[myTouch 3G, Magic General] buddhaja:
Alright all you legacy device lovers, lol, go get your HTC Mytouch 3G devices (probably all sapphire devices, haven't tried on others) that are stuck on that annoyingly persistent Google Sign-In screen outta of the junk drawer and get ready to get some use out of it. I've really only seen a few solutions, touching the four corners, lol, really? never seen that work but its everywhere so it must have at some point, and some other vague or ineffective methods. I have done this over and over just to make sure it wasn't some sorta fluke or lucky button press. That being said i no longer have the devices cause i was unlocking it for a friend that used too many wrong pin codes, so if you see some mistakes, plz let me know.

But first, let me cover my a**, lol

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY BRICK, BROKEN, EXPLODING, OR TRANSFORMING DEVICES.

USE THIS GUIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU ARE HENCEFORTH INFORMED.

LMAO, Alright now that's over with. I can say that, although seemingly complicated, if you mess this up then you should have left it in the junk drawer cause its pretty hard to mess it up. I will also include the steps taken to get custom recovery and cm6 on the device as well. The main thing is getting the right files.

It was running Android 1.6.

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These are the files you will need:

1.Rom Manager 2.5.0.4

2.Universal AndRoot 1.5.3

3.Root Explorer

4.Terminal Emulator

5.My html hack.View attachment 2167632l

6.Cyanogenmod 6.1

7.Gapps zip

Put all these files at the root of your sdcard, extract html_hack.zip to the root of the sdcard and insert into phone..Also add at least one picture to the DCIM/Camera folder.

Alright, Now that you have the files lets start the fun stuff.

1. Of course power device on normally.

2. Once at the "Click the Android to start" screen, Press Emergency Dialer in the bottom left.

3. Dial the Test Screen Dialer Code. "*#*#4636#*#*".

4. Touch Phone Information at the top.

5. Press the Menu button when the Phone Info screen pops up and touch View Sim Address Book.

6. If you have contacts stored on your SIM Card, just touch any of them. If not add one by pressing menu i think.

7.When the edit contact screen comes up, click the image at the top left that is the image for the contact

8.The gallery will come up, press the menu button and touch Capture Image.

9.When the camera app opens, click the gallery shortcut in the top right corner.

10, Long press on any of the images in your gallery and touch Share on the right.

11.Press Messaging from the list that pops up.

12. In the Recipient field press any random 10 digit number and in the text field enter "Google.com"

13. Hit send, of course it will not send and give you some network unavailable message. now click "Google.com" in the message you just attempted to send, which will bring you to the Browser.

14. long press the menu button, and in the text field type "content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/html_hack.html"

15. Now click the Root explorer link and it'll show a warning about unknown sources, click Settings.

16. Touch the Unknown Sources checkbox and while you are there click Development and enable USB Debugging.

17. click back to the web browser and click Root Explorer again and Install.

18. Once installed open Root Explorer.

19. Browse to your sdcard and click the Universal Androot file and install.

20. Once installed open the app, make sure android 1.5/1.6 Superuser is selected and click the Root button.

21. Now click back till you get to the browser again and install Root Explorer again and open.

22. This time though you should see the superuser dialog pop up. Of course click Allow.

23. Again browse to your sdcard and install Terminal Emulator, and open it. Allow superuser.

24. Alright now for the awesome part, in terminal emulator type:

su
am start -a android.intent.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings

Which should open the settings menu.

25. Now navigate to the Wireless menu and enable WIFI and select a WIFI connection.

Thats the bypass. alot of steps right, lol, but it works.

26. Now press the back button all the way back to the "Click the Android to start" screen and procede with activation.

alright Now you are in your phone.

27. Go to the stock Market app and download Busybox by Stephen and install the app. Install busybox from the app.

28. Now go back to root explorer and browse to the sdcard and install Rom Manager. Open it and Allow superuser.

29. now click Install Clockworkmod Recovery and select the appropriate device. This will probably kick you back to the home screen.

30. Open Rom Manager again and reboot into recovery.

31. From CWM Recovery select install zip from sdcard and select the Cyanogenmod 6 zip file. Let this complete then reboot. This will of course take a while.

32. Once booted back up click the android then skip and skip. Then confirm the location stuff.

33. Open Rom Manager again and reboot into recovery and pick install zip from sdcard and select the gapps zip and install.

34 Once it's finished, reboot and you are all set. Root, Busybox, CWM Recovery and cm6 with google apps is yours. Congrats.

Buddhaja