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dead HTC Magic (help!!!)

hello all i have just bought me an HTC magic..
after few days i was made the updates so it was rooted..
and then i saw the hero also was running on some magics..
so i started to make the neccesary things to do it..
But something went wrong...
my phone booting up...
but just hangs in the HTC magic logo
i plug my usb cable to it when the phones boots up nothing happens
while i'am in the 2 menus home+power , the back+power and down+power it nothing happens
i can't get into hboot , fastboot.
is it's dead??
how can i make it back to live??
Thankyou for any help!!!

then, it is strange.... have you flash your SPL?

i did everything.
flash data.img, system.img, and boot.img recovery.img
fastboot flash data data.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
then i can't get into hboot and fastboot.
i thank i need pick Magic back to repair center.
thankyou for your reply!!!

keungkee said:
i did everything.
flash data.img, system.img, and boot.img recovery.img
fastboot flash data data.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
then i can't get into hboot and fastboot.
i thank i need pick Magic back to repair center.
thankyou for your reply!!!
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From described above, I think what you did would not damage the SPL, which loads the fastboot...
Maybe there's a hardware problem
Anyway, try fastboot again! (long press back and then power)
and there seems to be a way to save your phone through ddms (please google it. it is mentioned in one of the threads(

volume Down + power , Home + Power , Back + power.
i press this keys to power up.
it just have a vibrate and the HTC Magic screen then stop........
i wait about 30 min nothing happen.
i need to pull the battery out to stop it.
can't use DDMS cos My windowXP can't see USB device when i connect magic to window.
i don't know how to do.
thankyou for your reply.

if SPL not being flashed (no damage), then u should able to enter "fastboot"

i don't know what i done.
just can't hboot and fastboot now.

You have to hold both buttons (POWER + BACK for fastboot) until the flash screen shows up.

bachviet said:
You have to hold both buttons (POWER + BACK for fastboot) until the flash screen shows up.
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thankyou for you reply!!!
i know how to get into fastboot mode. but my problem is i can't get into the first menu by (back + power , home + power and volume Down + power) for 60sec.
it just have a vibrate and the HTC Magic screen then stop........
may be i need pick Magic back to repair center.
but i still want to repair by my hand.
thank's for any reply.!!!

This is a long shot, but I had something similar happen to me when I upgraded my SPL. Try renaming the latest spl as update.zip and putting it on your SD card.

hotweiss said:
This is a long shot, but I had something similar happen to me when I upgraded my SPL. Try renaming the latest spl as update.zip and putting it on your SD card.
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What should one do if flashing a new SPL doesn't work?

Exactly the same problem.
I have returned the phone to 3. they gave me a new one.
my problem occurred after I flash a SPL into the phone.
so, must be the SPL making the problem.
Maybe you have to send it to repair.

****ed
When i brought my phone the 17 of jun i had the phone 5 days not rooted and it done the thing yours is saying i took it back to the shop and they gave me a new 1
i think some phones have a fault but try taking it back
btw i want to flash my new 1 but i dont want to **** it up can anybody point me the right way or come on msn and talk me throw it hope some1 can if so send me a pm thanks flyover

My Magic's bootloader is
PVT 32 A, CPLD-12, Boot with Hami
Hboot 1.33.0009
After I flash the hboot with this post then reboot，Same thing happend。
But I Figured Out Somehow，You can still enter the fastboot mode，but not with the original view。
The fastboot Mode shows A Red line words "fastboot usb" at the upper-left corner，and the logo still Hami。
What I did is Volume Down+Power，Then Try to press Other Bottom ( I Don't know Which Bottom Exactly.)。
Sorry For My Poor English。

Mine is also bricked. Same story, I flashed the spl and it just rebooted to the htc screen and will not recover from it. I get no sort of red flashboot menu. It's completely unresponsive on all levels. Such a shame, I'm worried about this being a design fault with the magic. Perhaps there's a line of models with this problem. I can still choose a different phone altogether if I bring it back.
I REALLY like the look and feel of this phone... but I don't want to brick a second one.
Caid.
444

Caid444 said:
Mine is also bricked. Same story, I flashed the spl and it just rebooted to the htc screen and will not recover from it. I get no sort of red flashboot menu. It's completely unresponsive on all levels. Such a shame, I'm worried about this being a design fault with the magic. Perhaps there's a line of models with this problem. I can still choose a different phone altogether if I bring it back.
I REALLY like the look and feel of this phone... but I don't want to brick a second one.
Caid.
444
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I got a second one from "3". I would recommend u not to touch the spl again.

