After a lot of unsuccessful days trying to root my Android phone, I'll now post my problem here with every approach I already did. Maybe someone can help me. I am trying to unlock the boot loader on a HTC Magic 32B (S-ON, HBoot-1.33.0007 (SAP10000), CPLD-10, Radio-2.22.19.26i) so that I can flash it with a custom ROM (like cyanogen 5 or 6).. ## How is it done? If I'm not misunderstanding the process, it's like this: - Rooting the device (i.e. using UniversalRoot.apk, SuperOneClick.exe) - Unlocking the boot loader for CustomRecovery (i.e. Clockworkmod, AmonRA Recovery) - Flashing the custom ROM (cyanogen) in recovery mode (Vol Down+Power while booting) - That's it... (afaik) ## What's the problem? Unlocking my boot loader doesn't seem to work. =( I rooted the device a couple of times using the 1.5 Exploit, SuperoneClick.exe or at least UniversalRoot.apk. So on the OS side it really seems to be rooted. I often heard about "ROM Manager.apk", but it don't find any version working on 1.6 and prior. If I use fastboot flash recovery then I get an FAILED (remote: not allow) which leads to the point where I have to unlock to boot loader. ## What I already tried to unlock the boot loader **HTCDev.com, unlocking officially via HTC** The command fastboot oem get_identifier_token doesn't seem to recognize the "get_identifier_token" parameter, it ends in a [ERR] Command error. I'm in fastboot usb mode (cable to pc, device and fastboot devices confirms that). Everything is installed properly (HTC Sync, Android SDK, ADB, Fastboot). I tried it on Mac and on Windows. **Unlocking via ADB shell** - Connecting to the device using ADBshell - My recovery.img files are on /sdcard and have chmod 0755 (or for testing 777) - su works so I do have a # at the beginning of the command - I do have a flash_image on the root of sdcard, executing it via ./flash_image gives me permission denied, even if I'm root with chmod set I have read that updating HBoot could solve this, but didn't find a working file and tutorial for that (every post is really old and often leads to a 404). Any help is appreciated!

I want to let Android OS to boot automatically when the charger connected (for HTC Magic) without pressing power button I found this guide: --------------------------------------------------------------------- # Complete boot when charging If your phone only gets one of those ugly battery symbols when a charger is connected to a powered off phone this is because the init process is interrupted by /system/bin/chargemon. That file is a binary ARM program, I replaced it with a simple script containing only a single line: echo skipping chargemon The file was created and installed with the following steps: echo "echo skipping chargemon" > chargemon.script adb pull /system/bin/chargemon chargemon.backup adb push chargemon.script /sqlite_stmt_journals adb shell $ cd /sqlite_stmt_journals $ su # mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system # cat chargemon.script > /system/bin/chargemon # chmod 755 /system/bin/chargemon # reboot -p When the command su is given above, it might have to be acknowledged in a dialog on the phone screen. The final command reboot -p shuts down the phone. As the USB cable is still connected it will power on again, and if everything has gone fine the phone will complete its boot process without halting with any battery symbol. ------------------------------------------------------------------- But I can't find "chargemon" in System/bin

I have bricked my HTC Magic. Now when I try to boot it normally or in hboot or in fastboot or in recovery, it only shows a white box with an arrow and a bugdroid then a blank screen. It's not detected by adb or fastboot in any mode. Is there a way to unbrick it? I think I flashed a bad radio. At least, it was after flashing a radio but I thought it was a good one. The old radio version was 2.22 and the new one was a 6.35 and I used ClockworkMode recovery to flash it.

I've an HTC Magic Developer Phone running Android 1.6. I want to upgrade it to Android 2.1. Please guide me how to do this.

today I got an old HTC Magic phone with OpenEclair (Android 2.1-update) installed on it. Unfortunately there is still the Gmail account of another person linked with it, which I'd like to remove. However, for doing so, you need to do a "factory reset" on the phone. So did I, the phone rebooted, but the data (apps, settings and the account) was still there. Nothing had been removed! Anyone has an idea what could be the problem and how to fix that? Thx a lot!

HTC Magic, rooted with CyanogenMod 5. Tried to install busybox using "Busybox Installer" from the Market, ended up with a strangely borked system. Android does not boot, freezes on the splash screen. ADB shell, however, works. On the other hand, almost none of the commands work. The busybox file is in /system/xbin, it seems. However, whenever I call it, I get "Permission denied". Even after sudo. Running common commands like ls, cp, ln gives the same error message: "permission denied". Seems like those are symlinks to busybox, which is borked, see above. /system/bin/toolbox is there, but it refuses to do most useful commands with a uniform message "No such tool". Ls, cp, mount, chmod, chown - "No such tool". Experimentally I found that set, ps, kill, reboot work. Is there a list of toolbox commands out there? The only message of relevance in logcat is "02-02 01:36:38.280: E/logwrapper(61): executing /system/xbin/busybox failed: Permission denied". I kinda knew that. I can write to the SD card. Is there a way to reflash the busybox while making it executable? Is there an executable file anywhere on /data, so that I could push a copy of busybox there? I can reboot into recovery mode, which is Android's own recovery mode. Any ideas how to bring the system back to usable state? The phone is a scratch phone, so data loss is not an issue - there's no good data there. It seems like making busybox executable somehow would bring everything back. I'm utterly lost, however, how to do that. And I'm rather surprised toolbox won't support chmod. EDIT: funny data point. When I boot into recovery, I still can do ADB shell. And I get a completely different environment - there's command line with ls, busybox (!) and stuff. /system is almost empty. From that environment, can I somehow go back to the regular /system? The mount command is available.

