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Stuck on G1 startup screen after installing theme.

I posted about this in another thread, and thought I'd start a new one. I couldn't figure out how to delete my first post about it, sorry, guys.
Anyway, I tried to install a theme, and now I'm stuck on the G1 boot screen (the first one). It just hangs there, doing nothing. I Tried to go over it with the JF 1.3 update.zip in recovery, but it didn't work, the phone just hangs. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm traveling for the next few months, and I'm seriously screwed without a phone.
Thanks!

If you can't boot and can't get into recovery your only recourse is to flash the NBH file from the bootloader and start from scratch. Also, you really probably should not be performing modifications and hacks on your main phone without some kind of a backup. GL

jashsu said:
If you can't boot and can't get into recovery your only recourse is to flash the NBH file from the bootloader and start from scratch. Also, you really probably should not be performing modifications and hacks on your main phone without some kind of a backup. GL
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I can get into recovery- that's how I managed to try to reapply the JFV1.3 update.
I probably should have been more clear about that.

Did you try a wipe in recovery? Alt+W

jashsu said:
Did you try a wipe in recovery? Alt+W
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Yeah. No dice.
Perhaps the update didn't work because there was already an update.zip (the theme I tried to install) on my sdcard? When in recovery, what exactly do I type from adb to copy an update.zip from my sdk/tools directory to the sdcard? Do I need to have deleted the update.zip that was already on the card beforehand? I can't find a way of deleting anything from recovery.
Here's what I typed:
adp push update.zip /sdcard
I also tried:
adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
I tried alt + s after both, and it went through the updating process, but I have no way of knowing if it tried to update using what I'd just pushed onto the sd card, or the old update that screwed up my phone. Did I at least put the update on the sdcard correctly?
Hope I'm making sense.

It sounds like you are applying the theme again. You need to try to delete that file from your sd card. The easiest way would be to get a card reader and delete what is on your card then put the new update.zip on it. If you can't get a card reader then you will have to find the linux commands to delete a file and use adb shell to execute the command. Good luck, you should be able to get your phone back.

zackmpls said:
I posted about this in another thread, and thought I'd start a new one. I couldn't figure out how to delete my first post about it, sorry, guys.
Anyway, I tried to install a theme, and now I'm stuck on the G1 boot screen (the first one). It just hangs there, doing nothing. I Tried to go over it with the JF 1.3 update.zip in recovery, but it didn't work, the phone just hangs. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm traveling for the next few months, and I'm seriously screwed without a phone.
Thanks!
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same thing happened to me had to use JF rom to get it to work again. idk the linux command but i got an idea! if you dont have a card reader or another g1... you can try installing cupcake thru eng bootloader then convert back to JF's rom. Try that maybe it will work.

rm filepath/filename.extension
should be liek this
rm /sdcard/update.zip

If you are stuck in a loop, it's most likely due to using an ADP1 theme on an RC30 version of JesusFreke's release.
If that doesn't fix it, you will need to remove your apps manually through ADP, but let's take it one step at a time. Download and install JF's standard RC30.

trmacdonal said:
It sounds like you are applying the theme again. You need to try to delete that file from your sd card. The easiest way would be to get a card reader and delete what is on your card then put the new update.zip on it. If you can't get a card reader then you will have to find the linux commands to delete a file and use adb shell to execute the command. Good luck, you should be able to get your phone back.
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That's what I was thinking, too. I managed to get to a reader this morning, and I was able to put rc30 on there, no problem. I'm up and running again!
I'm wondering why ADB didn't work to push the update to my card in recovery. Did I input the wrong commands? It acted as if it worked (took a couple minutes, showed the "28374 bytes blah blah" message".
Thanks a lot, everyone. I'm so relieved to have my phone again, and I've learned my lesson about modifying without backing up first.

i have the same problem what can i do !! ?
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i have downloaded and install themes on G1 !!
i have downloaded the file (Theme) and copy to my card and switched off my phone and then i have pressed home+on button then i have apply update from sd card !! it installed successfully but now i have started g1 after that g1 logo i can only see a blank screen !!
I am using CyanogenMod 4.1.999 !!! i have downloaded Theme from this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...talling+themes
Steampunk !!! ( as i said i have downloaded this file and rename it to update.zip and copy to my sd card then i have just applyd from my sd card since then when i start my phone i see T-Mobile G1 logo then all disappear and i can only see a light without anything !!!

