UPDATE: from my research, a true brick means I could not get into bootloader. Is this true or not? Because I can. I just can't get into recovery. Tried RC-30 DREAIMG.nbh, it loaded and all, but... still stuck at the G1 screen. Going to flash back to RC-29 when I get home, not that it'll help anything.
Hello friends!
So I got a G1 from someone that was stuck on the G1 boot screen. It is now my phone. (NOT the one in my sig, this is now my "second/spare" G1).
All I know about the phone is that it is not rooted and there is NO water damage. the sticker is white.
I downloading DREAIMG.nbh and at first it was giving me trouble CAMERA+POWER buttons into bootloader rainbow screen would not detect the image! After a few reformats and retries, bootloader will see the image and will flash update DREAIMG.nbh.
However I am STILL stuck at the boot screen after doing this! I could have sworn this would let me boot the phone up normally.
I've let it sit and try to load. I'm currently going to just let it sit forever now to see what might "magically" happen.
I can't get into anything else home+power or home+menu (safe mode I'm told).
On the bootloader screen it reads:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
Sep 2 2008
Serial0
Note: I have a powerPC mac...so no sdk... I could try to set it up if needed on the home's mac mini or at work in the office on the windows xp.
My goal:
get it out of this bootloop and ROOT it. (hopeful smiley)
Thank you all in advance for your time and help!
If you can't even get into recovery (home+power) it may be possible that the "someone" who gave you the G1 gave you a bricked one. There is little you can do if you can't get into recovery and the phone won't even boot with DREAIMG.nbh
Which screen are you stuck at after you flash DREAIMG.nbh? The G1 screen or the splash image screen?
DirectMatrix said:
If you can't even get into recovery (home+power) it may be possible that the "someone" who gave you the G1 gave you a bricked one. There is little you can do if you can't get into recovery and the phone won't even boot with DREAIMG.nbh
Which screen are you stuck at after you flash DREAIMG.nbh? The G1 screen or the splash image screen?
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Yeah I thought that too... :/
I'm stuck at the G1 screen.
Its not looking good my friend....
You may want to do some further research here....
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048
DirectMatrix said:
Its not looking good my friend....
You may want to do some further research here....
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048
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that looks fun... well I'm off to read everything there... if anyone else has any further info please share! thanks
So I've been reading and looking everywhere.... my possible solution for now.... is to find a cracked screen/broken G1 with a good motherboard and switch them out. I have the service manual. hmmm.... not the fix I wanted though...
The thing that gets me is that I can go into the bootloader and flash DREAIMG.NBH
If this was a true brick, I should not be able to do that, should I? Is there any other file via bootloader that I can try to install, because DEAIMG.nbh is the only one I know of, and maybe just maybe, if there was something else to try,
then that might get this phone working?
If you have to swap out the board, I have a cracked screen bronze G1 that I bought a few months ago to test out new ROM's on. I'm pretty much done with it and would be willing to part with it. PM me if you're interested.
~DM
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hey, i recently lost root somehow?!
and tried to effectively reroot my phone, flashed the DREAIMG.nbh
keeps failing!
wont go any further than the bootloader,
cant get into recovery or anything...
heres what the bootloader screen reads
DREA110 PVT 32B RUUNBH
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
SEP 2 2008
is my g1 bricked?
hey,
first off i know this is in the wrong section, but im really desperate here..
i recently lost root somehow?!
and tried to effectively reroot my phone, flashed the DREAIMG.nbh
keeps failing!
wont go any further than the bootloader,
cant get into recovery or anything...
heres what the bootloader screen reads
DREA110 PVT 32B RUUNBH
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
SEP 2 2008
when i try to uodate the DREAIMG file it just says ''Update Terminated UPDATE FAIL''
i cant access recovery, or console, and my computer refuses to run adb.. :/ PLEASE HELP!!
