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[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] arunchowdhary:
How do I check which SPL I am on? I have myTouch and I have used "Recovery Flasher" from Cyanogen, after that when I trys to use RAv1.2.0G recovery it does not work, however I have followed all instructions. All I get in Fastboot mode is "downloading 'boot.img'... FAILED (remote: not allow)". Could you please assist me to flash RAv1.2.1G on myTouch?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] MontAlbert:
i don't think that is necessary. there are perfectly good instructions in the thread about sdparted:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=543985

maybe a quick list of instructions of how to do each script would help most people.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Wysie:
Hi, you can check your SPL by going to fastboot mode. I'm guessting you need an Engineering SPL so you can flash the recovery:).
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lysin:
A while ago I flashed a rom into my 32A Magic and it all went well...

Today I was preparing to flash another rom, but when I started by running the recovery ROM in fastboot mode, now a message appears in windows console wich does not allow recovery rom to run!

Here is the message:

creating boot image...

creating boot image - xxxxxxxx bytes

downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY

booting... FAILED (remote: reproduce boot image with on-flash ramdisk error)

When i flashed my first rom I entered the recovery rom as many times as I needed, and now I get this...

I searched the forum but found no resoults ...

Maybe you could help because I ran out of ideas!

thanks in advance!

PS: Sorry for the bad english..
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] MontAlbert:
have you tried flashing the recovery image permanently?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
You don't have an Engineerings SPL, that's why it's not working...

You can check you SPL by booting in fastboot mode, you do this by holding the BACK key while booting your phone (power off your phone hold the BACK key, and press the power key while holding the BACK key until you see the fastboot menu).

Download this file and rename it to update.zip

Copy update.zip to the root of your SDcard

Boot into Cyanogen's recovery (that should be on your phone right now) by holding the HOME key while booting your phone

Wait a minute (for your SD card to mount)

Apply the update

Once flashing is done you can check your SPL in fastboot again, it should read .2005
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] MontAlbert:
funny thing- i haven't flashed any new spls to my phone yet and i have absolutely no issues flashing this recovery, installing nandroids etc.... i still have stock 3 australia: HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)

am i playing with fire not installing the engineering spl?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dearbear:
Hello

I got a failure information when I flash this 1.2.1 revovery img. from 1.2.0 by:

"fastboot flash recovery recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img"

I noted you have revised the method of flashing it, so I tryied the method when you released 1.2.0:

then I use the "Root Booter" to boot my Magtic to Recovery mode directly, the screen shows that the 1.2.1H has been flashed into my phone already

so, I'm just wandering why i can not use "fastboot flash recovery recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img" to flash this img.?

the details of my phone

SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H

HBOOT-1.33.0009(SAPP10000)

CPLD-12

RADIO-3.22.20.17
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Lysin:
No... But I cant even get into the Modded Recovery... my fastboot wont work! Dont ask me why...

How exactly do I flash the recovery image permanently?

regards
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] elegos:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img

sending 'recovery' (3326 KB)... OKAY

writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] setzer715:
you fastboot erase recovery first right? Also, you have already established root access prior to this? It worked fine for me.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] nextelbuddy:
OK i tried it first with fastboot anfd that went fine.

now i want to flash it, from the first post the directions say:

adb remount

adb shell rm /system/recovery.img

OR (depending on where your ROM is storing the recovery image)

adb shell rm /data/recovery.img

ok so my Phone is at the HOME screen and im in command prompt and i type ADB Devices to verify my SN number

then i type adb Remount and it says remount succeeded

then i typed adb shell rm /system/recovery.img and it says no such file or directory. what am i doing wrong?

im currently on 1.2.0G right now rooted Mytouch with a Hero rom
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] nextelbuddy:
ok well i screwed up.

