I downgraded to rc29, did the telnetd thing, flashed the moded recovery image, now im ready to install the jesus freke 1.2 update.zip.
I hold down the home and power key forever and it just stays at the tmobile g1 screen. the phone is not bricked, i can boot up fine, but i cant get to the screen with the exclamation mark. i have done it b4, but now it wont do it.
suggestions?
sorry didnt read your post correctly.
This is what i did
Well some thing like that happen to me re flash it from the boot loader screen power+camera then apply the DREAMIMG.nbh and then press the end key to start process then start all over from scratch that what i did because my G1 would just fade out when i tried to go in to recovery mode
omfg
phone is now bricked. i reflashed with the same dreaimg.nbh file, now i get
UPDATE TERMINATE UPDATE FAIL. J CHRIST ! wats my next step guys?
Buy a dev phone.
Dont have money for a dev phone, there should be a work around to this
My gwizzy is unbricked now thanks to another post in a diff thread. Nbh file was corrupted. Thanks 2 srkdrift for ur help.
And 2 queue29, got me a dev phone now for 0$ : ) smfh
doont worry
Don't worry just reformat the micro sd in fat32 then try it again it should work this time o sorry didnt see your last post no problem any time
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i followed the instructions to the letter and after it was done
i was presented with a picture of an IC microchip and an arrow pointing down.
i restarted the phone and now it wont start.
i cant get into bootloader mode or recovery mode...
Please help me get my phone back!!!!
did you let it finish? the ic microchip and arrow pointing thing? or did you yank out the battery?
i panicked and yanked out the battery...i killed it, didnt i?
I think he didn't let the phone finish and restarted the phone cause it wasa taking too long if that's the case 99.0% the phone is bricked. It happend to somebody else here already. Jy
He just call tmobile and told them the wasn't turning on and they send him a replacement.
I think this is something that needs to be added to the flashing roominstructions.
slyfury said:
i panicked and yanked out the battery...i killed it, didnt i?
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Im sorry man, you did the one thing you shouldnt have while flashing
Perrosky said:
I think he didn't let the phone finish and restarted the phone cause it wasa taking too long if that's the case 99.0% the phone is bricked. It happend to somebody else here already. Jy
He just call tmobile and told them the wasn't turning on and they send him a replacement.
I think this is something that needs to be added to the flashing roominstructions.
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i agree 100% please add that to the instruction for noobs like me
oh well, i just hope i get a replacement quickly
that happened to me so i called t-mo and told them that my g1 wont turned on at all and tried the other battery so they send me a replacement. of course i was a noob back then. i learned my lesson in a hard way so i suffer a week without my precious g1 lol.
slyfury said:
i followed the instructions to the letter and after it was done
i was presented with a picture of an IC microchip and an arrow pointing down.
i restarted the phone and now it wont start.
i cant get into bootloader mode or recovery mode...
Please help me get my phone back!!!!
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also once you called t-mo do not let them know that youre modifying your phone otherwise they will not send you another handset.
slyfury said:
i followed the instructions to the letter and after it was done
i was presented with a picture of an IC microchip and an arrow pointing down.
i restarted the phone and now it wont start.
i cant get into bootloader mode or recovery mode...
Please help me get my phone back!!!!
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how about take out the sdcard and connect it to the computer, put the jfr33 in it, and flash your phone again. It works
also he could try getting into recovery mode using adb or sumthin...i am not too sure about it...but i think it can be done..!!!
tannyfiles said:
also he could try getting into recovery mode using adb or sumthin...i am not too sure about it...but i think it can be done..!!!
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If the phone can't reach the bootloader or recovery console I don't think ADB is going to work but I could be wrong.
patience is a virtue
your topic title is misleading and could lead users who haven't tried yet to be too wary about flashing over to Haykuro's builds...
Ultimately...your phone didn't mess up after flashing 4.X..YOU messed up.
if you cant turn on youre g1 then it is dead, even if you connect it to pc or what if it cant be turned be on, it is dead cuz thats what happened to me so just call t-mo and tell them youre phone wont turn on and you tried another battery still wont turn and DO NOT tell them you modify or even saying you attemped to modify your g1's rom.
the best thing for him to do would be flash rc29 nbh and start from scratch...the phone is more than likely not bricked.
korndub said:
the best thing for him to do would be flash rc29 nbh and start from scratch...the phone is more than likely not bricked.
