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Ok - thanks for coming in and reading my post even though you could have skipped right on through.
I have purchased a used MT3G from craigslist (i know). I am a semi-knowledgeable "veteran" when it comes to rooting and flashing on the g1 - but the mytouch is totally new to me.
I have some SERIOUS SERIOUS concerns as to what my phone even is in the first place. I bought it with original TMobile packaging, phone says tmobile in the front and back - yet when I turn it on it's VODAFONE.
When I boot into recovery, I get the Triangle Exclamation with the phone. The rom is a 1.5 HTC rom and here is my fastboot info.
PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT - 1.33.0009 (SAPP30000)
CPLD - 10
RADIO - 3.22.20.17
May 8th 2009
HOWEVER - when I run the "one click root" - it says I have a 32A system. Eventually I followed the instructions for 1 click root using flash rec and flashed (downloaded) the Cyan 1.4.1a from the "recovery installer" (flashrec-1.1.2 2009-0909). They said my phone was 32A, I just went ahead and downloaded and installed - now I have the cyan recovery when I boot up my phone - I just can't flash ANY roms. I tried RAv 1.6 - for both 32B and 32A. 32A keeps rebooting my phone over and over, 32B just sits at the vodafone and hangs for 15 minutes.
After HOURS AND HOURS of reading the forms and the wiki - I'm at a complete impasse. I need some guidance. Do I have a 32A or 32B? Is it possible for 32A phones to show 32B in the fastboot? Some people need a "goldcard" to do this - I just used flashrec did I do something wrong? It seems as if some people are flashing roms with their regular SPLs - do I need engineering SPL - if so HOW do I flash SPL and radio without bricking.
I just want to flash some damn roms, or even get back to OEM and get my phone up to 1.6. It's such a bad feeling buying a phone, then bringing it home and you don't realize what you've gotten......I just want to get my phone rooted and start flashing roms and I've gotten this far.
ANY HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!
edit - the only way I've gotten my phone back to the stock HTC MAGIC rom is luckily upon first running of the CYAN recovery I did a nandroid backup and just restored to my backup after the failed rom flashes.
EDIT 2pm CST : I called T-Mobile, they can track your IMEI and Sim card every time you place a call - they CONFIRMED that my IMEI belonged to a TMOBILE MYTOUCH 3G and not any european phone. This leads me to my next question - is it possible to flash this HTC MAGIC rom onto a TMOBILE MYTOUCH 3G through fastboot, or something - WITHOUT a recovery, WITHOUT having root?
My MYTOUCH 3G is running VODAFONE everything, and it's definitely a EUROPEAN HTC MAGIC rom. Did someone install something on this phone before I got it. Please community - any help is appreciated.
A possible explanation is that someone followed Amon_RA's instructions partway through but did not finish. Specifically, they may have flashed the SPL, the recovery image for 32A and then a ROM for 32A. Since the phone is 32B, the recommendation is then to update the radio and recovery and ROM for 32B after it is rooted.
Perhaps this person rooted the phone, and then did not revert to 32B. Just a guess, though.
ok bro first lets calm down. everything is fine. all the information you need is right in front of you. first if its from europe it could be 32b and or 32a. so to check if you have root lets download a terminal app. if you dont have one pm and ill send you one. once we have that run it and type
su
if it asks for permission or just goes to
#
you are good. now type cat /proc/meminfo
for "MemTotal:" if it says 98024 or around there then you have a 32b. there that took care of what kind of board you have now we have radio and splash. your radio is .009. eng radio is .006. most likely the person that had the phone before only did have the steps. so go over them again with doing a "real" rooting. make a goldcard, get a good rec .img and have sdk working on your comp. if you need help i can help the best i can.
my touch 3g problem!! please help!!!
i bought a my touch 3g from craigslist. and when i turn it on it freezes up and says vodafone and it just stays there.. i need help to get it off can anyone help??? please
Turn it on while holding the Home key and tell us what you get? If you get a menu of options then you have a custom recovery image and you can flash a new rom ... if you just get an image of a ! then you have the stock recovery image.
