***HTC Magic Thread***

Updated, running nice and fast, feels smoother somehow....maybe CFS works better at 528MHz :p
 
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Just partitioned my 8gb class 6 sdcard using adb and sdparted.txt as linked in mrk's post on page 27, if you have 80 posts per page as I do.

Was a right rigmarole getting it done. First off I couldn't get adp to see my phone, solved that after scouring the adb thread on xda forums and cobbling together a mishmash of suggestions to actually fix the issue, then once that was done I did the adb way of running sdparted.txt.

I wanted a bigger than default swap partition so worked out the command line needed. i tried

sdparted -efs ext4 -ss 96m

and got an error. This was starting to annoy me, more than I was annoyed from the fun and games I had getting adp to work, so tried many other combinations with no luck.

Then I thought

"I wonder if the m, for megabyte, is case sensitive?"

It was.

sdparted -efs ext4 -ss 96M

worked.

Now to get my backed up sdcard back onto my sdcard then flash 4.2 :D
 
Right a bit short of cash at the moment but I'm seriously considering getting one of these soon! :cool:

Firstly what is Vodafone's FUP for mobile internet? Is it 500MB a month? I find the Vodafone site hard to find stuff out on, especially when they have '*' or '**' after something and there's nothing on the page to explain what '*' or '**' mean. Grr!

Secondly I'm looking at this 18 month deal. Is it any good? This deal would cost me £630 over the 18 months but I could get £90 cashback via Quidco making it £540.

Thirdly since the default Bluetooth isn't brilliant do cyanogen's ROMs improve on this? If so, what has cyanogen done to the default Android Bluetooth?

I keep looking at other phones but decide they are either fugly or Nokia, which I've always used apart from a brief fling with a Motorola V3. So I want to experience something other than Nokia and the potential of the Android OS keeps bringing me back to the Magic or Hero. Whilst the Hero might *technically* be better the old Jimmy Hill puts me off it and the Magic looks muchos nicer imho. :)

If Vodafone's FUP on mobile internet is 500MB then that is about 16MB for a 31 day month. Or nearly 18MB for a 28 day February. :D Yes I actually worked that out! :o:( When I'm at home I'll use my router's wireless settings so I'll only use up the 500MB when I'm out and about, on the bus say, or at work showing off to my colleagues. :D:cool:
 
ffs long(ish) post and I accidently closed Firefox before I hit Submit Reply :mad:

I am not with Vodafone but I do believe their FUP is 500mb. I'm with T-Mobile and their FUP is 1gb and I use no where near that, not even near 500mb tbh. I am always hooked up to my wireless network at home and use 3G for showing off, and some normal serious usage at work (Guardian Anywhere for example).

That plan looks reasonably standard for such a phone to me.

I don't use Bluetooth, and yes the standard magic BT is limitd to headsets, but here's a little, free, app that seems to overcome that.

http://www.cyrket.com/package/it.medieval.blueftp

Yes, the Jimmy Hill look put me off the Hero as well and the Magic does look nice in white (I thought it looked so so in photo's but the actual phone looks very nice).

Cyanogen just released his 4.2 stable but I haven't upgraded yet. Will do this week sometime (the reason I haven't yet is basically my last post. watch football this afternoon and then the film Max Payne (omfg what a pile of crap))

One thing to bear in mind. If you get it and it gets updated to 1.6 Donut then you won't be able to root it atm (I think I'm right in this) as all the rooting apps are still for 1.5 Cupcake.
 
Cheers Elliot. :) I've been planning on using the network counter app so that I know when I get close to 500MB. Hope I won't but having something to tell me when I am will help loads.

So cyanogen's mod don't do much for Bluetooth? I'd have to download an app to improve the Bluetooth potential?

I agree about the looks of the Magic. It looks decent in the publicity shots but the pics that mrk and other have uploaded in this thread make it look much, much better.

cyanogen has just release 4.2.1. ;) Fixed the boot animation bug. :) Is this update to Donut/1.6 entirely random and forced upon you/your Magic by Vodafone, or whoever, and not done at your choice? It might be good for me to have a Magic without cyanogen's ROM so I can get an idea of what it is like out of the box and then once the rooting kit is updated to 1.6 I could then get cyanogen's mod and fully appreciate the difference it makes. :)
 
Yes you'd have to download that app to get better Bluetooth functionality.

The boot animation bug only seemed to affect HTC Dream (G1) phones and from what I've seen no one with a Magic had this issue.

I'm not 100% about how the update happens but I think you have to give it permission to happen.
 
Sinny said:
Thinking about getting one of these on Vodafone after crimbo

500 texts, 100 mins and unlimited e-mail/web access £25p/m

just wondering is it worth it?

I've not really had a nice phone but since 3g has become cheaper and I like the look and features I'm really considering it.

are their any issues with it?

mainly looking for a phone with Unlimited web access, 300txt/100min and some nice features.
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Gotta say that sounds like a pretty average to naff deal. My advice would be to get yourself down to a Voda shop and start haggling! I got mine about 4months ago now with a 300min, ultd text and web for £25 a month on a 18month contract which is pretty good imo.

As for people worried about the 500mb FUP. Dont be! You would really have to cain the youtube video's to get near that amount of useage and as always i would suggest using Opera browser. It's not as intuitive as the stock browser but it loads pages much faster and can use considerably less data when set to low quality images.
 
frakker said:
The Opera browser is not a patch on the standard Android browser though!

And I manage to get to 500mb a month with ease. Listening to the Radio via the beebplayer, listening to music via Last.fm and just general browsing. Thankfully Vodafone don't really mind if you go over the limit.
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Lo Frakker. :)

Could you break down your monthly bandwidth usage down into Beebplayer radio/Last.fm/General browsing? So say you used 700MB and you spent 350MB on beebplayer, 200MB on Last.fm and 150MB on general browsing. Just so we get an idea of what you are using your bandwidth for. :)
 
Got it this morning, the phone deffo seems a bit nippier, plus the new power widget has enabled me to uninstall a couple of widgets, which is handy.
Hurrah for it's one-touch gps switch!
 
mrk, is your linux swap, that you setup via sdparted.txt actually working?

I ask as I noticed last night that my swap wasn't actually being used after i used the info in that post you made.

If it already is then alls well but if you're not sure type

free

into a terminal app and if swap has 0 then it's not working. here's mine after I found a way to activate it

snapshot.png
 
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