Did you try downloading the dreaimg.nbh file again? Perhaps it was corrupted? Also, you did try to flash it from bootloader, right?
have you tried booting normally? and yeah, this is in the wrong section.
I responded to your other thread in the QA section (which is where it belongs).
You should try giving us more than 15 minutes before deciding that your problems are worth more than other people's and posting a second thread in this section. 7:30pm on a Wednesday night...? Yeah, people have families that they're with.
uansari1 said:
I responded to your other thread in the QA section (which is where it belongs).
You should try giving us more than 15 minutes before deciding that your problems are worth more than other people's and posting a second thread in this section. 7:30pm on a Wednesday night...? Yeah, people have families that they're with.
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sorry about that but i have an angry girlfriend and i know this is the section with the most traffic,
uansari1 said:
Did you try downloading the dreaimg.nbh file again? Perhaps it was corrupted? Also, you did try to flash it from bootloader, right?
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all the sites that seem to host the DREAIMG file seem to be down.. :/ and yeah tried flashing from bootloader said update fail and then wouldnt let me boot normally or into recovery just bootloader..
Da Bealez said:
sorry about that but i have an angry girlfriend and i know this is the section with the most traffic,
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its also the section that pisses most people off because of threads like this lol. just letting you know.
Anyway.... let's just keep it to the other thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=589856
Da Bealez said:
all the sites that seem to host the DREAIMG file seem to be down.. :/ and yeah tried flashing from bootloader said update fail and then wouldnt let me boot normally or into recovery just bootloader..
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Ok, I'll upload my copy of the file and post the link here. Sit tight... might take a while, plus I'm cooking.
uansari1 said:
Ok, I'll upload my copy of the file and post the link here. Sit tight... might take a while, plus I'm cooking.
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thanks alot man!
if you ever need a hand with any graphical aspects, im a graphic designer in the daytime haha
Da Bealez said:
thanks alot man!
if you ever need a hand with any graphical aspects, im a graphic designer in the daytime haha
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Thanks for the offer...
Here you go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?koydnhjn1jo
Hope that works for you... if not, then you're bricked.
uansari1 said:
Thanks for the offer...
Here you go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?koydnhjn1jo
Hope that works for you... if not, then you're bricked.
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thanks so much
ive been meaning to learn how to theme and ultimatley cook roms but its a long process and it seems pretty complicated! so congrats on all of your hard work!
Da Bealez said:
thanks so much
ive been meaning to learn how to theme and ultimatley cook roms but its a long process and it seems pretty complicated! so congrats on all of your hard work!
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I'm actually not a dev..the most I've done is helped test out some ROMs before release or to test fixes for some problems.
Anyway, did the flash work this time?
Hey I have the same problem. Even if you do re-download the DREAIMG.nbh how could I get it onto my phone? I can't get the phone connected to my computer through the USB at all. Is there anyway at all to reverse this process? I've read that the Serial should read Serial0 unplugged and then SerialUSB when it's plugged in. But mine just stays Serial0. I'm on whits end, I don't know what to do or where to go. Could someone please help?
Also when I take out the battery and put it back in, the key board has to be open first before i turn it on to even get to the RUUNBH screen. When it's closed and I turn it on it just stays black and doesn't do anything. Do I just need to get a new phone? Would it be better to go to a T-Mobile store or just call technical support and have them send a new one?
Put the sd card into your pc(card reader), make sure its fat32 then put dreaimg.nbh file onto your sd card...
Simple right? Easier than driving in water.
T-Mobile G1 Just keeps Rebooting
Hi there i have a similar problem.
I was given a T-Mobile G1 but it just keeps rebooting.
It wont do a hard reset,
I have tried to reflash with DREAIMG.NBH (RC7) from microsd card Fat 32,
with this sequence & this is what happens
Press camera button while holding it down breifley press power button and release it, while still holding camera button.
Phone then starts into bootloader
then i release camera button
phone then shows white screen with
loading...
then
checking...
then above checking... in red numbers
0058002
then phone returns to bootloader.
