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Stuck on "T-mobile G1" screen

I'm now stuck at the T-mobile G1 screen.
this is the first time this has happened to me.
I was running superD 1.10.2 but wanted to try a hero port.
I tried various hero roms and was stuck on the G1 screen every time
I tried going back to super d but I'm still stuck.
I've wiped between each flash.
It's not fully bricked cause I can still get to the recover screens by pressing home+power to boot and power+camera

When going back to SuperD did you flash the defanged base/Htc Recovery?

I don't know what that is so I don't think I did.
am I supposed to be flashing this in between roms?
I've never done so.

swee08315 said:
I don't know what that is so I don't think I did.
am I supposed to be flashing this in between roms?
I've never done so.
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Recently SuperD went legal, and as such it requires the htc recovery to have been flashed before it was. Not sure about your problems with hero roms

In that case, I don't think I need the defanged base/Htc Recovery because I've had the rom downloaded before it went legal.
and also: I've had this problem before with open ecclair. It would never boot.
but I was always able to flash back to super D for some reason.

update.
I tried some other roms,
I got BlueMagic and htc clays remix of csdi to both work.
but I still can't get back to superD

yeah man... for some reason when i tried a hero rom, and tried to go back to super d it didnt work so i just flashed super csdi. but idk what it is either
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what to do ???
hi
yes i know !!!!! but i have read ewery thing but i am still like a new born baby on slippery ice with a G1 in his hand.
IS MY G1 BRICKT ???
it turns on and pressing red phone and tracker ball makes it a pretty blue light and shats it brickt ??????
any chances fixing this ????
and YES i tried pushing every button incl the light button in the room dosent work.
and YES i f####t up a spl and radio i think i mixt the files up and thats the where i am right now.
I post this beacase you are professionals ate this and i am a maybe brickt amateur
any help is welcome
Hasse blom

Its not bricked
Hi this happend to me a couple months ago...heres my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655977 Follow what they told me to do and itll be fixed.

weird soft brick
hi
thanks for the reply !!!
problem is i am not a hacker or programer half of that i dident anderstand any chance you can wright a "save your android for dummies" for me that would be very helpful for me ??
yours
Hasse "the dummi" Blom

The blue light is for JTAG, which is basically a bunch of wires you can plug into the inside of your phone to get it working. Problem is, it's hardcore advanced and voids your warranty unreversably. If Camera+Power and Home+Power don't work, you may be out of luck.

Tony_SpaZ said:
The blue light is for JTAG, which is basically a bunch of wires you can plug into the inside of your phone to get it working. Problem is, it's hardcore advanced and voids your warranty unreversably. If Camera+Power and Home+Power don't work, you may be out of luck.
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Please don't talk about things you don't understand.
Blue light mode is NOT "for jtag". It is for SERIAL CONSOLE -- an interface that can be used for executing RADIO COMMANDS over RS232.
JTAG is used to HACK the blue light mode in order to enable MORE RADIO COMMANDS. Essentially, it escalates the PRIVILEGES of the serial console to the equivalent of ROOT.
Think of it like ROOTING YOUR RADIO.

blue light go red light stop ?!?!
Hi
thanks for all the support !!!
so basicly i am F###T with a big F !! i cant get in to boot loader or any thing with it
so there is no software like ruu tool or htc little back road program i can use with usb cable or any thing
seams strange that 1 F up and its curtains for a my G1
yours
Hasse Blom

[Q] I think i bricked my HTC Magic :(

I hope if anyone can help me as am really desperate right now, i think i bricked my htc magic or i dont know what i did exactly.
one of my friends rooted the phone for me to V2.1 i didnt like it has a shorter battery life than the cupcake so i tried to get back to cupcake 1.5, and am not an expert at all am just doing what i can see at the forums. i faced the problem E/can't open/sdcard/update.zip (bad)
was told to try another zip rom files. all was the same problem. then i found a file, but unfortunately it was something called SPL wasnt a rom. after i flashed it my phone now is switching on and freeze on the vodafone logo forever.
i tried like i saw on the forums to press on back+power but nothin home+power neither vol. down+power.
the same as well i can see the blue led light if i pressed on the trackball and the power but thats its.
i saw a lot of forums talking about the same exact problem, but didnt find any clear solution, the only one was pressing on back + power but i did that a lot of time but it didnt work at all,it keeps showing the vodafone logo and thats it, anyone has an idea how can we fix it or its unfixable or what ?!
any help will be much appreciated
Thank you

