yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Android Development] Karli:
Thank You for the answer!

i tried to root my G1 with RC29 and RC7 and it always says:

00028002

not allowed

The Bootloader says:

DREA110 PVT 32B

HBOOT-0.95.0000

CPLD-4

RADIO-1.22.12.29

any ideas how i can get root?

Thank You!
[G1 Android Development] themediator:
Help please!

I followed this to a tee but here's the problem. I got the gray/white screen and pressed the power button to start the upgrade or in this case the downgrade to RC29. It finished and said press the action button. I tried the power button but nothing happened so I pressed the roller ball. It went to a screen that has a rainbow of colors on it red then green block then blue and then white at the bottom. It has the build code at the top of it saying:

DREA100 PVT 32B

HBOOT-0.95.0000

CPLD-4RADIO-1.22.12.29

SEPT 2 2008

EDIT: I found the fix in this thread.

Thanks in advance!
[G1 Android Development] themediator:
Okay I found this in the post but it won't reboot for me......

EDIT: Okay I had to unplug it for it to work for me.... thanks. I'll finish the rest of the process now.
[G1 Android Development] themediator:
EDIT: figured out this problem
[G1 Android Development] themediator:
I'm stuck again

I get an error that the recovery.img file is not found. I found a post saying you have to add the SD card directory so it will read the file from the correct spot. I used both of these commands below but haven't been able to get either of them to work:

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

flash_image recovery recovery.img

But it still isn't reading it. I checked the G drive on my computer which is the SD card (at least I think it is - this is the drive that showed on my PC when I mounted to the G1) and the recovery.img file is there.

Someone elese posted that I might have to cd the file to the sdcard (I'm assuming that is moving files around) - how is that done and where do I go from here?

EDIT:*********** FOUND THE PROBLEM - I JUST HAD TO REBOOT AND NOT MOUNT THE DEVICE TO MY PC THEN THE COMMANDS WORKED
[G1 Android Development] zMastaa:
im having this same issue anyone know a fix?
[G1 Android Development] zMastaa:
okay so i dont know how but, i decided to give up and try again another time, so i went to do the OTA system update, came back to check my phone........found it was in recovery mode :S (exclamation mark) and with menu screen, said installation failed but it allowed me to install the Hard spl (ALT+S) now ive got rooted+hard spl in a very funky way lol

just to confirm, when i now try to go into recovery mode (cam+power) instead of multi colour boot loader, it now has the 3 Android logos at the bottom, is this normal?

EDIT: Nvm got it all working fine now rooted RC30
[G1 Android Development] factor6:
Just wanted to say thank you!
[G1 Android Development] xxcintyaxx:
g1 rooting problem

well im already on step 22 and everytime i try to run the update for the rc30 it keeos saying no signature found what does it mean thanx
[G1 Android Development] neoobs:
step 22 of what guide?
[G1 Android Development] JesusFreke:
You don't know? I thought everyone knew *dramatic pause* "The Guide".
[G1 Android Development] neoobs:
My Guide only has 1 step thou...

Step 1: Make JF do it for you

LOL
[G1 Android Development] Seenochino:
welp i went ahead and set up root access on my phone. i had RC30, all in all it took me about an hour to complete everything and be back up to 100% usage on my G1 again. thanx XDA-devs for making kick ass write up's that make it easy for a newb like me.

ROOT PWNS FACE!
[G1 Android Development] suntmagar:
:D

how i instal the debian????????????????????????????????????????????
[G1 Android Development] tubaking182:
I called T-mobile customer care and asked them about rooting your phone, claiming that i had read some things onlinie and was afraid to do it if it meant potentially messing up the phone or my warrenty. They ASSURED me that it WILL NOT void warrenty if you root your phone. they justified it as basically a registry edit and we never got in trouble for those. so i repeat it will NOT void your warrenty on your phone.
[G1 Android Development] momentarylapseofreason:
Why risk it though? Just flash it back to the standard rom if you need to send it back
[G1 Android Development] tubaking182:
true but someone asked about it earlier and i wanted to give him a better answer than "if you're afraid of that you shouldn't do it"
[G1 Android Development] suntmagar:
:(((

how i instal the debian???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? help me please :D
[G1 Android Development] blkdimund:
For some reason after i install recovery.img I lose root access. Before that step I can telnet and all, but afterwards I can't telnet anymore.

