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[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
I bought a Rogers HTC Magic for a pretty cheap price. It had The Rogers 1.5 Sense UI update on it. I decided I wanted to root it and load other ROMs, etc. So I read that the easiest method was to use Universal Androot to root it, and ROM Manager (from the Market) to flash the appropriate recovery image.

So, I installed both apps. I first ran Universal Androot and rooted. I confirmed root through ADB and also Super User permissions. I then restarted the phone just for peace of mind. After the restart, I ran ROM Manager. It automatically popped up and asked me if I was running an Ion/My Touch or an HTC Magic. I selected HTC Magic, because that's what this is. So then it flashed the recovery image and restarted the phone. When it restarted it went to the Rogers boot screen for a few seconds, and then started a loop of restarts. That's all it does now. It shows the Rogers screen for a few seconds, goes black and reboots over and over. I have tried booting into HBOOT, Fastboot, and into recovery. I cannot boot into any of them. One thing I did notice is that when I'm pressing any of the combinations (volume down + power, home + power, menu + power) for a very brief half a second right before the phone restarts, the bottom of the screen says "ClockwordMod ..." where ... is the version of the image (I'm at work without the phone, so I don't recall the exact number there).

So, is this thing officially a paperweight now, or is there some sort of hope?

Thanks.

Paul
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] adrift02:
Well, I don't know if you are full-bricked but here is what went wrong. The HTC Magic recovery is incorrect for the mytouch3g (at least the 32b). There was a top option for "saphire/mytouch 3g" which is what you should have chosen. So, you can't load the incompatible recovery. Can't you boot back into the rom you were using? The recovery flash shouldn't have messed with it. If you can, boot back in and flash the correct mytouch3g recovery in rom manager.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Okay. That's weird. I mean, my phone is a Magic so choosing the option for the Magic instead of the Ion/MyTouch seemed to make sense.

Anyway, I cannot get anywhere. Holding vol+ and power does nothing, neither does home and power or back and power. Are there any other tricks to getting anywhere beyond this endless restart loop?

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Starting to think I'm screwed.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
You may be, I'm not sure exactly what state you are in but the recovery you installed was for a magic 32a (that you have) with a 3.x radio (that you don't have)

The rogers sense rom uses the 6.x hero radio and needs a hero recovery.

The mt3g uses a 2.x radio thus yet another recovery.

Try booting with volume down to see if you can get into the hboot/fastboot screen, but I think you tried this already.. you may also try letting it loop unplugged until the battery drains it may error out giving you access again..

Besides that there is the option of jtag and fixing the software stack that way.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Thanks for the reply!

Right, I cannot get into fastboot or hboot. I'll try running the battery down when I get home today. Interesting idea.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Unfortunately running the battery dead with restarts didn't do the trick.

Any idea if there's any place I can send it to who has the smarts to jtag recover this thing?

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tmokeith:
me too

I did the same thing on a 32B. Rooted. loaded ROM Manager. Ran the recovery, I choose the Ion/MT3G option. tried to load CM6-FroyoRedux-v1.7-32b-blk.zip. Now it's stuck in the boot screen. :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
I don't think it's the same thing.

I rooted, loaded ROM Manager and installed the recovery. I was never even able to get into recovery in order to try to load any ROMs.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nate_benji:
I have a Rogers magic, and its a 32a. One way to fix it is to go to the HTC website and punch in your serial number and download the rogers update. Only problem is that will make it a pain to root again. But should fix that reboot loop. But do that as a last resort to get the phone running again.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
The phone does not identify itself to the computer, so this doesn't work.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nate_benji:
The program should try to put the phone into fastboot mode, and install the upgrade. Have you tried pulling the battery and pressing the power button + back, once the battery is installed again?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Oh yes. I've gone crazy trying every key combination with every combination of taking battery out, plugging it in, USB cable attached, detached, etc.

The phone never identifies itself as a piece of hardware to the computer in the 5 seconds between reboots.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] naparstekk:
I had the same problem yesterday, and i was doing the same rooting with Universal Androot and flashing recovery witch Rom Manager (choose the same options). I tried to go into recovery and then it started to bootlooping the whole time.

I was pretty scared when that happens, can't open fastboot menu and the only thing that my phone was showing was HTC logo and a quick blink of clockwork sign over and over.

I don't know exactly how i managed to fix it, but it started to work when i quickly plug off baterry and i immiediatly plug it in (I was doing it at the exactly time when the phone reboots) while holding the power button.

Now my magic turns on, but recovery won't work (just flash for a moment, and reboots) and it always say at the beginning of booting system that SD card was removed which means i can't use any SD card.

I hope it somehow helped you.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
I tried doing this quickly for about 5 minutes this morning but didn't get it to go anyway. I can try some more after work today.

