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[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
No, you won't be able to run the official update from a custom recovery, at least you shouldn't be able to, the install should fail. He's saying revert to 1.6, root, install custom recovery, then install this. It's the update, just themed and with root out the box.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] jdm4u:
Ok quick question. My mytouch is unlocked at the moment. If I do a memory wipe before the manual update would that lock the phone back up?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] budney:
No it won't lock your phone back up. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
Anybody going to throw a fit if I remove the sticky from this?

It's old news now.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] stenomatic:
I was kinda thinkin' the same thing.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
Alright then. No more sticky.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] stewdk:
Any chance of this update coming in a RUU or sappimg.zip version?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Which one? The update for the 1.2 is in this thread.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] stewdk:
I am just wondering what the chances are that we'll get a leaked RUU image (not OTA) with froyo for the MT3G 1.2 / Fender LE.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
There won't be one. The update isn't a full install. It just updates the radio and then overwrites/patches files in the 1.6 build to update to 2.2. This ROM is a themed/rooted version of the update.

If your just wondering for the purpose of reverting back to stock at some point, you'll have to flash the 1.6 SAPPIMG and then either wait for the update prompt again on the phone or flash the update from recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] WoefulDerelict:
Still no Fender love....

So, all the brew-ha-ha and still no links or info from Fender users? Was the phone really that unpopular?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] budney:
It was a popular phone, but most people who got their hands on this LE don't know about XDA. I am still waiting for the update, and becoming very impatient now that the 1st has pasted. Wish I would of never rooted it, and can't wait to get back to using my Vibrant :(
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
Budney,

Think the issue is that the sapping being used for those of you that rooted that is supposed to be the stock ROM but is not. Would you be willing to try an experiment with a different prop file?

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] WoefulDerelict:
Indeed it is...

I am quite inclined to agree with kpetrie77 as every image I've seen labelled as Fender lacks the original apps packed with it and the custom LE boot screen. I'd love to see this taken care of but, I'm not really sure how to go about it myself.

Personally, I was given the Fender as a gift and I think it's a neat little phone but, T-Mobile/HTC/Google's lack of active support for the device quickly turned me off. Having half the apps people were telling me about be unavailable because they required 2.x got annoying fast. Personally... I hated the Vibrant more and had to ditch it and have been patiently waiting for the carrier to come up with something not so full of suck... I'm still waiting. HTC's EVO ruined me but, given how long it has been since Sprint has had a nice phone... the deserve it... now if only they'd be nicer to their customers.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] budney:
I am willing to try anything! This is just a backup phone for me now. :)

Well, I have to agree now that google looks at the software on the phone only, which is not the best way to do a upgrade. They should look do it by serial # or IMEI.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] g1user101:
wanting the official update. but i flashed the ota rom themed. nd its fast. do i hav to be unrooted to recieve the ota update?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
I'm going to disagree. Even if the sappimg was wrong and didn't have all the files to meet the requirements that Google deems a Fender should meet, the phone would still at least download the update and just fail the install.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
What I want to do is populate the build.prop file with information from the original shipped Fender rom. This will be the information android checkin service sends to the Google servers. At that point it should not matter what rom is loaded on the phone as long as it also has a Fender IMEI. I think trying to apply the update would fail but we are just trying to get the download link first.

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
Also, what was the device name when you guys first got the Fender? Still "T-Mobile myTouch 3G" or did it have something else?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] budney:
It was "T-Mobile myTouch 3G". :)

Pic taken from the AndroidCentral review of the Fender.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ur2biteme:
for what it's worth, i was having the same problem, and you're right, what's posted as the fender rom IS NOT the fender rom (and i lost my boot image in the process of trying to get a factory recovery back on the phone. guess that's what i get for being lazy). the real one is 2.08.531.1. what wound up working for me (shoulda done this in the first place, but was too scared of adb.... blah) was loading a nandroid backup of my original 1.6, pulled the stock recovery out of the "Fender" Sappimg, flashing that through adb, unrooting with universal androot, and a reboot for good measure. 20 minutes or so later i was in a locked down "stock" fender 2.2.1. so yeah, you have to have the REAL fender rom and a stock bootloader to work.

on that note, anyone know where i could find a stock fender splash image? :P

*edited because apparently i dont know the difference between a bootloader and a recovery tonight*
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
Would you upload the 1.6 system.img from your nandroid backup? Should be able to use it to put together a new "stock" package the rooted Fender users could apply as an update.zip and still keep all the Fender wallpapers and such.

And did you grab the link for the Fender 2.2.1 update?

