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[Desire General] alexmue:
Hello.

I have tried to flash the modifyed hboot with the alpharev live cd on my desire.

It has a problem after Step2

Here is the output:

Waiting for Android to boot, dozing off for about 30 seconds while we wait.

Step 2 of 3 is running..

Preparing you phone for HBOOT flash..DONE.

Rebooting your phone.

Waiting for bootloader..hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1

Now my desire stucks in hboot.

Hope you can help me.

EDIT: Finally I edited the alpharev.sh script and deleted everything above stage 3.

I am in my clockwork recovery and i'm restoring the nand backup.

My HBOOT is unfortunately S-ON :(

I'm lucky that my phone isn't bricked.
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@alexmue

It seems like an error communicating with the USB your device was connected to. I suggest you just try the procedure again, maybe with another USB port, or another computer.
[Desire General] alexmue:
Thanks for your answer.

I think there is a general problem with my desire.

When I try to restart it in bootloader-mode, it only turns off and I have to start it with VOLUME-DOWN+POWER.

After Step 2 the script tries to restart the desire. This didn't work on mine.

I think the script failed because it didn't find the usb device.

I don't know why this error occurs and I haven't found any thread about this issue. :confused:

EDIT: My /tmp/feedback file contains "4" which means HBOOT-Dump failed.
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
It could be because of some errors in your ADB. Wich ROM are you using?

If its ADB issues, then i suggest this:

Nandroid of current ROM

Flash LeeDroid 2.x (has a working ADB configuration)

Apply alpharev procedure

Restore nandroid

And then you should be good to go ;-)
[Desire General] alexmue:
It's the rooted froyo Sense rom. (official)(rooted with unrevoked)

I'm a bit afraid of bricking it when I try the procedure again. :(
[Desire General] reddev0:
Are you using a real machine or a virtual pc?
[Desire General] alexmue:
I use my laptop with the livecd.

EDIT: My Desire:

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101

RADIO-5.11.05.14

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:10

EDIT2: I'm installing Leedroid in this moment.

EDIT3: Ok. Leedroid is very nice ;)

I think I won't flash my HBOOT again. In future I will modify my system partition only with the recovery mode.

Thank you!
[Desire General] FiremakerP:
Happy christmas everyone I tried s-off since I had the time today but I am stuck on Step 3 of 3 for more than half an hour now.

The HTC boot screen has 2 Black lines on it and I don´t know what to do now please help this is an emergency!

Ok The same Problem occured on page 160 of this thread.

In my case it was the same.

The phone is not bricked! Pulled the battery out and S-Off is enabled. I booted into clockwork recovery and I am recovering my backup now.

Maybe the part with the black lines should be mentioned on the first post.
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Yeah, if you like Sense, then LeeDroid should be right for you ;-)

But FYI, thousands of users has used LeeDroid when S-OFF'ing their devices, and noone has encountered a brick so far. Just follow the guidelines from my last post, and everything should be fine.

PS: There was a guy who unfortunately bricked his device, but he flashed a corrupt HBOOT.IMG through the fastboot console, and that WILL brick it! ;-)
[Desire General] nanujra:
Merry christmas everyone, I'd appreciate any help with some trouble i'm facing with flashing the n1table.

I'm already s=offed but when i try to fastboot flash the n1table.img, the terminal gives me this output:

"error: cannot load 'bravo_alphaspl-ntable.img' "

Any ideas why my fastboot flash isn't working??

(some background info:

I downloaded the n1table .img from alpharev website and checked md5 sum.

Btw I'm using fastboot on ubuntu 10.10, 32bit.

Then I installed entire android SDK. I had some trouble getting fastboot to recognise my phone at first. I had to add an additional file to etc/udev/rule.d as per the instructions in a tutorial i found.

I presume that my fastboot actually recognises my device and is working because it prints out "SH09NPL01609 fastboot" when i enter "fast boot devices" in the terminal.

It also prints out all the fastboot help instructions when i type "fastboot -h" in the terminal.)

Thanks in advance
[Desire General] thierry_b:
Hello,

The first time we want to S-OFF, we must to use alpharev.iso file or we can use directly bravo_alphaspl-sense.img to have big partitions to have enough to restore leedroid for example?

Thanks :-)
[Desire General] ouglouck:
First make your phone S-OFF by using the CD method, then change the partitions scheme with fastboot. Don't forget to check the download before using the file.
[Desire General] thierry_b:
Ok :-)

There is a link with the resume of the common questions / answers about problem found when flashing?

