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Stuck at G1 screen - read everything I could find

I have read and tried anything I could think of here.
I have downloaded RC29
Extracted the file to SD ccard formated to FAT32
Started up in Bootloader
Phone found the file and successfully installed
Pressed action button to reboot.
Stays in Tri color screen
I have tried the soft reset, but I am still stuck at the G1 screen.
I am not new to flashing and recovery, only to the G1. What am I missing?

Does it reboot and return to the tri-color screen, or not reboot at all? Did you try taking the sd card out and then rebooting?

The same thing happened to me, I downloaded rc29 to root my phone so I did the rooting and then I wanted to install the JF Rc33 update so I tried rebooting in recoveyr mode to install the update and my phone just got stuck in the G1 logo. It works on normal reboot but not in tecovery mode or when I press camera & power it takes me to a white screen with green letters and the little green android guy..... how can I fix that? I want the jf update. Is there any way of installing it without having to use recovery mode? Or is there anyway to fix recovery mode?

danguyf,
Thanks.
I just redid the RC29 boot off the SD card. Just to rule out some more issues, I formatted the card again (512mb Sandisk).
As soon as I hit the action button, I get the tri color bootloader screen.
I have tried:
removing the SD card PRIOR to pressing the action button
removing the SD card PRIOR to a soft boot (call, end menu).
I have been using a fully charged battery.

wpr said:
danguyf,
Thanks.
I just redid the RC29 boot off the SD card. Just to rule out some more issues, I formatted the card again (512mb Sandisk).
As soon as I hit the action button, I get the tri color bootloader screen.
I have tried:
removing the SD card PRIOR to pressing the action button
removing the SD card PRIOR to a soft boot (call, end menu).
I have been using a fully charged battery.
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Looks like you dont have rootacces, try this http://www.multigesture.net/articles/t-mobile-g1-downgrade-rc30rc8-rooting-update-tutorial/

Thanks. Gotta learn a new OS!
I will give this a try in a few and report back.

Oke good luck !
You need a WM phone to make a Goldcard and Qmat 2.24 if you use Windows.

Ronnymes said:
Oke good luck !
You need a WM phone to make a Goldcard and Qmat 2.24 if you use Windows.
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Thanks. I might need more than luck.
What is Qmat 2.24? Boy I hate feeling stupid!

wpr said:
Thanks. I might need more than luck.
What is Qmat 2.24? Boy I hate feeling stupid!
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Try google

wpr said:
I have read and tried anything I could think of here.
I have downloaded RC29
Extracted the file to SD ccard formated to FAT32
Started up in Bootloader
Phone found the file and successfully installed
Pressed action button to reboot.
Stays in Tri color screen
I have tried the soft reset, but I am still stuck at the G1 screen.
I am not new to flashing and recovery, only to the G1. What am I missing?
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Just so we are clear, these are the steps you followed???
1. Format your phone's SD card to FAT32 mode:
* Hook your phone up to your computer using a USB cable and then wait for the notification to show up in your title bar of your phone.
* Click the notification, and then click "Mount".
* A new removable disk should show up on your computer. Right click it and select Format, and select FAT32 as the file system type.
2. Download and unzip the RC29 or RC7 image file. Copy the DREAMIMG.nbh file to the SD card. (RC29 for US, RC7 is for UK)
3. Turn the device power off.
4. Hold Camera button, and press Power button to entry bootloader mode. You should see a gray/white screen with instructions to flash your phone with the update on your SD card. If you don't see that, make sure you followed the instructions properly.
5. As per the on-screen instructions, press the Power button to start upgrade procedure. DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS.
6. After it is finished, perform the restart your phone.

The phone is not mine. It came in to us to recover. It came in frozen on the G1 screen, so I cannot perform these 2 steps:
* Hook your phone up to your computer using a USB cable and then wait for the notification to show up in your title bar of your phone.
* Click the notification, and then click "Mount".
It does charge via USB and AC.
It is now powered up and frozen, but XP does find the Android phone and it shows up as a disk drive in device manager.

First off, who froze it?
Secondly, does the phone get to the homescreen?

The user brought it in at the G1 screen.
That is as far as it gets in power up.

wpr said:
The user brought it in at the G1 screen.
That is as far as it gets in power up.
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i hope you have a computer and either an extra mini sdcard *1MB in size* handy, or a mini sd card reader handy.
format the card, fat32.
download the rom from here. *scroll down to downloads section and pick the appropriate one. rc-33 U.S. RC-9 U.K. ADP unbranded*
if it's already named update, transfer it to the card, if not rename it update, then transfer it to the card.
After it has been transferred.
place the card back into the phone. start the phone up holding home and end key till it enters the recovery mode.
you should see a list of commands with a leopard looking-like screen.
hit alt-w
then alt-s
after it is complete, hit back+home to reboot again.