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
Fender Update Link

Hey guys,

So I flashed that "Fender" saapimg (the one that isn't) a while back and have been waiting for the update and never got it, so today I restored my original Fender software and VIOLA! here it is. I did have aLogCat on it, so unless I'm reading the log wrong (always possible..) here's the link

http :// android.clients.google.com/ packages/ ota/ tmobile_sapphire_le/ 460435f5eb4e.OTA_Sapphire_TMOUS_3.56.531.2-2.08.531.1_P2_release.zip

(It's my first post, so I added spaces after the /'s)

Of course, I had to flash Clockwork Recovery to restore the nandroid, so I don't seem to be able to install it... I'd love it if ur2biteme would be willing to post the recovery image he was able to pull (along with some instructions for us non-developers..)

Anyway, hopefully this helps and you guys will be able to do something with it!

Thanks!

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] budney:
What a awesome first post K'Tag, can't thank you enough! :cool:

Would you mind sharing your system.img from your nandroid backup with kpetrie77 so we Fender users can get back to a true original Fender device. You can PM him if you don't want the file(s) posted in public. :)

Here is the recovery.img from the Fender like ROM (Thanks to DonJuan for the zip of that ROM).
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
I'm happy to share it, in fact I went a step further. I did a hard reset to get back as close to "out of the box" as possible and backed THAT up (I did reinstall RomManager UniversalAndRoot and ASTRO first, although it occurs to me now that I didn't need to...) so it should be just about as clean as possible. I also changed my password to a temporary one before backing it up, so I'm pretty comfortable giving out the file, but I would still prefer to send it privately... (Paranoid much? ..maybe)

Thanks for the recovery file! (and now for my noobness..) How do I install it? I renamed it update.zip (not zip.zip!) and it wouldn't install from recovery. Do I need to use ADB? or maybe fastboot? ...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
How to manually flash a recovery.

Yes you'll need to re-root, push the flash_image command to system, and then flash from terminal. You can also add the flash_image argument to the folder with ADB if you have it installed and flash from there.

To do it from the phone: You'll have to get a copy of flash_image which you can download from here and put in on the root of your SD card along with whatever recovery you want to use. Then open up terminal on the phone and type the following hitting enter at the end of each line:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system
flash_image recovery /sdcard/*name of recovery*.img
reboot recovery
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
Cool. I'll do some searching and hopefully I can figure it out. If not.. I'll beg for more help... ;)

Thanks guys!

KT
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
DonJuan you are truly a prince among men!

Worked great. Back to stock 1.6 with a stock recovery. Now we'll see how this OTA works.

If only we could find that stock splash image...

Thanks again!

KT
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
So the OTA installed seemingly fine. It's a little slow, but I assume that's just because it's syncing everything.

There was a very odd thing though... After I installed the update I did a factory reset (shouldn't have been necessary, but why not?) after the factory reset the phone booted up with my old wallpaper (not stock) and with some apps that shouldn't have been there, including superuser.... These things weren't there BEFORE I wiped, it's odd that they were after. It's as if instead of doing a factory reset, it restored a backup, but with the new OS.

Any thoughts? I think I'm just going to wipe it again and see if it does it right this time...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
Lot of that is linked to your Google account now. Wallpaper you add from an external image is. Apks are not actually stored but what apps you have installed are and download (restored) from the market once you log into your Google account. Wifi settings are, Bluetooth is hit or miss.

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] JRSIV:
I got the OTA update and I hate it. It's ruined an otherwise cool phone. I want my 1.6 back and in another forum DonJuan posted that this was the way back:

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.

In case he doesn't see my reply in the How To Root thread where this is from, is it really this easy to return my phone back to stock?

Just put the sappimg.zip file on the root of my SD card (via USB), turn off the phone, hboot w/ VolDown & Power, press "Action" twice when directed and when it boots the phone will be just as I bought it new?

Fender screen-> Android logo-> Google sign up-> back to Donut 1.6?!?

I've never rooted my Fender and the Froyo OTA was the first major change it's had since I got it last year.

Don if you can answer or anyone else I'd appreciate it. If it's really this easy to get my Fender back to Donut 1.6 then I'm there! This Froyo OTA is flawed and the litany of posts on Android forums net wide about Fender MT3G's turning into paperweights or glorified Nokia 6610's is proof.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nimam81:
Thank you for your posts. Where can I download Flash_image.zip?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
JR, That file will take you back to 1.6, but not to the Fender stock. It will basically make your phone a non-Fender mytouch 1.2. You lose the fender splash screen and pre-installed wallpaper/ringtones/apps, etc. If you really hate it, maybe wait a few days, kpetrie77 is working on a ROM that will take you back to the actual Fender stock. I think you'll dig that.