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To my opinion, i do not think the phone is bricked since there is no hardware issue is involving, it's the software itself, if he can access to the root of the sd card, problem is solved.
but oh well, i would call Tmobile and request a new shinny phone . wait... they will send a refurbished one won't they? oh noo...
I have a similar problem, i was attempting to move apps to the sd card, partitioned it, installed the lucidrem rom and then started using his code and the flashing android loop started, turned it off and back on and still the flashing android, i used the fastboot method to restore my nandroid backup, and the phone is back to working, my problem is that i cant access recovery mode.
everything else is fine, just when i try to load the recovery mode it just stays on the boot screen, can anybody help a newbie out?
the bootloader works, and the phone can load normally, but the recovery mode wont start.
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I have a similar problem, i was attempting to move apps to the sd card, partitioned it, installed the lucidrem rom and then started using his code and the flashing android loop started, turned it off and back on and still the flashing android, i used the fastboot method to restore my nandroid backup, and the phone is back to working, my problem is that i cant access recovery mode.
everything else is fine, just when i try to load the recovery mode it just stays on the boot screen, can anybody help a newbie out?
the bootloader works, and the phone can load normally, but the recovery mode wont start.
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That happened to me also. When I installed lucidrem's rom the recovery would work. What it actually was that when you first rooted your g1 do you rmr installing the recovery img? Well its pretty much the same thing lucidrems rom didn't have a recovery img command line attatched to it. I just installed recovery again from the terminal emulator just like it said in the root your g1 thread.
Atleast that is my side of the story. I don't anything about coding. So I could be wrong but that was just my experience.
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That happened to me also. When I installed lucidrem's rom the recovery would work. What it actually was that when you first rooted your g1 do you rmr installing the recovery img? Well its pretty much the same thing lucidrems rom didn't have a recovery img command line attatched to it. I just installed recovery again from the terminal emulator just like it said in the root your g1 thread.
Atleast that is my side of the story. I don't anything about coding. So I could be wrong but that was just my experience.
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wow, thanks alot for your help, reflashed the recovery.img and it worked a treat, thought id bricked it good and proper, but your advice worked, thanks again.
OKAY. SO I HAVE TO SAY;
After flashing my ROM so many times and having my G1 get "stuck" the the boot up G1 screen... you could say this would make someone frustrated. Even make you think your phone is "bricked"? Right? Wrong! It's not.
I have two ways to get OFF this screen & have your phone running again.
THIS IS FOR ROOT USERS WHO HAVE FLASHED AND ARE STUCK AFTER AN UPGRADE.
1. Take your SD card out and put it into an SD Adapter/USB into your computer and open the drive and drag your update file for whatever ROM you want onto the drive .
2. Eject the drive; and don't forget to Safely remove it.
3. Put the SD card back in your G1 phone, and reboot the phone with Call+MENU+Power button and then immediately hold the HOME and BACK button to go into recovery mode.
4. Once in recovery, wipe data and then add the update.zip file
Let it do its thing and when its done, hold Home + Back to reboot.
IF your T-mobile G1 boots back up, Congrats! Your new ROM is working now.
If you are still getting stuck at the T-mobile G1 start up screen, take your SD card back out, re-do the steps I provided, but START ALL OVER FROM SCRATCH! This means, Put your Original RC33 (or RC29) DREAMIG.nbh file on the sd card, wipe, flash the recovery image (use the telnetd and terminal emulator steps - you can find them on youtube here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJ2VtSqtJY ) and then proceed to let your phone boot up. Once everything is loaded up and you sign back in and everything syncs back up, You will be downgraded now, so you will have to flash the newest Radio and SPL onto your phone (as if you just freshly rooted your phone, because you did!) and then after you have done that; then you can wipe & flash/upgrade your ROM to whichever you prefer and also don't forget the fat32, ext2/ext3, linux-swap partition of your sdcard. This guy gives a great tutorial on how to do that! http://www.youtube.com/user/EmoGamer#play/uploads/4/0ve8pUk9dC4
ENJOY FELLOW ANDROIDIANS!
I hope I could help some of you.
