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Dream rooting gone wrong

So, after following this forum on and off over the past few months, I finally decided to root my Rogers Dream.
I was one of the first customers to receive a phone with SPL 1.33.0010, as mine was shipped to me directly from rogers as a hardware upgrade. Because of this, rooting was a little more difficult for me than I had initially anticipated, however, after having found this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=558301), I was able to downgrade to SPL 1.33.2005.
From this point, I started following the instructions found here: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_G1/Dream_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod. I was able to re-flash the downgraded OS, and rebooted to a T-mobile G1 splash screen. After going through the various steps, I got stuck where it said to reboot into recovery mode. I held down the home key while powering up, as instructed, but instead of booting to the recovery screen, I was greeted with an image of an exclamation point inside a triangle, hovering over a cartoon of a G1.
I was able to reboot using the 3 fingered salute (send-menu-power), but I was unable to load the recovery screen. I then attempted to bring up the boot loader by holding down the camera button while powering on. The screen I was greeted with did not resemble the boot loader I was used to seeing. It is composed of four horizontal coloured bars, and lists the phone information as follows:
DREA210 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
Sep 2 2008
I'm looking for suggestions on how I should proceed from here. Any help would be most appreciated. Although the phone does make phone calls, and will send and receive text messages, it will not send or receive data, unless connected to wifi.
Thanks,
Grant

So I'm a little rusty but let me give it a shot. While holding home + power it may seem to just get stuck after a minute, but have you tried pressing alt + L ? This makes the recovery text visable (if it's not by default).
hope this helps..

Looks like you've ended up on the stock g1 bootloader.. did you flash the rc29 DREAIMG?

goldenarmZ said:
Looks like you've ended up on the stock g1 bootloader.. did you flash the rc29 DREAIMG?
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Yes. The phone thinks it's a T-mobile G1, but it still works with my Rogers SIM.

sonikamd said:
So I'm a little rusty but let me give it a shot. While holding home + power it may seem to just get stuck after a minute, but have you tried pressing alt + L ? This makes the recovery text visable (if it's not by default).
hope this helps..
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I did this, and the recovery text did indeed become visible, however, I now have a new problem.
I hit Alt+W as per the instructions in the wiki, and it reset the phone. I then hit Alt+A, and nothing happens.
This is the text I see on the screen when I'm in recovery mode:
Androind system recovery utility
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/com
mand
Home+Back - reboot system now
Alt+L - toggle log text display
Alt+S - apply sdcard:update.zip
Alt+W - wipe data/factory reset
After attempting Alt+A, I hit Alt+S, just to see what would happen. Of course, it tried to update from package, but returned an error because there is no "update.zip" on the phone. I'm tempted to rename "update-cm-4.2.5-signed.zip" as "update.zip", just to see what happens. I'll post again once I've done this, but any suggestions from more experienced people would be most appreciated.
Grant
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_G1/Dream_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod

Alright, so I renamed "update-cm-4.2.5-signed.zip" as "update.zip", and it aborted the installation because there was no signature. I did the same thing with "signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip", with the same result.

It sounds like you still have the stock recovery image

jackslim said:
It sounds like you still have the stock recovery image
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When you say stock recovery image, are you referring to the one I have installed on the phone already, or the one I'm trying to install with no success?
The image currently on the phone is the DREAIMG.nbh (rc29), which I downloaded via the wiki. The images I am trying to load also came from links in the wiki.

By recovery I'm refering to what you access when you boot with home + power where you can apply your updates (where you're seeing your triangle & exclamation point)
I just looked at cyanogen's wiki and it seems like that particular part could stand to be updated androidandme has a decent guide on how you could do this though.
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-root-a-t-mobile-g1-and-mytouch-3g-android-phone/
I'm not sure if flashrec works with RC29 which is what version you should be on after flashing DREAIMG.nbh, but you can give parts A1, A2, & A3 a shot, that would probably be the easiest way to update your recovery. If you can't get flashrec to work skip down to B2 and that will show you how to do it using telnet which does work from RC29
Once you update you're recovery image you should be able to apply "update.zip" or without renaming them by selecting the "apply any zip from sd" option

