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[Hero, G2 Touch General] malarcy:
Or maybe tmobile did something different to orange. Or maybe the radio roms are different.

Was quite a few tmob users and tmob support so if it was a rogue app then it was a fairly common one

Either way. It's working now.

Wish all problems were resolved as.simply.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nlel:
I certainly think it has something to do with the installed apps on the phone after the update else why would a factory reset solve it, its not the Rom that is the problem... I take it you had heavily customized your phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] malarcy:
Actually no- 5 apps, lastfm, xda, facebook, ambling audio book reader and handcent sms - restore took less than 5 minutes after factory reset, all contacts and calendar info on google.

Given that the functions like handing out dhcp address worked, it was fundamentally was "all there" I can easily imagine a startup routine that says something like

if file exists "some config file" then leave it alone

else make a new one

When you reboot, config file exists so leave it alone in, when factory reset - file doesn't exist, make a new one.

Perhaps the key thing is I was a heavy user of tethering before the update, perhaps when I did the upgrade I forgot to "stop" tethering and just pulled the cable - can't remember, so maybe I had a config file/param that the newer kernel, ip stack etc. didn't expect to see and didn't handle well.

The key thing about factory reset isn't the rom I agree, the code is the code - but it's the wiping of the configuration and volatile data - something got broken for me, and the guys at tmobile, and about 5 other users who reported the same problem - so whilst it obviously works for some without a reset, equally it didn't for others - for at least 3 of us (2 end users and 1 at tmobile) a reset was needed.

If it was a one off, absolutely agree, it must have just been me/my setup - but it wasn't an isolated case.

Personally, I was surprised when the 2.1 update didn't wipe the phone, I was expecting it - so in my case no real problem once suggested to me - others might have more dependency on the installed apps and config but for me this was an easy fix.

Either way, it's back working now - so if it works without a reset - great, and if it doesn't work, a reset looks to fix it - so great as well.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] jamesd86:
thanks, just purchased a MT3G 1.2 and this guide helped. I don't even care that you basically copied it off of unlockr.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Glad it helped. Yes it is pretty much jacked from Unlockr, but like I said in my first paragraph, I was just trying to break things down a little bit and updated the recovery image and also put a better (IMO) ROM that the stock Fender one they were using. The Unlockr has actually updated their guide using some of my stuff.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] fjsimpkins:
step 8?

ive made it to step 8. after the phone reboots I hold down the home and power button as directed and nothing happens. Im just stuck at the HTC Magic screen. I held it down for 3 minutes on a few different occasions and still get nothing. So i havent made it into the recovery menu. any suggestions?

jim
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Just to confirm, you do have the 3.5mm Jack at the top of your mytouch, correct? What does your phone show when you boot into fastboot (back+power)?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] fjsimpkins:
Yes, my phone does have the 3.5mm Jack on top. Fastboot screen says

SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A ENG S-OFF H

HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP31000)

CPLD-13

RADIO-3.22.20.17

Jun 2 2009, 17:27:03
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Did all the commands work from step 7? Your still on the engineering SPL and by step 8 you should be back to the original SPL.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] fjsimpkins:
step 7 went fine. the last command "fastboot reboot-bootloader" said done and the phone restarted (still plugged into the computer). I held down the home button and power button in step 8 but the phone never goes past the HTC Magic screen. thanks for the quick reply.

Jim
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
You've got to be missing something if your showing the information you posted in fastboot. When you entered the commands on the computer, did you see a loading bar pop up on the upper right-hand corner on your phone screen?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aksoutherland:
I don't mean to sound like a big doofus, I read your post.

It looks to be extremely thorough.

I have already bricked 1 MYT3G following instructions from unlokr(although it was a couple of months ago), so don't blast me too much, but is this for the MYT3G that has the 3.5 headphone jack?

:confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Yes it it for the one with the 3.5mm Jack, as stated in the thread heading.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aksoutherland:
Wow, Completely missed that. Now you can call me a doofus.....:D

Thanks, I will attempt to do this tonite and see what happens.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] fjsimpkins:
I saw the loading bar in the upper right of my screen in step 2 with the sappimg but thats it. Should I start over and try again? What is incorrect with the info from my fastboot? what should i be looking for it to say? thanks again DonJuan.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
The information your seeing now in fastboot is what you flashed with the sappimg.zip. You needed to get that on there so that you could flash your custom recovery (Amon Ra's) which will let you flash ROM's later on. What you were doing in Step 7 was reflashing the stock radio/hboot, without these, the phone will not work. Looking at your fastboot information now tells me that you either skipped the part where you reflashed the radio/hboot, or it didn't work. Did you unzip the AndroidSDK.zip to C:\AndroidSDK\? Did you copy the recovery.img, radio.img, and hboot.nb0 to your android SDK tools folder?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] fjsimpkins:
ok i understand a little more now. but i did extract the androidsdk.zip and moved the radio, hboot, and recovery all to the tools folder in androidsdk. maybe one of the files is corrupt? would it make a difference if the phone wasnt plugged to get into recovery mode? Im going to try again tonight after work. thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aksoutherland:
Last night I flashed without issue. Thank you very much for the howto - it worked perfect. Am now running CM6-RC2 and really happy with it.:D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cmarti:
Someone should post "the ultimate guide to UNBRICK the MyTouch1.2/Fender guide" LOL!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
LOL, it would go something like this:

