Wow finnaly someone making progress on this phone good job

Uh oh.. prob. The recovery is def working I think I accedently erased either system or boot. Now all I get is booting straight into "into fastboot" blue screen

You have to be really careful with this fone. I've had to get it replaced 4 times.

It's awfully difficult to reproduce your steps if they are incomplete... I run Fedora over here, and if you let me know your alterniitive method of getting into Clockwork Recovery, I may or may not be able to figure out how to get the Garminfone logo to go away ;)

You'll have to figure out how to setup the recovery.fstab, so that clockwork recovery will find the cache partition(I managed to trick it into seeing the 'storage' partition as cache and it worked, just don't perform a backup, it'll backup the storage partition which holds garmin's maps.)

After you do that, just flash_image the recovery.img we create in /home//Android/CyanogenMod/out/target/product/a50 to the recovery partition then adb reboot recovery. I'll post a how-to in a few days on the flash_image part, but it's all here http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Flash_image

Be very careful, this fone is easily briked, it's done it for me 4 times so far.

for additional help on this whole process, http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/10/porting-clockwork-recovery-to-new.html

Be very careful tho. I did get the recovery flashed and with the image in the way somehow accidentally deleted my boot partition and now will only boot up into blue screen saying "into fastboot" which there I can only get a few commands to work and no idea what to do. any ideas would be much appreciated

What commands can you get working? And what OS are you using? I'm on Win7x64 and I can't get any fastboot commands.

Well not hardly anything really

fastboot -i 0x091E

is as far as I can get.
It will take some of the commands but it will also hang on others I tried booting boot.img but it just hangs at downloading boot.img

So as of now My garminfone if I boot it up will go straight into "into fastboot" screen

If I hold up on the dirctional pad I get into "into usb polling"


If I hold directional left I get the "wipe user data" in the top left of the screen but it also just hangs there

So Ive got a big old brick

Unless I can somehow flash that update for 2.1 via fastboot or usb polling some how :\

fastboot 0x091E reboot boot-loader

also running windows 7 86

I wouldn't give up just yet.

Everytime I bricked my fone, it would always get stuck at boot(with the android guy in the corner). I could only get into USB POLLING MODE and get stuck in WIPE USER DATA.

So if it's tossing you into fastboot we might be able to save it... I don't know but I'll poke around with my fone sometime tomorrow.

How did you fix that when only usb polling worked and wipe data hangs ???

Tmobile sending out another one in 7 days

does it work with a10 too?

I never figured out how to get it fixed. Besides calling tmo and getting a replacement.

You'll have to figure out how to setup the recovery.fstab, so that clockwork recovery will find the cache partition(I managed to trick it into seeing the 'storage' partition as cache and it worked, just don't perform a backup, it'll backup the storage partition which holds garmin's maps.)" by MontuZ

How did you fix that? can you tell me the steps?

Thank You

Set the path for the cache partition to the storage partition in your recovery.fstab:
/dev/block//vold/179:1

It would be great to see the A50 confirmation on ROM Manager when installing Clockwork Recovery on the phone...ugh very frustrating to free up memory.

Can anybody unbrick garminfone like described by Adam?