Thanks :-)
[Desire General] gutsbn:
First page, first post, link to alpharev site, has an FAQ.

And it's just underneath the partition tables you mention...
[Desire General] gutsbn:
Why do the Oxygen partition sizes add up to 437 compared to 450 for the rest?

Missing about the same size as "angry birds".. a whole partition just for that? ;)
[Desire General] Master_falco:
Great work on the Oxygen HBOOT!
[Desire General] Jazzerath:
A painful transfer from lacking mem to lacking mem

I just get rid of the first Samsung Galaxy which was a good device with 8GB internal SD card and a lot of space for apps (I never reached even close to fill the available space) but it has ridiculously small amount of RAM which was really annoying for even normal everyday use. Even with small but hard working community which did great job porting Froyo on the such an old device I couldn't live with the limitations and I started to get frustrated. So I finally decided to take a next step to something new and more advanced and as there were no Samsung Galaxy S available at the moment I gave up the 8GB of space and decided to get Desire. Better community support and plenty of customization options was also important when I was making my final decision.

I rooted it, installed Cyanogen and was happy to finally have powerful device in familiar environment (on old Galaxy was I also using ported Cyanogen Froyo ROM). How wonderful.

But just after few days I get stuck with the low space available and I didn't install even half of what I had on my old Galaxy. What a F. I never even imagine that this could be a problem. I was reading a lot of Galaxy S vs Desire and yes there were mentions about that Desire's small internal memory problem here and there but it was far away from something that will make an Desire owner's life so miserable.

I have PVT4 Desire so I can't S-OFF - I learned that hard way as the instructions and manuals are scattered everywhere around and there is not even a word about that 'no PVT4 support yet' on the alpharev.nl page - I suppose this is thanks to the such big and supporting community.

I'm actually finding that big community as a problem now as there are so many options, versions, mods and scripts and all that supported by even larger number of informations and instructions for how to scattered everywhere. Many of those are outdated, misleading or completely wrong and even a good ones are missing some important facts (as this PVT4 limitation for S-OFF).

The A2SD is not a solution for me as in Cyanogen it behaves very strangely, somehow dynamically changing available A2SD total/free space values and still not leaving a lot of space at all no matter the size of the ext2 partition on the SD card. So what I can do? Leedroid seems to handle A2SD much better and I'll just need to stick with it even I don't like fancy-shmancy sense UI.

Any reliable, fully working and SIMPLE solution for more space for apps on Desire PVT4 version and Cyanogen?
[Desire General] flakz0r:
Afaik, CM doesnt officialy support legacy A2SD+. Install Dark Tremor's A2SD: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=719151&highlight=dark+tremor and obviously make sure you have an ext3 partition. :)

EDIT: Why dont you try out Oxygen? It's 2.3 and has A2SD+ ootb!
[Desire General] landwomble:
Aurax sense is very good and has a2sd+ which works great. I've about 60 apps on mine and no problems with memory. Leedroid also good...
[Desire General] nanujra:
Try MIUI.

It supports A2SD+ out of the box. All you need is an ext3 partition, no tinkering needed. If you're like me and dont like the iphoney feeling then just use launcher pro or ADW or whatever launcher you please.

It is slick, fast and has a lot of wicked unique features you won't find in any other rom that you still get even if you don't use the native launcher. you can also theme everything from within the rom without having to flash.

I recommend eMIUI(eevek's version)
[Desire General] nanujra:
*bump*

somebody pleaaase help me with this!
[Desire General] TheGhost1233:
Make sure the .img is in the tools folder and that the names match.
[Desire General] pvillasuso:
You have the name wrong

"error: cannot load 'bravo_alphaspl-ntable.img' "

"1" missing there !

like this > bravo_alphaspl-n1table.img
[Desire General] Psych0Chimp:
Just trying to figure out how changing HBOOT will affect my apps and where they're stored so bear with me... :p

I currently have an S-OFF Desire with the stock table and am using A2SD+, I'm assuming I have the table labelled "Bravo Stock 1.5"?

How does flashing a new HBOOT affect A2SD+? At the minute I've got 512MB partitioned as ext3.

Finally, if I restored a nandroid backup will it also restore the HBOOT (if different)?

Thanks!

