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[HTC Aria Android Development] cHarley04:
While I would go along with saying that you need to be a bit of the "dev type" to be performing the S-Off procedure, saying that only "dev types" have any need for S-Off is misguided and elitist sounding IMO.

One of the reasons I jumped on the S-Off bandwagon, was to be able to run a Market App, that has nothing to do with development, but required S-Off to run.

;)
[HTC Aria Android Development] :
+1

Sent from my CM7 HTC Aria
[HTC Aria Android Development] boxcar8028:
yeah, I have read all 198 post in this thread and I have also read zedbra post on how to s-off 2.2.2 (i'm trying to learn) but to tell you the truth, the only reason I need s-off for is to remove some google apps mainly books. I mean Im not going to read a book on my little aria and I also need the memory space. I have try deleting it through titanium backup but due to security flag being on, I can not. maybe needing s-off just to kill some apps is a bit of a over kill but if anybody can help me with another way to do this I'll be grateful.

for me, Its like repairing the breaks on your car, its not that hard but its something I don't want to get wrong.

everyone has there skills, its just that somethings are easier then others.
[HTC Aria Android Development] cHarley04:
This thread makes it as easy as it gets.
[HTC Aria Android Development] boxcar8028:
working on building up my knowledge pool and Im almost ready to try. thanks for your support, its most appreciated :)
[HTC Aria Android Development] drumist:
By far the easiest way to get rid of Google Books is to never install it in the first place. It comes included in the gapps zip file, so if you delete BooksPhone.apk from the zip file before flashing it, you never have to worry about it.

Even if you already have it installed, you can use this method. Wipe your system partition, then install CM7 again, then the modified gapps without Google Books. You shouldn't lose any settings when you reboot and it'll be like nothing changed except no more Books.
[HTC Aria Android Development] boxcar8028:
wow, yes this will be by far, way easier then s-offing. flashing zips I can handle. just for clarification, is "Wipe system partition" the same as "format system" in partition menu.

Im going to totally try this before I dive into the deep end. but I do have to say it was kind of fun learning about s-offing, this forum is so cool. thanks, man :D
[HTC Aria Android Development] themacman1000:
Also, if you decide to S-OFF your phone you should visit the liberatedAria irc channel on freenode. They'll walk you through everything related to the Aria including the AlphaRevX process. Attn1 is a huge help, the man himself walked me through S-OFFing my Aria. :) :p

Sent from my HTC Liberty S using a finger
[HTC Aria Android Development] drumist:
Yes. First do a Nandroid backup just in case anything goes wrong.
[HTC Aria Android Development] boxcar8028:
thanks for all your help. after a few hick ups, all did went well and now finally books has been killed from my aria once and for all, freeing up 6mb.

I have learn so much about s-offing and hate to see it go to waste. we'll see maybe I'll sill s-off my aria. - someday :)
[HTC Aria Android Development] boxcar8028:
well, that someday was last night. yeah, got me some s-off now. just had to do it. three white knuckle hours later and now I have s-off. I follow "zedbra" post on s-offing and all went well up to the alpharevx part. keep getting hung up on "bata key accepted - thank you for participating" then I read alpharevx's instructions (duh!) to uninstall htc syns and install alpharevx's drivers and to run alpharevx as an admin. bingo! that was the ticket. then it worked "Acquiring root (method 1)...

Sending in Caroline... so on and so on. it was kind of nice to see htc sense again but it looks kind of dated compared to cm7. the whole process is really cool. its like going back in time buying google stocks and then coming back to current time. yeah, fun :D
[HTC Aria Android Development] zervic:
Lol..page 9 I have a step by step windows tutorial ...woulda taken you 1 hour TOPS...anyway, glad you got it done...
[HTC Aria Android Development] DougG_ATL:
Follow the instructions and it's cakewalk. Thanks to attn1 and other devs for their work here...I was so glad to get back to CM7 after my warranty replacement.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Raven2k360:
Just followed the quoted instructions in post #209, easy-peasy! Thanks a million guys! I was a bit dejected when I got my new phone from insurance (after a 1-month nightmare of issues from them being incompetent retards) and found out it had the factory AT&T 2.2 firmware. All turned to happiness though when I hit the site here and learned that the phone is rootable again...lol. Thanks again to all who worked to once again circumvent AT&T's stranglehold on these phones!
[HTC Aria Android Development] dimon2242:
Guys, help!