If your phone is STILL stuck on the G1 loading screen, you have done something wrong. Try again. IF all else fails, Your phone is majorly Bricked and I don't know any other way to help you. These are the only two ways I know of - they have worked for me over & over; because I'm always testing out everybodys newest ROM.
This isn't any new information. There's an entire thread dedicated to bricked G1s and distinguishing whether or not they're actually bricked.
Iceucold said:
This isn't any new information. There's an entire thread dedicated to bricked G1s and distinguishing whether or not they're actually bricked.
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I second that.
If you can get into recovery... phone is not bricked. "BRICK" happens when you can't get into recovery NOR fastboot in the SPL.
WRONG.
If either of those steps worked that means your phone wasn't even bricked in the first place.
Garbage thread.
This is hilarious....
I found a site with someone who bricked their phone but found a loop hole. I have never bricked my phone and hoping i never will but for those who have bricked their phone here are some steps to try to unbrick it! HOPE IT HELPS! SEND FEED BACK!!
So you can’t access bootloader or recovery and the only thing that works is the blue led trick when pressing trackball + power button??
Try the procedure below.
Step 1: Turned Phone off by taking out the battery.
Step 2: Prepared SD card
Put SD card in card reader and formatted it as FAT32, copied the DREAIMG.nbh onto it.
Or try Sapphimg.nbh
Step 3: Put SD card back in phone
Step 4: Hold Vol down + Power + track ball together and put battery to start phone
Step 5: Run update
IF THAT DIDNT WORK!
TRY THIS!
Step 1: Turning Off Your Phone
Because you have a bricked phone, you can't just hold the power button. So if your phone is not already off then you're going to want to take out the battery.
Step 2: Preparing Our SD card
Take out your SD card and put it into an SD card reader or some type of other adapter so that we can view it from our computer. If you cannot view the SD card on your computer then you're going to need a new SD card.
Download DREAIMG-RC29.zip and unzip the file.
Reformat the SD card to FAT32 and copy the DREAIMG.nbh onto it.
Safely eject the SD card.
Put the SD card into your device.
Step 3: Wipe The Phone
Hold home and press the power button.
When you see the image of an ! mark, open your keyboard and press Alt + L if you cannot see any command options.
Do a factory reset by pressing Alt + W or just using the trackball.
When the reset is done, go ahead and hold the camera button and select the reboot system now option with your trackball.
Step 4: Flashing The Phone
Once the grey screen pops up (or the white screen if your phone was rooted with JesusFreke) it will ask you to hit a button to start installing the image…press that button. DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO STOP THIS PROCCESS. It will take about 8-12 minutes.
When the image has completed the installation (it will say completed), go ahead and press the green, red, and menu buttons at the same time. The phone will reboot.
And your done! Your phone is now unbricked!.
The G1 screen will hang there for a good minute or two, but be paticiant, it will boot. Now you have a choice. Try to hack your phone again, because you're in the correct state to have another go, or, you can stick with the official Android. Now if you choose to stick with the official Android, here's what you do.
Step 1: Upgrading to Android 1.0 RC33
Download the file signed-PLAT-RC33-from-RC30.zip
Rename the file to update.zip and copy it to your SD card
Reboot your phone into recovery mode. Power off the phone first and then hold down the Home key while powering it back on.
The recovery mode is finished loading when you see the ! mark inside the triangle. Press Alt + L to display the list of options.
Press Alt + S to flash the file update.zip.
Wait for the update to apply. Your phone may reboot during this process so be patient.
Press Home + Back if prompted to reboot your phone.
Step 2: Upgrading to Android 1.5 CRB43
Download the file signed-kila-ota-148830.de6a94ca.zip
Repeat the steps from above to flash the update file.
Step 3: Upgrade to Android 1.5 CRC1
Download the file signed-kila-CRC1-from-CRB43-FIX.7ca4a1d7.zip
Repeat the steps from above to flash the update file.
Step 4: Upgrade to Android 1.6 DRC83
Download the file signed-kila-DRC83-from-CRC1.c41b93c1.zip
Repeat the steps from above to flash the update file.
PM FOR THE DIRECT WEBSITES!
This is a tut for soft bricked devices, nice try. A brick is when your device will NOT boot into the bootloader or the recovery. Not quite sure about the top part, will test >_>
protomanez said:
More spam. This is a tut for soft bricked devices.
