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Please help!!! G1 wont boot

So I finally rooted my phone this weekend. And today I wanted to take advantage of some cool themes. So I downloaded the Macdroid v2.2 ADP1.1 theme and renamed it update.zip. Now my phone is stuck on the android boot screen. It just continues to load and load... I have tried wiping my phone and it still reloads and reloads. I can change the update file because there is no way to mount my SD card. Any suggestions? Please?

I guess what im really asking is, is there any way to mount my sd card without actually pressing the mount tab in the notifications menu? My pc recognizes the removable disk, but will not let me look at the sd card. This way I can change the update.zip

Do you have a card reader? Or something else that takes an sd card, such as a digital camera?

were you using ADP or RC30 on your phone. If you were using modified RC30 and installed ADP theme, that would mess it up.
If you followed instructions to root, you should have also update boot with HardSPL and Not sure ifyou made a backup. if you did, you can fastboot recover it.
Otherwise, redo everything and you may need to use another method to load files on your Sd card.

tehseano said:
Do you have a card reader? Or something else that takes an sd card, such as a digital camera?
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Yeah, at home. I was thinking that I would need to delete it from the card that way.

rizoh66 said:
Yeah, at home. I was thinking that I would need to delete it from the card that way.
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I had this same problem myself, once you access your card, put the RC29 back on it and flash it back. It will delete everything, making it factory default. You can then follow these steps again to re-root your phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480

n19htmare said:
were you using ADP or RC30 on your phone. If you were using modified RC30 and installed ADP theme, that would mess it up.
If you followed instructions to root, you should have also update boot with HardSPL and Not sure ifyou made a backup. if you did, you can fastboot recover it.
Otherwise, redo everything and you may need to use another method to load files on your Sd card.
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I did follow the instructions correctly. I know this because I had already installed other themes before this one. Before I installed the theme update I did move all the files still on my card that I needed to gain root to a separate file on my card. Could that be the reason?

rizoh66 said:
So I finally rooted my phone this weekend. And today I wanted to take advantage of some cool themes. So I downloaded the Macdroid v2.2 ADP1.1 theme and renamed it update.zip. Now my phone is stuck on the android boot screen. It just continues to load and load... I have tried wiping my phone and it still reloads and reloads. I can change the update file because there is no way to mount my SD card. Any suggestions? Please?
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If you can boot into recovery mode, you can use adb to push files to your sdcard.
for example
adb shell mount /sdcard
adb push JFV1.41_ADP1.1.zip /sdcard/update.zip

I just Bricked my phone!! and really bad!!

Okay, so here was I trying to do the app to sd and I was doing it using Terminal because my laptop does not give me permision to partition..I was at the last step which was basically to do the partition...I got some sort of mistake and the notification bar asked to format the sd, which I was forced to.....then I started getting a message that my sd card is damaged...so I took my sd card out turned off my phone and now my phone does not leave the g1 screen I tried taking out the battery and nothing...I have the latest radio and I did the Nandroid back up but that is pretty much all to waste since I formatted my sd
Help!!

DSBP1 said:
Okay, so here was I trying to do the app to sd and I was doing it using Terminal because my laptop does not give me permision to partition..I was at the last step which was basically to do the partition...I got some sort of mistake and the notification bar asked to format the sd, which I was forced to.....then I started getting a message that my sd card is damaged...so I took my sd card out turned off my phone and now my phone does not leave the g1 screen I tried taking out the battery and nothing...I have the latest radio and I did the Nandroid back up but that is pretty much all to waste since I formatted my sd
Help!!
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You can boot the G1 while holding the camera button and press back to go into fastboot mode and restore your data or you can hold home+power and do a wipe... and properly format your sd and try again.

the problem is that when I do fastboot there is nothing in the sd because I originally formatt it...my sdcard is blank and I cannot mount it because I cannot get into the g1..
I think my only solution is by a push through adb..

Can you hold home while powering on to get into the bootloader?
If you can, go into the console (or use adb shell). From there, you should be able to delete the symlinks that point to the SD.
I assume it's not booting because you symlinked parts of the internal flash to SD card, but sd card doesn't exist.... but I've never actually tried apps on SD, so I have no idea .

wow..it is getting really strange...I just took off the battery and the G1 screen stayed on....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh....this is weird..*

DSBP1 said:
wow..it is getting really strange...I just took off the battery and the G1 screen stayed on....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh....this is weird..*
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The screen holds colors after it's powered off, it's normal. It fades away slowly.

