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US G1 on EU wont boot and wont recover

Hello everyone,
i really thank all the people who are investing lots of time on this site to help others. I have found myself many solutions to many issues in many of my phones.
now i have a new issue and I have not benn able to find a solution. maybe its hidden in the forums, if you know it, please send my a link.
issue:
got a g1 from the US, using it in EU.
if I turn it on, shows the G1 logo folowed by the recovery(android system recovery uitility)
It doesnt matter if I do something else, it allways comes the screen.
Tried several upgrades but it allways tells me:
Install form sdcard...
Finding...
Opening...
Verifying...
E:No signature (XXX files)
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted.
on top of the recovery there is a message:
E: can't open /cache/recovery/command --> to this i found several solutions, but all require a running g1... this is not the case.
Also the "back+power" wont load the defaults, it doesnt matter what i do.. wont do anything.
PS: SD is an 8Gb class 6 which was working on my old G1, fresh formated
any clues?
most appreciated!
Luis

I almost forgot to mention..
Power + Cam, fastloader wont work, wont load.. also found a solution having a working G1.. again.. this is not the case. I got the phone yesterday and should be working, it looks rather soft-bricked

A hint might be to post this in the Dream Q & A Section before you get battered for posting in the Dev section....

many thanks! Q&A should have been!
any ideas to solve my problem? thanks

E:No signature (XXX files)
E:Verification failed
is due to the ROM not being signed.
if you want to get into bootloader to flash nandroid backups
use
adb reboot bootloader
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Hi B-man007,
thanks.. is there a way to use ADB if the phone has no OS? and if its not recognized by PC... ? found solutions about how to use it.. IF the phone is running. please let me know if i am missing something here. cheers!
any other solutions?

if the roms that i tried are not signed.. could you suggest me one which is?
tried from original ones to cooked.. same responce. i even tried 30 to 33.. to see waht happens, it started but showed me again an error message, it would make sense if the installed rom would have been 30. i was just trying around.
any links to a very old android which is signed? to keep on trying.. cheers!

Since you have a US G1, flash the RC29 DREAIMG.nbh to get to Android 1.0
ADB can be used in recovery since there is a kernel being used. You need to install the drivers for it to work

no cannt do.. driver for win7 x64 are not te be found and the update from RC29 not possible. i cannt access the booloader to install images ;(
tried several signed updates and roms, allways the same crap!
any other idea? thanks!

The adb drivers for vista x64 should work just fine. If you can't get into bootloader by holding Cam+Power
you will need adb to actually boot into the bootloader to flash the RC image

so.. many tests .. same situation
ADB works if the device is conected. it could be recognized if the bootload is on OR if android is running.
none of this works for me.
i cannt access anything but the android recovery, believe that the old user saved recovery on SDcard and send me the phone w/o it... E:/can't access recovery.. blah
i am getting really angry with the phone and the seller.. damm eVay

market stopped downloading/updating

My phone lately stopped downloading and updating apps in the market. I've tried to wipe cache and dalvik to no avail. I read about signing out of Google Talk, but it wouldn't let me. Is there any other way to fix this issue without clean wipe?

forget it.. much faster to solve my problem with a full wipe..

u gettin an error saying that u have insufficient storage space? cause the same thing is happening with me. ive wiped like 3 times but it still doesnt download or update my apps. im using Chromatic 3.6 currently. i was using Cyanogen 5.0.8 DS before and had the same error message.

no there wasnt an error on my phone. my wife's dream had that problem with insufficient storage even after multiple wipes.. i followed someone's advice to wipe in fastboot instead of recovery and that worked. i already wiped and reinstalled everything, so i no longer have the market problem. it just came out of nowhere.

yingjai said:
no there wasnt an error on my phone. my wife's dream had that problem with insufficient storage even after multiple wipes.. i followed someone's advice to wipe in fastboot instead of recovery and that worked. i already wiped and reinstalled everything, so i no longer have the market problem. it just came out of nowhere.
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rlly? ill try that. wait how do u get into fastboot? i forgot how. lol. and then how do u wipe inn fastboot?
edit: nevermind i got the fastboot and wiped i hope this works

I asked about the problems on my wife's phone in this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6917983#post6917983
So far her insufficient memory problem and FCs are gone other than 1 weird power down. Wouldn't charge or turn on until I pulled the battery.

yingjai said:
I asked about the problems on my wife's phone in this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6917983#post6917983
So far her insufficient memory problem and FCs are gone other than 1 weird power down. Wouldn't charge or turn on until I pulled the battery.
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so whenevr she tried to install an app would she get a message that said that she had insufficient storage space? cause thats wat im gettin.
1. wat ROM is she using?
2. did u do anything like i.e. fix_permissions or watevr and then the problem stopped?
3. shes using a G1/HTC Dream right?
^if u could answer these questions that would b helpful thnks. cause im tryin to help other ppl who r havin the same problem as me.