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This isnt even bricked.
If yuor device is really acutally truelly bricked (no reccvery/Boot) check out the think-tank threads and the consistently updating JTAG thread.
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protomanez said:
This is a tut for soft bricked devices, nice try. A brick is when your device will NOT boot into the bootloader or the recovery. Not quite sure about the top part, will test >_>
EDIT: Read more, ignore the above. Testing...
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Like i said idk if it will work .. i wanted it to be tested by bricked phones.. you never know whats possible
zeezee said:
This isnt even bricked.
If yuor device is really acutally truelly bricked (no reccvery/Boot) check out the think-tank threads and the consistently updating JTAG thread.
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Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Soft Brick is when you can get into recovery/bootloader. I've seen the JTAG thread, imo waste of time.
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This isnt even bricked.
If yuor device is really acutally truelly bricked (no reccvery/Boot) check out the think-tank threads and the consistently updating JTAG thread.
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I'll continue to look for info on this..
kemimarie said:
I found a site with someone who bricked their phone but found a loop hole. I have never bricked my phone and hoping i never will but for those who have bricked their phone here are some steps to try to unbrick it! HOPE IT HELPS! SEND FEED BACK!!
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Nice try. It'll surely help someone out, but the phones that are totally dead (rather than just having a borked boot, system, and/or recovery partition) won't benefit from this.
This procedure depends on a living SPL, which you simply don't have in a truly bricked device.
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I've seen the JTAG thread, imo waste of time.
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Its a good thing that other people don't share your perspectives. If everybody just gave up the moment that something doesn't work *right now*, not a single human would be alive today.
The top part is talking about a brick. I have always figured there is some "ancient Chinese secret" to getting it to reload. I don't have a brick but if I did I would not ignore the possibility this could work.
I would have thought a desperate user would have tried every button combo by now though.
yeap, not a real brick
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Ive seen a few people that lucked up and unbricked their phones .. some waited did every possible combo .. yes .. but i think somehow there is a way .. and im still looking lol
Possible hint!
Has anyone tried using adb .. Reflashing the recovery img??
if seen 2 or 3 people say they saw somewhere on the interwebz about a guy who un-bricked his device.
i have yet to see any of those people give a link or anything.
... ummm ...
havikx said:
if seen 2 or 3 people say they saw somewhere on the interwebz about a guy who un-bricked his device.
i have yet to see any of those people give a link or anything.
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It was on here! i read it in the forums ...
look for yourself.. people on here have bricked their phone and successfully unbricked it.
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havikx said:
if seen 2 or 3 people say they saw somewhere on the interwebz about a guy who un-bricked his device.
i have yet to see any of those people give a link or anything.
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Idk i guess it depends on what caused the brick.. people say flashing spls and radios wrong.
...another hint..
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Has anyone tried using adb .. Reflashing the recovery img??
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run fastboot boot recovery-image.img or whatever you named your recovery image. It'll display "waiting for device..." message just keep pluging it in, unplugging, popping the battery and eventually your device will respond and boot into recovery.
Someone bricked and i did it... twice trying to flash the eng 2010 SPL. It worked the third time and my device is up and running again with an engineering SPL.
if your device is stuck on the first splash but displays in red "Fastboot USB" message in the upper left corner of the screen, DO NOT power it down. run the above mentioned command and reflash.
Found another hint
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confirmed...
-I Connected USB.
-I inserted the battery.
-I booted the phone while holding the HOME key.
-The phone still froze at the first splash screen, but then suddenly, the waiting fastboot command detected the phone and booted the recovery image!
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try that on your g1/mytouch!
As already said, a brick is where you get to stare at the lovely splash1 all day. Who needs recovery or bootloader when you can see your phone's name?
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You made me chuckle a bit, it is quite nice isn't it?
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I have nexus envy so I have the Nexus splash1 on right now
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JAguirre1231 said:
As already said, a brick is where you get to stare at the lovely splash1 all day. Who needs recovery or bootloader when you can see your phone's name?
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And as i said, people have unbricked there "dead" phone so its possbile.
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And as i said, people have unbricked there "dead" phone so its possbile.
