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Technical Think Tank for Bricked MyTouch3G / Magic

Mirror the similar thread in Dream forum, I started this thread as a constructive and positive place for those of us that have recently lost our MyTouch or Magic.
I am going to document the steps I took and hopefully reverse engineer this issue and also prevent other folks from doing the same mistake. This forum has been and good source of info. Thanks
What I did
Following [How-To] Root the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and I was able to flush to 2005 SPL and root successful as 32A rom.
Then I stop at "For Daredevils" and went with a different route.
I took the MT3G OTA (signed-opal-ota-150449.95700137.zip) and resigned it with test key and try to update it.
Update was done successfully and radio firmware updated at the same time and once reboot I got red screen of death.
What I got now
Red brick or Red screen of death
Power up while holding 'Back' button, volume down or any other button always result in Red Vodafone logo of death. I can't get to fastboot.
I can't get to recovery or fastboot which mean I can't do anything at all.
What I suspect
Flashing the radio (unclear what ver#) from MT3G OTA build (signed-opal-ota-150449.95700137.zip) might be that reason why it bricked.
Perhaps I probably should have followed the rest of the steps on "For Daredevils" and flash the ION radio and 32B RAv1.2.0G recovery, after that than trying to update with MT3G OTA without the radio.

I read somewhere in the forum (I forgot where), the reason why a bricked phone couldn't boot to SPL and not able to fastboot was because the radio firmware was loaded during SPL startup. Due to issue with loading radio firmware, SPL won't start properly.
Base on that, what we can try is to re-flash the radio firmware. How?
Maybe i can put the radio firmware as update.zip but how can i get the phone to load it when i can't fastboot

waacow said:
I read somewhere in the forum (I forgot where), the reason why a bricked phone couldn't boot to SPL and not able to fastboot was because the radio firmware was loaded during SPL startup. Due to issue with loading radio firmware, SPL won't start properly.
Base on that, what we can try is to re-flash the radio firmware. How?
Maybe i can put the radio firmware as update.zip but how can i get the phone to load it when i can't fastboot
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It's my opinion. If there is a way, that probably (track ball)+(power), the only key combination we(?) can see .
Let's find a way!

waacow said:
What I suspect
Flashing the radio (unclear what ver#) from MT3G OTA build (signed-opal-ota-150449.95700137.zip) might be that reason why it bricked.
Perhaps I probably should have followed the rest of the steps on "For Daredevils" and flash the ION radio and 32B RAv1.2.0G recovery, after that than trying to update with MT3G OTA without the radio.
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I think we have exactly same problem.
I'm sorry. I misunderstood. But I flashed ION radio. then...I got a pretty red brick!

I do not believe my phone is bricked but I believe it's pretty close...
My Rogers HTC Magic will not boot/load any recovery. I had a fully functional magic for several months using lots of different roms, however I developed a problem with one of the roms and after trying to install a new one, I can no longer boot any rom.
I can only boot into the fastboot screen, which says the following:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Apr 20 2009,15:30:43
Everytime I try to either boot ANY (RA/cyan version) recoveries from either fastboot or flashing it, it does not want to start up.
I can flash just fine, however I do not know if anything is working correctly because only fastboot is accessible, everything else just sits at a rogers logo.
What should I do next?

drewX2 said:
I do not believe my phone is bricked but I believe it's pretty close...
My Rogers HTC Magic will not boot/load any recovery. I had a fully functional magic for several months using lots of different roms, however I developed a problem with one of the roms and after trying to install a new one, I can no longer boot any rom.
I can only boot into the fastboot screen, which says the following:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Apr 20 2009,15:30:43
Everytime I try to either boot ANY (RA/cyan version) recoveries from either fastboot or flashing it, it does not want to start up.
I can flash just fine, however I do not know if anything is working correctly because only fastboot is accessible, everything else just sits at a rogers logo.
What should I do next?
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fastboot flash radio <the correct radio>

Where do I find these radio files? And thanks for the help! I had no clue I needed to flash the radio

drewX2 said:
Where do I find these radio files? And thanks for the help! I had no clue I needed to flash the radio
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you can get the radio img's from htc...
http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html

I have flashed the radio and still get only a rogers screen. I also have reflashed everything with original rogers magic files found on the forum (boot/system/userdata/recovery).
Still only have fastboot working
UPDATE: Got Recovery working. I flashed the radio/recovery from a givemeroot.zip I saw for those flashing the mt3g. I believe it can be used on this as well. Next step is to get a rom loaded

Flashed HardSPL and permabrick mt3g
I have been running Hero ROM's with no issues until today when I flashed a Hard SPL because I wanted to try Cyanogen latest. The new SPL bricked the phone, no power -splash- hboot, just a black screen.
The previous ROM's I have been flashing didn't need a new SPL. Are you not supposed to flash the SPL on the mt3g?
Thanks in advance for the input.