Also turn it on while holding the back key, give us the information from that screen (also known as the fastboot screen) as this will tell us what recovery options are available to you.
I feel you man.
richboii8939 said:
i bought a my touch 3g from craigslist. and when i turn it on it freezes up and says vodafone and it just stays there.. i need help to get it off can anyone help??? please
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I worked for T-Mobile and got a mytouch before launch. My MyTouch, During the 32B radio flash, fell off my desk, disconnected, and has been stuck where you are ever since.
doing MANY hours of research and trying VARIOUS different methods did not help. I since bought another, (and a nexus. DO NOT MISS THE MYTOUCH) rooted it and my original MT3G, is still stuck on Vodafone red boot screen, and has a hopefully semi-permanent place in the bottom of my shame drawer.
Mine will not respond to Goldcards, and is not picked up by ADB.
If you plug your phone in, on boot and it is recognized by ADB, then you have hope. If its completely shot like mine. I doubt you'll be able to revive it. Unless ive been missing something since July of last year. (I had it early lol).
If it is recognized.
I would...
-Get a 32B radio
-Open CMD in the radio's folder (Shift + Right click will add a button in your right click to Open Command Prompt There)
-Fastboot flash radio <insert file name here>.zip
-Adb will say "Waiting for Device"
-IF IT IS RECOGNIZED It should reboot into Fastboot and flash the Radio and you should be okay.
*Please correct me if I'm wrong. Im can root all day long, but i can barely explain it. XD*
So I had cyanogenmod 5.0.7 installed and I decided to try the new smoki rom, I realized I had to update radio so I tried the radio tool and all I get was writing radio..... and nothing else it just stayed there for a good 15 minutes. Any ideas?
I have the 32A and it was rooted with a gold card. I can get into fastboot but nothing else. Thanks!
We need more info. Do you have a mytouch 1.2/Fender Edition Mytouch? If so, you cannot run anything other than stock spl and radio (1.33.0013 for spl and radio 2.22.23.02)
The good news is that if you do have a mt3g 1.2/ Fender LE, it is not bricked since you can still get into fastboot. From there, you would need to make another goldcard, load the sappimg that contained the engineering spl and then flash stock radio, amon ra's recovery, and stock spl once again.
Normal Htc
Its a normal magic i.e. rogers branded without headphone jack does. Do i have to do the golden card thing even if I rooted it before? could you point me to a guide for rerooting I'm kind of a n00b
Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to general
Okay, since it is not a mt3g 1.2/Fender LE, I don't think you have to reroot. Can you boot up the phone, can you get into recovery, and can you get into hboot (vol down + power button) ? And what is the spl version right now?
HTC MAGIC
all I can do is get into hboot and fastboot when I try recovery I just the rogers loading screen and it doesnt go away. my spl i think is 1.76.2007 and my current radio says 3.22.20.17 but i did fastboot radio erase and it still shows it. I have tried fastboot flash recovery then booting recovery but it doesnt work I have also tried fastboot flash radio with like 3 different radio images and that didnt work. I'm kind freaking out because I have 0 warranty lols.
Don't freak out, it's not bricked. Don't expect to be able to flash anything if you dont have engineering spl (1.33.2010). Now, I don't have a traditional 32a magic, so this might be the best solution to your problem, however, this is what I know will work.
You need to make a goldcard again and load the engineering spl on it. (I'll look for the link in a bit)/
Then, you boot into Hboot mode and it'll automatically flash the spl for you.
Afterwards, you go into fastboot, flash whatever radio you had originally, then the amon ra recovery image, and then whatever spl you had before.
Lastly, you go into recovery and flash cyanogenmod back. Once you finish doing all of that, I'll help you get the other rom on your magic if you need help.
I'll look for the file you need in a minute. I gotta finish up my physics homework.
EDIT:
Okay. These two guides can explain things a lot better than I can. Choose whichever one you can do more reasily.
