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[Nexus One Android Development] GHOST99K:
so i couldnt flash recovery through adb but i did superboot and my phone started normally.i've checked the app menus and i have latest superuser good to go.only problem is i dont have recovery i tried even with the android terminal emulator still couldn't flash the recovery.img from root of my sd card to the phone. so i thought(cheating) to get rom manager since thats my second option recovery besides amon's recovery.at the home menu of rom manager if you scroll all the way at the bottom it reads "flash alternate recovery" which is RA recovery 2.1.1,thats exactly what i did and rebooted the phone by holding down the volume down and press start went to recovery and BOOM "amon's RA Recovery" ready to flash and do backups and restores.hopefully this helps anyone new to rooting the latest stock build FRG83D N1.

THANKS for all your help PAUL.
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Wow, I wouldn't have thought to do that. But congrats! Glad everything worked out for you.

I'm doing a warranty swap on my phone for a defective power button, so hopefully I'll get the chance to run through the guide again when I decide to re-root it :cool:
[Nexus One Android Development] GHOST99K:
Yea u gonna have to re-root but this time through my UPDATED GUIDE lol lmao :D:D
[Nexus One Android Development] adamsavage:
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[Nexus One Android Development] strykerider:
i've got an error message when tryin to unlock the bootloader of my friend nexus one. here's the information that can help;

Unlocked

hboot version 0.35.0017

S-On

the following error message occured (see attach)

the usb debugging is active, the driver is installed properly on my notebook. just FYI this notebook also successfully unlocked the HTC Evo 3D before, but it doesn't work with my friend nexus One, so what did i missed? please help.. any advices will greatly appreciate.. :D
[Nexus One Android Development] matheusvilela:
Your friend's nexus one is already unlocked.
[Nexus One Android Development] strykerider:
Sorry, mate.. it says locked, not unlocked.. My bad.. It was my evo was unlocked.. i was seen a wrong one.. :D
[Nexus One Android Development] 24bronco:
my carebear recovery file was 3934 KB maybe yours did not download the full file.
[Nexus One Android Development] karnovaran:
I was referring to the superboot file. Turns out my mistake was doing volume down+power, then selecting "bootloader" from the white screen before clicking the install file. It worked once I did trackball+power and just clicked the file.

After superboot, the recovery rom flashes properly :cool:

Thanks for the tip, bronco.
[Nexus One Android Development] 24bronco:
No Problem, glad you got it working. Sense is so nice, thanks much Paul for guide
[Nexus One Android Development] crazhzone:
Rooting!

Download nexus-addon-0.1-signed.zip, (From thread: CyanogenMod-5)

Place zip file on sdcard

Turn phone off

Hold Volume Down, hold Power button

Press Volume Down to highlight Recovery -> press Power to select Recovery

If you get a Triangle with a ! in the middle alongside an Android, remove battery and re-flash recovery (I had to do this once)

im get in stuck here, please help!

thanks!
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Interesting. I thought that wouldn't make a difference since it's all the same screens, as long as it's just the white area? Weird. I guess just don't touch anything after it boots in.

So you unlocked bootloader -> superboot -> Amon_RA recovery?

I'm just wondering why it's different for different people. It looks like flashing things is just randomly weird on some people's devices?... Makes it hard to troubleshoot.

Does the recovery show up for you?

If so, make a nand backup, wipe, and try to flash the nexus-addon again.

And/or try superboot, as people have mentioned previously in the thread:

http://android.modaco.com/content/g...superboot-rooting-the-nexus-one/#entry1142372
[Nexus One Android Development] AbbaSou:
Re: Triangle! and Android

D8 should not be done. After flashing the recovery image, boot directly to recovery from the menu, without rebooting normally. Of course, you will need the addon file already on your sd card, so make sure you download that first before flashing anything.

