Just bought this rooted phone and dont know much but did alot of research before and after getting it.
Ok so i have jesusfreke v1.42 (says so in recovery state so im guessing thats what i got)
I decided to download a theme because when i bought the phone it had this ugly xbox theme on it and i wanted to change it. I looked up some themes and liked the blue star theme i found on this site. I downloaded it copied it to my sd card renamed it update and i restarted the phone in recovery mode. At first i didn't wipe the phone i just installed the update and waited about 20min nothing happened. The screen would load G1 then go to a blank screen. So i looked some stuff up and i tried again this time wiping the phone with alt w before i installed the update. Same thing.. I downloaded the rc33 jf v1.42 theme for the blue star i just dont know what to do as im new to this root thing. I did some more research and i came across someone saying to reflash the rom and try again. I dont know the process of reflashing the rom can i just download the file and name it update and install in recovery or do i need to wipe the phone? will i have to redo the hardspl thing ive been reading about? also why did the theme not work is it because im using a blank sd card that didn't come with the rooted phone. I know seems like alot of questions i dont know wtf im doing and i been searching for hours and trying different things but im scared i might brick the phone so i decided to register and just ask already. Thanks for ur help Aloha
LMMFAOOOOOOOOOO.....
damn bro i laughed so hard at the jesus freke 1.42 cause tht was the first rom that i flashed ever on my g1 last year. but go HERE to my blogsite and follow those steps. ( NOTE THAT THOSE LINKS MOST LIKELY DONT WORK ANYMORE I JUST HAVENT FIXED EM BEEN LAZY)
BUT YOU CAN GET ALL FILES NEEDED HERE ON XDA OR BY GOOGLEING IT.
ENJOY AND I KNOW THIS WILL WORK FOR YOU.
is all that really necessary ive seen alot of pages that say to do less things for a rom does that have other stuff to optimize the g1 or something?
auurrriiitteee thing is cherry now i like the theme too =) thanks alot man i got everything all fixed up now i just need to get a new battery =( my battery is all swollen and dying out!
Menu > Settings > About Phone, what is the Mod Version and Firmware version ?
Also Power on holding the Camera button, what what do you get there ?
It helps to have this info, the recovery may be old, but the rom may be new.
Anyways, it would be worth updating the recovery, newer ones make almost everything automated
Urgh, cant delete and you were obviously getting the info you needed, so ignore me
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right i know how i bricked my G1
did spl before radio .. so the outcome is basiclly it hangs on the screen thing
i passed the phone down to my little brother so hes been using it for some time i ain been on the g1 scene for quite some time until yesterday he started ranting on bout me upgrading his system to the Hero ports
my main question was is there a way to recover this problem
or am i going to have to go tru my friends at t-mobile
thanks in advance
1) You posted in the wrong forum. How is this post in way Android Development?
2) Learn to use periods. It's hard to understand what you are trying to say.
...So you bricked your g1?
Sorry, nothing can be done.
shaji007 said:
right i know how i bricked my G1
did spl before radio .. so the outcome is basiclly it hangs on the screen thing
i passed the phone down to my little brother so hes been using it for some time i ain been on the g1 scene for quite some time until yesterday he started ranting on bout me upgrading his system to the Hero ports
my main question was is there a way to recover this problem
or am i going to have to go tru my friends at t-mobile
thanks in advance
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Shaji... 1st off how is your little brother using a "bricked" phone? If it is bricked it can't be used let alone have the ROM updated to the Hero ROM's. Also there are several threads over in the " Dream android development " that should provide you with PLENTY of information that you seek... good luck with T-Mobile...
peace
...tell T-Mobile you got an OTA update and phone never booted past the first screen after. You're phone is bricked ,get a new one.
shaji007 said:
right i know how i bricked my G1
did spl before radio .. so the outcome is basiclly it hangs on the screen thing
i passed the phone down to my little brother so hes been using it for some time i ain been on the g1 scene for quite some time until yesterday he started ranting on bout me upgrading his system to the Hero ports
my main question was is there a way to recover this problem
or am i going to have to go tru my friends at t-mobile
thanks in advance
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I did the same thing the night Haykuro came out with all his new stuff for that. I flashed SPL before radio, but I was able to fix it. I'll pull up the email I worked out with him, PM me for it.
Disconnect usb, take out the battery and plug it back it, connect usb, boot the phone into the recovery mode, go to the console.
Enter then type this: echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
You now can access to ur sdcard from your computer, download a rom, change it to "update". Reboot the phone again, now try to wipe and install the update. After you install the update, flash the radio first, then the SPL. Let me know how it works out for you.
thanks for all the information people
@shaji007 Your post is quite confusing, can you tell us what you did in order? Can the phone get in to recovery (power+home) or the bootloader (power+camera)?
@phuthanvinh If you brick you can't get in to recovery.
