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[Q] I Need Help With Dell Streak

Hello
I am new here and was wondering if someone could tell me what to do or what I did wrong.
I rooted my phone and put a custom rom on my phone by modaco. When I reboot the phone it will not go pass the dell logo. I followed all the instuctions at the unlockr.com. Followed all the videos.
Can someone tell me if I need to take something off or redo it. I am able to get into the fastboot mode and into the clockwork mod recovery v1.8.1.7 and see all the files and upload files to my sd card if I need to take them out and add through my card on my pc.
I am wondering if I did a step wrong. I also tried to go back to the stock rom and cannot get there because my phone won't boot.
I don't think it is bricked. I think I just made a mistake by skipping a step.
Thank you for your help.

khernden69 said:
Hello
I am new here and was wondering if someone could tell me what to do or what I did wrong.
I rooted my phone and put a custom rom on my phone by modaco. When I reboot the phone it will not go pass the dell logo. I followed all the instuctions at the unlockr.com. Followed all the videos.
Can someone tell me if I need to take something off or redo it. I am able to get into the fastboot mode and into the clockwork mod recovery v1.8.1.7 and see all the files and upload files to my sd card if I need to take them out and add through my card on my pc.
I am wondering if I did a step wrong. I also tried to go back to the stock rom and cannot get there because my phone won't boot.
I don't think it is bricked. I think I just made a mistake by skipping a step.
Thank you for your help.
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The phone was working and I started to get some errors so I turned my phone back off and have not been able to get passed this dell logo when I turned it back on.

You could try reflashing it I suppose, if if that doesn't work and it's very new you might be able to convince Dell to exchange it as faulty

This is NOT a hardware fault!
Please have a look at this forum:
http://android.modaco.com/category/436/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/
where you will find answers to ALL your questions.
Success.

Why isn't this a sticky, it's not irrelevant as people still keep doing things they shouldn't
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=759951

Troute said:
You could try reflashing it I suppose, if if that doesn't work and it's very new you might be able to convince Dell to exchange it as faulty
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Thank you. I just called Dell Yesterday and I am getting a new one sent. The phone wouldn't even do a factory reset. She said that they have been having problems with them.

Techneut said:
This is NOT a hardware fault!
Please have a look at this forum:
http://android.modaco.com/category/436/dell-streak-streak-modaco-com/
where you will find answers to ALL your questions.
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Thank you for your help. Getting a new one from Dell.

Need a little help restoring/Flashing my streak

Hey guys,
Im not new to flashing roms etc,
but this is the first time i have so much trouble with it.
I read the streak how to PDF and followed the instructions on installing superboot.
when i installed superboot, the phone reset itself, and when it turns on, the dell logo shows up and the "home and menu" led starts flashing on and off and the restarts again.
I tried following the instuctions on how to restore the phone, but none of it worked. i specifically followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805112
and when i try to flash the update.pkg, i get an error at the end about the boot bin or something like that.
anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!

I heard something about a QDL tool i could use...not sure what that is and i couldnt find an exact answer searching the forums.
any help would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: found a guide on using the QDL tool, im going to try it now wish me luck lol

If u got yours from best buy u need to use QDL. Read carefully and just do as it says

thanks for the tip, it is indeed the best buy exclusive white one....running qdl as we speak

ok everything is good now!
i just need to figure out why when i try to install dj steves rom it gives me
"failed to verify signature"

ok so now i am having a hard time rooting the phone.
I am using the android 2.2 provided from QDL and am trying to root via universal androot which isnt working for me.
any other ways i can root?
note: im using a best buy dell streak

If you are updating to his 1.6 then you dont need to root it.
It it pre-rooted

thanks, I figured it out.
It turns out that the "how to pdf" (while an amazing guide) linked me to outdated versions of the the recovery which is why it would not work.
everything is working now,
running steves 1.6 and loving life. Thanks every one for your help!!!!!

MarcMaiden said:
Hey guys,
Im not new to flashing roms etc,
but this is the first time i have so much trouble with it.
I read the streak how to PDF and followed the instructions on installing superboot.
when i installed superboot, the phone reset itself, and when it turns on, the dell logo shows up and the "home and menu" led starts flashing on and off and the restarts again.
I tried following the instuctions on how to restore the phone, but none of it worked. i specifically followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805112
and when i try to flash the update.pkg, i get an error at the end about the boot bin or something like that.
anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
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Not Android Development
Please Post in the Correct Forums
Moving to General

ok so I try to load a Update.pkg file and i get the following error message.
FOTA model name mismatched
what is the FOTA?

