[Q] HELP - Magic 32a Bricked! weird + Bad - myTouch 3G, Magic General

hi,
i need ur guys opinion,
story goes
i have Magic 32a unlocked version.
then i root it to android 2.2.1 using the old radio / hboot combo.
then, i thought i want to update to android 2.3.1
now here is where the problem begins.
i accidently flashed the 32b radio on the phone. now the phone wouldnt go past the HTC Magic logo.
to fix this, i download the mytouch3G sappmig.img file and completely flash the phone over.
when i open fastboot it still using the 32b radio / hboot but this time the os loaded fine.
i install superandroot and superoneclick on the phone to root it
after rooting i tried flashing 32a radio / hboot but it say not allow.
next step i tried installing custom recovery and finally manage to do it using the flashrec app. i installed 32a recovery but it failed to boot it. i tried installing 32b recovery and it run fine.
now from the recovery itself i tried flashing 1.76 radio and the recovery unpack the file just fine. but when it says reboot, the 'Box with arrow and phone outside' image appear for a sec and then dissapear.
after that my htc magic is completely dead. pressing any button, pluging in usb cable or charger yield no effect (like a brick)
have i completely bricked my phone? please help.

Sad to say this, but yes.
You just had a bad radio flash...
Try JTAG.

i tried again after leaving the phone overnight, these are the only thing iam able to do with the phone:
trackball + power = blue led
long press power = led blink red once
plug in charger = battery charge indication light on, orange and then yellow indicating the battery is full.
and thats about it. no other button combo works. and fastboot devices and adb devices booth shows no device.
anyone doing this JTAG repair service?

bump...
im having the same problem...just posted my issue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959938
i have the blue LED as well...
i googled how to make a JTAG cable...but its really past my level of competence...
were you ever able to get your phone fixed?

you found any solid step by step guide to make the jtag? please post the link here. i want to explore further. tq.

i was having the same problem...initially all went well, manage to change the from SHIP S-on to ENG S-off. i brick my device right after updated the rom to froyo and thereafter unable to boot. everytime i booted my magic, i only sees the RUU (fastbot) page. i cant do adb command. luckily the fastboot flash command still work.
i have try flashing with a lot of different images but always got stuck @ either
FAILED (remote: 42 custom id check fail) or FAILED (remote: 12 signature verify fail). never go beyond that...after going thru so much hassle of finding the right image, i finally manage to get it up and running. it flashes by ROM to enclair (2.1), good enough for me to use whatapp..
specification of my Magic is 32A S-O; radio 6.35.16.19; hboot 1.76.0010
this is how i "unbrick"
Download the SAPPIMG from shipped-roms.com, download Brasil_SAPPIMG_3.54.zip
place the file in android sdk folder, where fastboot resided.
make sure your device is fully charged...
boot your device and connect it to the usb, you will sees RUU USB.
type this command fastboot flash zip XXXXXXX.zip
i hope this help...

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Another total brick? magic vodafone spain

Heloo, while y was trying to update my perfect spl, i meka a mistake and put inside spl for 32A instead o B
now, when I press power on button, it makes a little vibration and after that HTC MAGIC appears on the screen and nothin happens.
I have try to make fast boot commands, when starting with back and power, but computer foesn't recognize it.
Any suggestions??
the problem is the first splash is changed and is not vodafone's one, and I cannot access to it
What spl did you get? If you got it from Amon_Ra, his spl's work for both 32A and 32B. Are you sure you didn't flash a 32B radio?
What commands did you use?
recovery-RA-magic-v1.3.2H.img I use this one and it works, but on the next step, when i was trying to put
update.Engineering-SPL-HBOOT-1.33.2010-signed
using the recovery, it ask me for press 2 keys for rebooting. I read that in a wrong way and I press menu and use the menu for reboot the magic. After that it hangs on the first screen and I cannot use the fastboot commands, trying to boot with back+power.
I read it can be done if the first splash freezes but it is not my case.
Thanks a lot for your reply
Hmm, try installing HTC sync with the drivers again.
And download a recovery rom 1.4 with nandroid backup and download that into your fastboot.
No way to do a fastboot or recovery so I think that we can't download into our fastboot...
I have same problem and reading in the forum I think that we have Total bricked phone.
I have tried this solution http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=571457 but the cmd still "waiting for device" so i can't acces to my magic with my pc...
I hope that i am wrong
yes, I have try what people says on that post and waiting...
is not possible to make anything to allow the computer to recognize the device??

