Need help to start modding my Magic.

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Hi All.
OK, I've rooted my Vodafone HTC Magic.
Now. I'd like to install one of those new firmwares, how can I install them?

I'm looking to get a little bit more speed out of the sucker, multitouch, and all those nice things I see in this forum.

Cheers

The same way you rooted your phone? with the recovery-new.img ?

Download a firmware which is compatible with your phone.
rename the .zip to update.zip and put it on your SD

(fastboot via CMD, type the following commands on your desktop not on the device):

fastboot boot recovery-new.img

Fastboot, back-up with nandroid, reboot.
Copy nandroid folder from SD to your PC. (If you want to go back to Vodafone firmware)
Put update.zip on the SD and fastboot again.
Whipe and update.

(whipe clears everything.)

I got the Google ION R3 Lite from nk02.
And i have a Dutch Vodafone Magic.

thanks for that.
I managed to figure it out and I'm running a new firmware!

No.
What different firmware are there out there for magic? what are the features of each?

Cheers

You got an Hero Rom, HTC orignal rom, Google ION rom, Haykuro's Rom and some other provider roms like vodafone sfr and a italion one.
maybe some more which i didn't found yet.

thanks mate.
I'm mainly looking for a rom that is both fast and stable.
Any recommendations?

Are these roms covered somewhere else? what they come with and etc?

I got my first rom yesterday and that's the:
nk02's Google ION Multilanguage R3 Lite

It got 3 verions in 2 different types. Lite and with addons
R1
R2
R3

It's got the new google voice search. and some few extra's.
Got 2 minor bugs but they are not annoying or a real big problem.
Date format and no dutch type language.
I rather type for myself, hate auto word filling.

Noverca HTC Rom - Vodafone Magic
Hero Rom for G2 Sapphire
Rogers ROM for Sapphire G2 Magic

and some more, but you have to search the forum or other pages for that.