i didnt know what this actually does below and since i couldnt get it to work i skipped it

adb remount

adb shell rm /system/recovery.img

OR (depending on where your ROM is storing the recovery image)

adb shell rm /data/recovery.img

then i went to:

fastboot erase recovery

and it erased

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RAv1.2.1G.img

and i got:

unknown partition 'recovery-RAv1.2.1G.img'

error: cannot determine image filename for 'recovery-RAv1.2.1G.img'

so now i have no recovery. i can boot fine but if i hold HOME and power only get the splash screen

im sorry for messing up still learning here, i hope someone can help me
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] elegos:
I don't know what's wrong!

md5 recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img

MD5 (recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img) = f5858017ce32b6e959313b6c970ac6d3

I do:

adb remount

(can't find recovery.img anywhere)

(fastboot mode)

fastboot erase recovery

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] dearbear:
maybe you can try below way to flash it into you phone.

I also get erro message when i use "fastboot flash recovery", and I finally flashed it by below way.

don't ask me why, as i don't know.......:confused::confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] elegos:
I resolved in a similar way:

(FASTBOOT USB)

fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img

...

adb shell push recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img /sdcard/recovery.img

adb flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] tengtengvn:
Hi Amon. I tried this recovery image on my MT3G and Nandroid doesn't work. I got this error when I ran Nandroid backup"

Performing backup: ..
Error : Backup not performed!

My phone has root. Nandroid was working on Cyanogen Recovery 1.4 prior to update.

/Never mind, it works again after I deleted the nandroid folder.

Request: Can you add an option to format the ext2/ext3 partition?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Rroet:
With all the A2SD options I'd love to see this one as well.

If I use a cyanogen rom I can repeatedly upgrade without losing data, but when I switch roms to check out a hero rom, I get stuck in reboot loops. This is the best way to fix it.

If possible a ext4 format as well as Cyanogen is able to use ext4 as well.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] iB4STiD:
hi this is gonna be a stupid question but here goes,

I'm using build rav1.2.06 i upgraded from cya's 1.4, I have a mt3g is it ok im using the stock spl with this.. and if i upgrade to 1.2.1 will i have to update my spl ?

and ya im a lil scared to update the spl, so if i don't have to or if theirs a way to downgrade the spl along with the radio so i could go back to the stock ( just in case i mess somtin up) than that would be fine lol
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] TikiiTorch:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B ENG S-OFF H

HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAPP30000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.19.261

Apr 20 2009, 15:30:43

I just noticed that last line, if that is supposed to be the current time/date, it is way off. Could that be why the built in nandroid is failing?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pep1t0:
That happened to me a couple of minutes ago i had like 180mb free in the fat32 partition... i mounted the sd, erased some data in the nandroid folder, rebooted the phone in recovery and was able to do the backup with no problem... hope it works...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] tq745:
i was wondering if anyone knew the size of the partitions when doing the partitions in the recovery mode?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] robocik:
FIRST POST -> # Partition your SD directly from the menu! (500MB Ext2, 32MB Swap, remaining Fat32)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] guinnes.s:
Any chance to add in this recovery the "ANY" option to the nandroid restore???it will help choosing the restore of different rom's backups.

thanx
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] woo456:
adb shell rm /system/recovery.img

OR (depending on where your ROM is storing the recovery image)

adb shell rm /data/recovery.img

both of them give me an error, that the file isn't there. What to do?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
That's a good thing, it means they are not there so you can go ahead and flash the recovery... :)

When they are there it means that your recovery will be overwritten at boot time so you will loose your flashed rom again.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Emperor Jon:
Hey i'm running an HTC magic 32a

I've got your rom on it with your recovery img

More or less all i've been trying to do for the last week is figure out how I can partition my memory card so I can save applications to it, and then run apps from my memory card.

I've got a class 6, 8 GB memory card at the moment..

Any help would be appreciated
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
I didn't include the option to run apps from memory card in my ROM so even if you partition your SD it will not work unless you manually add apps2sd :)

Check out 51dusty's guide if you want to partition your SD.

I've included his script in my latest recovery too...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Estyle:
please anyone help me (mt3g)

excuse my bad English..

