Comments on: Rooting a Vodacom HTC Magic and upgrading the firmware in South Africa to get Android Market and more.

By: uannight

uannight — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:54:59 +0000

I need the original vodacom rom for android. Somebody can upload the nandroid files to megaupload or rapidshare please?
Thx very much

By: Kamyar

Kamyar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:51:55 +0000

GREAT! Many thanks to you! I was googling about 7 hours! And exactly when I was disappointed you helped me.You are a real expert!

By: zeds

zeds — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:59:16 +0000

Hey there,

Great guide, haven’t tried it because I’m a bit reluctant on getting a phone bricked right after I received it as a gift…

Considering that this guide is fairly old by looking at the dates of the first comments, are there any ‘better’ alternatives to it right now? I’v e noticed that Android Donut (1.6) is out and was hoping to somehow get that onto my phone. I’m assuming the rom in the guide only contains 1.5…

I’m actually in Australia and the phone was bought online and somehow it’s a Vodacom one, so I doubt i’ll be able to receive the OTA update when I’m all the way in Australia.

Any suggestions?

By: Ryno terblanche

Ryno terblanche — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:21:57 +0000

Please help me…
When i get to Step number 14. by your step by step instructions i get the following error: downloading ‘boot.img’ …FAILED

Why am i getting this error.
All the other steps are preformed to tea and get everythinng in the right places like the steps say.

Please help

By: Ryno

Ryno — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:04:18 +0000

Hi there
I did everything to tea like the instructions says.
But when getting to the part were i load the mini boot over USB it says that remote not allowed and stops the process..

Please help

By: Rootuser

Rootuser — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:23:21 +0000

Hi All

I have some food for thought. It has been stated the the perfected SPL version won’t allow flashing a new firmware.

The official firmware update program “magic.exe” does exactly this ? It has a “rom.zip” file.

This can be futher investigated ?

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By: etype

etype — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:39:54 +0000

i updated my phone from leaf to new rom with market how do i keep that rom and still root my phone

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:05:30 +0000

To respond to Claudio, this update was a double whammy. Not only does it install the “perfected” SPL, but also installs a radio version that seems to only boot official HTC boot images. If you read the forums, the update renders phones almost exactly the same as those sold by Rogers in Canada. Take a look at the problems they had rooting them.

Fortunately there is a way out. The “one touch rooting” application or flashrec exploits a kernel bug which gives root access, allowing you to flash a new recovery image. With that you can flash a new SPL (go for 1.33.2005) and with that you can flash replacement radio firmware.

Update was a complete waste as I had to undo almost all of it. I did update with a ROM built off the Rogers phone though so that I could get a feel for what the update would have felt like. If you have no intention of ever rooting your phone, then this was a great update, especially for local dreams which updated from Android 1.1 to 1.5. If you want to root though, avoid!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:04:47 +0000