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ROM Compatibility

I've tried a varity of ROMs on my G1, and it seems hardly any work. I was using SuperD, and decided to flash a new one. SuperE, Chromatic, and zachattack's hero 2.1 don't work. I tried reflashing SuperD, and got stuck on the tmobile boot screen (I can still boot recovery).
My questions are:
What is the average time to be stuck on that tmobile boot screen during the first boot?
and
Am I missing something to make them compatible?
Thank you in advance.

1. be sure to use G1/Sapphire 32B Roms.
2. hard spl is needed for the most éclair roms.
3. what recovery are you using? use RA_AMON`s recovery
4. have you wiped everything?
5. is you sd-card formatted? swap/fat/ext ? (swap not needed)

about the time to be on the g1 screen.... i have waited a maximun of 10 or 12 minutes, if you have been waiting more than 20 minutes than you did something wrong xD
I will suggest to use fastboot to clean your system with this command "fastboot erase system -w" without the quotes of course. then you go to recovery and wipe everything again, flash the rom and wait until it boots

alutastisch said:
1. be sure to use G1/Sapphire 32B Roms.
2. hard spl is needed for the most éclair roms.
3. what recovery are you using? use RA_AMON`s recovery
4. have you wiped everything?
5. is you sd-card formatted? swap/fat/ext ? (swap not needed)
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I have danger spl, is that uncompatible with a lot of roms? Yes, I have RA_AMON's 1.7 recovery. Yeah, I rewipe every time. SD formatted to 128/512/384.
Thanks for the reply.
@ etu_aty
Ill try that thank you.

I just went back to SuperD 1.11 on the Mytouch 32b and had no problems coming from CyanogenMod 6. I recommend wiping through fastboot just like etu_aty has recommended. Just be sure to install the de-fanged base before you re-install SuperD or it will not work.

I having a little trouble using that command. The prompt just says "waiting for device".
Is there some command I need to use before that?
sorryI'znub

outamoney said:
I having a little trouble using that command. The prompt just says "waiting for device".
Is there some command I need to use before that?
sorryI'znub
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you have to press the back key on your phone to let the pc detect it as a fastboot device, read the screen

outamoney said:
I've tried a varity of ROMs on my G1, and it seems hardly any work. I was using SuperD, and decided to flash a new one. SuperE, Chromatic, and zachattack's hero 2.1 don't work. I tried reflashing SuperD, and got stuck on the tmobile boot screen (I can still boot recovery).
My questions are:
What is the average time to be stuck on that tmobile boot screen during the first boot?
and
Am I missing something to make them compatible?
Thank you in advance.
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try this, i made it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=746667

adb logcat while it's booting? as jerry mcguire would say, "help me, help you"

@ aBsolutex3 Downloading now, will let you know if its compatible.
@ robkoehler how do I go about doing that?( i got /sbin/sh: exec: line 1: logcat not found)
A couple of extra things here,
While Im in fastboot mode, any commands issued hang on "waiting for device"(including fastboot devices)
Does dangerspl require a certain sdk to run commands in fastboot?
Some commands like
adb reboot boatloader error closed
adb reboot recovery error closed
adb root error closed
what does that mean?

Omgoodness... Main problem solved. I actually had never finished flashing dangerspl, I must have stopped at the 23 radio XD. Just flashed danger and some of the ROMs are working now.
Thanks for all who responded .

Issue with 1.33.0013d

I was flashing the new radio and hboot, followed steps to a t, install recovery via fastboot, then radio then hboot, and somewhere in there it seems that recovery has been erased, normally not an issue but fastboot flash does not work on the new hboot, so I have tried methods listed using fastboot boot recovery.img, and it hangs at booting for a while, I have also tried restoring SAPPIMG.nbh but that also hangs and has yet to complete for me, any help would be great

ionic7 said:
I was flashing the new radio and hboot, followed steps to a t, install recovery via fastboot, then radio then hboot, and somewhere in there it seems that recovery has been erased, normally not an issue but fastboot flash does not work on the new hboot, so I have tried methods listed using fastboot boot recovery.img, and it hangs at booting for a while, I have also tried restoring SAPPIMG.nbh but that also hangs and has yet to complete for me, any help would be great
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where is it hanging on transfer to the phone? how are you flashing it? the fastboot way is easiest. (fastboot flash nbh ...)

ezterry said:
where is it hanging on transfer to the phone? how are you flashing it? the fastboot way is easiest. (fastboot flash nbh ...)
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I am flashing it in fastboot, but it just sits there, to the point it sat there till it was dead this am. The lil green bar on the side gets all the way full and nothing happens.

ionic7 said:
I am flashing it in fastboot, but it just sits there, to the point it sat there till it was dead this am. The lil green bar on the side gets all the way full and nothing happens.
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Sounds like a USB error try another wire (short and/or with ferrite core.. one of my HTC USBext wires is a bit frayed and has such issues)
I say this because if the download completes it ought to change to checking the checksum.
Alternative: place SAPPIMG.nbh on the root of your sd card it may just let you flash like that.

ezterry said:
Sounds like a USB error try another wire (short and/or with ferrite core.. one of my HTC USBext wires is a bit frayed and has such issues)
I say this because if the download completes it ought to change to checking the checksum.
Alternative: place SAPPIMG.nbh on the root of your sd card it may just let you flash like that.
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trying a diff cord right now, had the file on the root of sd card since i started, what would the command be to flash it from there, as far as i knew fastboot flash was not working on this.
Diff cord did it! Did not have the means to try a diff one last night now i do.