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/29/how-to-root-the-htc-magic-in-one-click/
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/14/how-to-root-your-mytouch-3g/
If anyone knows a better way to do this, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Golden Card
How would I make a gold card if I can't get the CID because the phone wont boot? Is there another way to read this information of it? I tried googleing but no luck yet
Nvm
Nvm I found the goldcard.img i'm charging my phone right now and i'll try it in a hour thanks for the help.
You can get the CID even if your phone doesnt boot. As long as you're at the boot screen, it'll connect and you can get the CID.
Unsure
Not quite sure how I can fallow the guide since I can only get into fastboot any suggestions?
tried engineering spl
I got this engineering spl ROM v2.53.707.2 (Engineerings SPL v1.33.2010) - MD5 : F9674D19BE5F949D0D9DC99714D210E3 and put it on a golden memory card but the hboot doesnt recognize it do I need to rename it? I also tried flashing radio again with fastboot flash radio radio.img with radio.img being the old and new radio still as soon as it starts writing the htc screen goes black but on and the phone becomes unresponsive
So current heres what i have...
Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP30000)
CPLD-10
RADIO - 3.22.20.17
When trying to follow the Un-rooting process explained in [How-To] Root and un-root the T-Mobile myTouch 3G by Amon_RA, it give's me an error stating "Main version is older!". I've noticed a lot of other people having issue's and haven't seen a resolution for that error. I have created the goldcard and still no go. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to get this fixed.. I need to turn in my phone for a replacement because the lighting on this has started to short out (randomly goes on and off... even if phones off sometimes). I've tried to fastboot a recovery onto it as well and When it fastboots it goes to the Vodafone splash and then just sits there doesnt move and I left it for a good 15 minutes.. This phone still boots up just fine but I need to get the orig. t-mobile rom and spl, splash etc so this can be traded in. Thanks for the help in advance. Sorry if I sound like a noob, it's because i am
-xplanowestx
Moved to General since this isn't related to developing roms.
Anybody have any ideas?
I'm going through the EXACT same thing as you. Give it up bro. Ppl on these forums are absolutely no help at all. Btw you're radio version is the Rogers one. That's the only thing I've been successfully able to figure out on my own. Everything else has been futile. Good luck. PM me if you figure it out!
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I finally was able to fix this last night... i found two guides that helped in getting this fixed.
Here is what i did first...
h__p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=674003&highlight=1.33.0007 (change the __ to tt)
This made it so i was on an Engineers SPL with S-OFF in order to unlock the fastboot options... I also changed my Splash to the myTouch 3g As well with this tutorial (can't remember where i found it, but it was on the forums somewhere). Once i did this i was able to finally do everything from this post
h__p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133&highlight=Root (change the __ to tt)
Which i followed
Un-Root your T-mobile MyTouch 3G (and receive back those OTA updates)
- Download this nbh and rename it to sappimg.nbh (MD5 33D958062CC02BB2CEC157F68621D2FF) (h__p://rapidshare.com/files/269267171/SAPPIMG_Sapphire_TMUS_1.88.531.1_COC10_release_signed.nbh)
- Copy sappimg.nbh to your goldcard (a normal SD might also work if you are using an engineerings SPL, give it a try and let us know ).
- Power-off your device
- Insert the goldcard (or SD)
- Power on while holding volume down (of fastboot your device and then press volume down)
- It should pick up the sappimg.zip and you should be able to flash it.
- Once the flashing is FULLY finished reboot your phone.
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After following that everything worked perfectly and i'm back to factory settings If you have any questions i'll see if i can help
Well I Have The Mytouch 3G 1.2
And I Accedently Flashed The Wrong
Radio. And Now I Can't Downgrade it Back
Does Anyone Have Any Clue On What I Can Do?
I Can't Go Into Recovery
I Can Only Do Fastboot And Hboot
When I Flash Another sappIMG.zip
It Will Freeze At Like 99% On The Radio V2 Part
I Have The Engineering SPL If That Helps
Any Help Is Really Appreciated!!!
