[Recovery] [32A & 32B] [16-May-2010] RA-sapphire-v1.7.0

Caid444 · Jul 9, 2009

I was instructed to press back and power to boot in recovery mode. I pressed home and power, and there it is. Is that to say it's booting from the phone's recovery partition? Or is it still booting off the mem card?

If it's done, I'll attempt to flash a rom on there now, as I need not be so afraid of bricking my phone.

I'm using the htc magic (32a) which rom is the most stable with the least amount of bugs?

Caid.

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Cheesebaron · Jul 9, 2009

Goog1e Phone said:
i cannot get this to work...

i got usb debugging enabled.
got sdk.
went to fastboot mode on my device
did cmd, cd C:\android-sdk-windows-1.5_r2\tools, then fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.1.1G.img.

for some reason, it says "waiting for device" and it sits there for 5+ mins doing nothing. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

You need to turn off your phone, and then hold the back button while pressing end/power to boot in fastboot mode.

kohler · Jul 9, 2009

Amon_RA said:
Flash it permanently (try it first by following the steps above and making a nandroid backup first!):
1. Boot the device in fastboot mode.
2. Connect the device to your machine over USB.
3. $fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img
Wait for a minute or two..
$adb shell mount -a
Ignore the failed mounts...
$adb push recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img /system/recovery.img
$adb push recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img /sdcard/recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img
$adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img
4. Reboot

I have just backup my rom. Can anyone explain what does these 3 command does in step 3?

$adb push recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img /system/recovery.img
$adb push recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img /sdcard/recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img
$adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img

Do i need to copy the recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img into my SDcard as well so that i can push in these file into the phone

sherifone · Jul 10, 2009

This is great, thank you for enabling easy nandroid backups

I've installed it successfully and used to it try out some of the hero ROMs. But alas, I always end up going back to my original stock Google Ion firmware since I have it setup how I like. I do have one question though:

Is there a simple way to root my phone (provide super user access?) without wiping my data? My understanding so far is that I would modify the boot.img to allow for root access on the phone.

What changes would I make, or is there a script that makes this easier? Thanks in advance! The tutorials are a little rough.

Wysie · Jul 10, 2009

sherifone: If you have a Rogers HTC Magic, you can try the instructions here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=530527

If you've a TW HTC Magic (or most Asian builds I'd assume, since I managed to root my Singapore version), try the Hami Rooting instructions here:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=531837

Read through the threads, someone will usually further clarify the instructions

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zelrikriando · Jul 11, 2009

Hello Amon Ra, I started a wiki here : http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I hope you dont mind.

zkyevolved · Jul 12, 2009

Hi! I've got a question. What languages does this version include?

tect · Jul 12, 2009

i have a HTC Magic from Malaysia

Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0010 (SAPP10000)

i have sdk installed and when i try the following steps,

Try it out WITHOUT making changes to your device (NO flashing):
1. Boot the device in fastboot mode.
2. Connect the device to your machine over USB.
3. $fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img

i got a reply of

'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

can any 1 assist me on my problem?
thanks

MontAlbert · Jul 12, 2009

does this have a terminal in it that we can drop into to run commands (eg. replace system files) as cyanogens 1.3.1 does?

Also, i dont want to flash it permanently yet, is there a way to boot into it from terminal on the phone? eg. in terminal on G1 you type reboot recovery and it reboots into recovery....is there a command to direct the phone to boot up the recovery?

zelrikriando · Jul 12, 2009

tect said:
i have a HTC Magic from Malaysia

...

'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

...

Stupid question : Do you have fastboot installed?

Amon_RA · Jul 12, 2009

zkyevolved said:
Hi! I've got a question. What languages does this version include?

The recovery menu is only in English, I've not seen a multilingual one yet ^^
Maybe I'll implement one in the future, I think it's a cool idea

Amon_RA · Jul 12, 2009

tect said:
i have a HTC Magic from Malaysia

Sapphire PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0010 (SAPP10000)

i have sdk installed and when i try the following steps,

Try it out WITHOUT making changes to your device (NO flashing):
1. Boot the device in fastboot mode.
2. Connect the device to your machine over USB.
3. $fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img

i got a reply of

'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

can any 1 assist me on my problem?
thanks

Make sure the tools directory is correctly defined in your PATH.

Amon_RA · Jul 12, 2009

MontAlbert said:
does this have a terminal in it that we can drop into to run commands (eg. replace system files) as cyanogens 1.3.1 does?

Also, i dont want to flash it permanently yet, is there a way to boot into it from terminal on the phone? eg. in terminal on G1 you type reboot recovery and it reboots into recovery....is there a command to direct the phone to boot up the recovery?

There is no keyboard on the Magic so a terminal in recovery mode would require a virtual keyboard on screen, implementing that is not so simple but I'll look into it...

I'm not aware of a method to boot the recovery from a terminal.

Dayzee · Jul 12, 2009

YOU STARs!!! This was absolutely trouble free to install.

I did it via my laptop, using C Prompt and I had trouble at first until I realised I didn't need to type the dollar sign at the start.... LOL

The success of getting the image to load and make a nandroid backup spurred me to flash the recovery image permanently

And the success of THAT spurred me on to take the plung and load a rooted Rom from the SDCard (I've got the Ion Multi on now!!)

So now I've got root too - once again YOU STARS!!

Daisy xx

Draxter · Jul 14, 2009

Got 1.1.1G running properly

nice implementation of nandroid!

Leviathon · Jul 14, 2009

Thanks very much for this, I thought I'd give this a go, but after following the steps (32b) I just get an exclamation mark next to a phone when trying to go into it? I did try without flashing first and it worked perfectly. The rest of the phone also works fine. If anyones able to help would be appreciated. I'm on SPL 2005, cheers.

zetsurin · Jul 14, 2009

This looks great, I just have a newbie question:

I currently have a Vodafone UK Magic with stock SPL and ROM. What I am interested in doing is restoring jmaurice's Japanese nandroid backup (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=526085) on my device, but if possible I would like to keep my stock SPL in-place, just in case I have a warranty issue. Since the Japanese nandroid backup is a stock standard unmodified ROM (which would pass signature checks I assume, correct me if I am wrong), would it be possible - at least in theory - for me to use this recovery (using the 'temporary' method) to restore the nandroid backup while leaving my SPL as-is?

chris4500uk · Jul 16, 2009

I don't know if this is needed, but will this be updated to CRC1 ?

computerdan · Jul 17, 2009

I flashed the recovery utility permanently to my phone, but now I have to return the phone to Rogers due to some burnt pixels. Every time I press Home+Power, the utility still comes up - this is after flashing to original ROM and using Wipe data/factory reset function in the utility.

How do I get rid of the boot utility partition?

UPDATE: Please disregard. I figured it out. I ran a nandroid restore from a previously backed up copy (phew!) and it wrote over boot.img (I assume).

james_d · Jul 17, 2009

I tried this as it is my first attempt at rooting my Magic (Vodafone UK). I believe I flashed it to the phone and it began a restart and just stuck on the Vodafone boot image.

Took the battery out and booted as normal. Tried it twice and same thing happened. Any ideas?

Thanks.

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