Will Wi-Fi tethering work in HTC Magic running Android 2.2? I wonder also, is the 2.2 update for htc magic a official update or one of these custom ROMs?

I'm using an HTC Magic and upgraded the OS to 2.2. Build number of the phone is FRF91. How can I get root access to the phone?

I have a Tmobile MyTouch 3g. When I connect it via usb to my 64 bit Windows 7 machine, I do not get any option to mount for USB storage as I typically have in the past. I also do not get any option when connected to my Windows XP work machine. I have tried getting the mytouch to dismount/mount the sd card under settings and then replugging in the phone with no effect. Not sure if there's anything else under settings I could try. When I look in Windows 7's device manager under USB there's an "Unknown Device" listed. I "uninstalled" this device by right clicking and saying "uninstall". Then I reattached the mytouch 3g and all I got was "unknown device" again. There appears to be a couple of forum posts on this issue, including here and here but none of them have been helpful. Only the last one seems to accurately 100% describe this problem, but nobody has responded to the post. How can I fix this? I'm hoping it doesn't involve resetting the phone to factory defaults.

I have installed Cyanogenmod 6.1 and it's OK - better app compatibility, and stable - but it's slow (and USB SD-card mounting doesn't work, but maybe that's an app or something). What can I do to speed this thing up? Ginger Yoshi 1.5 sounded like a good option, but I got errors when I tried to flash it.

How can I install CyanogenMod on my HTC Magic? Is there a tutorial or guide for this that I can follow? Sorry guys..if you feel that I was asking a silly question..! my intention was to have a brief summary about the dos and donts for getting cynogenmod in HTC phones...

My HTC Magic 32a is actually running CyanogenMod 6.1 and I'd like to switch to latest GingerYoshi 1.4 with GingerBread. I have SPL 1.33.2010 radio 3.22.20.17 The reason I want to change is because with my sim card, cmmod seems to have problems while everything was fine when I was running Original 1.5+Sense (with radio 6.35). Now the question, in this xda thread about installing GingerYoshi 1.4, they say: > if you are on 32a new radio then download the ginger yoshi 32a new radio just flash 32a new radio What do they mean by "new radio", can I just flash back to 1.5+Sense+6.35 with RUU and then directly flash GingerYoshi over new 6.35 radio (I believe the phone would work somewhat better with a newer radio, specially regarding problems with my sim)? Thanks

I used to have a HTC Magic, and I recently switched to a Samsung Galaxy S2. One thing I miss is the ability to Show/hide the keyboard, on the HTC Magic, a long press of the menu key toggled the keyboard's visibility, is there a way to achieve the same thing on the Galaxy S2? (I tried several long presses and various swype up or down gestures to no avail...) Thanks!

> **Possible Duplicate:** > [Wifi tethering with HTC Magic](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/6908/wifi-tethering-with-htc-magic) Hi, Got a HTC Magic (the black one) with official froyo 2.2.1 in it, but when I went to check there is no WiFi tethering available in the menu (although, there is usb tethering). Is there any way I could put this old phone to work as a portable hotspot? I mean, are there any apps I could download to enable the wifi tether? I'd just prefer not to have it rooted, custom ROM, if possible... thanks.

I have a HTC Magic phone with Android 2.2.1 and I want to migrate all accounts (9), apps, sms, settings, etc... to a new phone with Nexus One. Do you known some Android service/option or free app on Market to do it? Thanks a lot! **UPDATE** I have migrated successfully :) Old phone: HTC Magic rooted with Android 2.2.1 New phone: Nexus One rooted with Android 2.3.3 * At first, backup google accounts with Titanium Backup Rooted * Then, backup SMS and Call logs with Life Saver 2 * At end, restore in the new phone Some problems with settings restore (Wifi, Bluetooth, apps, etc...). Thanks!

Last year I got a free Android phone at a Google event, and I would like to upgrade it to the latest Android version (probably with Cyanogen). What is the quickest/safest way to do the upgrade? It is a developer phone, so:

• The Cyanogen instructions do not mention my phone.
• I have no data plan, but the above instructions say "data plan required" (workaround)

HTC Magic, Model Number GDDJ-09, Build CDB56, Android 1.5, details: SAPPHIRE EVT1 32B DEV S-ON G HBOOT-1.33.3005 (SAPP20000) CPLD-10 RADIO-2.22.19.26I May 29 2009,14:38:09

When debugging mode adb devices , it will show my HTC magic. But when the phone is in fastboot mod , I can't see my HTC magic in adb devices. I am using ubuntu 10.10 , my /lib/udev/rules.d/11-android.rules SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0c01", MODE="0666", OWNER="" #Normal HTC magic SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0c02", MODE="0666", OWNER="" #Debug & Recovery HTC MAGIC SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0fff", MODE="0666", OWNER="" #Fastboot magic

- HTC magic - Android 1.6 A couple of weeks ago the built in sync of mail, contacts and calendar stopped working. Sync is activated for all three and it seems to sync sometimes, but not all the time as it is supposed to do (it did). E.g. mail and contacts synced at 2:34am and calendar synced at 7:30am (but it's 10:11pm now). Any ideas? **Solution:** I went with mlevits advice. I removed my account from the phone via the trick I described now in https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1841 (the "clear-all-data" trick did not work and I did not want to factory reset the phone). After I reentered my account data the syncing works again. Thanks a lot mlevit!