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[myTouch 3G, Magic General] KROMO50:
I have never done this on a android phone only on windows mobile, when i do this what will i be able to do and what do i gain from it phone wise thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Das_mobile:
I'm going to root my phone soon, any recommendations for ROMs?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] bennyha:
Yes Sir. Its in there.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] the_bean_machine:
I briked mine

Ok I was following the Haykuro method found on

http://htcpedia.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3509

I think I downloaded an incorrect SPL. Now Im stuck on the red vodafone boot screen. One thing to note is that the vodofone logo is blurry.

If anyone has any suggestion please let me know. I tried taking out the battery and then volume down + power, then the home + power. The only thing that does anything is trackball + power it just lights the led at the top blue.

I think i perma-briked my phone :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Fidelio_o:
- Power on while holding back (=fastboot) and connect the USB cable - Download my RAv

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

- Download my RAv1.2.0H recovery and fastboot it :

Code:

fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img

I am stuck here..... :(, Im using a mac not sure how to fastboot I turned the phone off, and power back on using the back and home buttong and it shows fastboot usb, but when I run fastboot-mac all i get is this

Last login: Wed Aug 12 15:56:56 on ttys000

fidelios-macbook-pro:~ Chelo$ /Users/Chelo/Downloads/fastboot-mac ; exit;

usage: fastboot [ <option> ] <command>

commands:

update <filename> reflash device from update.zip

flashall flash boot + recovery + system

flash <partition> [ <filename> ] write a file to a flash partition

erase <partition> erase a flash partition

getvar <variable> display a bootloader variable

boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] download and boot kernel

flash:raw boot <kernel> [ <ramdisk> ] create bootimage and flash it

devices list all connected devices

reboot reboot device normally

reboot-bootloader reboot device into bootloader

options:

-w erase userdata and cache

-s <serial number> specify device serial number

-p <product> specify product name

-c <cmdline> override kernel commandline

-i <vendor id> specify a custom USB vendor id

logout

[Process completed]

It wont allow me to input any commands at all......plz, help As now I have a mytouch powering up with Vodaphones logo and no data working...thnx
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] team selfesteem:
Not to get too off topic with goldcards, but I feel like many people are having difficulty with this step.

Is there any way to document what microSD cards work and do not work as a gold card? So far I have tried 3 different cards, all with no luck:

Class 1 1GB Nokia

Class 2 4GB Sandisk (One that came with MT3G)

Class 4 8GB Kingston

I've read that the 4gb sandisk can be gold-carded, but unfortunately it hasn't worked for me. Are the instructions at http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4289899&postcount=1 error-proof, or does it all depend on the CID of the card?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] SilverSurfR:
BINGO!!! Can we add this piece of info to the OP? It was obvious once I hit Extras > Open Disk in HxD that this was my problem.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] zdan:
I think in cmd you have to navigate to the same folder where you saved the files you're trying to fastboot.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] unaz:
My phone is bought in sweden, i got

HBOOT-1.33.00010

Buildnumber: 2.17.401.2 146733 CL#42748 release-keys

I cant get this to work either... Hope there will be a fix for us to...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PJFonseca:
The same here for the Portuguese Magic, gives the error:

Main Version is older!

Update Fail!

i have :

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] bennyha:
How do I go about navigating to that folder? On the tutorial the command is

"fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img" where would his recovery file located so all he had to do was type that command without navigating to a folder/directory? Or, where should that file be, in order to type the command as he did in his tutorial? Sorry. I feel like a newb.:D I rarely ever get hung up with this sort of stuff. its definitely kicking my ass today, though. Thanks for your assistance by the way. Much appreciated, Brother. I hope i can get this straightened out.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] zdan:
In cmd just type "cd c:\full path to\where your\sdk tools folder is" for example: mine is "cd c:\android-sdk-Windows-1.5_r3\tools"

Once there and the recovery image is in that same folder as you had mentioned, just type the command as in the tutorial. I hope that works but if you need more help on that just PM me cause setting up fastboot is off-topic and has its own threads. :)

Good luck.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
Edit: Whoops, Going to post this in another thread since gold cards are off this topic.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] adelco93:
any possible for video tutorial to be made english not so good, not want to brick phone
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hitman4485:
GOLDCARD help!

Little trouble...guess you can say I am a bit of a noob but I have followed XDA for all my rooting needs and have rooted a couple G1's flashed Hero ROM yada yada...my issue is the goldcard. Is there any program compatible with MAC? I have searched and haven't found anything...unless I am over looking something. Any help is greatly appreciated and an extended thanks Amon and other for taking the time and patients to make root possible so soon (although felt like forever :D) Thanks again for any help.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] curveconcepts:
Is there anyone that have followed this procedure and been completely successful? My buddy 'the_bean_machine' (posted back on page 9 of this thread) here on xda followed haykuro's instructions and bricked his phone. So i am wondering the success rate before i go trying it on mine.

