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[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Cool, I'll be unrooting the wife's phone for this.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
O.T.A. for My Touch 3g Fender/1.2

Okay this thread is for the My Touch 1.2/Fender OTA to be released 1/12/11. If you have any insight as to what we need to do to "catch" this update please post here. I know a lot of people are going to say the Magic OTA has already been released but this is a different phone that was not included in the first update and I'm sure the Magic forum Moderator knows this better than most. Does anyone know for sure if we can just be on the stock Fender ROM with root and still receive the OTA? Any information regarding this topic is welcome please post for the rest of us!

JeffakaJeff and I have custom build of this update for people who want root and the update go here.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tass0s:
fender/1.2 i the same as 32A?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
Fender 32a

They are not the same the Fender/1.2 is a 32a but they use the EBI0 kernel like the 32b Dream. From what I have seen the 32a Magic use the EBI1 kernel (correct?).
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] tass0s:
yes its eb1
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
You guys must have issues reading and searching. Not only has this been discussed... but I started an entire new thread just for this phone. And because I knew that would not be enough... I started a WHOLE new thread dedicated to the update just for this phone. Hell, I even made them stickies! Yet... here we are.

I merged your thread in with the appropriate topic already in discussion.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
Un-rooting

Does anyone know for sure that's necessary? I've heard that being on Binary's deodexed fender with root would suffice to receive the update. Anybody know for sure?

I know nobody want's to talk about it but that damn keyboard is the only reason I'm doing this to begin with.

Something else look at the tags this thread won't show up in a search NO TAGS!!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
Logcat to get update links

Use logcat (search this forum) to capture the download link(s).

Expecting three separate zip files we collectively need links for. First should be new hboot/radio package. Second will be the ROM package for each device (one for for 1.2 and one for Fender.)

Edit: No more than two files, we already have hboot and a radio update (if any) would be packaged with the ROM itself. - K

Now what I want to know is will this keep my phone from rebooting when I get a Gmail or SMS notification while using Google Nav and Pandora radio at the same time? :rolleyes:

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
So being hooked to ADB running DDMS will give you the links?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
I unrooted the wifes phone to make sure it catches the update. I'll be sticking with CM 6.1. I'm going to have her not do the updates when she gets prompted so I can pull the links. I don't imagine we'll see an SPL update, but I'm thinking we might get the new radio. We'll see, unless its in that announcement from T-Mobile already.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
I'm going to try the stock Fender w/root. A while back I un-rooted and re-rooted but with the UniversalAndroot this time, so I should show up as stock if I am on 1.6 and my build.prop is right. Anybody know of an app that would store logcat on sdcard?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
I'm going to try the stock Fender w/root. A while back I un-rooted and re-rooted but with the UniversalAndroot this time, so I should show up as stock if I am on 1.6 and my build.prop is right. Anybody know of an app that would store logcat on sdcard?

I found a nice one in the market and the best thing about is after testing the logcat won't start when I start the app it will have information from long before the app starting point so this should work nicely.- See the update message start the logcat and it should go back far enough to include when the message was sent and any temporary cache download links (lets hope) This should get me the first one till I get home and hook to my computer-will running the ddms during the update process get any subsequent links?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
I'll add some tags in a few minutes.

If you are just using the stock just for the Swype keyboard you can look into SlideIT. Can't remember how much it costs but it's pretty much the same thing. Really. Some may even argue that it's better.

Regarding the update for the rooted stock roms... you should be able to get the update still. My theory is that the rom, spl and radio would be the only thing to get the update. Rom (stock), SPL, (1.33.0013), radio (2.22.23.02) possibly kernel. If any of these are different then you may not get the update. Another theory of mine is that it may require a certain build.prop file. It's been a while but I'm pretty sure that I used the same build.prop file in my rooted stock rom. So either way I don't see why you wouldn't still get the update.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
Looks like I need to find a flashable 2.23.XX radio I switched to the 2708 radio when it came out.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
And I bet that you didn't notice any difference, did you?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
Anything to read a logcat will work. Download links should look something like below:

I/SystemUpdateService( 358): starting download of http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/tmobile_opal/package-name-here.zip

Just so I don't get a reply about this link not working... Again, just an example of what you are looking for.

