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I bricked my first phone in January after a month of reading and then following the wrong instructions -- now I am quite hesitant to do things.
On my second phone, I followed the rooting rogers dream full guide at:
[http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_Rogers_Dream_EBI1_to_CyanogenMod] This worked, although it seemed to have almost as much lag as the rogers rom.
I did a nandroid restore back to my original rogers rom which I had backed up per the instructions in the above guide. This confirmed that I was not seeing much decrease in lag using cyanogenmod.
I want to try going to the 2.22.19.26I radio and use non EBI1 ROMs.
From reading I think I need to use amon-ra recovery with no R on the end.
The radio,recovery and rom should all be non - EBI1.
In my reading, I haven't seen instructions to do what I am looking for.
I have put some commands together below.
Will this work or brick my phone?
It probably is missing some things. For example see step 6.
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1.
start up recovery : Shut down your phone and, while holding the Camera button on the side of the phone, turn it on
again. [Amon_RAs Rogers Dream Recovery (recovery-RA-dream-v1.5.2R.img)]
2.
enter fastboot: press Send to go into fastboot mode.
3.
fastboot devices (to make sure that fastboot "sees" your device)
4.
fastboot flash radio radio.img [from givemeroot.zip]
5.
fastboot erase system -w
6.
is this needed?
fastboot erase boot
7.
fastboot erase recovery
8.
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img [non EBI1 recovery]
9.
fastboot flash system system.img [htc_system_img_14721.zip, stock android 1.6 will get rid of EBI1 kernel patch]
At this point it shoule be a working phone with 2.x radio and stock HTC Android 1.6.
10.
powerdown phone
11.
boot up to the recovery, and select "Flash zip from sdcard"
Select update-cm-4.2.x.zip and press Home to confirm
Now the phone will be:
Device: Rogers HTC Dream phone
recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2
Engineering SPL - HBOOT version is 1.33.2005
Radio - 2.22.19.26I
ROM cm-4.2.x
checksums:
givemeroot.zip md5: 4a58a5702fdf899547011888d9cc066f
recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img - MD5Sum: de9a2562ed8b7ef3b8dab4ecf369fd13
htc_system_img_14721.zip (md5sum: 7a3a2a9bc99a0e8894b62eb9921c000d)
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I don't see anything wrong with your instructions and it should work but there are a lot of unnecessary steps. You don't need to wipe your whole phone to change the radio. Just flashing the latest cm update on top will restore the original kernel therefore getting rid of the EBI1 patch.
enter fastboot: press Send to go into fastboot mode.
fastboot flash radio radio.img [from givemeroot.zip]
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img [non EBI1 recovery]
boot up to the recovery, and select "Flash zip from sdcard"
Select update-cm-4.2.x.zip and press Home to confirm
Are you with Rogers? Have you signed the waiver yet? Please post back and let us know if Rogers disconnects your data.
beav_35 said:
I don't see anything wrong with your instructions and it should work but there are a lot of unnecessary steps. You don't need to wipe your whole phone to change the radio. Just flashing the latest cm update on top will restore the original kernel therefore getting rid of the EBI1 patch.
enter fastboot: press Send to go into fastboot mode.
fastboot flash radio radio.img [from givemeroot.zip]
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img [non EBI1 recovery]
boot up to the recovery, and select "Flash zip from sdcard"
Select update-cm-4.2.x.zip and press Home to confirm
Are you with Rogers? Have you signed the waiver yet? Please post back and let us know if Rogers disconnects your data.
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yea, I did this 2 weeks ago.
I followed this:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_Rogers_Dream_EBI1_to_CyanogenMod
only do it in reverse, as in install the 2.x radio instead and install the ebi0 recovery instead. Then boot into recovery and flash a rom (i would suggest superD rather than cyano because you wont have to also flash the google apps)
troubles...
Thank you for the replies.
I am using this phone on Bell. So the Rogers policy troubles don't come into it.
I checked all the md5sums.
Then I did these commands.
c:fastboot devices
c:fastboot flash radio k:\1\radio.img
c:fastboot erase system -w
c:fastboot erase recovery
c:fastboot flash recovery k:\1\recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img
oops:
K:\1>c:fastboot flash k:\1\system system.img
sending 'k:\1\system' (58570 KB)... OKAY
writing 'k:\1\system'... FAILED (remote: partition does not exist!)
c:fastboot devices
c:fastboot flash radio k:\1\radio.img
c:fastboot erase system -w
c:fastboot erase recovery
c:fastboot flash recovery k:\1\recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img
c:fastboot flash system k:\1\system.img
As you can see I typed the command incorrectly for the system image the first time.