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You've said you've read someone doing it. You did not give hard facts or evidence, you READ it. I've read many things that aren't true....
OMG I GOT BLUETOOTH WORKING IN TEH HEROZZZZ!!!!!
You read it, does that mean it is true? No, it does not.
So i Flashed my SGS4G with Odin to GB 2.3.4....
Gingerbreak wont work to Root it... (not thru the app, not thru superoneclick)
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127121
am i gonna lose all my stuff again rooting that way (thru odin)???
NICE!!... now my phone wont boot!!! it shows the red fish logo and it wont do anythhing, and i cant access the download mode
to be honest i don't remember if that will happen because i did that rite after flashing kg4
cant get it to go to download mode thru the VOLUMEDOWN+TURN ON BUtton
and because the boot keeps looping, i cant make it go to download mode thru ADB REBOOT DOWNLOAD method because the computer wont find the phone because of the stupid loop....
sounds like you did not read all the directions. all the info you need is on that thread if you read it
download mode is vol up+down plug in usb vol up+down+power will take you to recovery
way to go man!!! Thanks so much!!! i was doin it wrong!!!
Thanks for your time and attention!
Okay...
I got into download mode again, and did the PDA with the zimage.tar
now the phone starts, boots, acts like everythings is fine, and then it restarts !!! and now its looping in to Samsung Screen - T-Mobile Boot Animation - Samsung Boot Animation - Main Page of Phone and then restarts again.... =S
that one is for an older version of GB
for GB2.3.4 use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15973153#post15973153
THAT WORKED FOR ME!!!! Not the other one!!
THanks!!! =)
lol @ you being stuck..... Ive done it before... well my first day on the site that was... Then I learned to read... Ahaaaaaaa
But to help you out... cuz it looks like they wont just give u the answer your looking for... Just install the Dr's Kernel via Odin or CWM and Boom... your rooted
Correction.. they did give u the answer and the links... I see now u just didnt understand..
Glad u got it
Hey guys,
ok, so I flashed an incorrect radio onto my phone (i think) I was running CM7 and flashed a new radio to try and fix the GPS and now it's stuck on the white HTC screen. I cannot boot into recovery because all I get is Hboot and no option to run a restore.
I put the SD card into another phone and downloaded the correct radio, rebooted to recovery and ran the update, but it still gets stuck on the white HTC screen.
Im in a bit of a panic here please can someone help me.
Sorry I know im not the first guy whos done this and im sure you gusy get sick of people asking for help but im really desperate here.
Many thanks,
Adam
We have all had that feeling ^^
Do this:
1. - Open the back cover
2. - Remove the SD Card
3. - Pull the battery out for 5 secs and put it back in
4. - Put the cover back on
5. - Press Vol Down and Power at the same time. Keep holding on Vol Down till you get in bootloader
6. - Select Recovery
7. - Wipe Cache
8. - Put your SD Card back in
9. - Reboot phone and its all working again. Yey.
It was in the thread
Thanks for the quick reply, I'll give that a shot and see how I get on, really appreciate the support.
Adam
flashing radio
I wouldn't have flashed a radio unless I absolutely had to if you can boot into recovery and you have a backup of your original radio and do a full wipe and do a clean install if you still have all your zip files in recovery see this why the dev's tell you don't mess with the radio your going to have this pushed from a pc good luck
There's nothing wrong with flashing a radio. It's a very simple procedure and shouldn't cause any problems if done properly.
Hey guys,
Just to let you know popping the SD card let me get into recovery and fix the problem.
As you can see from my sig it's been a loooong time since I played around with Android and I probably mis-read (didn't read) something.
You have my very humble thanks.
Thanks TheStigx! Really helped, I was freaking for a minute there
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Thanks TheStigx! Really helped, I was freaking for a minute there
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does anyone know exactly why sometimes flashing a radio does this? is it cause they didnt clear cache? im jus wondering so i can avoid this issue alll togetherrr
i tried the instructions in post#2 and it worked, thanks so much i was freaking out too lol. just goes to show how little i know. just an edit though, i had to pull my sd car out, boot into the bootloader, then install the sd card back in and reboot into recovery, then i got a bunch of errors about mounting so i ignored that and then just did the wipe cash and rebooted. then it came back to life! i thank you guys