HTC G1 Upgrade... NO SOLUTION!! - Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking

I am at my witts end with this stupid phone. I am trying so hard to find an actual download for the android 1.5 cupcake update. I have been looking for two days straight. All I want to do is to get android 1.5 cupcake on this phone and googles link for the update has been gone for a while. I have seen MANY successful attempts at upgrading without root... Its as simple as renaming the file to update, dropping it in the sd card and rebooting with home + power button and hitting alt+L and alt+S and boom thats it...
Does ANYONE have a solution or better yet... a link to a working download of android 1.5 cupcake so that I can upgrade this phone? I am desperate. Thanks so much.

download link for 1.5
ok so here is a guide to unbrick a HTC G1....not exactly what you asked for, but bear with me. ---code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Unbrick--- (apparently I can't post links due to me being a new user)
in this guide towards the bottom of the page, there are several link to the different android versions for the G1 and they are all good links...I used this guide myself, so I know it is solid.
take the time and read through this guide so that you will be better able to choose the files you want to download.
let me know if this helps (or if it doesn't)
Thanks
charlie

hey I really do appreciate the link. I will check it out and pray to God that I can get some success. With this phone the ONLY desire that I have is to get the camcorder anyway. I know there are alot of other nice features but if its this ahrd to do and I was able to get just the camcorder I would probably be stoked.
In the event anyone else reads this and has some feedback or a working link to a download of the 1.5 cupcake (even the UK download) I would be thankful. From what I have seen even people that used the UK download were able to get it working WITHOUT root in all of 2 minutes which is fantastic... If only I had a working download for it. Unfortunately google decided to take it down permanently and every time I do a search with google or yahoo, ALL the links for a download are to the google site which doesn't work.
So, if ANYONE has any help with this I would truly appreciate it because I am literally at my witts end. And charltonstanley... Once again, thanks alot and I will chec out the link of yours. I really appreciate the reply.

You're Welcome
You're welcome!
Like I said before, the links are towards the very bottom of that page.
I believe that with these, you can achieve your goal to make this phone a camcorder. But why not go all the way to 1.6 stock? Why stop at 1.5? The last download link on the website link That I posted is 1.6 stock. just use that one.
I do however believe that you MUST start flashing from android 1.0 and move down the list. I believe for one to work you have to have the others---at least that is what my experience was.
My recommendation is that you follow this guide completely EVEN IF your phone isn't bricked. That is what I did with my non-bricked G1 and everything works perfectly! No regrets!
Let me know if you need more help.
There are several more websites that I know of that have more tools that will help you recover your phone to stock, it just depends on your circumstances.

I uploaded this a couple years ago and apparently it still has seeders. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4910197/Official_USA_T-Mobile_Cupcake_Android_1.5_Image_for_G1

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees the elephant in the room... OP!!! Why u no root!?
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i will definitely try that charlton. I am going to give that a try tomorrow once I get home from work and I will let u know hjow it goes or if I need any help.i really appreciate it. and I will go with 1.6 I just wasnt aware that 1.6 was even released for the g1. is it 1.6 donut?
benmarvin, thanks alot I appreciate the link and if this first solution doesnt work I will go to your link. Out of curiosity (because your post didnt say fr sure) is your link to 1.5 cupcake and if so is it USA or UK version that just gets dropped in sd card and renamed to update and yada yada yada?
flying fox the reason is because I do not have a huge amount of experience with rooting phones. I rooted two of my cellphones before but it always seems like something goes wrong and I feel that I dont FULLY understand or maybe I just dont trust myself to attempt root and bricking the phone when theres the possibility of doing it simply by dropping it in renaming the file restarting and hitting alt + l and alt + s. I just figure that was the easiest route. If someone had skype and was willing to step me through it now thats a different story .
Thanks to everyone and any more feedback is appreciated! dont stop with the answers! hah

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Vote to fix haret method.

