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So i got a new G1 after the previous one never got signal (took it to a shop and they sent me a replacement)
i downgraded to rc 29
rooted/put cm recovery 1.4 in
the most recent radio was already installed (62.50S.20.17H_2.22.19.26I)
flashed haykuro's spl.
then, as usual, it says "press home+back" to reboot.
so i did.
however, the phone is stuck at the white G1 screen. I tried to do reboot with home+power, and with camera+power, but both of those went to the G1 screen and stopped.
I can't see what's going on (adb logcat simply says -waiting for device-. is there another command?)
so should i wait on the screen, or did i make a mistake. If so, then where did i go wrong and how should i have done it?
If you can not get into recovery or bootloader, just set down, yell, smack yourself in your head and then take it back to the shop for another one cause you my friend BRICKED your phone. Another phone bites the dust, don't feel to bad I have done it before too
any idea how it happened? so i can avoid doing it again later?
Did you have a pvt board? If so then you are just a small statistical error. I have bricked a phohne before that have a pvt board, newest radio, all the requirements for it to work ,and the phone still bricked ,but it was around the release of cupcake so i told my friend to call tmobile and tell them he got an ota update and his phone wouldn't get passed the g1 screen, and they sent him another and the new spl flashed just fine on it
Not sure cause you said that the newest radio was already on there which would be the usual suspect, when you say it was already there do you mean before you downgraded to rc29 if so when you downgrade it also downgrades the radio and you have to flash it back on
not sure about the board - im assuming there's no way to check now?
and as long as you can "prove" (or lie, really) that the phone broke on its own, theres no limit as to how many replacements you can get, right?
...It downgrades the radio too?
well, theres my problem.
Anyway, thanks for the quick help guys
Yes it overwrites everything except a custom splash image but hey now you know, I would say that is what got you, when you get your new phone go into the bootloader and the first peice of info will say it is either a pvt or dvt board
If you just got your g1, chances are it did not ship with the latest update, none of the 3 I got like 2 months ago did so just say it was upgrading a ota update and froze and they will give you another one
hey, i recently lost root somehow?!
and tried to effectively reroot my phone, flashed the DREAIMG.nbh
keeps failing!
wont go any further than the bootloader,
cant get into recovery or anything...
heres what the bootloader screen reads
DREA110 PVT 32B RUUNBH
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
SEP 2 2008
is my g1 bricked?
hey,
first off i know this is in the wrong section, but im really desperate here..
i recently lost root somehow?!
and tried to effectively reroot my phone, flashed the DREAIMG.nbh
keeps failing!
wont go any further than the bootloader,
cant get into recovery or anything...
heres what the bootloader screen reads
DREA110 PVT 32B RUUNBH
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
SEP 2 2008
when i try to uodate the DREAIMG file it just says ''Update Terminated UPDATE FAIL''
i cant access recovery, or console, and my computer refuses to run adb.. :/ PLEASE HELP!!
Did you try downloading the dreaimg.nbh file again? Perhaps it was corrupted? Also, you did try to flash it from bootloader, right?
have you tried booting normally? and yeah, this is in the wrong section.
I responded to your other thread in the QA section (which is where it belongs).
You should try giving us more than 15 minutes before deciding that your problems are worth more than other people's and posting a second thread in this section. 7:30pm on a Wednesday night...? Yeah, people have families that they're with.
uansari1 said:
I responded to your other thread in the QA section (which is where it belongs).
You should try giving us more than 15 minutes before deciding that your problems are worth more than other people's and posting a second thread in this section. 7:30pm on a Wednesday night...? Yeah, people have families that they're with.
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sorry about that but i have an angry girlfriend and i know this is the section with the most traffic,
uansari1 said:
Did you try downloading the dreaimg.nbh file again? Perhaps it was corrupted? Also, you did try to flash it from bootloader, right?
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all the sites that seem to host the DREAIMG file seem to be down.. :/ and yeah tried flashing from bootloader said update fail and then wouldnt let me boot normally or into recovery just bootloader..
