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Probs with getting into recovery menu

Hey XDA
Im having a little problem with my Magic.
I would like to flash a new ROM, but i cant get into the recovery menu.
Here is what i do:
I have installed the latest version of SDK on my computer.
I then connect my Magic with the cable, and when Vista comes up with the note saying that want to install the software i tell it to use the drivers that are in the SDK/usb_driver/x86 folder.
I then turn off the phone, and press and hold back button + power button until the phone shows the "3 androids on skateboard" menu.
Then on my computer in the cmd prompt i write: fastboot boot recovery.img, and the the cmd prompt says: <waiting for device> and the nothing else happens, the recovery image dosn't show up on the phone either.
I have checked with adb devices that my phone is connected.
Are there anyone that can help me with this problem because its beginning to annoy me alot, i would like to root my phone and flash another ROM.
So any help would be much appreciated.
Per

Just to check, you made sure you have a spl that's rootable?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529019
And fallowed this before fastboot.
First, setting up your PC (I'm going to assume you're using windows for this) to work with Android in a debugging enviroment.
1. Get the latest Android SDK from here (http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r2/index.html) and unzip it into a convienent directory (most people use C:\Android\, so I suggest you do the same). The result should be something along the lines of C:\Android\android-sdk-windows-1.5_r2\.
2. Set up your phone to work with debugging drivers. The method of doing so can be found here (http://developer.android.com/guide/...ing/device.html) in the "Setting up a Device for Development" section, steps 2 and 3. To test that it works properly, open up a command prompt and navigate to the tools directory (C:\Android\android-sdk-windows-1.5_r2\tools). Type into the prompt:
Code:
adb devices
If it returns your device and serial number, then you're all set.
3. Lastly, grab fastboot.exe from here (http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html) and place it in the tools directory of the sdk.
Next up, rooting.
Clinton

Thx for the answer, but there is a problem with one of the links you posted, the last one of them (http://developer.android.com/guide/...ing/device.html). it dosn't work.
But you also write something about the SPL, i dont know if i have the right SPL, how can I see if its the right one i have? I've tried reading the link about the SPL, but my problem is that i cant even get into the recovery menu, so i cant flash a new SPL either, or am i wrong?
Please help me
Per

To check your SPL just boot up fastboot (back + power) then just look at the top and see what it says. Then check on the first link I posted and see if your SPL is rootable or not.
Don't know why the last link didn't post proper Here it is.
Clinton

perevers said:
Hey XDA
Im having a little problem with my Magic.
I would like to flash a new ROM, but i cant get into the recovery menu.
Here is what i do:
I have installed the latest version of SDK on my computer.
I then connect my Magic with the cable, and when Vista comes up with the note saying that want to install the software i tell it to use the drivers that are in the SDK/usb_driver/x86 folder.
I then turn off the phone, and press and hold back button + power button until the phone shows the "3 androids on skateboard" menu.
Then on my computer in the cmd prompt i write: fastboot boot recovery.img, and the the cmd prompt says: <waiting for device> and the nothing else happens, the recovery image dosn't show up on the phone either.
I have checked with adb devices that my phone is connected.
Are there anyone that can help me with this problem because its beginning to annoy me alot, i would like to root my phone and flash another ROM.
So any help would be much appreciated.
Per
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Sound like you're not using the right Recovery .img
Check here to start with: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking#sec03

ClintonH said:
To check your SPL just boot up fastboot (back + power) then just look at the top and see what it says. Then check on the first link I posted and see if your SPL is rootable or not.
Don't know why the last link didn't post proper Here it is.
Clinton
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I have the: SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0010 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
If what im reading at the first link is correct, my SPL cant be root'et, or im not reading the first link correctly?
And if i need a new SPL, how do i flash that one? and what SPL should i choose? and last, how can i then get my SPL back to how it is now if i need to get the phone to repair?
Per
antonram said:
Sound like you're not using the right Recovery .img
Check here to start with: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking#sec03
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I am using the right recovery image, i also tried the one you linked, that didn't work either
Per

perevers said:
I have the: SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0010 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
If what im reading at the first link is correct, my SPL cant be root'et, or im not reading the first link correctly?
Per
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Afraid your not going to be able to root right now. It's in the works though so it might be soon.
Clinton

