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[Solved] SPL issue stuck.....

First off...
G1 PVT 32B
recover img1.4
new radio 2.22.19.26I
intalled hard spl, in recovery img after installing hard spl phone rebooted to recovery then at the bottem said formatting cache:.... stuck there for 15 mins so I tried Alt S to reboot, After that it gets stuck on G1 screen. I can still get back to recovery. should I try to redown load spl, is it possible I got a bad download or did I do some else wrong

maybeoneday said:
First off...
G1 PVT 32B
recover img1.4
new radio 2.22.19.26I
intalled hard spl, in recovery img after installing hard spl phone rebooted to recovery then at the bottem said formatting cache:.... stuck there for 15 mins so I tried Alt S to reboot, After that it gets stuck on G1 screen. I can still get back to recovery. should I try to redown load spl, is it possible I got a bad download or did I do some else wrong
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first boot into bootloader(camera and home) and see if you have a white screen with 3 skating androids.
if you do then you have the hard spl.
sometimes when you flash a spl it will wipe your phone.
if you do have the hard spl just go ahead and flash whatever rom you want to use.
if you don't have a card reader go into the recovery console and type ums_enable to mount your sdcard and put the rom on your sdcard then type ums_disable to unmount the sdcard, then finally type reboot recovery and when it boots up flash your rom.

That did it David just uploaded CM 4.0.4 and its up and running. You have been alot of help tonight, kick you a little something for your help...

wait , you push alt-s, are you still using the orignal recovery, do yourself a favor and flash cm recovery 1.4, nandroid backup and restore, flash any zip.

maybeoneday said:
That did it David just uploaded CM 4.0.4 and its up and running. You have been alot of help tonight, kick you a little something for your help...
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thank you very much

Thanks!!
I was having the same issue... ( I have the pimped recovery as well)
The first couple times I tried, I was getting no changes to the spl...
I tried one more time, wiped to be sure, proceeded to install spl
I then made it to same point, "formatting cache..."
I decided to start the reboot process and quickly pressed
"cam + power" when the screen went black and BAM,
got the 3 skateboarding androids
and it says "HSPL 10.95.3000"
I then reinstalled latest Cyan, and partitioned the sdcard with sdparted.txt
8gig Class 6 (100MB Swap, 1024MB ext4, 6893 Fat32)
Rebooted and
Thx!!

I am trying to unroot my friend's G1... I found a tutorial on XDA (link) and it worked fine without any problems on my phone, however when I go into recovery mode (CyanogenMod v1.4+JF) and I hit Alt+S, it starts to install the update.zip and it reboots and starts up in recovery and gets stuck on Formatting CACHE:... I've let it sit for quite a while and still nothing. I can reboot the phone, but it just starts back up in the rooted mod. When I start into the bootloader (camera+power), it's not the three android's on skateboard, it's the colored screen, and it doesn't give me the option to install DREAIMG.nbh file. I'm not quite sure what to do, especially since I had absolutely no problem testing this tutorial on my own phone.
EDIT: I figured out that the bootloader is downgraded and working. Now when I load the bootloader, it goes to the grey screen and says Loading... No image found! I have searched the forums and google for a solution to this program and so far nothing I've found is working. I've reformatted my SD card many times to FAT32, as well as redownloaded the DREAIMG.nbh file... Any help would be great!
EDIT 2: I'm not sure what the problem was or what I did to get it to work, but after formatting over and over and downloading and redownloading, and trying different SD cards, it finally started to work.

Ok. I have done everything that was suggested up above. I also get the 3 android skateboarders and I have tried to install the new
[ROM] CyanogenMod - Keeping You Legal For Less (STABLE) [UPDATED 10/31 - v4.2.3.1]
Which installs just fine. But then I reboot the device and it continues to be stuck on the G1 Splash Screen.
I can verify that I updated the Radio first and confrimed it was updated then updated the SPL and got formatting cache and waited like 15 mins and then now I am stuck.
So I what david1171 suggested and still nothing.
Any suggestions would be nice.
Thanks

Old problem with SPL

It's an old problem I never got solved, but simply been putting up with. Now that Cyanogen ROM's can be updated OTA, I'd really like to get my phone back to normal...
Problem started after flashing DangerSPL. I may have flashed old radio while having DangerSPL, however, my phone is not bricked.
Symptoms:
1. Everytime I flash a new ROM, wipe or no wipe, I come back stuck at the T-Mobile G1 boot screen. The only way I've found to get through is to take out battery and boot into ADB (the Camera + Power screen) and "fastboot flash boot boot.img". This almost always work.
2. Nandroid stopped working. Nandroid always errors during the process of backing up, and I'd only have splash1.img and splash2.img in the nandroid folder of my SD card.
3. "Insufficient storage available" with Dude's and Cyanogen's builds. I'm not sure if this one is related to recovery or SPL. This might be caused by past attempts at doing apps2sd (I've done both symlink and unionfs).
I've tried flashing the old HardSPL, but everytime I've done that, I either get stuck at the T-Mobile G1 boot screen, or the phone always boots straight to the SPL screen (3 Android skateboards) w/o me holding the Camera button.
Only way I've been able to make my phone usable is my going back to DangerSPL.

this may suck but have you tried downgrading to rc-29 and rooting again?
btw, this is newport country

david1171 said:
this may suck but have you tried downgrading to rc-29 and rooting again?
btw, this is newport country
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What should the process order be? Flash rc-29 first then try and revert the SPL?

start at the beginning of this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480

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btw, this is newport country
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Yessir, I agree with you 100%.