I ran into the triangle issue and tried several things before discovering the solution above. Hope it helps others, and hope Paul edits the OP accordingly. Otherwise, amazing guide! I'm the total noob that found this to be just the thing to make me take the jump to rooting my Nexus and installing Modaco's Desire ROM. Thanks Paul!
[Nexus One Android Development] bberry:
Truly glorious :) I've been waiting for Sense UI since I got my N1! Any possibility of knowing the timeframe of when this gets updated from alpha to beta, or perhaps even past that? I definitely want this but I'm new to flashing my phone so I would prefer a good stable version before I do.

Thanks again Paul!
[Nexus One Android Development] edmacfly:
Step F 14 - You say to make frequent Nand backups. How often should I do this and why? Great tutorial by the way, thank you :)
[Nexus One Android Development] karnovaran:
Yep. When I did bootloader and straight to Amon_RA, I would get the ! triangle every time. When I did superboot before trying to flash recovery, it worked perfectly.

The instructions on Modaco's superboot thread are a little ambiguous. It seems to imply you need to select bootloader, but simply doing trackball+power, then clicking the Windows BAT file is all you need.
[Nexus One Android Development] surmanm:
i got it to work finally :) no more triangle worked perfect i solved my problem thanks paul and everyone else
[Nexus One Android Development] bberry:
So if I were to install this ROM, which are the current issues? I want to be able to make an informed decision if I could live with them or not :)
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Thanks for these tips! I added an optional Superboot step before the Amon_RA Recovery step for people having issues.

Thanks for this. Edited the step to say boot into recovery directly.

And of course added a 'download files' section earlier on so all the necessary files are on the SDcard beforehand.

Not sure, that's all up to Modaco :)

Just for safety in case something happens. Maybe once a week or every other week. But definitely 100% of the time before flashing any new ROM etc, especially if it will wipe data. That way if you don't like it and want to revert, you can go back to exactly what you had perfectly.

Nice! :)

Check out Modaco's thread (his post #1 and #2) for Known Issues and the Change Log. For issues with the latest ROM, skip ahead and read the last 2 pages. People are pretty vocal about things that are wrong ;)

http://android.modaco.com/content/g...htc-sense-desire-rom-now-with-online-kitchen/
[Nexus One Android Development] rjhay22:
In my own experience, I was actually surprised that this Alpha version of the Desire ROM has very little issue or none, only few things I noticed is that my camera flash wasnt working, and it is set to take 3M max... And it wasnt letting me sync with my astrid account. Other than that, I cant wait to have the stable version of this ROM, its great!

Now if you're even slightly curious of it, I suggest you do nandroid back up, and definitely try it out. It isnt that hard to go back to the ROM you like.

Enjoy! and good luck.
[Nexus One Android Development] crazy talk:
i'm an idiot, so how do i go about flashing the google addons?
[Nexus One Android Development] k2bk2b:
Just a quick question.

There are a couple of roms in development area, which has sense. Each probrably having their own bugs.

Modaco - Alpha10

manup - Nexdesire

King's - Desire2nexus

As most would say Cyanogen's being the stable ROM. Which of the above would be considered closest to Cyan's?

I'm just so addicted to the HTC's Sense.... was on Alpha10 for a day but restored to cyan's due to batt life...
[Nexus One Android Development] cyborg_001:
Great noob guide

My N1 is unrooted and I'm happy but I am always glad to see nice written guides as I'm good at it myself and know the frustrating feeling when trying a new thing and being unable to get clear concise instructions. More of you senior guys should do these guides from scratch to make XDA a one stop shop for noobs to Cyanogens!!
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Put file on sdcard

Turn phone off -> Hold Volume Down, hold Power button

Press Volume Down to highlight Recovery -> press Power to select Recovery

Backup/Restore -> Nand backup (Extremely important!!!)

Flash zip from sdcard

Reboot
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Bump for transparency hacks! :)
[Nexus One Android Development] jongie123:
Really great, thank you Paul22000,this guide would been very helpful if I had it a week back.Now should be a lot easier for newbies wanting to root.
[Nexus One Android Development] jangler:
Hi!

