I have been running CM6 on my G1 for a while with no major issues. However, this morning when I woke up, the phone was not turning on. The screen comes up with the bootloader white screen and keeps turning off. I had installed Advanced Task Killer the previous night and I suspected that it must have done something to the system. So I decided to reinstall everything from scratch, starting from DREAIMG.nbh.
My G1 looked to me as the T-Mobile UK version, so i used the RC7 DREAIMG.nbh. It flashed okay and booted fine. And when the Google account setup screen showed up, I tried to type my account details but very strangely I could only type the letters e d f x only. All others keys don't show up or do anything. I booted many times but the keyboard doesn't work at all, except those four keys.
I then wanted to flash RC29 thinking that I flashed the wrong version earlier. But now when I press Camera + Power, nothing happens. So I cant go to the bootloader screen. It just boots normally to the setup screen. I can however get the recovery screen when I press Home + Power but then because the keyboard's Alt or W is not working, I cant do a wipe either.
I also checked if it is talking to ADB, but ADB does not see the G1 either in recovery screen or after it has booted up normally.
I have been reading all day all over this forum, as well as others but did not find any similar problem or a way forward. Can anyone suggest how to get it back to normal. I don't think its totally bricked because it boots up normally and it can also go into recovery mode.
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Hi there,
I've a question regarding a strange problem I have atm. I flashed a new ROM two days ago and it worked well and without problems. I did two hard resets because I tested various programs and settings but the ROM worked.
Now my Diamond hang (you can see the time it hung with 19:52 because it froze there) and I did a soft reset. I did not do anything when it froze, I just noticed it as I wanted to call someone half an hour ago. The soft reset did not work though, the boot hang at the boot logo.
I though I'd simply do a hard reset but that did not work either getting me all kind of errors during the customization. It never happened with the very same ROM flashed before though. Not sure why it does happen now.
I cannot flash a new rom because I can't boot though so I can use AS. I can't flash from internal since I cannot copy stuff on there without a properly bootet device.
Has anyone seen such a thing before? It happened out of the blue and I did not change anything or flashed a different ROM or something similar.
get to the boot loader----> hold volume up, enter (round button on keypad) and press reset button (keep holding volume up and enter). you should now see the tri colored screen, plug in your usb cable and now you should see usb at bottom of tri colored screen. with your rom of choice run custom ruu, when you hit update it will return with nothing for your installed rom but will show what you are going to update to. hit go and it should start flashing.
That did indeed help. Thank you very much. My Diamond is back amongst the living now. Not sure what happened there though ...
My brothers phone was dropped (apparently hes a bit clumsy!) Whenever he was texting using the keyboard, it was making some very strange characters on the screen, whenever he would push 1 key, several would appear, etc.
't' ='d 's03' etc... stuff like that.. obviously thought a reboot would fix the issue. So when we rebooted the phone, it turned out that it couldnt get past the g1 screen and was stuck at the Triangle with the yellow exclamation point. Pushing ALT+L showed the recovery screen. We went through the appropriate options and held down back + home for 25+ secs to get it to reboot. It rebooted fine and worked for an hour or so, until the Voice Search just kept popping up as if he was asking it to, so we tried to reboot the phone again and do the recovery thing, this time it wouldn't get past the recovery after holding down home + back. I can't push back + home either to get it to restart, so I'm thinking the home key may be broken or stuck.
Any thoughts on this issue or has anyone else experience such? He'll more than likely be sending it in today since its still under warranty and has NOT been rooted.
Thanks!
same thing happened to my first g1..its a hardware issue send it in
Was hoping it wasn't a hardware thing, but so be it. Thanks for the heads up.
Hi All
I have been trying to root my G1. I downgraded it to RC29.
Then, it started behaving very weird.
When I boot up, I cant do anything from the home screen. Even if I try to open the app drawer, it immediately closes it. I cant open the dialer. I cant even go to another home screen. It immediately comes to the default one. I cant even power it off. I can only pull the battery off. But in that case, when I try starting it again, it goes into the screen with triangle and exclamatory mark. When this happens, there is nothing much I can do. So, I just leave it for a long time like a day. Then, if I try starting it, it boots, but again same problem as before.