NO Recovery will work on the Streak!

Hi, I am trying to load Steven's ROM on here, I got the device rooted but everytime I try to get Clockwork or even StreakMod recovery, it doesn't work. I usually do custom ROMs for all my friend's Android phones (EVO, Eris, Incredible, Aria, etc) and none are as much of a pain as the Streak. The only other one I have done before had the same problem where I flash recovery in fastboot, pull the battery, reboot into recovery and I get to the Dell recovery. I choose the update.pkg and I get the black screen. I tried the 2 versions in the Clockwork thread, 3 versions in the streak .pdf posted on here, and the StreakMod version. All do the SAME THING!
I would appreciate a little bit of direction if someone could help me. The phone is an ATT Streak running 1.6 build 6601. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: The only thing I thought of was updating it to 2.1 and than trying?? Should I do that?

I assume youre using qdl repair tool? Did u put the recovery file in the qdl directory. I just wanna make sure.

p00kienrayray said:
I assume youre using qdl repair tool? Did u put the recovery file in the qdl directory. I just wanna make sure.
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No, I wasn't. I am just using command prompt and doing the commands manually.

Are you able to successfully install from QDL? If so, then you need to fastboot the recovery files. QDL will overwrite whatever recovery you have in it.

Try using qdl if u can my dude. If it doesnt work, then come back here. Qdl makes everything easy.
P.s. When u choose update.pkg, u get to a blank black screen? Theres no picture at all?

Just read this...
http://android.modaco.com/content/d...24010/warning-white-dell-streak-is-different/
I didn't know the color mattered but this is a white one. Got QDL installed and setup and ran it as it is and it might still be doing someone on the phone but it's been at the Dell logo for a while. It also wouldn't take my recovery.img - I put it in the images folder and it said it couldn't flash it. Ugh, this is so annoying.

Did u follow the tutorial from the streakdroid site? Installed correct drivers? Thats a common problem. And did qdl say that it failed?
Also with qdl, u put the recovery after qdl succeeds.
I have the white one and qdl failed twice. I just restarted the process and it went thru the 3rd time.
Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk

p00kienrayray said:
Did u follow the tutorial from the streakdroid site? Installed correct drivers? Thats a common problem. And did qdl say that it failed?
Also with qdl, u put the recovery after qdl succeeds.
I have the white one and qdl failed twice. I just restarted the process and it went thru the 3rd time.
Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk
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I got it to work through QDL, finally. I followed everything but finally found a .zip with official Froyo 2.2 in .img formats and threw that into the images folder and it flashed and worked. I gave it back to my friend that way cause she needed it back. I will trt getting clockwork on there another time. Thanks alot everyone!

Cool so right now its running 2.2 with stock recovery? Its pretty easy to flash a custom recovery after that. Just make sure the recovery file is in the qdl directory and run the command in fastboot.

dell streak boots into stock recovery image after successful recover image flash

Ok, so I recently bought a used dell streak off of a friend, and although I like it, I don't like dell's ROM, so my main goal here is to install a custom rom.(Specifically, streakdroid 2.0.0). I was able to root my phone, however I am having issues flashing the recovery image,to get to installing the custom rom. I have tried using rom manager to install clockwork, and when I do it says it installs fine, but when I tell it to reboot into clockwork, the phone just boots up normally into android.When I boot using power + vol up + vol down, it just boots into the stock recovery image. I have also tried using fastboot to flash the recovery image using the clockwork recovery image for the dell streak. The command line says the flash was completed, yet again when I boot into the recovery image it is still the dell streak stock recovery image. I also renamed the file: system/ect/install-recovery.sh to system/ect/install-recovery.sh.bak , following another post's advice, still no luck. I have spent several hours looking on forums on how to fix it, and can't find anyone with this problem on the dell streak. I have also tried to find a way to install a custom ROM without using a recovery image, but haven't been able to do that either. Any help at all would be greatly, greatly appreciated, even a possible tip to point me in the right direction.
For some more info about my phone, I do believe that it might be a corporate edition, I don't know if that would effect anything or not, the other details are as follows:
Model Number : Dell Streak
Android version: 2.2.2
Baseband version: GAUSB1A135100-US
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9-perf
OEM Version: GAUSB1A135100
Build number : 15609

Custom Recovery – Prevent Overwriting on Dell Streak

I already tried the advice given on that link. I can't even get into the custom recovery image even one time.

