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[Q] Help to get a custom ROM an a rooted HTC Magic

Hi guys,
For the last 2 nights I´ve been trying to get a CG Mod 6.1 on my HTC Magic 32B.
I have rooted it with onclick-root method and tried a bunch of things like ROM Manager and flashing via fastboot (brings up "remote not allow" error). Nothing worked out.
Here are the facts:
HTC Magic with OTA upgrade to 2.2.1
hboot: 1.33.0013
radio: 2.22.28.25
Rooted with Oneclick method
Do I need a goldcard? How do I do that? What hboot Version do I need? What Radio do I need? What do I have to do first?

Are you certain the Root took? Are you seeing the Superuser icon in your app drawer?
When you were using Rom Manager did you flash, or attempt to flash a custom recovery, and if so did it install ok?
What happened when you tried to flash a ROM using Rom Manager?
I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this

Yes, rooting has worked...Icon is there everything looks fine.
With the Rom Manager i tried to install "update-cm-6.1.0-DS-2708port_S" aswell as the "update-cm-6.1.0-DS-signed". Both did not work.
I still can boot to my standard OTA 2.2.1

Try wiping your phone in recovery and then install the rom

hang on a minute...
it sounds like you haven't installed a custom recovery before trying to flash the rom. Can you clarify...have you actually done this yet?
The process should go root/recovery/nandroid backup/rom in that order.

yeah you re right...i dont have a custom recovery
i just tried to load "recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img" on the console
su
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
does not work, i get: flash_image: not found
USB debugging is enabelde
3rd party software is enabeled
is there another way to get flash the recovery ?

Rom Manager!
At the top you should have the option to flash clockworkmod recovery. Select that; it will run and then the phone should reboot. I usually do it again to confirm. If it installed correctly the first time you'll get a pop up saying that it is installed.
If all goes to plan select 'backup current rom' from within Rom Manager. This is a nandroid backup and can be re-installed from recovery any time you wish to return to stock.
NOW you are free to install a custom ROM of your choice
Post back if you encounter any issues.

I have tried that. It flashes, gives my a popup that it installed correctly.
But it does not reboot.
When i choose restart in recovery mode it boots up the phone an gets stuck on the vodafone logo. BatteryOut reboot and i am back at the good old 2.2.1 OTA
do i have to wait long?!? cant be, right? do i need to hold down any buttons?

If you try the backup option now you'll soon find out if the recovery did indeed install ok. (it won't backup if the recovery isn't installed)

i restarted...flashed the recovery again. got popup confirmation. then chose backup rom and got stuck at the vodafone logo

You must be pretty frustrated by now. It might be time to start asking for more help in the dev section of the Magic forum HERE.
I hope that somebody has the answer!

Thanks for your help...i ll see if someone else has any ideas.

roodee said:
yeah you re right...i dont have a custom recovery
i just tried to load "recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img" on the console
su
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
does not work, i get: flash_image: not found
USB debugging is enabelde
3rd party software is enabeled
is there another way to get flash the recovery ?
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Are you are aware that the command you need to type will be
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0G.img
The command points to the exact file name on your sd card so if you just wrote flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img and the recovery file was not called "recovery.img" it would not know what to look for.
I'm not sure if this is what you have or whether you just copied and pasted from a guide, but I just thought I'd put it out there in case that is the case.
Hope this helps.

[Q] Help with flashing custom ROM using TWRP "Unable to mount SDcard"

Hi,
I am quite new to this but have done everything i can to solve this problem. I have a HTC One S (s4 version).
- i have unlocked my HTC via HTC dev.
- i have installed Clockworkmod recovery.
- i have sent a Cyanogen 11 zip file via ADB push command.
- i tried to install the rom but i had status 7 error, didnt work.
- i flashed TWRP2 recovery instead of Clockworkmod, via fastboot on my pc.
And now; i reboot to TWRP recovery, ADB push my Rom again to /sdcard/, this works. I go to install, i can select the zip file, it asks me wether i'm sure i want to install it, i proceed and then get the error "E: Unable to mount '/internal_sd' " "E: unable to mount stoarage".
So i have root acces, ADB works. Fastboot works. But installing a rom doesn't work with either Clockwork or TWRP2.
Versions used are TWRP 2.7.0.0 and Cyanogenmod 11, a snapshot version.
How to solve this?
Thanks

Try fixing permissions from twrp, if it doesn't help try wiping sd via twrp
Sent from my One S

How about using a usb cable to transfer files to you storage?