I have attached a image of my bootloader can you tell me if the info on it is ok?
What does EVT1 etc etc etc mean?
And how to get this phone up & running again....Thanks....
thedaddyy said:
Hi there i have a similar problem.
I was given a T-Mobile G1 but it just keeps rebooting.
It wont do a hard reset,
I have tried to reflash with DREAIMG.NBH (RC7) from microsd card Fat 32,
with this sequence & this is what happens
Press camera button while holding it down breifley press power button and release it, while still holding camera button.
Phone then starts into bootloader
then i release camera button
phone then shows white screen with
loading...
then
checking...
then above checking... in red numbers
0058002
then phone returns to bootloader.
I have attached a image of my bootloader can you tell me if the info on it is ok?
What does EVT1 etc etc etc mean?
And how to get this phone up & running again....Thanks....
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The "EVT1 stuff" is just device info; like device name, 32B=board type, Radio=version of the Radio that connects you to the network.
I am concerned because the EVT1 should read DREA100 or DREA110. I think whoever gave it to you attempted something crazy and somehow put the wrong SPL on it. Download the correct SPL HERE and replace it then go from there. That should do the trick.
shagge68 said:
The "EVT1 stuff" is just device info; like device name, 32B=board type, Radio=version of the Radio that connects you to the network.
I am concerned because the EVT1 should read DREA100 or DREA110. I think whoever gave it to you attempted something crazy and somehow put the wrong SPL on it. Download the correct SPL HERE and replace it then go from there. That should do the trick.
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Hi mate thx for the advice.
I downloaded G1OrigBootloader_nocheck from your link and renamed to update.zip as the instructions suggested.
Made sure microsd is Fat32 copied update.zip to it.
Inserted into G1 put the battery back in.
Held down Home Button and Power Button for about 2 mins but all i get on the screen is BLACK SCREEN!!!! grrrr....
So it also seems i cant get in to Recovery Console either.
Is there another way to replace the SPL?
Hi,
I got a G1 Root/mod with DREAIMG-RC29, it was working with all functions, then I was trying to put SuperD 1.8
As did this:
1.Flash Radio (2.22.19.26I Baseband Version: 62.50S.20.17H_2.22.19.26I)
2.Flash SPL (1.33.2005)
agreed this tutorial forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=613809
3. Then I format my 8Gb midroSd as quoted in (androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/)
4. when I was flashing the new rom(SuperD18-blk), I did it as usual: change name from "SuperD18-blk.zip" to "update.zip", power off, power+home, alt+w, alt+s.
5. An error came up, something like error in line 59, something with E:/ bla bla, or something, i didn't read it 'cuz suddenly the phone restart itself.
After this I can't go to console or recovery mode.
I tried:
-Home+power to go to recovery mode.
-Home+camera button with RC29 on re-formated FAT32 SD card.
-Go to recovery trough abdshell, but my computer doesn't recognize the device so is not possible to get into the phone via PC.
Now the G1 is in the same situation: T-mobile G1 screen, so, I want to know if there is something that I can do to recover this or, maybe other way to roll back to RC29.
I'll appreciate any help, is sad to get stucked between the heaven and hell!!!!!!! The bad thing is that I don't got any log!!!
Cheers..... Alecks
Use fastboot with an old nandroid backup
RC29 includes an old radio image not compatible with 1.33.2005 SPL. If you had 1.33.2005 on the phone and reflashed RC29 when your update failed, the phone is most likely bricked.
dude most likely you are in deep dookey although there is probably still a chance if you can see the Tmobile G1 Screen.
dont be too scared just....dig a hole in the ground...just in case lol jk
Macrophage001 said:
dude most likely you are in deep dookey although there is probably still a chance if you can see the Tmobile G1 Screen.
dont be too scared just....dig a hole in the ground...just in case lol jk
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Wrong, if all he can see is the G1 screen, he is bricked.
