A couple nights ago, I flashed DangerSPL, wiped, flashed CM-5.0.7-test7 and google apps. Everything was working fine, save for complaints noise during calls heard by the other party (everything seemed fine on my end).
That night I updated my radio from 2.22.19.26I to 2.22.23.02, rebooted, and everything was still fine. This morning, I decided I wanted to make a new backup and install JIT. Using the ROM Manager app, I switched from Amon_RA Recovery to Clockwork Recovery, then attempted a nandroid backup. After the ROM Manager rebooted the phone, it sat in a G1 splash screen for a few seconds, then rebooted over and over.
I am unable to get to recovery, but I was still able to get to the bootloader. I attempted connecting to my PC, but did not have the adb drivers installed. I was unable to get the driver working (every attempt resulted in an error about the process being in use by something else). At this point, I formatted a spare SD card, copied an RC29 DREAIMG.nbh on it, and loaded that via the bootloader. It still gets stuck in the bootloop, still cannot access recovery, can get into the bootloader (original rainbow one now), and now windows no longer recognizes when I connect via USB.
Any hope?
hi,
i have the same problem (or i have one more step to get the same problem).
on cm5 it seems that you cannot flash_image. i found that after i flashed recovery from terminal.
now i still have a rom on the phone ( that works ) but no boot loader, no recovery mode.
i have danger SPL on my dream 32b. adb won`t work ( never did - that`s another problem).
i wonder if i`ll try with rc29 ( or rc7 )dreaimg.nbh, if it will rewrite the recovery mode or it will try to use an already existent ( i my case absent ) recovery mode (or i will end up like iTekk) .
i`m now stucked with an cm5 rom with no adb, no recovery mode. no chance to run some update.zip from somwhere.
i still have root rights but ... that`s all.
any suggestions for us?
flash recovery thru fastboot. its a known issue when flashing thru rom manager
Cyan is working on a fix, but yea flash recovery thru fastboot
How do I do that with no USB communication? I've tried putting a CM Recovery 1.4 img file on the SD card, but when I enter bootloader, it momentarily flashes a gray load screen that says "no image found" and then goes back to the rainbow bootloader.
try renaming it to just recovery.img
I just tried using recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img and cm-recovery-1.4.img renamed to recovery.img and get the same thing. Power + camera, rainbow bootloader, gray screen "no image file!", back to rainbow bootloader.
i fixed my problem in the hard way:
with the DREAIMG.nbh file (you must have it on the root of a fresh fat32 formated sdcard).
from the "rainbow" screen ( camera + power ) flashed it and that will install android 1.0 ( rc29 for US or rc7 for UK ).
you better have a data plan if you`ll get there.-android 1.0 won`t skip the setup. and you can`t get to the telnetd step or install telnet from market.
that dreaimg.nbh fiel, once it is flashed, will install the stock recovery.
i just followed forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=553416
after that, flashed from phone terminal cm-recovery-1.4.img (after i have put it on the sdcard), played with the parted, installed cm5
or ... wait for the fix.
I think flashing the RC29 DREAIMG.nbh is what nailed the coffin actually. It was stuck in a G1 screen bootloop, but I could still access the DangerSPL bootloader (and nothing else), and windows recognized connecting the device (adb driver problems kept me from connecting and fastboot flashing a new recovery/ROM). Once I gave up with the adb driver, I flashed the RC29 img and was still stuck in a bootloop, the only difference was that now the only thing I could access was the stock bootloader (rainbow) and windows doesn't even recognize that anything is connected. All I've been able to flash from the stock bootloader is that RC29 img, which doesn't fix the problem. Anything else I've thrown on the sd card to try to flash (Recovery's, ROMs, or SPLs) just gives a no image file error.
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so i did the 1-click rooting thing BUT the problem is that i wasnt supposed to let my phone reboot into normal mode and that caused the process to become undone. now, when trying to boot into recovery, i get the exclamation mark with the 3 options. please help me @[email protected] i'd rerun the recovery flasher program BUT my phone was wiped too and i cant get past the gmail screen. i have no data plan
android reflashed my recovery partition with the built-in backup DDDDDDDDDD:
If you get a recovery image when pressing home and end than youhave a recovery just boot a rooted rom like cyan's in and you will be good to go, you can acess your sd on a computer by going into recoverey console and typing ums_enable to mount your sd and ums_diable to unmount
i dont think i can, because my phone rebooted into normal mode and android reflashed my recovery partition with the built-in backup, so i dont get the usual recovery mode screen. i have the exclamation markw here you have to press alt+L and theres only options to wipe, install the update.zip and reboot.
