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[Touch Cruise ROM Development] DevaVictrix:
Hi guys,

A few months ago I updated from O2s 6.1 to a 6.5 ROM.

Now I want to go back the O2 ROM but the update freezes at 34%. The popup box says it lost connection with the phone.

I tried installing HardSPL but it didnt help. So I tried a hard reset but now I just get a RGB screen with

POLA200 MFG

SPL-2.20.OliNex

CPLD-2

Any suggestions in sorting my problem would be appreciated

Many Thanks
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] emrause:
First of all check your USB cable... and choose another USB port to connect the cable and try to flash your ROM again
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] chris10230:
Try this as it has been solved before may help you out

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=425922
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] hakimat:
same problem

hi everyone. I have a big problem with my htc touch cruise when I installed a hard spl htc dedicate a Diamond.donc I had a white encrant after I did a hard reset since my htc no longer I have a black encrant are neither green nor orange but when I connect with the pc I am data interface and it does not recognized my htc. In my pay is not qualified repairman three non réparé.aidé unable to please me I tried the commands mtty.exe but does not c I do not really know how it works.

thank you for your patience and for help
[Touch Cruise ROM Development] DevaVictrix:
Many Thanks for the replies.

I followed the link and i'm confident it will solve my problem. Unfortunately I cannot get mtty to offer "USB" from the dropdown. I remember going round in circles trying to get USB show a few years ago with a SPV C550.

If anyone can help me, that would be great. I'm using Vista. This might be why the steps in both the initial post and replies on the first page don't work for me.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] shure2:
Hi,

Has anyone got this program running on their TP2? I get the message "Your device is preventing installation. We can try to automatically fix this, but we need to restart your device. Continue?"

I click continue and the device restarts but doesn't install.

Could this be because I have the stock rom which is locked down?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Kraize:
AFAIK, that means it's either not compatible with it, or you're phone is not app unlocked. If not app unlocked, install sdkcerts.cab. If it is app unlocked, your phone is not supported.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] aBE-One:
I have the stock WWE ROM, and I was able to install nueDynamicClock without a glitch (I'm not sure if I even had the sdkcerts installed or not, at the time). However, if I underclocked/undervolted the processor, my TP2 would crash quite soon. Battery out, battery in, and I was ready to go again, fortunately (YMMV).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lnenad:
Well I can't find any guide to how to get my GPS to start working, those lines are all empty. I've tried several settings but it just doesn't get off the ground

ROM: HyperDragon Iolite IV 6.1

Programs i've tried are, iGO, Garmin XT, TomTom, Quick GPS, iGO reports that it's connected to the GPS, and the orange light is blinking (i've read somewhere that it's and indication of GPS) so what is wrong ?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Flying Kiwi:
One for the custom ROM thread where you got the ROM from

If you post in the thread for the custom ROM that you are using, someone there may be able to help you get things up and running otherwise if you want a standard stock ROM setup, mine works really well with GPS (much better than stock WM 6.1 HTC ROMs).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lnenad:
Will do, thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Caid444:
I've had the great misfortune of bricking my phone within the first few hours of owning it. I should have known something was up, it wouldn't reboot when I changed the language to English, and I'd have to hard reset it (delete everything) and then let it load in Chinese again. Well, in an attempt to fix what I thought was a rom issue, I went through the song and dance of trying to root my phone.

I'm still not fully clear on how to do it, as it seems there's more to it than just what the tutorials say.

Anyway, like the title of this thread says, there's a pretty good way to figure out if your phone is really bricked, no need to ask or wonder anymore.

If your phone only boots to the htc magic screen (and then stops), and is unable to load bootloader, fastboot, usb connections, or anything else, it's bricked. 100%. You have to take it back. Don't bother searching the forums for the answer, I've wasted hours going through every related thread and trying every possible solution. Without the ability to access the fastboot screen, you're out of possibilities. Untill someone comes out with an unbricker which goes deeper than fastboot, there is absolutely no way to fix it.

