[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ezterry:
The orange rom I think you have is nearly the same as the pre 911 fix rogers rom.

Thus if you pretend you have a pre-updated rogers dream you will get more help from the fokes here.

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Rooting Orange HTC Dream:

(based off http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_Rogers_Dream_EBI1_to_CyanogenMod so if you are confused with the following the wiki might help)

Install recovery + dangerSPL

Install (on your computer) ADB/Fastboot (most information for this is here or search-able on the forms

Download:

> Flashreq: http://code.google.com/p/flashrec/downloads/detail?name=flashrec-1.1.2-20090909.apk

> ra-recovery http://rapidshare.com/files/357848494/recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2R-green.img (md5 e3650e5984cb0cc16fe325f253e19330) from This thread

> Download danger SPL: http://sapphire-port-dream.googlecode.com/files/spl-signed.zip (MD5: 2112b7df6ed9d0a56897ac23b0399bb5)

Note: Before starting go into settings and enable USB debugging and allow apps from non-market locaitons

1) Run the following on your computer from the directory with these files:

adb install flashrec-1.1.2-20090909.apk
adb push recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2R-green.img /sdcard/ra-recovery.img
adb push spl-signed.zip /sdcard/spl-signed.zip

2) open 'Recovery Flasher' on the phone

3) type '/sdcard/ra-recovery.img' into the box

4) tap the screen all the right edge directly across from the "Backup Recovery Image" button (A '*' should appear and the "Flash Recovery Image" button will no longer be grayed out)

5) Press "Flash Recovery Image"

6) Wait until "Flash complete"

7) Long hold the power button and turn off the phone

8) boot while holding home

9) wait for recovery to load

10) Select "Flash zip from sdcard"

11) choose spl-signed.zip (this will stage the Danger SPL for installation.. as this is an EBI1 radio this is the correct engineering SPL)

12) when complete choose 'Reboot system now'; the system will flash the SPL.. then reboot back into recovery with a "Formatting Cache" message

Now you own the device :)

Flashing a starting rooted rom (cm-4.2.15.1)

1) still in recovery choose "USB-MS toggle" this will mount the sd-card as a disk on your computer

2) Delete spl-signed.zip if its still on the SD card (we do not wish to re-flash this inadvertently

3) Download and copy onto the root of the SD card the following:

* http://download.cyanogenmod.com/update-cm-4.2.15.1-signed.zip (old stable cyanogenmod rom .. android 1.6 .. this is a bit more stable than the new 5.0.7 at this point in time.. but feel free to upgrade when we are done and you are ready)

* http://briancrook.ca/android/cm-ports/bc-4.2.15.1-ebi1-signed.zip (from this post

4) Fetch htc_system.img (keep on your computer)

a. Goto: http://developer.htc.com/adp.html

b. Download: signed-dream_devphone_userdebug-img-14721.zip (Important ensure its the 'img' not ota or radio)

c. unzip and rename system.img to htc_system.img delete the other files + zip file

d. verify the md5 of htc_system.img is: 9999b439698122fb4697a29c2bb5fb64

5) safely disconnect the mounted drive from the computer

6) press home to disconnect

7) select go to console

8) type 'reboot bootloader' then enter to reboot to fastboot

9) run the following fastboot commands:

fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase boot
fastboot flash system htc_system.img
fastboot oem powerdown

10) power on holding home to re-enter recovery

11) choose "Flash zip from sd card" and choose update-cm-4.2.15.1-signed.zip (do not reboot after)

12) choose "Flash zip from sd card" and choose bc-4.2.15.1-ebi1-signed.zip

13) reboot select reboot and let the rom load

Remember this is the same as a rogers rom running the EBI1 port; please follow the appropriate instructions for future updates and new roms; and ensure you never flash a radio via recovery.

(also once DangerSPL is installed there is little reason to flash other SPLs)

Flashing SPLs and radios are the best way to permanently brick your device so be careful.