yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ScoobyLieu:
Ok....I'm getting really frustrated now. I've got the goldcard portion done, and had the Magic screen and all that show on the screen. I installed the USB drivers for ADB and it's showing in my Device Manager. I shut it down and fastboot (back+power) and it says fastboot on the screen, and when I plug in my usb cable, it says fastboot usb on my phone. I go to cmd and cd to the tools directory and type in the code for the recovery. On the cmd window, I get:

creating boot image...

creating boot image - 16384 bytes

downloading 'boot.img'...OKAY

booting...OKAY

My phone goes to the red Vodafone screen and I wait....and wait....and wait....I don't know if I have to wait for 10 minutes or several hours...what's supposed to happen? I'm using the recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img file downloaded from rapidshare, 3.55MB. I'm at a loss....what should I do? Or what did I do wrong?

TIA
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
ScoobyLieu, this happened to me too. If it is happening right after you flash the engineering spl 2005 to the phone pull the battery (I know, I know) and wait a few seconds. Put the battery back in and hold the home button while you power the phone back on to go into recovery. From here if you followed the directions you should have put your sd card in a card reader and replaced the update.zip from the spl 2005 with the Rom-RAv1.1.0H-signed-update.zip renamed to update.zip. If you have done that then all you need to do is wait for recovery to boot up and tell it to apply the update.zip.

Hope this helps.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rayberto:
I am wondering as well.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
Rvashi, scooby

are you golden?:confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ScoobyLieu:
Sorry for the delay. I had a friend talking to me on my wife's phone asking for some help.

Ok...well, it's not after flashing the engineering spl 2005 to the phone, but before it. I'm trying to do that now, but reading the instructions, it says to do the goldcard first, then run the recovery in fastboot, then flash the 2005 (update.zip) file, which I can't get to right now. If I were to follow the instructions in my current state (home+power), the red vodaphone screen comes up and it kicks me to a picture of the triangle with an exclamation point in the middle hovering over a picture of the phone. I need to get that recovery image working but am at a loss.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
just so you guys know! This works!! It is that easy if you don't believe me no problem, but i just did this, and installed a hero rom and it worked like a freakin charm i can't believe it was that easy~!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
btw i have the tmobile mytouch3g
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
alright, well i had the same problem, the drivers weren't installed right, you're going to have to uninstall them and install them again, what worked for me...

-go to computer and right click it

-go to device manager and find your phone(the phone has to be in fastboot mode)

-right click, go to properties and go to the driver tab and uninstall.

-now close properties, and unplug the phone from usb, and turn off the phone.

-turn on the phone into fastboot.

-now the computer should see your phone and it should start to look for the drivers, but when it asks you if it should do it automatically, click that you want to cancel.

-now go back to device manager, obviously the phone is going to be the unknown device, so right click it and select update driver.

-select browse in the computer manually.

-the path on my computer is this "C:\AndroidSDK\usb_driver\x86". there are 2 usb drivers, x86 is for 32 bit vista and amd64 is for 64 bit.

-click next and that should install your drivers just fine.:cool:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
ScoobyLieu, give me a sec I am on another computer running dial-up.:O

Sorry I just assumed you were already past the spl point.

Ok, so you have the sappimg.img flashed or you wouldn't have the vodafone screen so lets move forward from there. Move the recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img to your c:\androidsdk\tools directory and start your phone into fastboot by holding back+power. When you see it say fastboot or fastboot usb on the screen go to your cmd (windows shell) and cd to c:\androidsdk\tools. From here you need to type "fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img" letter for letter without the quotes and you should see the phone boot into Ra's recovery image. From here you can tell it to apply the engineering spl 2005 you renamed update.zip and put in your sdcard's root directory.

Hope this helps. :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
holy crap!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
yeah my internet is online at my parents house in town. Cable modem.

I live in BFE and have 56k DUN sweet!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] g1gangsta6604:
help everytime i download sapping.img file it always says not exist or currupt where can i get a valid file??????/
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
can't really help you much there g1gangsta.

Google it man ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rvashi:
Still no luck grankin! :(

Are we suppose to get a Vodafone logo after we flash the initial sappimg.zip? because I still have the myTouch T-Mobile logo.

I reflashed the sappimg.zip and it flashed it all the way, then went to checking...then just went to default 'Back for Fastboot' ...it didn't say anything like success or whatever...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] lbingham:
Long journey accomplished

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my little adventure in rooting my little black MT3G. First, I went and bought a 2GB Kingston card to make sure I didn't have any problems with an incompatible card. However, after using the GOLDCARD.img I still had hiccups when flashing the SAPPIMG.zip. Basically, I would get the following:

SD Checking ...

Loading ... [SAPPDIAG.zip]

No Image!

Loading ... [SAPPDIA2.nbh]

No image or wrong image!

