Okay, so I have been doing a lot of reading about all this, and it appears there are a lot of roms for the Tmobile wing. I was curious which one you guys think is better, which one you have, ease of the upgrade (flashing the rom), wm6.1, etc.. Looks like if you make some noob mistakes, you could end up with a fancy paperweight. Thanks.
dougstoner said:
Okay, so I have been doing a lot of reading about all this, and it appears there are a lot of roms for the Tmobile wing. I was curious which one you guys think is better, which one you have, ease of the upgrade (flashing the rom), wm6.1, etc.. Looks like if you make some noob mistakes, you could end up with a fancy paperweight. Thanks.
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All ROMs are good and all ROMs need the same amount of effort to install.
Every ROM has his pros and cons. Easiest way to find your favourite ROM is to test 2, 3 or more ROMs.
You also should now what you want from a ROM.
Please read the rules about this sub-forum on where and how to post properly.
This is the forum for ROM developement only.
I'm sorry to say that, but your post is considered spam here.
Anyways, welcome to xda-dev, get familiar here with the forum and enjoy the fun of flashjing and testing ROMs.
Have fun!
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yea hes right...papa will probably move it to another forum...but in my opinion Open touch is goodd and also with ICP and Carbon they are pretty stable but its basicly an opinion....you have to try them out yyourself to see which one is better for u..
remember to hard spl your phone..then u can flash..welcome to xda tho...
Open touch biggy is the way to go.
umm...it never works right on ma fone...now i cant even receive my mms....
shep211 said:
Open touch biggy is the way to go.
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Open touch is definitely awesome. You can start out by flashing your roms with hard-spl which is pretty safe (you wont end up with a paperweight). However if you do manage to brick your phone, its not really a big deal as long as you dont mess with the boot loader. Good luck with your flashing. Have fun
Yeah, I obviously have some more reading and ivestigating to do, but I do have a question. What is hard spl? I'm a noob, yes, but a gadget geek/computer geek, and I'm blown away at all the info on this site.
I just bought a brand new T-Mobile G1 Black from Craigslist for someone in my family. While i was rooting the phone i decided to use Haykuro SPL. As soon i rebooted the phone it bricked on me and now i am pretty much freaking out.
Does Someone Knows How To Fix It ? And do you think HTC will take it back even tho i didnt bought from T-Mobile and dont even have the receipt ?!
Please guys help me.
did you bother checking which board the phone was using? pvt or dvt? did you know some people were having issues with the new spl? and how is it bricked? won't boot? stuck at g1 screen and can't enter recovery\bootloader?
try theses instuctions and tell me if they work make sure you pull the battery before holding power and home if it get you to the recovery screen you should be good. also try it with power camera
1. pulled sd card out put it in a sdcard reader and loaded the enginering bootloader
2. took battery out
3. put sd card back into g1
4. held power + home
5. while still holding power + home slid battery back in
6. when recovery showed up hit alt+w and alt+s
7. popped sdcard back out and and loaded my favorite rom version
8. put sd card back in
9. held power + home and flashed the rom and all came alive
First off, no, HTC will not take it back (maybe if you pack 200 dollars or so with it the will). What do you mean "bricked"? Can you still get into the bootloader or not? If you can't, then sorry, it is bricked for good (atleast as far as we at XDA know)
yeah unfortunately i cant make it to the bootloader...it stays on the T-Mobile G1 sign...
davil124 said:
yeah unfortunately i cant make it to the bootloader...it stays on the T-Mobile G1 sign...
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The SPL loads before the G1 logo. Are you pressing back+power?
Why o people why do you not read the threads on this before you do anything. Geez. Do you not study and take precautions before you do anything?? Your most DEF screwed. If you cant get into any of the bootloader, then its bricked and no one has found a way to fix it "yet"( hopeing someone does). Please for the love of God. READ READ READ.
@futango, because people are dumb and get excited before reading, making their 2-300 dollar phone a 2-300 dollar brick. Its cool, if you saw how disastrous this forum was you would see how many topics there are on this issue, and you wouldn't have this problem. Hard lesson learned but oh well, have to deal with it until someone finds a fix, to which there isnt one now. Too bad. Next time you'll read hu? Reading is easier than spending that hard earned money....unbelieveable.
Reported.
Davil124, its seems like people are bickering again instead of trying to help you. lol.
