yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] Bisis:
Worked like a charm.

I was using VmWare player and hboot 0.75
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Hanging at stage 3

Ofcourse mine is hanging at stage 3. I thought the problems were sorted out in release #3? Has been hanging for like 15 minutes now, wonder how long I should wait before removing the cable? :confused:

EDIT1:

NVM, pulled the cable after 30 minutes, and rebooted the phone pulling the battery, S-OFF, but boot image was screwed, tried to restore boot.img, but everything in Android FC continously.

I am running LeeDroid 2.1a, with clockWorkMod 2.5.0.1

was on HBOOT 0.80 unbranded phone...

Trying to restore whole Nandroid now and see if things get back to normal.

Writing again when tested!

EDIT2:

Well, after restoring Nand everything seems fine again. Appearently they removed the Joker splash screen as I still have the standard HTC one (I am definately gonne change that now that I can :D )

It appears that I S-OFF'ed successfully, but maybe the Devs of this hack can look a little into the strange behaviour on stage 3.

Thank you very much for this super cool feature! Great work! :)
[Desire General] Pitzbull:
Seen myself and another pull the plug today and it was done. Good luck.
[Desire General] peewster:
Can somebody please explain me how to restore adb on a Desire. After trying to flash S-OFF nothing happend, so after 30 minutes i pulled out the battery and booted up Android without any further probs.

Sdcard storage works normally, only adb isn't working anymore.

adb devices doesn't show me the connected device. Same thing in recovery mode.

Charging works just fine too.
[Desire General] hk5354:
need to flash again if new version is out?
[Desire General] chrisvx:
No. It's just a more refined method of doing the same thing as the previous versions.
[Desire General] ianofaraby:
How easy is that!!

Download AlphaRev 1.3, burn to disc using nero, reboot PC from disc, connect phone when prompted with usb and watch.

2 minutes later, jackpot.

Many thanks guys.

Leedroid 2.1a Hboot 0.8 now Hboot 0.93
[Desire General] Barwin:
Thnx for the tip. Gonna try it ride away.

Let ya know ;)
[Desire General] azrudin99:
ok just burn the iso img to cd>boot

step1>ok

step2>ok

step3> error code 5 (shut down)

anyone have this problem? pls help

thanks :confused:

edit: ok done on second try. not more than 10 minutes.

thanks to scott4 for burning (tut) huhu. :)
[Desire General] chrisvx:
Not much information to go on.

If you have a fairly standard ROM, it is probably the same problem as outlined a previous post of mine. Basically it is a permissions problem.
[Desire General] DesirableHTC:
No probs mate, You won't be disappointed with SuperVillain ROM ;)
[Desire General] Bartman007:
Yeah, looks like stock rom with unrevoke 3.21 does not want to play, keeps getting the same error as well :(

Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HTBOOT - 093.0001

MICROP - 03101

TOUCH PANEL - SYNT0101

RADIO - 5.09.05.30.2

AUG 10 2010 17.52.18

CID: HTC_001

ID: PB9920000

Using CD bootloader 1.3 on laptop runing xp 32 bit.

Maybe the web site should mention that it works for custom roms?
[Desire General] Derell:
WOW

It´s so easy,so f'''''g easy.

Thx alot for your awesome work ::::::))))))) :D
[Desire General] soggydoggy:
Help! I've managed to do this without any problems, but now when I try and go back into the bootloader, it just hangs at the first splash screen and never changes to the red triangle screen prompting for vol up + power.

How can I fix the bootloader?

The phone boots fine and fastboot still works, just not bootloader.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT - had to flash a new recovery image using the android SDK as follows:

1. Open a CMD and switch to the tools folder within the android sdk directory.

2. Type "fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery image.img>". Worked a treat. I flashed Clockwork but you could flash AmonRa or whatever, just need to download the .img that you want to use for recovery.
[Desire General] crawlingroof:
Permission problem was fixsed in 1.3 (imho)

I have stock rom 2.2

root by unrewoked 3.21

got error 5 and s-off till reboot :(

sorry 4 my english
[Desire General] Enhdojo:
Too much Gratitude!