Then I issued all the commands again from the beginning -- this time I issued the commands correctly.
When I powered down and then started the phone, it was still stuck on the Rogers logo after 25 minutes. Then I pulled the battery and held camera then power. It did start in the 3 androids screen. Good.
I checked and it also will boot into recovery. Good.
So, now I am not sure what I should do to fix this.
Any ideas?
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Additional info:
pictures of my screens are attached.
david1212 said:
Thank you for the replies.
I am using this phone on Bell. So the Rogers policy troubles don't come into it.
I checked all the md5sums.
Then I did these commands.
c:fastboot devices
c:fastboot flash radio k:\1\radio.img
c:fastboot erase system -w
c:fastboot erase recovery
c:fastboot flash recovery k:\1\recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img
oops:
K:\1>c:fastboot flash k:\1\system system.img
sending 'k:\1\system' (58570 KB)... OKAY
writing 'k:\1\system'... FAILED (remote: partition does not exist!)
c:fastboot devices
c:fastboot flash radio k:\1\radio.img
c:fastboot erase system -w
c:fastboot erase recovery
c:fastboot flash recovery k:\1\recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2.img
c:fastboot flash system k:\1\system.img
As you can see I typed the command incorrectly for the system image the first time.
Then I issued all the commands again from the beginning -- this time I issued the commands correctly.
When I powered down and then started the phone, it was still stuck on the Rogers logo after 25 minutes. Then I pulled the battery and held camera then power. It did start in the 3 androids screen. Good.
I checked and it also will boot into recovery. Good.
So, now I am not sure what I should do to fix this.
Any ideas?
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You for got to flash the base rom or a modified rom. You stopped at the system img so you don't have anythig to boot to. Flash the 1.6 base and you should be good to go.
I don't understand.
I thought that the system.img that I got from the htc_system_img_14721.zip (md5sum: 7a3a2a9bc99a0e8894b62eb9921c000d) is the base android 1.6. I thought this is a full base 1.6 system.
What am I missing?
In recovery just flash the rom you want to use, then it should boot properly.
OK. I applied update-cm-4.2.14.1-signed.zip from recovery and it boots up to CM now.
Thanks.
Great!! Glad you got it working.
BTW There's a newer version of CyanogenMod out.
Yes, newer CM. OK.
Now that I am on the 2.x radio and non-EBI1 recovery, can I use SuperD?
Yes you can use SuperD. Make a nandroid backup, wipe, then flash the update.zip. No need to flash the system.img. There is also a EBI1 port for SuperD so you could have used it before too.
david1212 said:
Yes, newer CM. OK.
Now that I am on the 2.x radio and non-EBI1 recovery, can I use SuperD?
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you know that you could have used ALL the roms on ebi1 anyway
you just flash a kernel after you flash the rom
It takes literally 2 minutes to make your own kernels with
http://faruq.yandao.com/magicport/
insert rom boot.img (just extract rom to get this), and out comes a kernel !
good news
I am glad I did this.
The phone works better. I don't lose data connection like I did before. The battery life is better.
Now I will make guesses.
The radio works better - has better signal. At my desk, cell reception is not very good. Now the battery is run down less with better connection strength.
My config is now:
-Device: Rogers HTC Dream phone
-Provider: Bell Mobility Canada
-recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2 [non EBI1]
-spl: 1.33.2005 DREA21000 aka danger spl from rogers_root_unzipme.zip (md5sum: d522e09be7ddec00ef2354533c14cd2f).
-Radio: 2.22.19.26I
-ROM: SuperD 1.9.3 [non EBI1]
questions about downgrading from rogers radio
HI, i'm on a rogers dream using cyan 6.1 and ebi1 kernel. if i downgrade to the 2.22 radio will i have to sign the rogers waiver to get service? i've also heard that the edge network slows down considerably. if there are problems will i be able to go back to the rogers radio?
thanks.
jeremy boyd
Yes, Rogers will disable your data if you don't have the 3.22.26.17 radio unless you sign the waiver. 2.xx is not a downgrade, its a different type of radio. You can always go back to the old radio just make sure your recovery and kernel match your radio.
If you want try this radio. Your phone will be much faster.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831139
I read recently that to flash the danger spl with the least amount of risk it should be done using fastboot. I have fastboot up and running but I am a little confused on using the commands. Can anyone help explain this to me?
You need to boot the phone into the bootloader (spl), open a command prompt on your computer, and cd to where the fastboot binary is.
