Hello everyone, long time viewer but never really posted here.
Short story:
My phone was rooted and i was running CM7 but one day i decided to apply Rodriguezstyle 2.3 i believe but then my phone was basically bricked?
It would boot to Nexus X logo and it would loop on that screen.
Pugged in my SD card through an SD card reader and I used the Passimg.zip method because i couldn't ADB.
I've ordered a new USB from ebay because mine broke and basically Windows is giving me Device Not Recognized.
So after getting fastboot working it auto read my Passimg.zip and phone was restored to stock rom.
Also didn't realize like a fool i've been asked by google to Update phone so I have upgraded to 2.3.4 without realizing rom what i've read so far it's hard to root 2.3.4 stock but there is a few methods with ADB but i can't use adb.
My question.
Anyway to root phone with SD card plugged into to PC only ?
Anyway to get ADB to recognize SD card reader as a device?
Can i root maybe with a working app?
MY MAIN PROBLEMS.
Missing working USB to recognize phone as device.
POWER BUTTON Broken. :\
Cannot use fastboot to go into recovery which is why i couldn't even do it when my phone wouldn't go past the X logo.
Anyway to maybe store a Script to apply to SD card to make phone boot into recovery mode?
Sorry if it seems confusing. :\
Please i need your help, need root on my phone. Stock Rom has horrible battery life and also i need trackball wakeup since i have missing Power btn.
(i turn it on by plug in power and take battery in and out.)
Thank you!
Looking forward to some responses
Passimg again, and use one of the app based roots...
What are good ones.? I tried gingerbreak but screen hangs when it tries to root and never restarts.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
Used PASSIMG.ZIP Method.
Restored it to 2.1 stock rom.
Then used z4root and it worked like a charm!
rooted, installed clockwork app and recovery and
Just installed an awesome ROM!
MIUI 1.6.10
Everything is working great.
Sorry for the post.
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Hi,
I am sorry if there is already a similar thread, but I couldnt find it.
I have a huge problem with my German T-Mobile G1. Today I wanted to root the system. I used the instructions on XDA forum and "successfully" did the downgrading to RC7 but now I cant power on the phone. It stops at loading screen with android text and logo. Nothing happens than.
I have tried with the wipe and manual update with next version of firmware using update.zip but problem is still here. My phone is now totally unusable and I can now just hope that here on this forum can someone help me.
Please give me an advice
edit: there is one more thing: I can not power of the phone without taking the battery out. It automatically turns on every time I put battery in and every time I restart. Switch off button does not work any more.
Is the usb cable plugged in everytime you pull the battery and reinsert it? Because if it is the usb cable automatically turns on your g1. Can you access recovery +/or bootloader?
Recovery = home+power
bootloader = camera+power
If you can't get pass the g1 screen by pressing either combination of buttons you are bricked. If you are bricked () Call your carrier and tell them that you got an OTA update and it never turned on since. They should replace your g1 with a new one
I dont use USB cable. I prepared the microSD card using the USB-reader dongle. But I had pluged the electric cable so that was probably the reason for automatic turning on. Ok, now we can focus on the main problem.
Yes, I can access both recovery and bootloadaer al least. As I said, I have tried with some updating but nothing worked yet. When I use recovery some of files give me message: E: No signature. E:Verification failed.
This thing with carrier could also be a problem. I bought my phone in a shop which is buying them in another country because G1 is not officially being sold in our county. They give me a guarantee but it is guarantee from the shop and not official importer, so there would probably be some problems.
Thanks for trying to help me. I hope with this informations it would be little easier.
Place the file on your sdcard again. Down load a fresh copy of the latest hacked RC and make sure (if you're on windows) to name it "update" not update.zip because the .zip is already assumed in windows. Once its on your sdcard wipe and flash it. See if that works.
Can I use hacked RC on G1 that has not been rooted yet - just now very successfully downgraded?
do You place on sd card file "dreaimg.nbh" and turn on the phone with camera button pressed ?
Hettfield said:
do You place on sd card file "dreaimg.nbh" and turn on the phone with camera button pressed ?
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Of course I did it. How would I run downgrade process otherwise...
Maybe You need RC29 version
I did try with RC29 too.
Hi guys,
First post here, but been actively watching and gaining knowledge as I go..