Da Bealez said:
sorry about that but i have an angry girlfriend and i know this is the section with the most traffic,
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its also the section that pisses most people off because of threads like this lol. just letting you know.
Anyway.... let's just keep it to the other thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=589856
Da Bealez said:
all the sites that seem to host the DREAIMG file seem to be down.. :/ and yeah tried flashing from bootloader said update fail and then wouldnt let me boot normally or into recovery just bootloader..
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Ok, I'll upload my copy of the file and post the link here. Sit tight... might take a while, plus I'm cooking.
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Ok, I'll upload my copy of the file and post the link here. Sit tight... might take a while, plus I'm cooking.
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thanks alot man!
if you ever need a hand with any graphical aspects, im a graphic designer in the daytime haha
Da Bealez said:
thanks alot man!
if you ever need a hand with any graphical aspects, im a graphic designer in the daytime haha
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Thanks for the offer...
Here you go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?koydnhjn1jo
Hope that works for you... if not, then you're bricked.
uansari1 said:
Thanks for the offer...
Here you go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?koydnhjn1jo
Hope that works for you... if not, then you're bricked.
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thanks so much
ive been meaning to learn how to theme and ultimatley cook roms but its a long process and it seems pretty complicated! so congrats on all of your hard work!
Da Bealez said:
thanks so much
ive been meaning to learn how to theme and ultimatley cook roms but its a long process and it seems pretty complicated! so congrats on all of your hard work!
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I'm actually not a dev..the most I've done is helped test out some ROMs before release or to test fixes for some problems.
Anyway, did the flash work this time?
Hey I have the same problem. Even if you do re-download the DREAIMG.nbh how could I get it onto my phone? I can't get the phone connected to my computer through the USB at all. Is there anyway at all to reverse this process? I've read that the Serial should read Serial0 unplugged and then SerialUSB when it's plugged in. But mine just stays Serial0. I'm on whits end, I don't know what to do or where to go. Could someone please help?
Also when I take out the battery and put it back in, the key board has to be open first before i turn it on to even get to the RUUNBH screen. When it's closed and I turn it on it just stays black and doesn't do anything. Do I just need to get a new phone? Would it be better to go to a T-Mobile store or just call technical support and have them send a new one?
Put the sd card into your pc(card reader), make sure its fat32 then put dreaimg.nbh file onto your sd card...
Simple right? Easier than driving in water.
T-Mobile G1 Just keeps Rebooting
Hi there i have a similar problem.
I was given a T-Mobile G1 but it just keeps rebooting.
It wont do a hard reset,
I have tried to reflash with DREAIMG.NBH (RC7) from microsd card Fat 32,
with this sequence & this is what happens
Press camera button while holding it down breifley press power button and release it, while still holding camera button.
Phone then starts into bootloader
then i release camera button
phone then shows white screen with
loading...
then
checking...
then above checking... in red numbers
0058002
then phone returns to bootloader.
I have attached a image of my bootloader can you tell me if the info on it is ok?
What does EVT1 etc etc etc mean?
And how to get this phone up & running again....Thanks....
thedaddyy said:
Hi there i have a similar problem.
I was given a T-Mobile G1 but it just keeps rebooting.
It wont do a hard reset,
I have tried to reflash with DREAIMG.NBH (RC7) from microsd card Fat 32,
with this sequence & this is what happens
Press camera button while holding it down breifley press power button and release it, while still holding camera button.
Phone then starts into bootloader
then i release camera button
phone then shows white screen with
loading...
then
checking...
then above checking... in red numbers
0058002
then phone returns to bootloader.
I have attached a image of my bootloader can you tell me if the info on it is ok?
What does EVT1 etc etc etc mean?
And how to get this phone up & running again....Thanks....
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The "EVT1 stuff" is just device info; like device name, 32B=board type, Radio=version of the Radio that connects you to the network.
I am concerned because the EVT1 should read DREA100 or DREA110. I think whoever gave it to you attempted something crazy and somehow put the wrong SPL on it. Download the correct SPL HERE and replace it then go from there. That should do the trick.
