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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

[Q] MyTouch 3G boot Issue (Recommended here for help)

I went though some of the forums and didn't quite find what I was looking for, BUT a friend on Reddit pointed me over to this forum for help. I loaded Engineerings SPL on to my phone and when I booted up the phone I got a totally new boot screen saying "HTC Magic" After about 20 minutes I realized my phone isn't going to boot at all, I thought no big deal and tried to unroot my phone with the unlocker website and the sapping.nbh file failed during installation. (The last two items had an odd error) BUT when I rebooted my phone it now had the green mytouch 3g loading screen but again failed to boot. And thats it, this is where I am stuck.
I Have a My Touch 3g 3.5MM jack phone and I was simply trying to load a custom rom onto my phone, I can access fastboot and the android recovery console (Thing for wipe and update.zip from sdcard) But everything I have tried fails! I am really starting to stress out about this but a I was told it doesn't seem to be very serious if I can access all the menus like that. If you need anymore info I will be checking the thread regularly. Sorry for causing the trouble I am probably just another pest who made a dumb novice error , for that I am sorry. But if anyone could help me out it would be much appreciated.
EDIT!: Also I forgot to add I have GoldCard from before my phone broke, not sure if this will still work but it might help.

Post there all fastboot info, ALL.
Also the outcome of this command done in fastboot mode
Code:
fastboot getvar version-main
When you refer to "the android recovery console (Thing for wipe and update.zip from sdcard)" do you mean android stock recovery or custom recovery?

Im trying to get the data from that fast boot thing but Im kinda new to all this in order to get that data I hook my phone up to pc with usb cord start up cmd prompt and type
cd\
AndroidSDK\tools\adb
then type in that command? Kinda lost on what im doin there.
And how do I find out if it is stock or custom? it has the symbol for the FlashRec app in the backround though if that helps.
But the stuff on the top of the fast boot is.
Sapphire PVT 32A Ship S-ON G
HBoot-1.33.0013 (SAPP31000)
CPLD-13
Radio-2.22.19.26I
Oct 21 2009, 22:33:27 (Some weird date?)
Trying to type it into cmd prompt straight from cd\ doesn't work. I need some way to mount the device from fast boot it seems

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734617

mumilover said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734617
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What does this do for me? My phone is stuck in an unusable state almost I cant root it at this point.

THANK YOU!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! My phone is 100% fixed and running a shiny new OS! I can't thank you enough!

LemonFondler said:
THANK YOU SO MUCH! My phone is 100% fixed and running a shiny new OS! I can't thank you enough!
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Good to hear. Now make a nandroid backup and don't fix what isn't broken.

LemonFondler said:
THANK YOU SO MUCH! My phone is 100% fixed and running a shiny new OS! I can't thank you enough!
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What did you do after getting that link to get your phone fixed? That way if someone else gets stuck in the same boat they'll know what you did.

[Q] Stuck at Android Logo

Hello, I just bought a used HTC Magic (Rogers 32A 2.1 Official Stock). I followed this tutorial to root my phone (How to root HTC magic in one click - website the unlocker) and basically I had to downgrade to Cupcake. Then during the flashing process, an error message said "Wrong model". Now, I'm stuck at the android logo. What can I do? I want get back to my official ROM so I can find another way to root it.
- I tried to do "adb devices" and it cannot find my devices
- My phone had Android 2.1 Rogers official stock.
- I don't have a backup official ROM or whatsoever
- I tried to do a factory reset but it doesn't change anything.
Is my phone done? thank you.

Help please. No matter how many methods I tried to detect my HTC as a ADB device on Windows XP SP3, it doesn't work!
Phone info
Sapphire Unknown 32A Ship S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
May 27 2009,19:06:41

I cannot go into Recovery Mode too (HOME+Power) but I can go to...
- POWER+VOLUME menu
- BACK+HOME menu

Find a sapping.zip from your device

I deleted it from my SD Card because it had the "Wrong model" error when I tried to downgrade to 1.5 Cupcake.

ryosuke_gunma said:
I deleted it because it had the "Wrong model" error when I tried to downgrade to 1.5 Cupcake.
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Find the RIGHT sappimg.zip for your device

tvall said:
Find the RIGHT sappimg.zip for your device
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Thank you so much! I found a official ROM and flashed it. Now I have to be careful.

[Q] ADB does not see MyTouch 4G

I used Visionary+ to s-off via term em and then flashed hboot-eng via term em, rebooted and now it will not get past the mytouch 4g splash screen. I can get to bootloader and it lets me go from hboot to fsatboot with no problem.
I have downloaded the drivers and can see the device on USBDeview but cannot get ADB Devices or ADB shell to see it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
By the way I do not consider myself a noob, just stumped.
running windows xp
phone info:
GLACIER PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PD1510000)
MICROP-0429
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Aug 20 2010, 16:51:01

pjw111 said:
I used Visionary+ to s-off via term em and then flashed hboot-eng via term em, rebooted and now it will not get past the mytouch 4g splash screen. I can get to bootloader and it lets me go from hboot to fsatboot with no problem.
I have downloaded the drivers and can see the device on USBDeview but cannot get ADB Devices or ADB shell to see it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
By the way I do not consider myself a noob, just stumped.
running windows xp
phone info:
GLACIER PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PD1510000)
MICROP-0429
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Aug 20 2010, 16:51:01
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You have these correct?
-HTC driver.exe thats on phone's SD CARD when you first get it
-Android SDK updated
ADB doesnt work in fastboot or recovery last time I check, correct me if im wrong
While phone is on turn on usb debug in settings and then open CMD on pc....Type adb shell and then type adb devices
After that report back here

I have installed them.
Thats the problem the phone will not load past splash. I can only get to hboot usb or fastboot usb

pjw111 said:
I have installed them.
Thats the problem the phone will not load past splash. I can only get to hboot usb or fastboot usb
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In fastboot can you use fastboot to flash things still?

I think i could if I can get adb to recognize the phone
or do you mean from an sd card?

pjw111 said:
I think i could if I can get adb to recognize the phone
or do you mean from an sd card?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4066552&postcount=2
Old but still relevant to what you need, fastboot can flash different things, so you can get the phone to stock or working condition.
If recovery isn't working you can put a new one, you should try finding CWM and use that in fastboot with
fastboot flash xxx.img
Then you can use recovery

pjw111 said:
By the way I do not consider myself a noob, just stumped.
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then why did u post this in the development thread

Thanks i will let you know if i get it to work.
totally forgot about this...

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.