Uh oh... Did I just brick my N1?

[chomerfl]

So while reading the instructions and trying to install the MeDroid ICS 6.1 build... I think I might have bricked my N1. I successfully installed Blackrose. Then watched the video, and repartitioned the system. I then realized that I didn't have the ROM on my microSD card, so I clicked reboot to try to reboot into my CM7 system so I can connect it to my PC and copy over the ZIP of the flash. That's when it all went downhill.

I'm not stuck with the colorful X on my screen. The system doesn't respond to the volume down while I press the power button. If I rerun Blackrose, it crashes, badly. I can't turn off the phone by holding down the power button. I have to pull the battery.

So what do I do now? Need help...

This is by far the worst thing I've done to the phone so far. Everything else has been pretty easy.

 

[chomerfl]

Ok, it isn't *completely* dead. I still need some help trying to finish the ICS installation. At this point, I can get back into Blackrose. I guess I wasn't holding down the volume down button properly when I turned it on. So now I can get into Blackrose - Latest version by the way. Now what?

 

[Theshawty]

Ok, it isn't *completely* dead. I still need some help trying to finish the ICS installation. At this point, I can get back into Blackrose. I guess I wasn't holding down the volume down button properly when I turned it on. So now I can get into Blackrose - Latest version by the way. Now what?

Try to download a system.img and boot.img for the ROM you want and flash those from the fastboot mode.

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[FFVengeance]

I had the same problem and I figured out that it was happening because of the resized cache partition. If you are using clockwork recovery, that might be your problem. What I did was I flashed Amon's RA recovery by using fastboot. Then I was finally able to boot into recovery. With clockwork, it kept on freezing on the x every time I tried to go into it. After I booted into RA recovery, I wiped cache, data and dalvik cache and then installed ICS from SD. Hope this helps.

 

[jackylu]

I had the same problem too

 

[chomerfl]

Uh... Yeah, I do run CWM. How do I get into fastboot and install the Amon RA reconvery?

Homer

 

[taodan]

Uh... Yeah, I do run CWM. How do I get into fastboot and install the Amon RA reconvery?

Homer

The easy way is to use ROM Manager to flash alternate Amon_RA recovery.

 

[FFVengeance]

Uh... Yeah, I do run CWM. How do I get into fastboot and install the Amon RA reconvery?

Homer

Download the RA recovery image onto your computer (should be a .img file). Make sure you have adb and fastboot drivers installed. Turn on your phone while holding volume down and select fastboot from the menu. Connect your phone to your computer via USB. It should say fastboot USB on the screen at this point. Now open command prompt on your computer and navigate to the folder where you have the RA recovery img file. Now type the following into command prompt: fastboot flash recovery filename.img. Replace filename.img with the name of the recovery file. Recovery should now be flashed. Now shut off your phone and restart again while holding volume down. At this point select recovery from the menu and hope that it loads. Worked for me. Make sure you wipe cache, data, and dalvik cache before flashing ICS. Hope this helps.

Sent from my Nexus One

 

[n1n1n1n1]

Download the RA recovery image onto your computer (should be a .img file). Make sure you have adb and fastboot drivers installed. Turn on your phone while holding volume down and select fastboot from the menu. Connect your phone to your computer via USB. It should say fastboot USB on the screen at this point. Now open command prompt on your computer and navigate to the folder where you have the RA recovery img file. Now type the following into command prompt: fastboot flash recovery filename.img. Replace filename.img with the name of the recovery file. Recovery should now be flashed. Now shut off your phone and restart again while holding volume down. At this point select recovery from the menu and hope that it loads. Worked for me. Make sure you wipe cache, data, and dalvik cache before flashing ICS. Hope this helps.

Sent from my Nexus One

I've following your instructions above, can get to the black/green recovery, and have wiped cache, data, and dalvik cache, but still cant flash any roms.

Flashing CM7.1 gives a E:Can't open /sdcard/rom name.... (bad) error

Flashing MeDroid6.1 will begin installation and go for a few minutes but then shows a 'Random offset: 0x28e' message before the installation finishes. At the end I get a 'Install from sdcard complete' message, but reboot and get stuck at the recovery image.

Flashing MIUI.us_passion_4.0.3-2.2.10_0xD34D gives a E:Can't open /sdcard/rom name.... (bad) error

I've disabled signature verification during all of the above steps

any help would be appreciated...

 

[MoeNeXus]

Is your partition correct?

Sent from my Nexus One

 

[n1n1n1n1]

i'm assuming its not.

how do i get back to the default values and what are the default values?

thanks

 

[FFVengeance]

i'm assuming its not.

how do i get back to the default values and what are the default values?

thanks

You should have the stock hboot in your Blackrose folder. You could try to flash it through fastboot by navigating to that folder and using the following commands:

fastboot flash hboot hboot_stock.nb0
fastboot reboot-bootloader

It might not work but it's worth giving it a shot. When I try it on mine it fails but it could be because I have a locked bootloader.

 

[n1n1n1n1]

still no luck. i get the following message...


.......directory\Blackrose\hboot>fastboot flash hboot hboot_stock.nb0
sending 'hboot' (512 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.085s]
writing 'hboot'...
(bootloader) signature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 0.227s