yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ashshlay:
for those not getting new spl after flashing

after the following line:

"Once the SPL is flashed you have to power off your device and boot it again in fastboot mode."

You must power it off by using the home and back button which will reboot the device and write to the device very quickly. This is actually when the SPL is flashed and not prior to that although it looks like it is doing work.

I thought I had flashed my SPL (haven't had to do it in some time) and realized it was the same one later when I couldn't get some things to work like flashing the 32B radio.

I was able to flash all the other stuff before that oddly enough although I don't know why it was possible.

Great article and how to...

Maybe an addition to the line mentioned above would state to reboot from the recovery before then using fastboot to check the SPL version would make sure it actually is flashed properly.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Qancer:
how do i know if it was flashed properly?

was the update FAILED supposed to happen?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] evrydayzawrkday:
Flashing the device, and rooting it was pretty simple and strait forward (I have a MyTouch 3G)

Here is my issue:

I have a 32B motherboard, and would like to revert back using the dare devil steps below.. BUT, when I try to run the following cmd (either or), all I get is the red Vodafone splash screen.. and nothing else.

fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img

fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0G.img

I have the recovery IMG files in the android SDK tools dir, and I am still unable to get this working..

Anyone else having this issue?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
evrydayzawrkday, I had this issue for a second also. It has been so many days since I did it though all I can remember doing is pulling the battery:eek: in order to get back to a "troubleshootable" spot.

Fastboot the device by holding the back button while powering on and then try to run all the fastboot flash radio radio.img, etc.., etc.., commands.

The fastboot boot recovery RAv1.2.0g.img is just to try the recovery image out without any permanent changes to your device.

Hope this helps!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rockin_mod:
ok i made the gold card. super easy, yes. next i put and named the img sappimg. k good. next i went into hboot. easy. it recognizes the sappimg and check's it. k but after its done checking then it goes back to hboot with no ? to update. please ne one help?????? i am getting frustrated due to me being able to flash ne thing to ne thing. i have been messing with phones for a long ass time. this phone is getting ready to be a skipping rock if i cant get it to work. please and thank you all...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
hmm ... its not giving you any kind of error message or anything. Are you sure you named the sappimg file sappimg.zip? Can you explain a little more in depth. I could take my phone by to that point and try and work through your problem but I don't really want to.:)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rockin_mod:
i just got it to finally give me a model id error and to reboot it. soooo ya? i am greatful that you are offering me help!! model id incorrect is goldcard not working right??
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
if the error it is giving you is "update failed! Model id incorrect" it sounds like your gold card worked and it has already applied the sappimg.img to the device. Try skipping ahead and fastbooting your device into Ra's recovery rom and then flash the Engineering spl .0005 to your magic.

Let me know how it goes and any errors you may get. I will be in front of my computer for a little bit longer.:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] evrydayzawrkday:
THANK YOU Grankin! I tried it the first time, and it errored out in my MSDOS prompt.. I pulled the battery, gave it 15 minutes and did the following to fix it (like you said).

-Put the battery in, and powered the phone on into fastboot mode (power + back key)

-Ran the following cmd

fastboot flash radio radio.xml

Ran the rest of the cmd's, and it worked without an issue.

Thank you!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
Great News

evrydayzawrkday, great to here it man.:D FLASH AWAY!!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] evrydayzawrkday:
Flashing as we speak.. hopefully I can fastusb into the device so I can change the logo :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
yeah, I did that too. I have tried the jesusfreke roms on my wifes G1 and ended up putting cyanogen 3.9.9.1 on both that and my mytouch. Just flashed qteknology's hero rom onto my mytouch to give it another chance.

Have flashed 4 or 5 different roms to the mytouch in as many days:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] evrydayzawrkday:
blurry home screen?

So I got it all flashed up, now on 32B ROM's with the proper radio.

Issue: When using the cyanogens rom I am getting a blurry tray/home screen... works after reboot for a good period of time and happens again.

Any recommend a good ROM that works after the 32B radio flashing and such?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
I tried to flash a google ion image to mine to see what it was like and it did the same thing to me. All blurry and fugly.:eek: Not sure what is going on there as I am new to this platform myself.:confused: I just flashed the cyanogen 3.9.9.1 and/or Qteknology hero rom and neither one of them have done that to me yet. All I can say is trial and error it. Just find one that works for you man. I know the jesusfreke roms are good stable roms.:)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
ok so..

i did all this

- Once the recovery is booted wait a while

- Apply the update.zip (you are now flashing the 1.33.2005 SPL)

- Once the SPL is flashed you have to power off your device and boot it again in fastboot mode.

- The SPL should now read 1.33.2005.

- Power off your device and pull out the SD-card

- erase the update.zip on your SD-card (via cardreader)

- Download my RAv1.1.0H 32A based ROM and rename it to update.zip and copy it to the root of your SD-card (via cardreader)

- Insert the SD into your device.

