So heres the deal. I bought this G1 because the price was so cheap and now I'm tracking down problem after problem. If you've read my post's you know I fixed the simcard port already to recognize simcards and not kill them, second problem reported was the phone would reset contacts every ngiht. I'm guessing this can be done through software updates/ROMS. Well I have Tmo with a full smart card data package. At first the guy selling it puts in his card and its lights up but won't activate saying it needs to talk to googles servers to create and account. He said he didn't have a data plan so I thought nothing of it. I get it home and fix it and load up my simcard and log into my gmail account with no problems, it loads up the phone and everythings great. I hard reset it and give it to my friend. He has the $10 nonsmartphone plan on his account. He puts it in and creates and new account and activates the phone no problems. It gives him full internet, youtube, etc... for about 5 hours. Then it cuts out and says he needs to upgrade his plan to use this phone. No more web or youtube. But whats weird is he could launch his browser and it would load google. He could even search google and wuold get live results. But if he clicked one it went to tmo's upgrade page. So I hard reset it again with the idea I'm gonna root it and repair it or even see if the problem is him not having a proper smartphone plan but now the phone won't connect to google servers with my sim card. I know its find because I can get online with my 3 other phones with no problem. But on the G1 now it sees the bar's and the 3G logo flash's a couple times then it times out and says it can't get a reliable signal to google servers. Anyideas what I can do to this thing? I was gonna root but you have to have the phone on and active to see hwat version you have. Any help would rock!
Thanks
mas power
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316&highlight=sdk
good way to activate it.. to be able to root it and from there can pass the google account set up and figure out the problem..also could be internal antenna issue(just guessing) or can try do a factory reset again..
ilostchild said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316&highlight=sdk
good way to activate it.. to be able to root it and from there can pass the google account set up and figure out the problem..also could be internal antenna issue(just guessing) or can try do a factory reset again..
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forget it: just use wifi:
really don’t you just have to:
1. go to rc29
2. on “click android” part setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1
3. on adb: am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings
1. Just put in whatever SIM you are using, then on the activation screen, hit Menu then click on APN. Click add APN and put your company’s internet settings in (ask your provider for these settings). Then add the data plan to your account for the day and remove it after you have activated the phone OR get a friend with a data plan to activate it for you.
The following procedure can be used if none of the above are available to you…
I. Getting Back to RC29
1. This procedure requires you to be on an old version of Android (RC29 aka Android 1.0) so you must use our unroot procedure first and get to RC29, DO NOT DO THE STEP THAT TAKES YOU BACK TO CUPCAKE, skip it and come back to here once you are on RC29.
How To Get Back to RC29
2. You also need a WiFi connection to do this procedure.
II. Setting Up ADB
1. After you are back to RC29, follow our How To Setup ADB procedure EXACTLY as it is written. Once you are able to see your phone’s serial number after typing ADB devices in the command prompt, then come back to this procedure.
IIIa. Activating the Phone Over WiFi WITHOUT a SIM.
1. Borrow someone’s SIM card then procedure to Section IIIb.
IIIb. Activating the Phone Over WiFi WITH a SIM but No Data Plan.
1. Turn on the phone, you will get a Touch Here to Begin Screen.
2. Open the phone’s keyboard and hit enter once then type the following on the phone’s keyboard:
setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1
3. Then hit enter.
4. Hit enter AGAIN and type the following on the phone’s keyboard:
telnetd
5. Then hit enter.
6. With the phone still plugged in and the command prompt still up on your computer screen from the ADB process, type the following in the command prompt on your computer with hitting an enter at the end of each line:
cd\
cd c:\AndroidSDK\Tools\
adb devices
*this should bring up a serial number if your phone is connected, if not then redo the setup ADB process.
7. Now, in command prompt on your computer, type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:
adb shell
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings
8. On your phone should pop up the Android Settings screen, you can now choose a Wifi network to connect to then hit back and finish the activation process over Wifi. Enjoy!
I appreciate the tips, but,,,,,, screw android! I''ll just sell the phone off for parts. If I had wanted an iphone I would of bought an iphone. I'm just gonna stick with WM where you put in your sim card, then you can make calls.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
I finally spoke to a knowlegable TMo support tech today and found out whats going on. Your simcard has to be told its a G1 or you will get crazy anomolies like contacts dissapearing to not being able to activate anymore. The support guy who happened to be the 1 that was knowlegable said he's seen it hundreds of times with the G1. You put your simcard in activate google and everything works fine for a couple hours or days. Then you will start getting bugs and weird issues. Then the phone won't activate no matter what simcard you put in. At that point you must call Tmo and tell them to activate you phone as A G1 and remote reset it and all will fix itself. Thanks for the help guys.
