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So I had root access. (i.e. when I first booted my G1 up it said something about a developer phone) and I tried flashing the dreaimg.nbh file to go back down to RC29. It fails every time won't let me do anything else. It just stays srtuck on the bootloader screen when I try to reboot. I've tried about everything I could think of and I'm at wits end. I really hope this problem can be fixed. Does anyone have any suggestions or know what went wrong? Thanks.
Re-download dreaimg.nbh file again. The one you're using may be corrupted.
Why do you want to go RC29 if you have root access? You should be able to flash anything on your phone as is, RC29 is only needed to gain the root.
It won't let me do anything. I'm unable to do anything to the SD card. Although, while typing this I just thought of something. If I got a card reader I could erase the file from my card since I can't do anything to the phone. Maybe that would work. But who knows because I've tried removing the card and booting up and it remains stuck on the bootloader screen. I literally can not do anything else, it's just permanently stuck like that. So I can't mess with anything. And the reason I was trying to downgrade is because I was trying to start all over again but I think I might have ended up screwing myself instead...
I am may be wrong, and please forgive me if I am, but from your post count I am getting the picture that you're pretty new to this.
Tell me if what you did is any different from these steps
You booted phone into h-boot mode holding power and camera buttons
Your phone found dreaimg.nbh and ran it on it's own.
You restarted the phone and got stuck in the boot loop.
Confirm that this is what happened
No, your assumption is not wrong at all. I am pretty new to this.
Yes, I did reboot my phone while holding down the camera button.
It found dreaimg.nbh and ran it but it failed so now I'm stuck in the boot loop with it constantly trying, and failing, to load dreaimg.
Thanks so much for your quick responses.
When it says "failed to load dreaimg.nbh" it means that it does not see it. I have a feeling that a file that you had was zipped.
Let's do this
Boot into recovery by holding power and home buttons
select wipe/factory reset or something along those lines and try booting up a your phone again. I'll be lurking around so just post what you find.
Take a note of which recovery you're running while you're at it too.
No, the file I had was not zipped I don't think cause it sees it and tries to update. It says update in progress then I get the progress bar but when it's finished it tells me: Update Terminate. Update Fail. Then it just goes back to the multi-colored bootloader screen and won't shut off. I can reset it by pressing call+menu+end but then it just starts all over again. So, I can't boot into recovery mode. Matter of fact, the only way to turn the phone off is to remove the battery. Otherwise, it just starts in bootloader mode and continues this viscous cycle.
At this point I don't even care about installing a ROM or anything, I just want a working phone.
I see. Yep.. you're S.O.L.
Just to make sure... when your phone is off and you hold power and home buttons it just goes to h-boot screen, right if so then unfortunately there's only one thing to do: get a card reader, re-download .nbh file and start over. At this point you have no working recovery or rom on your phone. Once you get that going you should be on your way to secure a root and flash whatever rom you need to.
Is it even fat32?
Damn. That's what I thought. I should have just left well enough alone until I did more research and knew exactly what I was doing but I get ADD when I'm hungover. Oh well. Thanks for your help.
This will happen from time to time.. it's always desirable to have a card reader handy. Also.. since you have nothing to loose, this would be a great time to re-format and re-partition your sdcard so you can start squiky clean.
Good luck.... let us know when this is worked out by adding [SOLVED] to the title of this thread.
So . i am trying to install the CyanogenMod. I had rc30, downgraded, rooted (by doing this: http://bit.ly/vk4n). then i made the flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img thing. finally i started up in recovery mode, applied the DRC83 file and the rom. I restarted the phone, i could see the "T-Mobile G1"-logo, then it disappeard, then CyanogenMods' blue logo appeared.. After a while, it disappeard and a blank, black screen appeared, and nothing happend since then..
So, i would like to try again, i installed the RC29 again, but now, i cant attach the phone to my computer, it simply doesnt detect it. (cant connect to adb shell to do the wi-fi registering). So i tried to boot up in recovery mode again, but this is what i get:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s242/xabdullahx/Billede0253.jpg
What is this?
How do i fix the phone so i can try to put the CyanogenMod rom again.
BTW. this is my first flashing attempt
XabdullahX said:
So . i am trying to install the CyanogenMod. I had rc30, downgraded, rooted (by doing this: http://bit.ly/vk4n). then i made the flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img thing. finally i started up in recovery mode, applied the DRC83 file and the rom. I restarted the phone, i could see the "T-Mobile G1"-logo, then it disappeard, then CyanogenMods' blue logo appeared.. After a while, it disappeard and a blank, black screen appeared, and nothing happend since then..
So, i would like to try again, i installed the RC29 again, but now, i cant attach the phone to my computer, it simply doesnt detect it. (cant connect to adb shell to do the wi-fi registering). So i tried to boot up in recovery mode again, but this is what i get:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s242/xabdullahx/Billede0253.jpg
What is this?
