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[G1 General] webby93:
right so obviously im stuck on the start thing. I cant log in because i havn't got the right sim which is just a normal pay as you go t-mobile. i dont get any of the instructions at the beginning of this tutorial and all the rest of it.

What i'm thinking is as i do have free internet on a vodafone contract sim card, if i get my g1 unlocked (which i already sent an email to t-mobile) will i be able to get through with that as isn't it not being able to connect to the servers?

HELP.

Cheers

Noob james lol
[G1 General] webby93:
i was also wondering how long it would take before t-mobile will email me back

cheers

james
[G1 General] webby93:
T-mobile the cheeky sods want me to pay £15 for the unlock code. Anyone know anywhere cheaper in the uk.

Cheers

James
[G1 General] djremix71:
Arg!

Hey guys. Here's the story. I bought a cheap G1 off eBay. I don't have a SIM card or have access to one really. I just want to use the G1 as a WIFI device. I can't get past the blasted NO SIM CARD screen. Here's what I have done. I have adb access. I have copied busybox onto the phone as well as sqlite3 (I am running the 29 firmware which doesn't have sqlite3 so I found a copy from a newer build of android. I have busybox running in a telnet session with root access. All of that stuff, but when I enter the sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db "INSERT INTO system (name, value) VALUES ('device_provisioned', 1);" command and then reboot the phone, I still get the blasted no SIM card screen. I have attached a copy of the CMD history so hopefully will help!

Thanks!
[G1 General] isaacwaller:
If you root it and install CyanogenMod, the no sim card screen will go away. This may be the easiest option. I did this with my no-sim G1 and it works great.
[G1 General] :
I used the old reliable "social hack". I went down to the TMo store and flirted with the girl.

"Can I borrow your sim card for just a sec?"

I explained of not wanting to get a data plan and just needed to turn the phone on. This is where the flirtation is important or she'll just think you're a cheap sod and tell you to #*%$ off. She was very helpful and let me use her sim. Very nice of her, but no, unfotunately she wouldn't give me her phone #.
[G1 General] djremix71:
How do you root it without a sim card?
[G1 General] :
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=452316
[G1 General] LucidREM:
what is the response when you enter this command?

# sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db "INSERT INTO system (name, value) VALUES ('device_provisioned', 1);"

this is the crucial component of getting by the sim requirement
[G1 General] djremix71:
Response

When I put in the command, it came up with -> like it wanted something more (you can see that in the screenshot). This is the point when I unplug my phone and reboot it. Nothing happens though.
[G1 General] lbcoder:
According to your screenshot, you don't follow instructions.

Try again.
[G1 General] djremix71:
Got it working. (I got a SIM card and did it that way). Much easier. :-)
[G1 General] slawson:
I just bought a g1, i don't have a simcard and it's not rooted, how would i dothis with neither one?
[G1 General] synaptyc:
Backstory:

I have rooted 3 G1's using this method with no issue. I have a SIM card, so I use this method to enable WIFI and proceed with rooting and loading a custom rom.

Problem:

I bought a white G1 off Craigslist.org for cheap. It came with Android 1.6 so I flashed it back to RC29 from this tutorial. I verified the version using the REBOOT trick. I inserted my SIM card and try to access the G1 using ADB SHELL from my laptop (the same laptop that I rooted the other G1's)

For some reason ADB says no device is present. I am stuck here. Any tips?
[G1 General] mangiaculo:
I've rooted a few g1's without issue, but am now running into a problem that I can't find any fixes for. I have an unrooted g1, which I flashed to rc29, but the setprop commands don't seem to work. Typing "reboot" indeed reboots the phone, but neither "setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1" nor "setprop app.setupwizard.disable 1" seem to work. I've tried each several times, and enabling adb isn't working. I verified that the driver and adb on my machines are fine using another g1, which I rooted. I rebooted after attempting to skip registration each time, but always end up back at the registration wizard. I'm trying register over wifi, as I've done several times before. Any ideas why this isn't working, and what I could do to fix it? I've reflashed DREAIMG.nbh several times. Thank you!
[G1 General] synaptyc:
Mangiaculo, it looks like you and I are in a similar boat. I hope someone throws us a life preserver and saves us!
[G1 General] mangiaculo:
Yeah, this is really odd. I've also tried a hard reset, though I didn't expect that to have any effect. The phone charges fine, for what that's worth.
[G1 General] spicysomtam:
Me too!

