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Stuck at G1 screen - read everything I could find

I have read and tried anything I could think of here.
I have downloaded RC29
Extracted the file to SD ccard formated to FAT32
Started up in Bootloader
Phone found the file and successfully installed
Pressed action button to reboot.
Stays in Tri color screen
I have tried the soft reset, but I am still stuck at the G1 screen.
I am not new to flashing and recovery, only to the G1. What am I missing?

Does it reboot and return to the tri-color screen, or not reboot at all? Did you try taking the sd card out and then rebooting?

The same thing happened to me, I downloaded rc29 to root my phone so I did the rooting and then I wanted to install the JF Rc33 update so I tried rebooting in recoveyr mode to install the update and my phone just got stuck in the G1 logo. It works on normal reboot but not in tecovery mode or when I press camera & power it takes me to a white screen with green letters and the little green android guy..... how can I fix that? I want the jf update. Is there any way of installing it without having to use recovery mode? Or is there anyway to fix recovery mode?

danguyf,
Thanks.
I just redid the RC29 boot off the SD card. Just to rule out some more issues, I formatted the card again (512mb Sandisk).
As soon as I hit the action button, I get the tri color bootloader screen.
I have tried:
removing the SD card PRIOR to pressing the action button
removing the SD card PRIOR to a soft boot (call, end menu).
I have been using a fully charged battery.

wpr said:
danguyf,
Thanks.
I just redid the RC29 boot off the SD card. Just to rule out some more issues, I formatted the card again (512mb Sandisk).
As soon as I hit the action button, I get the tri color bootloader screen.
I have tried:
removing the SD card PRIOR to pressing the action button
removing the SD card PRIOR to a soft boot (call, end menu).
I have been using a fully charged battery.
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Looks like you dont have rootacces, try this http://www.multigesture.net/articles/t-mobile-g1-downgrade-rc30rc8-rooting-update-tutorial/

Thanks. Gotta learn a new OS!
I will give this a try in a few and report back.

Oke good luck !
You need a WM phone to make a Goldcard and Qmat 2.24 if you use Windows.

Ronnymes said:
Oke good luck !
You need a WM phone to make a Goldcard and Qmat 2.24 if you use Windows.
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Thanks. I might need more than luck.
What is Qmat 2.24? Boy I hate feeling stupid!

wpr said:
Thanks. I might need more than luck.
What is Qmat 2.24? Boy I hate feeling stupid!
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Try google

wpr said:
I have read and tried anything I could think of here.
I have downloaded RC29
Extracted the file to SD ccard formated to FAT32
Started up in Bootloader
Phone found the file and successfully installed
Pressed action button to reboot.
Stays in Tri color screen
I have tried the soft reset, but I am still stuck at the G1 screen.
I am not new to flashing and recovery, only to the G1. What am I missing?
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Just so we are clear, these are the steps you followed???
1. Format your phone's SD card to FAT32 mode:
* Hook your phone up to your computer using a USB cable and then wait for the notification to show up in your title bar of your phone.
* Click the notification, and then click "Mount".
* A new removable disk should show up on your computer. Right click it and select Format, and select FAT32 as the file system type.
2. Download and unzip the RC29 or RC7 image file. Copy the DREAMIMG.nbh file to the SD card. (RC29 for US, RC7 is for UK)
3. Turn the device power off.
4. Hold Camera button, and press Power button to entry bootloader mode. You should see a gray/white screen with instructions to flash your phone with the update on your SD card. If you don't see that, make sure you followed the instructions properly.
5. As per the on-screen instructions, press the Power button to start upgrade procedure. DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS.
6. After it is finished, perform the restart your phone.

The phone is not mine. It came in to us to recover. It came in frozen on the G1 screen, so I cannot perform these 2 steps:
* Hook your phone up to your computer using a USB cable and then wait for the notification to show up in your title bar of your phone.
* Click the notification, and then click "Mount".
It does charge via USB and AC.
It is now powered up and frozen, but XP does find the Android phone and it shows up as a disk drive in device manager.

First off, who froze it?
Secondly, does the phone get to the homescreen?