Kuulthag said:
i have the same problem what can i do !! ?
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i have downloaded and install themes on G1 !!
i have downloaded the file (Theme) and copy to my card and switched off my phone and then i have pressed home+on button then i have apply update from sd card !! it installed successfully but now i have started g1 after that g1 logo i can only see a blank screen !!
I am using CyanogenMod 4.1.999 !!! i have downloaded Theme from this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...talling+themes
Steampunk !!! ( as i said i have downloaded this file and rename it to update.zip and copy to my sd card then i have just applyd from my sd card since then when i start my phone i see T-Mobile G1 logo then all disappear and i can only see a light without anything !!!
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To fix your problem just reflash your ROM. It's always a good idea to keep it on your card even after flashing.
Only install themes that support the ROM you're on...

i tried installing a theme on cm's v.4.999, and also got stuck on the bootscreen, however i just rewiped my phone and stalled the rom again. am currently running kingklick hero 2.0

zackmpls said:
Yeah. No dice.
Perhaps the update didn't work because there was already an update.zip (the theme I tried to install) on my sdcard? When in recovery, what exactly do I type from adb to copy an update.zip from my sdk/tools directory to the sdcard? Do I need to have deleted the update.zip that was already on the card beforehand? I can't find a way of deleting anything from recovery.
Here's what I typed:
adp push update.zip /sdcard
I also tried:
adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
I tried alt + s after both, and it went through the updating process, but I have no way of knowing if it tried to update using what I'd just pushed onto the sd card, or the old update that screwed up my phone. Did I at least put the update on the sdcard correctly?
Hope I'm making sense.
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You simply need to rename the one you DON'T want to use- or if in recovery, choose "select zip", not "update zip" from the list of options. Did you do a Nandroid backup before flashing? if so, you can do a restore from that working backup. And again, to re-iterate what another responder said, make sure you do a wipe before flashing again.- anytime I have experienced your problem ( and I have more than once) I have done a wipe from recovery than chosen a known good rom from my card after that to get up and running. I always keep a "rock solid" rom on my card for this reason, such as xRom 1.5r4. - chris aka [email protected]
Also- I am a bit confused; are you doing this from the phone while at the recovery screen, or with adb from your pc. You can also take out your sd card, put it into a card reader, and do your re-naming, loading of a rom, etc., then put the card back into your phone-cc

SD cleanup questions

Hello all,
When I first rooted my phone a week or so ago, I literally had no clue what I was doing. I knew it worked, I was happy, and I haven't touched the original files since.
Now that I'm a tad more familiar with the inner workings of the OS, flashing images, etc., I have a couple questions in regards to files from the original process.
First, am I correct in assuming:
- DREAIMG.nbh is the original RC29 image with root access and I need to keep it as a fall back if I ever brick my phone
- recovery.img allows me (via Power + camera button) to boot into recovery mode and apply the .nbh
- recovery_testkeys.img and boot_nosecure.img are vital to reimaging the .nbh as well
Lastly, I have four files (signapk.jar, testkey.x509.pem, testkey.pk and a README) in a directory called SignApk. Should I keep these around as well?
If this has been covered elsewhere on the forum, please point me in the right direction and have the Mods delete this thread.
Again, thanks for the help!

you can save all those files as backup in your pc.. if that what u are consern removing them fron your sdcard and having them backup in your pc.. they are already copied on to the phone.

Sorry, I should have searched better. I came across a thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491821) where someone thought they "bricked" their phone, but were able to get back to RC29 by going into recovery mode and restarting.
It appears as though the only reason they were able to save their phone was because DREAIMG.nbh was here. Maybe I'm wrong.
I'm worried that if f I find myself in the same situation and the nbh isn't there, I'm SOL.
Although I appreciate your help, I think I'll just leave these files alone and stop being OCD about files laying around in the root of my SD card.
Thanks for replying though!

ryan75 said:
I'm worried that if f I find myself in the same situation and the nbh isn't there, I'm SOL.
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That is what an SD card adapter or a USB adapter is for.

RC29/unrooting help.

