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recover Magic 32A from fastboot [with beer prize]

Hello, i updated my magic with the wrong ROM and now nothing works except FASTBOOT (vol down + power). everything else just freezes to the red vodafone screen. What can i do from here?
Here's the info:
Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0010
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
Please please with anything on top help?

ok
let's make things interesting. mods feel free to sticky this...
i really need a solution this weekend. i'll send three bottles of the best local beer to whoever solves my problem.
go!

Do you have a Nandroid backup of your original ROM? If so - see here
http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/NANDROID_Fastboot
If not, I'm sure a quick search will show someone has posted a full backup somewhere on here.

Sorry...didn't notice before that you have the Perfect SPL. I suggest looking here instead -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133

alexdroid said:
Hello, i updated my magic with the wrong ROM and now nothing works except FASTBOOT (vol down + power). everything else just freezes to the red vodafone screen. What can i do from here?
Here's the info:
Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0010
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
Please please with anything on top help?
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Have done the same ..as you
I used adb get recovery to work again from fastboot

keepitnang said:
Sorry...didn't notice before that you have the Perfect SPL. I suggest looking here instead -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133
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tried that, fastboot gives me the "remote: not allow" error.

alexdroid said:
tried that, fastboot gives me the "remote: not allow" error.
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Yeah...that's because your phone has the Perfect SPL - it won't allow a fastboot connection. The article I linked to shows you how to change the SPL and enable this. Having said that, have you tried stian230's suggestion concerning connecting via adb to restore a recovery image?
Have a look at Amon_RA's thread for his excellent recovery image. This shows how to push the image to your phone and boot to it -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492

keepitnang said:
... have you tried stian230's suggestion concerning connecting via adb to restore a recovery image?
Have a look at Amon_RA's thread for his excellent recovery image. This shows how to push the image to your phone and boot to it -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
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adb does not recognize my phone (all the drivers are ok, fastboot can see it). all the guides dealing with this said to make sure i have USB debugging enabled, but i can't access my phone to do this.
changing the spl seems to permanently void the warranty (not sure about this)...

K...sorry...this is where my n00bness runs me into a brick wall. The only way I know of to recover in this instance based on what you have said is to go ahead and flash a 'friendlier' SPL. Perhaps someone infinitely cleverer than I knows of another method though?

alexdroid said:
adb does not recognize my phone (all the drivers are ok, fastboot can see it). all the guides dealing with this said to make sure i have USB debugging enabled, but i can't access my phone to do this.
changing the spl seems to permanently void the warranty (not sure about this)...
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ADB will find your phone if you try a little while.
I promise

Just take it easy do not stress.
Try the phone off. or try recovery even if you do not get in recovery adb believe that it is the in recovery .
certainly sounds a bit strange but I did it that way

i just can't get adb to recognize my device. i tired on xp and 7, unistalled and reinstalled usb drivers and nothing.
all the guides mention tunring on USB debugging, but i can't get into android to do that. all i have is the damn fastboot. is there any other way to turn on usb debugging?
edit: apparently, adb isn't supposed to work in recovery mode. and since i can't use fastboot, because of my SPL, i'm locked out. any other ideas?

does not sound good. but I had the same problem a week ago. I had flashed a ROM and used the wrong port 32A. phone had a "semibriked" I only had access to fastboot and hboot.
I also have perfect spl. But after many attempts the adb found my phone.
I had an empty sdcard with only recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2H.img on it.

is there any other method to change spl, or make fastboot work? the goldcard thing looks crazy hard...

Bricked MT3G 1.2? Cant recover

So I tried unlockr's tutorial to rooting and along the way something went wrong and I was getting htc magic splash. Now everytime I try to run sappimg it hangs at unzipping and when I try to run recover.img or any other img, in cmd prompt I get a signature verify fail. Haven't had the phone for 48 hours yet and managed to **** it up. Help. Anyone.

wrong sappimg
Donarudo said:
So I tried unlockr's tutorial to rooting and along the way something went wrong and I was getting htc magic splash. Now everytime I try to run sappimg it hangs at unzipping and when I try to run recover.img or any other img, in cmd prompt I get a signature verify fail. Haven't had the phone for 48 hours yet and managed to **** it up. Help. Anyone.
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Ok first stop and open the sappimg dont un zip just click on it. them click on the android-info.txt if it reads this your good
ModelID: SAPP10000
CIDNUM: HTC__037
CIDNUM: 11111111
MainVer: 2.53.707.2
If it reads any thing else its a simi brick I hope you got insurance if ya do pm me ill walk ya in so you can get a new one!
Ok just do the fastboot radio,hboot.nb0,recovery,reboot and your good
i had the same ish with the unlocker steps. I simi bricked it with the wrong sappimg if the cidnum say some thing like vada-xxx (x=numbers) or some thing do not update with it.