slayor721 said:
so whenevr she tried to install an app would she get a message that said that she had insufficient storage space? cause thats wat im gettin.
1. wat ROM is she using?
2. did u do anything like i.e. fix_permissions or watevr and then the problem stopped?
3. shes using a G1/HTC Dream right?
^if u could answer these questions that would b helpful thnks. cause im tryin to help other ppl who r havin the same problem as me.
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this is getting off topic and her issue has been already resolved in the other thread i linked.
for the record, she was on 5.0.7 stable before i put 5.0.8 on her rogers/htc dream. i doubt the rom was the problem. i tried recovery wipes and fix permissions, but nothing worked until i wiped everything from fastboot.

help with ruu

was running aospcmod4/29 when my phone suddenly craps out... will not boot cant nand it stalls during the restore process stalls during wipe to factory process will flash still but wont load.... wont get past the white screen with htc on it... so im guessing time to ruu.... question is no htc sync so how do i ruu? thanks for anyone who helps ive tried earching but am getting more irritated with the results than am with phone not booting

spleef said:
was running aospcmod4/29 when my phone suddenly craps out... will not boot cant nand it stalls during the restore process stalls during wipe to factory process will flash still but wont load.... wont get past the white screen with htc on it... so im guessing time to ruu.... question is no htc sync so how do i ruu? thanks for anyone who helps ive tried earching but am getting more irritated with the results than am with phone not booting
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Why no htc sync?
There's a fastboot RUU zip here.

TJinWV said:
Why no htc sync?
There's a fastboot RUU zip here.
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maybe im wrong but thought you had to be running a stock or sense base rom for htc sync to recognize the phone being that my phone wont load or restore i cant flash or nand back to a sense base or even stock
starting to think maybe my sd card fried cant get it to transfer files from my pc or to my pc it stalls out trying to format it but thats not working well either keep gettin windows cannot complete the format error or a sd card is locked message.... in other words having hell thinking about smashing it and filing on insurance.......

spleef said:
maybe im wrong but thought you had to be running a stock or sense base rom for htc sync to recognize the phone being that my phone wont load or restore i cant flash or nand back to a sense base or even stock
starting to think maybe my sd card fried cant get it to transfer files from my pc or to my pc it stalls out trying to format it but thats not working well either keep gettin windows cannot complete the format error or a sd card is locked message.... in other words having hell thinking about smashing it and filing on insurance.......
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Did you see my help LINKS thread lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063843
AFAIK you need the sync, cuz it gives you drivers, but there's many ways, go click around in my thread and after you get the basics done post back in here. It does sound like your sd card is borked though, if windows won't even format it. Are you s-off? Probably not Can you get to ADB? does it recognize your phone?
WAIT.... you can use recovery? Just grab another sd card and flash from scratch, no RUU, no nand restore, scratch, it should work.

If your s-off try reflash your recovery. If your not s-off then you should be. Then try to reflash your recovery.
#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*

ive ruued from cm6 before try going to your recovery and mount usb and do it that way

well got my new phone in and am rooted and running cmod and DH again now need to find a way to repair/format/erase the SD card I was using before cause 2gb card just isn't going to cut it.. lol yeah I searched the threads but nothing worked. said screw it and ordered new phone through insurance.thank you guys so much for the responses yall the greatest. wouldn't know of a way to fix my sdcard would ya is a sandisk 8gb class 2 am running windows7 64bit have tried the program sdformatter doesn't work ends up not responding tried the built in format option a no go even tried through the new phone which stats to check it for errors once I insert it but then shuts the phone down by itself after a few moments. again any help so greatly appreciated thanks
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spleef said:
well got my new phone in and am rooted and running cmod and DH again now need to find a way to repair/format/erase the SD card I was using before cause 2gb card just isn't going to cut it.. lol yeah I searched the threads but nothing worked. said screw it and ordered new phone through insurance.thank you guys so much for the responses yall the greatest. wouldn't know of a way to fix my sdcard would ya is a sandisk 8gb class 2 am running windows7 64bit have tried the program sdformatter doesn't work ends up not responding tried the built in format option a no go even tried through the new phone which stats to check it for errors once I insert it but then shuts the phone down by itself after a few moments. again any help so greatly appreciated thanks
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Well, I'm no sdcard expert, but I remember jasonmaloney posting some sort of sdcard help/fix ideas recently. Maybe try to read thru some of his posts or send him a PM? Or give in and get a new sd

il Duce said:
Well, I'm no sdcard expert, but I remember jasonmaloney posting some sort of sdcard help/fix ideas recently. Maybe try to read thru some of his posts or send him a PM? Or give in and get a new sd
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Don't think it was me.

looking at newegg now are these sdhc cards compatible witht he hero looking at getting a 8gb class 6 but cant find one thats not sdhc

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Don't think it was me.
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Yeah after I posted that I remembered you were actually talking about recovering lost data on an sd, oops.