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ooka_22 said:
I hope if anyone can help me as am really desperate right now, i think i bricked my htc magic or i dont know what i did exactly.
one of my friends rooted the phone for me to V2.1 i didnt like it has a shorter battery life than the cupcake so i tried to get back to cupcake 1.5, and am not an expert at all am just doing what i can see at the forums. i faced the problem E/can't open/sdcard/update.zip (bad)
was told to try another zip rom files. all was the same problem. then i found a file, but unfortunately it was something called SPL wasnt a rom. after i flashed it my phone now is switching on and freeze on the vodafone logo forever.
i tried like i saw on the forums to press on back+power but nothin home+power neither vol. down+power.
the same as well i can see the blue led light if i pressed on the trackball and the power but thats its.
i saw a lot of forums talking about the same exact problem, but didnt find any clear solution, the only one was pressing on back + power but i did that a lot of time but it didnt work at all,it keeps showing the vodafone logo and thats it, anyone has an idea how can we fix it or its unfixable or what ?!
any help will be much appreciated
Thank you
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I'm not much of an expert myself. I've got the basics down of rooting and flashing, but try looking up a how to unroot guide for your phone. theunlockr.com has pretty good step-by-step video and text guides. I'm assuming you have the MT3G so try this page:
theunlockr .com/2009/08/22/how-to-unroot-your-mytouch-3g
After you unroot follow their rooting guide. Its very simple to do and only takes about a half hour to do.

ooka_22 said:
I hope if anyone can help me as am really desperate right now, i think i bricked my htc magic or i dont know what i did exactly.
one of my friends rooted the phone for me to V2.1 i didnt like it has a shorter battery life than the cupcake so i tried to get back to cupcake 1.5, and am not an expert at all am just doing what i can see at the forums. i faced the problem E/can't open/sdcard/update.zip (bad)
was told to try another zip rom files. all was the same problem. then i found a file, but unfortunately it was something called SPL wasnt a rom. after i flashed it my phone now is switching on and freeze on the vodafone logo forever.
i tried like i saw on the forums to press on back+power but nothin home+power neither vol. down+power.
the same as well i can see the blue led light if i pressed on the trackball and the power but thats its.
i saw a lot of forums talking about the same exact problem, but didnt find any clear solution, the only one was pressing on back + power but i did that a lot of time but it didnt work at all,it keeps showing the vodafone logo and thats it, anyone has an idea how can we fix it or its unfixable or what ?!
any help will be much appreciated
Thank you
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Yup. Sounds like a brick. If you update the SPL you better damn know which SPL you're flashing and if it's compatible with your device. I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Right SPL + Right Radio = Good device (99% of the time)
Wrong SPL + Right Radio = brick (60% of the time)
Wrong SPL + Wrong Radio = brick (99% of the time)
Right SPL + Wrong Radio = brick (60% of the time)
Do you see the pattern here?
In other words you NEED to make sure that you are flashing the appropriate SPL for your device and make sure that you have the right radio before flashing ANYTHING.
Now since it would appear that in your case you don't even have a clue of what SPL/Radio you had to begin with and you just blindly flash a random SPL, we don't even have a way of telling if you have a 32a or a 32b device. Not that it matters because if you cannot get into the bootloader or recovery then the only chance that I think that you have is looking up JTAG, tearing your device apart, soldering the test points and running the program. This would allow you to reflash your spl. However I suggest you try to do a warranty exchange because I wouldn't even waste my money on JTAG technique.
This is for the G1 so it would probably be a little different than the MT3G, but the concept should be the same.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048&highlight=jtag
but not everybody is so unlucky. take a look at this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=571457
so you never know.