A semi brick is much better on the other hand. There are plenty of ways to fix your phone, provided you're only semi bricked. I would define semi bricked as being able to enter fastboot, but being unable to boot the phone as normal. This can happen with a bad flash, or a mis step during a tutorial. I'm not exactly sure how easy it is to change a semi brick to a full brick, but my full bricking happened after semi bricking it while loading a new rom on it.

So. to summarize, if your phone WON'T go into the boot menu by pressing vol-down+power, you're in need of a new phone.

If you can still get into the boot menu, and access your phone through usb, you're ok, just get help (via a tutorial) before going any further, unless you're completely certain of what to do next.

Tis a shame to send a device, which is physically undamaged, to the digital graveyard. But such is life.

Caid.

444.

EDIT

on a side note, before my phone reset itself into it's endless loop of unloading, I noticed the screen flash an image of a box with what looked like a red arrow coming out of it. It was right in the center of the screen. This was in the recovery-RAv1.0H.img menu. What's that all about?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Cheesebaron:
Did you try other key combinations such as Home+Power, or Back+Power?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] biktor_gj:
I'm sorry but I think you're misunderstanding it all a little bit...

It's easy if you follow the guides... I did it in two different phones with no problem at all in any of them... Anyway, let's stay on topìc :)

Wrong. If your phone boots to the HTC Magic screen, the bootloader is doing it's job. The bootloader just takes you there. The linux kernel and ramdisk takes you to the boot animation, and there is where android really starts.

If your phone shows the first htc logo, or the Vodafone branded screen, you can start in bootloader mode. To make that you just have to remove the battery, put it back, and press and hold BACK + END KEY. From that, you can fastboot.

Also, and unless you destroyed the recovery partition, you can also boot in recovery mode, by pressing END KEY while holding HOME (no need to keep them both hold, just home button)

I would call a semi brick this:

Your phone goes into an endless loop while booting.

Your phone gets stucked on the first boot logo.

You can't get access to the recovery partition.

Your phone boots all the way but then gets stucked.

Your phone gone bad during a software update.

That, all, can be solved by reflashing the affected region. There are tutorials for everything but if you need I can write some hints on each case (I suffered them all :)).

Actually, VOLDOWN+POWER starts in Hboot mode. From there you can go back to fastboot mode, but hboot is used to make a software upgrade using complete images or running htc diagnostic images (SAPPDIAG.IMG, SAPP*.IMG /NBH).

If you can't get USB working on fastboot mode, or on recovery mode, your phone has probably a hardware fault. It happened with some of the first revisions of the Vodafone branded magic, don't know about htc branded ones though..

NOTE: Not talking about missing drivers, if you don't have drivers, that's another problem, but the computer should at least detect the device. Also, if your phone is off, and you connect the charger (or usb) and the orange led lights up, the bootloader should be ok.

That's the recovery mode. With that you can unbrick your phone :)

Also, as another hint, if you're new to linux OSes, you might want to take a look at some manual on terminal commands. If your main software is bricked, it's possible that your SDCard doesn't get mounted on recovery mode, depending on wich recovery image you're running. Provided you have an update.zip on the sdcard you need to run, you might have to mount it manually.

To do that, you have to start the phone in recovery mode, and run an "adb shell" on the PC.

When you have a shell opened, you'll have to mount the sdcard manually:

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard

Then, on the phone you can use the option to run sdcard update.zip to restart the software upgrade procedure.

Regards!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Caid444:
Before I reply, I'd just like to say thank you very much for your extremely in depth reply.

To the first answer.

It's not THAT easy, the guides are kinda (you should already know what you're doing at this point) in nature. It's confusing for newcomers, as we've no idea what to expect, that and there are a multitude of variations. More specification as to which guide works with which model, and which updates would be nice.

