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Hey everyone,
I am writing this because a day of research and playing about with my phone has resulted in nothing.
I recently rooted my G1 european (UK) phone and ended up with the JesusFreke build absolutely no problems...
Today I updated to the latest radio and SPL (again, no problems) and went to put on the Virtudude Roger's mod first and it froze on the splash screen, so I reverted back to original Android, rooted again and went back to JesusFreke's build.
This time I tried Cyanogen mod, which also freezes on the splash screen.
I have tried going to both these builds straight from Android 1.0 or from the JesusFreke build with no success - it just freezes on the splash screen every time.
Anyone have any advice? Maybe theres something I'm doing wrong on the way?! I use recovery mode to format and load the flash images on
So much thanks in advance!
After rooting the phone and then putting it on JesusFreke's build, you were trying to update the radio and SPL with the 2.22.19.26I radio and the 1.33.2005 SPL (Haykuro's "special" SPL - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=517593)?
You do risk bricking your G1 with this SPL, but if you follow the directions in the thread exactly, you should be fine (do this at your own risk).
Also, make sure to do a wipe (Alt+W) in recovery before you try to apply (Alt+S) the build update.zip.
Nickizzle said:
Hey everyone,
I am writing this because a day of research and playing about with my phone has resulted in nothing.
I recently rooted my G1 european (UK) phone and ended up with the JesusFreke build absolutely no problems...
Today I updated to the latest radio and SPL (again, no problems) and went to put on the Virtudude Roger's mod first and it froze on the splash screen, so I reverted back to original Android, rooted again and went back to JesusFreke's build.
This time I tried Cyanogen mod, which also freezes on the splash screen.
I have tried going to both these builds straight from Android 1.0 or from the JesusFreke build with no success - it just freezes on the splash screen every time.
Anyone have any advice? Maybe theres something I'm doing wrong on the way?! I use recovery mode to format and load the flash images on
So much thanks in advance!
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What SPL do you have? Are you wiping before you update?
Thanks for the great advice, I was actually following the instructions you provided and have 1.33.2005 SPL.
I just had no idea why it wasn't working, but I have now sorted it...
I put on the recovery utility from JFv1.43, format/flashed the image for Virtudude, restarted and then just left the house for a couple of hours whilst it was on the splash screen....just came back and it had booted in fine.
Now it boots fine every time (does take a few minutes to boot but worth it!)
So, all sorted now - again, so much thanks for the help - I honestly thought it was because I had an EU model or something like that; unfortunately, searching the forums for "EU" or "UK" doesn't bring up much because of the minimum character limit!!
Hi,
Already posted part of the situation in Amon_RA's recovery thread but neither of the answers there seem to solve my problems. Decided to post it here since the problem seems to involve aspects other than the recovery itself.
Here's the complete situation:
Had problems with RA recovery freezes since the start and with different versions. I could (and can) enter recovery mode (v1.6.2), scroll down the options but after 15 seconds the recovery just freezes and reboots every single time. Checked the version (H) and the MD5, they where all correct. Tried cm-recovery-1.4-32A and it seems to work fine but when I flash a ROM (1.6) I have similar problems with the ROM (freeze+reboot in "touch droid setup"). Curiously I flashed my hero 2.0.5 (1.5) and had no problems...
Tried booting the latest RA recovery trough fast-boot and it worked fine the first two times I did it (scrolled down the options for like 10 minutes and it didn't freeze). After that it did not work and got the freezes+rebooting problem back again. Tried ADB, Flash-rec and flashed the recovery but got the freeze+reboot problem once again. Re-checked the version and MD5 and they where all correct.
Why does this happen? Any clues?
Thanks for your help!
I'm kind of lost here...Could it be a radio or SPL problem? Should I re-flash/update it? I never had problems with the stock ROM so this situation is really odd...
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!
strange... try some random methods here lol (I don't know if they'll work though but it can't hurt)
First, try flashing an ENG SPL, see if that makes a diff
If that fails, try flashing a whole new ROM/RADIO/SPL
for example: Since you're a 32A user, I believe you can flash the 6.35.x radio and the 1.76.2007 SPL and then use the hero recovery. Test out a rom on the new radio for like a day and try out the recovery. See if that freezes! (This doesn't really accomplish much though because even if it doesn't freeze, i think you'll wanna go back to the old radio to try out other roms lol. You risk bricking your phone if you don't understand this stuff so don't do it if that's the case)
But anyways, I'm a bit confused. What rom are u using?
noroses said:
Hi,
Tried cm-recovery-1.4-32A and it seems to work fine but when I flash a ROM (1.6) I have similar problems with the ROM (freeze+reboot in "touch droid setup"). Curiously I flashed my hero 2.0.5 (1.5) and had no problems...
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So you can use the recovery fine, until you flash a rom? So when you flash a rom, your recovery beings to freeze. But when you flash a different rom, your recovery works fine? Weird. Sounds like a problem when you're flashing a rom...
I have no idea dude but what I would do if I was in your situation:
1) Flash ENG SPL, something like 1.33.0010 (double check everything, i dont like advising people to play with their spl/radio so dont just take my word)
2) load up recovery and give it a try! if all that fails...
3) I'd backup your phone via nandroid in recovery (i pray that it doesn't freeze lol)
4) Wipe wipe wipe
5) Go into fastboot, fastboot erase system -w and then try another rom! And if the rom is good, then go back to your old one. Try to find out what the prob is.
It appears that you're able to flash roms still even with your recovery freezing (so weird) so I dunno. Just give it a try I guess lol
very weird indeed.... question.. does this do this when plugged in as well as on battery? ive heard of some really weird issues with bad batteries....
i would try what kawata recommended as well.. kind of just a process of elimination...
hopefully you dont have a hardware issue..
Hi,
strange... try some random methods here lol (I don't know if they'll work though but it can't hurt)
First, try flashing an ENG SPL, see if that makes a diff
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Will try this. Can I flash the SPL trough the recovery?
If that fails, try flashing a whole new ROM/RADIO/SPL
for example: Since you're a 32A user, I believe you can flash the 6.35.x radio and the 1.76.2007 SPL and then use the hero recovery. Test out a rom on the new radio for like a day and try out the recovery. See if that freezes! (This doesn't really accomplish much though because even if it doesn't freeze, i think you'll wanna go back to the old radio to try out other roms lol. You risk bricking your phone if you don't understand this stuff so don't do it if that's the case)
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Will have to check and recheck this complex process.
But anyways, I'm a bit confused. What rom are u using?
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Now I'm using stock 1.5. I tried cyanogen, superD and other 1.6 Roms and they all freezed at the android setup process. Used myhero for a week with no problems whatsoever. Since I have a nandroid backup done with CM's recovery I restore everything back as it was.
So you can use the recovery fine, until you flash a rom? So when you flash a rom, your recovery beings to freeze. But when you flash a different rom, your recovery works fine? Weird. Sounds like a problem when you're flashing a rom...
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The Amon_Ra recovery freezes every time. It doesn't give me enough time to do anything...Now I'm using CM's recovery and I have no freezing problems while in recovery mode. The problem is after I flash a Rom and reboot. The ROM experiences freezing problems (just like the Amon_Ra's recovery).
Thank you for your answer and suggestions!
digitaljeff said:
very weird indeed.... question.. does this do this when plugged in as well as on battery? ive heard of some really weird issues with bad batteries....
i would try what kawata recommended as well.. kind of just a process of elimination...
hopefully you dont have a hardware issue..
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Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
I have never tried with the phone plugged into a socket but did it with the phone running on battery and connected via usb to the computer. Should it make a difference?
Could it be a hardware problem? I never had problems with the stock ROM or with the myhero ROM...
it could be hardware...
if you want to flash to new radio and spl please follow this guide to the T or else you will get a brick, you cannot flash radio and spl via recovery.
so...
follow this guide and all will be good... must have adb ....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=605239
digitaljeff said:
it could be hardware...
if you want to flash to new radio and spl please follow this guide to the T or else you will get a brick, you cannot flash radio and spl via recovery.
so...
follow this guide and all will be good... must have adb ....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=605239
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Checked that guide but I'm unsure about this part:
If you do not have an Engineering SPL, download 1.33.2010 and flash through recovery before starting this procedure. Flash the SPL update.zip like any other update.zip file.
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This part I can do within the recovery to enable flashing via fast-boot right?
yup you can flash the eng spl via recovery ... i should have been more specific and said you cant flash new radio and spl via recovery
for the new radio,spl and recovery you do through fastboot
good luck
digitaljeff said:
yup you can flash the eng spl via recovery ... i should have been more specific and said you cant flash new radio and spl via recovery
for the new radio,spl and recovery you do through fastboot
good luck
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Will try that tomorrow.
Thanks for your help!
digitaljeff said:
very weird indeed.... question.. does this do this when plugged in as well as on battery? ive heard of some really weird issues with bad batteries....
i would try what kawata recommended as well.. kind of just a process of elimination...
hopefully you dont have a hardware issue..
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Hi again,
Still didn't mess with SPL and Radio. I'm still afraid I'll brick the phone..However yesterday tried a few simple things like using another sd card or entering recovery while plugged in. These two things seem to influence the behavior of the latest Amon_RA recovery but don't solve my problem completely. Example: When I enter recovery using the original SD card (2gb) the recovery would freeze within 20 secs max. Using another SD card (128mb) most of the times it would take longer to freeze (4 or 5 minutes). Sometimes it would not freeze at all. Although this seemed to influence what happened it wasn't constant and could not find a pattern. The same with the phone plugged into computer. Sometimes it helped. One thing is certain: with the original SD card and unplugged from the computer the recovery freezes within 20 secs every single time.
With the CM 1.4 recovery never had any freeze problems. It seems to work great while in recovery mode. The problem is after a flash a ROM I have freeze problems with the ROM itself (tried different ROM's, CM, SuperD, etc and got the same freeze problem). The only Rom that worked fine was myhero 2.0.5.
This is a very strange situation and I'm starting to think that this could be hardware..
Would that be a SD card problem?
try using another SD card and see if the problem still occurs
I am having exactly the same problem, did you ever find a solution?
Went from a fully updated magic 32A (1.76.0009H) now i'm at 1.76.0008
UPDATE: I just found that the hero recovery works (I would post link but xda doesn't allow new users to do that) however it may still be necessary to downgrade radio and spl
I had also same problem. My device is Magic 32A radio 6.35. Solution was to reflash recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img.
Hi guys, hopefully I'm not in too much trouble here, I seem to have flashed my radio improperly... I'm using the Rogers Magic+ w/ Amon_RA recovery 1.7.
Here were my steps:
- Started on the Old Radio (I switched to it using the Radio Switcher batch file from this forum)
- Decided to go back to the New Radio
- Flashed ONLY the new radio 6.35.10.18 in fastboot (not changing anything else, it didn't occur to me I needed to change hboot etc as well :S) In other words, I'm on radio 6.35.10.18, but HBOOT 1.33.2010
- Tried to boot into Recovery, but my phone kept rebooting
- Booted into fastboot and ran the Radio Switcher batch to do it properly this time
- Radio was sent fine, but now my phone is stuck writing the radio (at 90%). It's just sitting there right now for 5+ minutes, I don't want to reboot in case I do more damage
What should I do? How can I safely restart the radio switch process?
Thanks guys!
*phew* disaster averted it seems...
I had to remove the battery, but then booted back into fastboot successfully. From there I re-ran the radio switcher batch and it successfully completed all operations.
Then I could boot into recovery and install a new rom. Here's hoping everything still works properly :S
Just in case anyone else reads this and wonders - DON'T FLASH THE RADIO WITHOUT FLASHING THE CORRECT HBOOT AS WELL! Unless you're 1000% sure of what you're doing, use the Radio Switch tool to remove any guessword!
Moved to General since it's not about ROM Development.
Hey, long time reader and modder and this is the 1st time I've had a problem with a Mytouch 3g, tried to flash the updated radio image (not allowed to post link as a I'm a new member)
But now it turns itself on and after 5 seconds it restarts again!
I'm running CM6 and I'm worried I may have screwed it (it's not my MT3G, it's my bros).
Tried to downgrade it back to the original radio but it isn't taking that either!
Please help!
At least tell us what SPL and Radio you were running before and after the update.
keinengel said:
At least tell us what SPL and Radio you were running before and after the update.
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My apologies - I was running radio 2.22.19.26I, with the stock 32B Vodaphone SPL HBOOT-1.33.0004
I can tell the radio HAS flashed because it states it being 2.22.23.02 and there is no middle ground when it comes to flashing radios; it's either on or not. when the phone turns on for 5 seconds it also states that it has signal, then shuts itself down and starts again.
I knew I shouldn't have tried flashing a radio - I have flashed tons of roms to this thing in its lifetime but never a radio.
Hi,
I am not all that new to rooting / flashing i've had a lot of experience but i think i've made a school boy error.
I rooted a HTC Magic last night and added the 1.5 Hero Rom.
this morning i looked for a later ROM and i found one from the unlockr.
the issue with this was that it required a radio flash. My 32B Magic is now flashed to 32A and i cannot even get into recovery mode OR re-flash the radio.img i had originally through fastboot.
Upon boot the Magic just comes up with the Mytouch 3G spash screen and nothing else.
Details:
Rooted using gold card method, fine.
Hero rom installed: fine.
Updating the ROM however, the radio was flashed to 32A and now i cannot get back into recovery mode.
Is there anything i can do? has anyone seen this before? I really don't want to keep using the motorola dext, sorting this magic out will make me happy.
Please help.
thanks.
you cant go in fastboot mode???
[edit]No, I can get to fastboot, i can get the opening my touch splash up but nothing is working from there. i've tried the arab rom but i can't get my pc to recognize. there has to be a way to flash this back...
[edit] update - Attempted to flash stock 32B Radio to get rid of the 32A that i think's causing the issue - fastboot flash radio.img... Sends radio OK but hangs on Writing radio, I get a black screen on the device. didn't work.
I don't want to ruin the mood any more than it is now, but I did practically the same thing; flashed 32B radio onto 32A Magic, and it was unrepairable in my country. Sold it for parts a few weeks later and got another one.
No fastboot, no boot at all, nothing. All that I was able to get was the blue led mode (trackball + power), and the only repair method was JTAG, which wasn't available to me.
That sucks.
From what I can gather this very well might be dead but everything I can find tells me as long as i can get into fastboot there must be something i can do.
At the moment I can use fastboot and HBOOT but i'm unable to get to a recovery or flash a stock radio.
so far i've tried every recovery/radio i can get my hands on. Hope i'm missing something and somebody is able to help.
flashing 32B to 32A does make me feel a bit spastic to be honest. it's a mistake I can never repeat with anything!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754565
Try posting your thread again in the correct section.
EDIT: Tis the season and junk. I was about to move this to the TRASH but I took pity on you. I moved your thread to the correct section but the next new post that you create in the Development section that isn't related to development will be trashed. Final warning.
Appreciated, My bad. It's been a long and overly tiring day.
Info if it helps:
Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)
RADIO-6.35.16.19
Tried flashing official rom, nothing.
I got ID Failed, same when i try usinb sappimg in hboot.
radio now half installs but failes on ID.
Felt i'd add to this in case anyone has any ideas.
cheers.
Hi,
I recommend that you download this switcher (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794450&highlight=eyegor). Only to use the files (HBOOT, RADIO and REVOVERY), again ONLY because of the files.
After download reboot on fastboot mode and flash: HBOOT, RADIO and RECOVERY, using this sequence.
Good luck,
I'm not sure if this will deal with 32B Magic that's been flashed to 32A but i'll give it a shot. thanks.
Unfortunately there was no luck with that or the Arabic RRU, The GUI Switcher method to flash the radio failed, now phone won't even turn on.
If it wasn't a brick before, it sure as hell is now. i'll chalk this one up as a mistake i think and just be more careful in future.