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Rooting G1 build number CRB43

I have G1 build number CRB43.
I have followed the instructions in this thread; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
The SD card is formatted to FAT32.
I copied the dreamimg file on the SD card.
I got the phone to bootloader mode.
The phone says that there are no bootable files to be found...
What am I doing wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really want to try one of the custom ROMS...

did you copy the zip or the nbh?? and is it on the root of the sd card?

kingsizeriz said:
did you copy the zip or the nbh?? and is it on the root of the sd card?
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I copied the .nbh
It is on the root of the SD card...

Did you download RC29? and is the file inside the zip definately :
DREAIMG.NBH

kingsizeriz said:
Did you download RC29? and is the file inside the zip definately :
DREAIMG.NBH
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Yes the file is DREAIMG.nbh, the .nbh is not in caps, but that shouldnt matter, right?
Yes i downloaded RC29...

I renamed the DREAIMG.nbh to DREAIMG.NBH and still nothing... I am stumped.
Dont tell me I cant hack my phone

try this...
http://www.kyubinc.org/files/DREAIMG-RC29.zip
turn off phone, hold camera & power til you see the DREAIMG.nbh screen, then press power to start

jdm99prelude said:
try this...
http://www.kyubinc.org/files/DREAIMG-RC29.zip
turn off phone, hold camera & power til you see the DREAIMG.nbh screen, then press power to start
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same thing, bootloader says 'no image file' ...WTF?

This is strange, i hacked my g1 today no problems following that guide

unzip it and place in the root of the sd card

Black04SpecV said:
I copied the .nbh
It is on the root of the SD card...
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jdm99prelude said:
unzip it and place in the root of the sd card
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he already has.

I tried the version for Uk phones, SAME thing...

(YOU TUBE-G1 Root Woot) this video will guide you step by step...

Problem has been solved via PM
Problem:
User using vista - SD Card wasnt formatting correctly
Solution:
Use an XP machine.

kingsizeriz said:
Problem has been solved via PM
Problem:
User using vista - SD Card wasnt formatting correctly
Solution:
Use an XP machine.
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Yup...
Thanks everybody for all the help!
Side note; Windows Vista = EPIC FAIL!

Rooting CRB43
Hi,
I am currently experiencing a problem rooting my T-Mobile G1.
I also have G1 build number CRB43.
I formatted the SD card to FAT32 on an XP machine.
I copied the DREAIMG.NBH file on the SD card.
I got the phone to bootloader mode.
The following happens:
Loading...
Checking...
0028002
Not Allowed
Any ideas on what I am missing or need to do?
Thanks

thugamistic said:
Hi,
I am currently experiencing a problem rooting my T-Mobile G1.
I also have G1 build number CRB43.
I formatted the SD card to FAT32 on an XP machine.
I copied the DREAIMG.NBH file on the SD card.
I got the phone to bootloader mode.
The following happens:
Loading...
Checking...
0028002
Not Allowed
Any ideas on what I am missing or need to do?
Thanks
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Try renaming it "DREAIMG.nbh" exactly. I heard that it is very sensitive to the file name being exact. (Including case sensitive)

I think Timo Beil has blacklisted the NBH.
You have to create a goldcard.

testing567 said:
Try renaming it "DREAIMG.nbh" exactly. I heard that it is very sensitive to the file name being exact. (Including case sensitive)
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this didn't work...
maxisma said:
I think Timo Beil has blacklisted the NBH.
You have to create a goldcard.
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I think you may be right. I'll look into the goldcard method. Can anyone confirm if this is the route i should take?
Thanks

test
so cool.haha haha

CM7 sd card install troubles

Following verygreen's directions, I got his installer image onto the sd card (but had to rename it to end in ".img". I removed the card and put it back in the PC, and when I try to put the CM7 file on it, it says card needs to be formatted to use it. I think if I format, it will remove the installer image. Should I have formatted it first? I'm sorry if this sounds really basic (and stupid), but, please help.

So I formatted the card, and put verygreen's image installer back on, removed the card and inserted it again and again get formatting message. It's a sandisk 8gb, new.
According to the directions, I need the image installer on the card and then the CM7 file? I've read and re-read directions and searched links for information on what to do next ???

I think you messed up on the very first step. The file ending .gz is a zip file. I used WinRar to unzip it. There is a .img file inside that you flash to your card.

SonicClang said:
I think you messed up on the very first step. The file ending .gz is a zip file. I used WinRar to unzip it. There is a .img file inside that you flash to your card.
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Thank you, and you're absolutely right, I messed up from the git go. I did finally learn I needed to unzip it, and things went well from there. Quite amazing! Now I need to do a search for the Netflix fast forward (chipmunks) fix.