When you say it booted after this battery pull thing, do you mean the phone booted right into Android, or you were able to get to hboot or fastboot?

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] naparstekk:
I wasn't able to get hboot or fastboot. I pluged off and on the battery in the exact moment when the Logo came out after restarting. The logo was on the screen for the whole time, even while battery plugged off. I guess, i've done it so quickly that phone didn't switched off.

I think i was holding the power+home or power+back buttons all the time.

Can't really rember the exact way, sorry.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
Try removing the SD card and booting if its not restarting due to the wrong radio too soon that may help.. if you get into android restore the SD card and run the exploid process I posted a bit back for rogers magics, or the older goldcard method.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
I've played around with taking the battery out and putting it right back in at all different times during the booting and can't get the phone to behave any differently. Iv'e tried it with SD card in and SD card out, USB cable in and USB cable out. I can't get anywhere.

I did notice that the phone does show up as an Android device for a second when it's booting. Tried to catch it in adb but no luck.

Starting to think this thing is shot. Any other ideas?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Just so everyone can see what's happening, I recorded a video and uploaded it. Linked below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPoxMzm0MVU&hd=1
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mumilover:
try to hold and KEEP holding the back + power... Not volume down!

Don't push and release like you did in the video.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
I am pushing and releasing in the video just to illustrate that doing that is the only thing that changes the phones behavior slightly, by causing the Clockworkmod Recovery to show up for half a second. When I push and hold NOTHING happens, including no Clockworkmod Recovery flashing across the screen.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] etiennepb:
Just went through the exact same deal tonight(with the wifes phone no less) and thought I was hooped. Took ezterrys advice and removed the sd. Same problem at first and then I just started pressing the back and power buttons repeatedly like in your vid. I have no idea why this worked but the phone booted normally. I immediately reflashed with ion/mytouch 3g recovery and all is well. Good luck Paulie. I know the feeling and it sucks.

As a side note the dev for rom manager should really update the recovery choices to be a bit clearer.

EDIT: Rom Manager killed my recovery. The phone boots normally I just can't get into recovery. This is probably moot as I doubt my wife will let me touch her phone again ;).
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
What radio do you have..

2.x=ION/mt3g google branded magic

3.x=htc branded magic

6.x=htc hero sense clone

And where is this process to use androot + rom manager for all/6.x radio magics seems to be missing info...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
How long after you started pressing the power and back buttons did the phone boot correctly? I removed my SD card and have tried this repeatedly but nothing happens.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Holy crap. I was just mashing the buttons as I was reading an article and looked down to noticed I ended up in fastboot!!!

I'm just about ready to flash the CORRECT recovery. I'll report back with what happens.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Okay, well so much for that. My battery died, now I'm stuck in the boot loop again. I'm gonna let it charge for a while and then try and figure out how the heck I got into fastboot.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] etiennepb:
My radio is 6.35.10.18. To clarify I already have root. I was trying to load a cyanogen 5.x rom using ra's recovery which was giving me a status 7 error. I found instructions on the cyanogenwiki about using rom manager/clockwork. With only 2 options for a recovery vers. I chose the htc magic option which seemed the logical choice(obviously not). My point is if you're going to put up an app that has the possibility of bricking your phone you should be exceptionally clear in any instructions/documentation. I'm not an expert but in the year I've been fooling around with these phones I have never come close to bricking them until now...

Chrome
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Okay, I let it charge for about 40 minutes or so. So now this is even more frustrating than before, because I KNOW that there is some way to get into fastboot, but don't know what I did to get there!

Quick question for anyone who has used Clockworkmod Recovery. Once you get into recovery, is there a button that you can push that sends you directly to fastboot? I'm wondering if that button is what needs to be pushed at the right time when it flashes "clockworkdmod recovery" on the screen.

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] adrift02:
Sorry, can't help with the correct combo. Maybe try holding power down and pressing the back/home buttons repeatidly. Just remember that if you get to fastboot hook the phone up to your computer and flash a legit recovery/radio before doing anything else.

Don't lose hope, you got there once you can get there again!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Okay, so I got back into the OS today on my phone, and it boots normally. Problem now is that I have no access to my SD card. I tried 4 different cards at work today, the phone will not recognize any of them. They are recognized in hboot, because it seems a SAPPIMG.ZIP if I put one there.

Any ideas? I'm pretty much stuck now that I can't access the SD card, I can't even make a new gold card because I can't get the SID.