Thanks guys! That's priceless.

Tried a first time, got an error 5 at step 3 with the phone seamingly working except it ended up with a black screen before I unpluged it.

I waited a little while with the phone unpluged... Got no change.

Booted the computer again to try a second time.

And that time was a flawless operation!!!

Thanks again to everybody who took part in the creation of this little Jewel!

BTW... I LOVE your Splash sreen!!!!

EDIT: I used a burnt CD and my desire has Radio 5.11 + DeFROST 4.8 +ClockWorkMODRecovery and had HBOOT 0.83.

It's an Irish O2 branded phone. Did I say Thank YOU so much?... Again!
[Desire General] Enhdojo:
Thanks mate!

RootExplorer couldn't change permissions in /system/app until...

I cleared it's cache!!!!

Coooooooooool.
[Desire General] Pajorve:
Friend you don't even imagine the help you gave me .... when reading your explanation, at the same time I touched that I was doing wrong!

Thank you for your simple but great help!

Desire running old rom Alexv6 Hboot 0.83 and now Hboot 0.93 AlphaRev ...

Thank you….

I'm Brazilian and not I ever!

:D

Very ,very happy !
[Desire General] HTCTourist:
Internal storage dropped from 105 to 96MB after this.

Using the Root explorer I found a folder in /data/drm named alpha.

Does this folder still require to be there?

EDIT: Sorted it myself.
[Desire General] Barwin:
Installed it but Gmail won't update properly to 2.3 Says it isn't signed well.

Solution?
[Desire General] Ape187:
Succsessfully s-offed my desire without hickups in under 2 minutes.

HBOOT was 0.80 now 0.93 alpharev on SuperVillain v1.0 :D

thanks a lot for this tool!!!!
[Desire General] w.0.o.t:
from what i understand HTC could release an update to remove the ENG bootloader. can i use Unrevoked Forever on top of this hboot patch to get the actual permanent S-OFF? that is, when it is available of course. that way i could have extended fastboot command + permanent S-OFF. :D
[Desire General] JeckyllHavok:
simply don't install offical roms or updates or remove the hboot part before flashing
[Desire General] Muskie:
Quick question: (No, this is not the case with my phone, but it's good to know)

Say I had to send my phone back in for warranty (perhaps I found bad Blocks on my NAND for example). Now that the entirety of the phone including bootloader has been unlocked, would I now be able to Load up my Carrier RUU without the need for a Goldcard, and "UnAlphaRev" to turn S-ON back, so that my phone is then returned to Out-Of-Box Stock?
[Desire General] w.0.o.t:
yeah i know. just wanna know if it could be done. :p
[Desire General] Beaverman20:
i guess, now that they do not actually chage anything on your phone, just bypass the thing that are already there, and as the bypass is only the Hboot, a overwrite of the hboot with a RUU should do the trick ;)
[Desire General] kariem112:
Oeps

So.. finally wanted to try this out..

Desire GSM, Leedroid 2.1a,

fastboot 0.75

Burned ISO on cd

Now it is stuck on step 3/3... what to do now? Reboot pc and try to get info through ADB??? (While leaving phone on?)
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
go read the alpha rev site. in the faq u will find a way to contact the developers and helpers for issues on irc

join
[Desire General] HTCTourist:
Same thing happened to me this morning. After 30mins I unplugged it. Could not restart the phone without removing the batt. Booted up fine and the Hboot was S-OFF. However I still had some files sitting in my internal memory about 9MB in total. I went in recovery and noticed some of my folders not been mounted. So i mounted them and redid the process. This time it worked flawlessly.

Thanks 4 all the hard work that went into this.

