troubleshooting - G1 General

my phone is not starting in recovery mode but the phone is starting perfectly fine can somebody help me!!??

how are you "trying" to get into recovery mode?

im hitting the home and power button but it stays stuck on the g1 home screen

is the phone powered down (completely off) before you press both buttons at the same time while holding both until the g1 splash screen shows up?

yes its completly off it stays stuck on the g1 splash tough and when i power the phone normally it works fine

are you sure you are pressing both home (second to left button) and the power (far right button) at the same time and holding it till the g1 splash screen?
also try removing the battery and leaving it out for a little while after you power it down. then try again.
also is the phone plugged in as you are attempting to do this?

i tried all of that and no its not connected. i tried doing an update with jf updater and it would try getting root access but oncce again it would just freeze on the g1 splash

oh ic...
well you should stated that in your OP.
try re-flashing the build you want.
wipe before you do so for good measure.

how can i do that? if i cant get into the root screen? would i have to re root my phone again

well from what you've told me so far, sounds like there was a problem when or while you were updating through jf updater.
since i don't know exactly what you did or did not do to your phone.
just go ahead and re-root your phone using the dreaming file.
start from scratch.
that for sure will solve your problem.

what if its going straight to hboot mode when im pressing the camera+power button

when i turn the phone on pressing the camera+power button its taking me straight to the hboot mode

maguir13 said:
what if its going straight to hboot mode when im pressing the camera+power button
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what do you mean what if...?
if you are trying to re-root your phone then umm i would suggest you reading the guide step by step that is linked in the HERE link i have in my sig.

reflash your recovery image.

Definitely reflash. Something went haywire. Hopefully you don't need to get a new phone

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after rooting, cant enter recovery mode to nandroid backup

I have spent the last few hours searching. I flashed the recovery-ra-heroc and let it set for a few minutes, reboot recovery, and it just sits on the black screen with "HTC" I remove the battery, restart the phone while holding down the home button (yes, holding it down firmly, lol), and it just gives me the option to clear storage on my phone. I am really wanting to get a rom on my phone, speed it up. Yes, I used the search function on this forum. I really dont want to go back to the RUU and lose everything on my phone. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be extremely greatful!!!
I would try rooting it again and follow the process step by step. Sounds like something wasnt done in the process.
jtmercutio said:
I have spent the last few hours searching. I flashed the recovery-ra-heroc and let it set for a few minutes, reboot recovery, and it just sits on the black screen with "HTC" I remove the battery, restart the phone while holding down the home button (yes, holding it down firmly, lol), and it just gives me the option to clear storage on my phone. I am really wanting to get a rom on my phone, speed it up. Yes, I used the search function on this forum. I really dont want to go back to the RUU and lose everything on my phone. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be extremely greatful!!!
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Sounds like you should try to reflash recovery. I think you are only getting into fast boot. You aren't holding any other key with Home are you?
That sometimes happens to me...i just click on the green/call button to cancel n when the htc screen comes up i push Home n End...n hold it down..sometimes let go of it n push them again and it'll work...not sure,but i think this just happens with the newer recovery image.
no, not holding any other keys. I rooted a while back with the chuckrhizco (or whatever?) method, and had no issues. went back to stock to get ota update. I still have the old recovery image, think I will just try to flash that one.
just had an issue withthe other recovery image. Flashed the 1.2.3. and it worked, nandroid backing up now!

Home Button Broken (here is a fix)

