastboot and hit call+menu+end and instead of rebooting, it would install dreaimg.nbh again (since I used fastboot to flash dreaimg.nbh earlier and still had it on the root of the sdcard) and I would have to start over again and re-root, re-flash Amon_Ra's Recovery and the 2.22.23.02 radio. That happened twice before I decided to take dreaimg.nbh off of the sdcard, since I realized that it had already been flashed onto the phone and would probably work. Once I did that, the call+menu+end during fastboot worked and it restarted, which is what it was supposed to do. Kept trying and trying to hit the home button as quickly as possible to get to recovery, like the instructions said, but it wouldn't work. So I took a chance and booted into recovery using home+power and flashed Danger SPL, which seemed to install well, and Cyanogenmod 6.1 and tiny google apps. All seemed to be going well until rebooting the system. The cyanogenmod splash screen popped up after the g1 screen and just sits there, stuck in a boot loop. I waited a good 10 minutes before I pulled the battery and tried again...same thing. Also wiped the dalvik cache and cache, which i saw on the first page of this thread, to no avail. Can anyone tell me where I went wrong and what I can do to pull out of it and successfully install this rom? Really want to get this back to my friend. Also hoping his contacts are still on his sim card after all this... I flashed dreaimg.nbh, per the first step, and noticed that the contacts didn't come up after this. The data on the phone works and the phone number shows up under about phone but since I haven't gotten any further than that OS I can't tell. No where have I seen in the instructions that I had to pull my sim card before flashing... hope it's all good. Any help with any of this would be greatly appreciated.
As you can tell, I'm new to all this. I own a Samsung Moment and flash ROM's on it all the time but that process is much simpler than this one. Have never dealt with a boot loop so I'm a little unsure of what to do.

ejatx said:
I'm helping a friend with a hand-me-down G1 upgrade from 1.6 to CyanogenMod 6.1 using the wiki cyanogen links, which basically told me to downgrade to RC29 / RC7 DREAIMG.nbh file after reformatting the sdcard, then root the phone using telnet, flash Amon_Ra's Recovery using telnet, flash 2.22.23.02 radio using recovery, then install dangerspl, cyanogenmod 6.1 and tiny google apps.
As far as I know, I followed every step. I did get stuck a couple of times while installing DangerSPL. I'd fastboot and hit call+menu+end and instead of rebooting, it would install dreaimg.nbh again (since I used fastboot to flash dreaimg.nbh earlier and still had it on the root of the sdcard) and I would have to start over again and re-root, re-flash Amon_Ra's Recovery and the 2.22.23.02 radio. That happened twice before I decided to take dreaimg.nbh off of the sdcard, since I realized that it had already been flashed onto the phone and would probably work. Once I did that, the call+menu+end during fastboot worked and it restarted, which is what it was supposed to do. Kept trying and trying to hit the home button as quickly as possible to get to recovery, like the instructions said, but it wouldn't work. So I took a chance and booted into recovery using home+power and flashed Danger SPL, which seemed to install well, and Cyanogenmod 6.1 and tiny google apps. All seemed to be going well until rebooting the system. The cyanogenmod splash screen popped up after the g1 screen and just sits there, stuck in a boot loop. I waited a good 10 minutes before I pulled the battery and tried again...same thing. Also wiped the dalvik cache and cache, which i saw on the first page of this thread, to no avail. Can anyone tell me where I went wrong and what I can do to pull out of it and successfully install this rom? Really want to get this back to my friend. Also hoping his contacts are still on his sim card after all this... I flashed dreaimg.nbh, per the first step, and noticed that the contacts didn't come up after this. The data on the phone works and the phone number shows up under about phone but since I haven't gotten any further than that OS I can't tell. No where have I seen in the instructions that I had to pull my sim card before flashing... hope it's all good. Any help with any of this would be greatly appreciated.
As you can tell, I'm new to all this. I own a Samsung Moment and flash ROM's on it all the time but that process is much simpler than this one. Have never dealt with a boot loop so I'm a little unsure of what to do.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669 also I just got off that build it's really really slow, try yoshi's gingerbread build.