Loading ... [SAPPDIAG.nbh]

No image or wrong image!

Loading ... [SAPPIMG.zip]

blue bar goes up showing that it's flashing as usual. Once it reaches the top, I get the message:

Checking [SAPPIMG.zip] ...

and then it goes back to HBOOT. I tried this with the 4GB card that it came with because I read someone was successful with that, but I got the same message. I never got the messages that led me to believe that I goofed in creating the gold card either. It would just go back to HBOOT, I'd go to fastboot and restart the device only to find that I was still on HBOOT-1.33.0006. Finally, I decided to try my 16GB SDHC SanDisk. It worked.

So, to those of you out there "punching chairs" and what not, just hang in there. I don't know what I did differently that worked, but I'd be more than happy to help anyone else with this issue by giving more details about my hardware and things I ran into.

Now, which ROM do I choose... I want to update my signature! :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ScoobyLieu:
THanks for trying to help grankin, but I figured out what happened. Apparently, the recovery file that I had downloaded was incomplete or corrupt, so that's why it never went into recovery mode. I perused other sites and found Haykuro's writeup and found another source to download it from. When I changed that to the new recovery file, boom....I actually saw the recovery screen and was able to complete the rooting process....Man...I never thought I'd see the end of that, but it was well worth it since I now have Cyanogen's latest rom. Haven't had time to try it out yet, since I need some serious sleep now. Sure was tough learning all the terms and how to actually do a root, but I sure hope it helps in terms of doing it another time, possibly for a friend's phone. Thanks for all the people who were able to crack this when all hope was lost. Amazing people we have here on this site, as well as others invested in the progress of this platform.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] htciscrap:
There is nothing wrong with the file. The file contains a 256 character signature at the beginning of the zip file. Hence winzip/windows inbuilt compression utility reports the file as corrupt.

Please ignore that error and copy it to your goldcard.

If you are still interested in seeing whats inside that zip file then use 7-zip.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
rvashi, the sappimg.img is from a vodafone magic. Therefore yes, you are supposed to get the vodafone logoafter flashing it.

Check that you actually did get the sappimg.img to flash correctly and then move your recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img to your c:\androidsdk\tools directory. CD to your c:\androidsdk\tools and try "fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img" letter for letter and see if it lets you flash the 2005 spl then move forward from there.

Sorry if this is a little cryptic I need some major sleep and to that end I am turning in for the night. I will be back on for a little while tomorrow before work. Good luck all and remember if it doesn't work the first time start over from the very beginning and retrace your steps.:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
so i bricked my phone today :p

and i just removed the battery and went into fastboot.

installed superhero rom, im gonna give it a run.

i also did the daredevil steps.

extremely easy and quick!

everyone out there thats scared of rooting, dont worry!

if you're not sure about something, ask before you do and you wont mess up!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tato22:
we need some hero roms to work right on the mytouch cuz none work they all get blury after the phone sleeps or are own thread just for mytouchs
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
right now im going to see how the one by Fatal1ty feels like, the superhero rom was kinda slow
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mindbender77:
gold card

sorry if this is a newb thing to ask but is every gold card unique to the phone??? sooo i'm trying this out i downloaded telnet into my mytouch and typed in the line and nothing happens whats going on??

Can anyone make an ez tutorial to how to made a gold card that has ez and clear instructions to follow..

that would be awesome

thanks in advance
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
im working on a video right now, and dont worry its good to ask questions, especially if you are on a budget like me and cant splurge on phone if you brick it.

ok, i dont believe that the gold card belongs to one phone, are you getting the code from the card? are you rooting your phone? and if so what step are you on?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
neoxtian, with few exceptions all the hero roms are slow due to the sluggishness of the Rose UI and TouchFLO 3D. However, in an earlier response to me motivecc told me about a rom called Noname Hero Superlite that disables (or totally gets rid of) the Rose UI and he said that it actually seems to run faster than the Standard cupcake UI!

Haven't tried it yet (kind of getting sick of reinstalling all my apps and per info:D).
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] etm250r:
roms

okay so where is the best place to download roms
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
Guys!! I guess nobody paid attention to my last post.

http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2009/08/16/android-rooting-in-1-click-in-progress/

This actually works! I have a US mytouch3g and I have installed 4 roms since last night when I tried this.

why are you guys going through all this hassle? Just do this before they patch it.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tato22:
am not able to flash any hero roms ones its up and running its all good but after the phone sleeps it gets all fk up and blurry idk how i have re format ed the sd card and done all the 3 partitions again still same shiiit ugh
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
I had this same issue, Use fatal1ty's hero ROM and it works for me now.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tato22:
i tryed it same think no diff there has to be somthing thats making it like that
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
No idea than man, I am not to sure how the LCD screens work on the phones but it appears that once the screen goes to sleep and than wakes up the refresh rate isn't correct, at least that is what computer monitors look like when the refresh rate gets all crazy.

