HTC Magic won't boot after reset - myTouch 3G, Magic General

HTC Magic won't boot after reset - myTouch 3G, Magic General

Hi all,
yesterday I got my HTC Magic but there was Hero ROM on it already. First thing that I have done is a master reset (hold HOME+BACK and power On, then press trackball), because I like to start fresh with new fone, don't want to have old user settings and customization.
Now phone doesn't boot. It boot to the HERO logo but that's all. After HERO animation, it start loop, HERO animation starts again until the battery is removed.
Please help. How to solve this problem, I'm OK with HERO ROM on the Magic or with the original ROM.
So what to do? Thank you in advance.

You just need to re-flash the ROM. So find a Hero ROM or some other ROM that fits the board (either 32A or 32B), and put the update.zip on your SDcard and go to recovery mode and flash it.

Cheesebaron said:
You just need to re-flash the ROM. So find a Hero ROM or some other ROM that fits the board (either 32A or 32B), and put the update.zip on your SDcard and go to recovery mode and flash it.
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Cheesebaron,
thank you for you replay. Can you give me some more instructions, I have Android phone for less then 24 hours (read: he is n00b) and which is procedure for flashing? How to go to recovery and start flashing part? Part for the zip package is OK, I can do that via micro SD card reader.
edit: And please if someone can post link for Hero or default Magic ROM that will work OK, it doesn't matter for first time, goal is that phone start working at all.

OK, so far I have managed to install various ROMs to my 32B Magic.
So I have some new questions:
On which ROM all features are 100% working?
Which ROM is closest to default ROM?
This is my config:
sapphire pvt 32b ship s-on g
hboot 1.33.0004 (sapp10000)
cpld-10
radio-2.22.19.26I
apr 9 2009

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HTC magic wownt load anything!

Hi all
This is my first post, please be gentle. I have tried searching and read lots but have got now where very fast. Firstly thanks to everyone putting out all the guides and working on the updates and such. I have a HTC magic vodafone google UK
I tried rooting my phone using: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?t ... ic_Rooting
then I loaded recovery RAv1.1.2 which worked well again
I think its at this step where I went wrong. I then tried to load up the fatality Scene onto my phone and now it does not boot. looking back i missed the fact it was for 32A and not 32B and when i try to restore nandroid the same problem of only vodafone splash screen comes up and hangs until battery is removed
I can access recovery by holding home and power, i can load roms from sd card but on reboot it hangs on vodafone. So I have to take the batery out. I can still access fast boot when putting battery back in and back and that has got me no where aswell
on fastboot it says
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
APR 9 2009, 23:30:40
All I wanted to do is to be able to access voice dialing, multi touch and saving apps on SD card, anything else is a bonous. Now any use apart from a paper weught would be good
any advice appreciated!!!
please help!!!

ok well if you can still acess fastboot then you shoulb be able to load recovery image by using
fastboot boot name-of-recovery-image.img
and then flash the phone again using a 32B rom... Make sure of course that you first download the rom and place it on the sdcard using a card reader or something!

I have learned the error of my ways. Basically I should have read more and try and understand what the actual process was doing rather than blindly following instructions. Im all up and running and have to say many thanks to every one working on this, there is actually more than enough info and support if you look for it!

Stock but hopefully not bricked

Hi there, I have a prbolem and need your help.
Here is the situation :
I have a HTC Rogers magic and wanted to root it, so I followed this procedure :
greatbigdog01.wordpress[add dot com here]/2010/07/12/new-shorter-rogers-magicmagic-rooting-guide/
Everything went well until the step 5.
I changed the Radio/SPL/Recovery using the utility, everything went well, wrote that it sucessfully updated, but after doing the reset the phone command, my phone was stock on the HTC Magic screen. Nothing.
I switched back to the newer SPL. Everything went well but again, stock on the magic screen. Don't know why. My PC does detec the phone.
I can go in Fastboot ect... (Home + power work, volume down + power work and I think back + work too) So from here I think I am not bricked.
Here is the info from the fastboot(?) :
hboot 1.76.2007 sapp50000
cpld-12
radio-6.35.10.18
If I am right, If I flash a rom that isn't compatible with my SPL/Radio I can brick my phone, so I rather wait what you guys suggest me to do. I don't care about loosing root as I need my phone back up asap.
Hope I gave you the needed informations
Thanks in adavance.

