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it's simple, make a goldcard, go to the flashboot mode, and start the flash with the RUU, that's all
goldcard will ignore the CID, so no more 131 CID error anymore.
the update has nothing to do with the version of SPL or RADIO, its only a matter of CID.
good luck
themaskfly said:
it's simple, make a goldcard, go to the flashboot mode, and start the flash with the RUU, that's all
goldcard will ignore the CID, so no more 131 CID error anymore.
the update has nothing to do with the version of SPL or RADIO, its only a matter of CID.
good luck
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How do you "make a goldcard?"
It´s not working.
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It´s not working.
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It does work! maybe your gold card is not OK
Maybe some more instructions ? How to get "goldcard" and what shall we all do to get it wok on our 32A`s
Goldcard is microSD card that have special code in it. This code is recognised by the phone and the phone disables every security lock it haves thus allowing the user to load any rom in it! It can be dangerous and you can brick the device if you use wrong rom! But in my case, I restored my device!
I have test many cards, change the code, but nothing still not work, i fallow this how-to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=572683
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It does work! maybe your gold card is not OK
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Hello, so you've done this then? Did it change your SPL and radio afterwards? Thinking about doing this to my 32a for the bluetooth+GPS, but I want to keep my SPL. TIA
The method need a premise!
Please make sure that your spl is S-OFF !Cause S-ON makes you cannot flash rom at the fastboot mode!
darkonpt said:
I have test many cards, change the code, but nothing still not work, i fallow this how-to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=572683
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Me too....I tried 2 Sandisk 2gb and 1 Kingston 4gb and 1 Kingston 8gb card....None of them can work.
i upgrade the Official TW Sense ROM successfully by using the goldcard！
wuningfu said:
Please make sure that your spl is S-OFF !Cause S-ON makes you cannot flash rom at the fastboot mode!
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Not needed! My SPL was and still is S=ON! I flashed the device with my goldcard without any problems!
This method WILL flash both SPL and Radio roms! It will flash everithing! Even the splash screen is HAMI now!
for those who didn't make it.
check ur goldcard if it's REALLY successfully made. I made servals goldcards which can be read on my computer, but they cant be read by G2, that's the problem
I've made the goldcard and I have the RUU downloaded...but before I go and risk bricking my phone, is there anyway to make sure the gold card is working?
plug ur goldcard back to ur magic to see if its regonized, if it appears damaged, means thats not successful.
I tried making a goldcard last night but gave up >.< when i try to run
"adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid" from cmd it gives me "error: device not found"
I fixed that by going into usb mode on the phone and restarting cmd and adb, but ended up failing with custom ID error even with goldcard
Well the phone saw the card, of course it was empty. But it still didn't work, I tried the RUU and watching the phone everything it attempted to update failed. Luckily nothing was changed so the phone is still in working order.
I tried 2 SD cards to be goldcard and both get custom ID error, can't think of what else to do, or why to even bother when caSense rom is so good
Now my phone is RUU mode , don´t now who to resolve this problem .
how to make S-OFF then? I've followed the goldrom guide twice and still no luck! Also all the links to Haykuro's magic rootme rom are broken (tried to root to get s-off)
Hello all,
Here is my situation.
I was happily using a Hero rom on my HTC branded Magic 32A.
I thought that the new update from HTC would have the Sense interface so I updated, hopping that Bluetooth would finally work. And it does.
But, now I can't root and I can't downgrade to the previous update.
Anyone with a similar problem?
Thanks in advance.
Andre
Releas date 2009-10-27
Firmware 1.5
Build No 2.20.401.2
Baseband 62.575.20.23U_3-22-23-18
Kernel 2.6.27.3d7dcf2e
Norwegian ROM update
Same problem here !
I've tried searching EVERYWHERE for some answers, but I can't find any help.
Please, say if you find out !
I also have a swiss magic and i also updated to the new official firmware. Since there are now new sense roms with working bluetooth (such as Hofo 3.0.3) just flash to one of those if you installed a recovery (either amon ra's or cyanogen's) and if you don't have a recovery use flashrec which can flash a recovery rom even with a perfect spl which comes with this update.
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I also have a swiss magic and i also updated to the new official firmware. Since there are now new sense roms with working bluetooth (such as Hofo 3.0.3) just flash to one of those if you installed a recovery (either amon ra's or cyanogen's) and if you don't have a recovery use flashrec which can flash a recovery rom even with a perfect spl which comes with this update.
