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[Wildfire General] dannyjmcguinness:
Hey everybody,

I'm opening this thread as a support tool for AplhaRev X.

I'm going to go first with my problem.

Phone gets detected, Beta key accepted and then I get to aquiring root.....

And that seems to be as far as I can get. I just seem to get stuck there.

Firstly I did it using Windows 7, which tells you to wait up to 15 mins and I went over this period. I did a factory reset on phone and tried again with the same result

I've just tried the Linux version on Ubuntu, again with the same result.

I've been connected as charge only, usb debugging turned on.

Currently running eclair 1.37 WWE but with hboot 1.01.0002 after several downgrades/upgrades attempting to root my phone. I am also using a goldcard and a modded misc image.

Why am I getting stuck at this point? Do I need to flash 2.2 first? Do I need to format sdcard or something?

Thanks
[Wildfire General] Mipery:
Im kind of new to android and I would love to try this, but could some1 please first post or link me a guide wich tells me what to do after this alpharev X's s-off, if i would like to install cyanogenmod (and i guess clockwordmod recovery needs to be installed too)?
[Wildfire General] Hooda_mask:
When i Run It

It Says That

Rebooting to fastboot (again)...

Waiting for fastboot...

FAILED - Go have some lemonade!

Press (almost) any key to exit.

Helllllllllllllllllllllp
[Wildfire General] dannyjmcguinness:
Problem Solved

Sorted,

Upgraded to Froyo which downgraded Hboot from 1.01.0002 to 1.01.0001,

redownloaded for hboot 1.01.0001 ran it and instant success.

Well done AlphaRev, its fantastic what you have achieved.

Theres a donation coming your way (not till payday though)
[Wildfire General] nejodagreat:
Is there anything else that I need beside AlphaRev X software? Because I run the software and connect the phone and it says "Waiting for device...". I left it for ten minutes and it still didn't detect my phone. Also, I have enabled USB debugging and selected "Charge only" mode when connected to PC. Am I doing something wrong?

Also note that I don't know a lot about flashing.

Thanks in advance
[Wildfire General] Lesicnik1:
You need:

Unrevoked hboot drivers: http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install

ADB:

Download Android SDK
[Wildfire General] bx19:
@dannyjmcguinness

good to see it solved. Issue maybe due to gingerbreak supporting froyo.

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@Hooda_mask

What is ur os version. Have u downgraded to eclair without downgrading hboot (there is a process actually).

Maybe u also need the unrevoked hboot drivers. Uninstall htc sync if present.

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install

Alternatively, irrespective of process, try to connect phone to pc in fastboot mode and check the command fastboot reboot from command prompt "tools folder" of android sdk (where fastboot.exe lies) and see whether phone reboots or not.
[Wildfire General] hans moleman:
It is probably worth mentioning that these drivers are only required if you are using Windows. If you use the Linux version no additional drivers are needed.
[Wildfire General] chbiz:
Well I don't know I'm lost ... been trying for several hours now ... with no success.

I'm running the UK Vodafone RRU.

Phone is detected AlphaRevX runs fine ... i.e.

This is a beta release and requires a beta release key.

Please visit: http://alpharev.nl/x/beta for more information.

Enter beta key [serial: xxxxxxxxxxx]: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Beta key accepted - thank you for participating!

Acquiring root (method 1)...

Sending in Caroline...

Cleaning up...

Rebooting to fastboot...

Waiting for fastboot...

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!

Rebooting to fastboot (again)...

Waiting for fastboot...

FAILED - Go have some lemonade!

Running HBOOT 1.01.0002

Tried patching a WWE RRU but get a "HBOOT versions wrong error".

Perhaps I need a downgrade or other solution.....

Anyone got any ideas? Or is this Vodafone ROM is dead duck?

Not tried with Linux yet .....

Thanks in advance.
[Wildfire General] fatsuzie:
:D

Here you go. I followed this. :)
[Wildfire General] dannyjmcguinness:


Have you tried a factory reset first?

I've done 2 devices but I got another one 1 to do.

1 of them was on Vodafone 2.2. That one was successful.

There was another update for Vodafone after Froyo, which was installed on the one I'm having problems with, resulting in same error.

Are you fully OTA updated?
[Wildfire General] johnfocker:
1.01.0002 to 1.01.0001

[Deleted]
[Wildfire General] f0xy:
Quick question, anyone got any patched hboot partition tables? Ordo i have to do it myself? :D
[Wildfire General] faz1511:
SORRY had enough I JUST WONT HAVE IT DONT NO WHAT I AM DOING JUST KEEPS FAILING ALL THE TIME S-OFF YES I AM NEED HELP BIG TIME
[Wildfire General] Kyblik:
Good lord, it's working!
[Wildfire General] nicolaibvm:
This is kinda weird...