Also I meant to post this under the Q & A forum, if it's possible for someone to move this post, I'd appreciate it.

damoshemeister said:
I already tried the advice given on that link. I can't even get into the custom recovery image even one time.
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Rename install-recovery.sh before you install the custom recovery. If the phone boots even once the recovery is over written with the stock recovery if you don't.
Also - there are a bunch of posts that state that ROM Manger does not work on the Streak.

I have also tried using adb to flash the recovery image after renaming the file and immediately booting into the recovery image after installing. Still same issue. Also without even renaming that file, I believe I am still supposed to be able to access the custom recovery image one time.

You do have to enter the stock recovery to get into ClockworkMod or StreakMod. It's what you do after you get into stock recovery that takes you into CM or SM.
Rather than tell you how to do it, I will tell you to READ those guides posted above for the answer. If you don't want to do that, then you should stop messing with something you don't understand before you brick your new toy! The Streak doesn't root, recover, or update ROMs like other Android devices.

Ok, while I did have legitimate issues with rom manager it turns out I had a misunderstanding of how to install streamod,as you pointed out. Please forgive me, I was pouring over a ton of information in a very short amount of time, including being completely new to android, how to install apks from a pc, jailbreaking, using adb fastboot to flash images, all for the first time. I didn't realize you had to update from within the stock recovery image to install streakmod. I appreciate your help allot. I was able to successfully install streakdroid like I wanted, wouldn't have been able to do it without your help. Thanks again.

Glad to see you got it up and going. I can understand your frustration. The first time I played with my Streak I bricked it and took it to someone to fix and he didn't know much more than I did about it.
When I got it back unfixed, I spent several days reading and now consider myself fairly proficient in the art of flashing, although I haven't made any steps into cooking up my own ROMS or all the other technical stuff that goes with what these unselfish guys go through for us.
Have fun!!

damoshemeister said:
Ok, while I did have legitimate issues with rom manager it turns out I had a misunderstanding of how to install streamod,as you pointed out. Please forgive me, I was pouring over a ton of information in a very short amount of time, including being completely new to android, how to install apks from a pc, jailbreaking, using adb fastboot to flash images, all for the first time. I didn't realize you had to update from within the stock recovery image to install streakmod. I appreciate your help allot. I was able to successfully install streakdroid like I wanted, wouldn't have been able to do it without your help. Thanks again.
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Sorry to have been so tough on you. That's the only way to get people to UNDERSTAND what they are doing to their devices. Now that you found it on your own, you will remember it. You also stumbled onto some other info that may not pertain to your situation now, but you will remember seeing it in the future when you need it!
Here is another concise guide that is excellent and a short read:
http://forum.pocketables.net/showthread.php?t=8715
Good Luck!
kraz

Yea, I definitely understand where you guys are coming from. I do like to try to figure stuff out on my own, and did spend some considerable time reading before I posted on this forum. You guys gave the exact help I was looking for, just a nudge in the right direction. Knowledgeable people can save newbs like me hours in frustration.What threw me off was partially bad luck, but definitely due to incomplete understanding as well. It was the combination of rom manager not working , and me not properly understanding how to install streakmod that led to me thinking it had something to do with the bootloader blocking the recovery image from being flashed. I thought I was gonna end up having to flash the bootloader but definitely didn't want to do this as that would have been very vulnerable to bricking. I read the basics on the different images, and what they did before I tried anything. I did end up at one point with my streak not being able to boot, or update from an update.pkg but since I knew I didn't touch the bootloader, I knew I should be able to get it up and running again. THanks for the link, I will definitely read it.

did u try
flash the clockworkmod or the other recovery image. when the flash was done, it will boot the dell streak, meanwhile, press vol up and down, boot into the recovery mood again, I mean NEVER let the streak boot into the rom afte u flash the image.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App

marvin02 said:
Rename install-recovery.sh before you install the custom recovery. If the phone boots even once the recovery is over written with the stock recovery if you don't.
Also - there are a bunch of posts that state that ROM Manger does not work on the Streak.
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what do i rename " install-recovery.sh " to?
thanks

I renamed mine to "install-recovery.sh.bak", but I have seen "do-not-install-recovery.sh". In other words, you can rename it to whatever you want.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
I renamed mine to "install-recovery.sh.bak", but I have seen "do-not-install-recovery.sh". In other words, you can rename it to whatever you want.
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every time i try to rename it i get a failed message. any other suggestions? thanks for the help in advanced

You have to mount the internal SD as R/W, it's in R/O it sounds like

trucutu62 said:
every time i try to rename it i get a failed message. any other suggestions? thanks for the help in advanced
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As noted by the post just prior to this one, the system partition is read-only. You need to change it temporarily to read-write using a file manager that can do the job. I used Super Manager, but there are plenty of root file manager apps on the Market that can do the job.

