yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch CDMA General] refthemc:
Thanks for everything Zen, you honestly carried the Vogue porting on your back for the past coulpe of months and Android for the Vogue wouldnt have come as far as it did without you. Thank You
[Touch CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
i know im leaving here in a few days but only because my blackberry will be coming and im done with winmo and android for now. but i have to ask zen, why is it your leaving all of the sudden? :confused:
[Touch CDMA General] sbarne3:
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't think there are even any confirmed photos of the Passion... much less someone reporting on actually using one... just rumors and pictures of what could be the HTC Passion, so how would you know that the hardware is too slow?

Not trying to start a fight... just wondering...
[Touch CDMA General] plemen:
I believe tallnerd1985, aside from being tall, is also a very well connected nerd :D - from what I can gather he works for a large us carrier.
[Touch CDMA General] jamuka:
Thanks!

just wanted to add my thanks to the list. I really appreciate all you shared.
[Touch CDMA General] tallnerd1985:
No worries, no angry nerd here. Its just a personal preference of mine nowadays not to go with Qualcrap processors in my phones, I've suffered enough with HTC's choice of mobile processors. For me, I know OMAP processors are rated at a lower Mhz but they do outperform their rival qualcomm processors. For example, the OMAP 800mhz beats the snapdragon, which is rated at almost 1Ghz, by a longshot. With the Droid's processor clocked down from 624mhz to 550mhz, a custom rom could clock that back up to 624mhz and be on the same level as the Snapdragon but still have better GPU performance.
[Touch CDMA General] OleJuice:
Thanks for your contributions Zen and best of luck to you.

Justin
[Touch CDMA General] thoughtlesskyle:
thanks for everything zen
[Touch CDMA General] dashauns:
Thanks zen, you may have helped indefinitely extend the life of my vogue.
[Touch CDMA General] polyrhythmic:
thanks zenulator, cheers and best wishes
[Touch CDMA General] silex:
I tried logging into vogue-hero to check what new files there were and find zen edited the OP with words I did not want to see :(
[Touch CDMA General] drewden123:
Well I tried to go to the vogue-hero site and download the latest build but this is obviously why it's not working :( is there any way I can download them from somewhere else or could someone possibly upload the latest build to rapidshare or something?
[Touch CDMA General] drewden123:
Well I tried to go to the vogue-hero site and download the latest build but this is obviously why it's not working :( is there any way I can download them from somewhere else or could someone possibly upload the latest build to rapidshare or something?

EDIT: sorry for the double post
[Touch CDMA General] zenulator:
we're working on a solution. thankfully someone saved a lot of the builds that were on there.
[Touch CDMA General] silex:
Zen if you need help, I acutally have all the files through the end of October.
[Touch CDMA General] zenulator:
cool hold on to them. we have a temporary solution for now.
[Touch CDMA General] drewden123:
Thank you very much and thank you so much for all your hard work.
[Touch CDMA General] wcheek226:
yes do anybody have the zen 090809 zip i would love it please thank you
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
P.S. THANKS fhaines !!!!

fhaines spent days sifting through the forums to pick all these tidbits out of the masses of G1 ROM flashing posts & forwarded it to me so I could flash my MT3G, I want to say thank you to fhaines for his hard work. I just worked out the formatting & simplified the verbiage to as plain English as I could. Hope this helps those who are a bit timid to test the CM Rom waters (as I was).
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] alienator88:
Is it required to partition the sdcard, or is that just for Apps2SD & swap?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Wysie:
lupascu.marius: It's only if you want to use Apps2SD and swap.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] fhaines:
Apps2sd and swap

Cyanogenmods newest roms run fastest with a swap and ext3 partition on the sd card. If you run it with just a fat32 and or ext2 you will most likely be running the rom a lot slower than was designed.

fhaines:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] smurf:
is it possible to just create an ext3/ext4 and swap only without using apps2sd? Or do i need a fat32 partition?

