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How it works? One click root + SPL (UK Vodafone 32B) - Could help out others.

Hi All,
This forum is a great resource of knowledge and I have spent many an hour reading through the rooting process on the magic, however I just wanted to confirm my understanding before starting - please correct me if I am wrong.
Firstly I watched this video: http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/29/how-to-root-the-htc-magic-in-one-click/
Showing me the process, and using FlashRec program is exploits a bluetooth bug and changes the recovery menu to amons.
At this stage we could reboot the phone and my stock android build will boot, and then re-replace the recovery menu back to default (as it does this every boot).
So we could re-exec the FlashRec to copy on amons recovery menu but this time load a custom rom like cyanogens. This then patches the exploit to stop other programs using it against us.
If we wanted to then go back to stock we could reboot the recovery menu (amons) and use nandroid recover to load up our backed stock rom, which at boot will then reset the recovery back to stock also.
Does this sound correct to everyone? My only question and confusion comes with the SPL. Is this touched at all in the rooting/loading custom rom process (when using the one-click rooting technique)? I have read restoring the SPL back to stock isnt that simple, but this might not even apply to me.
Thanks in advance, oh clever ones

Rooting Mytouch3g 32b(t-mobile/voda) Without goldcard

Guide To rooting mytouch 3g 32b (Even if you have 1.6 update)
Propz to:Amon_RA, andreev2001, Cyanogen, and any one else sources I used
Ok after Searching the forums and finding all types of ways to root a Mytouch and having some/no luck I decided
to created a thread that goes into complete detail(or try to at least) about each step that is guaranteed to work if done correctly.
READ
This guide does not require a goldcard or adb . I am also not responsible for bricked/broken phones. Now since that's out of the way happy rooting!!
IF your phone is currently running 1.5(cupcake) already then skip to step 3
1.First of all we can't really do anything with 1.6 so we must downgrade to 1.5 by downloading this sappimg.nph and installing it
2.Once downloaded put it on your sdcard and reboot and go into hboot mode (Hold END+VOLUME DOWN). Preform the update
3.Once update is COMPLETLY finished and it asks you to reboot. Do so, then load your phone up fully and download this apk here (flashrecovery.apk) then run it.
Skip these steps and go to step 4 if you know how to install a apk
3a.to install this apk you have to enable the install unkown source in your settings. To do this hit menu >Settings>Applications>Unkown Soruces(check this).
3b. After this go to the market and download a app called "Astro" (the description should mention somthing about file manager) or you could use another apk installer but I prefer this one.
4. After installing the apk run it and click on “backup recovery image” let it do what it does then click on “Flash Cyanogen Recovery 1.4″.
5.Once that is done you want to download the SPL by clicking here, then put it on your sdcard. After that download any ROM(If you dont know what a ROM is search, I cant tell you everything ) of your choice and rename it "update.zip" without quotes then place it in your sdcard
6.Reboot your g1 and hold down the "HOME" key and it should bring up the flash image recovery screen. Choose apply any zip from sd and then choose "update.Engineering-SPL-HBOOT-1.33.2005-signed.zip". It finishes almost immediately with message saying successfully flashed(if it doesn't you prolly ate to much chicken ).
7. Then after it is installed select the restart option and then load into fastboot mode (Hold "BACK" arrow key while its restarting). Once fastboot is loaded the SPL info should say HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAPP30000). If it does congrats almost there!!!!! If it doesn't, you did somthing wrong and you need to retrace you're steps.
8.Exit fastboot by hitting the "GREEN" button and before the phone boots up hold the "HOME" button and then go to "apply sdcard:update.zip". Let it install and VOL LA you installed your ROM. Preform a reboot and you will now have a rooted phone with a custom ROM

1) thanks for posting, ive tried to follow other instructions over the past few days to no avail
2) any chance of hosting the sappimg.nph file somehwere else? I cant access rapidshare from my phone. I would greatly appreciate it.

OMG SOOO EASY!!!! Mods should sticky this as the new root / rom upload process
I was running android 1.6 on tmobil mytouch 3g with perfected spl 1.33.2006

@ascis sure ill host the files on my website later (im not @ home right now)
@nonmindo thanks and i hope u had a easy time rooting

@ascis sure ill host the files on my website later (im not @ home right now)
@nonmindo thanks and i hope u had a easy time rooting

Thanks for posting - much appreciated. Can I ask what the benefit of changing the SPL is? Is this required?
My concern is regarding warranty - if I flash a new SPL, it is my understanding that I will not be able to flash my current one back, and hence return the phone to stock if the need arises.