I tried reflashing the ROM many times, but no use. After the reflashing, it has same problem again.
Try flashing a different rom. Sounds like you have a very unstable rom.
I have used the one cyanogen suggests in his instructions. It is the DREAMIMG.nbh and downloaded from android-dls.com
I have downloaded it couple of times and reflashed. So, its not that the file got corrupted during download.
Do you have suggestions about any other ROM?
Now, I think it is not a problem with the ROM
It is as if the Home button is stuck. That is why, it always comes back to home screen, and boots up into recovery since home+power is recovery mode.
Once in a while it randomly goes into the recent apps window confirming that it is a home button issue.
Any work around?
Hello forum,
I try not to post on forum for help unless I run out of options. I used to encounter loops before and managed to fix them but this one is really weird. So a bit of background : I was running stock ROM + TWRP recovery and everything seemed normal till one day when I encountered my first loop after opening up newly installed app ( although I don't think it relevant to this case ). But anyway, when I opened it, phone restarted itself immediately and kept doing it (didn't get pass the logo) for around 5 minutes when finally booted into the OS. After that everything seemed fine for...about a month when the same loops started to happen more and more often. They usually happen when phone has it screen turned off and I press power button to wake it up, it then gives me 3 seconds as If I would hold the power button and volume down button prompting me that it's about to restart itself. So I thought, that there has to be some junk apps that are fighting with each other causing these loops and I went for the recovery. But (stupid me) instead of wiping only the apps I got rid of the whole ROM with recovery ( ). So this time I flashed a custom ROM (ViperOne+9.0.0-fix) using ADB (adb push etc etc) and TWRP thinking that maybe the previous ROM was the issue. (I forgot to mention that even when there was no OS on the phone it was still looping.) After a while when the loops stopped, I got into the recovery and flashed ViperOne with no problems at all. Phone booted itself into the OS, everything seemed normal to the point where I left it for couple of minutes, pressed power button and it went into to eternal loop where it only stopped when the battery was drained. It was literally loopin the whole night (couldn't sleep). Now when I connect it to charge it doesn't go into charging but goes straight into the loop. I can get as far as the bootloader and selecting to go to recovery and after I press power button to select it, it goes into the loop. NOW..this might sound like there is a hardware issue (the power button) but I highly doubt it. Ill appreciate any kind of solutions. :silly: Thanks in advance.
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If I didnt make any sense here's video :
https://youtu.be/DhVFApSE3kg
I havent used this phone in a while but, today I turned it on and used it to check for files before i sold it. The phone was just as I had left it, working fine and I got all my files and did a factory reset. It booted up fine and and took me through the normal activation menus. Asking for a wifi connection I hit skip and it just goes back to the beginning of the menus, I connect to wifi and it still goes back to the beginning what ever options i choose it takes me back. I am able to get to the home screen through the lock screen menus but it doesn't work correctly like having no home button. I checked the phone and im on Marshmallow ZVB 1.04. i tried to factory reset again and now i can get all the way through the menus but it still goes back to the beginning and home screen is jacked. Where should i start to fix this?
Rally187 said:
I havent used this phone in a while but, today I turned it on and used it to check for files before i sold it. The phone was just as I had left it, working fine and I got all my files and did a factory reset. It booted up fine and and took me through the normal activation menus. Asking for a wifi connection I hit skip and it just goes back to the beginning of the menus, I connect to wifi and it still goes back to the beginning what ever options i choose it takes me back. I am able to get to the home screen through the lock screen menus but it doesn't work correctly like having no home button. I checked the phone and im on Marshmallow ZVB 1.04. i tried to factory reset again and now i can get all the way through the menus but it still goes back to the beginning and home screen is jacked. Where should i start to fix this?
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Google stuck at configuring ure fone dont know the e acts its like start over no conecttions press vol up and hone and where the home button would be. Google for g3 youll find it