I ran the tool.

It ended by saying everything went smooth but when I try to boot into recovery or run any app that needs root access it just tells me that I'm not rooted...

The 'funny' thing is that when I boot into HBOOT at the top of the screen it says:

---AlphaRev ---

BUZZ PVT SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-6.01.1002

.

.

.

So it says S-OFF but apparently not.

When I try to run AlphaRevX again I'm told that my phone is not supported...

Any one?
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
It just gave you S-OFF. Not a Custom Recovery like ClockworkMod, and not the Superuser binary which gives you root access. These are additional processes which you all have to perform after getting S-OFF. Refer this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1130044
[Wildfire General] nicolaibvm:
Sorry, thanks and it worked...

I misunderstood. I thought it also rooted. Followed your link and it worked like a charm. thank you VERY much!
[Wildfire General] n!k:
Sure.

Hello.

Please.

Thank you.
[Wildfire General] marcusorwen:
help

hello im having problems with getting alpharevx to work

i have Hboot 1.01.0001 and android 2.2.1.

i am running windows 7 ultimate 64bit with the drivers from the htc sync software. (htc sync is uninstalled but the drivers are still there).

also i have tried to do it on a windows 7 32bit pro machine with the same results (same setup as the other computer).

Any ideas why this is happening.
[Wildfire General] jararak:
try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1132028&highlight=1.01.0002+to+1.01.0001

this helps for me ;)
[Wildfire General] marcusorwen:
i already have hboot 1.01.0001 so thats not the problem.

Edit: im getting error writing to partition error 0x0040000 or something
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
You didn't even say what your issue is.
[Wildfire General] marcusorwen:
ops my image didn't get displayed :( my bad but the error is:

sending in caroline

retrieving caroline from sertain death (or something)

retrying caroline

then afther that i get

error writing partition and then alot of 0x004000 codes (same code every time)
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
I can only speculate, but, really, my advice would be to contact the AlphaRev team directly, because, it seems this issue is "rare", and dont think anyone solved it yet.

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=alpharevx
[Wildfire General] fr3quenzy:
Help plz

i've been searching this Rooting stuff from ages.. well now that the Alpharev X has cum up with its new version.. i downloaded beta version from the site

but wen i connect my fone then alpharev "waiting for device" it show this only ..

i have installed android modified drivers ...but the result same ..

can any 1 plz write STEP by STEP how to USE ALPHAREV -- coz i know there are manny ppl ovr here who still dont know how to use Aplharev ..

and also i want 2 know y am i facing that prob

thnx in advance :)
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
Install and then uninstall HTC Sync.
[Wildfire General] marcusorwen:
got an answer now from IEF:

[20:39] <@IEF> I'm afraid thats a bug that is to be fixed.

[20:40] whats causing it then? you know that?

[20:40] <@IEF> bad nand
[Wildfire General] the_k586:
THANK YOU !

Worked like a charm !

Wildfire SFR Unbranded Froyo RUU Hboot .0001

With love, from France <3
[Wildfire General] fr3quenzy:
Aplharev X -

Done With S-OFF now how can i root my phone .. m havin HTC Wildfire ?

i want CM7 so can ne 1 tell me STEPs or Link Plz
[Wildfire General] mcarroll779:
Sucessfully downgraded my HBOOT and it is now S-OFF. Thanks guys!

Now, I'm trying to install CM7, could anyone post any instructions on how to do so.

Thanks again.
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
First, you will need to install a Custom Recovery (ie Clockworkmod). There are two ways to do this.

1) Via Fastboot. Guide Here.

2) Via PC49IMG Process. Guide Here

(Just for the record, I used the Fastboot Technique)

Then, once Recovery is installed, it is simply a matter of flashing the CM ROM File. Guide Here. (Only refer from Post #4 onwards. Not the ones before it)
[Wildfire General] magpie22:
Alpharev says my wildfire is not supported, can anyone tell me why. enclosed is a screenshot of the program window.
[Wildfire General] gogusteliade:
you have hboot version 0.80, alpharevx work with the latest hboot 1.0xx
[Wildfire General] magpie22:
so what do i do to sort this out, upgrade hboot and how
[Wildfire General] jararak:
maybe someone can help me. I'm stuck at this phase. My phone should be s-off - now I have 0001 bootloader not 0002 as before. I use this manual

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1132028&highlight=1.01.0002+to+1.01.0001

I tried both methods but none of them works.

