Uses for my old g1? - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I finally upgraded to a g2 and my g1 has just been lying around all lonely. I flashed the COS ROM but it's a little too laggy. So it's back to cm6 and I'm struggling to find a use for it. I am going to be using it without a sim so a rom that wouldn't show the "no sim card" text on the lock screen would be nice.
Sent from my stock G2

Finding a ROM that will not tell you that you are missing the SIM probably not going to happens. But you never know someone might decide to write a code for it. Suggestion on that is to find an old SIM (maybe from a friend) from any vendor (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc...) and put it in. That is what I did to one of my old phone so it does not tell me that there is no SIM card.
BTW, I was using CM6 (slow and sluggish) on my G1 and after it crashed on me last weekend. I finally found a good ROM that is fast with G1.
It's SuperAosp DM 2.8.2 with 15MB boot. My total interal memory after initial flash is about 90MB of memory, after loading up a hand full apps (IE: facebook, gmail, etc...) I still have about 82.80MB left. My G1 still running very fast.
If it would have been CM6, my phone would be crawling by now, and if lucky about 20MB of memory.

I just deleted the phone.apk.
I got a bunch of FC's when I first did it but after a reboot it was fine.
Doesn't say anything about no sim now
Didn't want my 2 year old to accidentally dial 911.

Sleeepy2 said:
I just deleted the phone.apk.
I got a bunch of FC's when I first did it but after a reboot it was fine.
Doesn't say anything about no sim now
Didn't want my 2 year old to accidentally dial 911.
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ROFLOL! Sorry I just have to laugh on the 2 year old with the 911. Beleived me, I know that feeling. Wait until your 2 year old call you at the office (by himself/herself).
BTW! What is your 2 year old doing with the phone anyway? That's a bad sign to have them start early.
Anyway, I never have thought of that. If that what you are recommeding to raydar670.
@ raydar670 - If that is so, backup the phone.apk first before you delete it. Just in case you need to use it as a spare.

Thanks guys. I think I'll try the ROM that BeenAndrodized mentioned.

raydar670 said:
Thanks guys. I think I'll try the ROM that BeenAndrodized mentioned.
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Make sure you back up everything, just in case.

Related

Got a new replacement G1

Got a quick question for everyone, although I may already know the answer myself but it does not hurt to just ask to make sure.
My daughter come home from college this past weekend and on Friday night was attending (a non-alcohol I am sure) party, anyway several of her friends decided that it would be cool to throw her in the pool. Well they did, and looking at the many pictures I got to see I can see her holding her G1 in her hand and the look of "don't" in her face as they let her go into the water and she let go of the phone and it sank to the bottom amid all the confusion and the the several hundred kids in the pool she could not locate it at the bottom since it was white for about 10 minutes. Long story short I have insurance on it and just got the new replacement today!
This is my question I naturally want to get it rooted again and I know how to do that, but can I root the phone without a sim card? Since she took her sim card out of the wet G1 and put it in her hacked Iphone(dare i say that word) to use until I got the new G1. I want to root it, get it back to Cyan's ROM then send it to her at college so she can just put the sim card back into the new one. Is that possible by using the "skip this part" after flashing a new ROM when it asks to sign into your Google account?
thanks in advance...
Peace!
Yes i believe you can do it without a sim card. I think Stericson found a way to do it, so you might want to search and try to find it. Or why don't you put in your sim card and root it?Unless of course you don't have t-mobile.
You can skip that part if its an adp version. But I can't remember if cynogen's rom has that option.
TurboTsi said:
Yes i believe you can do it without a sim card. I think Stericson found a way to do it, so you might want to search and try to find it. Or why don't you put in your sim card and root it?Unless of course you don't have t-mobile.
You can skip that part if its an adp version. But I can't remember if cynogen's rom has that option.
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Turbo Tsi... thanks, I have T-Mobile as well... I thought I had read somewhere in these forums that the phones were sim card specific? Meaning that once it is registered to that phone with the sim inserted then that sim follows that phone? If that is not the case I will be doing the rooting tonight... And yes Cynogen's rom has that option... guess I should just try it...!
peace
I'm 99% sure it will work fine if you put your sim card in to do it, but you should also be able to do it fine without the connection, just flash flash flash, then send it to her and she can put hers in and do the initial set up.
Thanks
Thanks going to go at with my sim card installed and see what happens...
peace
Robbie, this is what you need
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316&highlight=register
big credit goes to JesusFreke
phuthanvinh said:
Robbie, this is what you need
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316&highlight=register
big credit goes to JesusFreke
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Awesome link thanks Phuthanvin!!!!!