Sad as it may be to brick a phone, I don't see failure as a reason for giving up. I haven't successfully modded my phone yet, and that bothers me. I'll do it, and I'll succeed. If not, I'll go back there and replace it again
I WILL do it right.
Anyway, enough of the power speech.
Caid.
444

Maybe a solution
Hi
I had my phone end up in a state in which it would immedialtely show a black screen with HTC logo and do nothing else - even when just inserting the battery. The whole thing seemed pretty stuck
But then I found out that holding "back" and "power" down before and while inserting the battery did the trick - then the phone booted into the fastboot mode and I could start revovering it using some appropriate recovery image and an update.zip that I had placed on the SD card in advance.
This has helped me a couple of times since then
Seems to me that as long as you have not messed up the SPL, there are ways of recovering.
Hope this might help.

well, I don't have a chance to test your method.
can anyone, whose phone is bricked, try !!holding "back" and "power" down before and while inserting the battery!!

well, I don't have a chance to test your method.
can anyone, whose phone is bricked, try !!holding "back" and "power" down before and while inserting the battery!!

Is my HTC Magic Bricked

Hey... All (my first Post)
Ok tried most combinations to I guess unblock my phone .....
As it stands my computers do not see it Win or Mac.
Stuck in HTC logo boot while I tried to change to Hero21-radio-update-signed.zip to later install Hero_2.1-signed.zip Rom
Orange light come's on when charging and the blue light come's on when you press trackball then end/power button.
Am I to start shopping for a new Android Phone ???? .... HELP ...

can you boot into recovery or fastboot? try powering on by holding home and power, or the volumedown button and power, it it gets past the htc screen or mt3g screen (depending on if you have a magic or a mytouch) you ARE NOT bricked.

oshizzle1991 said:
can you boot into recovery or fastboot? try powering on by holding home and power, or the volumedown button and power, it it gets past the htc screen or mt3g screen (depending on if you have a magic or a mytouch) you ARE NOT bricked.
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THANX......Tried already .....No luck still same... I have HTC Magic Vodafone Australia

if you cant get into recovery or fastboot...its a brick sorry

oshizzle1991 said:
if you cant get into recovery or fastboot...its a brick sorry
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Hey .... THANX ..... my first brick, never thought it was really posible to brick the phone.
But now I may have to start collecting them.... It will be one expensive house.

Magic stuck in boot loop! HELP!!

I have a rooted Rogers magic and dont know what happend...but its stuck in a boot loop. All it gets to is the "HTC MAGIC" screen and then the out of box image shows up and then it restarts and does this again and again.
I cant enter recovery or fastboot. ive tried the diff key combinations to boot but nothin works.
ANy help!!???

If you can't get into a recovery, or fastboot from my understandings you now have a very expensive paper weight.

Mine did the same, randomly or because i pressed some combination the phone booted again. Sometimes pressing backspace i enter the menu, pressing home+power... nothing.
One or two times pressing home+power enters the menu and then reboots by itself.
Any ideas?

It's happened to me once.
Does anything come up with your computer?
Can you access adb?
Try removing the battery then hold down the menu button.
While still holding menu put the battery back in.
The phone should start up. Keep holding the menu button until you are blue in the face (or for about 30 seconds or so) or until the phone boots.
If that doesn't work try the back button instead of the menu button like above.
If THAT doesn't work... then find a stack of papers and place them in front of a fan. Place your phone onto the stack of papers and let it sit...
Or try calling your provider because you might still be under warranty.

ok guys it on now.
Its working but for some reason it wont read my sd card :S
turns out my bro flashed a recovery he shouldnt hav so it kept rebootin evenwhen i tried entering recovery. i erased it thinkin that ill flash a new recovery...but it wont recognize my sd card. ive tried 3 diff cards...but nothin works.
even in the rom, i get the notification: "SD Card has been removed. Insert a new SD card to increase your device storage."
i cant get the card to work HELP??
........how do i even flash anything without the card?

You can flash through fastboot
Sent from my Epic myTouch 3G using XDA app.

Flash through fastboot like he said and it should read your SD card with a new ROM.

any links to a tutorial on how to flash through fastboot??
thanks in advance!!!

hassan3216 said:
any links to a tutorial on how to flash through fastboot??
thanks in advance!!!
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Nope. There are no links or tutorials at all anywhere on the web. They do not exist. Except for maybe this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4066552&postcount=2
... and about 5,539 more. But yeah... other than those... the answer is no.

