Hi All
I have been trying to root my G1. I downgraded it to RC29.
Then, it started behaving very weird.
When I boot up, I cant do anything from the home screen. Even if I try to open the app drawer, it immediately closes it. I cant open the dialer. I cant even go to another home screen. It immediately comes to the default one. I cant even power it off. I can only pull the battery off. But in that case, when I try starting it again, it goes into the screen with triangle and exclamatory mark. When this happens, there is nothing much I can do. So, I just leave it for a long time like a day. Then, if I try starting it, it boots, but again same problem as before.
I tried reflashing the ROM many times, but no use. After the reflashing, it has same problem again.
Try flashing a different rom. Sounds like you have a very unstable rom.
I have used the one cyanogen suggests in his instructions. It is the DREAMIMG.nbh and downloaded from android-dls.com
I have downloaded it couple of times and reflashed. So, its not that the file got corrupted during download.
Do you have suggestions about any other ROM?
Now, I think it is not a problem with the ROM
It is as if the Home button is stuck. That is why, it always comes back to home screen, and boots up into recovery since home+power is recovery mode.
Once in a while it randomly goes into the recent apps window confirming that it is a home button issue.
Any work around?
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Hay i have a rooted G1 with Jf - can't rember what version.
I've been having lots of problems with force closing of various programs but otherwise everything was going fine.
After a few force closes today i decided to restart my phone, turned it off and then back on and stuck it in my pocket.
When i went to check my texts 5 minuets later i took it out and it was just stilling on the 'Android' splash screen - it was moving then freezing for a few seconds then moving (i don't know if that's normal but it wouldnt surprise me).
I took the battery out and restated again and exactly the same thing - it would not boot.
I did a quick search on the problem and remembered how to boot in camera+red mode - which the phone did fine. I then read that pushing green+menu+red would fix it.
I did this and the phone booted, but it lost all my home screen icons and was laid out like when the phone was bought. i then cheked an app or two and they are all still there and seem to have retained their data.
However other strange things are happening - the home button dosnt work, nether does the green, when i hold the red button i only get the 'power off' option not 'power off, silent and airplane' as i used to.
They are the problems i have found so far but there may be more. Basically i want to know what pushing green, menu, red actually does and i want to know what the hell is going on - im totally lost.
Please help
P.S. i did a test on the consol and it seems i still have root assess - just encase that relative
Go to recovery, wipe and reflash. It will solve all your issues.
I can't actually remember how to do that - can you explain more or link me?
and will it have any effect on my apps or settings?
Zippokovich said:
I can't actually remember how to do that - can you explain more or link me?
and will it have any effect on my apps or settings?
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You're going to need to go into recovery; press the home screen button, then the red (energize, end call, whatever) button. Hold both down until you get into recovery, which will be the text menu with all the selections available in green. Then scroll down to "wipe data/ factory reset" and do that- this simply wipes the phones internal memory. Then load the rom you are using, which I assume is already on the root of your sd card. If not, connect the phone, mount the card, and put the rom there before you get started with the above steps- chris
I have a Rogers HTC Dream. I've had it for months now. I recently upgraded it to the newest version (1.86).
I was just fiddling with a new app I downloaded - "shake alarm" (where you need to shake it to stop the alarm) from the market. to test it, I set an alarm within a minute. after I closed the phone, I put it on idle. then it started to restart itself and it won't stop!
I've taken the battery out many times to stop it but it still won't load properly!
can someone please help me?
Well, I think the only thing you may be able to do is to do a wipe. Turn on your phone by holding home and power. Release when the recovery screen comes up. Open the keyboard, press Alt + W
When that is done, you can press Home and Back to restart. This resets everything back to factory, you'll have to set everything back up. I think that your downloads will be saved the first time you load up Market, but they'll be gone after that, so try to install them all at one time (that's if they are saved).
hm, I tried but it won't let me past the HTC loading screen.
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My HTC dream has the same problem, its keeps on restarting and doesn't let me get to the recovery screen. Can't downgrade using fast boot as well, as it from Singtel. It used to happen before but used to get ok once i'll take out the battery and boot it again but now it just keeps on restarting. Anybody with a solution?
