Luckily, I came across a user on the CyanogenMod forum which guided me to this topic on how to fix the recovery image when your G1 is stuck at the bootup screen. Unfortunately, even after reading this post, I had a hard time figuring out how to get all of this to work so I decided to write a very detailed blog article on how to fix this issue.

I noticed that when I plugged in my phone with USB and turned it on by holding the Home and Power button, I would get a little red box on the top of the bootup screen that said FASTBOOT USB on it. If you see this as well, you’re in good condition to fix the problem.

I knew that I’d have to download the Android SDK in order to get some of the tools I needed to fix this issue.

Here are the exact steps I took to fix my G1.

1. I went to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ and downloaded the latest JDK under Java Platform, Standard Edition and installed it. Now thinking back, I may not have needed this, but did i’m going to list every step I did anyway just in case.

2. I then went to http://developer.android.com/sdk/ and downloaded the Windows version of the Android SDK. Once I Ran the SDK Setup.exe to install it, I had an issue downloading the packages in order to install the SDK so I went into Settings and ticked the box that said Force https://… sources to be fetched using http:// … (Again, I may not have needed to install the SDK packages to fix this issue, but listing it since I did it anyway.)

3. I downloaded the recovery image I wanted to use from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4647751&postcount=1. Towards the bottom of the post, I downloaded the actual image which was the latest stable version of the Amon_RA / Cyanogen recovery image. Here’s the link for the file: http://rapidshare.com/files/387558152/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img.

4. After downloading the Recovery image, I renamed it to recovery.img to make it easier to type in the next steps below. I moved this recovery image to the Android SDK folder I still had on my desktop. I made sure to put the recovery.img file into the tools folder. The exact path was now C:\Users\The Dro\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\tools.

5. Go to your start menu and RUN CMD to open your command prompt.

6. In command Prompt, I typed in “CD desktop\android-sdk-windows\tools” to move into my tools folder where I placed the recovery.img file along with all the tools included with the Android SDK.

7. After changing the directory to your tools folder, you’re going to run the fastboot tool to flash your recovery image back into your G1 by typing “fastboot flash recovery recovery.img”. This should give you a message that says ““. This is when I plugged the USB cable back into my G1 and booted the phone up by holding down the Home and Power button to get that message at the top of the screen that said “Fastboot USB” once again. I then noticed that the command prompt had successfully reloaded the new recovery image back into the phone.

8. I turned the phone off by removing the battery and unplugging the USB cable. Then rebooted it again using the HOME and POWER button to check if the recovery image really got reloaded back into my HTC Dream / G1 Cell phone. Fortunately, I got the recovery console once again with no problems.

9. I then re-downloaded the ROM operating system I wanted to flash into my phone which was the most recent ROM at the time I wrote this post (update-cm-6.0.0-DS-RC1-signed.zip by ciwrl) and the Google Addon FRF91-MDPI-3 by ciwrl. Make sure that if you use the 6.0 ROM that you follow all necessary instructions on the CyanogenMod website in order to have the correct Radio and steps needed to get this ROM working on your G1.

10. While still in the recovery console on the G1, I clicked Alt+T to enter USB-MS Toggle Mode. This connects your phone to your PC and you can then move your ROM ZIP file onto the root of your memory card. After the file has transferred, Press the HOME key to disable the USB Toggle mode and re-enter the main menu of your recovery console.

11. Press Alt+F to enter the FLASH ZIP from SDCARD and select the ZIP file which includes the ROM you just downloaded to flash the G1 with. It should then ask you to hit the HOME key to confirm that you want to flash this ROM into your phone. Remember though, this may wipe all the data you had on your phone’s OS before. Regardless, just be glad that you’re phone isn’t really bricked and that you’re on your way to being able to use it again.

12. Once it’s done loading this onto your phone, go ahead and hit HOME + BACK button to reboot your phone. It may take a little while to boot back up the first time since you have loaded a new rom onto it, but be patient and let it do it’s thing.

I hope this has helped you “un-brick” your phone. I noticed a lot of times when looking for technical help on the web, people are very vague with directions and it makes it a little difficult for people who don’t really know what they’re doing. I definitely believe that people who don’t know what they’re doing shouldn’t be rooting their Android phones and trying to load a new OS onto it, but it seems to be the “cool” thing to do and I know you guys are going to try it anyway.

