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Unrooted g1 can't get past recovery...

My brothers phone was dropped (apparently hes a bit clumsy!) Whenever he was texting using the keyboard, it was making some very strange characters on the screen, whenever he would push 1 key, several would appear, etc.
't' ='d 's03' etc... stuff like that.. obviously thought a reboot would fix the issue. So when we rebooted the phone, it turned out that it couldnt get past the g1 screen and was stuck at the Triangle with the yellow exclamation point. Pushing ALT+L showed the recovery screen. We went through the appropriate options and held down back + home for 25+ secs to get it to reboot. It rebooted fine and worked for an hour or so, until the Voice Search just kept popping up as if he was asking it to, so we tried to reboot the phone again and do the recovery thing, this time it wouldn't get past the recovery after holding down home + back. I can't push back + home either to get it to restart, so I'm thinking the home key may be broken or stuck.
Any thoughts on this issue or has anyone else experience such? He'll more than likely be sending it in today since its still under warranty and has NOT been rooted.
Thanks!

same thing happened to my first g1..its a hardware issue send it in

Was hoping it wasn't a hardware thing, but so be it. Thanks for the heads up.

G1 stuck on Triangle and Eclamation point screen

so my sisters boyfriends G1 powers on but after the G1 screen it goes to the screen with an exclamation point in a traingle. whats wrong with it?

dglowen23 said:
so my sisters boyfriends G1 powers on but after the G1 screen it goes to the screen with an exclamation point in a traingle. whats wrong with it?
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It's going into recovery mode. Probably a hosed boot image.
I believe that pressing ALT-I should show the recovery menu.

ALT + L shoes Log, and then, you might want to wipe by pressing ALT + W. Maybe that'll fix it.

i wiped it and it still does the same thing... he said he dropped it in water but that usually means that the screen would turn white right?

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i wiped it and it still does the same thing... he said he dropped it in water but that usually means that the screen would turn white right?
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Why would WIPING it make any difference? And why would the screen turn white by dropping it in water?
Try writing a new system image to the thing.
If that doesn't work, probably the HOME button is broken -- will need to be taken apart and replace the button.

well wiping it was the only option i could choose since the phone isnt rooted and the recovery image only wipes.. and the screens on phones go white or wont even turn on at all if theres water damage ive witnessed it happen about 3 times on 3 different phones

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well wiping it was the only option i could choose since the phone isnt rooted and the recovery image only wipes.. and the screens on phones go white or wont even turn on at all if theres water damage ive witnessed it happen about 3 times on 3 different phones
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3 times on 3 different phones?
Keep the hell away from my phone -- you're obviously very dangerous.
And no, if a phone gets shorted out, the most likely thing to happen is for the screen to go BLANK.

Screen goes black/fixed/keyboard problem now

So I inherited a G1 that looks like its in good shape. But when I turn it on it briefly flashes a boot screen that quickly fades to black.
If I hold down the power and camera button it starts to boot, I let go of the power button and keep the camera button held down the screen will stay lit and I can see the fastboot mode. As soon as I let go of the camera button some other words flash on the screen and it dies again.
I looked through the forum assuming I could quickly fix this and have a new backup phone but this forum is now so advanced nobody seems to be having basic problems like this. And anyone who is still here seems to have lots more experience than me with this particular model of phone. Usually the stickies have an unbrick thread but I cant seem to find it.
I am sure this is something simple but if someone could point me in the right direction, or say the screen is burned out, I its bricked, or whatever you think it might be, I would appreciate it.

After more reading and discussing with previous owner, I think that the Camera and power button puts it into fastboot. (not sure exactly what that is yet)
From there it tries to install something from the SD card but fails.
The SD card contains DREAIMG.nbh and two empty folders. It seems to be trying to install something else besides DREAIMG but it fails so fast I cant catch it.
Is there something else I should place on the external SD card or perhaps a different version of the same file?
The previous owner also told me the G1 had been running CM6 if that makes any difference. ( I know it does on CM7 ).
I can get it to the screen with the three skateboarding androids (engineering spl indication? )but any time I let go of any of the buttons the screen fades right to black, making any further button pushing useless.
Any helpful hints? Anyone? Even a thread you think I should read completely?