The user brought it in at the G1 screen.
That is as far as it gets in power up.

wpr said:
The user brought it in at the G1 screen.
That is as far as it gets in power up.
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i hope you have a computer and either an extra mini sdcard *1MB in size* handy, or a mini sd card reader handy.
format the card, fat32.
download the rom from here. *scroll down to downloads section and pick the appropriate one. rc-33 U.S. RC-9 U.K. ADP unbranded*
if it's already named update, transfer it to the card, if not rename it update, then transfer it to the card.
After it has been transferred.
place the card back into the phone. start the phone up holding home and end key till it enters the recovery mode.
you should see a list of commands with a leopard looking-like screen.
hit alt-w
then alt-s
after it is complete, hit back+home to reboot again.

Just wanted to follow up annd say thanks to everyone for the help. I did not get a chance to deal with it today, but I will post the outcome.

I have the same problam too.
I have JF 1.1 Holidey version and when I try to update it to jf1.5 it gets stuck on the G1 logo, I tried using differnet updates to and differnt sd cards
and even tried the JF updater and it dosent work, I'm a bit frustrated, my brother rooted the phone for and installed the RC29 rom and the JF rom,
it offered me a system holiday update awaile ago and when I updated it froze on the G1 logo after I waited a long time (about 45 min) I removed the battery and started the phone again.. then I saw about 35MB free space (before I had only 10MB) and I think that from that point it added the holiday but I'm not sure if it wasn't already before that.. I realy need your halp with this.. I can't find a way to boot my phone and start a bootloader..
p.s. I was able to get to the fast boot when I press the power + Camera but I don't know how to use it..

Follow the same directions in post 14 =)

Mikey1022 said:
Follow the same directions in post 14 =)
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I have a big problem!
MY G1 is still Frozen on G1 splash
I don't have access to the recovery mode (power+home), or fastboot mode (cam+power)...just show G1 logo...for hours!!!
Any idea?
I need to access to any mode to try to rescue my phone...
It is the second phone rooted by me, but I don't know what happened =(
thanks for the quickly answers!

No update
Mikey1022 said:
i hope you have a computer and either an extra mini sdcard *1MB in size* handy, or a mini sd card reader handy.
format the card, fat32.
download the rom from here. *scroll down to downloads section and pick the appropriate one. rc-33 U.S. RC-9 U.K. ADP unbranded*
if it's already named update, transfer it to the card, if not rename it update, then transfer it to the card.
After it has been transferred.
place the card back into the phone. start the phone up holding home and end key till it enters the recovery mode.
you should see a list of commands with a leopard looking-like screen.
hit alt-w
then alt-s
after it is complete, hit back+home to reboot again.
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And what about if the screen says:
Finding update package..
Opening update package..
E: Can`t open /sdcard/update.zip
(No such file or directory)
Installion aborted.

G1 homescreen freeze
Hi,
I have a G1, installed hero-rom from xda(Jacheroski 2.0). I found it pretty annoying because the phone was very slow etc. So i tried to go back to the almost original software.
1. started G1 in recovery mode(Home+power), alt+x, adb shell, #parted /dev/block/mmcblk0, mklabel msdos, Y, rm1, rm2, mkpartsfs, primary, fat32, 0, 8000(8 gb card), shut down G1.
Downloaded:
- Radio (from htc support)
- SPL (from xda)
- Rom (from htc support)
Copied those files to my SD.
2. started my G1 in recoverymode(Home+power), wipe, apply any zip from SD,
First installed Radio = succesful
Tried to install SPL:got an error in line.
So thought that I first need to reboot my G1(because of the radio)
I rebooted my G1. got a installation screen. then I restarted my G1 and wanted to go to recovery mode to install spl and rom. It was frozen on the homescreen. I can't do any thing. not recovery not the other one(camera+power)
Any advice?

[Q] Almost Bricked MT3G 32b Help Please

Okay so i had rerooted my MT3G after sometime of being left on stock android. I decided to make some adjustments on my device by editing the framework-res.apk. Problem is im running stock android and it just leaves me stuck on the second splash screen after reboot... It doesnt even show the Android screen... Its not bricked as i can go into recovery but i cant reflash the Froyo Ota because of error
Some information about device:
Sapphire PVT 32B Ship s-on G
Hboot-1.33.0013
Radio=2.22.28.25
And when I try to reflash the update it says
Assert failed:!less_than_int(1285103450), getprop("robuild.date.utc"))
E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip
(Status 7)
Everytime I try to reflash it gives me that screen, and i already did a factory reset and wiped cache partition
What should I do??? Note S-On, from official froyo ota, so I think other roms are out of the question.
Please help

Oh and I have access to recovery and fastboot/hboot.

