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[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Uhhh...

It's the BIG GREY LINK: AlphaRev 1.8 HBOOT reflash utility
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
EDIT 2: Hebrew, I think you made the same assumption as me. I do not think he is referring to which "iso", but which "img", which are the "stock" AlphaRev images used on the splash screen.

EDIT: Never mind, when you said .img, I read image... and in my mind image = iso, and was about to call stupid on you... :)

However, the img files provided towards the bottom are just to be able to flash back the standard splash screens that the tool will already install for you. IE: You've run the S-OFF tool, and then flashed your own custom splash screen but now want the standard one back from AlphaRev... then you want one of those images. However, I do not know which one we use.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Yeah, I think I did mistakenly make the wrong assumption.

ESPRESSO users should not download *any* file from the AlphaRev site aside from the S-OFF iso file. The other stuff on there doesn't really apply.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] reukiodo:
The HVGA splash image is also relevant to espresso users, if they desire to go back to the Alpharev splash image after customization. IEF stated he might work on custom partition tables for espresso later. I am personally hoping for a 150/1/300 system/cache/data layout.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Uhhhh, you mean like the layout you can attain by following my instructions in this thread? ;)

# busybox df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 209.3M 0 209.3M 0% /dev
tmpfs 209.3M 0 209.3M 0% /mnt/asec
/dev/block/mtdblock3 140.0M 108.8M 31.2M 78% /system
/dev/block/mtdblock5 323.6M 166.2M 157.4M 51% /data
/dev/block/mtdblock5 323.6M 166.2M 157.4M 51% /cache
/dev/block/mtdblock4 1.5M 776.0K 760.0K 51% /dev/cache
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] reukiodo:
Similar, yes. The key difference being that a custom HBOOT partition table doesn't require re-flashing a special kernel mod after every ROM flash. All the recoveries and ROMs would work without modification.

I like that thread and I currently use that mod on my espresso until I can get an awesome custom HBOOT.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] HebrewToYou:
Serious question 1: How often do you plan on flashing your device that this becomes a chore?

Serious question 2: Are you not aware that by purchasing ROM Manager premium you can easily setup a zip-chain for flashing?

In my mind it makes a helluva lot more sense to avoid fiddling around with custom HBOOTs when it's absolutely trivial to edit a flat text file and repartition the MTD as you see fit. But perhaps I'm missing something...
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Shaquiel Harris:
Lmfao almost just Bricked one of my slides messing around doing this lol i was scared to death 0_o. And for us VirtualBox users.. I'd reccomend updating it. I had to reinstall ubuntu for maverick but with the virtualbox i have now once you make the filter for the device in the settings for the machine it constantly stays connected like its supposed to. Yay. :)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Shaquiel Harris:
This phone is unbrickable with this method.

I just purposely tried to brick my slide 3 times.. to no avail! i pulled the battery 3 times while the spl was flashing. (when taking s-off, the last step) now when my phhone boots, it boots up with the 3 skating androids (my bootscreen now). its actually pretty awesome. I did it right after the spl was dumped while it was flashing the new one. bam went right back to the alpharev flasher after i booted it back up. you could try it if you want. I dunno if it was due to the fact that the phone i did it on already had S-off but i doubt that. if i pull the battery out after the old hboot was dumped, it SHOULD brick from what the warnings say. +1 for us slide users.:cool:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] reukiodo:
About once every weekend when the official CM nightlies start rolling again.

I have purchased the ROM Manager Premium to support koush, but still use the free one included in CM. Even though I can chain-flash multiple zips using ROM Manager, I flash through the recovery because I manually edit the build.prop and latte-keypad-v2.kl files after flashing a new ROM.

To me it's similar to a 'why fix it when this bandaid will do?' question. In my mind it makes more sense to flash a custom HBOOT once than flash a custom mtd partition fix every time I flash a new ROM.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] pjw111:
Live usb was easy.

Booting it even easier..

I have tried immediatly pressing power and I have counted out the blinking bar until right before press NOW, and sill can not time it right.

If I press power too soon fastboot comes on and it disconects.

If I waite until it says press NOW the phone freezes.

:confused::confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
It should "disconnect" for a moment when it switches to fastboot then redetect.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] pjw111:
I just tried my third computer and it finally worked...

HP would no work

Dell worked like a charm
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
so once this is finished. what happens? like does it just boot into your previous rom or what? also since this lets us put a real recovery on here, is there one yet?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] MusicMan374:
Once you purchase it, it is tied to your google account, and the premium features are automatically unlocked once you login with your google account, so you have the premium one. The premium features are already in the app, donating simply unlocks them. And you can edit build.prop and other files before you copy the ROM to your sd card, can you not?

