G1 Won't get past Android screen after applying 1.5 manually

[nigar khan]

Hey there,

I installed Cupcake yesterday manually, and everything was working fine. I rebooted a few times, and my phone was fine. Now, when I rebooted my phone, it won't get past the new Android boot screen and just keeps flashing the letters over, and won't boot up

What should I do? I really don't want to lose my contacts at the moment :/

[Airfridge]

try to reflash your firmware of cupcake once again, and maybe that would help...and wont lose any data or contacts

[crawil_bunny!!]

your contacts are stored in googles servers. they will be synched after any reflash\wipe.

[barbora]

Just try to reflash your firmware, and i believe it will solve your situation...

[cingos]

Not all of my contacts from my phone are synced with google yet, so even if I had to factory wipe, I'd lose a lot of new contacts :?

What's the proper way of reflashing my firmware? I have update.zip on my SD card still.

[RizZa]

just power down, hold home button while pressing power. alt+s to update.

[skittlesMMM]

ya dont worry reflashing your firmwire wont erase your contacts or anything...

Same way you were trying to update your phone, shut it down, hold down the home button n the power button until you get the yellow triangle, and follow the steps from there, and see if that works

3. Turn the phone off, then hold the home button while holding the power button

4. You will see a yellow triangle pop up on the screen, NOW hold ALT and PRESS L then press ALT and S

5. You will see the file extracting on your phone and doing the update, press the HOME AND BACK button when it tells you to do so.

6. After that it will say that its installing the radio update

7. The phone will reboot about twice and you will see the new android startup graphics, the phone will be stuck there for about 2 mins or so, be patient then when your phones comes back on, YOU HAVE CUPCAKE!!!

~Tell me what you think about the process

ANY HELP THROUGH THE PROCESS, DONT BE AFRAID TO ASK!!

~IF YOU HAVE ROOT ...YOU "WILL" LOSE IT!!

~WHEN UPDATING TO CUPCAKE, YOU WONT LOSE ANY MESSAGES, PICTURES, APPS, ETC...

[be the change.*]

Alright, doing that. I got to the triangle, did alt + l, saw blue text with various alt commands I could perform, did alt S and now I have yellow text behind the update b ar going, I see:

"E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command

and all the update information below it. I never saw this stuff before when I updated cupcake manually before

[serenityone2000]

so whats going on now than?? is it installing or did it fail again??

[mandaluvzmnkyz]

Writing radio image when hit home and back to reset, now see a box and an arrow going into a phone

After that, saw tmobile g1, some box and a bar flashed on quickly, went off, back to Tmobile G1, waited about 15 seconds, now I'm seeing Android logo and it's just doing the animation