Welcome to the " I Bricked my G1 Club"
Say hello to your brand spanking new paper weight, pretty ain't it?
Tis a harsh world in which we live.
Seems to be a hopeless case!!!!
I will keep working on the G1, earning money for the nexus maybe!!!!
JAguirre1231 said:
Wrong, if all he can see is the G1 screen, he is bricked.
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Is there any way to push the files into the phone with Eclipse? I got it even SDK, but I don't know how to do it exactly. The main issue is that the phone is not recognized by my PC currently, I think I have to perform some steps.. any idea?
Started to root the phone went back to 1.5, worked fine, applied FlashRec.apk and Amon Ra’s Recovery Image installed all that correctly worked fine. Went to install a new radio and spl and applied spl and when i go to start the phone it gets stuck at the G1 boot screen. Tried to book into recovery mode nothing happens , tried to hard & soft reset nothing happens. Phone just stays stuck at the G1 left it on for an hour and still nothing. Please help in any way or ask for more info if need.
Thanks in advance.
if you flashed the danger spl before flashing the new radio, your phone got permanent brick and cannot be solved without JTAG or changing the motherboard.
OK- I have the same problem, except I flashed the wrong radio.
(I thought I needed to update it for a different ROM, but.)
No fastboot, no recovery-- If I hold down the trackball, the screen wont come on, but the blue LED does. Is that useful to me at all??
Can JTAG help me? or is there another way?
I was reading about mtty-- but i'm not sure if that'll work for my G1.
Anything to unbrick this--- I really need my phone for finals week which started to-day.
JTAG is your only option.
techn0crat said:
Can JTAG help me?
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Yes
techn0crat said:
or is there another way?
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No.. at least none known yet
techn0crat said:
I was reading about mtty-- but i'm not sure if that'll work for my G1.
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MTTY is just a program to talk to the serial port; it is actually part of the JTAG solution as well .. but as mentioned it will not help you at this point in time.
techn0crat said:
Anything to unbrick this--- I really need my phone for finals week which started to-day.
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JTAG.. but unless you live near me or one of the very very few others who are set up for jtag hacks.. and that person is confident enough not to make the main board of the phone one big solder blob [I am but I'm not sure if some of the others I've heard poke JTAG are as confident].. it will take you a large chunk of time to learn what is needed to make it work.. or longer than the finals in the mail.
Thus I recommend.. get a cheap phone at the stand at the mall.. and pass your finals before worrying about the brick.
Since everyone who has caused a brick has either (1) not properly followed the directions and warnings.. or (2) did something in haste missing an important step; it will be no good to race it together during finals.
this dream was sent to my friend as a replacement
never used
he gave it to me sayingit wont boot
it gets into fastboot
it says:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
Sep 2 2008
so i formatted his sdcard, got the DREAIMG.nbh put it on his sdcard, entered into fastboot, and it ran the install (rainbow screen) nothing was happening from there before i copied the DREAIMG.nbh to it, so at least this installed successfully)
then i rebooted (call-menu-power at same time) and still stuck at G1 screen after twenty minutes...whats happening here, anybody?
tnpapadakos said:
then i rebooted (call-menu-power at same time) and still stuck at G1 screen after twenty minutes...whats happening here, anybody?
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Odd, the nbh files usually flash a full system.. thus while they might leave you with a rom you don't wish to have they usually will boot afterwards. You did let it fully flash all the partitions correct?
What nbh did you find/flash?
And. Can you still enter the spl or recovery.
ezterry said:
Odd, the nbh files usually flash a full system.. thus while they might leave you with a rom you don't wish to have they usually will boot afterwards. You did let it fully flash all the partitions correct?
What nbh did you find/flash?
And. Can you still enter the spl or recovery.