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can't flash or anything, just get's errors ...
it seems like the recovery is still there, but it's no use, and I can't get a new recovery img. Nothing works :S can't unroot or root a new rom :S
I've tried as well, no good. Why did HTC bother with an update without the new Sense UI . . . I'm starting to wonder how incompetent they are
What spl do you have now?
Hboot-1.33.0014
andreo1964 said:
Hboot-1.33.0014
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Good. Make a goldcard and flash a engineering SPL or 1.33.0009. I can confirm that it will work!
Thanks! That DID work! Good to have you all around . . . . !
Cheers.
the update in canada a couple months ago gave us the perfect spl 1.33.0010 from 1.33.0009 so what i do now is go to unlockr.com and use the 1 click root method for htc magic then i add my hero roms
Can you please tell us what SDCard you are using?
I tried already 10+ cards, but after writing the goldcard image to offset 000 - 170 on the SDCard, Windows (as well as the phone) does not recognize the card anymore.
I think the cid is unique by the card, not by the phone. Correct?
--> Could I use a goldcard that was created by someone else?
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Can you please tell us what SDCard you are using?
I tried already 10+ cards, but after writing the goldcard image to offset 000 - 170 on the SDCard, Windows (as well as the phone) does not recognize the card anymore.
I think the cid is unique by the card, not by the phone. Correct?
--> Could I use a goldcard that was created by someone else?
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No you couldnt, the CID is taken from your phone and plotted into the card. You need to create one for YOUR phone.
When creating the card, are you sure you are saving to physical drives and not logical?
I have tried with many SanDisk but the only one that worked is a Kensington 4GB. Also, and i'm not sure if that did do anything, but while downgrading, press the action key ( the track ball ). Good luck.
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No you couldnt, the CID is taken from your phone and plotted into the card. You need to create one for YOUR phone.
When creating the card, are you sure you are saving to physical drives and not logical?
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no, you are wrong, it's the cid for the sd card not from the phone, u can read the cid code de sd card by any linux os. and the goldcard can be used for any htc magic. i have two magic, one from TIM another from Singapore, and they are all flashed into the official taiwan sense rom by the same glodcard.
which image do you put into your goldcard?
andreo1964 said:
I have tried with many SanDisk but the only one that worked is a Kensington 4GB. Also, and i'm not sure if that did do anything, but while downgrading, press the action key ( the track ball ). Good luck.
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Which image did you put into your goldcard?
Where did u get it?
Can you tell me a little bit more what you did after you have created a Goldcard?
Because most of the people stuck with the perfected SPL after upgrading from HTC.
Thanks.
thihaz
Ahhhhhhhh! #%&$# !
Thank you Eskibo - I was always opening the cards as logical drives!
I just tried again as physical drive and already the first card worked fine.
My Fender got bricked by flashing the radio and spl and now I can only get to the bootloader menu.
I tried the sappimg.nbh method and it didn't worked, tried with three sd cards including a Kingston one.
The error the Phone says that the wrong Main Version is Older.
The only other option I have now to unbrick it is using a goldcard but without the cell phone booting up I am not sure If I can make one.
Now my question.... Is there a way to make a goldcard without my mytouch fender?
If you can make it to the fastboot screen, you're not bricked. Bricked implies you can't do anything, zilch, nada, nothing.
You can still do adb shell in fastboot mode in order to get the info from the phone.
Read the link in my signature very carefully if you're trying to root your fender. There are currently no (working) customized roms for the fender, and your best bet is the rooted stock copy.
ADB shell in fastboot?
are you sure you can use adb shell in fastboot? I thought that was why there were fastboot commands.
Either way if it's possible to make a Goldcard without the phone, I need to know too. I get the "FAILURE remote not allow" error in fastboot with ANY commands and can't boot to recovery...
Unless of course I can use ADB shell in fastboot, then i'm back in business, i'll try it later this evening
OK, I gave it a shot and it does not work, can't use adb shell or any adb commands with the phone in fastboot, must use fastboot commands.
So if anyone here knows how to make a Goldcard without using the phone to make it or can send me a Goldcard from their phone I would greatly appreciate it... I'm SOL without it.
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If you can make it to the fastboot screen, you're not bricked. Bricked implies you can't do anything, zilch, nada, nothing.
You can still do adb shell in fastboot mode in order to get the info from the phone.
Read the link in my signature very carefully if you're trying to root your fender. There are currently no (working) customized roms for the fender, and your best bet is the rooted stock copy.