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The "EVT1 stuff" is just device info; like device name, 32B=board type, Radio=version of the Radio that connects you to the network.
I am concerned because the EVT1 should read DREA100 or DREA110. I think whoever gave it to you attempted something crazy and somehow put the wrong SPL on it. Download the correct SPL HERE and replace it then go from there. That should do the trick.
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Hi mate thx for the advice.
I downloaded G1OrigBootloader_nocheck from your link and renamed to update.zip as the instructions suggested.
Made sure microsd is Fat32 copied update.zip to it.
Inserted into G1 put the battery back in.
Held down Home Button and Power Button for about 2 mins but all i get on the screen is BLACK SCREEN!!!! grrrr....
So it also seems i cant get in to Recovery Console either.
Is there another way to replace the SPL?
Hey all.
I've spent about two hours combing the forums and other resources here and can't seem to find a straight answer. I'm new to this, and may not be using the correct search terms, so I apologize if this has already been discussed in great detail (and I'm sure it has).
I acquired an old TMobile G1 from a friend. Turning it on dumps me to the carrier splash, and hangs there indefinitely. Recovery mode using Home + Power doesn't work. However, Camera + Power gets me into the Rainbow SPL, and from there I can succesfully flash DREAIMG.nbh from an SD card. However, upon rebooting, the system still hangs at flash. I can re-flash DREAIMG as many times as I want, but nothing ever changes.
Info from SPL:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
Sep 2 2008
Am I flashing the correct image? Does something else need to downloaded or placed on my SD card for this to work. I'd like to stress, this is the state I received the G1 in, and I have no clue what was done to it before.
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide!
go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
and start with rooting rc29
Already tried that, sadly. RC29 is the NHB I've been working with all this time, and I still get nothing after flashing that from the rainbow SPL.
EDIT: Also, I have no clue if this means anything, but I left it to charge earlier, and when I came back a few hours later, the keyboard lights and face buttons were all lit up. Is that normal?
Set it to boot NORMAL and LEAVE IT TO BOOT. This takes a while. Don't panic when it doesn't boot up in 3 seconds!
It's been about 40 minutes. Think I should leave it a little while longer?
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It's been about 40 minutes. Think I should leave it a little while longer?
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No, now reflash RC29 and try again. If it still takes >= 40 minutes, then your hardware's fried.
hello all, i need help again this time.
let's get to the point.
this morning, i tried to charge my G1 because the battery has yellow color.
when i charged the phone, after around 5 minutes, suddenly my G1 restart itself and then after the "G1" logo, the screen go all black, sometimes not all black but there's a little glitch (white-green-purple-all little colors.)
the phone got heated on the bottom part everytime i power-on it, even just on battery (not charged).
i tried "Camera + Power", it's only getting to that red-blue-green-white screen that shows :
"DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT - 0.95.0000
CPLD-4
Radio-2.22.23.02
Sep 2 2008
Serial0"
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and it stops there for AGES . won't do anything.
i tried "Home + Power", i tried to hold down that two buttons for 25 second more, but it keeps normal boot, shows G1 logo, and then black screen again.
i tried "Menu + Power", it just the same as "Home + Power"
my G1 has never been rooted, it's all original, i haven't done any system upgrading-downgrading things.
the charger is the original one, original from htc
the battery is new, i've just changed it one month ago.
that's all the informations that i can give.
so, anyone can help me solving this problem?
no one's wiling to help me?
anything you can say is helping me.
is my G1 bricked? but i didn't do anything to the system, not rooting nor flashing etc.
just normal charging and everything bad happened
It's not bricked. Hopefully, all hardware is still working. I'd say try for warranty stuff first, but if you have to, you could try downgrading using the DREAIMG.nbh then upgrade using the various zips (check unrooting guides, they have upgrades from 1.0 [dreaimg.nbh] to 1.6, latest update)
I don't have any links, but google is your friend.