Post ALL fastboot info please.

Sapphire PVT 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.76.2007 (SAPP50000)
RADIO-6.35.10.18
AGU 21 2009, 18:19:15
I think thtat's all the info?

Have you flashed a new rom that was designed for the new radio? Try Smoki or RCmix.

What do you mean by new rom? Since I did exactly what is wrote in th tutorial and everything went well, I think I have the recovery-ra-hero-v1.6.2.img? Also tryed to flash back update-hboot-1.76.2007-signed.zip but it did not help.
Do you think I should put back the old SPL (1.33.2010?) with the radioswitcher and falsh a custum rom?

After you flash spl, radio and recovery you need to boot info recovery by holding down home and pressing power. Then you copy a rom for the new radio on your card and flash it from recovery.

Ok so you want me to try one of the 2 rom you posted?

Yup. Those if you want Android 2.1 with Sense or CursorSense if you want Android 1.5 with Sense

Thanks a lot , I wil give it a try. If I ever want Cyanogen, do you think it is possible that I switch back to old Radio/SPL, then without booting, flash the new rom? Do you think it would work?

As far as I know, there are 2 or 3 ports of CyanogenMod 6 for the Magic with 6.35 radio. If those don't work out for you, just use eyegor's radio switcher to install the old radio/spl/recovery and then flash the ROM from recovery.

2 boots, 1 rom 1 radio make sure for your device!
Good luck
Cheers!!

Thanks everyone! Put back the old spl and flashed cyanogen and it booted! Thanks again!

HTC Magic w/ "unperfected" SPL: hangs with Cyanogenmod ROMs (and possibly others)

HTC Magic w/ "unperfected" SPL: hangs with Cyanogenmod ROMs (and possibly others)
Hi all,
Sorry if it's yet another "my phone got stuck on reboot" post, but I've read hundreds of posts without figuring out what I have done wrong.
My HTC Magic from the French operator SFR returned from tech support (after a speaker fix) with a "perfect" SPL and a "standard" Android 1.6, so I could no longer install any alternate ROM:
SAPPHIRE PVT32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.007 (SAPP 10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
Jul 31, 2009, 15:49:25
To downgrade the HTC Magic to a non-perfected SPL, I followed Amon Ra's instructions (showthread.php?t=548218), created a Goldcard, and flashed ROM v2.53.707.2_-_sappimg.zip (Engineerings SPL v1.33.2010).
After that, my config was as follows:
SAPPHIRE PVT32B ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP 10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-3.22.20.17
June 2, 2009, 17:27:03
Then I installed (fastboot flash) the recovery recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0H.img. Note that this version wouldn't reboot (stuck on splashscreen "HTC Magic") until I removed the SD card - after the 1st boot, it worked even with the SD card.
From the recovery I wiped out the memory and cache, and flashed the latest cyanogenmod for the Magic (update-cm-6.0.0-DS-signed.zip). Everything went fine, but when I reboot, the phone gets stuck on the splashscreen ("HTC Magic") forever. I waited more than 15 minutes. I tried to remove the battery, and also to start without the SD card, or with another SD card - to no avail. I'm still able to fastboot and to enter recovery, so my phone is not bricked.
I also tried to flash other cyanogenmod versions (update-cm-4.2.15.1-signed.zip and update-cm-5.0.8-DS-signed.zip) with the same outcome.
I don't know what to do now. Give up and return to the Android 1.5 included in 2.53.707.2_-_sappimg.zip? Sad... If I should try other ROMs, which ones would you recommend (compatible with what is already installed)?
All that is terribly confusing and discouraging. Any advice about what to do next would be greatly appreciated.
Richard

Which radio do you suggest? The radio I'm using (RADIO-3.22.20.17) was bundled with Amon Ra's v2.53.707.2_-_sappimg.zip, which also included a 1.5 system image that seemed to work well (with that radio) on my 32B phone.

