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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!!

Unbricking mytouch/g1 ( soft bricks only but no harm trying )

I found a site with someone who bricked their phone but found a loop hole. I have never bricked my phone and hoping i never will but for those who have bricked their phone here are some steps to try to unbrick it! HOPE IT HELPS! SEND FEED BACK!!
So you can’t access bootloader or recovery and the only thing that works is the blue led trick when pressing trackball + power button??
Try the procedure below.
Step 1: Turned Phone off by taking out the battery.
Step 2: Prepared SD card
Put SD card in card reader and formatted it as FAT32, copied the DREAIMG.nbh onto it.
Or try Sapphimg.nbh
Step 3: Put SD card back in phone
Step 4: Hold Vol down + Power + track ball together and put battery to start phone
Step 5: Run update
IF THAT DIDNT WORK!
TRY THIS!
Step 1: Turning Off Your Phone
Because you have a bricked phone, you can't just hold the power button. So if your phone is not already off then you're going to want to take out the battery.
Step 2: Preparing Our SD card
Take out your SD card and put it into an SD card reader or some type of other adapter so that we can view it from our computer. If you cannot view the SD card on your computer then you're going to need a new SD card.
Download DREAIMG-RC29.zip and unzip the file.
Reformat the SD card to FAT32 and copy the DREAIMG.nbh onto it.
Safely eject the SD card.
Put the SD card into your device.
Step 3: Wipe The Phone
Hold home and press the power button.
When you see the image of an ! mark, open your keyboard and press Alt + L if you cannot see any command options.
Do a factory reset by pressing Alt + W or just using the trackball.
When the reset is done, go ahead and hold the camera button and select the reboot system now option with your trackball.
Step 4: Flashing The Phone
Once the grey screen pops up (or the white screen if your phone was rooted with JesusFreke) it will ask you to hit a button to start installing the image…press that button. DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO STOP THIS PROCCESS. It will take about 8-12 minutes.
When the image has completed the installation (it will say completed), go ahead and press the green, red, and menu buttons at the same time. The phone will reboot.
And your done! Your phone is now unbricked!.
The G1 screen will hang there for a good minute or two, but be paticiant, it will boot. Now you have a choice. Try to hack your phone again, because you're in the correct state to have another go, or, you can stick with the official Android. Now if you choose to stick with the official Android, here's what you do.
Step 1: Upgrading to Android 1.0 RC33
Download the file signed-PLAT-RC33-from-RC30.zip
Rename the file to update.zip and copy it to your SD card
Reboot your phone into recovery mode. Power off the phone first and then hold down the Home key while powering it back on.
The recovery mode is finished loading when you see the ! mark inside the triangle. Press Alt + L to display the list of options.
Press Alt + S to flash the file update.zip.
Wait for the update to apply. Your phone may reboot during this process so be patient.
Press Home + Back if prompted to reboot your phone.
Step 2: Upgrading to Android 1.5 CRB43
Download the file signed-kila-ota-148830.de6a94ca.zip
Repeat the steps from above to flash the update file.
Step 3: Upgrade to Android 1.5 CRC1
Download the file signed-kila-CRC1-from-CRB43-FIX.7ca4a1d7.zip
Repeat the steps from above to flash the update file.
Step 4: Upgrade to Android 1.6 DRC83
Download the file signed-kila-DRC83-from-CRC1.c41b93c1.zip
Repeat the steps from above to flash the update file.
PM FOR THE DIRECT WEBSITES!

sad cause this will get locked soon.

domuhhnic said:
sad cause this will get locked soon.
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why? all we need is someone who can confirm this is true on xda and it will be stickied EVERYWHERE

LOCKED?
domuhhnic said:
sad cause this will get locked soon.
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Why will this get locked??