Any help is much appreciated!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Baladeen:
WOW - the OP described my steps in the same order exactly.... same problem.

spent most of the night googling and nothing

finally after giving up all hope... I tried booting the trackball+power (radio).

connected to PC via usb and tried running the rogers RUU setup file (yes I gave up all hope).

and guess what....

nothing....

so I decided to try the following:

- while in boot loop at the rogers screen

- connected USB

- ran the rogers ruu again and while it was disconnecting and connecting to PC

it actually went into hboot/fastboot

and RECOVERED

am really happy it came back at this moment 1.5+htc sense but working phone again.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ry05uk3:
Hi there OP. I ran into the same problem with my phone, clockwork on the bottom and all. What button combination did you use to get back into your phone again, do you recall? I'm pretty choked that I can't use this phone and have to use the Dream in the meantime.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
I think it was home + back. Try holding and pressing repeatedly. If that doesn't work, just mash away and eventually (though it's frustrating) you'll end up booting correctly.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ry05uk3:
holy **** it finally worked! i just kept mashing on the Back button and it eventually went back to normal. I flashed the Rogers RUU just so I can start over again from step one.

Any luck with the phone being able to read sd cards?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PaulieORF:
Awesome!

To be able to read SD cards again, I had to put the phone into fastboot, connect via USA, and run the following fastboot command from within the Android SDK tools directory:

fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mxnate244:
ok, so im attempting to fix my little bros htc magic 32a from rogers. as of now there is no way to get into fastboot or recovery. endless reboot. i cannot figure out for the life of me how you button smashed into fastboot and was hoping you could elaborate. newb to the whole rooting scene so sorry in advance.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ry05uk3:
Mine magically (forgive the pun) booted while rapidly tapping the Back button while the phone had the magic splash on screen. It took a few resets but it worked eventually. I got pretty lucky..
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rtsp.se:
mine got exactly same problem

trying to mash back or home or any button rapidly but still in reboot loop

any other way to fix?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PressEsc:
mine is also behaving like that now, and all i tried to do was doing a backup of my current rom.... Clockworkmod rom manager broke my phone....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rtsp.se:
fixed by walk in htc customer service. they use just an hour to flash new rom for my phone. lol
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mxnate244:
so this evening i had my hands on my brothers phone again and button mashed into fastboot for like 1/8 a second. then right after that i button smashed into a regular boot! kinda weird, kinda cool. now im just afraid to try to boot into fastboot or recovery since i already have it running fine. anyone else get as far as me, or go any further?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Try to finish rooting using the one-click method.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] PressEsc:
I just wish i could get mine to boot again, cant figure out the right combo of lucky buttons
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mxnate244:
hey all, i got the rogers magic to go back into the os and now i want to start hacking it again so how should i do this? i currently cannot mount the sd card, and cant get into recovery......
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] another_renato:
Hi,

I'm in the same situation u are, all of u unbricked ur magic trying to press back+home a lot of times??
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Gochris:
Alright, I just finished a marathon button mash seminar, and I finally got my endless reboot rogers magic to boot.

I need to fix this so a) it won't happen again, and b) update the software from 1.5

The problem is I can't get it to recognize via usb, I haven't used this phone since earlier in the year when I broke it so I probably don't have the drivers setup properly, but it just says unknown device so I'm having trouble getting anything installed to work. I'm on w7 x64, but I've tried briefly on w7 32bit as well.

So, should I just try the latest Rogers RUU download?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Depnds what ROM your were using. But I think you have to have the drivers loaded first to run the RUU. When you plug the phone in and Windows says it failed to find drivers click the popup and it should give you the option to search Windows update for drivers. Click that option and it should install the right ones. It worked for me anyways.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Kendrite:
I had EXACTLY the same problem. I managed to get it too boot by bashing the back button and eventually it worked (phew).
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neocastro:
i got the exact same problem...been smashing 'back' buttom for more couple of hours and nothing...

any idea of how much time you guys spent smashing buttoms?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ryukus:
my solution on 10 second your magic will be alive (100% PROVEN & TESTED)

if u have problem with your magic (stuck on logo screen) maybe my solution it's work... :p

pls see this video make sure you condition same like this

youtube.com/watch?v=hPoxMzm0MVU&hd=1

Pls follow my sollution (it work on my magic) for fix your magic first u don't panic because your magic will be have the recovery on the internal disk. u should be only recovery rebort your magic to earlier condition before your magic stuck on logo boot screen.

1.put off your magic battery (5 second) then put on again.

2.pls hold home button and then hold off button (power on) "until u see the screen cyanogen recovery bootloader" and then it's automaticly booting and pls chooses rebort recovery then recovery will started.

3.after that your magic freezed on recovery clockworkmod.

4.put your battery off on your magic and put on again.

5.your magic will be back alive :D

pls responsed my solution ;)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] neocastro:
tried a couple of times...didnt work =(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
I think the lack of sdcard is misc partition related.. if you have or can get RA/clockwork recovery working run 'cat /proc/cmdline' and copy me the output (or scrub your serial number with some X's and post here )
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rpsmart:
Thanx man.. you saved my phone
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] z_nix:
I have the exact same problem as PaulieORF first described.

