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Root G1 with Latest update

Hey guys I have a stock G1 that was given to me and I can't access the wifi settings thus I cannot sign in. I believe I have the latest update. Anyone know a way around this?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316

B-man007 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316
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Does not work with the very latest AOSP update : (

cars1106 said:
Does not work with the very latest AOSP update : (
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You need to root your phone.....Read the stickys at the top of this section to learn how

It has been rooted before. then I unrooted it gave it to someone to use, it got updated and I don't have a sim with data and now I can't do anything with it. I guess I will have to downgrade via SD stick somehow through the recovery menu and try and run the exploit again.

if your one of those one-click rooters....your out of luck
you will have to root the old fashion way.....hint: RC29 DREAIMG.nbh

B-man007 said:
if your one of those one-click rooters....your out of luck
you will have to root the old fashion way.....hint: RC29 DREAIMG.nbh
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Yup, I had the same issue, downgrade to RC29, then follow this:
**Originally Posted by dizzydevil111**
please make sure you have rc29 or lower by typer (enter)reboot(enter)
if the phone reboots then you have rc 29 or lower.
if not, follow this guide to downgrade to rc29
2. Mount your SD card in Windows and reformat it as FAT32. The HTC
bootloader won't be able to see the RC29 (or RC7) image otherwise. Make
sure you back up all your files first!
3. Download the appropriate image (RC29 for USA or RC7 for UK) from
http://koushikdutta.blurryfox.com/G1/DREAIMG-RC29.zip or
http://koushikdutta.blurryfox.com/G1/DREAIMG-RC7.zip . This is a DOWNGRADE
to the Android version that contains a root shell bug (this exploit just
seems too easy). I got these files from the forum thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480 .
4. Extract the DREAIMG.nbh file from the downloaded zip archive and copy it
to your SD card (again, for me, this had to be formatted as FAT32, not just
regular FAT which is the default). Don't put it in a folder, just stick it
directly on there.
5. Disconnect the SD card the right way (eject, unmount, or otherwise tell
your OS you are unplugging it) to make sure the data gets written. If you
used an SD card reader, put the SD card back in your phone.
6. Make sure your phone has a full battery, then turn it off. Turn it back
on by holding down the CAMERA and POWER buttons. This should get you into
the HTC bootloader (the funky red, green, and blue screen).
7. If everything was done correctly, the bootloader will detect the image.
You'll be taken to a different screen that asks you to press the POWER
button to install the image. Do this, but beware, you will lose all your
saved data on your phone (with the exception of things that are synced with
Google's servers, like contacts, calendar, Gmail, etc.).
8. Wait for the update to complete. The progress bar will fill up, then
all the steps will say OK beside them, and finally, it will ask you to press
the "action key" (I think this means click the trackball). DO NOT do
anything until you see this message. The progress bar needs to DISAPPEAR,
not just fill up.
9. You now have the stock RC29 installed. Take out the battery, put it
back in, and turn on your phone. It should ask you to activate your Google
account again -
once you have this done type on the phone again (enter)setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1(enter)
your pc should now pick this up as an android adb device
point it to the correct drivers found in the file called androidusbwindows
once that installs, extract the adb file anywhere on your pc. (best place is root directory)
open up a dos command prompt and type (cd ..<enter>)
then type (cd ..<enter>)
then type adbshell
should look like this thereafter
$
referring to the dollar sign
then copy the following line into your dos command prompt and press enter
(am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings)
please make sure that you copy the contents of adbwin.zip in your ROOT FOLDER or else you will be going through hell
voila you should be able to access wifi
pm me if it worked for you

