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Worked like a charm. Thanks a lot. I followed all steps in exact order!

Originally Posted by Pastro100

Hey,

So I did some research on your issue and was not able to find any other fix other than downgrading to RC29 (the Dreaimg.nbh file) and then trying the process over again.

Something must have gone wrong when you were flashing the recovery image.

I will continue to see if I can figure out how this may have happened and provide some feedback.

If you look at the CyanogenMod Wiki Page thats one of the first things listed to do.

Nice guide and all but the page has its own guide how to get there fully - http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...de_-_HTC_Dream

Good guide. I'm sure it will help out a lot of newbies. You should probably post his somewhere like the tmobile forums where more people will be able to use it. Just so you know, a few of the things you list are redundant and it can be shortened quite a bit. For example, with CM6 there is no need to partition the SD (for now), and swap is only ever helpful in Hero Sense UI roms. I'll help you cut some of the fat from it.

Originally Posted by Pastro100

Here is what you will need:
1) Your Phone
2) A Computer
3) USB Cable
Download the following file onto your computer: (DO NOT UNZIP OR CHANGE ANY FILES!)
ALL THE LINKS TO DOWNLOAD THE FILES ARE HERE: pktos.blogspot.com

Original DREAIMG.nbh
Cupcake Update.zip
FlashRec.apk
Amon Ra’s Recovery Image
G1 Radio
G1 HardSPL
Generic G1 ROM w/ Root
CYANOGENMOD 6 ROM
GAPPS

ALL THE LINKS TO DOWNLOAD THE FILES ARE HERE: pktos.blogspot.com

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I) Formatting the SD Card and Downgrading to RC29(YOU WILL DELETE EVERYTHING OFF YOUR SD CARD!)
No need to format the SD card before rooting. The sdcard is FAT32 by default.
1. Plug your USB cable into your computer and then plug your phone in.
2. Mount your SD card by sliding down the notification bar and selecting mount.
3. Go to My Computer and access your SD card.
4. drag and drop "DREAIMG.nbh & Update.zip files that you downloaded into the sd card. (DO NOT create a folder or anything, just put it right in the SD card)
7. Unmount your phone by going through the notification bar and then unplug your phone Turn your phone off. from your computer.
8. Press and hold the camera+end key until until you see a screen with colored bars, then let go. This is the bootloader. The screen will turn gray with blue writing on it.
9. Hit the end key to start the update. DON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL THIS IS DONE!
10. Once it is finished it press the trackball to reboot. (If it goes back the the colored bar screen and doesn't reboot try holding the home+menu+end key, if this doesn't work, just remove the batter and put it back in and turn the phone on)
11. Once the phone is on, just turn it back off.
12. Now press the Home+End Key until you see a triangle with an exclamation point in it (this is recovery mode). Once you see this let go of the buttons.
13. Open the keyboard and press ALT and L, and then Press ALT and S. Now wait until the phone reboots (it will do this automatically once the update is applied) (Don't worry if you see picture of a box and a g1 or a chip with an arrow)
14. Once the phone reboots, go ahead and and go through the welcome guide and get to the home screen.

II) Flashing a Recovery Image

1. Now with your phone at the home screen, go to settings>applications> an turn on unknown sources.
2. Now go to settings>SD card and Phone Storage>Unmount SD Card
4. Go back to the home screen and plug and mount the phone to the computer again as you did earlier.
5. Place the following files you downloaded earlier right into the sd card: FlashRec.apk, and Amon Ra's Recovery Image (Again not in any folder or anything, just on the sd card)
6. Once they are transferred go ahead and unmount and unplug your phone from the computer
7. Go and download a file manager from the android market (I suggest LINDA FILE MANAGER)
8. Once downloaded, open the file manager and go to SD card, and click the FlashRec.apk file and then click install. If it asks -> Tell it to use package installer to open it (it probably wont ask but if it does)
9. Once installed click open (it will be on bottom left of screen)
10. Then click the button that says "backup recovery image"
11. Once it says "backup complete" open the keyboard and type the following: /sdcard/recovery.img
12. The click "flash custom recover image" and wit until it says "Flash complete"
13. Go back to the home screen and then turn off the phone.
14. Turn the phone back on into recovery mode by holding down the home and power buttons. You will see a bunch of text on top of a black background with an HTC logo in the middle.

III) Partitioning and Loading the latest radio
It's redundant tohave an ext partition on CM6. No apps to EXT yet.
8. Once the Upgrade is complete hit the "back" button to get back to the main menu. Then scroll down and select "USB-MS Toggle" and wait for it to enable.
9. Now plug the phone into the computer again. Now transfer the files downloaded earlier: G1 Radio, G1 HardSPL, Generic G1 Rom w/ root, to the phone. (AGAIN KEEP THE FILES JUST IN THE SD CARD AND NOT IN A FOLDER OR SOMETHING)
10. Once the transfer is complete hit the Home key to disable the USB-MS toggle and return back to the main menu of recovery mode. Unplug your phone.
11. Scroll down and select "Flash .zip from SDcard"
12. Select the G1 Radio file (named OTA Radio or something like that) and hit the Home key to confirm. DO NOT SELECT ANY OTHER FILE, THE RADIO MUST BE DONE FIRST.
13. Once the Radio Flash is complete Press Home+Back to reboot the phone. It will then say "writing radio image" and then reboot back into recover mode (this will take some time)
Hard SPL? psssht. After the radio update, you should either install an engineering SPL like 1.33.2003 or 1.33.2005. Note that the .2005 SPL is called danger. If flashed with an incompatible radio img (any 1.x radio), you will brick your phone. The .2003 spl is safe coming from stock 0.95.0000, so you can flash that with or without the radio image. 1.33.2005 is more useful though because it had 89 MB on /system vs 67.5 MB on stock. This should be flashed through fastboot, part of adb (android debug bridge)


