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[Desire General] ieftm:
AlphaRev 1.8 released. Bravo PVT4 is now supported (and legend/espresso).

Enjoy :)
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
is there a manual flash version of 1.8?

i dont see it on the website

EDIT

[21:34] <Rastaman> hello is there a flashable img of new 1.8? i would like to flash without using the utility as i already have s-off

[21:36] <@IEF> the HBOOT hasn't changed

[21:36] <@IEF> so there's no need for you to flash again

[21:37] <Rastaman> ahh ok

[21:37] <Rastaman> i miss understood this "Self-contained flashing method with on-screen UI, optional recoveries."

[21:38] <Rastaman> i thought maybe when you were doing stuff it gave info on device screen lol

[21:38] <Rastaman> im retarded sometimes :P

[21:38] <Rastaman> good job on fixing pvt4 though
[Desire General] madman_cro:
is it advisable to upgrade from 1.5 to 1.8 or not
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
check my edit
[Desire General] madman_cro:
thx:D:D:D:D
[Desire General] postwarbreakout:
I dont' really get it, is this more or less doing the same than custom MTDs?
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
what dont you get?

new 1.8 fixes issues for the new pvt4 devices and some other device support, thats it.

if you already have 1.5 then everything is as normal and you can flash the custom spl's for the various things you need
[Desire General] :
OMFG ieftm you are the man!!! 1.8 works perfectly on my PVT4 white Desire.

BIG thanks!
[Desire General] nisbne:
Thanks guys easy to use and works great
[Desire General] pesho00:
I am not in good mental condition:)

I had 1.5 + Oxygen add on, but for unknown reason i have implemented 1.8 (work well), then i need to apply oxygen image Again and then to restore nand backup (i done it upfront;)). All went well, but WHY???? Why i did this;)
[Desire General] najar360:
so i'm now root and s-off with v1.5. so i just run like i did on first time s-off right?
[Desire General] hispeedworm:
i wanna know if i would benefit from this S off... im an average user who uses sense roms but rooted to provide optional mods and a2sd like support and i would like to keep the option open of unrooting my phone incase gingerbread or sense 2.0 official rom comes up.

should i S off... or the benefit vs risk ratio is not in my favor?
[Desire General] nanujra:
Hboot is still the same. No need to upgrade if you're already s-off. Check rastaman's post on previous page.
[Desire General] najar360:
nope. you are not advise to s-off.
[Desire General] najar360:
now i understand. thanks.
[Desire General] hispeedworm:
thank you for the response and clearing it up for me :D
[Desire General] postwarbreakout:
Nevermind, just didn't understand what's the difference to custom MTDs, but just tried and made it up ;)
[Desire General] mikkis2k:
i have a pvt4 40000, sucess s-off with 1.8! <3

EDIT: Damn, no n1 table for us pvt4 users yet :/ aw well we got s-off atleast finaly :p ty.
[Desire General] coolexe:
Hi,

Cache is not just a space for cache/temp files n not for flashing radio.. its mainly used for installing apps from market n using for ur phone performance... u can not install above 10mb File from market in 12mb cache...(try installing angry bird n skype from market) also if u trying to install 2 files at a time than ur mob. getting very slow at this time... coz u have only 12mb cache....

so in my way 26mb to 30mb has enough space for cache
[Desire General] ieftm:
HTC roms are modified to use external storage for Market temp downloads.

They go to /sdcard/downloads/, to be exact. AOSP roms can be modified to use that location instead (check out Oxygen RC4, AdamG modified it just for that purpose). It's a waste to use precious NAND for that.
[Desire General] bigsee:
Hy! Your Desire is PVT4 with erasesize 40000?
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
what a waste of time!!!

you are now back at 1.5 anyway. there is no change for hboot just the method used to apply the image for the newer devices
[Desire General] kai84m:
Did I get it right: There is just a change in the "flashing tool" the Hboot stays the same for the Desire?
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10175617&postcount=1738
[Desire General] coolexe:
Hi,

Ya I know bro. But its not a waste nand partition...just select 10mb cache n insatll google earth, skype n angry bird... u know the differences....
[Desire General] whips:
I ran the utility using Oracle VirtualBox, everything went fine no hassle. Now my phone is saying S-OFF, thank you guys!!!!!!!

I had a pvt4 40000 slcd desire
[Desire General] Puenos:
Anyone here know, how partition tables/custom SPL work?