I first want to say Thank you to all the producers of these new ROM's we have available!!!!
Now I wanted to say that my Captivate recently "Bricked". It's ok.
I had Root(SU perm.) Titanium backup, Rom Manager w/Clockwork mod & OCLF too.
My problem occured yesterday(Oct. 28th) - A day that will go down in history!
I was running Unhelpful's Cog Rom 2.1 and decided to upgrade to the Cog 2.2 beta 9 ROM.... After i did everything, it went well.... I noticed when I turned my phone back on that it wasnt recognizing my internal memory or even external.
I tried rebooting back into recovery and tried to reinstall ROm manager or any app and it kept saying, "not enough space". So I tried to reboot recovery and install a earlier version and nothing worked. Now it just boot loops into recovery screen and Clockwork mod seems to be gone!!
Oh well no harm as it is under warranty and my new one will arrive by Monday...So my question to all here is - When I receive my new phone, can I Root? Reinstall my Titanium Backup and my Rom Manager and Clockwork....Then put the Cognition file 2.2 Beta 9.1.2 (or 3) on my internal SD and watch the maqgic??? Or do I have to do anything else...? I should backup my stock ROM to where?? Internal & External card?
Thanks guys,
Mike De.
MortgMan said:
Hi guys,
First post here, but been actively watching and gaining knowledge as I go..
I first want to say Thank you to all the producers of these new ROM's we have available!!!!
Now I wanted to say that my Captivate recently "Bricked". It's ok.
I had Root(SU perm.) Titanium backup, Rom Manager w/Clockwork mod & OCLF too.
My problem occured yesterday(Oct. 28th) - A day that will go down in history!
I was running Unhelpful's Cog Rom 2.1 and decided to upgrade to the Cog 2.2 beta 9 ROM.... After i did everything, it went well.... I noticed when I turned my phone back on that it wasnt recognizing my internal memory or even external.
I tried rebooting back into recovery and tried to reinstall ROm manager or any app and it kept saying, "not enough space". So I tried to reboot recovery and install a earlier version and nothing worked. Now it just boot loops into recovery screen and Clockwork mod seems to be gone!!
Oh well no harm as it is under warranty and my new one will arrive by Monday...So my question to all here is - When I receive my new phone, can I Root? Reinstall my Titanium Backup and my Rom Manager and Clockwork....Then put the Cognition file 2.2 Beta 9.1.2 (or 3) on my internal SD and watch the maqgic??? Or do I have to do anything else...? I should backup my stock ROM to where?? Internal & External card?
Thanks guys,
Mike De.
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Questions don't go in the development section dude. did you not see the Q&A section? also did you try using odin to flash android? that worked for me when i had problems like that. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
sorry...
also that method is not working.. I think my phone has been deemed a paper-weight
MortgMan said:
sorry...
also that method is not working.. I think my phone has been deemed a paper-weight
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It just won't go into download mode? try taking out the battery and sim and doing it again.
EDIT: and just leave only the battery in when you try it.
open odin 1 click stock restore on puter, phone off, hold down volume up and down then while holding plug in usb, should throw u into download mode and and odin
take the sim out, the external sd( if any ), the battery...now connect it via usb...now hold down the volume buttons( both of em) and now put the battery in....it should go in download mode
You are telling me that this method doesn't work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911
Chief Beefalo said:
You are telling me that this method doesn't work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911
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*sigh* what do you have NO idea what's been going on in this world? That's right, that method, or any other method, absolutely does NOT work on batch 1008 Captivates. Don't act so amazed like its a new thing.
DownLoad mode
sportedwood said:
open odin 1 click stock restore on puter, phone off, hold down volume up and down then while holding plug in usb, should throw u into download mode and and odin
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Thanks, but I did this and it did go into Download mode but not recognized by computer... ODIN opens but nothing happens... nothing in any of the boxes and start does nothing.
Somehow my phone is not visible to PC...If I could get it visible again or even go back to stock, I wouldnt have a problem.
As I said previously, when i re-install packages in recovery it does NOT take me into Clockwork Mod recovery.
So, yes i can get into Download mode on phone but not PC. Just constant boot loop into Samsung recovery..............Now any takers want to try to come up with solution?