I8

I got android out of the box all the time.

then I wiped it and flashed it again only with the alpha10 zip. not with the radio update. then it worked

when I check baseband version it says:

32.26.00.24U_4.04.00.03_2

is that the updated radio?

if so, is my FM radio supposed to work?

when I plug in the headset and start up the FM Radio program it starts up with the FM turning on.. status bar. it never completes, and then the program shuts down. nothing happens. no FM Radio

and another question: will there be a fix for the camera? so that it will be back with 5mega pixels and with the led flash?

other than the FM Radio and camera issue the image works perfect! Love my nexus with sense!
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Interesting... Yep, that is the updated radio, check out http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2870/5os.png

So you did the radio, Wiped, and flashed alpha10?

Perhaps there should be a wipe step in there then...

Nope.

That's all up to Paul at Modaco. I don't work on the rom itself, just made a guide for others to follow. Check out his thread here:

http://android.modaco.com/content/g...htc-sense-desire-rom-now-with-online-kitchen/

Glad you got Sense working! :)
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Woah!

If you pinch to zoom out on the home screen, you get the zoomed out view.

If you tap and hold on a page, you can move them around! Neat!
[Nexus One Android Development] jlevy73:
First time reading this. Very nice write up extremely informative.
[Nexus One Android Development] liam.lah:
I suppose most people have figured it out now, but when i flashed a while ago, i couldnt get the recovery to work without superboot.

Great work Paul Also, paul in the OP, i think you should make it very clear that the radio update is not required, and perhaps even suggest that anyone new to this refrain from flashing the radio unless they are confident in what they are doing, I assume everyone will already be on ERE27 unless they flashed a rom before the OTA but then they wouldn't be following this guide, ERE27 has fixed the crucial radio problems, ERE36b is optional imo , also maybe put in large, friendly letters "do not ever remove the battery while flashing the radio, even if it appears to stop"
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
What happens if you don't flash a new radio at all?
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Better question: what happens if you flash Sense onto a phone with the original radio (pre-OTA)?

And the OTA radio rooted/flashed with Sense = perfectly fine, correct?
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Cannot flash recovery zip file

Greetings:

Thank you so much for this great guide.

I am at D-5 and although followed everything sofar to the T

(Also used superboot with success) every time I attempt to flash

the Recovery file via terminal, it says: Error, cannot load Recovery......img

Any input, solution would be much appreciated.
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Hmm, try one of the other recovery files, perhaps the normal one or the green. I know Amon_RA has since released new version(s) of the recovery too.
[Nexus One Android Development] sandyturley:
Sooorry for leaving you on a cliff

I wiped like you said three times and it worked just fine. I was away for a week so couldn't get back to the posts.

I now have a new issue. I got the wireless tethering to work fine and the only thing that doesn't work now is the Market. when I click on the market icon whether on my home page or in the apps page it returns a error that the server cannot be reached or server error, retry returns the same error.

I have tried from various spots thinking it might be a router were I work but it happens at home or out at the coffee shop. I can surf the web and everything else but just can't get into the Google Market to get apps.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
thnaks Paul

Now not only I still can't flash any of the Recovery files, when I boot into android I see the "super permission" but when I click it goes into a blank(black) screen!!

But still unlocked.

Any idea?..................Thank you
[Nexus One Android Development] tinginator:
thank you so much! I've flashed Windows Phones before, but not an Android - your guide was so helpful!
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
I sometimes have that issue. No idea why. Usually I can turn the phone on Airplane mode and back to 3G and it works again. Otherwise, try a Nand Backup and flashing the newly released Alpha14 ;) (Or the google apps from Cyanogen's thread. Just make sure Backup first)
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Wait what, exactly which step are you on?

Thank you! :)
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Hi and Thanks

I'm at "trying to flash the RA_Recovery, but now when I click on "super permissions", I get a blank screen in Android. But success at unlocking and thought on SuperBooting as well till I hit the blank screen. Also I've tried every available RA_Recovery(27ere!) and always get: Error, cannot load Flash

Recovery-nexus.........

Any help is much appreciated
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
When you boot your phone, is there a padlock under the Google logo?