ParanoiaPersonified said:
Can I ask what the benefit of changing the SPL is? Is this required?
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Yes, it is required. You cannot root with the MT3G SPL, so you need to change the SPL.
ParanoiaPersonified said:
My concern is regarding warranty - if I flash a new SPL, it is my understanding that I will not be able to flash my current one back, and hence return the phone to stock if the need arises.
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You can flash it back to the original SPL. You would then be unrooted. Look at Amon_RA's original rooting process with Gold Card. At the bottom, he gives directions on how to return your phone to the unrooted state in case you need to do that.

Thanks, I thought with one-click-root, once you'd got the recovery rom flashed, you were done - that you had root and could flash what you liked.
For the record, I'm Voda 32B, but have perfected SPL .0007.
[EDIT] Yes, that thread has a file to return to stock, but only for MT3G, which is why I am hesitant to flash a new SPL to my device.
I've still seen in lots of places mind, that suggest this process works without the flashing of a new SPL. Such as: http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2009/08/16/android-rooting-in-1-click-in-progress/
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What happened to the ability to format and
and put partitions from the recovery? I just got another Mytouch and rooted it and no ability to put the partions from the recovery mode? I think I had version 1.2 and now I have 1.4

FenderGuy said:
and put partitions from the recovery? I just got another Mytouch and rooted it and no ability to put the partions from the recovery mode? I think I had version 1.2 and now I have 1.4
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You still can, but not with the recovery img ur using wirch is cyanogen 1.4. Just flash amans new recovery img and you will be able to partion

4. After installing the apk run it and click on “backup recovery image” let it do what it does then click on “Flash Cyanogen Recovery 1.4″.
backup failed:I received that could not run command

cparekh said:
Yes, it is required. You cannot root with the MT3G SPL, so you need to change the SPL.
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I have rooted my myTouch3G with the 1-click method (twice actually, needed to take it to the store), and I have the perfected SPL 1.33.2006.
The main issue with this SPL is that it does not allow you to use fastboot. As far as I know, this has nothing to do with root access.

Can confirm that I've performed the OP's procedure but *without* flashing a new SPL, and everything is working fine.
Now running CyanogenMod 4.2.2 w/ CM Recovery 1.4.

Does anyone have the link to the partitions recovery? I tried to put the Hero recovery on and it does not want to come on and I still show the Cyanogenmod v1.4 +jf....someone help
Also in the top it has Andriod system recovery (2)? I did it twice, how do i take one off?

kryptik06 said:
@ascis sure ill host the files on my website later (im not @ home right now)
@nonmindo thanks and i hope u had a easy time rooting
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Any word on rehosting? I know its a pain but my phone is my only internet connection.

acis said:
Any word on rehosting? I know its a pain but my phone is my only internet connection.
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here you go sorry for the wait
http://www.4shared.com/file/145083511/5ffeb21d/SAPPIMG.html

vodafone htc magic 32b gives error to ur method
error "update fail model id incorrect "
i think this sappimg is for the mytouch and not for htc magic vodafone. so it gives this error.
do you have any solutions for this.
thank you

kryptik06 said:
here you go sorry for the wait
http://www.4shared.com/file/145083511/5ffeb21d/SAPPIMG.html
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Flashed last night, worked perfectly. I had no idea it was going to be this much faster. Thankyou.

I am looking for a rom that has a wifi tether app!
yes I am to the step where u download a rom and I am looking for a rom that has WIFI TETHER for my laptop...
much will be appreciated if u can help=D
- THANKS

well i guess right now i just want my phone rooted...
i just want a rooted phone cuz i can download a wifi app i just need a rooted phone....thanks for your post though....much much much much appreciated...nice and simple...other post or vids ive seen go to far in to detail about it and i forget what step im on .lol
-THANKS

Issues with (re)flashing recovery

Hello all,
Here's what happened - I DL'd the app 'ROM Manager' from the Android Market, installed and allowed this app to be the recovery for my MT3g (non-Fender and non-headphone jack version).
Suffice it to say that the ROM Manager app jacked up my phone... none of their items worked for me. I uninstalled the ROM Manager and now when I tried to go to recovery mode (power + Home) I get nothing but stuck on the MT splash screen
My phone is rooted, originally ran the recovery-RA-dream-v1.6.2 recovery and am currently running a 2.1 ROM.
I have tried to redo the flashrec-1.1.3x and this does not work.
Where do I go from here? I'd like to be able to partition my new 8GB SD card and I can't even do that...
Thanks in advance.