Or just download the EBI1 kernel available with CyanogenMod, then flash it after flashing the ROM and Google Add-on before rebooting.
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App

Thanks for your advices, but I think it's too late now, I'm afraid I bricked my phone...
After careful investigation, I found that I could reasonably try the combination of radio 2.22.19.26I (ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip) with an SPL 1.33.2005 (update.Engineering-SPL-HBOOT-1.33.2005-signed.zip) for my 32B Magic.
I planned to flash them from my NA recovery in sequence, radio first then SPL.
First step (flashing the radio) looked OK, at the end I did HOME+backspace to reboot and proceed to the second step (flashing the SPL). The phone did reboot and displayed the splash screen, but got stuck forever there... And no fast boot (backspace+power), no recovery (Home+power)... the brick!
I'm not totally sure I got the right radio. When I tried to download ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip, I found that there were several different versions: one for the dream + one for the "Google developer device" on the HTC site - a "ION" version, etc... I went for the "ion" version and apparently that was not a good choice.
I really think that it's incredibly complicated to find a secure way to do this. After hours of research on the net, I could never be sure that I was picking the right elements for my Magic. All this time spent represents more than the cost of the phone!
Thanks god I have also a working rooted Nexus one which doesn't give me headaches to update. Actually the Magic was my former phone that I gave to my wife - I think I'll have to offer her another phone
Cheers

This people is why those that say "oh no you have the the 32a radio on a 32b you may brick the phone" are self fulfilling.
The 3.x radio works on both the 32a and 32b but you need to use fastboot to change the 3.x radio / recovery to the 2.x versions.
Otherwise flashing a 2.x radio from recovery with a 3.x radio on any dream or magic system will always brick the system..
(Edit: also I think the ion/adp1 versions of the radio are the same, except for a device check in the install script. . But I have not verified)

I just read something today (too late) about flashing radios via fastboot in certain circumstances to avoid bricking the phone. But it was in a tiny comment in a section about how to unbrick your phone I wish I would have known that before.

koreancanuck said:
I see that your radio is for 32A devices. Try to flash the 32B radio? I don't know what will happen, so letting you know in advance that it is your decision to take these risks.
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I went through the same thing as you but got out of it. I tried flashing Cyanogenmod 6.1 to my rooted Magic and was stuck on the Vodaphone screen. I then read about the radio and tried that and the phone was then bricked. What I did was follow the Gold Card procedure again with the update.zip on a formatted micro sd and the sappimg.zip on the gold card. you will need a USB micro sd card holder as the phone is bricked. Then I used the cards in my phone and this got my phone back. Once I had Fastboot capability again I found the latest zip file for superuser and flashed it to my phone (no wipe). Then I installed Rom Manager and installed the latest version of ClockworkMod recovery. You may have to do this install through Rom Manager 2-3 times before it actually installs. It says it has installed successfully but the reason the phone hangs at the splash screen is because it needs to boot to recovery to complete the install of cyanogenmod. you can test this by using 'boot to recovery' from the Rom Manager after the install of the ClockworkMod recovery. If it hangs at the splash screen, then it hasn't installed properly. Just take out your battery and power up the phone normally then use Rom Manager to install ClockwordMod recovery again. Once you get past this, it is all plain sailing. Just install the latest CyanogenMod 6.1 for the HTC Magic(GSM) and the Google Apps (3 files in total), Back up the current Rom, wipe and install. This worked a treat for me. Hope it works for you.