ClintonH said:
Afraid your not going to be able to root right now. It's in the works though so it might be soon.
Clinton
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Damn, thats a load of ..... (sorry).
I have just got my phone back from the repair shop because the camera restarted the phone everytime i tried to use it. Before i sent it to repair i had no problem rooting it or getting in the recovery menu.
But can you tell what the problem is? is it because the recovery image dosn't work with my SPl and the recovery image guys need to "crack" my SPL first or what?
Per

perevers said:
Damn, thats a load of ..... (sorry).
I have just got my phone back from the repair shop because the camera restarted the phone everytime i tried to use it. Before i sent it to repair i had no problem rooting it or getting in the recovery menu.
But can you tell what the problem is? is it because the recovery image dosn't work with my SPl and the recovery image guys need to "crack" my SPL first or what?
Per
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Here you go read This on the SPL. By the way which phone do you have? Is it a Rogers Magic? Just good to know what's not rootable, you should post your phone details in that thread if it's something not listed on the first page.
Clinton

ClintonH said:
Here you go read This on the SPL. By the way which phone do you have? Is it a Rogers Magic? Just good to know what's not rootable, you should post your phone details in that thread if it's something not listed on the first page.
Clinton
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Its a HTC branded magic, dont know if its a rogers. But im from Denmark, and bought it in Denmark. dont know if that helps.
Thx for the help, will read the thread.
Btw. can you tell where i can see how far they are in "cracking" this SPL?
Per

recover Magic 32A from fastboot [with beer prize]

Hello, i updated my magic with the wrong ROM and now nothing works except FASTBOOT (vol down + power). everything else just freezes to the red vodafone screen. What can i do from here?
Here's the info:
Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0010
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
Please please with anything on top help?

ok
let's make things interesting. mods feel free to sticky this...
i really need a solution this weekend. i'll send three bottles of the best local beer to whoever solves my problem.
go!

Do you have a Nandroid backup of your original ROM? If so - see here
http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/NANDROID_Fastboot
If not, I'm sure a quick search will show someone has posted a full backup somewhere on here.

Sorry...didn't notice before that you have the Perfect SPL. I suggest looking here instead -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133

alexdroid said:
Hello, i updated my magic with the wrong ROM and now nothing works except FASTBOOT (vol down + power). everything else just freezes to the red vodafone screen. What can i do from here?
Here's the info:
Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0010
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
Please please with anything on top help?
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Have done the same ..as you
I used adb get recovery to work again from fastboot

keepitnang said:
Sorry...didn't notice before that you have the Perfect SPL. I suggest looking here instead -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133
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tried that, fastboot gives me the "remote: not allow" error.

alexdroid said:
tried that, fastboot gives me the "remote: not allow" error.
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Yeah...that's because your phone has the Perfect SPL - it won't allow a fastboot connection. The article I linked to shows you how to change the SPL and enable this. Having said that, have you tried stian230's suggestion concerning connecting via adb to restore a recovery image?
Have a look at Amon_RA's thread for his excellent recovery image. This shows how to push the image to your phone and boot to it -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492

keepitnang said:
... have you tried stian230's suggestion concerning connecting via adb to restore a recovery image?
Have a look at Amon_RA's thread for his excellent recovery image. This shows how to push the image to your phone and boot to it -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
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adb does not recognize my phone (all the drivers are ok, fastboot can see it). all the guides dealing with this said to make sure i have USB debugging enabled, but i can't access my phone to do this.
changing the spl seems to permanently void the warranty (not sure about this)...

K...sorry...this is where my n00bness runs me into a brick wall. The only way I know of to recover in this instance based on what you have said is to go ahead and flash a 'friendlier' SPL. Perhaps someone infinitely cleverer than I knows of another method though?

alexdroid said:
adb does not recognize my phone (all the drivers are ok, fastboot can see it). all the guides dealing with this said to make sure i have USB debugging enabled, but i can't access my phone to do this.
changing the spl seems to permanently void the warranty (not sure about this)...
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ADB will find your phone if you try a little while.
I promise

Just take it easy do not stress.
Try the phone off. or try recovery even if you do not get in recovery adb believe that it is the in recovery .
certainly sounds a bit strange but I did it that way

i just can't get adb to recognize my device. i tired on xp and 7, unistalled and reinstalled usb drivers and nothing.
all the guides mention tunring on USB debugging, but i can't get into android to do that. all i have is the damn fastboot. is there any other way to turn on usb debugging?
edit: apparently, adb isn't supposed to work in recovery mode. and since i can't use fastboot, because of my SPL, i'm locked out. any other ideas?

does not sound good. but I had the same problem a week ago. I had flashed a ROM and used the wrong port 32A. phone had a "semibriked" I only had access to fastboot and hboot.
I also have perfect spl. But after many attempts the adb found my phone.
I had an empty sdcard with only recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2H.img on it.

is there any other method to change spl, or make fastboot work? the goldcard thing looks crazy hard...