Thank you
Really many many thanks for your reply, i really do appreciate it. i know that am a noob with what i did with my phone, i was just trying to get back to the cupcake. i never imagined that i could ruin everything just like that.
anyway u r right when u said that i know nothin about the radio and the SPL i started with, but i just noticed that the SPL named (Sapphire-signed), and my device is HTC Magic with vodafone 32a. but i dont know what sapphire is.
so i will give it a try with lookin for someone here who can help with tha Jtag thing, if not i will try to send it to be repaired. however i guess that the warranty doesnt cover such faults.
sorry for posting my thread at the wrong place.
Thanks for your time

I think I might have bricked. Please help me :(

So.. I had CM6.0.0 Stable running on my 32A HTC Magic. All fine and dandy. Then I saw the Smoki ROM and I decided I wanted to flash that, but only one problem. It required a different radio and SPL. So no problem, right? I flashed the required SPL and Radio through fastboot. Looks good right now! Then I turn off the phone and boot into recovery.. but wait.. it just doesn't boot into recovery and just decides to hang at the HTC Magic logo.
I no longer have a ROM installed since I wiped. So I can only go into fastboot. Is there any way I can fix this, or did I just brick the **** out of my phone?

Ok. So chill out. You can drop one of the old updates onto the SD card and then, after entering recovery mode, just update from SD.
This is also considering you have a clue what I'm talkin about lolz.. let me know, I'll try to help more.

webmastertroi said:
Ok. So chill out. You can drop one of the old updates onto the SD card and then, after entering recovery mode, just update from SD.
This is also considering you have a clue what I'm talkin about lolz.. let me know, I'll try to help more.
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That's the thing, I can't get into recovery. I can only get into fastboot.

BUMP I really need help, please...

Have you tried accessing recovery manually? By turning phone off, then powering on while pressing "Home" button..?
***Update: sorry, just reread your initial post. You've obviously tried that.. I'm trying to think of what else you can do..

Here, try this! Since you can get into boot loader mode, you should be able to reflash..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463779

Need help! gettin error and fone re-boot

i rooted my fone Htc magic 32B 2.2.1. installed the kernel from Rom manager. [email protected]#1[/B}]. after that when i unroot my fone from one click root app
i get this error /dev/block/mtdblock3 . i want to install gingerbread 2.3 in my htc magic 32B
i dont get this wat i did wrong cant go into recovery fone reboots while holding home+power/Endcall.. neither Reset mycellfone from main settings. i've to hold home, call back and end key to reset my cellfone
the main thing i want to know wat i did wrong is my fone bricked or im still able to do anythyg i dont know much about andriod stuff!
sori for the bad english
need some one to guide me please
HELLP NEED PLEASE

Read through this post:
If it doesn't fo in to recovery, then try flashing the recovery again, try this:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-custom-recovery-to-an-android-phone-device/
after flashing recovery read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909900
Also, for more help post your FastBoot information (see my sig)
Hope this helps.

[Q] mytouch 4g bootloop bricked? no recovery

Hi everyone I Have a mytouch 4g that was given to me stuck in a bootloop. I do not know the history of the phone the only thing I know is that its stuck in the bootloop. I can access HBoot but I can't go into recovery the phone just reboots itself and goes into the loop. Factory reset does not work either. I put the PD15IMG.zip and the blue bar goes up and the phone reboots and continues with its loop. I really need help I would hate for this phone to be stuck like this help is appreciated. I am willing to do instant message with someone skype, twitter, facebook what ever you're comfortable with I just need some help. I have searched all around and I cannot find a answer and all this new android stuff is overwhelming. I also tried to use adb with the noob method didnt work. Thanks in advance
GLACIER PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.86.0000
MICROP-0429
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Sep 27 2010, 11:12:59