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
Hey i dunno wat da problm is but dat link isnt workn 4 me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Just kidding. Only giving you an example of what I have to go through on a daily basis.)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] C0dy:
OH, that's why. I went to Jeff's build. Link to the update?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] NetrixTardis:
Has anyone looked into the update yet? Did we get a new SPL/Radio?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
Same SPL, Ans same new radio as the 32b MT3G update:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10692873#post10692873
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Page 8.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
New radio same spl. This was nothing like any OTA before it didn't even contain a framework-res.apk your swype and several other apk's are your original donut.apk just patched or modified on your phone to work with froyo. It really is worthless by itself, completely impossible to build a ROM out of the contents of the OTA. But once the OTA is applied to donut you get your new apk's that were built on the phone, kinda chicken sh#*, but in a really neat way.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
actually its quite common .. the 32b MT3G update was like that as well from the most recent version.. However they had a second version (for those upgrading from an older firmware) that had the full image.

I can manually apply the patches but of course I still need the previous version. (unix utility bsdiff/bspatch)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
That why the 32b was in so many pieces?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
Not really they has multiple updates..

1) SPL update to 1.33.0013 (the one you already have installed)

2) either a patch update or full update to froyo FRG83 w/ radio 2.22.27.08

3) About a week after a patch update ("Market fix") FRG83B

4) About a month later a patch or full update to ("Security Fix") to FRG83D and radio 2.22.28.25

Since your release is later you get to skip directly to FRG83D + 2.22.28.25

If you followed my dream/sapphire port of that rom test1/2 was update 2, test2+market fix was update 3, and test-3 is update 4
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
Now I see where the 2708 radio came in. But no official build is still using 2708 all were updated to 2825?

Most people don't report performance gains coming from 2.22.23xx to either 2708 or 2825 but I have noticed big differences using WI-FI. I had a problem with WI-FI could be too strong and actually worked better at max distances versus sitting on top of the router. Don't know if my problem was unique but after upgrading radio with the 2708 they went away. The downgrade waiting on this update only confirmed it too.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
All of the FRG83D builds (worldwide) I've seen have 2825 .. I don't get a change log on the binary radio blobs but I am guessing something was not quite right on the previous version.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] monomojao:
After I copy the update.zip file to the SD and power off my phone. I press HOME + POWER button and all i see is a triangle with a exclamation inside and an image of a phone laying beside it. What do i have to do so i can install this update?

I have the MT3G 3.5mm (white)

EDIT: Nevermind!!! I had to press Home + Power button twice to get into the menu!!!! but it still gave me an error that it couldn't locate update.zip file!! grrrr
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] JJWeatherman:
Just wanted to thank everyone that posted in this thread. I now have my update running and working well. Waiting for the OTA is for suckers. :P
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] budney:
lol... or for fender users! ;) :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
When you mount your sdcard on your computer where is the update.zip?

Does your computer show file extensions? By this I mean a downloaded file looks like this <file.zip> or like this <file> if it's the second one your computer isn't set up to show file extensions. This is not a problem since you don't need to edit extensions just remember not to add them to the name when renaming a file if they weren't visible to begin with. Examples: OTA_package.zip would rename to update.zip but OTA_package would rename to only update nothing else no period no zip. With the phone hooked to the computer and usb mounted you should be able to navigate to my computer>removable disk E: this is where the update.zip has to be this is what's called the root of your sdcard if you have to go in a folder to see it you need to move it. Hint> if you choose "send to" by right clicking on the update on your computer then removable disk E: or whatever alphabet your sdcard is it will send it to the root of the sdcard. If you are doing this on the phone without a computer when you download it will be in a folder <download> if you used opera it will be <downloads> just use Astro file mgr. and copy the update and back out of download folder then paste there and rename.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mdkathon:
I threw the 1.2 OTA posted here on my Fender to see what happens. Does not look pretty. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
The OTA here won't update unless you're on the SAPPIMG for my touch 1.2. Would have returned an error.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mdkathon:
Yeah, that's what I did. Should have mentioned that earlier. I'm shocked how much better CM 6.1 seemed to work. Of course I need to check out a few things...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
Mine's as smooth and responsive as any build I have ever used. You do know with this update MyTouch 1.2 users have 10+MB ram hack for first time.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] monomojao:
Review of FROYO on my device (my user experience). I have had it installed for about 5 hours now.

This is how I see the update running on my mytouch 3G 3.5mm. I did the manual update, everything went smooth, it took about 15-20 minutes. Immediately after install and boot, I did a factory reset. (Just to get to the option of FR it took me like 10 minutes because my phone was lagging, seriously.) After the reset, I did the usual, entered my Gmail account in the phone. It took close to 2 hours to finally import all my contact s (roughly 250) into my address book. It’s a Pain in the ass but it’s something that has to be done.

Market: the first time I tried to open the market it force closed on my about 10 times. Finally when something started showing on screen it kept telling me there was a network error and i constantly kept pressing retry until it completely loaded. Until now, it takes about 5 minutes to fully load the market and its almost unbearable to wait this long. Sometimes it just says loading with the white background and nothing happens.