HTC Magic (PVT 32A) bricked or can it be saved?

Hi all,
spent entire last night trying to figure out how to flash a custom ROM into my phone - problem initially was that I'd updated it with the ROM from the HTC site, so it was in perfectSPL.
Anyway, after a lot of searching and attempting I managed to get in an engineer SPL and then attempted to flash with the Cyanogen Mod 5.0.7. It kept on giving me an error which I figured was due to my Radio being the newer one, so I went through these instructions to flash an older one, using the following code:
fastboot flash radio Radio_HTC_PVT_32A_6.35.10.18.img
fastboot flash hboot hboot-1.76.2007.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot reboot-bootloader
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But in my case I used Radio_HTC_PVT_32A_3.22.20.17.img so as to get the Cyanogen Mod to (hopefully) work, and I used the recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img as that was the one I'd used to get the engineer SPL installed as well. I did use the suggested hboot-1.76.2007.img, but probably made a mistake in doing so? Reading further down the page for changing RADIO it describes how to downgrade to radio 3.22 and it says I should use hboot-1.33.2010.img instead....
After the last command, however, it went into reboot but since then I'm stuck with this screen regardless of how I boot (recovery/fastboot/regular) - see attached image.
(I did enter the command literally as above, no space between reboot and -bootloader - that of any concern?)
My problem seems to differ from the others I've read about when searching for "bricked" - I'm perfectly willing to accept my fate if it really is bricked, but as of yet I'm not quite convinced. For one, if I run the HTC official updater it starts and actions are displayed in the HTC screen, but unfortunately it always stops at 36% when sending Radio... so fairly sure it's something wrong with it.
Question is: is there any way to re-flash another (proper) Radio and see if I can get anywhere from there?
Would appreciate any suggestions
Cheers
//Joris

maybe if you read the proper directions - even my thread has links to them then u would be fine
you need the 2010 spl for that radio and u have a 1.76.2007 spl u used ...
I suggest u look up cursordroids directions

As a follow-up, please see attached image - this is what I get when I try to use the fastboot commands to either flash radio or hboot

JorisS said:
As a follow-up, please see attached image - this is what I get when I try to use the fastboot commands to either flash radio or hboot
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do u have v 2007? or a perfect spl installed - I think its perfect...

i do not know if this helps. but if you managed to flash the older radio, then try to flash an original rom for your board which includes old radio and post any results.

alan090 said:
maybe if you read the proper directions - even my thread has links to them then u would be fine
you need the 2010 spl for that radio and u have a 1.76.2007 spl u used ...
I suggest u look up cursordroids directions
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Thanks for the quick reply - I realize I messed up, was getting later and later so lost focus I'm afraid. Plus been reading so many different instructions and suggestions that I simply lost track and - in this case - failed to read further down the page. (I am indeed on his page, the one you link to on yours)
However, question right now is whether or not the phone can be saved? See my above post - it won't flash in another radio or SPL at the moment, at least not using fastboot command from the cmd prompt. Any alternative suggestions or other commands I can/should run first?
Cheers
//Joris

mariosraptor said:
i do not know if this helps. but if you managed to flash the older radio, then try to flash an original rom for your board which includes old radio and post any results.
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I tried using the official HTC ROM (that comes as an .exe package) - tested with the last official one I get when I download it from their site, as well as the one before which I got from this sites ROM collection - both get stuck at 36% when "sending Radio" I believe it says at that point. I did try this one as well: 2.17.401.2 HTC Nordic - from what I could see this is the oldest Nordic HTC ROM - that one however gave me another error message, something about wrong Board or so I believe.
Which one would you suggest I try? At this point these .exe packages seem to "work", at least they start and identify the phone and all.
alan090 said:
do u have v 2007? or a perfect spl installed - I think its perfect...
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I'm afraid that at this point I really do not know anymore
I followed these steps to get past the 1.76.0009:
1. Download RUU linked above.
2. Install update using RUU.
3. Turn on phone and connect to computer.
4. Get RA recovery and SPL also linked above and drop them to sdcard root directory.
5. Run SDK: adb shell
6. Install recovery: flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img
6. Turn off phone and turn on again holding Power+Home. RA Recovery should appear.
7. Flash zip from sdcard.
8. Use file: update-hboot-1762007-signed
9. Done. PSPL broken.
10. Build a shrine for orange_24
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After this I proceeded with the following:
fastboot flash radio Radio_HTC_PVT_32A_3.22.20.17.img
fastboot flash hboot hboot-1.76.2007.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot reboot-bootloader
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(I have now edited in the exact files I used)
After this I ended up in the position I'm in now - it did a reboot but nowo I'm only getting into the screen as shown in the first attachment.
On a sidenote, how can I get my account verified so I do not have to wait 5 mins between posts?

