Get HTC Magic (android) with Perfected SPL 1.76.0007 rooted

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Hugo Phang

3 famous smartphone operating systems provider Symbian (for Nokia phone), Windows Mobile (for all PDA with Windows OS) and Palm OS (for palm PDA) controlled smartphone OS market so many years. Recently, another new operating system comes into smartphone or PDA market , named Android, developed by Internet Search Engine gaint ‘s Google.

I owned my android phone HTC Magic (HTC is one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers) for couple of months with original ROM (Read-only memory) or I should said with original Operating System.

Due to the licensing issue, all the HTC smartphones selling in my country take out the root user access and Android Market (Android Apps Market ,similar to IPhone AppStore. It allows user to download a free or paid applications into your smartphone) access right.

You can still enjoys the standard functions that similar to other brand name smartphone although without these 2 features, but just imagines, a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X super sport car, if you take out its turbocharge engine, what the car will be ? Well, you can still continues your ride with normal speed to reach your destination but just sorry to say that if you talking about the speedy feel ! .

After studying a week of all the articles talking about how to flash your android phone from the internet, I take my action yesterday. Below is the procedure of how to flash my HTC magic from perfect SPL.

Original htc magic device spec :
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.76.0007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.07.29
Aug 4 2009,19:43:30

After flashed :
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A ENG  S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.76.2007 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.08.29
Aug 21 2009,18:19:15


<Procedure>:
Step 1.) create goldcard (complicated process)
- software required :
a.) Qmat (PSAS) - Must run on administrator right
** For window xp home, you have to login to SAFEMODE and choose administrator to run the application.
b.) Hxd
** coz Hxd need administrator right too, I just login to the safemode too,coz i am XP Home user.

** For detail tutorial, kindly refer to another post which talking about “HOW to create a goldcard with screen captured step-by-step tutorial. ** – How to create Android goldcard for Perfected SPL [Picture]

Step 2.) Download RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_3.04.401.2_HTC_AT_test_signed_NoDriver.exe and flash it.
~ less than 10 minutes.
** If using Win 7 (usb connection issue, kindly look for solution (solution is out)

Download the Sapphire RUU from >>HERE<<

After that, your phone will restart just like normal,nothing special,but SPL changed from 0007 to 0008. Now you can access Android market from your phone,downloads Terminal Emulator and install it.

Step 3.) Download recovery-RA-Magic32A-6.35-v1.6.2.img and copy into your phone, main folder.

Open Terminal Emulator, do the following steps :

  • type “su” (to get root access)
  • type “flash_image<space>recovery<space>/sdcard/recovery-RA-Magic32A-6.35-v1.6.2.img“. If the image filename too long, just rename it before run it.
$ su (press Enter);
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-Magic32A-6.35-v1.6.2.img (press Enter);

~ less than 5 seconds, the installation process is done ! very fast , believe yourself.

Now you have Recovery , you have root access and you have android market! But the rom is official rom. If you want to flash custom rom, you have to flash your SPL to 1.76.2007 (CursorSense is the best) ,follow Step 4.
If not, just remain this rom.

Step 4.) Download update-hboot-1.76.2007-signed.zip, rename it to update.zip and copy to your sdcard.

Step 5.) Off your phone.
- Restart your phone with press HOME+POWER go to recovery page. (Recovery is a tool for you to backup, restore and update rom).
- Choose Flash zip from sdcard option, choose “update.zip“, use trackball to select , press HOME to confirm !!
~ less than 5 minutes.

Yeah, process complete. Now you have the same spec stated above, means that you can downgrade and upgrade SPL and Radio to try any custom rom.

Think of upgrade to Android 2.1 (Eclair) , recommended Custom ROM SuperEclair2.1, kindly read HERE.

Cheer ! (Tutorial to flash the phone is refer from hiapk’s *cadetnudt* post, but i add in many thing to emphasis on my word, I am sure that newbie will feel useful, coz i am newbie!)

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created, updated and modified not working in cakephp

Posted on February 10, 2010 by admin

Cakephp is one of the great PHP framework in the market.

One of the great features built-in is by defining a created or modified field in your database table as datetime fields, CakePHP will recognize those fields and populate them automatically whenever a record is created or saved to the database (unless the data being saved already contains a value for these fields).

But why sometime the created and modified fields does not works ?

Thing to check :

1.) Do not set any default value in your created or modified field for cakephp version 1.2

- If you are using cakephp ver 1.1, you have to set a default value in as “000-00-00 00:00:00″, once you upgrade your cakephp core ver 1.2, you have to remove the default value and set it as NULL

2.) Check the cache folder in your project directory

your-project-folder/tmp/cache/models/

- If you are using cakephp core ver 1.2, you have to check the cache folder under your project folder.

your-project-folder/tmp/cache/models/


- filename is like cake_model_default_xxxxxxx delete all the cache files.