But I did have that issue with qtecknology or whatever and now with fatal1ty it works fine.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rvashi:
Grankin...you've been AWESOME! Thanks a bunch for helping me and many others!! However, After trying this stuff for two nights straight and staying up until 2am and pissing the gf off...I'm ready to give up.

I've jailbroken the crap outta the iphone and unlocked so many WM devices with HardSPL and many other things....I've also rooted the G1 with ease and made many changes....but this has got to be the most ANNOYING phone to root! :mad:

So thinking why I actually wanted to root this phone...just so I could flash a Hero ROM, I just went ahead and purchased a Hero!! :p

Now I'll just sell this on ebay and make whatever money...but good luck to all of you guys who have got it rooted and and to those who are still at all ( you guys are fighters!) :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] RyeBrye:
Yeah, I was going to chime in and say "umm... you're trying too hard"

But... maybe it feels better if it is harder to do?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
HAHA, for sure! Oh well, I am enjoying my pretend hero phone now.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
Man I've tried like 8 hero Roms, I don't even know which one I'm using now! I did notice that a lot of them had problems connecting to my data services after I disconnected from WiFi, the one I'm using now lags a bit to the homescreen, but a good thing is that it comes with tethering already and its pretty quick! But yeah time to go to work and test this thing out on the real world, I'm tired of watching powderpuff girls marathon :P also I just realized thay the google keyboard really sucks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] edoka:
this actually worked great was alot more simple than doing this
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
hey you can also root the hero :p
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
Glad somebody tried it!!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kweng_ca:
Hello,

I was just wondering how you test the compatibility of the sd cards to use as a gold card. I only have a 4 gig micro sd which is classified as a "high capacity card". Will using this card be an issue?

Thanks in advance
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] evrydayzawrkday:
Same here, but the Qtechnology w/ CC worked without an issue.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] xJCHAVx:
Stock SPL?

I was wondering if it's possible to download the stock spl for US my touch (1.33.0006) rooted fine but after a couple my accelerometer burnt out ... tried reloading several roms and still nuthin ... so now I have to do a device exchange ... but I need to revert back to the original SPL ... does anyone know where I can find it?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] c-phresh:
yeo i just did it like 3 mins ago and it works fine
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] lbingham:
You have to set up the APN list if you aren't getting any data after turning off wifi. I'm looking for a post to reference, but I can't find any. Anyone know the posting for Haykuro's APN list?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rockin_mod:
Hey ne one get stuck on sending the recovery.img in fastboot?? I was reverting back to 32b and was doing the last step of flashing the recovery to the phone. It says sending recovery <3606 kb> I see the green bar on the phone. It's almost all the way except for a tiny tiny bit left. Help?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] xJCHAVx:
Had the same prob before ... it would load SAPPIMG file and green bar loads on the right but then went straight to fastboot ... I re-downlaoded the SAPPIMG file and tried again ... it worked perfect... it will actually take you through a couple steps if it's done correctly
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] toeshot:
I turned a Sandisk 4gig Class 4 card into a gold card
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Le3:
Great how-to.

took me a while to learn everything since this is my first time rooting or flashing an htc device.

Quick question to all you guys though, if I have flashed the radio to the ion radio (32B) and the recovery to the G recovery file, am I allowed to now flash any rom out there by just going into recovery and installing the update.zip in my sdCard whenever I feel like it?

Thanks,

-Jon
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tato22:
any way to go back to the spl 1.33.0006 ?

the one i have now is 1.33.0005 i wana go back to 1.33.0006

am rooted now but cant flash nothing good they all go blury after the phone sleeps
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] BrooklynAvi:
Tips on Rooting the myTouch 3G: Prepare

Hey all,

I noticed that a lot of problems people are having with rooting the myTouch seem to stem from people not fully reading the tutorials ahead of time. Moreover, I also saw that some have not downloaded the necessary files before they begin the rooting process. I rooted the myTouch and had the 32B board with the Cyanogen 4.0.1 ROM (with A2SD and compcache) all in a little more than 1 hour with not so much as a hiccup in the process. Believe me, I am not expert in rooting phones. This was only the fourth time I rooted an Android device (three times with a G1). But, I made sure that I had every file the tutorials required. I did all the preparation ahead of time: read the tuts, downloaded the files, made sure my ADB and fastboot were working properly, etc. I also made sure that I read through the entire tutorial, step-by-step so I would know what to expect. If you don't download the files ahead of time you could be looking at hours of rooting the phone. The process is relatively simple and rather straightforward.