Former perfect-SPL Magic can't flash.

Hi everybody,
I just got my 1.5 cupcake Magic yesterday from SFR (Vodafone french carrier). I discovered it had a perfect-SPL and used both tuts found on this forum to get over it. First I made my goldcard then used id to fix the perfect-SPL. I followed everything step-by-step. Everything went fine and my phone went from a 1.5 cupcake Vodafone with Google french rom, to a HTC 1.5 cupcake english rom with non-perfect SPL.
Now I try to flash with a rom by Luo (at SmartPhone France forums) wich is based on Ion.
I installed the SDK on my XP Pro SP3 PC, and the drivers form the SmartPhone France wiki, when needed by XP with the Magic connected on USB Debug mode and Fastboot mode. My SDK Tools folder is on the windows PATH of course, and I put the Amon_Ra recovery IMG in it. The Luo rom ZIP file is at the root of my freshly low-formated FAT32 memory card, and the card is back in the phone.
When I start in Fastboot mode and then type the
fastboot boot nameoftherecovery.img command line on my PC, it says it's loading the file.
Then on the phone screen a tiny green progress bar fills up from bottom to top in the top right corner of the screen, when full, the phone vibrates briefly, then restarts, show me a magnificent htc magic logo and stays like that forever. I never get a chance to get to the menu that I need to wipe then flash.
I guess I'm not bricked since I can boot normally and access the fasboot, and not in perfect-SPL anymore, but hell yeah I'm in some deep sh*t and fed up already as it's been 24hrs I had my phone and can't use it ...
Any clues you pros ?
Thanks in advance !
Then on the phone
try turning it off for a while and then turn on, Otherwise try flashing one of dwangs roms.If you have the same problem as i do i cant flash any modified boot.img over 2MB it says write image error thus when you flash its not actually flashing the boot.img its using the one previously on the phone
The problem is solved. VincentjuanFR has followed the tutorial from AmonRA to disable a perfect SPL. But this tricks installs a 32A radio on the phone whereas he's got a 32B. Then, the recovery for 32B cannot boot.
he used the recovery for 32A to flash a 32B radio and then his phone was fine again.

