yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] callmedave89:
my magic cant flash....either fastboot

invaild cid or verify sign failed..
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] KBEscalona:
New Droid

Hello everyone,

I want to upgrade my cupcake. Using your ROM. Here are my phone details.

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H

HBOOT-1.33.0010 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-3.22.0.20.17

Jun 2 2009, 17:28:28

Will the method using fastboot work on my phone?

Thanks.

Kenn
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] knny1491:
Yes it will fastboot the h version.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] KBEscalona:
Flash failed

Flash Failed:(
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Thomaseh:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H

HBOOT-1.76. 0009 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-12

RADIO-6.35.08.29

C:\Users\Thomas\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (4520 KB)... FAILED (remote: not allow)

finished. total time: 0.002s

What am I doing wrong?

When I try the adb version of doing it, it wont find my device, it finds it when using fastboot devices, not when trying adb devices. Using different boot methods for the two of them.

"You have a "locked" spl which will not allow you to flastboot flash, flash an engineerings one, or just use flash_image instead."

Found this in this thread, but I think I dont understand anything, Flash an engineerings one?

flash_image wont work since I can't find my device using adb devices.

edit again: the driver says it is a HTC dream when I am in: home+power button mode.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] maflynn:
I'm hoping someone can help me here.

I manually updated to FRF91 but after doing so, I was unable to run a nand backup

I incurred the following error

Error: Run 'android-mobile.sh' via adb!

Now I figured I needed to reinstall the amon ra tools, which I did. It flashed w/o an error and after a reboot, I tried going into the recovery but instead I'm stuck seeing the blue/red/green/yellow android X.

Its been rooted because I'm still able to run setcpu and titanium backup.

Any suggestions in fixing amon ra's recovery console, or reflashing the stock recovery (where would I find that img).

Thanks in advance.

Mike

Edit, I'm a Nexus one and I flashed it using the fastboot method. It successfully sent the recovery image (4528kb) and writing recovery was "OKAY" as well.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] enteo:
Hi there,

I flashed on Saturday Engineering SPL 1.33.2010 and recovery RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.

Everything seemed OK but, after a complete reboot (device in normal phone operation mode), when I reboot in recovery mode again the old recovery appears (Android 2a) and the new one has desappeared!!

I have flashed again today and it happens the same.

This is my current config:

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B ENG S-OFF H

HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.19.26I

Jun 2 2009, 17:27:03

The difference I see is that the first line showed SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G instead before the SPL update.

Does somebody know what is happening?

Do I have to use RECOVERY RA-sapphire-v1.7.0H now? Edit: HTC version does not boot.

Thank you.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] zerodi:
htc magic 32B

hi i will be recieving a 32B version of this Magic very soon and was a little confused as to what do i do to get a recovery on their so i can start flashing / trying different roms

its quite difficult to understand what to do, could someone pls help me

thanks :confused:

p.s its a 32B , but its a DEV's phone, sometimes called HTC ION , not sure if that makes a difference on the rooting procedure ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daweeze02:
I am having the same issue here with a 32A mytouch 3g. I have the new SPL, Radio and flashed the Hero version of the 1.70 recovery image but no matter what I can only fastboot. I have flashed it over and over but Home + Power will not take me to recovery. Any thoughts?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] J.O.D.:
You're probably not on rooted device - fastboot method requires it.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] escosk8r:
Awesome recovery Amon, been using it for awhile. Like your work dude.

Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] jeffjoker:
I have tried again in root terminal on the stable release of CM 5.0.8 and it worked just fine :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Phk:
Hey guys, can you please answer this simple question?

- I have an old HTC Magic, with old SPL and RADIO, but the phone is rooted and running CM rom perfectly. Should i update my radio? what are the advantages?

Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] tnpapadakos:
when something is running perfectly, there's nothing better than changing it. who knows? maybe it could run more perfectly?

but seriously,

the newer radio can help with better download/upload speeds, so check your speeds before, flash the new radio, then check your speeds after

it cannot hurt, and you can always flash the old radio back
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
I have been off the grid since I installed RA-saphire-v1.5.2G & CM 4.2.15.1 & i'm looking to move up to RA 1.7G & then CM 5.0.8 (in that order).

I have spent some time scanning the last few hrs Looking over some of the recent posts & have a couple questions... I saw the giant warning about not flashing recovery from terminal on the phone while running CM5.0.7, since i'm still on 4.2 am I ok to run the terminal install of RA 1.7? then NANDROID+EXT back up of my 4.2 install before attempting to flash 5.0.8 + Gapps pack?

I know I will run into issues with later updates as I have never been able to get ADB to work, but this would get me current for now if it works.

TIA all,

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Ok, lets try a simpler question...

Would there be any negative effects from using the terminal method to install recovery 1.7 on a MT3G running CM4.2.15.1?

~psguardian {from xda app on MT3G}
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wjsturgis3:
I would think it should work just fine.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Roofus8658:
It should be fine. The only problems that have been reported are flashing from CM5 so if you flash the new recovery first then flash CM5 you should be good.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] iamtimmah:
lost recovery screen and cannot fast boot

Hi,

So I'm using a MyTouch3G 32b. I had the clockworkmod recovery. I tried flashing the recovery through adb and everything seemed like it flashed. I tried rebooting and am now stuck on the Splash screen.

I then tried flashing the recovery through fastboot and end up with a <remote: not allow> error.

So my question is how can I get the RA recovery flashed?

Thanks,

Tim C.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Philysubsailor:
Pulling my hair out!!

I have tried for hours to get this to work. I'm now asking for help.

At the android skateboard screen (yes new to rooting) it states

SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A ENG S-OFF H

HBOOT 1.33.2010

CPLD-13

RADIO 3.22.20.17

When I flash recovery-RA-sapphire-V1.7.0H.img and press the home and power button...Nothing happens. Im going fricking insain. Please help this noob before I jump off the bridge!!!

Thanks in advance
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wjsturgis3:
What method did you use to flash the recovery image? I recommend the fastboot method as the most reliable. You seem to have the same SPL as I have, fastboot should work like a charm.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Philysubsailor:
Thanks for the reply...

I have no idea how I got it to work, but Im root and running the CM 5.0.8, but trying to get CM 6 to work now...I was using fastboot. I slept for a few hours and woke up and it worked. perhaps my battery was low as I let it get a full charge before I tried again.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Daneshm90:
So i brought over the background images / progressbar of htc desire's recovery on this one. Looks decent so thought id post it as well ;)

Link

I used this do it ofcourse ;)

Link
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ubercatfish:
Okay, so I'm running

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261
Jul 31 2009, 15:4925

Have been trying to flash my device (Vodafone AU Magic 32b) for the last few days, but I always hit the all at the same point. I cannot boot a recovery, currently when i hold home and power it appears with a ! screen I am sure you're all farmiliar with. When trying to launch AmonRA's recovery through fastboot I can get to the point where it says;

sending 'recovery' <4494 kb> ... OKAY [1.688s]
writing 'recovery' .... OKAY [0.001s]
finished. total time: 1.689s

But after this process my phone will remain on the fastboot screen with no changes. When trying the

fastboot boot c:\imgname.img

command my phone will react and freeze up on the launch screen.

So basically, any help on how to advance the process would be great, as I am currently stuck on a 1.5 build. (not actually sure how I got to this point, was loading heaps of different sappimg.nbh/zip files trying to get this to work, and one happend to be vodafone, so I'm sticking to that for now so I can get 3G coverage locally)

Also, whenever I attempt the process I will load the 'How to Fix Perfected SPL' sappimg.zip. And yes, I am using a Goldcard.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] c0mrade2:
Hi!