Tony_SpaZ said:
It's not bricked. Hopefully, all hardware is still working. I'd say try for warranty stuff first, but if you have to, you could try downgrading using the DREAIMG.nbh then upgrade using the various zips (check unrooting guides, they have upgrades from 1.0 [dreaimg.nbh] to 1.6, latest update)
I don't have any links, but google is your friend.
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DREAIMG.nbh is the RC29 right?
only the image, and i don't need any SPL or update.zip, right?
i guess i'll try this one, thanks
Please abide by forum rules. No need to create 2 threads on same topic. Thread closed
I decided to get in on the Android experience and bought a used G1 off ebay. When I got it (supposedly unlocked, but it wasn't ) it was running Cupcake 1.5 with the CRC1 build. One oddity that was stated in the auction listing is that the phone would not do a Factory Reset. When I tried it, it would go to the rainbow boot screen, but I could restart it (both a battery pull or a Menu/Home/Power press) to get back to life. I read several pages, both here and at cyanogen's page to make sure I would do the root process correctly with the eventual goal of getting this thing to cyanogen's Froyo 2.2 version. Needless to say, it has failed ... at step 1 no less. I reformatted the SD card (a 2 GB SanDisk) to FAT32 with WinXP, loaded the DREAIMG.nbh file, and rebooted the phone. The gray screen with blue text came up for the reflashing process, so I hit Power to continue. The "Update in Progress..." text shows and the bar moves until completion. After pausing momentarily at the end of the progress bar, it shows:
00018003
DREAIMG.nbh - FAIL
BOOTLOADER - OK
RECOVERY - Fail
BOOT -
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_V2 -
Update Terminate
UPDATE FAIL
The rainbow boot screen says:
DREA100 PVT 32B RUUNBH
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Sep 2 2008
Serial0
The phone will now not boot past the rainbow screen. Note that if I have an SD Card with the flash image in the phone that it will go to the flash screen even if I do not hold the camera button (maybe that is normal). I searched Google for "00018003 "Recovery - FAIL"" and even it can not find any one who apparently is having the same problem.
I have repeated the update attempt several times with identical results. I downloaded the file multiple times from different locations, but the md5 has always matched regardless of where I get it from. I reformatted the card from Linux (Ubuntu) and I tried another SD Card (8 GB AData). Does anyone have any ideas on what to try? I am adept with Linux, but am a newbie to Android.
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I decided to get in on the Android experience and bought a used G1 off ebay. When I got it (supposedly unlocked, but it wasn't ) it was running Cupcake 1.5 with the CRC1 build. One oddity that was stated in the auction listing is that the phone would not do a Factory Reset. When I tried it, it would go to the rainbow boot screen, but I could restart it (both a battery pull or a Menu/Home/Power press) to get back to life. I read several pages, both here and at cyanogen's page to make sure I would do the root process correctly with the eventual goal of getting this thing to cyanogen's Froyo 2.2 version. Needless to say, it has failed ... at step 1 no less. I reformatted the SD card (a 2 GB SanDisk) to FAT32 with WinXP, loaded the DREAIMG.nbh file, and rebooted the phone. The gray screen with blue text came up for the reflashing process, so I hit Power to continue. The "Update in Progress..." text shows and the bar moves until completion. After pausing momentarily at the end of the progress bar, it shows:
00018003
DREAIMG.nbh - FAIL
BOOTLOADER - OK
RECOVERY - Fail
BOOT -
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_V2 -
Update Terminate
UPDATE FAIL
The rainbow boot screen says:
DREA100 PVT 32B RUUNBH
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Sep 2 2008
Serial0
The phone will now not boot past the rainbow screen. Note that if I have an SD Card with the flash image in the phone that it will go to the flash screen even if I do not hold the camera button (maybe that is normal). I searched Google for "00018003 "Recovery - FAIL"" and even it can not find any one who apparently is having the same problem.