[Q] mt3g 1.2 stuck at boot screen

Yesterday I went ahead and tried to flash the new 2.22.27.08 radio for my mt3g 1.2. I thought I read some posts saying that it is compatible with the mt3g 1.2. after flashing the radio and rebooting, my phone became stuck at the htc magic boot screen.
I no longer am able to enter recovery (home + power) or hboot (vol down + power)
the only thing I can do is access fastboot commands: when I power on the device, at the top of the boot screen is says "fastboot usb"
fastboot devices shows my device but my spl is perfect spl with s=on so I cant flash any img files. Ive tried flashing all the partitions, even with a zip file but I get the same errors, remote: not allow.
I tried installing with RUU and the command "fastboot oem rebootRUU" but the RUU app cannot find the connected usb device.
a lot of posts suggest to make a goldcard and put the SAPPIMG.zip on sdcard and let it fastboot auto load the file, since vol down + power doesnt work for me i thought this wasnt an option.
here is my phone info:
pvt 32a ship s-on g
hboot 1.33.0013
cpld 13
radio 2.22.27.08
anyone have any suggestions?
I would hate if the phone was unrecoverable but it is an old phone, maybe time to upgrade.
cloths55 said:
Yesterday I went ahead and tried to flash the new 2.22.27.08 radio for my mt3g 1.2. I thought I read some posts saying that it is compatible with the mt3g 1.2. after flashing the radio and rebooting, my phone became stuck at the htc magic boot screen.
I no longer am able to enter recovery (home + power) or hboot (vol down + power)
the only thing I can do is access fastboot commands: when I power on the device, at the top of the boot screen is says "fastboot usb"
fastboot devices shows my device but my spl is perfect spl with s=on so I cant flash any img files. Ive tried flashing all the partitions, even with a zip file but I get the same errors, remote: not allow.
I tried installing with RUU and the command "fastboot oem rebootRUU" but the RUU app cannot find the connected usb device.
a lot of posts suggest to make a goldcard and put the SAPPIMG.zip on sdcard and let it fastboot auto load the file, since vol down + power doesnt work for me i thought this wasnt an option.
here is my phone info:
pvt 32a ship s-on g
hboot 1.33.0013
cpld 13
radio 2.22.27.08
anyone have any suggestions?
I would hate if the phone was unrecoverable but it is an old phone, maybe time to upgrade.
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Goldcard method. If you cannot access the bootloader, have no recovery and phone will not start then you just bricked your phone.
Make the goldcard, do a battery pull, put the goldcard in, hold the volume down button, put the battery in and power on the device while holding the volume down button. If it boots to a white screen then your in luck. If not then ask for a new phone for the Holidays.
Binary100100 said:
Goldcard method. If you cannot access the bootloader, have no recovery and phone will not start then you just bricked your phone.
Make the goldcard, do a battery pull, put the goldcard in, hold the volume down button, put the battery in and power on the device while holding the volume down button. If it boots to a white screen then your in luck. If not then ask for a new phone for the Holidays.
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Thank you for the replay. I just made a goldcard and tried your suggestion but didnt work I also tried different combos of battery pull/ vol down + power. no dice. I guess im sol for now.
thanks again for the reply.
EDIT: haha ya I bricked my phone just in time for the holidays! Cant complain when getting a new phone I guess. I might pick up a jtag kit and try to unbrick the 1.2, just for fun though

Is this HTC Magic bricked?

