I used to own a T-Mobile G1 with android 1.6. I got bored over time, and decided to try cyanogenmod. But that was back when I was an inexperienced ROM hacker. I did all the rooting stuff and flashing stuff right. Or so I thought. Anyway, my phone ended up bricked, and now I have an expensive paper-weight. I have a myTouch 3G now. Is it possible to somehow use my new 4GB SD card to get the files for Donut back on the phone? My laptop can only read the larger versions of SD cards(for cameras, etc.) and I don't have anything that can read the smaller ones. I can only hook my myTouch up to my computer to get files on it.
If you can't boot into recovery or fastboot, you can't save the phone. The only way is to try the JTAG thing and it should work. I don't know how far along they got because after I bought my Nexus I stopped looking at that section. But I know someone got it to work after an SPL brick.
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First off.... We don't have any way to get root on any phone that has the official RC30 update.
Second is there any way to emulate RC30 so that we can try to hack it (without loading the t-mobile update on my phone)?
Third for the HW people is there any JTAG on this thing? I don't want to take mine apart but if there is some way to get JTAG we should be able to mod anything
and last but not least is there anyone that has an RC30 phone that T-Mobile won't take back and you can't sell on ebay (like a broken screen or something)?
I am glad I got root on mine in time but I think we need to try to help the people that didn't get it in time... and once the RC19 phones run out all new phones will have RC30+ and our community will be limited to the people that got their phones at RC19.
this post needs a BUMP
For this phone to reach its maximum potential, it will either need a) tmo/google to create everything (yeah right), or b) everyone to be on a rooted device.
In its current state, its not worth the money. In fact, the only reason i bought one was because i knew i had to buy one quick otherwise risk not having root. Of course, i also understood that its highly probable that we will get root on tmo RC30 phones, but i wasn't willing to risk it.
what about the boot loader? can we get into the phone via the boot loader and flash it?
bumped for those of us that have the official ota 30. I am very new to linux so I am trying to learn on the fly. I do not want to brick my phone though. So any of you linux gods, please help us lay people out!
I was hoping to brainstorm but I haven't heard any more ideas or anyone that can tell me one way or another what ideas have been tried and failed.
So if you have the ota RC-30 update you basically can't do anything to modify your phone yet right,I just want a way to get rid of the market cache or put it on my sd card, Im up to 16 mb of market cache and it keeps growing by the day and my phones internal memory is down to 15 mb,is there anyone who can help with this.
Already talked about in other forums...(market cache) it will go away once you have litlle space left. Bump
oh, I didn't know that,thanks for the info
hey all, im getting my hands on a rc30 non-rooted phone and i would be more than happy to hack on it if you all give me direction. maybe we can find a way to get root for all the poor people who got the ota.
pm me if you want me to try anything on it.
wish i could help, but i have no clue abut phone hacking.....
im a super motor head thats builds cars and has a fetish for technology.
root for us would be great.........RC30 ota victim here.
fortunately i got root on my personal g1....im always glued to xda developers, but ive got a second one that is for us to test on and no worries if it gets bricked....
yeah nobody has any clue at t-mobile how to downgrade from rc30. in fact most of them don't even understand hot to manually upgrade/downgrade the firmware on the g1. I called google, they just gave me google.com/support (no live support reps, and the site is no help at all), htc's #'s are tech support=888.356.2375, and hotline=866.449.8358, i'm calling them 2morrow. I just ran Zenmap it says port 8081 is open that's it, I ran intensive portscan, it also says blackice-icecap is running on that port.
I'm very interested in what you find out. I accidently upgraded my rooted phone (fat fingers!) to RC30.
so has anyone figured out how to use the bootloader for an SD update?
Is there any way to get chroot to work and mount the Filesystem RW from the update screen and add an SU program?
what is under that small void sticker under the back cover (WARNING if you remove that sticker I am betting your warranty is bad)?
are there any other key combinations that would get us into a better debug mode?
Bump, so at least we have it up for a little while longer...
dagentooboy said:
Is there any way to get chroot to work and mount the Filesystem RW from the update screen and add an SU program?
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I'm assuming you're referring to booting into recovery mode. You would need a shell (either on the device directly or via adb). Recovery mode does not provide that.