http://code.google.com/p/vogue-andr... Priority Component Owner Summary#makechanges
things change fast around here. try reading new threads before post useless request to fix an old problem from march
If your going to daddy me at least leave me a toy.
Wow learn to read. The android n00b thread people are still having these issues. Maybe something has changed but I have seen it. I see two categories of haret users those who work (miracles people who usually are using nand and may have some enviromental difference over us regular sdcard-hare ppl)..
If you can fix my issue fix it, but don't tell me its fixed when nothing says that. Albeit a night of going through all the updates on the different builds may produce results no one has done that in that particular thread (2, or 3, which upon someone coming up and saying this easy has ended up giving up) both threads are a bit different. One was supposed to be look how easy it is , with a few nand resistant fools getting every thing but sound. You sir are a troll... !#@@! @!# @#[email protected][email protected]@!
Seriously if you want new people using android put out a haret build that works... Don't make us n00bs flash our customized **** so we can say oh thats broke, i need that...
sorry if my tone was incorrect. let me try again
The link you posted refers to something that is not a problem any more or was due to old hardware, ie the button physically wasnt working.
k_k successfully used haret to test his build when he was working on the gps. that was the beginning of june
are you trying to say that the link is to YOUR problem? i cannot tell from the post of only a link. it looks like reading through this thread that you got past that problem.
if you need help please list your problem with as much detail as possible so i or someone else can help you.
if you are trying to make a case for haret dev, you should post links or quote more recent attempts and problems
Thanks for the news
Cool. I'll search up on that and post to the threads that I've been going to. It's just email never comes across very personable. People who say to read the entire forum get on my nerves or to search when I have is annoying because sometimes they have read it in an area I haven't landed and it like a race run condition due to bad communication. If you see something try to link it, glad I have a user name to search off, but if you can pt a better thread I'll be happy. Either way when I find it, I'll try to boot again maybe in a week or so. I'll be very happy if it does indeed work now, we'll see.. As far as my posting relating to haret, yet you can regain control of your buttons but if you actually read all of the thread you'll see it doesn't get better than that, it then is a sound issue. Either way haret is broken, and my point is that poor user from march is still suffering now, and this time its sound. I suspected that haret became broken due to the development direction towards nand. I.e. whatif system.file is reffed somehow as (NAND0,0):/initrd.gz. I mean droid when from system.img's to partitions so something very generic could lead to both issues esspecially if a user A who can't hear in haret, can hear in a nand install using the same release? See the modules and stuff are going to be the same. I hope your not wasting my time with the k_k bit...
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I hope your not wasting my time with the k_k bit...
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no. he is one exmple of people who have it working. there are others, i just know him off the top of my head.
People who say to read the entire forum get on my nerves or to search when I have is annoying because sometimes they have read it in an area I haven't landed and it like a race run condition due to bad communication.
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your first post was just as indirect. from that post i had no way of know you have been working on it. the specific link you post was probably not the best choice. with out direction from you i have no reason to go 2 links deep. not until you gave more description did i go into the xda thread where have been trying things.
it then is a sound issue.
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yes there is still the sound issue. you could have gotten much better response if you had put something in the first post to indicate you specifically want the sound worked on.
sound it is.
its just more like a watch me thread for people who care about haret. i posted a bug on vogue-android.. but the drift it haret is broken. been broken. its bad right now. can we fix it? or is it fixed already. you mentioned K_K do you mean this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6852911 or do you mean kalt_kafee kernel are they same guy? where you saying dpad was fixed versus just sound. I guess I'm going to try his latest update kernel, unless you've seen a better thread. I've already got to goto bed. Maybe that's why the guy never came back on my own thread cause i sent him to a new kalt kernel hehehe..
sound working
Going through the list now. Thanks for the pointer. I'll will soon venture forward.
I got sound on an old androidinstall of unknown origin. it was freezing and unstable. I did not get sound ironically on VaniljEclair , the second install from the old android I also installed to system.img vs sdcard partition. trying warm
Aqtrans' CM-5.07 - nice and stable
warm eclair rls 1 - fast, worked great for a day then force closes all over
Incubus26Jc's SuperE beta 3 - still slow on kaiser
VaniljEclair 5.0.8 out! (not tested by me)
trying myn's warm donut then will try aqtrans'
you may have beaten the pepsi challenge.