rgruet said:
Hi all,
Sorry if it's yet another "my phone got stuck on reboot" post, but I've read hundreds of posts without figuring out what I have done wrong.
My HTC Magic from the French operator SFR returned from tech support (after a speaker fix) with a "perfect" SPL and a "standard" Android 1.6, so I could no longer install any alternate ROM:
SAPPHIRE PVT32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.007 (SAPP 10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
Jul 31, 2009, 15:49:25
To downgrade the HTC Magic to a non-perfected SPL, I followed Amon Ra's instructions (showthread.php?t=548218), created a Goldcard, and flashed ROM v2.53.707.2_-_sappimg.zip (Engineerings SPL v1.33.2010).
After that, my config was as follows:
SAPPHIRE PVT32B ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP 10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-3.22.20.17
June 2, 2009, 17:27:03
Then I installed (fastboot flash) the recovery recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0H.img. Note that this version wouldn't reboot (stuck on splashscreen "HTC Magic") until I removed the SD card - after the 1st boot, it worked even with the SD card.
From the recovery I wiped out the memory and cache, and flashed the latest cyanogenmod for the Magic (update-cm-6.0.0-DS-signed.zip). Everything went fine, but when I reboot, the phone gets stuck on the splashscreen ("HTC Magic") forever. I waited more than 15 minutes. I tried to remove the battery, and also to start without the SD card, or with another SD card - to no avail. I'm still able to fastboot and to enter recovery, so my phone is not bricked.
I also tried to flash other cyanogenmod versions (update-cm-4.2.15.1-signed.zip and update-cm-5.0.8-DS-signed.zip) with the same outcome.
I don't know what to do now. Give up and return to the Android 1.5 included in 2.53.707.2_-_sappimg.zip? Sad... If I should try other ROMs, which ones would you recommend (compatible with what is already installed)?
All that is terribly confusing and discouraging. Any advice about what to do next would be greatly appreciated.
Richard
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I went through the same thing as you but got out of it. I tried flashing Cyanogenmod 6.1 to my rooted Magic and was stuck on the Vodaphone screen. I then read about the radio and tried that and the phone was then bricked. What I did was follow the Gold Card procedure again with the update.zip on a formatted micro sd and the sappimg.zip on the gold card. you will need a USB micro sd card holder as the phone is bricked. Then I used the cards in my phone and this got my phone back. Once I had Fastboot capability again I found the latest zip file for superuser and flashed it to my phone (no wipe). Then I installed Rom Manager and installed the latest version of ClockworkMod recovery. You may have to do this install through Rom Manager 2-3 times before it actually installs. It says it has installed successfully but the reason the phone hangs at the splash screen is because it needs to boot to recovery to complete the install of cyanogenmod. you can test this by using 'boot to recovery' from the Rom Manager after the install of the ClockworkMod recovery. If it hangs at the splash screen, then it hasn't installed properly. Just take out your battery and power up the phone normally then use Rom Manager to install ClockwordMod recovery again. Once you get past this, it is all plain sailing. Just install the latest CyanogenMod 6.1 for the HTC Magic(GSM) and the Google Apps (3 files in total), Back up the current Rom, wipe and install. This worked a treat for me. Hope it works for you.

Magic stuck on "htc magic" boot screen after Engineering SPL... and bad Nandroid, ugh

