help! i just accidently installed a theme the wrong way! i helped home + power and pressed alt + s on accident and now my phone will not start up! i had JF RC33 1.42 is there anyway i can fix it?!
you pressed alt+l? all that does is toggle the text display on the recovery screen, we need more info on what happened because hitting alt+l isn't what messed up your phone. does the phone stop on the G1 screen or the flashing android screen? or does it only boot to recovery. what exactly did you do
I pressed alt + S and it updated with my theme instead. and now when i boot up the phone it stops at the glowing android.. after a while it goes to my lock 2.0 screen. and after i try to unlock my phone freezes.. i tried recovering my phone and nothing happened.. im going to try to re upload rc29 and re-root my phone. i think my firmware got replaced by the theme.
HOLD UP! What were you running before, rc33? If so just flash rc33 again you dont have to do all that over again. Them message me on gtalk
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Hi to all,
I been trying to upgrade to JF 1.14 rc33 and haven't been able to get to the recovery mode to process the update.zip file. Im not a noob but also not and expert i rooted my my phone so i know basics. When i try to hold the home butoon and power button the g1 logo keeps reappearing for as long as i hold it from 10 seconds to 2 minutes. any ideas of what im doing wrong, i dont care if i have to wipe i just want rc33. Thanks.
I currently have Fimware 1.0
Build #:1.0 TC-4 RC30
Custom Theme: Windows beta 7
Just to make sure, with the phone off you press and hold the home button and then press and hold (while still holding the home button) the power button. It should take ~20 seconds for the recovery mode screen to come up.
Dharkaron said:
Just to make sure, with the phone off you press and hold the home button and then press and hold (while still holding the home button) the power button. It should take ~20 seconds for the recovery mode screen to come up.
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i tried and did not work
natienn said:
Hi to all,
I been trying to upgrade to JF 1.14 rc33 and haven't been able to get to the recovery mode to process the update.zip file. Im not a noob but also not and expert i rooted my my phone so i know basics. When i try to hold the home butoon and power button the g1 logo keeps reappearing for as long as i hold it from 10 seconds to 2 minutes. any ideas of what im doing wrong, i dont care if i have to wipe i just want rc33. Thanks.
I currently have Fimware 1.0
Build #:1.0 TC-4 RC30
Custom Theme: Windows beta 7
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Flash back to the original G1 theme, then try the update. Your theme may be preventing you from upgrading.
andonnguyen said:
Flash back to the original G1 theme, then try the update. Your theme may be preventing you from upgrading.
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how do you flash to the original theme? do you know of any links? thanks
Start holding the Home button before you press the Power button.
jashsu said:
Start holding the Home button before you press the Power button.
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i tried that in different time lentghs from 10 seconds holdin both to 2 minutes, of course pressing the home key 1 sec before the power and holding both
Same problem
Need to bump this thread as I'm having the same issue. Have a HTC Dream with CyanogenMod-5.0.7-DS, trying to go to 5.0.8, but cannot get into Recovery Mode.
Yes, I am completely powering the phone off, holding Home just prior to pressing & holding Power. I keep both depressed for a few minutes and no joy, just sits at the G1 splash screen. I can remove the battery and press Power to bring the phone up normally. Have even dropped to the console, switched to root and issued "reboot recovery". The phone restarts and sits at the G1 splash screen as well.
Can anyone offer advice on how to restore my Recovery Mode? Many thanks...
You can try to reflash (or flash another) recovery with adb, fastboot or in terminal. Btw this thread is in wrong section. It should be in Q & A section.
You could even flash a recovery image from within your rom...you said you could boot the phone normally correct?
So drop into terminal and flash it if you don't want to mess with adb.
The Amon Ra 1.7 Recovery thread has the commands you need to flash through terminal...
These people apparently are no help. If you hold down the home key and it stays at the G1, try fastboot by holding down the camera button on the side while you power it on. You only need to hold the home key until it vibrates. It should instantly boot into fast boot, if you're holding down camera when powering on.
... if you can get into fastboot, you might need to unroot your phone and reroot it.
... if you can't get into fastboot or recovery mode, then you probably bricked your G1 and you'll need a jtag or scrap it. Or if it's under insurance, tell them you updated and your phone is stuck on the G1 screen....
You could also try taking out your battery then powering it on into fastboot/recovery but odds are that wont help at all.
Hope this was some help.