So, my advice is read, read some more and when you are done with that, read some more. Download every single file you will need. Every one! You can even break up the steps. You can create the gold card today and root is tomorrow. Get fastboot and ADB working today and root tomorrow. You get the idea. And if you really need the visual aid, check out http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/14/how-to-root-your-mytouch-3g/. They put up a video tutorial of the process. It sometimes helps people to be able to visualize the process. And remember the main rule, measure twice and cut once. Spelling mistakes will kill the process. Check your work two, three and even four times to make sure that everything is in spelled correctly, in the correct directory, on the right SD card, etc.

I personally believe that the majority of problems with rooting the myTouch (assuming you have one capable of being rooted), comes from lack of preparation. Hope this helped even if only a little bit. Enjoy root!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tato22:
this is all very tru but now with the one click root u dont have to go tru all this any more its just made very easy but everything u saying is very tru most ppl mes up by not reading i did everything right but i do see ppl on the spl 1.33.0005 cant flash alot of roms y idk i have my 2 mytouch and did the one click root and i can flash every rom out there with no big deal but the spl on it is 1.33.0006 u get what i mean but ppl do need to read more and prep before they start
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pack:
Hey can anyone give me some insight on this... I used this method and have obtained root just fine with it but am having 1 issue, in the instructions you switch from 32B to 32A then install his 32A rom. I did this and am running his rooted rom but when i boot into fast boot i have:

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-OFF H

HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAPP30000)

It seems my spl is right but it still says my board is 32B. Does that not change in the fast boot screen or should it read 32A? I am confused because I am running his 32A based rom which is giving me a few problems and am wondering if this could be why and how I can be running a 32A rom on a 32B board in the first place?

Any clues will help thanks...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rockin_mod:
Ha! Funny story. Ok this might be a once in a life time thing k. It wasn't the image. It was fine. I had renamed the image recovery for less typing. So easy. "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" it hanged. Ok fine I was a lil scared due to me being afraid of the phone not reconizing ne recovery img and bricking. But all I did was "fastboot erase recovery" then went to tools and renamed it something else. First was recovery12. Nothing. So I tried a few more names and recovery-1.2. Worked. What is weird to me is that the name is was made the flashing confused. I only thought of renaming it due to seeing it say recovery recovery.img. I thought maybe to many recoveries lol. But there all good now.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] BrooklynAvi:
I too thought that this was weird. Proceed as per the instructions and everything will work fine. I would love to know why this is the way it is but it worked perfectly and I have a nice recovery console on my myTouch as well as Cyan's latest (4.0.1!). This was the smoothest part of the process and took only a few minutes.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] BrooklynAvi:
I read the that 1-click root reverts back on reboot. Correct me if I'm wrong as I have zero experience with this. Does it work with myTouch? I thought only on the G1.

Yeah, I basically wrote that post because I just know that people aren't preparing for the process before they do it. I read the process when it came out on Thursday night (8/13) and waited a few days and read everything I could on the process so I wouldn't have any problems related to stupid things (like I forgot to plug it in...).
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] BrooklynAvi:
I believe it has something to do with this line from your post:

.

If I remember to look at it tomorrow (a friend is playing with it overnight) I'll let you know but I think it will read this when you do the last part of the process.

.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pack:
i figured it out
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] jda1977:
One click vs. Goldcard

What is the difference of this rooting method and the goldcard method? Why is it so uncomplicated and if tmobile decides to close this route will it affect those of us already running cyanogen 4.0.1? Reading on spl's and radios and dont know if I should go there or if tmobile will ota push something that will un-do what this has done. Thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] xJCHAVx:
Ok so I've spent the entire night searching for HBOOT-1.33.0006 ... I found just about every other SPL except this ... is it just not avail because of the "prefected SPL" thing? If so if there a way to pull it from another stock MT3G... I can get my hands on another one if need be ... n e help would be much appreciated
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
I'm sorry to hear that you have not been able to find a ROM that works, I tried another hero rom and I had the same issue, so only 1 out of 4 worked for me. Not sure why. :confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tato22:
no it dose not go back after reboot i have 4 mytouchs aned tryed it on 2 and on 2 g1z and works good takes 3 mins to flash and flash a rom so it works
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
He is correct! It is permanent unless you revert back to original recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ianken:
Indeed. I'm rooted now. Easy. The tool uses a known exploit so use it while you can, it's a hell of a lot easier than the bazillion step goldcard method.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tato22:
its better doing it the one click root then the other one am having so much trouble when doing it the old way so i sent back the phone to get a new one to do it the one click root
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] frankd14321:
Ya don't do it the long way.. no reason to.. why chance messing your phone up
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rvashi:
That's probably the first thing I'll do when I get it tomorrow.

I read the how-to and it doesn't seem half as tedious as it is for the mytouch.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pack:
hey i see that he posted the "Original T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Splash Image" now....

all that does is change the vodafone logo back to the mytouch logo right?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tex2009:
what is the fastest 32b rom for the mytouch?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tricky76:
In regard to the one-click method.. do you still need to flash the SPL to 1.33.2005 ?