I have a my touch 3g

rooted SPL 1.33.2010 ROM CM4.02

pvt32B s=off H

I remembered mt should be the G version

so i flashed 1.21G recovery

is that a problem H version with a G recovery?

and i try to flash a hero rom ,always stuck on the second screen..

is it because my SPL? shoud i have to flash to 2005?

Please anyone help me
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
Your SPL is ok, you don't need to flash 2005.

You have a myTouch3G, that's a 32B, so you correctly flashed RAv1.2.1G.

If your Hero ROM is stuck at the second boot screen it probably means that :

1. you didn't wipe

2. you didn't partition your SD card correctly

3. you don't wait long enough :p
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Estyle:
Thanks Boss!!

and about flash hero roms

i did Partition my sdcard(500MB Ext2, 32MB Swap, remaining Fat32) by 1.21G recovery

i did wipe..actually i did twice before and after flashing

it stuck on second screen and repeat the hero logo,someone said i should format ext3 before flashing...

could you list the details for me about flash hero roms..

your help will be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks agian Boss!! i am counting on you! you are my idol !!!!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Emperor Jon:
Please excuse my ignorance. I'm really new to this..

Once my SD card is partitioned.

I would need to download only apps2sd to load apps from my SD card?

I'm running your latest recovery. Would I still be using the script to partition my memory card then?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] elite_is3:
when doing these first 2 steps it says that the file etc does not exsist.

then skipping to the last steps

when i tried the FASTBOOK ERASE RECOVERY, it just says "waiting for device" and stays there.

whats wrong??
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
file etc does not exists is ok, it means the the files are already deleted...

Waiting for device means that your pc can't find your phone... check your drivers. Try "fastboot devices" to see if your drivers are installed correctly.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
Your issue has nothing to do with my recovery but with your hero rom, I suggest you ask for help to the creator of your hero rom or post a new thread in the general section with your questions :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Emperor Jon:
All i want to do is to be able to load apps from my SD card :S

I've run through 51dusty's guide and partitioned my SD card. How can I make it so i can load apps from the SD card from here?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pcm2a:
Sorry for my possible ignorant question, but what benefit does permanently flashing the recovery image on provide, if any, on a Roger's 32A Magic?

Currently I change roms all the time, each time I do I boot up with back+power. Then I run the trusty "fastboot boot recovery.img". From there I flash my rom. Would permanently flashing the image just keep me from having to do the fastboot step from a dos window?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
Indeed, you'll not have to use the fastboot step from a dos window anymore. Instead you can boot into recovery mode by pressing HOME + POWER...
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ricardomega:
Better than that, is if your customizated ROM is malfunctioning, anytime and anywhere you can come backup to your previous backup from nandroid without the fastboot..

It already happen to me.. I had installed the usually programs on a new ROM and on this one didn't mentioned that was overclocked already.. I had installed the openoverclock.. I had to take out the battery on it to check the s/n of the phone to make the register on HTC and when it booted, every time it suspend it, it restarted automatically. I had previously made a backup from the old version of that ROM, so I just restore it and when I got home, I tested and checked the issue ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] SkoalFyfan:
So quick question,

I just got a Rogers branded Magic. I want to root it and get redglasses MyHero ROM running on it. I was going to follow the instructions here:

http://theunlockr.com/2009/07/08/how-to-root-your-htc-magic/

which primarily uses daldroids recovery image and some rooted rom (I'm guessing?)

Can I use your/this recovery image instead? v1.2? I noticed rooting rogers instructions earlier using older versions of this recovery image. No problem?

Second question is then, after you have flashed a rooted ROM? then afterwards when I flash the MyHero ROM image - will my phone still be rooted?? Is whether a phone rooted dependent on the ROM only?

Thanks in advance!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pcm2a:
It looks like the procedure I followed to root my phone over on Howardforums already had me flash some older recovery image. I tried the home+power and my current nandroid backup is 2.1.