Yuppie
oshizzle1991 said:
why? all we need is someone who can confirm this is true on xda and it will be stickied EVERYWHERE
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Exactly .. but i dont know anyone with a bricked phone so i cant ask them if it works.. if it gets locked (whatever that means) i'll repost it!

id be interested to see if this works... although its assuming you have a dream/g1 .. did you post this in the g1 section?

POST?
digitaljeff said:
id be interested to see if this works... although its assuming you have a dream/g1 .. did you post this in the g1 section?
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Yes, I have a HTC MAJIC/MYTOUCH .. nope i have not posted it there but i will now

i tried to update radio and now :
So you can’t access bootloader or recovery and the only thing that works is the blue led trick when pressing trackball + power button??
Try all of this methods , but no result..
phone just shows htc magic when i turn it on usually, and nothing!
what can i do?

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Im still looking of ways to unbrick phones

Possible hint!
Has anyone tried using adb .. Reflashing the recovery img??

...another hint..
kemimarie said:
Has anyone tried using adb .. Reflashing the recovery img??
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run fastboot boot recovery-image.img or whatever you named your recovery image. It'll display "waiting for device..." message just keep pluging it in, unplugging, popping the battery and eventually your device will respond and boot into recovery.
Someone bricked and i did it... twice trying to flash the eng 2010 SPL. It worked the third time and my device is up and running again with an engineering SPL.
if your device is stuck on the first splash but displays in red "Fastboot USB" message in the upper left corner of the screen, DO NOT power it down. run the above mentioned command and reflash.

deleted... double post.

Found another hint
ch3w said:
confirmed...
-I Connected USB.
-I inserted the battery.
-I booted the phone while holding the HOME key.
-The phone still froze at the first splash screen, but then suddenly, the waiting fastboot command detected the phone and booted the recovery image!
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try that on your g1/mytouch!

kemimarie said:
try that on your g1/mytouch!
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this method worked on my second bricked magic, still trying it on the first one but... no luck yet. i had the same problem with both of them tho

kemimarie said:
run fastboot boot recovery-image.img or whatever you named your recovery image. It'll display "waiting for device..." message just keep pluging it in, unplugging, popping the battery and eventually your device will respond and boot into recovery.
Someone bricked and i did it... twice trying to flash the eng 2010 SPL. It worked the third time and my device is up and running again with an engineering SPL.
if your device is stuck on the first splash but displays in red "Fastboot USB" message in the upper left corner of the screen, DO NOT power it down. run the above mentioned command and reflash.
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fastboot boot recovery?
boot.img and recovery.img are two totally different things.
The recovery (amon_ra is preferred)
The boot.img is where the kernel, ramdisk, etc resides.
you must've meant fastboot flash boot boot.img
or
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
but not both.

ch3w said:
this method worked on my second bricked magic, still trying it on the first one but... no luck yet. i had the same problem with both of them tho
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YAAYY!! Im glad to hear you say you had some success!

Binary100100 said:
fastboot boot recovery?
boot.img and recovery.img are two totally different things.
The recovery (amon_ra is preferred)
The boot.img is where the kernel, ramdisk, etc resides.
you must've meant fastboot flash boot boot.img
or
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
but not both.
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I just copied and pasted from a website.. THEY did that and it worked for them lol

bricked Mytouch3g
Bricked mytouch3g -- brandnew phone. Just tried to flash cyanogen test3 and everything went fine but then I rebooted and all I have is vodafone boot screen, nothing else works but the blue led which will not load any img. adp doesn't work it never detects a phone no matter what you do. It was the first flash too. Crazy how HTC didn't make a built in hard reset like you have on windows mobile phones. You wonder if they want people to crash there phones so they have to replace them ect etc.

Hello.
My phone has the same problem.
Anything that is needed done. But no no avail.
My phone is brick.
Help help help

Mod edit: not dev related, moved to general

[Q] Help me get my magic!!!!!!!