Hey
Did you solve the radio problem?? i have the same issue. ive searched everywhere but still cant find a solution.
Erickomen27 said:
Well I Have The Mytouch 3G 1.2
And I Accedently Flashed The Wrong
Radio. And Now I Can't Downgrade it Back
Does Anyone Have Any Clue On What I Can Do?
I Can't Go Into Recovery
I Can Only Do Fastboot And Hboot
When I Flash Another sappIMG.zip
It Will Freeze At Like 99% On The Radio V2 Part
I Have The Engineering SPL If That Helps
Any Help Is Really Appreciated!!!
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Go into fastboot and write here first 5 rows info:
Sapphire pvt 32A blah-blah-blah... (all symbols are important !)
first post so hi all , just wondered if anyone could help with my problem , i have a htc magic 32b voda (unlocked) plus rooted by goldcard , tried to install various compatible roms with no success , at first i used a one click rooter - pants! didnt seem to work at all and wouldnt let me write any files and would fail installation
so i rooted via goldcard and my installations complete fully without any errors at all ....but......i cant seem to get off the red voda loadup screen and boot in to the phone at all after that so i have to restore my nandroid backup and start again ........any ideas as to why this is failing miserably for me ? im wiping and reformattin also between reinstalling .
Sapphire pvt 32b eng s-off H
hboot-1.33.2005 (sapp10000)
cpld-10
radio3.22.20.17
thanks in advance to anyone who can help me !!!
You have wrong radio/spl combo.
Change your radio to 2.22.19.26I.
Flash G custom recovery (32B).
Flash any 32B rom or your nandroid backup.
PS: Make sure that the last "H" in the first line of your fastboot change back to "G".
This will happen when you change the radio!
thanks , but now i have a worse problem , after i updated the radio and reebooted there is nothing , the phone is stuck on the logo again but with no recovery options , fastboot or anything is there a way to restore it sumhow ? or is it bricked forever ?
According to this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659403
You should have the 2.22.19.26I radio. The spl you have works fine with this radio.
So which radio did you flash and how did you flash it...
Post here the command you used.. plus the source of the radio image...
ps: I hope that you did not flash the 2.22.23.02 radio... that's for the magic with 3.5 mm jack!
ii flashed the 2.22.19.26I radio in the clockworkmod recovery option- install .zip from sdcard, after wiping cache and data , image for radio was also found on here somewhere.
Did you let it reboot a couple of times?
Did the process reboot into the recovery by it self?
Why did you flash radio from recovery when you have eng spl?
Any way... if you don't have recovery nor fastboot you are in a bad situation.
Do a search in this sub-forum and you shall find many suggestions to how to fix if possible.
Good luck :0)
Why does he need the 26I radio? I'm on a 32b mytouch and I'm running the 23.02 radio with no problems on any of the roms i've tried.
so i take it i bricked because i flashed the wrong radio?!! or because i may have flashed it wrongly ?
jonnyballs said:
so i take it i bricked because i flashed the wrong radio?!! or because i may have flashed it wrongly ?
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I *think* it's more a bad combination of SPL and radio that causes a brick, rather than the radio itself, if that makes sense?
No body knows!
Imho i think that you did not let the radio write operation complete in the right way.
When you flash radio trough recovery the system will reboot twice.
If you flashed the radio you said you flashed, then your system should be up and running. Even if you flashed the other 2.22 radio...
It also seems like a bad flash of radio since you got no activity at all now. Radio is like bios for a computer... No bios or bad bios will result in a brick!
ahhh thinkin hope was lost ...wen i read about brickin , it seems that nobody who had bricked it could connect via usb at all ...... but after leaving my usb connected for the day a unknown device is found but no drivers will install for it , when attempting to turn on into recovery still no fastboot but also device isnt found on pc anymore , is there any way with phone turned off and charging to restore at all ... anything would be helpfull ... thanks guys