yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] hispeedworm:
baadnews thread of his insertcoin rom... go to his downloads link. in that go inside the a2sd rom. inside that go to addons section than Recovery section... he has 2.5.1.8 alpharev recovery img file for download
[Desire General] hispeedworm:
be careful though i usb bricked my device after accidently restoring 2.5.1.8 nandroid with 2.5.0.7 recovery.....:)

so if you use that better stick to it and dont fake flash your nandroids later on ;)
[Desire General] Fieser-Kardinal:
I'm already S-Off, so if i flash recovery, i'll use it permanent ;)

So do i have to boot my Desire into Fastboot Mode or may i flash files directly from fully booted device?
[Desire General] MrDevil:
fastboot mode.
[Desire General] hispeedworm:
I'm s off too buddy and even if you flash via fastboot .... if you ever reboot into recovery from rom manager it will open up 2.5.0.7 Rom even though your permanent recovery will be 2.5.1.8
[Desire General] Fieser-Kardinal:
Thats correct, but i'm allergic to rom manager :D It's the source of most of ROM and flashing related problems, i'll never use this tool.
[Desire General] latawa:
NEED HELP:

i was on Virtualbox method.. all went well till step 2. On step 3 the message of Hboot flashing was there however after 20 mins or so the USB didnt had anything.. i click on HTC again and after that.. nothing happened.

Now my phone is stuck on HBOOT screen... !!!

EDIT: Never mind restored from my back and I'm up again.. so much for my S-off effort ! Phew.
[Desire General] hassler:
I'm in a quite serious problem

I've got a white Desire with PVT4 and S-on

the last time I tried to S-off it was at step 3 and waited for around 1 hour and then I pulled out the battery and turned the device on.

I still stuck in the 1st line of the process:

quote here, not really remember: Alpharev 2.x found a HBOOT

and that's it, it stuck like forever

I did reset and can be back to HBOOT and recovery but I didnt have the Nandroid backup to restore :(

anybody have a Nandroid backup? can you upload it and I'll try to use our backup as mine to do the restore?

or anybody got a better idea?

thanks!
[Desire General] Flashmaniac:
Did you try running a RUU? Other backups might usb brick your phone.
[Desire General] hassler:
I downloaded some RUU to give it a try

but some says error 141, 131 (not suitable bootloader or something like that)

my HBOOT ver is 0.93, and it was running froyo the last time it live
[Desire General] BigMrB:
Running mac os x 10.6.6 - virtual box running alpha rev iso - step 1 ok step : HBOOT Flash: DONE

Rebooting your phone

error device not found - wtf i didn't touch it?!

so i reconnected with bottom right... waiting for bootloader and just hanging ?!

Any ideas?

Edit: solved with usb filter
[Desire General] TheGhost1233:
Make sure you pass true the usb connection each time.
[Desire General] ieftm:
http://alpharev.nl/cwmar2518.img

And yes, I like blue too. That's why I changed it :p
[Desire General] :
This worked great for me (cd method), giving S-OFF on my rooted desire in under 10 mins with no hangs or errors. Thanks to all!

However I did have "device not recognised or supported" issue along the way. I rooted using unrevoked and tried s-off whilst still on the stock htc sense froyo - error.

Once I switched to Oxygen ROM - no problems!

So two things that might be useful for others -

Alpharev works fine with Oxygen

You don't necessarily need a rooted stock rom to flash it.

Thanks!
[Desire General] Eradorius:
I rooted 2 desires in about 10 min, thanks! For everybody with "device not recognized" error on stock rom - select simply "stay awake" in development - it worked for me.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] Yorzua:
Blue cwmar2518.img

I just changed my hboot Oxygen back to the Sense one as i dont really need the 330 mb on /data but 90mb for /system was a bit short...

I have CWM v2.5.1.2 modded by udK _ with nandroid backups.

Can i flash cwmar2518.img and still be able to restore the nandroid ?

Thanks for your time and your attention :o
[Desire General] Akarim47:
I have s-off for sometime now which is great but I wanted to know if its normal that it takes very long time to boot from splash screen? everything is running ok except the long time it takes to boot.

maybe someone asked about this before but I couldn't go through the 230+ pages to find the answer.
[Desire General] AlxMAX:
I was wondering how could one build an IMG file with a custom MTD partitioning schema, other than the ones on alpharev.nl. I have searched around and I have found on this thread this has been already asked, starting with this one. The discussion ended with a binary comparison between two IMG files with different partition sizes. I think reverse engineering the IMG files is quite time consuming and not so elegant since at least one person knows how to do it! I have also found the thread with the custom partitioning in the recovery, but that's not what I want. I would like to ask this question again: could anyone show me a way to build an IMG file with a partition schema of my choice? Is the custom Alpharev HBOOT providing the partitions sizes to the booting kernels as parameters?
[Desire General] alddhie:
Working flawlessly on my SLCD Desire

Btw, any way to change the "why so serious" bootup image?
[Desire General] TheGhost1233:
It's good to know you read all the info provided on AlphaRev.nl before s-offing.
[Desire General] reef2009:
Hi Guys,

I'm trying to S-Off my phone.