DSBP1 said:
wow..it is getting really strange...I just took off the battery and the G1 screen stayed on....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh....this is weird..*
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lol did you unplug the A/C if not then thats why. If you have a card reader just move the update.zip and if you don't boot into recovery and do a wipe without the SD plugged in. Then put it back or format the sdcard and next time save the backup to your pc before.

how can I push an update.zip through adb shell?? thats my only hope...or how can I restore through spl?? I am able to get through fastboot...and I did a wipe and that did not help...since I can't do no update.zip..or anything..

samysam05 said:
lol did you unplug the A/C if not then thats why. If you have a card reader just move the update.zip and if you don't boot into recovery and do a wipe without the SD plugged in. Then put it back or format the sdcard and next time save the backup to your pc before.
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I have a back up on my pc...
I just cannot put anything into my sd.....and I don't have a card reader..

DSBP1 said:
the problem is that when I do fastboot there is nothing in the sd because I originally formatt it...my sdcard is blank and I cannot mount it because I cannot get into the g1..
I think my only solution is by a push through adb..
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Fastboot does not require a sdcard. Just flash a working boot.img, system.img, and userdata.img thats stored on your computer.

if u go into the recovery menu (home+power)
and do a wipe (alt+w)
it will erase the symlinks and restore you to the original rom without the symlinks to ur sd card but to the internal flash...

^^^what do I do after that....I need to use ADB to push it?? and if I do a fastboot how do I push the system file??? by adb??

Can you explain why you can't fastboot the backup to your phone?

okay, when I go to fastboot...I press back to fastboot and then the action button...and then what??

Minker17 said:
Can you explain why you can't fastboot the backup to your phone?
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Apparently its cuz he never read the instructions.... people please help yourselves before you beg for help from others

^^NO!!
and nevermind..I solved the problem...I was having a major problem with my usb reading my phone and my micro card...I had to install the files for Microsd...which was a hassle to find it...so that I was finally able to flash the update.zip...Fastboot was not working....I kept on getting an error message..but thank God I finally got my phone to work...

This only took about 3-4 hours to figure..word to the wise..don't mess with your sd card unless you are sure you know what you are doing...

DSBP1 said:
This only took about 3-4 hours to figure..word to the wise..don't mess with your sd card unless you are sure you know what you are doing...
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I think that applies to everything...
driving a car
playing with fire
flying a plane
...

Yeah im pretty sure thats a condensed version of the disclaimer in the rooting thread... ive spent MUCH more than 4 hrs fixing stuff ive messed up on this thing... not to mention the other g1 i rooted/modded for the girlfriend, roommate, friends...

^^^I know :-(
But it sucks...I was suppose to be in bed 5 hours ago...now I have to be up in 3 hours to be ready to go to school..:-(
and tomorrow...I'ma try to partition my card again..
thanks for the help guys...nite!

Hey Guys Please Help

Trust me I searched and now I'm tired and need some help.
I had my sd card filled with junk files so I cleaned the sd up.
Before doing this I was able to:
- power phone down
- press down volume key and power buton.
- phne would boot up and I had the option to choose RECOVERY.
- once in recovery I got the evo icon and triangle and exclamation.
- I than pressed the up volume key and power button.
- I than got choices were I would choose APPLY SDCARD:update.zip
NBow here's the problem! When I choose that I now get an error saying NO SUCH FILE EXISTS. Before the sd cleanup when I chose that I got option to install roms and do other things.
I copied EVERY update.zip file and update file I found on my PC to the root of the sd card and NONE work.
Can you guys please link me to the right file?
Thanks In Advance!!!!

Not to be an ass but wrong section
sent with my evo from a secret place

Sporkman said:
Not to be an ass but wrong section
sent with my evo from a secret place
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What section should it be in? General?

Make sure you named the file correctly. You do not rename it to "update.zip" because it already adds the ".zip" file extension to the back. Just name the folder "update". I made this mistake, so I'm thinking you may have done the same thing.

yeah..maybe general, but I'd suggest using ROM Manager from the market..it puts a recovery there for ya

KERKEDAGAIN said:
yeah..maybe general, but I'd suggest using ROM Manager from the market..it puts a recovery there for ya
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Thanks for that. I tried it but it tells me an error occured while attempting to run privilaged command. Its like my phone got un rooted!
I will wait for this thread to be moved were its suppose to be.

My guess would be that your microSD is corrupt. Assuming you're running Windows, pull any files you need off the card and save them, then re-format the card with:
FAT32 (default)
quick format
4096 bytes
Once the card has been reformatted, put your files back on and try it again.
-Sam

SamelCamel said:
My guess would be that your microSD is corrupt. Assuming you're running Windows, pull any files you need off the card and save them, then re-format the card with:
FAT32 (default)
quick format
4096 bytes
Once the card has been reformatted, put your files back on and try it again.
-Sam
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Trying that now, hope it works.

