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[Desire General] Kameo:
Hi guys, my Desire is already s-off.

Just to be 100% sure, if i want to flash a specific recovery with fastboot i have to reboot to fastboot and type this:

Am i right?
[Desire General] SystemS83:
Finaly S-OFF!

It worked with 1.4!

No more BadBlocks anymore!

No i can install every Rom i like :D

Big Hug to everyone
[Desire General] peewster:
No more bad blocks???

So you can flash any rom now?
[Desire General] Sector51:
read the entire thread...

what is so great about s-off??

what will change for us?? Want can/can't we do?

Can't get a real answer to these questions...
[Desire General] hk5354:
the /system must be mount with R/W after S-OFF?

Can it mount with read only?
[Desire General] 9600pro87:
Another Desire S-OFF with 1.4 version on usb stick made with unetbootin.
[Desire General] annewbie:
That's right. Mine was with HBOOT 0.83 and I did this just 2 days ago.

Can't decide which boot screen I am going to use now. :p
[Desire General] SystemS83:
@peewster

no more BadBlocks ;) I tryed and i can install any Rom i want! Thats great and the Reason i´m S-OFF!

@Sector51

For me the answer is clear. S-OFF make´s it possible to me (BadBlocks) to install any Rom i want. Thats why S-OFF is great. Off course for me :D
[Desire General] nikosrs4:
OpenDesire 4.0.30

s-off successfully :D

before: HBOOT 0.75 unbranded.
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
With opendesire .33 and root explorer: yes.
[Desire General] chrisvx:
Version 1.4 finally worked correctly on my basicly stock Telstra ROM (Android 2.1, Unrevoked). However it would not boot into the main Android - it would just hang with the Joker screen diplaying. Tried Nandroid restore as other people have reported having to do - no change. Tried restoring just Boot, Everything, Wiping then restoring, formating everything then restoring - nothing worked. Had to restore boot using the rom.zip from an update RUU and using HBoot.

This seems to be fairly repeatable - happened two times as described above.

Does any one have any ideas on how to find out what is going wrong with the booting process?
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
Have you try on irc ? The guys are friendly and competent.

irc.freenode.net, channel #alpharev
[Desire General] chrisvx:
Will try later on. Just about to head off to work and require the phone to be a phone not a paper weight :)
[Desire General] b3ndik:
Not sure if i'm willing to take the risk. will there be a riskfree version of this? :)
[Desire General] aquaphun:
in short: no, coz if hboot flash bricks, no computer will be able to recognize the phone
[Desire General] ieftm:
Any time you flash anything, a Rom, or even a radio (!!) you risk bricking stuff.

This isn't more dangerous than flashing a radio and encountering some unexpected error.

Therefore, there's no such thing as riskfree. As safe as possible, that's what this is.
[Desire General] ClassicalGas:
Worked flawlessly on Defrost 4.9. Heading back to OD though :)

Thanks!!!
[Desire General] radiosilence:
Just did it, phone is fine!

Thanks guys, I'll donate when I get paid.
[Desire General] bwells88:
I was wondering what are teh best apps that you could use to take advantage of S-OFF?

I've seen Root Explorer a few times... any suggestions?... Cheers 8)

Phone: HTC Desire A8181 (ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.0.7)

ROM: [FroYo Sense] LeeDrOiD V2.1a A2SD+

Radio: 32.48.00.32U_5.11.05.14

HBoot: 0.93 AlphaRev S-Off

Sent from My Igloo via dog sled

EDIT~ god damn I wish I could spell "the"... lol
[Desire General] laurensdekoning:
I just ran Alpharev 1.4 it with great success. Here are some of my details:

HTC Desire A8181 (unbranded)

HBOOT: 0.80

ROM: OpenDesire 4.0.33

I ran Alpharev 1.4 from VMware Workstation 7.1.0, this is pretty easy and works like a charm. Just download the Alpharev 1.4 ISO image and create a Virtual Machine with Operating System "Other Linux 2.6.x kernel" and link the AlphaRev ISO image to this VM.

Make sure you follow all the steps (like enable USB debugging on your phone) and it will work for you ;)

--EDIT--

Finally AdFree works without errors now too! :D
[Desire General] Stretlow:
I believe mine has worked fine although I have noticed that its changed my hboot from 80 to 93 is that correct?

I thought there was a problem with rooting and 0.93
[Desire General] Redgoblin:
There was, but with the magnificent tool Unrevoked 3.21 there's no problem rooting with hboot 0.93. This is how I did it.
[Desire General] Stretlow:
I was rooted before applying s-off, i should still have my root shouldnt I?
[Desire General] Rudolfje:
Yes, S-OFF doesn't affect your rooting.
[Desire General] Kazuya17:
Works perfectly using VMware Fusion on a Hackintosh.