[Q] Fastboot.

Tried to install Cyanogen 6.1... It failed.
From there the device booted up normally on a fresh start, but I tried to recover my backup and that is where everything got all messed up.
Im stuck on the G1 screen.
Ive gotten it to the fastboot mode and Im downloading what I think I need to get my phone working again. Ive downloaded the Andriod 1.6 image from the HTC website. Do I need the recovery? I just want 1.6 until I have time to try and get Cyanogen installed.
Im currently installing JDK for the Andriod SDK.
Am I headed in the right direction?
I was using ROM Manager with Clockwork Mod. My old ROM was Super E... Not sure what version, but it was Andriod 2.1

What radio/spl do u have?

johnson8cyl said:
What radio/spl do u have?
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2.22.19.26I

Tbry said:
2.22.19.26I
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And spl? Do u have and eng spl? (S-off). If so u could fastboot erase your system and try to flash the rom through recovery. And fastboot flash a recovery of your choice first. Have u tried going on ezterry's thread with the new radio/spl and going that route?

Not sure what the version of the SPL is, but I know it is off. I'll check his thread out and give it a try. I might end up finding someone who actually knows what they are doing, or buying the Nexus S.

Ok. If u follow his thread exactly and fastboot flash the radio/recovery/spl u should end up with everything as described in the thread and be able to move on with cm6 with appropriate kernel. Alternatively u could boot into fastboot and open up your terminal on your computer and type in code to fastboot recovery of your choice (after it's download and put in sdk/tools folder on your PC) he has amonra link in his thread for download . Then type fastboot erase system -w (hit enter). When it's done type fastboot erase boot (hit enter). Then power down. Power back into recovery with the rom on your sdcard and flash away.

That is actually what I'm trying to do. Its just about my only option at this point.
Im having problems getting everything set up correctly though.

What are u having problems setting up?

I installed Andriod SDK, seems to be working.
Downloaded the drivers, which seems to have stopped my computer from seeing the phone.
I downloaded the Fastboot.exe, tried to run it but it cannot find ADB.dll ( Pretty sure thats what it was.)
I was basically following the steps on the cyanogen wiki.
When I have some time, I will try the Fastboot for noobs guide.

I think I followed a guide in androiddevelopers.com or something like that. If I find it again ill post a link. I don't think I ran a fastboot exe file though. Just have it in my androidsdk/tools folder. Added the variable to my paths and was good to go. Not at my PC currently though.
Edit: developer.android.com/sdk/
I believe is what I followed

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
Following this for fastboot.
I cannot update anything. Home + power doesnt do anything.
Only thing I can access is fastboot mode.
Fortunately my radio is up to date, so I assume my SPL is as well.
Going to attempt to try the fastboot step, once I can get the SDK working correctly
edit: I knew if I spent enough time working at it that I'd get it working.
Only problem now is getting my device to be listed.
Edit2: at first when I entered fastboot mode, I would get the "Add new hardware" for the device "Andriod 1.0"
It now says "andriod bootloader interface"
I feel like I'm so close. I'm going to keep playing with it, but what can I do to get my device listed when I type the command "Fastboot devices"?
Edit 3: Awesome. I got fastboot to work and my phone is recognized. Only problem now is getting my SD card reader to work so I can put the proper files on
Final edit: MY phone is killing SD cards for some reason. Don't know what to do
Got the SD cards to work, for some reason though, some of the commands are not working. When I type fastboot shell, I just get the usage doc.
When I do fastboot update, I get the following: error: failed to load 'update.zip'

What are u trying to do in fastboot?
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Well, I fixed my phone. Back to its original state.
I guess my only question at this point my only question is if I switch to Cyanogen 6.1, will it be less buggy than my Super E ROM?
For anyone wondering, Holding home + end for about 25 seconds is what I did. From there I just went to nandriod and tried to recover the same backup that gave me the problem.