[Q] boot loop

sorry guys but i made an "uh oh" and need help please! i had Virtuous Unity 1.31.0 & was attempting to flash the beta version. i had blue magic theme on my rom as well. Here are the exact steps i took: downloaded rom, put phone in clockwork recovery, wiped dalvik, wiped cache, wiped data, mounted system, flashed the zip & rebooted. Now i'm looped in the "blue magic" boot animation. what'd i do wrong & can it be fixed. i backed everything up too. i can get it into HBOOT screen by pressing power & down on volume key but am not able to scroll to any of the options. after a cple seconds it automatically selects HBOOT & asks if i want to install update from sd? i assume it's the gingrbread update but i've selected "no" every time so i could talk to someone first. right noe i'm on a publis cpu & it won't allow me to access the phone internals. i need admin passcode. i haven't messed much with playing with my phone thru a cpu so i'm not quite sure i'm even doing it right. sorry for my cpu lack of knowledge but i've adapted to android pretty well. Help please & thank u in advance

problem is that you have a PD98IMG.zip file on your sdcard....
pull the sdcard, boot into HBOOT, select recovery, then pop in the sdcard when you get to recovery

Pirateghost said:
problem is that you have a PD98IMG.zip file on your sdcard....
pull the sdcard, boot into HBOOT, select recovery, then pop in the sdcard when you get to recovery
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Yup. If you happen to have a PD98IMG.zip on your SD, bootloader will try to flash it everytime and you won't be able to access Recovery. Either pull the SD card until after you've selected Recovery like pirateghost suggested, or find a card reader/other device to read your card to delete PD98IMG.zip

Ok sweet. That got me back to clockwork, slipped the card back in once in recovery, clicked reboot and it still looped. It did say I had that file so I'm guessing I have to find a card reader and delete the file maually now or did I do something wrong?

Thanks so much for ur reply and it looks like I'm going to have to find a card reader and do it manually cuz it still loops. Thank u so much!

Just go in recovery rewipe and flash the beta rom only no themes yet let it reboot it should load right up I think the theme messed you up the bata rom is based I'm 2.3.4 so 2.3.3 themes wont work
sent from my unity loaded inspire 4G

Ok, did all that but Noticed before I rebooted that at the bottom where it shows the processes it's going thru, it says installation aborted. Says E:Can't open/Sd card/ download etc...2.33.0 BETA.zip....(bad). Do I still reboot or attempt to flash again?

Try going into mounts option in recovery and mount the external sd card.

Not giving option to mount. Only unmount so I guess I unmount and try to remount?

Try that and see if it works.

Aborted again. I'm getting worried friend

Still aborted. I'm getting worried friend

Don't worry. It will work out fine. Let me check something and I will reply momentarily.

Thank u so much for helping. I'm wishing I could pay u at this point

Don't worry. Turn off phone. Check to make sure sd card is properly inserted. Power phone back up and boot into recovery. Select install zip and see if you are able to view your files.

Well I can go to install the zip but still aborts

Try going to backup and restore and select restore. Select the backup you said you made and try restoring to your backup. You may have a bad download of the beta rom. Let me know if you can restore. Wipe first.

What happens If I scroll down to that PD98IMG.zip u were talkin bout. I see it on the zip file list...

You don't want to use that. That type of file can only be used in Hboot. It seems like you can see what is on your sd card so it is mounted. The rom file you were trying to flash may be corrupted. Unless you can get another rom on your sd card I would say restore to your backup until you can get another rom on your card and also delete that PD98IMG file.

if it says corrupted that means that your ROM file is corrupted or didnt fully downloaded.
1.Turn Off Phone
2.Take out SD Card
3.Vol+Power to Hboot
4.You will be at recovery mode.
5.Insert Sd Card back in
6.go to Mount
7.Mount your SD CARD(make sure USB is plugged in the computer)
8.Wait a little, your computer will have pop-up, if not go to My computer and click on your Sd Card.
9.Drag in a new fully downloaded rom into it.
10.Unmount the Sd Card
11.Happy Flashing!
sorry if this does not work, tried my best to help. This worked on me, so It should work for you as well.
another method is, if you got a Card Reader(micro chip goes in side a big chip) then put your ROM in their and delete the PD19 blah file, and skip steps 6 to 10

[Q] Is there anything I can do???

