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HTC Magic (Vodafone) - Sense? How? - Help Plz :/

Hi,
I've taken the plunge and finally moved from Windows Mobile to Andriod - picked up a HTC Magic (UK - Vodafone) its already sim unlocked... Having a play with it before i decide whether the HTC Supersonic is worth splashing out on when it comes out..
I know that you cant get the sense upgrade for the UK Vodafone HTC Magic - but i've seen some buzz words like rooting / flashing on here which suggests its still possible.
There are so many threads on here - its difficult to just find what i need - so if anyone could help i'd really appreciate
- Need a simple, idiot proof guide on how to get my HTC Magic with a sense rom on it (I have a 16gb memory card if it requires)
I just want a nice stable ROM which everythings works on - and a foolproof guide on how to install. So both pointing towards the guide, and pointed towards what the best ROM is.
Thanks for the help fellas

Since i don't have a clue what kind of magic the (UK - Vodafone) is i wont be able to guide you unless i start to search for info myself. So please provide me/us with more info about your phone and you probably have better luck getting help. What there will be useful to know is which Hardware revision and SPL you have. To figure that out you should check out the wiki there you should find more than enough info to get started. I will look back in this thread again tomorrow to see if you got further but still need some guidance.
Good luck with this, its not to hard as long as you care to read and read carefully before jumping into doing something there could brick your mobile. Bricks is often made when people does something without fully understanding what they are doing and what it does to the phone. But first of all figure out if you got a 32A or 32B board and what is the SPL. When you know this its easier to figure out what method you need to use to flash a cooked rom into the phone and what rom that will be suitable for the phone you got.
My guess is that since you write that the mobile wont get any sense update it will be a 32B board you got, but again this should not be a guessing game cause it can brick your mobile

You'll have to do some research on your own first. Get some ideas on what SPL's are, how to root, etc. etc. I did a month of research before I did root my phone and flashed different ROMs.
You need to provide your information about your phone like what SPL (although I would guess 1.33.0004 since I do have vodafone Magic as well), running on cupcake or donut, etc. That being said, I have a couple of sites that might be able to help you. Read/watch these thoroughly and understand them before you do root your phone.
http://theunlockr.com/category/howto/android_how_tos/htc-mytouch-3g-magic/ (a lot of video guides that you might find useful)
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_MT3G/Magic_Firmware_to_CyanogenMod *****I rooted my phone by using cyanogenmod's method for "Non T-mobile 32B Magics". In the last step, you can flash a different ROM instead of cyanogen's if you really want sense, but I highly recommened cyanogenmod as your first choice of ROM since it is so awesome.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking#sec02
Has a general info on 32B Magics. Useful website.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529062
Has other newbie links.
Don't be in a hurry rooting your phone as you might do something wrong (although it's hard to with all the wonderful guides out there) and deeply regret it. Do your research before you root it. And also try out different ROMs out there for Sense. People have different opinions on each ROM.

Thanks both of you
Love this site - ever need a hand.. Always people around more than willing to throw you some advise.
I haven't gotten the phone yet - arrives tomorrow. So was pre researching for when i get it..
Thanks for all the tips, i'm definitely going to research this as much as possible before attempting it.. As you say, don't want to end up breaking the phone.
I will post back here tomorrow with the motherboard / firmware details it has etc. Then see what direction you guys can point me towards .
Thanks again

Ok fellas
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
Apr 9 2009,23:30:40
Those are the phone details
Where do i go from here . - "Non T-mobile 32B Magics" guide? and instead of cyanogenmod ROM use one i want?
Also any of u know what the most stable - fast Sense UI ROM is for the HTC Magic 32B is? - just want one like that with everything working.

From reading - looks like this is the best HTC Sense UI ROM to use:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=644275
Question i got - what is Death SPL - and do i need it.. And where in the guide im using, should i do this ext 4 stuff and how
Thanks

Righty -
I decided to just follow the "Non T-mobile 32B Magics" guide you suggested - and do the Sense UI ROM later..
All done . Everything went smoothly.
Now i do wanna try and Sense UI ROM - but do i need the Death SPL? - as searching.. It seems some say thats more for the G1. Not entirely sure..
Also it requires latest radio? u guys got a guide and where i should get the latest radio.. Or is my radio fine..

