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Ok - thanks for coming in and reading my post even though you could have skipped right on through.
I have purchased a used MT3G from craigslist (i know). I am a semi-knowledgeable "veteran" when it comes to rooting and flashing on the g1 - but the mytouch is totally new to me.
I have some SERIOUS SERIOUS concerns as to what my phone even is in the first place. I bought it with original TMobile packaging, phone says tmobile in the front and back - yet when I turn it on it's VODAFONE.
When I boot into recovery, I get the Triangle Exclamation with the phone. The rom is a 1.5 HTC rom and here is my fastboot info.
PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT - 1.33.0009 (SAPP30000)
CPLD - 10
RADIO - 3.22.20.17
May 8th 2009
HOWEVER - when I run the "one click root" - it says I have a 32A system. Eventually I followed the instructions for 1 click root using flash rec and flashed (downloaded) the Cyan 1.4.1a from the "recovery installer" (flashrec-1.1.2 2009-0909). They said my phone was 32A, I just went ahead and downloaded and installed - now I have the cyan recovery when I boot up my phone - I just can't flash ANY roms. I tried RAv 1.6 - for both 32B and 32A. 32A keeps rebooting my phone over and over, 32B just sits at the vodafone and hangs for 15 minutes.
After HOURS AND HOURS of reading the forms and the wiki - I'm at a complete impasse. I need some guidance. Do I have a 32A or 32B? Is it possible for 32A phones to show 32B in the fastboot? Some people need a "goldcard" to do this - I just used flashrec did I do something wrong? It seems as if some people are flashing roms with their regular SPLs - do I need engineering SPL - if so HOW do I flash SPL and radio without bricking.
I just want to flash some damn roms, or even get back to OEM and get my phone up to 1.6. It's such a bad feeling buying a phone, then bringing it home and you don't realize what you've gotten......I just want to get my phone rooted and start flashing roms and I've gotten this far.
ANY HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!
edit - the only way I've gotten my phone back to the stock HTC MAGIC rom is luckily upon first running of the CYAN recovery I did a nandroid backup and just restored to my backup after the failed rom flashes.
EDIT 2pm CST : I called T-Mobile, they can track your IMEI and Sim card every time you place a call - they CONFIRMED that my IMEI belonged to a TMOBILE MYTOUCH 3G and not any european phone. This leads me to my next question - is it possible to flash this HTC MAGIC rom onto a TMOBILE MYTOUCH 3G through fastboot, or something - WITHOUT a recovery, WITHOUT having root?
My MYTOUCH 3G is running VODAFONE everything, and it's definitely a EUROPEAN HTC MAGIC rom. Did someone install something on this phone before I got it. Please community - any help is appreciated.
A possible explanation is that someone followed Amon_RA's instructions partway through but did not finish. Specifically, they may have flashed the SPL, the recovery image for 32A and then a ROM for 32A. Since the phone is 32B, the recommendation is then to update the radio and recovery and ROM for 32B after it is rooted.
Perhaps this person rooted the phone, and then did not revert to 32B. Just a guess, though.
ok bro first lets calm down. everything is fine. all the information you need is right in front of you. first if its from europe it could be 32b and or 32a. so to check if you have root lets download a terminal app. if you dont have one pm and ill send you one. once we have that run it and type
su
if it asks for permission or just goes to
#
you are good. now type cat /proc/meminfo
for "MemTotal:" if it says 98024 or around there then you have a 32b. there that took care of what kind of board you have now we have radio and splash. your radio is .009. eng radio is .006. most likely the person that had the phone before only did have the steps. so go over them again with doing a "real" rooting. make a goldcard, get a good rec .img and have sdk working on your comp. if you need help i can help the best i can.
my touch 3g problem!! please help!!!
i bought a my touch 3g from craigslist. and when i turn it on it freezes up and says vodafone and it just stays there.. i need help to get it off can anyone help??? please
Turn it on while holding the Home key and tell us what you get? If you get a menu of options then you have a custom recovery image and you can flash a new rom ... if you just get an image of a ! then you have the stock recovery image.
Also turn it on while holding the back key, give us the information from that screen (also known as the fastboot screen) as this will tell us what recovery options are available to you.
I feel you man.
richboii8939 said:
i bought a my touch 3g from craigslist. and when i turn it on it freezes up and says vodafone and it just stays there.. i need help to get it off can anyone help??? please
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I worked for T-Mobile and got a mytouch before launch. My MyTouch, During the 32B radio flash, fell off my desk, disconnected, and has been stuck where you are ever since.
doing MANY hours of research and trying VARIOUS different methods did not help. I since bought another, (and a nexus. DO NOT MISS THE MYTOUCH) rooted it and my original MT3G, is still stuck on Vodafone red boot screen, and has a hopefully semi-permanent place in the bottom of my shame drawer.