It's rooted and I use VMware like a virtual machine with AlfaRev v1.8

Step 1 & 2 are no problem.

Step 3 does nothing. The screen is still "waiting for flash to complete" for over one hour.

And the phone is just in normal HBoot menu. No reboots or other strange things so ever.

USB is connected to VWMare and not the host so that could be the problem. it think.

What to do next?
[Desire General] Sandertenty:
Had the same problem as you have. My sollution was to boot from USB/CD and let the process complete. Very easy....
[Desire General] reef2009:
Oke but is it save to remove the phone from USB Now?

And boot again with a live-cd or USB?
[Desire General] Sandertenty:
You can unplug your phone now, without bricking your phone, no problem... And make a bootable USB drive, or burn the ISO to a CD, reboot your pc and start from your USB/CD....

First let the program start, plug your phone in as the script asks and wait....

You will be S-Off in a couple of minutes :)
[Desire General] reef2009:
Oke :S

Now my Phone says:
[Desire General] Sandertenty:
Just boot your phone as normal...
[Desire General] reef2009:
THNX Sander,

I just found out some custom (sense)roms have a incompatible boot record.

I flashed Oxigen and did al over again.

Dutch: Howto S-OFF je HTC Desire check the third reply

English translation: Howto S-OFF your HTC Desire

It worked! THNX
[Desire General] Sandertenty:
Anytime!;)
[Desire General] DonTron:
Hi guys

i have successful s-off my desire(thx 4 this) but now i wait 4

V2.0 to s-off my gratia (aria) when will it come out? ?

Dontron
[Desire General] Ik Desire:
Sooner or later, 1.8 has been up a long time now. I wouln't expect it anytime soon though.
[Desire General] nanujra:
does anyone know the md5 sum of "PB99IMG_bravo_cm7.zip"?

I couldn't find it on the website or on the last 25+ pages of this thread. Thanks in advance!
[Desire General] andQlimax:
Just try to extract the zip on ur computer, if its extract then u should be ok..the zip itself do some integrity check..for example u cant extract a corrupted zip
[Desire General] czesiu:
and the hboot_8x50_0.93.0001_20100810.nb0 from the zip has the same md5 as bravo_alphaspl-cm7.img
[Desire General] alfa156v:
NEED HELP

Hi all, I need help!

I did it from cd without errors but after reboot i see Why so serious screen for 10 seconds and after it disappears nothing happens with black screen.

Any ideas what to do?

Thanks!
[Desire General] colonia27:
Did you restore your nandroid or flash a rom after s-off?!
[Desire General] alfa156v:
No i didn't restore nandroid but tried to flash the modaco r11.
[Desire General] colonia27:
So did it work, or not? If not, do a full wipe and maybe try another ROM
[Desire General] alfa156v:
No it didn't worked, i did it with wiping.

I will try yours solution, will flash another rom now...
[Desire General] alfa156v:
Till now it starts with signs of liаe but stuck on HTC white screen repeating.

I will try more roms...
[Desire General] alfa156v:
Thank you very much for simple idea, my head stuck both with my htc after nigth work.

After full wipe and full formating it starts work.

Thanks, thanks, thanks...
[Desire General] dragonithe:
I've got my Desire S-Off now,

However, it won't boot up.

When it boots I see the splash for a second and after that it pops up the fastboot menu.

I've already checked the root of my sd-card for any file that could cause problems but I haven't found anything.

Thanks
[Desire General] Ommie:
What ROM are you running and did you do a wipe/reinstall after S-OFF? Or did you recover from a nandroid backup?
[Desire General] dragonithe:
I'm running MIUI 1.3.25 and I haven't done a wipe or a restore after that the procedure was completed.
[Desire General] colonia27:
And thats your problem,..... besides reading ;-)

The same problem was solved just an hour ago a few posts above yours :mad:
[Desire General] dragonithe:
Well, there the screen just turns blank, I have the problem that it opens fastboot.

So I thought it would be a difrent problem, and wiping is alway's not a nice option to use ;)

But if a wipe is the only option, then I'll try that..

