I have been playing around with my old HTC magic trying to root and install custom roms. I managed to root it (Goldcard Method).
I then could not get any ROMs to load. They would all hang on the Vodafone splash screen.
This is what I had written down from bootloader:
Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009
CPLD-10
RADIO-3.22.20.17
May 8 2009.....
I thought that the radio should of been 2.22.19.26i (European 32B Magics) so I downloaded that image, and flashed the radio.
And then I bricked it!
When I turn it on it just shows the Vodafone splash screen, Cannot boot into custom recovery, no bootloader.
Can anyone help???
more info if it means anything:
The only thing I can get it to do is when i press the trackball and power, the blue LED turns on with a black screen.
When I plug it in turned off, the orange charging led turns on.
I managed to get android 1.5 with root before breaking it.
If you have the skills/tools you can fix it with JTAG. Otherwise, like you said, its a brick
mmm, I'm going to give JTAG a attempt. Got nothing to lose...
Anyone had any experience with unbricking with JTAG and can offer any advise?
Thanks
Related
Hi,
I got a Vodafone Magic (UK).
It was on Android 1.6, so I reverted it back to 1.5 using the .zip file on theunlockr's site (After trying a failing at using eMagi's/Neoblade's .nbh file). I then tried to use Recovery Flasher to flash a new recovery, yet everytime I tried to flash it, I would only get a red vodafone screen where my recovery screen should be. So then I checked the fast-boot screen where it said all the details for my phone. And it read Sapphire PVT 32B HIP S-ON H which as you all know is wrong as (as far as I know) all 32B magic's should be G.
It was definetely a 'G' before yet must of somehow changed when reverting to android 1.5.
So after failing flashing a new recovery (from Recovery flasher/ Terminal Emulator/ Fastboot) I tried 'fastboot boot <amon ra recovery image>.img' - H version and sure enough it booted.
So my problem is that I know i've got a 32B handset which thinks its 32a.
(BTW I am in the process of rooting). How do you guys think I should proceed? Also can you tell me what precautions to take to make sure I don't brick my phone?
Thanks guys!
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Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-3.22.20.17
MAY 8 2009,21:02:32
Someone help please!
Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to general
Radio ?
I think your problem is due to your 3.x radio.
Try to flash a 2.x radio, either 2.22.19.26I you can find in HTC's developer website, or the newer 2.22.23.02 radio you can find in the G1 dev forum.
DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK RADIO COMPATIBILITY WITH YOUR HBOOT
To get your Magic fully 32B - you must flash official RUU for 32B Magics ... or ...
this nbh for UK Vodafone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4884067&postcount=1
p.s. nbh for UK, so you probably need create goldcard as you have Vodafone NZ
Goldcard avoids Customer ID check
I was looking for sense roms for my mytouch 3g 1.2 and found one that required the radio to be updated to 6.35 ( i double and triple checked to make sure the steps and procedures were specifically for the mytouch with the 32a board ) but after I followed the directions, my phone became unresponsive. It stayed at the HTC Magic screen for about an hour before I turned my phone off and back on again to undo what I had done ( using previous experience from a screw-up I did several months back...basically using the goldcard method to re-root my phone as if it were "new" again ). My problem is, now it's more unresponsive than it was before. it pauses at system - unzipping every time i try to use hboot to load the sappimg.zip. right now my current stats are:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP31000)
CPLD-13
RADIO-3.22.20.17
May 8 2009,21:02:32
and loads up a red vodafone bootscreen. i honestly think my problem was accidentally pressing the wrong link on Amon_RA's thread about perfected SPL, and i didn't realize it until it was too late... I cannot flash anything thru fastboot, hboot basically stops at system - unzipping when trying to run the sappimg.zip, and "fastboot boot recovery.img" loads the red vodafone screen, but doesn't flash boot the recovery so i can try and fix it with recovery...
all i need to know is if it's entirely bricked, or if i can still save it, and if so, a little nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated...i have been searching google, xda-developers, cyanogenmod, androidforums, etc. for the past 3 days and cannot, for the life of me, find out how to fix the issue...
EDIT: as always, when i ask for help, i end up fixing it somehow...
Hi, unfortunately I will have to ask for help as I can't find a solution myself.
Until today i ran CyanogenMod 6.1 on my Vodafone HTC Magic and wanted to flash GingerYoshi on it.
Therefore I followed this guide to install a new radio and hboot which seemed to be necessary for the GingerYoshi Rom. According to the guide I used the RA-Recovery 1.7 to flash the SuperWipe_v2.zip, rebooted into RA-Recovery again, flashed the radio.zip, rebooted ... into nothing but the vodafone Logo on red background. At the first boot it showed a little box with an arrow pointing to an Android-Robot and then it stuck at the vodafone screen.
I can't get into fastboot (Back + Power) or any other mode (Volume Down + Power) it only boots to the red vodafone screen. The only action I can provoke is a black screen and a blue led when pressing the trackball during power up.
