[Q] flash without android activation - myTouch 3G, Magic General

i was given a lost or reported htc magic 32b, dude just wanted a newer phone
so it got blacklisted, im using it as a test phone to learn rooting flashing roms etc
i made a goldcard i copied the sappimg.nbh and FlashRec files etc and all went well, then i get to the welcome screen emergency call change language
i cannot go any further if plug in the usb cable i get nothing, as i cannot activate
the phone to get into menu add the rest of the files to flash etc i have sdk working but like i said it does not see the phone, as i said i am using it as a tester for my actual working htc magic 1.6 that i want to flash cyanogen rom.
i thought id rather brick the blacklisted one as it wont work anyway, before i try the methods on my working one.

Moving to General

bump any ideas plz

I don't think you can.. I tried that without data plan but noway to pass the activation for mytouch 3g. just use your other mytouch simcard (assuming you have dataplan) and activate it..then do all the rom install.. from then on..you don't need the dataplan..you will have a skip option with all roms...
(borrow friend's sim for few seconds to activate)
(get the dataplan and cancel it when you think you don't need it)

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Moving from HBOOT-1.33.0006 without Goldcard

I previously had this phone running Cyanogenmod 6 so skip the n00b bashing. I know wtf I'm doing.
My situation is pretty unique.
I came to Israel from Philadelphia with a myTouch3G about a week ago with Cyan Recovery and Cyan 6 installed. No problems. I put in an Israel SIM Card into my phone and no matter what I tried it would keep crashing the phone process.
Thinking the problem would be fixed if I flashed stock, I did just that and unrooted my phone completely.
The phone is now running stock recovery with 1.6 stock. Israeli SIM card STILL crashes the phone process.
I can't get past the intro wizard because I don't have service. Four corners doesn't work. I would have one click rooted days ago if I could get past it.
My SPL is 1.33.0006 (SAPP300000).
I am trying to get a different SPL onto the phone without a Goldcard so I can root it. I attempted to make a gold card already many times but I had to use a Windows application to get the CID so I don't think it worked because after it analysis the update.zip I get a "Version Mismatch" error.
If someone could recommend a signed SPL that my phone will accept that would then allow me to move on from there I think I'd be able to get past this issue. If I could simply get a custom recovery on this phone I could get back to Froyo where the 4 corners trick does work (or just restore from nandroid back Cyan 6).
The only way I have to copy stuff to an sdcard at the moment is through a working blackberry pearl I have lying around.
Drop me any suggestions. I'll be glad to try them.
Simple... take out your sim-card... then finish the reg part(just skip most of it).. then root... flash custom recovery.. flash eng spl... Full control again :0)
You can also finish the reg part using a wifi :0)
Just take the sim out!
Just tried that. Once I turn the phone on I see the Android intro logo and when I tap it I get a new screen that simply says "No SIM card in Phone" and the only button there is for Emergency calls.
It doesn't let me do anything from that point at all. I can't move past this screen.

Boot into RA

Not sure what RA , but think recovery.?, anyhow I bought an EVO 4G , this would be 1st in Android work., iam trying to zerooo all my meid and esn., the evo has Radio 2.15.00.11.19 and OS 2.2.
been reading and reading each step takes me days., I got the MSL from CDMA., and from what i have been reading with the radio 2.15.00.11.19 wont be able to repair MY MEID to 00000000., need to downgrade to 132.651....., downloaded the file , and made my evo as a drive and installed it to card., when i go to the menue .power and lower volume down and get a few options ., need to get i guess to SD card to read the RUU file ., if i did recovery i go into just a picture of a phone and like a red arrow .or power to the up directions., no options with what i seen in some posts...like to choose SD card and boot the file...etc
ofcourse i didnt do a root , not sure which one to choose., but do i need to do anther hack to get to the ruu file i installed on card.?
sincereluy
okwassup said:
Not sure what RA , but think recovery.?, anyhow I bought an EVO 4G , this would be 1st in Android work., iam trying to zerooo all my meid and esn., the evo has Radio 2.15.00.11.19 and OS 2.2.
been reading and reading each step takes me days., I got the MSL from CDMA., and from what i have been reading with the radio 2.15.00.11.19 wont be able to repair MY MEID to 00000000., need to downgrade to 132.651....., downloaded the file , and made my evo as a drive and installed it to card., when i go to the menue .power and lower volume down and get a few options ., need to get i guess to SD card to read the RUU file ., if i did recovery i go into just a picture of a phone and like a red arrow .or power to the up directions., no options with what i seen in some posts...like to choose SD card and boot the file...etc
ofcourse i didnt do a root , not sure which one to choose., but do i need to do anther hack to get to the ruu file i installed on card.?
sincereluy
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You are trying to zero your meid? Just use the engineering bootloader or qxdm
First of all, you are getting way ahead of yourself. You can only use recovery if your rooted. Second, you are going to mess up your phone big time by downgrading to such an old radio when you have a new phone with possibly the new camera hardware that will require certain kernels and radio versions. If you want to root, the easiest way is to download unrevoked from unrevoked.com and follow the instructions. Then slow down a little before you end up messing up your phone. After you get it rooted, boot into recovery and do a nand backup so you have a back up file to revert back to when you mess up your phone. Which from the the things you seem to be trying to do is most likely.
I read more and was able to root my evo 4G., so as of know iam rooted , not sure into bricking it ,or doing what i want with ., so this is the update
from what i read i cant zero my meid ...etc with current radio, since i wont be able to locate ,or scan memory locations... . therefore i need to downgrade to lower radio .??,isnt that one way to do it.??
i have CDMA 2.7 and XQDM ., thats it from the web here and there .
so since i did a nand back up . can i downgrade to a older ROm ..Radio ... etc and zeroo the meid locations ..etc then do a restore.?
any ideas about doing that ..etc
all feed back is great .
sincerely
Can I ask what the benefit of zeroing your meid, esn, etc is?
just want to learn how to do things ., its amazing all the file programs these wiz people made., love to play with things ..change things see if i can do it.