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rmrector:
Whoa, confused the hell outta me.

Under the section "Revert to 32B Radio and ROM :" the first line just says "fastboot flash". The command, it does nothing! It should be "fastboot flash radio radio.img", yes?

I really wanted a chance to use the line "The goggles, they do nothing!" but I'll make do.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] :
works just fine, you need a kingston memorycard though... tried with sandisk and it didnt work...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] SurrealNetworks:
I followed the procedure step-by-step on a MT3G and it works perfectly. The 32A ROM seems a tiny bit sluggish compared to stock so I will follow the daredevil instructions to go back to 32B tonight. I used a Samsung 2GB MicroSD card to create the Gold card.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hitman4485:
my mistake

sorry noob mistake wrong forum....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kcomega01:
I'm a little confused about this... I searched but could not find alot of info on this. After Im done with the first section I just follow those bottom instructions to revert back to 32B (since this is really the hardware it actually has? I have a T-Mobile USA mytouch 3g.

and what about this? rmrector did you get it working? What is the proper command? Also, can anyone suggest or provide a link to a good 32B rom?

edit: also just noticed that after:

- Extract radio.img from ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip using your favorite rar/zip program.

it never tells you what to do with the radio.img file...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] SurrealNetworks:
You can continue to use the 32A ROM that is listed in the instructions or you can flash the 32B ROM that is also listed in the instructions. I do not know if there is a "better" option or even what the differences are. Can someone chime in to make a recommendation on which ROM type to use for the MT3G and the differences between the 32A and 32B in this tutorial.

Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rmrector:
Yeah, the full command that worked for me was "fastboot flash radio radio.img". When I didn't do that, the recovery img wouldn't flash in the last line of that set of commands, and things were looking scary there for a bit.

But now I'm running the Cyanogen 3.9.8 32B ROM and it all looks good.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kcomega01:
I would like this too. From what I'm reading the 32A roms might not run well because of the memory difference (32A=288MB vs 32b=192MB). Reading Haykuro's post, its unclear whether the radio.img he has you use reverts it back to 32B or not. I'd like to be sure I'm using the 32B roms on my 32B phone...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kcomega01:
Thank you, sir!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kash521:
noob question

I got the gold card set up perfectly fine. When my MT3G tries to install the sappimg, i get:

"Model ID incorrect!

Update Fail!

Do you want to reboot device?"

Can anyone help??

Here's the info it gives me at the top:

Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G

HBOOT-1.33.0006 (SAPP30000)

CPLD-10

RADIO-2.22.19.26I
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cool_koo:
I have the exact problem as you with the exact settings
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] edoka:
????lol

i have successfully created the gold card but now i keep getting error downloading the stuff i need from rapidshare lol is it possible to upload the files somewhere else like megaupload or something
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Breakthecycle2:
I have another question in regards to the gold card. When I type the commands in terminal emulator, it says invalid directory, does not exist. Also for Qmat where you are supposed to type a number, where does this number come from?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Jrbourque:
Guys all of the instructions are there for it. lol make sure you are replacing the first two numbers of the reverse cid with 00 when you enter it in...if you are getting model id error that means that the goldcard img is not set up correctly

not directed at you break...i hit reply for some dumb reason
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DebauchedSloth:
If you haven't setup adb, doing it now will make your life easier - you can enter these command from your computer keyboard, using:

adb shell

If it says invalid directory, etc, you've mistyped something. Another benefit of adb is that you can paste the commands.

The qmat number comes from the ID of your SDCARD, which you get by typing the commands that are causing you problems.

So, for example:

xxxxxx@yyyy:~/android$ adb shell

# cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid

1b534d3030303030107076cb5d009456
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] curveconcepts:
Be gentle everyone, but i uploaded most of the files to my server.

I have 1 TB of transfer, but if i get close, i will shut it down so i dont go over for the month costing me money, so it could go down at any time.

HBOOT: http://dropbox.skylightcreative.com/dropbox/mytouch_root/update.zip

SAPPIMG: http://dropbox.skylightcreative.com/dropbox/mytouch_root/sappimg.zip

Recovery: http://dropbox.skylightcreative.com/dropbox/mytouch_root/recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Jrbourque:
Also people make sure that there is nothing on your card and format it to fat32 right before setting up the goldcard. and make sure you use ur phone not a card reader
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kash521:
I was successfully able to make a goldcard using the built in card reader on my friend's dell....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Jrbourque:
oh well i was told to have it phone...but i guess thats wrong. just make sure its formatted and nothing there.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
Maybe that's my problem. I followed every direction to the t for my first two cards, but after they failed I switched to an external card reader because I got tired of popping my cards in and out of my phone. I even tried doing it through Ubuntu.