Thanks.
[Desire General] Pirlouis:
I all,

I tried all night long to apply SOff but now, I got a problem with it.

My Desire is Orange Fr - Froyo (official HTC RUU on it), rooted with Unrevoked 3.21 and then, I installed Leedroid 2.1a.

I've burned the ISO file and booted from CD.

Everything was OK until step 3. Splash screen stil display after 1h waiting.

So I decided to restart process but problem still occurs.

Now, my Desire is not able to boot and freeze on startup, on splash screen.

Can you help me please ? I can't even apply RUU file :(

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Here is what I got in HBOOT menu:

*** AlphaRev ***

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.93-0001

MICROP-0301d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.09.05.30.2
[Desire General] superfloup:
@Pirlouis

Go on this website.

Download PB99IMG_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed_txt.zip (the second link).

Rename this file to PB99IMG.zip and put it at the root of your SD card.

Boot the phone in Bootloader and follow the indications on screen.

Now your phone should be on Android 2.1. Then root your phone with unrEVOked 3.21, apply AlphaRev HBOOT (v1.4) and flash a new ROM ;)
[Desire General] Pirlouis:
Merci :)

I've put the Leedroid 2.1a zip on SDCard and installed it from recovery.

Everything is ok now, telephon is usable.

How do I boot the phone in bootloader ?

The new Rom flashing do not remove HBoot-S Off ?
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
No no, stop stop!!

His HBOOT HAS been updated!

@Pirlouis

You just have to restore nandroid backup, and everything should be fine and you have S-OFF! I hope you have not done what superfloup told you!

EDIT:

If the only thing you have done is to flash a new ROM then you have successfully flashed the S-OFF, and you do not have to do anything further...

Too boot in bootloader just hold the power off button until you see the popup menu, and choose restart, then you have the option to boot in bootloader! ;)
[Desire General] superfloup:
You're welcome ;)

Great if your phone is now ok.

To boot in bootloader press Power + Vol- .

Custom ROMs don't remove S-OFF but official RUUs do ! Since you flashed LeeDrOiD 2.1a, you don't need to apply S-OFF another time. To be sure, check if HBOOT is S-OFF on bootloader.

Edit : arf hallydamaster, too fast for me ;)
[Desire General] Pirlouis:
Thank you both of you.

I reboot my Desire in bootloader mode and I till see AlphaRev HBoot S-Off.

So I "succesfully" operate the upgrade :p

OUF :)
[Desire General] TieT:
NM its fixed, just flashed a custom recovery image thru fastboot

im having the same problem as pirlouis

My phone is hanging in bootscreen

normally i flash it with this ruu

RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.3_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121865

But since it doesnt boot up im screwed... cant get in the recovery it just sits on the why so serious screen

any help ?
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@TieT

Pull the battery, put it back in. Power on the device holding Volume Down.

This should get you to the bootloader menu.

There you can try use recovery to restore a nandroid backup. If you have not made a nandroid backup, then flash your current ROM over it.

Doesnt any of this work, you have to reflash a new recovery image.
[Desire General] TieT:
:) thx

NM its fixed, just flashed a custom recovery image thru fastboot
[Desire General] twics:
How long is stage 3 suppose to take iv been stuck on the HTC splash for about 25mins
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@twicks

Not more than a few seconds as I have read.

It did the same with mine, I just pulled the cable and removed battery after 30 minutes. Had to do full nand restore and everything was ok, and S-OFF successful.

The alpharev splash didnt flash though...
[Desire General] shokwaav:
Are you using virtualbox? you'll need to reconnect HTC android device again. Mine was stuck on HTC splash with the black bar for a while too but all I needed to do was reconnect the phone to.virtualbox :-)
[Desire General] twics:
Ok thanks for your reply.
[Desire General] STONEMC:
Does this s-off HBOOT writing take any effects of my SD-card? For example delete my SD card? Or is everything still the same as before, only with s off?
[Desire General] twics:
iv achieved s-off however forgot to do nand and now phones keeps booting into bootloader, from recovery will I have to start from scratch meaning full wipe and reinstall of leedriod rom or can I just flash without wipeing

thanks, sorry if this is noob question, i dont feel like a noob:) been flashing roms and so on for while now.

Edit> decided to do full wipe
[Desire General] twics:
@STONEMC

from what iv seen everything stays on sd card which is why I was wondering if to do a full wipe or just flash the rom again.
[Desire General] STONEMC:
Oh...so I do have to install a new rom?
[Desire General] twics:
I would say restore nandroid backup or just flash rom again, I did full wipe to be on the safe side.
[Desire General] Hooolm:
success

I did it, all went well!

