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Please Help-"No Image File!"

Hey guys: My phone froze randomly while i was listening to music, so naturally i restarted holding the home+power+menu buttons. Ive restarted my phone several times using this method without any problems. this time around it loads to a screen that im not too familiar with: it has three little android guys skateboarding on the bottom and a solid yellow line in the middle that says "Serial0", up top it says:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HSPL10.95.3000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Oct 20 2008
it loads to that screen and then from a brief second a gray screen pops up and says "No Image File!"
it wont let me load into recovery to wipe, ive tried just pulling out the battery, sim, and SD card and it still goes straight to this screen.
I am/ was running Cyanogen's latest rom and my sd card had ext3/linux swap.
i tried researching this and no luck...im pretty desperate for help..
so please and thank you for any advice/ways to fix this!

ive managed to get into the recovery, but after several wipes it still goes into the same screen (the screen where you hold the camera and power button). so i decided to throw in the DEAIMG-RC29 and it asked me if to install it so i did. but it still keeps going back to that screen...
anyone.please. any advice...This phone is my life! so could really really use some help..id be so grateful

did you get any errors when you flashed RC29? because if your still seeing skateboards after flashing RC29....something went wrong

no, i got the screen with the blue green and red bars. i just tried draining the battery but still no luck, it still keeps going back to this screen

well if everything is stock and its still doing that.....make sure your camera key isnt stuck.
See if you can boot into recovery with
adb shell reboot recovery
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and if all else fails, just call tmo and tell them to replace the phone

Phone stuck at startup (T-Mobile G1) Screen

Help me please.
I had a HTC Dream I guess, flashed it with wrong ROM, which was made for HTC Hero.
From then on, the phone just doesn't work
1. I tried the recovery mode and reboot mode (Home + Power), (Home + Back) as well as Home + Camera. Nothing Works. It's still stuck at the startup screen <Black background shows white text says G1 T-Mobile.>
2. I tried pulling out the battery and put it back and tried to power it up. I retried the above step. Still the same.
3. I tried pulling out the SD Card as well and tried to power it up and retried the step # 1. Still the same.
I did try searching for similar posts but there are way too many and I have been digging them for the past 4 hours but couldn't find anything useful
Guys, Please share if anyone has any idea.
Thanks in advance
Steven

If home+power and camera+power don't work your phone is bricked.

also, post this in Q&A. this is either gonna get locked or moved.
and yes you are bricked.

You may not be bricked if you did not flash special spl or new radio, however, you will probably need fastboot/adb method.
Try searching, this has been addressed many times. Also try posting in right place next time too, although it will be a while since you've been a member since 2006 but this is your first post.

M..N said:
If home+power and camera+power don't work your phone is bricked.
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What he said, but flashing a theme shouldnt brick your phone, only flashing an SPL or radio or something along those lines typically.

Bricked G1?

New to G1 and have a problem. Bought a G1 and it came with elcaires rom I think it was.
So I downloaded UK RC7, renamed it to Update, and placed it on the root of my card.
Held the home and power button, and tried to install but I'm getting installation aborted each time. I've also tried to wipe, but that gets aborted too.
I rebooted and now its stuck on G1 screen
I hope somebody can help, had the phone an hour and I've mucked it up already.
Thanks in advance

Im also "bricked" at the loading screen, i turn it on and it gets frozen at the tmobile screen. Home+power, camera+power, Alt+L etc dont work.
Is this fixable?

sirlewis said:
Im also "bricked" at the loading screen, i turn it on and it gets frozen at the tmobile screen. Home+power, camera+power, Alt+L etc dont work.
Is this fixable?
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No. It's Not.

if its not than what should he and i do?

Are you trying to boot into recovery while its in the G1 screen?

yo my name is sammy as well and i swear i just did the same thing with my g1 on eclair. hit me up dude on [email protected]. we can try and help each other out. plus i love the uk man. i never been, but plan too very soon. i love the music and the accents of the women, oh god. hit me up bro!

If you cannot access recovery or bootloader, you have a rather expensive paperweight. If you can, then you have hope.