@lukekirstein You know how to bring bricked G1's back to life? This I gotta see...
right basiclly
i followed the guide how to downgrade root n hack etc
did all that
then upgraded to one of JF builds
then i was going to install the hero ports that have been flying around
however this is my fault i wasnt really concentrating and i upgraded the spl before the radio
so yea its bricked on there
i just thought xda might have a way of fixing it back up
getting it replaced with t-mobile is of course no problem but i dont want to go through the hassle
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I did the same thing the night Haykuro came out with all his new stuff for that. I flashed SPL before radio, but I was able to fix it. I'll pull up the email I worked out with him, PM me for it.
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yea okay I don't believe you...If haykuro was able to fix it why hasn't he posted a fix? No why havent YOU posted a fix?
shaji007 said:
right basiclly
i followed the guide how to downgrade root n hack etc
did all that
then upgraded to one of JF builds
then i was going to install the hero ports that have been flying around
however this is my fault i wasnt really concentrating and i upgraded the spl before the radio
so yea its bricked on there
i just thought xda might have a way of fixing it back up
getting it replaced with t-mobile is of course no problem but i dont want to go through the hassle
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Right, yeah, you're screwed. Just tell tmo that the update bricked it, but don't say bricked, just act dumb
I wouldn't hold out much hope for lukekirstein's unbrick method that no one has over heard about before...
i want to either get to hero or cynogen.
currently im at:
droid dev phone 1
firmware version 1.6
baseband version 62.50s.20.17h_2.22.19.26i
kernel version 2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37
[email protected] #19
build number dream_devphone-userdebug 1.6 drc83 14721 test-keys
someone please help me
i dont kno if you can downgrade from 1.6 but im sure u should be able to i have not seen any posts saying u cant so
Ok we need to kno a few things
Make sure your new phone has the right Board before you do nething to do that
turn off your phone
hold the Camera button(on the right side of your Dream/G1) and also hold the Power button(the red phone button)
make sure you have a PVT then im sure you should be ok
to exit this press all these buttons at the same time
The Green Phone+Menu Button+Power Button(Red phone button)
then go to this post and follow the directions to the T!!!!! and you should be ok to run Cyanogen it takes more to run Hero but just follow the guide if your phone has the correct stuff
(ONLY IF ONLY EVERYTHING CHECKS OUT HERE AFTER YOU CONFIRM YOU HAVE THE RIGHT STUFF IN YOUR PHONE you man continue cause were not responsible if you mess up your phone YOU ARE)
Required Materials:
G1 / Dream
Micro SD card reader (phone will work in MOST cases)
Computer with Internet connection
USB cable for phone
Data Plan
^^^^^^^^^^
Fingerlickin's guides Requirements
and if everything checks out again go to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563679
and follow it to the T and you should be fine
and also
i might be forgetting something but just put that info in the post for now im sure myself and others will see what u can do at the moment
thanks
thank you so much. that helped me out a ton.
no problem
just fyi ran, you can still root your phone if you have a dvt board
however, you cannot flash the haykuro spl
also 1.6 is rootable still
ahh thx i guess im just reading from way back thats how i learned it works that way so no love lost still rite in a way
but yea thx for the info noted
ok so heres my new problem. im stuck on the G1. (i tried to flash a theme) if i put all the cyanogen files on my sdcard can i some how re-do it that way?
im guessing u gave up on hero? i dont kno
but what your asking is how to install a theme on cyanogen im guess so
you need to wait like 10 or 15 for it to install if you didnt wait patiently
if that dont work wipe and reflash let it load up the first time then turn it off and go bak to recovery and flash the theme make sure it for your rom also or else most of the time it wont work
another thing to keep in mind when you are looking for a decent theme, use the nandroid backup feature in your recovery. I change themes like I change underwear. I always backup, flash theme or test if I am building my own. If it works I keep it, if not, I restore backup and try again. Restoring a backup seems to take less time to reboot than reflashing the rom. (at least it seems that way to me)
So im trying to root my buddy g1 from scratch, got NBH file and brung the stock 1.6 down to RC29, it went good than i went and download the Root.apk for faster rooting, everything went fine untill i go and upgrade the radio, did the alt L and than atl S and now the damn phone is stuck on G1 bootscreen! So im like alright ill just do a wipe, restatred the phone with the Power+Home wouldnt get into recov menu so i decided to do the RC29 wipe over, i reformat my sd card to FAT32 and than put the Dreaimg.nbh on it and do the Power+Camera but still it just stuck on G1 bootscreen, help?? Please tell me that its not bricked.
can you get into fastboot?! (power+camera) because if you cant...you bricked his phone. lol. idk why i put an "lol" in there.
I hope you get it figured out. I wouldn't wish that upon anyone. I came from the pinstack forum for blackberries and it seems like the only help you get around here is the reference to search. Alot of thread reporting and bunch of grumpy members thinking there mods. I would help if I could but its alot of trial and error, and I'm very new. Heres an idea mods put Q&A where people might see it..