BTW I have searched for hours.
(my phone is rooted)
I am trying to go back to the RC29 build. I need to get replacement phone.
I dl dreaimg.nbh and put it on my freshly formatted fat32 sd card.
Everytime I hold camera and power on, it gives me a serial0 failure on a yellow line.
I am lost right now.

Ask in the Q&A section of the forum.

Have you read THIS???

Yes, I have.

I put the prginal SPL on the phone and renamed it to update.zip, I then put DREAIMG.nbh on the sd card as well, and then tried to install the update.
E:cant open /sdcard/update.zip
(no such file or directory)
Installation aborted
Press home and back to reboot

SpoonyGSR said:
I put the prginal SPL on the phone and renamed it to update.zip, I then put DREAIMG.nbh on the sd card as well, and then tried to install the update.
E:cant open /sdcard/update.zip
(no such file or directory)
Installation aborted
Press home and back to reboot
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Are you on Windows machine? Make sure that it does not hide file extensions and you're not renaming your file to update.zip.zip
That's the only thing I can think about at this point but let's rule that out first
Let us know how it goes, we'll troubleshoot more if we need to
Good luck

lol you dont need to unroot to get a replacement phone. ive had four already every single one of them rooted just dont have a theme on it. and if your that serious about it just brick the phone. Not then say you was trying to update to the cupcake rom. Works Everytime

prettyboy85712 said:
Ask in the Q&A section of the forum.
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This is the Q&A section. You sir failed miserably.

Im not adding extra file extensions, I would just turn the phone in, but it does have a theme.

Ok, I figured it out on my own. Now running RC29.

So what's the trick?

Dl the updates from another source, freshly wiped the card for fat32.

[tut] flash rom without pc (sd card method)

0. Make sure phone is hard-spl first
1. Make sure SD card is formatted with fat-32
2. rename the image file (ruu_signed.nbh) to rhodimg.nbh, then copy that to the ROOT OF THE MICRO SD CARD, Insert card into phone
3. Set your phone in bootloader (Hold the "volume down" and hold the power on button until you see the tri-color screen.
4. Then follow the on-screen instruction
5. (OPTIONAL) -after flash, make sure to hardreset (pull battery, insert battery then hold green and red PHONE buttons (send/end) and hold powerbutton) follow onscreen instruction.

thanks for the info

I've tried the above and somehow it won't work on my TP2, it stays at "Serial" text in the white box, I'm assuming it already went past the SD slot then? Checking for the image.
I have the Energy rom loaded on the SD card, named as explained in the first post in this topic, it is placed in the root of the SD card, no folders or other files exist on that card. I removed the SIM card from the phone just to be sure. Is there anything I am missing, or is there anyone else who actually used this method to flash his or her device?
Info:
SPL: OliNex 0.85
ROM: |RHOD|6.5|ROM|WWE| ★ EnergyROM "Warhawk" (23016) ★ | Built Aug 21 |Manila 2.5 / 2.1|
SD Card: 4GB MicroSDHC (No brand on card, supplied with the branded T-Mo TP2 (Vario V)
Formatted: fat-32
Thanks

The nbh file needs to be in capital letters! RHODIMG.nbh
And step 5 isnt to be done until the "Tap screen to set up device" screen!
Just reset when your phone says Update successful!

And done, name changed to the correct format. No luck. Reformatting the card now to see if that changes anything. Update in a few.
And that too didn't work sadly. Either someone here notices I'm doing something wrong, or I'll just wait till I get near a machine natively running Windows Running Mac OS here so can't run the executable, and read that it's not quite a good idea to flash it from a virtual OS.

PositiveCreep said:
And done, name changed to the correct format. No luck. Reformatting the card now to see if that changes anything. Update in a few.
And that too didn't work sadly. Either someone here notices I'm doing something wrong, or I'll just wait till I get near a machine natively running Windows Running Mac OS here so can't run the executable, and read that it's not quite a good idea to flash it from a virtual OS.
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You will want to partition your card so the nbh image is in a partion of at the largest 1G, anything larger makes it hard for the phone to find and read the nbh file! I have a 1G card just for flashing and it works perfect! And it also may be the mac, they never play nice with windows!

