Comments on: How to root Android G1 with Cupcake and AppstoSD

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:42:19 +0000

I was trying to do this from theunlockr since I hadn’t found yours first. HUGE MISTAKE. I dl’d dreaimg and cupcake. I got to step 6 of their instructions but instead of restarting, it took me to a multi colored screen that says serial0 and now it’s frozen there. Can someone here help me? Maybe I can start over and use your instructions. God, PLEASE HELP! I am screwed!!!!!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:29:48 +0000

@David …thank you for the steps, I’ve been looking for the solution for a while now, this helped, thanks!

By: marcus

marcus — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:14:34 +0000

just so everyone know
after installing apptosd
ur phone will mess up period
all u have to do is reinstall ur rom

after that the program will work and ur memory card will be formated for u

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:12:29 +0000

@secretaznman, pablo,
couldn’t you just remove the sd card from your phone and stick it in your computer with a card reader, and then reload the rom?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:40:15 +0000

GRRAAAAH
Four hours in, I can’t get it to work. I followed everything to the letter 4x now, and every time I get stuck. It’s giving me crap about the files not being signed at each Home+Power update. T.T

By: secretaznman

secretaznman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:34:49 +0000

my phone is stuck on the g1 splash too.
how do i fix this?.
i would reload the rom but i cant get it to mount obviously

By: bluerabbit

bluerabbit — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:07:12 +0000

Hey, this guide did the trick! It was so nice to see the # prompt on my g1.

btw, I got a ‘reboot now’ button in apps2sd

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:19:02 +0000

So, my phone is hanging at the g1 logo screen after I installed ap2sd. I guess the update.zip file got wiped because when I try to do ALT+S it can’t find it so I’m stuck. How do I mount the phone now to re-format/copy the file?

Please help!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:43:53 +0000

@David

Thanks alot for posting the steps – went through the same thing on a friend’s G1 when he hit the looping problem, doing a wipe before hand resolved the issue on the second try.

Went ahead and updated the post – much appreciated.

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:57:40 +0000

The above instructions did not work for me verbatim; I had the same issues described by other users of the hanging G1 splash screen and a looping Android splash screen.

I was able to avoid the looping Android splash screen by performing a wipe just prior to installing the JF1.51 update by pressing ALT+W in recovery mode. That is:
1. boot with home+power,
2. press ALT+L to display log,
3. press ALT+W to wipe data,
4. press ALT+S to install update.zip.

I was also able to avoid the hanging G1 splash screen by writing the JF1.51 update.zip file back to the sdcard after AppsToSD2 creates the new ext2 partition, and reloading the update on the next boot. That is:
1. write update.zip to root folder of sdcard,
2. boot with home+power,
3. press ALT+L,
4. press ALT+S.