How is this ROM Development?
Moved to General.

Yes, the txt checks out. Every time I try those commands I receive the signature verify fail error. I've tried to reflash the sappimg to the phone again and again and I get 'unzipping' then nothing. My phone also reads:
SAPPHITE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP31000)
CPLD-13
RADIO-3.22.20.17
If this helps.

Can ANYONE please help me. I regret trying this and just want my phone back to normal... So many smart ppl on here but nobody is giving me their .02 cents. Sheesh

Donarudo said:
Can ANYONE please help me. I regret trying this and just want my phone back to normal... So many smart ppl on here but nobody is giving me their .02 cents. Sheesh
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yea bro i can help but i need more info\\where are you files placed and what are your file names

Can you hold the power and home button to get into your recovery screen?

thricemin said:
Can you hold the power and home button to get into your recovery screen?
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No it wont. for some funky reason the radio and spl are linked to the board tmobile attempt to lock root out thats why the 1.2 kernel dose not support wifi teather apps, but i never tried any of of the hero teather apk or hacks.
But If you did every thing on the unlocker site for the fender/1.2 it should work>>>>
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash hboot hboot.nb0 (the 0 at the end of this line is a zero not an oh).
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
8. Once the phone starts to turn back on begin holding home and power (do not let go until you see the recovery mode) to boot into recovery mode.
9. You should end up in Amon Ra’s recovery mode. Now click on USB MS Toggle to turn on USB mounting. Plug in your USB cable and you should be able to access your memory card on your computer now.
10. Load the custom Fender ROM with Root added below onto your SD card (NOT in any folder, just on the SD card itself, do NOT extract it, leave it as a .zip)
Custom Fender w/ Root Access (THIS WORKS FOR THE MYTOUCH 1.2 OR FENDER).
Then click the button on your phone to disable USB MS Toggle and then click Apply .zip and select the Fender ROM .zip file we just put on the sd card.
Once it loads click reboot and you are all set!

[Q] MyTouch 3G boot Issue (Recommended here for help)

I went though some of the forums and didn't quite find what I was looking for, BUT a friend on Reddit pointed me over to this forum for help. I loaded Engineerings SPL on to my phone and when I booted up the phone I got a totally new boot screen saying "HTC Magic" After about 20 minutes I realized my phone isn't going to boot at all, I thought no big deal and tried to unroot my phone with the unlocker website and the sapping.nbh file failed during installation. (The last two items had an odd error) BUT when I rebooted my phone it now had the green mytouch 3g loading screen but again failed to boot. And thats it, this is where I am stuck.
I Have a My Touch 3g 3.5MM jack phone and I was simply trying to load a custom rom onto my phone, I can access fastboot and the android recovery console (Thing for wipe and update.zip from sdcard) But everything I have tried fails! I am really starting to stress out about this but a I was told it doesn't seem to be very serious if I can access all the menus like that. If you need anymore info I will be checking the thread regularly. Sorry for causing the trouble I am probably just another pest who made a dumb novice error , for that I am sorry. But if anyone could help me out it would be much appreciated.
EDIT!: Also I forgot to add I have GoldCard from before my phone broke, not sure if this will still work but it might help.

Post there all fastboot info, ALL.
Also the outcome of this command done in fastboot mode
Code:
fastboot getvar version-main
When you refer to "the android recovery console (Thing for wipe and update.zip from sdcard)" do you mean android stock recovery or custom recovery?

