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stuck in recovery mode

Hi!
I ve a problem with my HTC Magic.
This afternoon i want to flash a net ROM on my phone. But i wanted to crate a backup first, so i booted the amonra 1.2.3 recovery image with fastboot boot recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H and every thing worked fine , created a back up with nandroid. then i restarted the phone after then i restated it. But id doesent start normaly. It shows th HTC Magic logan then a shot black and the again the logo. After that a warning sign is showed(I figures out that this is the recovery mode). if i restart the phone i always come to the recovery mode. No Fastboot or other.
When i select apply updete.zip in recovery mode i only get the message: no sginature ,verification failed and Cant read MISC(no space left). and thats it.
I have a HTC Magic 32A the SPL was that one with the 09 in the end.
So i have no idea what gone worng and if i can revover my phone.
Can anyone help me??
dekilla

You should be most likely able to recover you phone.
If you take the battery out, then insert it again, then press the back-button and the call-end-button, it won't boot to fastboot? Maybe try volume down + power on, too? It sounds pretty weird...
Florian

Hi
I ve tried fastboot,hboot but nothing happend
Is there any update.zip which could work? I think this is my only chance.
bernd

Help needed on reformat and OTA upgrade.

Hi, I have been lurking around the forum for quite some time, trying to understand the whole root process. But before I can do that, I wanted to try the Legend 2.2 update.
So I wanted to hard reset the phone then download the OTA upgrade. However, doing the volume down + power button combo resulted to this boot info: (couldn't post a picture)
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Legend Unknown Ship S-ON
HBOOT - 0.43.0001
MICRIO-0816
Touch Panel - SYN07_0103
Radio - 7.05.35.26L
Feb 18 2010, 16:29:10
HBOOT
<vol up> etc etc..
Fastboot
Recovery
Clear storage
Simlock
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I now enter recovery and an image of a phone appears with what looks like a red hazard icon (with an exclamation point in the middle). That's the best description I could make since I can't upload photos yet.
It's just stuck there on that icon. I tried plugging in the device but nothing happens. I don't even know what it means. Removing the battery allows the phone to proceed booting as usual.
Then I tried doing the OTA upgrade without a hard reset. I downloaded it, then it automatically backups the data, restarts the phone and installs the upgrade... however, up to around 30% of the progress bar, the upgrade stops and the same phone image with hazard icon shows up. It has been doing this even before the 2.2 upgrade was available.
Basically I'm stuck with a phone that I can't reformat nor upgrade. Help please? I'm scared to root this phone if I can't do a simple reset.

Hi there, you're not stuck!
When you enter recovery, just press VolumeUp + PWR, that will bring you to another screen when you can do a wipe
At least I think so, I have a different recovery image installed...
If you can't do it from there, there is a menu item in the phone menu under settings / memory...

Did I brick it? Nexus

Ok I'm kinda a newbie...I've searched the forums and can't find my solution.
So I installed CM 7 on my nexus one from Rom manager. Everything is ok...so I decide to put google add ons ( froyo). This is what happens now... I get the Cyan logo animation , then the green google sign up logo then the phone reloops to the cyan logo and then the google sign in logo...I cant access nothing on my phone.
I boot into recovery ( power +trackball) , go to recovery option click on power and then I see the X (phone vibrates ) then I get a black screen...and nothing happens.
I did do 2 working rom recoveries from clockwork...I just cannot access them to recover my old working images....Can someone help or did I brick a new phone...
Thanks

just like basketball.......... brick

Maybe try to push a new recovery through ADB?

ok how to do that ADB?
What is ADB ...can someone please help
Thanks

You shouldn't be flashing pre-beta firmwares if you don't know how to use adb.
Use Google or the forum search to find out all about adb.
Also, if the phone is booting as far as the Cyanogen logo, then it's not even remotely "bricked", it does sound like you've managed to stuff up the recovery though, probably ROM Manager's fault, it has a habit of breaking things horribly.
Boot into fastboot and flash the latest Amon Ra recovery, then boot into recovery, do a full data wipe and flash a standard firmware back on.