Phone Bricked?

I have a stock myTouch 3G 32B that won't progress past the initial login screen. I have taken pictures of the different screen/areas that I can get to. I have tried multiple SIM cards at no avail. Any help appreciated! Thanks!!
That is not a brick. Not even close to being a brick. Imagine this, you try to turn your phone on and you're greeted with the old familiar splash screen, but it stays like that, nothing happens, you start to worry and decide to boot into recovery, same thing happens, you freak out and try fastboot, same result. That's a brick. That doesn't happen to too many people, but when it does, its effing scary.
Now onto your problem. Are you sure the Sims you tried had working data? Did you try them in another phone to verify?
Thanks tvall ... I guess I should have used a different word that bricked since I know a true brick is completely non functional. This phone however is completely useless at this state though. :-(
As for the SIM cards, they were taken out of my HD2 (running Android), my wifes HD2 (also Android), Samsung Vibrant, and then a dumb phone. All the smart phones have data plans and work when their proper SIM cards are installed.
Well the phone suggested to call customer care, and it is a SMARTphone. Try taking its advice?
What I do when I have major problems is flash a sappimg and start over. (That is also the only times my phone runs stock software. I rooted on day one and flashed cm haven't gone back to stock)
Maybe, if your ok with root, do the goldcard rooting process and see if a custom rom can get data?
The phone was purchased used off craigslist ... wasn't sure if that would come up or matter if customer care was called. The whole point of this is that I was hoping to root and get a custom rom on there (trying to fix up for my niece to use). The problem is though that I don't think that I can root without a goldcard and I can't create a gold card without getting into the settings page and getting info about the phone (right?). If there is a way to do any of this using ADB or any other method I am all ears.
Also you said something about flashing a sappimg and starting over ... can I do this without the phone being rooted? It is 100% stock AFAIK.
NickPDX said:
The phone was purchased used off craigslist ... wasn't sure if that would come up or matter if customer care was called. The whole point of this is that I was hoping to root and get a custom rom on there (trying to fix up for my niece to use). The problem is though that I don't think that I can root without a goldcard and I can't create a gold card without getting into the settings page and getting info about the phone (right?). If there is a way to do any of this using ADB or any other method I am all ears.
Also you said something about flashing a sappimg and starting over ... can I do this without the phone being rooted? It is 100% stock AFAIK.
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You can make a goldcard with any HTC android phone
tvall said:
You can make a goldcard with any HTC android phone
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I was thinking that the gold card that is used to root the phone would have to be made with that phone as well. So I can use my G1 to make a goldcard that I can use to root this myTouch3G?
NickPDX said:
I was thinking that the gold card that is used to root the phone would have to be made with that phone as well. So I can use my G1 to make a goldcard that I can use to root this myTouch3G?
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Yep. Goldcards are not phone specific
Thanks! I have never seen anything saying that in all of my research. I would have never figured that out on my own. I will create a gold card with my G1 when I get home from work and root that myTouch with it.
Thanks again!
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can't have root acces with rc29