If I am not wrong the has to be rooted to apply cm? In which step of this tutorial does the phone gets root?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] landstander:
Nicely done!

A few days too late for me, unfortunately, but it's nice to know that I ended up with essentially the same procedure. :) My notes are quite a bit more disjointed than your instructions, however.

It'll be a good refresher once it's time to root my wife's phone, however.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Weemoney:
Great Resource for noobs and advanced alike

I believe this should be stickied.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Talderon:
Damn you beat me to it. I have been looking for WEEKS on a sure fire way to root my MyTouch 3G. I tried the Relentless Rooter, the Gold Card method and everything else I could find to throw at this thing.

The steps outlined here are slightly different from what I did, but all in all, this is what worked for me, was nice, easy and worked great. The first time you Root a phone it takes a bit to get the process down, but it's not as hard as you think. :)

If this hasn't been stickied, it needs to be! :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] palexr:
Looks good but I have a few questions.

I am currently running on CM 4.1.999 (1.6) and my phone is running very smoothly. I tried 4.1.9999 but it started to bog down and seriously slowed down. I've got quite a few apps and I've got the phone set up as I like it (including changing some of the icons with bettercut and that kind of stuff) I'm getting to the point where I'm a bit loathe to go through all that again, so my question is; what are the real world advantages I might enjoy if I "upgraded" to 4.2?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Weemoney:
Have you tried CM updater? It can be downloaded from the market and should just upgrade your current rom.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] palexr:
OK, thanks, I thought it had been switched off so to speak after the Google episode.

My main question remains though, are there any benefits? I know, I know, go and look at the thread in the Dream section but still, CM4.1.999 really does work very well on my Magic and I think it deserves representation here.

Allied to a good theme it is by far and away the best ROM for the Magic IMHO.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Weemoney:
Im running it now and have no issues. It is very fast and reliable. I think its worth the upgrade.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Right You Are

You do need to be rooted to apply a CM ROM (or any other 'cooked ROM' I think), HERE is where you are officially Rooted as I understand the process.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] alienator88:
Quick question, I've followed the procedure posted on here step by step exactly and once I boot the phone up right after the android loading screen it goes to a black screen and sits there for a long time. Here's a thread I started asking for help with this, it has more info on my problem, thanks for anyone trying to help.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=578208
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] fhaines:
Things to check

Hey,

Couple of things to check and make sure of. You have to be on factory 1.5 before doing the upgrade to the Rooted HTC rom and Cyanogens rom, cannot do this from 1.6. Also, there is a wipe involved in the process, and if its skipped it may account for the FC's. Also there is a fix permission file you can run after installation and initial boot that may help with the FC's, its located in CM's thread in the Dream section where the rom is.

Fhaines
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] alienator88:
Yes, it is on the factory cupcake build when i start to try and install CM. The weird thing is i have had Cyanogenmod for a long time and have been doing upgrades and everything worked untill now. I upgraded to CM 4.2.1 and after that CM stopped working on my phone. I can confirm that 'other' rooted roms do work..so it seems like its just CM. Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] alienator88:
Quick update for anyone with any ideas. I finally got it to boot up and it runs great except for two things I've notices so far. When i try to add widgets nothing pops up and when i go to settings the window comes up for half a second then goes away and back to home screen. Now what I did to fix it was partition the sd card which i was told is NOT necessary. Then after i got it to work i tried again with a sdcard that was NOT partitioned and it did the same thing again, black screen no-go. So it seems like if you don't partition the sdcard on some phones the phone freezes at a black screen. Keywords being "some phones". So for anybody who knows how to fix the widget and settings problems not opening, please help me....Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ericta:
I don't think it has anything to do with SD partition type. Im running cm with a fat sd. everything's fine.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] youngt_07:
Nice lil issue...

Once it’s finished press in the text box & clear out the box, then put /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.2.3.img & press Flash Custom Recovery Image

I dont have this option when i try to flash the .img

it says Download Recovery Image and it is actually grayed out??
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] fhaines:
read, read, read

Read Cyanogen's thread for his current rom. It will not do Appstosd with just a Fat32 sd, and it will run considerably slower with just a Fat32 part without a Ext3 and swap partition.

