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Video of me bricking my Magic, what went wrong?

Hey guys,
Few of you in the cyanogenmod irc room the other night might have recalled me totally bricking my t-mobile mytouch by pulling the battery after a reboot... dumbest thing I have ever done. I consider myself a fairly knowledgeable linux geek, but unfortunately I panicked and did the worst possible thing, pulling my batt and completely bricking my phone.
I was installing the 4.1.999 cyanogen mod. Phone was so toast it wouldn't charge. Status led's wouldn't work, it was 100% toast. Fortunately I was able to have it replaced and would like to try again in a day or so.
Here is a video showing exactly what I did, please excuse the length of the video it goes from start to finish, backing up and flashing everything, up until the point where I pulled the battery. I'd love to know what I did wrong, so I can try again!
View the video here on vimeo -> http://vimeo.com/7022688

Ok, here's what you did wrong:
The first steps are good... You've installed the 1.6 update, then applyed the cyanogen rom... After that I've seen that it was installed a new radio... That might have killed your phone...
At least that appears to be the problem... But why a new radio was installed, no idea... (I don't think you did it on purpose)...

the phone you have there is a magic not a dream.For a start that dosnt help!! Other than that i think yiou have put Dream radio on the device, It not being a dream is the problem as when it detects its the wrong radio the phone goes into a safe mode where it wont turn on to save breaking it.
HTC might fix it under warranty as they did me but it WILL come back with perfect spl on.I have flashed the wrong radio on 2 phones yes 2! now i learn from my mistakes Oh and when/if it gets fixed and you bypass perfect spl, You cant put any ROM Other than donut based ones so no hero takes the fun out of flashing

All bricks I've seen are because you guys install new( in most cases wrong radio- from different phone or MotherBoard version) or changing SPL (exception: people with perfect SPL). I'm asking WHY you do this , WHAT FOR ? Putting different rom /rooting etc does NOT require changing anything and is simple as bread and butter, and you CAN'T damage the phone !! Sorry to see this I'm not 100% sure but it looks like you have flashed with wrong radio. As my predecessor said I think only HTC can fix it... To all people DO NOT TOUCH SPL AND RADIO IF YOU JUST WANT TO PUT HERO ROM OR ROOT THE PHONE (exception ppl with perfect SPL)

i accidently flashed the radio for ION on my 32A last week. got my phone fixed under warranty thank god. but i got the perfected SPL.
if you do get the perfected SPL, you dont really need to change your SPL to flash stuff on your phone.
just replace your recovery using the recovery flasher apk a.k.a the one click root.
reboot to recovery, flash a new ROM that is rooted.
then using the adb shell method, flash a new recovery permanently to your phone.
i have had no issues using that method since i got my perfected SPL.

whalesalad said:
Hey guys,
Few of you in the cyanogenmod irc room the other night might have recalled me totally bricking my t-mobile mytouch by pulling the battery after a reboot... dumbest thing I have ever done. I consider myself a fairly knowledgeable linux geek, but unfortunately I panicked and did the worst possible thing, pulling my batt and completely bricking my phone.
I was installing the 4.1.999 cyanogen mod. Phone was so toast it wouldn't charge. Status led's wouldn't work, it was 100% toast. Fortunately I was able to have it replaced and would like to try again in a day or so.
Here is a video showing exactly what I did, please excuse the length of the video it goes from start to finish, backing up and flashing everything, up until the point where I pulled the battery. I'd love to know what I did wrong, so I can try again!
View the video here on vimeo -> http://vimeo.com/7022688
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after applying the 4.1.999 update you pressed the trackball to reboot your suppose to hold the home key while its rebooting on that step till the mytouch screen shows up also you need to wipe the ext. redo the last step then the my3g should be fine in other words reflash the cyanogen

u install wrong recovery
Install instructions for an HTC Magic (32B ONLY!!!)/ION/MyTouch3G
Same as above if you are using CM-Recovery 1.4.
OR
Same as above EXCEPT step 2
Download HTC ADP 1.6 DRC83 http://www.androidspin.com/downloads...ooted_base.zip
*You have to manually reboot MT3G and hold home.

he can use the ra recovery image it works because i used it on mine

Turns out I used the wrong recovery image before doing the cyanogen flash.
I followed this guide on my second phone (swapped out my old white one for a black mytouch) and am running 4.1.999 right now - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4666075&postcount=282

Help me out in easy steps...