- Power on while holding back (=fastboot) and connect the USB cable

Code:

fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img

- Apply the update.zip located on your SD-card

and now its stuck on the android screen.

aslo what is card reader?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
by the way man, the jesusfreke roms and the cyanogen roms both have update programs you can download from the android market.:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
neoxtian, I am getting ready to leave the house but I will try to help real quick.

Did you try to boot your phone after updating the SPL to 2005? If you did I would say that is why you are having trouble. A card reader is what your phone is when you mount the sd card so you can write to it from the computer. There are a couple of ways you can do this.

ok, boot your phone back into fastboot. Then go to your androidsdk directory via cmd (windows shell). type "adb shell" then "ls". This should give you the contents of your root directory. type "cd sdcard" then "ls" again. This should put you into your sdcard via linux shell and show you its contents. The update.zip file that you put in there should be visible onscreen after the "ls" command. If it is type "rm update.zip". This will delete it from the sdcard. while you are doing this you need to copy your rom (RAv1.1.0h 32a) to the tools directory (c:\androidsdk-window-1.5_r3/tools) and rename it update.zip.

With me so far?:) Now that you have all that done you need to push the update.zip to your sdcard. type "exit" to get out of the linux shell and back to a dos prompt (c:\yadayadayada). Now type "adb push update.zip /sdcard" and hit enter. Give it a minute and it should give you a report under the line you typed showing transfer rate and amount transfered. If all that happens now you can type "fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img" and apply the update.zip to flash your rom.

Hope this helps and gets you off the android screen your stuck on.:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rockin_mod:
sorry bro. im trying to get the damn drivers to work now!! i hate windows and its driver update crap. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
obviously above is only one way you could do it.:) The other and less complicated way would be to find another phone you can put your sdcard in and delete the old update.zip and rename the RAv1.1.0h 32a rom to update.zip and copy it to the sdcard and then flash.:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
rockin_mod, that's alright man. I had this problem too. Delete all the drivers you installed from the sdk and then plug your phone back in. Tell it you want to install the drivers manually and start over from there.

Just in case you needed that little tidbit:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
neoxtian and rockin_mod,

good luck I'll probably be back on tomorrow.:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] shizzyraw585:
1.33.2005 hboot

Does anyone have another link for the 1.33.2005 HBOOT? The rapidshare link appears to be down ->

"You have requested http://rapidshare.com/files/247838950/update.Engineering-SPL-HBOOT-1.33.2005-signed.zip | 188 KB.

The server 232.rapidshare.com is momentarily not available. We are aware of this and are working to get this resolved."

I was on a roll, finally got the gold card!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
argh, well actually, i thought that i did something wrong so i went into recovery, and selected erase everything and go back to factory data, the phone booted up fine, with the vodafone splash, the home screen is different and everything loads fine, does this mean i have root? or im running htc magic?

*update*

i just checked, and on my phone information and this is what it says

Model number-

Google Ion

Firmware version-

1.5

Baseband version

65.52S.20.18H_3.22.20.17

Kernel version-

2.6.27-cb85e129

htc-kernel@and18-2 #3

Build number-

CRB43

*Motherboard update*

SAPPHIRE PVT 32B ENG S-OFF H

HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAP30000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-3.22.20.17
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
im going to try to do this before i hit the factory reset.

ok, so on command,

my directory is this:

"C:\ androidsdk>"

should i type "C:\ androidsdk>adb shell"?

because if i do it just says "Error: device not found"

if you could give me the full directory would be a lot of help.

thank you by the way
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] FU5 KONA:
Me too....finally found an sdcard that worked outta the 50 I tested!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] shizzyraw585:
Driver Issues

OK,

I flashed the sappimg.zip, and now my pc is not recgonizing the phone. adb devices gives me no results. I know that I have to edit the drivers .ini and change all the references of 0C03 to 0C02 per the wiki, but where can I locate this .ini file?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] dorktronix:
I've got the same driver issue as a few others in the thread- after flashing sappimg.zip and installing the htc driver update and htc sync there's still a driver conflict when trying to fastboot. None of the fixes have worked and at this point I just want the stock t-mobile os back on the phone. Is this possible given that it would seem I can't fastboot anything?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] shizzyraw585:
Man, I thought the gold card was tough, it was easy compared to these driver issues! I went to another pc and installed the SDK and HTC Sync. The app recgonized the phone and it even asked if i wanted to sync the time, so i figured great, they're talking to each other! Sure enough, when I gave the adb devices command, my phone was listed!:D!! Then, I switched to fastboot, and issued the command again, nothing:(!!!! so i restarted the phone issued the command a third time, and now the phone is listed again. Why isn't it showing up in fastboot mode:confused:?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Das_mobile:
+1, any mirrors to the above link?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] shizzyraw585:
http://briancrook.ca/magic/?C=M;O=D