One more question. Are all android phones like this? Or just G1's? I hate not being able to plug and swap out simcards from phone to phone depending on my mood.
I had an issue with activating as well but after about 12 hours,I finally got it. Anyway..about the G1 thing you were talking about, when I activated mine, I got an e-mail from Google thanking me for activating my Nexus...humm..didn't know I had a Nexus..lol
Anyway,glad you got it sorted.
Sent from my G1 from the only app on my main homescreen.
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Hey everyone and before I start I would like to say thank you for everyone that helps and any help is greatly appreciated!
Ok, so I bought an unlocked T-Mobile G1 off of eBay and I plan to use it on the Rogers Canada network. I inserted my friends Rogers SIM and it works perfectly, just he has no data plan so I was unable to get past the enter your gmail account screen. I will get a Rogers SIM card for myself soon, but seeing as I just spent $450 on the phone I don't have much money left to pay for a plan right away, but I would still like to be able to use the phone for things like internet over WiFi and such until then.
I believe the phone has RC30 on it or higher because as I read here if I enter "<enter>reboot<enter>" and nothing happens I have RC30 or higher. Does this mean I am going to have to wait until I have a data plan with Rogers to begin using my new toy?
Thanks again for any help,
Brad
cant you skip the gmail account part?
bradtraver said:
Hey everyone and before I start I would like to say thank you for everyone that helps and any help is greatly appreciated!
Ok, so I bought an unlocked T-Mobile G1 off of eBay and I plan to use it on the Rogers Canada network. I inserted my friends Rogers SIM and it works perfectly, just he has no data plan so I was unable to get past the enter your gmail account screen. I will get a Rogers SIM card for myself soon, but seeing as I just spent $450 on the phone I don't have much money left to pay for a plan right away, but I would still like to be able to use the phone for things like internet over WiFi and such until then.
I believe the phone has RC30 on it or higher because as I read here if I enter "<enter>reboot<enter>" and nothing happens I have RC30 or higher. Does this mean I am going to have to wait until I have a data plan with Rogers to begin using my new toy?
Thanks again for any help,
Brad
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~sigh~ there's already a guide on how to activate your phone using WiFi without the data plan. Go search it up. Once you can access the phone, you can check your version by going into Settings>About Phone if its over RC30, then just downgrade to RC29 and root it using the guide. Also, you can look up the Roger APN settings and just manually add it in to temporarily use the data connection to activate the phone and then just turn it off when you're done. That's what I did. Once you get to the activate screen, just hit menu, APNs, then add APN and google the Roger Network APN settings and enter those in.
How do I downgrade from RC30+ to RC29? All the tutorials I have found say I need to change the settings (which I can not do because I can not get past the No Sim Card / Emergency Call screen).
Could I follow this tutorial (minus the unlocking) and put in the Rogers APN using the EDGE connection to activate it?
bradtraver said:
Could I follow this tutorial (minus the unlocking) and put in the Rogers APN using the EDGE connection to activate it?
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Yes, that's what I was trying to say above...
h.nocturna said:
Yes, that's what I was trying to say above...
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Ok, thanks. I just wasn't sure which tutorial you were refering to and if I could use EDGE instead of 3G to set it up.
Ok, so I got a SIM card, got it activated, got these apn settings (i found when i put 720 for mnc instead of 72 the EDGE logo showed up) and it shows 4 bars for signal and it shows the E logo with the up and down arrows but it still says my SIM card is not provisioned for data services, but it is. Any help?
Thanks,
Brad
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I just realized that the up and down arrows even flash white every once in a while while it tries to communicate with google but it still fails. I really want to use my phone
bradtraver said:
Ok, so I got a SIM card, got it activated, got these apn settings (i found when i put 720 for mnc instead of 72 the EDGE logo showed up) and it shows 4 bars for signal and it shows the E logo with the up and down arrows but it still says my SIM card is not provisioned for data services, but it is. Any help?
Thanks,
Brad
*Edit*
I just realized that the up and down arrows even flash white every once in a while while it tries to communicate with google but it still fails. I really want to use my phone
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Try the WiFi method.
