Was updating my G1 and bricked it when I installed the SPL from http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/
This had root access before I messed it up.
I've tried all booting methods. Camera and Power, Home Power, etc. and nothing gets me out of the T-Mobile G1 screen.
Please advise if this can be fixed.
congratulations if you cant do anything with those buttons you have now bricked your phone, it makes a nice looking paperweight tho, there is no way to fix what you have done
I REALLY hope you flashed the Radio first like it said so in the instructions... But I guess it doesn't matter now, you are bricked sir =/. I hope you still have the warranty or insurance...?
There is a thread some where on here claimong some type of method to get a new one or something you should look for it n see if it helps u n any way
if you still have a warrenty....say this
"after months of waiting i finally recieved the 1.6 update. but after the phone rebooted it wouldnt start up. i have tried everything the guides on the internet say about how to get it working again and nothing worked. the guides all said that if you cant get to the 'recovery screen' or something like that then you cant fix it..."
wing it along those lines....it works
and next time please post in the correct section - questions go in the QnA section
sidenote - if its a tmobile UK or USA one this will work
if its rogers Canada it wont as there is no 1.6 for rogers dream
did you remember to back it up before you done anything - if so do try the following as this fixed mine when i had that issue
remove and replace battery
boot into recovery mode
use the restore option and restore from backup
if you can get into fastboot then you maybe able to push a new recovery and spl but not sure so you will need to search the forums
as stated, they cant get in, unfortunately
I would say act more innocent than what you say.
Guides, recovery, 1.6 update etc.. would all ring alarm bells for me if I worked for tmobile.
Just say it said something about an update, you clicked ok, it restarted and then wouldnt come back.
Dont mention recoverys, 1.6, guides online etc....
i found that acting intelligent worked better coz 'an intelligent person would never **** up their phone'
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"i woke up yesterday and my phone said 'update available' so i hit ok. once it was finished my phone wouldnt turn on - it just got stuck at the G1 screen"
Short Story: GPS didn't work on my G1 so I unrooted for warranty return. After dropping to RC29 my update came and it bricked the phone.
Garok89's statement below is almost verbatum what I told the rep. New phone 3 days later.
garok89 said:
"i woke up yesterday and my phone said 'update available' so i hit ok. once it was finished my phone wouldnt turn on - it just got stuck at the G1 screen"
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btw.....
i live in Asia....God
well i would try to act dumb first, but then if they start trying to give you hassle, little by little pile on your knowledge of the phone, if you live in asia and cant do anything about it, just make a call to the corporate office and handle it with them, the minute a business this big hears the words "corporate office" im sure they will find a solution for you.
Recently rooted my G1 this week and installed cyanogen mod. everything's good.
I saw some cool themes and tried to install em. didn't work so just restored my back up.
Then i read that i have to be on RC30 to use the theme. I followed this guide:
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/11/1...on-your-t-mobile-g1-and-keep-root-access.html
phone gets stuck at tmobile G1 splash screen. i think hey, no prob, ill just go back to recovery and restore my back up again. take out, put in battery. home+power... uhh that's not working. even tried pressing the power+camera buttons. pressing the call+menu+end button isn't even rebooting it..
this... really sucks. is there ANYTHING i can do to fix this? maybe through adb or something? i have nandroid files backed up my computer too if that helps
bulldozamendoza said:
Recently rooted my G1 this week and installed cyanogen mod. everything's good.
I saw some cool themes and tried to install em. didn't work so just restored my back up.
Then i read that i have to be on RC30 to use the theme. I followed this guide:
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/11/1...on-your-t-mobile-g1-and-keep-root-access.html
phone gets stuck at tmobile G1 splash screen. i think hey, no prob, ill just go back to recovery and restore my back up again. take out, put in battery. home+power... uhh that's not working. even tried pressing the power+camera buttons. pressing the call+menu+end button isn't even rebooting it..
this... really sucks. is there ANYTHING i can do to fix this? maybe through adb or something? i have nandroid files backed up my computer too if that helps
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There is something you can do 2 legal and 2 illegal
1) You could steal someone elses phone
2) You could buy a new phone
3) You could switch the motherboard out from another (non-bricked) G1 into your phone
And 4) You could breAk into HTC HQ and steal the machine they used to originally flash your phone with, connect it to your phone's JTAG' points and flash. Thisnis the most risky and most expensive because you ARE stealing, you ARE going to get sued, BUT you will have your phone back
JAguirre1231 said:
There is something you can do 2 legal and 2 illegal
1) You could steal someone elses phone
2) You could buy a new phone
3) You could switch the motherboard out from another (non-bricked) G1 into your phone
And 4) You could breAk into HTC HQ and steal the machine they used to originally flash your phone with, connect it to your phone's JTAG' points and flash. Thisnis the most risky and most expensive because you ARE stealing, you ARE going to get sued, BUT you will have your phone back
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thanks! ill consider it. i like your thinking!
anyone else!? pff
i tried to got back to stock rom on odin from ics leak,i put the wrong pit,now the phone is super hard bricked,its doesnt turn on,i just have it for a week in a half,can some plzzzzz help me,, i need it to turn on and go to dl mode,its a n700,i dont wanna go through problems with germany....HELP!!!WONDERING IF THE JIG WORKS
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I bricked my phone tonight. sgh-t959v Why on earth I ever thought this would go as well as it did with my behold 2 back in the day I don't know.
Well for starters I rooted the phone, then when there was another update tonight I did it, Superuser was gone at this point. I was the Kies samsung update to 2.3...... So I rooted it again. Ok then the phone seemed really laggy compared to what it was before so I looked into Voodoo and such tried that. Putting the file on the SD didn't work because I had S3 something about certifications. So I found something on the market that would let me flash it with software. Then the phone wouldn't boot and kept trying to loop. I got it back in download, and put what I thought was the right stuff back on the phone since I searched for hours (no lie) to try to find a complete stock set. I did a backup with that stupid flash thing I used from the market, which ended up on the SD, which for some reason is now blank when I put it in the laptop.
The software must have been wrong because it still wouldn't start. Then I found this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1307637 and decided to try that. Odin kept do what seemed nothing. It would start and see the phone try and then no progress bar everything looked like it was working and then it would hang for some reason. Next time I am never messing with this crap ever agin if this phone ever works again.
At this point I have the PH ! PC and I can't get it into download. So I found out about the USB thing I can build I think.
What do I need to get this back? I am very sorry about the long explanation, ubt I was hoping if I spent the time explaining how I goofed up, someone might take the time to answer me.
-Steve
Check your inbox. I PM'ed you. I dont want to post my help here because you're on the wrong forum lol. This is for the captivate xD
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA
So hey guys, I just want to start off by saying that I really appreciate your help in this because I really messed up and keep in mind that this is my first Android device and I'm currently a total noob.
So my problem has a back story and here goes. So i decided that i wanted to root my phone and try to put CyanogenMod on it to get a somewhat similar experience to stock Android. So i used a YouTube video and successfully rooted my phone. After i rooted it i found out that CyanogenMod didn't have a stable or RC release for my AT&T HTC One so i decided i should unroot it and so i got the RUU_M7_UL_JB_50_Cingular.exe file from another YouTube video and everything was going fine until the installer said that i have an error and the installer closed down, and now I'm left with a black screen with an HTC logo and four caution indicators in the four corners. I tired to shut down the phone nothing happens, I tired to hard reset it and nothing happened the same screen stayed up. I was hoping that someone on this forum could help me cause you guys are my last resort.
Thanks in advance for any help, it means a lot.
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