Yay! You get to downgrade and reupdate to 2.2.1. I think I've already got instructions out to do so, give me just a minute to dig them up.
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1. If your using Windows, go to Control Panel->Folder Options->Make sure that "Hide known file extensions" is NOT checked.
2. Go here and download the "sappimg.nbh" and "update1.zip" through "update5.zip".
3. Put all the files on the root of your SD card (this means put them on your SD card but not in a folder).
4. With the phone off, boot into hboot by holding volume down+power.
5. A screen will come up, you'll see a few lines of text, then on the last line you should start seeing a progress bar in the upper right-hand corner. The phone is checking the sappimg file.
6. When the check is done, it'll ask you to hit action to continue (Action is pressing the trackball). Hit the trackball to continue.
7. You'll see a few more progress bars, then the phone will ask you to press "Action" to reboot, do as it says.
8. When you get to the Google activation screen, just turn the phone back off. (Or if you need the phone for SD card access, sign in, to do the next step, then power off)
9. Mount your SD card to the computer and rename "update1.zip" to "update.zip".
10. With the phone turned off, boot into recovery holding home+power until you see a triangle with an exclamation point and a phone. Hit home+power again to bring up the menu.
11. First select "Wipe data/factory reset" and then select "Apply update.zip from SD card".
12. Reboot and let the phone get to the Google activation screen again, then turn it off. (Again, if you need the phone for SD card access, sign in, to do the next step, then power off)
13. Mount your SD card to your computer again, delete the "update.zip" file and rename "update2.zip" to "update.zip".
14. Do steps #10-12 again.
15. Repeat steps #13 and #14 until you've flashed all of the updates, then reboot. Your back to 2.2.1.

That would be great. Thanks a ton.

Thanks a ton. I'll report later to see if it worked or not.

Yea so it doesn't let me get past the 5th step. Its not recognizing the sappimg provided. Its in the root directory so i don't know what the problem is...

Xiaoxion said:
Yea so it doesn't let me get past the 5th step. Its not recognizing the sappimg provided. Its in the root directory so i don't know what the problem is...
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Try formatting the SD card and putting only the files needed back on. Make sure you backup anything you want to keep.
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Xiaoxion said:
Yea so it doesn't let me get past the 5th step. Its not recognizing the sappimg provided. Its in the root directory so i don't know what the problem is...
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Yea try reformatting the card and make sure you safety remove USB device after copying the file over.
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Nope tried formatting and bought a new sdcard too. Still no go...

Xiaoxion said:
Nope tried formatting and bought a new sdcard too. Still no go...
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Have you tried using a card reader to transfer the file over?
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Yes I formated it to FAT which is the default. And I used a card reader to transfer the file over but it doesn't want to recognize my file. Keeps telling me no file or wrong file type... I used the default card which is SD and a Kensington sdcard as well... Should i format it to a different type?

Format to FAT32.

U8800 died !!

Hello, my u8800 just died..
i got a blue screen a couple of time and had to pull the battery.
now it is completely dead... ? how so?
it was running MIUI just fine and i just rebooted it and got a blue screen..

What happens if you press and hold Vol+,Vol- and Power?
Can you still get into Bootloader?
Bluescreen usually wipes the Bootloader, but you can fix that if you can still access it...
In case you lost all the data in Bootloader (pink screen), format the partition with FAT32, create a folder called "image" and copy the following files on there.
EMMCBOOT - http://www.mediafire.com/?lb6ifvgk72iru4a
AMSS.MBN - http://www.mediafire.com/?d6r45q6p5gew59v
Recovery.img - http://www.mediafire.com/?57njygc8oianjac
Boot.img - http://www.mediafire.com/?6d5i0714a7o9z97
If you can't access the Bootloader (pink screen), I'm afraid it's going back to warranty.

same thing happened to mine, still trying to fix it. managed to flash CWM recovery like that but now factory reseting leads me no where, of course, and restoring a backup from the sd didn't work either, all i get is a bootloop.
i'm so very lost please help, tell me what you need to know to help me

DON'T factory reset or restore a backup! Once you've had a blue screen, you CAN'T restore or factory reset a Rom.
You should flash a custom Rom directly. Just copy the Oxygen.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u8800oxygen/files/) in the root folder of the SD card and then wipe data, cache and dalvik cache.
Flash the new Rom by Selecting "install zip from SD" and select the Oxygen.zip archive, the installation process does everything else.