Im trying to get the data from that fast boot thing but Im kinda new to all this in order to get that data I hook my phone up to pc with usb cord start up cmd prompt and type
cd\
AndroidSDK\tools\adb
then type in that command? Kinda lost on what im doin there.
And how do I find out if it is stock or custom? it has the symbol for the FlashRec app in the backround though if that helps.
But the stuff on the top of the fast boot is.
Sapphire PVT 32A Ship S-ON G
HBoot-1.33.0013 (SAPP31000)
CPLD-13
Radio-2.22.19.26I
Oct 21 2009, 22:33:27 (Some weird date?)
Trying to type it into cmd prompt straight from cd\ doesn't work. I need some way to mount the device from fast boot it seems

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734617

mumilover said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734617
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What does this do for me? My phone is stuck in an unusable state almost I cant root it at this point.

THANK YOU!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! My phone is 100% fixed and running a shiny new OS! I can't thank you enough!

LemonFondler said:
THANK YOU SO MUCH! My phone is 100% fixed and running a shiny new OS! I can't thank you enough!
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Good to hear. Now make a nandroid backup and don't fix what isn't broken.

LemonFondler said:
THANK YOU SO MUCH! My phone is 100% fixed and running a shiny new OS! I can't thank you enough!
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What did you do after getting that link to get your phone fixed? That way if someone else gets stuck in the same boat they'll know what you did.

[Q] My HTC myTouch keeps rebooting,freezing,no touch?

Ok first off I am new to all of this. This Is my first android smartphone It's a T-Mobile MyTouch 3g. I just bought It off eBay and If I can't fix It then I am out some money PLEASE HELP!!
Have done some reading but can't seem to fix what's going on with this phone . I got It off eBay and the seller said It had problems with the touch screen every so often but other wise worked great In every other way but that Is so so far from the truth.
When you first turn It on It will boot up to the sim pin screen. I have gotten the touch screen to respond long enough to enter my pin once. It will freeze and reboot over and over. The track ball will work once In a while along with the home and back buttons.
I know It's running Superfly TCBY Froyo ROM and I think thats were all the problems are because It does work right every so often so I have been trying to unroot It and put It back to factory rom and settings and start fresh with the hopes that It will fix the problems but the problem now Is when I go into recovery to flash It or make any kinds of changes, It will freeze and reset. I can't even get the recovery menu to work long enough to do anything. Can someone please explain how I can get this phone back to original.
PLEASE HELP

We need your fastboot information. Turn the phone on holding back+power and post the info you see here.

Fast boot info
sapphire pvt 32a ship s-on g
hboot-1.33.0013 (sapp31000)
cpld-13
radio-2.22.23.02
oct 21 2009,22:33:27
fastboot

Search the forums for "unroot mytouch 1.2" and that'll get you straightened out.
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk

OK well I did a search and have been doing alot of reading and I managed to get It to load a Generic MyTouch Rom w/Root because when I try to unroot to SAPPIMG Sapphire T-Mobile US 2.10.531.4 release i keep getting main version older update failed so I read to go to a Generic MyTouch Rom w/Root and try again from here
"theunlockr.com/2010/04/26/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-htc-mytouch-3g"
Still same problem main version older update failed. I can't create a Goldcard to try the Goldcard method because I don't have access to the phone to enable USB debugging. I can't do much with the phone because of the freezing.
I can get Into fastboot and hboot but It still freezes. So I know It's not bricked but touch Is still not working. can load the phone up but pretty much becomes a good paper weigh after a few minutes on. The buttons will not responded, no touch, no access to to anything Inside the phone.
What can I do? Is this phone worthless? Can It be fixed? I feel like I just bought a expensive paper weigh.
As I said before I am hoping that If I can get It back to original settings and rom that It will stop freezing, stop rebooting and the touch, buttons, and system will work right.. What do you think Is causing all of these problems?? No touch, Freezing, rebooting?? How can I get It back to being unrooted and running the original software/rom PLEASE HELP.....

If you have access to recovery you can flash an engineering SPL and the just flash the stock sappimg again and it'll work. I can link ya in a minute.
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk

I just flashed Engineering SPL 1.33.2005 after doing some research. waiting for It to format cache after flash and reboot. hope this works?
Fast boot info now
sapphire unknown 32a eng s-off h
hboot-1.33.2005 (sapp31000)
cpld-13
radio-2.22.23.02
apr 20 2009,15:30:43
Tried to flash original sappimg got this
Parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] BOOTLOADER - OK
[2] RADIO V2 - OK
[3] SPLASH1 - OK
[4] RECOVERY - OK
[5] BOOT - OK
[6] SYSTEM - Fail-PU
[7] USERDATA - Fail-PU
Partition update fail!
Update Fail!
now It has went back to
Fast boot info
sapphire pvt 32a ship s-on g
hboot-1.33.0013 (sapp31000)
cpld-13
radio-2.22.23.02
oct 21 2009,22:33:27
when i flash the recovery and boot it just goes to the green mytouch splash screen and does nothing.. if i try to boot into recovery manually with power and home it goes to the black screen with the exclamation triangle and a phone...

