Ok. So I am brand spanking new to rooting and flashing on the Turbo. I did it for a few years on the HTC Thunderbolt and the One. I followed the directions in the How To in the General subforum, used Sunshine, and then since I am on a Mac, I used Kingroot to root and then Flashify to install TWRP. I then did a full wipe in TWRP, installed the Brazilian ROM in the development forum, and then rebooted.
Then my troubles began.
It boots all the way to the "Select your language" screen, freezes, then reboots. Repeatedly. I can get into the stock recovery, but I can't find TWRP, so I figured that I had to install the linked kernel in the Brazilian forum. I installed it in the stock recovery, since I couldn't figure out how to boot into TWRP, but it didn't make a difference. Still freezes and bootloops. I've factory reset in the stock recovery, but nothing. I made a newb mistake and failed to make a backup of my original stock rom, and now I don't know what to do. I have a feeling I have to figure out how to connect to the phone storage via the Mac and load something else to install, but I don't know what. Help! Also, since I factory reset, I no longer have the Brazilian ROM on my phone. What the hell do I do?
Not a Mac person...
I'd find a Windows machine and flash the original firmware and start over. ... Never used it myself
But I believe the software is called rsd lite.
I figured it out!
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Do tell?
I expect the OP followed the wrong instructions? They mentioned using Kingroot, which is NOT recommended for rooting these phones. Sunshine is all you need... I figure he had issues because Kingroot has issues....
The joke response I was going to give was: "I screwed up and I'm on a Mac"... yeah, I agree... that's one hell of a screwup.
You have to use King root if you want to install flashify. Sunshine no longer allows temproot outside of sunshine.
This might help future mac users:
http://www.bestandroidblog.com/how-to-setup-adb-and-fastboot-on-a-mac/
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Hi guys,
Followed the steps in forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736271 to root my N1. All worked ok, and had root access. I proceeded to flash a custom recovery and received an error "mtd: not writing bad block at 0x000xxxxx". I redownloaded the recovery again, with the same issue. I rebooted and found that the recovery had loaded, however, after another reboot, was no longer the Amon recovery, but stock?
Second question is how can i unroot and go back to full stock? Tried a method found in another threat but was receiving a "verification failed" error - i assume because the version being flashed was too old for the FRF91 i had.
Any help is appreciated
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Hi ended up downloading EPE76 and renaming it to passimg, and letting recovery find/run it to unroot.
I then upgraded to FRF85B by downloading and renaming it to update.zip and running it from recovery.
And finally, i downloaded FRF91 and renamed to update.zip and ran it, again from recovery console, to get back to where i was before the hassles.
Not sure if this was the correct way to unroot, but my radio, rom version etc all matches before i started the rooting. The recovery flash never stuck (even though i did it in manual mode), and so it seems i am stock again.
Any advice on the issues in my first post?
best way to root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710842
had same issue while rooting my latest nexus one, not exactly sure of how it happend but I just did same process and it worked fine. Command error or adb push into wrong place. I just cut and paste commands and it worked out fine.
First nexus one I unlocked bootloader and ended up selling it, thinking of switching to iphone 4, but decided to stay with n1.
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Hi there...
The method i used is a copy of that but without the battery mod.
Didn't really think having to trim the battery pack was a great idea...
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osugsxr said:
had same issue while rooting my latest nexus one, not exactly sure of how it happend but I just did same process and it worked fine. Command error or adb push into wrong place. I just cut and paste commands and it worked out fine.
First nexus one I unlocked bootloader and ended up selling it, thinking of switching to iphone 4, but decided to stay with n1.
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Yeah starting to wonder if i should even bother trying again... just not sure if CM will be worth the effort. Was more doing it to check it out, rather than a need.
If i can find out how to unroot properly (i may have done it correctly above), i may give it another go. Just felt my unroot effort was trial and error and not really game to try it again and stuff it completely.
Here's the story:
A while back, I rooted my Nexus One without unlocking using the bait and switch method, and had been using various custom ROMs.
Recently, the power button hasn't been working well, so I called HTC to get a swap. Obviously, before sending my phone back, I need to unroot it.