Thanks, Jackslim. I did as you suggested, and was able to install the CM update, as per the wiki, however, when it boots up, it shows the blue cyanogen android, and then reverts to a completely blank screen. I'm going to try reinstalling everything to see if that fixes it. Thanks for your help though.

gmupps said:
Thanks, Jackslim. I did as you suggested, and was able to install the CM update, as per the wiki, however, when it boots up, it shows the blue cyanogen android, and then reverts to a completely blank screen. I'm going to try reinstalling everything to see if that fixes it. Thanks for your help though.
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After you install that recovery image you still have to go through the steps to install the ADP image before you add the cyangen update, then you should be cookin' with crisco
So just start back up on cyanogen's wiki from the section called "File Download"

Just to clarify, even though it is not booting up properly, I am now able to install whatever I want using recovery mode, so it's just a matter of figuring out what will work. Thanks again for all your help.

jackslim said:
After you install that recovery image you still have to go through the steps to install the ADP image before you add the cyangen update, then you should be cookin' with crisco
So just start back up on cyanogen's wiki from the section called "File Download"
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I did get it working, thanks. Now I just have to reload all my contacts and apps, but I have already noticed a difference in device responsiveness. It's like going from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Thanks again.

G1 stuck in recovery, unable to flash

I'm a newbie with this phone that need some pro point me to the right direction. I have a G1 with unknown history, all it doing now is when turn on, after G1 logo, it go straight to recovery mode. I tried Alt+L and Alt+w to factory reset but it doesn't help. I followed other thread and tried to install Download HTC Dream Image 1.6 but getting the following error
Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E: No signature (412 files)
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted
on top of the screen it show Android system recovery <2e>
I been googling but was overwhelm with all different rom and instructions.
and I can't get the phone to enter bootloader mode when press Camera + power, it just go straight to recovery mode.

abcchoier said:
I'm a newbie with this phone that need some pro point me to the right direction. I have a G1 with unknown history, all it doing now is when turn on, after G1 logo, it go straight to recovery mode. I tried Alt+L and Alt+w to factory reset but it doesn't help. I followed other thread and tried to install Download HTC Dream Image 1.6 but getting the following error
Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E: No signature (412 files)
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted
on top of the screen it show Android system recovery <2e>
I been googling but was overwhelm with all different rom and instructions.
and I can't get the phone to enter bootloader mode when press Camera + power, it just go straight to recovery mode.
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something's wrong with the image file you're trying to install. From the looks of it, the files aren't signed, so the phone won't install it.
I'm assuming you're looking for the official 1.6 image and you have a regular g1, not a ADP1 so...
look around the forums here, someone reuploaded those files since htc pulled them down from their website.
Be aware that if you just install the official 1.6 image, the recovery menu is gonna be gone. Or at least it was for me when i did. You're gonna have to reinstall the recovery menu if you use just the official image, without any other roms like CM.

Do I need to install this Dream 1.6 image first or fix SPL since I can't get to bootloader? How can I flash Radio and SPL if I can't get to bootloader mode?

abcchoier said:
Do I need to install this Dream 1.6 image first or fix SPL since I can't get to bootloader? How can I flash Radio and SPL if I can't get to bootloader mode?
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Follow this guide if you have a Tmobile G1

jamesrdorn said:
Follow this guide if you have a Tmobile G1
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thanks for the response. I followed the step but stuck at step 4. Whe I hold the camera button and select reboot option, after phone reboot, it go back to the recovery screen, no grey screen at all.

ahhh!
abcchoier said:
thanks for the response. I followed the step but stuck at step 4. Whe I hold the camera button and select reboot option, after phone reboot, it go back to the recovery screen, no grey screen at all.
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did you ever find a fix?? i'm having the same problem

Your Home key isn't stuck is it? If you only press Back while you're in recovery, does the phone reboot, or do you HAVE to press Home + Back? It's a longshot, but that would be an epic facepalm if I may say so myself.