I followed the steps to a T. Am I doin something wrong?
[G1 Android Development] neoobs:
Telnet does not give you root. That was just the way we exploited to get root. Root is given in a shell by typing su or sh. You know you have root when the shell starts with #
[G1 Android Development] Autarkis:
That's right. To make it clear: in order to check wether you "got root", open the Terminal Emulator app and type

su <ENTER>

whereafter you should see

$ su
#
[G1 Android Development] Elloco305:
WTF? i did everything step by step, and where im soppose to start my phone holding the camera button everything goes through it reads my DREAIMG.NBH file but it says update FAIL and i take out the battery put it back it pops up with same screen but instead of trying to hit power button i hit Action Button, but nothing happens, i mean what the hell man. Whats the action button because i've literally touched everything on the phone trying to get it back to my home screen. Please help. AND YES i know its been posted before but there hasnt really been an answer to it. For example the only answer they gave was, Take out SD and youll be fine, i take out my sd reboot and nada! What the duece!
[G1 Android Development] tranquilchaos:
Personally, I was a bit confused at that point also.

I couldn't get the phone to restart. I just unplugged the phone from USB

cable and removed the battery. Then restarted. Worked like a champ.

Hope this helps.

tranquilchaos
[G1 Android Development] Elloco305:
Thanks. But still.. Nothing. I'm trying to figure out alternatives to getting the NBH file again on my card.
[G1 Android Development] neoobs:
Well... first off don't use the card supplied with the phone.

second... make sure you use the right version (RC30 is US, RC8 is UK)

third make sure you are not connected to your computer via USB

if you still have issues try ejecting and reinserting the SD card, also try putting the NBH on the card using your phone as the adapter(usb device on the computer)
[G1 Android Development] Elloco305:
Ok still nothing, but the colorful screen. I have removed the sd, Re inserteed it. I've done it all, switch sd cards. I've plugged the G1 unplugged it. It is the right version, RC29. And how can i use my phone as the adapter though being on that color screen???
[G1 Android Development] :
you cant use the phone as adaptor on tri color screen use a memory card reader format the card fat 32 then put the dreaimg/nbh on your memory card make sure its all caps then power off the phone put in the memory card and power on while holding down camera if you have the image correctly on the card you should arrive at a grey screen press power button to complete flash
[G1 Android Development] Gorguts:
PROBLEM!!!

Everything worked but the build number still says RC29. I didn't get any errors along the way and I saw everything I was suppose to see but the build didn't change and telnet now gives an error and won't connect. Any ideas?

UPDATE!!!

Never mind, followed a different guide and it worked. The guide I used was a little different and for whatever reason more effective.
[G1 Android Development] Nayyak:
I've followed the instructions and got ADP1. :)

I don't know y I chose this version instead of the mod rc30. maybe coz I want to get "realer" root :p

Is there any difference between them ?

Can I update to mod RC30 ? Is OTA update blocked now? or do I have to do something else?

And last but not the least:

One of the reasons I wanted to get root is the ability to change the font so I can let my phone read other languages. the question now is can I lock my phone (un-root) afterwards ? I want to do the same to my wife's phone but I don't want her to brick it.
[G1 Android Development] Jrbourque:
Having the same problem

I went all the way through didnt get any errors and my build is still on rc29 and i dont have root.
[G1 Android Development] :
just because you have rc29 does not automatically mean you have root. Please reread the post about telnet and creating a root shortcut.
[G1 Android Development] c0d3m0nk3y:
Also having issue, for starters typing in telnetd did not work. I downloaded the Telnet app from the marketplace and it couldn't connect. Then I downloaded Terminal Emulator as per suggestion from my coworker which was succesful at the whole process, when entering the "mount...,remount" command it tells me access is denied
[G1 Android Development] :
before you enter mount -oremount,rw did you type su? do you have $ or # in the terminal
[G1 Android Development] c0d3m0nk3y:
$

if i type su it says permission denied
[G1 Android Development] :
if you do not get a # then you have missed a step. go back through and try again. make sure to follow the posts exactly step by step.
[G1 Android Development] c0d3m0nk3y:
I've repeated the steps to loading RC29 multiple times, the only thing i didn't follow is restarting the phone after the update i couldn't figure out how to do it so i just pulled the battery. That shouldn't make a dif.