Find the correct PD15IMG. It should be ~300MB in size.
Check MD5 sum on it.
Flash it in bootloader.
If it still bootloops - your phone is dead, and you should return it for replacement or warranty repair.

okay so last night it I told the phone to not update with the PD15IMG and the phone stopped rebooting but then a few hours later it shutoff and was back in the bootloop. So then I flashed it this time and stopped the reboot but I'll keep you posted.

so the phone still gets stuck in bootloop anytime it completely shuts off either by turning it off myself or pulling the battery. Is there anything else besides flashing PD15IMG

Cr8tiveDre said:
so the phone still gets stuck in bootloop anytime it completely shuts off either by turning it off myself or pulling the battery. Is there anything else besides flashing PD15IMG
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Well if the phone has never been rooted and you are having these problems, it should still be under warranty. Anyway to get it to HTC to get the warranty honored?

if it has a Sd card in it try to pull that then restart. that fixed mine..... worth a shot

I heard you need proof of purchase for the htc warranty so I'm not sure I will try though

Cr8tiveDre said:
I heard you need proof of purchase for the htc warranty so I'm not sure I will try though
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At this point it sounds like your only option, it's a paperweight currently.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA Premium App

Cr8tiveDre said:
I heard you need proof of purchase for the htc warranty so I'm not sure I will try though
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You don't. They can (and do) check the warranty eligibility by your phone's S/N.
Talking from experience - used the HTC warranty to exchange the bad screen for good one, having the phone second hand from eBay.

Cr8tiveDre said:
Hi everyone I Have a mytouch 4g that was given to me stuck in a bootloop. I do not know the history of the phone the only thing I know is that its stuck in the bootloop. I can access HBoot but I can't go into recovery the phone just reboots itself and goes into the loop. Factory reset does not work either. I put the PD15IMG.zip and the blue bar goes up and the phone reboots and continues with its loop. I really need help I would hate for this phone to be stuck like this help is appreciated. I am willing to do instant message with someone skype, twitter, facebook what ever you're comfortable with I just need some help. I have searched all around and I cannot find a answer and all this new android stuff is overwhelming. I also tried to use adb with the noob method didnt work. Thanks in advance
GLACIER PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.86.0000
MICROP-0429
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Sep 27 2010, 11:12:59
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I truly believe a phone could never be bricked with all the awesome info in the dev forum.... first .... LEARN ADB! and use it to install the latest CW recovery on your phone... next boot into recovery... volume down plus power at the same time.... choose recovery..... when you get to recovery... should be orange... wipe everything... factory wipe... cache wipe... go to advanced wipe dalvik and battery stats... go back and look for mounts and then format everything... cache, data, sdcard, system.... then plug in your usb cable to your computer and copy whatever rom you would like... i prefer doing footballs 2.2.1... that way i can re-root... ***make sure the rom is "PD15IMG.IMG"... then unmount.... go back a few in recovery until you see power down... then power down... pull battery... replace battery..... power into bootloader ( volume down and power button at the same time ) then sit back and let it do its magic... when it asks you to update... select yes.... let it do its thing..... that's it..... no more bricked phone..... enjoy and re-root.... but seriously..... read all the info in the dev section.... lots of really good stuff!

just realized that you have s=on..... so try just using the stock recovery to do what i suggested..... wiping everything and so on.... if still does not work..... really learn adb and fastboot by going through the dev forums..... good luck!

The link to guide for solving bootlooping/freezing MT4G or determining its death (and unluckily, most of those WILL be terminal cases and the phone WILL be determined as dead beyond any repair), is now in MyTouch 4G Wiki, under "Troubleshooting". The link to (updated and sorted) Wiki is in my signature.

did you tell them you bought the phone from eBay because i did to thinking the phone had a small problem but now it seems like a impossible one to fix.

Yes, I told them the phone was bought from eBay. It didn't matter to them at all.

So I'm sending my phone to HTC still have warranty on it. The hotline was no help so for ppl with a similar problem that doesn't know what to do call htc during the day do not call their repair hotline that is a waste of time just call the listed number for your carrier.