ok my phone is stuck in a boot loop after trying to install FRF85B. my N! is a UK vodafone set on EPF30.
I found this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714016 but needed to unlock my bootloader so i used this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636795 but missed out the rooting step.
so the unlock went fine. I took the EPE54B recovery from the first link renamed it, copied the recovery.img to the right folder (should i have renamed the zip on the first link to recovery instead of taking the .img?) then wrote it the phone. now im not sure if i was meant to do more at at this stage? should i have flashed the recovery file in the phone?? when i went into fastboot/recovery it gave me a droid with the ! .
through reading the guide i thought it was enough for the US recovery to be on my phone so i went ahead and flashed the phone to FRF85B it seemed to be work it gave me a progress bar then a droid jumping out of a box then and progress bar, it rebooted but the android x kept repeating.
the guide said if you get the repeating logo to wipe from stock recovery and reapply the update.zip. well i dont have the stock recovery on my phone. should i connect to the PC and copy on the original recovery back? how do I use recovery to return my phone to EPF30?
Please help a foolish noob out here. Im starting to freak
By stock recovery, it just means a 'normal' N1 recovery, not a custom one.
This may sound odd, but try taking your SD card out and trying to boot up, this helped with someone on another forum going from stock Voda to FRF85B.
Ok I put the original one on anyway just incase. took the SD card out and restored to factory settings thinking I would go back to EPF30 but when it booted there was froyo FRF85B as if nothing had gone wrong! dumb luck says today I dont have a brick for a phone I entered my google account and before you no it all my apps redownloaded - didnt release the N1 could do that
Thanks for your advice rusty
I'm off to enjoy some Froyo, (screw you Vodafone)
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Ok so I have an unlocked Nexus One that I rooted when I first got the phone 6 months ago. I've been running CM6 no problems at all, everything has been great.
Heres where my problem starts I decided to flash the stock frf91 image onto the phone and did not check superuser permissions or whatever option they gave me before i did it. I was doing this because I thought I was selling my phone. Now I'm not and want to go back to CM6.
The problem is I cant get into recovery at all I get the error with the ! in a triangle with android standing next to it. I've searched everywhere and tried everything. Fastboot and ADB gives me errors like waiting for device (even though my drivers are up to date and it recognizes the phone?) or status failed too many links.
I tried doing a backup from my nandroid information through my nandroid backups on my computer (aka pulling system.img etc) I tried going through the terminal but Im getting denied superuser permissions.
Im just not sure where to go from here ive looked through so many articles and threads and posts and im very confused.
After I flashed the stock image I thought i would still be able to boot into recovery but i guess i dont have recovery? I try to flash the recovery but with no avail.
Anyone have any advice or even just somewhere to start I would really appreciate it. Thanks
When u flashed the stock rom it wasnt a rooted version so u have the stock recovery search for how to root the stock Rom once rooted u can put a custom recovery on there hope this helps
The procedures for the different handsets kind of blur together in my memory, so just want to check.
When you booted into recovery and got the "!" screen with the android did you try holding either the volume up, or volume down key <along with the power button> to bring up the menu?
The ! With the Android is the stock recovery image if I remember correctly if u press the power button the menu should pop up
First of all, I have checked around quite a bit on this forum as well as others to try and avoid having to ask a question that's already been answered. Here's my problem/ what happened. I was rooted (one-click with locked bootloader) and had tried out several roms for a couple of months now. A few days ago I reverted back to an old stock 2.2 backup. My phone received two ota updates and I'm pretty sure I lost root. I had just went on using the phone for about two days when I ran into a problem today. After shutting the phone off I have now become "stuck" at the initial "X" screen (not animated). I pulled the battery and tried again several times. I then tried to reboot into recovery from the bootloader/ 3 skateboards screen with no luck. Any time I hit recovery it simply takes me back to my stuck "X" screen. I have an entire backup of my SD card from earlier as well as at least 4 nandroid backups (one of which was the stock 2.2 before the latest ota). I am thinking I need to somehow put clockwork recovery back on my phone so I can restore to one of my backups. I do not know how to do this. Sorry for the lengthy post but I want to provide as much information as possible. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Just like you restore to stock 2.2. You should have used recovery.img. use adb fastboot to put the stock or anom recovery. I am not am expert but I have had the same problem few times. Always use adb commands
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Does my n1 have to be in usb debugging mode because it's acting like it's not connected or something. I get the message "error: device not found." I'm on the fastboot screen on my n1 and using terminal on a mac. I usually didn't leave debugging mode on
No it doesn't but you have to have the drivers installed as well as the SDK with dependencies.