I just tried the following ROM update:
RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_2.17.401.2_HTC_Nordic_release_signed_NoDriver.exe
Result is as per attached image.
Seems I've managed to mix up everything and managed to have incompatible radio/hboot and probably also SPL....
Is there any way to fix this

what version of spl does your fastboot report?
if you have 2007 u should be able to fastboot images
if you have perfect spl u may have to root again using gold card...

alan090 said:
what version of spl does your fastboot report?
if you have 2007 u should be able to fastboot images
if you have perfect spl u may have to root again using gold card...
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How do I check this? Was testing around some more whilst hoping for a reply here and found that I cannot find the device using the adb devices command, but the phone appears to be in fastboot mode as I can detect it with "fastboot devices". That said and as the attached image in post #3 shows, I can't seem to flash images - giving me an error message.
So basically on the phone it displays what's shown in the attached picture (if I plug in the USB cable then "USB" shows up behind the orange RUU text). Regardless of whether I try to start it with home + power, back + power or just power. It comes to the same screen.
Will start reading into gold card and what that is/how to make one - saw the term passing by here and there already.
Thanks so far, much appreciated!

It seems I've ended up in one of these loops one cannot get out of - checked out how to make a goldcard (theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/ and some other sites) and basically I need to be able to use ADB in order to get the CID of the card. Problem is that I can only access fastboot, not ADB.
Guess it's game over then?
Would it be possible in any other way to root/flash the phone using fastboot only?

Just attempted to use the fastboot to flash sappimg.zip, giving me the following:
fastboot -s HT95NKF09666 flash zip sappimg.zip
sending 'zip' (63878 KB)... OKAY [ 12.561s]
writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...
INFOsignature checking...
INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
INFOchecking model ID...
INFOchecking custom ID...
INFOchecking main version...
FAILED (remote: 43 main version check fail)
finished. total time: 41.653s
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Does this give away any useful information towards a possible rescue?

try goldcard

jejer said:
try goldcard
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I did - followed a guide and used an ubuntu bootcd to get the CID off the SD card and successfully made the goldcard. But don't know what to do with it really, since the phone goes straight to the same RUU screen even if I try the 'vol down' + 'power' button boot.
That's why I tried using fastboot to flash the sappimg.zip, goldcard was inserted into the phone at this point. Result is as shown above I think I need a newer version of the sappimg.zip file - any such thing available?
//J

If you can get to fastboot than an RUU install + goldcard can work. From there you can re-root and start fresh. Just pick an RUU suitable for you phone and is rootable afterward.

I think the problem is with my radio version - either it being from an older ROM or somehow it was corrupted.
But just to be sure - how should I do the RUU install + goldcard? Simply insert the goldcard (completely empty otherwise?) and run the latest RUU I have downloaded from HTC using my serial number?
How does the goldcard differ from a regular memory card when performing an RUU install? Isn't the part that messed up in the phones memory?
Thanks
//Joris

yes, just do the RUU exe install. The goldcard is just an SD with a modified header that allows the RUU to ignore any issues with reporting a model id error. You may not even need a goldcard depending on the RUU and what the phone reports. Nothing else special about the goldcard, you can fill it like any other or format later. I left mine alone and used it like normal.

I've tested this with the following RUU versions (and the goldcard inserted):
* RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_2.17.401.2_HTC_Nordic_release_signed_NoDriver.exe
* RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_2.20.401.2_HTC_Nordic_release_signed_NoDriver.exe
Both these give a bootloader version error. Tried these two:
* RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_3.05.401.1_test_signed_NoDriver.exe
* RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_3.05.401.3_release_signed_NoDriver.exe
With those the installation freezes at 36%. I've attached the RUU report file, in case that is of any help?
I could in principle carry on and try every single RUU that's available, but getting increasingly doubtfull that any will work. It simply seems as though either it's a wrong version or something goes wrong when it tries to update the radio, but I don't know why (I mean - it's overwriting whatever's on the phone, isn't it? Why would it freeze? I successfully used the same RUU before I started messing about with rooting and all that to update the phone to latest firmware).
Gah!
*edit*
forgot the file
Also, when it comes to 36%, the screen on the Magic goes black and the LED at the top turns blue...