"no service" No voice...but Data working sporatically??

For the last few hours my G1 has been showing me the X above the bars.
Ive tried restoring an old image...tried data wipe/reset.
All end up the same.
Selecting my network (TMOBILE) has been an adventure.
One of the following occurs
The menu itself gets stuck on airplane mode.
sim card not authorized on network
cannot connect to network
Ive rebooted numerous times even when bars/data look like theyre back , Ill make a call and it will drop the call, then right back to the X.
What compounds the oddity is that even with the X Ive gotten data to work for the most part. Sometimes it will sometimes it wont. Im extremely confused if this is my SIM card or the G1 itself.
Cus Serv online said to go to a Tmo store for a new sim. But my schedule may not allow that until Fri. I dont have any other sims or phones to swap and try either.
Any clues what this could be ?
G1/TMo/Offical Tmo Donut ROM from this forum.
Crazy data transfers could be browser cache? Very odd. I would go with what customer service says on this one.
Reflash radio
Just reflash the radio - get the official one from HTC developer site or whereever you can find it and reflash it using recovery ( I hope you have recovery 1.4 or Amon-ra recovery). You can try to take out your SIM and examine it closely, and maybe clean it a little. Just take it out and put it back. Then reflash radio and see if tat works.
Stopped short of flashing the radio.
I wiped and installed Cyn 4.19999 same issue. Rebooted , wiped..then reception came back.
Maybe it was ROM Im thinking ? Wiped restored my previous save (TMO ROM))and everythings working again except for Picmail.((which has been a reoccuring problem)).
Tmo says to go pick up a new Sim card to see if it helps. I guess theres no harm in doing that right ?
Ive never flashed the radio since Cyn and The Tmo ROM dont require it. So its still on stock. Would the pic mail being sproatic before and after this be a Radio problem as well ?
KOF33 said:
Stopped short of flashing the radio.
I wiped and installed Cyn 4.19999 same issue. Rebooted , wiped..then reception came back.
Maybe it was ROM Im thinking ? Wiped restored my previous save (TMO ROM))and everythings working again except for Picmail.((which has been a reoccuring problem)).
Tmo says to go pick up a new Sim card to see if it helps. I guess theres no harm in doing that right ?
Ive never flashed the radio since Cyn and The Tmo ROM dont require it. So its still on stock. Would the pic mail being sproatic before and after this be a Radio problem as well ?
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What do you mean by "Picmail"? Do you mean MMS or is that an app?
AdrianK said:
What do you mean by "Picmail"? Do you mean MMS or is that an app?
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Yes , PicMail=MMS
Its been buggy for me for awhile.
Im wondering if all this is some wonky Simcard.
Dont stress it. It happened to me yesturday for about a couple of hours. I think TMOB is workin out some signal issues. I had the same exact problem along with 10 of my fellow network friends. No rom bugs or flash fcuk ups. It'll restore it self normally unless you truely did it to your self while flashing.
Could very well be.
Thanks Garz.

Activating Android flashed phone - still have to go back to Windows, right?

I checked the FAQ and did not see anything...
I am getting bored with my Moment, last week I flashed 2.2 on the Vogue just to see what it is like. Glad to see you guys are still developing on it! We don't even have 2.2 yet, just the FroYo JIT.
If I remember correctly you have to flash Windows Mobile back on the Vogue before you can activate it, right?
yes that is correct. And how are you getting board with your moment.Just wondering cuz thats a phone i really want
Nick N said:
I checked the FAQ and did not see anything...
I am getting bored with my Moment, last week I flashed 2.2 on the Vogue just to see what it is like. Glad to see you guys are still developing on it! We don't even have 2.2 yet, just the FroYo JIT.
If I remember correctly you have to flash Windows Mobile back on the Vogue before you can activate it, right?
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I don't know how sprint does it, but this has been my experience on verizon:
I have a touch and a touch pro. I switch back and forth maybe twice a week via the website and never bother dialing activation. my guess is: the first time your activate a phone on your number, you have to call activation to get the akey sorted out. after that, the akey should never change, so you can switch back and forth between those two devices without having to call activation just by switching your esn with the carrier.
again, i'm on verizon, and this could definitely be carrier specific, but it's painless to test for yourself.
Sprint is different after being activated the phone dials #777 then that starts the provisioning I know dzo had some script that could be used for activation but I don't know what became of it
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jadenj5 said:
yes that is correct. And how are you getting board with your moment.Just wondering cuz thats a phone i really want
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I am a ROM flashing junkie!
SDX has been keeping me busy with ROMs for the Moment, but I remember the initial excitement with putting Android on a phone that was never meant to go further than Windows Mobile 6.1. Good times.
thoughtlesskyle said:
Sprint is different after being activated the phone dials #777 then that starts the provisioning I know dzo had some script that could be used for activation but I don't know what became of it
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a script to activate would be awesome.
so is this possible: set up the sprint touch with android the way i want it (phone, internet and everything working), then change the phone out and put my wife's account on that touch android phone. or would i have to go back to winmo before putting wife's phone number/account on it?
superflysocal said:
a script to activate would be awesome.
so is this possible: set up the sprint touch with android the way i want it (phone, internet and everything working), then change the phone out and put my wife's account on that touch android phone. or would i have to go back to winmo before putting wife's phone number/account on it?
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at this moment it would be to flash back to windows mobile activate it and switch back
i was able to activate my phone from myns warm donut using *228 option 1 on verizon after a whole mess of flashing to get my gps to work. i activated my old phone during the whole process so i wouldnt miss any calls. i ended up with nfs fan 6.5 and i couldnt activate my phone, so i tried it on warm donut from my sd card for the heck of it and it worked. not sure if its rom specific or what not but that worked for me...hope that helps