Ah is ok i managed to flash it
Decided to go back to cyanogenmod stable ROM - the Sense UI ROM is almost there, but not quite yet.

Your radio is fine as it is, it won't hurt to flash the newest radio though.
Haykuro/Danger/Death SPL are the same, 1.33.2005, and again do your research before you ask questions because just asking questions and getting specific answers won't get you much.
Same thing with partitioning your SD card. I recommend checking out theunlockr.com or watch videos from youtube (lots of guides there, I recommened ItsAndroidsWorld

thedalmeny said:
From reading - looks like this is the best HTC Sense UI ROM to use:
Your link was here.
Question i got - what is Death SPL - and do i need it.. And where in the guide im using, should i do this ext 4 stuff and how
Thanks
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When you've rooted your phone the Recover Image will provide you with the options you need to partition your card.
I've personally used this ROM and it is the fastest Sense port I've tried though not something I use every day as it's not as fast as the 1.6 (Donut) based ROMs.
My personal favourite is SuperFast made by HTCClay. He also has a FastTest ROM which has links on this site but you can grab the SuperFast ROM from here the Android Spin forums. I'd post a link but it won't let me yet.
It's fast and stable and I love it.
If you want the DroidEris ROM then your phone should be able to handle it without resorting to a Death/Danger/Whatever SPL. I have the UK Vodafone Magic and I've not had to flash any new radios or SPLs to use those ROMs.
Be careful though. Once you flash one ROM you can't stop!!!
I'm a SERIAL FLASHER!!! AAAAHHH!!!

htc maguc help
Hi
this is my info please help me unlock my sin
imei 354030037017034
phone was with T mobile in the states
htc magic
thank you

never post your imei as it could be used against you=)

Need help on Rooting and Upgrading Rom: SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H HBOOT-1.76 0007

Hi,
Sorry for being a Noob, I have read the Wiki on Ultimate Guide to Hacking your Sapphire Handset and attempted to try to fastboot using RA-sapphire-v1.6.2 but did not manage to get to the screen as shown you thread.
These are the details of my phone and it is bought in Singapore and I recently upgraded to Sense UI. I have seen a couple of threads with others suggesting to create a gold card and others dont need to hence I am a bit confused here.
Is there a thread out there to teach me step by step how to root and upgrade my Rom.
Can you teach me as I have been looking at this forum for a couple of weeks and couldn't find a step by step but and many users seems to experience different problems when hacking it. Seeing my colleague hack his Nexus One I really envy and will like to hack mine as well.
Please help
Thank you in advance
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.76 0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADI 0-6.35.07.29
AUG 4 2009, 19:43:30

KEYSERSOZE27 said:
Hi,
Sorry for being a Noob, I have read the Wiki on Ultimate Guide to Hacking your Sapphire Handset and attempted to try to fastboot using RA-sapphire-v1.6.2 but did not manage to get to the screen as shown you thread.
These are the details of my phone and it is bought in Singapore and I recently upgraded to Sense UI. I have seen a couple of threads with others suggesting to create a gold card and others dont need to hence I am a bit confused here.
Is there a thread out there to teach me step by step how to root and upgrade my Rom.
Can you teach me as I have been looking at this forum for a couple of weeks and couldn't find a step by step but and many users seems to experience different problems when hacking it. Seeing my colleague hack his Nexus One I really envy and will like to hack mine as well.
Please help
Thank you in advance
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.76 0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADI 0-6.35.07.29
AUG 4 2009, 19:43:30
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Are you running 1.5 (cupcake) or 1.6 (donut)? You can't push a custom recovery until you downgrade to 1.5. From there you can install flashrec.apk and flash a new recovery. Once you have your new recovery, flash your rom of choice through the recovery.
If you're currently running 1.6, in order to downgrade, you need to find the appropriate SAPPimg.nbh/zip with a non perfected SPL. I believe the SPL you currently have is a perfected SPL which will prevent you from rooting with the one click method. More than likely, you will have to root via the goldcard method, which will require an additional sd card. Preferably a 2 gb kingston micro sd with an adapter to connect to your computer. You can find detailed instructions at the link below. Just read carefully, its really not very complicated if you just follow the instructions step by step and do a little research.
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/14/how-to-root-your-mytouch-3g/

since he don't know how ROOT his phone and he said that upgraded to Sense then it is only logic that he did offical RUU 1.5 SenseUI 1.76 PerfectSPL = no love.

