Soldato
I'm stuck and cant get beyond the initial "HTC Magic" boot screen
what am i doing wrong
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sorted it, now running the latest rom
what am i doing wrong
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sorted it, now running the latest rom
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***HTC Magic Thread***
- Thread starter AGD
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just download Android terminal emulator free from the market. Make sure you have root access.
Download Amon RA Recovery and make sure it is G version. Rename it to ballbag and stick it on your SD root.
Open terminal and type
SU
mount -a
flash_image recovery /sdcard/ballbag.img
..........DONE!!
Download Amon RA Recovery and make sure it is G version. Rename it to ballbag and stick it on your SD root.
Open terminal and type
SU
mount -a
flash_image recovery /sdcard/ballbag.img
..........DONE!!
Soldato
Ballbag.img?! 
How can I be sure I have root access?
How can I be sure I have root access?
Man of Honour
I just did it from ADB via "adb shell" (immensely useful).
Ballbag.img?!
How can I be sure I have root access?
Root access is denoted by the prompt, basically the end character should be '$' when you first open the terminal (means non-root user basically), and once you type su that should change to a '#'
I completely agree with you, but with those new to android that might open up a huge can of worms regarding drivers. Phone not appearing under devices etc.
But yes, it's well worth getting set up with ADB
Soldato
I tried that last night for the mic fix. The phone couldn't be detected so I tried the USBDeview.exe to remove the Phone but when I plugged it back in Windows found a drive for me so I couldn't substitute the one with the mic fix pack.
K. Any idea why rotating the phone to landscape should make the app crash? Its much easier to enter the correct text that way but the app crashes before I can get any text in on landscape.Root access is denoted by the prompt, basically the end character should be '$' when you first open the terminal (means non-root user basically), and once you type su that should change to a '#'
Soldato
What?
Man of Honour
I still don't get it.
I said it's simple enough to do it through ADB without having to buy better terminal emulator - I assume the XDA thread was followed when installing the patch which tells how to apply it (and any others in a similar way).
I said it's simple enough to do it through ADB without having to buy better terminal emulator - I assume the XDA thread was followed when installing the patch which tells how to apply it (and any others in a similar way).
Soldato
Not because I didn't know what I was doing but because Windows didn't act in the way it was implied it would in the readme for the mic fix.
For the mic fix? Yes I did what it said and it just refused to work.
Man of Honour
Hmm strange - sure ADB was installed using the correct USB driver?
Also, anyone noticed the wysies Contacts app changes? I love editing the contact categories now, instead of "Home" "Work" "Mobile" etc I have added custom ones like "Direct Dial" "Blackberry" and others
Also, anyone noticed the wysies Contacts app changes? I love editing the contact categories now, instead of "Home" "Work" "Mobile" etc I have added custom ones like "Direct Dial" "Blackberry" and others
Soldato
You have to install ADB? First I've heard of that. How do I go about doing that then mrk? 
Btw KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.
Got it working. I used USBDeview again but made sure I interrupted the Windows driver process. I then went into Device Manager and found the ADB entry there and pointed it to the x64 driver in the mic_fix directory. Everything worked A-OK.
Just need to have another go at getting Amon Ra's recovery on there now.
How do I go about doing that then mrk? Btw KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.
Got it working. I used USBDeview again but made sure I interrupted the Windows driver process. I then went into Device Manager and found the ADB entry there and pointed it to the x64 driver in the mic_fix directory. Everything worked A-OK.
Just need to have another go at getting Amon Ra's recovery on there now.
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Man of Honour
Well, you know what I mean, the correct USB driver bundled with the SDK
Soldato
It was also bundled with the mic fix pack.Well, you know what I mean, the correct USB driver bundled with the SDK
Soldato
To get adb working on my clean install of windows 7 (64bit) the other week i had to find a 64 bit driver for adb. The file location was buried deep within the adb thread on XDA. I have the free version of Better Terminal and that works fine so if I don't need to use adb I don't. It's not that I am afraid on command line interfaces, I'm not, my first PC was pre windows and DOS based, it's just that I like to do things the easiest way.
Soldato
Something weird is up. I tried the new terminal app and it gives me an error when I do "mount -a" after doing an "su". Says something doesn't exist. Looks like the renaming of the recovery file to recovery.img, placing it in /data on the card and then doing a full reboot followed by a recovery reboot isn't working. I keep getting the old recovery GUI that.
Going to post in the Amon Ra thread and see what I get from there.
Going to post in the Amon Ra thread and see what I get from there.