Re: HTC MAGIC root access
Rooting the Magic/Sapphire
First of all, everyone owes Haykuro a great big thanks for working on this and helping create the solution without even owning a magic. The following is his method just reworded slightly.
- To gain root access on your HTC Magic/Sapphire you will need to download the magic-root-boot.img zip file and unzip it so that you have boot-new.img in a location you can find.
- On your device, enter the bootloader by trying one of the following
- Turn off your device and while it is off hold down back while you press power.
- Turn off your device and while it is off hold down volume down while pressing power
- Make sure your usb cable is inserted and you have Fastboot installed and ready to use.
- Type the following commands on your desktop (not on the device):
- fastboot boot boot-new.img (the .img file you downloaded needs to be in the same directory as fastboot)
- wait for the following to flash and the phone to reboot:
- downloading 'boot-new.img'... OKAY
- booting... OKAY
- make sure you have ADB installed and run the following commands from your desktop (not on the device):
- adb push boot-new.img /sdcard/boot-new.img
- adb shell flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-new.img
- Download haykuros modified magic recovery, unzip it and run the following commands on your desktop:
- adb push recovery-new.img /sdcard/recovery-new.img
- adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-new.img
This gives you a modified boot and recovery which lets you have access to root and to flashing modified update.zip roms from the recovery.
Last edited by crazythunder; 05-31-2009 at 10:19 AM.
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