If you typed y to flashing clockwork recovery as part of the s-off process you have one. Amon MAY develop a recovery for the slide, but he doesn't actually own one so we don't know. And yes, it boots into whatever rom you had loaded. If you didn't select yes in the s-off process I can send you a recovery.img file for clockwork and you can either flash_image it through cm or fastboot flash it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] apollostees:
What's up guys, wondering how to get out of this loop?????

1. I completed step 1 of 3. (I finally got the right timing)

2.Then at step 2 of 3 the phone froze. (I guess I got the wrong timing)

3.At this point I rebooted the PC. And I also pulled the battery on the phone. (Trying to start over)

4.When I restarted the phone it tried to install the H-BOOT and soft failed. (I thought nothing had happened in step 2 of 3)

My PC never even recognized the phone. Anyway, the directions then said to start the process over.

5. I again pulled the battery and it tried to install H-BOOT again and soft failed. But my PC never recognizes the phone. It's as if it not even hooked up.

Again and again this happens.....What my next step???
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] acejoker25000:
you have to reboot into recovery and restore a backup or it will keep doing the soft fail... when doing all of the steps dont wait for it to tell you to press power button.. press it right after you press any button on the computer
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] apollostees:
Thanks for the reply. I'll try when I get home.

But it seems to just start right up after the 'mytouch slide' screen. Do you use adb to get to recovery?

Sent from my HTC Vision
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
Thanks man, havent done this yet, debating whether or not it would actually be useful to me.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] acejoker25000:
its useful because you boot directly into the clockwork recovery.. but i mean its really not too much more helpful
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] apollostees:
So if you get stuck on step 2 of 3 do you have to recover from the stock recovery?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] karsibali:
Is it possible to go back?

Hello,

I'm a newbie in this forum. I searched a lot, but I couldn't find an answer to my question. Is it possible to revert back to S-ON after you apply this to the phone? Can anyone answer this question?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
It actually has been asked, in this thread, and I answered it before so I know it's been answered. Others have answered as well, next time try changing what you search for. Yes, it's possible. Flash a ROM with the hboot update or flash esprimg.zip, that will put you back at s-on as well as stock recovery. CR_MOD has the update if you want a ROM with it included.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] apollostees:
Cool.

I'm back in just renamed the CM6.1.1 rom to "update.zip" and the stock recovery flashed it. That was scary.:D

Thanks, acejoker25000
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
So i burned this to a disc. I've tried a virtual machine and hard copy and nothing boots up. I've even tried opening some files. Tips?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Have you tried just booting from the disc? I am not sure what you mean by "hard copy", but as you can see, not many have had success using virtual machine.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
As I said, I've tried booting from the CD but with no luck. Well, nothing really "autostarts" as I've read is what seems to be happening. Do I need to have my phone connected to the PC first? I figured it should load up either way.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
You only need the phone connected once the script tells you to. Are you sure your PC is setup to boot from the CD? Most computers have one of three options:

- Only boot from Hard drive: This will ignore any CD inserted at boot up. This can usually be changed in BIOS

- Along those same lines, you should be able to change the boot order of your devices. Mine is set to check for a CD first. If a CD is inserted, and is "bootable", it will ask me to press any key to boot from CD.

- Some PC's may just be set to have a boot menu at boot up, asking how you want to boot.

Check your BIOS settings, and make sure you've correctly burned the ISO as an image, and didn't just burn the ISO as a data file to the disc.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
I did those :(

Thanks for your help, fermunky. I'll try and figure something soon.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] beartard:
I came a little late to this thread, but this may help someone stuck at step 2 with a soft-fail on reboot, as you had.

The alpharev script has made a backup of your boot to /data/alpha/boot.old. All you need to do is boot into clockwork recovery.

Using the alpharev CD, cancel the script before it starts doing anything by typing ctrl-c.

then...

adb shell
cd /data/alpha
flash_image boot boot.old

When you reboot, it will be as if alpharev didn't do anything to your phone. It will help out to remove that /data/alpha directory as well while you're in recovery, since it causes a "low space" warning.

Of course, all this could have been prevented by making a nandroid backup before attempting this.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] tmobilewinguser:
finally got S-OFF its not hard at all just getting the timing down is a little tricky booted from disc using my imac
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rivetrik:
S-off....

so how exactly do i do this???..and yes im already rooted., if anyone can help me out that would be awesome.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Easiest way, and long story short is:

1: Goto the AlphaRev site and download the iso file to your computer.

2: Use a ISO burning tool (I like ImgBurn) and burn the ISO to a CD.