Before heading to the west coast, we will be playing in Philly at Polaris on September 4th and thenTriton Music Festival in Brooklyn, NY hosted by Vampire Freaks. This Labor Day festival is also a 3-day festival which will include some of the best DJ’s and industrial music artists. Some of the artists performing at the Triton Festival will include: Apoptygma Berzerk, Clan of Xymox, Celldweller, Hanzel Und Gretyl, Razed in Black, Terrorfakt, and many more.

Jessi Slaughter posted a video in response to all of the people leaving her horrible comments online and the result was the next viral video which you’ll probably begin seeing on the news as well as Where are they now shows down the line.

The best part about this video below is of course, her father. If anything is amazing, this is:

I’ll pop a glock in your mouth and make a brain slushie. ‘Cause you dun Goofed!

Beiber REEEEEMMMIIIXXXX!

Germany here we come, West Coast Dates with The Dreaming also Being Booked!

Check this shit out!

After about 8 Years of playing shows in the US, Deadstar Assembly finally gets ready to embark on their next level of touring. We’re currently gearing up for the second leg of the Coat of Arms tour which will begin at Germany’s Summer Breeze Open Air Festival. You can find out more information about the tour on the Summer Breeze website. Some of the bands we will be performing with at this festival include: Sepultura, Napalm Death, GWAR, Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, Agnostic Front, Behemoth, Dark Funeral, Dying Fetus, Gorgoroth, Ill Nino, Macabre, My Dying Bride, Sick of it All, Suffocation, The 69 Eyes, and many more! You can check out the full list on their Bands Page.

We got word that this 3-day festival is already sold out. There will be about 90 Bands and 30,000 people for each day of the festival! I’m mostly excited about the fact that I can finally leave the country again and especially for a show this big. For those of you who didn’t know, my Brazilian passport had expired and it was a bit of a bitch for me to get it renewed. I’m not an American Citizen, just a legal resident, and it was a lot harder than it should have been for me to renew the passport. Anyone who’s had to deal with the debacle will tell you, dealing with consulates are less than appealing. Their web sites are missing a ton of important information and just trying to find out what I needed to do was bad enough, let alone trying to call them. They’re the most unhelpful people you’ll ever deal with. You call them, and they tell you to email the site for more information, then they reply to the email and tell you to call them. It’s like a never ending FOR loop in a poorly written piece of software.

Regardless, after all of that was taken care of, I got more great news that we’re also going back out west for this second leg of the tour. We’ll be performing in states such as Colorado, Utah, Washington, Nevada, and one of my favorites, California. We get to perform at The Whisky A Go-Go in West Hollywood, CA for the second time and I can’t wait! This part of the tour will be with The Dreaming. The Dreaming includes Christopher Hall (Singer of Stabbing Westward) and Carlton Bost (Guitarist of Deadsy).

I’m looking forward to the upcoming tour and hope everything works out the way it’s supposed to.

Summer Breeze Open Air Festival

The Dreaming

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South Florida’s DeadStar Assembly are about to launch their musical delirium into the masses once again with their first tour in over two years. The band will embark on a 20 city tour with Team Cybergeist (Angel Bartolotta – Dope) on select dates in support of their third studio effort “Coat Of Arms” to be released on March 30th 2010.

DeadStar Assembly’s “Coat Of Arms” Tour 2010

April 08th 2010 – Brewster’s Pit – Jacksonville, FL
April 09th 2010 – GroundZero Spartanburg, SC*
April 10th 2010 – Gil’s Virginia Beach, VA*
April 11th 2010 – Zakk’s Murfreesboro, NC
April 13th 2010 – Digital Ferret Philadelphia, PA
April 13th 2010 – Club Polaris Philadelphia, PA*
April 14th 2010 – Club Hell Providence, RI
April 15th 2010 – Championship Bar Trenton, NJ
April 16th 2010 – The Silo Reading, PA
April 17th 2010 – Montage Music Hall Rochester, NY
April 18th 2010 – Don Hills New York, NY
April 20th 2010 – Hi-Fi Concert Club Lakewood, OH
April 21st 2010 – Blondies Detroit, MI
April 22nd 2010 – Reggie’s Rock Club Chicago, IL
April 23rd 2010 – TBA Cedar Rapids, IA
April 24th 2010 – TBA Sioux Falls, SD
April 25th 2010 – Station-4 St. Paul, MN