1. Tightly grab bricked myTouch.

2. Find either a building that's 3 stories or more higher, or a very deep body or water.

3. Throw phone off of building/into water.

4. Buy a new one off eBay or make a claim against your phone insurance.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] fjsimpkins:
ok so ive managed to make it to step 17. when i try to flash cm 5.0.8 the phone tells me unable to open the .zip. Im a bit further than i was before and almost to the end actually. any guess why it wont open the zip?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] keinengel:
Was the ZIP downloaded right? Check it on your computer.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] fjsimpkins:
i downloaded the zip from the link provided. i tried it a few times. ive downloaded a couple other roms which have installed (only 1 boots up) but im really tryin to get the cm 5.0.8 on my phone. in recovery when i flash it from zip the results are

can't open /sdcard/update-cm-5.0.8-DS-signed.zip (bad)

is there another copy i can download?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
A few people really saying they're having issues with the ROM zip in my tutorial being corrupt but some aren't. Try redownloading it and I'll look into what's going on with the server when I get a second.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] phuzznut:
yeah I've got the same issue with the ROM. I downloaded "[6/7/10][UPDATE][ROM]CaNNoN202 Complete Eclair (v2.2.1)-(FAST & STABLE)" instead. seems good so far.

By the way, I do have to say thank you for the write up, it was very thorough and worked great!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Alright, I deleted the file off the server and re-uploaded a known good copy.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mastiff78:
I just used another method to root mytouch 3G Fender Edition. Its so damn easy, that even a tech dumb guy like me managed to do it. Here is the link:

Sorry, it didn;t let me paste a link here. Anyways go to the Nexus One forum and look for a thread " APP ROOT" One Click root for N1 in Nexus 1 themes and App.

Enjoy :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mad82109:
I am running the same thing now. I am using a regular my touch without the jack. I tried using command prompt but the numbers never showed up therefor I couldn't flash my radio original spl as well as recovery image. I used this guide and I'm now using a engineering spl. Phone booted up and is currently working I don't have my Google apps and my keyboard options are cn Thai keyboard and touch input Chinese. Whats the next step do I need to reinstall the android sdk? I also tried flashing the gapps from don Juans site in recovery but it kept saying can not mount sd card . I tried two different cards. I was able to download this app from a third party. Help please don Juan
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
If you don't have the 3.5mm jack then this is the wrong procedure for you. The radio/hboot that you reflash are the stock one's for the myTouch 1.2. This would only work if you have a 32A board, the 1.33.0013 bootloader, and the 2.22 radio. Did you check your fastboot info before you started (power+back)? If you've already flashed the sappimg we'll have some trouble getting you back to where you should be.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mad82109:
Yes I flashed the sappimg file I am now running on a engineering spl . For what ever reason my mytouch without the jack was running the software for the newer one. I have downgraded and am running donut again. A 32 b board
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mad82109:
Ok here's what I am running on a regular my touch no jack

Sapphire pvt 32 b eng s- off h

Hboot-1.33.2010 (sapp30000)

Clpd-10

Radio-3.22.20.17

June 2,2009 17:27:03

What is the next step to get this rooted and running custom roms. Again I have no market or ant Google apps but my phone does work and I am able to install apps from a third party source .
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] candymanmike:
this may be a n00b question, but i would appreciate not n00b-bashing me for it. i'm not a n00b to modding and especially not to cell phones. just new to android.

i need to know if there is any other way other than the goldcard method to root the mytouch (magic, sapphire... whatever) 3g 1.2

everything i have found on it involves creating a goldcard and tells me i need a windows machine for part of the process. well being that my only computer now is a laptop running ubuntu, i don't have any real access to a windows machine for any real length of time. i also don't have a card reader. so, just curious if there are any other methods, or if it can be done without a windows machine and a card reader. for instance, is there a program that can be used with linux and is it possible to just access the sd in mass storage mode.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
You don't need a card reader. Any files you need to copy over can be done by mounting the SD card with your phone and then copy them over. You can also use the "USB-ms" feature after you get Among RA's recovery installed to do the same. If I'm not mistaken there's a Linux version of ADB available when you go to the SDK site. All the commands should be the same once you get it installed, but I'm no Linux guru. I'll check on the download the next time I'm at a computer.