3: Connect phone to PC

4: Reboot computer and boot from the CD

5: Follow on-screen instructions.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
Boot from cd...... before Windows starts?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] sleepykit:
That's the plan. Basically the CD that AlphaRev provides is stripped down version of a Linux distribution with all of his stuff added in. Kind of a nifty trick, actually.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] angelo420:
It worked for me on the first try no problems at all. I just don't know what to do now that i have s-off.:confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
Success. Just had to press Power immediately and 1/2 a second everytime until it said FASTBOOT in red on my phone, then I stopped. Worked fine.

Thanks everyone for your input.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
about to try this, got the technique down but should i remove sd card before? read somewhere in the thread that it helps...

EDIT: just tried 4 times. i quit. im not wasting my time. maybe if a less bootleg method comes out ill try it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
I removed SD card, too.

Try it again. The moment it asks you to press any button, have your finger on the Power button ready. Press "any button" and then immediately press Power (without waiting for a confirmation from your computer) and continue to press it (not too fast) and look at your phone until the text turns red. Then stop pressing power. Repeat the same process for Step 3.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
hm, ONCE i got red text, but it went away real quick.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
You'll know it worked when it leaves the fastboot screen and give the MyTouch Splash image. Red text goes away, but it should work after that.

First time I got the red text, my computer told me there was an error with the USB port. It was weird, but I tried it again and it worked.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
next time anything comes out for this phone, remind me not to do it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] fermunky:
Um, I did this and had nothing else more/missing except for S-OFF, so not sure why you're missing these things now. And is it really that big of a task to re-flash the gapps add-on...?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
read edited above post
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
Uh. . . . .
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] loo432:
If you had done a nandroid like it was suggested, you wouldn't be redoing everything now would you?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] rolfd:
It's becoming something of a habit that I have to come in here and clean threads out.

It's unfortunate that some members refuse to get along. If you dislike someone, fine. if you disagree with someone, fine. We all have the right to an opinion, and to express that opinion. What we do not have, is the right to do so in a manner that causes offence to others.

Swearing / foul language is against the forum rules. You should all be aware of that by now. If you feel the need to call people names over the internet, and are unable to control yourself, then I respectfully suggest that this forum isn't the place for you.

I don't know the average age of the members here, but based on the last 20 or so posts I've deleted, I'd guess it's about 12. Grow up everyone and think before you press that "submit reply" button.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
so after this is done, how can i boot into CW without going through fastboot or whatever. yes i did choose the option to have it installed

TIA
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] etu_aty:
adb shell

reboot recovery

or from reboot menu in cm6 or using quickboot

or from terminal emulator typing su enter then reboot recovery
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
no i mean like, if the phone is off, isnt the a button combo to go straight to recov? or else what difference is there to even HAVING this 'real' recovery?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] etu_aty:
The difference is having the ability to go into recovery using any of the 5 ways i said a few posts back and not having to use the update.zip

idk how to do it with the phone off tho.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] insanix:
HTC Slide S-OFF fail

My phone is rooted ok and tried various custom roms (CM, Eugene373's, CR's etc). Trying the S-OFF with Alpharev 1.8 it is impossible to get "the right timing" my phone goes into "HBOOT USB" and from then on, no matter how many times you press Power it simply won't go into Fastboot mode...

Also tried to remove SD card, and during the process without any results, in fact I think without an SD card it goes much faster into "HBOOT USB" mode

Is there some possibility that for some Slides a Goldcard is necessary to keep the phone into "HBOOT" instead from going into "HBOOT USB" mode?

Any suggestions before I try to UN-root and RE-root as the Alpharev suggests as a last resort measure? (I'd really hate to do that!!)
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
You don't "press" power you hold it. HBOOT USB is the mode it's supposed to be in before you start the process. You can still get to fastboot from HBOOT USB without any issues so long as you press and hold power before it starts (as soon as you press "any key").
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
so really this isnt a big deal to have this. it saves us approx. 5 seconds....
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] purple1:
....custom splash I think full r/w I'm not sure but they said its for mainly like the devz ..... I still got it I like putting new splash screens
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
oh odnt get me wrong, i LOVE those features. its just i was hoping to have some sort of key sequence to get into recovery from when the phone is off, or else this recovery is the same as the last.

also, to anyone, i feel like this maybe be a dumb question, but would it be possible to flash certain zips (like themes or updates of some sort) from within android now? i realize you can flash a rom while in a rom but what about other things? TIA
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
With full r/w access you could if you wanted. You'd just have to unzip to a folder and run the update script in something like terminal emulator. Not sure how well it'd work but I don't see why not. As for getting into recovery you still have to go through hboot/fastboot when the phone is off but being able to flash different recovery images is definitely a perk.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
but is there any app that you can just point to a zip and have it do that for you?