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OK, I gave it a shot and it does not work, can't use adb shell or any adb commands with the phone in fastboot, must use fastboot commands.
So if anyone here knows how to make a Goldcard without using the phone to make it or can send me a Goldcard from their phone I would greatly appreciate it... I'm SOL without it.
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I'm just a tad confused though... if you didn't have a gold card to begin with, how did you get where you are now, since you couldn't flash anything new on a perfected SPL to begin with.
So... It is possible to make the goldcard? I can only access the fastboot menu no the recovery.
cmarti said:
So... It is possible to make the goldcard? I can only access the fastboot menu no the recovery.
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If you can't get into shell on the phone you wouldn't be able to generate the code needed to make a goldcard... it should have been the first thing you did before you started to flash anything.
cmarti said:
My Fender got bricked by flashing the radio and spl and now I can only get to the bootloader menu.
I tried the sappimg.nbh method and it didn't worked, tried with three sd cards including a Kingston one.
The error the Phone says that the wrong Main Version is Older.
The only other option I have now to unbrick it is using a goldcard but without the cell phone booting up I am not sure If I can make one.
Now my question.... Is there a way to make a goldcard without my mytouch fender?
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Gold card isnt going to fix this issue. You need to find a rom that is a later version that the one on the phone.
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If you can't get into shell on the phone you wouldn't be able to generate the code needed to make a goldcard... it should have been the first thing you did before you started to flash anything.
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If you know someone with an android phone take your sd card around and get the information you need using their phone. I made mine with a windows CE device using Haret works fine.
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gymmy said:
If you know someone with an android phone take your sd card around and get the information you need using their phone. I made mine with a windows CE device using Haret works fine.
G.
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I'll buy it from you
gymmy said:
If you know someone with an android phone take your sd card around and get the information you need using their phone. I made mine with a windows CE device using Haret works fine.
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The last two times I had to make a goldcard (MT3G LE and MT3G v1) , it seemed to be specific to not only the model of the phone but your exact phone and SD card combination, thus how it generated a code to be decyphered and then written onto the front of the card with the hex editor. So it was my impression that you could not simply make a card with another phone and then use it on yours.
Then the phone is dead right?
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Then the phone is dead right?
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Don't give up hope yet... The CID is unique to each card, if you can read the CID from another android phone or even a Palm, WinMo device, etc. then you can still make a Goldcard with your PC and use it in your phone.
From all the research I've done it's just not possible, to get the CID from the Card with your PC.
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Don't give up hope yet... The CID is unique to each card, if you can read the CID from another android phone or even a Palm, WinMo device, etc. then you can still make a Goldcard with your PC and use it in your phone.
From all the research I've done it's just not possible, to get the CID from the Card with your PC.
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How sure are you about that. I made a gold card with my 4GB SDHC when I had the MyTouch 3G (white v1), then when I upgraded to the MT3G LE Fender, I could not use the same card again as it was, I had to redo the process and ended up with a new CID on the same card, but diff phone and once I made that a gold card with the new information, then it worked in my Fender. That's why I'm skeptical bout "generic" gold cards.
Well if that's the case is there anyone from this forum (preferebly from the US) that I can mail the phone to so he can fix it for me?
I can pay either via paypal or mailing the money.
Ive been there too, my phone is semi bricked and the only way to unbricked is using goldcard, and im using fedora to see the sdcard CID to make the goldcard. and it works like a charm
* sorry for my bad english
fibofan said:
Don't give up hope yet... The CID is unique to each card, if you can read the CID from another android phone or even a Palm, WinMo device, etc. then you can still make a Goldcard with your PC and use it in your phone.
From all the research I've done it's just not possible, to get the CID from the Card with your PC.
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PLEASE Explain !!!
What's Fedora?
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PLEASE Explain !!!
What's Fedora?
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Fedora is a distribution of linux, basically sounds like he's saying can get the CID of an SD card from *nix or BSD.
Tell you what... The fender has defanately weded out the people who cant pay attention to instructions. If you didnt make a goldcard... How did you downgrade?
You couldnt install a recovery so you didnt wipe, you didnt install another rom over the top..
Id laugh my ass off if you just reboot it and leave it alone and it works.
Sound slike you should stop trying and give your phone to someone who can use it.
Just because he isn't as computer savvy as you doesn't give you the right to belittle him.
Don't be such an ass.
I don't think I can get the gold card to work...