Chimp
[Desire General] castro145:
THANK YOU VERY much for a great product!!! Finally S-OFF for desire.

I do have a question, is there any way to create a AlphaRev image that would be kind of in-between Data++ and Sense? ( /system-180M, /cache-41M, and /data-230M )

The reason I ask I am using a MoDaCo and use up about 165M of /system, and my cache never goes above 25M, something in-between Data++ and Sense would work perfect !!! The cache on the Sense just seems to be a little bit excessive at 90M

Thanks
[Desire General] Zwaehn:
Hello,

i need help please.

After s-off and change partition with SDK Tools, the phone doesn`t starting.

What can i do?
[Desire General] mdmar:
I really feel stupid here, but I dont understand the process as I believe the description is a little unclear (maybe a languageprob...)

Am i supposed to only flash the Alpharev 1.5 HBOOT Reflash utility or/and the bravo_alphaspl-oxygen.img as well?!
[Desire General] Kollegah:
my desire stucks on the why so serious bootscreen. i used the alpharev utility with no failures. then i flashed the oxygen partition table with no failures. what can i do?
[Desire General] FiremakerP:
The iso flashes the HBOOT sector of the phone. The .img files just repartition (in case needed) if you use a different Rom.

I already flashed and I am on S-off. But I don´t realy get the point of S-Off what can I do more after that except changing the Splashscreen easy.
[Desire General] Kollegah:
ah had to flash the oxygen rom and wiped. now it works :)
[Desire General] castro145:
You're able to flash different HBOOT images, that are partitioned in different manners, depending on your needs of the size for each of the partitions, /system , /data, and /cache. I think that is the main advantage. The splash screen is really just an extra added bonus to me.

For example some ROMs like Oxygen don't need a big /system, so then you're able to take that extra unneeded space from /system and give it to /data for installing the apps on there.
[Desire General] Johny_G:
This might be a dumb question, but... can I create my own HBOOT tables (.img) without using CustomMTD? I had nothing but problems with it, and Alpharev's HBOOTs are just OK. But most of the tables have too small or too big cache partition. Can I make my own IMGs?
[Desire General] ieftm:
Not without a proper understanding of ARM disassembly.

It's simply too dangerous for people without that background to go around and edit random stuff. That would ensure bricks.
[Desire General] castro145:
I agree the /cache partition seems to be either 10M or 90M, well at least with the /system being 180M. I was wondering as well if we're able to create or at least request some other sizes.

Anybody know??
[Desire General] Johny_G:
OK, thank you. I have to live with tiny/huge cache :-).
[Desire General] castro145:
Any way we could request a custom size from AlphaRev? I been looking for an email or anything but can't find anything. I think if we had enough people interested we might be able to get something worked up. Any thoughts?

I would be up for may be 180-190M /system , 25-40M /cache, and rest in /data
[Desire General] jastonas:
Hello! I am trying to s-off my desire. I am using ubuntu 10.10 and virtualbox 4 and i get stuck on waiting for your device...

Nothing seems to happen.

Debugging is enabled.
[Desire General] EViollet:
Try burning a bootable CD ROM. I couldn't get it to work either using VirtualBox.
[Desire General] jastonas:
Will it work with a usb stick? My pc lacks a cd-rom...
[Desire General] [Z][E][U][S]:
Yea it will. Follow this tutorial.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=805811
[Desire General] EViollet:
I don't see why not. If you know how to make a bootable USB stick, you should be OK.
[Desire General] Johny_G:
Well, this is tricky. I have different needs for each ROM I use. Currently, it would be 90/

50/the_rest.
[Desire General] castro145:
very true and totally understand that, thats where may be have another image that would be similar to the Bravo Oxygen, just with a bigger cache, that would satisfy your purpose.

I wouldn't think creating few of these variations would be a too big of a process or a deal as the AlphaRev folks have few different right now, but then again I am not sure what the process entails in creating some of the more custom/various size partition images.

Anybody from AlphaRev may be comment?
[Desire General] Thanos47:
Hello guys I got a problem with installing the hboot.

I completed installed the S-off but I can't do this .

When I'm typing "fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl-oxygen.img" (W/o the "-" of course) I get 'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command ,operable program or batch file .

Any idea? What's wrong ?
[Desire General] mikep99:
Have you got the sdk installed?