I donwload clockwork recovery and also fastboot for me, open terminal (cmd) and try to

somethink simmilar (I'm not at my computer now)

# fastboot flasharchive flasarchive_for_wildfire_signed.img

it start to working, but than cryies it is not signed

--------------------------------------------------------

so I try 2nd method

I formated my sd card to fat32

than I try to move .zip and also .img file to sd card

hboot recognize this file, but don't ask about confirmation

is there some wrong step which I do? did I miss something?

btw I'm working on win7x64ultimate, phone is wildfire with newest offical android, guess it is 2.2.1

edit : I realize, I only downgrade hboot, not used alpharev, so I'm not S-Off yet, probably reason why he don't want to take img49
[Wildfire General] gogusteliade:
you have to upgrade the hboot by flashing the latest RUU, you have to get the right one for your country/region
[Wildfire General] magpie22:
How do i do that without having root, and where can i get them from.

Thanks
[Wildfire General] mcarroll779:
Thank you so much! It worked perfectly, Loving CM7 right now. Wi-Fi works for me and haven't tested GPS yet, because I have been hearing problems about them.
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
GPS works, but, in all probability, you will have to reflash the Radio. For this, you will need Clockworkmod 2.x

- Open ROM Manager in CM7

- Select Install Clockworkmod Recovery. This will install 2.5 on your SDCard

- Select Reboot into Recovery, again from within ROM Manager. This will open Clockworkmod 2.5, and you can succesfully flash the Radio then.

- Radio can be found here: (Post #1, Point 4)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1029318
[Wildfire General] :
Multi boot roms not supported on wildfire (atleast yet).

It requires more nand memory. And maybe other things too.

Before installing the rom, wipe everything from recovery and make a factory reset. That's enough
[Wildfire General] wundaanda:
I'm currently on hboot 0.8 and I want to get S-OFF, so can you guys make a guide for hboot 0.8 people please
[Wildfire General] :
Nvm....
[Wildfire General] :
Shouldn't be due to rooting. Try different roms if u have doubt (along with the stock one by nandroid restore).

And also check the lens glass at the back of wildfire. It generally protrudes out giving the possibility of scratches.
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
EDIT: NVM. Ignore. :\
[Wildfire General] nicksti:
I have a factory HTC Wildfire 2.2.1 HBOOT 0002

I saw a handful of people had success using AlphaRev X without downgrading so I tried it and it goes as far as trying method 1, but it is stuck there for minutes.

Is this normal and I am too impatient? Or do I need to downgrade?
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
Method 1 shouldn't take time at all. (Upto 2 mins from start to end, at the most) Method 2 can take upto 15 minutes. I would recommend you to downgrade to 0001
[Wildfire General] wundaanda:
Can someone please make help me, i have hboot 0.8 and I want to have S-OFF and I'm on 4.2 joker rom and I Dnt want to lose my stuff so someone help me
[Wildfire General] darac32:
After nightmare i finaly manage to do it thx to all developers specialy to alpharev team ...

Thx to all tryers before me and for all manuals which they wrote for us all ...

Thx
[Wildfire General] 7end3r:
Hello, (please excuse me for my english, I'm french)

I would like to do the reverse manipulation : I've got my Wildfire with the Alpharev X HBOOT, but I would like to come back to original HBOOT (1.01.001). Does anyone know how to downgrade to this HBOOT ?
[Wildfire General] :
Not possible at the moment. That is why one should be sure before making S-OFF. It requires "hboot downgrader" that alpharev will release.

And why do u want to get back to hboot 1.01.0001 . Is it for warranty purpose.
[Wildfire General] 7end3r:
No, because since I've made it S-OFF, there are lots of problems on my phone : it's very slow and some apps are not running anymore (I've installed a official ROM, but these problems are still there). I was quite worried, but if you say that a tool will be released by alpharev team, I'll wait.

Thank you for your answer.
[Wildfire General] :
Lol. Try some custom roms. I believe u will definitely like them.
[Wildfire General] cokenet77:
Clockworkmod recovery.