Mine will not respond to Goldcards, and is not picked up by ADB.
If you plug your phone in, on boot and it is recognized by ADB, then you have hope. If its completely shot like mine. I doubt you'll be able to revive it. Unless ive been missing something since July of last year. (I had it early lol).
If it is recognized.
I would...
-Get a 32B radio
-Open CMD in the radio's folder (Shift + Right click will add a button in your right click to Open Command Prompt There)
-Fastboot flash radio <insert file name here>.zip
-Adb will say "Waiting for Device"
-IF IT IS RECOGNIZED It should reboot into Fastboot and flash the Radio and you should be okay.
*Please correct me if I'm wrong. Im can root all day long, but i can barely explain it. XD*
So I have bought a HTC Magic in Singapore about a year ago.
Some of the information about my phone before it got stucked in HTC Magic power-on screen:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON A
HBOOT-1.33.0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.07.29
Aug 4 2009,19:43:30
I found a site that helped me to get my phone rooted as follow:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.76.2007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.08.29
Aug 21 2009,18:19:15
Soon after, I started searching for new ROM elsewhere and managed to update my SPL to 1.33.2007 and that's where problem starts to occur..
My phone get stucked on HTC Magic screen display forever.
I was eager to get this problem solved and have not done enough research before I got myself in a worse situation with the phone hbooted like this:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
May 27 2009,19:06:41
Now I can only enter hboot and fastboot.
Can somebody help me to at least get back to my original ROM? I don't wanna root my phone ever again..
Help please~
If you can get into fastboot you're fine. Just flash 32A radio/spl again and then the desired ROM. Old radio/spl - 1.33.X/3.22.X New radio/spl 1.76.X/6.35.
yeah when turning on the phone hold home and power, if you get the recovery menu then you got nothing to worry about, just flash the proper rom and all will be fine, there is even a stock htc rom with root around here.
right here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622038
but you dont have to go back to stock, you just need to put on a rom that fits your phone. i personally suggest this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=654284
so good luck post back when you get it figured out
Thank you Reziukas and sike89 for the reply..
I will try the ROM recommended in the links. =)
I cannot get into recovery (-Home- & -Power-) now due to the perfected SPL (1.33.0006).
And whenever I use the goldcard method that flooded over the internet, I always get this "Main version is older!" failure message.
I think I have made the goldcard correctly cause it worked while I was trying to flash my 1.76.0007 SPL to 1.76.2007.
Any idea?
when you hold home and power what does it do?
did you root your phone with the recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img?
I did but after I flashed RADIO-2.22.19.26I with SPL 1.33.0006 I can't get into this recovery mode anymore.
When I press Home and Power, it starts booting but stucked on HTC Magic screen forever..
Easily said it, I can only enter hboot (vol down and power) and fastboot (back and power) now..
Procedure
1.Turn your phone off. Turn it on by holding Back and Power, or Vol. down and Power. Either way, boot into the bootloader.
You should see the three Androids on skateboards, and the menu title should say "Fastboot".
2.Connect your device to the computer. The display on your phone should now say "Fastboot USB".
3.Open up the shell/terminal on your computer, and type
fastboot devices [enter]Your device should be listed with it's serial number, and should say "fastboot".
4.Change directory to where you have saved your recovery image. I.e. type "cd /path/to/recovery.img in windows prompt, press enter.
5.You may issue a "dir" command (Windows) or "ls" (Unix/Linux) to make sure you are at the right directory, or just skip this step.
6.Type
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Check your phone's display, as recovery is being sent and flashed to your device.
Check your command prompt/shell to make sure the process is over.
i got all that from Binary100100 who got it from here http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/RE-recovery-img
give that a shot
also maybe this might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4066552&postcount=2
I seem like I cannot use the fastboot command in 1.33.0006 SPL??
Whenever I type a fastboot command and press enter, I always get an error message.
>> ... FAILED (remote: not allow)
Do we have any windows application that can help to bypass all checking on the phone stats and proceeds with fastboot flash directly?
Perfected spl, you need to make yourself a goldcard
Goldcard doesn't seem to work..
Whenever I try to flash a new radio, it prompted me an error message "Main version is older!"..
What to do?
when it says main version is older it means you need the goldcard.
do you have a working goldcard? if not use this
http://revskills.de/downloads/psas.zip it will make the gold card.
No need for phone?
Hello there.
I was reading this thread and I'm having a similar problem.
I have a question, sike89.