OCLF is not safe, DO NOT TRY IT

DO NOT TRY OCLF, if you can not go to factory reset.
I have read almost all the threads answer etc. on many forums, How many people faced the problem and I think I am latest victim after having OCLF, phone doesn't start anymore, does not go in hard reset..nothing just vibration and 2 lights in bottom nothing else.
It just screwed me, OCLF 2.2, with Z4Root , Android 2.2 froyo on SGS....installed and you are gone. still you want it go ahead, feel free....I am angry on myself not on anybody else but I thought, I better write something to save few people at least, opposed to other people who are also bricked and praised the fix to not to stand alone.
Finally I gave phone back, not sure if I get a new one or get same repaired ( in warranty or I have to pay if they can detect that It was me not the hardware or something else...), will post what happens but for now, its not safe, do not go for it and remember there is very thin line between bravery and foolishness. decide yourself.
There are numerous ways to recover your SGS, all you had to do was have a read on here, don't panic and use the search function.
I'm new to all this and i've been in the same position as you and have thought I had bricked my phone at least 5 or more times. But thanks to others on XDA they have same me and my SGS )
sorry but if you dont know what you are doing, why are you doing it?
and btw there are alot of things you can do to recover your phone, even if its totally bricked.
you saying you read all threads etc? i dont think so cuz then you would know what to do.
and OCLF IS SAFE, if you know what you doing and have to do if its going wrong.
ps: if you need help, pm me i will explain you what to do, but only if you have the phone in front of you.
There should be a big banner in the development section which says "Don't try these if you are a n00b and not willing to read and learn before flashing anything!"
That is a thoughtless, misinformed thread title maligning a good developer's excellent work.
Think hard before you post in future........
doc jpy 7.1, jpx, k12i.
OCLF pertains to the Software Level. I see no reason for the Hardware to be affected. You should always be able to go the Download Mode after removing the battery for sometime.
i just say OMG.. i "bricked" (like you) my device about 7-8 times... no problem! i also BRICKED my device 1 time... no problem! don't panic, sgs is very strong! use search function of forum, the problem is not OCLF itself, is a "dead" sd-card (i don't know exactely, i'm a noob) it's a problem connected with the mount of an internal memory, i personally discovered that it might be also connected with a wrong flash of the csc (personal experience!)
Next time (yes it will be) don't panic there's a solution
No panic, just another way of adding some more info for OCLF
Well well well, I am not in panic, I have had galaxy for 5 days only and of-course a new comer for Android, I didn't hesitate for the fix, tried to figure out pros and cons (unfortunately didn't see complains for the problem I had after reboot, until I became the victim) and to be clear not trying to blacken the founder of OCLF with due respect.
Thanks for the fellows offering help, I don't have phone with me as I was not willing to play around with other fixes as I can get it fixed by service center but it would be great if you can blog about it or mention steps here for a problem of a phone stuck on Galaxy screen and can't go in recovery mode and does not connect with odin. what you get is black screen, 2 lightning button in the bottom and vibration when you press any key in bottom or screen.
I was already expecting the several responses and staring eyes but if its safe then why you have so many thread complaining a frozen phone. If this fix is safe then why its removed from Market? (arrg Google norms..but for a good thing and open source system, don''t understand, make it an enhancement, put it already in ROM)
and why OCLF app does not warn, if you have a temp root or permanent root? before making the fix. if its not possible in this context then place info window as it will fail with temp root.
ODIN thing will only work with rooted phone what if its temp rooted and do you want any user to open their phone's mother board for making some soldering to re flash.
Please somebody make a detailed instruction page, if its safe and get proper steps and don'ts list, I won't mind doing it again once I get phone back and keeping fingers crossed that they won't charge me for this out of warranty. Not sure I'll get replacement or repaired one.