robotician said:
I think we have exactly same problem.
I'm sorry. I misunderstood. But I flashed ION radio. then...I got a pretty red brick!
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Same thing happend to me too, followed the steps till the radio part, flashed the radio - red brick. luckily i manged to get mine exchanged.
edit: duh, sorry seemed to be a somewhat old post/topic

Any progress on this guys???

drewX2 said:
I do not believe my phone is bricked but I believe it's pretty close...
My Rogers HTC Magic will not boot/load any recovery. I had a fully functional magic for several months using lots of different roms, however I developed a problem with one of the roms and after trying to install a new one, I can no longer boot any rom.
I can only boot into the fastboot screen, which says the following:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Apr 20 2009,15:30:43
Everytime I try to either boot ANY (RA/cyan version) recoveries from either fastboot or flashing it, it does not want to start up.
I can flash just fine, however I do not know if anything is working correctly because only fastboot is accessible, everything else just sits at a rogers logo.
What should I do next?
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ummm... okay, I believe it could be easy goings here, if you go to one of the threads, which I believe you can find fairly easily, to switch radio/SPL through fastboot...
Rogers Magic should NOT use 2.22 radio, but either 3.22 or 6.35, unless of course you are using the dream, which is a different thing all together. Then, push the recovery you want (clockwork or amon RA), if after switch spl/radio, does not work. and voila, theres your fix
**NVM, didn't realize your question got answered

Help flashing new rom ?

im having trouble flashing a rom to my magic 32b everytime i flash a cutom rom it gets stuck on the htc magic screen
i have
Sapphire PVT 32B ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2010
Radio 3.22.20.17
i had to make a gold card because i had a perfect spl and have installed the engineers spl
can anyone help ir point me in the right direction ?

you would need to tell which rom your trying to get in, to be sure it would work with your config

capychimp said:
you would need to tell which rom your trying to get in, to be sure it would work with your config
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i have tried a few diffrent roms
cynogens latest 4.2
stokes 1.4
and kingklixk rom 1.7.1
all have frozen on the same boot screen
PS i CAN get into fastboot recovery ect

pls check your messages i wrote you something there

just tried flashing a recovery rom G but it hung on htc screen then did the same with a H recovery it installed fine but then the rom hangs on boot screen :S
how can you change phone from a H to a G would this need a new sappimage flashed to it to change it ?

you should use the H recovery (i believe thats whatu need to use) did you flash the DRC83 for your phone befoer flashing CM? try using a port as well if necessary

How to root after updating to 2.56.494.7 rom

I had to update my phone with the above rom in RUU mode because it was stuck in RUU mode and couldnt do anything. I have a goldcard created but I dont know what SPL to install because of the rom version. would anybody be so kind as to helping me what to do next. Thanks.

Go in fastboot by pressing back+power (while your phone is switched off) and tell as what your SPL and radio version is. I suspect it's a 1.33.xx.xx SPL and 3.22.xx.xx radio, but you should better tell us in order to help you.

HBOOT is 1.33.0010
RADIO 3.22.30.17
Im on a 32b, S-ON H.

Are you sure it's 32B, S-ON H. If it's 32B, it should be S-ON G. Be very careful. If you flash your 32B Magic with a ROM that is meant for a 32A, you may brick your phone.

vmaxada said:
Are you sure it's 32B, S-ON H. If it's 32B, it should be S-ON G. Be very careful. If you flash your 32B Magic with a ROM that is meant for a 32A, you may brick your phone.
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what originally happened is that i accidentally flashed my phone with an 32a RUU update, which didnt finish and got stuck on the RUU mode screen. I flashed it with an arabic RUU and i now my phone is up and running again. That is definitely what comes up on the fastboot screen. Is there a 32b RUU that I can update to? or can i root my phone?
Official 3.03.990.6 SenseUI ROM for Vodafone - is where I got the rom from.

You should follow the instructions on this post. A friend of mine did the same thing and I used those instructions to install Amon_RA's ROM for 32B Magic.
Since you' ve already installed the Arabic ROM, you should do the rest:
Then follow below link to root the phone:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/29/how...-in-one-click/
Then start phone recovery mode and update the SPL to ENG SPL 1.33. 2005 from below link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529019
Your phone should be 32A now, if you would like to restore to 32B follow below link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133
Good luck
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How do I install an app through android sdk? Because I cannot do the flashrec any other way because there's no market.

spongerob500 said:
How do I install an app through android sdk? Because I cannot do the flashrec any other way because there's no market.
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Put the flashrec.apk in the androidsdk folder. From a command prompt (the path should be that of your androidsdk folder) run:
Code:
adb install flashrec.apk
Put the exact name of the flashrec app you downloaded.

thanks. btw the image version i am using is 2.56.494.7. does that mean any above that i can upgrade to?