The Sapphire Wiki
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking
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is also somewhere you should look if you need help rooting.

please help can i recover my magic stuck in box image shows up
without jtag ?
helppppppppppppp

NIRANIK said:
please help can i recover my magic stuck in box image shows up
without jtag ?
helppppppppppppp
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It you have bootloop - remove battery you turn phone off. Wait a few minutes and place battery back.
Then try flash turn phone on by pressing and holding Back + Power (fastboot-mode)
Write first five rows here (all symbols are important).
It you will have problems, try to load phone into other modes:
Home + Power - recovery-mode
VolumeDown + Power - hboot-mode
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no way out
I tried but nothing happend
just a screen with box and yello arrow refers to a mobile
any way thank you sir

NIRANIK said:
I tried but nothing happend
just a screen with box and yello arrow refers to a mobile
any way thank you sir
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Can you load phone into any mode?
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

first thank you for your time
no I can not enter any mode no fast-boot no recovery -- only the power bottom can be recognized

NIRANIK said:
no I can not enter any mode no fast-boot no recovery -- only the power bottom can be recognized
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Too bad
It seems like phone flashed by faulty hboot or radio (uncompleted download or something else)
Try disconnect phone from pc or adapter and remove battery for 10-15 minutes
May be it cancels this process.
To restore phone you need to run hboot-mode or fastboot-mode - if you don't then only JTAG can help

Can't get into bootloader

hey i tried installing a new radio through cwm recovery but when it installed, i cant get into bootloader or the recovery, when i hold down the volume down buttton with power it just turns on and shows the htc magic boot screen
wat can i do to at least get into bootloader? i dont think its a brick because it boots right?

andrix10 said:
hey i tried installing a new radio through cwm recovery but when it installed, i cant get into bootloader or the recovery, when i hold down the volume down buttton with power it just turns on and shows the htc magic boot screen
wat can i do to at least get into bootloader? i dont think its a brick because it boots right?
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You don't install Radio IMG files through CWM. Its not a rom, you don't flash these imges the same way. You need to be in fastboot mode to do that press and hold back and power button.
Connect your usb cable to the computer and type 'fastboot devices' in console. You need to have adb/fastboot setup. If you get a response your phone is not bricked

I did exactly wat it says in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909900
and everytime i tried getting into fastboot, bootloader, or recovery it just powers on and shows the htc magic screen
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda premium

andrix10 said:
I did exactly wat it says in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909900
and everytime i tried getting into fastboot, bootloader, or recovery it just powers on and shows the htc magic screen
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda premium
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Do you have access into Hboot mode (volDown+powerkey) ,Fastboot(back key+powerkey) or Recovery (home+powerkey)?If not then your phone is bricked as you do not have a correct Radio image.If the radio is corrupted you do not have access in Fastboot,hboot,recovery mode and android.Try this and tell me

new developer need 10 posts in general discussion sry

Bricked Defy?

Hi my power button recently broke and i tried to flash twrp recovery to my working defy with wiui installed which allows to to wake the phone with the volume rocker, it has corrupted my recovery and my defy wont boot into android is my phone bricked as i cant think of anyway to recover it from this. Thanks

morgs640 said:
Hi my power button recently broke and i tried to flash twrp recovery to my working defy with wiui installed which allows to to wake the phone with the volume rocker, it has corrupted my recovery and my defy wont boot into android is my phone bricked as i cant think of anyway to recover it from this. Thanks
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read this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216982
Boot into Bootloader mode (power-on while holding Vol-Down)
You may need to flash an SBF to get going again.

_ossie_ said:
read this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216982
Boot into Bootloader mode (power-on while holding Vol-Down)
You may need to flash an SBF to get going again.
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Hi thanks for your reply i cant get into bootloader mode as my power button is broken?

morgs640 said:
Hi thanks for your reply i cant get into bootloader mode as my power button is broken?
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Pull the battery and reinsert it while holding Vol-Down. This usually works as a power-up.
Do it while connected to a PC. The PC should sound the "device connected" sound.
If the white LED comes on, it usually means the phone is OFF and charging. No LED usually means it's ON and in BL mode (you should get the white text on black screen, but you won't if you have flashed a 'bad' SBF).
Try this a few times.
If nothing else is broken you should be able to get into BL mode and flash an SBF.
But your power button needs to be mechanically fixed at some stage, or your phone isn't going to be much use.

_ossie_ said:
Pull the battery and reinsert it while holding Vol-Down. This usually works as a power-up.
Do it while connected to a PC. The PC should sound the "device connected" sound.
If the white LED comes on, it usually means the phone is OFF and charging. No LED usually means it's ON and in BL mode (you should get the white text on black screen, but you won't if you have flashed a 'bad' SBF).
Try this a few times.
If nothing else is broken you should be able to get into BL mode and flash an SBF.
But your power button needs to be mechanically fixed at some stage, or your phone isn't going to be much use.
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I have tried all of this already and unfortunately it doesnt get into bootloader mode it just comes up with the moto logo. The phone was working before i tried to update my cwm to twrp i didnt flash an sbf. The power button works fine it must be stuffed on the mainboard i took it apart and the button works fine, why do i need the power button for anyway?

morgs640 said:
I have tried all of this already and unfortunately it doesnt get into bootloader mode it just comes up with the moto logo. The phone was working before i tried to update my cwm to twrp i didnt flash an sbf. The power button works fine it must be stuffed on the mainboard i took it apart and the button works fine, why do i need the power button for anyway?
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now can you turn on your phone? the power btn works?
try flashing official sbf , root and 2nd-init again.
p.s make sure you have above 20% batt or you gonna spend your time just like me plugging the defy mobo directly to 5 volts.