Just wanted to follow up annd say thanks to everyone for the help. I did not get a chance to deal with it today, but I will post the outcome.

I have the same problam too.
I have JF 1.1 Holidey version and when I try to update it to jf1.5 it gets stuck on the G1 logo, I tried using differnet updates to and differnt sd cards
and even tried the JF updater and it dosent work, I'm a bit frustrated, my brother rooted the phone for and installed the RC29 rom and the JF rom,
it offered me a system holiday update awaile ago and when I updated it froze on the G1 logo after I waited a long time (about 45 min) I removed the battery and started the phone again.. then I saw about 35MB free space (before I had only 10MB) and I think that from that point it added the holiday but I'm not sure if it wasn't already before that.. I realy need your halp with this.. I can't find a way to boot my phone and start a bootloader..
p.s. I was able to get to the fast boot when I press the power + Camera but I don't know how to use it..

Follow the same directions in post 14 =)

Mikey1022 said:
Follow the same directions in post 14 =)
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I have a big problem!
MY G1 is still Frozen on G1 splash
I don't have access to the recovery mode (power+home), or fastboot mode (cam+power)...just show G1 logo...for hours!!!
Any idea?
I need to access to any mode to try to rescue my phone...
It is the second phone rooted by me, but I don't know what happened =(
thanks for the quickly answers!

No update
Mikey1022 said:
i hope you have a computer and either an extra mini sdcard *1MB in size* handy, or a mini sd card reader handy.
format the card, fat32.
download the rom from here. *scroll down to downloads section and pick the appropriate one. rc-33 U.S. RC-9 U.K. ADP unbranded*
if it's already named update, transfer it to the card, if not rename it update, then transfer it to the card.
After it has been transferred.
place the card back into the phone. start the phone up holding home and end key till it enters the recovery mode.
you should see a list of commands with a leopard looking-like screen.
hit alt-w
then alt-s
after it is complete, hit back+home to reboot again.
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And what about if the screen says:
Finding update package..
Opening update package..
E: Can`t open /sdcard/update.zip
(No such file or directory)
Installion aborted.

G1 homescreen freeze
Hi,
I have a G1, installed hero-rom from xda(Jacheroski 2.0). I found it pretty annoying because the phone was very slow etc. So i tried to go back to the almost original software.
1. started G1 in recovery mode(Home+power), alt+x, adb shell, #parted /dev/block/mmcblk0, mklabel msdos, Y, rm1, rm2, mkpartsfs, primary, fat32, 0, 8000(8 gb card), shut down G1.
Downloaded:
- Radio (from htc support)
- SPL (from xda)
- Rom (from htc support)
Copied those files to my SD.
2. started my G1 in recoverymode(Home+power), wipe, apply any zip from SD,
First installed Radio = succesful
Tried to install SPL:got an error in line.
So thought that I first need to reboot my G1(because of the radio)
I rebooted my G1. got a installation screen. then I restarted my G1 and wanted to go to recovery mode to install spl and rom. It was frozen on the homescreen. I can't do any thing. not recovery not the other one(camera+power)
Any advice?

[Q] Bricked Iconia...

I guess I bricked my iconia...
I installed Recovery, etc. But when I rebooted my device it starts up, and shows my initial display screen. But it locks on the display (it is past the Android, and Acer screen).
So I tried to recover the device using the unbrick procedures described in this forum, and others. But it seems whenever it tries to process any update.zip file including the unbrick the little android man either stops turning or displays a sign indicating things did not work out as they should have.
I have clockwordmod backup from my system. How do I use that backup? When I use my phone the device automatically boots into xrecovery and allows me to restore. How do I get that with the Iconia?

first of all your device is not bricked as long as you can boot into any type of recovery.
second you obviously have cwm installed, but anyhow even if you don't have it i hope you have an external sd-card.
dl any of the stock rom's from the dev section, basically best is to choose the rom made for your country.
extract the update.zip and put it on your external sd-card.
then install it with cwm if you still have it, or with acer recovery (volume - and power simultaneously until the recovery text shows up).
and then take it from there.
also good idea is to clean dalvik cache and data cache before restarting if you use cwm.
then you can reinstall root and cwm.