Sir, you are a legend. I've finally sorted it after a couple of stressful days without my phone!

htc magic bigest problem s-on

HEY EVERY ONE
i have Big Problem here
Omg by wrong way don't know how don't ask me i was Drunk installing
RUU_Sapphire_Rogers_WWE_2.17.631.2_release_signed_NoDriver.exe to my htc magic Vodafone now it is
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP s-on H
HBOOT 1.33.0010 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-3.22.20.17
when i Try to Install First Roger wwe 2.17.631.2 i its ROM i install it By Wrong get Error 130 MODEL ID ERROR
cuz i made some things like flashrec-20090815.apk
and Back up + flash cm-hero-recovery.img
and i find the solutions is GOLDCARD BUT
since
==> revskills.de/pages/download
==>revskills.de/pages/goldcard
Down how can i make my GoldCard ...! please any Solution
BTW i cant use my htc magic now cuz therez no Arabic support Only Eng-Fr . Hope Someone get solution cuz am still new in Android stuff
and i find some post that
RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Asia_WWE_2.53.707.2_SEA_test_signed_NoDriver.exe
that's will change s-on TO s-off but when i Try To install it ERROR 131 Customer ID ERROR
Finaly am Totaly Lost and Break my phone .. srry4my English

Lesson learned: Don't try to mess with your phone while drunk. You won't be able to boot into recovery and wipe the damn rom off so then you can flash everything you want.
I can give you instructions on how to make a goldcard and try to flash it back, but without a working recovery, I think it all went to hell.
PS: Have a Bacardi and Cola on my behalf, you just ultra bricked your phone. =)

J_Tesla said:
Lesson learned: Don't try to mess with your phone while drunk. You won't be able to boot into recovery and wipe the damn rom off so then you can flash everything you want.
I can give you instructions on how to make a goldcard and try to flash it back, but without a working recovery, I think it all went to hell.
PS: Have a Bacardi and Cola on my behalf, you just ultra bricked your phone. =)
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ultra bricked my phone ... am sure sameone will guide me

No he did not brick his phone since he can get into fastboot.
You should find a RUU for your phone and run that one. (one of the 32B RUU's)
The other option is to download a sappimg.zip/nbh and put in on your SDCard (most probably you will need a goldcard) and power your phone on while holding vol down+power.
3. Did flashrec work? If it did flash Amon_Ra's 1.6.2 H recovery and flash w/e you want from there

eyegor said:
No he did not brick his phone since he can get into fastboot.
You should find a RUU for your phone and run that one. (one of the 32B RUU's)
The other option is to download a sappimg.zip/nbh and put in on your SDCard (most probably you will need a goldcard) and power your phone on while holding vol down+power.
3. Did flashrec work? If it did flash Amon_Ra's 1.6.2 H recovery and flash w/e you want from there
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u mean download from here hxxp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659403
and thnx dude ill Try
i Try RUU_Sapphire_Vodafone_FRA_1.91.163.1_DRC92_signed_NoDriver.exe same Customer ID ERROR
and SAPPIMG.nbh sappimg.zip same Error model id or smthing
eyegor THE BEST its Work with flashrec + Amon_Ra's 1.6.2 H
thnx thnx thnx thnx thnx thnx thnx dude
and to change HBOOT 1.33.0010 (SAPP10000) to HBOOT 1.33.2005 (sapp10000) AND S-OFFFFFFFFF use update.Engineering-SPL-HBOOT-1.33.2005-signed.zip

THREAD CLOSED .. problem Solved thnx to eyegor

You're welcome!

any help would suffice

yes ive read threads and all but still cant manage to get a custom rom
i have rooted the phone through unlockr steps...then followed cursors steps to update to radio 6.35.10.18 and spl 1.76.2007...and i put the amon ra hero-v1.6.2 recovery on my phone
now the problem is that when i try booting into recovery using the home+power button nothing happens it turns on to the "htc magic" screen and hangs
then i saw amon ra's post that said place the rom on the sd card and then boot...tried that nothing..it hangs again
any help would suffice...i know im doing something wrong but the phone works with amon ra sapphire-v1.6.2G with stock radio and spl
fastboot info stock rooted:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013 (SAPP31000)
CPLD-13
RADIO-2.22.23.02
Oct 21 2009, 22:33:27
thanks again

numba1guju said:
yes ive read threads and all but still cant manage to get a custom rom
i have rooted the phone through unlockr steps...then followed cursors steps to update to radio 6.35.10.18 and spl 1.76.2007...and i put the amon ra hero-v1.6.2 recovery on my phone
now the problem is that when i try booting into recovery using the home+power button nothing happens it turns on to the "htc magic" screen and hangs
then i saw amon ra's post that said place the rom on the sd card and then boot...tried that nothing..it hangs again
any help would suffice...i know im doing something wrong but the phone works with amon ra sapphire-v1.6.2G with stock radio and spl
thanks again
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What phone?