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RC29 from the cm wiki, flashed successfully, nothing but fastboot screen, no boot, no recovery boot
weird
tnpapadakos said:
RC29 from the cm wiki, flashed successfully, nothing but fastboot screen, no boot, no recovery boot
weird
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lol, wtf? wait... don't some phones need a goldcard for this?
r3s-rt said:
lol, wtf? wait... don't some phones need a goldcard for this?
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yeah i dont know, all i know is i can ONLY getinto the bootloader, which is the ORIGINAL bootloader (0.95.0000)
what can i do with this thing?
what do i flash to it (cause it aint the RC29 DREAIMG.nbh)?
i refuse to lose
well only bootloader means nothing. you cold be getting a bad .nbh and the recovery partition could have something nasty on it. both of those not working doesn't automatically make it a brick. a working bootloader says everything is ok.
set up fastboot and fastboot a new recovery image.
then see if your recovery works. next time i don't respond, feel free to pm me again, lol. i really have a hard time keeping up with where i post.
of course: you can also fastboot a new spl:
http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/downloads/list?q=label:SPL
I recommend:
EngBootloader_v2_NoSigCheck.zip
That way you don't have to mess with that nasty danger spl and then you actually will be bricked.
hi,
my friend tried to root his g1 and somehow he got it stuck on the bootloader screen. It just stays there and does nothing.
I have no clue what to do and he let me have the phone.
I was just wondering if someone can tell me what to put onto my sd card to get it up and running. thanks so much!
hi there hope this helps follow this guide and it will help. hope all goes well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463779
Thank you, i will check it out.
your welcome. anymore help just ask. there's a lot of people here on XDA that would be gladly to help out. Some of them have great experience with the G1 and many others android phones. if that file don't work for you, this one will truly work its the one i use if i get into any trouble like your self, i been there. sometimes its stays on booting and this don't work i use this one.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EMY1HIVU and just follow the same direction as the last site i gave you.
For some reason i cant get into boot loader mode... any ideas?
did you press camera button and power button just like that. fist step camera button second step power button at same time. but before you do this phone needs to be off to get into boot loader mode. you need to place the image on the root of the sdcard thats in no folder at all, in the root of the sdcard.
What i did is i pulled out the battery, put the sd card in and then put the battery back in. Next I held down the camera key and then I pushed the power button. I have not let go.
sould i let go next time?
this is what you suppost to follow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckbsFRnVciE . tell me something can your phone power on the g1 boot screen. can you tried for me power and home and tell me what you see. thanks.
It will not do anything. it is just stuck on the g1 screen.
I asked my friend what he used and he said Anon recovery rom and hard spl
probably the phone is bricked. write every single step you remember you took on trying to root your phone maybe i can get something out from there. its hard to brick one of this phones. to use amon recovery and hard spl your phone need to be downgraded with rc29 by using the file in the website i posted.
rhonal89 said:
probably the phone is bricked. write every single step you remember you took on trying to root your phone maybe i can get something out from there. its hard to brick one of this phones. to use amon recovery and hard spl your phone need to be downgraded with rc29 by using the file in the website i posted.
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He said he did not downgrade it. he went straight to the spl and this is what happened.
he needed to downgrade the phone from stock before doing those steps. it aint that easy. probably he bricked the phone somehow.
enferrari said:
He said he did not downgrade it. he went straight to the spl and this is what happened.
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He could not have flashed the spl straight onto a stock phone.. He's leaving something out, probably in the full knowledge that he did something stupid.
Anyway, if you can't get into bootloader with cam+power of recovery with home+power, it's a brick. JTAG it if you're comfortable with that or if not, sell it to someone who is.
then mines possibly bricked! maaan this is such BS. i accidentally installed the wrong recovery image, then figured I redo everything again. I got it working again, downgraded to RC29 and flashed Amon Ra 1.7.0 image. After that I got too excited, I went straight ahead and flashed hard spl and complete Eclair rom right away. Then poof, stuck on g1 screen. Still is now, possibly brick right?
iLOSER said:
then mines possibly bricked! maaan this is such BS. i accidentally installed the wrong recovery image, then figured I redo everything again. I got it working again, downgraded to RC29 and flashed Amon Ra 1.7.0 image. After that I got too excited, I went straight ahead and flashed hard spl and complete Eclair rom right away. Then poof, stuck on g1 screen. Still is now, possibly brick right?