EDIT: Checked and there is a Linux installer package as well. Couldn't begin to tell you how to get it installed.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
You said you can get into recovery. Boot into recovery, plug your USB cable in (after the recovery has loaded), type in "adb devices" from the command prompt like you did while you were making your GoldCard. Does it come back with your phone's serial?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] candymanmike:
thanks for the reply. i do already have the SDK installed. i was given a link to a very handy guide for creating a goldcard in linux as well. so as soon as i get some free time, i will give it a shot.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
If it works, could you link the guide in here for future cases.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] xmajinx99:
You dont need to use this tutorial, Just use Universal Androot, Install Rom Manager, Flash Recovery, Install Cyanogen 6 RC3, and be happy.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mastiff78:
I second that. I also used the same method, and now happily rooted and on Froyo 2.2! A big thanks to Universal Androot, and Rom Manager.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] LupinDaThird:
Please help!

I have the 3.5mm MyTouch (32A) so i tried rooting it with TheUnlockr's guide. I did everything I was supposed to and didn't have any problems until I tried flashing the recovery via fastboot.

C:\androidsdk\tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (4520 kb)... okay [ 1.729s]

writing 'recovery'... failed (remote: image update error)

finished. total time: 33.566s

I tried flashing different recovery's and nothing seems to work! I have engineers spl (1.33.2010) so why can't i flash the recovery?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] xmajinx99:
Haha yeah, and this is for the Mytouch Fender/1.2 by the way. But yeah its easy and takes less than maybe 20 mins? No radio update or anything lol. Awesommeee.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] LupinDaThird:
I wish I knew about this method before I stared the unlockr's method... now I'm stuck.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] LupinDaThird:
Please help

I have the 3.5mm MyTouch (32A) so i tried rooting it with TheUnlockr's guide. I did everything I was supposed to and didn't have any problems until I tried flashing the recovery via fastboot.

C:\androidsdk\tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (4520 kb)... okay [ 1.729s]

writing 'recovery'... failed (remote: image update error)

finished. total time: 33.566s

I tried flashing different recovery's and nothing seems to work! I have engineers spl (1.33.2010) so why can't i flash the recovery?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
If you made a goldcard, then its messed up and you need to redo it. If you didn't, you need to use the goldcard method, which is what my post is about. You should still be able to do the Androot method if you want since you haven't changed anything on your phone.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] candymanmike:
downloaded this and installed on sd card. downloaded appinstaller from the market. itstalled it from my sd card. it found my stock firmware was 1.6. i clicked "root", it went through a fairly short process, then said "your phone is now rooted" can anyone tell me how i would go about verifying this?

EDIT: nevermind. it did work. i am installing cyanogens rom now.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] RyanG34:
Partitions - swap, ext3, fat32

11. In Amon Ra's Recovery, use the trackball to select "Partition sdcard", the "Partition SD", hit Home four times and this will partition your sd card.

This process chops your sd card storage up to allow for swap data to be stored on the first part, apps to be stored in the ext part, and everything else will be stored in what's left.

12. Back in "Partition sdcard" select "SD:ext2 to ext3".

__________________________________________________________

I have some questions...

1. What part of the partitions that were made does the phone store the applications on? Ext3?

2. How much space did we allocate to that particular partition?

3. Can we increase this amount and would that require us to wipe/data reset to do this and reinstall the ROM?

Much appreciated,

Ryan
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
You correct on the apps being installed to your Ext3 partition, assuming that's the script that the ROM your running is using. Some of the Froyo ROM's (if not all) support APPS2SD without the partition, however I wouldn't recommend that. There's some scripts out there that can be flashed that will allow you to use the Ext3 partition. Reason for using the separate partition is that if you unmount the SD card, there goes your apps.

The default allocation size for the Ext3 partition is 512Mb.

You can increase the allocation amount by rolling up the trackball, but that will require you to reformat your SD card. No, that will not require you to re-install the ROM or do any wipes.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Markus214:
Whoever has a problem with goldcard...

I HAVE FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM!!!!!! PLEASE ADD THIS TO TOPIC.

It says in the first post to 2. With the memory card in your phone, click on Settings, SD and Phone storage, then click Unmount SD card. Once it unmounts, click Format SD card. (Please keep in mind that some memory cards donâ€™t work, and this will erase all data on your SD Card so back all the data up first to your computer)

I have figured out easier way if people are having errors with cat sys mode.

