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[Q] Oooo MAGLDR V1.12! Upgrading etc

MAGLDR V1.12 soon! main features: *various bug-fixes *built-in recovery support.
Now I know there's already a post. But what I'm asking for is if someone can write a brief walk through on upgrading...from old versions or clockwork.
Is it a case that you use the DFT flasher with the latest version to take the phone up to 1.12, then run the clockwork mod again? Or will clockwork not be required any more as it says it has built in recovery support?
Thought I'd get this nailed now before hundreds of questions plague the forum!

Step by step.
0. HardSPL should already be installed
1. Download and flash your carriers LATEST SHIPPED OFFICIAL ROM
2. Download and flash latest MAGLDR
3. Use latest MAGLDR to install Nand ROM of choice.
Very simple.

dharvey4651 said:
Step by step.
0. HardSPL should already be installed
1. Download and flash your carriers LATEST SHIPPED OFFICIAL ROM
2. Download and flash latest MAGLDR
3. Use latest MAGLDR to install Nand ROM of choice.
Very simple.
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you can actually just flash 1.12 over 1.11 without having to go stock > HSPL first, just know that it will erase your current ROM per Cotulla it repartitions so back up your current ROM. If you're using CWM what you'd do is:
1) go into CWM and backup your ROM
2) Flash MAGLDR 1.12
3) Flash CWM
4) enter CWM and restore your backed up ROM.
If you want to do a "clean" install (recommended by some) then do as dharvey recommends, but I'd throw a task29 in there before flashing stock for that extra "clean" feeling.
edit: after re-reading your post, you have a point on maybe CWM being built into 1.12. If this is the case then you would skip step 3 and go from step 2 to accessing the built in CWM and restoring as in step 4.

dharvey4651 said:
Step by step.
0. HardSPL should already be installed
1. Download and flash your carriers LATEST SHIPPED OFFICIAL ROM
2. Download and flash latest MAGLDR
3. Use latest MAGLDR to install Nand ROM of choice.
Very simple.
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As stated, absolutely no reason to do #1.

orangekid said:
If you want to do a "clean" install (recommended by some) then do as dharvey recommends, but I'd throw a task29 in there before flashing stock for that extra "clean" feeling.
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Like TheATHEIST says, I don't think flashing a stock WinMo ROM makes a lot of sense here. Just flashing MAGLDR directly after task29 would be more sensible, I'd think.
Like you say, when you flash some Android ROM MAGLDR will repartition and overwrite the contents of your NAND anyway. No need to fill it with unnecessary WinMo stuff first.

Anyone here have a 1.12 beta?
I think there is no need for this thread. Cotulla should have the full instructions on how to upgrade from 1.10 or 1.11 when he has updated his post to the 1.12 build. It is too early to give update instructions for somthing that is yet to be released!

orangekid said:
you can actually just flash 1.12 over 1.11 without having to go stock > HSPL first, just know that it will erase your current ROM per Cotulla it repartitions so back up your current ROM. If you're using CWM what you'd do is:
1) go into CWM and backup your ROM
2) Flash MAGLDR 1.12
3) Flash CWM
4) enter CWM and restore your backed up ROM.
If you want to do a "clean" install (recommended by some) then do as dharvey recommends, but I'd throw a task29 in there before flashing stock for that extra "clean" feeling.
edit: after re-reading your post, you have a point on maybe CWM being built into 1.12. If this is the case then you would skip step 3 and go from step 2 to accessing the built in CWM and restoring as in step 4.
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Us there a way to update without writing over your current rom? I'm running the topia series
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

dung8604 said:
Us there a way to update without writing over your current rom? I'm running the topia series
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
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Not quite, I`m afraid. As people have mentioned before, you can just back-up everything then restore those back-ups after upgrading. Really isn`t that hard...

jonboyuk said:
MAGLDR V1.12 soon! main features: *various bug-fixes *built-in recovery support.
Now I know there's already a post. But what I'm asking for is if someone can write a brief walk through on upgrading...from old versions or clockwork.
Is it a case that you use the DFT flasher with the latest version to take the phone up to 1.12, then run the clockwork mod again? Or will clockwork not be required any more as it says it has built in recovery support?
Thought I'd get this nailed now before hundreds of questions plague the forum!
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Can MAGLDR be used on Touch HD? or where can I get the source code of MAGLDR?

william.shao said:
Can MAGLDR be used on Touch HD? or where can I get the source code of MAGLDR?
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You would have to talk to cotulla for source code, as its closed source. It's only for hd2.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