EDIT:

So I have done a full wipe, but still.

The problem is there...

It loads the spash1 for a second and after that the fastboot menu.

EDIT2:

A full wipe followed by a reinstall of the rom seems to have solved the problem.
[Desire General] phantomfisho:
Fastboot Problem

Hi all,

Tearing my hair out here...

I successfully S-Off'ed my phone, first attempt. It went quickly, smoothly, without a glitch. Compliments to Alpharev. Everything is running smoothly and cleanly afterward (Ginger Villain 1.7).

I decided to change the splash screen. No probs creating or converting the image, but fastboot can't see my device. I've downloaded and installed every version of the drivers I can find; ADB and debugging mode work fine...just fastboot won't see my desire.:confused:

Anyone else with this prob?

Cheers,

PF.
[Desire General] goRt:
Have you got the phone in fastboot mode?
[Desire General] phantomfisho:
Yep. Sure do and it shows USB connected.

I even removed all drivers, then plugged it in, in fastboot mode....new hardware found...installed the drivers...nothing.
[Desire General] colonia27:
Using Linux? try running the command as root
[Desire General] phantomfisho:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm running XP. I don't have much in the way of Linux skills.
[Desire General] nanujra:
when your phone is connected to your computer in fastboot mode via the usb, and you open up a terminal in xp, navigate to the directory where youve installed the android sdk by typing cd and then the filepath, and then type "fastboot devices" what does it say?

If the output is something like this below,

List of devices attached
0123456789ABCDEF	device

then you've got ADB and fastboot working, otherwise ADB is still not set up correctly.
[Desire General] AlxMAX:
That's the ugliest thing in Linux! The solution is to put a UDEV rule in /etc/udev/rules.d. This page describes how to set the /dev/ file to be world readable. Use SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ... for Ubuntu 10.10.
[Desire General] YaPaY:
I'm completely confused.

I did the patch a while ago alpharev hboot (before 1.8)

Now my memory capacity is almost full. I installed ~60 application and I see always low space warning, even gtalk not working. (off course %80 of program on sdcard)

I need really more space for try new programs. People saying patch a corresponding mtd file to increase. I do not know exactly what mtd is. I think ı should patch again my desire but there a 2 files for my image (oxygen 2.01)

Should I download *.img one and burn to cd like first s-off installation or should I copy the file to my sdcard and use rom manager?

What about the PB99IMG file. What's that exactly.

After nandroid backup and patch these files what should I do for next process?

Is there any risk to lost my all titanium backup and nandroid backup.

I need really gpood tutorial like the other many people. It's risky but there is not eneoug information.
[Desire General] davebugyi:
Dude, read the tutorial first :) Here.

You want more space? S-OFF does not do that - only if you flash a different partiton image.

So you don't burn the image file to a CD, but flash it via FASTBOOT. Instructions on alpharev's site.

It does not touch your SD card, so NANDROID & TI backups will be fine.

WHat you do after that? Restore Nandroid / Flash a ROM, because you won't have one :)
[Desire General] phantomfisho:
ADB is working fine. In recovery mode, if I issue "ADB devices" from a command prompt in the directory where ADB is stored, I get this output:

List of devices attached

XXnnXXXXnnnn recovery

In USB debugging mode, if I issue "ADB devices" from a command prompt in the directory where ADB is stored, I get this output:

List of devices attached

XXnnXXXXnnnn device

In fastboot mode, if I issue "fastboot devices" from a command prompt in the directory where fastboot is stored, I don't get any response.

If I issue "fastboot flash splash1 desire_stock_splash1.img", it just sits with <waiting for device> forever.
[Desire General] phantomfisho:
Solved

Update: Problem Solved

I downloaded the latest HTC Sync, removed all drivers, then let HTC Sync load them on...fixed.

Thanks for your suggestions.
[Desire General] hassler:
oh yeah baby

got it right at last!!!

custom ROM here I come!!!
[Desire General] mzobe7:
hi

I just tried to S-off my Htc desire...the whole process was successful. However I cant seem to get it to fully boot....when i boot it takes me to me into the hboot screen all the time ( i think that's what it's called, the white screen with tiny droids on skateboards) i cant even reboot from recovery

what did i miss??
[Desire General] rraaka:
i think from this point you have to clear cache and restore nandroid or flash a new custom rom from recovery.

i think :)
[Desire General] jordan.harris01:
Did you just s-off or did you also flash a new partition table? If you just set the phone to s-off it should boot, but if you've flashed a new partition table then you will need to flash the ROM again or a NANDroid restore.
[Desire General] mzobe7:
I just did S-off, no partitioning....