How to return the S-ON?

And in general, is it possible?
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
Try updating the phone to the official 2.2.2 again from the HTC website (total stab in the dark) other than that, no idea.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
That won't work. The AlphaRev HBOOT reports itself as a later version than the 1.02 that comes with the RUU so it won't update it.

The new AlphaRrevx/Unrevoked tool may have that option. I know that they were planning on a S-ON return path. Check it out:

http://revolutionary.io/

Edit: nope. Looks like no return path:

=============================================
| Revolutionary S-OFF & Recovery Tool 0.3pre7 |
=============================================
Brought to you by AlphaRev & Unrevoked. Special thanks to #teamwin for their work on fre3vo!

Waiting for device...
Found your device: HTC Aria (liberty-6.02.1002, Android: 2.2.2, ROM version: 2.20.502.1)

Your device is already S-OFF, what exactly do you think you're doing? ABORTING.
[HTC Aria Android Development] nandroide:
Quick reply

Make sure you have HTC SYNC off, no need to uninstall it, just make sure its not running in the background... fail, i should've known that one right off the bat...
[HTC Aria Android Development] jlayton15:
When does anyone think a return one will come out I need to return phone without paying 50$
[HTC Aria Android Development] themacman1000:
Ok, this sucks, the CWM linked to on the first page has a issue with NANDroid. It can make backups, but any backup it makes that you try to restore will have a MD5 mismatch. It can restore backups that it didn't make but what help is that? Not much. Can anyone help me or should I flash the CWM with the charging mode instead.

Sent from my mind using a HTC Intruder
[HTC Aria Android Development] kaboose01:
Just flash the off-mode charging CWM. It has worked flawlessly for me.
[HTC Aria Android Development] themacman1000:
Tried that, couldn't get it to work. Instead I flashed the new CWM 4.0.1.4, I kinda like the blue of it.

Sent from my mind using a HTC Intruder
[HTC Aria Android Development] STaria:
Did you build it yourself? If so can I get a copy of it? All google gives me is builds for other devices...
[HTC Aria Android Development] themacman1000:
Lol, I don't have the skills for that. Check the OP for the link, if that doesn't work I'll PM you a copy.

Sent from my mind using a HTC Intruder
[HTC Aria Android Development] STaria:
Ok i found it in one of attn1's posts. It wants to download as a text file but if you "download as" and rename it recovery.img, the md5 sum matches. Flashed via fastboot and working great.

Hopefully this one make nandroids quicker than 4.0.0.5...

Edit: Wow, much faster! Would still like to see the progress on each actual file like in the older CWM, instead of just "data" "system" etc.
[HTC Aria Android Development] kaboose01:
Mind posting link for that?
[HTC Aria Android Development] themacman1000:
Here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14693680&postcount=1

Sent from my mind using a HTC Intruder
[HTC Aria Android Development] gibby_:
Thank you for this file, I have been looking for HBoot 1.02 for like a week. The new RUU on HTC's site will flash 1.03 which sucks. Oh well I'm one phone S-off and one with 1.03 HTC unlocked. Thanks again!
[HTC Aria Android Development] lebs4life:
just uninstall htc sync and everything should work, i just did that and it worked for me
[HTC Aria Android Development] zervic:
drowning, what exactly was the process after installing the official 2.2.2 update?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
You need an official beta key to do it. They are unique and hashed from your devices ID so you can't use someone else's key.