Hello everyone, first I apologize for my bad English. You see, I have a magic Htc 32B to a few months ago I inadvertently charged a radio brickeo me wrong and now when I turn does not pass the first splash, is not in recovery mode or fastboot if tackball turn it on by pressing the LED will remain lit in blue, I tried to restore the sapping.nbh but has not worked. Could anyone help? Thank you very much

question
Can you still access fastboot mode (power button + volume down)?
If yes your phone should be recoverable

maffo999 said:
Can you still access fastboot mode (power button + volume down)?
If yes your phone should be recoverable
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No, I can not enter fastboot way, always stands in the initial splash. Thank you for your interest

something wrong
You are doing something wrong man, if you wanna enter HBOOT mode (vol down + power) or FASTBOOT mode (back + power) the device can just do 2 things: entering HBOOT/FASTBOOT mode OR you will see a completely black screen with the blue led on.
If it shows the splash image it's because you are turning it on normally and then you would never enter HBOOT or FASTBOOT.
Anyway, if you enter in fastboot you can still recover your device by flashing correct SPL/radio and a recovery. If the phone keeps the screen black and the blue led turns on your phone is hard bricked and you can unbrick it only via JTAG method.

maffo999 said:
You are doing something wrong man, if you wanna enter HBOOT mode (vol down + power) or FASTBOOT mode (back + power) the device can just do 2 things: entering HBOOT/FASTBOOT mode OR you will see a completely black screen with the blue led on.
If it shows the splash image it's because you are turning it on normally and then you would never enter HBOOT or FASTBOOT.
Anyway, if you enter in fastboot you can still recover your device by flashing correct SPL/radio and a recovery. If the phone keeps the screen black and the blue led turns on your phone is hard bricked and you can unbrick it only via JTAG method.
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After Splash screen, it reboots. I've tried all keys combination possible. I've never seen a blue led turning on. Any ideas?

the only way that comes to my mind then is the JTAG method. you can find info on how to so it in the forum

Need help.

Hi there,
Yesterday i just wanted to reboot my DHD, but Revolution HD 3.6 did not came back.
The screen went automaticly to HBOOT mode.
So after removed the battery for some time and put it back. Pressed power button and Hboot mode came again. Also found that can not navigate through the menu via VOL+/-.
Tried many times with no success. So tried to find some informations on this forum but did not find similar thread to mine problem.

I don't know exactly, but maybe you have issue with VOL - button? mb it is 'stuck'??
I can't see other reason for phone to boot in HBOOT mode... if ROM is broken then it should load normally but then restart/throw error, dunno exactly it's behaviour if ROM is broken.

Power phone off by any method.
Hold vol- and press power.
Does this take you to recovery?
Also, please edit you thread subject to make it more specific. Obviously you're looking for help. "Need help" is hardly going to be useful to others.
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Mr_JMM said:
Power phone off by any method.
Hold vol- and press power.
Does this take you to recovery?
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Does not. Phone always goes to HBoot. Before I rebooted the phone everything worked perfect.
It happened when I woke up then I took the phone and turned on buzzer by pushing VOL+ button. After that Power button and "reboot". So rule out the possibility a problem with buttons
Mr_JMM said:
Also, please edit you thread subject to make it more specific. Obviously you're looking for help. "Need help" is hardly going to be useful to others.
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First I was thinking to edit the title later on as I had no idea how to name it. But it is not possible to edit the title. Sorry about my mistake
Informations on the screen:
ACE PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.85.2007 (PD9810000)
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.06.03.24_M2
eMMC-boot
oct 11 2010,12:44:14
HBOOT this section is highlighted (as actual mode?)
<VOL UP> to previous item
<VOL DOWN> to next item
<POWER> to select item
FASTBOOT this is also highlighted
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
SYSTEM INFO
IMAGE CRC

7agan said:
Does not. Phone always goes to HBoot. Before I rebooted the phone everything worked perfect.
It happened when I woke up then I took the phone and turned on buzzer by pushing VOL+ button. After that Power button and "reboot". So rule out the possibility a problem with buttons
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So if you select Recovery from the HBoot menu it restarts straight back in to HBoot again instead of going to recovery?
If that is the case I'm afraid you might have to select the Factory Reset option.
If that allows the phone to boot ok you should then be able to go back to recovery and restore a the last NAND backup.