I guess it was these steps:

6. fastboot flash boot boot.img
7. fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
8. fastboot reboot

I'm going to test out the newest one and then flash it over I suppose. Maybe not brick it!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pcm2a:
I cant answer your question exactly, but I also have a Roger's branded Magic and I followed these steps exactly to root my Magic, and apparently flash a recovery image:

http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1545226 (can I paste offsite links here?)

I did not flash a rom in that process. I've tried a boatload of 32A roms and some that wouldn't boot up at all. Currently I've landed on MyHero 0.1.0 and yes it is still rooted.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pcm2a:
I have some questions about how to actually flash this newest recovery image.

This is how I got my original recovery installed a while back

4. reboot out of recovery mode.
5. power off phone, hold back button and power to boot into fastboot again
6. fastboot flash boot boot.img
7. fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
8. fastboot reboot

Now your steps for installing this are a little different. Part 1:

adb remount
adb shell rm /system/recovery.img
OR (depending on where your ROM is storing the recovery image)
adb shell rm /data/recovery.img

Q: Am I doing that from inside a running rom? I tried adb remount from the fastboot screen and from the recovery and it was a no go.

Next you have

fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img

Q: Is this also done from inside a working rom?

PS. When I soft tested it "fastboot boot recovery<x>.img" it worked fantastic! Nice upgrade from my older recovery with like 4 options in there.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] elite_is3:
i tried this and in fastboot mode, FASTBOOT DEVICES shows a serial number for the phone. im guessing thats good?

but i still cannot load up this recovery
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] krixl:
Is it possible to add an option to just format the ext/swap partition and not the fat ?

that would be great :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] pcm2a:
Just to upgrade from RA1.0H to RA1.2H I was making way too difficult. I ended up just running one command after holding down Back+Power:

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img
sending 'recovery' (3326 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... OKAY

Perfect.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] SkoalFyfan:
So I managed to get my phone rooted using daldroids recovery and rom as described over at theunlockr.com

Everything seems to be smooth. I proceeded to remove daldroids recovery from my SD card and copied over this great one. Moved it to /tools as well and now I'm looking at it.

Q: Why would one formation and partition the sd card with fat32+ext2+swap or just fat32? Like when do you need one and not the other?

Anyhow, I formatted it with fat32+ext2+swap and then created a nandroid backup. I'm about to flash the this great recovery image.

Then I assume when I get to loading the MyHero ROM I simply copy it over to sd card? rename it to update.zip. Jump into recovery mode / wipe data / and apply update.zip? Is that it?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] SkoalFyfan:
uh oh.

When I tried to flash the recovery image I got some error about signature checking being on and hence it failed and I know when I checked my phone I had SPL-ON.

I saw the post re: SPL2005 Engineering and to apply that update after fastboot. I fastbooted in and applied the update.zip.

Now my phone continues to get stuck on the Rogers/Provider logo and doesn't seem to boot? :confused:

ALSO - it seems it won't launch into FASTBOOT mode at all anymore either? I hold down BACK+POWER and I still just get my provider logo and it seems to hang on it?? The only way to get out of my provider splash screen seems to be to pull the battery! HEEEEELP!

ALSO - if I plug in the USB while it's stuck on the provider splash screen - my PC seems to detect a USB connection but it's an "Unknown Device" :(

am I completely bricked? :( I have nandroid backups on the sd card which I also copied locally but it seems pointless if I can't get into fastboot? :(

*UPDATE*: PHEW! After scouring the internet for help, I found a post where someone said to turn the phone off, plug in USB and then power it on normally. Provider splash still came up and was stuck on it, but the top left corner said FASTBOOT USB in red. I was able to still execute fastboot cmds from prompt and after flashing the boot images w/ my nandroid backup everything works again - including having the proper 2005 SPL now. Just upgraded to the MyHero ROM.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] sanmartindj:
Just switched

Hey guys, I just switch from the cyan recovery img and it's great, love it. The only suggestion I have is that it would be nice to be able to enable usb in case we don't have a card reader near by. On Cyan's you did it via recovery console but obviously we can't do it here.

Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] guinnes.s:
I did brick my first 32b by using the wrong SPL.

My new one has only the mod recovery and stock spl and im able to update to most of the rom out there.how come?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
Does your SPL have S=OFF ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] guinnes.s:
PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G

so what does mean?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] guinnes.s:
It have. S-ON
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] TeCH NiNJa:
????

would any1 know if the hard spl would be considered a engineering spl? or am i gonna have to load the engineering spl before i can do this update to 1.2.1G?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] lancelotchen:
I have met some problem in this recovery.

In recovery mode, sometimes I can't find the files under /system and /sdcard. When I use adb push file from PC to sdcard. The PC side always shows ok, but the file is not on sdcard. And I also can't access "su" in recovery mode. Everything is ok when I am not in recovery mode.

I am not sure this problem is related with this recovery, I also update my SPL to 2010 recently.

Could you help me?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] chris-steenkamp:
The reason you can't access /system or /sdcard is because the filesystems are not yet mounted. This is also the reason that pushing files doesn't actually put the files where you want them. The data gets transferred but instead of the output getting stored it sort of just goes into a black whole... to fix it is easy though, you just have to type 'mount -a' from your adb shell to remount all the filesystems.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] lancelotchen:
Thanks, I will try it tomorrow. But sometimes I can see other files on the SDCARD but can not see the file which I pushed. Is it related with mount?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] legend0fthefall:
Any plans on adding a "console" feature as well as "Parted" for us to enter the console and format the SD card ourselves?

The reason I ask is on the 32B board I find that 96MB of Swap work better than 32MB. And with the format option in your recovery, it only does 32MB. Where if we had access to something like "Parted", we could format however we wish.

EDIT: Ok, I'm an idiot... I totally forgot about the myTouch not having a physical keyboard....

BUT... could you ADD an option to your recovery that formatted 96MB for swap?

Are there any issues in using my Dream with Cynogen's to format the card using "parted" and then placing this card into the myTouch?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
I enabled adb in recovery mode so you can just connect your PC via usb and use adb shell. From there you can use parted and all the other binaries and scripts... they are all there, no need for cyanogen's recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] CoupedUp:
I am having issues with the 1.2.1G Recovery Image.

I am attempting to use theunlockrs 'One Click' method. When I try to use recovery flasher after backing up my recovery image I enter "sdcard/recovery-rav1.2.1G.img" and I get 'Invalid Recovery Image'.

I have the files on the root and I also have tried reformatting and readding the file to the root.

If this matters this is my info...

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G

HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP30000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.19.261

May 27 2009,19:06:41

I've never rooted or tried the goldcard method on this phone. This is as far as I have gotten. Any ideas?

EDIT: I have used 2 different SD cards now if that even makes a difference. A Patriot 2GB and the OEM MyTouch 4GB.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] andfreek:
Help

Hi Aman-RA,

I unrooted my HTC Magic ( Airtel India 32 A) using acidburn's thread. Which intern turned my 1.33.0010 to 1.33.2010 and etc...

Now, as per the guidelines, I took a nandroid backup. Is there anyway to revert me phone to 1.33.0010 + original ROM?

Thanks,

Andfreek.

PS: looks like HTC India is going to release a new rom with google apps. As I am not interested with the fancy UI and I am interested to use a pure ION to develop my Android applications.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] farbird:
with the 1.21h, I am unable to do filesystem repair or fix permissions..

It told me to fix/run via direct "adb"

i ran the img with

./fastboot boot ra_image.img

must i flash in order to fix the above problems?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Amon_RA:
It's case sensitive : sdcard/recovery-RAv1.2.1G.img

If it's not working try to rename the recovery to rec.img or something.

You need to run the fix persmissions script directly from adb ;)

So start an adb shell and run it.