My G1 is stuffed, but not bricked. Mount from Recovery? Wave invites for help.

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Ok. So yesterday night I was trying to give my G1 a new ROM. I wasn't really concentrating. I was tired. I've done it successfully before. I was following the instructions on Cyanogen Wiki for phones already with custom SPL and OTA.

Something screwed up, I did the firstROM a while ago so it probably wasn't the right one. Maybe it needed deathspl.

Regardless, it is now stuck on the T-Mobile G1 screen (and its stuck, I've left it for an entire night: still stuck) . I can take out the battery and boot into recovery mode. So at this point I basically need to mount my SD through USB (i dont have adapter) so I can start from scratch with SPLs, Radios and Images. This is the problem.

I've read you can do it by pressing Alt+X, going into console/terminal and type some commands in. I press Alt+X but nothing happens. I'll tell you what happens when I do other things:

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Alt+S= E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (Invalid argument)
Can't mount sdcard

Alt+A= <<same thing except for last line:>> E:Can't mount SDCARD:

Move apps+dalvik-cache to SD: Error: run apps2sd via adb

Apply sdcard:update.zip: Can't mount sdcard

Apply sdcard:choose zip: E: CAn't mount SDCARD:

Wipe data/factory reset: Data wipe complete.

Nandroid v2.2 backup: Can't mount sdcard

Nandroid v2.2 restore: Can't mount sdcard, aborting.

Format SD : fat32+ext2+swap: Format complete!

Format SD : fat32: Format complete

Repair ext filesystem: Error : run e2fsck via adb!

Convert ext2 to ext3: Error : run upgrade_fs via adb!

Fix package uid mismatches: Error : run fix_permissions via adb!

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Alrighty. So its royally stuffed up.

Please help! I'm telling myself its not bricked, because it has small but definite programs and calculations running.

It mentions adb, and I have used it in the past to skip through a tutorial (back when you couldn't skip through it) because it needed internet connection and at the time I didnt have data transfer on my SIM, but I did have Wireless. How exactly I did this escapes. Do I need to download anything?

I have no idea if this helps, but I was trying to think of a sort of prize for anybody to help and I have Google Wave invites. Whether thats a big deal or not, I have no idea.

Please help!

Well you can assure yourself that you are not bricked.

First check your SPL and Radio.

If they are:

SPL=1.33.2005
Radio=2.26.19.26I

then your good in that area.

you just need to wipe everything and retry the ROM.

If not then you might want to get the latest stuff and try again that way.

Thanks

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Thanks.

But how do I check?

I can't get into the proper Android OS, the three states my phone can be in are:

Off

Stuck on T-Mobile Screen

Recovery Mode

Also, how can I get some new stuff on my SD card if I the only things I have are: the phone described above (i.e. the only workable state being recovery mode), an SD card and a USB cable.

Whats your email so I can send you an invite if you want it?

Originally Posted by lachy95

Thanks.

But how do I check?

I can't get into the proper Android OS, the three states my phone can be in are:

Off

Stuck on T-Mobile Screen

Recovery Mode

Also, how can I get some new stuff on my SD card if I the only things I have are: the phone described above (i.e. the only workable state being recovery mode), an SD card and a USB cable.

Whats your email so I can send you an invite if you want it?

To see you SPL and Radio do this:

Turn off phone

Hold Home and End Call buttons.

If you see:

Hboot-1.33.2005 or something like that then that means that you have the latest SPL

Radio-2.22.19.26I then you have the latest Radio too.


First we need to check to see what your SPL and radio is before you try to do anything that involves flashing ROMs

What recovery image do you have?

Can't see it

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When I press Home + End Call I can see is:

Android System Recovery:

<the options I described before, with their errors>

The above is in green font, the background is black with an HTC logo, at the very bottom is white font that says this:

Build: RAv1.2.1G

Sorry for not replying as fast as could. I mega-ly appreciate this so I'll try to be more vigilant.

I'll look around for other key combos to get some more info.

Originally Posted by lachy95

When I press Home + End Call I can see is:

Android System Recovery:

<the options I described before, with their errors>

The above is in green font, the background is black with an HTC logo, at the very bottom is white font that says this:

Build: RAv1.2.1G

Sorry for not replying as fast as could. I mega-ly appreciate this so I'll try to be more vigilant.

I'll look around for other key combos to get some more info.

And I just did that! I pressed back + home and got a white background with three skateboarding androids with this text:

DREAM PVT 32B ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-1.33.2005 (DREA*****)
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Apr 20 2009, 15:30:43

CLEARSTORAGE

Delete all user data?
<ACTION> Yes
<POWER> No

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Well thats atleast one step we've bypassed. Stay with me here.

Alrighty so I know the Radio and SPL, and apparently they are up to date.

What next?

From your above post, it seems your SDcard is not being read by your phone. Not sure what the issue is there.

But, if you can get it recognized by the phone, try the following:

It seems you have ADB set up, you may be in luck.

Connect the USB cable in recovery and type these commands on cmd prompt in Windows:

adb shell
ums_enable

This should mount your phone to your PC.

You can now move in necessary files to save your phone.

I suggest doing a FULL WIPE, then reflashing a ROM such as CM 4.2.14.1 (latest build).

If that doesn't work, you may have to start over by flashing DREAIMG.nbh (RC29), flashing latest radio, flashing SPL, DON'T REBOOT, then flashing rom RIGHT AFTER SPL.

Good luck, keep us updated.

Nearly There

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Ok. So I got adb up and running.

I ran adb devices and it was blank so I followed part 2 of:
<do google search for "the unlockr hot to set up adb usb drivers for android devices>

After reinstalling drivers via USBDeview:

My Device Manager is now registering my phone as the Android Composite ADB Interface, but when I run adb devices it still has a blank list.

Keep in mind I am in recovery mode.

When I try and run adb shell, it errors with 'no device found' so I need to do this devices command successfully.

Does anybody know whats happening?

Originally Posted by lachy95

Ok. So I got adb up and running.

I ran adb devices and it was blank so I followed part 2 of:
<do google search for "the unlockr hot to set up adb usb drivers for android devices>

After reinstalling drivers via USBDeview:

My Device Manager is now registering my phone as the Android Composite ADB Interface, but when I run adb devices it still has a blank list.

Keep in mind I am in recovery mode.

When I try and run adb shell, it errors with 'no device found' so I need to do this devices command successfully.

Does anybody know whats happening?

Try running it while the Phone is on instead of recovery.

Say run terminal and post the output of:

cat /proc/cmdline

By the way you can still flash images using fastboot mode.