yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] lnxtux:
Any chance to get a Mac OS X version of waitforhboot? For those with Macs, skilled enough to properly run alpharev.sh, but unable to boot iso at the moment?
[Desire General] typhex:
i got hboot 0.92.0001. can i use this?
[Desire General] acolwill:
Stop being so FORKING LAZY and READ the material already provided by the developer.

http://alpharev.shadowchild.nl/
[Desire General] pa.pn2:
worked easily on od .32 hboot 0.80-->s-off now

thx a lot guys
[Desire General] BrainMcFly:
s-off successful

before:

rooted unbrandet HTC Desire with defrost 4.7 and HBoot 0.80

Now:

rooted unbrandet Desire with S-Off, DeFrost 4.7 and HBoot 0.93

Now waiting for ROMs talking advantages of S-OFF ;)
[Desire General] FloHimself:
+1 for Mac version
[Desire General] chaksu:
Worked with Mightyrom posted in this thread.I was on OD .32 but flasher did not recognise the device ,therefore clean wiped, install Mightyrom and flashed .Worked like a charm. Thanks for all hard work
[Desire General] DesirableHTC:
I am soooooo desperate to try this, i just haven't the cahoonas!! I have virtualbox but just don't know where to start with it...... Would be grateful if one kind person would do a quick guide on how to do it? not then cool, I will watch on in awe :(
[Desire General] great_lumbuey:
Worked with leedroid 2.1a and Telstra a8183 handset. Easiest process I've ever gone thru.

No problems at all.

Now what are the devs going to do with all this new found power? Or is it kind of like telling your girlfriend you have domain admin rights?
[Desire General] Sonic7:
Worked without any problem for me !! Thx for your hard work
[Desire General] aslsthlm:
You don´t have to use virtualbox, just burn the alpharev.iso and boot up the computer with it..
[Desire General] BlackWhiteOne:
as you mentioned in anohter thread above but I can not modify any files in my phone with any file managers.

how can I get full NAND access?
[Desire General] pa.pn2:
has someone examples what i can do now with s-off?

whats the advantage

can i directly delete apps out of the system folder while phone is running?

thx
[Desire General] Mekrel:
Thanks to all the developers for bringing this to the table, I can confirm it's working with the following setup:

HBOOT 0.93

HTC Desire - Unbranded, AMOLED

Teppic74's 2.10.405 rooted ROM

5.11.05.14 Radio

As for ease of use, it's was very easy - just follow the instructions on screen.
[Desire General] KBanause:
I discovered that on my phone /system is still mounted as r/o. However, it is possible to remount it r/w.

So far noone could give me an answer for how to set this on booting the device. Will the rom devs have to enable it or should it be r/w by default?
[Desire General] BlackWhiteOne:
This S-OFF tool requires busybox but Unrevoked 3.21 does not push busybox to you phone when it roots your phone. if you are using a official ROM with root by Unrevoked 3.21 please flash anoher ROM, such as CM 6.0.2. and then flash S-OFF.

good luck.
[Desire General] luckycool:
have u solved it

Hi

I have the similar problem i have the same ornage branded htc desire have u sorted yours out is there any help you guys can give me thanx
[Desire General] ManiKarnika:
Hi, any news about s-off for 0.93/PTV4?

:(
[Desire General] earanor:
hey guys,

my desire is stuck on logo for 15 mins or so. i think it'sn't normal at all. tried to contact on irc but no replies.

hboot was 0.80. was using leedroid 2.2f

dont know what's wrong tho. waiting for flashing to complete... is what's on the screen. used a boot cd to get the tool working. and i am kinda panicked right now :(
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
After 30 minutes it is considered safe to remove the cable/battery. I did that as well, and I was successfully S-OFF'ed. :cool:
[Desire General] dexter93:
ok. i'll try it. thanks
[Desire General] earanor:
thanks for the help :)

I was panicked back then but got some help through irc. now i'm s-off too :)

and didn't hit my head on that donate sign on the web site :) clicking on it seemed more healthy.

edit: btw I have to add that, after the reboot, restoring the boot partition from my nand backup was enough.
[Desire General] xanadu:
It works fine on my new Desire:
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
your erasesize will be 20000 not 40000
[Desire General] r0h1t:
Desire GSM - PB992**** device not recognized error

Hi everyone

Have been trying to s-off and flash the N1 hboot on my SLCD GSM desire for some time, without luck.