Does the phone boot into Android at all anymore?
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Yes & Yes.

I can also see the:

Recovery

clear storage

fastboot

simlock

as well but cannot flash the RA_recovery and when I go into android, I see the "super permissions" but when I click I get blank screen
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Ohhhhh, ok, got it now. I was confused because I thought you were going into Super Permissions in the bootloader.

Is this what you see?

That's normal, because you don't have any apps granted superuser permissions yet. :)

Here's an example with Terminal:

-> ->

Try downloading Terminal from the Market and seeing if this works (type "su" in terminal then click Always Allow). Just a test to see if you have Root.

- Does it work?

- What happens when you select Recovery from the bootloader?
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
I get the Q mark & Green guy!! and nothing works so I have to remove the battery, replace it and all goes to how it was before I click "recovery". And market doesn't work, keeps saying "the site is down". But I can go online and browse so it's not any network issue.
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Can you do D5 and take a screenshot?

(Alt + Print screen, then start -> run -> "mspaint" -> enter -> paste -> save, upload to http://imageshack.us)
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
I'm gonna try and send it for you.

Thank you for taking the time to help me.

Sam
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Paul

I just uploaded the screenshot.

Sam
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Where did you upload it to?

[Edit]:

OH! Haha, I should have mentioned the most important step...... :D

You have to tell me the url of that picture you uploaded :D

(It's a public website, I don't own it.)
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Here you go:

http://my.imageshack.us/v_images.php

Also I tried to flash with all 3 available files.
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
:D

One more time... :)
[Nexus One Android Development] :
I just finished putting this on.

One question though, by not using Modaco's superboot, I just erased any chance of going back to my phone to how it was didn't I?

If that's the case I think you should add a disclaimer in that section.
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
As far as I know, it doesn't matter how you rooted, as unrooting can be done.

But re-locking the bootloader (the padlock under the Google logo when you boot up) is not possible.

Anyway, as long as you don't brick your device, anything should be reversible (aside from re-locking the bootloader, and probably downgrading your radio).

If this is incorrect, someone let me know.
[Nexus One Android Development] dallastx:
Man i want this rom bad...But no google voice app working is a killer! And the camera issue i could deal with but....yea......Good work and thanks for the right up! Cant wait for newer builds....
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
The Google Voice app itself works great ;)

The only problem is that people you call won't see your GV # as caller ID. (If this is important to you, the simple workaround is to use www.google.com/voice) Other than that, sending/receiving free SMS, reading/listening to voicemails etc, all works perfectly fine. :)
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Paul

Sorry about that, here is the correct link to the screenshot:

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9461/recoveryimage.jpg

Sam
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Ahhhh, it looks like you're not in the correct directory.

It should be

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\

, not

C:\

;)

Check out step C 3-5, and D3
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Paul

Thank you for the great help'

I corrected the problem and this is what's given me:

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6030/rarecovery.jpg

P.s= I've stopped and haven't done anything else till you see this new screenshot and tell me all is well!!

Sam
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Woohoo! :D

You're good to go! Continue at D6. :)
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
lol.......Thanks buddy
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Paul

2 nubee questions:

-How can I flash the "Alpha" rom that I chose since my notebook don't have a SD drive thus no transfering the Rom to N1 SD card

-Do I back up/wipe now before flashing the Rom and afterwards too, right?

Thank you
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Connect phone to PC (with the USB cable that came with the phone), drag the notifications panel down, click mount.

On your PC, open My Computer, double click the new drive, drag the rom onto that drive.

Yeah, backup, then wipe, then flash rom.
[Nexus One Android Development] qiuness:
As per request i had several issues which i managed to fix:

1. ddms Screenshot shows 2 ports on the phone, mine only showed 8600. You can ignore it and move on

2. I tried flashing the following recovery recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2-green.img which went through with no errors... but whenever i tried booting into recovery i got the droid next to a little triangle with an exclamation mark in it.