if i am in fast boot i get something like : wrong image, wrong image...blah blah

i have cm7 Rc1

hboot 0.93.0001

thanks
[Desire General] jordan.harris01:
That's pretty odd. Not sure what happened there as it should boot up just fine. Have you tried restoring a NANDroid? Sounds like that should fix things. Maybe something got corrupted during s-off. Not really sure.
[Desire General] r_aymond:
I just s-offed my desire. Worked perfectly! I installed bravo_alphaspl-cm7.img (Bravo CM7) and upgraded to CyanogenMod-7 for Desire GSM V7.0.0-RC3.
[Desire General] mzobe7:
ok now i am really confused, wen i select bootloader and go to fastboot, i get an error message out an image that is wrong or failed...the it says "CID incorrect, update fail!"

what to do?? at least the phone is charging which is comforting lol

i am using alpharev recovery v2.5.1.8
[Desire General] TheGhost1233:
Remove the pb99img.zip from the sd?
[Desire General] mzobe7:
yeah just did, now getting something like "loading Pb99diag" no image or wrong pb99img.zip"

i have tried bravo_alphaspl-cm7.img with no luck
[Desire General] Extraxyz:
I'm sorry if this is a really noob question, but how do I actually flash the image? I'm running Cyanogen 7 RC3 and want to flash bravo_alphaspl-cm7.img, but in the fastboot menu on my phone there isn't such an option..
[Desire General] jordan.harris01:
You need to flash it from CMD on your computer while the phone is in Fastboot.
[Desire General] Extraxyz:
Oh wow so it's that simple.. why has nobody bothered to state that in any of the available guides/tutorials :confused:
[Desire General] jordan.harris01:
I don't think it actually states that you do it from CMD but it does give the commands you need to type in CMD on the alpharev site. You also need to have the Hboot img in your /tools folder wherever you have your ADB folder.
[Desire General] mzobe7:
Hi guys

I still cant get my desire to boot, in fastboot i get the following error message:

SD Checking...

Loading... [PB99DIAG.zip]

No image!

Loading... [PB99DIAG.zip]

No image or wrong image!

Loading... [PB99IMG.zip]

No image!

Loading... [PB99IMG.zip]

No image or wrong image!

My phones details are as follows as per fastboot commader:

Radio version: 5.14.05.17.

SPL/hboot version: 0.93.1000.

product: bravo.

mid: pb9920000.

security: off.

build-mode: ship.

What is it that i need to do exactly?? Spent the past 3 hours trying to resolve this with no luck.

Thank you.

Oh i am running CM7 RC1 with CMW 3.0.05
[Desire General] jordan.harris01:
Have you tried restoring a backup from recovery? or wiping and flashing a fresh ROM?
[Desire General] mzobe7:
yep done all that, even deleted old partitions

just went back to leedroid 2.3d, now cant get past the joker splash screen

now i really dislike the joker lol
[Desire General] jjexpat00:
did you check the md5? it sounds stupid i know but there could be a chance it is corrupted. if all else fails, you could just revert to a stock hboot.
[Desire General] mzobe7:
was hoping to avoid stock rom :( the file is downloaded in full, no corruptions....

I still have it off till i find a solution....

thanks
[Desire General] jjexpat00:
do you have a logcat sample where it ends and loops? that would help

finding solution much faster.
[Desire General] unikum:
My phone only reboots to fastboot now. Do I have to wipe and reinstall my ROM? Or is there something else I can do?
[Desire General] andQlimax:
You only need these steps from alpharev site:

1) Nandroid backup in recovery.

2) Verify the MD5SUM of the file you downloaded against the one in the table.

3) Flash HBOOT with your phone in fastboot mode (Back+POWER) -> 'fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img' (change into the correct filename for the HBOOT you downloaded)

4) 'fastboot reboot-bootloader'

5) 'fastboot erase cache'

6) Boot recovery, wipe everything and restore.
[Desire General] Tillus:
sry, wrong thread. :/

Please delete....
[Desire General] cybrid3:
Hi guys

Need some help quite badly

I have flashed many roms before and many partitions. My desire is an amoled s-off

Today, I went to flash the CM7 partition and I got the error

Writing 'hboot' ... FAILED (status read failed (too many links))

Now my phone will not switch on. I can get no power to it at all so cannot get into fast boot or anything.

Is it completely bricked forever?
[Desire General] dexter93:
Hello guys,

I am a proud owner of a amoled desire 0.93 hboot factory s-off. I would like to know if it is possible to change the partition table to a cm7, without changing my hboot.