I can not figure out how to run the adb program. I installed RC29 and enabled adb on the G1 but I can not get the program to run on my computer..
bradtraver said:
I can not figure out how to run the adb program. I installed RC29 and enabled adb on the G1 but I can not get the program to run on my computer..
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What's wrong with the adb on your computer? Its hard to help when I don't know what's wrong.
Sorry, I didn't mean anything is wrong with it, just I can not figure out how to run it.. I read that I have to install eclipse and then update it with adb here, is this correct?
bradtraver said:
Sorry, I didn't mean anything is wrong with it, just I can not figure out how to run it.. I read that I have to install eclipse and then update it with adb here, is this correct?
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? Shouldn't be that hard. Just grab the SDK from somewhere, its everywhere, just use google. Then once you have it, you go under tools and you should see the adb.exe as well AdbWinApi.dll, take both of those, and copy them to c:\android (make a new folder). Then plug the phone into the computer, but do not mount it. Go to device manager and look for the Android Device (or whatever it may be called). Update the drivers to the ones found under usb_drivers from the SDK and you should have adb up and running.
To use it, go into command prompt (cmd) and type:
cd c:\android
then from there, run your adb commands.
It worked! I cant thank you enough!
bradtraver said:
It worked! I cant thank you enough!
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No problem, this is what this forum is for, could you do us a favor and added [SOLVED] to your title so others know?
Will do, one thing though.. How do I change it?
bradtraver said:
Will do, one thing though.. How do I change it?
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Edit your first post and change the title from there.
I would like to say, just to follow up I am now getting to know my way around ADB fairly well, I have updated my phone to Cupcake, realized I wanted a rooted phone, downgraded to RC29, updated to JFv1.41 because I couldn't find a working 1.51 build online, then am updating to 1.51 now. I would just like to say thank you so much, I have learned everything here so far and can not thank you enough!
-Brad
Again, you're very welcome.
i'm from nepal. i bought tmobile g1 from a friend who was back from US, it was unlocked, i could insert my SIM card and use the phone to call and everything. i reset the mobile to factory settings now whenever i try to switch on my mobile phone, it takes me to the google account set up page.. but the problem is that i haven't set the GPRS in my g1, and i cannot reach to the home screen. how can i get out of this problem? i've been trying to 'root' (i'm completely new to android or linux systems), and i'm reading a heck lot of articles on 'rooting' 'SPL', 'Cyacanogen' blah blah.. i think it will take a serious amount of time before i can do that.. is there any shortcut way to re-use my phone as for now? thankx
Google 'how to bypass google login g1 dream'
after i got my droid about a year ago, all i wanted to do was root it. I didnt read enuf about it and the effects of messing up, which i did and "bricked my phone".....so what happened, I was using an RSD lite method....very dumb and unplugged the phone to early (of course messing it up). Finally got it to boot back up and when i had to make the call to re-activate it my service was through U.S. Cellular!?! Took it to verizon, they said that was weird and tried to re flash it with their stock system...didnt work, they called their tech support still couldnt get it fixed. They sent me a warranty phone and didnt want or take the old phone back. It works just fine and i use it as my "test" phone. It is still on U.S. cellular service though. Dont eally need it activated but if anyone knows how, i would love to know??
jimmydene84 said:
after i got my droid about a year ago, all i wanted to do was root it. I didnt read enuf about it and the effects of messing up, which i did and "bricked my phone".....so what happened, I was using an RSD lite method....very dumb and unplugged the phone to early (of course messing it up). Finally got it to boot back up and when i had to make the call to re-activate it my service was through U.S. Cellular!?! Took it to verizon, they said that was weird and tried to re flash it with their stock system...didnt work, they called their tech support still couldnt get it fixed. They sent me a warranty phone and didnt want or take the old phone back. It works just fine and i use it as my "test" phone. It is still on U.S. cellular service though. Dont eally need it activated but if anyone knows how, i would love to know??
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you could try flashing the 2.2 sbf on it via rsdlite, since its not bricked, or you could flash a verizon radio via recovery after rooting it. Flashing a verizon radio on it should reconfigure it to verizon's settings. Feel free to pm me to further discuss this.
edit: usually when they send you a warranty phone they want you to send the phone back within 10days to avoid being charged for it
Go into recovery, and there is an option to wipe the radio data (i forget what it actually says) Try that. You might have just messed one of the parts of the radio by a small amount.