Magic stuck on "htc magic" boot screen after Engineering SPL... and bad Nandroid, ugh
Please help, I'm stuck on a boot screen, compounded by an apparently bad Nandroid backup
I just got a Rogers Magic so I can get 3G on AT&T. (couldn't with my T-mo G1) Rooted it, installed the RA-Sapphire recovery and took two Nandroid backups (one with, one without Ext)
Here was my starting point:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT- 1.76.0010 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO- 6.35.10.18
Plan was to install Cyanogen 6.1.0 (like my G1). This requires that I downgrade the radio, and I was planning on using RadioSwitcher tool to make life simpler.
The tool requires an engineering SPL be installed, and points to this Magic SPL Hboot collection thread
I've downloaded and/or tried (in this order):
Stock: 1.76.0010 (as noted above)
Engineering SPL 1.33.2010 (from the SPL collection thread the tool instructions pointed to)
1.76.2007 SPL (from the Cyanogen Wiki on Magic 32A with 6.35 radio)
Engineering SPL 1.33.2009 (from the SPL collection thread the tool instructions are pointed to)
So when I tried using the tool to switch the radio to a Radio_HTC_PVT_32A_3.22.20.17 [supplied], I got these results:
Stock 1.76.0010 - tool won't update radio without an engineering SPL. Device boots up no problem.
Engineering 1.33.2010 - tool uses Fastboot, I see progress bar, then screen goes black and tool reports "Radio update: FAILURE". Device now won't boot, hangs on "htc magic" boot screen.
Tried to restore - Nandroid restore issue noted below.
Engineering 1.76.2007 - same progress bar/black screen, update "FAILURE", and device won't boot.
Engineering 1.33.2009 - same progress bar/black screen, update "FAILURE", and device won't boot.
(I tried posting on that Radioswitcher thread but it's locked or closed or I'm just not able to post on it.)
I don't feel comfortable randomly trying SPL's, especially as I'm guessing there's simply a lack of understanding on my part as to which SPL is compatible with my current phone/radio. I'm hoping someone here can help with that.
Currently, this is how the phone sits:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT- 1.33.2009 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO- 6.35.10.18
...not able to boot, not able to restore:
I can get into recovery, but it's also testing me:
When I try to flash anything from SD, I get "E: can't mount SDCARD:" If I select "USB-MS Toggle" then disable it and come back, then it appears to work - but doesn't give me warm and fuzzies.
Nandroid restore - either backup gives "Error: run 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' via adb!"
That really makes me uncomfortable and puts me a bit out of my comfort zone - I was counting on the Nandroid backup as my safety net... never had any issues with my G1 and Clockworkmod recovery. :huh:
Thankfully, I have the trusty G1 I can plug my SIM card into to use as a phone...
But I really need to get this working or it's a lot of money, and hopes, down the drain.
Help - please!

I used this guide to root my phone to begin with - I see there's an engineering SPL option in there also.
Although I said I wasn't going to try pot-shot SPL attempts, this was part of the rooting process I followed originally, and someone suggested that I try that one.
I can't boot my phone so I couldn't follow that process exactly, but I extracted the SPL file from that zip file and put it on the SD card using my PC, then booted into recovery to flash that Eng SPL...
...and still the Magic won't boot up. I can't tell if this is even any different than the previous SPL - or rather if the problem preventing boot is a problem, if it's tied to the SPL (numerous SPL-swaps would seem to indicate no?) and if it's different.
Now I'm here:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT- 1.76.2007 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO- 6.35.10.18

Stop...you have an eng spl... Thats all what you need!
You are working the BLIND...
For every spl there are matching radios...
For the 1.76.2007 spl, you can use any 6.35 radio for magic.
For the 1.33.20xx(xx can be 04,05,10) you can use 3.22 radios.
All the above are eng spl, which basically gives extends read/write permissions.
With the eng you can flash what ever partition you want, e.g. system, radio or recovery.
The reason you can't boot is that you have **** up your system.... That we can fix easy :0)
Radio/spl **** ups -> not to so easy to fix.
You have a good combo now, let's get you a good system.
First, you need to flash a different recovery to make sure it works with the 6.35 radio.
Download my fastboot commander tool (magic version, check my signature) and it will do it for you the easy way.
When you have the tool, go to magic 32A tab.
There you can find two buttons, one for 6.35 radio combo a.k.a new radio.
You also find one for 3.22 radio a.k.a. old radio.
The tool will flash an entire combo of radio, spl and recovery that matches :0)
so... this what you have to do, choose 1 and only 1:
1) use the tool to flash "new" combo, reboot into recovery and flash any rom that is for the new radio (6.35). Check out the development sections for roms.
2) use the tool to flash "old" combo, reboot into recovery and flash any rom that is for the old radio (3.22). E.g. cyanogenmod from this page:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_version#MagicCM6
Remember to flash the EBI 1 kernel or else the system will not boot.
The gapps (at the buttom of the page) are optional but recommend :0)
Good luck, and stop working the BLIND!