Regards

Sam
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
Not a good idea to just unplug with out asking for help in the appropriate support channels as per the FAQ... if any one bothered to read it that is.

You could have been a brick there.
[Desire General] f3d0r:
The procedure went smoothly and device now shows S-OFF in boot menu but when i try to erase/reflash the recovery I only get the following error:

Shouldn't it be possible to flash a new recovery via fastboot now?

regards
[Desire General] Muskie:
So basically, just run My Carrier RUU over the top and boom, stock, no goldcard? Awesome.
[Desire General] superfloup:
Worked fine on my LeeDroid Desire !

Thanks a lot for your incredible job !
[Desire General] Beaverman20:
from what i know you just run the ruu as if you had never flashed this Hboot, so yes, that is wahat you would do ;) keep in mind it is still untested... :D
[Desire General] kai84m:
Worked perfectly for me! AlphaRev 1.3 via CD-Rom iso boot.

Took no longer than 2 minutes!

I had Hboot 0.75 on a former TMO Germany branded phone, which i debranded through the Modaco Method.

As Rom I use Alex V1.6.2 which is based on Sense 2.14.

My Recovery (AmonRa 1.7.0.1-R5) was also healthy after the Flash process.

Everything is working perfectly!

I will by the AlphaRev guys a sixpack! Great Work!
[Desire General] Bip44:
GREAT !!! Thanks a lot, it works for me !

EDIT : Actualy, I am always in S-ON mode... I'll try again with option "Mount SD on" checked...

EDIT (later) : idem :( "An unexpected error occured. Error code 5...."
[Desire General] :
Procedure was supereasy and worked perfectly!

I created bootable usb using liveusb-creator.

I had latest Amon RA as a recovery and as i said it was smooth and quick!

Thanks!
[Desire General] Qliratu:
Wow this is really great!

Installed it and it just works ;-)

Donation on it's way very good job!!
[Desire General] sudeki300:
can someone who is feeling kind please do a simple tut on how to get the alpharev iso runing in virtualbox. thanks........................sudeki300
[Desire General] Murodese:
Getting error 5, running latest OpenDesire on a Telstra Desire (0.80), rooted with unrevoked 3.21. :(
[Desire General] miguelsanchez79:
I have run live cd and got stuck on step 3.

After 60 min unplugged usb (I know I shouldnt) When I switch phone up it goes to fastboot mode. If I try to reboot my phone it goes to fastboot again. I can only go to Hboot. Recovery doesnt work as well.

However it says that phone is S-OFF. Hboot has been changed from 0.75 to 0.93

Can anybody give me any advise what to do now?

My desire was rooted and runninig Leeroid 2.1a
[Desire General] Bergkuist:
I have been waiting for 25 min at " Waiting for flashing to complete...." and it just seems stuck? should unplug or just wait?
[Desire General] celtiCa:
Mine was working perfect, thanks!
[Desire General] Billy.:
anyone know why i cannot boot into recovery mode now everything went without a hitch but when i try to go to recovery it just hangs at the "why so serious" boot image :( anyone got a fix for this?
[Desire General] Billy.:
are u using virtual box if so then under devices disconnect the usb and reconnect thats what i had to do a few times throught the process
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Use fastboot to restore a new recovery image, then just restore nandroid and it should be fine :)
[Desire General] miguelsanchez79:
Sorry for being noob but how do I do it? :)
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
I pulled the cable and battery after 30 minutes. The phone wouldnt boot, and splash image was not changed. S-OFF was applied fine, and after a full nandroid restore my phone has S-OFF and works perfectly. Just wondering why it didnt change the splash!? :confused:
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Download Android SDK, and follow the guidelines in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=721792&page=60
[Desire General] wardy277:
worked great for me. was a bit worried about bricking my phone but so many f you have done it fine i gave it a go. burnt to cd and worked flawlessly. took about 2 minutes, no problem!
[Desire General] Iml:
Same here. Anyone knows how to get the splashscreen?
[Desire General] miguelsanchez79:
Could you guide me to where can I download recovery image?
[Desire General] cv1ekas:
I am using AuraxTsence 7.6.1 hboot 0.92, rooted with unrevoked 3.2 ,will it work for me this S-off method? i don't want to brick my desire, anyone tried this with hboot 0.92?
[Desire General] alnmoore:
Hi Somebody may have asked the same question; but I have used AlphaRev 1.1 HBOOT reflash utility successfully but I see 1.3 is out now. Do I need to use this or once I have used 1.1 I don't have to flash again?
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Amon RA recovery is in that thread mate... Or if you want clockworkmod, then try search for it... It really is not that difficult!
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Been through the whole thread, and so far noone has reported a bricked phone! :D
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
No the 1.3 version just has some bugfixes. The end result is exactly the same with both.