Yesterday I've downgraded the radio of my magic 32a because i want to flash the new cm6 rom, but I'm in a trouble: the recovery freeze after few seconds i launch it and i have always to take out the battery!

I've tried all the recovery from version 5 to 7, but nothing changed...

However doing all the passages very fast I've wiped and flashed the rom, but rebooting the phone it always freeze at the operator logo...

any ideas to solve the problem?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wjsturgis3:
What versions of radio,recovery and SPL do you have? Did you use fastboot to flash your recovery? Did you change your SPL to 1.33.2010? See my signature for a working combination.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] c0mrade2:
I flashed the recovery with fastboot...

HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP10000)

Radio-3.22.20.17

Where I can download your SPL and Radio?:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] crankygeek:
I have:

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B ENG S-OFF H

HBOOT-1.33.2010

CPLID-10

RADIO-3.22.20.17 ( just came from an SPL crack .nbh)

and cannot get this to work via fastboot, it says success but when booting with home+back it simply never loads (i let it sit for 20 minutes)

I am to assume I use the G version, for my 32B SPL?

what do I do, as the ROM on this phone is not rooted yet?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] antonymm:
Help Please can not get into RA recovery mode

Hi,

Was wondering if I could ask for some help. I have a HTC Magic Vodafone branded phone. It had a perfected SPL see below.

SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32B SHIP S-ON G

HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.19.26I

May 27 2009,19:06:41

So I followed xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=529019 and replaced the SPL with Engineering SPL 1.33.2010. This seemed to work after I created a gold card. So now my phone shows

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B ENG S-OFF H

HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-3.22.20.17

June 2 2009,17:27:03

So I then attempted to follow this thread and install recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img via the commands:

fastboot devices

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img

It states that it was successful and the phone is then supposed to boot into the RA recovery. This is where it does not seem to work the screen just shows HTC logo and goes no further, seems to stall. I tried to remove battery and restart the phone by holding HOME key and POWER button and boot into RA recovery, but again the phone just sits with a HTC logo on the screen and does nothing. I would like to get the RA recovery installed so that I can then try the cyanogen froyo ROM.

I think I am almost there but any help or guidance would be appreciated :-)

Thanks,

Antony
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Deuces:
i had this problem. was able to fix by booting into rom, and flashing via ADB. Perhaps you should try CM Recovery 4.1 before trying to use RA recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] antonymm:
Hi Deuces,

Asked RA and he let me know I had the wrong radio installed after fixing the perfected SPL. Once I installed my original radio version, it work perfectly.

Thanks for the reply :-)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] lebenistgod:
Hangs after reboot

If after fastboot boot recovery.. your htc crashes or hangs try the other image H or G i spent hours trying to figure out why my Google branded 32B would crash with G, then i tried H and it worked perfectly :) yay
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] spypack:
I just followed the cyan wiki to root mytouch 3g and i got they cyan 1.4 recovery in and i'm trying to upgrade to this recovery. I tried the fastboot method and it said not allowed.

How can i upgrade cyan recovery 1.4 to amon 1.7.0? im new to this and i don't understand how to do the 2nd method
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] keinengel:
Put the new recovery image in the root of your SD card a and then boot in recovery, connect your phone to your PC, open a terminal (cmd if you're on windows), type

adb shell

and it should show a # sign. Now type

mount -a

to mount all partitions and then

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img

If your phone says "fastboot: not allowed" then you have a stock SPL and might want to replace it with an engineering one.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wjsturgis3:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=605239
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mumilover:
Or try this tool... it has all regarding spl,radio and recovery :0)

