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[Q] G1 Touchscreen issue - By Pass welcome screen

Hello,
I have a unlocked TMobile G1. Few days ago the phone got dropped on the hard floor and I had to pay $130 to get it's cracked LCD replaced. The phone worked fine after that until yesterday I accidentally dropped it from my computer table. This time, there's no physical damage to the screen or the phone. However, the touch stopped working and I've been getting error(android.acore process) while using the "Gmail" and the "dialer" options. Rest of things were working fine.
So, I choose to do a factory reset. Now, after restarting I am stuck on the "Touch the android to begin" screen. The touch is not working and I am not sure how to go past this screen.
Does anybody know of any keyboard short-cut or any other trick which I can use to go past this screen without touching it?
Also, anybody have any idea on what went wrong with the touch?
Thanks
Raj

Wait, are you still rooted? Use adb from your computer to remove the setup apk.
Use:
Adb remount
Adb shell rm -f /system/app/SetupWizard.apk
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Thanks for the reply. I haven't yet rooted my phone but I can look up on google and do that. Mine is T-Mobile G1 - 1.6 Firmware.
Using adb to remove the setup apk will get rid of the welcome screen or the Google set up screen which comes after that or both?
Currently, I am stuck on the welcome screen and I just need to go past this screen. Google I can set up from phone also if I can get past this screen.
Thanks
Raj

How to know if my phone is still rooted?

marcblaze27 said:
How to know if my phone is still rooted?
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lots of ways, an easy one is download an app from the market that requires root and see if it works, actually i think there even be one that all it does is check for root.

demkantor said:
lots of ways, an easy one is download an app from the market that requires root and see if it works, actually i think there even be one that all it does is check for root.
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ccheck the guide in my signature, it has a how-to root method and also a google by-pass method which could also be useful in your situation to get by the little guy, you need to do the google by-pass so you can enable usb debbugging(which allows you to run adb commands) then from there just delete the setupwizard.apk and so on.... but your screen may be screwed lol

Retrieving text messages? Phone is broken.

So my HTC Hero has bit it. It has had a bad touch digitizer for about a week now. Is there ANY way to remove my text messages off the phone, perhaps with ADB? My phone will turn on and I can look at the screen but cannot touch anything. As such, I cannot unlock it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

rjhall said:
So my HTC Hero has bit it. It has had a bad touch digitizer for about a week now. Is there ANY way to remove my text messages off the phone, perhaps with ADB? My phone will turn on and I can look at the screen but cannot touch anything. As such, I cannot unlock it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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If it's rooted, you could conceivably pull the database file from it if you knew where it was, someone here should know that and this should bump your post back to the top.

aiwetir said:
If it's rooted, you could conceivably pull the database file from it if you knew where it was, someone here should know that and this should bump your post back to the top.
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It's not rooted, but with the screen off, I could always do so. I think USB debugging is on... Not actually sure.

rjhall said:
It's not rooted, but with the screen off, I could always do so. I think USB debugging is on... Not actually sure.
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If USB debugging is enabled, you can get a root shell (soft root) with the rageagainstthecage exploit and do what you need to do.

jasonmaloney said:
If USB debugging is enabled, you can get a root shell (soft root) with the rageagainstthecage exploit and do what you need to do.
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Alright, do you know where the text messages are saved?

rjhall said:
Alright, do you know where the text messages are saved?
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Dialer storage. Don't remember the exact path offhand.

jasonmaloney said:
Dialer storage. Don't remember the exact path offhand.
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Would it be possible for me to get to it in ADB without rooting the phone?

the path is /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I'm not sure if root access is required, but good luck
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The Fer-Shiz-Nizzle said:
the path is /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I'm not sure if root access is required, but good luck
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Sorry, my experience with ADB is limited. What are the commands I would need, or where would I find a list of commands/functions? I tried the official Android Developer pages and found nothing helpful.
EDIT: Sorry, just got off third shift a couple hours ago and my brain doesn't want to work. I managed to figure out the commands but...
!!!A new challenger appears!!!
I don't have USB debugging enabled. My touchscreen doesn't work. I am in quite a pickle, I believe. I can't get the PC to recognize the phone without USB debugging on. Is there a way to turn it on without a screen?!

