yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] sjgore:
I'd already done S-OFF with AlphaRev 1.3, everything went fine. Now I just did it again with 1.5 because of the updated HBOOT, and now my phone won't boot past the fastboot screen. It goes into the white fastboot screen every time I switch the phone on. How do I get past this?

-EDIT- Solved it! I just reflashed my ROM (CyanogenMod 6 Build 129, in this case). My heart rate can now return to normal! :)
[Desire General] VK7HSE:
Not a nice feeling is it! ;-)
[Desire General] :
Finally i can copy files to /system without flashing zip files from recovery, i cant thank you enough!
[Desire General] Schnitzel77:
Hi Guys,

Sucessfully "S-Off'ed" my second Desire, who was just bought today.

It was:

H-Boot: 0.93.0001

Manufacturedate of Phone: 10.08.2010

Radio: 5.09.05.30_2

Rooted an hour ago (with Unrevoked 3.2.1) Original HTC Sense ROM

Now its S-OFF and works perfectly.

Did it under Win7 Starter on an EEE-PC with VMware Player and booted the Image File.

Thanks guys....
[Desire General] jshields:
Did this and worked 100%

burned it using power iso

booted it holding F12 at pc boot screen and selected boot from cd/dvd

pressed enter

done!

was on cyanogen nightly build

Now 100% full Rooooooooooooooot

yay
[Desire General] tobi01001:
Hi, just want to let you know: I successfully s-offed my desire with 1.5 and live cd.

However, like many others I was stuck at step 3. So I pulled the cable after one hour (just to be sure). So my heartbeat was quite high.. And I don't have the alpharev splash.

I have a German t-mobile branded phone. HBOOT was 0.83 I think and i am running LeeDrOiD 2.1a atm.

Thanks for the great hard work.
[Desire General] McT1980:
Hey all,

First post but i've been reading alot in here after i got my Desire. Rooted it a little while back and tried some custom roms.

So now the day has come to try and S-OFF it.

Created a bootable usb with the alpharev and it seemed to work pretty well but now it's stuck with a lot of error messages like:

usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71

usb 1-3: device not accepting address 2, error -71

hub 1-0: 1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3

usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110

etc.. Now this don't look good in my eyes so i've not touced my phone, it's currently on the white screen with the green HTC logo. Before all theese errors it says "Waiting for flashing to complete...."

Any ideas? Almost wetting my pants here so any help is apreciated :)
[Desire General] Handl3vogn:
Got same when i did it.

After some minutes i got some kind of flash finish message press any key to restart or somting
[Desire General] McT1980:
Well it's been 45min now :( Think it's safe to unplug and reboot?
[Desire General] Lennyuk:
yes it doesn't install anything, just runs what it needs too off the cd and when you finish and shut it down, take out the cd and your back to normal.

You can do the same thing to try Ubuntu without installing it too
[Desire General] Audioboxer:
Thanks for this :)

Anyway to change the new Alpharev splash though? No offence, but I prefer the simple HTC screen.
[Desire General] K900:
It's on the website

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] Audioboxer:
Thanks I should have read that :)
[Desire General] kino1122:
I am using the live CD method to update. I have been stuck on the "Waiting for flashing to complete" step for the past 20 minutes. The phone is still displaying the white HTC splash screen. I've read the previous posts and most of you have said that the process finishes within 5 minutes. Why is it taking so long for me? Any ideas?
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Unplug the device after half an hour, then restart and everything should be fine.

Regards,

Hallydamaster
[Desire General] niaoRen:
I've successfully gone through all the steps with the live cd.

Now my phone boots up but when ever i turn it back on, it auto boots to the fastboot page. Tried removing the battery and boot but still the same.

Tried rebooting from clockwork and also fastboot screen. both method doesnt allow me to boot up my phone...
[Desire General] 2000impreza:
I had the same issue. You need to retrieve the boot.img from a previous nandroid backup or rom and flash it using fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img). Once this has been completed, boot into recovery and recover from a nandroid backup.

If you have problems getting into recovery, reflash the recovery image using fastboot.
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
For those who need some help installing S-OFF on their Desire, try my thread.
[Desire General] vecc:
Me so happy. thanks, so happy indeed happy I am so happy! :)
[Desire General] magic_moe_:
so how do I set S-ON back?
[Desire General] K900:
Flash a	RUU

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] magic_moe_:
Thank you :)
[Desire General] shug176:
am i to create a virtual machine then plug phone in and wait?
[Desire General] iamkuza:
you can.. i just tested with vmware 7.1 using alphadev.iso

takes about 5mins to complete
[Desire General] RiotRick:
Just flashed mine. Worked perfectly.