Thanks in advance

[Sig] dId you know? If you Insert a Coin on your Desire, then it levels up to HD, Z or S :[/Sig]
[Desire General] michal07:
Hello,

I just S-OFF my Desire but when I tried to reboot my phone it stops on FASTBOOT and system doesn't start. ROM I'm using is CM 7 RC4 and root was done with unrevoked.

Do I have to flash my ROM again?

If I carry on with nandroid restore do I loose S-OFF?
[Desire General] fatspirit:
If you have nandroid - just restore it. Everything should be ok. S-off is in hboot, and nandroid doesn't touch it.
[Desire General] michal07:
ok, thanks, finally nandroid did the job

perhaps there were some problems with boot image, wonder why:confused:

anyway S-OFF done and phone works
[Desire General] unikum:
Any chance you can do a HBOOT for GingerVillain? 150 system, 10 cache.
[Desire General] Ik Desire:
Lol. Wrong place to ask.
[Desire General] AlxMAX:
I disagree! If this isn't the right place to ask this then where is it?! I wanted once to know a method so that anyone may produce a HBOOT with the desired partitions because I still think it is the safest way to set the sizes for /system, /cache and /data (safer than hacking the recovery to repack the boot images with custom kernel parameters). I have compared 2 of the HBOOTs on the Alpharev site and I have been able to find some of the places where the partition dimensions are stored. I have some idea about how to define the layout, but I still miss many details. But, again, since someone knows these details and has been able to produce the HBOOTs, since the most used layouts are provided and since one may end with a bricked phone if the wrong modifications are made, I haven't continued the research.
[Desire General] Anakha56:
I would just like to say thank you for such a simple s-off process. It was a nerve wracking few minutes but it has completed succesfully :). Flashed LeeDroid No A2SD, rebooted, skipped set up pages, then rebooted PC with livecd and voila it is done. Now flashing a fresh DHD ROM :).

/goes down a couple of beers to cool off.

//when I get some free money on the CC I will definitly donate to the worthy cause.
[Desire General] mark1316:
Guys

Used alpharev as per the video Guide al all went well till step 3 of 3.

Booted to black screen with the normal txt Normal Nand detected non PVT4

and just sits there screen on pc says waiting for flashing to compleat

Been like that 30 min now ?

I pulled the battery and booted to recovery and says s-on so something went wrong somewhere ?

Im just running a Nand restore to see if its really screwed up ?. Whe I booted it normaly It tooke me to the recovery screen ?

Is this normal ? Im using badnewz 2.01

EDIT

Now fixed. for some reason it does not like Roms with a2sd or the like. Flashed leedroid non a2sd ran the software and S-OFF in min,s.

restored the nand and all well
[Desire General] Jameswgm:
I'm s-off and want to flash a new h-boot, should I return to a stock ROM for this like is recommended for the main s-off process, or will I be alright to flash it on a gingerbread ROM?
[Desire General] fatspirit:
Nandroid backup -> hboot flash -> nandroid restore

That's it! (:
[Desire General] ph0rce:
I keep getting the Error Code 5, which from looking at the bash script implies that my phone is in 'device mode'. I'm on the latest Open Desire version ( .32 ), should I try a different ROM or is there another problem here?

Any ideas?

EDIT

Detected Model ID: PB9920000

Device model: Bravo (HTC Desire)

CID: ORANG001

HBOOT version: 0.75.0000

If that helps!
[Desire General] pedaah:
Worked for me using virtual box, after the third go, impatient I guess :confused:

took some working out, not as straight forward as you might be led to think. I tried booting the iso from usb and it wouldn't work, got a boot error, in virtual box, had to go and select device again at every waiting message.

A virtual heartstopper getting it worked out, using new software, but all's well in the end. Thanx ;)
[Desire General] sfjuocekr:
I would like to know this too, as the system partition is atleast 125mb too big... 250mb for system partition with just 44% used is a pure waste of space when the data partition is used for 84%...

Or could the dalvik cache be moved to system now? Freeing up another 60 to 70mb?
[Desire General] mike1986.:
But what if my custom ROM already has busybox? Mine will be replaced? What version of busybox is it?
[Desire General] Twau:
Have the same problem with CM6 Nightly, running 0.75 hboot. Aborts at 3/3 and then reboots the phone back to normal, livecd turns off the computer. Can provide more detailed information after work if that is needed.

Best Regards
[Desire General] Ireas:
Can't tell ya :/
[Desire General] quake2005:
Awesome! Will try once at home!

This means we can now repartition system and data so we can happily run Desire HD rom from internal memory? :D
[Desire General] ranasrule:
Which HBOOT do you have ?
[Desire General] bemymonkey:
+54938

We need this so bad :p