HTC Magic Thread

ElliorR · 29 Sep 2009 at 20:42

Th0nt said:
You would just buy the handset or get a new contract?

Well if T-Mobile had a phone I fancied then I'd probably do it on contract when mine came up for renewal. If not I'd just buy what I wanted as I did with this Magic.

Th0nt said:
BTW I restored my nandroid backup to the old cupcake that I was on. My accelerometer works again.. at least I dont have to send it back (phew)!

So you're back to the default phone version of Android? How do you do it exactly? Just copy the files from the nandroid backup folder to the root and do a restore?

Yas786 · 29 Sep 2009 at 20:43

Alfie said:
MM for £200. doubt you can do better than that. I'm gonna sell mine too.

Wouldnt sell it on MM anyways

...ive put it up for £250 on another site and have already had a few people contact me about it...might have a guy come down tomorrow to have a look at it...id let it go for £230 if the guy was serious about it.

gpuerrilla · 29 Sep 2009 at 21:49

ElliorR said:
So you're back to the default phone version of Android?

How do you do it exactly? Just copy the files from the nandroid backup folder to the root and do a restore?

Yes.

I rebooted using home + power, then selected 'revert to last nandroid backup' in the menu (said something like that).

As it was my latest backup it switched me back to that.

mrk · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:56

Cyanogen's new rom is out, the install process seems better than before too with less faff. I will flash mine later on!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567610

deadite66 · 5 Oct 2009 at 14:45

did mine this morning 4.1.99 running nicely

mrk · 5 Oct 2009 at 15:19

No time to do it at work, will have to do it when I get home

What did you have on before btw? differences?

bam0 · 5 Oct 2009 at 16:14

I'm playing with the Hero ROMs atm, quite liking the facebook/twitter integration they've got going on, speed is pretty decent too now.

reflux · 5 Oct 2009 at 16:15

I'd install a Hero .rom if I could work out how to. There's always about 233 steps that confuse me

DELETED_63775 · 5 Oct 2009 at 16:28

bam0 said:
I'm playing with the Hero ROMs atm, quite liking the facebook/twitter integration they've got going on, speed is pretty decent too now.

Which Hero ROM are you using? I tried this one myself but i just couldn't handle how slow it was

reflux said:
I'd install a Hero .rom if I could work out how to. There's always about 233 steps that confuse me

It's just the same as any other ROM mate

ElliorR · 5 Oct 2009 at 18:09

Doing it now. A little nervous

<edit> so far so good, it all installed OK and have booted up and checked the versions in "about phone". Currently doign a couple of reboots, as instructed (not sure if that is deffo needed but I am following the instuctions to the letter.

mrk · 5 Oct 2009 at 19:14

BTW anyone still unsure as to creating an EXT pertition to get apps to SD working (auto on Cyan roms if part exists) I used this method using ADB (so no need to boot into Linux live CD etc)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543985

And got:

Code:

performing selected actions...

creating fat32 partition...done
creating ext2 partition...done
creating swap partition...done

adding journaling to /dev/block/mmcblk0p2...done


retrieving current sdcard information...

Model: SD SU04G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 3965MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
 1      32.3kB  3422MB  3422MB  primary  fat32           lba
 2      3422MB  3933MB  511MB   primary  ext3
 3      3933MB  3965MB  32.2MB  primary  linux-swap(v1)

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SMlFFY · 6 Oct 2009 at 06:20

Thought the Magic supported MPEG-4 video format?

Just copied the latest MW2 trailer to the SD card and it says

'Can not play this video' anybody know why?

mrk · 6 Oct 2009 at 09:30

It won't play HD based content, needs to be in a supported resolution too so needs to be re-encoded smaller res.

I use mediashow espresso to gpu convert to .mp4 using the iPhone profile, works great.

bam0 · 6 Oct 2009 at 09:51

Raz84 said:
Which Hero ROM are you using? I tried this one myself but i just couldn't handle how slow it was

I was using the same, it wasn't slow all the time, and when it was responsive it was pretty quick, just for some reason it would suddenly lag really badly for a few seconds, has put me off a bit but I like what HTC have done with it, maybe the Moto Blur stuff will be less heavy that looks interesting too

mrk · 6 Oct 2009 at 09:52

did you have an ext3+swap partition? this speeds things up somewhat!

SMlFFY · 6 Oct 2009 at 10:39

mrk said:
It won't play HD based content, needs to be in a supported resolution too so needs to be re-encoded smaller res.

I use mediashow espresso to gpu convert to .mp4 using the iPhone profile, works great.

Where and how do i get this Program, is it free ?

DELETED_63775 · 6 Oct 2009 at 10:43

bam0 said:
I was using the same, it wasn't slow all the time, and when it was responsive it was pretty quick, just for some reason it would suddenly lag really badly for a few seconds, has put me off a bit but I like what HTC have done with it, maybe the Moto Blur stuff will be less heavy that looks interesting too

Tried the latest 2.9.8a with A2SD last night, almost as fast as CyanogenMod 4.1.11.1.1.1.1

Didn't stick with it though and updated to Cyan's 4.1.99 and OMFG is that fast

, really can't wait for the stable version.

bam0 · 6 Oct 2009 at 10:47

mrk said:
did you have an ext3+swap partition? this speeds things up somewhat!

I did, class 6 card too, when it was ok it was bloody snappy, would just get periods of intense lag or "Loading" at the homescreen.
Just got 4.1.99, and to echo Raz84, wow is it quick.

mrk · 6 Oct 2009 at 11:06

Mediashow is not free unfortunately!

reflux · 6 Oct 2009 at 11:11

Raz84 said:
It's just the same as any other ROM mate

It's not, you have to make sure there is swap space, apps2sd space, the latest radio and SPL installed etc. etc.

Cyan is by far the easiest one to do.

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