I bought it yesterday from some guy on craigslist with a dead battery, but after chrarging it with my carger it would not boot, just the G1 screen. i can not enter the recovery menu, but the boot loader menu does work. Is there anything I can do? I tried reloading the rc29 Dreaimg.nbh, but won't boot. It has the pvt 32b and seeing as how that one is easier to root, I am hoping it's a random issue and not a rooting brick.
As a side note, I have searched. through millions of forums, google, and even my attic for answers. there is always people who get no recovery and no Boot loader screen, then there are those who can access both, but I have not heard of one who can access one witout the other.
did the guy tell u if it had been rooted? if so you can flash a custom recovery image
do you know how to use fastboot? if not have a look around and then try this:
try flashing cyanogens recovery image found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523558&highlight=recovery
hopefully this will allow you to do a wipe and flash a new image
if you cant do this give me a shout and il think of something else
The guy did not tell me it wouldn't work, he said it worked fine and then this happened. i traded him an old PSP I had laying around for it, so no big loss on my side. I have emailed him, but no response. Well, How would I type in those commands? Through the phone, or the PC? Thos directions are pretty unclear.
what happened when loading the Dreaimg.nbh
Did it successfully do it? It could take a while to boot afterwords so be patient.
find a guide to setting up fastboot.if ur running windows i cant help but if u run ubuntu or some other linux i can....
after setting up fastboot
boot into the spl by holding camera+power with the usb plugged in
and type the commands in on the computer (again just follow instructions on using fastboot)
its the 2nd set you should use, the ones with "fastboot clear...." etc
Oh thanks. I have jaunty installed on my other pc will see how that goes. The dreaimg.nbh file worked. No errors. Do I just restart with green+menu+red, or was I supposed to wait?
restarting should have been fine...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537508
you may find this useful when trying to set up fastboot in jaunty....
remember when you first plug the phone in to type "sudo adb enable-server"
then "adb devices" to make sure it is detected
the first command needs to be sudo whereas the other doesnt otherwise your device wont be detected
adding the line to bashrc didnt work for me so i tend to do it from within
~/androidsdk/tools/
and it works perfect
good luck
if u dont get a reply here i may not be looking at my computer, so u can email me or gtalk me on [email protected] and il always get it (tnx to my g1 )
I was successful in running all the fastboot/adb files in Windows, but while doing some more research, I don't think this phone was rooted. I am not getting the fastboot menu when I hit back button and my PC won't read the phone.
Last night I found out that after leaving it on for like 15-20 minutes it restarts, but after the second restart the phone died. It had been charging all day as I was using it. Seeing as how it was plugged into the PC. I am heading to a t-mobile store and am going to see if I can get a hold of an extra battery, not buy one mind you just ask "politely" to see one. Seems crazy, but I have a hunch it might be that my battery has gone dead. None of the nbh files I tried did anything except the rc30, that one caused my phone to start restarting, before it would stay on the g1 one for more than thirty minutes without a restart.
Sounds like its unrooted and stock but somehow has a corrupted rom.. It should be recoverable. Try the goldcard method to get RC30 on there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485364
I have been reading through that thread, but I have no idea how to actually use the goldcard that was generated. Anyone can help me through it seeing as I can not enter commands from my phone.
Ok I went to my Mac because dd command does not work under cygwin that well for me( I'm more familiar with terminals from ubuntu and OS X) Well I can't get the goldcard.img onto my micro sd card. I have been reading and no one seems to have any troubles other than actually generatiiong the gold card. I will report back after I finish the whole thread. Also they suggest an allocation size of 4096, but my sd card only gooes to 100* something.
ok, bad news, I just finished the gold card instaallation and put my sd card into my phone. Now it won't go to the bootloader. Too bad.
Good news. Yesterday I tried to boot it while placing the phone in a drawer and it booted to the recovery menu! I did not have an as card at all so there was nothing I could do so I tried to wipe everything and it finished, but it went back to where it was. I had left it in blue light mode all night. So last night I left it to try and redo what I had done, but it did not work. Atleast it goes back to the bootloader. Gold card did not work but I blame it on the CID number. I can't seem to get the right one. I'm looking though.
I realized what I did. I did not mess with it. I took the battery out last night an did not touch it till just now and it booted to the android screen then froze and restarted and went back to the G3 screen I'm going to leave it like this and see if it gets fixed by tomorrow. Than while booting try to get to the recovery menu. Hopefully it will fix the problems. I seriously think it might be the battery. Tmobile store did not have a spare one though.
Just a suggestion, may or may not work.. I got a new G1 the other day, and have rooted it, etc.. Mine did the same thing, on the G1 screen for hours, never left it.. Take the SD card out of it, and try to start it.. Mine would not load due to the partitioning, I had a 47mb ext2, a fat32, and another ext2 partition, which caused it to hang on the G1 screen.. If no luck there, this site is what helped me root mine, gives the files, and the steps.. http://www.getyourdroidon.com/wiki/index.php5?title=How_to_Root_your_G1
Just take the sd card and put it on your computer via an adapter or something to copy the files (Make sure it's formatted fat32)
If by some reason, my explanation above did work, use partition manager 9 to fix the card.
I booted it withoutth sd card, but same deal. Left it without the battery last night and got it to the recovery menu but would not find the update file. Ended up freezing on me so I went ahead and rebooted. Same deal. I guess I will try again tomorrow.
Phone booted up, was entering my log in info and it froze.... I'm still trying to fix this.
At this point, I would try to go completely back to a fresh OEM install, which I'm not sure you've done since you started to get access to Recovery.
Download the original T-mobile bootloader. Rename it to update.zip and copy it along with dreaimg.nbh to the SD card. Enter Recovery and alt-s to install the bootloader... reboot using Home+Back. It will probably lock up at some point as it's been doing. Turn off the phone and get into bootloader to flash dreaimg.nbh.