I did '<enter>setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1<enter>' on my laptop at home with win7 32bit, and it worked fine last night. However I come to use my office pc (also win7 32bit) and the setprop does not work. Exact setup at home, same usb cable, same phone. The pc at work is older than the laptop at home. I can only conclude its a usb chipset/driver problem. Thus try another PC/laptop.

The sd card device pops up but not the adb device.
[G1 General] mangiaculo:
I've tried 3 different machines, confirming that the driver and adb work on each with my other, rooted g1.
[G1 General] spicysomtam:
Just installed the latest SDK with usb drivers on my bosses winxp sp3 laptop. As soon as I plugged in the usb cable, a driver was not found and was able to install the sdk usb driver. Device then showed up as 'Android Composite adb interface'. 'adb devices' did not show the device and I then needed to enter '<enter>setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1<enter>' on the phone, did an 'adb kill-server' and then 'adb devices' shows up the device as HT93WKV04360. Then I can follow the rest of the istunner guide to enable the wifi, etc.
[G1 General] synaptyc:
I followed your lead and did the same thing with 2 separate Windows XP SP3 machines and a 2nd Windows 7 machine. I get the same problem . NO DEVICES when using "adb shell" and adb devices"! ... even though the driver is installed and the computer sees the phone as the "HTC Dream". I just don't get it. I suppose I will just not be able to root this one :confused:
[G1 General] juangil:
seams to me that you need to turn on "usb debugging" in order for ADB to recognize your device

menu/settings/applications/development (might be diff since I have an Eclair Rom but you get the idea)

Good luck:)
[G1 General] synaptyc:
I can't get to that screen just yet. I currently cannot register the device, hence the reason I am following this tutorial on how to turn on WIFI so i can register the device. There is no way to get to the Settings menu until the phone is registered. I am doing this for a family member who is on T-Mobile. I want to get it all setup for her before she puts in her SIM card and uses this G1 as her primary phone.

Besides, I never needed to turn on any internal debugging with any of the G1's i've rooted in the past. This phone is just being a pain :mad:. It really doesn't make sense why I can root several other G1's on this computer, and not this particular G1.

Odd to say the least. :confused:
[G1 General] mangiaculo:
Here's where I'm at:

I imaged DREAIMG.nbh, then I followed the instructions here, but instead of installing the jf rom, I installed the adp1.1, so that I could skip activation. Now I'm trying to find out why I can't register over wifi, even though I'm connected...

*Update: I'm registered now. The problem was due to network issues.

*Update: I've enabled usb debugging, but the same problem exists where the computer says that the device malfunctioned and is unknown. Any ideas? This appears to have happened to several g1 users, but I've yet to find any responses on it. Thank you!
[G1 General] bongers:
G1 Activation

Hi Guys,

I know that this thread is already old.

But right now, I need someone to help me to activate G1 with out a data plan.

Thanks.
[G1 General] LucidREM:
that's where this line comes into play .. turns on ADB on your phone:

<enter>setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1<enter>
[G1 General] synaptyc:
Lucid.... i know all about the purpose of the above line. (i have rooted several other G1's using this exact laptop.)

... i DID get ADB working. :)

Part of my problem was the SIM card issue believe it or not. This time around I was using a Verizon SIM card from a Blackberry Storm. (yuck btw) I certainly didn't think that would be an issue because the NO SIM message was removed.

I would boot the phone and type this on the phones keyboad

<enter>setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1<enter>

then connect it to the laptop and try starting adb shell, adb kill-server, adb devices ... etc. I constantly got the "No Device" error.

Then I thought to myself.... "Try the T-Mobile SIM card just to rule it out". Rebooted, entered the adb start command on the G1, plugged it in, typed

adb devices

and WHAM!!! There was my beautiful device listed. I WAS SUPER STOKED!!! I quickly typed

adb shell

and entered

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings

looked at the G1's screen and there were my WIFI settings. The rest is History.

Thank you all for the help getting this sorted out.
[G1 General] magnu5:
I'm having this problem too.

I don't have a sim card to insert.

phone is running rc29.

