Trouble rooting Vodafone HTC Magic (32B)

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hazza87

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#61715 21-May-2010 22:29

I am having trouble rooting my HTC Magic 32B when i try to return it to 1.5 in order to root it i get the error Wrong Model ID
Following this guide here
I understand this means i need to create a gold card but i am unable to do so, tried 3 different micro sd cards now:
1. original Transcend 8GB
2. 2GB Kingston (as reccomended in all the guides)
3. 512MB San disk

I got my gold disk image and installed HxD hex editor followed all the instructions but when i reinsert the microsd card it says it needs reformatting.

Any help would be much appreciated.

hazza87

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#333179 21-May-2010 23:52

Ok i got the goldcard to work (recognised in windows)
I am now trying to follow this guide for using the goldcard method
i cannot get past step 9, i keep getting "cid incorrect" or something like that.

Also this seems unneccesarily complicated is there a better way of doing this. its already taken about 4 hours and gotten me nowhere.

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#333180 22-May-2010 00:11

hazza87: I am having trouble rooting my HTC Magic 32B when i try to return it to 1.5 in order to root it i get the error Wrong Model ID
Following this guide here
I understand this means i need to create a gold card but i am unable to do so, tried 3 different micro sd cards now:
1. original Transcend 8GB
2. 2GB Kingston (as reccomended in all the guides)
3. 512MB San disk

I got my gold disk image and installed HxD hex editor followed all the instructions but when i reinsert the microsd card it says it needs reformatting.

Any help would be much appreciated.

If (and only if) your 32B has the Hboot 1.33.0004 (SAPP10000) SPL, then you do not need to go down the difficult path you're on.

All you need to do is follow this set of instructions from CyanogenMod Wiki):

Non-TMobile 32B Magics
If the above doesn't work for you, don't despair. Some non-US Magics are shipped with a fastboot compatible SPL installed. If you see 3 skateboarding androids when you boot to fastboot, you should be able to do the following:

Prep:

Install the Latest Android sdk

If it's not present in the 'tools' directory, get the fastboot binary http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s2

Get the latest AMON_RA recovery from here:
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
- Be sure to get the G version of the recovery. Newest version now is 1.6.2G
- Save it to a folder that is easily accessible, such as the desktop

Download the Defanged HTC Android 1.6 base image:
- DRC83_base_defanged
- Mirror: DRC83_base_defanged
- md5sum: 081379e9b525484bcd1ee42bd0031a4c
- A defanged image is the HTC base with the boot.img, radio.img and recovery.img removed

Download the latest CyanogenMod ROM for your device:
- Latest version

Put the Defanged base and the newest CyanogenMod ROM on your SD card

Installation:

Plug the phone into the computer

Reboot into fastboot by holding Back + Power (you should see three Androids on skateboards) and the words 'fastboot USB' in red

On the computer, open a command prompt

cd to the sdk/tools directory (we will assume the SDK is located in C:\android-sdk and the recovery file is in the root of the C:\ drive for the following steps
- cd C:\android-sdk\tools
- fastboot boot C:\recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G.img

You should see the following message on the computer:

downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... OKAY

The phone should reboot into Amon_RA's recovery
- Screenshot of Amon_RAs recovery
- If it still says try fiddling with cable, rebooting phone, rebooting the computer, etc until it recognises the device properly

Make a nandroid backup of your current state so you can easily restore to an unrooted state

With the phone connect via USB, open up a cmd prompt
- adb devices
  - A device name and 'recovery' should be returned
- adb push C:\recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G.img /sdcard/RA152G.img
  - Where C:\recovery...img is the location of the recovery.img on your computer
- adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA152G.img
  - This permanently flashes the recovery.img to your phone, you can now boot into it by holding Home while powering on the device

Perform a wipe/factory reset

Apply ROMs
- First apply the Defanged base
- Without rebooting, now apply the CyanogenMod ROM

Reboot
- The first boot may be a bit slow
- If the phone doesn't boot past the Vodafone screen after 10min, press and hold Send+End+Menu, as soon as the screen does black hold Home to boot into recovery. Confirm the md5sums of the defanged base and the CyanogenMod ROM. Then rewipe, and reflash the base and ROM

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#333181 22-May-2010 00:19

hazza87: Ok i got the goldcard to work (recognised in windows)
I am now trying to follow this guide for using the goldcard method
i cannot get past step 9, i keep getting "cid incorrect" or something like that.