Please research before posting. :D

Thank you,

fhaines
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
When I did my phone the 'flash' option was grayed out UNTIL I completed this step.

Then the 'flash' option was available & I was able to redirect the text box to RAs rec .img by clearing out the text box & typing the SD card path as listed here

even though you won't be using the backup image you make I believe it is the key that unlocks that grayed out 'flash' option, be sure it completes successfully & then continue on with the steps as listed.

Hope it works 2nd time 'round.

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Mr. Nefarious:
Quick question for some of the pro's: I'm currently running 4.2.3.1 with a 575 EXT3 and 225mb Swap. It's probably extreme overkill but it runs outrageously fast. Anyway, yesterday I tried out a whole bunch of senseUI roms and when coming back to cyanogens 4.2.3.1 I decided to use an EXT4 instead of an EXT3 because I thought I'd read cyanogens latest was compatible. I got stuck at the mytouch 3g screen. I reformatted and partitioned again using an EXT3 and everything was fine. I'm using Gparted inside linuxmint to format/create partitions on my microsd card. What am I doing wrong with the EXT4 partition?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] htcclay:
Psguardian,

Thanks for the post!

I haven't used Cyan's ROM since 4.1.xx.

Today Ive grown curious and think Im going to try his latest.

Please correct me if Im wrong...

If you already have root and recovery installed all you have to do is copy the HTC ADP 1.6 DRC83 & CyanogenMod 4.2.x ROM files onto your SD card,

Flash the ADP 1.6 then the ROM?

Thanks again!

Clay
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Too weak for ext4 ?

It doesn't sound like you're doing it wrong, possibly your SD card just can't handle the extra strain that ext4 puts on it? What class rating is your SD card? I have seen posts stating that anything below class 4 (or was it class 6?) can't handle ext4 partitions. My 4gb card doesn't have its 'class' listed on it (came in the box from t-mo) so i have not gone past ext3. Hope this gives an idea for further testing, maybe a spare class 4/6 card that you can do test runs with, while leaving your current alive & well with ext3?

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Movin' On Up!

Since you're already rooted I believe you are correct htcclay. Make sure you grab the audio resources .zip also (all of the various stock tone/alert sounds from 3 releases of android in it) & just 'extract all' to the root of your SD card. I am still running 4.2.2 so can't offer andy advice on 4.2.3.1, I'm getting curious about 4.2.3.1 also & will probly flash it this week lol.

Happy FLASH'ing

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] htcmagic:
If am running amonRa 1.6.2 how to i go to a cyanogen rom?

Help please.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Rooted & Custom ROM

If you are already ROOTED and running a 'custom' or 'cooked' ROM you

should

be able to skip the SETUP section of my OP & simply follow the rest as normal. (I will form up an "if you're already rooted" section & Edit my OP soon, thanks for bringing this scenario to my attention, rookie mistake lol)

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] htcmagic:
Thanks psguardian for the support.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] d_a_l_3:
I have installed all, runs very smooth and THX for ROM

but......

I have one problem, when start camera for first time it run and I can shoot pictures and save video's...

When exit and run camera again phone just restarts.....

HELP please!!!!!!!!

Edit:

On 2 Hero ROM camera works, no restart, if it helps...

lp
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
I'm sorry I think you've mistaken me (or perhaps my thread title is misleading? I will adjust it) I just wrote the walk-through for installing, the ROM is all CyanogenMod. Its odd that the camera causing your phone to reboot though.

if you started with the HTC 1.6 rooted base & then flashed CM ontop of it without rebooting as the walk-through shows & you're on a G1 or MyTouch i see no reason for the camera issue... Maybe try going over to the cyanogenmod thread & searching that for camera + reboot? I hope they have something that will point you to a fix.

