I tried installing Super D 1.11 and I think I may have bricked my phone..
When I start it up, the phone vibrates then shows the Rogers logo. The buttons also light up as well. But if I try holding home+power, or camera+power, nothing happens. No bootloader, no recovery, no nothing. Just the Rogers logo.
So did I brick my phone?
Is there any way to fix it?
That sure sounds like a brick. What did you do to cause it? (i.e. write down the exact steps you took...)
I could be wrong here, but isn't the rogers dream a 32a board, like the mytouch fender/headphone jack, while regular g1s are 32b boards? If that is the case then you can't flash regular g1 roms to your phone, you have to use rogers dream roms, or fender/headphone jack mytouches.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that though.
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I was wondering if anyone knows how i can purposely brick my g1/dream. My keyboard is fcked up and I know that i still have T-Mobile's warranty. I just wanna be able to brick it where the T-Mobiles center's employee cant boot into recovery and get passed the G1 boot screen...any advice?
(Should i revert back to stock recovery img and rom? Then flash danger spl?)
garz said:
I was wondering if anyone knows how i can purposely brick my g1/dream. My keyboard is fcked up and I know that i still have T-Mobile's warranty. I just wanna be able to brick it where the T-Mobiles center's employee cant boot into recovery and get passed the G1 boot screen...any advice?
(Should i revert back to stock recovery img and rom? Then flash danger spl?)
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Downgrade the radio w/danger spl installed
Or if not install danger spl without the newest radio
the same way many of people have "accidentally" bricked their phones. just do what Diceman4 said, good ole 1.33.2005 can do it every time.
Curious why you would want to brick your phone, t-mobile will replace it just because the keyboard is bad, they replaced one of mine because the sd card reader stopped working. I'm not sure if they have measures in place to determine if you "bricked" your phone of if it was a faulty phone, but if you can revert to stock firmware and get a warranty replacement, why go about that way?
so if i use any of these methods...the employee wont be able to boot into recovery? or should i revert back into the original recov...just incase?
(i dont exactly want him to see RA's version)
The keyboard doesn't work, they should replace it under warranty.
Keep in mind there's a fee involved if they determine the phone was damaged by you and it was not a defective unit, I'd play it safe and revert to stock firmware and then warranty it, but that's just me
well it's not completely dead...it's just that the space key doesnt press easily. you gotta force press it for it to work. i dont wanna hear some **** that it's not under warranty cause i damaged it for whatever reason.
As long as your phone doesn't have any cracked plastics and your ldi is still white you should be fine. Just unroot and file under warranty. And just to speed up the process tell them you've already master reset the phone and you're still having the same issue.
I'm having the same issue with my space bar as well. For the second time. Faulty design? I always keep my hands clean and have never spilled anything on the phones. I don't even take them out if it's raining outside.
You have the white version? Both of mine have been white. Have a friend with a black G1/Dream and his is fine. Let me know how your return goes.
My ADP1 does this...i just live with it.
Geeze... warranty?
This is something that can be cured by CLEANING it.
Open it up, take the keyboard apart, clean it, put it back together. Fixed.
the keyboard connectors are a sealed thing, ive already had is stripped with mine as i have a dodgy backspace and enter key,
So, I have a T-Mobile G1, and lately, I was trying to install different custom ROMs to check out which one suits me.On the Android Spin site I noticed JesterBlur, and looked it up.It said in a thread that in order to install it I must have the Haykuro's SPL.I was previously using cyanogenmod with cm recovery 1.4, and when I installed the SPL the phone asked me to reboot.Ever since, when I press the power button to open it,it gets stuck on th T-mobile G1 screen.No combinations work, including Camera + Power.Any ideas anyone?
It's dead. 1.33.2005 SPL requires the 26i radio, which you should have had already.
if you bought the phone on a contract walk in to the store and say that after accepting an update the phone rebooted and will not turn on. Try so sound as un-techsavvy as possible. They should replace it.
Eitherwise you either need to buy a new one, or replace the motherboard (thus replacing the borked nand).
First of all thanks for replying so quickly.
And secondly.....The phone might not be exactly the T-mobile G1, but an Android Dev Phone 1......I just said T-mobile G1 because they're very similar...Oh and I also tried the conbination Trackball + Power and a blue led appers.Anyone knows what it means?And since I can't quite take it for a service, does anyone know ANY way to restore my phone?ANYTHING!Even if I have to do it manually.....It's useless in this condition anyway.......
Only thing you can do to getting working again is to replace the motherboard. Doesn't look too hard and I'm sure you can pick up G1's with cracked screens on ebay pretty cheap.
Hi guys, I was installing a radio update I believe, and my g1 stopped booting up. It is stuck at the "T-mobile G1" screen and I have tried holding down camera+power and home+power with no avail. Please help me out because I really need to use my phone soon.. Thanks.