I flashed recovery-RA-nexus-v1.6.2.img (without the green) and it worked. I am now able to boot into recovery

Paul:

I`m wondering what the difference between nand/bart and nand+ext is?
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Hi Paul

I'm not panicking yet but I think I've gotta Brick !!

After I flashed the Alpha 14 from SD card all went okay,

said to reboot to finish installation, then showed a white

box with an android outside, then after 10 seconds X with

padlock showed and I thought all is well but it came back to

recovery page with white box and the green guy and underneath

says:

BUILD: RA-nexus-v1.6.2

Formatting CACHE:... and has stopped like this for 10-15 miinutes now.

I think I must have ticked the "Radio Upgrade" as well and I really wanted to not do it but I think I copied off the one with Radio upgrade to SD card.

So I have a Brick, right? Please advise what to do.......Thanks
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Update

I'm now officially Bricked !!

After my previous post, I wiped, reflashed from SD but this time is stock on X

with padlock and nothing happens. I haven't taken the battery out to try getting back to Recovery page since everybody says abseloutely no taking out battery!!

Any input is much appreciated
[Nexus One Android Development] :
No, no, I understand that stuff about unlocking/rooting. I meant in terms of throwing on the state of the stock rom that you have right before unlocking. I didn't realize until like two minutes after I unlocked it that I should have done modaco's super boot as it mentions it doesn't do a wipe. I assume you can do a nandroid backup after superboot to be able to restore your phone to it's state right before unlocking.
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Not sure actually =\

Can you get to recovery?

If so, can you restore your backup? (You DID make a backup like the instructions said right ;)

If so, you should be able to get back into stock Android.
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Hi Paul

I got myself unstuck from "X Padlock" screen and did a restore and as

soon as changed the ALPHA14 Rom to one without the Radio upgrade,

everything sailed smooth and I'm enjoying the new Rom very much. I'd

never go back to stock Rom again, too simple for me. I wanted to thank

you for being patient with me and the time you took to help me.

Sam
[Nexus One Android Development] gurry:
sweet guide

Got it all set up and now I have a fast as stink nexus with 150mb of free memory all the time (best I get is 215!!)

wierdly though live wallpapers have ceased to work?

I had it working then suddenly after downloading new live wallpapers if I go into the wallpaper selecter and press live wallpapers I just get the static generic backgrounds...anyone else had this?
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
NICE!! :D

How did you get unstuck from the X Padlock screen btw?

Have fun :cool:
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
It's a bug. Go to settings -> Personalize for live wallpapers.
[Nexus One Android Development] rjhay22:
If it matters, when that happened to me. I just took battery out. If I understand correctly, when phone is bricked it doesn't even show lock screen, but just blank screen.
[Nexus One Android Development] floridasrt:
Great "How-to" write up!!

Sorry if I this was discussed and I missed it. I'm currently running on AT&T's network. So I only want to run on EDGE to conserve battery so my phone won't always be looking for a 3G signal. In the stock ROM you can set it for EDGE/2G only, is that possible with this Desire ROM? I can't seem to find the setting for it under "Wireless & Networks". Thanks.
[Nexus One Android Development] :
Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > Network Mode > GSM only
[Nexus One Android Development] floridasrt:
I'm going to take your word for it, but I'm not sure how "GSM" means it only runs on EDGE. I thought GSM was just the type of device and technology that T-mobile and AT&T use. Just wondering, thanks.
[Nexus One Android Development] :
WCDMA is the 3G part of the network while Edge and GPRS is part of the "GSM 2G/2.5G"

If you look through the 2g/3g antenna fiasco you could probably find a better more accurate explanation.
[Nexus One Android Development] jsilvers525:
i can't find the c drive on my computer.
[Nexus One Android Development] samteeee:
Hi Paul

I guess for me one thing was clear: "Do not take the battery out"! As so many people have warned against doing so and I was tempted to do so but just left the phone alone till the charge ran out and the phone turned off. I then put it on charger and did a "Power+Volume down" which took me to the Recovery screen and I did a Restore.........

Sam