Are you running the command from the tools folder in the sdk?
[Desire General] Thanos47:
The SDK is installed of course I also copied the bravo_alphaspl-oxygen.img in tools folder .

But I'm running the commander of Windows , should I run another commander from the SDK tools ?
[Desire General] mikep99:
Yep, id try that. The fastboot.exe is in the tools folder
[Desire General] ieftm:
We don't do custom sizes, unless it's specific sizes for much-used roms.

This is to avoid fragmentation, where every user wants a corner-case size.

I also haven't seen any argumentation for having those sizes. You would need to specify exact sizes, and think those through before requesting them.

I can't really see why you would be unable to use Data++ for the above purpose. What's the point of having 40M cache?
[Desire General] Thanos47:
Here comes the next problem :D

fastboot.exe seems to hate me :p because it requires a missed .dll

"The program can't start because adbwinapi.dll is missing from your computer. try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."

I've got a .dll but I found on a random site & when I'm running the fastboot with it the commander appears and then disappears instantly .
[Desire General] castro145:
Thanks for the response I do appreciate it, and THANK YOU for the project, it is great. I happened to be using the MoDaCo r9 and it used the /cache for any of the "system" dalvik-cache files, and those are usually around 21M in total size.

But the other reason to have something at least may be 25M that way you would be left with an option of still being able to flash the radio from the recovery (as my understanding is that the /cache is used for that purpose), I would assume at least 12M would be enough as that's how much the radio sizes seem to be running, but figure 25M to have wiggle room.

I do apologize if I am way off base and am confusing the matter, after all you are the expert.
[Desire General] mikep99:
I've heard of this before but I've never encountered it.

Perhaps try installing the latest sdk (again)?
[Desire General] rvschuil:
So i am a big fan of the oxygen rom, and with some messing around with the sdk a while i was able to properly go from standard s-off to the n1table (since that was recommended at the time. But now im stuck.

I need to flash the new oxygen hboot, but fastboot wont recognize my phone. I'm quite sure i booted my phone into fastboot properly. So i think either my drivers or sdk install is messed up. But isn't there an easier way? Like a Ubuntu livedisk or something? I've already spent an hour or so trying to get it to work.
[Desire General] mikep99:
Fastboot is back button and power.

Does it say "fastboot usb"?

Debugging enabled?
[Desire General] rvschuil:
Yes, its exactly how I did it before: USB cable connected, it will say "fastboot USB". Just checking for debugging, and it was enabled, but does that influence it at all? (You mean the android setting right?)
[Desire General] mikep99:
Yep,ok...

Have you got the correct drivers installed?
[Desire General] castro145:
I had the same problem yesterday, I tried using my Windows laptop to flash a new AlphaRev image and it was not wanting to do it, so I switched over to my Mac and it worked like a charm.

To fix the windows I used USBDeview, selected all of teh Android drivers inside that software then uninstalled them. Then plugged the phone back in and when windows booted back up I pointed the install to the usb-drivers folder in the SDK folder. That fixed my windows for me.
[Desire General] rvschuil:
Ooh hey that's something I didn't think about: I also have a MacBook Pro around!

So I'll just try to get the SDK running on that this evening and see how it goes.
[Desire General] joewhite487:
hi all i am really sorry if this has already been covered and if it has then maybe someone could direct me to it but i need to s-on my desire HD. and unroot also. is this possible at all?? all/any help would be greatly appreciated
[Desire General] castro145:
Mac pro does WONDERS !!! Always worked, never any driver issues unlike my dang windows box !!! lol

Can you see no lost love for the Windows XP Laptop? lol
[Desire General] matawww:
hi everyone!

I have a strange problem trying to s-off my phone....

dont know what is the problem anymore, adb is working like a charm, it`s rooted, oxygen rc-4 running...

so please help me with this one....

here is my problem:

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

thanks in a advance!
[Desire General] castro145:
yeah there has been bunch people that have discussed this by now, but go this page and download the appropriate RUU to a Windows PC, double click the RUU and let it rip.
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
im pretty sure oxygen is a rom that causes a problem with the s-off procedure

do a nandroid backup

wipe device

flash a sense rom

run aphrev s-off

restore backup
[Desire General] Jiia:
I can't get the phone to work with the Oxygen hboot. I made a nandroid backup, flashed the oxygen hboot, wiped cache, rebooted bootloader, went to recovery, wiped everything, restored backup, rebooted and the phone gets stuck in the SPLASH. Repeated the process again but nothing changed. After the restore I get a message saying that something.log couldn't be saved because there isn't enough space on the phone. Does it work with Oxygen RC-2?
[Desire General] mikep99:
I have run s-off and flashed the oxygen hboot successfully this morning

If you're having problems with space, ensure that /system and /cache aren't to big in the nand backup you have taken.