Sounds good...
Should I expect that after flashing the "old" images, that I'd be able to boot my phone into the stock OS again (1.5 with Sense)?
Or should I just skip that [if that's not a good test] and just proceed with loading the Cyanogen ROM?
Very much appreciated, and thanks again.
Also, one thing I'm concerned with - I've seen some notes along the way that the Magic requires a custom Kernel to install Cyanogen... I'm not sure what the Kernel really even is. Do you have any insight into that?
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=How_to_build_a_kernel_port_for_CM6
I've got the 32A - but those instructions are hardly 'download this file and flash':
"If you want to build a EBI1 kernel port package to get it to run on a 32A Magic (with 288 MB total RAM), or a phone with the 3.xxx radio such as the Rogers 32A Magic and Rogers Dream, then you can follow the instructions below:"
...and those instructions are long, and most intimidatingly - vague (much is implied, not all explicitly stated).
Yikes...

..........

I flashed the "old", and the phone now gets stuck in a boot loop on the "Rogers" (before the "HTC Magic" where it was getting stuck before).
The recovery is still the RA-sapphire-v1.7.OH... is that the Amon Ra?
I'll take a backup in this state, test-restore it (I know from experience with my G1 that the "HTC Magic" splash screen will be replaced with a Cyanogenmod one, with the Cyano 6.1.0) then put the Cyanogen on there and cross my fingers that I don't need to mess with that Kernel procedure...
EDIT:
I have a backup that restores - unfortunately it puts me back to the original "can't boot" state, lol.
Anyway, so after I took that backup, I proceeded to flash Cyano and the tiny Gapps.
I'm still getting hung on the Rogers screen - the Cyanogenmod boot screen doesn't come up.
WTF, you know?
EDIT 2:
I forgot to list my current state:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
Let me know if you can help, thanks

i think now you can boot into recovery and wipe everything and then try to flash the rom from sd card/

READ what is written...
You are still messing **** up...
You cannot boot ANYTHING until you get a working system on the device...
You keep "booting" to nothing because there is NOTHING to boot...
STOP for a second and READ.
I have giving you 2 options... do one of them...
The Cyanogenmod need EBI 1 kernel which you can find on the same page i gave you..
if you read the instructions, you also find i have written that...
Once again to be sure, flash EBI 1 kernel after the CM rom, then you flash gapps and you should be good to go...
Or flash "new" combo and download this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=778083
I can't help any more if you don't READ before you act!

I did... wanted to take it one conservative step at a time... operating with a bad backup here... ;-) And that Kernel page on the Cyanogen wiki is just evil... it should have a source to download one and apply, for us mere mortals lol.
I downloaded an already built, already compiled EBI1 kernel, and that did work nicely. Phew.
Thanks for the tool and the help - I couldn't have done it without your help.

Okay, so question! I've got the same problem this person has with the starting point:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT- 1.76.0010 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO- 6.35.10.18
From this point, would I use the same process to get my phone to work?
..I'm a programming noob.

yawaemekat said:
Okay, so question! I've got the same problem this person has with the starting point:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT- 1.76.0010 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO- 6.35.10.18
From this point, would I use the same process to get my phone to work?
..I'm a programming noob.
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Does your phone boot into the ROM?

I should probably explain a bit:
So my phone is caught at the "HTC Magic" screen at the startup. It won't go on any farther than that. When I hold down the VOLUME DOWN key and press the END key, I can bring up the screen that states the following:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT- 1.76.0010 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO- 6.35.10.18
The screen does give me some menu options:
HBOOT
<BACK> FastBoot Mode
<SEND> Simlock
When I press BACK, I get another set of menu options:
FASTBOOT
<VOL DOWN> HBoot Mode
<SEND> Reset Device
<ACTION> Restart to HBoot
<MENU> Power Down
..did that answer your question? ..i'm not sure.. LOL!

