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how do I check if my board is PVT or DVT. holding camera+power just gives logo

I've read tons of supposed n00b guides that just say to boot the phone by pressing camera+power, but when I do that, I just get a logo of a phone with a warning symbol.
Either the walkthroughs are all missing a step (like what to press)
or my phone is jacked up.
also, is there a complete n00b walkthrough?
I got my phone yesterday, and all the walkthroughs seem to skip stuff, or assume you know stuff (like they'll say "boot into the bootloader" but assume you know how to do that. It's probably cause most people here all got the phone when it came out. but there are some new users who just got the phone)
thanks

Are you sure you held in power and cam? Sounds like you held in power and home. Just hold in cam and power until a rainbow screen comes up and it will tell you there. Thats assuming you haven't rooted yet and applied hardspl

thanks. I had a bad camera button. I had to hold it SUPER had. but it worked
it showed this
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Sep 2 2008

Cool glad it worked.

HTC Magic 32A Dead and not turning ON

after flashing ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip and SPL 1.33.2005 i rebooted the bootloader using the code:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
But now my problem is that the Magic will not boot no matter how i try to boot it. i have taken the battery out and put back in several times but still no lock.
When the phone is plugin charger the LED light shows that it is charging but when i try to switch it on, the LED light goes off and nothing happens.
Can someone please help me with this

Actually you've flashed à 32B Radio on your 32A
If you can't boot into fastboot mode (holding back+power), recovery mode (home+power) or hboot mode (vol.down+power) and your phone is not recognized when connected to the PC then there isn't anything you can do, unfortunately. You can't get into any of these modes right?

you are right i cant get into any of those modes.
Is there nothing that can be done? no hard reset or some fix? i dnt mind opening the phone.
is there no parts i can replace to get it to work?

I hate to bring bad news but once you're locked out like this I'm afraid that only HTC can help... I'd try to get the phone replaced if it's under warranty.

the warranty is over.
since i can repair it as i have a few times and i have opened it and changed a few things like the screen.
cant i change the logic board or something or any part to get it working.
i mean cant i replace the radio chip or something like that.
sorry it sounds like i am just carrying on but i believe there is a way to make it work.

What have you repaired for it? (Just curious)
Isn't this a software problem, not a hardware? I don't see how opening it can really help unless you change up everything inside I could be wrong though.. But seeing as how you flashed the incorrect Radio, I don't see how changing that chip could help at all really.
I really don't think there is anything left you can do.. But again, I could be wrong! I don't know everything about the phone lol

i mean if i was to get another board from another htc magic or even buy it as a part and change my one.
or cant those parts be bought?

I dunno if you can buy that or not, but if you were to do that... It sounds almost like getting a whole new phone lol

[Q] Blue LED of death?

So here goes my story (I just hope someone will have enough patience to read all this I have underlined the important bits, if you're not in the mood of reading all this stuff, but could help anyway)..
Bought an used HTC Magic (Vodafone branded) from eBay UK for £175 in absolutely mint condition, no signs, scratches, no nothing. Came unlocked from carrier and with full original package. And everything went perfect for about two weeks..
Then, for no obvious reasons (wasn't dropped, was not exposed to water or something like that - there was done absolutely nothing that could possibly harm the phone physically), phone started doing strange things randomly.. And in about 3 days after it started, those things started occurring so frequently, that they made the phone absolutely unusable.
First of all, phone specs (original), before I started rooting/modding/etc:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
Jul 31 2009, 15:49:25
Firmware Version:
1.6
Baseband Version:
62.50S.20.17U_2.22.19.261
Kernel Version:
2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37
[email protected] #19
Build number:
DRC92
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The OS was 100% stock 1.6 Android, recovery image was also stock, which made me to believe that phone wasn't rooted/modded ever before.
So.. about the problem:
Action: Turning ON the phone, doesn't matter in which mode (normal (POWER), recovery (HOME+POWER) or fastboot (BACK+POWER), possible endings (occur randomly):
Blue LED of death: Screen does not react, no backlight, no vibration (which occurs when boot process starts), blue LED illuminates, nothing else happens. The only way to make it stop - disconnect the battery.
Sub-normal: Backlight turns on, vibrates as normal, but the carrier logo (Vodafone (same as green myTouch screen in MT3G)) is not displayed, as it should be. Randomly, about 3 out of 5 times - after some time OS booting animation appears and the phone boots up, but sometimes not, always stays in this frozen-back-lit screen state.
Boots as normal.
Action: Using the phone:
Touchsreen stops working randomly, but everything else works: I can select things with trackball, do everything, except my touch input isn't registered. To fix this, I have to push POWER button to put it into sleep and wake it up again, then touch input starts working again. (Not software issue, happens with Cyanogen 5, 6 as well as stock 1.5 and 1.6)
Phone freezes randomly, then after about 1-3 minutes reboots automatically, but reboots in one of two modes (see above for explanations):
Blue LED of death.
Sub-normal.
Sometimes works absolutely with no problems, but this has become very rare in the past few days.
Action: Waking the phone up from sleep state:
Hardware keys illuminate, screen does not react at all. Pushing the POWER button again would cause absolutely random things:
Sometimes, the screen turns on, while the key illumination turns off, but everything works as normal, even those keys;
Sometimes, just turns off the illumination on keys and the other time using POWER/MENU button - screen wakes-up just as it should;
Sometimes, after a few more unsuccessful tries to wake the screen, everything freezes and hardware key illumination starts doing a laser show: flashes rapidly and randomly, then stops and phones reboots.
Wakes-up as normal.
To cure this - tried everything from the software side: tried both, stock and custom ROMs, different SPLs, different recovery IMGs, everything - none of this helped.
Tried reaching for support from my local HTC dealer, they refused to fix the phone by warranty, but took it for a paid repair. The repair quote was about £260 (more than the phone itself, which I bought used from eBay) so I refused.
They said that the motherboard of the phone needs to be replaced, but didn't say why. I have my own reasons to believe that the board doesn't need to be replaced and could still be repaired in the worst case.
First of all, they didn't open the phone at all: "VOID" warranty sticker was intact and in same position (as I made some photos of the phone to compare it before and after the service ). Secondly, I gave them phone with non-stock SPL, so they could think that the mainboard was swapped or something, causing all this stuff.
HTC international instructed me to ship the phone back to UK for a warranty-covered service, so that's what I'm doing next, but before that I thought maybe someone had already faced this problem and knows the cause or even a fix for the problem.
Thanks in advance.