Again its not safe until and unless in any case you are ready for using other fixes (which may or may not be applicable for your situation)to fix the phone.There are chances that you loose important data(if not backup). Go for it, if you have enough time and nothing else to do, if it works, good for you, if not don't panic..............
and don;t forget its not your development machine, open in front of you, for free by company, which has corrupted passwd file or something and not booting up....it's your costly new smart phone.
yeah criticize me but its doesn't feel nice when your brick your new phone.
in the end some more things to remember based on my exp for prevention:
1. Back up data
2. make sure you have hard reset option available
3. Root permanent
Please add more if you know. anyways thanks for all the responses.
Tried once to have a bricked phone, my first try actually..
Formated the system by mistake, to high i guess.. LOL..
Non the less, had black-screen ofc, System format, in more than 5 hours, till I tried odin with the org firmware, and brick gone
Sure, thought Sh!!!!!t at first, but then started reading, that was what I've spent the 5 hours on, and 7mins later up and running.. No worries for brick no more
So, think you could have made it your self, instead of returning it, sry
Or maybe you couldn't go into DL mode? I could with formated system?
Just like dhiru1602 wrote, DL mode should be in place, it was on mine like I said
SandeepSharma said:
Well well well, I am not in panic, I have had galaxy for 5 days only and of-course a new comer for Android, I didn't hesitate for the fix, tried to figure out pros and cons (unfortunately didn't see complains for the problem I had after reboot, until I became the victim) and to be clear not trying to blacken the founder of OCLF with due respect.
Thanks for the fellows offering help, I don't have phone with me as I was not willing to play around with other fixes as I can get it fixed by service center but it would be great if you can blog about it or mention steps here for a problem of a phone stuck on Galaxy screen and can't go in recovery mode and does not connect with odin. what you get is black screen, 2 lightning button in the bottom and vibration when you press any key in bottom or screen.
I was already expecting the several responses and staring eyes but if its safe then why you have so many thread complaining a frozen phone. If this fix is safe then why its removed from Market? (arrg Google norms..but for a good thing and open source system, don''t understand, make it an enhancement, put it already in ROM)
and why OCLF app does not warn, if you have a temp root or permanent root? before making the fix. if its not possible in this context then place info window as it will fail with temp root.
ODIN thing will only work with rooted phone what if its temp rooted and do you want any user to open their phone's mother board for making some soldering to re flash.
Please somebody make a detailed instruction page, if its safe and get proper steps and don'ts list, I won't mind doing it again once I get phone back and keeping fingers crossed that they won't charge me for this out of warranty. Not sure I'll get replacement or repaired one.
Again its not safe until and unless in any case you are ready for using other fixes (which may or may not be applicable for your situation)to fix the phone.There are chances that you loose important data(if not backup). Go for it, if you have enough time and nothing else to do, if it works, good for you, if not don't panic..............
and don;t forget its not your development machine, open in front of you, for free by company, which has corrupted passwd file or something and not booting up....it's your costly new smart phone.
yeah criticize me but its doesn't feel nice when your brick your new phone.
in the end some more things to remember based on my exp for prevention:
1. Back up data
2. make sure you have hard reset option available
3. Root permanent
Please add more if you know. anyways thanks for all the responses.
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Did u read the info screen that pops up when u first started oclf? I guess u didnt coz there are very clear instructions on what u have to do to apply the lagfix sucessfully...
Edit: btw ockf is on market again he just had to remove the abillity to root...
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SandeepSharma said:
Well well well, I am not in panic, I have had galaxy for 5 days only and of-course a new comer for Android, I didn't hesitate for the fix, tried to figure out pros and cons (unfortunately didn't see complains for the problem I had after reboot, until I became the victim) and to be clear not trying to blacken the founder of OCLF with due respect.