Yeah, so it's not booting into the ROM. Did you have root before? Did you have a custom recovery installed? Can you get into it by pressing home+power?

I bought the phone off of ebay so I don't know what was programmed on the phone before I got it.. :/

DonJuan692006 said:
Yeah, so it's not booting into the ROM. Did you have root before? Did you have a custom recovery installed? Can you get into it by pressing home+power?
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Sent from my HTC Magic using Tapatalk

The HOME+POWER buttons bring me to a screen where there's a picture of a "!" inside of a triangle by the phone..

Your going to have to root using the goldcard method. A Google search of "root 32A magic goldcard" should get you were you need to be.

Okay, so I'm sorry to be such a noob, but I got everything ready for a Goldcard (cable and a new kingston SD), but then what I need is to set up the ADB which requires me to connect the phone to a computer.. I cannot access anything on the phone via the computer except for the memory.. the drivers won't install.
I'm using this website's instructions:
/theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/[/url]
So, the second step is to create an ADB, and then the third requires me to access the phone itself and unmount the SD.. I'm kind of at a loss at this point..
what should I do?

You'll have to see if a friend has a phone that you can borrow to make the goldcard. The steps will be the same and it'll work on any phone running Android.

[q] help: Very urgent!!!!

Everything was fine running ROM Magic Fusion 2.1 V5 528Mhz, unless some FC...
That why I decided to try a different ROM.
Went for this one:
Ginger yoshi 1.0 RC2 (android 2.3.2) for 32b and 32a now ^_^
Apparently this one asked for Radio Update. Think I did something wrong because the only thing I have when I turn on phone is something like this
Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
Hboot - 1.76.0000 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO - 2.22.27.08
nov 3 2009, 15:56:29
Th eonly soluiton I found by myslef was try to flash the original RUU:
RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_3.05.401.1_test_signed_NoDriver.exe
But doing that it always freezes at 36% on RADIO update.
The screen completely white!
What can I do?
Someone said, in another forum, to flash a Stock ROM via fastboot usb, but I don't know how to do it!!!
And I'm afraid to do more wrong things!
I using windows Xp
Last HTC drives V 3.0.5511
Can somebody help me please! I need my phone urgently!!!
Thanks!
Sigla

Looks like you've briked your phone.. But if you can acces "Fastboot" you are saved !
First, download sdk drivers, take a look here, then root, then try Radio Switcher ... and flash CM 6.1.0 DS

32a device? shouldnt that be a 3.22 radio? not the 2708

You have a radio/spl mismatch.
You got 32B radio instead of 32A radio. Plus you got new spl together with "old radio".
Very bad.
You need to flash the 1.33.2010 spl to bring you device into a working state and from there we can fix it.
The problem is you got S-ON which is bad for your situation. But i will try to flash the spl anyway and see if i succeed.
If not, then does custom recovery work?

Thank you mumilover but I'm a newbiw in this (you can ask how a newbie done this mess!! Well, I did it)
I just don't have any idea how to flash 1.33.2010 spl... on the screen, fastboot don't come up, only RUU USB (in yellow)....
I can access only via adb fastboot (windows)....
Any hint you or someone can give me?
Many thanks and sorry the bad english!
Sigla

Download my fastboot commander tool (check my signature - magic version)
Chose to flash the spl/hboot -> navigate to "imgfiles" folder which is bundled with the tool -> chose the 1.33.2010 spl (tagged oldspl)->flash it.
If it goes well then post here and we can fix the rest.
If NOT, then you are kinda fu*ked.

Didint' tested yet, just because I notice you say it's only for S:Off
Mine it's
Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
Shall I do it in the same?
Many thanks!
Sigla

No sir, it didn't worked
Anyway, thanks agian for your help!
Any suggestion?
Best regards,
Sigla

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