And make sure you wipe the cache before running the nand backup

HTH
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
edit:

missread
[Desire General] matawww:
That was it....
[Desire General] Peikko:
I just downloaded the newest sdk but the tools folder has no adbwinapi.dll in it and I can't flash anything via fastboot. did I download the wrong thing?
[Desire General] zen25205:
It's in platform-tools on the windows platform!
[Desire General] alphaola:
Help. I have searched the forum but still cant solve it. I have successfully s-off. when i tried flashing bravo_alphaspl-oxygen.img using fastboot but i keep getting error: cannot load 'bravo_alphaspl-oxygen.img. i have the file in tools already.
[Desire General] bradmax57:
Ignore, post deleted
[Desire General] ogeeEn:
What Rom's are running on the bravo-sense-hboot? I tried to install leedroid 2.3 but it hangs on the Joker screen.

Sorry for my English ;)
[Desire General] :
I have no problems using LeeDrOID ROMs.
[Desire General] jastonas:
Trying to flash the oxygen hboot...

Where do I get fastboot? It doesn't seem to be anywhere in the android.linux.sdk folder.. downloaded tootls, platformtools and api...!

Where do I download it from and where do I put it?

Thank you!
[Desire General] thornofcarrion:
I tried to S-off my Desire, with the method given. Now my set is stuck at S-Off bootscreen. I have rooted it prior to it. Please help.
[Desire General] lazarost:
Reboot to recovery, and restore your rom. You did a nandroid backup didn't you ?

If not just flash a rom and you're good to go.
[Desire General] TheGhost1233:
Only the windows SDK has fastboot standard, here you can get fastboot for mac or linux.
[Desire General] Jazzerath:
A2SD+ solution for Caynogen ROM

As there's still no way to S-OFF my PVT4 ver of Desire and I prefer Cyanogen ROM over the others I finally found the solution that combines working A2SD+ with Cyanogen and all that out of the box:

Cyanogen forum: Desire, Firerat, Magpie, A2SD

I hope I do not brake any forum rules with posting the link to Caynogen forum. My only intention is to help.

And all that help and knowledge base and information from the such a big community can easily be counterproductive that u really need to struggle to find a solution even if it already exists ;).

EDIT - I'm obviously still fresh here and yes it almost happened that I brake the rule as I need to post a bit more to be able to post outside links in my messages so instead of the link I put the keywords.
[Desire General] js931:
I successfully applied Alpharev HBOOT and I want to use the Oxygen V2-RC4 ROM, which should make it possible to have a bigger data partition.... I flashed the ROM, but it does not take advantage of S-OFF and my data partition is the same (~ 148 MB)....

How can I increase the /data partition for Oxygen ROM?
[Desire General] jagabongo:
I'm already S-OFF but now i want to flash the:

bravo_alphaspl-oxygen.img

Is it possible to do that over the Terminal Emulator with:

su

flash_image hboot /sdcard/bravo_alphaspl-oxygen.img

because i have atm no pc near me ;)
[Desire General] alphaola:
Flash the hboot for oxygen. Download it from alpharev website.

I got around 300mb for Apps
[Desire General] bradmax57:
same happend to me
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
these are for smaller deodexed roms, leedroid is not one of them

use the standard table for standard sense roms as the system size is large

their naming convention for that spl could be a little clearer
[Desire General] bassjam:
Please can someone help me?

My desire is root, I want to switch to s-off to increase the capacity of data with the oxygen rom.

when i try to s-off, i have this message

sending 'hboot' (512 KB)... OKAY

writing 'hboot'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

I have to disable signature, but how??

Furthermore, when I try to s-off, it delete all zip files in the root of my sd card
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Read the first post of this thread, and the information at alpharev.nl, then it hopefully makes sense to you.
[Desire General] 10lexik:
Just go in recovery mode, go in "install zip from sdcard", then click on "toggle signatures". It will answer you that signature verification check is off ;)

For the deleting of the files, i've not seen that in all the alpharev's flashs i done ^^