I've tried mashing back + power, home + power for a long time (30 mins).

I see the Clockwork Recovery flash on the screen but then it goes back into Rogers endless loop.

I have also tried running the RUU_Sapphire_Rogers_WWE_3.05.631.7_R_release_signed_NoDriver.exe while it is stuck in the reboot loop, but it does not detect the device.

Neither does trying to catch it with adb.

However, plugging it into USB, my computer (Windows 7) makes the recognition noise. I see a new drive flash under the My Computer (new F: drive flashes) but then it goes away.

Anyone got any other suggestions or is it fully brick'd?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rfwoolf:
Managed to boot after mashing back key

I *also* had this exact same problem including

* no key combination stops the infinite loop

* pressing back + power-off just before the reboot briefly shows the CynagenMod message thingy

I was leaving it in a boot loop to drain the battery, hoping it would "error-out" and boot, the SD card was *unplugged*, the USB cable was completely disconnected and I was mashing the back key without even looking, and then when I looked down I saw it was working! :D

So here is my advice:

Leave it in the boot loop with the SD card popped out and eventually start tapping the back key quite rapidly - I was doing it 'comfortably fast'.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] s1nnless:
same problem

Hi, my brother tried to restore is magic with rom manager and got this boot loop problem. I've tried to let the baterry go down to see if it would help, but no solution. Any idea?
[Desire General] jklondon:
Since the 2.2 download my desire seems to auto-rotate too easily, bug? Is there some way to configure the sensitivity? Thanks!
[Desire General] mancuk29:
I find it a real pain as the phone auto rotates too much its too sensative
[Desire General] jklondon:
So it is a bug thats known about? Any workarounds?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] windy31:
Seen it once during last Google I/O, and again today in google mobile blog.

Does it work with our leaked 2.2 firmware JP3?

If it work I may consider to advance to Froyo :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dualview:
Works perfectly with JP3 & Firefox.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] h711:
too bad thats not work in Eclair..T_T
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] big dave1:
Hi Everyone,

Firstly apologies as I know there are loads of threads regarding this and I've spent all week trawling what feels like every one of them but still not found a solution.

I've got an HTC Tytn II that has a very very annoying Vodafone splash screen when it starts up! I've run the hard spl , reflashed the ROM all of which worked and still can't get rid of the ruddy thing screen on startup. I've tried using POF's app that's posted here but my PC picks it as a virus so that's not helped.

Any ideas as I'm at my wits end!!!!

Cheers
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] erishasnobattery:
So after all that this community has given me, I figured I'd give a little back. I originally planned to release a ROM, but after numerous failed attempts at a good kernel and 2 bricked phones, I figured it was safer to play in Photoshop. :)

This was planned to be in the aforementioned ROM, but instead I'll just release it as a metamorph for everyone to enjoy. As stated, it is for Sense-based ROMs. I built it with the framework from xtrROM 3.03, but it's been tested on Evil Eris as well as a couple others.

Right now, it's pretty basic. Just the status bar and related icons and a couple checkboxes are finished. I'm working on everything else as I have time, but work is pretty busy and the girl and her devil children keep me tied up (not literally) at home.

Basically, I didn't want a white bar, and the black bar is wearing on me, so I went in-between. I'm not a fan of the super-flashy icons, so I kept it simple. The background is a nice brushed metal look and the icons, although tiny, are black and red marble. I considered blue, but I think there's already 216 blue themes floating around. I'm not so sure about the battery icon, but I've changed it 6 times and settled on this one. Feedback is welcome.

Anyway, on to the theme...

I know that the pulldown bar and the "Verizon Wireless" area are 2 pixels too short. Stupid .9 files. I'll fix that later. Also, I'd like the status bar text to be black, which I know how to do with hex editing, but if someone has a quick and dirty method, let me know!

Let me know what you think and lay out any suggestions you may have. Enjoy!

Download Here

P.S. I had a couple of PMs about the background. I used the Mabilo Wallpaper App. It was in the 3D/Abstract section I think. The clock is the Simple Date/Time Widget from gz? $1.99 in the market I think.

Change Log

v1.0 Initial release.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] hydRoponic chRonic:
love the look of this! great work.

sadly, im not on a sense rom.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] SplicedX:
Erishasnobattery,

Great work! Im on xtrROM 3.0.3 and i have been looking to theme it. My first try was with a kevlar and needless to say it did not go so well. 2/3 of the theme worked.... Once you refine this one a bit more and work on the icons some more, i will definitely try it. I know the blue has been done to death, but a cobalt blue would be cool.