Whats Wrong with my fone? someone please help

i hope im posting this in the right place, ive never really messed with forums before, but anyways
ive done everything there is to do to get a custom rom on my streak (StreakDroid) including the whole flash recovery, when i do that it all seems like its working, but when i go to where you are supposed to install the streakdroid (when you turn your phone on with both volumes ect) soo when i get the screen with the blue letters, its tottally different it says something like "insert a SD card containing an update file(/sdcard/update.pkg and the only choice it gives me is press up on the volume to turn device off. BTW i did already had the streakdroid on my sd card. someone please HELP me
if this helps i have a Dell Streak from AT&T
V 2.2
Baseband Ver. 2.6.32.9-perf
OEM Ver. GAUSB1A135331
Build 15697
Thanks

Sounds like this might help.
You may also want to read this.

i already know all of this, but thanks for trying, i cant root it eather, i forgot to mention, it keeps failing, and ive tryed all versions of oneclick

Do this - you do not need root to use that method and is you read the previous links I posted you will figure out how to use StreakMod Recovery even if you aren't rooted.

I got same problem when I installed custom rom at very first time from stock 2.2.
Do this if still can boot to stock rom..
1) Rooting with Gingerbreak.apk , this will work..
2) After rooting done, use R.E and change one file in the system as this file automatically blocked custom recovery when reboot so your problem happened... your DS5 still booted on stock recovery even already flashed StreakMod recovery...
Read this.
3) After modifying one system file then flash StreakMod recovery then you can continue....
Hope this can help you.

i tried that too, but like ive said when i first made this post, when i go into streakmode (when i turn it on with both volume bottons ect) and go into mode after that all i get is something like for an emergency restore blah blah , idk whats wrong, ive done the streakmod right and still,

i have att 2.2 rom it wont allow me to install other source apks

Regarding the issues faced by the OP on this thread:
1. If you are seeing mention of an update file when trying to access StreakMod Recovery, then you let the Streak boot regularly once you installed StreakMod, rather than immediately booting into StreakMod Recovery. If you let the Streak boot normally, StreakMod Recovery gets overwritten. If you're trying to install StreakDroid, then you need to hold down volume down and up as soon as you finish flashing StreakMod Recovery via Fastboot to use it.
Custom ROMs do not have the problem with recovery images being overwritten.
2. The recommended method of rooting a Streak is to flash StreakMod Recovery and then flashing Superuser.zip through it. One click rooting methods are not 100% reliable. The OP is attempting to flash a custom ROM, which doesn't require flashing Superuser.zip. It DOES require flashing StreakMod Recovery.
3. AT&T was supposed to permit sideloading on newer AT&T ROMs. Go to Settings>Applications and make sure "Unknown Sources" is checked. If the option is not present in the ROM, then either the ROM must be changed or a PC application such as the Sideload Wonder Machine must be used.
OP, you were attempting to change the ROM to StreakDroid. Did you change your mind?

@Strephon Alkhalikoi man, just when i thought all hope was lost, your 1. step did it all thank you sooooooo much for finally having my problem solved
also thanks to marvin02 and androidunia for trying to help me, i appreciate it

Hit the thanks button next to my post, Marvin's post, and androidunia's post if we helped out.

taylorgang809 said:
@Strephon Alkhalikoi man, just when i thought all hope was lost, your 1. step did it all thank you sooooooo much for finally having my problem solved
also thanks to marvin02 and androidunia for trying to help me, i appreciate it
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Gee - the same info was available from my first post in this thread. All you had to do was click on a link and actually read. If you had you would have had the answer less then an hour after your OP.

marvin02 said:
Gee - the same info was available from my first post in this thread. All you had to do was click on a link and actually read. If you had you would have had the answer less then an hour after your OP.
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+1......right !