I tried to restore my phone using the method in the XDA guides, but it hung on each step, and it didn't actually do anything. So, I flashed the non-rooted stock ERE27 through ROM Manager (this, I suspect was a huge mistake.)
Now, I have an rooted phone, that fails on any update attempt and so is stuck on 2.1, and worse, Clockwork Recovery is still on there. I've tried to unroot my phone again using both the bait and switch method, and the freenexus method, but both have run into errors. I've also tried installing Universal Androot and clicking Unroot, but it just tells me my phone isn't rooted.
So, I can't root my phone to attempt to flash the recovery, and I can't find a way to remove Clockwork Recovery, but I need to send this phone back to HTC within the next 7 days, or else I'm gonna be out $530.
Any ideas?
First: hate to be a douche, but someone's gotta say it: this is the wrong subforum for a question thread. Take a quick glance over the rules stickied at the top of the forum. There's a Q&A forum for things like this.
Second: HTC has typically honored the warranty for known hardware problems (of which the power button is probably the biggest) even for unlocked/rooted devices. They find for me, no problems. So relax.
Last, try using ClockworkMod recovery to flash CM 6 stable, then from that ROM, try flashing back to stock recovery. After that you should be able to flash a stock OTA ROM. You can't change recovery without root access, which you can't get on a stock ROM. So you have to change recovery first. And on your new phone, you should really just fastboot OEM unlock. Trying to deceive HTC makes them not want to give us this option anymore.
Yup no worries I had to send mine in because the trackball got stuck and they got it under warranty ... I had my phone running a custom recovery and rom and they didn't even ask about it.
I'm currently running with a rooted version of the latest stock firmware on my N1, and I love the stability and all, except Google's apps2sd implementation is really dumb.
With only a dozen or so apps I am already getting low storage errors.
I've tried flashing in DT's apps2sd but unfortunately it didn't seem to work at all. Are there any other options for me to get apps2ext support without switching to a custom rom?
Try Link2sd in the Market.
It may be better, it may not, but it's worth a try...
Hey SmallWalrus,
I am running stock 2.3.4 unrooted Nexus one. (yes, that is GRJ22)
I have never rooted a phone. Can you please point me somewhere which shows how to unlock and root the N1 with my specs. My phone is pretty old. I am only rooting it because this is a spare one and I now have moved to SGS2.
PS: using a mac and Linux machine. If not then please show me a windows one. i'll try dual booting my macbook pro.
painkilleryusuf said:
Hey SmallWalrus,
I am running stock 2.3.4 unrooted Nexus one. (yes, that is GRJ22)
I have never rooted a phone. Can you please point me somewhere which shows how to unlock and root the N1 with my specs. My phone is pretty old. I am only rooting it because this is a spare one and I now have moved to SGS2.
PS: using a mac and Linux machine. If not then please show me a windows one. i'll try dual booting my macbook pro.
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Have you unlocked your bootloader? That was how I did it though, there is no other way to root 2.3.4 without doing this at the moment.
That is what i want to know. How do i do that safely?
Well there is a way to safely root your phone without unlocking the bootloader, I did those steps recently and they worked fine for me.
1. You need to downgrade your phone to Froyo. Get the FRG83 image from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nexus_One/Roms
Rename it to PASSIMG.zip and copy it to the root folder of your SD Card. Boot your phone into the bootloader and flash the image. This will wipe your device, so be sure to make a backup of your data and apps first.
2. Use SuperOneClick to root your phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
3. Now you need to flash a custom recovery. I used the Clockworkmod one, because flashing it is very simple: install the Rom Manager app from the market, it has an option to flash the recovery.
4. Now you are set to flash custom ROMs, either through Rom Manager or the Recovery. You should however do a Nandroid Backup first, in case anything goes wrong in flashing the ROM. Boot into Recovery and you should see a menu item saying Backup or something.
It's really not a big deal as it sounds, I can't guarantee that this will work for you. You should know what you are doing and if you feel unsafe about any of these steps, make sure to search the forums or the web about it, before you execute it.
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That is what i want to know. How do i do that safely?
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Sorry, I didn't see your question until now
Actually, it IS very easy to do this, you can find the instructions here:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/299078-how-to-unlock-the-bootloader-on-your-nexus-one/
It does have some warranty implications though, but since I am already using an import set I don't care. According to some, HTC usually shuts one eye and fix your phone's hardware failures even if it has an unlocked bootloader, but YMMV.