Thanks for the fellows offering help, I don't have phone with me as I was not willing to play around with other fixes as I can get it fixed by service center but it would be great if you can blog about it or mention steps here for a problem of a phone stuck on Galaxy screen and can't go in recovery mode and does not connect with odin. what you get is black screen, 2 lightning button in the bottom and vibration when you press any key in bottom or screen.
I was already expecting the several responses and staring eyes but if its safe then why you have so many thread complaining a frozen phone. If this fix is safe then why its removed from Market? (arrg Google norms..but for a good thing and open source system, don''t understand, make it an enhancement, put it already in ROM)
and why OCLF app does not warn, if you have a temp root or permanent root? before making the fix. if its not possible in this context then place info window as it will fail with temp root.
ODIN thing will only work with rooted phone what if its temp rooted and do you want any user to open their phone's mother board for making some soldering to re flash.
Please somebody make a detailed instruction page, if its safe and get proper steps and don'ts list, I won't mind doing it again once I get phone back and keeping fingers crossed that they won't charge me for this out of warranty. Not sure I'll get replacement or repaired one.
Again its not safe until and unless in any case you are ready for using other fixes (which may or may not be applicable for your situation)to fix the phone.There are chances that you loose important data(if not backup). Go for it, if you have enough time and nothing else to do, if it works, good for you, if not don't panic..............
and don;t forget its not your development machine, open in front of you, for free by company, which has corrupted passwd file or something and not booting up....it's your costly new smart phone.
yeah criticize me but its doesn't feel nice when your brick your new phone.
in the end some more things to remember based on my exp for prevention:
1. Back up data
2. make sure you have hard reset option available
3. Root permanent
Please add more if you know. anyways thanks for all the responses.
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READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BREATH IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BREATH OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. You didn't read instructions clearly
2. You created a misleading thread title
3. You are now asking for step by step instructions when there is already numerous guides and answers on how to get your phone going again
4. You now look like a lazy, ignorant and upset kid that broke his new toy because he was too rough with it and now expects to be spoon fed instead of actually learning from his mistake.
5. I am not usually this hard on anybody but I am annoyed by this thread
you're funny. maybe you can discuss why it's so bad with RyanZA himself?
herpderp.
If you hadn't have badmouthed his work, you'd have found Ryan extremely helpful, in fact, he's such a good bloke, he'd probably still help you if it was necessary.
doc jpy 7.1, jpx, k12i.
@OP: Please change the thread's title to something more respectful for RyanZA's hard work.
A good title like : "too lazy to read before doing something potentially dangerous to my expensive smartphone, I've bricked it (in fact probably not...) while trying OCLF..."
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its ok now guys, he is new to android and galaxy. Close this thread pls.
pm me if you got your phone back and i still will help you and explain everything.
Just plug it into the computer and use adb reboot recovery. Should work, it did for me.
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@OP: Please change the thread's title to something more respectful for RyanZA's hard work.
A good title like : "too lazy to read before doing something potentially dangerous to my expensive smartphone, I've bricked it (in fact probably not...) while trying OCLF..."
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@OP (original poster) please change the title or delete the thread.
I installed OCLF about 2 weeks ago on my new Froyo install (!!>after reading<!!) and had no problems at all. I used version 1.1 on Eclair and version 2 on Froyo. Ryanza has made a brilliant tool and does not at all deserve to be tainted like this
A ignorant noob like u dont even deserve the help! Uve read? Where?? In every instruction its writte try this at ur own risk.. I had the same problem..Didnt u read abt the 3 button combo?? Z4root and OCLF dont always work well together! AH m very annoyed cuz i really respect Ryan's work!! READ ----- READ----- then again READ--
no point flaming him too much. just report his post
all i can say is LOL