I mean, custom MTDs are great and all, but flashing hboot/spl being permanent seems to be more reliable and have overall more advantages, or did I miss something here? Ty everyone :)
[Desire General] Nitrius:
Anyone know how i can mount /system and /data while booted into the OS? Or does this only work on stock android roms? And not sense roms?

With Astro i can see the system folder and explorer it, but it's only readable, the data folder is there but it's empty, but i know there should at least be an bootanimation.zip there.

From recovery i can mount and do the things i want, but while booted into the OS not so much.

Anyone know what i could do?
[Desire General] mikep99:
I've replied to your other post.

If you've s-offed, you should have write access to both system and data.
[Desire General] Flashmaniac:
sorry but if I got hboot 1.5 is it need to flash 1.8 via fastboot? what does it change for me ?
[Desire General] Puenos:
As far as I know 1.8 just improves compatibility with a new HTC Desire revision and adds other devices, so there should be no need to flash 1.8 if you're already on 1.5
[Desire General] pesho00:
would it be possible to have oxigen image with 20-30 mb cache (taken from data) in order to be able to flash radio from recovery?
[Desire General] psygbert:
just use fastboot to flash radio
[Desire General] gutsbn:
Sorry to re-post, but any info on this please?

I guess it got lost in the posts from all those who can't read the first page or the alpharev site or shouldn't be allowed to have an android phone...
[Desire General] reddev0:
Adam G posted that this is due to yaffs overhead, and all is correct/working as intended. I don't pretend to know exactly what a yaffs overhead is, but I'm sure Google knows for those that care.
[Desire General] morkje:
s-off

How do i know if i am s-off?

Happy new year,
[Desire General] reddev0:
Your boot loader will say AlphaRev at the top (power on with volume down held to access).
[Desire General] plerzelwupp:
Look at the first two lines in fastboot-mode

Read http://alpharev.nl and use the "AlphaRev 1.8 HBOOT reflash utility" to get s-off
[Desire General] gutsbn:
Thank you.

I missed it with all the noise on the Oxygen thread.

For info, from there http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10125671&postcount=9383
[Desire General] pesho00:
Great, And how to do this when away with NO PC around?

This is why i'll prefer to have cache of sufficient size to flash radio from recovery.
[Desire General] Martin.jr:
Hey Guys,

Im pretty new to the hole flashing rom's ect. Is there a screenshot/video tutorial to flash hboot?

/Martin
[Desire General] mikep99:
with the potential risks involved with flashing a radio, i dont think id try it without having a PC to hand!!

each to their own though :)
[Desire General] Puenos:
/signed.

Wouldn't bother messing up my phone without the possibility at hand to fix it..

But if you don't want to use fastboot, why not resizing mtd partitions instead of flashing Oxygen table?

...wait..how do you even flash the custom spl without fastboot?
[Desire General] pesho00:
I am not always away you know:)
[Desire General] Ireas:
Not necessary, as in AlphaRev 1.1 they included BusyBox
[Desire General] BlackCat21:
Doesn't work on rooted(unrevoked) Desire with official latest rom, HBOOT 0.93 on a mac using vmware fusion.

"can't open tmp/cmdline" "no such file or directory"

...will reboot in 10 sec...
[Desire General] BlackWhiteOne:
ieftm mentioned in another thread:
[Desire General] Ireas:
try it without vmware, burn the image and boot it up
[Desire General] bemymonkey:
From my previous experiences with the fully rooted Milestone, I'd say that's normal.

Why would you want it to be set on starting the device? You should keep it on read-only until you actually want to make a change, and then switch it back after you're done... otherwise you never know what crappily programmed app will start deleting stuff off your system partition ;)
[Desire General] pa.pn2:
@BlackWhiteOne

thx for the explanation^^
[Desire General] RavinShubh:
ROM: OpenDesire 4.0.32

HBOOT: .80

RADIO: 32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2

RESULT: Success

Thank you!!!
[Desire General] KBanause:
Sorry, I didn't know this behaviour is the default.

Now that you mention it, I do not want it to be r/w on bootup anymore :)
[Desire General] BlackCat21:
Thanks! I cannot test it now. I will test it later and post the results
[Desire General] mr_delphi:
success

unbranded htc desire, slcd, hboot 0.93, running Opendesire 4.32, rooted with unrevoked.

just in case you don't have a cd burner.

I used unetbooin to extract the iso to a flash drive.