Yet another another WORKING How to root your Incredible

Thanks to everyone and all their post I was finally able to root my Incredible. Since I was having issues getting mine to root I tried pretty much everything that was said on these forums.
The secret to rooting is the timing of inserting your sdcard before the recovery screen is shown.
Here are the steps that I did to root 2 difficult incredibles.
1) Download the google SDK. You need the adb command for the rooting process.
2) Install HTC Sync or google SDK drivers. It doesn't matter which one you use. You just need the drivers installed and working.
3) Put your phone in USB Debugging mode under the applications config section.
4) Plug your usb in your phone while it is booted normally.
5) Select the disk drive option when prompted.
6) Make sure you can sucessfully connect to your phone using "adb shell" command. If this does not work you will not be able to go any further. This means drivers are not installed correctly.
7) Power off your phone. Doesn't matter how. Battery removal, press power off button etc...
8) Remove your SD card.
9) Press Volume down and power at the same time.
10) When the phone is at the Bootloader menu press Volume down and Highlight the Recovery option. Do not select it yet.
This is where the rooting process gets tricky.
11) Make sure your usb is plugged in.
12) Make sure you dont have your SD card in your phone.
You have to insert your SD card in your phone while the recovery mode is loading. There is a specific time window that you must do this. By using different SD cards they take certain time to initialize during the loading. This is why some SD cards work all the time and why others have to be inserted at a certain time
13) Go ahead and get your "adb shell" loop running. It should show "error: device not found"
14) Bring up a clock. You will need this to keep track of when you inserted your SD card during the recovery boot process.
15) Press the power button to select Recovery and start counting the second hand on the clock.
16) Start at 1 second and insert your SD card. You will wait until you hear windows beep when its loading the drivers for the USB device. After the 10 seconds your adb loop screen should show the following if it worked: "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)"
17) If it does NOT show this you will need to remove the battery and SD card and go back to step 14.
18) Increment your time by a second. So for the 2nd try insert the SD card after 2 seconds have past. So far on my walmart PNY 2gb SD card on 2 incredibles it takes around 5 to 6 seconds of waiting before I can insert my SD card. If you get to 10 seconds you need to restart and try again, but this time try half seconds increments.
When I select the Recovery option and the phone is loading I will see the white splash screen near the bottom kinda flicker a little bit and have a small horizontal line distort across the screen. That's about the same time I insert my SD card.
If you get the "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)" message looping in your shell prompt, Congrats you have access to the recovery shell. You will need to follow these steps to fully root your phone.
http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php?id=public:adb_in_recovery
Thanks to everyone in these forums offering their input. Without your input I wouldn't be able to root my phone.

LOL
I guess great minds think alike:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=703589
^ I posted that this morning.

At first I thought it was you reposting or someone poking fun at these types of threads.
You guys say like the same thing. Hopefully that means this is a good "update" to the process and people will have a slightly easier time.
I have Froyo on my Droid so am not too eager to get my Incredble rooted, but I have been following along.

I'm going to get my timings down tonight and post a 3rd thread on this!!!1

dreamersipaq said:
I guess great minds think alike:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=703589
^ I posted that this morning.
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lol yeah, I guess the method works

seanmcd72 said:
I'm going to get my timings down tonight and post a 3rd thread on this!!!1
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I'm going to use an atomic clock to time and root my DI and report back on the decay rates of Polonium!
I appreciate users' attempts to refine this process, but I'm sticking with the old: insert the card right before white-switches-to-black . . . I tried timing and found myself slamming the sdcard card into the slot trying to make my targets, and that ain't not good for the DI.

rynosaur said:
I'm going to use an atomic clock to time and root my DI and report back on the decay rates of Polonium!
I appreciate users' attempts to refine this process, but I'm sticking with the old: insert the card right before white-switches-to-black . . . I tried timing and found myself slamming the sdcard card into the slot trying to make my targets, and that ain't not good for the DI.
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LOL, well that's your own fault
Don't be so rough with her.... Abuser! Gentle, there is no reason to slam.
And it's still better then the click in and out method.

not Opening *.exe file

So my issues starts out like this...... I had an energy rom on my at&t tilt 2 from 3-15-10. I wanted to up date it so i ran task 29 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649191 which is found here my computer didn't want to open it at first (using windows 7 os with avg virus protector) i finally got it to open by going in and launching romupdateutility.exe.. (When i clicked on the custom ruu my computer did nothing even after right clicking and run as administrator) but i did get it to work.. No I'm having the same issue trying to put flash my new rom. When i click Rhodium_softwareUpgrade my computer does nothing. Is this a Windows 7 issue can someone please help my phone is now stuck on either the white at&t world phone screen or i can get to the bootloader screen but nothing after those. Help please, and thank you.