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Go into recovery, and there is an option to wipe the radio data (i forget what it actually says) Try that. You might have just messed one of the parts of the radio by a small amount.
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where do you see that option? its not in clockworkmod recovery. under the advanced tab there are choices to wipe dalvik battery stats and report error of the recovery but that is all. also an option to record key gpio values.
jimmydene84 said:
after i got my droid about a year ago, all i wanted to do was root it. I didnt read enuf about it and the effects of messing up, which i did and "bricked my phone".....so what happened, I was using an RSD lite method....very dumb and unplugged the phone to early (of course messing it up). Finally got it to boot back up and when i had to make the call to re-activate it my service was through U.S. Cellular!?! Took it to verizon, they said that was weird and tried to re flash it with their stock system...didnt work, they called their tech support still couldnt get it fixed. They sent me a warranty phone and didnt want or take the old phone back. It works just fine and i use it as my "test" phone. It is still on U.S. cellular service though. Dont eally need it activated but if anyone knows how, i would love to know??
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your answer is APN settings for internet but before you need to preform manual programing on your phone
for manual programing
With the slide closed, tap Phone icon, press # # 7 7 6 4 7 2 6, tap phone icon
Step 02:
Enter SPC Passcode: ______ displays, tap in white box to show virtual keyboard, enter 6 digit code (default: 000000), tap Verify
Step 03:
Tap User Activation
Step 04:
Tap in MIN box, delete existing information (tap at end of existing digits and use DEL), enter 10 digit phone number
Step 05:
Tap in MDN, delete existing information, enter 10 digit phone number
Step 06:
Tap in CDMA Sys ID box, enter SID (for that you have to let me know where you live)
Step 07:
Press Done to save information and return to User Activation menu
Step 08:
Press the Home Key to exit out of programmig.
PROGRAMMING COMPLETE - device will restart automatically.
if you have any other questions send me PM w your phone number ill lookup info for you. I work for Verizon
Bought a Moto X off of craigslist before I was aware of the 5.1 update that included FRP. Since I didn't know about it and the phone boots to the welcome screen like its ready to rock and roll I thought it was all good. Got it home (had to order a nano sim from ST) and the phone kept going back to the credentials page. Later found out its because of the FRP.
Now I don't steal, buy or sell stolen phones so the FRP is a good thing. What's got me pissed is that Google should have the phone return to a bright red screen that says Locked! not to the same welcome screen and setup a normal user sees. Even someone being legit selling a phone, if they were unaware they needed to remove accts and just did a hard reset unaware the next person that bought itwould need the credentials. Of course the seller, at&t and Moto no help. The phone is clean so far as I and At&t can tell.
The phone sat on my desk for 3mos collecting dust. Yesterday I got to playing with it and I was finally able to get past the Lockout (where it keeps going to the Just a Sec page this phone has been reset.....). If you search for settings on the phone it will allow you to get to the android settings to make changes, set developer mode etc..
At the setting I added a User and I can now use the phone, make calls,text, web, youtube etc work.. Google play causes an error msg (bacsically any app that requires a google act).
This is on an XT1097 AT&T so the bootloader is locked. But has anyone done this and would being in developer mode help me remove that defunct account so I can add mine?
If you can get into settings during setup, instead of creating a new user, have you tried initiating a factory reset from within settings?
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No that won't help because to remove the account it asks for the password.
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Help google account I CAN NOT ENTER THE CELL
rampx said:
bought a moto x off of craigslist before i was aware of the 5.1 update that included frp. Since i didn't know about it and the phone boots to the welcome screen like its ready to rock and roll i thought it was all good. Got it home (had to order a nano sim from st) and the phone kept going back to the credentials page. Later found out its because of the frp.
Now i don't steal, buy or sell stolen phones so the frp is a good thing. What's got me pissed is that google should have the phone return to a bright red screen that says locked! Not to the same welcome screen and setup a normal user sees. Even someone being legit selling a phone, if they were unaware they needed to remove accts and just did a hard reset unaware the next person that bought itwould need the credentials. Of course the seller, at&t and moto no help. The phone is clean so far as i and at&t can tell.
The phone sat on my desk for 3mos collecting dust. Yesterday i got to playing with it and i was finally able to get past the lockout (where it keeps going to the just a sec page this phone has been reset.....). Before that page, at the accept and continue license if you stop and select read the motorola agreement and try copy and paste it will bring up a
context menu to search.. If you search for settings on the phone it will allow you to get to the android settings to make changes, set developer mode etc..