As for the second part, I could not get the phone working with any button variation pressed. I'm sorry I was not more clear in my description, to begin with. I could press (and hold) any button (or buttons) + power (end key) and the phone would just vibrate (briefly) and then display the original screen "htc magic"(endlessly). The orange light does come on when plugged into the usb or computer, but only while it is off, as soon as the device turns on, the light turns off.

Another thing of note is that, after bricking it, I had to remove the battery to turn it off (every time if it was on), and if I put the battery back in while it's plugged into the usb port of the computer, the phone would turn back on without pressing any buttons. It's also completely unresponsive or detectable by my computer after bricking it. The only other thing I can get it to do is make the orange light blue by holding the action button and turning on the device. That way the light on top of the device is blue when it turns on. Still unresponsive at that point.

This is my first android device, but not my first htc device (I've had MANY MANY different ones.) so I'm a bit familiar with trying different combinations to get a response.

I am not the first person who's had this happen, unfortunately. There have been a couple others, who've described the exact same encounter. Perhaps it's a mistake that I made, and perhaps they also made it themselves. I would like to figure out how it's happening, though, and perhaps write a tutorial for people like us unlucky few.

Again, a really big thanks. I've sent my phone back and am getting a new one soon. I much appreciate your reply, however, as it's probably the most understanding and considerate reply I've seen on these forums.

Cheers.

Caid.

444
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Caid444:
One more quick question out of curiosity, when you press and hold back and press end to turn on the device (it still goes to the htc magic screen) SHOULD it go to a different screen, other than the "htc magic" screen? Or is that a process that runs without some sort of visual notification on the device itself?

The usb was completely unresponsive after this happened, but in the event that bootloader may have been running, (only possible if it runs without any visual notification on the device itself), I'll go pick up the device and see if my usb drivers on my computer just became unresponsive after being accessed too many times. Sometimes windows does that, right? Perhaps a reboot would have allowed fastboot and the drivers to connect again, if the device was trying to talk to the computer, but I just didn't know on account of not having any notification.

So, again, should pressing back and power bring me to a different screen? or would it also look like it was hanging on htc magic screen?

Caid.

444

p.s. Sorry for the confusing wording, I'm tired and trying very hard to be as specific as possible.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Cheesebaron:
back+end/power should lead you to the fastboot screen right after it shows the HTC Magic screen or whatever splash screen you have installed.

Home+end/power should lead you to the recovery screen.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Caid444:
ok, it was bricked. ;) Thanks for the answer.

Caid.

444
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] biktor_gj:
No problem, we all should be here to learn, and to help :) (except for the trolls)

This is the guide I followed for both Vodafone branded Magics: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting

Maybe not for now, but for the next magic you get it may come handy :)

When the phone is off with the charger connected and you press the power button, the light goes off, as for the others, you really should be able to enter the SPL if it could the magic bootlogo and vibrated upon boot...

Maybe you didn't try enough ;) or maybe your bootloader behaved differently than mine... I should be more clear anyway, to get to the bootloader, the best way to make it go to the bootloader is press and hold back key, then while holding it, hold the power button too. It should take about a second or two before showing the three skater droids.

When you put the battery while USB or charger is connected, the phone boots up, that's the normal behaviour. About the blue led, that's the Radio bootloader. That's quite dangerous to play with, but it gives a lot of other functions. Another sign that your phone wasn't completely dead :) Even if you wipe the SPL (the three skater droids), you may be able to boot into the Radio bootloader and write or boot another one to fix it. But that's waaaay harder :)

I guess the first advice when you start tricking with a phone is be careful with what you're doing. That's the good thing of fastboot.