zoubidou said:
first of all your device is not bricked as long as you can boot into any type of recovery.
second you obviously have cwm installed, but anyhow even if you don't have it i hope you have an external sd-card.
dl any of the stock rom's from the dev section, basically best is to choose the rom made for your country.
extract the update.zip and put it on your external sd-card.
then install it with cwm if you still have it, or with acer recovery (volume - and power simultaneously until the recovery text shows up).
and then take it from there.
also good idea is to clean dalvik cache and data cache before restarting if you use cwm.
then you can reinstall root and cwm.
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Thanks... The problem is I can't boot into anything.
How do I boot into cwm? I can't boot into the operating system as once it hits the display screen with my picture the system freezes and tries to power down?
I have been playing around with acer recovery, but all of the updates I downloaded will not load onto the system. It tries to install, gets about 1/3 through and then gives me an error.
Hence why I was thinking that maybe my backup has something?

push volume - (left volume button) first and power and keep your fingers on it until it displays the recovery text message on top left of the screen

If you are getting into recovery. And flashing. A rom give you errors or does not complete. This issue is a bad d/load.or a bad currupt SD card.I would say format your SD card again.redownload the correct rom again.don't use a download manager.then decrypt. Unzip then put the update.zip on your SD card turn off your tab install SD card.
Reboot
Holding down volume up and power until you see the 4th line of txt. It should take you to cwr. Or flash your device
good luck

Yep.. use vol-down and power to boot into cwm. Keep holding vol-down until you see tiny white text in upper left corner.
Then do full restore. When it's done, if you don't see "Backup Succesfull!" message, you'll need to restore flexrom from the advanced restore menu. This is because it failed trying to restore .android_secure.img and caused cwm to restart before flextrom was restored.
Alternatively, you can delete the .android_secure.img file from your backup set before doing the full restore.
Good luck.
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Thanks guys for all of your feedback.
However, when I hold down the buttons you mentioned I do get those text items you mention. The problem is that unlike my android phone it does not pop up the recovery menu. It goes straight into the Acer Recovery procedure (The android with turning gears).
Could it have been that upgrading to a specific ROM the recovery procedure is shortcircuited????
What I am trying to figure out is how to get the recovery menu.

Same deal!
I have the exact same issue. The Update.zip will not take and the Android Gears screen gets to 1/3 before the yellow triangle. Any further help would yield loud THANKS!

your update.zip should preferably be those 3.1 full. cos I believe it does not check anything for it to fail.

Thanks Kenny that does help and explain a few things.

Android boot loop...and can't revert!

...my effort to install Android on my new NOOK Color went smoothly until it started to boot and the boot screen just keeps spinning.
Read many posts appearing to address this issue but reverting to a stock reader seems to require various apps only for a PC. Being a Mac weenie this leaves me out in the cold.
...is there a Mac-centric reader here who can help me return my NOOK into the reader it originally was?
I'm a bit gun shy now of making the device both an Android tablet and a reader! Thanks much in advance.

...addendum!
...playing around with the NOOK I was able to raise a reboot option which, to my surprise, cured whatever fault was behind the boot loop. A couple of spins and CM7 in all its glory appeared.
...but now I can only reboot into CM7...seems to be no option to boot into the original B&N book/magazine reader.
What am I missing? What's the "open sesame" to choose the reader? Tnx again.

MacFreddie said:
...playing around with the NOOK I was able to raise a reboot option which, to my surprise, cured whatever fault was behind the boot loop. A couple of spins and CM7 in all its glory appeared.
...but now I can only reboot into CM7...seems to be no option to boot into the original B&N book/magazine reader.
What am I missing? What's the "open sesame" to choose the reader? Tnx again.
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One thing your missing is giving us information regarding your setup and what you want and/or are expecting.
Is this a SD install of CM7? If so... when you power it up... press and hold "n" button to get the boot menu... selecting eMMC / Normal boot will boot into stock.

DizzyDen said:
One thing your missing is giving us information regarding your setup and what you want and/or are expecting.
Is this a SD install of CM7? If so... when you power it up... press and hold "n" button to get the boot menu... selecting eMMC / Normal boot will boot into stock.
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...thanks much for the quick response.
...yes, I did an SD install of CM7 with all the Google apps, etc.
My objective is to be able to toggle back and forth between the B&N reader and the Android tablet. If this isn't possible I'd like to go back to the reader.
Unfortunately I can't get the boot menu with the "n" button when I power up. Andoid mounts and a white screen offers only "power off" or "re-boot"...no other options.
...following the instructions I used from the web for installing CM7 I removed the SD card before I formatted, etc. Is this an issue?