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Hi guys, I was installing a radio update I believe, and my g1 stopped booting up. It is stuck at the "T-mobile G1" screen and I have tried holding down camera+power and home+power with no avail. Please help me out because I really need to use my phone soon.. Thanks.
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softbricked. You either installed a wrong radio, or the dangerspl.
Pray you have warranty. If you don't, go buy a new phone.
while it IS possible to fix this problem, i have a feeling it maybe way over your head (typically is if you even have to ask) but it involves a method called JTAG, and booting the phone into its Blue light (AKA security) mode, by holding down the trackball....
your better off trying to get it replaced under warranty (while the ethics of this is questionable), or just buying a new phone....
if your feeling ballsy or just want a hell of a project, a thorough search on google of "JTAG bricked G1" will give you the info you want, id give you the links myself but its not for the faint of heart, and if your not willing to go after the info then theres NO WAY you'll succeed.
if buying a new phone is more in your line (and i guess wallet) then go ahead a post your phone for sale on the forums (disclosing its bricked status of course) and someone may be willing to buy it off you as a project (or for parts)
UPDATE: ive also read a few posts that XDA member EZTERRY has been known to JTAG phones (for compensation of course) send him a PM (no more than one, remember we all have lives outside of the interwebs right??????) but hes in Canada, and it will involve shipping your phione
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Hi guys, I was installing a radio update I believe, and my g1 stopped booting up. It is stuck at the "T-mobile G1" screen and I have tried holding down camera+power and home+power with no avail. Please help me out because I really need to use my phone soon.. Thanks.
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Why are you installing something that you don't know what it is? Thats just asking for trouble.
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Why are you installing something that you don't know what it is? Thats just asking for trouble.
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I was following the sense ui guide, and it told me to upgrade my radio :\
Pull the battery. Put it back in. Turn it on while holding down the Home button. What do you get?
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Pull the battery. Put it back in. Turn it on while holding down the Home button. What do you get?
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Still hangs at "Tmobile g1" screen as I said.
Hello everybody! I am new here and do not currently own an android device and have a tmobile g1 question. Some one on craigslist is selling a g1 and titling it as soft bricked. He says it is stuck at the tmobile screen. How would you fix this? I was thinking of purchasing it to mess around with android for a good price. Anyone know how you would fix this/ restore it from this state? If there is nothing I could do than I would just save abit more and buy a different one.
You wont know until you have the phone on your hands, not a lot of people are truthful now a days.
First see if he has rooted it, by pressing the home+power on start up, unfortunately I use Amon RA Recovery image which means I only know what that recovery image looks like which in most cases all fonts are green and it gives you options, if you can get into that, then that means that he was trying to flash a ROM on to it and not had the right SPL on it "or so I am believing".
Also check the conditions of the phone, i.e broken screen, swollen battery, etc... Also be careful with people from CriagList, also follow their guidelines for your safety.
Hi,
I want to ask for some advice!
I just purchased a "broken" G1 from ebay in the hope that I would be able to fix and sell on...
However, it is proving more difficult than initially assumed.
It doesn't boot into recovery and instead stalls at the flash screen (T-mobile G1). The phone feels relatively new (slide is tons better than my working G1) and I don't think has been rooted.
Discovered not rooted, but when updating via the T-Mobile over-the-air service system froze. I don't know whether this is a radio, spl or rom issue...
I have tried all the various boots (camera + power, call + menu + power & home + power) with no success...
Is there anything I can do to salvage this G1? Or is it destined to return to ebay...
Many thanks,
Joeleenus
from everything i have read, if camera+power doesnt bring up bootloader, and power+home doesnt bring up recovery menu... i think its a brick... but i have only been doing research into the issue with the "broken" g1 that i picked up for the past 10 hours.... lol
How do you know its not rooted? Have you tried to see if adb picks it up at any moment from the time you turn it on to 5 mins down the road of the G1 screen?
If its never been rooted, how could it have bricked? Post the ebay listing language if you have it, see what seller said. Im thinking water damage. (You could try remoistening it and then put in rice for a few days with battery out, reactivate the wetness and then dry it again - just a crazy thought)
Read up on the cyanogenmod wiki on bricks and if you have skills, try a JTAG to debrick the phone.
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If you can't get passed the boot screen, there there is no way you can find out if it was rooted, well, unless it was bricked while rooting / updating to a new ROM, which is probably the case.
The only way to unbrick the device is by using JTAG equipment. You can purchase it yourself, it is a bit expensive. Or, you can look for people locally who have JTAG equipment. Look around for PC repair shops, XBOX modders, etc. Craigslist is a great place to start. Many offer JTAG services at a small fee (in comparison to the potential profit you could make off the repaired device.)