Is it possible to create the goldcard just with the software you mentioned?
My magic 32a will only go into fastboot (stuck at splash screen) and so
I won't be able to use my phone to create the card.
Thanks!
As mentioned by YamatoDelgato, I cannot boot up my phone and thus far I am unable to re-create a goldcard.
But this "goldcard" I am using right now was a working goldcard and I am surprised that it doesn't work all the times..
By the way, I found an alternative on internet saying that you can use other HTC Magic phone to create a goldcard for your phone; Although I am not sure if its gonna work out, just give it a shot..
Sike89, am I right to say that this application does not require any HTC phone in order to create a goldcard?
I can just format my SD card using PC and input the necessary information into the application to create goldcard, is it true?
Problem Solved...with a Sacrifice.
Well I managed to get my phone booting again.
I have a rogers phone so I used their "mandatory"
update (2 sappimgs) to get my phone working again.
However, this resulted in getting the dreaded
SPL 1.76.0010 meaning I can't root it easily.
However, I know that with a working
phone that I now have, I could use it to obtain
a gold card.
Boy that was scary!
I'm so scared to try rooting again but I probably will hehe !
Thanks to xda community and google search!
I lost my original nandroid backup but did manage to install an original ROM on my 32B (Vodafone). Took some work but it worked Afterwards I wrote a tutorial about it (google How to restore your custom ROMed HTC Magic (Vodafone 32B) – a walk through, I can't post links yet).
Hi Everyone,
I own a HTC Magic 32B (Sapphire) and flashed it several times with different ROMS during the last months with no problem.
2 days ago, I decided to downgrade it to 1.6 Donut since I can't even write a sms properly with higher versions (Cyanogen, Vodafond OTA included)
I started wiping and tried to flash the rom but I faced radio and/or hhoot version issues and there began the nigthmare
At the moment, I've nothing loaded on my internal storage, only a sappimg.nbh on the sdcard. I finally succeed to install alternative drivers on my computer to make fastboot working and tried to flash dozens of different nbh/zip/img (radios, spl, hboot, recovery) without success!
So now, i have a soft/hard bricked phone with no idea on how to fix it.
Several infos to help you understand my case:
- Home + Power gives nothing, just the G1 logo
- Power + Volume Down let the phone detect the nbh file stored on the sdcard but when i start the update, it freezes at the first step (radio_v2) but no issue with signature checking
- Power + Menu gives access to the fastboot menu. From my computer, no way to flash any kind of file (signature checking fails everytime)
Below are the information provided by the "Android Skateboarding screen"
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G (i tried to switch security to off => no way)
HBOOT-1.33.0013d (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-1.22.12.29
Oct 21 2009, 22:33:27
If you have any idea or beginning of an idea, just let me know
Thank you so much
Bertrand
Same issue here (from a newbie).
I downloaded to Donut per Unlockr's instructions but couldn't get any new ROM's to load, so tried Clockwork Recovery. Now the phone boots up into Donut and HBOOT correctly, however will not boot into Bootloader.
same problem here :S cant flash anything cant get anywhere.
Find a sappimg.nbh or zip and flash In hboot. You might need a goldcard
Hi all, I bought a 2nd hand HTC Magic with Mytouch 3g rom. It's the old model (without 3.5mm headphone jack) and its made in Taiwan.
Been using well for 3 months until what happened I tried doing system update from 1.5 to 1.6. Success!! Then I tried doing 1.6 to 2.1 update.
Halfway while updating it, the phone blacked out ( guess I didnt have more than at least 50 % battery power)
And from that point onwards, whenever and everytime I switched on my handphone it boots up and stucked at the Mytouch 3G green screen.
I cant get access into my handphone like how I normally do. All I can ever go far is just the stucked Mytouch 3g screen.
I've read alot from lots and other Android users and tried to do it myself.
1) Tried unrooting it by downloading the sappimg.nbh file, copy into a newly bought 2GB micro SD, pressing (VOL DOWN+POWER) and let the phone do its job.
Manage to get to the parsing, updating and checking signature part but it just say 'Model ID incorrect! Update Fail!'
2) Next I read is about doing GOLDCARD METHOD. I did as instructions and follow it step-by-step and carefully.
3) I can and able to download all needed files like 1.33.2005 HBoot, Amon Ra's Recovery Image, SappiMG.zip and all others.
BUT the only problem is that I cant get it in sync with the comp.
4) I cant get access at all into my phone to go to Settings > Applcations > Make sure Unknown Sources is checked on as required to.
5) I cant get access into my phone at all to go to Market and download the required File Manager App.
6) I tried installing all kinds of files for update.zip by pressing (HOME+POWER) still to no avail.