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HardSPL should not cause a brick with the RC29 radio, unless you are mistaking HardSPL 10.95.3000 for DeathSPL 1.33.2005.. which did you flash?
goldenarmZ said:
HardSPL should not cause a brick with the RC29 radio, unless you are mistaking HardSPL 10.95.3000 for DeathSPL 1.33.2005.. which did you flash?
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I flashed with hardSPL. but isnt the steps i did correct? or did i skipped something? i haven't root my phone since last summer. so my brain was kinda fuzzy when i reroot my phone.
iLOSER said:
I flashed with hardSPL. but isnt the steps i did correct? or did i skipped something? i haven't root my phone since last summer. so my brain was kinda fuzzy when i reroot my phone.
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You should've updated the radio before trying to run eclair, but that wouldn't cause a brick. Can't you get to recovery or bootloader?
goldenarmZ said:
You should've updated the radio before trying to run eclair, but that wouldn't cause a brick. Can't you get to recovery or bootloader?
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Before this happen I can, but now I'm stuck on the g1 screen. I left it on all night and nothing. I still can't get into recovery nor bootloader. Any other suggestions? So tired too of staying up all night reading trying to figure this out
I was trying to update to ginger yoshi from google ion 3 days ago, but I think I messed up and I just decided to just unroot and restore to original stock rom. Now I am stuck with this error message everytime I boot.
DREA110 PVT 32B HBOOT-0.95.0000 CPLD-4 RADIO-2.22.23.02 RUUNBH
I was trying to flash different DREAIMG.nbh that i found (RC7,RC29), but I keep getting 00028002 not allow.
I read the previous posts here related to my problem and still not working.
I remember I made my SD card a goldcard before.
Any help is much appreciated. I'm on my wit's end.
uhhh is your phone us or uk? can you access recovery?
hi ldrifta, thank you very much for your reply. I bought my phone in Singapore. I cant access recovery, I'm stuck on rainbow screen.
munchkinshunny said:
hi ldrifta, thank you very much for your reply. I bought my phone in Singapore. I cant access recovery, I'm stuck on rainbow screen.
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it goes to rainbow screen no matter what? or can you hold (home+power) to boot into recovery?
yes even i try to go recovery mode, it doesnt show the phone with triangle and exclamation mark... just going to rainbow screen.. :-(
munchkinshunny said:
yes even i try to go recovery mode, it doesnt show the phone with triangle and exclamation mark... just going to rainbow screen.. :-(
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maybe try to flash this update in fastboot.... http://www.4shared.com/file/9izdCbvo/DREAIMG.html
hi ldrifta, i tried the link you shared, i'm still getting 00028002 not allow on fastboot...
munchkinshunny said:
hi ldrifta, i tried the link you shared, i'm still getting 00028002 not allow on fastboot...
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ok well that was the original rc29 for US... maybe ur phone is UK model? which means you need rc7 and sadly i do not have a link to that.. BUT that might not be the only problem.. im not sure if the goldcard thing might have something to do with it.. lol im sorry wish i could help more..
You can try to flash this rom (orange-1.58.73.2.nbh) by copying to you sd-card and flash from hboot mode.
It comes from the +14MB thread and will give you a rom with a full engineering spl from where you can flash all other things using fastboot.
0002802
In my case I got a phone which I did not know if it was from Europe or the US. I just happened to get the "0002802" error when using what I assume to have been the wrong firmware (European in my case) as when I tried the US version everything worked fine.
In the Cyanogmode wiki there are both versions download them and try both