No SIM Card

So last 5 minutos I have been freaking out over here, my Captivate just stoped recognizing my SIM card, everything was okay and my phone right here at my side until Astrid come bother me to do my homework, when I closed Astrid this notification pops upo saying that I have no SIM card on the phone and asking me to reboot it, so I rebooted and over and over again removed my card and still no results, anyone have ever had a similar problem? (it's not just for messages, its for everything)
If there is no solution how can I make my phone back to default options? so that I can return it to AT&T( right now I have Cognition 2.3b4), sorry for all the stupid questions
henriquef said:
So last 5 minutos I have been freaking out over here, my Captivate just stoped recognizing my SIM card, everything was okay and my phone right here at my side until Astrid come bother me to do my homework, when I closed Astrid this notification pops upo saying that I have no SIM card on the phone and asking me to reboot it, so I rebooted and over and over again removed my card and still no results, anyone have ever had a similar problem? (it's not just for messages, its for everything)
If there is no solution how can I make my phone back to default options? so that I can return it to AT&T( right now I have Cognition 2.3b4), sorry for all the stupid questions
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Did u try using a different SIM to see if that works?
diablo009 said:
Did u try using a different SIM to see if that works?
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I don't really have another one just my brazilian one that have no signal so makes no difference
henriquef said:
I don't really have another one just my brazilian one that have no signal so makes no difference
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Trying to see if ur SIM card is toast.
Take your sim to a store and get a new one. I did it twice with my phone. The second time I showed the sales guy I had 2.2 with a custom rom after he *****ed about no 2.2 update for his captivate. They don't care. They are sales, not returns. And to answer your question, odin. You shouldn't be flashing if you don't know how to fix it.
From a phone
boborone said:
Take your sim to a store and get a new one. I did it twice with my phone. The second time I showed the sales guy I had 2.2 with a custom rom after he *****ed about no 2.2 update for his captivate. They don't care. They are sales, not returns. And to answer your question, odin. You shouldn't be flashing if you don't know how to fix it.
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I got a new SIM card it's working now Thanks

Use the g1 as a pda?

I recently upgraded to the G2, but I still have a G1. This G1 is stock because the first one was sent in for repair (rooted but then unrooted and returned to stock) right before the upgrade. Since I have the G1 still, I don't want it to go to waste, but I want it to be more than just a backup. Is there a rom that will allow me to use the G1 like a pda and not require a cell signal or will pretty much all the roms complain?
My G1 is used by my son. I had the sim card out the other day and it ran fine on CyanogenMod 6.1.0 without it. Sure, it said the sim card was missing, but it updated on the Market without it.
Thanks. I think I hit a snag while flashing but, I think it's prudent to start a new tab.
I have never had an issue with using my phone sim-free (G1 and Magic).
Remove SIM missing notification?
AdrianK said:
I have never had an issue with using my phone sim-free (G1 and Magic).
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Ever figure out how to remove the SIM missing notification on the status bar?
Best Regards,
Kevin
kpetrie77 said:
Ever figure out how to remove the SIM missing notification on the status bar?
Best Regards,
Kevin
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Use EZterry's asop, was designed around not needing a sim card as well as with, works a treat too

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