Tried all kinds of HBOOT, FASTBOOT still cannot.
7) The only thing I'm able to do is just (VOL DOWN+POWER) , (BACK+POWER) , (HOME+POWER) , (TRACKBALL+POWER) which emits the blue LED light, i don't know the reason. But still, nothing can be done.
And by pressing (BACK+POWER) this is what my phone's motherboard or whatever they call it.
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.28.25
Oct 21 2009,22:33:27
So what should I do now? Is this what they called it a bricked phone? I tried everything and really at lost. Is there someone out there who's able to help me with this? Been like this the past 4months. And Im really a noob with Android Gadgets as Im new to it. Do pardon my ignorance.
Thanks! really need your help. I'll do my best as long there's other alternative methods unless like I've stated the methods that I'm unable to do.
Hi.
I have an 32A HTC Magic.
I don't know what got wrong but I have NO working ROM on my device.
I have Amon Ra 1.6.2, SPL-OFF, Can get into recovery, can get into Fastboot mode.
Tried flashing some ROMs (they installed 100% completely) but when I reboot the logo just shows "htc MAGIC" and nothing happens.
Please what should I try to do?
Your help will be very much appreciated.
Best regards and sorry for not so great english.
Okay, the thing is:
I can get into the Fastboot screen, but cant get into Fastboot USB mode. So no way of sending ADB commands from my laptop.
Also, no way to get into HBOOT. Even from the Fastboot screen, pressing VOL DOWN doesn't do anything.
What the heck do I do? (
It can be caused by stucked buttons.
Tear down the phone
Clean parts
Assemble all back
p.s. Please post spl-info (first 5 rows in fastboot screen) to avoid software incompatability
5[Strogino] said:
It can be caused by stucked buttons.
Tear down the phone
Clean parts
Assemble all back
p.s. Please post spl-info (first 5 rows in fastboot screen) to avoid software incompatability
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Thank you very much, here is the data:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.76.2007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.10.18
Aug 21 2009, 18:19:15
Your help is very much appreciated. Im still stuck with the Magic.. Have tried everything all night
Best regards
Okay, got into HBOOT finally. I then tried flashed the sappimg.zip - but half way through it said invalid model id.
Now I don't have Amon Ra recover, and Fastboot looks like this now:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.261
May 27 2009 19:06:41
I tried another sappimg.zip and then in HBOOT but HBOOT doesn't find the sappimg.zip anymore.
Any good advice?
OMG, why? Why you did it? You are successfully half-bricked your magic...
update:
1. Make goldcard
2. try to flash 2.53.707.2 SEA WWE test-signed
http://www.4shared.com/file/160198404/66d482a/RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2537.html
Cause Im a bit stupid I guess ...
One thing though, I can't even get my computer to recognize my Magic.
Nothing happens when I plug it to the USB port. Not showing up in Device Manager.
I have tried two mini USB cables, same thing.
Guess Im totally screwed?
It is driver-related issue.
You need explore Windows Device Manager (My computer (right click) / Manage / Device Manager)
There must be Android USB Devices in tree.
You can also install USBDEVIEW
32bit OS: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip
64bit OS: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview-x64.zip
p.s.
1. adb must return serial number when phone in normal state after command "adb devies"
2. fastboot must return serial number only in fastboot-mode after command "fastboot devices"
If you see serial number - no problem with adb/fastboot
slkdk said:
Hi.
I have an 32A HTC Magic.
I don't know what got wrong but I have NO working ROM on my device.
I have Amon Ra 1.6.2, SPL-OFF, Can get into recovery, can get into Fastboot mode.
Tried flashing some ROMs (they installed 100% completely) but when I reboot the logo just shows "htc MAGIC" and nothing happens.
Please what should I try to do?
Your help will be very much appreciated.
Best regards and sorry for not so great english.
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Hi, slkdk,
Have you ever tried the "RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa"
(in Traditional Chinese/English)
You just need to connect your phone with PC, turn on the phone with back+power, and then execute the "RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa" on PC.
I remember that Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa will help you with all the radio/SPL/ROM directly back to the Android 1.5 stock.
Good luck!
yuanlin0823 said:
Hi, slkdk,
Have you ever tried the "RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa"
(in Traditional Chinese/English)
You just need to connect your phone with PC, turn on the phone with back+power, and then execute the "RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa" on PC.
I remember that Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa will help you with all the radio/SPL/ROM directly back to the Android 1.5 stock.
Good luck!
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Just note, but not all phones are Taiwanese Chungwa. Installing ROM for another region (mismatching by CID) will raise "cid error" and half-brick.