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the pc to recognize the phone again after flashing the sappimg.zip? Where is the .ini file that the wiki talks about editing if we have driver issues:confused:.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
sorry neoxtian i kinda left that out didn't I. The directory you need to be in is c:\androidsdk\tools by what you say the "root" directory of your sdk is. However it sounds like with your phone saying it is model number Google Ion you should have root. Go into the terminal emulator on your phone or download PTerminal if you don't have one and type "su". It should chew on it for a second and then bring a screen up telling you terminal is asking for root priviledges. Should have some option buttons at the bottom of the screen saying allow, always allow, deny, etc....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
USB Driver Issues

I don't know about the wiki because I never saw it but all I had to do was go into device manager and delete all of the usb drivers that I installed from the sdk and then plug the phone back in and tell windows that I wanted to install the drivers manually. This worked perfect for me and I never had to edit any ini file to get them to work properly.

Don't know if this will help.;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
by the way I never installed the HTC driver update that everyone is talking about either:confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
rockin_mod, did you ever get it to work?:confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ewells30:
Woohoo - Finally working
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] lesjaw:
HBOOT never ask me to flash SAPPIMG.zip..i don't know where the problem is, i have created goldcard..and put only SAPPIMG.zip in it (have tried reformated and goldcard)

My Magic

PVT32A Ship S-On H

HBOOT-1.33.0010 (SAPP10000)

CPLD-12

Radio-3.22.20.17

Jun 2 2009, 17:28:28
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Fidelio_o:
20) Click on the “removable disk” tab. Select offset 00000000 till offset 00000170, c

20) Click on the “removable disk” tab. Select offset 00000000 till offset 00000170, click on Edit tab and then Paste Write.

I make it up to hear. But it wont let me paste write to the removable disk....any help would be appreciated.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] lesjaw:
You have to make sure when you open removable disk unchek open as read only..
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Fidelio_o:
Hey thnx, got the goldcard made. Now Fasboot wont open....:( Tells me that AdbWinApi.dll is not found....One of the reasons Im a mac person, I mean Im looking at the file right now in the computer.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] htciscrap:
I tried this approach for following SPL for HTC branded magic sold in India:

HBOOT-1.33.0010 (SAPP10000) : Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H

At step "It should pick up the sappimg.zip and you should be able to flash it.",

it did pick up the SAPPIMG.zip, but then I got error:

Main Version is older!

Update Fail!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Amon_RA:
What is the version of your ROM?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] spatali:
Man just what i feared for. Another roadblock for 1.33.0010 :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] htciscrap:
How do i query the ROM version?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hynix32b:
SAPPIMG_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2.53.707.2_SEA_release_signed.zip
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Fidelio_o:
I cant get my pc to open up fastboot. I extracted all the files from the android sdk to a folder on my desktop, and when I open click on the fastbook.exe, It gives me an error telling me that AdbWinApi.dll, but the file is in the same folder as the fastboot.exe....Can anyone help me out, Cant get any of the command promts to open, can I just type the commands into the regular pc or mac terminal?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Amon_RA:
We will need to search a ROM with an higher version that doesn't have a perfected SPL... :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] lesjaw:
arrgh..mine is 2.53.707.2 too...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Rahzelhx:
dont mean to be off topic but

question anyway to make a gold card in linux i dont run windows -_- (damn me)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] MWeimar:
Is this is another way to do it ??

Found this explanation to Root whithout GoldCard i think....

http://home.leakdroid.com/2009/08/11/mytouch3g-rooted/
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] lesjaw:
No..it still need goldcard..
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] MWeimar:
...OK then i will start trying to make a GoldCard

can some one make a image of af GoldCard to restore to a empty SDCard to make it easy to create?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] F16Freek:
Thanks for this!!

First I wanna say thanks for everyones time and efforts! Locked phone = no fun... Second, if I only have 1 sd card. Will I be able to make a gold card on it, then erase it later for the update.zip file? Or is there a time constraint between steps or something that would make this not possible?

Thanks again, you guys are 1337
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] htciscrap:
I created goldcard using linux.

you can run QMAT under wine.

And you dont need HxD Hex Editor, instead use dd:

dd if=goldcard.img of=/dev/sd?

replace '?' with the drive letter appropriate for your sdcard.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] addiecool:
I got

Update Failed.

Main version is Older

I have a 1.33.0010 Magic bought in India

Please help I am so eager to have this rooted and get all google features.

Thanks for the good work guys though. You have been great
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] shizzyraw585:
Nevermind, found what i was doing wrong -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=548188
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
I did it!