When I try using the AlphaRev iso to s-off (through bootable usb), i get a device not recognized error (device id: PB992****)

The boot screen reads:

Bravo PVT3 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-05.11.05.14

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:10

Have tried with multiple AOSP roms (Cyanogen 6.1, DeFrost 6.1a, Leedroid 2.2f) without luck.

When i try the fastboot command line to flash hboot (fastboot flash hboot...), I get a "remote: not allowed" error.

Can someone please help me understand how to proceed further? Apologies if this question has been answered before, but I have searched through the forum threads / google, without finding a solution.

Thank you very much in advance!

--

*Edit - solved! As my phone was already S-Off, was able to setup custom MTD partitions (N1) from recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806321

... now just need to figure out how to enable remote fastboot access :p
[Desire General] colonia27:
Try booting the .iso from CD
[Desire General] kboya:
have just used fastboot commander to apply the N1 partition tables... everything is groovy. Thanks again, alpharev!
[Desire General] warpaper:
how to decide which img file to use?

Read the instruction from http://alpharev.nl/ about how to select the img file as follow:

"Please read the entire table and pick the partition table with the correct sizes for your ROM. One easy way to switch partition tables, is to nandroid backup,

and verify that the sizes of your backup are indeed the ones listed in the table (or smaller),"

Then 4 img files list int the table, anyone can give me some more idea how and which img files is suitable for me?

Thanks
[Desire General] dtevegas:
Thanks to alpharev team for getting my desire s-off working.

If anyone else is considering it i had to downgrade to a stock rooted 2.2 rom from auraxt to get it done but all good now
[Desire General] blackmail84:
hey.

ich have a problem.

i flashed s-off but now it hangs on step 3 of 3 "waiting for flashing to complete" since 15 minutes.

what can i do? i dont want to get off my desire because of brick-danger.

sorry for my english.

Please help me!!

THX!

EDIT: problem solved!!
[Desire General] Arcalius:
Hi,

Just been fiddling with my Desire, and had to S-Off again, ran the latest version without a hitch.

Thanks guys :)
[Desire General] xy_:
Not brick! reflash for RUU
[Desire General] xy_:
Dear All!!

How is it possible to disable the cheque?

Because there is 2 pieces of htc desire that JTAG was resuscitated.

They work now.

But i don't know it and-OFF because he signals a mistake,that not htc desire.

Somebody would be able to help me prepares other alpharev that there is not a type cheque?

Please look image

Any idea s-OFF?

:confused:
[Desire General] Stretlow:
i s-off'd ages ago but i cant find a guide to apply the n1 table can you point me in the right direction?

ive never used the fast boot commander before.

thanks in advance
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Check the shorter web page at alpharev.nl ... It contains instructions for flashing via fast boot on already s-off phones

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] Stretlow:
I must be going mad here mate because I can't see any link :(
[Desire General] sctcts:
So. I decided to finally S-OFF my desire. Was on stock 2.2 ROM before, rooted via unrevoked, which went flawlessly.

However, alpharev went somewhat less than flawlessly. Got stuck on step 3, two black lines on screen. Waited for about 30 min, then went on the irc channel. 23 people connected, but nobody has responded yet (it's been about 1.5 hours now). Tried the suggested instructions (alpharev.nl/instructions.txt) and it spit out something about HBOOT flash failed! and alpharev "soft-failing". Not really sure what it meant, and with nothing left to do, I pulled the battery at around the 50 min mark.

Thankfully the phone rebooted. But it is currently unusable since I get constant "android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly" and other force closes. The phone says it is S-OFF according to the recovery (?) menu accessed by POWER + VOL_DOWN. It has the pink alpharev written at the top as well. I do not, however, have the alpharev splash screen (i.e. joker with s-off card). So really I am not sure whether it worked or not. Any experts care to share some advice on what to do from here?

EDIT: Nandroid restore fixed force closes. still don't have splash screen though.. no idea why.
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Alpharev.nl

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Yes you are s-off. Everything is fine. You just did not restore your nandroid backup after applying s-off. Do that! Our re flash your rom image without wipe... Everything cool then...

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] Stretlow:
sorry be a pain mate I have used that web site originally to s-off but I can the tutorial your on about, our a link on how to use fastboot to do it, I'm dumb I know..

Stretty
[Desire General] reddev0:
Fastboot is part of the android sdk. You use it the same way you do adb.