Maybe try downloading the latest offical RUU from the HTC website, and then try to root it after?

Thanks but I've tried that.... stuck on 36%, "Updating Radio".
I managed to create a complete mismatch it would seem, i.e. the hboot and the radio and the actual main version (it is, according to the RUU updater, on 3.05.401.3 version), so whenever something works, something else doesn't - etc etc. Crap!

htc sappher messed up bad

hows it me again well i need some expert help for another htc sappher from my freind and its realy bad , he's flashed a rom and messed up everything dont know how though.
no recovery and the Hboot is S_ON
i cant flash a new rom or SPL cause theres no recovery and becouse i got s_on i cant use that to flash anything so im stuck and i need help.
s_on
(sappher FM 2.1)
radio 6.35.16.19
Hboot 1.33.2005
so i dont know how to fix this i thought of adb tools but dont know much about it ... plz plz guys i need help
thanks guys

well im set up with adb and now the only problem i have is that the phone is on a read only system any ideas on how i can change or get around it?

Turn phone off. Turn on by pressing Back + Power (it's fastboot mode). Write here first 5 rows. All symbols are important.
In fastboot-mode check command:
fastboot devices (it it would return serial number - connection is fine)
p.s. You can find fastboot.exe in Android SDK Tools package

5[Strogino] said:
Turn phone off. Turn on by pressing Back + Power (it's fastboot mode). Write here first 5 rows. All symbols are important.
In fastboot-mode check command:
fastboot devices (it it would return serial number - connection is fine)
p.s. You can find fastboot.exe in Android SDK Tools package
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Sapphire pvt 32a s on H
Hboot 1.33.2005 (sapp10000)
CPLD 12
Radio 6.35.16.19
Apr 20 2009

As you have 32A Magic, you can upgrade to new hboot/radio combination, then downgrade (if you want)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5526163&postcount=1
p.s. Goldcard is important (without it you can not process through upgrade)

So the problem i got is that theres no goldcard?
How would flashing another rom help me i cant flash it with no recovery.
I have fastbootcomander but i cant use that couse of s on, and i cant push any files there adb couse its on a ready only file mod.
Trying to understand
I forgot to menchen that my phone is not deticketing the sdcard i cant mount it and tge card is fine sorry about that .

OMG . There are too many problems together...
Ok. Try to understand what can happen...
1.
You need create goldcard. Search for kingston or transcend sd-card. Make goldcard from it. You can use any Android-phone from HTC. You can ask friends.
2.
I think that problem "no sdcard detection" depends on radio stuck. But when you will run RUU - it does not use sdcard at first step (probably). RUU will try change phone into RUU-mode to flash images.
But. Even if RUU would flash new hboot and radio, it might stuck when flashing ROM (system image), cause at this moment RUU compares CID from phone with CIDs from ROM. Different CIDs will get error and phone will stuck at RUU-mode.

I see ,ill make a goldcard and flash the ruu and see what happens. Thanks alot bud for your help ill keep it updated if all gose well

ish this blows <lol so much to do

ok im downloading the ruu rom the link you gave me (late i know iv been realy busy)
and the goldcard i have to make aswel to make this work probaly

ok im having trouble with the RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_3.05.401.3_release_signed_NoDriver its complaing that th usb connetion erro

my sdcard is 32FAT formated.
this sucks , ruu is having problems with the usb connection and i got no recovery still ofcoruse and bootloader is s_on H.
3.39am ish so tired.
need more guidince from a expert.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R said:
ok im having trouble with the RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_3.05.401.3_release_signed_NoDriver its complaing that th usb connetion erro
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1. Solve it. Install Htc Sync, it has drivers. The best configuration - have 32bit Windows XP.
2. Additionaly, you can boot into fastboot-mode (back + power), then run Ruu. But drivers are more important.
P.s. in rare cases there are problems with usb-cable (when it is not stock), or with usb-port (rear usb-port 2.0 is preffered).
Sent from my A7-040 using Tapatalk

thanks bud ,im being a pain in the backside

Ok I flashed the ruu Rom ,what's the next step to getting s_off .
Iv tried to use the acs supertool but my spl is not supported. I'll give you the full details when iv got time but that's the news so far
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App