Gallery: the photo gallery is virtually unusable. It takes extremely long to load anything and the thumbnail view of the images doesn’t even load up properly. As of right now I am still unable to properly open any images on the sim card.

Messaging: there is a significant lag when you start typing a message. But it’s still manageable if you have more patience than a squirrel.

Scrolling between home screens: there is a serious lag almost worse than Chinese torture.

Work Email: not sure if google removed the work email app from Froyo but I do not have it anymore. And it’s one of the most important features I enjoyed on android is being able to sync my work email on the phone. Well that option is gone and im not sure how to set it up on here so instructions are welcome. Also, when adding an additional email (hotmail) it continuously gives me a connection error so I am unable to retrieve my messages.

Wifi: works, but still not able to download emails.

Bluetooth: have not tried, I hardly use it anyways.

Camera: has digital zoom now, and a few other cool features.

CONCLUSION: I am not sure if it’s the update.zip file that is not the correct one but it feels like Froyo even as stripped down as it is already, is not intended to run on this low-end android device. If you have yet to update I would recommend not to do so until a few days or weeks passes by and more people can review to see if their device is working properly. I would also like to add that im not that much of a heavy app user, as of right now, I have not downloaded any apps to my device, just what comes stock in the operating system.

I apologize for the long post, but if you made it this far its because you wanted to know what I had to say.

Thanks!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] jeffakajeff:
Wow, the update runs extremely well for me and my wife. It is actually smoother than 1..6 for me.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
If you would have wiped before flashing it would have been totally different.

Why do people choose not to wipe only to go back and wipe later? I think everyone should know wiping before the update is recommended and wiping after the update is lagging will not yield the same effect.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] monomojao:
am i too late to wipe? in the instructions posted on the Tmo Forum there was no steps to wipe before flashing :( how unfortunate for me...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] monomojao:
and btw, i did do a factory reset before I installed the update.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
Manually installing the update from sdcard and wiping before install will yield the best results. Wiping after the update I guess will eventually work but there are things that have to be overwritten doing that way and the improvement is slow at best to recognize. If you really want to be objective about this build you should wipe first and then update I was really impressed it was the same as CM6 but a little faster on our older devices.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
No your not too late, but if it's not laggy I wouldn't worry about it. If your manually updating, when you boot into recovery, before applying the update.zip, you should select wipe/factory reset there, and then finally apply the update.zip.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] monomojao:
so even now that i have installed the update if i go into recovery mode and do the wipe and then install the update it will work?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Yep, that would be correct.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
So can anyone point me to an OC kernel for this thing? I tried ezterry's 32B kernel and it killed wifi. Same thing using one of dumfuqs.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ezterry:
Odd no one else has wifi issues with those kenels.. make sure you are not running out of space on /system..

And on that topic is there anything new that isn't in my froyo mt3g ota port to both the dream/sapphire?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Ok, so I got nandroided back, reflashed Amon Ra's recovery, flashed the kernel, and booted. Only had 36k free in /system so I deleted all the ringtone and notification sounds which gave me 2.93 Meg free. Rebooted and I'm still getting the "Error" when trying to turn on wifi.

On a side note, somehow Amon Ra's recovery got replaced with the stock one. That was after flashing the recovery from ROM manager, flashed the 1.33.2010 engineering SPL, and then reflashed the recovery from fastboot. Did it that way because it had already gotten over-written after flashing from ROM Manager the first time. I'm running the official update, not the modded version.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] jeffakajeff:
I think they are identical.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
Terry to be totally honest THE ONLY reason I unrooted and waited on this was knowing I would have a system/app/Swype.apk and needed lib and or so files to use on Froyo ROMs that I use. That's it..Never thought I would get anything else I haven't already been using for months already. The little bitty ram hack was a nice surprise but my phone runs CM6.1 almost as good as this release. And more than likely I will be using that ram hack with CM before long (hint-hint) so yes that damn keyboard was the only difference.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hoodwin1:
is the update for Fender seriously still not here -.-
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
have you seriously not read any of the posts???
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] monomojao:
THANK YOU for the person who recommended me to wipe then install the update. after i did that last night my phone is working flawlessly. It still lags here and there but that has to do with the below-par processor that's included in the phone. THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] shawn1224:
Anybody know a good wireless tether app that works with the update?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] crypysmoker:
None... The stock kernel (at least the old 1.6 one) doesnt support netfilter. If this one does sorry lol
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hoodwin1:
i tried to but theres soooo many... :D
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] WoefulDerelict:
Sad Fender is Sad.