Just enjoy S-Off!

Sent from my Amiga 500 using Workbench
[Desire General] toinux:
perfect installation with unetbootin on hboot 0.80 & OpenDesire 4.0.32

big thank you !
[Desire General] kai84m:
Has anybody tried to flash a new radio with teh modified hboot 0.93.0001?
[Desire General] s_piccand:
HBOOT 0.80

LeeDrOiD 2.1a

Using VirtualBox

All was perfect except we need to reconnect the usb 3-4 times (VirtualBox issue)

A million of thanks for your work and for share it with us.
[Desire General] landwomble:
Flash a rom again?
[Desire General] maksta:
Success!

Running Opendesire 4.0.32 and Hboot 0.80.000

Now showing Hboot 0.93.0001 S-Off

Burnt to CD, booted and followed instructions. Worked like a charm!

Many thanks to all involved!
[Desire General] teorouge:
Hello guys, perfect S-OFF on Desire here... now I want to flash a new version of my recovey, may I use unrevoked? Or would I unroot?
[Desire General] kai84m:
You dont need unrevoked anymore. You can just use fastboot or like in old G1 times just the terminal emulator

flash_image recovery xxx.img

if i am not mistaken

But anyway, unrevoked wont unroot you again. You can flash your recovery. Its not touching Hboot!
[Desire General] peewster:
OK i've tried it about 15 times now and no luck at all. Tried it with different hboot's from 0.92 to 0.83 and 0.80 and it keeps hanging on step 3 waiting for flash to finish.

Maybe this isn't working for all the Desire's out there.
[Desire General] alistairbint:
WooHoo

Worked first time on Leedroid 2.1a using usb and unetbootin, cheers guys.

I even managed to flash my splash screen. Happy now, up yours HTC:D
[Desire General] kai84m:
Did you use the recent version 1.3?

Do you have root?

Did your try to flash it via CD-Rom boot? Virtual Box and Co are normally "buggier".
[Desire General] MichelN:
Can i use this on a stock rom or do i need to root it with unrevoked first ?
[Desire General] peewster:
Yes i tried it with 1.3. The desire is also rooted, and i'm using a bootable usb drive created with unetbootin. Worked on a other desire only not this one.
[Desire General] kai84m:
Very strange. I would suggest to let the guys of AlphaRev know about the issue (IRC i. e.)
[Desire General] peewster:
OK how do i tracht them on irc i'm not really familliar with irc.
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
Same issue: Htc Desire no brand, root with unrevoked, Opendesire .30, HBOOT 0.93.

Run under CD boot of Ubuntu, via Parallalels for Mac OSX.
[Desire General] annewbie:
Hboot 0.83 + LeeDroid 2.1a.

S-off in one shot!

Thanks a lot.
[Desire General] miguelsanchez79:
thanks, it's sorted everything. Downloaded recovery img, renamed it, inslalled via adb then nandroid backup. Thanks again:)))
[Desire General] guru_floyd:
Flashed it...done it about 2 min, Many thanks!
[Desire General] raptor7950:
Worked

Thanks !!!!
[Desire General] Frozen-GPU:
Works like a charm! After some trouble I got my help from IRC channel :) thanks again for that.