Like what jashu said, after flashing the haykuro SPL, try holding BACK + POWER, to enter recovery mode. When in recovery mode, remove your memory card (place it in a card reader), and delete the update.zip that contains the haykuro SPL. Proceed to copy the update.zip that contains a hacked ROM (JF1.5, ADP1.5H, etc.) to your memory card. Then flash the ROM - update.zip by pressing ALT + S. This must be done after updating to the haykuro SPL (almost everyone forgets to do this, and end up looping.) Then just let it boot up (it may take a few minutes, so don't panic and pull the battery, just let it load.)
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Davil124, its seems like people are bickering again instead of trying to help you. lol.
Like what jashu said, after flashing the haykuro SPL, try holding BACK + POWER, to enter recovery mode. When in recovery mode, remove your memory card (place it in a card reader), and delete the update.zip that contains the haykuro SPL. Proceed to copy the update.zip that contains a hacked ROM (JF1.5, ADP1.5H, etc.) to your memory card. Then flash the ROM - update.zip by pressing ALT + S. This must be done after updating to the haykuro SPL (almost everyone forgets to do this, and end up looping.) Then just let it boot up (it may take a few minutes, so don't panic and pull the battery, just let it load.)
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davil124 thats what ur sopposed to do.. i recall there's other threads on here that talks about bricked phones. im not gettin on u, people just need to understand.. if u have problems find the right thread to put ur post up.. someone will answer ur question
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Please for the love of God. READ READ READ.
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Futango is right though. If you are going to jump into a hack without reading, you get what you deserve and you deserve what you get.
EVERYTHING ON THIS FORUM IS POTENTIALLY PHONE BRICKING.
Once you fully realize that, then you will think twice about flashing whatever update.zip someone casually posts on here.
p.s. can everyone stop treating Haykuro like some kind of god? He got a hold of some HTC pre-release builds and posted em on here. That's it.
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Futango is right though. If you are going to jump into a hack without reading, you get what you deserve and you deserve what you get.
EVERYTHING ON THIS FORUM IS POTENTIALLY PHONE BRICKING.
Once you fully realize that, then you will think twice about flashing whatever update.zip someone casually posts on here.
p.s. can everyone stop treating Haykuro like some kind of god? He got a hold of some HTC pre-release builds and posted em on here. That's it.
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Jashsu you sound really jealous. lol jk. But I do agree with you. First jesusfreke was god, now haykuro. Isn't that blasphemy? lol.
But hopefully people will begin to realize the risks involved with flashing custom firmware. I've seriously looped at least 12 times (bad md5 checksums, faulty memory card, u name it lol), wiped over 100 times, but thankfully found solutions to every problem I've faced, but that was because I did my research before jumping the gun. I'm fully aware of all the risks involved, so all I can say to everyone is, proceed with caution.
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Jashsu you sound really jealous. lol jk. But I do agree with you. First jesusfreke was god, now haykuro. Isn't that blasphemy? lol.
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I'm not jealous about having bricked about a dozen phones, i'll tell ya that
People should be approaching updaters with a serious heaping of caution, especially for something like the SPL. I won't blame Haykuro for not having fully tested the SPL before releasing it, but honestly he probably should have put up more than just a link and a wink (like I dunno some huge warnings and disclaimers). And for sure those links should have been pulled the moment that news of bricks came in. Just my two cents...
Well this sucks to hear man. Loosing a G1 is never fun...But the recent threads about the new SPL made it clear that it was only designed for the PVT. And from the looks of it, you probably have a DVT or some other derivative.
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I'm not jealous about having bricked about a dozen phones, i'll tell ya that
People should be approaching updaters with a serious heaping of caution, especially for something like the SPL. I won't blame Haykuro for not having fully tested the SPL before releasing it, but honestly he probably should have put up more than just a link and a wink (like I dunno some huge warnings and disclaimers). And for sure those links should have been pulled the moment that news of bricks came in. Just my two cents...
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Haykuro is not to blame for anything. He also shouldn't have put up more info because....he can't. All of this is pretty much undocumented. It's all trial and error. If it wasn't for people like Haykuro, Dude, or JF...etc. We wouldn't have any of these new updates to our phones.
OP you should of read this first before attempting to use the new SPL.
READ THIS FIRST if you are flashing Haykuros new SPL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=516433&page=10
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Haykuro is not to blame for anything. He also shouldn't have put up more info because....he can't. All of this is pretty much undocumented. It's all trial and error. If it wasn't for people like Haykuro, Dude, or JF...etc. We wouldn't have any of these new updates to our phones.