Don't know how many details you like, so...

I burned AlphaRev 1.40 to a TDK cdr using CDBurnerXP at 8x.

Booted it up on an antique pc (2002) and followed the on-screen instructions.

Walked away and had a coffee while the software did its thing.

(Christgau's Java Columbia, freshly ground, if you must know...)

When I came back it was done.

No bootloops.

No loss of recovery.

HBOOT 0.80.0000 >> 0.93.0001

Unbranded AMOLED

OpenDesire 4.0.33

32.48.00.32U_5.11.05.14
[Desire General] GoldenAvatar:
I thought

RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.10.405.2_R_Radio_32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_142828_signed.exe

was the most up-to-date ROM?
[Desire General] TieT:
that was my original RUU
[Desire General] GoldenAvatar:
Mine too, after the OTA to 2.2.1.

So what's newer?
[Desire General] zerocool76:
Done it with no problems.I did nothing after flash and the phone was like before but with new bootloader with s-off :)

AuraxTSense 7.8.1

Boot was o.80 -> 0.93 s-off
[Desire General] quimpires:
Why APP2SD don't work on my desire rooted and alpharev stock rom?

Any one can explain that? Thanks
[Desire General] STONEMC:
I did it....nothing changed....only s-off :)
[Desire General] harvestdroid:
Did it this afternoon, stuck on step 3 for almost an hour..then plug out the cable and pull the battery, press volume down + power..than BAM!!

Magic happens..my desire is now S-OFF.. :D

Thanks for all your hard work... :)
[Desire General] twics:
I wonder why some of us get smooth sailing and some of us have to restore nandroid or flash rom again:confused:
[Desire General] rogerrally:
HTC desire fastboot only

Can anyone point me in the right direction for correcting my HTC desire.

History:

Brand new T-Mobile HTC desire with android 2.1release1, used revoked3, fine then tried to OTA to 2.2.

Now the phone does not boot and i can only get fastboot access, NO adb access.

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.10.05.17_2

Aug 10 2010,17:52:18
[Desire General] Redgoblin:
I used unetbootin-windows-490 to make a bootable USB-stick.

Booted the stick and waited... then I read the onscreen instructions...

Unplugged my phone, enabled USB-debugging and plugged my phone in again... then it only took a minute or two and it was done :)
[Desire General] xtcislove:
@ the guys who need to reflash there ROM or restore theire nandroid backup:

Did you select fastboot and then reboot after the Hboot flash was done? If u do this your phone will boot up to android in my way this was it !
[Desire General] twics:
I think I may have done that:o
[Desire General] Hrafnahnef:
Nope...

FAIL... :(

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.80.0000

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.09.05.30_2

Mar 29 2010,21:34:33

ROM: CM 6.0.2

ClockWorkMod 2.5.0.7

Method: VirtualBox running on Arch Linux

AlphaRev: 1.4

Description:

* In step 3/3, green HTC logo is displayed as normal, when suddenly VirtualBox powers down and the HTC logo on the phone is replaced by the standard CM boot screen. Nu clue was given what went wrong, but S-ON is still there and flashing the splash1 certainly doesn't work...

fastboot flash splash1 splash1.img

sending 'splash1' (750 KB)... OKAY

writing 'splash1'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
[Desire General] TieT:
Try again but with the live cd.
[Desire General] ckpv5:
This is awesome... what a great way to S-Off... thanks :)
[Desire General] nitrox1:
S-off with live cd, very easy.

I think 2 more line of instructions, from the boot up of the cd would be good.

T-mobile uk desire, unlocked by code.

HBOOT 7.5

Defrost 4.9

Radio 11.05.14

Total time no more than 5 minutes, part 3, only 2 minutes.

Thanks again

Sent from the 25th century.
[Desire General] Jamin_1:
Hey guys I'm looking forward to activate s-off.

I have 2 questions:

I didn't know if I has a SLCD or not, how can I check this and is there anything to take care when I has a slcd?

Thanks.
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@Jamin_1

If you read the alpharev page it tells you that you do not have to worry if it is AMOLED or SLCD...
[Desire General] Jamin_1:
Thank you very much hallydamaster, I'm at work and so didn't have the time to read all. Now I'm happy and can't wait till evening.
[Desire General] inkredi:
I lose all my apps when I reboot...

OpenDesire .32

CM apps settings: Internal

I have ext3 sd-ext partition.