I copied the DREAIMG.ngh to the desktop of my computer and reformated the SD card. After I bunch of button pushing and holding I managed to get it to hold on the HBOOT screen without going black. I pushed the trackball down and it reloaded the image apparently. Now it turns on and such but none of the keyboard buttons work and it says safemode in the bottom left corner. I will continue to read and search.

I cant find anything in this forum about safe mode. I am stumped.
The phone will boot and tries to get me to sign up for the gmail account but the keyboard only has the d, e, f, and x keys working.
The emergency dialer seems to work. I dialed my other phone with it and it said its not an emergency number and wont let it dial.
I am pretty sure this is not a lost cause here. There is just something I am missing. Could it be a bad flash from the DREAIMG.nbh?
Would it be possible to download a different image.nbh from someplace and try that?
Anyone have any ideas?

ok what are you trying to do exactly? i think your having trouble because the files on your sd... take them all off and see what happens??

can you boot into recovery? holding home+power??

ldrifta said:
ok what are you trying to do exactly? i think your having trouble because the files on your sd... take them all off and see what happens??
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Trying to get a functioning phone is all. I am comfortable fiddling with it , just dont know the process to go through.
I pulled the SD card and rebooted and its the same result. Little grey box in the bottom left that says 'safe mode' and it proceeds to the google account screen.
The touch screen works, and the trackball seems to. but Home and Menu dont so I cant even back out of the sign in screen.
Booting up with home+power gives me the triangle with the ! inside it instead of any kind of recovery mode like I expected.
Like I mentioned earlier, I believe it might be running CM6 but I am not even positive about that. I was told it was.
Any suggestions on my nextstep to get it into some kind of functoning state? I am willing to try anything suggested. New ROM or whatever.
I really thing its something simple, I just dont have any expreience with this model at all.

After more searching I guess the ! with triangle is the first screen of the recovery mode? But pushing Alt+L or Alt+I doesnt do anything.
I am used to the Galaxy S recover mode being all right there on the screen.
So next step would be......?

no wait you get the triangle and the !?? thats good lol that is the stock recovery mode.. so now i know what to work with when you get to that screen you can press alt+L and a list should pop up!!

FireRaider said:
After more searching I guess the ! with triangle is the first screen of the recovery mode? But pushing Alt+L or Alt+I doesnt do anything.
I am used to the Galaxy S recover mode being all right there on the screen.
So next step would be......?
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oooo it doesnt do anything?? hmmm

you sure nothing happens? try pushing down alt hard and keep holding it.. than press down on L hard see if a list pops up.. it only like 3 choices..

ldrifta said:
you sure nothing happens? try pushing down alt hard and keep holding it.. than press down on L hard see if a list pops up.. it only like 3 choices..
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Nothing, hold down Alt and then press and hold L. No changes.
The other odd thing is now when I do the camera+power combo it takes me to the welcome screen instead of the HBOOT screen. I was going to try reflashing the image on the external SD card and now it wont do that either.
The return+power combo also takes me to the welcome screen now.
The welcome screen is where I want to be except the 'safe mode' seems to be keeping the keyboard from functioning?

what welcome screen? lol

are the keys sticking maybe? lol

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what welcome screen? lol
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First I get the T-Mobile G1 screen.
then the Android guy
then the Welcome to T-MobileG1, touch the android to begin.
That all seems normal to me, except for teh grey box that says 'safe mode' in the corner.
So i touch the android and it moves to the Setting upp your T-mobile G1 screen and wants me to enter my account info, which I cannot do because the keyboard is not funtioning properly. Its almost like the image flash borked the keyboard drivers or something.

ldrifta said:
are the keys sticking maybe? lol
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the d, e ,f , x keys are all working so I think its not a stuck key. no other keys seem to work though. nor the menu buttons.

would safe mode mean some of the drivers are disabled? kind of like on a desktop computer?
And if so, how to get out of safe mode?

uhhh i never even been on safe mode.. is the led blue while its on? my advice would be to unroot but you cant get recovery functioning properly so im not sure what to do.. do you know what radio and hboot you have?

does it go to safe mode when you just boot up normally?

ldrifta said:
does it go to safe mode when you just boot up normally?
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Yes, safe mode shows in the bottom left corner of the screen when I power up normally.
I should have writen down what radio and such as I saw it displayed when I was in HBOOT and installing the DREAIMG.nbh file but I didnt think to.
Now I am either getting the Welcome to T-mobile screen or the first step of the recovery screen depending on the button combo I use.
But I am unable to proceed to do anything useful.