If you're using RA's "G" recovery, you've got a 32b phone.
Try booting into fastboot and if that doesn't work than you've got a pretty nice looking paperweight.
You might be able to reverse it with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048&highlight=jtag
but don't get your hopes up
Sorry about your luck dude

Hmmm.... yeah..ur fastboot info would help.

numba1guju said:
yes ive read threads and all but still cant manage to get a custom rom
i have rooted the phone through unlockr steps...then followed cursors steps to update to radio 6.35.10.18 and spl 1.76.2007...and i put the amon ra hero-v1.6.2 recovery on my phone
now the problem is that when i try booting into recovery using the home+power button nothing happens it turns on to the "htc magic" screen and hangs
then i saw amon ra's post that said place the rom on the sd card and then boot...tried that nothing..it hangs again
any help would suffice...i know im doing something wrong but the phone works with amon ra sapphire-v1.6.2G with stock radio and spl
thanks again
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If the problem is only with the recovery image you should be able to fix it. Boot the phone in fastboot mode (vol-down + power). Then do this:
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-Magic32A-6.35-v1.6.2.img
You can get the recovery image here:
http://www.theandroidkitchen.com/fi...download=recovery-RA-Magic32A-6.35-v1.6.2.img

fryguy18 said:
If you're using RA's "G" recovery, you've got a 32b phone.
Try booting into fastboot and if that doesn't work than you've got a pretty nice looking paperweight.
You might be able to reverse it with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048&highlight=jtag
but don't get your hopes up
Sorry about your luck dude
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i dont think G has anything to do with 32A or 32B...i have a mytouch 1.2 with 3.5mm jack
oh yeah and like i said the phone WORKS with stock rom, spl, and radio(followed unlockr steps)

eyegor said:
Hmmm.... yeah..ur fastboot info would help.
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fastboot information is
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0013 (SAPP31000)
CPLD-13
RADIO-2.22.23.02
Oct 21 2009, 22:33:27

jeffakajeff said:
What phone?
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sorry i have the mytouch 1.2 3.5mm

I have the exact phone as you do, and am having the same problem! Glad to see this post is getting some responses. Hopefully we can get something figured out. I as well have followed the same steps you did to unlock your phone and flash the new radio/spl. I've tried multiple recovery files and nothing changes, just sits at htc magic screen.

Woah I guess you missed THIS IS FOR 32A MAGIC/SAPPHIRE ONLY!!! in the thread about upgrading.
If that wasn't clear enough that it was not for your phone than the revert to 3.22 radio part must have been. (Why? Because you did not have that radio in the first place, and you cant revert to something that you did not have.)
That radio and spl DO NOT WORK on the new mytouch 1.2

Actually, you need to downgrade to the 2.22.23 (stock) radio and "G" recovery. As long as you've booted into fastboot with your goldcard in (missing SAPPIMG) without a "perfect" SPL, it can be done. Total pain, but it can be done...
You may need to "fastboot erase radio", "fastboot erase recovery" and "fastboot erase boot" just before flashing them again. As I recall, it doesn't "take" unless you've done this.
Good luck!

eyegor, you posted a statement from the origional thread stating "THIS IS FOR 32A MAGIC/SAPPHIRE ONLY!!!" But what about the fact that we have a Sapphire phone? in fastboot ours state "SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON G" Doesn't that show we have the correct phone? I understand what your saying about the 3.22 radio

The Mytouch 3g Fender/LE/1.2 is not a normal 32a phone. It's unique. If you wanna do anything with a fender or 1.2, make sure the instructions say they're for that exact phone. Stuff for the G1 or original Mytouch 3g or any of it's varients won't work on the 1.2(except for cyanogen's new 2.1 testing rom which has fender/1.2 patches integrated now)

So if the post says its for the 32A, I/we shouldn't assum its for the Fender/1.2? Only use roms that say they are for Fender/1.2?

Every phone of this kind says SAPPHIRE....refer to the rest of my post.

ComplexInc said:
So if the post says its for the 32A, I/we shouldn't assum its for the Fender/1.2? Only use roms that say they are for Fender/1.2?
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Exactly.

eyegor said:
Woah I guess you missed THIS IS FOR 32A MAGIC/SAPPHIRE ONLY!!! in the thread about upgrading.
If that wasn't clear enough that it was not for your phone than the revert to 3.22 radio part must have been. (Why? Because you did not have that radio in the first place, and you cant revert to something that you did not have.)
That radio and spl DO NOT WORK on the new mytouch 1.2
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ok im new to android...i thought that the mytouch 3g 1.2 was the 32A...i unlocked it through the unlockr method bringing me to that spl and radio....how can i upgrade to hero then?

nevermind figured it out...this will work correct
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673609&highlight=1.2/fender