Yep it's dead, send it to me because I'm building a house.

OK so I fastboot with sdk ...
Because the recovery option just send me to the dreaded X and then nothing

Not bricked. The best people to help you through it the fastest are on the Cyanogen Mod IRC Chat. Make a screenname and one of our amazing Devs will help you though the crisis. Been there, and you'll love them for it.

When I was a newbie in xda, I made sure to research thoroughly before blindly doing weird kinky stuff to my phone.
The xda wiki was one place that helped me in my dark noobish times.
Do yourself a favor and read up the wiki, you might find your answer there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Nexus_One.png

get yourself the android SDK, run a cmd window, while your phone is bootlooping;
type adb remount
you should get a message "remount successful"
now type; adb shell rm /system/app/NetworkLocation.apk
and also; adb shell rm /system/app/OneTimeInitializer.apk
your phone should now boot normally

thanks
I.ll try it when i come back from work
But it isn't bootlooping persay...I get the cyan guy and the cm7 logo screen (the arrow turns for awhile...then I get the Green Android guy and it says click to start...I can't even click ...the blue cyan screen starts ...then the green guy ...this loops for ever.
In bootloader mode ( power+trackball) when I try to recover...the the google X logo appears the phone shakes then black screen....nothing happens.
I think that either clockwork recovery is broken (because I saved 3 back-ups from rom manager)...or it works but I cant see screen (SLCD)...Anyway, is there a way to just flash en existing image on my sd card.....
Also my phone was soft rooted (androot) I don't have the big unlocked under the x...will this prevent me from using fast boot to flash???
Thanks guys I know I'm a newbie...Ive read alot...I'm sorry if I offend some of you guys...Thanks for the help....

Sounds like your bootloader is still locked... in that case, fastboot will not work for your phone.
Still read the section on flashing recovery in the xda wiki. There's a section on how to flash a recovery without fastboot but adb.

adB
Ok isn't ADB a driver for usb ...
Anyone know a step by step for morons ( like me)
That have a locked phone, a corrupted bootloader ( or recovery not working) and modified roms on the sd card...
Can i just erase the sd ( put stock image on it)
I will try this at 2pm I must go to work....thanks for the help

Yes.
Download: http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Pas...le_WWE_2.16.1700.1_FRG33_MFG_Shipment_ROM.zip
Unzip it, and rename the extracted file passimg.zip
Place it on the root of your SD card and power the phone on holding Vol-
It will find the file and ask if you want to install, pick yes.

Ok
Ok heres what I did so far:
I used an empty sd card ( formated it and put followed what you said: put renamed image oanto sd card)
I power with the volume, here is what happens:
I click on bootloader
I get : recovery option , click the X comes back on shaked and then I get a black screen
Ive waited for 10 minutes nothing
Also: when I click on boot loader, I see ( in green) it saying wrong image, wrong something else.....
Can someone telle what I did wrong
Thanks

Did you extract the zip from within the zip, as instructed?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

ok heres something else I tried:
Went to the original sd card with everything on it) went to the clockwork folder) went to an old back up folder ( copy pasted everything onto the empty sd card) put the sd card into the phone , press power + volume - , get the green guys with skateboards , click onto boot loader ( see the same errors that roll down quickly, funny why they fly down so fast...but I think it says bad image or wrong image or time ) . Anyway, still same thing when I press recover ( with power button) the X shows up , the phones vibrates and then the black screen.
I i do a normal power on ....still get the CM7 boot guy , the arrow that turns around him a few times , then the green guy that ask you to click on him, then you can't even click on him...the CM7 boot guy starts all over (this loops til infinity)
Just so you guys know, the phone was rooted with androot...so I don't know it its still rooted since the software dowsn't work....
Any ideas guys...thanks...
I will try the adb method late tonight...but Im not sure its works if the phone is soft rooted...
Thanks

Did you really rename the passimg.zip correctly? The bootloader should automatically detect the file and prompt you if u want to update. If it did not detect it, it could be the wrong file u renamed.
Remember that once you boot into bootloader using the vol down button, you have to wait for it to detect the passimg.zip before doing anything else.
And fastboot will not work on your phone. You need the roundabout method to flash recovery using cmd.