I've done the following too:

"- If you have an official RC29 or lower phone, type the following command on the phone keyboard to enable adb:

<enter>setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1<enter>"
[G1 General] prelude91sit:
ok i have a g1. when i press enter type reboot and press enter nothing happens. When i dongrade to rc29 everything goes smoothly, until its time to reset it. I always get stuck at the flashing andriod screen. my way around this is to next install cupcake which brings me back to the activations screen. but i still cant reboot
[G1 General] crazyboy81:
I can get into wifi settings but it wont turn on"wfif unable to start" :( now what
[G1 General] destinydmm:
how do you get the command line up on the phone to do:

<enter>reboot<enter>

<enter>setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1<enter>
[G1 General] steve82291:
I don't have a SIM and i have tried all the steps in the first post many times. The sqlite3 command gives me a error (Permission Denied) and when i try to bring up the settings with the command nothing comes up the phone just stays on the No Sim Card screen. I have rc29. Am i doing something wrong?
[G1 General] LucidREM:
No Command Line

there is not a command line .. it is entered blindly
[G1 General] herogangzta:
hello and first sry for my bad english.

in the www i have found an other way to bypass the screen with '

click android to enter setup' or the emergency call window,ever.

first tap in the left-top corner,then in the right-top corner,then in right-under corner and last in the left-under corner(over the buttons). like a watch.thats it.

i've seen that for the htc desire but goin on the G1.i have tested on my g1.i dont no what for rc version is required.the original rc30or29 is not required.

this skip the screen ever.

i hope you know what i mean.

Sent from my T-Mobile G1
[G1 General] mrjulian15:
well, after all, his name is Jesus
[G1 General] raven_raven:
I confirm that tapping in corner clockwise (starting from upper-left) works.
[G1 General] herogangzta:
yeah. Thank you raven_raven. exactly what I meant.
[G1 General] moebaz:
Need help :(

Please man i have exactly this issue can you help me and provide detailed instructions? i have eclipse installed but i dont know how to use please ..
[G1 General] Jessysj:
make sure after you type setprop persist blah blah you type in "telnetd" and adb will work
[G1 General] liltay903:
can sum obe pls help got a g1 from friend an dont have a sim wont to use the fine i down grade to rc29 now wat
[G1 General] Royalknight6190:
You should follow steps listed here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=738651
[G1 General] nickmcnamara:
ok so i have windows 7 and i downloaded the sdk and when i try to install it it goes to the black box like in command promt well it pretty much is but anyways then it brings up a box that says this program installed properly or install this program again what do i do and i downloaded eclipse 3.5 and when i try to start that it says i have no java machine on here whats goin on?????????? please help i want to rrot my phone ive done it before when i had web service but no i dont and my old g1 broke and now i have a new one so please help me out please
[G1 General] Royalknight6190:
Try follow this guide it helped me when I was rooting my phone and setting up ADB.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=532719
[G1 General] robuser007:
Is there any other way for doing this ? Just installed the orignal stock firmware, big mistake! Phone is now completly useless, nice!

adb and fastboot always worked fine for me, but not with this orignal firmware.
[G1 General] robuser007:
Can you post screenshots or make a video?
[G1 General] robuser007:
blind typing this?
[G1 General] androidcues:
Yup. Blind typing. The story is when Google was baking RC29 they left the thermometer in the brownies.... i.e. they left their keylogging debugger on... so you can basically access Terminal from any home screen in RC29. Yes, blind as a bat!
[G1 General] robuser007:
When I try busybox telnet 127.0.0.1 I get permission denied.
[G1 General] hbagherinezhad:
Not working.. help!

I have an Android dev phone 1.0

and yesterday i formatted it with RC29

my sim have not data plan

so i want to start my phone without registering

but when in adb shell i write this command:

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.anroid.settings/.Settings

i take an output:

Starting: Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN comp={com.anroid.settings/com.anroid.settings.Settings} }

Error type 3

Error: Activity class {com.anroid.settings/com.anroid.settings.Settings} does not exist.

and nothing happens in my phone

what should i do?
[G1 General] hbagherinezhad:
OMG! i was typed wrong

Oh My God,,

i was typed wrong

i was typed

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.anroid.settings/.Setting

instead of

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Setting

lol

Excellent, I'm in proud of you
[G1 General] joe zack:
fulgerul..................thank you my friend it work like champ even i have rc33 np...al you need to do the sim card has to be on the phone and make usr you typr adb services to see ur device is conncted..............thank you again viva la romina
[G1 General] samstables:
Thanks muchly for this thread. After much hair pulling, two laptops and a few hours of doing the same thing again and again (and mild panic at the thought I'd broken my son's phone!) I have finally had a breakthrough and can actually use the phone again.