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These people apparently are no help. If you hold down the home key and it stays at the G1, try fastboot by holding down the camera button on the side while you power it on. You only need to hold the home key until it vibrates. It should instantly boot into fast boot, if you're holding down camera when powering on.
... if you can get into fastboot, you might need to unroot your phone and reroot it.
... if you can't get into fastboot or recovery mode, then you probably bricked your G1 and you'll need a jtag or scrap it. Or if it's under insurance, tell them you updated and your phone is stuck on the G1 screen....
You could also try taking out your battery then powering it on into fastboot/recovery but odds are that wont help at all.
Hope this was some help.
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Why would you need to reroot it, just flash a new recovery through fastboot.
fastboot flash recovery <name>.img
misread, yeah he could do that too but it would be easier to reroot if he knows how to do that... instead of learning a whole new method.
You're right though, that would be better.
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I am able to fastboot by holding the camera button in and powering on. It sounds like I just need to do the Amon Ra Recovery procedure in order to restore my recovery partition. I assume that I'll need to re-root, but I'm sure there are instructions there for that as well.
Thanks for all the quick replies!
So here's what I found....
I had the exact same problem, but first a little history then how I fixed it.
I purchased an 8GB MicroSD card so I could use Apps2SD and was quite pleased with the ability to do so. Until my battery life dropped to 5mins. It was already down from when I bought it last year.
The battery was severely screwed on my. If I used ANYTHING for more than 5 mins, it would die and would NOT boot up. Oh I could pres the power button and it would try to boot but then die somewhere in the boot process. That is until I plugged it into some charger (car or wall) and then it would boot, showing anywhere from 70 to 90% battery life.
After much research I found that it was the battery and so ordered a replacement off eBay from Hong Kong. $3.96 shipped to my door. Works great, and I am incredibly thankful for that.
So just prior to getting the battery I had done an upgrade to 5.0.8 with the vain hopes that it might help limp along but to no avail. The battery was gone.
Ok, so in comes the new battery. Great! I'll just reflash the ROM to make sure there are no lingering issues and we'll be good to go! Little did I realize that I did an 'upgrade' from CM Updater and when I booted into Recovery I flashed th zip file that was there....which was 5.0.7. DOH! No biggie, everything was working so I didn't worry too much.
Then I installed Clockwork's ROM Manager 1.8.x. A few days later there was an update, so I updated to 2.0.1.3. So I updated that. It went fine.
Few days later, and a few more apps re-installed, the system was running slow.
Apps2SD was greyed out. Huh?
Checked the card....Ubuntu was only mounting it Read Only. And the old swap partition, which I thought I had deleted, was still there. Dammt. But this s a side story I think.
So I wanted to reflash but there was no way I could do it because I could not get into Recovery mode. Ugh.
ROM manager had an update to 2.0.1.4. Ok, maybe that'll work. Nope. It said it updated fine but stuck at G1 logo like many others.
Doing some googling around I saw that it was a ROM Manager issue and that you should flash back down to 1.4.x. Well, since I knew it was working at 1.8.x I decided to reflash to 2.0.0.3. I could get into recovery mode now!
While this kinda solves one issue....I'll have to go into another thread to figure out the Read Only problem so I can re-partition my card again.
Thread closed. Please post questions in the Questions and Answers forums and not in the development forum.
I flashed to the Ava rom. Looked great while i could see it. I was talking on phone it rebooted one me mid conversation to never come back. Gets to Droid loading screen then goes back to evo 4g screen? I am unable to restore nandroid backup as it is corrupt. Someone please help. Boss is going to kick my ass!!
I got out of the start-up loop by powering on using (MENU + POWER).
Enable MS/USB TOGGLE
plug phone into computer. access CD card. Delete everything on it. load SAPPIMG.nbh.
Power the phone off. Restart (VOL DOWN + POWER) click yes when it finds SAPPIMG.nbh.
That will get you out of the continuous loop, and back 1.5 (Cupcake)
noob question but how do i do menu+power?
Im just flashing back to stock rom and starting over. Well hopefully i can. Im downloading it now.
jacob.stewart said:
noob question but how do i do menu+power?
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HOME button + POWER button will enable you to reach the recovery screen. From there you can toggle on and mount your SD card to the computer.
MENU + POWER was not the correct instruction. muh badd.
Im trying to load pc36img.zip. Im getting error when doing so "The Main Version is older!" Update Fail
Any ideas?
Flashed with FlipzFresh rom and now working. I liked Ava better im going to try and go back to it.