Im pretty much having this same problem, i cant even get into shell via adb, I get a "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)" error. another error that i am getting is the E:Can't read MISC: (no space on device) in the recovery console, and i read that the MISC partition contains boot information. i would really like to find a solution to this as i have been looking for a few months now.

abcchoier said:
I'm a newbie with this phone that need some pro point me to the right direction. I have a G1 with unknown history, all it doing now is when turn on, after G1 logo, it go straight to recovery mode. I tried Alt+L and Alt+w to factory reset but it doesn't help. I followed other thread and tried to install Download HTC Dream Image 1.6 but getting the following error
Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E: No signature (412 files)
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted
on top of the screen it show Android system recovery <2e>
I been googling but was overwhelm with all different rom and instructions.
and I can't get the phone to enter bootloader mode when press Camera + power, it just go straight to recovery mode.
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i have the same problem and i try to unbrick but i dont see the grey screen ethir....it took me to system recovery again.....how can u solve this?

Hi,
I have the same problem. My DREA110 HTC G1 T-MOBILE (UK) phone shows me an EXCLAMATION mark in a triangle form.
When i press ALT - L it shows me ANDROID SYSTEM RECOVERY 2E menu with 4 options
reboot system now HOME BACK
apply sdcard:update.zip ALT S
wipe data/factory reset ALT W
wipe cache partition
these are tried so far.
1-I have rebooted phone using 1 option in menu but got same error message.
2-downloaded Android 1.0 RC33 from here (http code google com/p/android-roms/wiki/Unbrick) and renamed as update.zip and put into a FAT32 formatted 2gb memory card and used apply sdcard:update.zip option but received error messages below
E:CAN'T MOUNT /DEV/BLOCK/MMCBLK0P1
(OR /DEV/BLOCK/MMCBLK0
(NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY)
E:CAN'T MOUNT SDCARD:UPDATE.ZIP
INSTALLATION ABORTED
i am a newbie please help.

Anyone ever figure this out? Trying to help a friend out with a G1.

buttered_popcorn:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Dream:_Rooting
Just use this^
The downgrading part should restore you back to stock 1.0
My belief is that if you screw up restore to stock 1.0 and redo everything
If you gave us a bit more detail though we might find a easier method for you

Thanks, my friend got the phone with a broken screen and all it does its boot to the screen with the exclamation point on it.
Followed the guide in your link to downgrade the firware. We get stuck on the step to boot into bootloader. Holding camera and power just gets us to recovery (screen with exclamation) not into bootloader. After messing around a bit I found that if I hold "home" and "back" and then press power it SOMETIMES goes into bootloader. When I do get into bootloader nothing works to flash the .nbh file. By nothing works i mean no buttons work at all to flash or to cancel.

buttered_popcorn said:
Thanks, my friend got the phone with a broken screen and all it does its boot to the screen with the exclamation point on it.
Followed the guide in your link to downgrade the firware. We get stuck on the step to boot into bootloader. Holding camera and power just gets us to recovery (screen with exclamation) not into bootloader. After messing around a bit I found that if I hold "home" and "back" and then press power it SOMETIMES goes into bootloader. When I do get into bootloader nothing works to flash the .nbh file. By nothing works i mean no buttons work at all to flash or to cancel.
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Than its a hardware problem
The buttons are broken
You can try take it apart and look inside, but it sounds like it's totalled.

thats what we decided last night also. Thanks for the help

Same issue but a little more twisted
I tried flashing my G1 and it bricked(Soft Brick).
Somehow by luck I flashed the DREAIMG.nbh and have a stock phone now.
But the problem is I cant pass the Stratup screen because I get no network.
Unable to connect to the internet as well.
I tried the orange DREAIMG.nbh which bypasses the startup screen, even thought i come to the Home screen i get no network.
It gives an Error while trying to search for a Network.
When i try to flash any update.zip files it gives an error
E: No Signature
E: Verification Failed
Installation aborted.
When I enter the Recovery mode i get a error line saying " E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Any run around to this??? Is this by any chance a Hardware issue?

I doubt it, what recovery do you have? Also with the spl you know have just use fastboot flash for you roms, your error rate will be down to nothing
Sent from my HTC Desire Z using xda premium

Its a Android System recovery utility, I cant get to the home screen also becuase i have no connectivity to get past the the Google sign in screen...
I tried the Fastboot but have no idea how to go with it!!
Need some help with it...