My desire is now faster and more stable than ever and S-OFF works fine!

Great job!

Ps: I noticed an extremely acceleration in sense! Sense is now as fast as launcherpro!
[Desire General] serverless:
Yes, I have just flashed a new radio without any problem!
[Desire General] chrisvx:
The first permission problem was fixed in version 1.3. Now it gets past the first check and then fails at the next step with a permission problem. This post explains what needs to be done to fix this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8401435&postcount=648

There is no reason you need to have a custom ROM to do this. The install script just needs to be fixed. ieftm can you fix this?
[Desire General] cv1ekas:
used it with unetbootin, auraxtsence 7.6.1 hboot 0.92, amoled,not branded,everything went fine, thank you
[Desire General] kariem112:
fixed

After 5 minutes on IRC the problem was fixed. Had to reflash the rom, but thats all :)
[Desire General] ghiki:
You can try with Virtualbox (it worked perfectly for me)
[Desire General] Nutsonfire:
Another success here, amoled, OD 32, radio 32, Hboot 80.

THX!
[Desire General] isollo:
AlphaRev 1.31: Feature added: More verbose output for splboot

I had used AlphaRev 1.3 that made my desire s-off, so, should I use 1.31 do it again?
[Desire General] horst0815:
no need. once you're s-off, you don't need to do it again.
[Desire General] Beaverman20:
unless you run a OTA update or run the Htc RUU's as they flash the Hboot too ;)
[Desire General] soylentorama:
Went smooth with virtualbox under OS X.
[Desire General] isollo:
ok, thanks.
[Desire General] danward:
Mines frozen on "Waiting for flashing to complete..." HELP! been stuck for over 20 mins.

EDIT: Guys on IRC fixed. Thanks
[Desire General] horst0815:
yeah, sure :)
[Desire General] gepardus:
Success here, amoled, SuperVillain, radio 32, Hboot 80.

Thanks to AlphaRev! ;)
[Desire General] giorgisp:
Can't access recovery!! Help!!!

NEED HELP!!

Today I installed the AlphaRev thing successfuly and now my Desire is S-OFF and I can boot normally into the ROM but I can't access the recovery of my device!

I have tried to reboot into recovery from ROM Manager but it stays at the boot picture and does nothing and I have to pull the battery. The same if I hold the volume down, press power and then select Recovery from the menu.

Please help me! I need recovery!
[Desire General] l0g0ff:
When you get "Error code 5" first go flash the CM rom. You can download and install trough rom manager. Then you can S-OFF the phone without any problems!

All the credits go to: Bumble-Bee (XDA: Apache14) @ IRC (Tnx m8)
[Desire General] quake2005:
This has been discussed before. You need to reflash your recovery.
[Desire General] giorgisp:
How I will do this? I tried with unrevoked and via fastboot but nothing worked. On unrevoked it told me to connect the phone without htc sync installed so i uninstalled then I turned on usb debugging on the phone and connected but nothing happened. On fastboot I found on google a .img file of clockwork mod and typed on cmd "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" it said OKAY but again I could not boot onto recovery :(
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
I have replied to your thread in MoDaCo. But here is the link I have sent: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8372536&postcount=406

Make sure it is an Desire image file you have downloaded.
[Desire General] georgemv:
Download fastboot from htc.com (google for it) and install it somewhere in your path.

Download AmonRA R5 for Desire from the relevant thread.

You should end up with the recovery-RA-desire-v1.7.0.1-R5.img file.

Boot your device in fastboot (Volume down + power), plug the usb cable and wait until you read FASTBOOT USB.

Flash the new recovery image # fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-desire-v1.7.0.1-R5.img

Καλή επιτυχία!
[Desire General] djind:
S-Off in two tries. First one gave me a error code 5 something. I was on MIUI .30. Reverted to another rom and restarted the procedure.