Alright then you will need to find a way to acess your card like another phone or card reader if you can not get past that, once you can read, download a rom and rename it update.zip, if you are windows it hides the extension so just rename to update, by the way how did you get the orignal recovery if you used the one click witch flashes cm recovery 1.4 were you have a lot more options and don't have to hit alt-whatever
i did use flash cm recovery. but like it said, after rebooting into normal mode on accident, android reflashed my recovery partition. i wouldve had the screen with more options if that hadent happened. and i wiped too, so i couldnt access the phone due to being locked out because of the stupid log in screen. by the way, do you know how to get past it without another sim and data plan?
The recovery image is immune to wipes and partion cleaning, it is deep in the sif you get acess to your sd and put a rom on there ystem, without an adp phone, there really no way past that login without a custom rom, yes painif in the ass, try another sim get into phone and reflash the recovery to go any farther, once you have cm recovery 1.4 than you can really go, if you can put a rom on your sd before reflashing recovery and you can not get it go past the recovey that you are on now than you do not have permission and you are not rooted
First off...
G1 PVT 32B
recover img1.4
new radio 2.22.19.26I
intalled hard spl, in recovery img after installing hard spl phone rebooted to recovery then at the bottem said formatting cache:.... stuck there for 15 mins so I tried Alt S to reboot, After that it gets stuck on G1 screen. I can still get back to recovery. should I try to redown load spl, is it possible I got a bad download or did I do some else wrong
maybeoneday said:
First off...
G1 PVT 32B
recover img1.4
new radio 2.22.19.26I
intalled hard spl, in recovery img after installing hard spl phone rebooted to recovery then at the bottem said formatting cache:.... stuck there for 15 mins so I tried Alt S to reboot, After that it gets stuck on G1 screen. I can still get back to recovery. should I try to redown load spl, is it possible I got a bad download or did I do some else wrong
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first boot into bootloader(camera and home) and see if you have a white screen with 3 skating androids.
if you do then you have the hard spl.
sometimes when you flash a spl it will wipe your phone.
if you do have the hard spl just go ahead and flash whatever rom you want to use.
if you don't have a card reader go into the recovery console and type ums_enable to mount your sdcard and put the rom on your sdcard then type ums_disable to unmount the sdcard, then finally type reboot recovery and when it boots up flash your rom.
That did it David just uploaded CM 4.0.4 and its up and running. You have been alot of help tonight, kick you a little something for your help...
wait , you push alt-s, are you still using the orignal recovery, do yourself a favor and flash cm recovery 1.4, nandroid backup and restore, flash any zip.
maybeoneday said:
That did it David just uploaded CM 4.0.4 and its up and running. You have been alot of help tonight, kick you a little something for your help...
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thank you very much
Thanks!!
I was having the same issue... ( I have the pimped recovery as well)
The first couple times I tried, I was getting no changes to the spl...
I tried one more time, wiped to be sure, proceeded to install spl
I then made it to same point, "formatting cache..."
I decided to start the reboot process and quickly pressed
"cam + power" when the screen went black and BAM,
got the 3 skateboarding androids
and it says "HSPL 10.95.3000"
I then reinstalled latest Cyan, and partitioned the sdcard with sdparted.txt
8gig Class 6 (100MB Swap, 1024MB ext4, 6893 Fat32)
Rebooted and
Thx!!
I am trying to unroot my friend's G1... I found a tutorial on XDA (link) and it worked fine without any problems on my phone, however when I go into recovery mode (CyanogenMod v1.4+JF) and I hit Alt+S, it starts to install the update.zip and it reboots and starts up in recovery and gets stuck on Formatting CACHE:... I've let it sit for quite a while and still nothing. I can reboot the phone, but it just starts back up in the rooted mod. When I start into the bootloader (camera+power), it's not the three android's on skateboard, it's the colored screen, and it doesn't give me the option to install DREAIMG.nbh file. I'm not quite sure what to do, especially since I had absolutely no problem testing this tutorial on my own phone.
EDIT: I figured out that the bootloader is downgraded and working. Now when I load the bootloader, it goes to the grey screen and says Loading... No image found! I have searched the forums and google for a solution to this program and so far nothing I've found is working. I've reformatted my SD card many times to FAT32, as well as redownloaded the DREAIMG.nbh file... Any help would be great!
EDIT 2: I'm not sure what the problem was or what I did to get it to work, but after formatting over and over and downloading and redownloading, and trying different SD cards, it finally started to work.