IV)Installing CYANOGENMOD 6 (Android 2.2 Froyo for HTC DREAM)

1. Once back into Android, turn the phone back off.
2. Hold the Home+Back keys to turn the phone on and get it back into recovery mode
3. Select "USB-MS Toggle" and wait for it to enable
4. Once enabled, plug your phone in and transfer the CYANOGENMOD6 and GAPPS file ito your SD card/phone. (again not in any folder, just in the sd card)
5. Once the files are transferred, press the Home key to disable USB-MS Toggle and return to the main menu, and then unplug your phone.
6. Scroll down and select "wipe" and then select "wipe data / factory reset" and then hit the Home key to confirm. Wait for it to finish the wipe. It will say "Data wipe complete"
7. Hit the back key to return to the main menu.
8. Scroll and select "Flash Zip from SDCard"
9. Select the CYANOGENMOD 6 ROM Named something like "update-cm-6.0.0-DS-RC1-signed.zip" and hit Home to confirm and wait for it to finish.
10. Once finished it will go back to the main menu and say "Install from SD Card Complete"
11. Go back to "Flash Zip from SDCard"
12. Select the Gapps File Named something like "gapps-mdpi-FRF91-3-signed.zip" and click home to confirm.
13. Once it is finished you should be back at the main menu. Select "Reboot System Now" and wait for the phone to reboot.
14. The reboot will take some time, (roughly 5-10 minutes) so don't freak out. Just put your phone down and go do something =)
From here I suggest navigation to steeings->CM settings and turning on CC, turn off dithering, and lower vm heap size to 12. Also, go to ADW settings->UI settings and check system performance. Reboot the phone.
CONGRATS! YOU have successfully rooted your G1 and installed CYANOGENMOD 6 (ANDROID 2.2 Froyo)
From here I suggest installing ADB on your computer. It gives you access to fastboot to flash dangerous files like DANGER spl and radio's safely, push files to the phone, make backups, run shell commands, and LOGCAT! If you get any FC's, run adb logcat and send the log to the dev! it make's finding bugs so much easier.


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Thanks to:
xda
Cyanogen and company (You are all awesome)
TheUnlockr
addictivetips
Androidandme.com

I think I removed enough things to make it a little shorter. I am not sure which SPL you are referring to as Hard spl. Can you reboot via camara+power and tell me what your hboot version is? Also you should probably look at firerats custom MTD partitions thread, it means that you don't need danger anymore.

Great write-up, worked perfectly - even for an android newb like me

Thanks for the help

Have a good one

Originally Posted by mejorguille

For example, with CM6 there is no need to partition the SD (for now), and swap is only ever helpful in Hero Sense UI roms.

Also you should probably look at firerats custom MTD partitions thread, it means that you don't need danger anymore.

Wait... you mean we don't need to go through all the angst of 'should I / shouldn't I' over DangerSPL any more, if only I'd known that 20 minuters ago, ( didn't brick anything, but I did worry somewhat ).

And I'll just go repartiton my SD card again shall I? Lmao...... Yeah, new(ish) G1, you'd think I'd have learned to search and read more by now huh?

Excellent guide though, as a complete G1 noob it got me though it with a little less confusion than some other guides, ( I mean how do you flash a radio if you never did it before, most other guides assume you know how, or do not explicitly guide you through that step, given DangerSPL's reputation, I'd have considered that almost obligatory).

Happily running my favoured CM5 again, yes I know the guide is for CM6, but I stepped off the guide just a little to go for eclair rather than froyo ( almost feel guilty saying it, but it's just the same as my Nand flashed Kaiser now, perhaps a bit faster).

Thanks and cookies (off to do a little userbar and sig work )

Curious about Hard/Danger

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Is that right? CM6 works with HardSPL just as with DangerSPL? Same apps (not neutered at all)?

Gonna try this guide with HardSPL for the first time. I haven't found actual evidence of performance differences, so if I notice anything I'll post back. I had rooted and install CM5.0.8 on another friends G1. We'll see how this goes. Thanks for the guide.

Originally Posted by everythingisround

Is that right? CM6 works with HardSPL just as with DangerSPL? Same apps (not neutered at all)?

Gonna try this guide with HardSPL for the first time. I haven't found actual evidence of performance differences, so if I notice anything I'll post back. I had rooted and install CM5.0.8 on another friends G1. We'll see how this goes. Thanks for the guide.

No Hardspl won't work unless you use firerat's mtd hack.

Good guide! Im excieted to see so many positive posts.
I however have run into a problem.

During this step:

8. Press and hold the camera+end key until until you see a screen with colored bars, then let go. This is the bootloader. The screen will turn gray with blue writing on it.
9. Hit the end key to start the update. DON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL THIS IS DONE!

The screen does not go grey with blue writing. It stays light blue/white and gives the two options.
Do you want to start update?
<action> yes
<power> no

If I hit the end key it goes back to <send> fast boot mode and does nothing at really. Is this right? I left it for an hour and nothing has happened at all. I have no indication that it is doing anything.

Ok so I had to hit the action button instead. Sorry I'm learning as I go here basically.