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Jceezy:
I've still got no option to flash a new image after making the backup, just download and restore
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
what phone do you have Jceezy? (no sig info so gotta ask)

Amon_RAs recovery.img's are model specific now so be sure to check his thread for the proper recovery for your phone. also his thread has alternate options to install with, as flashrec can be a bit picky. Or you can go here & try a diff version of flashrec

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Jceezy:
MT3G PVT 32B

1.33.0006

I was trying to flash the 1.5.0G recovery image and the only way to get it to go was by downloading and then flashing the default Cyan recovery
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Glad you got it working, so were you trying to use flashrec on the 1.5 sapphire image or the stock out-of-the-box 1.6 ? the exploit flashrec uses to flash the recovery image only works in 1.5 they patched it in 1.6
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Jceezy:
After I loaded the 1.5 image, tried it on another version of flashrec after I got Cyanogen's loaded and it said invalid so I just used the good ol' reliable terminal commands lol
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Neejay:
The camera problem is android and/or hardware related.

When I was on stock mytouch 3G 1.5, I didn't have this problem. As soon as 1.6 was pushed via OTA update from T-Mobile, this started happening to me.

Now, it happens on any ROM I flash.

Other threads:

http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/myTou...2;jsessionid=4C6ED6461759520FBB3803582B93D643

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5116529
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] ilostchild:
Nice, Simple to read and understand great post thanks for this now im ready to get mytouch3g rooted thanks again
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] march83:
thank you for the write up and to everyone whose software i'm now using. much appreciated.

have now been running cyanogen 4.2.7 on my 32a (which was 1.5 vanilla) for a day and i'm really happy with it. my only complaint so far is that multitouch in the browser is a little hit and miss at the moment, but i'm sure i'll get a feel for it.

it seems to me also that there is much less need to kill apps all the time. though i typically have less free memory now because i'm overclocked it seems to run much more smoothly wrt the ui.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
I'm glad my guide is still helping people (now that cyan has his wiki out). Did you do anything special to get your phone running on a CM ROM? being a 32A I have seen there are separate instructions for yours (to maintain the orig radio I think?) or did you just do the standard steps in my OP? (want to know so that I can update with a "if you have a 32A..." section if its needed)

Thanks,

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] march83:
followed your steps but after doing 1.6 and the CM 4.2.7 i also applied the 32a port found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=592377

everything was done exactly the same. I also referred fo theunlockr's guide and the guide given in the above thread. i had also read the xda wiki, the notes on flashrec's site and the cyanogen wiki, but your guide pretty much covered everything with a bit more detail than the others but they all sort of pointed in the same direction so i was cool with it.

from memory, there was a step early on that was a bit glossed over. it was relatively obvious, but not stated implicitly so i wasn't 100%... should've noted it down, sorry. also, the newer version of flashrec that i used has slightly different wording in some menus so they didn't matchup perfectly, but it was mostly pretty obvious. lastly, some extra discussion on different partitioning options would be helpful. i did a 512 and a 7.4g on my 8g card because i may at somepoint use apps2sd and i wanted to keep that option open.

radio version is now 62.52s20.148h_3.22.20.17.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] LovellKid:
Ok so a good question.... every time I wipe, and flash am 4.2.9.1 it wont go past the green mytouch boot screen. I can still get back to recovery and use my nandroid back to 1.5 but what am I doing wrong?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] march83:
have you checked the md5 hash on all of your files?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Remobero:
thnx 4 the hard work .. i want to add this if not been mentioned b4 .. this method works with any SPL even PERFECT ones

+1 for sticking
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] twigster:
Can anyone tell me whether this will change my SPL.

It doesn't look like it will but I want to be sure. I have the perfect spl 1.33.0010, and am hoping this procedure will allow me to change my ROM successfully and get root.

I am on a 32a device on the south african vodacom network, and stupidly got the perfect spl when I was lured into updating my firmware through HTC in order to get the market app, without doing a bit of extra investigation first.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Sorry for slow response I've been out of the loop for a few days with a nasty cold....

