HTC band wagon..........

[clipperjay]

Thanks for that bit of info mate!
I did find a 1975Mah for £6.00 odd, but it looked like it came from China.
The battery I wanted is a Mugen one, but they are about £25-£30 suposedly 60% more power than the OEM one? sold out every where in the UK?
If you try it mate let me know how it goes because the phone is still new I'm tempted to either wait for ICS if it ever gets it?  Or do it in a couple of months with researching it out properly we need someone in teh uk to say whats best per phone?

[Jay]

Not sorted my mothers phone because I never have it long enough at my place to try everything I want, it's the fact it's a non-rooted ROM that's not letting me do what I want and to fix it I probably have to install a rooted ROM them go back to a standard ROM, other someother command line wizardary 

[clipperjay]

Jay I'm going to stick gingerbread 2.3.3 on the Magic the phone is redundant so dont care if I brick it, wanna help me or point me into the right direction I've been reading XDA but really don't know where to start?
I've downloaded the android SDk already!

[Jay]

Will have a looksie for you 

[Jay]

The Magic isn't on XDA anymore or I'm missing it 

Found it under Legacy devices!

Rooting galore!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524925

http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting

So, the site I go to when XDA doesn't have anything! The unlockr and possibly the easiest being the 1-click-root
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/29/how-to-root-the-htc-magic-in-one-click/



Romz, lots of romz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957085

[clipperjay]

Cool!
I'm following this guide but have come across two problems!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529062
1) There is no fastboot download for the G1 there is a G2 and other devices!
2) just sign up to http://www.htcdev.com/ to get the bootloader unlocking.
3) I need something called ADB found a note on the SDK install package just reads
The adb tool has moved to platform-tools/

If you don't see this directory in your SDK,
launch the SDK and AVD Manager (execute the android tool)
and install "Android SDK Platform-tools"


Please also update your PATH environment variable to
include the platform-tools/ directory, so you can
execute adb from any location.

Lost at this stage LOL!

Okay going to do this!
So, the site I go to when XDA doesn't have anything! The unlockr and possibly the easiest being the 1-click-root
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/29/how-to-root-the-htc-magic-in-one-click/

32B -G
Hboot

[Jay]

You familiar with the command prompt?

That's where you use ADB, you'll need to CD (Change Directory) to it like
cd "c:\program files\Android SDK PATH where you installed it\tools folder\"
then you use can ADB as described in the tutorials.

You looked at CM's root?
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Magic_(32B):_Rooting

[clipperjay]

http://androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.6.2G.img
 

The Cyanogen Recovery.img is no longer maintained. You should replace it with a custom recovery image. There are two custom recovery images available for the Magic: Amon_Ra's and ClockworkMod.
ClockworkMod needs more ram than the magic can handle! 

[clipperjay]

Okay jay found this need a walk through the last one obsolete!
http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/29/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-your-htc-magic/

Okay I have a recovery img now saved!
On the sdk manager which one do i install? android 2.?
I have     adb.exe
             AdbWinApi.dll
             fastboot.exe
 
Can't mount fastboot onto the menu from SDK need help!

[clipperjay]

Well its been a fun few days!
Got everything downloaded and the dam thing just won't give me access to the root!
In Dos command it just can't find the device or fastboot!
Have all three files, usb drivers are correct just won't hook into it?
I think the last update on the firmware has closed the loop and I need to some how flash it do a lower firmware