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=677045
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] jmariconda:
Hey is there or is there going to be a droid incredible version of this? I used to have it on my g1 and it was great:D, and i hate clockworkmod lol.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] keynon:
each time i try to go into recovery after i flashed from cmd recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0H-cyan.img it reboots normally after seeing the recovery screen for 3 seconds

whats up with that? i am using

sapphire pvt32a ship s-off h

hboot - 1.76.2007

cpld - 12

radio - 6.35.10.18

jan 14 2010. 00:14:58
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
What's up with it is that you need to use the hero or cursordroid's modified recovery for that radio and spl combination.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] keynon:
ok i got the v1.6.2 version of cursordroid's and installed cm5.0.8 following these instructions wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Upgrading_From_CM_4.2_or_other_rooted_ROMS_to_5.0.x%28Dream/Sapphire%29

when im done with flashing the 3 things it boots up to HTC MAGIC logo and reboot again and keeps going on and on and on till there is no more battery. i can get in recovery and fastboot.

what wrong did i do?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] keinengel:
Well, reading the forums wouldn't hurt you. First, those instructions are for the old radio (3.22) and SPL (1.33). What you're using is what we call new radio (6.35). You need to flash back to old radio, spl, recovery (all together) or find a CyanogenMod port for the new radio - there are two or three in this forum.

We were all beginners once, but reading before doing stuff helped us know what we were doing.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] keynon:
very sorry for my ignorance and thank you very much for your help aswell as poster eyegor.

:)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] wjsturgis3:
Amon_RA, are you going to update the Hero version of this fine recovery to 1.7.0 as promised in the OP?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Unable to install Recovery on MT3G (32B)

I apologize in advance, but I am a root/ROM newbie and I am trying to learn this as best I can.

I rooted my MT3G this week using Universal Androot 1.5.3. No problems there. I have sucessfully installed & used SHOOTME, BusyBox, Titanium Backup, and can use su in the Terminal. So I know I am rooted, but I've been unable to flash a Recovery with either ROM Manager (no idea why, no response on their blog so far) or even by manually using the instructions above because I don't have flash_image command on my phone.

Here's what I get:

$su
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img
flash_image: not found

So I found a copy of flash_image, but it won't let me install it:

$ su
# cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin/
cp: can't create '/system/bin/flash_image': Read-only file system

I read elsewhere that I need to remount my /System in rw mode

http://www.pocketmagic.net/?p=757

Am I following the right path here??? Seems very odd to me that the instructions here didn't mention installing flash_image. Was that just an oversight? or do other phones already have it pre-installed?

I really want to wave goodbye to crappy stock donut. I'd ultimately like to install CM 5.0.8, but most of the advice I've gotten hasn't turned out to be as straightforward as it seems so far.

By the way, there was no Terminal application pre-installed on my MT3G, so I downloaded Google Terminal Emulator (v13) from Marketplace. That seemed to be the highest rated free terminal app. Or is there a better one out there?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mumilover:
You are on the right way..

Yes, you need to remount using

mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3

Then do the copy command again...

Then giv the "flash_image" execute permissions

chmod 777 /system/bin/flash_image

Then you run the command to flash recovery :0)

Restart in recovery and flash what ever needed.. like a rom or eng spl/radio......

You are almost there :0)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Thanks, mumilover! I appreciate it.

Just for the record, I had originally posted this question in another thread and eyegor gave me pretty much the same answer, and I just got done trying it and it worked!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7656018&postcount=53

This site is awesome!

There's so much to learn here and I've definitely got a lot more reading ahead of me to learn all about this whole Mod'ing process.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mumilover:
DAMN THAT eyegor... he is everywhere...

Consider your self lucky, you got help by the magic master, eyegor :0)

Well, i'm happy it worked out for you...

Welcome to the world of "ROOT#"... :0)

ps: dont forget to try:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=677045
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Thanks.

I still seems to be hitting more obstacles though. What I don't understand is, shouldn't the recovery flash be permanent? I've tried this multiple times now, and each time after I successfully flash Amon-RA's 1.7.0G recovery, I am able to boot into it exactly once! As soon as I reboot a second time, I'm back to the default Android system recovery (looks like this):

Android system recovery <2e>

Use trackball to highlight:
click to select.

reboot system now [Home+Back]
apply sdcard:update.zip [Alt+S]
wipe data/factory reset [Alt+W]
wipe cache partition
---------------------------------------

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/com
mand

This just doesn't seem right to me. Is it possible that stock Android 1.6 re-flashes the recovery back to default upon reboot?

