HOW-TO: Get official Google ION Android 1.6 into HTC Magic 32B

dferreira · Oct 26, 2009

Hi guys,

I wanted to get rid of the Vodafone crap that came with the official update to Android 1.6. So since I had an unrooted version of the ROM, I couldn't just delete the Vodafone applications. I did it the hard way, I replaced it with the official Google ION image from HTC!

How to do it? EASY!

1 - Download the "Recovery Image" from HTC: http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html
2 - Copy the .zip to the root of your SDCard but first rename it to update.zip
3 - Install Engineering SPL 2005 from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=529019 - this will allow you flash Google ION ROM directly with Amon_RA's recovery tool, which makes your HTC Magic 32B from now on a Google ION device!
4 - Download Amon_RA's recovery tool: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=530492
5 - Get fastboot utility from here: http://developer.htc.com/adp.html and place it into the Android SDK/tools folder on your computer
6 - Follow the instructions by Amon_RA's to fastboot the recovery to your device, since you now have an Engineering SPL on your device!
7 - Apply the update.zip

That's it! It will flash the official Android 1.6 from HTC Google ION device, and what's cool is that it also supports OTA updates from HTC, which means you will probably get access to Android builds much faster that you did with the carriers and they will be striped from the crap applications they feed them with.

Questions? Shoot away

Edit:
To make it more fun, I got the splash image from Google ION device that was given on the 2009 Developer Conference.

Download the attached file, put your device into fastboot and then type:
fastboot flash splash1 /path/to/file/googleion.raw565
fastboot reboot

where /path/to/file is the path to where the file is

FAQ:
How do I gain root at this? - thanks to DOHCtor and caoboth

Put your phone back into fastboot mode (back and power button)
then fastboot amon_ra's fantastic recovery img.

e.g fastboot boot recovery.img

then run from your pc the following: (assuming of course you have the andriod sdk installed)

adb shell
mount /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4755 su
reboot

And now your sorted with a nice rooted phone

How do I get Loccy's browser on this? - thanks to JackMagic
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4911928&postcount=106

WARNING for people with 32B with perfect SPL's:

Applying the goldcard trick will only allow you to boot with the 32A version of the Amon_RA's recovery image, and before update the Google ION image you first need to revert back your phone into 32B (explained in "[How-To] Root and un-root the T-Mobile myTouch 3G").
Otherwise you will have a brick.

looktall · Oct 27, 2009

dferreira said:
Questions? Shoot away

how fast is it?

does it have full exchange sync? (email, calendar and contacts)
does it have the smart dialler?
does it have the improved camera? (has lots of functions and settings available for adjustment)
what keyboard does it use?

do you have screen shots?

dferreira · Oct 27, 2009

looktall said:
how fast is it?

Faster than any Hero ROM running on the 32B...

looktall said:
does it have full exchange sync? (email, calendar and contacts)

No, only Google sync. I'm not sure if you can add it later via .apk from other rom's.

looktall said:
does it have the smart dialler?

No, no smart dialer on the dialer, but now that you can search contacts right from the home screen using the search button, I don't see why you would need it

looktall said:
does it have the improved camera? (has lots of functions and settings available for adjustment)

Regular camera software from Donut.

looktall said:
what keyboard does it use?

Regular android keyboard (LatinIME.apk). But you can install HTC one if you know where to get it (hint: cyanogen)

looktall said:
do you have screen shots?

How do you take a screenshot on Android?

Xenn0X · Oct 27, 2009

I might just do this, do not need any fancy stuff.
also when 2.0 comes will be able to flash htc version right away

does step 4 require ra's latest? cause i have a previous version

edit: just done this and works. for now i keep the official htc dev firmwares

mas5 · Oct 28, 2009

I have recently updated my 1.5 magic firmware with official 1.6 firmware. I have not done any modifications to the phone i.e. rooting / unrooting...

Is it possible to use relentless rooter to apply this firmware... suppose i replace the root update.zip with the above and also replace the spl with the above spl?

then use relentless rooter to apply the rooting etc...?