You could try to figure out a way to exploit the recovery binary, but there aren't many ways in... just pressing keys (and those are pretty constrained in prompt_and_wait() in recovery.c).
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/recovery.git;a=tree
I had wondered if there's something to be done with the recovery/command or recovery/intent files but the filesystem permissions have them locked up fairly tight despite the fact that while in recovery mode they are set 777 (again, doing anything would probably require a shell).
recovery.c:
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86 // Use generous permissions, the system (init.rc) will reset them.
hey all, got an RC30 non Rooted G1 in hand, with my computer ready. Anything you all want me to try?
im sure it sounds a bit much. but what about somehow emulating the OTA update process from a PC?
anyone baller enuff to figure that out lol.
or maybe this phone has a setup similar to the PSP. remember how you could hard mod the battery to get debug mode?
Any ideas what is under that Void sticker?
is there any way to use USB while in recovery mode or boot loader mode?
I just got my G1 on Sunday. It's still rc29. What should I be looking for? So I shouldn't update to RC30 then? Thanks!
Okay, I used a G1 since October 20th, and rooted a few months later when I felt the process was easy enough and could be reversed. I'm not sure how long it'll take on the myTouch, but I'm thinking I'll wait and keep my G1 by my side for Tethering purposes, only because I'm scared to death of breaking the ROM. I mean, we don't even have the original ROM do we? Or at least the SAPPIMG.NBH with all of the myTouch factory software on it? The DREAIMG.NBH used to get back to RC29 was a life saver whenever I goofed things up on my G1. I'd just reflash it from the phone, on the road, and then could do all the rooting on the device. The biggest problem I'm running into is that I'm stuck on a 4 yr old iBook G4, so making the goldcard is going to be weird. I'll probably have to find a way to do it through MS VirtualPC with Windows XP and turn on USB pass-through. Any ideas?
Does anyone know of a way to backup the myTouch ROM before digging in too deep? I love nandroid's capabilities, and the cyanogen recovery 1.4 is of GREAT use on my G1, is it compatible with the myTouch? I'm sure some of this is available by digging through the threads, but this computer's 800x600 screen size is KILLING me (the laptop display cracked, so I'm stuck on an external monitor, and maximum output is 800x600)
Plus, if I have to do any exchanges, it's best to keep everything at factory before sending it in. And I will definitely need to do that should I have any problems. So a factory SAPPIMG would be great. Know how to get ahold of one? Anyone?
Wow, 85 reads, no replies rather surprised, but a regular search on Google for the MyTouch SAPPIMG ROM pulled up a page here on xda...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533641
Is this REALLY the myTouch ROM? even if it's the one from before the "Work Email" app came as an OTA (COC1 is the build) that'd be fine, the phone will pull that later on and I don't use it anyway...
Any ideas on whether or not this particular "update.zip" style ROM will refresh me back if i get in a bind and break android? I'm putting some hope on it. According to what's in the rooting thread, the ION's radio ROM is the same as the myTouch's shipping radio, right? Other than that, the SPL is the only other thing that'd need replaced before doing a warranty exchange, so that's all that's left to "unroot" the device. Anyone have access to that, or have a way to dump it?
Allong the same line as this... I am in Japan on a DOCOMO HT-03. Doubt there is a rom avail around here... I havent gotten in to the rooting yet.. But can i use nandroid to creat a back up of my own(with all of my settings).. Or even Extract the orignal rom, to post here as a repository for anyone else...
Ok, so i did search before i posted this and i even looked through all 5 of the similar threads that popped up when i wrote the title for this one but none of them answers my question so i'm posting...
Background:
I'm pretty new to Android, got a Dell Streak back in Oct '10, and loved it. Rooted, put DJ_Steve's StreakDroid on yada yada... Broke my streaks screen and got an Inspire from my Best Buy warranty.
Now, to root this Inspire it seems its a LOT more involved... Making a gold card etc.