I would say no. It will not be less buggy. U can always flash and try different roms though for experiment sake. Glad u got it back up
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[Q] phone not working

hi guys looking for help as my phone is not working tidy. i tried to install jellybean rom using the guide in this section followed it to a tee up until it says to wipe factory rset did that and its froze on the 4ext screen i cannot do anything it boots me back to recovery and a message comes up on the 4ext home screen saying the following. ATTN recovery is in safe mode this is because the following partition is not accessible "system" please enter the wipe menu and format system if you changed your hboot you should choose to format all partitions except sd card. no tried to format system its just stuck on the screen disk spinning around left it for a good hour to and it never changed also it does the same if i format all partitions except sd card. i just would like to know if i can get my phone working again from this. thanks

assume you have blackrose if your plans were to install jelly bean so
boot to fastboot and flash a new hboot image, this should fix your partitions
then use fastboot to flash a new recovery
then boot to recovery and flash rom

thanks ever so much for replying but im not sure how to do what you say i cannot access my usb in recovery mode it just freezes up. the only thing working is adb and yeh got blackrose installed just dont no what went wrong think it may have been blackrose im not sure i no my sd card is ok its just the phone system partition that has messed up. if you could explain how to do it or point me to the relevant thread but bare in mind usb wont work only adb. thanks sorry to waste your time.

anyone help me pls in this situation i tried flashing aman ras recovery but my phone wont respond wont let me do anything in 4ext recovery as its in safe mode. its the actual phone system partition that must be stopping it from working it was fine until blackrose was installed. just hope it isnt bricked if only could fix system partition somehow. i cant use usb adb seems to work but not sure how to do it. im not tech minded am a noob but im still human and wont appreciate sarky comments i just need help.

Don't use adb use fastboot (similar but different) fastboot is to be used in bootloader, here hold on....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27796375
This is a guide I made on how to use fastboot, its for a different phone but the basics are the same ( don't flash files from my link only use it as instruction on how to)
You will need to grab a recovery image, must be img format. Also grab a bootloader in the right cmtd partition for the ROM you want.
Go to the thread that has a bunch of hboots to be flashed in recovery, grab the size you need, unzip it (preferably with 7zip) and extract the boot.img from it. Use that image in fasrtboot
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thanks so much where do i open the command prompt on my desktop by pressing shift and right clicking mouse as that seems to work the normal one using cmd in start doesnt. also what hboot shall i use do ijust dwnload them to my desktop. do i need usb coz mine dont work in 4ext not to access anything. in bootloader it says fastboot usb in red but it still dont show my device as accessible. if i issue the fastboot prompt that you said would that work. thanks again very helpful to me

im haing no luck at all i got a recovery from xda unzipped it to c: on my pc type in fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and it says this failed remote image update error. can you pls help easy step by step guide easy coz i just dont no what to do appreciate it everyone

Well I already linked you a guide, what happens when you type just
fastboot devices
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Its OK now its done now used the fast boot erase system command and flashed cm10 to it works like a charm. Thank you for your help just having a prob with that now as DSP manager doesn't work don't turn the effects on and phone speaker volume is very quiet just wondering how I get it to work again I'm using Apollo as default player.

[Q] Everything going wrong with my HTC One?

Being the genius that I am, I accidentally formatted the sdcard of my htc one in TWRP recovery and effectively losing the OS.
Normally putting a ROM into the phone and flashing it should solve the problem but somehow my recovery cannot mount the sdcard at all. I've tried flashing a different recovery like CWM but that only made things worse as now not only can it still not be mounted, fastboot also can't be detected.
It just shows "fastboot usb" instead of the usual "fastboot" word chopped off midway. I'm freaking out now so any help will be appreciated:crying:

Can you flash the bootloader and then the recovery again or do you get any error message?

9ogres2 said:
Being the genius that I am, I accidentally formatted the sdcard of my htc one in TWRP recovery and effectively losing the OS.
Normally putting a ROM into the phone and flashing it should solve the problem but somehow my recovery cannot mount the sdcard at all. I've tried flashing a different recovery like CWM but that only made things worse as now not only can it still not be mounted, fastboot also can't be detected.
It just shows "fastboot usb" instead of the usual "fastboot" word chopped off midway. I'm freaking out now so any help will be appreciated:crying:
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In Fastboot USB, type this adb push rom.zip /data/media
With rom.zip replaced with whatever the file name of the ROM you want. Tada, now you have a ROM installer in your phone

9ogres2 said:
Being the genius that I am, I accidentally formatted the sdcard of my htc one in TWRP recovery and effectively losing the OS.
Normally putting a ROM into the phone and flashing it should solve the problem but somehow my recovery cannot mount the sdcard at all. I've tried flashing a different recovery like CWM but that only made things worse as now not only can it still not be mounted, fastboot also can't be detected.
It just shows "fastboot usb" instead of the usual "fastboot" word chopped off midway. I'm freaking out now so any help will be appreciated:crying:
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try flashing bootloader and flasing another recovery (ClockwordMod 6.0.3.1). And try to install new rom by SIDELOAD

9ogres2 said:
Being the genius that I am, I accidentally formatted the sdcard of my htc one in TWRP recovery and effectively losing the OS.
Normally putting a ROM into the phone and flashing it should solve the problem but somehow my recovery cannot mount the sdcard at all. I've tried flashing a different recovery like CWM but that only made things worse as now not only can it still not be mounted, fastboot also can't be detected.
It just shows "fastboot usb" instead of the usual "fastboot" word chopped off midway. I'm freaking out now so any help will be appreciated:crying:
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Read this post from yesterday - same problem, the guy got it fixed...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2299985
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