I always wipe everything when flashing new rom

When I reinstall any of those apps it detects them as already installed, and they only appear in drawer when replaced (reinstalled)

I went back to .32 after .33 failed..

any help please?:confused:
[Desire General] Pavelol:
i want to understand something.

i burned a live CD i rebooted my computer and now the cd is booted.

should i boot my phone into fastboot? or bootloader? and then connect the usb cable? or i missing something?
[Desire General] TieT:
You have to read the instructions

Just turn the phone on ...
[Desire General] owh786:
Windows 7 64-bit VirtualBox

running windows 7 64-bit. Using VirtualBox.

Ran the ISO, its working fine. But it's stuck on the

"Waiting for your device..." line.

I enabled USB on the virtualbox, but i got an error from Windows saying that the USB installation for Virtualbox was unsuccessful.

Can anyone help?

Really want S-OFF!!!!!!!!!

BTW, I have stock 2.2 rooted.

HBOOT 0.93
[Desire General] owh786:
OK. Just successfully ran the Virtualbox after closing the app and restarting, woohoo, S-OFF!!!!!!!
[Desire General] chrisvx:
Finally got Android working by installing the boot partition extracted from a slightly later RUU. There was obviously some mismatch with this latest HBoot vs an older 2.1 kernel.

It's a fairly painless procedure now to flash anything you like :) Thanks for all the good work.
[Desire General] fossean:
Good result! S-OFF!

Successfully used Alpharev 1.4 on bootable CD and flashed new HBoot over 0.80.

Just have one question, is it OK to delete the folder at /data/alpha? Searched, and someone posted a similar question a few pages back, but as yet no reply.
[Desire General] chrisvx:
After you have successfully completed the process they are not required.

I deleted them after saving them off to my computer. You get back about 7.5mb in your data partition by doing this - so definitely worth doing. You can also delete the log file: /data/alpharev.log
[Desire General] 345050804:
Success! Nice work!Thank you!
[Desire General] 2000impreza:
Just donated. It's nice having the flexibility to use fastboot commands.

I did run into a issue when I ran s-off a few days ago. The battery died on step 3. I swapped in my spare battery not knowing it was almost empty. After realizing fastboot commands work and with the help of someone on #alpharev IRC, I was able to recover my device using fastboot to reflash my nandroid backup manually. Very thankful for the help on IRC since I thought I bricked the device.
[Desire General] The_limit:
am waiting till this is integrated into unrevoked.. unrevoked was really safe and easy but booting a livecd/using virtualbox.. why not just integrate into unrevoked and release as unrevoked 3.22?
[Desire General] Jamin_1:
HELP HELP HELP

Want to set my Desire s-off.

All seems ok but after 4min in step 3 my PC monitor is black and on my Desire is the green htc logo.

HBoot0.83.0001

what can I do now?
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@Jamin_1

Most people who ran into this problem waited for about 30 minutes, and then pulled the battery. After this, it should be safe, and noone has bricked yet.

It is still recommended to contact the alpharev team through IRC to consult!
[Desire General] Pavelol:
guys i need a little help.

i did the full process and my phone boot to my rom as should be and my hboot changed to but i cant enter to the recovery anymore when i'm trying to enter i got the joker picture and thats it! nothing change!

what can i do?

btw i'm using clockworkmode latest recovery via rom mangar\fake flash method.
[Desire General] G03M0N:
worked like a charm with unetbootin, from hboot 0.80 to 0.93 S-OFF. total time less than 5 minutes

thank you!
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Download a new recovery image and the Android SDK if you do not have it already.

Boot phone into fastboot, and connect it to the computer. Open a console and go to the directory where you installed the Android SDK.

In the console type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

substitute "recovery.img" with the name of your recovery image or rename the image to recovery.img
[Desire General] Jamin_1:
THX that was the right answer :)

best thing what you can do is ask the alpharev team :D
[Desire General] Pavelol:
thx u very very very much =] worked like a charm!!!

now i can finally say this: another satisfied customer of ALPHAREV

HBOOT- 75 now 93

modaco r9

S-OFF =]
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
Hi guys, have tried the above method but to no avail. I have the phone booting fine but its decided it doesn't want to go to the market and when I try to get into recovery it just goes the the joker screen, adb doesn't show it as listed. Any help would be mega, thanks.
[Desire General] mr_rx7_:
Hi all.. just to post my experience. I ran the .ISO through Parallels 6 on my Macbook Pro running OSX 10.6.4. It got stuck on the 'Waiting for flashing to complete...' section of Step 3. I waited circa 30 mins, asked for help on the IRC channel. No one responded so I pulled the USB cable and battery, restarted and all is well. I have S-Off (verified through the Why So Serious image and HBOOT 0.93 S-OFF in the bootloader)!