I got an extra MSD from my boss, all he had was a SanDisk 2gb, and I tried the gold card method on both my work laptop and work desktop (both XP). I could not get the SDK to work (prolly the issue) on either, maybe I just don't know what I'm doing with that, so I got the CID vid Terminal Emulator on the MT3G. I follow the steps to flip it, made sure the first two were "00"s, and did the hex edit. I then loaded the file, and I still get "Older Version Is Newwer"... Same both times.
I guess it could be the card, dunno.
When I try to run the SDK, it gives an error that a file can't be reached. DL'ed it, placed it, nogo (both times). The drivers also won't install. I tried the UnLockr method, same.
So, basically, I can't use the SDK. I just got the CID from the emulator, hex-edited, and failed. Is my not being able to use the SDK the issue?
Anyone in Austin wanna help me with this? lol
Shouldn't be necessary...
I'm also having errors with getting two different sd cards to work. My errors are Model ID incorrect. I do have the SDK installed on my computer, but I don't think it's necessary as long as you are getting the correct cid from your phone for the sd card. I'm pretty sure you copied the cid correctly, or else you wouldn't get past the copying of the goldcard image. I wish there was more information on creating these damn goldcards. Both of my goldcards never asked me to reformat after copying the goldcard image to their boot sectors, so why can't we get root????
I"m on a manhunt, so i'll share anything i find...
to the first guy, what is your spl?
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knny1491 said:
to the first guy, what is your spl?
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What is an SPL?
It's in simple terms the "security" of the phone. If you have a perfected SPL it's near impossible to root. If you turn your phone off then hold the back button and power at the same time a white screen with androids on skateboards will pop up and your phones information will pop up at the top. It will say something like hboot 1.33.0007 or the million others out there.
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It's in simple terms the "security" of the phone. If you have a perfected SPL it's near impossible to root. If you turn your phone off then hold the back button and power at the same time a white screen with androids on skateboards will pop up and your phones information will pop up at the top. It will say something like hboot 1.33.0007 or the million others out there.
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i have the perfect spl right? 1.76.0007
i cant backup recovery image,its said backup FAILED : cannot run command
do i have to do the gold card??
I'm not sure exactly abotu that SPL because I think ti is 32a specific and I am only knowledgable on 32b phones.
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to the first guy, what is your spl?
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the Perfect 1.33.007
Then follow the link in my sig, I successfully rooted my sisters phone with that SPL.
Hi, I've made a gold are for a second desire s I got for free as it wont boot and have been trying to revive.
The card works as it should and bypasses the cid although I think the desire is beyond help as i cant flash the bootloader no matter what process i try, my question is about keeping the card for future use in other devices.
Once made and used can it be re used over and over in different devices with different files for those specific phones or do you have to remake the card each time its used for a different phone?
My other question is does formatting it mean you have to re make the gold card or does the hex edit remain?
Thanks in advance,
Steve.
steve_htc_wizard said:
Hi, I've made a gold are for a second desire s I got for free as it wont boot and have been trying to revive.
The card works as it should and bypasses the cid although I think the desire is beyond help as i cant flash the bootloader no matter what process i try, my question is about keeping the card for future use in other devices.
Once made and used can it be re used over and over in different devices with different files for those specific phones or do you have to remake the card each time its used for a different phone?
My other question is does formatting it mean you have to re make the gold card or does the hex edit remain?
Thanks in advance,
Steve.
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First try install RUU for that Desire S bc you have goldcard.
SKENER said:
First try install RUU for that Desire S bc you have goldcard.
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I have tried every mothod going to try and flash that phone, it refuses to touch the bootloader.
Ruus won't even try cos it won't boot, official branded roms with the right cid the same android version give a same version error before it even tries to flash.
Different version roms that are right cid freeze on flashing bootloader be it in the form of a PG88IMG from SD or in fastboot.
And unbranded roms used with a gold card freeze on flashing bootloader.
The phone won't restart to bootloader from bootloader and any programs that try to restart the boot loader fail to managed it at the bootloader freezes with battery pull being the only way to shut phone down and try again.
When I got this phone from a friend it never booted past t-mobile screen and he says it just stopped working one day, its not keen messed with and as a result I think usb debugging was not enabled ether although fastboot does work for some commands strangely.
Basicly anything that trys to work with the bootloader gets told where to go by the phone lol
If it was s-off I could have used the work around from booting the o.s from the SD card but its not.
I think the emmc has corrupted from agressive multiple app updates from the marketplace and think its beyond help, I've spent hours trying everything lol. Now I just want to know if the gold card I made can be reused in other phones and what a format would do to the card.