Has anyone else had this problem? and what does that error mean about the cache? Do I need to wipe my cache partition?

My MT3G (32B) says it's hardware Revision/SPL is:

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G

HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP30000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.23.02

May 27 2009,19:06:41

I'm reading as much as I can here, but haven't come across any instructions that describe this problem.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
Set up ADB and make sure it works.

Find a RUU that will get you to where your phone was before rooting.

Test if you can boot a recovery from fastboot

fastboot boot nameoftherecovery.img

Then once you get it all done, boot into your new recovery, make a nandroid backup, then choose to WIPE data/cache. After that flash a ROM that you put on the root of your SDCard.

The ROM must be for 32B, we don't want it to fail loading.

The ADB and RUU are all just for safety, because if the ROM does not boot you will need something to get you out of that no recovery, no system state :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] mumilover:
daehl:

Well, i don't know what your are doing, or what the system are doing....

One i do know is, we ONLY need 1 SUCCESSFUL reboot into recovery...

Do whatever you do and get into recovery.

Flash the eng 2010 spl from here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/267475618/update.Engineering-SPL-HBOOT-1.33.2010-signed.zip

It should work for the 32b boards and for the radio you have

Now you will have eng spl and we can do WHATEVER we want.

Restart in fastboot.

Using the tool in eyegor's siganture, or the one i suggested in the last post (it's the same). do the following:

In the RED BOX, chose ONLY recovery, then hit the "erase chosen partition(s)".

In the BLUE BOX, recovery row, navigate to an recovery image that is based for 32b. Just use the same as you always have used... now push "flash recovery"...

This should make sure that the recovery is 100 % flashed the right way...

You now have eng spl + custom recovery... You should have a big smile and be set to do WHATEVER you want... root..use custom roms...go back to stock roms.. you decide...

Good luck
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] eyegor:
Perpahs if you flashed the recovery from adb it would work.

I strongly suggest AGAINST trying to flash a SPL from recovery untill you get it to be stable. (e.g able to reboot into it more than once :P)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] daehl:
Well, I've been trying to describe exactly what I'm doing ;), but it does seem that my experience is a bit different than what the instructions suggest.

Nevertheless, I took a leap of faith last night (very early this morning) and confirmed that I did indeed only need a single successful reboot into recovery. That's really the key bit of information that I've been missing since I started trying to upgrade my ROM. You see, I expected that the recovery flash was permanent (none of the instructions here that I've read mention that if you reboot normally in Stock Android after flashing a new recovery, then that recovery will be replaced with the default). So I thought something was wrong, when in fact it appears to be completely normal. (I was thinking too far ahead and wanted to make sure the new Recovery would be there in case I needed to restore my original ROM in an emergency).

Anyway. I installed CM 5.0.8 and fully rebooted into it a few times and to my relief, the flashed recovery remained in effect. Before I upgraded the ROM I made a nandroid backup, and after playing with CM 5.0.8 for an hour or so, I restored my backup and completely reverted back to stock Android 1.6 with the default recovery. So I was able to return back to my starting point. Then I flashed Recovery again and installed CM 6.0.0-DS-RC2 and have been playing with that for the last few hours.

So looks like I'm in control now. Though I can tell there's still quite a lot more to learn about this. For example, I'm still not really sure why I'd need the "eng spl" for yet, or how using fastboot is any better. But I'm going to continue playing & learning. Installing ADB is definitely something I will try very soon though... Thanks for your help guys!

HTC Magic 32B

SPL: 1.33.0006

Radio: 2.22.23.02

Recovery: Amon Ra's 1.7.0G

ROM: Cyanogenmod 6.0.0-DS-RC2