DONT BOTHER WITH THIS SEE Herosso

This is now obsolete, Erasmux has ported the hardware (some of it) which i am havign trouble doing.I dont intend to steal his work so please use his!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026699
To revert MTD and flash back please see HERE
Issues and Changelog
Changelog..
First version..
Issues..
WIFI
MICROPHONE
CAMERA
NETWORK DATA - A little fishy
ROTATE - Think ive fixed in next version
MARKET - Loops Crashing?
BROWSER - Loops Crashing?
Well no bug or something, but I've added the rom on my mirror . here
Good luck with this. It's great to see that there are still some people who believe in a 2.2 sense rom for the hero
when the rom is tested a bit i will add it to my rom database
dude, you built a rom! congrats on being so bleeding edge bonesy!
I'm impressed with your guts
um, don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not about to try it just yet... ;-) It's just because I need my phone and it's camera etc for daily use. I have faith in you - you've been messing with this stuff longer than I have probably dude and your flashing instructions are VERY clear which is comforting.
I'm really impressed that you persevered like this though man!
cheers
Don
Like I said gonna give it a try when at work. Great work man. And ill report back in here all my findings.
Like don said. Great to see this still happening to the hero.
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What is working? What not?
krygo said:
What is working? What not?
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see 2nd post,Lots working but lots not,was up untill 4am trying to fix some,as soon as i get mic and / or wifi going ill release 0.2
hi there!
I'm a bit puzzled how to revert to pre-MTD changes state.
I am willing to test this rom, but I would like to have an option to nandroid back without much of a problem. I read through the topic bonesy linked, but haven't found a simple answer/solution.
I hope I could help some more, at least confirm bugs or something.
Cheers!
brat.haneq
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Is it as simple, as flashing "remove" zip?
Nearly, you will need to re-flash recovery too, Through fastboot..
Im struggling at the moment as i have 2 different builds on 2 different computers.As soon as i can get to my work computer i can carry on with it all
Call me stupid but is CustomMTD really necessary ? This rom can't work as all roms do? I've flashed it without MTD method and I am stuck on first splash-screen (mine says HERO on black background).
BTW ty for working on a Froyo Sense port for Hero GSM
omg Ninpo is involved, <3 him (nogay)
I will try when it's a little bit better ^^ and can be used for 1 day at school
good work man!
Wupper said:
Well no bug or something, but I've added the rom on my mirror . here
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omg you again XD hahahaha
I will not flash this yet but still I want to say thanks to all devs for working on froyo sense
@bonesy. how are you hoping the development of this ROM will be community driven? Would you like us to simply try it and report bugs (no different to most other ROMS I think) or would you like us to get down and dirty with code wherever possible?
Im just a regular user but i'd like to help with the development of this rom. if i was pointed in the right direction I would even be willing to learn about how to develop this rom!
anyway good effort for starting on this (I expect, long) journey
f_padia said:
@bonesy. how are you hoping the development of this ROM will be community driven? Would you like us to simply try it and report bugs (no different to most other ROMS I think) or would you like us to get down and dirty with code wherever possible?
Im just a regular user but i'd like to help with the development of this rom. if i was pointed in the right direction I would even be willing to learn about how to develop this rom!
anyway good effort for starting on this (I expect, long) journey
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Im hoping all devs will see that there are still people wanting Sense on their hero's,FroYo sense stopped as soon as GB was booting up on the hero and now it seems to be forgotten.Ideally id like to learn how to do ll the porting but theres not much in the way of advice out there..
Is custom MTD really necessary?
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In a word..Yes (its over 200mb in size just on /system partition) hopeing eventually it wont need it
bonesy said:
Im hoping all devs will see that there are still people wanting Sense on their hero's,FroYo sense stopped as soon as GB was booting up on the hero and now it seems to be forgotten.Ideally id like to learn how to do ll the porting but theres not much in the way of advice out there..
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I couldnt agree more! well if you do find anything useful I will help anyway I can
bonesy said:
Im hoping all devs will see that there are still people wanting Sense on their hero's,FroYo sense stopped as soon as GB was booting up on the hero and now it seems to be forgotten.Ideally id like to learn how to do ll the porting but theres not much in the way of advice out there..
In a word..Yes (its over 200mb in size just on /system partition) hopeing eventually it wont need it
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Well took a quick look at this. Will try to devout some more time over the next few days and see if it'll get me anywhere.
What I got for now is:
a) There is quite a lot of "junk" on the system partition here, after a short cleanup it fits very nicely without the MTD patch .
b) libwebcore.so fixes the browser crashes and most likely the markets too.
If I have time tomorrow I'll try to give the microphone a shot, cause this is the most critical problem at this point - whats the point of having a telephone you even talk to...
Hopefully I'll also release something for testing tomorrow...
Thanks Erasmux, i would have gtalked you today but been at work and the boss was in...so no devvin on the work pc lol.Got market and browser fixed as you say and also rotate and i think light sensor.I removed nabservice.apk as it only FC'd.Would be great if we can arrange a time over the W/end to talk
Opened a new thread for "my" version of this port:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026699
Please note, that the amount of effort I will be able on such a (closed source) ROM is limited. I mainly what to see how far I can get this, especially in terms of hardware support, with my past experience.
So its up to you if you want to continue to keep your version going in parallel. If you do (or anyone else), please feel free to reuse anything from "my" ROM....

Some EVO 4G Questions

Okay, so I may be posting this in the wrong place but I'm still new to the "thread" thing.
I've had my HTC EVO 4G rooted for some time via direction I received here and I LOVE IT!!!! However...and here come the questions...
#1. I'm getting this alert that I have a system update that I'm unable to install. Should I be concerned with that update? I have noticed the phone moving a tad slower than normal. At times my screen will not respond to touch as quickly as it once did.
#2. Is there any chance of getting ICS on this device? If so, could someone smarter than I point me in the direction of the needed files and instructions.
Any other advice on the phone would be greatly appreciated. I am planning on going with the LTE version in February...any thoughts there?
Thanks!!
If your rooted dont except any software update it will mess your phone up. Yes there is alot of ics roms
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The software update is for stock software from Sprint and will not work if your phone is rooted.
I recently switched to ICS and love the ROM. go to the developers area and look for paranoid android. That's the one I like. Makes your phone more like a tablet.
Edit : here is a link to the rom for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1714415
There is MIUI v4 which is not officially supported but still pretty good(no ics look though). There are some CM9 nightlies(have not tried these yet, but usually are stable) and then there are some others that look ICS but some stuff doesnt work.
I cannot remember exactly how to do this, so maybe someone else would and could elaborate on what I am about to say that might help you out in the near future so you DO NOT accidently accept any OverTheAir updates. There is an application, not sure if it Titanium back up or ES file explorer, but you can freeze HTC's update checker so it will not recommend that you do an update.
Hope I helped..