Just to validate my build is: kila-user 1.0 TC4-RC29 115247 ota-rel-keys,release-keys
[G1 Android Development] Koush:
Do the telnet part now.

Edit: I just rooted two stock RC30 phones 5 minutes ago, following the instructions from the post I wrote. Just to make sure I didn't miss anything.
[G1 Android Development] c0d3m0nk3y:
did you post a new RC29 build?
[G1 Android Development] :
??? what are you referring to? Koush was telling you to follow the instructions for the telnet root hack, not to install a new 29, he is saying that since you have rc29 you are able to create your "su" using telnet. start from that step in the howto.
[G1 Android Development] c0d3m0nk3y:
That is specifically the part that won't work. I get access denied
[G1 Android Development] patrick78:
Hello everyone,

I am new to this forum and would like to ask for some help. I was recently given a G1 from a friend who said he began the process to ROOT the phone. I had no idea what this meant so I began looking around and found this forum. I have a basic understanding at this point and don't feel I need it since I would probably never take advantage of this access (because I don't know how to or what I'm doing). Is there a way to "un-root" (sorry if that term is incorrect) the phone or restore to the factory setting? I'm not even sure if the person who gave me the phone finished the ROOT process as he didn't really know what he was doing. Not sure if the following info will help or not but I thought I would include it just in case.

The current Kernel version is:

2.6.25-01843-gfea26b0

root@carrier #21

Build number:

kila-user 1.0 TC4-RC30 116143

ota-rel-keys,release-keys

Items on sdcard are: DEAMIMG.nbh, recovery_testkeys.img, and a compressed zip folder named update.

Thank you in advance for any help.
[G1 Android Development] :
you dont have root yet.

connect your g1 to your wifi network (same network that your computer is on) and make a note of the IP address your phone is using.

open your terminal emulator program ON G1 (download from market) then type:

$cd /system/bin

$telnetd

then, on your computer, in command prompt (windows) or terminal (mac/linux) type telnet IP OF G1 (192.168.x.xxx)

example: telnet 192.168.1.100

wait a bit and you will get

# on your computer

then you type

#cd /system/bin

#cat sh > su

#chmod 4755 su

now you have root...now follow the steps to flash the signed recovery image.

after you flash the recovery image then you can put any update.zip on your memory card and update your phone.
[G1 Android Development] coolbho3000:
Patrick78: don't worry, your friend made no changes to the phone, he just copied some files to the SD card. It looks like you're on the stock RC30 firmware - which is unmodified and official.

However, I do suggest you root your new phone if you're new here. If done right it carries little risk and the benefits are huge! :)
[G1 Android Development] patrick78:
coolbho3000, thank you for the reply. After further research I think the phone has to have ROOT access because it has auto rotate (DroidSans Tweak Tools is installed, not the DroidSans Tweak Lite) and I have read that this can only happen if the phone has ROOT. If this is inaccurate please let me know.
[G1 Android Development] Elloco305:
Frustration is killing me.

Alright everyone, I have now gone 3 days WITHOUT my G1, Because i'm stuck on this screen . It reads 'Serial0' in a white strip through the green bar. Now If i put in my 2gb SD card which worked before on the g1 with the NBH downloaded from all over. >.<; But anyways, The point is, It's the only thing on my card. But when i insert it into the g1 and boot it up, (by the way even without holding the camera button my phone still boots straight into this screen) And i hold the camera button it tries to read the grayish/white screen which i have once encountered once before, but yet didnt manage to get pass. So anyways it tries to read it and it quickly flashes BOOT IMAGE NOT FOUND and then it returns to this screen from hell. What else can i do. I'm really upset because i have no other phone and i miss my G1! I have tried to use another SD card 128mb And still nothing. Yes both cards are formatted to Fat32. Please o' please someone help. >.<
[G1 Android Development] neoobs:
is the image named DREAIMG.NBH?