Although when booting into Android, I get a heap of FCs on the android system, some frameworks, Gmail, etc. I'm going to try a full wipe and flashing LeeDroid 2.2 to see how it goes.

HTC Desire - SLCD - T-Mobile branded with HBOOT 0.75.

Rooted with Unrevoked 3.21 using psfmod-r0.4

Running LeeDroid v2.1a
[Desire General] Deathisfatal:
Great success with V1.4 and Telstra A8183, thanks very much! Now running native Linux :D
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Hi there... Any update on how it went? Just curious! ;)
[Desire General] ukshadow:
thanx this worked great im now s-off running opendesire and playing with my splash screen.
[Desire General] O.D.B:
Worked great!

HTC Desire, Telenor, Running LeeDroid v2.1a
[Desire General] Pinni3:
I burned the img file on cd but cant boot it....

Also when I used Virtual box and I start to boot it...It says that it cant boot..

wtf is with it ? what do I need to do (I'm @ win 7 x64)...

thx for reply
[Desire General] mr_rx7_:
Works perfectly now! :D
[Desire General] MaelXca:
Bummer...

Did a buddy's phone and worked perfectly. Did mine right after and I cannot get past bootloader...

Any ideas???
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@MaelXca

Wait 30 minutes, pull battery, restore nandroid, everything should be fine...

Otherwise consult alpharev at IRC!
[Desire General] alienwolf426:
hey, i'm running defrost 5.0 and when i run

fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-bravo.img

I'm in the fastboot mode and the top of the phone says "FASTBOOT USB"

i get the following error.

sending 'recovery' (4216 KB)... OKAY

writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

...

what do i do? any help please? are there any instructions somewhere that I'm completely missing?
[Desire General] hk5354:
Sorry , Got it:p
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@hk5354

Yes, appearently you do. It seems that they have altered the HBOOT being flashed to the device.
[Desire General] hk5354:
THX:D

just found :

You can flash this from fastboot mode, using 'fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img'.
[Desire General] romracer:
Does the top of your fastboot say *AlphaRev* in pink/purple? If not, you need to run the utility at http://alpharev.shadowchild.nl first. Search this thread for various ways to do that.
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Nice! Where did you find the new HBOOT image?

Edit: NVM, found it!
[Desire General] kai84m:
Just Flashed AlphaRev 1.5 via fastboot! Takes just seconds!
[Desire General] plasmidium:
hi

kannst du mir das kurz erklären?

kann ich das direkt von sd karte machen und im hboot?

oder besser einfach img neu auf cd und neu drüber für vers. 1.5?

danke
[Desire General] kai84m:
Just boot Hboot into Fastboot, you can download the Hboot image from http://alpharev.shadowchild.nl/, plug in USB cable and type:

fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img

make sure you checked md5sum of the image before you flash it since hboot is critical part of the system.

you can also use the bootable cdimage again - but its done in 10 seconds via fastboot.
[Desire General] Twau:
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img

sending 'hboot' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.094s]

writing 'hboot'... OKAY [ 0.156s]

finished. total time: 0.250s

Thanks!
[Desire General] scott4:
GreatGreatGreatGreat
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
unrevoked it pretty safe because it doesnt touch the bootloader

This any failures on this has the potential to brick a device as its directly flashing the bootloader.

Windows drivers are a nightmare especially in windows7/vista 64 combinations as seen with unrevoked.

There are no driver issues with linux so there will not be another window for failure at that point.

it makes complete sense to make it bootable and there is a good reason its not yet included into unrevoked
[Desire General] BatterOnIt SC:
running from ISO disc and had the first check error running OD .28 but wiped, flashed .32 and everything went smoothly, took about 5 minutes and was done.
[Desire General] mobisat:
Right I tried this on my Desire. Put phone in Fastboot mode then did the following.

C:\>cd android\tools

C:\Android\tools>fastboot flash hboot alpharev.iso

sending 'hboot' (10792 KB)... OKAY [ 1.577s]

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

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

finished. total time: 2.766s

Any ideas ??
[Desire General] Twau:
I have a really good idea!

Try to flash the hboot .img file insteed of alpharev.iso.

Download the bravo_alphaspl.img file from their site, not the alpharev.iso.

Best Regards

(if you already have s-off and trying to upgrade hboot)
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
When I do this it says "error : cannot load "recovery.img"

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help.
[Desire General] mobisat:
C:\Android\tools>fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img

sending 'hboot' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.099s]

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

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

finished. total time: 0.157s
[Desire General] mobisat:
Ah, the first time I do S-off I have to use the Live cd version ??