Hi Sombionix and dk75,
I am using 1.5 (cupcake), I did some hunting on myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development forum and there were some threads posted but none of them mention anything about successfully rooting phones with HBOOT -1.76 0007 and successfully installing a new rom.
Is this true that it is not possible? Has anyone done it successfully ?
Please help
Thank you

is there a way to downgrade the Sense UI back to the original Rom shipped/stock version then Root and install a new Rom

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=627384
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630439

Newb whose totally confused on how to flash 2.1 onto 32b.. help plz!

So I've rooted and flashed cyanogen's mod forever ago, and just kept doing updates thru cmupdater.. I wanna try 2.1 but I'm lost when it comes to trying to learn how to update to the danger.spl and flash the new rom... is there a tutorial for dummies anywhere? I've searched but I'm apparently either not seeing it, or not smart enough to know what I'm supposed to be looking for...
Thanks.
JD.

Phreakwenci said:
So I've rooted and flashed cyanogen's mod forever ago, and just kept doing updates thru cmupdater.. I wanna try 2.1 but I'm lost when it comes to trying to learn how to update to the danger.spl and flash the new rom... is there a tutorial for dummies anywhere? I've searched but I'm apparently either not seeing it, or not smart enough to know what I'm supposed to be looking for...
Thanks.
JD.
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give us more information about your radio?,spl, and if do you have app2sd or not .
if do ya have the old radio see this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673394.

Ok here's requested info:
1. Sapphire PVT 32B
2. HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP30000)
3. CPLD-10
4. RADIO-2.22.19.261
5. yes i have app2sd

Go to the G1 section
Mate go to the G1 section for info, the hardware is the same as your 32B and you will find it much more relevant - any ROM built for a G1 (and there are way more than for the 32A like you find here) willl work on the 32B and there are great how-to's in the development section that you can follow to flash whatever rom you desire!!
Hope that helped...
Device: White Vodafone AU HTC-Magic 32B
Recovery: RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G-cyan
Rom: SuperBadVCM51.5GS
SPL: 1.33.2005-DangerSPL
Radio: 2.22.23.02
SD: 8gb Class 6 / Fat32 / 512mb Ext4 / 256mb Swap

Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to general

XDA Sapphire Hacking Wiki now available

I've just finished putting the last touches on the Sapphire Hacking Wiki available at:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking
I urge any new users to read it to help them get started.
I urge any advanced users to read it and help us keep it up to date!
This is a generic Hacking guide for any Sapphire handset - ie. HTC Magic, Vodafone Magic, Rogers HTC Magic, Google ION, even the TMobile MyTouch 3G.
If a moderator could sticky this it would be appreciated.

Looks great man, thanks so much for your hard work =D

+1 Sticky
Hey Radix,
Fantastic effort! I really wish this had been available a few weeks ago when I first got my handset and was trawling through hundreds of posts for info. This should definatly be made a sticky at the very very top...
Cheers
Ben

Yeah, this was partially why I wrote it - everything was so scattered knowledgewise and I kept seeing people flashing roms with no clue and wondering why it wouldn't boot, etc.
My blogs have had quite a few followers and people commenting that this is what they needed, so thought I'd try and braindump everything that I'd learnt over the last month and a half into the wiki and try and put it into some kind of order

Nice one, thread stuck
Dave

Already added some stuff a couple of days ago

Great work

Excellent work
Now if someone is kind enough to write about swap and how to use it .

I wish I read your ultimate guide first before buy my 'Perfected SPL' Magic hahaha..
Excelent work, thanks !!
.dhy

this is professional work.
thanks a lot for sharing.. really...