Also can you boot with home and power?
[G1 Android Development] Elloco305:
Yes it is titled DREAIMG.NBH all caps. and No. I cant boot like that. :( Please, anymore help? x_x;
[G1 Android Development] jojo_angelov:
What is the difference in this method and jesus freke method? This method is not talkng about test keys. And jf says that they are importnat? This one seems a lot eaiser... you don't use computer to push files from sdk ? I'm kinda confused....any body willing the clear the cloud a little bit?
[G1 Android Development] Markus31415:
Do I also can root a T-Mobile branded G1 this way?
[G1 Android Development] rizoh66:
I have tried and tried the step by step process. How do I know if I have root access? Everything seemed to work as noted. But I have tried installing one of the themes on the forum and it doesnt seem to work. I have also tried to use the root only application manager from the market and it still says I dont have root.

Am I missing something?
[G1 Android Development] HEED:
Update Terminate - UPDATE FAIL - HELP!ME!

Tried to Root my G1 and it failed. Can anyone help me please.:confused::eek:
[G1 Android Development] lushmoney:
i did all the steps and everything seemed to have work, but still no root. i dont really get how when you download the mod rc30 image or dev phone image and rename it to update.zip and follow those steps, how does it install that image when there is already another update (zip file) on the sd card. because after doing all the steps it still says rc29 in the build number, and i'm following the steps very carefully, i just think i'm missin something. anyone have any insight?
[G1 Android Development] lushmoney:
nevermind figured it out you have to put the original update.zip (spl from first step) in another folder on the sd card (i named it update) and the rc30 image named update.zip in the main root of the sd card, then take it from there, where you turn your phone off, hold home and power to load, then alt s and i'm good. AWESOME THANKS FOR MAKIN THIS!!
[G1 Android Development] ShaffersMyHomie:
When I get to flash_image recovery recovery.img i keep getting "error opening recovery.img: No such file or directory." I have tried changing recovery.img to /sdcard/recovery.img and I have made sure that I properly unmounted it. When I cd to sdcard and ls the only thing inside is dcim.
[G1 Android Development] dom2684:
ARE THESE GOOD STEPS?

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 image file. Copy the DREAMIMG.nbh file to the SD card.

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.

then go ur memory card and remove the files u placed in there

you knwo have RC29 the nect step

1. Download 'AndroidMod.zip' from here http://rapidshare.com/files/166164961/AndroidMod.zip

2. Extract 'recovery_testkeys.img' from that zip and copy it to your SD card.

3. Download 'install.zip' which is attached to this post below.

4. Extract 'install' from that zip and copy it to your SD card.

5. Put the SD card in the phone or disconnect the phone if it is attached by USB.

6. Reboot the phone (switch it off and then on again).

7. When it has finished booting type the following at the home screen. It will start searching your contacts, but don't worry about that. Also, you won't see any visible sign that the first command worked. Just go ahead and type the second command straight afterwards:

cd sdcard<press enter>

sh install<press enter>

After a moment your phone should reboot itself. To check that the flashing worked, switch off the phone and then hold down the home key while you switch it on again. Keep the home key held down until you see the recovery screen (with the "!" triangle and the picture of the phone). Then press Alt+L on the keyboard and if you see "Using test keys" on the second line of text then the modified recovery image is installed and you can now install a modified firmware.

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=142403&d=1230954153

after that remove the files u placed in there

now were gonna install JFrc30

download jfrc30 here http://jf.nyquil.org/v1.31/JFv1.31_RC30.zip

rename it to update and place it in ur memory card

now turn off ur phone

then turn it back on holding home+ power then press alt + s and wait for it to finish the update and re boot by holding home + back
[G1 Android Development] RTX:
DREAIMG.nbh - No Image File !

im trying to downgrade my phone with the DREAIMG.nbh

i folowed the instruction

formated the sd card

copied the file

and turnd it on on flash mode

the problem is that it shows a

red green blue and white screen

and for a second it shows a message of :

No IMage File

this meens it didnot updated

please help .... :(

thanks

Rtx

----- found the problem -----

if you expiriance it

you didnot format FAT32

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[G1 Android Development] xlittowillyx:
I am having the same problem, but I can't seem to restart it.