Just wanted to elaborate a little on this in case anybody searches for help and lands here.
The 'LINKS' thread Duce provided contains a link to an RUU (windows executable) which only requires the Android USB Driver is installed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=800586
You can download an Android USB Driver package separately.
You can also find the HTC Android USB Driver here (bottom of page).
I have used this many times, even on computers without AndroidSDK installed, just the driver package (I keep a zip on my SDCard ~8 MB).
wouldn't know of a way to fix my sdcard would ya
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You might try and boot into a Linux Rescue Disk (i.e. RIPLinuX - (Bootable ISO X-Version))
Search right-click menu for GParted.
Run GParted, delete the partition(s), rebuild partition table, format new partition(s).
All this is done right in the GParted UI, just a few clicks.
This might help fix your problem, not really sure.

ive alway used my old mt3gs 4gig sd card.

External SD not recognised on galaxy s?

Hey all, my 16gb sandisk sd card isn't being recognised anymore, anyone know why?
It says it read the SD card, and it got to 100% complete, yet my apps dont load to the menu list anymore :/
Help please
Also, when I try and boot up either Launcher7 or Twlauncher the phone restarts on me..
It's not rooted, its not a custom rom, just froyo 2.2.1 :/

does windows recognise it ?
if so, move all files to PC, put SD card back in phone and try to format, if you cant format it under windows and try again

ok i connected it to my pc, copied everything over, then i formatted the card (fat32) and yet it still doesnt want to read it.
ive tried all i can do and yet nothing works. my card is 100% authentic so i know that isnt the problem, yet nothing else is fixing it

thats strange. if you was on a custom rom / kernel there are things we could do to get it working.... but your not lol.
under settings, have you tried to unmount / mount ??
does anything pop up in the notification bar when you insert / remove external sd ?

really? what custom roms? i moved from 2.2 to darkys 9.5 within a week, but then went to 2.2.1 for warranty reasons.
ive tried unmounting and remounting, just like inserting it, restarting the phone etc., all it says is media scan running, gets to 100%, media scan complete.
it says i have 8.56gb of 14.2gb free which is normal, and all the files come up on the computer, but in my menu they arent there, just a bunch of empty spaces.
no matter how long i leave it running nothing gets recognised

that is weird
have you tried a factory reset, i dont know any other options.
you havent downloaded any apps that could of caused this recently have you ?

no i haven't tried a factory reset yet just cause i don't want to lose all my apps. i had 10 pages of apps and id rather not want to reinstall 8 of the missing pages, but if i cant fix it ill go into download mode soon and perform a factory reset, if that doesn't work i'm gonna exchange the card for a new one.
i'm 100% certain that no apps caused this. i haven't installed anything new for about a week. just turned the phone off then back on and now its broken.
thanks for your help, ill let you know how i go

Yea keep me informed. Have u got any backup apps that you could try and see if they backup the "missing " apps
Sent from Miui powered SGS

i think my phone is the problem. i've just tried using a new sd card and that one is also not being read
ill try a factory reset later, and then if that fails ill try new firmware to see how that goes.

Just finished flashing froyo 2.2, then 2.2.1 and neither worked.
how do i go abouts fixing this with a custom rom?

i think the problem lies with the hardware not the software.
like you said earlier you tried another sd card and that didnt work either.
the options in a custom rom are just manually mounting / unmounting and fixing permissions in recovery, but i dont think this will help.
your on stock ROM now so i would just go to your nearest SSC and tell them to fix it under warranty

thanks for helping me man
ill be taking it in soon as a repair, however, my friend said it couldve happened cause my battery went to 0% and the phone just shut of and broke something, is that true? i'm not sure cause I can still access the card by pc.

Help ;<

Hey guys , i have an optimus 2x with cm7 on it all was working great , till today when i had to reset it to data factory because i`ve kinda ****ed up my contacts lol.That wasnt the biggest problem , since i still had my things on the internal memory , but my CM7 wont recongize it and my camera / gallery and some application were not working sooo i`ve decided to wipe everything and install a new ROM , i`ve looked around and found the temasek's one , which i`ve read that it is very good , with that being said i`ve wipe everything and did a stupid move , didnt saved the .zip file on my phone before that , saved one , but it wasnt the ROM it was the kernel or something *idk what that is* lol soo ye. now im pretty much stuck with a phone that powers on and nothing happens and just goes in recovery if you want , but cant do much there because when i try to mount the usb i get the "Unable to write to ums lunfile(No such file of directory)" error sooo my question is : Does any of you gods of optimus 2x have any idea how can i fix my phone ? Thanks

Its in the forums...search first. Just recover via NVFlash.

Nevermind , i`ve fixed it. Used another phones SD card to get files into my Optimus 2x

Even recovery has USB connectc function. If you donlt know what are you doing, think twice