Ok first off I am really sorry for the stupidity and should have paid more attention. I was flashing the NBH on my Tilt 8925 and I got the wrong one! it was the KAISIMG-PANEL1-428.NBH that I downloaded and now the text is hard to read and it wont install and I cant change it. Right after I did that I found the forum that told you witch one to use. I wanted to cry!!! So what I'm asking is my phone done for? or is there a way to fix this? like through the andboot folder somehow?
Thank you for any help at all!!!
you learn from your mistakes though, I'm sure I wont do that again
Fixed it! :d
After I gave up I remembered someone said to hold the camera and the power button and reset buttons. I did that just to see what it would do and the colored screen came up with usb at the bottom. so I triad the right file and ran it again and it worked! Now I'll have to give it another go!
so this can be deleted now Thanks!
Just for future reference.
If you flash the wrong nbh with android, you should be able to flash the correct one using either the SD method, or the USB method.
Above all, do not panic, panic bricks more devices than bad flashes ever did
Since this is the Android area, I must say we are extremely lucky, since we are able to flash a new nbh without losing anything at all as far as the OS is concerned, your data and system files will remain intact, flashing an android nbh only replaces the zImage and the android bootloader files, unlike WM where you flash the whole OS and lose everything
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That's good to know because I thought I lost the phone for good. I didn't have any data on it that I needed, I was trying to install android to nand and just got the wrong NBH.
The only thing now that would keep me with WM 6.5 is cant get the wifi to work right. It connects to the router but the internet cuts out very bad, like it will work for 10 seconds then cant get it to work at all for 20min then it will load a web page then doesn't work again!
I did the same thing to my Tilt. I downloaded the Kaiser for Super Eclair and flashed it and did not not know I did not flashed the HardSPL.nbh.
I finally figured it out and flashed the HardSPL.nbh. It is at 3.29 right now. But I the phone keep getting error after the penguin screen with scrolling text. It said something about unable to read data. How do I fix this problem?
BeenAndroidized said:
I did the same thing to my Tilt. I downloaded the Kaiser for Super Eclair and flashed it and did not not know I did not flashed the HardSPL.nbh.
I finally figured it out and flashed the HardSPL.nbh. It is at 3.29 right now. But I the phone keep getting error after the penguin screen with scrolling text. It said something about unable to read data. How do I fix this problem?
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Jesus... the last post is more the 1year old.
I know you must search, but if the last post is that old, the probability that everything in it is outdated, is near 100%.
Well, that is the what I found. I hate digging up old post especially when it's that old.
Hi guys
I was cleaning up my room today and I came across my fave but bricked g1 ( it was bricked due to installing a radio before the rom or rom before the radio i cannot remember the exact order) however i love this phone and I was wondering after all this time I bought this phone in 2009 i think if there was a fix for this yet?
Thanks
Wrong Section!
you should be posting in the Q/A thread, also look Here first and read that whole section /facepalm
shaji007 said:
Hi guys
I was cleaning up my room today and I came across my fave but bricked g1 ( it was bricked due to installing a radio before the rom or rom before the radio i cannot remember the exact order) however i love this phone and I was wondering after all this time I bought this phone in 2009 i think if there was a fix for this yet?
Thanks
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what does it do? how do you know its bricked?
can't you go into Hboot and flash your recovery from there?
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WRONG SECTION!!!!
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It's in Q&A. What's wrong?
G1 hanged at white screen!
Hi all,
I really need a help here. I have a G1 rooted with CM rom ver5. it was working fine since 3 months but suddenly now the phone doesnt boots up, it goes to white screen with 3 droid skaters and highlight on Hboot. It is freezed then and nothing can be done. I removed battery and tried booting by home + power ; camera+power etc etc . nothing happens it goes to that screen only. i have amons recovery and also nand backups in sd card. but the system doesnt let me go any where!! Please help......
before flashing radio, spl, rom...anything...u need to check out the warnings and compatibility-MUST!!!!
there are 32B and 32A devices...both have different stuffs for themselves....which can be bricked if u dont follow the guidelines and try to act in sort of a haste to accomplish something new!!!
for those who can get to the camera+power (hboot) screen, but cant do anything else...u need to format ur sdcard...FAT32...then download dreaimg.nbh file...keep it in the root of ur sdcard...
then boot into the hboot menu, and ur phone should read the dreaimg.nbh file and prompt u to take an action(flash it)....do that and it'll get ur phone to the stock rom thingy....
then later u gotta root ur device again(telnet, great)....then install amon ra's recovery...change radio and what not and play again....
u gotta be patient...that's the only thing!!!
check this too
http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Get_Root
Thanks alot Alok, the sd card was culprit i did a format and my recovery started working...now restored with nand!
that's good glad we are of help