It's not the mac screwing it up in this case as I am using a virtual Windows OS to work on the card. (MacOS leaves some folders on the card that I don't want on it)
Will try partitioning the card, cheers. I'll update when I know more. ANd thanks for the help ^_^
Update:
Partioned the MicroSD card to 0.5GB, no change sadly.

thanks for information

Ok, SD update worked now, however, step 5 won't go (Oh crap...) Have the grey screen with "Update Complete" and "UPDATE SUCCESS" However, it won't do anything if I hold down Send/End/Power at the same time for over 10 seconds. How long should that take normally? What's my best option right now? Can't see any other than to unplug the phone and take out the battary, however, will this brick it?

PositiveCreep said:
Ok, SD update worked now, however, step 5 won't go (Oh crap...) Have the grey screen with "Update Complete" and "UPDATE SUCCESS" However, it won't do anything if I hold down Send/End/Power at the same time for over 10 seconds. How long should that take normally? What's my best option right now? Can't see any other than to unplug the phone and take out the battary, however, will this brick it?
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When is says "UPDATE SUCCESS", just rest with the stylus.
Dave

Thanks for the swift reply! Done it, it's booting up as I am typing this. Didn't quite have the guts to just do that without having read I could when flashing from SD. (Was unsure how the device would react to soft reset then a first booth with the SD present etc)
Anyways, rambling. Thanks!

these post are telling me how to flash while the rom is already on the phone, but i'm missing the step on how to get the rom file on the phone in order to move it to the sd card.......... how do i get the file to the phone? do i put it onto the phone from the computer or do i go to my browser on my phone and download it from there to the phone

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these post are telling me how to flash while the rom is already on the phone, but i'm missing the step on how to get the rom file on the phone in order to move it to the sd card.......... how do i get the file to the phone? do i put it onto the phone from the computer or do i go to my browser on my phone and download it from there to the phone
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Everything you need to know is HERE. I really suggest you fully read the instructions so you avoid bricking your phone by mistake.

In re: making sure you're hardspl'd first, does that still apply if you're flashing an official ROM? Or just for user cooked ROMs?
I'm about to update my Verizon TP2 with the newly released official 6.5 from verizon. I'm not hard spl'd, and honestly, know very little about that particular modification.

not for official
I dont think you have to be hard SPL'd for an official ROM. I think everything is included in the ROM package. (at least for T-Mobile it is)
btw the .nbh does not have to be named in all capitals. I have personally done it both ways with no problems at all. RHODIMG.nbh works just as well as rhodimg.nbh

kwambewright said:
I dont think you have to be hard SPL'd for an official ROM. I think everything is included in the ROM package. (at least for T-Mobile it is)
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Thanks for the quick response!
Sadly, the way the install file is set up to work, I can't get to the nbh file. It insists on installing that via an active sync connection. I was hoping it would extract from the exe and schedule it for active sync installation, then I could hunt down the ROM, copy it to my SD card, and run it from there.

fortunz said:
Thanks for the quick response!
Sadly, the way the install file is set up to work, I can't get to the nbh file. It insists on installing that via an active sync connection. I was hoping it would extract from the exe and schedule it for active sync installation, then I could hunt down the ROM, copy it to my SD card, and run it from there.
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hmm.. sorry for kicking this post, but you can unpack the exe-file with winrar. just grab the biggest file you can find (RUU_signed.nbh, and rename it to rhodimg.nbh), copy it to your root-folder (fast way for accessing bootloader is to also copy the "EnterBootLoader.exe" -file to your SD-card, and to start that file after copying both the files). Now just enter the bootloader, and it works! (don't be scared when the screen goes black for a moment, and the bootloader has reloaded. It's meant to do that )
I still have a little question by the way: is it possible to flash the hardSPL this way? or should i rename it to something else?

No, Hard SPL needs to be done from the PC as it checks IMEI online and IP address. You only get 1 licence, can ask for more or purchase more licences, but it can't be done any other way...

ultramag69 said:
No, Hard SPL needs to be done from the PC as it checks IMEI online and IP address. You only get 1 licence, can ask for more or purchase more licences, but it can't be done any other way...
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Yeah, it's a pity this has been done (though I understand why...)
My device cannot connect to PC anymore, so cannot use HSPL anymore!