Whew! Thank God! I ended up getting a FRG33 stock rom onto the sd card and the bootloader detected it. I'm not sure what happened but when I tried recovery after that it took me to the android with an "!" point (meaning no recovery?) and then back to the X. This time however it loaded on through and went right back to the way it was before it was stuck. Again, not sure what happened but thanks for the replies and help.
fastbook oem unlock
install Amon RA recovery
flash new rom.
Caseyp789 said:
Whew! Thank God! I ended up getting a FRG33 stock rom onto the sd card and the bootloader detected it. I'm not sure what happened but when I tried recovery after that it took me to the android with an "!" point (meaning no recovery?) and then back to the X. This time however it loaded on through and went right back to the way it was before it was stuck. Again, not sure what happened but thanks for the replies and help.
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The exclamation mark is just the stock Android recovery - it was re-installed when you loaded the stock FRG33 ROM.
Performing OTA updates requires you to have the stock recovery installed. Simply reverting to a stock 2.2 nandroid isn't sufficient, so trying to install those OTAs (which should have failed without stock recovery) may have broken something there.
GldRush98 said:
fastbook oem unlock
install Amon RA recovery
flash new rom.
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This is by far the easiest (and safest) way. Google/HTC provided us an easy and safe method for gaining full access to our phones.... Why so many people refuse to use it is beyond me. If you root it the proper way (with fastboot oem unlock), it will make recovery from any further issues a lot more simple.
From what I can tell, I am having the same symptoms as the topic creator. I believe the problems started during a failed flash of cyanogenmod 6, but I am not sure by what means the flashing took place.
I can't boot the phone normally, it hangs on the X splash screen and the same occurs when trying to enter recovery mode.
I have tried the passimg approach to fix this, it either doesn't recognize my zip or starts loading it and freezes on a loading bar.
Fastboot flashing recovery completes, but doesn't fix the issue.
I can fastboot flash every image partition except system or radio, both hang.
As danger rat and dude random both know, I have posted this problem on the nexus one forums but I thought I'd post here to have some more minds look at it.
Hello,
I have a nexus one that isn't working anymore. I was trying to install the cyanogenmod, but I guess I didn't do it correctly.
I was following the clockworkmod way from this: h t t p ://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Nexus_One:_Full_Update_Guide
When flashing the rom something went wrong. After step 6 my phone didnt reboot, it just stayed off. Now it will only give me the nexus sign if i turn on the phone.
I can still acces the recovery menu when holding Power + volume down.
People told that I should go back to the stock rom.
Can anybody please help me?
*don't know if i've posted in the right category
When you get to recovery is it still clockwork or stock? If clockwork then try and flash cm6 again. If not you will have to download a stock rom push it to the sdcard as an update.zip and boot into the boot loader.
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Since you can boot into recovery you have NOT bricked it for sure
As mentioned in the earlier post try to flash the CM ROM again
If you are unable to access the custom recovery (as in, the stock recovery is still in place), you can follow the manual instructions for installing ClockworkMod: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Nexus_One:_Full_Update_Guide#Manual_Method
You can then follow the procedure for flashing the appropriate radio image: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.p...ll_Update_Guide#ClockworkMod_Recovery_process
And you can even install the ROM without using Rom Manager using this process: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.p...Update_Guide#Second_Method_.28via_Recovery.29
All of this is, as I'm sure you've noticed, posted on the same page that you linked. Hopefully this information will help you, now that you have been assured that your phone is not bricked.
Thanks for quick replies. I've contacted a guy with a lot of knowledge about these kind of thinks and helped me fixing me phone. I dont know exactly what went down but I will give it a try.
My first mistake was thinking that I rooted my phone (using the one click method). Don't know if thats the right way to do it, but in the end it wasn't rooted and I tought it was.
The guy rooted my phone, did the AmonRa recovery install and installed the Ethernom Rom for me. Great to have my phone back to working and great Rom btw.