Any ideas what to do now? Did I really screw my telephone?
Original Rominfo:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Apr 9 2009,23:30:40
Yes you did... the reason is simple.
When you flash a radio using the custom recovery, you have to wait like 2 min for it finish. It's normal that it will reboot a couple of times while it's flashing, and it's also normal to see a different picture for a while....
You ( this what I believe) just did not wait long enough for it to finish and tried to push a button or take out the battery...
So, yes, you are bricked!
Thats a shame...but when flashing radio and spl, we have to double our attention.
it happens bro, try pull out the batery and wait till tomorrow, and try again, if it doesnt work, it seem you have briked
Thank you for your answers - even though they aren't very encouraging
But mumilover might be right, although I waited quite some time before I started to panic, I obviously acted to early an interrupted the flashing process.
Does anyone know a German shop which can unbrick the device? Otherwise I will have to buy a new phone. In the meantime I will stick to my good old Siemens S45
UPDATED!!!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So I now have HBOOT!!! yay I missed those skateboarding androids
I want to be very careful from here on, so with hboot working is there anything I can do to get my phone back?
how I got hboot back:
I took the rom file out of a Australian RUU
replaced the radio with the one I currently have 3.22.20.17
replaced the hboot with a compatible one ( or so I thought )
and ran the mod'd RUU, which allowed it to get past the radio installation and instal new hboot
I am of course still semi bricked as I get a boot-loop ( sits at HTC magic screen for a few minutes than reboots )
and I still dont have access to recovery
I am still unrooted
and I still have a mismatched hboot/radio ( lol I ment to flash 1.33.0010H but I ended up flashing 1.76.0010H ) DOH!
so here I am with:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.76.0010 (sapp50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
jan 14 2010, 00:14:58
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So I think I may have bricked my magic
from everything I've read, I cant seem to find a working fix for my problem.
I was originally on CM6 and decided I wanted a sense rom so I installed sfm 1.0
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025330
after running it for a bit I realized I couldn't get data access and found out I didn't upgrade my radio to 6.35.16.19
I also discovered for some reason I lost root.
I did something stupid without researching I went to the tutorial I used to originally root my phone.
http://greatbigdog01.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/new-shorter-rogers-magicmagic-rooting-guide/
at step 4 while installing the RUU it got stuck installing the radio and sat at 36% so like an idiot I pulled the battery.
now I am at a RUU USB screen
there is a picture of a microchip with a red x through it at the bottom
I have no recovery
I can run fastboot
I can only run adb shell after using "fastboot oem boot" which loads SFM 1.0
Every RUU Ive tried stalls installing the radio
everything I've tried to get root back fails
everything Ive tried to get recovery fails
any help on this would be immensely appreciated
Thanks
Dan
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.76.0008 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-2
RADIO-3.22.20.17
Nov 3 2009, 15:56:29
This may just totally frag my phone but I was wondering if this might work.
I've read a few posts of people fixing there 32b that was flashed using a 32a rom by flashing another 32a rom ( usually the Arabic one for some reason ) which gets them up and running to switch back over to 32b
would flashing a 32b rom just be a very very bad idea?
also I have access to another magic, could I use that in anyway to get me going.
just spit-balling ideas, dont really know enough to proceed without some advice.
Wow!! If Ive stumped the genius's here, I must really be screwed...
I tried a séance, and a little bit of black magik, in hopes of bring my phone back to life, unfortunately it didn't work.
any other idea's?
I'm pretty sure I can correct your issue with JTAG. PM me if you are interested in this as well as any others that see this.
Some new progress, read original post for update.
I tried something totally crazy without knowing what it would do, but it got me hboot back....lol
Just need to know where to go from here!
Thanks
Dan
Sapphire pvt 32a ship s -on h
hboot-1.76.0009 (sapp10000)
cpld-12
radio- 6.35.08.29
ruu
i tried with different original roms (stock roms) but in vain dont know from which country it belongs or which is the proper stock rom for it
i also tried with back + power button and volume down + power button
always comes above scene
can someone find with sn: Ht96rkf02355
plz tell some solution
thanx in advance
make sure your USB cable is working properly, secondly if you where attempting to flash a recovery (it happen with me) sometime recovery won't get flashed properly so phone stuck at splash screen (mytouch logo in your case it might be HTC) then at some corner of screen you get "RUU Mode" in red font, if it is so... then you might need this link, this link contain various list of RUU for 32a board and 32b board. Read carefully inside the link before you proceed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659403
and also try to flash using goldcard
Good Luck
white screen with green writing shows the following:
sapphire pvt32A ship s-off H
Hboot 1.76.0010 (sapp*****)
cpld -10
radio - 6.35.10.18
Jan 14 2010
RUU or (RUU USB if plugged into computer)
only have access to ruu or ruu usb
fastboot can see device but always fails
when try to flash anything
roms fail at 81% when trying to unzip system.img with rom utility