First of all wrong section. This should have been started in General.
Secondly, sounds like it is a problem with something on the hardware side. I would get it fixed under the warranty.
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App

DonJuan692006 said:
First of all wrong section. This should have been started in General.
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Sorry, my bad, maybe moderators could move the thread
DonJuan692006 said:
Secondly, sounds like it is a problem with something on the hardware side. I would get it fixed under the warranty.
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Well, yeah, sounds like hardware, but I have some hope, that someone would at least explain me what's exactly wrong, what's causing this, etc, if this is a common fault for this particular HTC Magic 32b Vodafone UK, and is known to this community.
Secondly, it would take at least 2 or 3 weeks to get the phone back, so I'm loosing almost nothing by first asking in the forums and not sending the phone back to UK (btw, I live in Lithuania), in the first place

I'll move to general tonight when I get home.

I think that is your trackball make the problem. Need to be cleaned. I had same problem.
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App

evilwolf said:
I think that is your trackball make the problem. Need to be cleaned. I had same problem.
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App
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Damn, I had the same thought today! How did you clean it? Pop-opened then case and cleaned trackball's socket with some special liquid?

When you are disassemble the phone and when you come to the trackball, you'll see what need you to clean . I have used medical rubbing alcohol. Sorry for my english

evilwolf said:
When you are disassemble the phone and when you come to the trackball, you'll see what need you to clean . I have used medical rubbing alcohol. Sorry for my english
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Thanks a lot! will try

Mytouch 4g Stuck in Hboot/Fastboot

Hey everybody i read other threads before posting this and still wasnt able to really find the answer. I am able to turn the phone on and access fastboot/hboot but cant go any farther i have tried factory data reset and all that good stuff but to no avail. This was a spare phone and i just want to play around with it to see whats wrong with it. Here's the details. any help would be greatly appreciated. Can i still go through HTC and get the 1 year limited warranty because they have that warranty and just play dumb i didn't try to root this phone at all or even touch it being 100% honest with you guys. I have my mytouch 4g which is rooted already and S-OFF just want to use this as a backup and anyone that can help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you guys heres the details
GLACIER PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.86.0000
MICROP-0429
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMc-boot
Sep 27 2010,11:12:59
HBOOT
Ok just great now volume keys are working when they want to work..

Don't mean to bump but I am having the same issue and same results.

Home button could be stuck.

njjfudge said:
Home button could be stuck.
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I'm pretty sure the home button + power would boot it into safe mode. It's more likely the volume rocker is stuck, so every time you boot up it thinks volume down is pressed and goes to hboot.
Try fiddling around with the volume buttons and see if they're sticky or something. You could also try taking the phone apart, and checking it out, but I feel like that's extra work.