Thx dude!
[Desire General] Kashban:
And another success:

HTC Desire AMOLED unbranded, from .80 HBOOT, on LeeDroid 2.2a.

I used VMWare Player and AlphaRevs ISO.

At the end I had to pull the plug after 30 minutes, though, and restore a nandroid backup I made beforehand.
[Desire General] mumilover:
Used the cd-method.

Worked like a charm under 3 mins.

Did it from Hboot 0.80 and the newest 5-radio.

Now i got "UNLIMITED POWER"... <- A REF TO STARWARS :0)
[Desire General] Delphineuni:
My heart was racing like mad as the phone rebooted after the 2nd part and stayed on the HTC boot screen for half an hour, started reading the whole thread until I found messages about lost USB connectivity. Thought it couldn't be any worse than it is, I removed the battery and started in fastboot to find out it had been flashed. And then it booted and I realised I needed to do a nandroid, it was painful but I can only blame myself for not keep an up to date nandroid on my computer, working now!

Thanks a lot for the S-Off!

Desire Amoled, LeeDroid 2.2a
[Desire General] zoltrix:
*posting to add to my subscriptions*
[Desire General] bubble:
No need to post a dummy message to subscribe, just use the "thread tools" menu... :rolleyes:
[Desire General] zoltrix:
oh lol :D

10char
[Desire General] Magaboo:
Another success story. Got stuck on #3 for about 1 hour, but all was done after battery removal. Used the burned CD method v1.5. on Win 7/32.

Had to re-install 'Root Manager' and 'App 2 SD', but everything else worked ok.

I am on 'teppic74' rom ("Pre-rooted Stock Froyo (2.10.405.2)").

Was on Hboot 80 with S-ON.

Now, of cause, Hboot 93 with S-OFF.

I have the 3 skate boarding androids on my boot screen and not the Joker, but that's ok with me.

Many thanks guys.
[Desire General] Ultrakiller:
Many tnx guys!!!

cd V1.50

from 0.80 to 0.93 without problems by VirtualBox on win7 x64 (just 1 min to do 3° step)
[Desire General] patrickrivard:
Not a GSM phone !!!!!?????

I tried the CD method got to the Disclaimer screen; plug the phone; and it said that the phone was not a GSM phone and comeback when you know what your doing... or something similar.

I know for a fact that this is a GSM phone as it is now operating on the ROGERS network which does not offer anything else than GSM...

Anyone can help here?
[Desire General] Magaboo:
If you have SIM card installd = GSM

If you do not need a SIM card = CDMA

I assume that you are rooted!?
[Desire General] patrickrivard:
Tanks for thé 101 in GSM...

Of course "Rooted"!

Any other useful comments?

It is simple, the SW says my phone is not GSM when in fact it is... There has to be a logical cause for that message to be displayed...

The only thing that I have done so far is to "Root" it and SIM unlock it...

Thanks for any help.
[Desire General] kitwo:
Hi Guys I need some serious help, my fone has been rebooting randomly after putting on leedroid's latest release, I then tried s-off, but it will go into android, but I can't get boot into recovery.

When selecting from Hboot, it bring me to the S-off splashscreen but doesn't go anywhere. I was using clockwork recovery from my SD card.

A worse thing is my fone still restarts randomly, HELP!!!!!
[Desire General] Lennyuk:
you probably need to reflash a recovery again.
[Desire General] kitwo:
I'd like to do that but unrevoked doesnt let me flash a custom recovery image (it boots back into android), rom manager get stuck at the same splash page,

any other ideas
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@kitwo

You have to flash another recovery image, and you have to flash it via the new fastboot capabilities.

Download Android SDK, download a new recovery image eg. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=725978

Move the img file to the Android tools folder (where fastboot.exe is located) and reboot you device to where it says fastboot. Connect your device to the computer with the cable, and open up a command prompt.

Navigate to the tools directory and type:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

substitute recovery.img with the filename of you recovery image.
[Desire General] peterrus:
This worked like a charm. Thanks alot!
[Desire General] kitwo:
Cheers mate, I'll give it a go
[Desire General] kitwo:
it worked, cheers mate
[Desire General] ieftm:
The older bootloader says *** AlphaRev ***.