Quoting the alpharev website:

1) Nandroid backup in recovery. 2) Verify the MD5SUM of the file you downloaded a 3) Flash HBOOT with your phone in fastboot mode downloaded) 4) 'Fastboot reboot-bootloader' 5) 'Fastboot erase cache' 6) Boot recovery, wipe everything and restore.

There is also a fastboot commander program for windows you could try that (thread for it on this forum).

Do some googleing or use forum search functions.
[Desire General] Stretlow:
Thanks again mate
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Fastboot flash hboot any.alpharev.hboot.img

that was missing. I always hope people can read, since swype is clearly not made for typing commands, but for writing text...

Btw: fast boot is only part of sdk in the windows version... Others have to compile out their selfs

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
just makesure you check the md5, someone didnt earlier on this thread and it was an official house brick

when he looked the md5 was different
[Desire General] satincube:
I'm stuck in fase 3 for an hour now with the two black lines on my screen, should i leave it like this ?

Or turn it off en unplug my battery? Please help
[Desire General] Jaybeam:
I had the same problem but this helped me:

Iff your phone is new and unbranded I take a guess you can use the same image.

In case you have a nandroid backup you can use that one also.
[Desire General] sctcts:
Are you really too lazy as to not even read the post at the top of the page? I had the same problem, please read my post. If you are still worried about what to do, go to the alpharev IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, channel #alpharev), and someone will likely be there to help you. Best of luck!
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Welcome to the troll world, where hitting reply is more easy than reading the last two pages

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] Stretlow:
Ok just tried the fast boot commander and I think it worked I updated the image to 1.5 apparently verified with ----- alpharev----- instead of *****alpharev**** which apparently is right

I think I nearly fully understand now the only thing I'm still a little confused on is verifying the md5sum file, can you explain this to me
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
you are supposed to check md5 before you you update it not afterwards

if you use windows you can download winmd5. it will generate a number and you can verify if it matches the md5 on the site

if it doesnt dont flash it as it will be corrupt
[Desire General] reddev0:
You should check md5 before flashing, a bit late now.

Fastboot will let you flash any file, it does no checks, which means if your missing even a single byte due to a dodgy download, you will perma brick your phone (only HTC can fix it).

If you are on windows, download HashCheck Shell Extension(google it, cant link at moment). Then when you download an image to flash, be it a new hboot or radio, right click the downloaded file and go to the hash check context menu. Then type/compare the md5 code provided by the source with the one your downloaded file generates. If they match flash away, if not retreat!
[Desire General] Stretlow:
ok ive downloaded that and entered the bravo stock 1.5 image file into it and it doesnt match but my phone is fine what should i do?

why would it not match if it was downloaded from the apharev site?

edit, downloaded it again and it matches, flashed it with fastboot commander and my phone i still fine, have i just been incredibly lucky?
[Desire General] reddev0:
I don't know that sounds very strange. Are you sure your checking the right file/md5?

If your phone is okay your lucky. Beware for future use.

This thread should be marked "Beware! Here be dragons..."
[Desire General] DJ 1:
Hi, i just got me a nice new fast SDHC card, i`m gonna be trying out different ROMs etc and using Nandroid as a way of switching between ROM back-ups if i need to

With this whole S-ON / S-OFF stuff, If i back-up a ROM whilest i S-OFF, then S-ON on a new ROM, does the S-ON/OFF state change when back-ups are restored ?, is it a good/bad idea to restore back-ups from ROMs that have while in a different `state` as when the backup was made ??

Also as S-ON changes the partition layout of nand + SD ,( is this right ?) does Nadriod auto change all that stuff when doing the Back-ups / Restores ??

Many thanks.
[Desire General] Stretlow:
yes ive just double cheked it the original file was a025485edaaf31da6200485cd2e038b6 which doesnt match

i downloaded it again and it was 2092edb4aa79638199e3165a99896b0f which i right and my phone isnt bricked

phew... i know for next time though
[Desire General] reddev0:
SON can only be restored by flashing an official RUU. SOFF can only be done via this utility.

Nandroid backup/restore will not change SON/OFF status, or alter the nand partition table.

When you first run the SOFF utility you will still have the default partition table. Images are available to change this if you want, but can only be done via fastboot and a pc.