you can flash using ur storage card, just rename the nbh file to RHODIMG.NBH (if I'm not mistaken), copy it tp the root of the storage card and enter the boot loader.
hope it helps

with phone off hold volume down key while pressing the power key now you should be on tri-color screen (bootloader) & at the bottom of the screen it should say serial now plug your phone up via usb cable now at the bottom of your screen it should say usb
now on your computer right click on the custom ruu of whatever rom your using & run it as administrator & you should be able to flash with no problem

[Q] Internal SD Card corrupted

My wife seems to have corrupted her internal SD card, absolutely no idea how. She was bone stock, not even rooted. I could not get stock to even boot past the boot animation, so I tried one of the GB 1 Clicks and boogs KJ3 kernel to get CWM, now I can boot to the launcher, but it bootloops from there. I don't want to format the internal SD until I can get her pictures from it if possible, so my question is: is there a way to get the pictures off, if they even still exist? I have tried mounting in CWM and all i get is a lost directory, now I can't even mount USB storage.

Boot into recovery, then use adb to pull from /mnt/sdcard
Don't need to mount with adb.

Just tried this, I get an empty directory. Tried using adb shell and still showing an empty directory. Any other thoughts, or am I going to have to reformat?

Ouch....I think a format is in order.
sorry man

Well I got it to boot with the kk4 1 click and it runs, but the gallery is empty, so I assume I'm hosed. Any thoughts on cause, she says that earlier she got a message in the notification area about removing her sd card (she has no external, just an internal)?

Try this
Set your screen timeout to the max. Reboot y your phone. Keep touching the screen, don't let it go to sleep. Keep doing that as you pull everything from the phone.
About adb
If you don't set a destination folder in your command, it won't pull. If she's on 2.1, you don't use the mnt part. Place a folder directly on your c drive, so that it's address path is c:\your folder name
This makes your adb command
adb pull \sdcard\ c:\your folder name
Do all of this without letting the phone go to sleep. Maybe it will work for you.

Adb pull /sdcard c:\your folder
Forward slash on phone, backslash on pc.

studacris said:
Adb pull /sdcard c:\your folder
Forward slash on phone, backslash on pc.
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Yeah, your right.

Appreciate both of your input, but now adb won't even recognize that the phone is attached in the stock kk4 1 click, even in recovery. Like I said the gallery is totally empty and my USB storage on the about phone shows that all of the storage is available, so I'm gonna guess it's all gone. I'll try flashing one of the custom kernels for kk4 just to give it one last try, but I'm not holding out much hope here.

How are you trying to connect to your computer with adb? All you have to do is turn usb debugging on and plug in. open a command prompt terminal. Any of that sound familiar?

There should be a "my files" app you can explore the sdcard that way.
Pictures are in DCIM/camera folder.

the stock 1 click did not have a usb debugging option. Got it to work connecting with samurai 1.4.3, but the directories are showing empty or nonexistent.

Studacris,
You must have been posting while I replied. I've used the my files app and it shows dcim as empty. Now, my wife has decided she's gonna give up on the phone since this was her warranty replacement after her first 1 completely bricked after our daughter played with it. Never could get that one to even boot, although, I've found that this one won't boot to download with a jig, have to use the battery pull, vol +/vol -, insert usb cable method.
Thanks again for the attempts, but I think it's a lost cause, so I'm giving up.

Flash it back to stock and get it replaced again.

Help with booting into recovery

I am not able to get the recovery menu working. the exclamation with the mobile is the last screen i reach. The menu doesnt appear evn after using the volume and the camera button. I've dont all this before. Dont know hat happened all of a sudden.

Volume up plus camera?
Are you sure your buttons are working (no hardware defect)?
Check if files (/sdcard/update.zip and /sdcard/OpenRecovery) are there and fine. You can try to copy fresh ones just in case.
Or try /system/etc/init.d/60autoboot_or and set execute permissions (755 will do).
Perhaps sdcard is corrupt?

hey thanks for the response. I'm sure the buttons are working. I think it the SD card problem. I'll format it.

Is there any way to boot into recovery when you are not rooted and when your camera is not working??