But how can I talk to Coulda? I can't access his blog from PRC.

william.shao said:
But how can I talk to Coulda? I can't access his blog from PRC.
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Don't waste your time. He won't give it to you.

meptik said:
Like TheATHEIST says, I don't think flashing a stock WinMo ROM makes a lot of sense here. Just flashing MAGLDR directly after task29 would be more sensible, I'd think.
Like you say, when you flash some Android ROM MAGLDR will repartition and overwrite the contents of your NAND anyway. No need to fill it with unnecessary WinMo stuff first.
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I agree. But I do a mtty- task 28, task 29 first before any new nbh. I also do a task2a but that is a bit much for most here who can't bring it back afterwards. For any interested in undoing task2a-clean let me know - not that hard -really. Damn I hope MAGLDR 1.12 can boot WM6.5 also ! and UBUNTU zImage/rootfs.ext2... Not gonna even mention wp7 although I heard it now has .pvk cracked and is LIVE. As long as bugs fixed be great: but ubuntu, ext2 support for it, and wp6 .nbh rom load from sd would be great. I am using darkstone super-nand with RAM image partition and getting OVER 4000 on QUADRANT with ABSOLUTELTY NO OVERCLOCKING. With over clocking it is crazy. Cant wait for (sorry off topic) super-nand with OC1536-smartass.
Only benefit of flashing stock rom is it does remove hspl and for some reason seems to CLEAN it out - ie: spl, radio, all nand etc. Ive been doing that and task2a AFTER enabling uselast24nand succesfully but had to make MY OWN NBH to get it back and put SPL/HSPL back onto after RSA FAIL = "bricked".
More seriously:
Anyone here know how to make magldr work with zImage and initrd from ubuntu? and mount/shrink/"yaffs" rootfs.ext2 ? maybe using initrd from CLK1.1 .nbh? or even darkstone's initrd and point onward to rootfs?
x

mattfmartin said:
Don't waste your time. He won't give it to you.
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Yep. But #htc-linux is the only place to go for that but is waste: he is BUSY with two major projects . dont think he reads this but DFT do: mwang etc.
ps: darkstone-superNAND-rules: quadrant over4000 with no Overclocking at all and is Killer!
pps: Ubuntu DOES "boot" on Magldr 1.11 and gets upto keyboard and desktop - then freezes - why is this - note: must be in \linux and magldr pointed to it. It stays ALIVE a LOT longer under darkstone's supernand rom obviously due to something with ram partition? Any idea how to make it work? and keep it fully ALIVE?

WP7 over NAND android
i have magldr 1.11 and android, now i want to install wp7 rom over android, is it possible?

vlmdhafiz said:
i have magldr 1.11 and android, now i want to install wp7 rom over android, is it possible?
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Yes. You'll obviously need magldr 1.12, and you will lose Android, but you can flash WP7 directly over it.

I just flashed MAGLDR 1.12 it doesn't seem you need to reinstall android, do i need to reinstall android? Will there be bugs, etc..?

hd2life said:
I just flashed MAGLDR 1.12 it doesn't seem you need to reinstall android, do i need to reinstall android? Will there be bugs, etc..?
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Flashing magldr alone will not do anything to your installed ROM. You don't need to worry about reinstalling Android.

johncmolyneux said:
Yes. You'll obviously need magldr 1.12, and you will lose Android, but you can flash WP7 directly over it.
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how Can he flash when there is no wp7 rom??

The rom came out last night. Search the Windows Phone 7 forums.

do i need a new radio flashing?

Hi guys... i am in the process of installing hardspl on my phone...do i need to flash a new radio aswell????...i currently have
Rom version 3.14.206.1
Radio version 2.15.50.14
spl-3.03.0000
also when i install hard spl do i need to uninstall the current spl or does it get overwritten?????

no. run hspl4, choose 2,08,hspl, all ready for droid. (unless u are wanting to run sd card android, in which case you dont need hspl, only for changing the winmo rom, radio is still fine)

Hi...yes i am wanting to run android from sd card...you said in that case i wont need hard spl??...I am still unable to boot android from sd card... i thought i HAD to have hard spl??
i installed a rom called mccm hd v6..after selecting clrad and hacket i get a white splash screen with green htc logo...nothings happening after that...i also have the latest windows rom aswell...my spl is 3.003...please help guys!!!

