Hello Everyone,
I have a Mytouch 3G T-mobile branded 1.2 with a 3.5MM jack 32a. I had it rooted and was running the stable CM5 at the time. I was just checking out roms and looking for any updates that I could apply. Being that I have a 32a and was told never to change the SPL I switched it to what I thought was an update for the phone and viola i believe my MT3G is bricked. Its been bricked for at least a month and a half now and I just want to know if anybody has reversed the bricking problem or just anything to my get phone running again. So ive tried all functions to get into Fastboot from the phone and my PC cant recognize it until it fully boots but it just stays stuck in the first boot screen.
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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*
I just rooted my Mytouch a couple days ago and everything worked perfect and i did it without bricking my phone. I was trying to get the supercsdiv4 rom, but i needed to flash the lateset radio and heres where the problem started. the radio tried to flash was 2.22.23.02. I used the recovery image to flash it and then when i rebooted the phone it stayed stuck at the splash screen and i cant get into fastboot or recovery anymore. it just boot to the splash screen and stays there. I know i cant get my phone back but i want to know what i did wrong so that i dont ever do it again. maybe it was because the radio i had was a 32a radio and this radio i tried to flash might have been 32b but im not sure why that wouldn't work if my phone is 32b
here was my system
pvt 32b
Hboot 1.33.2005
radio 3.22.20.17
have you tried taking the battery out for a bit.. relax a while, then put it back in and try to get into recovery mode (home and power)
this actually happened yesterday and my phone was off the whole time so it has had plenty of time to rest. My phone is truly bricked
well im sorry to hear that, but i have no idea what you did wrong, unless you did flash a 32a over a 32b or the other way around, im sure that could really mess up the phone.
may be a useless idea but have you tried a hard reset
1. With the phone turned off, press and hold the HOME and BACK buttons.
2. Briefly press the END CALL/POWER button while continuing to press the HOME and BACK buttons.
3. When you see the screen with the 3 Android
images, release the HOME and BACK buttons, and then press the TRACKBALL.
i have no idea if it will do anything but might as well explore EVERYTHING.
Similar Problem (Partial Brick?)
Not to take anything away from clint1225 but
I have a similar problem and didn't want to start another thread.
I tried unrooting my devices using the method
described at theUnlockr.com. Everything was fine up until I tried using
their sappimg file (said it worked for all old magics).
At the hboot stage, it found the sappimg but the update failed.
However, the magic now says:
SPL-1.33.0006 (SAP50000)
Radio- 2.22.19.261
Ship S-On G.
It's a 32A version.
I had an engineering spl and 6.35xx radio before I attempted to unroot.
Oh I'm not able to access recovery but I can access
fastboot (computer can't find it though under "fastboot devices")
Other than that, it's stuck at the first splash screen.
Any advice/tips?
Sorry for the long post and thank you.
Good luck to you too, clint1225!
UPDATE *Similar Problem (Partial Brick?)*
In the adb, the serial number
of the htc magic is coming
up under "fastboot devices".
However, if I try to
flash a recovery for example, the adb
returns "remote access not allowed".
I've read about the gold card method
but my phone won't boot up properly
(stuck at splash screen) and I can't
access recovery. Only fastboot seems to be
working.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Take it for what it's worth coming from a newb. But from my understanding if you can reach your phone with Fastboot your a NOT bricked. But this is what I have heard here on XDA, I haven't proven this myself.
Check around and hopefully with fastboot you can get your phone back. Good luck.
I did the exact same thing a few weeks back. I flashed a 3.22 radio over my 2.22 radio, thinking it's an upgrade but after it reboots, it wont get past the logo screen. I spent the whole day trying to find ways to recover it but cannot find any. Thank god I have warrenty on it so I went to the Tmobile store, told them I updated it and when it restart, it got stuck on the logo screen. They gave me a new phone and told me dont f-up this one. Now I'm afraid of updating my phone to the 6.something radio.
Update *Similar Problem (Partial Brick?)*...again.
MasterColdSoul and koolpre,
Thanks for the tips and luck!
I figured it wasn't a total brick so I searched
the whole day on google and xda.
What I can tell you is that I now have a functional phone.
I used the rogers "mandatory" update (2 sappimgs) to
get my phone (rogers 32a) working again (boots fully).
However, I now have the SPL 1.76.0010 which means
I've lost root functionality and it's harder to get root.
But I could use the phone to make a gold card and get root again.
Boy I'm glad this worked! I should have learned my lesson
but I will probably try to root, hehe!
Thanks to google search and xda community!
koolpre said:
I did the exact same thing a few weeks back. I flashed a 3.22 radio over my 2.22 radio, thinking it's an upgrade but after it reboots, it wont get past the logo screen. I spent the whole day trying to find ways to recover it but cannot find any. Thank god I have warrenty on it so I went to the Tmobile store, told them I updated it and when it restart, it got stuck on the logo screen. They gave me a new phone and told me dont f-up this one. Now I'm afraid of updating my phone to the 6.something radio.
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just because the radio starts with bigger numbers doesn't make it an update. 3.22 was the old radio and 2.33.23.02 is the latest radio so you were actually downgrading your radio and thats why your phone brick. Just letting you know because you seem to be under the wrong impression. Dont make that mistake again. just do a little research to find the latest radio.
phone model is mt3g 32a i brick my phone by flashing hboot1.332007 to my mt3g and now i cant get into fastboot and recovery mode. it bootup to the htc magic splash screen stuck there. i would like to know if anyone could help me out
Before I call TMo and play dumb, this being my first Android and all, I just want make sure this is Bricked.... :/
Playing around flashing different radio, SPL, recovery... etc I was in the middle of flashing a sappimg.zip and it started tossing Fail-PU all over at that time I was still in fastboot and still able to keep trying again and again but, then I made the mistake of unplugging it and doing a battery pull.