If your phone is rooted, can't you just flash the previous working recovery via fastboot again?
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You should be able to put the recovery image on your sd card and use the flash_image command from the terminal right? thats what i did

Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to general

twigster said:
If your phone is rooted, can't you just flash the previous working recovery via fastboot again?
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Just to let you know, it is possible to root a mytouch without ever having installed an SPL that allows flashing though fastboot. I know from personal experience that the one-click flashrec method does this

adavis159 said:
Just to let you know, it is possible to root a mytouch without ever having installed an SPL that allows flashing though fastboot. I know from personal experience that the one-click flashrec method does this
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I know, thats what I did as well.
But since then, till the date I changed to an engineering SPL, im pretty sure I have always done the subsequent changes to my recovery and spl using fastboot, even after starting with the 0010 SPL (which was at the time a problem SPL) and using flashrec to change the recovery before installing my first non stock rom, being cyanogen 4.x.x, still with the 0010 SPL.
I do know that it only became necessary for me to change my SPL when I wanted to try new radio ROMs (subsequently moved back, and took the chance to move to the 2010 engineering SPL) Before that I was actually too scared to change the SPL because of the brick threats.
I used the cursorsense rom thread instructions on how to change the radio and spl, and it worked great.
Maybe, so far, I have been lucky not to brick my phone. But I have always followed well documented threads on the dev section and so far so good, not excluding one or two times when I thought I had made a nice brick, but just persevered.
Fastboot is your friend, and so is XDA if you are nice to it and the good people who frequent it.
If you look through the threads, and in the development section, there are alot of areas where they give the commands necessary for a variety of actions, and peoples responses on whether it works.
I don't yet believe in the programs created to do everything for you, nothing against the devs, who are all great, just not quite happy enough with comments posted to try them out yet.
(I think my response was little longer than needed) ;-)

Thanks for the info guys...
Problem was I could not boot into fast boot - the recovery was not there.
What I ended up doing was unrooting then rerooting my phone, reloaded my ROM and went on from there...
That might have been the long way of doing things but it all worked out well.

[Q] Problem with RUU_Buzz_Froyo_HTCCN_CHS

I've flash with a froyo rom , and now, I just want to get back to eclair or a baked froyo, that rom is full of problem : not a real android market(htc market) chinese apps, and the worst : I can't use the web browser but I can get my emails.
So if someone got an idea to root that rom or to roll back to a previous version , I'm open to your propositions.
I've already try with unrevoked/an other RUU rom (with and without a goldcard).
I used the froyo rom from shipped-roms

You need to do a full wipe from recovery before flashing the new rom.

thanks for the idea ;
I've tried, but the recovery mod doesnt load properly.
unrevoked shows that somes files aren't found while it's pass from HBOOT to HBOOT USB PLUG , and i'm not able to select recovery with the volume button in the HBOOT menu.

I think you have to wait for alpha rev :/

Same thing happened to me. Now my phone is not syncing Google or facebook contacts. The rom is very much limited. What i foundout was, the ruu update. Has also upgraded the hoot to version .83 from .80. That is the reason other ruus and unrevoke crash. Downgrading the hboot will do the trick. There are methods avaiable for desire but im not. sure they will work with. Wildfire. If the hoot is same for desire and wildfire rename the zip file. As PC49IMG.zip should downgrade the hoot. Any help is apnpreciated.

alparev will not help cos u need root for it, least on website is info Requirements:
The only requirement right now is that the ROM you're running is rooted.

adrienlm said:
unrevoked shows that somes files aren't found while it's pass from HBOOT to HBOOT USB PLUG , and i'm not able to select recovery with the volume button in the HBOOT menu.
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yes, becos adbd is in other place, not in system.img as usual but in boot.img and adbd is different from every other adbd

Stupid Mistake, flashed HERO recovery not HEROC

So I flashed the wrong RA recovery. This is the second time I've done this. I did this a months and months ago. For some reason I still had the hero RA on my computer and when I went to copy it over to flash, I didn't realize it was hero and not heroc. I flashed it and rebooted, and now I'm stuck at the HTC screen. I can't get passed it. Last time I was able to start booting, but it would bootloop. However in the bootloop I had adb shell access. Now I can't get passed the HTC screen. I can't get to fastboot either; when I hold the volume up button and power on it just stays at the HTC screen. I feel really stupid, but I was just flashing back to RA so I could install a sense rom to update my prl.
Anyone have any ideas? I just need to flash back to cm recovery. I'm not s-offed, nor did I use firerats, but I don't think that would help anyway. Anyone have any ideas?

Shelnutt2 said:
I can't get into fastboot though. When I hold the volume up button and power on it just stays at the HTC screen. I feel really stupid, but I was just flashing back to RA so I could install a sense rom to update my prl.
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From powered off state: hold volume DOWN then press power, should boot into hboot, then press volume up for fastboot.
You can always use cwm 2.xxx to flash amend zips, or restore nands from ra, just move the nand from sdcard/nandroid/###/ to sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
Good luck.

il Duce said:
From powered off state: hold volume DOWN then press power, should boot into hboot, then press volume up for fastboot.
You can always use cwm 2.xxx to flash amend zips, or restore nands from ra, just move the nand from sdcard/nandroid/###/ to sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
Good luck.
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It's a no go. Just stays at the black HTC screen. Booting normally, hboot or recovery just gives me the black htc screen. (I know recovery won't work but I was just going through everything)
Yeah I should have just used a cwn 2 recovery. But this was suppose to be a 5 minute process and I already had RA sitting there so I just copied it over with the prl and NFX rom.