Ok. I have done everything that was suggested up above. I also get the 3 android skateboarders and I have tried to install the new
[ROM] CyanogenMod - Keeping You Legal For Less (STABLE) [UPDATED 10/31 - v4.2.3.1]
Which installs just fine. But then I reboot the device and it continues to be stuck on the G1 Splash Screen.
I can verify that I updated the Radio first and confrimed it was updated then updated the SPL and got formatting cache and waited like 15 mins and then now I am stuck.
So I what david1171 suggested and still nothing.
Any suggestions would be nice.
Thanks
So . i am trying to install the CyanogenMod. I had rc30, downgraded, rooted (by doing this: http://bit.ly/vk4n). then i made the flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img thing. finally i started up in recovery mode, applied the DRC83 file and the rom. I restarted the phone, i could see the "T-Mobile G1"-logo, then it disappeard, then CyanogenMods' blue logo appeared.. After a while, it disappeard and a blank, black screen appeared, and nothing happend since then..
So, i would like to try again, i installed the RC29 again, but now, i cant attach the phone to my computer, it simply doesnt detect it. (cant connect to adb shell to do the wi-fi registering). So i tried to boot up in recovery mode again, but this is what i get:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s242/xabdullahx/Billede0253.jpg
What is this?
How do i fix the phone so i can try to put the CyanogenMod rom again.
BTW. this is my first flashing attempt
XabdullahX said:
So . i am trying to install the CyanogenMod. I had rc30, downgraded, rooted (by doing this: http://bit.ly/vk4n). then i made the flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img thing. finally i started up in recovery mode, applied the DRC83 file and the rom. I restarted the phone, i could see the "T-Mobile G1"-logo, then it disappeard, then CyanogenMods' blue logo appeared.. After a while, it disappeard and a blank, black screen appeared, and nothing happend since then..
So, i would like to try again, i installed the RC29 again, but now, i cant attach the phone to my computer, it simply doesnt detect it. (cant connect to adb shell to do the wi-fi registering). So i tried to boot up in recovery mode again, but this is what i get:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s242/xabdullahx/Billede0253.jpg
What is this?
How do i fix the phone so i can try to put the CyanogenMod rom again.
BTW. this is my first flashing attempt
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If you reinstall the RC29 you lose root and you didnt install the radio needed for custom roms.
i installed a file called "DRC83_base_defanged" . what is it?
and how do i install the radio?
Btw. I followed this guide: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_G1/Dream_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod
Bump.
What should i do :/
My computer doesnt detect my phone, i cant do the registering via wifi trick :S
I just want my phone back to its normal state with rc30, able to connect to computer and able to go to recovery mode.
I installed the rc30, but cant figure the other things out
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Figured it all out
XabdullahX said:
Bump.
What should i do :/
My computer doesnt detect my phone, i cant do the registering via wifi trick :S
I just want my phone back to its normal state with rc30, able to connect to computer and able to go to recovery mode.
I installed the rc30, but cant figure the other things out
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You should follow 1 click root guide..its pretty simple..
when you see that screen. hit alt+l i think to pull up the recovery menu.
if you don't have a card reader, you can mount your g1 through the console on your recovery menu. just google "mount g1 through console" for directions. hope that helps you get the right files on your phone to flash.
good luck!
I posted this in the "Brick" thread but I have not garnered any attention and IRC has moved too fast to get any reliable help.
Hello,
I've done some searching and I cannot find any definitive answers to my problem.
I was on CM 4.2.9.1 and tried to upgrade to 4.2.10.1 and had a bad flash (stuck at android boot). I noticed there was a new update, 4.2.11.1 the next morning and thought I would wipe completely and update from RC29. I downloaded all the files necessary and used spl to downgrade to RC29 which booted fine. From there I got root and started the upgrade part. I installed the RArecovery 1.5.2 which went fine. I then installed the defanged HTC recovery image and CM 4.2.11.1 then the newest radio and rebooted. That went directly back to the RA recovery after installing the radio. From there I installed the Hard SPL. After that finished and rebooted the phone booted to the Hard SPL or the recovery image.
Thinking I had messed something up I though I could start over and try again. I then booted to the SPL bootloader and flashed the RC29 DREAIMG.NBH to start over.
After that completed the phone will only boot to the SPL bootloader, which is now the original SPL. I have tried to flash the DREAIMG.NBH multiple times with the same result. When holding down Home and Power I get the ! screen.
Is my phone bricked? Or is there an image that I can flash to save it?
Thanks for any help.
David Perlik
[email protected]
Does it boot up into RA recovery? from there you can flash any zip... If you got root and the right radio and SPL. Put the latest Cyan on your SD and boot into recovery and flash away... If you can get it to recovery you are not bricked...