Rename file to PC49IMG.ZIP

Place it to Root of sdcard

goto Hboot mode by pressing vol down + power
[Wildfire General] krishnashk:
i am running 2.2, and hboot 002. is there any procedure to get root?
[Wildfire General] :
Yes. AlpharevX is the option for every wildfire.
[Wildfire General] gmdude:
Hi,i'm new to the forum. I have 2.2 with hboot 1.01.0002. Does AlpharevX set s-off and downgrade hboot to 1.01.0001. Thanks in advance.
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
AlphaRev X will give you S-OFF, but it will not downgrade your HBoot to 1.01.0001. Infact, it patches HBoots to version 6.01

The issue is there are some versions of HBoot 1.01.0002 which AlphaRev X does not support, and, if your Wildfire is one among them, you will have to downgrade it to 1.01.0001 yourself, and then use AlphaRev X again to gain S-OFF.

Guide to downgrade can be found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1132028
[Wildfire General] Andrei_2012:
Using this will unlock my wildfire? I want to use it in another country. Bought vodafone spain and i wanna use it in Romania. By doing this it will unlock my phone?
[Wildfire General] meknb:
No your phone will still be sim locked You have to unlock it with unlock codes or xtc clip
[Wildfire General] johannes_wildfire:
if you have any questions follow jonas2295 ´s tutorial in android development section ....
[Wildfire General] krishnashk:
but with alpha rev i get only s off right.Then should use unrevoked to get the root?

and plz tell where can i get the alpha rev which does the job for me! thanks
[Wildfire General] pramodahanya:
help required

hi i did S-OFF -success

i installed clockworkmod using fastboot -succes

after that i navigated to powerdown and selected it and again when i start the phone i am not able to go to hboot menu(holding volume down and pressing power button). but it boots and works well. please some one help me to get hboot back.

thank you
[Wildfire General] :
Pull out the battery, remove memory card.

Then insert battery and press vol down + power key. Hope it enters hboot menu.

And if u r using below CWM 3.1.0.2 , then you will be facing offline charging bug. Better update the recovery from fastboot.
[Wildfire General] krishnashk:
alpha rev say waiting for device!
[Wildfire General] :
--Reboot the pc and device .

--Enable usb debugging on the device and connect it in "charge only" mode.

--Make sure no applications are using the debugging feature. If adb process is present kill it from task manager.

--uninstall htc sync if present.

Then try it again.
[Wildfire General] pramodahanya:
hi

i did that but it dint workout and i even tried removing sim and inserting mmc and removing both but nothing worked out. since i can't enter hboot how can i upgrade my clockworkmod(but i am using recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.0-j_r0dd_mod-buzz.img)

please help thanks for the reply
[Wildfire General] :
Try to directly boot into fastboot mode. Power off the device, then hold trackad and press power button.

And from a full booted phone, use the reboot to bootloader options which will be present depending on your rom.

And from full booted phone, use adb command "adb reboot bootloader" and see how it goes.

If you can enter custom recovery in anyway, still you can use adb command "adb reboot bootloader" and see how it goes.
[Wildfire General] hoangtulaudai_nt:
hello guys !!

I'm trying to get S-off but while doing it, it just said :

Acquiring root (method 1)...

Sending in Caroline...

Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...

Retrying Caroline...

Caroline failed, but had this to say: An error occurred while writing the partition.

Errors ( If any):-

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00020000

Press (almost) any key to exit.

What wrong with that ?

I got HBOOT 1.01.001
[Wildfire General] pramodahanya:
that worked fine thanks
[Wildfire General] jayneemac:
excuse my ignorance but can I safely downgraded HBoot from 0002 to 0001 without wiping any data from my phone memory or sdcard ?

thnx jayneemac
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
No. It installs a new Stock ROM, and, you will have to create a Goldcard using your SDCard.
[Wildfire General] hackergnome:
Hey wat if i have HBOOT 0002 (India non-carrier branded) Will this work??

n theres no option to choose 0002 only 0001 in AlphaRevX site...
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
It did work with some 0002 versions, but not all. So, you can go ahead and try. Alternatively, you can downgrade 0002 to 0001. The procedure is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1132028
[Wildfire General] robra001:
RUU

May i ask you why not to use RUU? I do not doubt, I'd like to know what's the reason.

Thanks.
[Wildfire General] :
I mean donot use ruu or unrevoked for rooting after alpharevx s-off.

What's the purpose of using ruu just after alpharevx s-off. Go back to stock rom??? Lol... we Just came from stock rom right. The only purpose I can see is rooting and installing custom roms. Ofcourse it can be done by using ruu and then unrevoked. But its a very long process and moreover there is a chance of having touch panel failure if one uses the wrong eclair ruu.