Basically, it's a linux command line executable that keeps doesn't tell you very much about what it's doing until the end when it says "success" and something about lemonade.
[HTC Aria Android Development] zervic:
when i went to the site, i downloaded the .tgz file...so that's not all i need? there is also a beta key? If that's the case then i'm glad i just read this because i was about to update to official 2.2.2...
[HTC Aria Android Development] attn1:
Not so strange. The program has to be tweaked for every version of every bootloader. They went with the highest version bootloader - which everyone can get to.
[HTC Aria Android Development] attn1:
Ah okay. Downgrade protection to protect against another OTA or RUU from wiping it out. What hboot version is it?
[HTC Aria Android Development] themacman1000:
Wut?

Is this what I think it is? Oh, no, it is. I just wet myself...

Seriously though! S-OFF on only the 2.2.2 RUU? When's the beta gonna be back open? I'll have to upgrade just for S-OFF! Yes! Thank you devs!!!
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
It shows up as 6.02.1002
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
Don't get too excited. There's no path back to stock yet which worries me a bit if I ever have to make an insurance claim on one of these.
[HTC Aria Android Development] themacman1000:
I do get your worry, but I don't think I'll even do S-OFF until everything's been sorted out including root, back to stock, back to 2.1 even. Thanks Gene, also, I saw there was an update to your 2.2.2 ROM and was thinking of going to it from CyanogenMod 7. Thanks for getting the AT&T/ status bar figured out. (Off topic, I know.):D
[HTC Aria Android Development] ladios:
If alpharevx also just flashes a hacked spl to hboot (s-flag not erased), then try

fastboot flash hboot official-hboot-image-file

to restore hboot. You can get it (a .nb0 file?) in rom.zip in ruu.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
Already tried that. See this post (that's the try with the complete RUU, but I tried just the hboot too and got the same result):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14697608&postcount=20
[HTC Aria Android Development] ValkyrieLiberty:
So this is good news in the world of 2.2.2, rooting and flashing...right?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
Yes! Very good news!
[HTC Aria Android Development] ladios:
They raised the hboot version too high... then, if you're brave enough, try:

fastboot erase hboot

fastboot flash hboot spl.img

BE WARNED: COULD BRICK YOUR DEVICE!

Edit: DO NOT DO THE ABOVE:

spl author explained here
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
Wow. I didn't think that would be possible. I don't think I'll be that brave unless I need to make an insurance claim.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
I need this desperately. Just got a refurbed aria because I dropped my phone and broke the screen.

Going from 864mhz to 600mhz is painfull.
[HTC Aria Android Development] mikelebz:
I'm in the same boat. Missed the public beta due to work yesterday....shame on work.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
Since this makes it possible to S-off, could we install clockworkmod with 2.2.2?
[HTC Aria Android Development] mikelebz:
no idea. I'd be able to tell you if I was home in time for the beta, ha. I suppose we will find out soon enough.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Moh_Jay:
With s-off yes

Signatures are fancy.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Theonew:
I really hope Windows support comes very soon... like the time it's actually (fully) released to the public.:D
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
Yes, this is how I restored after "upgrading" to 2.2.2 to be able to run the beta. Once I had S-OFF, I just flashed the recovery.img made by nandroid and used fastboot to flash it.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
If the full version comes out, this should be in the how-to for AlpharevX
[HTC Aria Android Development] drumist:
attn1 has already given instructions on how to install Clockwork once you have S-OFF:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13915089&postcount=16
[HTC Aria Android Development] kmdm:
Absolutely DO NOT DO THIS!

I'm pretty sure we don't lift the block on "erase hboot" but if we did, you will brick your device since that won't lift the version protection from HBOOT which is already loaded in memory.

If anyone is stupid enough to a) do this and b) finds "erase hboot" works, come onto irc.freenode.net/#alpharev immediately say what you've done and request the 6.x HBOOT from IEF or myself.
[HTC Aria Android Development] ladios:
Oops, sorry, didn't know that. So, is it still alright to run flash_image in recovery/normal mode with the extra-mtd module? Would the protection still there in those mode?

Btw, have you add model id PB9220000 for Asia Aria? Too bad I missed the chance to get the x beta.
[HTC Aria Android Development] kmdm:
To be honest, I'm not 100% sure.