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Let's imagine for a second that there was a room full of really thirsty kids. I walk in with an unmarked bottle of a strange looking liquid. I can't describe it because I myself don't know much about it. Would you say it would be irresponsible on my part to just leave it there with those kids who don't know any better? More to the point, would you blame me if one of those kids got sick after drinking it?
In a more perfect world, everyone would do a lot of prior research, understand the risks associated with experimental hacks, and fully accept the consequences of bricked devices. Unfortunately this is not a perfect world.
alright a appreciate some of you for been nice and try to help (that was the point for me writting this at first). And for the ones been rude and trying to act all smart ! F&@$ Off ! alright ? i need help and i learned from my mistakes. If you think i acted not rational or smart, you dont have to say anything. Just stay quite and move on and help others that need more help in the forum. Just dont come and start saying stuff that are not helping at all, and for the record i did not blame nobody for the mistake I made. I personally got a G1 running the SPL just fine, and i just didnt know that there were 2 different boards running on the G1's. So please stay away if you are not going to say anything positive, and try to help. thank you.
that sucks
Cant we all just get along
Two months agoi tried updating my phone. I did a reboot after loading a update.zip file from my sd card and my G1 didnt turn on at all. No g1 screen or any kind of response.
And now my G1 is bricked.
My question is do you think they will exchange it for me still? What should I say happened?
Alright this is enough. I think instead of treating users with bricked phones as noobs and lecturing them about being careful, we get to the point and try and help.
First off, we have a whole thread dedicated to the bricked phones now. One member is working on schematics to build an actual USB wire for a force install of a SPL to possibly repair the bricked phone issues. Right now, the plans are done, so we will see if he is able to construct the cable. However, the schematics are already uploaded, so maybe you should give a shot at it. look for the G1 brick technical think thank thread.
hey has anyone been having trouble rooting the mytouch 3g lately it seems that the 1 click method does not work anymore?????
VoLoDaR1 said:
hey has anyone been having trouble rooting the mytouch 3g lately it seems that the 1 click method does not work anymore?????
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I would say that the only tried and true method currently is the "GoldCard" method. Go to the following link, at the unlockr.com,and follow the steps for making your gold card. It takes some time the first time around, but is the only proven method. Follow the steps very carefully in this posting and you should be set http://bit.ly/cM9IPw
Chris
It still works, I just rooted one for a co-worker last week.
if its 0007 and up... newest are 0010, 0013 and 14 and all need goldcards. from here on out I would expect all new models to have perfected SPL's and we can weed out the noobs here with bricked phones because they dont pay attention.
If its a fender LEAVE IT ALONE
other then that do some major reading on making a goldcard and have 2-3 spare micro sd cards because not all are compatible.
also find Amon ra's fix perfected spl thread
crypysmoker said:
if its 0007 and up... newest are 0010, 0013 and 14 and all need goldcards. from here on out I would expect all new models to have perfected SPL's and we can weed out the noobs here with bricked phones because they dont pay attention.
If its a fender LEAVE IT ALONE
other then that do some major reading on making a goldcard and have 2-3 spare micro sd cards because not all are compatible.
also find Amon ra's fix perfected spl thread
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If you don't want to help noobs don't post.........?...........
It worked on my 0009
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If you don't want to help noobs don't post.........?...........
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you dont even want to know the amount of stupidity I have had to deal with since I rooted the fender rom. Im sorry if I sounded mean or angry... but I found everything I needed to know by looking and searching sometimes fo rhours. So I get a mite bit ticked when kids come along wanting someone to hold thier hand rather then learn it on thier own.
Sorry if I offended
On top of that I said to "weed out the noobs" meaning once every phone has a perfected SPL, then these people will have to finally learn things on thier own. Messing with the perfected SPL's is what causes people to brick thier phones when they dont pay attention.. then we have 100 posts of "blah blah bricked my phone and Im screwed" or "think tank fo rmy bricked mytouch"
does anyone know where I can find the original system files from the new mytouch?
non rooted-untouched system
"I have searched the forums but the only one i see is the cursordroid rooted update.zip, I want a untouched one" anyone?
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does anyone know where I can find the original system files from the new mytouch?
non rooted-untouched system
"I have searched the forums but the only one i see is the cursordroid rooted update.zip, I want a untouched one" anyone?