My question:
When you reformat the SD card, what happens to all the folders that are on it? Do they get recreated or are they gone for good? Are they even that important? I noticed some Adobe, Yahoo folders, which i assume can be re-created easily once the apps are reinstalled/opened back up but others on there like dcim, Android, Data, etc etc that look to be more important. Do i need to do anything special or just hit reformat? I'm looking at making my included SD card the gold card and taking my Streaks old 16GB card and using it for day-to-day use. So i guess i'm just looking for any "gotchas".
Thanks in advance to anyone who offers their help.
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Ok, so i did search before i posted this and i even looked through all 5 of the similar threads that popped up when i wrote the title for this one but none of them answers my question so i'm posting...
Background:
I'm pretty new to Android, got a Dell Streak back in Oct '10, and loved it. Rooted, put DJ_Steve's StreakDroid on yada yada... Broke my streaks screen and got an Inspire from my Best Buy warranty.
Now, to root this Inspire it seems its a LOT more involved... Making a gold card etc.
My question:
When you reformat the SD card, what happens to all the folders that are on it? Do they get recreated or are they gone for good? Are they even that important? I noticed some Adobe, Yahoo folders, which i assume can be re-created easily once the apps are reinstalled/opened back up but others on there like dcim, Android, Data, etc etc that look to be more important. Do i need to do anything special or just hit reformat? I'm looking at making my included SD card the gold card and taking my Streaks old 16GB card and using it for day-to-day use. So i guess i'm just looking for any "gotchas".
Thanks in advance to anyone who offers their help.
-D
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If any important data is in those folders, you should save them on your computer. For example, pictures in DCIM folder, music, videos.... or documents that you created..
While creating the gold card, the sd card will be formatted and you will lose all data.
After the phone is rooted, you can then format the card using the phone's "Format SD card" tool, and then use the card as normal.
All those folders will be recreated once those apps are installed.
Edit: Also, if you look in the Dev's section, there are tools that will help you with the whole process of rooting your phone.
Thanks Kirk! Yeah i've been reading up on the SuperOne Click and the Hacker Kit. Just trying to read and reread the stuff so i know what to expect. I'd like to watch the tutorial video for Super One Click but i'm at work and Youtube is blocked so i'll watch it at home tonight.
Just looking to see what one is easier and would give me the best chance of not royally screwing up my phone. I kinda get the gold card thing and what it does but seems so silly at the same time that i have to use an SD card and then put it away to use it for later if i decide i wanna go back to stock...
I guess the ease of hacking the Streak kinda spoiled me. Especially for my first Android phone
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Thanks Kirk! Yeah i've been reading up on the SuperOne Click and the Hacker Kit. Just trying to read and reread the stuff so i know what to expect. I'd like to watch the tutorial video for Super One Click but i'm at work and Youtube is blocked so i'll watch it at home tonight.
Just looking to see what one is easier and would give me the best chance of not royally screwing up my phone. I kinda get the gold card thing and what it does but seems so silly at the same time that i have to use an SD card and then put it away to use it for later if i decide i wanna go back to stock...
I guess the ease of hacking the Streak kinda spoiled me. Especially for my first Android phone
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Use a proxy site to be able to watch the video at your work place. Something like this --> http://www.proxeasy.com/webclient.aspx EDIT: Scratch that... This proxy site doesn't allow flash content unless you subscribe. Sorry. You can try other proxy sites
The inspire is my second android phone. I had the captivate and it was very easy to root. Prior to the captivate, I had the eyephone. So glad I went with an android phone. Sick and tired of the same UI with iphones.
Although the entire rooting process for the inspire seems overwhelming, it's actually pretty straight forward when you follow the instructions.
I haven't heard anyone "bricking" their inspire yet and if you get stuck in the rooting process, search the forums and you will most likely find your solution.
What route did you decide to use? The Hacker Kit or SuperOneClick?
Yeah i had a Captivate for about a month, it was just a loaner from AT&T until the Streak Come out. Previous to that i had the iPhone 3g as well. Hated playing in Steve's sandbox... and i abhor iTunes. I can't think of a bigger POS software.
I guess the Streak had its moments trying to root. I used the QDL tool which needed to be run through Fastboot with a couple commands. It was getting the damn Dell ABD driver running correctly on the PC which took the longest time.
Anyway, thanks for the info Kirk. I'll see if i can't get this thing cooked up tonight. I really wanna try CoreDroid, and get the battery life on this phone to a respectable level. If its just sitting in standby its ok, but as soon as you use it the percentages just tick away quite quickly.
MN_Evolution said:
What route did you decide to use? The Hacker Kit or SuperOneClick?
Yeah i had a Captivate for about a month, it was just a loaner from AT&T until the Streak Come out. Previous to that i had the iPhone 3g as well. Hated playing in Steve's sandbox... and i abhor iTunes. I can't think of a bigger POS software.
I guess the Streak had its moments trying to root. I used the QDL tool which needed to be run through Fastboot with a couple commands. It was getting the damn Dell ABD driver running correctly on the PC which took the longest time.
Anyway, thanks for the info Kirk. I'll see if i can't get this thing cooked up tonight. I really wanna try CoreDroid, and get the battery life on this phone to a respectable level. If its just sitting in standby its ok, but as soon as you use it the percentages just tick away quite quickly.
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I used the hack kit. Went ok. Had some slight issue when i tried to use a 1GB SD card that apparently is too small for a gold card. So, then I decided to just use the SD card that came with the phone and all went well!
I also have to agree with hating itunes... They keep cramming useless features and just makes the whole user experience a little less interesting.
Im glad that with android devices, you don't need any specific program to sync your stuff to the phone... Just plug in and done!
Basically my girlfriends evo shift has pretty much bitten the dust, the backlight on the screen only works sporadically and i really don't want to fuss with trying to replace the cable, I just want to return it to sprint and get a replacement handset for her ( I know it's EOL but we can't upgrade till next year hoping replacement wont cost too much). I've been cruising the forums as well as google, trying to find a way to get it back to stock from CM7, I have read all the forum threads about how to do it I'm just having a couple issues.
1. none of the links for the ruus or roms seem to work anymore, I'm not being able to reach multiupload, don't know if its the firewall here or if the site is just buggered, anyone have an alternative d/l site?
2. HTC sync can't find the phone, windows definitely finds it ok, but htc sync says no device is connected, any thoughts?
I'd appreciate any help/thoughts anyone might have, I have full protection on our handsets so if there might even be a way to just bypass this and get sprint to replace the handset, I'd be fine with that too, I've got her info backed up so I'm rearin to get this thing done.
* weird side note, we replaced her handset last year on the 11th of April going from palm pre to the shift because her pre's keyboard stopped working, she may be annually cursed..
*I failed and writing failed...
Here's the PG06IMG.zip ruu. Just put it on the root of your sd and boot into bootloader. This is the 2.2 ruu http://db.tt/l36imqH1
Sent from my PG06100 using Tapatalk
thanks much
Thanks much! my head was getting tired of being slammed into my desk.
Hi guys, I'm having a problem rooting an HTC Aria that I recently acquired, and I'm not sure how to search for my answer. I guess Ill try to explain what happen as best as I know, since some things happened so fast I have no idea exactly what happened. Its also worth mentioning that I have no experience rooting android phones, but I'm not an idiot, so please don't be afraid to help because you think Im gonna be waste of your time.
I used the tool unRevoked with Reflash to inflict the damage. Things seemed to be going great, in fact at one point it even said this was a triumph. Somewhere towards the very end, it looked as if it complained about not finding a file on the sd. It was so fast I couldn't read it because I was looking at the computer at that time. Im not surprised it didn't find the file it was looking for since I had no sd card installed. The tutorial/procedure that I read was very detailed, so detailed that he sometimes took a minute to make sure the reader knew to double click the file to open it, yet there was no mention of absolutely needing an sd card for it to work.
Now when I re-run reflash, when I get to the point where you have to choose HBoot USB, it wont ever let me pick it. It just forces me to pick Fastboot or one of the other ones, spits out several lines of green text that is way too fast to read, then gives you the option to pick HBoot again. It never leaves this menu now, not by way of reflash anyway. I can still unplug and reboot my phone , and operate it like normal, but reflash wont go past that recovery menu. I did a factory reset, that didn't help. I also picked recovery on that menu. I browsed the options, but Im afraid to make another move at this point without some input. If someone could please maybe tell me what happened and how to proceed I would be very grateful.
Thank you