-Danik- said:
now can you turn on your phone? the power btn works?
try flashing official sbf , root and 2nd-init again.
p.s make sure you have above 20% batt or you gonna spend your time just like me plugging the defy mobo directly to 5 volts.
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The power button doesnt work but it turns on when battery is inserted, i cant get the phone to pickup in rsd

morgs640 said:
The power button doesnt work but it turns on when battery is inserted, i cant get the phone to pickup in rsd
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Hold the Volume Up key while inserting the battery.

_ossie_ said:
Hold the Volume Up key while inserting the battery.
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just goes to moto logo, with usb cable it does the same after about a minute. i can get into the android bootmenu (where u can go into cwm overclock from etc) but recovery doesnt load comes up with missing file error due to me trying to flash twrp

morgs640 said:
just goes to moto logo, with usb cable it does the same after about a minute. i can get into the android bootmenu (where u can go into cwm overclock from etc) but recovery doesnt load comes up with missing file error due to me trying to flash twrp
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Doesn't bootmenu (Recovery) give you option to reboot into Bootloader? If so, do this and flash an SBF.

_ossie_ said:
Doesn't bootmenu (Recovery) give you option to reboot into Bootloader? If so, do this and flash an SBF.
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Even if it does, power button is malfunctioning, hence can't select it...
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dbarrera said:
Even if it does, power button is malfunctioning, hence can't select it...
Sent from my MB525 using Tapatalk 2
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the menu button works to select items in cwm so no problem there, do u mean in bootloader?

_ossie_ said:
Doesn't bootmenu (Recovery) give you option to reboot into Bootloader? If so, do this and flash an SBF.
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options are
- boot
-cpu
-recovery
-tools
-reboot

dbarrera said:
Even if it does, power button is malfunctioning, hence can't select it...
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<<< head hits desk >>>
OK so if the phone will boot into recovery it SHOULD also boot into bootloader ?
Maybe I confused OP by saying hold "Vol Down" when I meant "Vol UP" ???
Anyway, OP will probably not get too far without a functional Power button.

_ossie_ said:
<<< head hits desk >>>
OK so if the phone will boot into recovery it SHOULD also boot into bootloader ?
Maybe I confused OP by saying hold "Vol Down" when I meant "Vol UP" ???
Anyway, OP will probably not get too far without a functional Power button.
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Ok im with you now haha i thought you meant i needed the power button in cwm and i was thinking what for? but i cant get into bootloader anyway so doesnt really matter. I cant get into anything except cwm, holding up just brings up a black light up screen and phone wont recognize in rsd

morgs640 said:
... holding up just brings up a black light up screen and phone wont recognize in rsd
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Are you SURE? I have had Bootloader work even though nothing shows on screen (when I flashed the wrong SBF). The screen was black but RSD could still "see" the device.
Defy has a locked bootloader (cannot be overwritten), so the fact that you can boot into recovery indicates the bootloader is still there and working. Maybe the problem is in your version of RSD Lite, or your version of drivers installed on the PC, or in your USB cable?
Try uninstalling the drivers from the PC, then rebooting, then attaching the phone and insert battery while holding Vol-Up. This SHOULD reinstall the BL drivers to the PC. Try another USB cable - I have had cables which work for charging but not for data transfer.

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Are you SURE? I have had Bootloader work even though nothing shows on screen (when I flashed the wrong SBF). The screen was black but RSD could still "see" the device.
Defy has a locked bootloader (cannot be overwritten), so the fact that you can boot into recovery indicates the bootloader is still there and working. Maybe the problem is in your version of RSD Lite, or your version of drivers installed on the PC, or in your USB cable?
Try uninstalling the drivers from the PC, then rebooting, then attaching the phone and insert battery while holding Vol-Up. This SHOULD reinstall the BL drivers to the PC. Try another USB cable - I have had cables which work for charging but not for data transfer.
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Alright sound good thanks ill give it a go on my other pc using a different cable, thanks for your continued help with the problem

No go looks like the phone is cooked tried another defy and picks up straight away in rsd on boith pc's and mine doesnt work on either thanks for your help people.

ols help me....defy stuck at black screen...no bootloader
rsd lite recognises through factory cable but while flashing sbf it gives error sending ti rom packets and den it fails.....my stock rom was froyo india.....pls help.....
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