Or can anybody tell me why its happening?
My brothers phone was dropped (apparently hes a bit clumsy!) Whenever he was texting using the keyboard, it was making some very strange characters on the screen, whenever he would push 1 key, several would appear, etc.
't' ='d 's03' etc... stuff like that.. obviously thought a reboot would fix the issue. So when we rebooted the phone, it turned out that it couldnt get past the g1 screen and was stuck at the Triangle with the yellow exclamation point. Pushing ALT+L showed the recovery screen. We went through the appropriate options and held down back + home for 25+ secs to get it to reboot. It rebooted fine and worked for an hour or so, until the Voice Search just kept popping up as if he was asking it to, so we tried to reboot the phone again and do the recovery thing, this time it wouldn't get past the recovery after holding down home + back. I can't push back + home either to get it to restart, so I'm thinking the home key may be broken or stuck.
Any thoughts on this issue or has anyone else experience such? He'll more than likely be sending it in today since its still under warranty and has NOT been rooted.
Thanks!
same thing happened to my first g1..its a hardware issue send it in
Was hoping it wasn't a hardware thing, but so be it. Thanks for the heads up.
I have been running CM6 on my G1 for a while with no major issues. However, this morning when I woke up, the phone was not turning on. The screen comes up with the bootloader white screen and keeps turning off. I had installed Advanced Task Killer the previous night and I suspected that it must have done something to the system. So I decided to reinstall everything from scratch, starting from DREAIMG.nbh.
My G1 looked to me as the T-Mobile UK version, so i used the RC7 DREAIMG.nbh. It flashed okay and booted fine. And when the Google account setup screen showed up, I tried to type my account details but very strangely I could only type the letters e d f x only. All others keys don't show up or do anything. I booted many times but the keyboard doesn't work at all, except those four keys.
I then wanted to flash RC29 thinking that I flashed the wrong version earlier. But now when I press Camera + Power, nothing happens. So I cant go to the bootloader screen. It just boots normally to the setup screen. I can however get the recovery screen when I press Home + Power but then because the keyboard's Alt or W is not working, I cant do a wipe either.
I also checked if it is talking to ADB, but ADB does not see the G1 either in recovery screen or after it has booted up normally.
I have been reading all day all over this forum, as well as others but did not find any similar problem or a way forward. Can anyone suggest how to get it back to normal. I don't think its totally bricked because it boots up normally and it can also go into recovery mode.
Hello forum,
I try not to post on forum for help unless I run out of options. I used to encounter loops before and managed to fix them but this one is really weird. So a bit of background : I was running stock ROM + TWRP recovery and everything seemed normal till one day when I encountered my first loop after opening up newly installed app ( although I don't think it relevant to this case ). But anyway, when I opened it, phone restarted itself immediately and kept doing it (didn't get pass the logo) for around 5 minutes when finally booted into the OS. After that everything seemed fine for...about a month when the same loops started to happen more and more often. They usually happen when phone has it screen turned off and I press power button to wake it up, it then gives me 3 seconds as If I would hold the power button and volume down button prompting me that it's about to restart itself. So I thought, that there has to be some junk apps that are fighting with each other causing these loops and I went for the recovery. But (stupid me) instead of wiping only the apps I got rid of the whole ROM with recovery ( ). So this time I flashed a custom ROM (ViperOne+9.0.0-fix) using ADB (adb push etc etc) and TWRP thinking that maybe the previous ROM was the issue. (I forgot to mention that even when there was no OS on the phone it was still looping.) After a while when the loops stopped, I got into the recovery and flashed ViperOne with no problems at all. Phone booted itself into the OS, everything seemed normal to the point where I left it for couple of minutes, pressed power button and it went into to eternal loop where it only stopped when the battery was drained. It was literally loopin the whole night (couldn't sleep). Now when I connect it to charge it doesn't go into charging but goes straight into the loop. I can get as far as the bootloader and selecting to go to recovery and after I press power button to select it, it goes into the loop. NOW..this might sound like there is a hardware issue (the power button) but I highly doubt it. Ill appreciate any kind of solutions. :silly: Thanks in advance.
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If I didnt make any sense here's video :
https://youtu.be/DhVFApSE3kg