Ok heres what I did:
1-I download the link Rusty! supplied
2-I extract using winrar to the empty sd card ( a 2 gig card that has been formated using windows format tool to fat 32)..not the one that came with the phone)
3-Once the file in on the sd card, I rename is ( copy paste) exactly passimg.zip
4-I ask windows to eject
5-I insert the card
6-I press the power and volume down
7-I wait , so that fastboot is read.
8-I select fastboot wait a few seconds , select Fastboot ( is green letters) with the power button, it changes to bootloader( green letters), I see green text roll down( says ' i try to see, wrong....something)
9- nothing happens
10-I click recovery, the phone vibrates, get the X, phone goes black
****I tried reading that roll down message : wrong image is there with some other stuff
These are the steps...nothing
Thanks for the help

More info (when I boot in skateboard mode):
nexusone PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.35.0017
MICROP-0c15
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0103
my radio is : 5.12.00.08
June 14 2010,12:02:27
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIMLOCK
Its also a videotron phone....I did modify the radio from original stock
Dunno if this can help
Thanks

[Q] my htc magic keeps rebooting after flashing an old recovery image

Hi
I had a problem with my htc magic after trying to flash the RA-sapphire-v1.0.0 recovery image into the phone. Before the problem occurred I rooted my phone and flashed RA-sapphire-v1.6.5, but because I had an issue with it I tried to flash an old version " RA-sapphire-v1.0.0".
Now my phone keeps rebooting endlessly and I can not access recovery mode, fastboot or anything else?
Is it bricked? Can I fix this issue?
The phone is 32A
Radio is 6.35 (I can not access fastboot so this is from my memory)

If you have no access to fastboot nor recovery, then you are pretty bricked!!!

Are you sure you can't get into fastboot? Pull the batter, press and hold down the back button, and put the battery back in. See if it goes into fastboot then. Do the same thing again, but holding the home button instead to see if you can get into recovery. I dunno why you used an old one and not the new one.

DonJuan692006 said:
Are you sure you can't get into fastboot? Pull the batter, press and hold down the back button, and put the battery back in. See if it goes into fastboot then. Do the same thing again, but holding the home button instead to see if you can get into recovery. I dunno why you used an old one and not the new one.
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I tried both method and it did not work. The phone is still rebooting endlessly. I used the old recovery since the new one kept restarting the phone to the actual system after I go into recovery mode after 2-3 seconds.

1.6.5 isn't the new one. The newest version is 1.7.0. Well if that didn't work, then year your bricked.

so is there anything i can do to fix it?

JTAG is your only option.

Where are you from ?

usernome said:
Where are you from ?
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I am from Australia

I have HTC Magic Vodafone (32B) and have a similar issue with phone in a reboot loop, however, i can get into fastboot but not sure what next to do. Is there a guide anywhere on what to recover my phone.

Depends, what is your current fastboot information?

Not sure what info you want from Fastboot screen so this is everything i can see
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.28.25
Oct 21 2009,22:33:27
Is this the right kind of information?

Two options. Downgrade to 1.5, then update to 1.6, then root, flash a custom ROM, reinstall the 1.33.0013 SPL and 2.22.28.25 radio, and then flash a new custom ROM. Optionally, you can downgrade to 1.5 and upgrade back up to 2.2.1. Either way just let me know and I can assist.

Thanks for you help with regards to the approach, is one easier than the other? If they are both roughly the same then would go for the Downgrade to 1.5 and upgrade back up to 2.2.1. route as it may be easier to sell in a few weeks when the Galaxy S2 out.