GPS Signal Broken -- Fix Found

Hello all,
Long time lurker, just wanted to share an issue I had.
I've flashed nearly every ROM that is out there since I got my SGS3 and have never had any GPS issues, however this weekend I used it without a problem but Tuesday all of a sudden turning it on and off still produced nothing...not even the increased battery drain from having GPS on.
Here's what I did in hopes that it can help someone or at least give some knowledge as there wasn't a lot out there when I searched:
1.) Restored a previous Nandroid that I knew had a working GPS --- Result = FAIL
2.) Searched XDA and Google...found a video with some USSD codes for the dialer, etc.. ---- Result = FAIL
3.) Pulled battery and sim card, etc... --- Result = FAIL
4.) Flashed Wicked as I know that is a stable and highly used ROM. Everything great but still no GPS. ---- Result = FAIL
5.) Found a suggestion about clearing cache in google framework, Maps and uninstalling Maps updates. Result = FAIL
**however Play Store wouldn't let me update Maps when I rebooted as it said it wasn't compatible with my phone. No clue why.
6.) Finally I decided to do Triangle Away and Chainfires unrooting procedure to get back to unrooted stock. ---Result = SUCCESS!
Not sure what about it made GPS come back, however the next step will of course be to root again and see if there are any issues.
Hope this helps someone who ends up in my situation. Feel free to PM if you need more details.
Thanks to all
Edit: Just as an FYI -- when I rooted again, GPS was still back and I've had no issues since.
Thanks man, I like threads like these because you never know when you may need them. Same issue for me. On CM10 ROMs,I have trouble locking onto GPS, and the fix for me has been downloading GPS test and running that before using something like navigation.it's a minor inconvenience but it works great
Overall, if you have something borked, no matter what rom you use... no matter how many times you wipe... odin back to stock, should fix it always.
mt3g said:
Overall, if you have something borked, no matter what rom you use... no matter how many times you wipe... odin back to stock, should fix it always.
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True, but honestly, that doesn't always work. I have a second SGS3 Pebble Blue 32GB, and it won't play nice with Lean Kernel/Ktoonz, unless it's the touchwiz based kernels, whereas my white 16GB runs all of them flawlessly. They were rooted and booted the same way, and they both have the same GPS issue.
Out of curiosity, what's the chainfire way of going back to stock?
Also, do we have any guides here/on youtube that detail how to odin back to stock. I'm gonna give it a go on the blue one again/cross my fingers hoping I made a mistake, hence why I want a guide lol! *Searches*
thanks for the info jpk17!
saved us a lot of time here for whoever has that issue in the future.
can you provide the link to Chainfire's unroot procedure?
thanks!
Good to know but youcould have got straight to the point rather than writting five pages of useless stuff then saying something that to be honest is not any special invention anyways.
lazarat said:
Good to know but youcould have got straight to the point rather than writting five pages of useless stuff then saying something that to be honest is not any special invention anyways.
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Kind of a **** huh? He was just explaining what he did. Geeze.
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I love this thing!
The only time my gps was ever messed up was when i used a sprint leak JB rom and had the gps turned off. Flashed a couple roms after no gps whatsoever. Odin'ed with 2 or 3 different versions and still couldnt get the gps back.
Finally I flashed another JB rom based on the sprint leak and turned GPS back on and everything started working again. Lesson learned on using sprint leaks lol.
Had op's problem myself before, and full wiping and Odin'ing back to stock actually didn't work.. what did work though was after full unroot, doing tmo ota update.
Who knows, this info could help someone out as well..
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Unroot Procedure Used
HG! said:
thanks for the info jpk17!
saved us a lot of time here for whoever has that issue in the future.
can you provide the link to Chainfire's unroot procedure?
thanks!
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Here is the procedure I followed to unroot...followed step by step and couldn't have been easier to follow:
I can't post links as I don't have over 10 posts yet, but should be able to figure it out from this:
www . androidrootz . com
Copy the next line after the .com and you'll get to the page.
/2012/10/how-to-unroot-samsung-galaxy-s3-at.html
Mr. Pot ...meet Mr. Kettle
lazarat said:
Good to know but youcould have got straight to the point rather than writting five pages of useless stuff then saying something that to be honest is not any special invention anyways.
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My sincere apologies that my 15 line post was too much to handle.