There are plenty of fastboot how tos amoung these threads here, otherwise go straight to the sdk website and there will be plenty of options, on my phone now so I can't walk you through it well. Pretty much download the sdk package to your comp and then make sure all the proper drivers are downloaded. Either change the variables in your device manager or open a cmd in the folder where fastbooot is located. You can also just change directories to get there. Put the files you need in the same folder as fastboot. Plug in your phone with it in hboot mode and you should see fastboot usb show up. The do fastboot -w then fastboot flash for whatever rom you need. Check the toutorials it will be more help
Sent from my HTC Desire Z using xda premium

sandy_nocturnal said:
I tried flashing my G1 and it bricked(Soft Brick).
Somehow by luck I flashed the DREAIMG.nbh and have a stock phone now.
But the problem is I cant pass the Stratup screen because I get no network.
Unable to connect to the internet as well.
I tried the orange DREAIMG.nbh which bypasses the startup screen, even thought i come to the Home screen i get no network.
It gives an Error while trying to search for a Network.
When i try to flash any update.zip files it gives an error
E: No Signature
E: Verification Failed
Installation aborted.
When I enter the Recovery mode i get a error line saying " E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Any run around to this??? Is this by any chance a Hardware issue?
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have you configured your network orange in APN ?
Sorry I'm French
I have a problem with one phone and I found it on the site
There is just a mistake, we must put the sim card in the phone
"androidforums.com/g1-support/6564-activate-stock-g1-over-wifi.html"

Recovery Mode but no Bootloader

Can't find info on this anywher but bought a phone off ebay and just boots into recovery mode. Can't get into bootloader mode to dreaming.nbh the thing. Is this considered bricked? i can get to recovery mode. i hit alt + L and i have the factory recovery system. at the bottom it does say E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command ... HELP PLEASE

I'm having the same EXACT issue. Haven't found a solution yet.

I'm going to bump this.
I've researched the last 4 hours about how to restore the G1 and all of them require the phone to enter into the bootloader (gray screen). I can not for the life of me get my G1 into the boot loader. It has no water damage that i know of. If I hold Home + Back + power I can get to the HTC erase phone thing but nothing responds.
Camera + Power does nothing other than turn the phone on and it goes into recovery mode.

Maybe an official bootloader in an update.zip format?

Tried all 3 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455860
They all get verified and installation starts but then it aborts installation immediately.

Bumpage for some answers. I have an ADP1 phone. I've tried all the images from http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s3.
1.1 and 1.5 all verify and start the installation but they immediately stop and I get a message saying "Installation aborted". I've tried flashing the radio image first but I get the same result.

[Q] VISIONARY & Clockworkmod Couple Questions

I'm pretty sure I have these items in the correct order to "Permaroot" my MT4G and begin using Clockworkmod to load ROMs (and or/also want to be able to back up my default ROM)
My current attempts:
Downloaded and installed: VISIONary, from android.modaco.com, sorry I can't post actual links (VISIONary+, most recent version) was no longer avalible in the market so I had to install it from the URL)
Downloaded and installed "Clockwordmod" from the Market.
Put the phone into USB-Debugging mod, and disabled fast boot.
VISIONary+ question: I setup TEMPROOT, and "Root on Boot", assuming I would than be able to boot into "Recovery mode" via "Clockworkmod"
The phone reboots, and I'm assuming that would boot into "Root" **Root on boot** (Yes I know the temp. should fail after a reboot, but I thought, I'll stay away from "Permaroot" for now). However, I don't get to any sort of recovery mode, instead I get a screen with a triangle and exclamation in red, and that's it, it just hangs there, I'm thinking that this is just USB-Debugging, and I'm not achieving recovery mode, so this must be the result of not booting into a root mode.
Going back to VISIONary+, I attempt to "Permaroot", the phone's homescreen goes blank and nothing happens. The phone eventually turns itself off but doesn't reboot, subsequently, I must restart it manually, again, I'm not sure if I've achieved anything?
Advice, suggestions? Would be very appreciated.
Questions that might explain what's wrong?
Even in USB-Debugging mode, should I be connected to a PC via USB-Cable during all of this?
Any thoughts on why the PERMAROOT fails, or the "Root on boot" fails to get me to "Recovery mode"?
Last thing, I get a complaint from "Clockworkmod" when loading, that my SD Card must be mounted (which I'm assuming it isn't due to USB-Debugging mode and/or being connected to the PC) So should I get a good charge and disconnect from the PC while attempting all this? Fixed, disconnected USB-Cable, and mounted SD card in settings, this stopped this error
Also, I'm interested in backing up my default ROM ASAP as a safety-net in-case I screw something up. Is this possible via recovery mode in "Clockworkmod"? Links to advice on doing this?
Thanks everyone! Great board!

you should follow this as it worked for me flawlessly
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9534017#post9534017

thanks! that post seems to answer a lot of the specifics I might have been missing! Guess I missed it in search! I'll report my results!

I followed it exactly but I still get the Red Exclamation Point. I have rooted my phone s-off and I have superuser and rom manager. I did the Flash Clockwork Recovery but when I reboot into recovery I get Red Exclamation Point then when I click vol up and power the next says " E:Can't open /cashe/recovery/command " What should I do??

[*]The phone reboots, and I'm assuming that would boot into "Root" **Root on boot** (Yes I know the temp. should fail after a reboot, but I thought, I'll stay away from "Permaroot" for now). However, I don't get to any sort of recovery mode, instead I get a screen with a triangle and exclamation in red, and that's it, it just hangs there, I'm thinking that this is just USB-Debugging, and I'm not achieving recovery mode, so this must be the result of not booting into a root mode.
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You can NOT flash clockwork without S-OFF and the red triangle is recovery. It is stock recovery if you press volup+power you will see the menu

S is off I rooted my phone using the terminal Emulator and that worked fine

When I press upvol and power I see
Reboot system now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cashe partition
E:Can't open /cashe/recovery/command
This is what my screen shows when I try to go into recovery and again my phone is rooted s-off and I use superuser

Try flashing the recovery again... for some reason people have reported it not sticking... just go back and flash it like 2 or 3 times then reboot

I found out the problem it was so easy but I never would of thought of checking but my wife said maybe my Rom Manager is a bad copy (because I get all my apps from a not so honest site) so I deleted my RM and downloaded the freebie on the market and it worked on the first try.....Now I have Glacier Rom running and I feel like a new man

slhpss said:
Try flashing the recovery again... for some reason people have reported it not sticking... just go back and flash it like 2 or 3 times then reboot
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+1 on that, When I first flashed it, I was still getting the red triangle, after a quick google search I re flashed it an extra 2 times and it worked flawlessly

red triangle with exclamation point on recovery screen

figured it all out.. thanks!

Means you don't have a recovery. Need to most likely run the 2.1 ruu and reroot with eris one click. Something went wrong and it didn't flash Ra recovery

i hope your ok buddy,try it again but check if the root me.zip file is in your sd card first before you go into recovery,if its their it should of flashed the recovery.
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thank you. i googled and found instructions for flashing amon ra recovery. but it fails in the first couple steps. when it tells me to run "su" from the shell command it tells me permission denied. the phone is not rooted yet, so i can not allow superuser from the phone as most of my googling has suggested.
what now?

the rootme.zip is on the sd card.

did u reboot after you pressed the button? and then did u turn it off and go to recovery?

mindnumbinglyfun said:
trying to root my friends phone (using the one-click root for eris) ive run into a problem i havent seen before, and cant find answers for on google or this site.
when i reboot the phone into recovery holding volume up with powering on, i get a picture of the eris, with a red triangle and exclamation point. and thats it. i cant do anything.
any idea what it is or how to get rid of it?
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That is the splash screen of the stock recovery.
It means that flashing of Amon_RA never happened.
[ For goofs, you can prove it is a stock recovery by pressing Vol-up+End again when that image is on the screen. (If you were rooting a Cupcake Eris, the key sequence would be Home+End) ]
As others have pointed out, the primary reason that OneClick fails is that the person using it fails to perform a normal reboot in between use of the app and cold-booting into the recovery. Just reboot your phone once normally, shut it down, and then cold-boot to recovery.
- install app
- run app
- shut down phone normally
- reboot phone normally
- shut down normally
- cold boot into recovery
One more thing; you know that this is not a development topic, yes?
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