* formated the sd card

* copied the file

* and turnd it on on flash mode

* I let it finish loading

now I don't know how to restart it.

It says DREA100 PVT 32B

HBOOT-0.95.0000

CPLD-4

RADIO-1.22.12.29

Sep 2 2008

Serio0

Never Mind Solved ~ I thought I did the soft rest, but must of missed the button. Stupid Mistake. Thanks anyways :)

I was thinking about pulling out the battery, but that doesn't seem like a good idea. Thanks for any help
[G1 Android Development] RTX:
Help - wownt flash

i tried to flash my phone

i folowed the instructions and copied the dreaimg.nbh to a formated card

but the phone goes to the tricolor state and tell that

No Image File! on the sd card

please help me i realy need the root access

----- found the problem -----

if you expiriance it

you didnot format FAT32

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[G1 Android Development] RTX:
update.zip crashed

i tried also to use the update.zip

its starting well and unpacking the zip file but after a while its crashing and saying that the update.zip is curapted

this is the exact message :

Installing from sdcard...

Finding update package...

openning update package...

Verifying update package...

E:Failure at line 1:

assert getprop("ro.build.fingerprint") == "tmobile/kila/dream/trout:1.0/tc4-rc29/11524:user/ota-rel-keys.release-keys" || getprop(ro.build.fingerprint") == "tmobile/killa/dream/trout:1.0/tc4-rc28/114235:user/ota-rel-keys.release-keysInstalation aborted.

press home+back to reboot

what did i do wrong

i used a dosen of downloads allready some dosnt work at all and this is the only one that even started the procedure
[G1 Android Development] RTX:
im trying to downgrade my phone with the DREAIMG.nbh

i folowed the instruction

formated the sd card

copied the file

and turnd it on on flash mode

the problem is that it shows a

red green blue and white screen

and for a second it shows a message of :

No IMage File

this meens it did not updated

please help .... i need the reeo access ....

thanks

Rtx
[G1 Android Development] RTX:
tried also to use the update.zip

its starting well and unpacking the zip file but after a while its crashing and saying that the update.zip is curapted

this is the exact message :

Installing from sdcard...

Finding update package...

openning update package...

Verifying update package...

E:Failure at line 1:

assert getprop("ro.build.fingerprint") == "tmobile/kila/dream/trout:1.0/tc4-rc29/11524:user/ota-rel-keys.release-keys" || getprop(ro.build.fingerprint") == "tmobile/killa/dream/trout:1.0/tc4-rc28/114235:user/ota-rel-keys.release-keysInstalation aborted.

press home+back to reboot

what did i do wrong

i used a dosen of downloads allready some dosnt work at all and this is the only one that even started the procedure
[G1 Android Development] :
what update are you doing? you get that error message because the update is looking for official keys, not test keys (as your update is signed with testkeys). start from the beginning, RC29 flash, then telnet then update.

you need to follow the instructions closely.
[G1 Android Development] Elloco305:
RTX How is it that you fixed your NO IMAGE FILE FOUND problem? I'm stuck there myself and can't even load a damn thing, Ive tried for days now to put in a new NBH file and still all of then are NOT read.
[G1 Android Development] Bill Zimmerly:
When I received my ADP1 on 1/17/2009, I followed the procedure on this web page...

How to register the G1 without a sim or data plan

...and it worked perfectly! I had a great little Android that did all that I asked of it, so long as I was near my Wifi router.

.

.

.

.

.

Great! But then this evening (1/25/2009) I went to this thread and followed these instructions to the letter...

And it worked fine until I tried to duplicate the steps on the aforementioned page, How to register the G1 without a sim or data plan.

Every time it tries to connect to Google and sign in to my Google account, it fails and I get this message...

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

There must be some kind of setting in the JFv1.31_ADP1.zip file (renamed update.zip) that is preventing me from connecting to the Google servers via Wifi.

PLEASE HELP!!!!

ADB via the USB cable works great and I can poke around, but don't know where to even begin in order to fix this problem.

Update: I added a zip file (dmesg.zip) that contains the dmesg.txt file generated by the dmesg command under an adb session to my now partially bricked ADP1. I hope that there are things in there that assist in finding out what the problem is.