The newest one has --- AlphaRev ---. Subtle difference.

I did not want to mess with hboot version number as to make sure

we don't break anything like RUUs, or OTAs.
[Desire General] kai84m:
Thank you, good to know.

I subconsciously noticed that there is a difference when I was in Hboot - now I know what it is ;)

Thank you again - Great work I'm so grateful that we have S-Off for GSM Desire now, and we can even change our Radio!
[Desire General] STONEMC:
Can I install all CWM Recoverys? Or only the 2.5.0.7?
[Desire General] K900:
In theory, any will do. Though in practice, why install older versions?

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
Can I just extract a radio.img from an update .zip file and flash using fastboot flash radio radio.img ?

Is this safer than using an update .zip from recovery?
[Desire General] ASD2003ru:
Yes.

If you use Custom MTD Partitions, only this method recommendeted.
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
I don't at the moment, but I may in the future.

Does the fastboot method reboot the device a couple of times like the recovery method? Just so I know what to expect?

Is the fastboot method safer?
[Desire General] mumilover:
This can only be described with following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCaf3n3n86U&feature=related
[Desire General] caudex:
can';t get this to install. getting signature verify fail

not sure what i am doing wrong.

anyone help?
[Desire General] laurence0609:
Sorry for the noob question but where do you normally find Android tools folder in your Desire phone? Could not find it. Thanks for the help!
[Desire General] Rudolfje:
'Android Tools' is part of the Android SDK.

You won't find it on your phone.

Download the SDK and check the 'tools' folder.
[Desire General] horst0815:
if i have s'offed my phone successfully, and flashed the hboot update from 1.5 via fastboot again: is there any way to see, if the flash was ok? i did it, it seemed to work, but i want to be on the safe side :)
[Desire General] Kashban:
Sure, just boot into fast boot by pressing volume- while powering up. You should then see a modded fast boot screen with an alpha rev message and the indicator s-off.

Regards,

Kashban

---

Send from my HTC Desire using XDA app
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
See the quote above from ieftm.
[Desire General] horst0815:
yeah, i already had that screen before, right? with s'off actually, but NOT the included update of hboot from alpha rev 1.5

edit: nv, just saw reply of StuMcBill, so thanks buddies :)
[Desire General] joe_998:
Has anyone done this with Pinky 1.8 ROM?
[Desire General] K900:
Bury it, Pinky D is dead

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] joe_998:
Why would I do that?

Excluding the HD ROMs what can any of the other ROM's on offer do that Pinky ROM can't?
[Desire General] N3m3515:
I did it with pinky. Worked with virtualbox
[Desire General] joe_998:
Thanks for your reply, going to give it a try when I get home :D
[Desire General] flywyh:
I had s-off and flash new hboot AlphaRev HBOOT for Bravo (N1 mod).

My Desire can't boot now.

How can i do?
[Desire General] enigmatical:
Sorry for the noob question. I have been flashing the alphaRev s-off using the VM method and I made it to step 3 but it has been hanging on the htc screen for about 2 hours now, is it safe to reboot?
[Desire General] Timebreak:
great work with this tool, alpharev team:) work wonderful, was finish in under 5 min:D

i used usb method
[Desire General] enigmatical:
Please help someone. it is still stuck, almost 2 ½ hour now... :-( can I reboot and I try a different method?
[Desire General] Egan:
Reboot and your phone is most likely fine :).
[Desire General] enigmatical:
Okay this is weird... I pulled the batteri out and when I rebooted the phone, it showed the Alpharev image... does this mean it worked? It didnt give me any finish message when flashing...
[Desire General] enigmatical:
By the way, thanks for replying :-)
[Desire General] patrickrivard:
Not a GSM phone !!!!!?????

SOLVED

Google is truly a men best friend

Anyone has any Idea why I get a message that says;

Not a GSM phone... comeback when you know what you're doing????

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.83.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101

RADIO-4.08.00.09

JUN 10 2010
[Desire General] enigmatical:
Now I cant flash my rom all over, it keeps saying "failure" at the recovery screen, what can I do?
[Desire General] enigmatical:
I have recovery but I cant flash any roms at all, it keeps saying this: E:Failure at line 8: copy_dir PACKAGE:data DATA: installation aborted.

What does it mean? Do I need to try and flash s-off again?
[Desire General] Twau:
Great work on the new N1-table hboot!