Ok so I have been having problems with my HD2 TMOUS and went back and forth with maybe it was something I did wrong or wasnt doin but I was doin the same exact steps to my wifes HD2 and hers is fine. So now I have to send my phone back to TMO for a replacement. So now I need all the steps and the ROM to revert back so I can send it back.

I found this while doing a little search. hope this helps
http://theunlockr.com/2010/04/22/how-to-get-the-htc-hd2-back-to-stock/

root, downgrade, cant boot

Hey all. I am new to the android stuff (had winmo since pocket pc) and while im not new to loading ROMs, I have no clue what all is happening when i do it to my Sprint Hero. Had a Wizard since release and everything was super easy; cooking, etc was not a prob. even my GPS is windows based.... and hacked.
Ok, so, my problem.
Received my work phone @ 1.6, upgraded instantly to 2.1; for a while, it was good.... then i got bored.
Rooted it this morning, found out that I have to downgrade to 1.6.xxx.x.x.x.x5 (whatever, you know what I mean). did the downgrade via a sprint RUU. worked fine, continued the process...
Got to where i made a nandroid backup and decided to try a custom ROM; fail.
I have tried Choc eclair, froyd, and damage control... each to no avail. I load it, says installed.... reset and get stuck at the HTC screen. I've done wipes and everything else i can find online to get it working again.... nothing. i boot back into the loader, choose nandroid restore, boom, back up and running. (BTW, nandroid is the best!)
Is there something I'm missing???
Thanks guys
Paul
heh, just saw my signature..... from a long time ago... lol

You're in the wrong section.
You'll find what you're looking for here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=641

What do i do if i want to take my phone back??

if i unroot it then delete all the davilk-cave off my sd card, will the sprint store know my phone was rommed or rooted??

run the RUU and they won't know a thing.

As chromium said..
See this thread to download it (scroll down to post #2 for the RUU): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694572
Don't worry about following all those rooting steps in the first long post #1. Just scroll down to post #2 and download the .5 RUU file, then run it from your PC with the phone plugged into USB.
It will completely wipe/erase the phone and revert it back to factory stock settings, just like if it were fresh out of the box. (Make sure you back up your contacts and other important information on it before doing this.)

xxxk15 said:
if i unroot it then delete all the davilk-cave off my sd card, will the sprint store know my phone was rommed or rooted??
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Yes, and they will come over and slash your tires and kick your dog, all before refusing to take your phone back.
Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot froyo on hero action here!

user7618 said:
Yes, and they will come over and slash your tires and kick your dog, all before refusing to take your phone back.
Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot froyo on hero action here!
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... i laughed!

hi... i'm in the same boat... my phone is not working right, the whole touchscreen stopped working properly a few days ago and i want to bring it in for repair/replacement.
i tried running that RUU from the linked post and i keep getting a 120 error that i have less than 30% battery. my phone reports 98%.
any suggestions what i can do now? (btw, tried the RUU on 2 pc's, both give the same error... while my battery is showing fully charged now, RUU is thinking it's not)
edit: ok, so overcame the battery obstacle... i updated the htc sync app on my pc and it seemed to start... now i'm getting error 170, usb connection once it tries to actually start the process.
well, it started once, now i'm getting the 120 error again...
edit 2: ok, so i think i know now what the problem was. i was using the froyo 2.2 vanilla rom with the above errors. i flashed Fresh rom on it and then once i was able to get sync with the pc using the HTC sync software, i tried the RUU again and it seems to work fine now. so you can't RUU with a non-HTC rom i guess?
oh, and switched to an xp pc... was having problems under win 7-64

RUU not working after revolutionary 2.3.3

So I gladly ran revolutionary for my evo. I managed to flash cm7 to it and wanted to see if i could get it back to stock just in case i needed to. Well i ran the file and it reboots the phone and tried to get into bootloader. It sits at the HTC screen and then the program states it fails and cannot find bootloader. Im not sure if this is important to people or not, but my evo is only a month old and if i can put it back to stock for warranty purposes it would be awesome. Anyone else try it?