If your G1/HTC dream's home button stops working, here is a fix (kinda). Whenever you turn your phone on it takes you to recovery (Home+Power=Recovery), here is a fix I found after an hour of Googling and ****.
Method number two got me back into my phone, but if it turns off I need to be at a computer using fastboot to turn it on.
It's better than nothing, Rogers is pissing me off. A week after the 1 year warranty and this breaks on me. Anyone know any permanent fixes or is it a hardware issue.
RichieDaze said:
I have the same problem with the home key being stuck after humidity entered my phone. Which boots me straight to recovery mode. I have managed to recover my phone with the following steps:
YOU MUST HAVE ADB AND FASTBOOT INSTALLED IN YOUR PC!!!
1) If your phone has the home button stuck, you can't update or confirm anything with the Cyanogen Recovery! Because you need the Home button to confirm. So you must revert your Recovery back to JF's Recovery to use the recovery properly in this case.
2) I have tried for weeks to make the system bypass the recovery and have succeeded. YOU MUST REBOOT YOUR PHONE FROM RECOVERY TO BOOTLOADER. So use ADB to reboot in to Bootloader mode ( adb shell reboot bootloader ). Now that your in Bootloader mode, use the FASTBOOT commands ( fastboot reboot ) and voila, it bypasses the recovery.Make a script on your Winbows or Linux to make it as easy as one click!
If I have helped, please say Hi to my Android or give me a link to a replacement Daughter board...
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I seem to have a similar problem.
But some how, it boots up properly once in a while. But even after it boots up, I cannot go anywhere except the home screen.
If the home button is stuck, this is expected right?
Dont you have this problem?
I suggest you take the phone apart and replace the broken button.
Another thing that might be a little EASIER (without actually *fixing* anything) is to write your boot.img into your RECOVERY partition. If you need recovery, you can always "fastboot boot recovery.img". Having the regular boot image in the recovery partition *should* make it boot normal with a stuck home button. This way you don't need fastboot to normal boot the thing.
I tried opening it.
I opened the screws on the back side. But I could not figure out how to get to the home button from inside.
For some reason, I can boot in properly. (It goes into recovery sometimes. But if I switch off and wait for sometime, I can boot normally.)
My main problem is that once I boot, I cant get anywhere from the main home screen.
smileey said:
I tried opening it.
I opened the screws on the back side. But I could not figure out how to get to the home button from inside.
For some reason, I can boot in properly. (It goes into recovery sometimes. But if I switch off and wait for sometime, I can boot normally.)
My main problem is that once I boot, I cant get anywhere from the main home screen.
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That makes sense, since as soon as you launch anything, the stuck home button will return you to home.
You may want to try harder to take it apart. You need to remove the circuit board in the "chin".
Do you know how to get access to the chin?
I could not figure that part.
When I opened the screws on the backside, I could not see anything that would lead me to the chin.
smileey said:
Do you know how to get access to the chin?
I could not figure that part.
When I opened the screws on the backside, I could not see anything that would lead me to the chin.
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Here's the service manual:
http://mikechannon.net/PDF Manuals/HTC Dream SM (A04).pdf
It will walk you through a complete disassembly and reassembly.
Thanks a ton!!
I will try and see if I can do something about the button
Is there a better way than opening up the phone? The home button on my G1 stopped working, so, I unrooted the phone, but now it's stuck on the Triangle/Exclamation point screen. I've been able to do Alt S, (Alt+w doesn't work, I think the w is also broken), but I can't reboot because it asks for home and back button to reboot. Any other suggestions?
Ok guys, this is not a pretty solution but what you can do is re-map your phone so the camera button acts as a home key and home key does nothing. It's a hack but it's a simple one and sure beats the hell out of replacing the whole phone.
Here's a thread with directions.
I tried remapping my home button to the camera button and once in the os it works, but still boots into recovery everytime and doesn't let me wipe, flash,etc with the camera button. It aborts....
Also, a quick tip I learned......If u keep booting into recovery just go to console and type reboot android. It'll boot normally.
Sent from my HTC Dream using XDA App
with the remapping the keys make sure you push all the .kl files and if you want to remove the home button from working at all remove the home button line from the .kl file.
You should also make sure that you re-map your home button to do nothing, otherwise it will not work.
Thank u jj972 for that quick tip atleast I can get out of recovery mode....

G1 home button is stuck!!

So somehow last night my home button got stuck or doesnt work or something because my phone wont boot up into android. it keeps booting into recovery. tried to reboot via the recovery menu and it just boots up right back into recovery.......is there a way of booting my phone up? any ideas?
May be your boot image is'nt readable / was damaged. In that case Android is going into recovery automatically.
well in the recovery menu i went down to power off and it says press home to confirm. i hit home and nothing happens. i think i may have wet my phone last nite. maybe that did it......is there anything i can do in adb?
jj972 said:
well in the recovery menu i went down to power off and it says press home to confirm. i hit home and nothing happens. i think i may have wet my phone last nite. maybe that did it......is there anything i can do in adb?
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Can you get into fastboot? If you delete your recovery.img then you should be forced into booting up normal even with home+power pressed. If that doesnt work you might need to take your phone apart and remove whatever is keeping it stuck.
damn mejorguille,
sry that i post it here but i looked through several threads and i always recognize you immediately because of your sig >.<
sometimes it's really annoying to be a normal man >.<
lolmensch -- yeah -- i have to skip past Mejorguilles posts so my kids dont see it...... then when they leave the room I go back and watch the banana-eatin-lady over and over again.... its distracting!
Couldn't you remap the home key then push it via fastboot?
Well after playing around I went into console via recovery and punched in reboot android and it boots up properly......but this morning seems like my home button finally unstuck inside or something cause it kept going home for about 2 mins and now works.....appreciate it though
Sent from my HTC Dream using XDA App
Simple bypass
Try this!

How to get out of Hboot with broken power button?

Hi guys,
So my Nexus One has suddenly become unresponsive to my touches
It'll boot up but wont respond via touch screen or trackball, so I can't unlock it or wake it after sleep.
It'll wake once plugged in.
ADB won't recognise it either.
The power button is broken, but I can get into HBoot by holding trackball (so it is working!) and putting the battery in and out.
Is there some way to go from HBoot to recovery so I can flash an old backup without the power button?
Or any other way to get into recovery?
Please don't let my baby die :'(
Thanks.
Oh and I think ADB isn't working because I have debugging disabled :X
My only current suggestion to to try to install Blackrose's hboot as you can select **** with the trackball instead of the powerbutton. From here you can boot into recovery like normal from hboot. I do not know of any command (if you can even enter any in) to reboot straight to recovery, my bad. But you say trackball is not working?
Can use the trackball to enter HBoot so it is working. It's just that neither the screen or the trackball work once the phone has booted up and at the lock screen.
Is there some .zip I can place on the SD card and then boot into HBoot which will automatically run and either take me to Recovery or factory reset?
EDIT: since the power button is broken I can't select any options in Hboot, only scroll through them using the volume keys.
Alright, I thought I had read this.
Going to try the passimg.zip trick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...des_&_Tutorials#Unroot_.2F_Restore_your_Nexus
Sweet that worked
Now have Froyo (brings back the memories...) Now to try a Nandroid back up.
Edit: Ok so that passimg.zip DOES unroot the phone too, so going to start the rooting process again.

Stuck in Boot Loop after Stock Restore

Stuck in a boot loop after attempting to restore my T-Mobile 801.
It boots up to the T-Mobile splash screen does its little ding a ling thing then 10 seconds later restarts the loop.
I used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
Any other ideas?
Looks like I got it, I did a factory reset on top of it and seems to be working again.
Can you tell me exactly what you did? I seem to be having a similar problem with the Verizon G2 and can't get anything working.
DeBuggz said:
Can you tell me exactly what you did? I seem to be having a similar problem with the Verizon G2 and can't get anything working.
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After I ran the factory flashing tool, the phone would boot loop (I think most likely because the settings and profile from the last rom wasn't reset by the tool.)
So what I did was use the factory recovery option in the phone by doing the following.
1. Power down the phone (Hold power for 15 Seconds)
2. Press and Hold Vol Down and Power
3. Quickly after seeing the LG logo release the power (while holding Vol Down still) then pressing and holding the power again. You should get a white screen asking if you want to reset your phone press Power to Confirm twice.
A little android pops up and does some work then reboots your phone. The phone should boot after that.

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