Phew!

Now onto more difficult tasks of trying to root and then install 2.1 on here!

I couldn't have got remotely close without XDA-developer.com - it's great!
[G1 General] fliparsenal:
just found this someone need to tell me if this works

SOURCE: http://www.androidcentral.com/bypass-activation-screen-your-android-device
[G1 General] shoemeistah:
Cool trick, very useful if you don't have a internet connection atm.

When I was rooting a HTC Dream I had to enable wifi and such, very much trouble. But this wasn't known yet hehe.

Thanks.
[G1 General] sandathi:
t mobile g1

i m using tmobile in india with an indian network....it was working well but one day the network was lost from the phone.i tried other network also but it didnt worked.i gave a hard reset. after that till now i cant access my phone because it is not showing any signal.without signal i cannot activate the phone.....please give me a solution to overcome this trouble
[G1 General] tyler51773:
Fresh from ebay HTC DREAM or HELL NIGHTMARE

I can't get this phone to be nice. When I tried to flash down to RC29 using the nbh file I get.

0002802 not allow

I don't have a data plan. When I try to buy a data pass T-mobile kindly informs me that they don't sell the hour pass to either my kaiser, or my g1 (if you click on new account then click the additional link you'll open up a web browser). So t-mobile won't even let me register my phone for a 1$ where they used to let me surf the whole day for it. Someone should sue them for extortion as its obvious they are trying to convert me into a post paid account. I'll kindly sell my phone and go metro pcs before doing that.

Anyhow, I'm going to a friends house that has a data plan to activate the phone and hopefuly gain enough entry so I can root it.

Can anyone explain the 0002802 msg? I read somewhere it has to do with your cid (i.e. its non-american cid and the nbh flash program wants to make sure that all of those non-americans get really angry such that they desire death and destruction to all of america). When I boot the phone I see T-mobile G1 splash, so I think it is the usa version.

After ther 0002802 msg it drops back to tri-rainbow with the footprint:

DREA100 PVT 32B

HBOOT-0.95.0000

RADIO-2.22.23.02

SEP 2 2008

SERIAL 0

The four corners trick didn't work for me.

My drivers are installed. The sdcard doesn't mount, but the it shows the drive in the device manager; I think this is because I'm still on the reg screen.

I would love to start hacking the phone it seems like adb is necessary to bypass registration. Can someone make the thread an update.zip which includes a modified build.props which contains the needed adb entry ( persist.service.adb.enable=1 )?
[G1 General] sfcabiera:
HELP ME.

I really need help badly! My grandmother gave me a g1 just three weeks ago, it was from the USA, Chicago (I'm from the Philippines) its already unlocked and I can use it with my sim card (globe telecoms) then just yesterday I decided to restore it to factory settings, when I turned it back on I am stuck with the "setting my G1 with my google account" I can't seem to register my G1 using my own sim card. When I try to sign in I get an error message "There is a problem communicating with the Google servers" The guy who fixed my G1 in the first place told me that if I restored the factory settings I just have to use a different sim card and wait for the "3G" sign on the upper right corner of the screen. But for some reasons, It won't pop up. :| I've been searching for tips for about 3 hours now and I can't seem to find any easy way to do it :( PLEASE HELP ME. :((

PLEASE HELP.
[G1 General] fryguy18:
make sure your apn is set up for your area. menu->settings-> wireless&network settings->mobile network->access point names
[G1 General] excedio:
I read all 46 pages of this thread and it seems odd to me that the one issue several of us is having is the lack of sqlite3.