When booting on fastboot mode, you can pick, for example a recovery image, and boot it without overwriting the original rom:

fastboot boot [recovery_image]

Then, when you see it's working, you can flash it:

fastboot flash recovery [recovery_image]
fastboot flash boot [boot_image]
fastboot flash system [system_image]
fastboot flash data [data_image]

You can't do that with the system.img since it's too big, but you can do it also with a boot.img

About the key combinations on the phone, it goes like this:

BACK + END KEY -> Fastboot mode (you shouldn't see the boot logo)
VOLDOWN + END KEY -> Hboot mode (you shouldn't see the boot logo)
ACTION (trackball center) + END KEY -> Radio Bootloader (you shouldn't see the boot logo)
HOME + END KEY -> Recovery mode (you should see the boot logo, then get the recovery menu)
SEND + MENU + END -> Reboot the phone (while the phone is on)

Maybe there are more (android has kind of 'safe mode' but I don't know it it goes there automatically if there's a problem or if it has to be called manually)

Anyway, I hope these things will be useful for the next phone, and for anybody who's a bit lost on this :)

Regards!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] shwan_3:
Let us know where you live , so maybe one can help you , I live in Sweden and will be glad to help you if you are near ;-)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Caid444:
Hey! Thanks again for all the help, and the offer to come help. Unfortunately, I'm in China. Coming here from Sweden (although it's a single large landmass) would take quite a bit of time ;)

I appreciate all the support, though. Very cool community we're building here for the magic.

Caid.

444
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] invernomutonet:
htc semi-brick?

Hi to all. I'm in the same condition described in this tread; after installing SPL i get the htc block in Vodafone brand red screen.

None keys combination bring me to the boot menù. Only Action(trackball) + power have effect, but with a black screen...

Any suggest?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] gruppler:
What do you do if you can boot into fastboot but can't flash anything because absolutely everything gives the error "FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)"?

I have a card reader and have tried just about every sappimg.zip, every boot.img, every recovery.img i could find. I can't even boot a recovery img because the screen just hangs at the HTC Magic logo.

I don't know what kind of warranty i have on this thing, but i might take it in tomorrow and see if i can get it replaced. I've only had it for just under two weeks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] furious6226:
Newbie need help

ok so i can still go to recovery mode but everytime i reboot my phone the mytouch 3g logo never goes away im new to Android but not htc can somebody plz help me out.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] biktor_gj:
Instead of flashing something, you boot a recovery image, and then, from there, you flash whatever you need (using adb & flash_image for example)

PS: Be a little patient, if fastboot is letting you boot a recovery image, the recovery needs to boot, and that takes a little while, and while it's booting, you see the bootlogo until the menu appears. Also, you can try running adb shell after boot process started to try to get an error message (or at least to know if the thing is booting in some way)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] gruppler:
I couldn't boot any recovery images. I had tried a few different Hero ROMs but decided i wanted to use Cupcake again because i have a 32B board and it just doesn't have enough RAM, though Swapper makes it usable at least. I don't know what exactly i did, but i've learned a lot from my mistakes. Everything i tried failed the signature check because the hboot version didn't match. If i could just flash the 1.33.2005 hboot again, i would have been in business, but no matter which recovery image i tried, it just sat there doing nothing. And believe me, i waited.

Fortunately, T-Mobile gave me a new device after i took it in and played dumb. And I just rooted it =]
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] waerren:
Why not flashing it with an RUU from HTC. Not sure that would work but it is worth trying.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] iivanovic:
Hi there, people!

First of all, thanks because while I was reading ur posts I realized that my phone had been bricked, 100 %

I tried official ROM upgrade to Android 1.6 using the folowing steps

1. Copied radio zip to my sd card by renaming it in update.zip

2. Recovery screen was started by pressing HOME+END key

3.Applied update.zip, process was going on: Opening package, verifing package, installing radio...and message about success was shown and phone restarted

4. Phone stucked on HTC Magic logo screen...15 minutes

5. I removed a battery, put it back and tried to reach recovery or boot mode again

6.Unsuccessfully! Phone vibrates and turns on...but always stucks on the HTC Magic screen

7. USB does not recognize my phone is connected (I tried any adb and fastboot commands)

8. So, I just pray to give me a new phone if my warranty will be accepted :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] stian230:
I have the same problem. I get up hboot and fast boot menus can not get it in recovery. try to add in sappimg but no luck
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] xIIIm:
I'm having the exact same problem...