Now it does not turn back on. It does charge, it's fully charged now (goes from Orange to Green) but as soon as I touch the power button the LED goes off and I can't do a thing till I do a battery pull.
The only thing I can do is get the LED to go blue by holding the trackball and hitting power <end call>. But I've searched arounnd and can't find anything to do in this 'mode'.
So.... Bricked?
Yes sire....
Yup. You have a brick. What spl and radio combo were you using (or trying to use) during the flashing process? What instructions were you following that was too difficult to follow?
I guess the guy would have expected some hints HOW to "convert" his brick back to a phone. Or at least some comment - what's the blue-led mode (hboot?) and if that can help somehow?
This said, I'm shamefully accepting myself being dumb and bricking my phone just an hour ago... I only managed to reflash the hboot image .2005, and afterwards the phone is stuck.
I've followed this thread:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...r-new-radiospl/page__view__findpost__p__96630
my bad I must have made sure my recovery works at least...
Binary100100 said:
Yup. You have a brick. What spl and radio combo were you using (or trying to use) during the flashing process? What instructions were you following that was too difficult to follow?
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i dont recall what i was doing at this point but, i think i was flashing between the 3/22 and the 2.22 radio and back and forht between the 2010 SPL and the Stock 3009? it think it was
i think i'm just getting too mixed up in here with what seems to be 3 or 4 different myTouch flavors out there, w/o a jack, w/ a jack, 32A, 32B... one rom for 32B will work fine on 32A but one for 32A will bomb out on a 32A if there a wrong radio/spl etc......
i think in the end i was trying to flash a 32A to my new v1.2 32A w/jack and it failed, i then tried to recover it with the update.zip on my goldcard and thats when it blew up with thte FAIL-PU ... ... .... brick.
on another note, that night i called TMo to get a replacement, it showed up Next day. start to Root it again and try another ROM, managed to do that fine had Cryogen up and running then tried another one i think it was a 32B yoshi's or somethign ... not sure it also worked fine.
then i noticed i could not get out of headset mode, i quick search nad fown it was a known issue probably hardware ehhh, so i'm using the RUU to flash it back to Stock before calling to get another replace ment and blam FAIL-PU all over WARNING then... brick....
so now we're on myTouch 3G 1.2 #3 and i think i'll leave it alone for now and let the daughter really get to use her phone for a while..... before i b rick it again
i bricked my second one. Got the warranty one in the mail today. Not gonna mess with it this time. Thats what my HD2 is for.
so im trying to root my sisters mytouch 3g and it was originally 2.2.1 with a "perfect" spl, i used rom manager to flash clockwork mod, that failed and left me with no recovery, so i followed the guide to make a goldcard and was able to get it to the 2005 spl which showed s-off H (its a google branded phone) I was then able to flash clockworkmod recovery I then tried to flash cm6 to the phone and it just sat at the splash screen. I tried 2 other roms as well with the same results. Then i was reading more and it said the 2004 spl was s-off G so i went to flash that, it said flashing complete restart phone through menu to complete i did that and the update screen came up for a second then the screen went black.. Now i cant boot into hboot, recovery, or fastboot. Im thinking the phone is now bricked! Are there any other tricks to try and bring this thing back..I read somewhere about jtagging but could really find much about it. I need to get this thing working asap and dont even understand how this happened.. Ive hacked alot of things and this little phone as been the most confusing and time consuming thing to date. also if it helps it was radio version 3 something. When i try to boot using power and back the splash comes up and if i keep holding after about 4 seconds it reboots again, if i let go a second after the splash screen it just sits at the splash until i pull the battery after a few minutes.
franky_402 said:
so im trying to root my sisters mytouch 3g and it was originally 2.2.1 with a "perfect" spl, i used rom manager to flash clockwork mod, that failed and left me with no recovery, so i followed the guide to make a goldcard and was able to get it to the 2005 spl which showed s-off H (its a google branded phone) I was then able to flash clockworkmod recovery I then tried to flash cm6 to the phone and it just sat at the splash screen. I tried 2 other roms as well with the same results. Then i was reading more and it said the 2004 spl was s-off G so i went to flash that, it said flashing complete restart phone through menu to complete i did that and the update screen came up for a second then the screen went black.. Now i cant boot into hboot, recovery, or fastboot. Im thinking the phone is now bricked! Are there any other tricks to try and bring this thing back..I read somewhere about jtagging but could really find much about it. I need to get this thing working asap and dont even understand how this happened.. Ive hacked alot of things and this little phone as been the most confusing and time consuming thing to date. also if it helps it was radio version 3 something. When i try to boot using power and back the splash comes up and if i keep holding after about 4 seconds it reboots again, if i let go a second after the splash screen it just sits at the splash until i pull the battery after a few minutes.
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Its a brick. I'll tell you now that you can find a step by step process on using JTAG in the Wiki, but its not an easy process. Your going to have to have some moderate electronic knowledge plus moderate knowledge of how the phone boots to get it working. Your better bet would be to have it replaced under the warranty or insurance if you have either. If not, your second best bet would be to find someone who already has a working JTAG setup and see if you can get them to help you out.
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dang another mt3g down noobs need to ask for help
here is a link to a jtag tutorial
best of luck