Hi, I'm so confused.To downgrade from froyo 2.2(i had no sound) I installed the rc29 dreaimg.nbh and now I would like to activate my G1 using root access and turning on wifi(no data plan) but I can't get root access.I did the reboot test but it doesn't work.when I try to flash dreaimg again,it doesn't start when pressing power button.Please help me.
hi...
is ur phone turning on???
direct power?
home+power??
camera+power???
u flashed the .nbh file via fastboot???
the way u have have described is not very clear....
can u explain properly without the element of panic???
the phone turn on,camera+power,Home+power all work fine.I installed dreaimg.nbh after holding camera+power.I did it to downgrade but now I m not able to activate my G1.perhaps I did it wrong.when I try to reinstall dreaimg.nbh it doesn't start after pressing power button.
i mean....is the phone turning on????
are u having problems with registering once the phone powers on????
or problems way before while turning it on???
ur radio spl versions???
uk/us model???
I don't have problem when turning on but the matter is I don't have data plan to register my google account so I want to turn on wifi in order to activate.I did it earlier(before upgrading to froyo) and it worked but to do I need root access first.
ohh.....then skip the initial registration process????
oh...skipping aint a possibility i guess with the downgrade....
i remember i had downgraded to 1.0(i know i know-but it's real)....
so had to add apn and all blah blahs till made it work again
i reckon there's no option to skip that step...hmmm???
no data plan???
there is no way to skip this process.it s a Tmobile G1 US model.is it possible to find a rom different from rc29 to downgrade and have root access?I don't see another solution.I have no data plan because I don't live in united state and the phone is sim locked.I need to activate and buy an unlock code because tmobile told me they was not able to give me blabla.......
where do u live?
i have a t-mobile G1(unlocked ofcourse) which is german and am in india
but whenever i get that part(on start up-google log in stuff) i can do that.....
but the t-mobile thing...i guess i faed the same once but somehow sneaked away
u have lost ur root????
francko225 said:
Hi, I'm so confused.To downgrade from froyo 2.2(i had no sound) I installed the rc29 dreaimg.nbh and now I would like to activate my G1 using root access and turning on wifi(no data plan) but I can't get root access.I did the reboot test but it doesn't work.when I try to flash dreaimg again,it doesn't start when pressing power button.Please help me.
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Here is what you will need to do. Since you have G1 T-Mobile US. And I am assuming you are not with T-Mobile. You have 2 options
OPTION 1:
Code:
1st - Either buy the Unlock code or get with HTC/T-Mobile for a FREE unnlock code.
2nd - Downgrade your G1 to RC29. (you already done that)
3rd - Put in your SIM chip and it will ask you for the unlock code. Use the unlock code provided by the vendor as indicated in 1st step.
4th - Root your phone (you can search for the how to on these forum)
5th - Find ezTerry SPL/radio thread, update your SPL/radio.
6th - Flash the custom ROM of your choice
OPTION 2:
Code:
1st - Find a friend who have a T-Mobile data service. Borrow their SIM chip.
2nd - Downgrade your G1 to RC29. (you already done that)
3rd - Put in your friend T-Mobile SIM chip and setup your activation screen.
4th - Root your phone (you can search for the how to on these forum)
5th - Find ezTerry SPL/radio thread, update your SPL/radio.
6th - Flash the custom ROM of your choice
FYI! The two options above are just the basic steps, they are not instruction for rooting your G1. There are too many instructions on the G1 forum, you can find them easily.
Thanks guys,I put a foreign sim card and it asked me the sim unlock code.I m not obliged to activate first.after unlocking what custom rom could I flash, I tried froyo 2.2 before but I had no sound from the device.I did something wrong or it's just a bug of froyo?could you give me too a good website(reliable) to buy an unlock code?
I am using SuperAosp 6.4, and I am happy with it. If you like you can try it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452316&page=13
this works.

[Q] DREA210 Became DREA100 after JTAG

Hi,
Please Somebody explain why my Rogers Dream Which has written DREA210 on the label under the battery cover with the correct IMEI has turned and is now showing DREA100 in the bootloader (Camera+Power)
Secondly i now have T-Mobile 1.6 with myfav.apk which i dont want cause it eats up all my credit sending messages.
Third problem, My Hardware Keyboard Layout is messed up too it type Y on Z key and Z on Y and a few more symbols
and Most Importantly its show correct colours on the Camera preview but after taking the snapshot, the pic turns greenish while it does not have any problem in the recorded video
Please Somebody Help
This all is really confusing
I have tried many ways like
Rooting with JesusFreke
using su keylayout method
replace camera apk and odex
nothing works
and even the G-Sensor akmd issue stays
and since now i have 1.6 t-mo
i cant even put akmd
Please im so confused and lost!
*bump* I also have the same problem.
How would I go about rooting and flashing a new rom, I don't want to brick my phone again. :/
who did your jtag for you? sounds like you got a european version. qwertz instead of qwerty keyboard, would also explain drea1000
i doubt simply flashing a new rom would help, you can try changing your radio/spl
Thanks for the reply.
I got it done through MobileTech Videos - http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/ - I tried contacting him, but he hasn't replied
My phone is a Rogers Dream - and on the back plate the model number is DREA210. When I go into fastboot, it says it's a DREA100 (A T-Mobile G1?).
The radio is 1.22.12.29, and hboot is 0.95.0000. It does however, correctly tell me that I have a 32B board on the phone, as it previously did when the phone was functioning.
The Rom flashed onto the phone is a T-Mobile G1 Rom - or atleast the carrier boot screen says it is a T-Mobile G1, and the person who jtag'ed it said it was a T-Mobile rom - I haven't been able to look at the Rom info (android version, etc) as I don't have my data plan activated to get past the google sign in..
Edit:
Just to clarify: I have a rogers dream (DREA210), and the jtag flash was done with a copy of a T-Mobile G1 (DREA100) - so fastboot was showing DREA100. So basically I treated it like a stock t-mobile G1 since it has the same Radio/hboot, and not the Rogers stock Radio/hboot, and the hardware is pretty much the same (AFAIK)...
I used these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098899
and it worked fine. The ROM I had was the stock version RC29 (Android 1.0) - So I just skipped the downgrade step. (and used fastboot to flash the 2708+ radio)

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