no, only for nand android. sd android is running on top of winmo, so doesnt care about the spl.
However, ive never run sd android, im just telling you what i 'think' to be true, it wont hurt to try 2.08.hspl, BUT, since you have a regular hd2, (3.14.206.1 is o2, i think?) then setting 2.08.hspl will cause the 3.14 winmo rom to stop working properly, become unstable and report only 50 or so meg free ram, , , so if you DO want to try setting hspl, you will need to change winmo roms too. (Another reason i believe you can run sd android without 2.08.hspl is because i know people run it alongside 3.14 roms which require 3.03 spl's )
If i were you, id consider looking into the problem android is throwing, , some take aaaaaaaages first boot, for instance, when they build teh data file, and i do mean aaaaages, tens of minutes for some roms,

ok...so how come i am unable to boot to the new android rom?...i did manage to install gingerbread by tytung a couple of weeks ago...was having problems with that...after i uninstalled it i can no longer re-install it!!!!...i have done 2 fresh installs but its not booting it up anymore...strange...

dunno, sorry, i never got sd android to boot either, tried on maybe a dozen different occasions, a few hours each time,, and only got it to work once, and it caused me to hard reset next time i booted, cos winmo wouldnt boot, so i left it alone till nand came along. (And at that time i would have been running 2.08.hspl too,,, so it wasnt that)
perhaps you have a leftover data folder or summin, from the old instal on your sd card? i know on nand builds if you dont clear out the data from the old one it can cause failed boots.

i have formatted the sd card a good few times!...dont know what it could be then....

[Q] Bootloader: USB recognized, but unusable. Bricked, or still hope?

Alas, the old companion HD2 seems totally locked...
In my attempt to flash to an Android ROM, I spent two whole days digging through XDA. So I got me the HD2toolkit, a backup stock .exe, and the target ROM.
installing hSPL worked
magldr wouldn't install. So I updated the phone to get the right radio. This unfortunately upped hspl to 3.03. So i downgraded that by installing hspl4 and opting for 2.08.
Magldr then installed nicely, but the phone would not restart: the OS wouldn't start.
So I task29 succesfully, and install the windows update on the phone again. Works just fine.
Back to installing magldr, since hspl is still at 2.08 according to the tricolor screen. (that surprised me, since at the first time it went to 3.03).
And then it all went to bits. I get an HTC screen on white background, but no 'quietly brilliant' for 5 mins. Going to bootloader works, it recognizes the USBcable (can hear the telltale sound on the PC as well), but no data can be sent across that cable... No hd2toolkit orders (202 connection errors), and no official ROM executables will connect.
Tell me, is this now an official brick? Or might one of you have The Ultimate Revival Secret for me?

myrtthin said:
Alas, the old companion HD2 seems totally locked...
In my attempt to flash to an Android ROM, I spent two whole days digging through XDA. So I got me the HD2toolkit, a backup stock .exe, and the target ROM.
installing hSPL worked
magldr wouldn't install.
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do you mean magldr wouldnt START? see note at the end**
So I updated the phone to get the right radio. This unfortunately upped hspl to 3.03.
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no need, you could have just flashed teh radio, thus avoiding changing teh whole rom, removing magldr and hspl, and taking about ten minutes less.
So i downgraded that by installing hspl4 and opting for 2.08.
Magldr then installed nicely, but the phone would not restart: the OS wouldn't start.
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ummm, what OS? you havent flashed one yet
So I task29 succesfully, and install the windows update on the phone again. Works just fine.
Back to installing magldr, since hspl is still at 2.08 according to the tricolor screen. (that surprised me, since at the first time it went to 3.03).
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spl is prevented from being changed by usb flashing once hspl is installed
And then it all went to bits. I get an HTC screen on white background, but no 'quietly brilliant' for 5 mins.
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again, there is nothing to boot, , flashing magldr removes winmo, and you havent yet flashed an android rom.
Going to bootloader works, it recognizes the USBcable (can hear the telltale sound on the PC as well), but no data can be sent across that cable... No hd2toolkit orders (202 connection errors), and no official ROM executables will connect.
Tell me, is this now an official brick?
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not even close. So far everything sounds like a simple missmatch between magldr spl and radio, made more confusing because you arent really 100% sure of what exactly is being added / removed at each step. (Sorry, not having a go, just being blunt )
the connection errors might be an issue, but probably not, give your PC a reboot, use a different usb port.
in bootloader, what do the top line, and the spl line say? does it say USB at the bottom?
With your phone in bootloader and connected to PC, on the PC, click start - right click 'computer' (or 'my computer', depending on win version) choose properties, find device manager, and see what entry is listed for the phone.
**NOTE when you flash magldr, if the radio or spl is wrong, magldr will be there, it just wont show up, it will go straight to the boot screen and hang there. You dont have to re flash magldr, just change the spl/radio to the correct ones, and magldr is still there and should start, no need to re flash it. Magldr is only removed by flashing a stock winmo rom (or a cooked winmo rom that includes splash screens)