So, here we go, please read through all the steps before starting and then reading each step as you go along:
1. Go here and download "sappimg.nbh" and "update1-5.zip".
2. Put all of them on your SD card. I would suggest downloading to a folder on your computer, then copying them over. Have had issues in the pass with people downloading files directly to their SD card and it corrupting the file.
3. With the phone turn off and the SD card in it, boot holding (volume down+power) to get into hboot. The phone should detect the sappimg.nbh, check the file (you'll see a progress bar in the upper right-hand corner), and then ask you to hit "ACTION" to continue. (ACTION being pressing the trackball)
4. The phone will start flashing the different parts of the phones partitions. You'll see the progress bar in the upper right-hand corner a few more times, then after about 5 minutes, it'll ask you to hit "ACTION" again to reboot.
5. Let the phone boot all the way up (this may take a few minutes) and then turn it off without signing in.
NOTE: Unless you need the phone to access the SD card from the computer, in that case sign in and do the next step.
6. Access the SD card, find "update1.zip" and rename it to "update.zip".
7. With the phone off turn it back on by holding (home+power) to get into recovery. You'll see a triangle with an ! in it, press (home+power) again to bring up the menu.
8. Using the trackball, scroll to the "wipe data/factory reset" option and press the trackball to select it. After it completes, scroll to "apply update.zip from SD card" and select it. It should pickup the update file on the SD card and flash it, then reboot.
9. When you get to the login screen again, turn the phone off.
Note: Again, as before, you can optionally login to get into the ROM for access to the SD card from your computer.
10. Repeat steps 6-9 for the "update2-update5.zip" files. You will need to remove the old "update.zip" before renaming the next update file. When you get to the login screen the last time (after flashing "update5.zip") you can sign in and use the phone.

Thanks for the guide but I've hit a problem. The phone recognise the sappimg.nbh and starts to flash itself but when then a message:
model ID incorrect!
Update Fail!
appears and the flash has failed. I've tried this a few times now downloading the file again, formating the SD card etc but to no avail. Do you have any suggestion on how to get round this issue?

Geffen22 said:
Thanks for the guide but I've hit a problem. The phone recognise the sappimg.nbh and starts to flash itself but when then a message:
model ID incorrect!
Update Fail!
appears and the flash has failed. I've tried this a few times now downloading the file again, formating the SD card etc but to no avail. Do you have any suggestion on how to get round this issue?
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Crap gave you the wrong sappimg. What country did you get the phone from?
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk

I got phone from Vodafone in the UK.

Geffen22 said:
I got phone from Vodafone in the UK.
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Need the specific country.

United Kingdom or England to be exact.

Help my htc magic 32a got black screen after updated

Hi please I need help,this is my story I bought htc magic which is running 2.2.1,so I wanted to updated it to 2.3,so what I did is I rooted it installed Recovery manager from the store then flash clockwork recovery,but the problem is I can't get in to recovery using Home + On buttun,but when ever I want to enter recovery I have to on the phone then goto rom mnager from there I select boot recovery,so I managed backup my rom,then I downloaded ginger yoshi Rom then wipe factory reset,wipe caches then installed Rom,then Reboot,so after reboot my phone hang on booting so I have no option,because I can't enter recovery mode,I can only enter bootloader,So I decided to download Ruu_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_2.17.14.01.2_HTC_PTG_test_signed_Nodriver,then I run it on my system which I'm running window 8 64bit,then put my phone in bootloader then I press back key and my pc recognize the phone,and on the phone it showed fastboot usb,then I agreed and the flashing begin,so during the flashing my phone showed some like 3 files fail to installed all I can remember is system and booting failed to installed,so after that I removed my phone from the system the remove my battery put it back try to on it,but the phone refuse to on try to enter bootloader but it refused just black screen,and now when I plug it in system it showed red light charging and it make sound then showed Usb device not recognized,and when I press on buttun with trackpad it showed blue led light,
Please someone help me fix my phone please,
Before it happen my phone is htc magic 32a, S-OFF and Sapp500,Sorry for my bad English,Thanks

JTAG
JTAG BOX , which is very expensive way to fix , so now its worth or not

i fixed it using jtag box 1 month ago