Mr_JMM said:
So if you select Recovery from the HBoot menu it restarts straight back in to HBoot again instead of going to recovery?
If that is the case I'm afraid you might have to select the Factory Reset option.
If that allows the phone to boot ok you should then be able to go back to recovery and restore a the last NAND backup.
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The problem is that it is not possible to choice any option from HBoot menu.
Looks like VOL+/- are disabled. One post ago i wrote that HBoot is highlighted and Fastboot is highlighted. So if I click on power it should switch to Fasboot mode but it doesn't. Phone is stuck in Hboot mode.

Do you know if you used jkoljo's Radio S-OFF tool? If so you can flash the 1.32 PD98IMG.zip and start from scratch.

Should I follow with this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054304

No, that is for flashing radios. Find the downgrade thread and download the PD98IMG.zip from there. Is your handset branded?

is not branded and simlock free.

You shouldn't need a goldcard then, just place the downgrade PD98IMG.zip on your SDcard and boot into bootloader.

Got PD98IMG.zip on SD card.
Restart the phone. Phone start loading the file than stuck again on parsing.
nothing happend with PD98IMG.zip.
Any Ideas?

How long has it been stuck?

on this screen for 1 hour and bricked since Thursday

Ok, So the PD98IMG.zip failed. Have you tried the 1.32.405.x RUU~.exe?

Did. no sucess. Error 170
no communication but on command: fastboot devices I have a respond :
HT0A5RXO0924
command: adb devices says nothing

Ok lads,
I see all known methods and tools doesn't work but does anyone have an idea how to kill the informations on screen that the phone been rooted? or kill it totally?
In this cause I'll be able to the risk and send this phone to repair.

Ok, you can attempt to flash each component seperately within fastboot.
Unzip the PD98IMG.zip and move boot.img, recovery.img, system.img, radio.img to your SDK/tools folder.
Now use fastboot to flash these
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img

ok. trying

no success, see attachment

[Q] I can't get my Find to do anything now

So I bought Find 5 from someone and found out it was rooted with Pacman Rom/ TWRP after the fact. Earlier today, I thought I managed to flash the stock firmware back onto this phone using TWRP, but instead I had something new (in my experience, at least) happen to me. after I power it on and plug it into my PC with the OEM cable, it will ask me if I want it to be a media device or a USB storage device and I can see & modify the files/ folders. As for the phone itself, all it will display is the status bar (Battery, signal status) and I can pull it down to access the quick settings. Otherwise the screen is completely blank. When I pull down the quick settings bar try to hit the system settings icon (the "gear" wheel icon), the status bar disappears. and all I can get the phone to do is bring up the power on/ off menu when I hold the power button. I can get it into fastboot (power + volume up), but I can't get it to boot into recovery using the keys (power + volume down), or adb, or fastboot.
I'm honestly at my wits end with this phone right now. I think it's only soft bricked, but I have no clue how to get it to take the stock ROM (or any ROM for that matter) and nothing online seems to mention my problem and I can't even begin to guess what the f**k I managed to do.
Can anyone offer me any help or insight so that I can turn my brick back into a working Find 5?

So you can boot into fastboot mode? That's a start, everything should be fixable using fastboot.
Try flashing a new recovery, maybe the old one is corrupted.
fastboot flash recovery file.img
Then try to boot into recovery again.

theevilworm said:
So you can boot into fastboot mode? That's a start, everything should be fixable using fastboot.
Try flashing a new recovery, maybe the old one is corrupted.
fastboot flash recovery file.img
Then try to boot into recovery again.
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I'll give it a shot :good: