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How can I tell if my N1 is rooted?

I just swapped my HD2 with someone for a N1, and I'm trying to figure out if the phone is rooted or not... I've never had an android phone.
When it boots, the little "unlocked" icon appears at the bottom of the screen, and it appears to have the "custom recovery screen" when I enter the recovery section of the bootloader I get this image:
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I ask because the phone shows Kernel version 2.6.29-gad36b87 and build number ERD79, and I wanted to put froyo on the phone but was told only to update froyo from ERE27. I tried to flash ERE27 from the sd card using the recovery screen but keep getting an "unsigned files" error.
I suspect that this is a custom rom already, but have no idea how to tell if it's rooted etc.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Yes it is.
Seems like you have a stock ROM, but custom recovery. You'll need stock recovery to flash the ERE27 update.zip

or you can just flash non stock update like the one of Paul's
the tut thread is here in this forum

Will the Wipe option in that recovery screen accomplish that? I don't mind trying one of the non stocks, but I'm 100% new to this and would love to avoid destroying my phone

Depends how you want to do it.
If you want everything stock, then the easist thing to do would be to grab the complete ERD79 image, flash that and you're good to go, it should OTA to ERE27 pretty quickly.
If not, then as above you can look at a non-stock update, there are tutorials for both, so just take your pick.

Thanks for the advice, I will try one of the non-stocks, I just wanted to make sure that I'd end up with root access and not get hung up halfway through the install.

just go with this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686734
its the best, i did it today myself as well

Any expert know what is this fault?

Sorry guys need some help. I try to go into download mode with my data cable plugged into the PC. After that I saw this? Please any kind soul know how to go into the downloader mode.
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Hi you are still in download mode have you tried to flash new firmware

I can't using odin 1.7 it will prompt failed.

ok try press volume up and hold the power tell me what happens

It is the same pic as stated. I plug in the charger and it is still the same pic.

do you get failed while flashing firmware threw odin if yes can you tell me what firmware you were on before flashing and what firmware you are trying to flash now reason i ask as i was trying to downgrade firmware i had same problem, so i had to flash the latest firmware and it worked

I was on the P1000DXJK2 at first. I'm trying to flash P1000DXJM4. At first it was successful from the odin 1.7 but when boot up it stayed at the samsung screen. Maybe i need to flash the dbdata.

yeah that could be the problem, put dbdata in pda, no pit

Where can I downlaod dbdata for this firmware P1000DXJM4.

Ok. Thanks bro I managed to get it back. Thousand thanks.

Here you go just unzip and you have a .tar file

celestar32 said:
Ok. Thanks bro I managed to get it back. Thousand thanks.
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your welcome m8 now you know what to do if it happens again

thx so much

I have a problem phone "Failed to boot 2" please help

Stop the phone on this screen, what should I do
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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Hi,
Same thing happened to me. There are 3 problems;
First is that you do not have enouch battery power to run RDS.
Second is that you have to load SBF file again with RDSLite.
Third is that you have to unlock your bootloader not to have the same situation.
But to make you feel happy, I can say that your phone is not bricked.
We shall go step by step for your problems. First of all, do you have second battery or can you supply it because it is necessary to overcome second and third problem ?

micromedia2011 said:
what should I do
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Hi,
Please use search.
Thanks,

I'm having the same problem "failed to boot 2". Minus the battery part.
I did all the following steps a few months ago to update to the new gingerbread firmware from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182871
Claims I would have an unlocked bootloader, root, and CWM. Which, I have root, CWM, and evidently still on a locked bootloader per a post I read on androidforums.
I'm lost as I've been reading so much that I've done confused myself on what I should actually do, and feel worse off than I was before I started reading.
Overall, my phone works fine. I just wanted to flash a different ROM. I'm just not sure where to start to fix my problem (redo all the steps in the post I linked up, or flash a whole other SBF file). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Q] Water Damage - Won't Boot

Hi all! Walked into the lake with my phone in the rear pocket - doh! Here is what I did so far ...
1. Turned off
2. Removed battery
3. Disassembled phone
4. Dried it out
5. Cleaned all the components with isopropyl
6. Put in a new battery
Turns on fine
Goes into d/l mode
I can flash firmware to it via Odin
Will NOT boot
Will NOTgo into recovery
I have tried various stock firmwares from Samobile - they all do the same thing - see pictures below.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
ANY firmware I try does this after Odin is "Successful" Blue writing says " Recovery Booting ... but it just sits there.
Any ideas? It is a stock Rogers phone but I don't mind using any Firmware ion any network if I can get it up and running - I'll just unlock it later.
Thanks!

Also, can I try to re-partition it using a .pit file? I've only ever used Odin for flashing firmware. Where can I get .pit files, can't seem to find them anywhere.

ixoye777 said:
Also, can I try to re-partition it using a .pit file? I've only ever used Odin for flashing firmware. Where can I get .pit files, can't seem to find them anywhere.
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I work at a repair shop and had the exact same thing happen this past weekend. No luck. same result. freezes when booting into recovery. thats water damage for ya.

Bricked GT I-9505

I have been using one of the Lineage 14,1 versions of android lately and today I wanted to return to stock Lolipop using Odin. Unfortunately about half way through I got write error so I tried again and got another write error probably at the same time. Now the flashing doesn't want to even start and I get various error messages in Odin. The latest one is "There is no PIT partition. "
Obviously I cannot boot now I can only enter download mode.
Any ideas?
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

-Arturo- said:
I have been using one of the Lineage 14,1 versions of android lately and today I wanted to return to stock Lolipop using Odin. Unfortunately about half way through I got write error so I tried again and got another write error probably at the same time. Now the flashing doesn't want to even start and I get various error messages in Odin. The latest one is "There is no PIT partition. "
Obviously I cannot boot now I can only enter download mode.
Any ideas?
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After numerous attempts, various cables, different usb ports I cleaned usb ports on my original cable and it was a full success.:good:

Glad you got it working.
I recommend using Odin 3.07 and higher in future.

audit13 said:
Glad you got it working.
I recommend using Odin 3.07 and higher in future.
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Well I tried 5-6 different versions of Odin before I settled with 3, 1,85.