Hello,
I recently tried to update the spl/radio to use a new rom on my HTC Magic 32A and after updating the spl the phone just hangs on the "HTC Magic" screen. Fastboot or Recovery wont start if I hold the buttons. Was just wondering if it is bricked or if it is possible to fix via cmd or so? I read alittle on jtag but I think if it came down to that Ill just buy a new phone cause this phone is not worth that much trouble.
I rooted the phone a year or so ago. First I had cyanogen but they dropped support so I switched too gingeryoshi but the wifi stopped working. It still connected to tmobile hotspot but I couldnt tether or connect to my wifi. So I thought of putting on Froyodragon. I updated too HBOOT-1.76.2007 but then it just hanged on reboot.
Thanks for any input.
Turn phone off (if you have bootloop then remove battery and place it back after 10-20 sec)
Turn on by pressing Back + Power - it's fastboot-mode
Write first 5 rows of info (all symbols are important)
If you do not have Android Sdk Tools configured - do it
Additionaly search for fastboot.exe - this utility can be absent from sdk tools
Connect phone to pc when it in fastboot-mode
Run
Code:
fastboot getvar cid
fastboot getvar cidnum
fastboot getvar version-main
Sent from my A7-040 using Tapatalk
hello,
I tired back+power, power+vol down, and power+home, they all just sit at the "HTC Magic" screen.
Did you remove battery before try and placed it back? If yes and any combination did not help -> 'brick'. Only JTAG can help.
What ROM did you have before?
And what ROM did you update?
There are no bricked phones when 32A phone updating with 32A official ROM. I don'y understand how you bricked your device.
Even if hboot updated but radio did not - there are some chances to restore...
Tell us how it happened?
same problem
Sir im also facing the same problem like this person is facing:
I guess that I've bricked my HTC magic phone. actually it was working fine but after when i flash Hboot file named (ISO-8859-1__STOCK-HBOOT) on it.
my device stop functioning not any key is working phone its not coming up in hboot loader screen by pressing vol down key+power key, not even in recovery mode. by pressing home key+ power key.
but if i press vol down+power key its not showing any hboot loader screen but if i use command prompt after that and use fastboot devices command its shows the device like in machine language
just like this:
D:\adb\tools>fastboot devices
?╞ñ?¿╥§?4:¶♫ fastboot
here are the details of my mobile. is there any way to fix this issue?
HT03VPB03044
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013
CPLD-13
RADIO-2.22.28.25
OCT 21 2009, 22:33:27
android 2.2.1
baseband version
62.50sj.20.17u_2.22.28.25
kernal version
2.6.32.9-g94b855e
[email protected] #1
buid number
3.56.531.1 CL300801 realase-keys
Sir i've also created gold card on my htc magic phone when it was working properly i've the image of gold card and the same card 512MB micro SD card which i used to create the gold card before but i dont know how it will work on the phone as it is not going into bool loader or in recovery mode.
please help me. i heard that if i got correct RUU file for this device i can troubleshoot the problem but in stock rom no any RUU file is working on it.
I've already tried there RUU ROM on this device:
RUU_Sapphire_T-Mobile_US_2.10.531.3_release_signed_NoDriver
RUU_Sapphire_T-Mobile_US_2.10.531.4_release_signed_NoDriver
RUU_Sapphire_T-Mobile_US_3.12.531.1_FRG83D_release_signed
RUU_Sapphire_TMUS_1.94.531.1_DMD6_release_signed_N oDriver
i request all the XDA member to help and troubleshoot this problem.
regards
Sandeep Deol
5[Strogino] said:
Did you remove battery before try and placed it back? If yes and any combination did not help -> 'brick'. Only JTAG can help.
What ROM did you have before?
And what ROM did you update?
There are no bricked phones when 32A phone updating with 32A official ROM. I don'y understand how you bricked your device.
Even if hboot updated but radio did not - there are some chances to restore...
Tell us how it happened?
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Yes I removed the battery (only way i could turn it off). I stated most of this info in the first post but Ill try and state specifically what versions I had. When I first rooted I used Cyanogen Rom. It worked fine but they dropped support so I switched too Gingeryoshi. I dont remember what version. I tried to update it too 1.5 first but it didnt work but fastboot and recovery still worked so I decided to switch to a new rom instead and tried Froyodragon but it needed radio 6.35.16.19 and HBOOT-1.76.2007. So I wiped it then I did the HBOOT-1.76.2007 and after installing and rebooting is when it stopped working.
Crap, I just did this too... got a yellow arrow coming from a box onto an Android. I flashed a mismatched 6.35 radio (I guess?).
Can't boot to fastboot--can only boot to blue light mode (trackball+power) and phone will charge if connected by USB--but is never recognized by ADB or fastboot.
jmdsdf said:
Crap, I just did this too... got a yellow arrow coming from a box onto an Android. I flashed a mismatched 6.35 radio (I guess?).
Can't boot to fastboot--can only boot to blue light mode (trackball+power) and phone will charge if connected by USB--but is never recognized by ADB or fastboot.
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Wait 5-10 minutes, "yellow arrow coming from box" equals unpack and flash. Phone should finish this process.
Try to load into hboot-mode: turn phone off (remove battery and place it back if bootlooping), then turn on by pressing Volumedown + power
In this mode you can flash full official rom in sappimg.zip format (or sappimg.nbh if you have 32b magic)
If phone doesn't load into any mode (except trackball + power) - then you have brick and only jtag can help.
Sent from my A7-040 using Tapatalk
But, it goes to a black screen about ten seconds after that.. sadly I think it needs to be jtagged and i will just give it away for parts.
I also tried the sapphire image trick, no luck.
those all sound like bricks..
problem with 32b - looping after rom.
Believe me, I tried a lot here and on google before posting here.
I tried to install a ROM on my htc magic 32b and certainly was not what I should.
Information from my device:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
Hboot-1.33.0013 (SAPP30000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.28.25
OCT 21 2009,22:33:27
I've read very, very much. I read that I have to change the SHIP for ENG.
Also read about ruu, but I found a will for my device, nor know how to run.
First of all, my phone is only on LOOP. I can normally access the fastboot USB.
But does not accept commands, I believe it because of S-ON.
I do not know how to install an img it to get S-OFF.
Could someone help me get back my life device?
Thank you and with the help of google translator.
huahua!!!!
No one post about my problem...

[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?

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