Xenn0X · Oct 28, 2009

2.0 just annouched, now lets wait till htc dev site is updated and we go 2.0 with this same trick

ak97052d · Oct 28, 2009

Hello
Thanks for this update

dferreira said:
How do you take a screenshot on Android?

try to use ddms (sdk android)
>Device>Screen capture

thelastgoodbrother · Oct 28, 2009

Kinda weird question. I actually have a Google Ion. Being new to all this flashing and stuff, I have flashed multiple roms over the past few months and never made a backup of the original. If I wanted to return the Ion to its original state would I just rename this recovery to "update.zip" and that would be it?

Xenn0X · Oct 28, 2009

thelastgoodbrother said:
Kinda weird question. I actually have a Google Ion. Being new to all this flashing and stuff, I have flashed multiple roms over the past few months and never made a backup of the original. If I wanted to return the Ion to its original state would I just rename this recovery to "update.zip" and that would be it?

yes, that all to it with the ion. download the latest recovery from http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html#s3
and flash the Recovery Image: signed-google_ion-ota-14721.zip
wich is the 1.6 donut firmware

lparker.uk · Oct 28, 2009

Im not sure if im still having issues after this, The phone seemed to not get past formatting cache? Am i right in thinking i got the restart using Home and Back and then reboots back into recovery and continues install? As mine didnt?

Tried again and seems to get to formatting CACHE:...

And stop? I still get the vodafone splash screen if i restart?

dferreira · Oct 28, 2009

carl2990 said:
Is it possible to gain root on this rom?

Only if you change the build.prop to gain root over it. I just wanted to get back to official and clean Android 1.6. As soon they release 2.0, we should be getting the update OTA

dferreira · Oct 28, 2009

lparker.uk said:
Im not sure if im still having issues after this, The phone seemed to not get past formatting cache? Am i right in thinking i got the restart using Home and Back and then reboots back into recovery and continues install? As mine didnt?

Tried again and seems to get to formatting CACHE:...

And stop? I still get the vodafone splash screen if i restart?

Hum... in my case it asked to be rebooted. Let it run until it finishes!

lparker.uk · Oct 28, 2009

Hmm i waited best part of half and hour?! Seems to work fine.. (Ish) the install never totally finishes. Has this removed the Vodafone splash screen on bootup for you?

dferreira · Oct 28, 2009

carl2990 said:
messages arent working on mine, after a wipe and install, everything else is fine, market, camera, gallery, wifi etc

Everything is working fine on mine. There is no reason for your messages not be working, since the Google ION is a 32B device! Check if you only have one partition on your sdcard.

dferreira · Oct 28, 2009

lparker.uk said:
Hmm i waited best part of half and hour?! Seems to work fine.. (Ish) the install never totally finishes. Has this removed the Vodafone splash screen on bootup for you?

No, to remove the crappy vodafone splash, you actually need to flash a new splash screen:

http://ostebaronen.dk/?p=124

dferreira · Oct 29, 2009

lparker.uk said:
Hmm i waited best part of half and hour?! Seems to work fine.. (Ish) the install never totally finishes. Has this removed the Vodafone splash screen on bootup for you?

Look at the first post to get the Google ION developers splash screen

Xenn0X · Oct 29, 2009

flashed

the google ion rom works perfectly here. thnx for the guide to turn my vodafone magic into a htc developer ion

like the clean dev roms. cannot wait till 2.0 is online

lparker.uk · Oct 29, 2009

dferreira said:
Look at the first post to get the Google ION developers splash screen

Thanks very much for your info and efforts ill have another go!

Quistnix · Oct 29, 2009

I've got a 32B voda/google device, and Amon's recovery 1.2.3 is running without any trouble.

I followed the following steps:
> formatted my SD
> renamed signed-google_ion-ota-14721.zip to update.zip and put it on the SD
> put the SD in my phone
> booted to recovery
> wiped
> applied update.zip
> it asked me to reboot, I did so
> installation continued, then switched to boot screen (says "hTC MAGIC").

It's been on the boot screen for about an hour. Did I screw up somewhere along the way or should I wait some more?

Edit: I guess I'm really screwed right now. After waiting for a bit longer my battery died (guess the process eats battery like it's cake). Now, after putting my phone on the charger, all I get is the boot screen. Doing this won't help either.

squidbutt · Oct 29, 2009

thanks but ill stick to cyanogens mods cause they look prettier and have more functinoality

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