So better to go with simpler processes than having issues like touch panel failure (and then thinking that the phone is bricked).
[Wildfire General] robra001:
I tought there was some issue or incompatibility in doing that. I'm in S-off, rooted, nfinity kernel to OC and stock rom but was thinking to the possibility to come back to stock rom for warranty purpose if i should install a custom rom in the future. Anyway, thanks for your patience.
[Wildfire General] :
For using stock rom after alpharevx s-off, you can just use the safe flash zips which are equal to stock roms. The advantage in using them is you can still have the custom recovery then (ruu replaces the custom recovery with stock recovery).

And for warranty purposes, you need to do RUU process and then overwriting of alpharevx hboot with stock hboot (the process can be available in dev forum). Here more specifically, you can use your region eclair ruu + later froyo ota.

So, in any case excluding for the warranty, I don't find a need to use ruu after alpharevx s-off. Ofcourse ruu can be used needlessly after alpharevx s-off (there is no harm in doing so as long as your PC is in perfect condition for not interrupting the process).
[Wildfire General] robra001:
Thank you very much. You gave plain explanation. Precious as usual.
[Wildfire General] robra001:
Just to give one more information, I participated a thread in my native language, where someone was in trouble after Alpharev x (beta) having the known issues plus a (new?) one that caused impossibility to send and receive mms.

After many many attempts he understood that to solve his problem he had to delete trace of Alpharev x process.

He started with his wildfire in S-ON, Froyo, Hboot 1.01.0001

The first step obviously was using Alpharev x to obtain S-OFF.

After this, he flashed stock rom Eclair (RUU_Buzz_HTC_WWE_1.37.405.1_Radio_13.53.55.24H_3.3 5.19.25_release_151892_signed.exe)

Then he used the two magic cmd lines:

C:\fastboot>fastboot oem mb 9C068490 1 30

C:\fastboot>fastboot Flash hboot hboot_7225_0.80.0007_100809.nb0

to come back to hboot 0.80.0007

Now he obtained root permissions with Unrevoked and flashed JokerDroid 4.3

No more issues like wizard setup, wallpapers and mms not working.
[Wildfire General] m32:
in this moment alpharevx modifications were overwritten with stock hboot

unrevoked != alpharevx, alpharevx modifies hboot, unrevoked gains only limited root, local exploit to gain acces for most - not all system parts

In my opinion - reflash hboot after all patches from HTC including radio - i did so - if your hboot exceds 1.01.001 version - downgrade to this version (alpharevx requires this version).

JokerDroid is froyo rom, so for proper flashing it requires proper recovery - 2.4.0.7 is sufficient - any version after :? 3 is for gingerbread, if U have installed latest cm-recovery just downgrade it by rom manager.

AFTER AlhaRevX - installing any rom is just a pice of cake.

Hboot has modifications to partitions table, bad blocks on mmc - this is a problem - never versions of hboot taking care of this situation - THEIR ARE INCOPATIBLE WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF HBOOT - so make modifications of hboot wit care
[Wildfire General] dannyjmcguinness:
Interesting issues caused by Alpharevx. One possible solution would be to flash hboot with a stock rom that is s-off.

So if someone that had used an xtc clip downloaded their hboot is it possible to flash it?

Would it turn you back s-on? I know their is two s-ons, there is another present within the radio which most people should never need to bother with.

Does xtc clip turn this second one off also?

If so, does this mean in order to flash via the method I just mentioned, this flag would have to be off in order for a stock s-off flash to actually flash s-off and not flash it back on?
[Wildfire General] dannyjmcguinness:
Has anyone installed cm7 then flashed back to hboot 1.0x
[Wildfire General] khom27820:
For me, I used to struggle with that like yours but what you. T_T
[Wildfire General] sandriekus:
i want to root my wildfire.

so i went to the website of alpharev and downloaded the program.

i have started it as administrator but he keeps asking for a public beta key.

where can i get the key?
[Wildfire General] :
Redownload the alpharevx beta program. Now observe just after you press the download on the browser, that you are prompted to enter your device serial and choose your device (select wildfire) and hboot version (select 1.01.0001). That will give you beta key for hboot 1.01.0001.

And if your hboot is 1.01.0002 then you need to downgrade it to 1.01.0001.
[Wildfire General] hackergnome:
thank u for the reply...

n it wont damage the phone if i use alpharevx on 0002 right?

n there on 0002 option to choose on the site wat should i do??
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
Choose 0001. If Alpharev it wont support your version of 0002, it will fail (and state why it failed) and not make any changes to your phone. So, it wont damage it.
[Wildfire General] dhar9417:
You NAND has bad blocks there's no workaround this at this moment in time