From here the commands all start with "fastboot." So to erase a partition from the spl, you would enter "fastboot erase recovery" and substitute recovery for whatever you wanna erase. The partitions on the Dream are: system, boot, cache, misc, userdata, and recovery.
To flash a partition you would enter "fastboot flash [partition] [.img file name]"
The .img file has to be in the same folder as the fastboot binary.
Example: "fastboot flash recovery recovery-AmonRa-1.6.2.img"
This is, of course, just about fastboot itself. I have no idea how to flash the spl from fastboot; I didn't even think it could be done. I would suggest using fastboot to flash a custom recovery, and using the recovery partition to flash the spl zip file.
Interesting
Thanks for the reply, that definitely helps me understand fastboot a little more. I was reading in this thread forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655097 (sorry no link) that any radio is compatible with any spl as long as you use fastboot to flash the radio and spl, but im having trouble finding any info on how exactly to do it.
Could it possibly be "fastboot flash hboot dangerspl.zip"?
Jaylen said:
Thanks for the reply, that definitely helps me understand fastboot a little more. I was reading in this thread forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655097 (sorry no link) that any radio is compatible with any spl as long as you use fastboot to flash the radio and spl, but im having trouble finding any info on how exactly to do it.
Could it possibly be "fastboot flash hboot dangerspl.zip"?
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You don't flash zip files through fastboot, extract it and flash the .img file directly, but yes, that command is correct.
fastboot flash radio yourfile.img
fastboot flash hboot yourfile.img
then reboot with:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
You'll probably want a recovery .img handy as well, in case you can't get into recovery after flashing. You can flash that with (predictably):
fastboot flash recovery yourfile.img
If anything goes wrong during the radio or hboot flash, DO NOT POWER OFF OR RESTART!! Come back here and get advice. If you reboot the phone without a valid radio or hboot, you will brick.
Remember there's always a risk involved with flashing these sensitive parts of the system.. if you brick it, I was never here
Sweet thanks for helping me understand. One last thing though, I know for sure I have the 2.22.19.26I radio installed already. Should I flash the new 2.22.23.02 radio first then the spl, or the spl and then the new radio?
The new radio is your choice really.. It's not made a lot of difference to me and you shouldn't have any problems just flashing the spl on top of 26i.
Jaylen said:
Sweet thanks for helping me understand. One last thing though, I know for sure I have the 2.22.19.26I radio installed already. Should I flash the new 2.22.23.02 radio first then the spl, or the spl and then the new radio?
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The order of flashing radio and SPL, in general, is irrelevant. The exception is that the FIRST thing you should ALWAYS flash is an engineering SPL that MATCHES the consumer SPL that you HAVE installed. After that, order makes NO difference. ALWAYS flash radio or spl using FASTBOOT with the exception of the FIRST ENGINEERING SPL (since there IS no fastboot at this point).
Once an engineering SPL is installed, NEVER install a consumer SPL and NEVER use an NBH file.
lbcoder said:
The order of flashing radio and SPL, in general, is irrelevant. The exception is that the FIRST thing you should ALWAYS flash is an engineering SPL that MATCHES the consumer SPL that you HAVE installed. After that, order makes NO difference. ALWAYS flash radio or spl using FASTBOOT with the exception of the FIRST ENGINEERING SPL (since there IS no fastboot at this point).
Once an engineering SPL is installed, NEVER install a consumer SPL and NEVER use an NBH file.
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Thats what I thought. After reading your thread I flashed the engineering SPL using recovery and now I plan on using fastboot to install the danger SPL. Is it alright to reboot and use recovery to flash a ROM after the SPL is finished or should I just keep using fastboot?
hmmm, just tried to flash with the command "fastboot flash hboot hboot.img" and I got an error, <remote: partition does not exist>. Any ideas?
1) Make sure you have the right radio on your G1.
2) Download the .zip format of the DeathSPL. If you don't have the right radio, download that, too.
3) Boot into recovery mode.
4) If you don't have the right radio on your phone and you had to follow both sentences of step 2, flash the radio.
5) Nandroid backup.
6) Save the Nandroid backup to your computer.
7) WIPE EVERYTHING.
8) Flash the DeathSPL.
9) Boot your phone normally.
10) Reboot your phone into the SPL to make sure that works.
11) Put the Nandroid backup back in the appropriate folder on your card.
12) Flash the Nandroid backup.
blackknightavalon said:
1) Make sure you have the right radio on your G1.
2) Download the .zip format of the DeathSPL. If you don't have the right radio, download that, too.
3) Boot into recovery mode.
4) If you don't have the right radio on your phone and you had to follow both sentences of step 2, flash the radio.
5) Nandroid backup.
6) Save the Nandroid backup to your computer.