Hi everyone,
This morning I upgraded to froyo via Kies on my Bell i900m. It was running stock JH2 without any rooting or lagfix etc.
The upgrade process went smoothly however after booting into froyo i began to get force closures and then the phone froze (within ten mins of running froyo).
Then I did a battery pull to reboot and now i'm stuck in a boot loop.
The phone only goes to the "Galaxy S GT-i9000m" screen then reboots constantly. I can't get into recovery mode (phone reboots too quickly) but I can get into download mode.
Is my internal sd fried? any advice how i can try to do a factory reset ? Can i even do this if i can't get into recovery?
any help is greatly appreciated
Internal SD issues,
you can try one thing,
download Odin 1.7 and i9000UGJH2 then flash ONLY the PDA.
Once booted open the recovery and if you have errors mounting you have the internal sd problem..
Since it was an official froyo upgrade though I would just take it in.
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Btw, you didnt have a lagfix installed right?
brendonsled said:
Internal SD issues,
you can try one thing,
download Odin 1.7 and i9000UGJH2 then flash ONLY the PDA.
Once booted open the recovery and if you have errors mounting you have the internal sd problem..
Since it was an official froyo upgrade though I would just take it in.
Edit:
Btw, you didnt have a lagfix installed right?
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No I didn't have lagfix, or root - it's purely stock. The only modification done was that I unlocked it (but i'm running it on Bell)
kaiser__sose said:
No I didn't have lagfix, or root - it's purely stock. The only modification done was that I unlocked it (but i'm running it on Bell)
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its hooped.
take it back,
sorry for the bad news
BlackDino said:
its hooped.
take it back,
sorry for the bad news
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sux.. but thanks for the help
argh i hv this problem too, hopefully they won't know i unlocked the phone lol...also no recepit ...but i heard they still honour warranty as long as they check the imei number n stuff
This is what happened.
I used for a few hours its fine and now I finally got time to sit down and do some settings. Then suddenly applications started to crash and in the notification bar I read something like internal sd couldn't be loaded or something.
Edit: i can get into recovery mode and download mode! any suggestions?
miniflight said:
argh i hv this problem too, hopefully they won't know i unlocked the phone lol...also no recepit ...but i heard they still honour warranty as long as they check the imei number n stuff
This is what happened.
I used for a few hours its fine and now I finally got time to sit down and do some settings. Then suddenly applications started to crash and in the notification bar I read something like internal sd couldn't be loaded or something.
Edit: i can get into recovery mode and download mode! any suggestions?
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I took mine back to bell this evening. I have the bill but they didn't ask to see it they just took the phone and sent it in for repairs.
If you can get into recovery mode I would see if the internal SD is working. If it is you can flash with Odin and see if that fixes things. If the internal is fried then you have to send it in but no worries like i said they didn't ask me for the bill (but I was using a bell sim).
I was going to install a new rom on my captivate (which was running AXURA).
I back up user apps with Titanium Backup, then I go into recovery mode to revert back to stock. There was only 1 nandroid backup in the console, and that was from the date I flashed Axura, so I thought it was a stock rom. I flashed to that, but when I rebooted the phone, I still had AXURA but without any of my apps or customizations. In addition, the haptic feedback vibrates constantly without anyway to stop it, and error messages keep popping up on the screen that give me the option to "force close" or "wait"
I went back into recovery and deleted all user data hoping that this would wipe the Axura but instead I still have the same error ridden Axura build now without keyboard! Also unable to do BT file transfers (I tried to put the new custom rom on through a BT transfer but to no avail).
I tried the four steps here http://samsungcaptivate.wikia.com/wiki/Putting_the_Phone_into_Download_Mode and still havent been able to get it into download mode so that I could use ODIN to fix the issue.
None of the computers I plug the captivate into recognize it (windows or mac). I have installed the drivers on one of the windows machines and it didnt recognize. the other windows box no drivers were installed but it still said nothing. The phone also said nothing even with USB debugging enabled it would not say anything indicative of a USB being connected rather it would respond like I had connected a charger (just the alert noise and charging graphic in menu bar)
I dont know what to do here...I want to get axura off my phone and get a working rom installed. At the very least I want a way to get a rom onto the internal SD or to have the computer recognize the device. What do I do?! I appreciate all help in advance.
