[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Nadkins:
How i Rooted NTT Docomo HT-03a HTC Magic 32B

Hi,

I created an account just to share with my fellow Docomo ht-03a (HTC Magic) users. I have been battling getting this thing rooted for a few weeks, and finally i read about the one click universal androot on Gizmodo. It worked like a charm and the root process took like 10 seconds. But after that i was struggling all day getting a ROM loaded using rom manager. I couldn't get the get the clockwork mod recovery to work or the alternate. After fighting with it for about 8 hours straight i finally figured it out. Here are the steps i had to take.

First make sure you sync you Google info, and backup what ever stuff your will need to take with you to your new rom. I read about titanium backup for root users but i didn't need it, i just had my Google contacts and my keeper passwords which can both backup over the internet. But you can always recovery back to your original if you need to. ( i had to recover once today and everything was just as i left it)

After you root using the androot, go to the market and download rom manager and busy box. after they are installed open up busybox because it requires more install.

Next open rom manager and start the fix permissions option. it takes a while to run through over 100 items. then reset your phone (turn off and back on) back into your normal rom.

Now open up rom manager and at the top flash the latest clockwork recovery making sure to choose the mytouch option in the pop up and not the HTC magic option. keep in mind that every time you boot into your normal docomo rom this recovery will be reset to normal and will require you to load the alternate at the botton of rom manager and then load the clockwork mod recovery again right after.

Now you are ready to load a rom. First i tried the latest amon ra rom and it loaded up fine but i was unable to connect to docomo data network (3G). But then i decided to try cynogen. In rom manager choose download and then cynogen and then whichever one you want, but i have only test the 6.0.0 rc3. make sure you check the box to download the Google apps because they have to be seperated from the actual rom but they all install together. once you download is finished you will bet a pop up asking if you want to back and delete cache or something like that, just check both boxes and then click ok to reset into recovery mod. during the process it will make a nandroid back up of your docomo rom that you can recovery to if you need to later, as i mention i had to do it after the amon ra rom couldn't use the data network and it worked fine.

Your phone should boot up into the clockwork recovery (Que the cheers and beers) and it takes about 5 minutes, after that i got kinda scared because it looked like it was stuck at docomo screen but it just took a long time, then the cynogen screen poped up which took a really long time too. But within like 30 seconds of everything loading up i got my data network 3G at the top.

I tested out the wifi tether which is the main reason i wanted to root and then just a few of my normal apps. Everything i installed i went into setting s and moved over to my sdcard to clear up some room. Side note: the weather and news widget that is on by default takes up alot of memory so i trashed it, and the green taskiller from the market takes up like 8M of ram, but the red one works like a charm and keeps me at about 27M of usable ram which is less that the 30-40 i saw on the docomo rom, but its not really any slower than the docomo rom and it has so many more benifits. But if your are going to install a bunch of apps it could possibly become slower, but i think the RC3 rom is based on android 2.0 or 2.1 so maybe an older version on cynogen might be faster. But i think once you see it you wont want to downgrade back to a rom based on 1.6.

I hope this helps someone, i tried to keep it as simple as possible. I just got so aggravated that i could not find any threads with any kind of tutorial on the docomo so i thought i would share what had learned through trial and error. i think i had to take out my battery because my phone froze about 50 times today.

Lastly I will keep up with the thread to help with any questions.And i am not responsible if for some reason you brick you phone and good luck.

Update: After browsing the settings i found that it is based on android 2.2 also in cynogen mod setting/performance settings/ enable surface dithering is on by default. it states improved image quality at the cost of performance. i turned this off and reboot, and i saw a huge increase in speed and no change in image at all (maybe its for tablets or something). i got a normal of 34M ram and the whole rom is so much faster and responsive than the docomo rom. And something i forgot to mention is that mine loaded up in japanese the very first time, so on the very first screen the bottom right button lets you change languages.