You guys are the best! Will certainly donate!

the question is, what to do with it? \system is still read only, and suppose I don't want to buy root manager?
[Desire General] craoul:
easy as pie, worked instantly.
[Desire General] worstenbrood:
great work guys, just did it via virtualbox, works without a problem !
[Desire General] Lennyuk:
you can now use fastboot

adb while booted

root explorer in market

loads of options.
[Desire General] RyLoS2000:
Done it! Very easy.

Thank you A LOT!
[Desire General] zeussn:
Worked just fine here :

HTC Desire A8181 Amoled

OpenDesire 4.0.32

HBoot 0.80

Vodafone Spain debranded
[Desire General] Bartman007:
Same here on XP, with CD loader..... :(
[Desire General] awilkinsonuk:
Recovery options?

Once this is applied do we still need to use the clockwork recovery or can we now use "flash image recovery" through SDK and flash the "fake flash" recovery from amonRA? The "fake flash" bit worries me but I am a noob!

Can't load the amonRA flash using unrevoked but would like to use it if possible!

cheers
[Desire General] KBanause:
+1

I would like to know that too.
[Desire General] lucus30:
Thanks Man. Work sweet here Hboot .80

Telstra Desire running Tmod ( Leedroid)
[Desire General] BlackWhiteOne:
hew do you remount /system as r/w?

thx
[Desire General] mikep99:
Best waiting till youve got an internet enabled pc then ;)
[Desire General] ieftm:
Flash it using a PB99IMG.zip from HBOOT.

I'm adding zipfiles to the website (which should be renamed to PB99IMG.zip on /sdcard)

If you then enter HBOOT, it asks you to flash that. Unfortunately there's no selecting a zipfile, it's just rename the correct one to PB99IMG.

But honestly, why in the hell would you need to flash radios all the time? (Especially on-the-go)

The first few HBOOTS are raw sizes, Oxygen is the only one with YAFFS2 sizes listed. Thats simply because Oxygen came much later :P

I'll adjust the other ones to show actual YAFFS2 size.
[Desire General] Narfx:
Will you release new 1.80 hboots with custom mtds? If so, would you make one with smallish system (say 149MB, like N1Table) and 10MB cache? Data++ wastes too much space in system when used with AOSP roms; Oxygen is too small for almost any rom which is not Oxygen (although I managed to fit CM it's a bit cumbersome) and N1Table wastes 100MB in /cache, half of which is never used.

Thanks for your work ;)
[Desire General] nanujra:
+1!

I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but yeah I think theres a sweet spot somewhere between the n1 table and the oxygen table. Oxygen's system is too small while n1 seems to have too large a cache which is never fully utilized.

I apologize if I'm being ignorant here. I appreciate your work, thanks!
[Desire General] ogg1e:
stuck on waiting for bootloader

I searched this thread, but didn't see any suggestions. I created a bootable usb drive with the image and everything works till it gets to the line 'waiting for bootloader' after the phone reboots.

The phone does reboot into the bootloader, but then nothing happens.

I have the leedroid rom v2.3b with A2SD+

bravo pvt3

hboot-0.83.0001

clockwork recover 2.5.0.1

it's a telus phone with the slcd screen as well.

Others have used leedroid successfully. is my only option to try a basic rom?
[Desire General] om8g:
If i want to use the new non-pc way to make a custom partition. What do i do at the last step when i have to restart, because if I restart, I will get bootloop because there is no rom on my phone, and i therefore have to pull my battery out.

How can I avoid that ?
[Desire General] D0GuKaN:
How can I update to 1.8? It is still seems Bravo Stock 1.5
[Desire General] najar360:
+1. since the diff only we need to flash radio through fastboot. why can make new table like n1table but with smaller cache. we all already s-off and meaning we always attach cable to phone for changes (meaning adb, hboot, splash1) and we also can always flash radio through fastboot.
[Desire General] woehrl:
do I need to update, if I have 1.50? Is there any benefit?
[Desire General] psygbert:
this has been discussed in the previous posts on this thread. if you're already in 1.5, no need for 1.8.
[Desire General] rafi300:
When I enter bootloader , it says bravo unknown ship s-off with hboot 0.0.75 .. March 10 And I have never flashed any special hboot myself . It does not say alpharev anywhere .

I tried to flash a splash1 screen but I got error of remote failed .