rjhall said:
Sorry, my experience with ADB is limited. What are the commands I would need, or where would I find a list of commands/functions? I tried the official Android Developer pages and found nothing helpful.
EDIT: Sorry, just got off third shift a couple hours ago and my brain doesn't want to work. I managed to figure out the commands but...
!!!A new challenger appears!!!
I don't have USB debugging enabled. My touchscreen doesn't work. I am in quite a pickle, I believe. I can't get the PC to recognize the phone without USB debugging on. Is there a way to turn it on without a screen?!
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Wait... you said just the digitizer is broken? As in, the screen is intact but you just can't make any touch selections?
Are you on the stock (HTC Sense) firmware? If so, you can unlock the phone by pressing MENU on the lockscreen. From there, press MENU again, and use the trackball to navigate to Settings. Turn on USB debugging and root the phone. Install a custom recovery image, then reboot into recovery and do a nandroid backup. Then you'll be able to keep everything, not just your text messages.

jasonmaloney said:
Wait... you said just the digitizer is broken? As in, the screen is intact but you just can't make any touch selections?
Are you on the stock (HTC Sense) firmware? If so, you can unlock the phone by pressing MENU on the lockscreen. From there, press MENU again, and use the trackball to navigate to Settings. Turn on USB debugging and root the phone. Install a custom recovery image, then reboot into recovery and do a nandroid backup. Then you'll be able to keep everything, not just your text messages.
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It's hard to explain the problem I'm having. The screen doesn't turn on or respond to touch inputs. If I squeeze the phone's sides hard enough, I can get the screen to come on. Soon as I let up, it goes dark. Keys still light up, though. If I do anything with the keys, it doesn't show up on the screen. I have no idea how to get past this.
I am on stock HTC firmware now. I completely reflashed the entire phone with the 2.1 utility. That is, before it randomly stopped working.
After USB debugging is enabled, I can just pull the entire system directory, no? No need for nandroid or anything?

cracked screen
Hey guys My screen is being repaired for the next couple days and I reallly need to check my text messages....Can I get more clearification on what you guys are tallking about because im lost but Im up for anything as long as I can see my texts,

I don't know if it's possible to do this, but it's worth a try. Have you heard of "Air Droid"? It allows you to interface with your phone via a WiFi connection. If you can download an apk file of Air Droid, then flash it to your phone, you might be able to run it. Although your screen digitizer isn't working, your trackball can still select screen items. If it works, you can do a connect to WiFi, see the code, then use the browser interface. I think through that you can access data on the phone, including text messages.
Also, there are some apps that perform SMS to email. You could theoretically have your text messages sent to your email account.

Accessing pictures with broken screen

Hey guys
Last night I broke my SGS's screen. The phone is rooted and I know it still works as can hear it get texts and boot up correctly.
I wanted to just swap the phones out but I have a lot of valuable pictures etc on the phone that I hadn't backed up yet.
Is there any way to access the hard drive from the computer w/o being able to access the phone?
I tried the "Screencast" app but I cant seem to get it to work. I tried doing some searches on here but I'm not exactly sure what to look up.
I have insurance on my phone so I can get a replacement, I'd jsut like to get my pictures and any text messages i may have missed (but mainly the pics)
Any insight you guys have would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Reboot in recovery mode. That would give you adb access to the phone and you can adb pull your pictures with "adb pull sdcard/DCIM/Camera".

thanks for the reply.
sorry i'm kind of new at this stuff. my friend rooted my phone and did all the dirty work. i have no idea how to use adb or w/e
do i need a linux machine? also, how can i reboot in recovery mode if the screen is completely disabled?

do get via ADB you need to ADB kit or the Android SDK kit, theres a helpful section on how to do ADB but it shouldnt be a problem, i also recall that after ADB is installed you might be able to use Android explorer to go to the phones pciture directory and get them like that?

i'm having a horrible time trying to get this setup lol
i think a problem i'm having is i dont know if USB debugging is enabled on my phone, and since the screen is broken i can't turn it on.

anyone else have any other suggestions?

redstar2k said:
Reboot in recovery mode. That would give you adb access to the phone and you can adb pull your pictures with "adb pull sdcard/DCIM/Camera".
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it seems i can get it into what i ~think~ is recovery mode (it didnt make the typical noise it makes when booting up, and my bottom row buttons light up if i press the power button then one of the buttons)
not sure what screen im in honestly... but even still, the computer doesnt detect that anything is plugged in and ADB doesnt detect any devices...

maybe with usb cable?

thats what im doing is using USB cable.. problem is i cant mount my usb from my phone as the screen is broken.
i cannot do it blind either i dont believe, i dont think the screen is detecting my fingerpresses at all

[Q] Wet Phone, Screen Dead, Need to get Contacts out. Help?