There's plenty out there on the Netflix thing

[Q] flashing rom need help

i downloaded taboonay 1.1 and moved the file to my root on SD card but when I go into clockworkmod and go to install zip from SD card I open it and the only thing I see is lost dir. No zip file at all can someone help me

mwv317 said:
i downloaded taboonay 1.1 and moved the file to my root on SD card but when I go into clockworkmod and go to install zip from SD card I open it and the only thing I see is lost dir. No zip file at all can someone help me
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Put the ROM in the LOST folder. (mnt/external_sd/LOST)

well I tried it but still same outcome I don't know what is going on any more ideas guys

CWM commonly has trouble reading some SD cards. Either try formatting it in a phone, or try a different card.

finally got it guys it was the file name it was labeled taboonay 1.1.zip; i had to rename it without the semi colon thanks for all your help

[Q] Help revert OTA 3.2 back to 3.0.1

good afternoon
I have an ACER Iconia Tab to 500 HC 3.2 and using the second method of this post (Revert OTA 3.2 back to 3.0.1) and gets the android logo and a yellow triangle, someone might say it is?
Or if someone knows how to connect this tablet in Windows XP
thanks

Did you remember to extract the zip file that was in that post? The file that is to be extracted is update_not_stable.zip. Once you extract that, there should be a file that is called "update.zip". Make sure that is the file that is on your external SD card.

yes, I put the update.zip on the microsd and also have put the update.zip for content if that, but it works.
thanks

So does that mean you got it to work? I'm not sure if I fully understand your last post.

my English is disastrous to use a translator to express myself. Did not mean that workers but does not perform the recovery

Could you possibly outline the steps your performed so far, and perhaps I or someone more knowledgeable than I can offer better assistance.

I followed the steps are:
1 - I downloaded the file.
2 - I've extracted and copied to the microsd (update.zip) formatted to fat32
3 - I turned on the Iconium and has begun "erasing cache beforing SD update... booting recovery kernel image"
4 - android robot appears with a band and then carrying out erde a triangle with an exclamation in the middle of the icon.

Hmmmmm, I can't see anything that jumps out at me as being some wrong.
The update.zip is still zipped right? You right clicked on "downgrade_not_stable", extracted that, removed update.zip and out that file (which will be unzipped) into the root of your external SD card.
There is also the off chance that the file you downloaded got corrupted for whatever reason. If it won't work perhaps you can try to download it again and follow the steps.

hello,
i have the same problem. I did the same : unzipped, put on the external sdcard the file and I have the logo of the bot with the yellow triangle..
I downloaded again and again, restart from the beginning and I can't downgrade.
someone has an idea why it doesn't work ?
Thanks

same issue with mine... not too sure why i'm getting the error as I've been able to do things with the SD card before, so I don't think its an SD card problem.

Not SD problem
I already tried with differentes SD cards. They all work, but unable to start the downgrading !!
Maybe the file is not compatible with my tablet. How can we check ?

lm2011 said:
I already tried with differentes SD cards. They all work, but unable to start the downgrading !!
Maybe the file is not compatible with my tablet. How can we check ?
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What tab to you have? The A500?
Make sure that it is the file "update.zip" that is on your sd card. Make sure this update.zip is still a zipped file.
Other than that, I don't know what could be wrong. I did the downgrade with no issues.

Thanks for the answer.
My tablet is an iconia A500.
I unzipped the file downloaded, that gave an update.zip. I put it on the SD card. The tablet recognized the file but stop just after find it.
I have no idea whatelse to do.

TRy and try again.
Finally it worked !!!
It was a download problem in fact for me.
I hope it can help.

maybe i'll try downloading on another computer (this one has XP?) and see if that makes a lick of difference. this is getting frustrating.

Still no go. Even did everything just on the iconia and still get the yield sign when trying to recover during boot.

Hi , I did it right now and it worked , installed iconiaroot and CWM and all went fine, but I have another problem now :
external miniSD can't be seen anymore and I'm not able to install any custom rom . If I go to recovery and pushing "install zip from" : it always goes to E: directory sdcard (and it 's not found)
Is there anyone that can help me ?
Thanks
Ramp

Hello,
I had this problem with the update of tabonay. The problem was a ";" at this end of the file :update.zip
Retry and check you have a .zip at the root of the external SD card

Hi
The problem is that I can't see neither micro sd external card nor USB pen anymore on my system
Please help
Thanks

Great that It worked for you, It doesn't work for me, do you think this will work with a USB since I can't get it to work with an SD

[Q] Trying to make bootable CM7 card....what did I do wrong?