Report back after you do this.
So I wiped my phone and applied a TMO 1.6 rooted rom (http://db.androidspin.com/android_b...droid_developer_id=&NumberOfReleases=10&go=go). I then applied The expansion pack then rebooted with home+back. When the phone rebooted it cannot get passed an image of a package and an arrow towards a phone. When I remove the battery then replace it the phone turns off. When I plug the battery back it it wakes up and tries to resume the install process. I feel like I could fix the problem if the phone was not stuck at the install screen, but it is.
I tried booting with camera held down and dreaimg.nbh on the sd card but I get the same results.
What can I do about this?
Did you try to boot into recovery (Home + On)? From here it should be possible to apply the rom again.
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So I wiped my phone and applied a TMO 1.6 rooted rom (http://db.androidspin.com/android_b...droid_developer_id=&NumberOfReleases=10&go=go). I then applied The expansion pack then rebooted with home+back. When the phone rebooted it cannot get passed an image of a package and an arrow towards a phone. When I remove the battery then replace it the phone turns off. When I plug the battery back it it wakes up and tries to resume the install process. I feel like I could fix the problem if the phone was not stuck at the install screen, but it is.
I tried booting with camera held down and dreaimg.nbh on the sd card but I get the same results.
What can I do about this?
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Seems like you lost root access and might even have a brickm, but anyway is fastboot working for you? Maybe you can get adb working if recovery or fastboot are working.
Recovery mode and fast boot both do not work. Everytime I turn the phone on it remembers that it was installing a rom and stalls at some point.
Is it worth the time to figure out how to setup adb or do those two signs above show that even adb wont work?
I just partitioned my SD card and flashed a new rom (RunnyBliss HybriD) tonight. Everything was working fine, I just reinstalled all of my apps and everything was perfect. I went to unplug my phone from the computer (which was on charge only) and just unplugged it. After that, all of the apps I downloaded were gone and the home screen pages that I just setup were gone. I decided to reboot and see what happens and to my surprise it wouldnt boot back up. It is stuck at the white "htc evo 4g" screen. I tried to boot into recovery and it vibrates 3 times and then does nothing. I assume that the phone was actually in USB mode and I corrupted the usb by removing it without ejecting it. Long story short, I have an Evo that doesn't work and I dont know what to do. My computer wont recognize it so I cant access the SD card. Please help.
Correction: If I press volume down I can get into hboot. What do I do from here?
try to install a recovery via the bootloader
How would I do this?
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Correction: If I press volume down I can get into hboot. What do I do from here?
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I'm kind of new to this but, in HBOOT there should be a recovery option, select that and recover the latest backup.
EDIT: If Recovery doesn't load then I'm at a lose, sorry.
I figured it out. I got a new micro usb and placed AmonRA on it and then booted into recovery, then went to usb mode and dropped a new rom on it and flashed. Big bam all fixed
So, the other day I was excited to see the TWRP update to 2.0. I've enjoyed the TWRP 1.x line for quite a while so I figured, why not? Then the troubles started. As that post of mine says, I cleared up the initial SD issues (not able to mount in recovery) with the "fastboot oem enableqxdm 0" command. I reverted it to TWRP 1.1.1. It still boot loops (both the recovery or system) quite often, requiring another enableqxdm and reflash the recovery. Each time I reboot, I have to cross as many fingers I can find the house and hope it gets through to the system. I had to go through 12 hours at work without my trusty phone to occupy my down time. Talk about grueling! Then I get home, turn it on so I could do some more fastboot magic, but missed the volume-down in time. It boots right into the ROM that time (not the 14 times I tried at work!.
Now, when it does successfully boot into the ROM (jaredthegreat's ICS Alpha 2.3) the notification bar is forever saying "Preparing SD Card." It ran all night and still wasn't done "checking" for errors. I have another 1GB SD card I tried, just to make sure it wasn't my normal one, and it does the same thing. I have formatted it (with Panasonic's SDFormatter) a few times, and still no luck.
I don't quite understand how flashing a ROM (even if it goes bad) would overwrite the phone's own settings (like enableqxdm) or cause this sporadic boot looping. I have been reluctant to flash another ROM, but I think it's the only thing I haven't tried.
Does anyone have any other insight into the how/why, or something else to try to get the SD card to work in the system, past this "preparing" stage?
So as to confuse myself even more, I have found that I can get past my boot-loop problem by just plugging in a USB cord. Whether it's my AC charger or my computer, for whatever reason, it needs a cord plugged in to get past the white initial EVO boot logo.
Now to work on the SD issue. I have read that deleting the fsck_msdos bin from the phone "fixes" it, but I haven't gotten my Windows adb to recognize my phone when it has any ICS ROM yet. Is it an HTC Sync/Driver issue or Android issue?
Sounds like you need to go with the ics-deck-pa8 ROM
hey i've been using the ressurection remix rom for the past year or so, and in the past 1 month my phone started to get really buggy[random restarts and stuff].
and suddenly my phone got shut off and icant boot it up, i get the ressurection animtaions boot up but sometimes the phone keeps turning off and back on into the boot up animations and sometime it just takes forever to actually boot up [like, it never boots up but keeps doing the animations forever].
now i cant turn on my phone anymore, any sulotions? btw i can get to xrecovery but idk what to do in there to fix the issue.
Flash a ROM. In the worst case it's a hardware issue which means you will have to replace the phone.
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Flash a ROM. In the worst case it's a hardware issue which means you will have to replace the phone.
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problem is that i cant open my phone so i cant put a new rom into it to flash it.
is there any other way to do it ?
Your phone should be recognized by a PC while in recovery.
Or you can use a card reader to transfer the ROM zip to the microSD card.