-Dan
You have ROM X with Kernel Y.
What color is the recovery mode text that you're booting into (red or green).
MikeyMike01 said:
You have ROM X with Kernel Y.
What color is the recovery mode text that you're booting into (red or green).
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Yo Im a friend of his, his recovery is the stock samsung blue recovery
What he is trying to do is place the clockworkmod update.zip on the root of the internal sdcard but he can't get into download mode
Or
Flash using Odin
I am not too familar with samsung phone, I have a Droid X. Is there anyway to access the external sdcard instead of the internal?
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So he still had the clockworkmod update.zip in on the root of the internal sdcard
he is able to get back into clockworkmod but the backup when restore, boots up with force close errors and he cant connect to the computer when booted and for some reason he cant get into download mode.
Is there anyway to access adb through the clockworkmod recovery?
masInvasion said:
**Update
So he still had the clockworkmod update.zip in on the root of the internal sdcard
he is able to get back into clockworkmod but the backup when restore, boots up with force close errors and he cant connect to the computer when booted and for some reason he cant get into download mode.
Is there anyway to access adb through the clockworkmod recovery?
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If his computer wont see it then ADB wont do you any good as it will tell you there is no device found. Looks like a jig maybe in his future. Should have used odin to return to stock instead of a backup file.
zelendel said:
If his computer wont see it then ADB wont do you any good as it will tell you there is no device found. Looks like a jig maybe in his future. Should have used odin to return to stock instead of a backup file.
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So he reinstalled the axura zip file(which is what the nandroid backup was of) and it gave him a error on line 10 or something. he rebooted and the force close messages are gone and his phone works but his computer still doesn't recognize it!
Any Suggestions?
What happens when you plug the usb in? On phone and pc
Has he tried other usb ports or another computer?
I sympathize because I flashed p10.2 from p4. Tried to flash the update zip instead of doing Odin to stock. Scared me and I learned my lesson. Do it the right way the first time. Shortcuts can lead to problems.
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Hey guys.
So I have a problem,
I was on darky's rom 10 and I have installed cyanogenmod7.
After that phone was woooow fast and great and everything...untill I decided to listen some tunes from external sd.
And so I have found out that I can't see external sd because I installed cyanogenmod on non froyo ROM.
Then I've tried to flash stock froyo but odin hanged a long time and I just restarted whole operation.
Now I have an icon ! that phone wants to connect to computer.
I can enter download mode with vol. down + home + power but it that state Odin cant see shiet. Only thing that can see phone in that state is windows (trying to install drivers and then fails!?) and kies (hanging on "connecting").
So, what are my options? Bricked for life? Or..... :S
k that symbol means connectivity issues, so try changing the usb port and if that fails try using another usb cable...run odin as administrator before trying all this!!
ok I've managed to get Odint to recognise it..
I've tried to flash froyo from this topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853950
and it doest boot, hangs at samsung/galaxy logo 4ever...
flashing darky's 9 resurection also gives no good thing.
just hangs on start samsung/galaxy logo/black screen in loop....
had the same problem as well and it was solved by plugging the usb cable at the back of the pc.
if that doesnt work try flashing other roms... you can find some tutorial on totallydubbed's youtube channel with the link of the rom in the description.
http://www.youtube.com/user/totallydubbedHD
Hey ppl,
I've had an awful fight with this phone and my brain and stupid PC.
omg
So, I have tried to flash 2.2 and it worked, then tried to flash cyanogenmod and it worked (again) but I couldn't reach external sd (again).
So I said to myself...f*** this s*** I'm going on stock,
And I did,
firmware version
2.3.4
baseband version
I9000XXJVR
kernel version
2.6.35.7-I9000XXJVR-CL425308
[email protected] #2
build number
gingerbread.xxjvr
This is what I have, and the problem I'm facing (again) is that phone or pc via USB can't recognise external SD.
Help please.
p.s. how can I easily go to cyanogenmod from here?
Kies is saying that "This version of the device cannot be updated."
Windows can't see either internal or external SD.
update;
I've installed Darky's 10.2 ressurection, something is very wrong with my phone.
Install went fine, rebooted ok.
Still no SD card, when I reinsert it, it says its blank or non supported format.
Tryed to reboot the phone and it just loops on darky's logo/animation.
Help?