For the final release we will have a published downgrade path to S-ON, it's just not there yet since we've only had closed/limited betas.

Also, we don't check the model ID.
[HTC Aria Android Development] attn1:
modelid PB9220000 should be fine, but you will still need to be on hboot 1.02 (highest one available for Aria/Gratia). A goldcard and the AT&T 2.2.2 RUU will get you there.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
I don't think you need a Gold Card. I didn't use a gold card; just put the RUU zip on the card as LIBEIMG.ZIP.

Edit: I see you're talking about the Asian Aria/Gratia. You're probably right about the gold card. My mistake for not reading for comprehension.
[HTC Aria Android Development] ladios:
Excellent. Just want to make sure Aria with model id other than PB9211000 could also be benefited from you guys' great work. :)

I have just checked, they (AT&T RUU, HK/TW Froyo OTA) are all the same:

fb9a82200b14508cb40be69f43937fc7 hboot_liberty_7227_1.02.0000_101104.nb0
[HTC Aria Android Development] jacobas92:
Waiting sucks. Oh well.
[HTC Aria Android Development] CallMeAria:
Alpharev tweeted this today:

Sent from my cm7 Aria.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
Windows is for Canadians. Why cater to the Canadians?
[HTC Aria Android Development] kaboose01:
Damn I'm canadian then..... Lol :P
[HTC Aria Android Development] unsivil_audio:
So if they're working on the windows version, why did they close the linux beta already? I mean how is it possible they disabled the tgz file on people's hard drives.

Sent from HTC Aria - CM7 NIGHTLY + Drowning Kernel
[HTC Aria Android Development] Gene Poole:
They have a beta key which is hashed from you device ID so even if you have the beta tgz, you can't run it on your device without the key.

As far as the difference between the Windows and Linux versions, my opinion is that since this is an exploit that runs on the device itself, it doesn't matter if it's linux or windows. Either one can inject the exploit files and read the results to move on to the next step. They probably went with linux first for two reasons: one, it's easier to develop a linux app to be used on a linux device; two, having only linux savvy folk running the beta weeds out a lot of the possibility for script-kiddies to brick their devices.
[HTC Aria Android Development] mikelebz:
I hope that they re-release the linux version when they release the windows. I only use Linux and Mac.
[HTC Aria Android Development] unsivil_audio:
So what your saying is you have to be invited already to use the beta? Or else how do they get the hash from your specific device? Does the executable go online to their servers with your device id and obtain the correct hash to continue the program?

Sent from HTC Aria - CM7 NIGHTLY + Drowning Kernel
[HTC Aria Android Development] drumist:
Beta keys were given to the first approximately two dozen people who came to an IRC channel and requested one. They likely used a common hashing algorithm on the device serial with a secret "salt" phrase to generate the beta keys. The program does not need to access the internet to perform this type of verification.

Just be patient. The reason they aren't releasing it publicly right away is because they realize that if things go wrong it can brick your phone.
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
Beta is open again........go get em. It is an open beta now it looks like. Windows too it looks like.
[HTC Aria Android Development] jacobas92:
Where can I download the 2.2.2 RUU?
[HTC Aria Android Development] katz:
worked good via winXP took 2 try to get it linked up and rolling

Thanks AlphaREVX
[HTC Aria Android Development] attn1:
http://www.htc.com/us/support/aria-att/downloads/
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
http://www.htc.com/us/support/aria-att/downloads/

first download.
[HTC Aria Android Development] hi2u2:
Woohoo, I'm S-OFF!! :D Exactly 1 year since I bought this phone too. How fitting.