7) WIPE EVERYTHING.
8) Flash the DeathSPL.
9) Boot your phone normally.
10) Reboot your phone into the SPL to make sure that works.
11) Put the Nandroid backup back in the appropriate folder on your card.
12) Flash the Nandroid backup.
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Have you read anything in this thread or any of the awesome work by ezterry over the past few weeks? FLASHING THE SPL THROUGH RECOVERY CAUSED ALL THE BRICKS.
Anyone looking at this thread for help should ignore this and use the fastboot method detailed above.
Jaylen said:
hmmm, just tried to flash with the command "fastboot flash hboot hboot.img" and I got an error, <remote: partition does not exist>. Any ideas?
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Er.. I've not come across that one before..
Yeah I just put it on hold for the night. It seems that fastboot only flashes to these partitions, system, boot, cache, misc, userdata, and recovery. I'm wondering if the SPL is stored in one of these. I found an ancient JesusFreke thread where he was talking about it being in misc, but I wasn't just gonna go flashing away at random partitions lol...
Ok, I was looking at the commands in fastboot by typing "fastboot ?" in the command prompt and I notice that it says you can flash update.zip files from fastboot. I'm wondering if I rename the original Danger SPL zip file to update.zip and try to flash it this way through fastboot if it will work. Kind of nervous to try it though, what do you guys think?
Yeah that's why I didn't list "hboot" as an available partition. I've had problems with that too. But I've only ever flashed my spl the one time so I didn't even need it.
I would say it's a bad idea to try to flash the spl while in the spl. That may possibly not turn out so nice. I don't know for certain, mind you, but it just sounds dangerous.
FaJu said:
Yeah that's why I didn't list "hboot" as an available partition. I've had problems with that too. But I've only ever flashed my spl the one time so I didn't even need it.
I would say it's a bad idea to try to flash the spl while in the spl. That may possibly not turn out so nice. I don't know for certain, mind you, but it just sounds dangerous.
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The running spl is in RAM. No need to worry about this.
@Jaylen: That's an interesting one about the partition not being available. I'll look into that -- it could potentially throw a wrench into things.
I don't think its fastboot error or anything, I'm a little bit new at this but I'm pretty sure I set it up correctly. I can see my device in the command prompt, could I have missed a step? @ lbcoder What do you think about flashing the SPL as an update.zip package through fastboot?
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hey all, i'm searching around for a general issue i'm having with getting fastboot up and running. i believe i have everything installed, but when i try to run fastboot.exe, it tells me that another file, AdbWinApi.dll, is missing from my comp. but this file is located in another folder in the SDK, platform-tools.... so the file is there and installed, but is there something i need to do with my PATH in my environment variables or something? any help would be amazingly appreciated... i'm trying to get fastboot up and running so i can run some test builds for developers. i'm running 64-bit Windows 7. thx
yogi2010 said:
hey all, i'm searching around for a general issue i'm having with getting fastboot up and running. i believe i have everything installed, but when i try to run fastboot.exe, it tells me that another file, AdbWinApi.dll, is missing from my comp. but this file is located in another folder in the SDK, platform-tools.... so the file is there and installed, but is there something i need to do with my PATH in my environment variables or something? any help would be amazingly appreciated... i'm trying to get fastboot up and running so i can run some test builds for developers. i'm running 64-bit Windows 7. thx
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You'll need that file to run in ADB mode.
I have sold my phone and I am currently using CM6 RC3
The buyer want me to install the stock 2.2
can someone please provide me with the Download to stock 2.2, and the instructions, Just flash over cm6?
Thanks
You could download the FRF91 system image (link in my signature) and flash it using fastboot...
1. reboot into bootloader
2. extract the downloaded zip
3. fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
4. fastboot flash system system.img
5. fastboot flash boot boot.img
6. fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Your radio and hboot can remain unchanged (they are stock anyways)
thanks alot of your help:
I am not fimilar with using fastboot
is there a way to use recovery and flash from zip file, that is how I have been trying out different roms
I think ROM Manager has the stock rom available. That would be the easiest way.
I want to upgrade a US T-Mobile G1 to 2.1. Is the following procedure correct? (Don't need to backup.)
In bootloader flash RC29 DREAIMG.nbh. Reboot.
Type telnetd, install Android Telnet Client and root.
Install recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img using Telnet Client.
In recovery flash G1-radio-2_22_23_02.zip. Reboot.
In recovery flash spl_1_33_2003.zip. Reboot.
In recovery flash FR-recovery-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip. Reboot.