Twrp 2.6.1.0
HTC One 1.56 S-Off MaximusHD 33

ferdyvw12 said:
Hi,
I am quite new to this but have done everything i can to solve this problem. I have a HTC One S (s4 version).
- i have unlocked my HTC via HTC dev.
- i have installed Clockworkmod recovery.
- i have sent a Cyanogen 11 zip file via ADB push command.
- i tried to install the rom but i had status 7 error, didnt work.
- i flashed TWRP2 recovery instead of Clockworkmod, via fastboot on my pc.
And now; i reboot to TWRP recovery, ADB push my Rom again to /sdcard/, this works. I go to install, i can select the zip file, it asks me wether i'm sure i want to install it, i proceed and then get the error "E: Unable to mount '/internal_sd' " "E: unable to mount stoarage".
So i have root acces, ADB works. Fastboot works. But installing a rom doesn't work with either Clockwork or TWRP2.
Versions used are TWRP 2.7.0.0 and Cyanogenmod 11, a snapshot version.
How to solve this?
Thanks
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Solved? PM me if still need help.

[Q] Stuck in recovery some time after flashing cwm

Actually it might be a little more complicated...
Full story: I was trying to flash cyanogenmod so I unlocked the bootloader and flashed cwm and SuperSU. Until this point everything worked just fine. I copied the CM-zip to the root of my phone. When trying to install CM however I got an error saying "Some changes failed" (Status 7), basically this. Also I started having trouble booting the system normally. The phone would either get stuck at the bootloader unlocked screen or just boot into recovery. I had done a backup at some point (not prior to starting to try to flash CM, I didn't really think I'd need one since the phone was brand new and I didn't there was any data on it I'd miss... yeah, well...) and sometimes restoring it would enable me to boot normally. However, after the factory reset before my nth attempt to install CM, that was gone as well. After doing a bit of research I found this thread. Since I had version 6.0.13 of cwm as well, I flashed twrp v2.7.1.2 instead. The interface is a little friendlier, but other than that there have been no changes.
Now I can't boot the system normally, not even by selecting "System" when rebooting it from recovery, it will just keep booting into recovery. I can still fastboot, though. My CM-zip is gone since that infamous factory reset and I can't get it back on the phone, or anything else for that matter, since my pc only detects the phone when it's booted normally. I tried pushing CM with adb but when I try to mount any partition I get an error saying E: Unable to find storage partition to mount to USB.
Any ideas how I could fix this mess? Or suggestions on how to avoid ****ing it up any further...

If you can adb, you can adb push... You are just adb push'ing to the wrong place I suppose.
Code:
adb push blah.zip /sdcard/
Should work...
Or even better, just sideload (put phone in recovery & 'sideload mode' before running):
Code:
adb sideload blah.zip
Either way, CWM for our device is ancient and does not support the latest ROM's. The version of TWRP should work fine, as should the latest OpenRecovery (2.09 IIRC).

Sideload worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

cm11 working only TWRP here , with cwm appears same error

mmichaelalves said:
cm11 working only TWRP here , with cwm appears same error
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Did you not read my post?
arrrghhh said:
Either way, CWM for our device is ancient and does not support the latest ROM's. The version of TWRP should work fine, as should the latest OpenRecovery (2.09 IIRC).
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[Completed] taoshan - twrp - installing cm12 failed - Executing updater binary in zip

Hey guys,
I spent all day to find a solution but I failed.
To start off, I've got a Sony Xperia L (taoshan), which I flashed with CyanogenMod using Clockworkmod.
Lately I updatet it to CyanogenMod 12 and slowly but steadily I got pissed because the CyanogenMod Recovery which was automatically installed with CM12 couldn't update to the next version, so I always had to manually flash the "old" boot.img of the cm11 in order to get a working recovery and then flash the new Version of CM12 which again blew out Clockworkmod.
Because I was annoyed of this I tried to install TWRP hoping it would solve that. Of course it didn't went as smooth as in any tutorial which would have been installing the app from the Playstore running it and done, but I had to flash it in the end.
So now TWRP "works". But it couldn't install the latest CM (a couple of hours have already passed, so I don't remember what the error message said or wheter there was a message at all)
Somewhen I did a full wipe to solve something but obviously it didn't work.
At some point I gave up trying to install the latest version and I started trying the Version I had running before. Luckily I still got the .zip of that very Version I flashed a couple of days ago using CWM, which means this .zip does definitly work!
But the sideload of TWRP does not work. The command promt says:"device not found" , while my Xperia L says waiting for input.
So I extracted my Micro Sd, plugged it into my PC copied the "Old" boot.img, that had CWM PLUS the .zip I intend to install and a .zip file with gapps I knew I had to install after the CM12.
After the transfer I repluged the micro sd back into my device and tried to install the CM12 ... .zip directly from the sdCard.
Well for a few seconds it looked like an installation process but then my phone directly rebootet TWRP without installing anything.
Then I tried moving the .zip onto the internal storage and install it from there.
There it says: "Error executing updater binary in zip..."
At that point I had enough of TWRP and tried to go back to my old method... Means
- turning the phone off
- extracting the boot.img from cm-11-20140827-NIGHTLY-taoshan
- setting my phone into fastboot by pressing volume up and connecting it
- open a commandprompt at the folder where fastboot.exe lies
- use fastboot flash boot "path to boot.img" to flash CWM onto my device
- use fastboot reboot and then volume up at the purple light to go to recovery, which should be by then CWM
And I saw a nice blue logo of Team Win Recovery Project and I wanted to cry...
So in Summary I searched a lot of Sites for a solution but didn't find a single one to solve one of my Problems...
For the lazy ones:
- I cannot use Sideload because the commandpromt doesn't recognize my phone... however it did when using CWM
- I cannot install it from my SDCard, because it reboots without doing anything
- I cannot install it from the internal storage because "Error executing updater binary in zip
- I cannot use CWM because if I flash the boot.img that brings about CWM nothing happens and I still have TWRP
Well I am at the end of my knowledge and I truly hope one the answers I get here work out.

Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. For future reference you can find your specific device forum here (bookmark/subscribe this):
Sony Xperia L
Within that section you will find a dedicated q&a sub-forum:
Xperia L Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Please go ahead and ask your question in that q&a section.
Good luck!

Thread closed, thanks.

Help downgrading from TWRP 2.8.5 to 2.8.0.1

Mac Os X - adb tool and fastboot installed.
Xperia S lt26i
I had the 4.1.x Android version, and I wish to install the Lollipop 5.1.1 version.
For doing that I need to install a ROM.
To install a ROM It may be usefull to have a recovery tool.
I'm using TWRP 2.8.5.0 as a recovery tool.
Problem:
Each time I try to install the ROM uCyan-12.1-b05.zip or simpleAOSP.zip, I get the same error:
It hangs on
"detected filesystem ext4 for /dev/block/mmcb1k0p12"
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, and, after a while, I get:
" ... Operation not supported on transport endpoint set_metadata_recursive: some changes failed ..."
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After some research I found out that, this error may be related with this warning message that TWRP provides:
" Kernel does not have support for reading SELinux contexts"
After some other research, I found out that, in order to avoid the error, I should use a OLDER version of TWRP, for example: 2.8.0.1.
If this is true, and if this is my only way around, I don't know how to downgrade to the older version.
I tried:
Code:
"adb reboot bootloader"
But the device simply restarts, and get's loaded into TWRP again.
No blue light, nothing.
Without being able to enter on the bootloader mode, I don't know how can I re-install the older version of TWRP necessary to install Lollipop 5.1.1. as desired.
Can anyone please help me out.
I'm stuck.

If I remember right, you can flash TWRP from within TWRP itself.

Telyx said:
If I remember right, you can flash TWRP from within TWRP itself.
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I tried to select the older version of Flash TWRP and flash it, but it just refreshes and returns to the current (2.8.5.0) version.
Perhaps I'm not doing it right?
(Clicking on "Install", and then: selected the old ROM version, finally, I swipe to flash.)
Doesn't work, the version stays the same as before (2.8.5.0)

oikram said:
Mac Os X - adb tool and fastboot installed.
Xperia S lt26i
I had the 4.1.x Android version, and I wish to install the Lollipop 5.1.1 version.
For doing that I need to install a ROM.
To install a ROM It may be usefull to have a recovery tool.
I'm using TWRP 2.8.5.0 as a recovery tool.
Problem:
Each time I try to install the ROM uCyan-12.1-b05.zip or simpleAOSP.zip, I get the same error:
It hangs on , and, after a while, I get:
After some research I found out that, this error may be related with this warning message that TWRP provides:
" Kernel does not have support for reading SELinux contexts"
After some other research, I found out that, in order to avoid the error, I should use a OLDER version of TWRP, for example: 2.8.0.1.
If this is true, and if this is my only way around, I don't know how to downgrade to the older version.
I tried:
Code:
"adb reboot bootloader"
But the device simply restarts, and get's loaded into TWRP again.
No blue light, nothing.
Without being able to enter on the bootloader mode, I don't know how can I re-install the older version of TWRP necessary to install Lollipop 5.1.1. as desired.
Can anyone please help me out.
I'm stuck.
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Try using flashify app
Hit thanks if i helped you!

TWRP flashing
Hi, I once had this exact problem...
This worked for me:
Reboot into recovery, go to Install and install the version of TWRP that you need.
Go to Reboot and select Recovery.
The device should then reboot into the newly flashed version of TWRP.

rashr
xitimo said:
Hi, I once had this exact problem...
This worked for me:
Reboot into recovery, go to Install and install the version of TWRP that you need.
Go to Reboot and select Recovery.
The device should then reboot into the newly flashed version of TWRP.
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if you cant using your bootloader, try to using rashr.apk. download twrp image based on your device, and then, flash it using that app. should be success for me. just try

Thank you all.
I solved by flashing something, just to enter the bootloader stage. Once there, I flash the older twrp.
.apk was not an option because I didn't had a OS.
I tried to flash twrp using twrp, but it did nothing.
Anyway, issue solved.
Thank you for your suggestions!