There are also a couple of things that helped my phone speed up after the update. First, delete any apps you don't use, and make sure the others are on the latest version. Second, give it some time to sync all you information. Apparently google not only syncs your contacts/calendar/etc, but also backs up your settings and app settings, so the sluggishness may still be from that running in the background. The last thing I did was go to "Settings - Display - Animation" and switch from "All Animations" to "Some Animations" or even "No Animations" I'm not sure if it's actually faster, but it FEELS faster without the fade out/in every time you do something.

KT
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] nimam81:
Nobody answered my question. Anyways, I found it and I'm running froyo on fender. Thank you all!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] JRSIV:
Thanks for the info K. I'll wait for the Fender ROM then. I have tried the tips you mentioned over the last few days and my phone is a little better. I did a factory reset the day after the OTA and have purged all unnecessary apps. It's just soooo slooooow thooough :confused:.

Sometimes it'll be fine and then I can't text cause the keyboard trips or I can't do anything with pictures because the gallery is funked! The fact that the gallery checks Picasa for pictures really lags the it down. But it makes calls, and most basic operations work well enough.

I still want it back to the original 1.6 Fender stock though, so I'll keep an eye on the forum to see if kpetrie77 has worked a miracle for us who want our beloved Fender's back...Thanks!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
Back to SHIPPED 1.6 myTouch 3G Fender LE ROM

This is a full wipe update.zip to get you Fender guys back to a bone-stock shipped ROM.

You will need a custom recovery to flash.

The stock radio is also included so it does not matter if you have applied the OTA or not. This will take you back to the shipped ROM. IF you can manage to get it rooted and install a custom recovery to flash.

WARNING

I have not been able to get the OTA rooted with SuperOneClick since there is a memory issue and it will not install su binary. I do not know how useful this will be for Fender users that never rooted and have a real stock Donut and Froyo OTA installed. You can still flash the engineering SPL from a goldcard and go that route but would lose the Fender splash image.

Update, yes you can root.

SO.. note on preventing the OTA - you can either edit your build.prop to prevent it from downloading in the first place OR let it download and try to install with the ClockworkMod or Amon_RA's recovery. Best I can tell, it should not download again once the OTA fails the signature check (unless you clear the cache folder or factory reset.) That said, don't ask me to add features, deodex, add root and so on.

It is a stock ROM.

Any of the above would screw up the OTA for those that do want to go down that rabbit hole.

Files:

Fender LE shipped ROM repacked as an update.zip (thanks to dsixda's kitchen):

What you get:

Fender ROM

Original radio

OTA notifications (this is a stock ROM after all)

What you don't get:

Fender splash image

Fender mp3's on the SD card (duh)

SPL (update assumes you have the stock 1.33.1013G)

Instructions:

1) Save to the root of your SD card and flash the update with a custom recovery

2) Enjoy the bone stock Fender shipped ROM

Thanks to Budney and K'Tag for being my guinea pigs, K'Tag for the system.img and boot.img, koush for ROM Manager and ClockworkMod recovery, dsixda for the kitchen and XDA for the search button.

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ur2biteme:
crap. finally had a chance to come try to upload what you guys needed and you've allready got a rom built. sorry it took me so long. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
K'Tag is looking for a clean hi-res photo of the stock Fender splash screen if you can provide.

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
Anyone know what it looks like?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] budney:
Any one know how to rip the image from a untouched Fender. I could post the instruction over at the T-Mobile forums, where we would have better luck with getting the image. :)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
We're close.

After this is done, Fender owners with a botched OTA WILL be able to goldcard root and still keep the Fender coolness.

That opens the door for a proper "stock" Fender 2.2.1 rom.

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
ezterry suggested we could possibly use CustomMTD to set a partition but after reading hundreds of posts today I have to admit this is past my know how without further instruction.

As previously mentioned, I've been just a dirty flasher until now. :P

Kind Regards,

Kevin
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] DonJuan692006:
It doesn't have to be untouched, it just needs to still have the stock splash, but I can't find anything about how to do that. If Fender owner's are just trying to get root, then they could just try using my root guide in my siggy.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
Hey guys,

Since the splash screen seems to be gone forever (at least for anyone who might have the ability and inclination to post it) I've been trying to recreate it. I figure we might be able to get it close enough to fool a disinterested tech person in case of warranty issues, and it's got to be better than that green screen.. :D Of course the actual image would be better, but what're ya gonna do?