I can still get Into HBOOT and FASTBOOT but I can not get Into the recovery menu and the phone will not load pass the MyTouch 3g screen.
How can I flash a new recovery img via hboot?
[What I "know"]
My understanding is that I have a Shipment SPL aka "Perfect SPL" with Security on which means I cannot use fastboot.
I also get a "Main version is older. Update failed" when I try to down grade and unroot.
[My Goal]
I want to change my SPL to a engineering one, unroot and get back to stock.

Your going to need to make a goldcard, which means you will need a phone that runs Android. Any phone running Android will work. You can use the guide from here to make it. You'll only need the other phone for Part III steps 1-5 from that guide. Once you get the goldcard made, put this file on it, boot into hboot and flash like you did the other sappimg. That will get you the engineering SPL. Then from fastboot, run this command:
Code:
fastboot erase system
Then, put this SAPPIMG on your regular SD card (or you can replace the other sappimg on your goldcard) and flash it from hboot. Hopefully something in the system partition is corrupted and the wipe will fix it so that the sappimg can write the new system properly.

First off THANK YOU DonJuan692006 for all of your help.. I would love to make a gold card because I think that would solve all of my problems but I don't have access to another phone that runs Android that's why I have not tried that yet. I have no way to make a gold card. I have extra SD Cards but no other phone that runs Android to complete It and my phone will not allow me to do any of that at this point. What else can I do?? Is there any other way to make a gold card?

I will have access to another phone that runs Android In a few days but until then I am stuck.

I have now made a gold card, got the engineering spl Installed and then tried to Install the other file and It gets stuck on system unzipping while updating and then reboots. what can I do now???

Were you able to do the fastboot erase system before trying the second sappimg?
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No I was not able to do that. I have done alot of reading over the last few weeks and I still don't understand how to enter commands In fastboot. So thats why it didn't work?

That was kind of the point in flashing the engineering SPL. All you do is download the AndroidSDK kit. Extract it to somewhere you can find it. Inside of that folder will be a folder called Tools with the fastboot.exe. So you just open a command prompt from there and do the command in my other post.
So, if you were to extract AndroidSDK to the root of your C: drive (as I did), you would simply open a command prompt window by typing "cmd" in either the run box on Windows XP or the "Search" box in Windows Vista and 7, and then type
Code:
cd C:\AndroidSDK\Tools\
Alternatively, if your using Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can navigate in Windows Explorer to the Tools folder and launch a command prompt directly from that folder by holding Shift and right-clicking. There will be an extra option in the menu "Open command window here". Make sure that you don't right click on a file, right-click somewhere in the a blank are in the folder.
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Ok, I understand. I have AndroidSDK Installed. Needed It to make the goldcard. I understand how to do It know. Thanks again for all your help. I will try again the right way and get back.

[Q] Mistaken identity :(

well, where to start...i bought my MT3G 1.2 brand new because my original decided to have antenna issues (only cell antenna and only inside a building). so fast forward about a year, after rooting my NEW MT3G, I end up letting a friend use it til he can get a replacement for his. I get the phone back (after his dog bit through the screen) and another MT3G that is broke to use as a donor for the screen. swap screens, salvage other parts to fix my original, and boot up the 1.2.
now here is where it gets...interesting...to say the least. unlike before, where it booted to the MyTouch 3g splash screen, it now thinks it is an HTC Magic...i have been looking and unsuccessfully flashing builds TRYING to get it to what it was so i can upgrade the radio and actually know what i have again.
what would cause the phone to think it is a Magic? was it something in clockworkmod? can it be reversed? and why, for the love of god, can i not flash anything but EZGingerbread to it?
Details from the bootloader
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013 (SAPP31000)
CPLD-13
RADIO-2.22.23.02
Oct 21 2009,22:33:27
Any help would be greatly appreciated, cause im about to pull out what little hair i have left >_<