Okay... i reread... may be beyond my limited knowledge...
3rd time... I would pop out your SD and put recovery.img fromhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480... and make sure HardSPL is on there... when you boot into recovery and get the "!" hit ALT-L to get the menu... then ALT-S to apply the update.zip(HardSPL)... heck just follow the steps from the link above...
GOOD LUCK
No recovery at all. I'm assuming it was flashed back to RC29 specs.
You're not bricked because you can boot into SPL. You still have a recovery image on there, not that it's a good one, it's just a basic HTC recovery. What you do have is a hardware problem with you camera button most likely. See if you can blow some compressed air in there, try tapping it a little bit, it may fix it.
Good luck
I got stuck in a bad situation like this a bit ago...
If nothing else, you should still be able to get the dreaming.nbh on there, upgrade to donut and then reroot.
It's not a problem with the camera button as I can still get to the SPL and flash the DREAIMG.nbh.
The DREAIMG.nbh flashes fine, everything gets an ok, but when I restart the phone it boots directly to the SPL.
Just a quick update:
I've gotten a hold of a different micro sdcard than the one that I was using in hopes that some weird formatting error was happening with my old card. Alas, even with this new and freshly formatted card the DREAIMG.nbh will still not take correctly. All parts report ok while flashing, but my phone still boots directly to the SPL on startup.
Can anyone help?
Im having the same problem, but I can get into recovery, sd only has an fat partition, I made a thread here, can the Mods delete it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=619180
I have a Mytouch 3G running test 7 on my phone, and i just installed the clockworkmod rom manger. After, installed it i wanted to flash a new rom, so flashed the clockwork mod recovery, and when i tried to install the new rom from the sd card, it keeps on getting stuck on the mytouch screen, and nothing happens. How do i get into the recovery screen? thanks
First: This belongs in Q & A !!!!111
Which ROM did you flash? Maybe you had to wipe before
right now, i'm running cyanogen test-7, but when i go into the clockworkmod rom manger app and pick the flash rom from sd card, it just says it has to go to the recovery, and then my phone will reset and it would just get stuck on the mytouch screen. So, i just pull out the battery and reset the phone again, and i realized if i press the end button, it will go the rom that is already on the phone. I'm i suppose to push some buttons or something to get to the recovery screen?
No it should flash the rom you select and reboot the phone to boot the new rom without keypress needed.
maybe the wrong device was selected when downloading the recovery image? Try reinstalling clockworkmod recovery from rom manager.
Mod edit: not dev related, moved to q&a
I have the same problem.
I downloaded and installed Rom Manager from the Market and it has completely screwed up my recovery (I can't get into it at all). I tried flashing Amon's again (through Rom Manager) and it still doesn't work.
HTC G1. CM5.07 test 7 (trying to go to stable!).
Your recovery has been corrupted, you will need to flash it through fastboot.
JAguirre1231 said:
Your recovery has been corrupted, you will need to flash it through fastboot.
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Yes thank you. I erased recovery partition in fastboot then reflashed Amon's.
Working now.
i got into the fastboot screen, but i have 4 options. hboot mode, reset device, restart to hboot, and power down. how do i flash from here?
illmatic282 said:
i got into the fastboot screen, but i have 4 options. hboot mode, reset device, restart to hboot, and power down. how do i flash from here?
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Connect to your PC via USB, and from the command line issue "fastboot erase recovery" and then "fastboot flash recovery filename.img"
More on common fastboot commands here can be found on these forums, i'm not allowed to post links.
i connected my phone to my computer but nothing on my computer pops up. only the new hardware wizzard pops up. what do i do from here? im i suppose to get a adb popup? how do i set up the fast boot? i'm so confused..thanks
some one, please help..i want to be able to flash new roms in the future...thanks in advance
Can I sugges that you try this sticky thread at the top of this forum board.
It contains all you need to know on who to set up fastboot and how to use it - there are a couple of tutorials on it if you read through the thread.
CM 5.0.7 for Dream/Sapphire introduced a bug in flash_image. It causes recovery flashes to fail. It has since been fixed in the latest test of 5.0.8 I believe.
Man i have the same darn bug cant get back into recovery for nothing, and i dont have a pc to fastboot i have a non intel based mac so no adb or fastbooting, i have been doing fine for forever without adb or fastboot but is there any way around this one, i need help bad, im on HTTClay Superbadv1.3 and it has all sorts of bugs but i cant nandroid or bart or flash any rom without recovery, can someone please help!!!
Also is there another way to erase the recovery partition?