Long story short, no gimmicks.
I dropped my Motorola Droid/Milestone/A855/Whatever in a toilet, and it died. I dried the guy out in rice, and all is well, it turns back on, and all that jazz. Sadly, the screen is dead. Remember that.
So I go to Gmail to get contacts from there (synced, right?) t put in my backup phone (yes, I'm a baller) and find that my contacts are severely out of date. Turns out when I got a replacement phone from Verizon (due to the former's ghosting or 'self-touching' (LOLWOWOMG)), the default setting was to not have my contacts synced to my Gmail anymore. Bummer, right? Remember this point as well.
So I need to get my contacts out of my phone, but I can't connect via USB to import due to the fact that I can't use the screen to allow USB debugging.
Nextly, a Verizon person at one of their stores (I have no faith in those people) told me they CANNOT pull anything off the phone with on of their machines, not even contacts.
My question is can you? If so how? Can it be done without a Verizon Employee, because that would be all rainbows and butterflies as I hate most of them. Lastly, I'd ask that you post your ideas in a clear step-by-step format, as I share 99% of my DNA with cavemen. Thanks? And I love you.

Don't know how it works on Droid, but on Milestone if you run the Androidiani Open Recovery then adb will works automatically after start of recovery. So if your buttons are still working, then get to your phone's Recovery, plug in usb and try to run adb on your computer (with command line).
Maybe ClockWorkMod Recovery have the same function, so you can try it if you have a rooted phone.
To pull your contacts from phone using adb open command line and type:
adb shell
$ su (if you've got hash "#" symbol instead of "$" in the beginning of the command line, then you don't need that)
# ls /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases (if you see contacts1.db, contacts2.db etc then write it bellow instead of contacts.db)
# dd if=/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db of=/sdcard/contacts.db

My phone isn't rooted, and USB Debugging is still in the default 'no' setting.

try to, and i know its not easy, to press ur find key, type market, remember the steps to go to download, and try downloading some backup software, they create a file on the sdcard, so u can get them, and export...
I know, is not the easiest thing to do.... but is the only option i can think of, with ur dead screen.

Broken Display Question About Data Recovery

So I shattered my display and the screen wont turn on but it still vibrates when i get notifications, i was wondering if anyone would know of a way to sort of project the display onto a TV or PC so i can use apps that i installed to backup messages and app data and stuff?

I'm pretty sure if the phone still works you can run it in ADP on your PC and basically click through the phone. Then do whatever you need to do and back it up.

BlueForce64 said:
I'm pretty sure if the phone still works you can run it in ADP on your PC and basically click through the phone. Then do whatever you need to do and back it up.
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Here's the problem with that:
ADB doesn't work unless you first enable it in developer options. Once you do that, you have to click yes on a confirmation dialog the first time you use it. Both of these processes require a functioning screen.
If you have an unlocked phone with TWRP installed, and you can blindly convince the phone to boot into TWRP (maybe by booting into bootloader and using fastboot reboot-recovery, but I'll have to check and see if that command works when I get home. I think it does.), you'll be able to access the data on your phone by simply plugging it into a computer. If you do not have TWRP installed, and you have no lockscreen set up (no swipe, no password, no pin, no nothing), you might be able to access the data by plugging it into a computer after it boots.
If none of those situations apply, and the data is worth about $100 to you, you might want to look into a screen replacement service. Sometimes you can find little electronics places in malls or shopping centers that will do it, and I'm pretty sure there are businesses that you can mail your phone to and they'll mail it back once the work is completed. A friend of mine even found a service that sent someone to her house to replace her screen then and there.

Thanks, booting into TWRP worked and I was able to get most of the stuff I needed. I completely forgot I could get into it that way.