Looping Problem
Okay so I think I may have the same problem hopefully someone can help. So first I install CM7 and then it gave me when I tried opening the market so I was like okay... so then I downloaded and install manuelnooker and now im boot looping .. So I insert the SD and turn it on but it doesnt boot up to recovery. I only see CM7 and then it boot loops into Nook Color With the big N on top and the small android bottom right corner. Can anyone help me out on what is the best way to get back into recovery. I know if I turn it on while holding the N its says CM7 and in the bottom it shows recovery but never goes to it. Much help please..
Okay so I finally got into CWR but now it gives me an error formatting data when I select mounts and storage and select format data? Im trying to revert back the nook color using nook complete restore 1.0.1. and I try doing it format data in the opening screen but I flash the zip and boot loops. any help is much appreciated.. Thanks

...some progress!
...less sleep but some progress.
...after several unsuccessful attempts I finally got the NOOK to restore to factory specs with the "8 interrupted boot" sequence [can't post the URL because I don't have eight posts yet :-( ].
Wasn't necessary to do the second step described in the post...NOOK automatically did the restore after zeroing the data and my B&N account can be accessed without more.
...but now I no longer have Android capability. Is there any way to install a simple toggle mechanism for both on the same tablet?

MacFreddie said:
...less sleep but some progress.
...after several unsuccessful attempts I finally got the NOOK to restore to factory specs with the "8 interrupted boot" sequence [can't post the URL because I don't have eight posts yet :-( ].
Wasn't necessary to do the second step described in the post...NOOK automatically did the restore after zeroing the data and my B&N account can be accessed without more.
...but now I no longer have Android capability. Is there any way to install a simple toggle mechanism for both on the same tablet?
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You never fully described what you did to begin with. Did you follow specific steps on a site? If so, let's have the URL.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmmm8cBpe0
URL for CM7 install shown in msg title...server wouldn't let me enter it in msg body!

Stuck trying to root from sd card. I need help.

Edit: Im not sure if the title is right. Im trying to run the Android from my sd without actually rooting the Nook. Sorry. Wanted to clarify.
Im using the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
I can get the image to write on my sd card which is an 8GB if that matters. I load the CM7 onto the sd cards root and insert it into the Nook. I used this build: cm-7-20120624-NIGHTLY-encore.zip
It starts to do its thing and gets stuck with this message: "Please download it from nook.linuxhacker.ru
and put on first partition of this SD card the name should start with updatei-cm and end with .zip".
I searched the topic in several different areas and found some replys but none that made any sense to me. Im hoping someone can "dumb it down" a little for me. What do I need to change/do to solve this? If I didnt include a piece of info needed please let me know and ill do my best. Thanks.

Just rename the cm- file to start with update-. Then try booting again.

leapinlar said:
Just rename the cm- file to start with update-. Then try booting again.
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That worked great! Thanks so much! Unfortunetly it lead to another issue. I followed the instructions to install gapps file. This is the one I used: gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip from the site in the instructions. I booted into recovery using the method of going into Android and powering off and selecting recovery but nothing happened. I came back to the decktop and nothing changed.
So i need to rename something again?

Brad7196 said:
That worked great! Thanks so much! Unfortunetly it lead to another issue. I followed the instructions to install gapps file. This is the one I used: gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip from the site in the instructions. I booted into recovery using the method of going into Android and powering off and selecting recovery but nothing happened. I came back to the decktop and nothing changed.
So i need to rename something again?
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Use the boot menu method. Power completely off, then boot, holding the n button until the boot menu comes up. Select SD and recovery and boot. It will go into the SD recovery which is the little penguin guy and install the gapps. (You did put the gapps file in the boot partition by putting card in the PC didn't you?)

leapinlar said:
Use the boot menu method. Power completely off, then boot, holding the n button until the boot menu comes up. Select SD and recovery and boot. It will go into the SD recovery which is the little penguin guy and install the gapps. (You did put the gapps file in the boot partition by putting card in the PC didn't you?)
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Yep. I put it in the pc. I was having trouble booting it to recovery with the method you described but ill try until i get it right. Thanks for your time and helpbthus far. Ill let you know how it goes.