Any solution yet?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] phantommusik:
Hello! I can assure you that your phone is not fully bricked! Awhile ago I flashed a new radio only to discover that I hadn't done my research and was a complete and total idiot. I flashed the 1.76.xxxx on a 32B. It didn't like it. I got a quick HTC logo that disappeared then the phone never responded again. When I say never responded it was dead. no combination of buttons would get any response. If you can get into fastboot you have options. All that's necessary is to make sure you have the appropriate sappimg file. Try the Unlockr's gold card method file. He has a .zip file that may work for you. Just make sure that you find an image that is compatible with your board (32A or 32B). Hope this helps!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] phantommusik:
One quick addition to this! You have to be real speedy if you are having this issue. It was usually a two person operation to get it into fastboot for me. One person to hold down volume and power while the other puts the battery back in. If you're really dextrous then you may be able to pull it off. Just remember to hold down vol+power til you see that fastboot screen
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] hause:
I need help with my messed up magic

My magic is back but it is not the same as it was.

I built a serial console cable and learned much stuff about oemsbl, at-command interpreter, hermes-boot-loader, arm-boot-modes qualcomm documents about the cpu and so on.

I flashed this:

RUU_Sapphire_Vodafone_Generic_2.16.151.3_GR_release_signed_NoDriver.exe

It flashed the spl and stucks at 60% or so, half way of the radio.img

After that the RUU shows:

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON H

HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-3.22.20.17

May 8 2009,21:02:32

The magic still is in RUU or RUU USB mode on power on.

With fastboot I can boot all RA-recoverys type "H". The "G"'s wont work.

The only image I can flash is: daldroid-htcmagic1-signed.zip

With fastboot I now can erase boot, recovery, system, cache and userdata partitions. I cannot erase the misc partition.

There is a bad-block on the system partition so I can't flash any other system.img.

I can only boot up daldroid this way:

./fastboot oem boot

Everything seems to work. I can use wifi and I can make calls and so on.

With the serial console I tried "setboot 0-5".

The misc partition shows this:

56 4F 44 41 50 31 30 32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 VODAP102........
52 65 62 6F 6F 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Reboot..........
44 65 76 69 63 65 57 61 72 6D 42 6F 6F 74 00 00 DeviceWarmBoot..
FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
43 45 20 53 65 72 69 61 6C 20 49 6E 55 73 65 00 CE Serial InUse.
44 65 62 75 67 20 43 61 62 6C 65 20 45 6E 61 00 Debug Cable Ena.
43 45 20 20 20 55 53 42 20 20 49 6E 55 73 65 00 CE USB InUse.
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF ........ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
43 6C 65 61 72 41 75 74 6F 49 6D 61 67 65 00 00 ClearAutoImage..
31 2E 37 35 2E 31 36 32 2E 33 5F 52 00 00 00 00 1.75.162.3_R....
53 65 74 52 75 75 4E 62 68 55 70 64 61 74 65 00 SetRuuNbhUpdate.
FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ

Anyone any ideas how to change the boot-mode?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Stas3000:
Help

Sorry for my English.

How to correctly flash daldroid, through (fastboot oem boot)

Thanks in advance
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] FOCULO:
interesting....

So, I have seached a lot about on how to ude serial-console to bring it in ARM9_BOOT_MODE0. Could you give us a clue on how to get this to work....
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DjMafio:
Hi guys!

When I do all the possible combinations of keys, my Magic always shows on screen a Box with a red arrow going to a phone. I stays 2-3 seconds and after that the screen goes grey...

When I press the trackball + power button, there is a blue led but the screen stays off...

Is my phone bricked ? Is there any solution to "repair" it ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DjMafio:
Does any one care about my problem ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] hause:
Can you post the output from the serial-line when powering on the phone?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] DjMafio:
My phone is now bricked, I've sent it to repair. I'll see if my warranty will work...