also is there any way to lose s-off? id hate to be messing with something then have to do this whole process over
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
If you read the thread (yes the whole thing) you'll learn a lot. Or just use the "search thread" option. Next time right? Yes you can lose S-OFF if you flash something that has an hboot update in it. As for a program that does it, I don't know of one but 2 steps isn't really outrageous now is it? Step 1: unzip, Step 2: run update script, done.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
yea its not bad. and i meant besides that. thats obviously a given to break s-off once you understand the process..yes i did read.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Other than flashing a new HBOOT no you can't lose s-off unless you completely brick your phone (or flash an ESPRIMG.zip, which contains an hboot). The main reason I didn't/don't believe you read the entire thread is because I've answered the "can I lose S-OFF" question before, more than once, as have others. Now that we have a real recovery and not an update.zip ROM Manager may make an update for the slide to use that, maybe not, they may also incorporate the in-ROM flash idea but again maybe not. If demand for it is high enough someone will make it, or you could write a basic app to do it, just learn some java. I'm busy learning c# right now but the principle concept isn't that hard.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] MusicMan374:
In his defense, it would be PRETTY time consuming to read all 50 pages of the thread, the first 30 of which are probably from before it was even released :p
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
i thought you meant like original post. other than that i read up to like page 20 or so a week ago when i planned on doing this but was a bit intimidated by all the issues people had with timing and what not.

edit: also, thx for saying esprimg. i would have forgotten about that.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dirtymindedx:
Alpha Rev 1.8 Not Working (watch my youtube video)

Ok been on the android scene for a while now and have been playing with tablets, phone's, etc. Been working on getting S-Off to work for like 5 HRS today and it ate up my day. Tried it on 2 desktops 3 laptops and still no go. About to post my Youtube Video showing that it never let me hit the fastboot button every single time I tried this. Watch the video and let me know what I did wrong because I want this soo bad and after 50 times today its a little ridiculous lol. Had the wife wondering when I was going to be done. The kids have been staring at me working lucky I had today off lol. If there is another way to do this let me know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mISSywvbFXU
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Hayzie:
Don't wait for a confirmation to press Power. Just hit it as soon as you even see the 'arrow' on your computer monitor. What worked for me might not work for you, but as I said in an earlier post: press power immediately and consecutively until it displays Fastboot in red. Hope that helps.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
^ Exactly. I spent at least 10 tries when i was doing it until someone said this ^
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] blackerwater:
Now you can erase any bloat in /system/apps without them returning
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] insanix:
HTC Slide Espresso S-OFF Success (problem solved)

Timing was really impossible on my home PC which is AMD based, (30+ fruitless tries

very lucky indeed that I didn't brick my Slide)

So I tried on my work PC which is Intel based and everything went really smooth on the first try! I got S-OFF!

So for those of you out there struggling it seems that some motherboards and

obviously my AMD based Gigabyte 939 (and my AMD based laptop) didn't provide the desired environment -USB-bus-wise- for the whole S-OFF procedure to succeed!

Try it on a Intel based PC and see what happens!

Hope I saved some souls from complete insanity!

P.S. Of course all previously mentioned actions must be taken. Personally I did NOT wait for the "Press power button" prompt

and I DID hold the Power Button until Fastboot appeared
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] JDV28:
sounds weird. I've done this twice now, once on my amd (cpu and NB) desktop and once on my amd laptop. i dont think it has anything to do with it. also, i dont think anyone here has bricked their slide from this yet. one person (too far back in the thread for me to find) said he pulled the battery at something lik 5 or 10 different stages and never once bricked it.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] katbastard:
ok here is my issue, besides being a nood for android, my dvd drive is busted, i am running win 7, got ubuntu also. want to get s-off, but after reading up on it it looks like i will have to wait untill i get my dvd drive fixed... is there any other options that i do not know about?
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Use the usb version.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] dirtymindedx:
I used the USB method and also what you wrote and was able to get it done and successfully finish completely. Thanks for the tip after a full monday playing with this I finally got it to work.
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] Virus1x:
Need some question now..

I am rooted and have clockwork..

should I re-install clockwork with S-OFF boot or just hit NO

also

if my phone crashes during s-off fastboot phase will it brick my phone
[myTouch 3G Slide Android Development] insanix:
At least weird...

Weird is an understatement. Ok and I've done the same thing on two AMDs and it didn't work and on my Intel it worked. Don't get me wrong I love AMD. But I am just suggesting this scenario (some M/B issues) as a last resort.

In fact it may be something that has to do with the M/Bs only, not whether they are Intel or AMD based.