Plug your phone into your computer with the going to be gold card

Go to my computer

Make sure you mount your phone to your computer

Right click after mounted FORMAT on your drive NOT IN THE SETTINGS>FORMAT MODE (trust me)

dont do quick format let it run its course

After it has completed formatting come back to the steps starting at step number 4. *Make sure you have installed the SDK and Fastboot correctly from Section I!!!

Plug the phone into the computer and then open the Command Prompt (goto the start menu and type in cmd in the search box). Then type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line.

If there is any questions please feel free to email me MBerue214@gmail.com

Finishing gold card setup now.

I really hope a MOD sees this post and attaches it to front post. Love the guides here there AMAZING!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ikersalgado:
sappimg link error

i been trying to root my, my touch fender but the link that u provided for the sappimg file is not working where can i get the sappimg needed for rooting my fender any help much appreciated :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
FIXED THE SAPPIMG.ZIP LINK!!!

Sent using Tapatalk.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] robertwind89:
what is the username and password to get to these files bc it wont let me get them w/o one
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] jeffakajeff:
Deleted oops
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] GPVENUS:
User name and password

All of the links provided to download (sapp.img, stock spl, radio, recovery) take me to a page that requires a user name and password to load...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] stlouie65:
Same here, would like to get the files so I can properly root my phone
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] GPVENUS:
Stuck on HTC MAGIC screen, nothing else happening. What do I do?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] GenePr:
Somebody knows files pass or not :-) ?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
I made a few changes to the instructions (mainly to get CM 6.1 instead of CM 5.0.8 installed) and fixed the links so they're all working now.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] skulnik:
Really need some help here. A friend of mine has the T-Mobile Mytouch 1.2. He attempted to root it using the current unlocker tutorial. After making the goldcard he placed the Sappimg.zip on the card and attempted to flash it through the stock bootloader. He said it did not finish the install and rebooted itself midway through the process (I do not know if it was during install of radio, recovery, etc.). It boots to a red vodafone splash screen and hangs there indefinitely. I have attempted to flash the Sappimg.zip provided here and it hangs indefinitely on unzipping the system file. I attempted to flash the correct radio and spl but they both fail on verification. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
The guy flashed the wrong sappimg...he must've used the wrong guide. Please provide the current fastboot information and don't try anything else before it gets bricked.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] skulnik:
Sorry for the delay, I do not have the phone with me so I had to wait for him to send me the info:

SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON H

HBOOT-1.33.0009 (31000)

CPLD-13

RADIO-3.22.20.17

May 8 2009, 21:02:32

Thanks again for the quick response, and taking the time to help me.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
If the SAPPIMG from here didn't fail until system, I'm pretty sure it would've already flashed the Engineering SPL/radio combo. Did you do something else after?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] skulnik:
The first step on the Sappimg from here (after checking the image) was unzipping system it hung there for over 15 min with zero progress on the completion bar at the right side of the screen. We gave up and did a batt pull.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Kameleon7:
greeting,

I am new to all this root stuff, so please be patient with me.

I recently got an update to my Fender phone and now my phone doesn't work right at all.

I recieved the address to this web page from an employee at T-mobile because I asked him about rebooting my phone to the old OS.

Am I in the right place? Are these the instructions to return to my orginal OS?

thank you for your time

Kameleon7
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Wow, I'm very surprised that you got linked here from T-Mobile, guess all them guys and gals don't have their head shoved up their arses. This isn't the right thread for the Fender, but yes, I can get you back. However, I would call and keep complaining. Apparently their offering to give the Fender users a Samsung Vibrant (a MUCH better phone IMO) in exchange if your having issues.

With that being said, if you still wish to get back to stock:

1. Download this file and rename it to sappimg.zip (make sure it's not sappimg.zip.zip. If your using Windows go to Start->Control Panel->Folder Options->Make sure that "Hide known file extensions" isn't checked.

2. Put the file on the root of your SD card. That means don't put it in any folders.

3. Turn your phone off.

4. Boot into hboot by holding Volume Down+Power.

5. The system will check the file (you'll see a progress bar in the upper right-hand corner) then ask you to press "Action" to continue. You do the "Action" part by pressing in the trackball.

6. The file will start the update. You'll see a few progress bars in the upper right-hand corner. When it's done it'll ask you to press "Action" to reboot. Hit the trackball to do so.

7. Sign back in with your Google account.

EDIT: Forgot step 8.

8. Shoot yourself in the foot for not calling back and getting the Samsung Vibrant, because they won't give me one.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Kameleon7:
Thanks. The reason they didn't give me a new phone is because I bought it used and don't have a warrenty.

That said, I should let you know that I am not any kind of tech person, and really don't understand what it is your telling me to do. Do I need some sort of hardware to load this file to my phone?

Again thanks for your time.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Kameleon7:
ps. will the free version work?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Yes you can use the Free download.