I'm going to delete all of my progress and go through the directions once more. Maybe it'll work this time around for me. Thanks for the tips.

Also, just to make sure, "adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid" (without quotes) is the correct command to get the CID via the SDK, right? That's what I've been using.

Edit: Failed again. What the heck. I dismounted from my computer and got got a "Blank card" message on the phone immediately followed by it wanting to format in Windows. I'm trying again.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] slackwaresupport:
i get model id incorrect.

update fail!

do you want to reboot
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] xOrphenochx:
Goldcard and flash fine, cannot boot into recovery. Anyone solved this? Using a MT3G that just came out, got it the day of.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kash521:
Just read through a different forum, apparently

"Model ID incorrect" occurs when the gold card is not actually a gold card.

I got this error, so I guess I didn't actually create a gold card. Back to square 1
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tchan012:
Thanks rmrector. I was missing that step and could never flash the G recovery. Now it worked and am flashing new ROM

BTW, awesome work guys. coordinated and FAST :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] slackwaresupport:
thanks!.. im back to square 1 also.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] edoka:
my RAv1.2.0H recovery

cannot download rapidshare freezes
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
I should have posted that. After I thought I had successfully created a Goldcard and got that message, I tested the same thing with one of my other "non converted" cards and got the same thing. I didn't know others were having that problem. Just tried to make it again and failed. Onto the next one again I guess. Going to try the Kingston 2 gig again.

Edit: Also, I'm grasping here, but when they say "Select till 170", they mean including 170, right?

Double edit: Got "format disk" again. For the nth time. Might try going back to Linux because I'm getting extremely desperate here.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DebauchedSloth:
I would split those up.

adb shell

-- then --

cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid

Probably not necessary but that * might expand to something on linux.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tchan012:
same thing happened with me with a 2GB Sandisk card. Then i took out the 4GB Sandisk card that came with the phone and it worked fine with that. YMMV
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ScottC:
Works like a charm! Thanks to everyone involved in this.

2 things I ran into: In the hex editor, I made the mistake of picking my SD card as "logical device" instead of physical device. Easy mistake to make, and I suspect I'm not the only one. In my case, the logical device had data in the 000-170 segment, but when you select physical (when formatted) it'll be empty.

In the final phase (applying the last update.zip), be sure to unplug the USB after entering the menu or it'll claim the update.zip is invalid.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
Ok I feel like an idiot. I had no idea there was an option. How do I toggle between them because it is certainly showing data when I load it in the hex editor.

Edit: Oh my god. I'm an idiot. I literally punched my chair earlier today because I was getting so frustrated with this. I wish the distinction would've been made in that original faq. Thanks so much.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ScottC:
When you click extras > open disk, you'll see a list of all your drives. The top ones are logical, the bottom ones are physical. Sadly it isn't 100% clear which of the physical is your SD, so what I did was open the hex editor once without the SD, then with, and found the right one.

I just wanted to be 100% I wasn't editing the boot sector of my harddrive :D

Remember to uncheck "read only" when you open the disk.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ScottC:
You and me both :D

I went through 7 MicroSD cards thinking they were all busted :D

The guide does clearly state "physical" so in my case, I just wasn't reading right :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kash521:
sweet, used my 8gb sandisk sdhc as gold card, and it is successfully updating the sappimg!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
I'm on the last leg of the update and everything has gone incredibly smoothly. It would have been easier if I hadn't gotten so stuck up on the Goldcard, but that was completely my fault. Awesome. Thanks guys!

What are the benefits to flashing back to 32b? Should I do it? Is the risk as great as it sounds, or is it reasonably safe as long as I follow the directions?

Also, can I replace the final step (before flashing back to 32b) with Cyanogen's, or is that a completely different thing? I figure I should know before I go ahead with this.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] xOrphenochx:
I'm a damn moron, I'll blame lack of a good nights sleep, cause I can. I had never actually finished the flash...or so to say..never started :<
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] team selfesteem:
I successfully rooted the MT3G, but upon a reboot, the phone either hangs up at the Android loading screen or at a black screen. This happened with both 32A and 32B roms (RAv1.1.0H and Cyanogen 3.9.8 32B). Did anyone else have this trouble?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
I did the same thing but it went through fine. It DID hang for a minute or two at Android. I have no idea if you're getting through or if you're stuck there.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] SurrealNetworks:
I'd like to clarify something. After the "daredevil steps" have been completed and we are on the 32B radio and 32B ROM with root, is it okay to apply any Magic 32B ROM by using recovery + update.zip (no fastboot commands)?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
I don't know exactly what you mean, but I used a combination of this and haykuro's steps to fix up my phone. I applied the "daredevil" steps and shortly afterward "updated" (via SD card in recovery, not fastboot) to cyanogen's mod. It works fine so far.