In recovery flash signed-SuperE103.zip then flash gapps-mdpi-FRF91-3-signed.zip then flash FR-boot-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip. Reboot.
Your way will work but I recommend a minor change iif you are using the rc29 method of rooting:
In bootloader flash RC29 DREAIMG.nbh. Reboot.
Type telnetd, install Android Telnet Client and root.
Install recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img using Telnet Client.
In recovery flash spl_1_33_2003.zip. Reboot. (Will return to recovery)
boot fastboot and flash the 2.x radio (info on my 1.33.2003 post.. and the *.img file is in the g1boot.zip)
while in fastboot wipe so custom mtd works 'fastboot erase system -w' and 'fastboot erase boot'
In recovery flash FR-recovery-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip. Reboot.
In recovery flash signed-SuperE103.zip then flash gapps-mdpi-FRF91-3-signed.zip then flash FR-boot-v1.5.3-CustomMTD_S.zip. Reboot.
I'm not 100% sure of that gapps package.. just check the super-e page if its correct
Edit: If you don't want to downgrade first look at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Ezterry/G1_1.6_To_Custom_Firmware
Thanks for the links. What is the advantage of installing radio via fastboot instead of recovery?
felix1234 said:
Thanks for the links. What is the advantage of installing radio via fastboot instead of recovery?
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Rather than re-iterate see my post here: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...e-via-fastboot/page__view__findpost__p__44790
In short it should be of similar difficulty for you the user and it has slightly less risk (not that there was much risk in flashing a 2.x over a 1.x one in recovery)..
For many scenarios that could brick however: if you flash via fastboot you will likely continue to be able to access fastboot after the flash; thus able to fix the phone.. while if you flash via recovery you get stuck in "boot mode 3" unable to boot anything without JTAG.
Thanks for explaining and writing the exploit guide. Will try!
i have the latest radio and hboot for G1 (check sig) and in fastboot mode it says S-on.. now im having trouble flashing a custom splash screen via fastboot and i read somewhere that the S-on may be why.. do i need to downgrade to engineering spl to use fastboot flash method? I keep getting a... <bootloader> checking signature failed! in cmd... but i do have fastboot enabled and working properly..
Did you follow ezterry's on how to install the spl and radio:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831139? did u follow these steps for installing the spl?
== Installing ==
(Note: Please Do read the information on the SPL below before actually installing)
1) Take a nandroid backup of your current rom (mandatory if you are trying to move the current rom to the new radio/SPL) to simplify things put any update.zips you expect to need on the SD card now
2) enter fastboot mode
3) flash the files and other operations via fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img
fastboot flash radio radio-2.22.27.08.img
fastboot flash hboot hboot-1.33.0013d.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
now you will see you have an s-on boot loader with 1.33.0013d as its version
Code:
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
please remember while fastboot erase works; fastboot flash does not so be careful *not* to remove the recovery
4) Boot into recovery
5) install a system from backup or as a fresh rom some options are:
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ldrifta said:
i have the latest radio and hboot for G1 (check sig) and in fastboot mode it says S-on.. now im having trouble flashing a custom splash screen via fastboot and i read somewhere that the S-on may be why.. do i need to downgrade to engineering spl to use fastboot flash method? I keep getting a... <bootloader> checking signature failed! in cmd... but i do have fastboot enabled and working properly..
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You have a perfected SPL installed on your phone (0013d), so you do not have full fastboot support and you are not able to flash a custom splash screen.
If you want to downgrade, flash the orange-xxx.nbh file from Terry's thread (can be found in my signature) and after that you will have an engineering SPL. With this you should be able to flash a custom splash screen. After that you can go back to 1.33.0013d/2.22.28.25 ... everything can be done using fastboot, so your risks to brick your phone are very(?) limited ...
yeah i figured it out thanks guys!! had to temp flash the engineering spl to do what i wanted.. than jus re flashed 0013d everything is all set thank you guys though!!!
I accidentally removed the recovery... and still having same issues with S-ON with HBOOT-1.33.0013d.... need help getting recovery back on my phone. have new radio too.
hubby0925 said:
I accidentally removed the recovery... and still having same issues with S-ON with HBOOT-1.33.0013d.... need help getting recovery back on my phone. have new radio too.
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You (as I see was indicated in the thread before) go to the 2708+ kernel/SPL/Radio thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831139
This has all the information on the use of 2708/2835 radios and the 1.33.0013d SPL including a section on what to do if you loose access to both the system and recovery in the '== Important Information about 1.33.0013d ==' section [Its important to read that section anyway if you are using 1.33.0013d]
If you still have access to boot, just use flash_image or rom manager to restore your recovery image.