InjecTioN said:
hmm.. sorry for kicking this post, but you can unpack the exe-file with winrar. just grab the biggest file you can find (RUU_signed.nbh, and rename it to rhodimg.nbh), copy it to your root-folder (fast way for accessing bootloader is to also copy the "EnterBootLoader.exe" -file to your SD-card, and to start that file after copying both the files). Now just enter the bootloader, and it works! (don't be scared when the screen goes black for a moment, and the bootloader has reloaded. It's meant to do that )
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Much obliged. I've actually been scared off the official vzw 6.5 because of issues upgraders have reported, but someday I'll put that to use.

Help please, I rooted my g1 a while back and forgot everything

phillyblunt said:
I have JF 1.5 installed still and think its about time to upgrade. I have the latest radio but I think I need to update my spl which is the latest version I need to use this rom. Also I have partition magic so I can use that to format the sd card for apps 2 sd right? , I just do a ext2 on one half and ext3 on the other then cops all the files from the zip of 1.7 to the root of the sd card or do I have to put the app folder on ext3 and everything else on ext2 then just flash into recovery and update with the img? sorry for the questions I rooted my phone like 9 months ago and pretty much forgot everything I read and learned.
also I do have root access because I can use wifi teather and other root things but when I went to install cyanogen recovery Image and I go to terminal and type in mount /sdcard it tells me SDcard not found in /etc/fstab and If i type create a dir it says permission denied, can anyone help with that?
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uansari1 said:
Jesus f-ing Christ! Just to shut you up, I'll give you an answer... but know that I'm doing so halfway hoping you brick your phone due to the stupidity of your question.
This isn't the right place to ask questions about SPLs and partitioning cards. However, I'd suggest you look in my sig for info regarding the SPL. Most people that use Partition Magic, Paragon, etc. to partition end up with problems. If you upgrade to Amon_RA's latest Recovery, he's included an automatic partitioning script where you can even select the sizes of the partitions.
As for the files.. You FLASH the zip file via Recovery.
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phillyblunt said:
the link you have for Flashing the Haykuro SPL? Follow directions in post #3 HERE. does not work if you try to download the spl. Like I said I have the latest radio so once I do that spl all I will need to do pretty much is install amons latest recovery and have it partition the sd card as well has have a recovery option. Then do a nandroid backup and install the new 1.17.1 of dwangs script and I should be good to go right.
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phillyblunt said:
do you have a working link for that spl, again sorry for pissing you off. Just I was in a bad car accident in april been out of work and out of commission haven't really messed with my phone. Last question I promise. I got Amon_RA's latest Recovery and I renamed it to recovery.img but when i try to copy it to the data folder on system it gives me a permission denied error. Is there a file browser on the market that will let me copy it over or is their a way to browser the system files thru the pc and copy it that way. Thanks again.. merry xmas
scratch that sorry, They got me on good meds, found the spl now I just need to get the file to copy to the data folder
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phillyblunt said:
hmm I think I might of messed up my root access a while back. I installed what I thought was a modded cupcake firmware but Maybe I did google's. My build number says htc_dream-eng.15 cupcake eng.benji.20090609.153832 test keys and my kernel version is 2.6.27.24-cm [email protected] firmware 1.5. Do I need to go backwards or do I still have root access cause Like I said wifi tether still works. btw I am going to copy all of this and move the whole thread to the right forum board and stop posting in this one.
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So do I or do I not have root, also if anyone can help me to copy that recovery.img to the system folder so I can do a nandroid backup and partition it the right way that way I can get apps 2 sd working and that new rom I want.

Sorry can you go back and quote properly, I lost all interest when it said you logged in and yeah. Might help if things were quoted

Sorry about that there you go

phillyblunt said:
Sorry about that there you go
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Thanks, here let me go and read it now I'll try and help

1.Press cam+power-should say this if you have haykuro spl
DREA 100 PVT 32B HBOOT-0.95.0000. CPLD-4. Radio 0-2.22.19.26I Sep 2 2008
2.Goto recovery mode= power+hme
if you have jf or cyan recovery root is still one with you
Also if you have 3 skateboard droids in fastboot then you def got root.

Nah I still have the rainbow boot screen. if I update the spl will it give me root again and let me modify the system files

Make sure you updated your radio before you flash your SPL!!!!