I'm trying to create a bootable SD card with CM7. I followed the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957.
I've put the CM7 file on the card, but when I put in in my nook and boot it just goes to the nook software. Can anyone help me with what I did wrong? When I look at the SD card, I see these files:
cm_encore_full-253.zip
u-boot.bin
uRamdisk
uImage
MLO​And it looks like the nook put some stuff on it when it booted, folders called:
My Files
B&N Downloads
LOST .DIR
.android_secure​
Any help would be vastly appreciated!

Girevik said:
I'm trying to create a bootable SD card with CM7. I followed the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957.
I've put the CM7 file on the card, but when I put in in my nook and boot it just goes to the nook software. Can anyone help me with what I did wrong? When I look at the SD card, I see these files:
cm_encore_full-253.zip
u-boot.bin
uRamdisk
uImage
MLO​And it looks like the nook put some stuff on it when it booted, folders called:
My Files
B&N Downloads
LOST .DIR
.android_secure​
Any help would be vastly appreciated!
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If you are still booting into the stock ROM I would say you have a bad image and to do it again.....

As I think back through the process, the only thing I was a bit confused on was the generic image. After downloading it, I expanded it out using winrar before writting it to the SD card with winimage. Was that the right thing to do?

Girevik said:
As I think back through the process, the only thing I was a bit confused on was the generic image. After downloading it, I expanded it out using winrar before writting it to the SD card with winimage. Was that the right thing to do?
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Try again with Win32DiskImager

votinh said:
Try again with Win32DiskImager
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Do I need to expand the image out first with winrar, or will the Win32DiskImager handle that?

Girevik said:
I'm trying to create a bootable SD card with CM7. I followed the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957.
I've put the CM7 file on the card, but when I put in in my nook and boot it just goes to the nook software. Can anyone help me with what I did wrong? When I look at the SD card, I see these files:
cm_encore_full-253.zip
u-boot.bin
uRamdisk
uImage
MLO​And it looks like the nook put some stuff on it when it booted, folders called:
My Files
B&N Downloads
LOST .DIR
.android_secure​
Any help would be vastly appreciated!
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You have to preface the ROM zip files with "update-", so change the name of the zip file to update-cm_encore_full-253.zip. Additionally, you're missing some files that would allow the ROM to be written to the sd, specifically uRecRam and uRecImg. You should probably go back and review the instructions and start from the beginning.

Girevik said:
As I think back through the process, the only thing I was a bit confused on was the generic image. After downloading it, I expanded it out using winrar before writting it to the SD card with winimage. Was that the right thing to do?
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You should have wound up with an .img file that you write to SD with WinImage. From that linked page:
[...] Grab the installer image here:
http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/generi...rd-v1.3.img.gz
it's a ~9M image that would unpack into ~130M disk image.
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Did you wind up with a ~130M .img file?
From what you've written, sounds like the write wasn't good and it doesn't even start to boot.
Also, when it does boot, watch the process as CM is extracted when you boot that disk. Per the top part of that guide, some cards work better than others.

shumash said:
You have to preface the ROM zip files with "update-", so change the name of the zip file to update-cm_encore_full-253.zip. Additionally, you're missing some files that would allow the ROM to be written to the sd, specifically uRecRam and uRecImg. You should probably go back and review the instructions and start from the beginning.
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Will try that, but would it skip the boot from the SD card all together because of that?

bobstro said:
You should have wound up with an .img file that you write to SD with WinImage. From that linked pageid you wind up with a ~130M .img file?
From what you've written, sounds like the write wasn't good and it doesn't even start to boot.
Also, when it does boot, watch the process as CM is extracted when you boot that disk. Per the top part of that guide, some cards work better than others.
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Looks like my image, after I expanded it with WirRar, is more like 117MB (123,379,200 bytes). Do I need to bring down the image and expand it again?

Creating a bootable CM7 uSD using winimage and verygreen installer:
1.Download winimage, verygreen boot image, CM7 zip or Mirage zip, gapps zip...
2.Unpack the verygreen .gz to get the .img file inside
3.Put your SD card in your card reader
4.Open winimage....
5.Disk->Use disk (whatever your sd card is)
6.Disk->Restore virtual hard disk image on physical drive (select the verygreen .img file-change .vhd to .* if you don't see it)
7.Click ok on the warning and you should have a boot disk
8.Right click the CM7 zip and "send to" your new boot disk
9.Pop out the SD card, put it in the Nook
10.Boot the Nook, let it install and turn off
11.Put the SD card back in your PC, transfer the gapps zip to it, put back in Nook
12.Turn on the nook, let it boot to CM7
13.Connect to wifi (saves a little hassle later when google wants you to log in)
14.Press the power button, restart, to recovery
15.Let gapps install then turn off
16.Restart the nook
17.Touch the android
18.Log in to your google account
19.Install whatever google apps you want (don't worry if you don't get them all now, the market will still have them later)
20.Enjoy
I recommend using DizzyDen's patch after step 1 if you want better market support. I make the IMEI from my Nook's serial # and use these build.prop edits.