HELP!!!!

Ok so i havent been flashing new roms in a while. Today I try to go to my recovery and it just has the word "build:" at the bottom left of the screen. I tried pullin the battery and restartin and it keeps goin back to that screen with out me holdin the home button. I think my phone is givin out on me since its been 2 years now that i've had it. anyone know what i could do to fix it?
oh and the touch screen isn't respondin as quick as it did. its like i have to squeeze the phone before it'll catch my finger

macvalentine said:
Ok so i havent been flashing new roms in a while. Today I try to go to my recovery and it just has the word "build:" at the bottom left of the screen. I tried pullin the battery and restartin and it keeps goin back to that screen with out me holdin the home button. I think my phone is givin out on me since its been 2 years now that i've had it. anyone know what i could do to fix it?
oh and the touch screen isn't respondin as quick as it did. its like i have to squeeze the phone before it'll catch my finger
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Try Booting the phone Without the Sdcard, see if it Boots?

macvalentine said:
Ok so i havent been flashing new roms in a while. Today I try to go to my recovery and it just has the word "build:" at the bottom left of the screen. I tried pullin the battery and restartin and it keeps goin back to that screen with out me holdin the home button. I think my phone is givin out on me since its been 2 years now that i've had it. anyone know what i could do to fix it?
oh and the touch screen isn't respondin as quick as it did. its like i have to squeeze the phone before it'll catch my finger
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Try reflashing your recovery and formatting your sd threw PC then threw recovery.
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Black screen during boot

I bought a used Droid Turbo 64 GB and for the second time I am stuck in a situation where the screen went blank and now the device won't boot. I get to the silver/blue "Droid" splash screen where it sits for a moment or so, then the screen goes blank. After the first time I wiped and started over, it worked well for three days. Now it happened again. I tried wiping cache, did not help. I was thinking I could reflash Lollipop and would not lose data this time but can't seem to find the appropriate file to flash. Can someone point me to it, or let me know if that's not the right direction to go? As soon as I get a replacement I am sending this back but would like to try and get it up and running for the next few days.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3063470
But is it wise to fix a device you are returning?

mrkhigh said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3063470
But is it wise to fix a device you are returning?
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Just trying to get it to be usable until I can get a replacement phone.
While I was researching and posting here, I shut the phone off and put it on a charger. It said it was 61%. It got to 98%, I took a chance and powered it on and it got past the splash screen and went through an optimization of 63 apps. Finished and booted. Lasted about 10 mins then went black again and I am stuck.

I'm not sure if this is what your talking about but If you press the power button when it is in sleep mode and you see the clock and notifications but the background is black. If you pull up it should unlock the phone but everything goes black. That happens to me every so often. I reset my whole phone once thinking it was broken. All you have to do is pull down rather then up and the background appears and all is well again.

activeservo said:
I'm not sure if this is what your talking about but If you press the power button when it is in sleep mode and you see the clock and notifications but the background is black. If you pull up it should unlock the phone but everything goes black. That happens to me every so often. I reset my whole phone once thinking it was broken. All you have to do is pull down rather then up and the background appears and all is well again.
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Thanks for the info but this phone is locking up. We turned off that mode. The screen does black after 1 min (in display settings). In our case, there is no way to get it to come back on. And during reboot, it goes black and never finishes booting.

You're best bet is to flash the stock firmware. http://rootjunkysdl.com/?device=Droid Turbo&folder=Firmware

i have the same issue, did firmware flash with fastboot and the fix with the verizon software with no results