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Warning…..this is only for Sapphire or HTC Magic device only

Upgrade your Radio

First of all,you download following files

- The 1.76.2007 SPL HBOOT image
http://www.theandroidkitchen.com/fil…-1.76.2007.img
- The 6.35.10.18 Radio Image
http://www.theandroidkitchen.com/fil…6.35.10.18.img
- The Amon_RA Hero Recovery (Latest version is 1.5.2 as of this post)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561124

Then do following steps

fastboot flash radio Radio_HTC_PVT_32A_6.35.10.18.img
fastboot flash hboot hboot-1.76.2007.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot reboot-bootloader

Downgrade your radio

Download following files

- 1.33.2010 Engineering SPL HBOOT image
http://www.theandroidkitchen.com/fil…-1.33.2010.img
- 3.22.20.17 Radio image
http://www.theandroidkitchen.com/fil…3.22.20.17.img
- Amon_RA Sapphire H Recovery (Latest is 1.5.2 as of this post)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492

Then do following steps

fastboot flash radio Radio_HTC_PVT_32A_3.22.20.17.img
fastboot flash hboot hboot-1.33.2010.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2H.img
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot reboot-bootloader

Reference : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=605239

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Check your hardware specification

• Turn off your device, by long press disconnect or shutdown button
• Press disconnect / shutdown button along with back button
• wait for few seconds
• There will be 3 androids playing skateboard

The display will be like this

SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
May 8 2009,21:02:32

According toWikipedia, there are 2 types of Magic,

• PVT32A handsets have 288MB total RAM (192MB usable by OS – same as Hero handsets) and use the Qualcomm MSM7200A CPU
• PVT32B handsets have 192MB total RAM (96MB usable by OS) and use the Qualcomm MSM7201A CPU

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Recently, I just bought new handset for myself hehehehe….and it’s HTC Magic. Yeah…is Android based Operating System. New Boys in town. It will compete with Iphone (Iphone OS), Windows Mobile, and Blackberry….

Why I choose this ? Hmm….hard to tell, but one thing for sure almost all the apps in the Android market is free, and Open source. Yihaaa…currently, I’m interested in K9 Mail for Android Apps in Google Code. It’s free and Open

Enough for the info…Here is the specification of the handset taken from GSM Arena

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100
		HSDPA 1700 / 2100 – American version
	Announced	2009, February
	Status	Available. Released 2009, May

SIZE	Dimensions	113 x 55 x 13.7 mm
	Weight	118.5 g

DISPLAY	Type	TFT capacitive touchscreen, 65K colors
	Size	320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
		- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Trackball

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, WAV ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Practically unlimited
	Internal	288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
	Card slot	microSD (TransFlash), buy memory

DATA	GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
	HSCSD	Yes
	EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
	Bluetooth	Yes v2.0 with A2DP, headset support only
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, miniUSB

CAMERA	Primary	3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus
	Video	Yes, QVGA@15fps
	Secondary	No

FEATURES	OS	Android OS
	CPU	Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
	Browser	HTML
	Radio	No
	Games	Yes
	Colors	White, Black
	GPS	Yes
	Java	Via third party application
		- Digital compass - Voice memo - MP3 player - MP4/3gp player

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1340 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 420 h
	Talk time	Up to 7 h 30 min

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