Went back to start over the rooting process, and now I'm back at booting straight the SPL screen.
I think the problem starts after I upgrade the radio to the latest. I was booting fine into rc29, but I upgraded the radio and ROM (Cyanogen) at the same time, though I'm leaning towards radio starting the problem, not the ROM.

As a workaround, does anyone know how I can flash the boot.img file to the system w/o using ADB (through recovery console)? This would remove the dependence of a computer, making my problem more acceptable.
I tried to do a "flash_image boot boot.img" but it tells me file not found. I can't see files in my SD card while in recovery console.

Figured it out, but still issues:
after "mount /sdcard" and "flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img", I get...
"header is the same, not flashing boot"

cigar3tte said:
Figured it out, but still issues:
after "mount /sdcard" and "flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img", I get...
"header is the same, not flashing boot"
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What if you renamed boot to something else and tried to flash it? Maybe it won't flash it cause it's the same file name and the system won't flash because of it. Just my .02.
But another thing I was thinking was not to update the radio if your on RC29 since the new radio version wasn't out at the time of RC29 so it may be buggy. Then upgrade to a new rom then flash the new radio. Again just a suggestion.

supremeteam256 said:
What if you renamed boot to something else and tried to flash it? Maybe it won't flash it cause it's the same file name and the system won't flash because of it. Just my .02.
But another thing I was thinking was not to update the radio if your on RC29 since the new radio version wasn't out at the time of RC29 so it may be buggy. Then upgrade to a new rom then flash the new radio. Again just a suggestion.
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I had it named 4192-boot.img actually, just was lazy to type it out on this thread.
I left the phone at the boot-straight-to-bootloader state and called T-Mobile, a replacement is on the way.

cigar3tte said:
I had it named 4192-boot.img actually, just was lazy to type it out on this thread.
I left the phone at the boot-straight-to-bootloader state and called T-Mobile, a replacement is on the way.
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awhh how sweet lol. thats one way to get it working.

phone reboots to bootloader image with 3 skateboards

i have a class 6 adata 8gb 2gb ext4 64mb swap rest fat32
im running cyanogen 4.0.2 or 4.0.4 whichever one i load up from sd at the time, but both are stable. i have newest radio and spl also. the issue is simple. i can get into recovery mode and bootloader menu. everytime i reboot it goes to bootloader menu(3 skateboards). camera button is not held down either or stuck. the only way to get past this screen is to evertime i reboot to factory wipe and install new rom which is a pain. i was wondering if by having the original image DREAIMG file in a folder on my sd is whats causing this. but now that i cant get past this screen i cant remove it from sd. i also already tried mounting sd to comp from console using: "ums_enable" it does nothing(tried it on 3 computers). im tired of reseting and reflashing. pls some assistance.

Have you tried to reflash the SPL? You could just redo the entire root process and replace everything.

New Isuue, Same Problem
Sorry it took so long to get back here. No I haven't tried that. How could it be the SPL? Im asking it in a meaningful way, like why and/or how could it be?
I will reflash the SPL tonight and edit post if it works.
I also erased my sd card and re partioned in in "parted" it booted fine. The battery died today and i rebooted it and BAM! bootloader screen again. So i factory reset and flashed a new ROM image. then it worked fine. now only problem is the private apps i have installed wont work and they get stuck on uninstalling....Whats the fix for that?
Thanks XDA!!

You need to start over and replace everything. It sounds like you have multiple problems. Use THIS guide starting with the downgrade bacause it will reflash EVERYTHING on your phone. If the problem persist then it's hardware issues. Redownload everything, don't use anything you already downloaded because these files might be bad too.

Dream Stuck in SPL Boot Loop

I posted this in the "Brick" thread but I have not garnered any attention and IRC has moved too fast to get any reliable help.
Hello,
I've done some searching and I cannot find any definitive answers to my problem.
I was on CM 4.2.9.1 and tried to upgrade to 4.2.10.1 and had a bad flash (stuck at android boot). I noticed there was a new update, 4.2.11.1 the next morning and thought I would wipe completely and update from RC29. I downloaded all the files necessary and used spl to downgrade to RC29 which booted fine. From there I got root and started the upgrade part. I installed the RArecovery 1.5.2 which went fine. I then installed the defanged HTC recovery image and CM 4.2.11.1 then the newest radio and rebooted. That went directly back to the RA recovery after installing the radio. From there I installed the Hard SPL. After that finished and rebooted the phone booted to the Hard SPL or the recovery image.
Thinking I had messed something up I though I could start over and try again. I then booted to the SPL bootloader and flashed the RC29 DREAIMG.NBH to start over.
After that completed the phone will only boot to the SPL bootloader, which is now the original SPL. I have tried to flash the DREAIMG.NBH multiple times with the same result. When holding down Home and Power I get the ! screen.
Is my phone bricked? Or is there an image that I can flash to save it?
Thanks for any help.
David Perlik
[email protected]