At the setting i added a user and i can now use the phone, make calls,text, web, youtube etc work.. Google play causes an error msg (bacsically any app that requires a google act).
This is on an xt1097 at&t so the bootloader is locked. But has anyone done this and would being in developer mode help me remove that defunct account so i can add mine?
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help i can not enter the cell
UncleMike said:
If you can get into settings during setup, instead of creating a new user, have you tried initiating a factory reset from within settings?
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Tried but the reset phone data button is greyed out. It also shows no accounts listed. Even if try to add my google act on my created user it errors. I'm replying from the phone now. Not everything works.
RampX said:
Tried but the reset phone data button is greyed out. It also shows no accounts listed. Even if try to add my google act on my created user it errors. I'm replying from the phone now. Not everything works.
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There is no way to fix it yourself. You got lucky and found a bug that partially lets you in. But there is no true solution to this other than the previous owner logging in and removing his account.
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AGISCI said:
There is no way to fix it yourself. You got lucky and found a bug that partially lets you in. But there is no true solution to this other than the previous owner logging in and removing his account.
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You're probably right but I'm going to keep plugging away at it. A few things I'm going to try. Been using the phone as normal.
Just a follow-up. The phone has now been factory reset and FRP removed.
Enter these commands in the adb tools cmd line:
Used scripts:
adb devices
adb shell netcfg
adb shell content insert --uri content://settings/secure --bind name:s:user_setup_complete --bind value:s:1
that will remove the disable flag on the factory reset button and allow another factory reset.
Props to youtube.com/watch?v=boa3uaarbuE for finishing it up.
RampX said:
Just a follow-up. The phone has now been factory reset and FRP removed.
Enter these commands in the adb tools cmd line:
Used scripts:
adb devices
adb shell netcfg
adb shell content insert --uri content://settings/secure --bind name:s:user_setup_complete --bind value:s:1
that will remove the disable flag on the factory reset button and allow another factory reset.
Props to youtube.com/watch?v=boa3uaarbuE for finishing it up.
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But How to Enable ADB ?? In FRP MODE ?
Okay, starting from the beginning.
I bought a slightly used Nexus 6 in excellent shape. When it arrived, I was able to set it up once (with my account, a Google Apps for Business account using my own domain); I set it up temporarily wifi only, waiting to plug in the SIM. After setting it up, I got prompted to upgrade from 5.1.1 to Marshmallow, which I did.
I'm beginning to enjoy the phone, and I look at the Marshmallow version. MRA58K. So, I find that MR58R is out and I decide to upgrade, following the instructions to flash stock recovery. So far, so good. I begin the fastboot process, and it is writing all the files, when it reports it cannot flash the bootloader, it is locked. I missed this part of the step because I was distracted by other events going on in my house, and instead of rebooting the phone at this point to try and unlock the bootloader, I go into recovery mode and tell it to wipe the phone.
The phone wipes, and boots back up as if normal. That is, until I get to the spot where I need to sign in with my Google account. I try signing in with mine, and I can't - I'm told I need the owner account. Great. So I contact the seller, who is a decent enough guy, who trusts me enough to give me temporary access to his account, in the event that's the problem. I can't get in with his account either. Note for my account, I have not reset the password in a long time, and from what the phone seller told me, he has not with is either ( I'm aware of the 72 hour delay if you do).
The phone shows up as a device in my Google Apps for Business account, but I cannot contact it in any way from there. I've tried "fastboot oem unlock" from the SDK tools, but it fails. I can't get past the prompt asking me to log in. Any one who can offer some help here, I'd really appreciate it; if I can get in just once, I know I can fix anything else. I just don't know how.
Additional note - I did manage to remove the phone from the previous user's Android Device Manager, as I have the account credentials. This, however, has not resolved my issue.
I don't get it --I was able to register the phone with my account the first time I set it up. I'm not sure why it doesn't let me sign in with that account now. I had the phone operational for twelve hours before flashing, so I'd think the link between my Google account and it would be just fine.
I just spoke with Google Store support:
Apparently (according to them), regardless of whether you reset your Google account password or not, factory-resetting the phone means the 72-hour wait period until you can get back in begins unless you have removed your Google account from the phone (and/or with Android Device Manager) prior to the factory reset. This was contrary to my understanding of this only happening if you changed the password shortly before resetting the phone.
I guess I'll find out in about two and a half days; I'll update this thread then.