Any help ?
[Desire General] Flashmaniac:
try to flash it from new via fastboot

fastboot flash hboot alphablabla.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot erase cache
[Desire General] rossmoore:
Desire GSM, pvt4

Hi,

I've got a pvt4 GSM Desire, so was excited to see alpharev 1.8 come out. Just tried it though, and it still says device unrecognised. Device ID PB992. I know I need to still wait for the partition tables, but wanted to get write-access to the system partition all the same while I wait for the new tables.

Any ideas anyone?
[Desire General] thornofcarrion:
I am too getting device unrecognized error, any solution?
[Desire General] Mosquito2001:
Do you have a rom with app2sd/data2sd?

If yes you should first flash a stock rooted rom as it may mess with the process (I got a corrupted hboot + usb brick because of that).

On a side note, I did a backup of my misc partition the very first day I got rooted (after reading all those usb bricks stories) and mine is 1024kB. Looking at other mtd0 posted on the forum they get a 640kB. Is it expected for the 'new' PVT4 devices?
[Desire General] rossmoore:
I rooted with unrEVOked, then flashed the latest stable CM. In order to get unrEVOked to work I had to alter my misc partition. Apparently you have to put your CID in at the beginning of your misc partition in hex.

I have a backup of my misc partition - what are you looking at to say whether it's 1024ko or 640ko? Oh, hang on - kB? Mine's 640kB.
[Desire General] Mosquito2001:
Yes it's kB, sorry I used the french notation :D

Mine is 1024, I wonder if it's the reason I had to USB unbrick each time I used unrevoked...
[Desire General] vibranze:
How do I undo S-off? Ever since I S-off my device, I'm getting an intermittent reboot with any ROMs and now it just getting severe, so I'm thinking to S-off it.

Kindly advise.
[Desire General] psygbert:
flash the stock ruu. most of them includes the stock hboot.

i don't know the real cause of your intermittent reboots but i think it's not because of s-off.
[Desire General] vibranze:
Thanks psygbert.

I think so too. Now I'm trying to flash 32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27 radio, hopefully the intermittent reboot issue will be gone.

I tried to flash the following stock RUU without succeed.

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed

RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed

If after I flashed the above radio and the problem persist, I will try the following RUU.

RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_122704

RUU_Bravo_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.19.707.7_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126179_signed

Wish me luck.

Cheers.
[Desire General] hawkeyexp:
Hi Guys which build the modded hboot,

since i get my desire i use alpharev. And since there i build my own customized rom with apps etc. Now i'm on a point where i think no table is the perfect for me. Is it possible that you release a version between bravo stock and sence with a table like this: system 200 / data 200 / Cache 50 ?

Thx Hawkeye
[Desire General] jellyfish0000:
hi,

i am a noob when comes to android. i got a HTC Branded Desire from Telstra Australia

this is what i have done so far:

1. created a gold card (thanks for masdroid)

2. loaded RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.exe (with goldcard)

now i would like to root my desire. what's my next step?

mine says

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

hope to get some tips/howto from android veterans :) oh, i'm a osx user.

thank you in advance.
[Desire General] CheesySeb:
Dude... unrEVOked will install clockworkmod recovery and root your current ROM with on click, no goldcarding, no hassle. The developers are actually legendary.

Then you just download whatever ROM you want and flash using clockworkmod recovery.

But don't forget to do a NANDOID (just look for the backup option on clockworkmod) backup of your current ROM first! Easy as that.
[Desire General] jellyfish0000:
unrevoked? a friend of mine told me that i will encountered problem because my desire is not AMOLED.
[Desire General] CheesySeb:
I have an SLCD desire too. Only time i've come across a problem using this is when trying to install AmonRA recovery, which has a separate version for the AMOLED desire.

Honestly, you'll save yourself a huge amount of hassle :)

Here's the link for OSX users:

http://downloads.unrevoked.com/recovery/3.3/Reflash.dmg
[Desire General] jellyfish0000:
so unrevoked 3.3 works on SLCD desire. nice :)

will download it. also, i'm a mac user (anything i should be aware of)?

perhaps you can give me some steps (instructions) thank you.
[Desire General] CheesySeb:
Not as far as i'm aware of? It *should* be as simple as in windows.

All I had to do was:

-Open the program

-connect my desire to the usb cable

-click ok

After maybe five minutes it's complete. The phone restarts three or four times as it's being flashed and configured, just don't disconnect it until unrevoked says you can.