As we are still waiting for a link to the Fender update to come out might it be prudent to put out an APB and some links for anyone who wants to learn how to A) Catch the link and share B) Is silly and doesn't catch the link but, has not performed the update yet and can catch the file and upload it for everyone?

Also, as I understand it we have no original SAPPIMG for the Fender. Any chance we could try to make one available or is that something that just never made it out?

Cheers to all the 1.2 users.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
The Wireless Tether apk 2.0.2 has been reported working with this build.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
The original Fender SAPPIMG.

You can use aLogcat (free and downloadable in Market) to grab the link. Just set it to save the log every hour and you can find the link in those logs.

If the OTA has download and not installed, it should be on the root of your SD card if I'm not mistaken.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] NetrixTardis:
any news on the kernel dev for the 1.2/fender? I read ezTerry's post with regards to the memory map..

oh just re-read it again "update in weeks to come"... and its only 3 days... I'm soo impatient...

any fun update tho? (not looking for file, but some kernel dev talk)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
If the OTA has downloaded but not installed it will be in /cache. You can download a couple different file managers and play with them you will be surprised to find out you can copy lots of stuff from system and paste to sdcard without root permissions.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
It would be nice to have the new ram-hack @614mhz. It's pretty fast now but that would make it go.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] WoefulDerelict:
Thank you.

Well aren't you super helpful. I've never been able to get my hands on an origial fender SAPPIMG. Found plenty of links but, none of them were the genuine article. Suppose I'll get curious and poke at that.

Thanks for the other info too... I know I'll be watching for the link and hopefully other Fender owners who aren't familiar with the process have read along and will also be looking out for it.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] shawn1224:
Thanks, works without a hitch.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cnonline:
Google maps works??

I have froyo FRG83D running on mytouch 3g 1.2, and I installed the google maps 5.0 which has the ability to cache the maps and has vector maps... but it does not work on mytouch 3g 1.2 :( no caching option, no vector maps... no compass at top left corner... :(

I have optimus t too which has froyo FRF91 and has all the above things working for maps... also the 3d buildings and gestures...

Does anyone getting google maps with above feature working on mytouch 3g 1.2/fender?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rickyd:
3d works great on my fender, it only work on certain places, go to some place like central park new york and it works great. works great in tampa where i live also.

Caching seems to work also.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] deckrider:
new stock recovery

After applying the official over the air froyo update when I boot using home + power, I can't activate any of the 4 menu options, such as wipe data/cache (my Touch 3G 1.2)

Anyone else experiencing this?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
I did, but I'm not sure if it was before or after using ROM Manager to flash Amon Ra's recovery, so I can't say if it was hosed out the box or if it got hosed from flashing the custom recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cnonline:
Oh thats great it works on your fender. I am not looking for 3d maps. I am looking for the vector mapping feature and caching feature, so I can use it fast and sometimes without t-mo network if I can pre-cache the maps. Good for you. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] deckrider:
I never rooted or flashed mine, so it was hosed out of the box (or perhaps I should say "Over The Air)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] TheBladeofFate:
So, after my dogged reading of the first 16 pages of this thread, this is the information I have gleaned:

1) There is a working update link for the 1.2

2) You should do a wipe/factory reset before flashing

3) You need a custom recovery in order to flash it

Am I correct in posting this information, or do I have something wrong?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
1) There is a working update link for the 1.2 Yes

2) You should do a wipe/factory reset before flashing Yes

3) You need a custom recovery in order to flash it No, you use the stock recovery
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] TheBladeofFate:
Thanks so much. My data plan expires today, so I need to flash and activate froyo today. Another question (bear with me): In order to get to recovery, I need to press home while booting up, correct?

And after that, I see the yellow exclamation point. What next?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Then just hit home+power again once you see the exclamation mark.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] TheBladeofFate:
Thanks so much. Froyo, here I come!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] TheBladeofFate:
So, no luck on rooting after the update... Super1Click doesn't seem to work for me. Are there any other methods (excluding goldcard)?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Edubyah:
You can flash the sappimg in fastboot and if it works root with universal androot then install the rooted version.

I sure would like to know what the people that can't root with Super1click are doing wrong everybody that's rooted used this method.

People are spoiled. If you aren't willing to learn what you need to learn to root chances are you shouldn't. "With great power comes great responsibility"-Peter Parker's Uncle
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] TheBladeofFate:
Are you saying to revert back to 1.6, root with universal androot, flash a custom recovery, then reupdate?

On a side note, did anyone try z4? It doesn't work for me.