Urgent help needed I bricked the unbrickable nook color

Summary:
I bricked my sister's Nook Color. She bought it refurbished at a pawn shop for cheap and everything was working until I told my sister that I could root the nook and put an android rom on it. My biggest mistake ever.
I looked at a lot of forums relating to the problem and it seems like there isn't a fix. So basically I got to the point of having CWM working.
All was going so well and I decided to flash eyeballer's cm-9-encore-20120904-0700-unofficial.zip on it. The one on Goo.im. After looking at screenshots of CM9 I was impressed.
I did the factory reset on it and wipe the cache, I flashed the CM9 and it was installing and it seem that it was taking a long time and then the nook turned off.
The biggest mistake that I made was that I formatted the boot , I'm a noob, I figured I wasn't the only one so I came across a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
I thought that CM9 got installed and when I went to turn it on, nothing whatsoever... It doesn't boot no more.
I tried putting the 1gb bootable CWM on a 1gb sd card with Win32 Disk Imager and the Nook didn't boot from the SD card either and I also did the same with an 8gb.
When I go connect the Nook on the computer it searches for a driver called Omap3630 but it doesn't install and it seems to disconnect itself.
I am was looking for more threads and found out that I'm in a similar situation as a user called Jiv_au here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146065
3rd post. I also tried what he did with the 8 boot attempts, pressing power button for 60 seconds and pressing the power on, the N and the volumes.

Seakuza said:
Summary:
I bricked my sister's Nook Color. She bought it refurbished at a pawn shop for cheap and everything was working until I told my sister that I could root the nook and put an android rom on it. My biggest mistake ever.
I looked at a lot of forums relating to the problem and it seems like there isn't a fix. So basically I got to the point of having CWM working.
All was going so well and I decided to flash eyeballer's cm-9-encore-20120904-0700-unofficial.zip on it. The one on Goo.im. After looking at screenshots of CM9 I was impressed.
I did the factory reset on it and wipe the cache, I flashed the CM9 and it was installing and it seem that it was taking a long time and then the nook turned off.
The biggest mistake that I made was that I formatted the boot , I'm a noob, I figured I wasn't the only one so I came across a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
I thought that CM9 got installed and when I went to turn it on, nothing whatsoever... It doesn't boot no more.
I tried putting the 1gb bootable CWM on a 1gb sd card with Win32 Disk Imager and the Nook didn't boot from the SD card either and I also did the same with an 8gb.
When I go connect the Nook on the computer it searches for a driver called Omap3630 but it doesn't install and it seems to disconnect itself.
I am was looking for more threads and found out that I'm in a similar situation as a user called Jiv_au here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146065
3rd post. I also tried what he did with the 8 boot attempts, pressing power button for 60 seconds and pressing the power on, the N and the volumes.
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The problem is that you formatted boot, and CM does not include all of the needed boot files if you formatted boot. You will need to flash the stock firmware back onto the device, and then you can proceed to flash whatever ROM you want on the device, LINK.
I am not sure what version bootable CWM you are using, but download and flash this one,LINK. Since you saw the Omap3630 driver prompt, it does mean that it still is alive and attempting to go through the booting process. As for getting it to boot from this card, you will not get any visual indication that the device is on or not, the screen will stay dark if it’s on or off. Since the device might have been on this whole time I recommend that you fully charge the device before proceeding forward. With no USB cable connected to the device, press and hold the power button for 30 seconds, then insert the SD card, then press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to turn it on. It should boot into the CWM recovery, if it does not press the power button for 30 seconds and try again. It might take a couple attempts, but you should be able to get it. Once you get the device to boot, wipe data/cache, and flash the stock image, and reboot the device. Once you have a working device, you can then boot into the CWM card, and flash the ROM that you want.

GMPOWER said:
The problem is that you formatted boot, and CM does not include all of the needed boot files if you formatted boot. You will need to flash the stock firmware back onto the device, and then you can proceed to flash whatever ROM you want on the device, LINK.
I am not sure what version bootable CWM you are using, but download and flash this one,LINK. Since you saw the Omap3630 driver prompt, it does mean that it still is alive and attempting to go through the booting process. As for getting it to boot from this card, you will not get any visual indication that the device is on or not, the screen will stay dark if it’s on or off. Since the device might have been on this whole time I recommend that you fully charge the device before proceeding forward. With no USB cable connected to the device, press and hold the power button for 30 seconds, then insert the SD card, then press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to turn it on. It should boot into the CWM recovery, if it does not press the power button for 30 seconds and try again. It might take a couple attempts, but you should be able to get it. Once you get the device to boot, wipe data/cache, and flash the stock image, and reboot the device. Once you have a working device, you can then boot into the CWM card, and flash the ROM that you want.
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You gave me a bit of hope but its not booting. The nook is dead... thanks for the help.
edit: I heard that pressing Power + N is like forcing a shut down so I hold those for 30 seconds and then put the SD card in it No boot.
I tried it again and put the Sd card in it and then press the power button still nothing. I believe this is definitely dead. I wish she had bought it at the B&N store. I think I'm getting her a Nook tablet. I owe it to her.