Sounds like fun!
If you haven't done yet: Download Android-SDK and install it (while installing choose Android SDK Tools, Android Platfrom-tools and Google USB Driver).
Connect your phone to usb and start it to bootloader (fastboot usb, back+power). Open a commandline on your computer and go to "...\android-sdk\platform-tools" depending on where you installed it. Then type
Code:
fastboot getvar cid
and
Code:
fastboot getvar version-main
and post the output here.
And please leave your hair where it belongs to! :laugh:

well....that wasnt too bad, i just get <waiting for device> and it hangs
even using CID Getter on the phone itself doesnt give me a CID like it does on my Glacier...i think something may be seriously messed up here >_<

Don't know why it may hang. Does the phone work properly? Maybe just the splash-screen was changed.
Have a look at this thread - there are all official roms for magic and so on. Having a look at your radio the stock-rom on your phone for now may be #56 or #57 (hboot 1.33.0013, radio 2.22.23.02). Only the OTA-update has newer versions.
I don't know if it's worth risking to brick the phone just for this update - only if it works properly at the moment.

It works properly as far as calls and texts and data, but I haven't been able to update the radio or hboot at all, it keeps giving a device id mismatch error
Sent from my HTC Glacier With Beats Audio using xda premium

What you can do:
- if you don't have a custom-recovery on your phone install one - try this guide without the optional stuff
- when done install the stock-rom for your phone (via custom-recovery) from official-rom-thread - i don't know if #56 or #57
- root and install custom-recovery again as shown above*
- then you may apply the OTA-update via custom-recovery (#58 from the official-rom-thread)
*I don't know if it's possible just to flash everything except recovery, then you wouldn't need to root it and install custom-recovery again.
That would be the newest versions for your phone.

I have ClockworkMod recovery already installed, and with this being my backup phone, I wouldn't be mad without root at all, though root is nice, I want it to be right lol
Sent from my Gingerbread on Sapphire

So you can flash your phone to official stock-rom and then update it to newest official-rom as i explained above. Or what should i tell you right now?

I tried to flash a stock rom, but with no success, when I get home I'll try again and post the error log
Sent from my HTC Glacier With Beats Audio using xda premium

SWEET!!! i got the fastboot commands to come through for me
fastboot getvar cid
cid: T-MOB010
fastboot getvar version-main
version-main: 2.53.707.2

And what happens when you try to flash "57) 2.10.531.4 T-Mobile USA DRD35" via custom-recovery (your recovery will be flashed too)?

That is a self installing executable file, when i try to run it, it tells me that it can not communicate with the device, and to make sure that the usb cable is connected and the phone is on, which it is both

so the 57) 2.10.531.4 T-Mobile USA DRD35 flash went finally, turns out, my phone didn't like it too much, because now, i am stuck at the HTC magic splash screen and i think it is bricked

I don't get it, that should have been the correct files for your phone. You're sure that it's a Mytouch 3g 1.2 and not the normal Mytouch 3g?
How did you flash the file?
If you search here you can find "tutorials" how to get the rom-files out of the RUU to flash it in hboot-mode.
Can you get into recovery-mode? What about hboot-mode?

It was a .exe file, so it ran from my computer, and I know it's a 1.2 because I couldn't afford the fender edition lol. Now it just hangs on the splash screen and won't let me do anything at all
Sent from my HTC Glacier using xda premium

I think it would have been better to extract the rom-file and flash it with hboot from sd-card... Then you should have been sure about what he flashed.
Maybe now you got some weird radio-system-whatever-mix and that's why it doesn't start.
Normaly you flashed the correct rom-file for your phone.
What you can try:
- remove battery for some time (5 minutes or whatever) and press power - then get the battery back in and try to start it again
- start the phone with Home+Back+Power or Menu+Back+Power (don't remember), in my case there was a menu to erase cache and so on, maybe this would work for you
- is your phone listed in "fastboot devices" when you power on your phone with Vol down+Power, Back+Power, Power, Home+Power or the combination from above? I read that some people are already in fastboot-mode and have text on their display when they see the logo, shown for example here (they had red text on red vodafone-logo):
http://www.android-hilfe.de/attachm...oter-vodafone-bildschirm-geloest-dsc00624.jpg
If not...
Does bluelight-mode work (i think it's trackball+power)? If so you can get it running with JTAG - you just need somebody who has the equipment and so on. Where are you from?