How do i fix the phone so i can try to put the CyanogenMod rom again.
BTW. this is my first flashing attempt
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If you reinstall the RC29 you lose root and you didnt install the radio needed for custom roms.
i installed a file called "DRC83_base_defanged" . what is it?
and how do i install the radio?
Btw. I followed this guide: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_G1/Dream_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod
Bump.
What should i do :/
My computer doesnt detect my phone, i cant do the registering via wifi trick :S
I just want my phone back to its normal state with rc30, able to connect to computer and able to go to recovery mode.
I installed the rc30, but cant figure the other things out
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Figured it all out
XabdullahX said:
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What should i do :/
My computer doesnt detect my phone, i cant do the registering via wifi trick :S
I just want my phone back to its normal state with rc30, able to connect to computer and able to go to recovery mode.
I installed the rc30, but cant figure the other things out
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You should follow 1 click root guide..its pretty simple..
when you see that screen. hit alt+l i think to pull up the recovery menu.
if you don't have a card reader, you can mount your g1 through the console on your recovery menu. just google "mount g1 through console" for directions. hope that helps you get the right files on your phone to flash.
good luck!
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
I have G1 sitting around that I never messed with until last night, so if it's bricked, it's not a big deal. The phone will turn on, and loop through the splash screen. The only way it will boot is in safe mode. When trying to do ANYTHING in safe mode (aside from power down), everything will FC. If i go into the recovery menu with the Home plus End key sequence, I get the "can't open cache recovery command". I've tried to install RC33 in that screen, and get "installation interrupted".
The phone was given to me, so I really don't know if it was rooted or what was on it before. I do remember it worked, and just one day stopped working. When it was working I never saw a superuser icon or any other apps you usually see with a root. Thanks in advance for any help.
No one? Is there just a full update I can throw on the SD card and get it running?
Try formatting the sd card fat32, putting dreaimg.nbh(search) on it. Then, put it in the phone and boot with camera+power. Follow the onscreen instructions, and hopefully it'll work.
If it doesn't, not my fault. Good luck!
Thanks Michael, but I did that already and it really didnt change anything. I noticed the recovery menu looks a bit different, and when I go to safemode, the "android" looks different, but thats it. Still cant boot, and still shows there is no recovery in the recovery menu.
aah Yet another boot loop problem .. i was flashing cyangen from an now i am stuck in boot loop i have tried holding down power+n+volume up that got me nothing .. i tried boot able disk of Cr the screen just stays blk . i can hold down n to get into recovery but i cant do much from that point. it wont go into recovery it will just say loading ... i cant get it to boot another else from there except normal boot which just bring me back to boot loop .. can anyone help me out or point me to something that i haven't tried yet ?? thank you
are you saying you can't book up from a cwm recovery disc? That's really odd considering that it defaults to SD boot first, unless you changed the boot order or something.
Yes that's what i am saying ..when i put any sd card in it , it wont boot at all .. it seemed odd to me too .. no i didn't change anything i dont know how too.. any idea's how to fix this ???
Sounds like you need to make another CWM recovery sd card. It might have gotten corrupted or something.
You've booted with it before, I assume?
Hmmm maybe i will give that a try .. no i haven't booted with one before .. i had honeycomb on there before but it wasn't booted from the card it was booted off the main memory .. is one CR better then the other ?? do i have to have anything else on there ?? i have been searching around but i haven't seen anyone with my problem yet ..
you need to make a bootable clockworkrecovery sd card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
Then you can find the Rom you want to install, stock or otherwise.
when i try to write the image it says error the current format is not supported by the disk drive I:
it will re resized.
disk is not empty all data on your disk will be lost !
do you want to continue ?
now i picked 4 gig one ... i click on yes it starts for 1% then the bar disappears.. i am guessing it's done but when i put it in my nook it wont boot ..
Did you format it to fat32? I don't get that error about current format not supported by disk drive I.
Maybe you need another image writer.
what should i have formatted it to ??
should be fat32
I had this problem before. Just download the latest HBOOT With clockworkmod and place it in ur SD card labeled PM1CD3, or something like that.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
There is a Hotboot for nook ?? i thought that was just for HTC ??
Ok i can get into boot menu which really doesn't do much it i can pick boot from sd card internal etc normal recovery an alt boot .. but once you try an change anything it will just say loading an nothing will happen at all .. Now when it boots normal i can hold pwer+N + vol - an it says going into recovery but it never does .. it just reboots .. when ever i try one of the boot able cards, nothing happen i cant turn it on at all ....
is there anything i can try from plugging it into my pc ??
Anyone have any idea's i have been trying to figure this out with out much luck .. if someone could point me to some help or anything at this point it would be great ... thanks ...