Be still, my beating heart...
Thanks for your answer, Sam. No harm done in the bluntness, you quite rightly marked me as a noob. Indeed not all is clear on the boards, but we all do our best.
As you said, I had no clue all the OS on my phone were gone. So i saved me another ten minutes (thank you, again) and flashed a new radio. And behold! Magldr is back!
You, sir, should be kissed!
Now to find out how to install a Zimage, that still seems to elude me (seeing there is no daf.exe or install.exe)... I'm aiming for this one to install: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250703. hd2toolkit will only help out on nb or nbh, though.
If you could point me in the right direction?
And muchos thankyous are coming your way!

well first up you should add cwm on top of magldr, most roms are clockwork(cwm, cwr its called slightly different things, all mean the same, , 'clockwork mod recovery') roms.
You can do this with the toolkit, but instead of the hd2 being in bootloader, enter magldr and choose 5 usb flashing, then in the toolkit, choose a partition size, (160 by the looks of it, for an eu model) and when thats done,
restart,
enter magldr
option 8 ad recovery - will start cwm,
then choose 'install zip from sdcard' - 'choose zip from sdcard'
but remember BEFORE you do all the above, you should
1 - set up your ext partition (you can do that in cwm, , 'advanced' - 'Partition sd card', but be warned it will wipe the whole card)
and
2 - copy the romname.zip onto teh sd cards fat32 partition.
EDIT - oh and most roms have two versions, a magldr version and a cLK version, dont confuse cLK with CWM, theyre different things. For now stick to teh magldr versions, you can find out about cLK later.

Now we're getting places!
So if I understand correctly, the toolkit has not installed CWM. OK, I'll go and look for that rom.
However, the android I pointed out is, if I read you correctly, not NAND? It was posted in the NANDcategory, so that confuses me. Bummer, I need my SDcard for data.

yea its a nand rom. most nand roms use an EXT partition, and for most sense 2 roms, its advisable, and for sense 3 roms it simply wont work without it. Look at the partition size for the tmous version(which is the same but doesnt use an EXT),,,435meg, that's just for the system partition, it would leave you about 50meg for apps and data.
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myrtthin said:
So if I understand correctly, the toolkit has not installed CWM. OK, I'll go and look for that rom.
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not a rom, as such. Go into the toolkit, with teh phone in magldr, option 5 'usb flashing',,at the top of toolkit 'magldr repartition', below that click the 'custom' size, below that cache size 5 (from the 5/160/5, personally i use 45 regardless of what teh rom says, but thats just me, its not absolutely critical), then below that 'repartition', , a popup will ask you teh custom size, 160, OK,and off it goes installing cwm.

Hm, interesting.
Thanks to your feedback, i get magldr 1.13 up and running, just fine.
Next to that, flashing ROMs seems to be working smoothly.
However, none of the android ROMs are taking! I downloaded (from several sources to exclude download errors) three ROMS:
1) rom Based RUU Desire HD 3.06.405.1 - With sense 3.0 - Android 2.3.5 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264828
2) Desire_S_sense3.5_Android.2.3.4_v1.2_EU.zip http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250703
3) GBLeor3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1256581
nrs. 1 and 3 are installing, but on startup hang on HTC's splashscreen. Nr 2 is not installing (aborting during install, status 0), tried both on 5/160 and 5/200.
Seems like android install through magldr is not working at all! Any thoughts?
To be complete, I installed:
hSPL 2.08
magldr 1.13
radio 2.15.50.14
repartitioning through hd2toolkit
It all started with stock winmo, wich i updated to 3.14.404.2. It's an EU phone.

Don't forget it takes a while on first boot, especially the large ones,I can well believe a sense 3 rom that is writing 300+ Meg to the ext partition would take well in excess of ten/fifteen minutes and more first boot.
Also, if you flash a rom and then go to flash another, you will be leaving parts of the old rom on the SD card. In cwm before the flash choose wipe data/factory reset. That's in cwm, not magldr. Also, did you set up the ext through cwm?
My advice would be go for a simpler rom, one of the cm7 roms, typhoon for example, purely to show its working.

The desire S (sense 3.5) did not even install after 6 hrs, so I'm guessing something's wrong there ;-)
I'll wipe data between flashes, and per your suggestion, try something light as an appetizer first. Not before next weekend though! I lost enough sleep )
Thanks again!