Hi all,
I was trying to install a new Rom Dronix 0.4. Upon entering the bootloader I accidentaly somehow no idea how,deleted clockwork mod recovery that was on there and now just can't get into bootloader mode or even get my phone to start up past the 1st screen.I've tried volume up +green button and power button to try to get in,volume down + end call red button and power button no go.The only thing it goes into is if I hold the volume down button + call green button and power which takes me to the firmware update but just flashes and says unpack failed.The other thing is that if press the red and green buttons for calls and the power button it brings the screen to a purplish colour but does nothing as well.I've tried to get the computer to recognize the phone but it won't even after installing the usb drivers with windows xp and windows 7.Atm there is no ROM on the phone after deleting it,cache and dalvik cache. It's just empty with not even a bootloader to try and boot into, only hardware is available now.
I'm at a loss as to what and any help if trying to get it back and running would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul
Flash UltraJack recovery from the PC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908178
hello, i think you kinda deleted the boot!!
try following instructions on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011527
ITS SAYS UPDATE FAILS CUASE YOU DONT HAVE THE FIRMWARE on YOUR SD CARD>>>DO YOU???? JUST GO TO THEAD AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AND LET ME KNW!
YOU SIR ARE A CHAMPION!!!!!!!! If ever you are in Sydney, Australia I'll be treating you a few beers if you do drink heh.
Again THANK YOU!!!!
failed to install nv flash, installed CM 7.1 rc and booted through CMR, installed from ex sd, now stuck in bootloop when trying recovery, no CMR loads as I have read. If I allow it to boot naturally first LG boot screen loads then 2nd and freezes. I cannot boot into recovery, s.w upgrade in progress also showing. Please tell me there is a way out of this mess.
Install nv flash recovery. You can try the one click method to install it.
I installed nv flash and I continue having the same problem It installs correctly but my phone is still stuck I hold vol down and power for an extended period first LG screen loads then second with lg screen loading bar, then white box with arrow and android character, If I release the buttons then the phone stops cycling and loads to the cm7.1 rc1 boot image and freezes (LG screen) . If I do this again and release the power while holding vol down I get the SW upgrade screen. Im guessing by loading cm7 without nvflash the first time Im done. Hopefully someone can help!
pull battery out and put back in hold vol down n power, or just flash nvflash again
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I installed nv flash and I continue having the same problem It installs correctly but my phone is still stuck I hold vol down and power for an extended period first LG screen loads then second with lg screen loading bar, then white box with arrow and android character, If I release the buttons then the phone stops cycling and loads to the cm7.1 rc1 boot image and freezes (LG screen) . If I do this again and release the power while holding vol down I get the SW upgrade screen. Im guessing by loading cm7 without nvflash the first time Im done. Hopefully someone can help!
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I don't think you have nvflash done correctly. You should not be seeing the lg loading bar if you are holding vol dwn + power. It should be an Android screen, at least on mine it is.
If you release too quick, you will get the SW Upgrade screen.
Try and re-flash the recovery again via nvflash.
you both were right, the first and second attempt installing NVFlash it stated it was done successfully, didnt pay attention to final message stating it was missing location, I had Nvflash folder doubled up. Reinstalled Im good thanks for reminding me to retry again I was losing my mind.
Thanks again
Awesome, good to hear.
Sry... gonna post but too late
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I seem to be having an issue with my phone. I'm still a noob, so bare with me. I used the HTC Dev tool to unlock my phone. Then I used the flashboot boot boot.img command to try to install a rom. The phone reset on its own and booted to the splash screen and then a black screen. I let it sit for 5 mins and then pulled the battery and put it back in and booted into bootloader and then into recovery. Tried to run cwm but it wouldn't find the rom to flash. Took the card out it put it into another phone and it said it was bad. Got a new card and tried from beginning but not getting any farther. In CMW I can select any of the options and it just goes to to the circle screen. Wont wipe the phone, wont reboot the phone, nothing. If I try to let it boot without going into the bootloader I get the splash screen and then the black screen. Thanks in advance for your help!
Not sure what version of CWM you are using. But normally if you see the circle with the hat, you are pushing the wrong button on the phone to select the items. If I remember it's either the power button or camera button.
Thanks!
txmtb said:
Not sure what version of CWM you are using. But normally if you see the circle with the hat, you are pushing the wrong button on the phone to select the items. If I remember it's either the power button or camera button.
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Wow, don't I feel dumb! Yeah, I was hitting the power button to select and it is the trackpad that I should have been pressing. Thanks for the help!