Now I have a question (and it's literally the most noob thing I could possibly ask). How does the official update system work now that I have a mod? When Google drops "Donut" (or whatever it's called), do I have to cancel the update until someone figures out how to mod that, or is there something deeper in the firmware that has been modified to allow me root access without worrying about updating?

I'm sorry if that's an incredibly stupid question, but the answer isn't incredibly apparent anywhere else.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kash521:
another noob question..

I searched but couldn't find it...probably didn't look hard enough...

How in the H3LL do you use the fastboot in the android sdk? I just downloaded the SDK and unzipped it to my desktop. When I go to tools and click on fastboot it opens really quick and then closes.

help please!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tazz9690:
cannot load recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img

what am I doing wrong here? I am not used to fastboot. please help
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] slackwaresupport:
all is well except for the splash..

sending 'splash1' (300 KB)... OKAY

writing 'splash1'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Evervoid:
I'm having trouble with my sd card. When I frist tried to make a gold card the webpage said it wasn't a valid CID (I did all the steps provided). Then I tried to put 00 in front of my cid and it worked. I didn't apply this to my sd card as I'm unsure of what this will do.

Also, after restarting my phone the terminal command no longer worked and said it couldn't find the file. I'm now trying to get adb commands working on my computer and hopefully this will solve the problem.

I am using the SD card that came with the phone (MyTouch 3g)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PCTechNerd:
in the sdk folder there is a html doc that tells you how to add the tools folder as an absolute path. do that. after you do that, open a command prompt, go to the directory where the file you want to fastboot is, then just type like it says in the faq (i.e. fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img) then press enter.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] XsBones:
Thanks worked like a charm
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
You have to use "cmd". It's a command line program.

Easiest way to do it is to place it in your C:\ drive and rename the top folder to something simple (like androidsdk).

To run fastboot in this situation (vista), you'd go to start, type "cmd" in the search box, and type cd\androidsdk\tools to get to the directory. From there, you can input the commands.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] SilverSurfR:
Clicking isn't really gonna do anything for you. I believe most of that stuff is command line tools. start > run > "cmd" in xp or greater to get you to the command line. If you are still confused you'll have to google "command line" or something to learn what we had to use in the "olden" days, which is like early 90s and prior. :)

From my limited knowledge and some reading. I believe most if not all custom firmware disables or is set to reject network updates. In any case I would not update without doing some research first.

If you think that's noob, I have a question too. If I follow the entire procedure from the first post, what am I going to end up with? Let me try to clarify, once I'm done can I just boot up my phone and end up with the exact same setup I have now only with root access? Or do I have to flash a custom rom?

I wasn't a dream owner, and it kinda feels like this forum is almost a subsection of that one so I'm lost on what's getting updated with each step of the root proceedure.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ScottC:
Are you using the newest fastboot version? Are your USB drivers correctly installed?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] dills84:
thanks alot your tutorial worked flawlessly for me!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tazz9690:
how am I supposed to fastboot the fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img ? it keeps telling me that it cannot load it. did I do something wrong?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
Not exactly the same setup. The process wipes all of your personal data (except the stuff that is saved to your google account), but if you mean general setup, yes.

What I have now is almost exactly what I had before I rooted the mytouch. Aside from the superuser abilities and a few flairs here and there (battery icon on screen lock being the only one that I can really point out right now) it's the same.

Thanks for the info about the firmware update blocks! I planned on doing my research when they came about anyway (I'm the owner of a few other devices with custom firmware), but I'm glad to find out the information ahead of time.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kash521:
thanks guys, got it to work! had to use command prompt like you all said.

Now, which 32b rom should I pick?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Evervoid:
The cid for my sd card isn't coming up, what should I do?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mr_black03:
does adb shell start for you Evervoid?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Evervoid:
My computer doesn't recognize my device in adb. I've tried the shell command from the computer but it gives me error: device not found.

Any ideas?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
Did you install the drivers as directed in the walkthrough? You have to uninstall the original drivers and install the drivers included in the SDK for any of it to work.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] SilverSurfR:
My prior device was a HTC Wizard, then I spent the last year or so with Blackberry. Man, what a waste. Glad to have moved away from that system.

Has anyone experienced a hang at the Vodaphone logo when running

fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.0H.img

how long does it take after running that command to get some sort of response from the phone so I can continue?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] pack:
hey i got to this part :

- Remove the goldcard and insert the SD (with update.zip)

now my phone rebooted saying htc magic with that type of layout is this not the right direction i should be going? any insight?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] slackwaresupport:
anyone got a hero rom that works???

drizzy's would be nice
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cityeyes:
I can't even remember that step. Did it already go through the flash and reboot? I let it sit there on that screen for like twenty minutes before I reluctantly removed the battery (I know, horrible idea). Booted it back into recovery for the next step it was fine.

Not that I recommend my risky method, haha.