Girevik said:
Do I need to expand the image out first with winrar, or will the Win32DiskImager handle that?
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The more answer you get, the more confusion.
Anyway, follow this carefully.
Assuming you running Windows on PC.
1. Download (or redownload) the file from your link. It is .gz file, it is a zip file, so you need to unzip it. After unzip, you will get the .img file, and that's the one you need to write off your uSD card.
2. Execute Win32DiskImager (assuming you already downloaded), prefer an old version, r0.15 or something like that.
3. Create a bootable uSD. After this step, your PC should see the uSD as "boot" and inside, it should have only 4 files as you listed above.
4. Copy the ROM into the boot directory (like you listed above) and properly eject the uSD off the PC.
5. Insert the uSD into the NC and power it up. You don't have to do anything else, it will FULLY AUTOMATICALLY detects the zip file (the ROM file), install, then delete and then shut down. Note: you don't touch anything.
6. Now, you have to power it up.
7. Repeat step 4 to get the GApp installed by trying to boot into recovery (this step needs your skill, read the how-to from the link you posted)

gallahad2000 said:
Creating a bootable CM7 uSD using winimage:
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1.Download winimage, verygreen boot image, CM7 zip, gapps zip...
2.Unpack the verygreen image to a .img file
3.Put your SD card in your card reader
4.Open winimage....
5.Disk->Use disk (whatever your sd card is)
6.Disk->Restore virtual hard disk image on physical drive (select the verygreen .img file-change .vhd to .* if you don't see it)
7.Click ok on the warning and you should have a boot disk
8.Right click the CM7 zip RENAME IT WITH THE PREFIX "update-" and "send to" your new boot disk
9.Pop out the SD card, put it in the Nook
10.Boot the Nook, let it install and turn off
11.Put the SD card back in your PC, transfer the gapps zip to it, put back in Nook
12.Turn on the nook, let it boot to CM7
13.Connect to wifi (saves a little hassle later when google wants you to log in)
14.Press the power button, restart, to recovery
15.Let gapps install then turn off
16.Restart the nook
17.Touch the android
18.Log in to your google account
19.Install whatever google apps you want (don't worry if you don't get them all now, the market will still have them later)
20.Enjoy
I recommend using DizzyDen's patch after step 1 if you want better market support. I make the IMEI from my Nook's serial # and use these build.prop edits.[/QUOTE]

shumash said:
6.Disk->Restore virtual hard disk image on physical drive (select the verygreen .img file-change .vhd to .* if you don't see it)
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It appears this was my problem. I was using "write disk" rather than the restore option. I now appear to have CM7 on the card (althought it's been on the bootup screen for a while, and I now need to get the gapps installed.

Girevik said:
It appears this was my problem. I was using "write disk" rather than the restore option. I now appear to have CM7 on the card (althought it's been on the bootup screen for a while, and I now need to get the gapps installed.
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I made the same mistake, it's not really explained in any of the guides.
shumash said:
8.Right click the CM7 zip RENAME IT WITH THE PREFIX "update-" and "send to" your new boot disk
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That's an unnecessary step. The verygreen installer will flash it even without the prefix.

shumash said:
You have to preface the ROM zip files with "update-", so change the name of the zip file to update-cm_encore_full-253.zip. Additionally, you're missing some files that would allow the ROM to be written to the sd, specifically uRecRam and uRecImg. You should probably go back and review the instructions and start from the beginning.
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No, you don't... the recovery script is setup to find "update-*" "cm_encore_full*" and gapps-gb*" files. So, as long as your file begins with everything up to the * it will work.
uRec* won't be present until the script actually runs once. The script creates the uRecRam and uRecImg files to use on further boots into recovery mode.

DizzyDen said:
No, you don't... the recovery script is setup to find "update-*" "cm_encore_full*" and gapps-gb*" files. So, as long as your file begins with everything up to the * it will work.
uRec* won't be present until the script actually runs once. The script creates the uRecRam and uRecImg files to use on further boots into recovery mode.
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Thanks for the clarification, I just knew he was wrong.

DizzyDen said:
No, you don't... the recovery script is setup to find "update-*" "cm_encore_full*" and gapps-gb*" files. So, as long as your file begins with everything up to the * it will work.
uRec* won't be present until the script actually runs once. The script creates the uRecRam and uRecImg files to use on further boots into recovery mode.
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Thanks for clarifying my misconceptions. At one time, a standard "cm_encore_full*" file didn't take and did when I added the "update-" to it.
That's why we come here, to learn at the feet of the masters.