Ok, so apparantly flashing these phones is not meant for me. I've hacked lots of things in my years and never have had as many problems as these phones are giving me.
Quick scenario: Had a Magic running CM6, tried to switch it over to Rogers 2.1 stock and it's now in la-la land.. will boot to the RUU screen and thats it.
On the weekend I bought another Magic from Kijiji... came pre-rooted with CM5.0.8. I bumped it up to CM6 and all was well, other than the radio freezing up and losing data. I get up this morning and had no data at all. Did a nandroid restore, still no data. Talked to Rogers and the first thing they noticed was that my SIM was quite old, so I went and got another one. Popped it in and still no data. So... I figured I would switch to the stock Rogers 2.1 (already rooted) (located here: [Rom][NR][32A]RCMagic v3.0 Incl JIT Hebrew RTL reboot menu |Android 2.1[sep 12] - xda-developers). I downloaded the stock 2.1 rom with root, and already had radioswitcher with the new radio version.
I followed these steps:
1. Created a nandroid backup of CM6, from recovery mode.
2. Copied the Rogers_21_capychimp.zip to the root of the sd card
3. Downloaded radio switcher v4, to change the radio to the newest (6.35.16.19) instead of 3.22.26.17 (and SPL 1.33.2010) that I had to use for CM6
4. Got into fastboot mode by Power+Volume down.
5. Ran the RadioSwitcherGUIv4.0 and clicked flash new to get the 1.76.2007 engineering SPL and the newest radio (To go back to CM6, you just need to click flash old and then restore your nandroid backup)
6. Reboot phone and then go into recovery mode and wipe everything
7. Install the Rogers_21_capychimp.zip file.
And thats where the problems started.. When installing the new rom I get:
E: can't symlink /system/xbin/su
E: failure at line 71
symlink /system/bin/su system:xbin/su
Oh great I though... another failure. I tried searching on XDA for similar errors but it keeps telling me search is currently unavailable. Ok.. So I did a wipe and re-installed CM6 from the SD card. No problems there. Then I went to fastboot and attempted to restore the radio to 3.22.26.17. The file sends to the phone, then as soon as it starts to write the screen just blanks on the phone, slowly fading out like someone pulled the battery. Tried using radio switcher, same thing.
I can still boot to fastboot, I can still boot to recovery, but the phone currently just boot loops after the Rogers logo. Fastboot screen now shows:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.16.19
At this point, I've just stopped. I'm so frustrated I just want to throw it across the room and stomp on it for good measure. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Have I lost root somewhere along the way, and that's why the capychimp rom won't install properly? (yet it seems weird CM6 will re-install with no issues).
At this point I'm just going to pull the battery and wait for some advice from the experts! Thanks once again for the great support here!
Quick scenario: Had a Magic running CM6, tried to switch it over to Rogers 2.1 stock and it's now in la-la land.. will boot to the RUU screen and thats it.
On the weekend I bought another Magic from Kijiji... came pre-rooted with CM5.0.8. I bumped it up to CM6 and all was well, other than the radio freezing up and losing data. I get up this morning and had no data at all. Did a nandroid restore, still no data. Talked to Rogers and the first thing they noticed was that my SIM was quite old, so I went and got another one. Popped it in and still no data. So... I figured I would switch to the stock Rogers 2.1 (already rooted) (located here: [Rom][NR][32A]RCMagic v3.0 Incl JIT Hebrew RTL reboot menu |Android 2.1[sep 12] - xda-developers). I downloaded the stock 2.1 rom with root, and already had radioswitcher with the new radio version.
I followed these steps:
1. Created a nandroid backup of CM6, from recovery mode.
2. Copied the Rogers_21_capychimp.zip to the root of the sd card
3. Downloaded radio switcher v4, to change the radio to the newest (6.35.16.19) instead of 3.22.26.17 (and SPL 1.33.2010) that I had to use for CM6
4. Got into fastboot mode by Power+Volume down.
5. Ran the RadioSwitcherGUIv4.0 and clicked flash new to get the 1.76.2007 engineering SPL and the newest radio (To go back to CM6, you just need to click flash old and then restore your nandroid backup)
6. Reboot phone and then go into recovery mode and wipe everything
7. Install the Rogers_21_capychimp.zip file.
And thats where the problems started.. When installing the new rom I get:
E: can't symlink /system/xbin/su
E: failure at line 71
symlink /system/bin/su system:xbin/su
Oh great I though... another failure. I tried searching on XDA for similar errors but it keeps telling me search is currently unavailable. Ok.. So I did a wipe and re-installed CM6 from the SD card. No problems there. Then I went to fastboot and attempted to restore the radio to 3.22.26.17. The file sends to the phone, then as soon as it starts to write the screen just blanks on the phone, slowly fading out like someone pulled the battery. Tried using radio switcher, same thing.
I can still boot to fastboot, I can still boot to recovery, but the phone currently just boot loops after the Rogers logo. Fastboot screen now shows:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.16.19
At this point, I've just stopped. I'm so frustrated I just want to throw it across the room and stomp on it for good measure. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Have I lost root somewhere along the way, and that's why the capychimp rom won't install properly? (yet it seems weird CM6 will re-install with no issues).
At this point I'm just going to pull the battery and wait for some advice from the experts! Thanks once again for the great support here!
