[Streak 5 General] Thursday:
So I have had this US beta streak since around January, the one that says 'Dell Confidential' at boot up, but it's never really worked correctly. I purchased it from a person that I know that got it through some sort of beta testing; the details weren't provided and I didn't press him for them. Anyways, I am currently trying to get the clockwork recovery flashed and able to be booted into, although the streak is giving me every possible problem I can imagine. I'll try to provide as much background info as I possibly can.

Firmware: 1.5

Baseband Version AUS_090716_01_BOSS_EVT2_3135

Kernel Version 2.6.27

Build Number QTC_3135

OEM Version: AustinBuild_090724_03_boss_evt2_3135_FixTouchSuspend

Under About Phone > Status

IMEI 011954000020995

IMEI SV 00

Service Tag FF8R6K1 (which dell.com cannot find)

The Problems:

When I try to get into bootloader to get into fastboot, by holding the camera button down while hitting the power button, rather than going into the screen that is shown in all of the different tutorial threads, I instead go into some sort of a diagnostic menu that doesn't have an option for fastboot, as much as I have seen. There is a picture attached below.

I (think) that I can get the phone recognized by adb, although I am not totally positive. When in cmd in windows, and I type adb devices, instead of getting the proper serial number of my devices, it shows instead 0123456789ABCDE (I may not have that exact, but it does start at 0 and ends in hex at E or F, I can't remember right now and don't have it connected at the moment.)

There was one time where I was able to flash recovery.clockwork.img to where it said that it successfully flashed the img, but when I go to try and boot into recovery by holding both volume up and down at the same time, and then hitting power, the phone just hangs at a blank, black screen. It will stay there for 30 minutes and not do a thing, I can't see it via adb or fastboot.

So I then gave recovery.alt.img a shot, was able to successfully flash that, or so it told me that it was successful, but still the same problem: just a black screen.

The reason that I think that it actually was working was that after flashing the recovery image both times, I sent the command adb reboot recovery, and the phone reboots, but not into recovery, just into android. adb reboot-bootloader doesn't work at all and returns an error or nothing, I can't remember.

I then focused my attention on trying to get fastboot to work, assuming that adb was not working at all. This is where fastboot gets strange. The only way for me to get the command 'fastboot devices' to show anything at all is by holding the volume down button prior and then hitting the power button to start it. This puts the phone into essentially a 'soft brick', which my friend calls 'safe mode', where it gets totally stuck at the 'Dell Confidential' screen and will not progress past it no matter what.

So, once I am in 'safe mode', I am able to then issue a 'fastboot devices' command, which ... partially works? I hope that my totally unsure tone of voice was able to be conveyed through that message, because the info returned once that command is sent is totally confusing to me. Unlike before, where I feel as though the Streak is just lying to me by saying 0123...DEF for the device ID, for fastboot devices it just gives me a question mark .. yes, simply a ?

The weird thing is that it will follow commands. I was able to flash recovery.clockwork.img to the streak, it gave me a read out that said successful, and I got very excited. And then I pulled the battery, put it back in, held both the volume buttons, and .... the same result, the black screen. So, not allowing myself to be deterred, I got right back into fastboot, or at least my quasi working version of fastboot which may not be working at all, and flashed recovery.alt.img, which turned around and told me that it was successful as well. This time, not allowing myself to get excited, I pulled the battery and, with both volume buttons held down, hit power to try to get into recovery.

Again, I was let down and found only a blank screen. At this point, I have no idea what else to try. With the bootloader not being where it's suppose to be, not really being able to get into fastboot or adb (I think), I turn to xda to try and find some answers. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I am doing wrong or might be missing. I am hoping that it is something that is really obvious that I feel very stupid, like I'm hitting the wrong set of volume buttons, but ... I don't think it's that easy.

Again, I feel as though the phone was getting the commands from fastboot because I sent fastboot reboot recovery, and the phone rebooted, just not into recovery but android. Same thing for bootloader, it just didn't work at all

Also, as for android 1.5 itself, almost nothing works. This appears to be running a very early edition of android where most apps just end up with: Sorry! No applicatons can perform this action, so the One touch root is kind of out of the question.

I was able to do the dialer unlock method to get EMList, but the similarities end there. I don't have the Unknown sources option or anything else after leaving dialer.

Any and all suggestions are appreciated and will be accepted and followed (within reason). I'm just at the point where I'm hoping that it's not totally broken and that with determination and hard work and some critical thinking I (we) will be able to get it working again. Hopefully it isn't a paperweight.

Thanks,

Thursday