I'm trying to revive and root an old HTC Dream. According to every ten-year-old tutorial I've been able to find, you should be able to boot into recovery mode by holding the Home + Power button as you boot the phone up. This simply doesn't work for me - the phone just boots up normally.
Is there anything else I can try? Does it differ for different specific HTC Dream models, or something?
It might be relevant that I've downgraded this phone down to Android 1/RC29 following tutorials. I've also noticed that the Call + Menu + Power combination to reboot the phone doesn't work, either.
reboot recovery
,reboot fastboot
etc family of commands. They don't work over ADB in my use-case, but they do work over the root telnet session (a long story, but anyone in the middle of trying to root an HTC dream will know what I'm talking about). I would love a clarification on why the keyboard commands don't work on my device, but I doubt anyone will know. I'll post an answer in a while.