I do not have a SIM card. Can someone please guide us lost souls without SIM cards?

the error we stop at is:

sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db "INSERT INTO system (name, value) VALUES ('device_provisioned', 1);"

sqlite3: not found
[G1 General] sabuntu:
busy box permission denied

so i push busy box to /data/local and then i go to adb shell and chmod it then i try to run the telnet client and it says permission denied
[G1 General] htcg1guy:
i need help with...

windows 7 wont let me connect to my device in the adb shell.. what am i missing ..

i have the drivers installed i just cant get it to see the g1..?
[G1 General] bluizzo:
Kay so I'm having issue with adb and the g1. Each time I plug it in to do the adb devices I keep getting serial # offline, but its my other g1. I do the whole thing but nothing. Wanted to know if I should uninstall adb and reinstall it and use that phone first to have adb read it? Or is there some way to make it work? Thanks

Sent from my HTC Dream
[G1 General] juangil:
You may need to check "usb debbuging" under menu>settings>applications>manage applications, (only if you are have access to your ph settings)
[G1 General] fallinprince:
This thread needs to be completely rewritten CLEARLY STATE

YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING IF YOUR PHONE EITHER WILL NOT READ A SIMCARD

OR YOU DO NOT Have one

If anyone at this point would like to inform me out to Root my phone without being able to bypass the simcard unlock screen PM me
[G1 General] fallinprince:
Still stuck at the rooting portion

Now, copy a busybox binary to /data/local/busybox with adb push, and then connect to your phone with adb shell, and give the busybox binary execute permissions (i.e. chmod 755 /data/local/busybox)

busybox has a telnet applet, so you can do:

busybox telnet 127.0.0.1

to get a telnet session with root access.

DOESNT WORK + im sure ill probably get the sl3 error that 10 people have complained about in this thread
[G1 General] ajhizenberg:
Turn debugging on at register screen

I have a g1 that im trying to make useful again, I have a sim card but am now on sprint w/ evo, i have drivers and a working shell, just wondering if you know how to turn debugging on manually or with a code of sorts. Also is it better to use sim or not even tho im not on tmobile and dont plan on it. '

thanks in advance, non-newb but boy do i feel like one now
[G1 General] ecualoko:
thank you :cool:
[G1 General] vis0nz:
Is this thread still getting attention? If so, I have a few questions, along the lines of getting my PC (Windows 7) to recognize my phone. I previously used a friends sim card to get past the registration screen. But then I re-installed OS. Now I'm trying to get passed this screen on my own, without "Cheating" so to say. I've got my drivers installed, SDK, Etc. But even after typing in the proper command for to enable ADB, I still dont get any recognized devices. After previously registered, My computer wouldnt read my phone to mount the SD. Any help is highly appreciated.
[G1 General] shift_8125:
I just got my G2 im not a noob by any means ive been thru my htc wizard, htc leo 1024mb but right now im just rying to fix my g1 for a backup phone. What i did was wipe the phone and have the signin problem ive installed sdk and everything but i cannon get win 7 to recognize the phone. ive done your steps up to adb and drivers. ive been reading for hourse just need a kick in the seat of the pants and i should be able to handle the rest. thankyou
[G1 General] usernome:
I cannot get adb to work .

<enter>reboot<enter> works .

PS : I managed to get it work .

Just uninstalled "USB mass storage" and reconnect the phone .
[G1 General] learnig:
thx, very helpfull

btw i will add some tips too

1.make sure u has downloaded Android SDK, just choose the zip one

here the link http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r10-windows.zip

2.extract and run SDK manager.exe,i think u will not need to download them all.just cancel.

3.just download

- google USB driver package revision 4

- android SDK platform-tools,revision 3

- android SDK tools, revision 10

4.download adb file (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RTEY0Q97) and put it on android-sdk-windows/tools

5.u follow the instruction up until u get your device has been detected as Android composite ADB interface.

(when u plug in your phone,search the driver on "\\android-sdk-windows\extras\google\usb_driver")

(or just open windows devices manager n upgrade the driver "android phone")

6.enable adb on your android

without sim insert adn on screen with no sim press

<enter>setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1<enter>

7.when your phone has been detected as Android composite ADB interface, open command prompt (run--> n type cmd) and go to \\android-sdk-windows\tools

8.check if your device has been conected in adb(Android Debug Bridge) mode with command "adb devices"

u will see ur device name.

9.then continue with "adb shell"

this simbol show up "$" just type

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings

hulaa.......on your phone will show up setting menu.now u can set up wifi to make it conect on internet to register a gmail.

Thx very much for your contribution JesusFreke.

:)
[G1 General] scl23enn4m3:
Is it still if I don't have a SIM I'm out of luck rooting this phone?