I got root! I had gotten an error message when trying to install the last update.zip before the dare devil steps and I just selected the file manually, it installed, then it got stuck on Android, then I went back and restored to factory settings, and it worked :P
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
Great

Good to here it man:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neoxtian:
Thanks a lot for you help, I'm gonna try to make a video tutorial, this really wasn't that hard to do! Following instructions and boom
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
no prob man. If you haven't already give qteknology's hero rom a try. It is about the fastest of the hero roms and I read somewhere that if you can get your hands on a class 6 micro sdcard it speeds it up to almost the standard cupcake speeds even on the google branded 192mb of ram phones. take it for what it is worth i haven't tried it yet.;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] evrydayzawrkday:
It is not that hard, but there are a few "steps" that were not added, that a new android rooter would need to know.

Video would be sweet, and hopefully prevent future brickings of this phone (though I still dont understand how you completly brick the phone, but ok)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
I could be wrong about this but I do remember a few viruses that would change hardware settings in computers enough to actually fry small sections of components and render the thing useless until you could pinpoint and fix the problem. I would guess that is what is going on when you completely brick a phone or ipod or whatever (in very extreme cases). The rom would look for the wrong settings and change them to match what it expected to see thereby destroying the phone's circuitry.

Again, not sure myself. Just a thought.:confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] dorktronix:
I looked at this and when I try to fastboot the recovery.img the command prompt just says < waiting for device > and nothing happens.

To clarify- when I boot normally to the vodafone/htc magic image my computer recognizes the phone just fine, but when I boot into either fastboot or hboot mode I get the device not found errors and fastboot just hangs because of that.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tornamac04:
i did it and loaded jachero rom...im not bricked. but i would like to know how to make things speedier. like doing the sdcard partitioning
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] motivecc:
i have a class 6 16gb transcend card and it still slows down over time unfortunately... Rosie is just not that streamlined... the files for rosie need a good optimization and re-hashing in order for it to run faster... any of the hero roms that i've tried run good for the first day, but after you load all your programs back and try running a few it bogs the phone down and lags very heavily... i've tried everything in my power, from trying compache to swap, to increasing the swap file partition but nothing helps...

the fastest ROM that i've tried is noname hero superlite without the rosie interface; this ROM runs faster than plain jane cupcake and i've just given up on rosie completely for the time being...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rvashi:
Okay guys...I did some major searching before posting this...

I am currently at the load recovery.img part and I can't seem to do that. I keep getting the "downloading 'boot.img' FAILED...(remote: not allow)

After doing some searching, I found that you need to flash the enginnering spl first and then you wouldn't get the remote:not allow error. Well, everytime I go into Hboot Mode, the phone doesn't recognize the 'update.zip' ....it keeps searching for sappimg.nbh, sappimg.zip..etc. etc....but its not looking for update.zip so it keeps cycling back to Hboot.

What gives??? I've already flashed the sappimg.zip file from Goldcard.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tnicolaou:
Can anybody tell where I can download SPL-HBOOT-1.33.2005-signed.zip? It seems like the rapidshare server is down. Thanks in advance for your help.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tricky76:
Has anyone seen this new alleged root method?

Android Rooting in 1-click (limited time only… until it gets patched)

http://bit.ly/DeUWe

or if that link is down

http://bit.ly/GWQBX

Is this for real? Will it work for the MT3g?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pack:
if your worried about it working why dont you just use this method? its been tested
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
rvashi, you need to flash the engineering spl through fastboot not hboot. ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
yeah, motivecc, I thought it would be too good to be true but heres to wishful thinking right. Picked up a PNY 4gb class 6 anyway just so I would have the quicker read/write times.:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rvashi:
Thanks for the reply grankin! But that's what I am talking about....

I try the 'fastboot boot recovery.img' command at c:\androidsdk\tools\ in command prompt on WinXP...and I get 'remote: not allowed' (i wrote the whole error message in my previous post)

How do I push the engineering spl at fastboot? Do I need to press action key (circle button) or something else?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
rvashi, do you know for a fact that the sappimg.img has flashed to the device?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rvashi:
Yup, I know for a fact that it has been flashed. However, I can flash it again if you think that might be a problem.

It flashed the sappimg.img and then it verified it....and now I can still access mytouch as normally. Nothing really changed. Is there any way I can tell if the sappimg has been flashed or not?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] grankin01:
If it verified it and went through the checks and gave you an ok it should be fine, just covering the bases.:D

now if you have copied the engineering spl as update.zip to the root of your spare SD not your gold card put it in your phone and try this...

go into fastboot by holding back and power on your phone.

copy the recovery image (recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img) to c:\androidsdk\tools directory and type the following line.

"fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img" (typed exactly like that without quotes). Then try to flash your spl by telling the recovery program to apply update.zip.

Try and give me a shout back as the wife wants to go home like now. IF MOMMA AIN'T HAPPY, NOBODY'S HAPPY.:D