Pvt ship s_on H
Hboot 1.76.0009
Radio 6.35.08.29
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Try to get root by SuperOneClick: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
But i don't know is it work at Android 1.5
'Shell root' is enough
If not - you should flash RUU 3.05.401.1 (that has su already)

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If not - you should flash RUU 3.05.401.1 (that has su already)[/QUOTE]
That's the ruu Rom I'm using
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I have a feeling I have to make a goldcard
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Look at december's post. You wrote about 3.05.401.3
What exactly do you have? 401.3 or 401.1 ???
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Can't install any rom on ny Magic, please help

Hi.
I have an 32A HTC Magic.
I don't know what got wrong but I have NO working ROM on my device.
I have Amon Ra 1.6.2, SPL-OFF, Can get into recovery, can get into Fastboot mode.
Tried flashing some ROMs (they installed 100% completely) but when I reboot the logo just shows "htc MAGIC" and nothing happens.
Please what should I try to do?
Your help will be very much appreciated.
Best regards and sorry for not so great english.

Okay, the thing is:
I can get into the Fastboot screen, but cant get into Fastboot USB mode. So no way of sending ADB commands from my laptop.
Also, no way to get into HBOOT. Even from the Fastboot screen, pressing VOL DOWN doesn't do anything.
What the heck do I do? (

It can be caused by stucked buttons.
Tear down the phone
Clean parts
Assemble all back
p.s. Please post spl-info (first 5 rows in fastboot screen) to avoid software incompatability

5[Strogino] said:
It can be caused by stucked buttons.
Tear down the phone
Clean parts
Assemble all back
p.s. Please post spl-info (first 5 rows in fastboot screen) to avoid software incompatability
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Thank you very much, here is the data:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.76.2007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.10.18
Aug 21 2009, 18:19:15
Your help is very much appreciated. Im still stuck with the Magic.. Have tried everything all night
Best regards

Okay, got into HBOOT finally. I then tried flashed the sappimg.zip - but half way through it said invalid model id.
Now I don't have Amon Ra recover, and Fastboot looks like this now:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.261
May 27 2009 19:06:41
I tried another sappimg.zip and then in HBOOT but HBOOT doesn't find the sappimg.zip anymore.
Any good advice?

OMG, why? Why you did it? You are successfully half-bricked your magic...
update:
1. Make goldcard
2. try to flash 2.53.707.2 SEA WWE test-signed
http://www.4shared.com/file/160198404/66d482a/RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2537.html

Cause Im a bit stupid I guess ...
One thing though, I can't even get my computer to recognize my Magic.
Nothing happens when I plug it to the USB port. Not showing up in Device Manager.
I have tried two mini USB cables, same thing.
Guess Im totally screwed?

It is driver-related issue.
You need explore Windows Device Manager (My computer (right click) / Manage / Device Manager)
There must be Android USB Devices in tree.
You can also install USBDEVIEW
32bit OS: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip
64bit OS: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview-x64.zip
p.s.
1. adb must return serial number when phone in normal state after command "adb devies"
2. fastboot must return serial number only in fastboot-mode after command "fastboot devices"
If you see serial number - no problem with adb/fastboot

slkdk said:
Hi.
I have an 32A HTC Magic.
I don't know what got wrong but I have NO working ROM on my device.
I have Amon Ra 1.6.2, SPL-OFF, Can get into recovery, can get into Fastboot mode.
Tried flashing some ROMs (they installed 100% completely) but when I reboot the logo just shows "htc MAGIC" and nothing happens.
Please what should I try to do?
Your help will be very much appreciated.
Best regards and sorry for not so great english.
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Hi, slkdk,
Have you ever tried the "RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa"
(in Traditional Chinese/English)
You just need to connect your phone with PC, turn on the phone with back+power, and then execute the "RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa" on PC.
I remember that Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa will help you with all the radio/SPL/ROM directly back to the Android 1.5 stock.
Good luck!

yuanlin0823 said:
Hi, slkdk,
Have you ever tried the "RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa"
(in Traditional Chinese/English)
You just need to connect your phone with PC, turn on the phone with back+power, and then execute the "RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa" on PC.
I remember that Sapphire_HTC_Chunghwa will help you with all the radio/SPL/ROM directly back to the Android 1.5 stock.
Good luck!
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Just note, but not all phones are Taiwanese Chungwa. Installing ROM for another region (mismatching by CID) will raise "cid error" and half-brick.