I tried to RUU my hero but I can't RUU because I get the usb error 170. I guess not surprising because the phone doesn't boot far enough along.
Anyone have any ideas? Is the phone bricked? There has to be someway to wipe the phone clean. There has to be a way to wipe the flash memory completely and then just start over. Can I bootstrap a hero?

Shelnutt2 said:
I tried to RUU my hero but I can't RUU because I get the usb error 170. I guess not surprising because the phone doesn't boot far enough along.
Anyone have any ideas? Is the phone bricked? There has to be someway to wipe the phone clean. There has to be a way to wipe the flash memory completely and then just start over. Can I bootstrap a hero?
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Tap on duce's avatar he's posted many of links and responses on that particular error.
#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*

laie1472 said:
Tap on duce's avatar he's posted many of links and responses on that particular error.
#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*
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My problem is though that I can't get into hboot, so I can't fastboot. I can't get anywhere past the HTC screen. If I could get into hboot this would be a piece of cake. Anyone whose had the 170 error has at least been able to get into hboot, and that's how they fixed it.

Shelnutt2 said:
My problem is though that I can't get into hboot, so I can't fastboot. I can't get anywhere past the HTC screen. If I could get into hboot this would be a piece of cake. Anyone whose had the 170 error has at least been able to get into hboot, and that's how they fixed it.
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Try google, I'm sure someone has had that.
sent from a series of tubes.

Yeah I'm looking around. I can't find anyone who recovered from this, so my goal right now is to see about two things. 1) Find out if I can somehow access the flash memory and just dd a good image onto it. Or 2) Find a way to make the hero boot of the sdcard so I can put an image on the sdcard and go from there.
Now I've seen a two posts of peopel using an HTC phone and "booting" off of an sdcard. However their posts were not explicit so I don't know if they just hboot'ed and installed from there or if they made the sdcard the rootfs. There was a thread for the G1 but that was for hboot I'm pretty sure.
I'm just posting what I'm looking for incase anyone else runs into this trouble also.

heroC member "uncorrupted" has a dual boot method which allows you boot a ROM from the sd card, if that's what you're looking for.

il Duce said:
heroC member "uncorrupted" has a dual boot method which allows you boot a ROM from the sd card, if that's what you're looking for.
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His method is too high level, from what I can see.
I need to alter the SBL (or little kernel/hboot). I am pretty sure that is where my problem is. From what I can see the hero (like a lot of phones) uses the Little Kernel bootloader. But again I don't know how to flash/dd the flash memory on the phone without atleast hboot working, still trying to see if I can find a way to flash the ram a different method.
Somehow the bootloader (hboot) is messed up I think. I don't know if the recovery effects hboot, but I have a few theories. Either 1) The SPL was modified by flashing RA recovery thus now it fails authentication process and the SPL doesn't actually start. This probably would be do to the slightly different processors the gsm and cdma use[2]. 2) The hboot was slightly modified, and there is a failure there.[3]
The SPL should be able to boot hboot(LK) or recovery directly from what I read. Thus I should be able to get into hboot no matter what.
Now I know the chances of the SPL being messed up is very very slim, but these are the only two things I'm seeing from looking at dev docs.
I think I'm going to take it to sprint and see if I the guy I normally deal with will work with me on getting a hero. I know they are no longer sold, and back when I had a bunch of rumors after they were no longer sold and I was having problems they just swapped my phone for a parts phone they had.
If not then I am going to tear apart the hero and see about switching the GPIO95 pin[1-20] to low and disable secure boot. I'm fairly decent at soldering, so this might be a possibility. Either way I'll post back up with results if I can figure this out.
It just kills me that I've done this before, and fixed it but now it won't even boot. There are only three major differenes this time around, I was coming from cw recover 3, not RA 1.5. I have a AOSP (cyanogenmod 7) rom, not a sense rom, and I flashed the recovery while I was in recovery not while in the rom. The only one of these I think it might be is because I was in the recovery. It might be that since I flashed it in the recovery somehow hboot was messed up and will only boot back into what I was, aka recovery this time. My recovery won't boot because it's wrong -march. Last time I did this I was in the room and thus it tried to boot rom. I don't know, I've got different theories but not answers (yet).
[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/51789612/80-V9038-15-APPLICATION-NOTE-MSM7XXX-QFUSES-AND-SECURITY
[2] http://avs234.net/docs/cpu/qualcomm/80-VM984-1_B_Android_Board_Bringup.pdf
[3] http://tjworld.net/wiki/Android/HTC/Vision/BootProcess

how do you fix this bc i know ill do it eventually