Thanks for this, I can finally use rootexplorer again!
[Desire General] tschaboo:
My heart still does 180 bpm ... but it worked!

It seems that the S-OFF procedure didn't destroy recovery or anything else like others experienced.

Now my question: nandroid-backup backs up and restores something called "boot". Is this the H-BOOT? If yes, that would mean that if I do a nandroid-restore of my backup done before S-OFF i would get back to my old H-BOOT?
[Desire General] BlackCat21:
That is how i did it as well. No problems. Went back to stock rom cause on CM i couldnt get google apps, zip was corrupted on download. How will i delete system apps? File managers and uninstallers don't seem to work
[Desire General] Bumble-Bee:
HBOOT and boot are not the same. Nandroid doesnt backup HBOOT just /boot /system /data and ext-sd

So you wont loose S-OFF via NANDROID backups. Only thing that currentlly flashes hboot is the official HTC RRU updates

:-D
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
With the help of the guys on irc, I managed to get to the end of the process but give me an "error 5". :(

Your suggestion is to try another rom, I try this night.

Nandroid backup save the status of the EXT3 (I have to format the ext3, right ?)?
[Desire General] NoMercyWWE:
Flashed flawlessly without help with vmwareplayer and i love the new splash screen. Its awesome. Lets see what benefits we get out of that guys
[Desire General] superliam:
i managed to do it using, VMWARE. i was a little confused, so i thought i should share my experiance.

burn the ISO to cd. then boot your vmware, it will come up with first screen which says VMWARE on it, while its here press f2, to get into the vmware bios. from here set the cd to top of the boot order, then reboot your vmware. it will boot into the cd. then gives all the instructions. hope that helps anyone that is as confused as i was.

thank you for the s-off!!!!!!!!
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
I mount the ISO directly in Virtual box like it was an operating system, and its start perfectly.
[Desire General] crapula512:
with this new s-off, is there any chance to sim unlock the phone for free?

might someone be able to develop a generic unlocking app for desires?

BTW, already installed on my Movistar (spain) with clockwork + defrost. all good so far.
[Desire General] focallength:
Ooooh. Good question. I hadn't thought of that. Now that would be a service for friends!
[Desire General] giorgisp:
That method worked! I have my recovery back :D Euxaristw pl!
[Desire General] sbdags:
Worked a treat with Universal USB Installer! :D Thank you - and I didn't lose my AmonRA R5 recovery either! Using Aurax Sense 7.6.1 if anyne wants to know.
[Desire General] Bergkuist:
I had major issues but i managed to get s-off but it deleted my boot.img

Thanks to Apache14 who saved it !!!
[Desire General] crawlingroof:
According 648

i need to change permission on /data to o+rwx (777) ?

or /system/bin/busybox --install /data/local ?

:confused::confused::confused:
[Desire General] lept0n:
Help ......

Hi Guys,

I tried to do it via Virtualbox, I am on the last step 3 and it is taking a lot of time on the HTC screen, is this normal???
[Desire General] Bumble-Bee:
lept0n join irc from the alpha rev page for help
[Desire General] lept0n:
Thanks for the advice Apache14, got it working with the help of the guys in the channel
[Desire General] markuz85:
Try routing the USB port into the virtual machine again, that worked for me...the phone loses contact with the virtual machine when it reboots.

Edit: you solved it already I see :P
[Desire General] sudeki300:
booted my laptop from disc by changing the booting sequence s-off went fine no problems but now cannot boot the laptop it gives me an error and says find the operating system disc or contact the administrator. oh well gain one thing and lose another. just not my weekend i had a 360 die on me yesterday as well.....................sudeki300

EDOT***all fixed now so happy days again***
[Desire General] wargy:
Just tried and works perfectly! Using OD .32 :)