I have repeated the update attempt several times with identical results. I downloaded the file multiple times from different locations, but the md5 has always matched regardless of where I get it from. I reformatted the card from Linux (Ubuntu) and I tried another SD Card (8 GB AData). Does anyone have any ideas on what to try? I am adept with Linux, but am a newbie to Android.
Thanks.
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How much is your phone charged...charge it full and then try again....
I obviously can no longer see the meter in Android. I charged it with the phone off to a green LED and still get the same result.
Possible other relevant information:
When charging from my computer with the phone off, the LED is red, not orange. I did not notice this at first as I have not had the phone long enough to know what is "normal".
If I power up with the USB connected to my computer, the rainbow screen looks almost identical except it does not have the text "Serial0". If I unplug USB then that text appears after a couple seconds. Does that mean I can get do some serial communication that would help with the problem?
Are you sure you have the right dreamimg.nbh file? There is 2 of them. Did you put .zip after it?
sent from my superfroyo dream
I used cyanogenmod's wiki (and other pages with identical or similar instructions) which indicates to name the file exactly DREAIMG.nbh, so that is what I did. Is there a different reason I should use .zip? I also chose to do RC29 as I am assuming this phone is a US phone (I purchased from a US seller). Is there an easy way to tell which phone I have (US or Europe)? Should I try RC7, or will that completely brick the phone if it is the wrong version?
Thanks.
No you won't brick the phone. I don't know what version you'd want. I'm in usa. Never had to deal with the other. The only way you'll brick your phone is by messing with danger spl 1.33.2005 just remember if you downgrade. It changes your spl and radio. The whole package. Then you want to flash radio back to 2.22.23.02. Or 26I in your case. Before flashing danger spl. But your not even there yet. Yeah make sure you have a .zip after dream nbh file on root of your sd card. Before flashing.
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Well that answers that question. I tried the RC7 for Europe and after the "Loading..." and "Checking..." stages it shows:
0028002
Not allow
and drops back to the rainbow. So I definitely have a US phone as expected.
What is the .zip file that I should have on my SD card? I do not see that in the instructions to get to the state where my phone is rooted.
Just make sure before you flash the dream nbh you have a .zip after it before you flash it
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I am still not sure what you mean by the .zip. I tried renaming DREAIMG.nbh to DREAIMG.nbh.zip, but that could not find a file for updating. Then I tried putting a .zip file on the sdcard at the same time as the DREAIMG.nbh file and that did not help. So if you could shed some light on that, maybe I can make some headway.
Thanks.
I have made no progress on this over the last 24 hours. I tried several more flashes to see if eventually one would take, but I always get the same result.
man where have you been or maby where have I been? That was a very good information on the dangers of danser spl. If I have seen this earlier I would not have bricked two G1's. I know know what I did wrong. Never heard it explained that way.
Thanks
I am not sure what you mean. I have only tried to downgrade to the RC29 image as the first step toward rooting the phone. I am beginning to wonder if the previous owner did some failed mod's prior to me owning it and that is why it is stuck in the state it is in. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?
What's going on. Pm and let me know where you guys are at. Not gonna keep coming back to this thread.
sent from my superfroyo dream
this is intresting as i have similar mobo in same situation, though I had even recovery... the phone would stay fine in hboot, BUT when i tried to go and put the .nbh file it went about 2/3's then the screen turns off and thats it... i cant get into this mobo have to wait with battery out for a few min and then i can go back into hboot
is there a solution? some other nbh file to flash? or do i need to go the jtag/serial route :/ which i have but it takes almost few hours to do with slow wiggler jtag
I never got a solution. As that phone was mostly just a temporary Android experiment for me, I gave up and got myself a new Samsung Vibrant. I still have the G1, though, if anyone has a solution ... Otherwise it will probably go on eBay as a non-working/bricked/for-parts phone.
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I have made no progress on this over the last 24 hours. I tried several more flashes to see if eventually one would take, but I always get the same result.
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This should help:
http://theunlockr.com/2010/04/26/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-htc-g1-dream/
Follow instructions to the letter. Looks like the whole procedure was made easier.