I've been having problems with ICS and USB mass storage support, or lack of. Is there anything I can place on my micro SD. then copy it to the internal SD and boot from there?
Just grabbing at straws here!
Thansk
TF101 B50 by the way.

honkinn said:
I've been having problems with ICS and USB mass storage support, or lack of. Is there anything I can place on my micro SD. then copy it to the internal SD and boot from there?
Just grabbing at straws here!
Thansk
TF101 B50 by the way.
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If you're still able to boot into the OS and is able to R/W files than yes, put the files on the micro sd, and using a file manager transfer it to internal sd.

Thanks for the help, but as a neebie, I need a suggestion on WHAT file to place on the internal SD that will I can boot from.
I still get the robot with the red triangle when I try to boot into recovery. I'm assuming that is because there wasn't a bootable file on the internal SD.
Does that make sense?

honkinn said:
Thanks for the help, but as a neebie, I need a suggestion on WHAT file to place on the internal SD that will I can boot from.
I still get the robot with the red triangle when I try to boot into recovery. I'm assuming that is because there wasn't a bootable file on the internal SD.
Does that make sense?
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Oh I see you're on stock recovery, is the ROM stock also?
Only thing is download the latest firmware from Asus, extract the zip from within, renamed it EP101_SDUPDATE.zip and put it on the micro sd card. Boot into stock recovery and see if it will flash, maybe that will help get USB working again.

Thanks for the suggestion. I did what you told me and still nothing. When I try to boot into recovery, I still get the dead robot with the red triangle, then it boots stock.
IS there a particular folder on the SD or the Micro Sd I need to put the EP101_SDUPDATE.zip file into?
Is there a specific folder on the Intenal SD that the system boots from, that I could replace the update zip with a before ICS version?
Are these dumb questions?
Thanks in advance for taking the time to help me.

Forgot to mentioned, did you extract the zip from within the file you download?

I did extract the zip and placed it on the micro AND the internal SD in the Android folder.
IS there something else I should be doing?
This is driving me nuts.

Try it in the root of the sd card should automatically detect it there

Going on 2 weeks now
Is anyone else stuck in the situation I am? I cannot re-gain Mass Storage, SD support. When I try to boot into recovery, I get the Robot with the red triangle. The only way I can see my internal SD is through the stock file manager that is on the tablet. I don't know if I can move an appropriate file into a certain folder to get this thing to boot up to where I can reflash a ROM.
What is with this POS? I no longer have CWM and root after the OTA update. I e-mailes ASUS and they gave me the " pull the micro card, then do a wipe and re boot" Which did nothing but waste time. as you can probably tell, I am getting tired of dead ends on this Tf101 B50. does anyone have any idea what could have went wrong with the OTA update? Why did I loose the SD? and What can I do to fix/revert back to an earlier state.
self admitted noobie here...Feel free to kick the **** out of me!
Thanks for your help.

With a B50, see if you can get NVFlash working.
Download the NVFLash package
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23222380&postcount=414
Get an NVFLash compatible ROM here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524302&highlight=nvflash+rom

honkinn said:
Is anyone else stuck in the situation I am? I cannot re-gain Mass Storage, SD support. When I try to boot into recovery, I get the Robot with the red triangle. The only way I can see my internal SD is through the stock file manager that is on the tablet. I don't know if I can move an appropriate file into a certain folder to get this thing to boot up to where I can reflash a ROM.
What is with this POS? I no longer have CWM and root after the OTA update. I e-mailes ASUS and they gave me the " pull the micro card, then do a wipe and re boot" Which did nothing but waste time. as you can probably tell, I am getting tired of dead ends on this Tf101 B50. does anyone have any idea what could have went wrong with the OTA update? Why did I loose the SD? and What can I do to fix/revert back to an earlier state.
self admitted noobie here...Feel free to kick the **** out of me!
Thanks for your help.
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Sounds like your OTA update was fudged so you need to reflash the ROM. I thought people with root and CWM can't do OTA updates?
Does adb or apx mode work? If apx mode works, then you can NVFlash so it shouldn't be a problem.
If ADB works, you can gain root with vipermod so you can install CWM.

I used to have root access. But, My last flash stuck in boot. Had to Nv flash it back to stock. Then the OTA hit, I had no more root or NVflash. So that is where I am. I hope there is something I can do to fix this.
Thanks for the help

OK lets try this method.
The firmware you download, don't rename it.
On the root of your sd card made a folder name ASUS
inside that make a folder name Update
extract the zip file from inside the download firmware and put it in the Update folder.
Just cold boot the TF and see if you get a notification of update avaiable on the status bar.
Outside of that not sure anything can be done except RMA