When I started flashing nand, very often(six times in ten maybe?) the first boot never completed, and I soon learned that if after a few minutes nothing happened,I'd pull the battery and it would Start the next boot. Also, keeping the hard keys lit (touch every min or so) seemed to help.
I know I'm straying into "lucky socks" and good luck charm territory,but can't help to try, and I DO know I've seen one rom in the past where the instructions mention keeping the screen on as being important, so who knows?? Not this stoned and overtired techaddict!
I've had a stable rom that I've been just flashing updates for some months now, so I've not had that situation for a while. The wipe data command in cwm is deff important tho.
The only other thing that consistently causes non starting is too small a partition size.

cyanogen is stable
Yub yub, commander, time for an update. Cyanogen has been installed and working for close to 3 months now. So it actually does all work!
On the boards, I can now see updates on the ROM I crave (sense 3.5 from htc desire), and those updates are suggesting 260 Mb partitions (no ext). So it would seem my first partition was indeed too small.
So tempted to try those again...
Too bad cyanogens rom backup is acting weird. Otherwise it'd be no problem just to try, eh?

[Q] Downgrading to WM 6.5 before upgrading, what´s about encryptet SD-Card?

Hello!
as rumored, there will be a V7 of Pdaimatejam´s great ROM of WP 7.5 soon. Now, V6.5 is running on my HD2 and I think I will upgrade to the V7 because of several improvements. But which way I have to go exactly?
Go back to WM6.5 or only set USB-Flash in MAGDLR? Do I have to unencrypt the SC-Card first and let the device reencrypt it? Or it is possible to let the SD-Card at it is and the V7 only formats the SD-Card?
Best regards and sorry for my dumb questions ;-)
Christian

1.card is locked only if you use Yuki (BTTF) ROM... other ROM's not lock card, Pdaimatejam not lock card
2. unlock your card first with sending unlock cab to phone, then you easy format card (or use old nokia phone for unlock)
3. you not use magldr for flashing WM6.5.... boot to bootloader (treecolor screen) and run flash utility...
i made instructions (you can find them in attachment in first post of Pdaimatejam ROM) how to flash Pdaimatejam ROM... try next time to read it...
yep, v7 is great ROM, still need to fix some bugs from Cottula UltraFruit and will be ready...
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also if you want delete (wipe) previous WP7 ROM before install new, no need to install WM6.5 ROM.... just flash Task29 to phone (you can find im in NAND Tools, link is also provided in tutorial) but in most case you can flash new WP7 ROM without wipe older...

1.card is locked only if you use Yuki (BTTF) ROM... other ROM's not lock card
2. unlock your card first with sending unlock cab to phone, then you easy format card (or use old nokia phone for unlock)
3. you not use magldr for flashing WM6.5.... boot to bootloader (treecolor screen) and run flash utility...
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Thanks for your reply!
1. That´s new for me. So, I would have no trouble with the SD-Card for the Update.
2. So, with PDAimatejam´s ROM, I don´t have to unlock the Card, right? Only format in PC-Slot and go ahead with updating.
3. I Know how to flashing WM6.5. I thought, it may be useless to flash to WM6.5 first. I thpught, it might be possible to boot into MAGDLR-Menu, choose USB-Flasher and directly update to a new ROM without going back to WM6.5.

2. no... you not need anything... just flash new ROM.... all partition will be automatically deleted
3. press power and hold when booting and your device boot to MAGLDR...

Big Thanks to Croatia!

[Q] How to uninstall Ultrafruit ROM

just installed it yesterday and didn't like WP7
to install it i had to use "Use Last 24 Mb" just to be sure is there any danger from doing a task29 or getting back to Windows mobile 6.5???
i heard some people say they bricked their devices because of using this option
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286104
“UseLast24NAND.” – Allows you to use the last 24 MB of NAND. EXPERIMENTAL. But if you update the RUU MAGLDR or press hard reset WM65. you'll lose is 24 megabytes of data. This means that the data is corrupted or the device will not run anymore. The default is disabled.
i haven't done anything yet so waiting for your answers.

Hi and welcome onboard!
Go ahead and flash WM6.5! You won't brick your device. I have never heard of anyone having had that problem when going back to WM. Magldr is also removed from the phone when doing so and as far as I know it is only when Magldr is startet that the last 24 Nand are activated so no worries at all!
Other questions? Fire away!
/Anders

Thank You i did it and everything went well no problem