HTC Magic (proximus) stuck in RUU USB - MY SOLUTION with Goldcard

radjagios said:

My HTC MAGIC (proximus) was semi-bricked after installing the wrong RUU.

- no reboot possible
- screen says RUU (when plugged in, RUU USB)
- can't find device with adb devices
- can find device with fastboot devices
- not possible to make goldcard, because no adb connection
- running new RUU didn't work either

Altough I think this method can be used for other phones I am still not responsible for damaging your phone!!
Because I'm a new member, I can't use links in my messages so change all hxxp to http.

Here is what I did:

- Pull out some hairs, bite your nails, use your father's old mobile for some days (this part is not needed if you follow my instructions below!)

1. Create a Goldcard.:

- Find or buy an extra SD-card (not all are usefull for creating a goldcard, Kingston 2GB works for sure!)

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Worked too with my sandisk 2 GB Card (included with the phone when bought)
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- put your SD-card into the adapter and format it FAT32

- Download the Ubuntu live CD iso (Google it)

- burn this as an image to a CDR

- put your formatted SD-card in the adapter before restarting, mount it in computer's card-reader (card reader attached with USB will probably not work!)

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Indeed, USB card reader didn't worked well for me, i used an old laptop with built in SD card reader to obtain SD CID
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- put the Ubuntu CD in your computer and restart

- boot from CD (sometimes you need to press F11 on startup)

- computer will boot from Ubuntu-CD, choose your language and choose to try the software without installing it to your computer

- Ubuntu will start up, in Ubuntu choose Applications -> Accesoires -> Terminal

- In the terminal type hal-device | grep mmc.cid

- the terminal will show you the SD card's CID, write this number down and double check it! (long number!!)

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you also can copy the CID into a txt file that you'll save on an usb stick.. So when back on windows you just copy it again from the stick
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- If the terminal didn't show you the CID, you should try on another computer, I think it depends on the card-readers type.

- Shut down Ubuntu (right-upper corner)

- take out the Ubuntu-CD and restart computer

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In place of below just go to hxxp://hexrev.soaa.me/ copy your CID and click submit

the new cid number is ready to use ( no need to change 2 first numbers to 00)


- install PSAS free version hxxp://psas.revskills.de/?q=node/6

- install HxD Hex Editor hxxp://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Editor/3000-2352_4-10891068.html?tag=mncol

- Start PSAS and Click on Cyptoanalysis Tools > Crypto Toolbox.

- At the bottom of this window, there is a text box (next to the “Reverse String” button) enter the CID number you wrote down before

- Click on the “Reverse String” button, the number you just typed in will change



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- select and copy the number it shows now

- go to this website hxxp://revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html

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Website have changed

hxxp://psas.revskills.de/?q=goldcard

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- enter you emailadres

- paste the reversed number to the CID box and replace the first two digits with a zero "123456789" becomes "003456789"

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Just paste the number you obtained from site hxxp://hexrev.soaa.me/

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- click Continue, the goldcard.img file will be send to your email

- go to your email, save this file to your computer

- start HxD Hex Editor as an administrator (right click, "Run as administrator")

- click on extras -> open disk

- under Physical disk, select Removable Disk (uncheck “Open as Readonly) click OK

- click again on extras -> open disk image

- open the goldcard.img which you’ve saved before, select ok if asked for "sector size 512 Hard disks/floppy disks)

- at the moment you have two tabs, your removable disk and the goldcard.img

- select the goldcard.img tab
- go to edit -> select all again edit -> copy

- select the removable disk tab
- select offset 00000000 till/including offset 00000170


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You must have an 00000170 offset line on the sdcard. At first i didn't, i tried again and it appeared ???

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- go to edit -> paste write

- click on file -> save and exit the program

At the moment your SD card is a Goldcard.
If Goldcard doesnt work, try another SDcard. (Kingston 2GB works!)

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To use the goldcard:

put the sd into your HTC magic, connect it to your PC , boot the magic ( you still have the error "screen says RUU (when plugged in, RUU USB)"

Launch the RUU from your PC as usual and normally it will do the upgrade to the end without blocking.

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2. Download and run the correct RUU for your phone.

For my mobile I used RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_3.05.401.3_release_signed_NoDriver

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Sthis RUU: works fine for me too there is no french france or french belgium available but french suisse works fine and have an azerty keyboard (strangely not in the first tutorial but after well)

you can find RUUs here

hxxp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=659403


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credits:

Jesterz hxxp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=572683

and xda wiki pages hxxp://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Elf_GoldCard

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