Make sure USB debugging is enabled! AlpharevX was just "waiting for device" until I had a duh moment and turned it on.
[HTC Aria Android Development] jacobas92:
Nevermind. Thanks!
[HTC Aria Android Development] jacobas92:
Windows version says I need a beta key. Must I visit the IRC for that?
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
There should have been a web form asking for your serial number when you downloaded the windows version.
[HTC Aria Android Development] jacobas92:
Sorry bout that. First downloaded from chromium browser. Problem solved.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
Please don't close beta.....I'm at someone's house.....
[HTC Aria Android Development] jacobas92:
Mines hanging at "beta key accepted". ill try again lol
[HTC Aria Android Development] mikelebz:
could somebody help me out with installing using ubuntu 11.04? I'm a linux n00b. I tried converting the tgz to a deb and installed, (which I believe I did successfully because the software center says it is installed), however I can't seem to find out how to open the program whatsoever...again, I am a linux n00b...

I also tried doing the windows (which was a PITA) via parallels on my mac, however it keeps saying that the connection to the phone was interrupted while looking for "Sync:".... also HTC sync will not connect.

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Mike
[HTC Aria Android Development] zervic:
for linux you should just need to open up terminal and type the path to the .tgz or whatever it was...which i actually think you need to extract the file first...

for windows users coming from CM7 to stock and back to CM7, I will soon post a complete tutorial on the process (if someone doesn't beat me to it) with links to everything including the fastboot utilities which were a little hard to find, but once I had everything I needed, it was a breeze...
[HTC Aria Android Development] tacitapproval:
Took several tries and two different machines, but it did finally work. Hurrah!
[HTC Aria Android Development] mikelebz:
so what exactly should I type into the terminal? I extracted the tgz, however I don't know the extension( if there is one) of the extracted file.

thanks,

Mike

Edit: if you could make a linux guide as well, I would greatly appreciate it!
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
extract the tgz to a folder (double click on it and select extract to). Then goto that folder in Nautilus file manager and

right click on an empty spot and select "open in terminal" then at the terminal prompt type: sudo ./alpharevx

that will run the program.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
I tried everything on Windows first. Did everything fine, got stuck at "Acquiring root (method 1)..."

I re-tried everything. I open the prrompt in windows, and i re-run everything to get a new beta key. i use the same serial number, but it keeps saying the beta key is invalid. Same thing for ubuntu 10.10.

Any ideas?
[HTC Aria Android Development] mtnlion:
irc.freenode.net / #alpharevx
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
Less than 10 minutes from making an RUU.zip, flashing it with fastboot, getting the device online on 2.2.2 and under a minute running alpharev to s-off, and fastboot flashing the recovery back. Linux folks.
[HTC Aria Android Development] DroidRunner:
I had to reboot my phone and do every thing over again.

i have S-off now.

I am having trouble following attn's directions for how to install clockwork mod after I made the phone s-off. Can anyone help? its late and I am super tired, brain shutting down....
[HTC Aria Android Development] bkmo:
Take the recovery.img from your last nandroid backup and from the command prompt do a fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[HTC Aria Android Development] hi2u2:
Download fastboot.exe from the HTC developer site and put it in the alpharev folder, along with recovery.img. The recovery.img can be from attn1's post or from a nandroid backup.

Then open a command prompt to that folder and run the fastboot commands.
[HTC Aria Android Development] mtnlion:
or try this...

"I'm a total noob at rooting and stuff, but after spending the last few hours trying, I found another way to do it. Download the Clockworkmod file, as posted, and download the file mentioned under the "To root" section; put this second file onto your sd card. I just transferred it using Windows.

Extract the recovery file somewhere you'll remember it. (I used Downloads.) Now, go to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794638 and download Android Flasher. (Make sure your Aria is hooked to your computer.) Run Android Flasher, and select "Recovery". (It's one of the options on the left side). Navigate to the location of your recovery.img, and select it. The phone should switch itself to fastboot, then install clockworkmod. It then goes right into clockworkmod, and you can follow the steps listed to install the root.

Once I found the thread on Android Flasher, I had clockworkmod and root within about 90 seconds. Just downloaded and installed Titanium Backup, and it asked for superuser rights, which I granted, so it seems to be working for me.

I hope this is clear enough; I'm a bit tired right now. It was an easy process....after my three hours of trying command lines and stuff. Sigh."CREDIT to MADMATHIGAN