I have a problem with flashing my g1. I have been using the guide found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098899, on How to root, unroot, and flash G1, and everything in between (not exact name).
It's a pretty well written out guide and have been able to do step 1 (rooting) flawlessly. Thank yoou XDA. However, I am currently only able to login to google servers by using the Google by-pass method. I have done so step by step without problem, but when coming to steps 2 and 3, the spls and actually flashing new roms, there is a bit of data wiping involved. Now I am not exactly a noob to this but am not an XDA caliber expert either.
My question is, if I perform the wipes at the steps needed (and he makes it a point to say, "WIPE EVERYTIME I TELL YOU TO WIPE") , in order to minimize risk of bricks or something else going wrong, wouldn't my google data be deleted as well? This meaning I would have to downgrade to 1.0 again and essentially be stuck with 1.5 at most?
Do I necessarily need to wipe at each step since I am using the wifi bypass? Also will performing steps without wiping brick (or worse) my phone?
Also I know this phone is a legacy device so generally don't expect much help soon, but I have used the search function plenty , along with google, and no definitive answer. "Get a data plan or borrow a sim card" is not a viable option at this time.
Thanks for any help any one can give.
If you are on 1.6 (or 1.5, might work) you can use an app called "universal androot" to get root. If you are on 2.2, use superoneclick or gingerbreak. Then flash a recovery with rom manager or by flashing manually.
I always found that guide too overcomplicated. Rooting this device is easy.
tvall said:
If you are on 1.6 (or 1.5, might work) you can use an app called "universal androot" to get root. If you are on 2.2, use superoneclick or gingerbreak. Then flash a recovery with rom manager or by flashing manually.
I always found that guide too overcomplicated. Rooting this device is easy.
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Universal Androot is the method I used when first [TRYING] rooting the G1 (was on 1.6 as well), and it didn't work out so well creating some weird level of root.
I actually went and performed all the steps without wiping and hope everything is set up well. I am currently stuck on the T-Mobile® G1 logo but I havent tried to flash a new rom yet. Is this normal because I haven't flashed a rom yet?
Thank you for the reply I am actually going to try to put one on here now.
Updated, worked fine without wiping until having flashed a ROM.
Thank you Xda
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Hello I'm not really that good with mobile tech so excuse my noobness but i decided to dive in and try to root my samsung s6. Here is step by step what i've done so far
Following a few tuts after backups i rooted my phone and verified it with root checker.
Next I downloaded a few popular root apps and removed a bunch of bloatware on the phone
Today I decided to try to install a custom ROM for my phone, after finding a suitable one for my model I proceeded with his guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...xtrestolite-deodexed-mod-edition-1-0-t3094423
Next I downloaded all the correct files (I'm confident I double checked)
Now I'm not sure if this is where I went wrong but I installed TWRP custom recovery first
Then I proceeded to install modem with Odin and that went fine it passed and phone restarted
But when I go to install bootloader under BL in Odin it just fails, tried 3 times same result
Can anyone suggest another step in troubleshooting this? If it helps I was running stock samsung os never tinkered with the phone before this
Any advice is appreciated and please let me know if there is any more info i can provide
Thanks
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Ok so I posted this late last night after trying to figure it out for a while. This morning I left for work to discover I had no mobile capabilities at all. No data, call, text nothing. Last night I was connected to my wifi at home so I guess I didn't notice. This has been obviously brutal with no communication all day. I tried tinkering a bit with it (did a factory reset through TWRP, tried flashing everything through TWRP) and nothing really helped.
Now I'm not really sure how to proceed so any advice would help as I don't want to brick my phone. What I'm planning on doing next that is the only thing that makes sense to me (again I have very little experience with phones) is to:
1. Re-flash everything through TWRP
2. Re-flash using stock rom, stock bl, and stock modem using Odin
My questions are is there any particular order I need to do this in and also will I have to re-root the phone again after or will this just be the stock rom but still rooted?
Thanks again literally ANY ideas u can throw out here go a long way as I've opened myself a can of worms