If your trying different roms, stick with the default partition table. Only flash an optional image if you really know what your doing....
[Desire General] DJ 1:
ok, so if i get this right, when S-OFF is done 1st time we get the option of keeping the standard partition table, or flashing a new set, yeah?

so that way it would be better to leave the partition tables as standard so if i wanna go back to a Back-up made before S-OFF was performed, i can do?

As i assume that trying to Restore a Back-up of a ROM with specific Partition tables onto something with different partition table setup woudnt work ?

cheers.
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
o-O

You definately are one lucky dude! ;-)

On the other hand, it is possible that there is junk data, or parts of the HBOOT wich is not critical for device to function. So if one bit in HBOOT was changed to something else, it necessarily does not mean a full brick.

One guy a few days ago did not do the checking as yourself, and he got a full brick! So yeah, be careful before trying that again ;-)
[Desire General] Stretlow:
I'm thinking of trying the gingerbread rom and adam g says n1 tables recommended what happens if I've got the standard?
[Desire General] reddev0:
Adam also said later that N1 table support is now dropped (it made use of the 90mb cache partition for dalvik).

Nothing bad will happen using stock table, just some wasted space on system partition, and not as much space for data.

I am using Data++ with Oxygen 1.0.4 which is recommended until custom hboot is available.

Advantage of sticking with stock is it's ready to go back to Sense/HD roms if you want without need for fastboot.
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
you lucky lucky git

hboot and radio flashing are the 2 things that can cause full bricks with no return (wont power on and wont charge)
[Desire General] reddev0:
1st time SOFF no option, just stock. Other options were made available as flashable images via fastboot in later release.

Stick with stock to easily backup/restore different roms without worrying about partition sizes.

In theory it is possible to restore a backup made from one partition table to a new one, but only if the backup images are smaller than the new partition table.

Or you can just fastboot images as needed, but I prefer to do this as little as possible, as it's system critical. Don't want an accidental £400 brick.

;-)
[Desire General] Stretlow:
Suddenly I feel very very stupid, thanks for the lesson chaps I know for the future...

Of to put the lotto on
[Desire General] m4dm4n123:
Any news about S-OFF for HTC Desire new PVT-4 boards (40 000 erasesize) ?
[Desire General] kluzik1:
another s off
[Desire General] Han-Droid:
sorry, I already feel nooby typing these lines but:

which of these do I have to pick:

Name	/system	/cache	/data	MD5SUM	Download

Bravo Stock 1.5	258M	41M	152M	2092edb4aa79638199e3165a99896b0f	bravo_alphaspl.img

Bravo N1Table	149M	98M	203M	1ade7f845c31a6abb2e4b5c34851b685	bravo_alphaspl-n1table.img

Bravo Data++	180M	10M	261M	b0efbe061011445ab5e94a63d5cb2faf	bravo_alphaspl-data.img

Bravo Sense	180M	90M	181M	9346c72901cadd03f6cdcf4f95266dcc	bravo_alphaspl-sense.img

I got an AMOLED HBOOT 0.75 Device with baadnewz' HD-Port 1.3 Sense.

Can someone hook me up, please?;)
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
The alpharev flasher will flash the standard one when S-OFF'ing by default.

If you want to continue using HD ROM's you should not worry about the different SPL's at all, they will only work with the standard one.
[Desire General] ranasrule:
can bravo_alphaspl-n1table.img be flashed using this the 1-click Android Flasher
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Yes it can :rolleyes:
[Desire General] LoveMyNewTelephone:
Still no S-OFF for BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON Erasesize 40000?

Why does it take so long?

I really need the AlphaRev N1 Table...

Cheers..
[Desire General] ranasrule:
really ??????:confused:
[Desire General] erto90:
is normal that the screen why so serious ( i'm still with the first release) need about 40sec to go away at start?
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
because believe it or not dev'ing these things takes time, think of how long it took in the 1st place for desire!!!!

also it would require one of the alpharev dev team to be incontact or own one of these pvt4 40000 devices

how about you buy him one?

have you donated?
[Desire General] DJ 1:
Hi, I`m on a HBOOT 0.83 + Stock ( Unbranded ) Froyo ROM

Am i best of sticking with this HBoot ?, is it better than 0.92 ?

I would rather use the UnrEVOked v2.22 s-off function `sercurity off` but when I tried to flash lastest Nandroid a few days ago, the only version of UnrEVOked I got to work was v2.14 ( lastest version just freeze at a certain point every time, never found out why)
[Desire General] amranny:
Sorry but I just want to make sure - will it work if I have hboot 0.93

Hi,

I'm new and got confused, i want to make sure...