I'd also like to thank you for such a nice response to a first time poster that was clearly just trying to help the community for an issue that is rare and relatively undocumented based on my searches.
I shall go back to normal... lurking and wading through useless posts like yours to find those with relevance...
jpk17 said:
My sincere apologies that my 15 line post was too much to handle.
I'd also like to thank you for such a nice response to a first time poster that was clearly just trying to help the community for an issue that is rare and relatively undocumented based on my searches.
I shall go back to normal... lurking and wading through useless posts like yours to find those with relevance...
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Just dont get some people....thanks for the steps. But im traveling away from home and only have my MAC and it cant get Bootcamp to work on this one, so my question is, how do i unroot on a mac.
Thanks i advance guys....
jpk17 said:
My sincere apologies that my 15 line post was too much to handle.
I'd also like to thank you for such a nice response to a first time poster that was clearly just trying to help the community for an issue that is rare and relatively undocumented based on my searches.
I shall go back to normal... lurking and wading through useless posts like yours to find those with relevance...
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Dont let this guy discourage you. He's generally an arse to everyone. When i see a pointless **** post from him like you received, just keep reading through Thanks for the thread!
jpk17 said:
My sincere apologies that my 15 line post was too much to handle.
I'd also like to thank you for such a nice response to a first time poster that was clearly just trying to help the community for an issue that is rare and relatively undocumented based on my searches.
I shall go back to normal... lurking and wading through useless posts like yours to find those with relevance...
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Hey man props for the post it'll probably help someone out, assuming they are respectful enough to search and try things before posting. Which I also want to commend you on. Most like to post frantically wanting help before bothering to search or try anything. So gj man
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This fixed my GPS too. Triangle away and then flash stock NON ROOTED firmware and GPS will come back...NOW hopefully this fixes my weird battery life too. About to root again and shoot right back to PA android and see if it works there. Wish me luck
Edit. Yup it works. Went straight to pa android
osmosizzz said:
This fixed my GPS too. Triangle away and then flash stock NON ROOTED firmware and GPS will come back...NOW hopefully this fixes my weird battery life too. About to root again and shoot right back to PA android and see if it works there. Wish me luck
Edit. Yup it works. Went straight to pa android
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Ok so i finally unrooted using above steps. Still no gps. Tried GPS Toolbox, GPS Test and the google navigation. Nothing.
What Im seeing is that the little Icon in the upper status bar never shows. Like ether it doesnt even see a SAT, or the receiver in my phone isnt even turning on.
If i cant figure out, i guess ill go back to Tmo....
Thanks for the help.
What I did was go to a stock ics based Rom then triangle away and then I followed the site that op posted. The download was ridiculously slow. Took like an hour for 690mb. That should do the trick. Do it in that order
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osmosizzz said:
What I did was go to a stock ics based Rom then triangle away and then I followed the site that op posted. The download was ridiculously slow. Took like an hour for 690mb. That should do the trick. Do it in that order
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HAHA funny, i actually did it EXACTLY like that. I tried a stock ICS ROM from wildchild and nothing. Then Triangle away, ODIN flash to stock with un root and factory reset and nothing.
If i wasnt getting lock, that would be different. But im not getting the little Icon in top left corner.
I have a friend with a Stock Sprint phone and his works in same room.
Thanks
Sucks cordell... Sorry you're not getting it working.
Only thought I had if I followed you correctly is you said you went to a wildchild stock. Maybe you need to go back to the older stock from the link that worked for osmosis and I?
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Sucks cordell... Sorry you're not getting it working.
Only thought I had if I followed you correctly is you said you went to a wildchild stock. Maybe you need to go back to the older stock from the link that worked for osmosis and I?
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I went to wild child stock just before i unrooted and went to Stock Tmo form the guide above. I didnt think that would have made a difference.
Im not gonna root and go to store, so ill go to store and see what they say.
The reason i went to the wildchild stock based ICS rom was hope that I wouldnt have to unroot....
Thanks.
EDIT>>> Just did the OTA from Tmo and back .. Yes GPS back,
Thanks minigame

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