Yeah , Problem Solved !!
Cheers !!
Hugo

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Formula Drift Dec 2009 in Malaysia

Posted on February 9, 2010 by admin

Our engine oil ETOZ Motorsport Oil is one of the drift car sponsor.
Take a look on some event photos.

Drifter – Mervyn Nakamura and Me.

Malaysia Pro Drifter and 1st Runner up – Tengku Djan

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Happy Lunar New Year to all

Posted on February 9, 2010 by admin

Wishing all of my friend have a great Lunar New Year (Tiger Year)
恭贺新禧，新年进步，万事如意

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nokia n82 firmware v35 with chinese input

Posted on February 8, 2010 by admin

Nokia recently launched new firmware for symbian S60 ,mine n82 was upgraded.

Software to use :
OVI Suite 2.0 , you can simply download from here

Before start, check your current firmware version by press “*#0000#” , screen will shows you current version.

After installed, I can’t read and write a simplify chinese wording in my phone. Oh, can’t live without chinese.

Thinking on maybe I can install any plug-in to enable the chinese input method (coz my another phone HTC Magic – Android can do so)but the answer is NO. The most easy is going to get the help from phone store in the shopping centre, but the bad news is my n82 is AP phone. If I insists to do so, 80 dollars i have to pay for lesson. Oh God.

Never  giving up, try to ask my guru (google), luckily i found the way to over come the problem.

Solution : Change the phone code by JAF.

Step 1.) For  Nokia N82, take out your batter, you will see the product code number on the sticker. My phone code is 0561047, means selling in Malaysia. Only English , Indonesia and Philipino is available.

Step 2.) Install JAF . Go the “BB5″ tab, select “Prod. Manage”, then click on the “Service” on your right side menu under “Operations” section.

Step 3.) JAF will pop up a new windows with “read values” and “write values”. Click on the read value, JAF will shows you your current product code. Mine is 0561047. If you need chinese input method, i will recommend you change to 0561043 (Asia Pasific and Singapore). This is the code I am using.

Step 4.) Install OVI Suite, upgrade it online (Each upgrade , you have to download 112MB ,faint)

Step 5.) Follows screen instruction, you will have your latest nokia v35 firmware within 15mins time.

**Note : You will never regret to upgrade it. In term of function speed , internet surfing speed, reboot speed and battery life all are improved damn much.

Enjoy !

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IE and firefox main page redirect to 114.com.cn

Posted on February 8, 2010 by admin

Does your IE or Firefox start-up page been redirect to http://www.114.com.cn/eindex.html website ?

Solution :
Simply “right click” your Internet Explorer or Firefox  desktop icon, select “Properties”.

On the “Target” field, you will see “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORER.EXE” http://www.114.com.cn/mindex.html

simply remove the http://www.114.com.cn/mindex.html , then click “OK”.

Don’t forget to remove the link from your Quick Lunch icon too.

Cheers !

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how to write a custom block in Magento Commerce CMS ?

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Hugo Phang
magento

Magento - Open Source eCommerce

Magento Commerce is a powerful and scalable online shopping system (or Shopping cart + CMS).

It is developed using PHP with MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework. If you are not familiar with MVC framework it will take a long time for you to create custom block or fuction in Magento System.

Here are the 5 simple steps to demostrate how to create a custom block in Magento.

Step 1.) Creates your custom block file Customblock.xml into /app/etc/modules/ directory.

Code :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
  <modules>
    <Mage_Backlink>
      <active>true</active>
      <codePool>local</codePool>
    </Mage_Backlink>
  </modules>
</config>

** If your custom name = CustomBlock , you attribute should be <Mage_Custom_Block>**

Step 2.) Creates config.xml into /app/code/local/Mage/Customblock/etc/ directory

*Note : you have to create your custom block folder personally, eg, creates “Customeblock” folder.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
  <global>
    <blocks>
      <backlink>
        <class>Mage_Backlink_Block</class>
      </backlink>
    </blocks>
  </global>
</config>

Step 3.) Creates your custom PHP script into /app/code/local/Mage/Customblock/Block/<function name>.php

Content :

class Mage_Backlink_Block_Listing extends Mage_Core_Block_Abstract
{
  protected function _toHtml()
  {
        //$P=$this->getRequest()->getParams();
        //$pageid =isset( $P['pid'] )?$P['pid']*1:0;
     return $html;
  }
}

Step 4.) Goto Magento Admin page, from the menu toolbar, choose CMS -> Manage Pages, Choose the page you want to edit, the paste the code into the content.

{{block type="backlink/listing" pid="6" }}
Creates Backlink.xml into /app/etc/modules/

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