I have a stock froyo rom (sim free), hboot 0.93.

I rooted my phone using unrevoked 3.22.

It seem like partialy rooted since :

1. S-on

2. I have clockworkmode 2.5.7 and I was able to flash leedroid.

2. I cant flush modaco (writing /tmp/boot.img failed).

3. I cant flash newer clockworkmode version to recovery.

4. Titanium backup says it has root permition

Is this procedure expect to work for me?

Thanks a lot.

This community is great.
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Yes. It shows up from power on until your rom initializes it's gui. Depending on rom, that can take a while. The moment you see that logo disappear, the whole linux part off android is already started. Just the have gui starting now...

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] DJ 1:
What is the security off option in latest UnrEVOked 3.22 ?, same thing as this? Any idea on my earlier post?, plus why I get no luck with latest unrevoked?

Thanks
[Desire General] worstenbrood:
That only works on a CDMA Desire, GSM Desire needs custom hboot to achieve s-off
[Desire General] DJ 1:
So I'm on a vodafone UK handset, with an unbranded rom, on hboot 0.83, which hboot I need then?
[Desire General] worstenbrood:
The hboot you need depends on which rom you wanna use, i suggest to just s-off your desire with the standard hboot, and if you ever use aosp roms only switch to the n1 or data++ hboot.
[Desire General] SkyDX:
Sorry I couldn't find a confirmation, does it work with Erasesize 40000 Desires yet?
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
no

10char
[Desire General] ZaDud:
noobish quiestion

hello all,

I'm new here,i read a bit but i want a pro's advice. I had my device HTC Desire decoded by someone who used alpharev on it...my rom is the same, no changes...my problem is that when i try to uppdate to froyo OTA (running now 2.1 update1) i get an error.

Alpharev:

BRVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICORP-031D

RADIO-4.06.00.02.2

AUG 10-2010,17:52

My current software information running on the device is:

baseband:32.26.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2

kernel:2.6.29

software nuber:1.21.405.2

The phone was coded on Orange Romania, now it is decoded(dunno how), I want the latest official software version, how can i achive that and will it stay unlocked???

Thanks for your time, and a Merry Christmas to you all :D.
[Desire General] rakig:
Wow has this been a painful process for me, not that its Alpha-rev's fault.

First off, it wouldn't detect my phone properly. Tried it with Live CD, Virtual Box etc... Wouldn't find it. Unplugged everything but keyboard/mouse/phone from USB, including the two USB hubs (one through monitor, another dell). As soon as I was plugged in directly it picked it up.

Then it stuck on pushing files to phone. At this point work was shutting down (Christmas Eve and all) so I shut down and packed up, heading home.

Fired up the live CD in a vmware player and plugged in my phone. Device not properly installed (win 7 64 bit messages). tried both front ports on my tower, phone only picked up about 30% of the time (My hero and digicam work fine through those ports, but i remember a friends external didn't so they're probably not working very well)

Plugged the phone into the back ports directly on the motherboard, worked fine. Loaded up vmware player again and started. This time it went through pushing files, restart, step 1, restart, might have gotten through step 2 then vmware player crashed. I fired it back up and tried to begin the sequence again, but no luck.

Phone seemed to be working fine, so I restarted from hboot. Sitting at the HTC screen with black lines across it, waiting 30 minutes to pull the battery and see if it works. I've had this phone 3 days, hope I didn't brick it (doesn't sound like it from the last few pages).

For the record, its really time consuming to read 165 pages. It would be nice if someone kept a Q/A or problems/Solutions thing going in one spot/post.

EDIT: Pulled the battery, phone wouldn't load stock rom. Booted into recovery and restored from nandroid backup, phone started up perfectly. Re-started procedure and phone was s-offed within 5 minutes. :)
[Desire General] amranny:
Thanks,

Worked for me.

After rooting with unrevoked, slcd hboot 0.93.

Finally s-off

Thanks.
[Desire General] deeeez:
which version should you flash if you use Sense HD rom?

I tried gingerbread from and it says to use Bravo N1Table.

I assume I should use the Sense one, or is that only applicable to the old sense?
[Desire General] reddev0:
Stock. Basically you need the one with the largest /system partition.