I haven't touched my Rogers G1 rom, it is as stock as they come. One day the battery died, so I plugged the phone to charge and also tried to start it up.
My problem started after that.
I will try to restart the phone and it'll get stuck on boot screen - where it says HTC or sometimes even just the Rogers screen.
Only solution is to take battery out, do hard reset.
I've searched the forums but everybody else asks regarding modded roms and not stock.
Any idea how I could resolve this issue without flashing new roms? Or is that my only way out?
Thanks.
Did you apply Rogers mandatory 911 update that was released about a year ago? You can check by booting into fastboot mode (hold the camera button while powering it on). If your radio version is 3.22.26.17 you have the update. Rogers locked down fastboot in this latest update and the only way to root it is through the ROM. If you don't have this update I can walk you though the steps to root your phone though fastboot.
Just checked and it does have the update.
Should I just go ahead and flash new roms?
I keep having the same issue as before.
With the latest update Rogers locked down fastboot so it is useless. So, I don't believe that there is any way to flash a new ROM without first booting into your existing ROM.
Sorry but I'm inexperienced with flashing roms...
If I can't flash by the fastboot method, I can still flash by rooting the phone, correct?
JiggyNS said:
Sorry but I'm inexperienced with flashing roms...
If I can't flash by the fastboot method, I can still flash by rooting the phone, correct?
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I'm not completely sure, but usually you need to be able to get into the rom to root. Maybe there is another way.
6 hours later and i got nowhere...
I rooted phone, flashed new cyanogen rom, setup amon ra's recovery but I didn't do new radio since my current is one of the newer ones.
The booting goes nowhere as soon as the rogers logo shows at the beginning of boot up.
Would a new radio help? Could that be the issue?
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The phone rebooted properly and now I have a working fone!
Wait, how did you root the phone without getting into the ROM?
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Wait, how did you root the phone without getting into the ROM?
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I used the Androot method, copied onto sd card, launched file via file manager app on phone and it rooted the phone. This is how I remember anyways - I fiddled with the phone for good part of the afternoon so my memory is all over the place with the specifics.
I used this site for rooting.
I thought you said in the op that you couldn't boot into the ROM (got stuck on boot screen). So, what was the problem in the first place? (or how did you fix the ROM?)
Sorry I guess I wasn't clear enough in op.
The only way I could get to use the phone was to do a hard reset and let the phone boot up from there, however if I ever wanted to turn the phone off or restart the phone it would get stuck on the next boot up.
I was able to flash the rom by constantly hard reseting the phone every time I needed to put files onto the memory card.
I am so frustrated... Just got a G1 last week from a friend as a gift, fully functioning with 2.1, but then I decided to flash a 2.2 rom, so I downloaded everything I need, radio, SPL, and a 2.2rom...
So first I rooted it, and then I flashed the radio if I didn't remember wrong, and then I rebooted the device, and that's when the nightmare begins...
My G1 started to boot loop, and I can't get into recovery but only fastboot. Then I thought if I am able to get into fastboot then I guess I still have hopes, so I downloaded the dreaimg.nhb and successfully installed it! but no luck, it still boot loop at the T-Mobile screen and couldn't access recovery...
I brought it to some guys to flash the IC as I thought it's bricked, but they told me it's probably not the IC's problem since it could access fastboot, and they told me it's probably because some hardware is broken and told me to change the mother board... but I was like hell no, cuz I could go get a new phone with that price...
I have seen some other ppl have the same problem on other threads, but no one gave a full answer, and I am pretty sure it's not hardware problem! so hopefully someone could give me some advice, thnx!
(Just so u know I am in China, so please don't tell me to bring it to the T-Mobile store... lol)
did you do a clean install of a rom once you flashed the .nbh file?
nah, I couldn't even get into recovery... if I hit the home bottom + power it will just start boot looping... or could I actually flash rom via USB?
once you flashed .nbh it will erase the recovery if i am not mistaken. since you have already flashed the .nbh your phone is very basic. might as well go for the newer spl+radio straight away.
go to here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831139
read the whole guide a few times and understand it properly before you execute them. what this combo of spl +radio would do, is it provides extra ram for our g1.
what is the current details that you get when press camera+power?
try to flash stock dreaimg.nbh and re root you phone.. follow this guide...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098899