It's been very difficult to even find a pic for reference. So far I've found it in two places, in the original Eric Clapton commercial and in (only!) one of the many unboxing videos on Youtube. In the commercial it's only shown for a second and at an angle, and the unboxing video only has a very dim shot with a thumb in the way and a bad shadow. I've managed to get at least a decent start with that though, check the attached file. If anyone has a better pic, please send it to me. And if anyone has some Photoshop chops and would like to take a stab at it, I'm happy to send you what I have so you don't need to start from scratch. Seriously, I have no ego about this. Give it a shot.

Also, this is file is the wrong dimensions (doh!) so I'll get that fixed ASAP.

KT
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
Here's the file with the correct dimensions. I think....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] WoefulDerelict:
Damn. Nice work!

Wicked props to everyone who's been fighting to put the stock Fender ROM back together. I really wish they'd just release the damn ROMS outright rather than us having to find the damn things or reconstruct them. Total bummer on the splash screen... almost tempted to see if I can't get my paws on an unadulterated phone on the cheap so we can recover that.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rimist:
I have the original splash screen on my fender. If you can tell me how to get the image file off the phone, I'd be happy to post it
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rimist:
I tried dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p19 of=/mnt/sdcard/splash.img but received an error... not sure if that was the correct location. I am seriously considering installing gingerbread on my phone, but would like to provide this image first.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ardeldotcom:
Bro thanks to thiscredits to K'tag

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11205300&postcount=284

i tried to flash it and wow it worked but its a wrong dimension it has a black bar on both sides.. so i tried the other one you post.

but a little blury... so i did some adjustments and now its kinda more like the default splash... thanks bro....

newei

heres the file

http://www.mediafire.com/?urkjhzcugs0wex8

thank you so much bro:)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] WoefulDerelict:
NICE!

Thanks rimist. Hopefully someone will help you work out how to get the image off your phone for those who lost it during the goldcard root. Many thanks in advance for that.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
So, I've managed to get the makeshift one I made on the phone and it's not awful. :p I had to flash an engineering SPL, then flash the splash screen through fastboot, as shown on theunlockr.com. Then I used fastboot to flash the original SPL back using fastboot.

WARNING: Flashing SPL's is universally acknowledged as dangerous, and while I had no problems (knock on wood), it's your phone...

It does seems like if you can flash it via fastboot, you should also be able to retrieve it, but as far as know there is no "get" command in fastboot. (But then again, what do I know..)

And hey rimist,

Even if you can't pull the actual image (although I hope someone will know how to do that..) it'd be awesome if you could just take a nice photo of the splash screen. With some nice light and no visible reflections (easier said than done, I know...) Like I said, mine isn't awful, but it could be much better.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] WoefulDerelict:
Issues...

So, I got a little bored and decided to use the newly built fender image to restore my fender to as close to the original as is possible. I then decided to test the OTA using the link K'Tag provided. The results weren't all that impressive.

I made sure to wipe Boot, System, Data, and Cache before installing the factory clone. After installing the clone I grabbed the OTA, flopped it onto the SD card and have tried to install it via HBOOT and Custom Recovery with no love.

Clockwork spits out the following.

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "sapphire" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "sapphire"

E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip (Status 7)

Installation aborted.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] K'Tag:
I think you need the stock recovery to use the link I provided from Google. I'm sure someone has/is cooked up a version that can use a custom recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ardeldotcom:
good day... i manage to to return my fender to stock provided in this thread and updated to froyo.. and its running smooth.. heres what i did

1. i flashed the spl 1.33.2010 thru recovery... then using fast boot i flashed the Fender splash image from K'tag from my link.. so i manage to have my fender splash as close as the real one...

2. i revert it back to stock Hboot...

heres the link to a thread from k'tag all you need is in here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=947377

3. then i am using clockmod recovery and flashed the Stock_fender_update.zip thanks to kpetrie77

heres the link

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11175767&postcount=276

and thanks to k'tag again heres the link to the OTA update for fender download it then rename it up update.zip and put in the root of your sdcard

then what i did different is i flash the recovery.img thru fastboot

#fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

then i waited for it to load up to the log in screen.. then i turned it off again then boot into recovery HOME+POW

then of course i have the stock recovery now i used update thru update.zip and then it goes all the way to the installation process i waited for a while then whoala!!

I have my stock froyo 2.2.1 FENDER and Closest FEnder Splash screen... though i cannot root it.. but everything seems good running smooth and it has 528 mhz..

thanks guys...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] kpetrie77:
The "back to stock" 1.6 update can be rooted using Universal Androot:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=747598

For best results, do not install the Superuser.apk when rooting. Instead download the lastest version from the market after running Androot

Would suggest also ROM Manager and SetCPU along with pershoots 32B kernel.

Kind Regards,

Kevin