In section 8.4 I think its have to be
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Sorry for my english

Hi,
Please add http://jimcortez.com/blog/?p=37 to the USB tethering. No root require.
i tried with both ION rom and Hero rom on Vodafone magic Aus

Thanks for both of your suggestions - I've made the changes you've both suggested.
Unfortunately I've had to split the wiki into two pages due to issues with the xda wiki server and it's maximum file upload limit. I've reported it, but meh - splitting it is easier for now.
I would like to point out that if you see something in the wiki that is wrong - simply edit it yourself - that's the whole point of a Wiki!
There's an edit link at the bottom of the page and your existing xda-forums account gives you permission to edit it.
The more people with specific domain knowledge we have editing it, the better it will be.

Thanks a lot. Excelent work.

for section6, How to Restore a Nandroid Backup - how to recover from a bad rom install
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking_2#sec06
I have tried the latest Recovery image by Amon_RA which you can find here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
and the Nandroid v2.1.1 restore function does not need a security-off SPL.
I can backup/restore smoothly by boot to recovery mode and simply choose the appropriate option without flash my SPL.
my current SPL info
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
May 8 2009,21:02:32

hi
i am a new magic learner,just read your wiki,many thanks for your hard work.
i found if there had a mistake about :"Perfect" SPL Revisions (that prevent us hacking)
Currently HBOOT-1.33.2006 and HBOOT-1.33.0010 are the known 'Perfect SPL' revisions on the Sapphire handsets that we know of.
in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529019,Haykuro quote : "T-Mobile myTouch : 1.33.0006 and 1.33.0010 is the dreaded "perfected" SPL".
This means that it's currently not possible to run "fastboot boot image" on these SPL's, so don't try to flash them.
I just got the magic SPL：1.33.0006 （SAPP20000）
Could u tell me which should be the right one.
If my magic could flash a new rom?
many thanks

BOTH 1.33.0006 AND 1.33.0010 are perfect SPL, so you can't flash them yet.

I thought it is hacking wifi
Good info for noob like me.

Cheesebaron said:
BOTH 1.33.0006 AND 1.33.0010 are perfect SPL, so you can't flash them yet.
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Thanks
I found the wiki had been revised.

Nice wiki / guide, helped me out when I thought I'd bricked my phone
Could do with a matrix of roms / features though so people know which roms have which features.
Just a simple table with features across the top (HTC keyboard / multitouch / exchange support / working wifi etc etc ) and roms down the side... just a suggestion anyway.
Good work

Difficulties Rooting On Vodafone 32B Handset

Hey There,
I have been researching this topic for quite a while and i'm a bit frustrated at this point. I have come across a pile of threads on this website about information to root/put new roms on the HTC magic.
Here's the handset details before I go into anything else
Sapphire Unknown 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT 1.33.007 (SAPP100000)
CPLD-10
I'm in version 1.6 and i understand that you must downgrade to 1.5 before rooting. I followed a simple tut to downgrade it that entailed putting the sappimg onto the SD card and doing an update.
Whilst Doing this it gives me an error saying it can't find anything but when i look closely it is looking for files called "sappdiag" not sappimg
Please provided what I should do it'd be greatly appreciated
I'm very confused as this is meant to work to downgrade to cupcake...
Cheers

eatherr said:
Hey There,
I have been researching this topic for quite a while and i'm a bit frustrated at this point. I have come across a pile of threads on this website about information to root/put new roms on the HTC magic.
Here's the handset details before I go into anything else
Sapphire Unknown 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT 1.33.007 (SAPP100000)
CPLD-10
I'm in version 1.6 and i understand that you must downgrade to 1.5 before rooting. I followed a simple tut to downgrade it that entailed putting the sappimg onto the SD card and doing an update.
Whilst Doing this it gives me an error saying it can't find anything but when i look closely it is looking for files called "sappdiag" not sappimg
Please provided what I should do it'd be greatly appreciated
I'm very confused as this is meant to work to downgrade to cupcake...
Cheers
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Hi mate,
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Full_Update_Guide_-_HTC_Magic_(32B)
Read this through to the letter, and you should be just fine

There is nothing on that page

If this is a stock Vodafone UK Magic with Google branding then you shouldn't have to downgrade, nor mess about with SPLs, goldcards or anything.
The link supplied in the previous post doesn't include the final ')' character, I can't post the correct link because the forum rules prevent me from posting external links. If you have any further trouble go to the Cyanogen wiki and have a good dig around.

Just get universal androot out the market and root, rom manager to flash a recovery and your done
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App