katu2006 said:
What happens if you press and hold Vol+,Vol- and Power?
Can you still get into Bootloader?
Bluescreen usually wipes the Bootloader, but you can fix that if you can still access it...
In case you lost all the data in Bootloader (pink screen), format the partition with FAT32, create a folder called "image" and copy the following files on there.
EMMCBOOT - http://www.mediafire.com/?lb6ifvgk72iru4a
AMSS.MBN - http://www.mediafire.com/?d6r45q6p5gew59v
Recovery.img - http://www.mediafire.com/?57njygc8oianjac
Boot.img - http://www.mediafire.com/?6d5i0714a7o9z97
If you can't access the Bootloader (pink screen), I'm afraid it's going back to warranty.
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Thanks GOD!
It was completely dead, but when i wake up this morning i got it on with bluescreen again, hooked it up with my pc and copied the files u linked.
now it seems MIUI is booting fine again!
but how come it got wiped in the first place?

Not sure to be honest...It's some sort of miscommunication between bootloader and Rom (kernel) and Huawei designed a fail-over mechanism that wipes the bootloader (screen becomes blue when this happens).
Anyway, glad to hear that you got it going again.

wow thanks katu2006 xD I just realised how stupid I was
you see this whole thing happened, I think, because I tried formatting a NTFS sd card I put in the phone. I wanted to put files bigger than 4GB in it...
so when I got the blue screen and then managed to boot into CWM recovery, all I had to do was flash a ROM, I knew that, but my internal sd card was wiped clean and I couldn't access it in my PC when I plugged the phone. then I just figured I should get another sd and put MIUI in it and then stick in the phone LOL it's working fine now, thanks a lot

Glad to hear that you problem was resolved as well.

I have the same problem with my U8800. And I follow your direction and I can log in to the Miui rom, but it has the notification "Blank SD card or unsupported file system" and ask me to format the SD card. But when I format the SD card, it change into the blue screen again in the next reboot time. What should I do.

balderhell said:
I have the same problem with my U8800. And I follow your direction and I can log in to the Miui rom, but it has the notification "Blank SD card or unsupported file system" and ask me to format the SD card. But when I format the SD card, it change into the blue screen again in the next reboot time. What should I do.
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OK, you should copy the SD Card contents to your computer, format it with FAT32, copy the folders back and then try to boot in Recovery and reinstall Miui again.

I also had such a problem. And as in your situation, my solution was to copy those files into 'image' folder. Though, blue-screen-trouble is still actual and we have to blame only huawei-guys
Is your IMEI allright? after some of theese operations, I had mine nulled.

OK, you should copy the SD Card contents to your computer, format it with FAT32, copy the folders back and then try to boot in Recovery and reinstall Miui again.
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Thanks for your advice; I have flash the new Miui rom, and I can format it normally. Now, my phone is ok.

so i have the same problem i just did wat u say the phone give me the ideos screen then restarts also cant get into bbotloader
iwas on 2.3.5 version the files r the same or others
thnx

Thanks Man
Thanks for tips Katu2006, i tried it as you said and it worked as well !!!
Now i know what do in future if blue screen shows up again ))

lobfredd said:
Thanks GOD!
It was completely dead, but when i wake up this morning i got it on with bluescreen again, hooked it up with my pc and copied the files u linked.
now it seems MIUI is booting fine again!
but how come it got wiped in the first place?
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i have downloaded the stuff you wrote and the blue screen don't appear not longer. but when i turn on the huawei it stays on for about 30 seconds and then the screen goes black. what did i do wrong?

katu2006 said:
DON'T factory reset or restore a backup! Once you've had a blue screen, you CAN'T restore or factory reset a Rom.
You should flash a custom Rom directly.
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I beg to differ - for me when I had a blue screen yesterday - tried everything other than reflash. In the end I pushed a clockworkmod backup to the internal sd card via adb, did a restore and problem solved.

lobfredd said:
Hello, my u8800 just died..
i got a blue screen a couple of time and had to pull the battery.
now it is completely dead... ? how so?
it was running MIUI just fine and i just rebooted it
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Same thing happened to my phone can't get into bootloader and no display even when i connect it charger or PC..
please help!
Thanx in Advance!

Blue screen
I was stuck with a blue screen for days after i formated the internal mem, i got stuck until I came across your post . downloaded the files to image folder and here i am with a working phone, thanks a million.

U8800 bricked and no access to pink screen

I have a U8800 Pro with the original 2.2.2 kernel.
I attempted today to update to 2.3.5 so that then I could take it to the newly released 4.0.3.
All these were done with the official Huwaei ROMs. (U8800%2B Android 2.3 V100R001C00B572G001)
I did a factory restore before I started the whole process just to be on the safe side as well.
Unfortunately during the second step of the process after the reboot the phone remains in the "Unpacking - Update Failed" state
I cannot go into the pink screen mode. I tried with removing the battery as well but even though I attempt to boot with Volume + power key pressed it still goes straight to the update process and the obvious error. Obviously I cannot access the internal SD card from my PC (does not show up on dmesg) so I can at least delete the dload directory
Is there a way to bypass this problem and go to pink screen mode ?
If I use an external SD card and put a ROM on that will it boot from that or it will still first access the internal SD card ?
Thanks is advance for any answers.

Try to put dload folder on a external sd and update again. I guess you cant access recovery right?

Try to turn on the phone in pink screen (Download Mode) without the SD CARD, I use that trick when the same problem attack my phone.

xolott said:
Try to turn on the phone in pink screen (Download Mode) without the SD CARD, I use that trick when the same problem attack my phone.
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He doesn't have access to pink screen.

TheJoker0 said:
Try to put dload folder on a external sd and update again. I guess you cant access recovery right?
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unfortunately no recovery or pink screen mode. Will try to use an external SD card

So, it worked?

TheJoker0 said:
So, it worked?
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Yeah it worked.
Used an external SD card to do the update and to phone booted without any trouble.
It seems the update file on the internal SD card must have been corrupted or not transferred correctly.
Still the inability to access to pink screen was quite scary. Serves me right for using the internal storage for something like this.

OK

[Q] bricked, cant recover on pink screen, not recognising update.app?

Hi guys, getting kinda desperate here, appreciate any advice.
I've been mucking around with my phone trying to install some of the mod roms from here, but always get stuck in an endless reboot sequence or on the 'huawei' screen. Havent been able to get CM10.1 or 7 installed and working.
I have followed the instructions, including the partition size mod....
This is not my current issue, however, just the background.I was at a loss so after giving up last night I tried to copy b162 to my sd card, but was read only for some reason - showed up as CD rom on my PC.
Out of desperation I formatted the sd (in CWM) and tried again, but couldnt even get CWM, only pink or blue screen.
Pink screen I tried copied recover.img to the one available drive on my PC (windows), no luck. It copies over, but will not enter CWM with vol up + power.
Went out and bought a card reader this AM, have tried to install the stock roms B162 and B136.
I can copy the .app files to the SD card (root/dload), but my phone when going to pink screen does not start updating, just stays in pink screen.
Have formatted the card in windows (fat32) checked for errors etc. Does anyone know if the 'allocation file unit' during formatting makes a difference? I have left it as standard at 32kb....
The current rom boots as far as the animated huawei (splashing stars thing) logo then cycles.
Cant get shell access with ADB on pink or blue screen.
Never really used linux but Im willing to try anything to save my phone.
I have some experience with microcontrollers and think there are some jtag pads on the back of the phone that might be useful but am reluctant to try this as I fear I will make things worse....
Many thanks in advance!

To add ? volume label important?
Just managed to get into the stock recovery screen, selected 'apply update from sdcard and got reply 'failed to mount /sdcard (no such file or directory).
I cant swap out the recovery.img file in the purple screen, I dont have acess to that part of the memory from purple screen, perhaps wrong version of android on previous install?
Was wondering if volume label should be something? I just left it blank, and have tried again as 'sdcard' still no luck.
Thanks again....
OK I did a factory reset from within the stock recovery sftward (couldnt even get this before) and it will now boot heh.
Oh well, thanks for listening! Will have another crack at aurora now =)

AucklandMatt said:
Just managed to get into the stock recovery screen, selected 'apply update from sdcard and got reply 'failed to mount /sdcard (no such file or directory).
I cant swap out the recovery.img file in the purple screen, I dont have acess to that part of the memory from purple screen, perhaps wrong version of android on previous install?
Was wondering if volume label should be something? I just left it blank, and have tried again as 'sdcard' still no luck.
Thanks again....
OK I did a factory reset from within the stock recovery sftward (couldnt even get this before) and it will now boot heh.
Oh well, thanks for listening! Will have another crack at aurora now =)
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so have you fixed ur phone sir ? tell me how to do that sir bcoz same problem here