AroundTheWorld said:
If you cannot access recovery or bootloader, you have a rather expensive paperweight. If you can, then you have hope.
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It is not so expensive since it be can brought for less than 100>$$
You can fix it by replacing the board with one from a working phone which is not the easiest thing to do.

hey ill take one of those paper weights... I need a new screen...

in the same boat cant get into anything hung up on splash screen

maybe our only option is jtag, ive never bricked before i always put cm 4 then go and install cm5 above that and it worked but this time it told me to go kick rocks and and and it was a customers phone so i gave him mine which is running eclair.

you guys arn't bricked. If you can turn on the phone than your perfectly fine.
You just gotta learn how to use it

G1 hanged at white screen!
Hi all,
I really need a help here. I have a G1 rooted with CM rom ver5. it was working fine since 3 months but suddenly now the phone doesnt boots up, it goes to white screen with 3 droid skaters and highlight on Hboot. It is freezed then and nothing can be done. I removed battery and tried booting by home + power ; camera+power etc etc . nothing happens it goes to that screen only. i have amons recovery and also nand backups in sd card. but the system doesnt let me go any where!! Please help......
attached is the snapshot

Either your back-button hangs, or something messed up your phone completely.
But as long as you have the fastboot mode, it's not bricked. I would suggest you to clean everything, i.e.
Code:
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
and then flash recovery again, i.e.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recover.img>
After that you can boot into recovery and restore your latest backup.
Please note: fastboot is a command you execute on your PC and you have to connect your phone with USB to your PC.
If after that procedure your phone boots again into hboot, most likely your back-button is defect.

I myself I think got a bricked G1...
I first installed many custom roms and thought that they were slowing my g1 so I wanted to get my g1 back to normal... For that I googled and was gone to the htc official website and ported the radio and rom from there but unfortunately I read it somewhere and it said that the rom is for only developers phone.
Everything first went very good... no error on clockwork recovery but when I reboot my phone, it got stuck on T-mobile G1 logo screen? I now can not even go to recovery mode or in fastboot mode? I need help...
Someone told me to use odin multi loader? but how do I use it or do it?? I need some instructions?
What should I do now? All I want to do right now is to get rid of my g1 by fixing it and selling it at once!!!

before flashing radio, spl, rom...anything...u need to check out the warnings and compatibility-MUST!!!!
there are 32B and 32A devices...both have different stuffs for themselves....which can be bricked if u dont follow the guidelines and try to act in sort of a haste to accomplish something new!!!
for those who can get to the camera+power (hboot) screen, but cant do anything else...u need to format ur sdcard...FAT32...then download dreaimg.nbh file...keep it in the root of ur sdcard...
then boot into the hboot menu, and ur phone should read the dreaimg.nbh file and prompt u to take an action(flash it)....do that and it'll get ur phone to the stock rom thingy....
then later u gotta root ur device again(telnet, great)....then install amon ra's recovery...change radio and what not and play again....
u gotta be patient...that's the only thing!!!
check this too
http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Get_Root

G1 Worked... Now it doesnt.

So I have this g1 sitting here for a few months- great looking phone, not a scratch on it...total virgin- no water damage or anything... a true spectacle compared to me daily driver (water damaged g1 with cm 5.07 on it... broken camera, broken wifi module <or so i am guessing since its been that way through all of the different roms ive tried... just shuts off> )
Back to the point-
This spectacle of a g1 - has but one issue... the digitizer doesn't work. No clue why- just wont respond... the g1 has been wiped so I have been stuck @ a "touch the android in its naught spot to continue" screen for a while...
Just decided today that I would try and get cm 5.07 on it... I was remembering (correct me if I am wrong) that android 2.1 didnt bother you with that "touch me" screen when you first booted it up.
So I began with a wipe through recovery- ... formated my sd to fat 32, and threw my DREAIMG.NBH (RC29) on it.
hit the boot loader (camera + power) - boots up as normal- grey screen for the update, and continued with it. Got an OK on each item down the list...looking good.
Update done- hit the power button to finish it- goes back to boot loader displaying the rainbow screen with:
DREAM100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
Sep 2 2008
Serial 0
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So at this point its all looking great to me- I hit call + menu + power and phone begins to reboot.
But gets stuck @ the freaking tMobile G1 Screen...
I can still access the boot loader... but Ive tried 6 different downloads, re formatted the sd card 3 times, tried a second sd card... tried a copy of RC30 ... nothing works... I get stuck at the G1 screen every time.
I cannot access recovery! Just sticks at G1 screen.
What now? Is this G1 a paper weight?
THANKS!