Does it boot up into RA recovery? from there you can flash any zip... If you got root and the right radio and SPL. Put the latest Cyan on your SD and boot into recovery and flash away... If you can get it to recovery you are not bricked...
Okay... i reread... may be beyond my limited knowledge...
3rd time... I would pop out your SD and put recovery.img fromhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480... and make sure HardSPL is on there... when you boot into recovery and get the "!" hit ALT-L to get the menu... then ALT-S to apply the update.zip(HardSPL)... heck just follow the steps from the link above...
GOOD LUCK

No recovery at all. I'm assuming it was flashed back to RC29 specs.

You're not bricked because you can boot into SPL. You still have a recovery image on there, not that it's a good one, it's just a basic HTC recovery. What you do have is a hardware problem with you camera button most likely. See if you can blow some compressed air in there, try tapping it a little bit, it may fix it.
Good luck

I got stuck in a bad situation like this a bit ago...
If nothing else, you should still be able to get the dreaming.nbh on there, upgrade to donut and then reroot.

It's not a problem with the camera button as I can still get to the SPL and flash the DREAIMG.nbh.
The DREAIMG.nbh flashes fine, everything gets an ok, but when I restart the phone it boots directly to the SPL.

Just a quick update:
I've gotten a hold of a different micro sdcard than the one that I was using in hopes that some weird formatting error was happening with my old card. Alas, even with this new and freshly formatted card the DREAIMG.nbh will still not take correctly. All parts report ok while flashing, but my phone still boots directly to the SPL on startup.
Can anyone help?

Im having the same problem, but I can get into recovery, sd only has an fat partition, I made a thread here, can the Mods delete it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=619180

[RESOLVED] G1 hangs on boot, with lots of extra info

I have a G1 with CyanogenMod 1.4 recovery and the original SPL. It boots into either of those just fine.
When I select to apply any zip, I get the list of possibilities. I have tried wiping many times.
Whenever I choose an option from the recovery or flash something, a message appears that says
Code:
E: Can't read MISC:
(No space left on device)
This occurs even after a wipe. Also, I know that the SD card is not full or corrupted (I generally use it in a different G1).
After I have flashed something and reboot, it simply hangs at the G1 boot screen. I left it for half an hour, and it stayed that way.
Any thoughts?

what are you trying to flash? rom might require danger spl. i don't have a g1, so i'm not positive, but i'm willing to bet on it.

I actually tried flashing the danger SPL. In spite of saying "reboot to complete installation," I know it does not work. if I hold Camera as I turn on, it is still the original SPL.
Next bet?

tal82k said:
I actually tried flashing the danger SPL. In spite of saying "reboot to complete installation," I know it does not work. if I hold Camera as I turn on, it is still the original SPL.
Next bet?
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1.33.2005 is what the danger spl shows up as, which i believe is your "stock" spl. if you installed it and rebooted without any errors it works. simple and plain.

Does the danger SPL look like the original (RGB color testing)? That is what shows up when I boot with camera pressed.
I was trying to flash either Super D or CyanogenMod, when I follow the instructions for either of them and do the final reboot, it never leaves the G1 logo screen. Yes I know that it is a while for the dalvik-cache to be reworked.
I have flashed roms successfully many times on my other G1.
I am very curious what the error message that I posted earlier means. Thanks for your suggestions!

Sorry for the double post. I have an update. I am pretty sure there is a problem with the NAND chip or something similar. I flashed the Amon_RA recovery, and it worked. I used Amon_RA to wipe, and re-partition the SD card. I then tried flashing the HTC 1.6 image for ADP1. And it worked. It booted into 1.6 with no problem (except that I no longer had root). So I tried to get root again. First I tried the Recovery Flasher app. It said that it failed. So I downloaded the DREAIMG.nbh to get back to RC29. When I ran it, I got
Code:
DREAIMG.nbh - FAIL
Update Terminate
UPDATE FAIL
Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!

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UPDATE: Apparently that last bit ended with bricking the phone. I took out the SD, put DREAIMG.nbh back on it. Put it back in the phone. Re-flashed from the SPL (holding camera while pressing power). It worked. I then went through with regular rooting, putting Amon_RA on there, with Super D 1.8. Everything smooth. I have no idea what really fixed it, but everything works fine.

tal82k said:
UPDATE: Apparently that last bit ended with bricking the phone.
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i still lol every time i hear that. phixed my brick.

Yeah.... I wish my brick would go into SPL.

*sorry double post, browser messed up*