What are your full phone/ROM stats for current functional setup? (no sig so gotta ask)

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Thats great news Remobero! I have never knowingly changed my SPL I don't think (or is that what the hacked recovery.img's like Amon_Ra's are?) can you answer twigsters question? I will research it & post an answer as I can, but if you have an answer in your pocket it would be faster then waiting on me :o

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Remobero:
ur case is almost the same as mine (the only diffrent is i got perfect SPl from stock ) .. i have the same perfect SPL i thought first noway to soft root my magic without a gold card .. i rooted my phone 2 months ago n it working as it should be .. this method works regardless of ur spl perfect or not + no need 4 gold card or complicated steps

@ psguardian

i think u should hint in the title or the OP that ur steps work with perfect SPLs

regards
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] WiseJoeyD:
I'm stuck on the fastboot bit.

Get into fastboot. I have sappimg.nbh on the card.

Eventually it picked it up and started the flash....

.....

... and promptly told me Update Failed!!

Model ID incorrect!

Phone remains on 1.6. Any ideas? I've MD5'd. And yes it's the perfected SPL.

PS Is it wrong that I want to curse whoever thought of the perfected SPL to some kind of IT hacker hell?!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Umm, what kind of phone? (think of setting up a sig like the ones you see on the more senior members posts, it helps when others try to answer a question or help with an issue)

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] alabasta10:
Hello, I have a 32A htc magic and tried using the steps above, it made my hp change to mtg3 bootsecreen instead and uh.. instead of needing the recovery-RA-Sapphire-v1.5.2H like i used to, i was able to go into recovery with recovery-RA-Sapphire-v1.5.2G.. and now, i dun need a 32A port.. so.. im not sure.. but i tink my phone now "converted" into 32B.. now.. the question is.. will the xtra ram available in 32A will be "locked" as in im stuck with 190+ mb onli ram able to used? thnx
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] :
wtf? I've never heard of this. :p

Great guide, however. I'm surprised no one has wrote one of these yet, other than Cyanogen Wiki... but 10/10! I wish this was here when I started rooting. :p
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Remobero:
i loled .. ur so lucky u didn't brick ur phone i recommend u install a terminal n switch to ur proper recovery image asap
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] alabasta10:
Haha, thnx, but apparently, it is actually doable =x.. i was panicking and searching threads bout this and i manage to stumble upon this.. so i TINK its actually okay.. lol.. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4273438&postcount=1
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
I have heard of people running the 32B radio & ROMs on 32A's also, I'm not sure if the extra RAM is still accessible or if its locked out by software/firmware diff.

~psguardian
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] jegaz:
Hey Guys.

I have the same problem.

I have a HTC Magic Vodafone (Italy), 32B.

No idea about SPL. Perfect? I have 1.33.0004 ...

Any ideas?

Since I'm not able to get fastboot to work, this metod was my salvation..

And now, the downgrade problem....

Dam*... Maybe it's my destiny to have a non-rooted phone..

It's kinda sad.

Thanks. Cheers,
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] alabasta10:
thanx for responding, I tink it will be locked, bcoz I keep getting no more den 20mb on 32b rom, its been a crazy ride so now im back with 32a cm 4.2.9.1.. apparently 4.2.10.1 gives me partnersetup force close.. so.. I cnt enjoy the eclair presents :(..
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Nikkefed:
Perfet SPL 1.33.0014

Alright - this guide seems pretty good, but I have one question.

Will this work for the perfected SPL 1.33.0014?

I have been trying so many different guides to be able to get Custom ROMs on my Magic, but so far none has worked.

Does anybody know if this will?

- Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] Nikkefed:
Nevermind - Doesn't even work beyond step 3 and 4
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] psguardian:
Step 3 & 4 of what section? the only numbered items I have are the items to download, but those are not to be installed blindly so I hope you're not trying to install them from the top down. Plese quote the steps where you're failing.

~psguardian