[Q] I think I bricked a MyTouch 4G for good :(

I bought two used MyTouch 4G's from a seller on Craigslist for very little money, the phones are cosmetically both a 9.5 out of 10 and only one of the two had issues so I thought I got a good deal. One phone was stuck at the Boot Screen and I had to flash the latest stock ROM in recovery to get it to even boot normally. I had no problems whatsoever with the other phone. I successfully downgraded both from 2.3.4 to 2.2.1 so I could root and flash Virtuous Unity 2.39.0 on them. I tried to temporarily root the "problem phone" with Visionary r14 which did not work right away, the phone kept freezing and rebooting. Eventually it worked and I used gfree to permanently root it. I have S-OFF and boot loader 0.86.0000. After attempting to flash VU 2.39.0 on the phone and some error messages about E: and logs, I tried to restore the PD15IMG.zip for 2.2.1 and I didn't get FAIL-PU error messages, it asked me if I wanted to update and it said "OK" after the steps. The phone worked for a minute or two and then shut itself off. It did it about 5 times.
Now the phone will not even turn on. It doesn't show the orange LED when it is plugged in. When I press Power and Volume down, NADA. The same when I press Power and Volume Up. Nothing. There is no vibration, no attempt to boot up at all. When I plug it into my laptop, it gives me some weird tones, not like when I plug in any other MyTouch 4G and adb doesn't recognize it either. I have tried two different chargers that I know are working and two different batteries that I know are fully charged. The phone is DEAD I think I think I might have bricked it
The working phone has the inferior screen and the bricked phone has the superior screen, I wish it was the other way around If this phone is truly bricked, I'm just going to swap out motherboards, I bought one for $ 25.50 with a broken power button on eBay the other day
Is there anything I can do to "revive" that phone? Any input is greatly appreciated !!

Looks to me u borked the motherboard , I've would sell it the same way you bought it

Flashing PD15IMG, if the phone screws up mid-flash while doing bootloader or radio, will leave your phone dead, as in completely dead, requiring primary (JTAG or other supported) boot to reload SW, at least bootloader and baseband. There are special tools for the task. But I'm not sure you can get a hand on these tools, you'd need to be working for HTC or Qualcomm for that. Never did it and never heard of anyone doing it, so I can't point you further.
Basically, when you power up the phone, your CPU doesn't have anything to load.

When I flashed PD15IMG.zip the last time, everything seemingly went well, all OK's instead of the dreaded "FAIL-PU" all the way up to "Update Complete, Power to Reboot". I believe that this phone has the bad eMMc chip in it, it started screwing up after the 2.3.4 OTA update according to the person who sold me the phones. It was stuck at the MyTouch 4G screen. As much as I really want to get this phone back to life, I believe that the motherboard is truly dead and that there is no way to get it back to life. Unless someone has a magic tool (or wand LOL) to revive it

PCLiteratesJax said:
I bought two used MyTouch 4G's from a seller on Craigslist for very little money, the phones are cosmetically both a 9.5 out of 10 and only one of the two had issues so I thought I got a good deal. One phone was stuck at the Boot Screen and I had to flash the latest stock ROM in recovery to get it to even boot normally. I had no problems whatsoever with the other phone. I successfully downgraded both from 2.3.4 to 2.2.1 so I could root and flash Virtuous Unity 2.39.0 on them. I tried to temporarily root the "problem phone" with Visionary r14 which did not work right away, the phone kept freezing and rebooting. Eventually it worked and I used gfree to permanently root it. I have S-OFF and boot loader 0.86.0000. After attempting to flash VU 2.39.0 on the phone and some error messages about E: and logs, I tried to restore the PD15IMG.zip for 2.2.1 and I didn't get FAIL-PU error messages, it asked me if I wanted to update and it said "OK" after the steps. The phone worked for a minute or two and then shut itself off. It did it about 5 times.
Now the phone will not even turn on. It doesn't show the orange LED when it is plugged in. When I press Power and Volume down, NADA. The same when I press Power and Volume Up. Nothing. There is no vibration, no attempt to boot up at all. When I plug it into my laptop, it gives me some weird tones, not like when I plug in any other MyTouch 4G and adb doesn't recognize it either. I have tried two different chargers that I know are working and two different batteries that I know are fully charged. The phone is DEAD I think I think I might have bricked it
The working phone has the inferior screen and the bricked phone has the superior screen, I wish it was the other way around If this phone is truly bricked, I'm just going to swap out motherboards, I bought one for $ 25.50 with a broken power button on eBay the other day
Is there anything I can do to "revive" that phone? Any input is greatly appreciated !!
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i have the same problem but mine turn on the orange light when connected to charger also a little one in the action button. it happened after unlocking with xtc clip