I don't know if this works with a stock rom, but did you try to get a logcat while it hangs at the g1 screen? Might be useful...

Logcat
I cant do anything :/ Only ability I currently have is to boot the phone via fast boot with a DREAIMG.NBH or sit at a boot screen.
Is there a modified DREAIMG.NBH I should try and run?

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pcguru000 said:
This spectacle of a g1 - has but one issue... the digitizer doesn't work. No clue why- just wont respond... the g1 has been wiped so I have been stuck @ a "touch the android in its naught spot to continue" screen for a while...
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I had a G1 refurb from HTC on which the digitizer did not work properly. No matter what ROM I installed, same problem, no accurate touch response. It was a hardware issue with the phone. I know it doesnt help with the phone hanging on boot. As far as that, it's a tough one. If you only have the stock SPL (rainbow screen) and no modded recovery, you can't do much other than use a .nbh (release key signed ROM/stock ROM) to flash a ROM. Unless there another backdoor I'm unaware of. Good luck!

CM roms need danger SPL, if you're on the "rainbow" screen - you don't have it. You shou've not run NBH because that takes away the root and brings you back to RC29. Sound's like you're out of luck on this one. However, now would be a good time to swap out that digitizer for the one out of "mother-of-all-problems" phone.
Good luck.

danger
I know CM roms need Danger- but at the point I was at I had no way of flashing danger, I needed to first root the phone... the way I have rooted all my G1's was using RC29 first (DREAIMG.NBH) and then using the "type anywhere" exploit to give the phone root administrative rights.
After that i load up a good recovery image, do a nandroid back up etc etc...
Im just not sure why it just died half way through the process- its strange that I can still access the stock boot loader and flash an image but yet nothing happens.
Is it possible for me to flash an image OTHER than RC29- and where could I access that image download?

pcguru000 said:
I know CM roms need Danger- but at the point I was at I had no way of flashing danger, I needed to first root the phone... the way I have rooted all my G1's was using RC29 first (DREAIMG.NBH) and then using the "type anywhere" exploit to give the phone root administrative rights.
After that i load up a good recovery image, do a nandroid back up etc etc...
Im just not sure why it just died half way through the process- its strange that I can still access the stock boot loader and flash an image but yet nothing happens.
Is it possible for me to flash an image OTHER than RC29- and where could I access that image download?
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That all sounds like it should be working but I would try one more thing. You say you have a second G1. I would try formating the sd card in that phone. It may make a difference. If that does not work you may want to search this forum for "gold card" instructions.
Good luck.

HTC Dream Boot Issues

Hello. I am new to the Android scene, just came over from the iPhone scene. Sooo. i got my Android G1 today and it came with Super D firmware, if i remember correctly it was 1.6. I wanted to go back to stock, so i downloaded the stock firmware and placed it in the root of a freshly formatted 4gb SDHC card. It installed and then prompted for reboot. I rebooted and i have left the phone on trying to get it to boot into OS but to no avail. I tried booting to recovery screen but i didnt get any menu and had to key alt+l in my keyboard. I did a wipe and rebooted. Still couldn't boot up. Holding the Camera and power button gives me this :
DREA110 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
Sep 2 2008
Serial0
Any ideas?
EDIT: Just realized for god's sake, i flashed the RC29 firmware when i was supposed to flash the RC7 one. F***. Now i need to find a way to flash back. Any ideas?

First thing to do is read everything two times... including the FAQs... too many noobs have bricked their devices... Thus dettering them and anyone they talk to from committing to Android... Take your time research and watch a vid first...

Nah, i just screwed up. Didnt know why i went to flash RC29 anyway. Gonna get a goldcard tomorrow with the help of someone. Then i can get pass the error of flashing another firmware.

Okay, so i got a gold card and reflashed the RC7 image and it booted. Done everything including rooting but i cant install the radio as i cant get into recovery. If i hold home + power button i will boot into fastboot mode. Why.
Apparently telnet wasnt flashing the img file properly.
EDIT: Now getting stuck at the Nexus One X Android Screen in a loop.
EDIT 2: Did a reboot. Now all is good. ^_^