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Our problem is we have to root to gain acsess to that part of the system. once we gain root, all original files are gone. For right now, the closest your going to get is either the fender rom, or one of our themed roms. We are unable to get a straight dump because of the spl is comes with.
So, for the time being, the fender/1.2 rom is the only one you can get. if you want an unrooted rom.... I really dont know why your here
as i know, unfortunately, there is no way back to real unrooted, untouched
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as i know, unfortunately, there is no way back to real unrooted, untouched
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Yeah.. Believe me... I wish I would have known more about android before I discovered how to root these phones for everyone. Baicly, we will never have the correct Tmobile fender dump with splash screen. But for right now, Cursors and our themed versions are your best bet other then Stokes port in Angio's thread for "fender drivers"
So many threads!
So many 1.2/LE/Fender threads and it's making my head spin!
this one plus the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=662482
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=661104
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=662615
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=662299
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=643476
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=641429
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623141
and then I gave up but there are definitely more.
Anyone else thinking that this phone is different than the original MyTouch that it should deserve it's own sub-forum?
Because it's confusing everyone especially the noobs.
To keep track on all of the progress do we really need to subscribe to all of the threads that I pointed out above? Really? Then we get comments like:
" I have tried searching and just can't find it!"
... because first of all... noobs don't know what to search for. This is obvious. A noob is more likely to use the word "unlock" to try to root the device. Do we expect them to know what "Stickies" are? Probably not. But they should read the HOW-TO. Which is an encyclopedia of information. And out of laziness and intimidation they resort to just posting a new thread. Then they get flamed, feelings get hurt and we might even get a laugh out of it. I hate it just as much as everyone else but I would say that most of it could be avoided by proper organization. The half a dozen threads that I posted above should in some way be combined and labeled specifically for MyTouch FENDER devices. The difference between the MyTouch Fender and the regular MyTouch are extreme. But a noob wouldn't know that. Someone just buying an Android phone for the first time might buy a MyTouch LE. Then what? (S)he finds "How to root your MyTouch" and naturally assumes that it would work. There needs to be an easier way. Are we going to use this same sub-forum for the MyTouch Slide? Of course not! Totally different device. The only thing that is the same on this device than the original MyTouch is the look. Just about everything on the inside is totally different. This is just my opinion though.
How is it going everyone.. I was curious if anyone could tell me if bubby’s one click root would still work for my phone if I haven’t updated my phone to gingerbread yet? And hypothetically speaking, what I mean is that if I decline the gingerbread up date, or I just haven’t got the update yet... when I’m down grading my rom while using bubby’s program is there any chance that when it ask to install the update that the gingerbread update could mess with it or be installed instead? And sorry if this is a dumb question but I’ve looked in other places and didn’t find my answer so I just wanted to be sure.. So thank you for any help in advanced.
and i read on the thread that its been discontinued, but it should still work if my phone is still froyo right?
It probably would still work, but you really should use ATTN1's hack kit. It's being actively developed and has real-time support via the #liberatedAria IRC chat channel.
Hack Kit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952352
IRC chat link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
well i would but im not real smart with computers though i have done A TON of research and read through countless threads and forums about what could go wrong and just how to root and so on and so on... i just feel more conferrable using his program because ive watched he video like a 100 times and seeing it visually makes me feel allot more at ease since this is my first time...
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well i would but im not real smart with computers though i have done A TON of research and read through countless threads and forums about what could go wrong and just how to root and so on and so on... i just feel more conferrable using his program because ive watched he video like a 100 times and seeing it visually makes me feel allot more at ease since this is my first time...
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I used bubby's method and it worked well for me. Got it first try no problems. If that's what you feel comfortable using then go for it. But I gotta say I rooted one of my friends inspire with att1 hack kit and it was easy as well. As long ad you can follow instructions you'll be alright.
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I used bubby's on my phone back when it was running froyo. Had no problems at all. Alot of my friends have also used the hack kit. Either way as long as you can read instructions, and really read them before doing it, you should be fine. If you piss your pants because your nervous while doing it...its ok I almost did. Hahaha. Good luck!
Also please please read each methods thread all the way through to see any problems anyone else may have had so you know how to handle them if they come up.
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haha ok thanks yall and yea i read the hack kits thread all the way through and in fact printed the entire thing out and red it on my free time.. lol and im working on bubbys right now to see if i can run across any problems that i may encounter along the way.. so thank yall and have a good one