Also this seems unneccesarily complicated is there a better way of doing this. its already taken about 4 hours and gotten me nowhere.

Wow...the editor on Geekzone really made a mess of that.

Summary: rooting an HTC Magic 32B with the 1.33.0004 SPL is crazy-easy. It takes literally literally 3 minutes.

as per the instructions above, first you boot the recovery in NON-persistent boot...and back up the phone with nandroid. This gives you a stock factory image you can return to at any time and unroot your phone if you want to.

Then, having secured that backup (take two - just in case) - , you then (from the recovery boot still, using menu options) wipe the phone and flash the defanged base, then flash the CM update over the top. Then re-boot your phone. You've booted Cyanogen Mod. But your recovery is still the stock recovery.....so you use fastboot again to flash that into place. You have a backup of the stock recovery included with your nandroid backup from before, so it if you restore that, then you restore both stock recovery and stock system and boot images.

Think this through, It's easy once you get your head around it.

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hazza87

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#333269 22-May-2010 14:03

Ok so when I boot into HBoot mode (power and back button) i get the following message:
Sapphire PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000)

Presumably this means i have the SPL you mentioned above, so i just need to follow the process for Non-TMobile 32B Magics from the CyanogenMod Wiki.

Also if i want to use a different ROM from the Cyanogen one i would just change the last part of the process and use a different one instead? I have been looking at the OpenEclair V 1.0.1 ROM

I am looking for something based on 2.1 that will be faster than the original 1.6 that i have at the moment, any recommendations?

hazza87

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#334425 25-May-2010 11:57

Ok so i followed the guide on CyanogenMod Wiki and successfully backed up the installed 1.6 operating sytem and then installed a new ROM (openeclair v1.0.1) and then permanently copied a new recovery mode onto my magic.

Fairly happy with the new ROM seems about the same speed as the stock one in my opinion still quite sluggish when switching apps and with lots of widgets open.New features very cool shame about the Camcorder not working though.

Any other suggestions of ROMS to try out? would love to test out froyo is anyone has made any ports for the magic yet.

Also what would be the best backup software to use to save me installing and reconfiguring my apps and settings every time i try a new ROM?
I have just installed Titanium Backup (free version) seems quite good.

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#335029 26-May-2010 13:15

hazza87: Ok so i followed the guide on CyanogenMod Wiki and successfully backed up the installed 1.6 operating sytem and then installed a new ROM (openeclair v1.0.1) and then permanently copied a new recovery mode onto my magic.

Fairly happy with the new ROM seems about the same speed as the stock one in my opinion still quite sluggish when switching apps and with lots of widgets open.New features very cool shame about the Camcorder not working though.

Any other suggestions of ROMS to try out? would love to test out froyo is anyone has made any ports for the magic yet.

Also what would be the best backup software to use to save me installing and reconfiguring my apps and settings every time i try a new ROM?
I have just installed Titanium Backup (free version) seems quite good.

I would recommend the latest Cyanogen Mod v5.0.7 for 32B/Magic/G1.

The camcorder should work in this ROM. It will be the best full-feature ROM for Android v2.1 for your Magic. Cyanogen has left out some of the huge apps that cause the magic grief - like the 3D Gallery. It just needs too much memory the magic doesn't have.

Wipe, then flash CM 5.0.7 and then - without rebooting - flash the "gapps" (Google apps) update as well. You have to do it in two parts as legally Cyanogen isn't allowed to include Google's proprietary apps in his ROM. They must be added afterward from a "backup" (the second package).

This will be Android v2.1 as good as it gets on the Magic.

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