htc magic vodaphone uk rooting help

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First hello everyone this is my first post ( of menny questions know dout )

My problem is i have just got a htc magic vodaphone uk. The back says (with google)
basicly i wont to root this phone so i can put that custom firmware that most people use. i have the ROM and a guide to get the costom ROM on ( that may be a question when im rooted ) i have looked all over the net for days now and come across a file called SAPPIMG.nbh
i ran the file in fast boot but as it unpack's or whotever it does but as the green writeing come's up i noticed after every line it says image not found or wrong image first line is alway's say's SAPPING.zip image not found i think it as 6 lines its prity fast over in about 10 sec's.
my phone says in fastboot mode.

sapphire pvt 32b ship s-on g
hboot-1.33.0007 (sapp10000)
cpld-10
radio-2.22.19.26i
jul 31 2009, 15:49:25

so im hopeing someone can help me out and as this is my first smart phone some advice on good apps to use daily and to make my phone better all round.
meny thanks.
forgot to say my firmware is android 1.6
if i have missed anything inportent out please let me know.
may not matter but its unlocked to any network im on 02 so i have to put my own vpn in for 3g.

Your phone has a perfected spl and so you will need to create a Goldcard it's a lot easier then it looks trust me just follow Amon_RA's instructions (link below) I used them just the other day to root my UK Vodafone HTC Magic all I can say is make sure you read the whole post and links carefully a few times and if there's anything you don't understand just ask

[How-To] Root and un-root the T-Mobile myTouch 3G

Thank you dreamsofubuntu. im now running custom rom no real difrence to stock but got to start someware may try a new rom. i was wondering i made the gold card do i need it anymore or is it something i may need if rom ruins my phone or whotever dont realy need the card as i just got a new 4gb also i have read something about file swop or linux swop to speed up apps and whot not the recovery i flashed dont have that option but i still have the image that as it that i might put on had way more options than the one im useing recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.6.2H.img the other one with loads of options starts with boot anyway can i reflash the boot img without haveing to reflash the rom.

Originally Posted by flamestrike

Thank you dreamsofubuntu. im now running custom rom no real difrence to stock but got to start someware may try a new rom. i was wondering i made the gold card do i need it anymore or is it something i may need if rom ruins my phone or whotever dont realy need the card as i just got a new 4gb also i have read something about file swop or linux swop to speed up apps and whot not the recovery i flashed dont have that option but i still have the image that as it that i might put on had way more options than the one im useing recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.6.2H.img the other one with loads of options starts with boot anyway can i reflash the boot img without haveing to reflash the rom.

1) The most user-friendly rom by far is CyanogenMOD =]

2) Keeping hold of the Goldcard is useful, if for any reason you want to unroot your phone I believe

3) some recommend partitioning your microSD card so you have a small swap partition (used when you run out of ram) and a ext3 partition to use app2sd (stores apps on microSD instead of Phones memory) but this isn't recommended unless you have a class 4 or above microSD

in my opinion app2sd or swap is not needed for the HTC Magic however if you have allot of apps then it could become useful.

if you want information on partitioning your microsd or about swap I recommend reading the CyanogenMOD Wiki:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...on_RA_recovery
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Compcache#

as to the rest of you post I'm afraid I can't quite understand if you could rephrase it