Easy peasy.
[Desire General] jellyfish0000:
thanks.

also, when connect to pc, do u select charge only?
[Desire General] whips:
Yes, make sure usb debugging is on and select charge only
[Desire General] CheesySeb:
Absolutely.

Thanks for that whips :)

Let us know when you're all rooted! I'm off to bed, got work at 4am and it's now 00:14....lol
[Desire General] Puenos:
1) As there are more and more people asking for customized HBOOTs.. I really started wondering how you create them/why everyone requests them instead of using custom mtd partitioning?

Having some kind of batch/executable file where you simply enter your partition size would be quite interesting though.. but then again.. we could simply use custom mtd..

2) Please.. This thread is about HBOOT S-OFF.. not rooting. I would like to see people ask questions in their corresponding threads about rooting..

Not only because some people like me wonder about more or less offtopic discussions, but also because you'll get more informations and help there :) Ty
[Desire General] jellyfish0000:
sorry for asking my questions here. thought this is also has relation to rooting process.
[Desire General] Hummelchen:
Hey there!

I tried to flash the Oxygen MTD as PB99IMG.

But it says: "CID incorrect"

My CID is T-MOB101 (same as in android-info.txt)

adb shell getprop ro.cid says nothing :(

Any ideas?
[Desire General] Narfx:
I'm using a custom mtd (135/5) right now; I wouldn't ask for an hboot for my custom rom with my specific needs. I simply think a 149/10 hboot would make a lot of sense for many people who, like me, use an AOSP rom and bind-mount /data/cache in /cache to get a common free space for /data and /cache. It would make the process of flashing a new rom easier (no need to flash a patch after every rom and keep a text file in /sdcard).
[Desire General] Hummelchen:
My own theory for the CID Problem:

Android-info.txt tells me: mainver: 2.29.405.2

But with Oxygen 2.0RC5 my mainversion is 2.3.1

I will test it at home this evening.
[Desire General] alpinux:
S-OFF worked perfect on my Desire PVT-4 40000 - thanks for your great work! Donation is on it's way ;-)

Is there a chance to get the modified partition tables for our phones in the near future?
[Desire General] Puenos:
That's why I thought of some kind of executable to "simply" adjust sizes instead of patching after upgrading. I have to admit, that I am just interested in such a programm because I'm simply too lazy for custom mtd and would prefer to just flash HBOOT then ROM and fin :) But it's also okay the way it currently is. Just the possibility alone is simply great!

You're right. It is related. And that's the point I tried to point out.. S-OFF already requires root.. so I simply don't understand why ppl ask here how to root and debrand and what else here has already been discussed. Sure I would think: Hey, everybody who S-OFFed had to root his phone, so everybody knows how to do this and how to do that.. but then again.. there are other threads specifially for that..

Threads having different topics are there to maintain order and secure, in case of questions and people in need of help, to help them in their best possible ways..

I hope my point now is clear to you and you're not that much pissed because I'll close this little offtopic discussion as I have no intention of hijacking this thread :)
[Desire General] alpinux:
I thought absolutly the same.
[Desire General] patp:
Haha, came to post a question about how to modify HBOOT partition sizes, but it seems you're already talking about what I was thinking - a little patching utility. Seems a shame to have this great technique but not be able to tailor it to ones own rom.

Is hboot table set by manually patching hboot hex, or does it get compiled in? if patching I guess I can reverse it using the known values in the available img files.
[Desire General] jellyfish0000:
nah. not pissed just furious :D.

and have no intention of hijacking too
[Desire General] coolexe:
Hi,

I've working on it...patching hboot for custom MTD... but I've found an thing present custom MTD based on boot.img file...not recovery based... recovery r using only for installing Rom in custom MTD...

So I have success in patching boot.img file with custom MTD... now no need to place text file in root dir... no need to flash boot patch for after flashing new Rom/kernel....

But still its in under beta process... if u want to try it than will post it...
[Desire General] bartekat:
Can you tell me how to change radio in oxygen partition.
[Desire General] reddev0:
fastboot flash radio myradio.img
[Desire General] alpinux:
Hi. I would like to try it.
[Desire General] Narfx:
++ =)

10char
[Desire General] legolas93:
Just S-Offed :D:D All perfect
[Desire General] wikan76:
If a run the alpharev iso and getting s-off, is this like rooting with enrevoked? Or do I need to have a rooted phone to do this s-off?