Does it make use of the /cache mtd partition too? Thinking of dalvik-cache.

Best Regards
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
since i found out, my problem is also connected to the alpharev spl, might i pull your attention to my brick-thread?

i guess using alpharev hboot my save my ass - still not sure how to create the partitions again.
[Desire General] ourfear:
I boot my pc use the alpharev cd, and try to s-off my desire

but when connect to usb, alpharev said :"can't recognize your device"... tried 3 times.

then i boot my phone to fastboot mode... found my phone is S-OFF

below is my phone info as below:

--------------

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT 0.80

MICROP-031d

--------------

now my question is: i want to use the bravo_alphaspl-n1table.img , how can i do? and i have recovery 2.5.0.1 already, should i need to flash a new one?
[Desire General] Kashban:
If you see that image the flash process was successful. Verify this by booting to fast boot, you should see s-off there.
[Desire General] MichelN:
Can someone tell me what unrevoked means by this ? http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked3

#

Does this permanently unlock the NAND flash on my phone?

Yes. The default configuration of this tool disables the phone's security, which also disables the NAND locks placed on the storage by the bootloader. If you choose not to disable security, the /system partition will be read-only after the tool completes.

#

How do I re-enable security on my device?

If you wish to re-enable security on your device, please follow the instructions for S-ON on the unrEVOked forever page.

Does their tool use s-off too ???? because if i use unrevoked i don't need this right ?
[Desire General] websinister:
based on their site, these phones are the only with permanent S-OFF:

unrevoked3 will permanently unlock NAND write protection by default on the following phones:

* Sprint EVO 4G

* Droid Incredible (HTC Incredible)

* HTC Desire CDMA (HTC BravoC)
[Desire General] MichelN:
What is CDMA ??? All i know is that i have a HTC Desire/Bravo with Amoled screen and froyo 2.2 :)
[Desire General] mike1986.:
I flashed my Desire with AlphaRev 1.20 some days ago and now I want to update my spl. So I did it via fastboot with bravo_alphaspl.img. On the main page it's written:

So now I have 1.50? How can I check it?

Thanks
[Desire General] MichelN:
Anyone :confused:
[Desire General] K900:
If you have a sim card,then this is for you. If you don't have one, use unrevoked instead.

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] MichelN:
HTC Desire CDMA: http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Desire-CDMA-phone-pa_4590.html

HTC Desire: http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Desire-phone-pa_4281.html
[Desire General] aleksei87:
I flashed the new hboot with nexus partition layout. It works great, thank you! :)
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
its simple. you need unrevoked first, to get root access and (nearly more important) get a modified recovery running. unrevoked mainly disables signature check for new packages - root is a nice side effect.

so, now you got a rooted device, go to recovery and flash a custom rom (if your phone is sim-locked, you wanna search a goldcard thread first) [this is optional - but custom roms often offer advantages over stock roms]

grats! now you have a custom rom - you can go for s-off. the main advantage of s-off is, you can remount /system to rw and you can flash all partitions (except misc) via fastboot. also the alpharev s-off patch requires you to have a rooted phone already

hope that helps^^
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
check is easy - go to bootloader (power off your device, press and hold vol down while pressing power on) - you are now in the bootloader. if the first line mentions alpharev and the next line contains "S-OFF" instead of the factory "S-ON", you know you got a modified spl already

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_division_multiple_access - google helps!
[Desire General] mike1986.:
You didn't understand me :) I had S-OFF before with this tool but version 1.20. Now I want to check if I successfully updated to 1.50 with bravo_alphaspl.img
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
If you go into fastboot the alpharev at the top should have dashes instead of stars.

Sent from my Amiga 500 using Workbench
[Desire General] horst0815:
look here, helped me alot :)
[Desire General] ieftm:
Both N1Table and Sense (for deodexed Sense roms) tables are available, check the website :)
[Desire General] ~David:
Awesome! :)

Just to clarify, no other steps are required after flashing a version with a modified partition table?

P.S. On your site, you wrote "...like the one for the Nexus One (bigger /cache, reduced /system)...". Unless I misunderstood, I think you meant to have that the other way around :P
[Desire General] ourfear:
first thank ief help my dev phone (PB992****) :)

1. should i need to flash N1Table again before i flash a new open desire rom?

2. i forget "fastboot erase cache" , but i flashed the 2.5.0.7 recovery and wiped data/factory before i flashing rom, is it ok? i can flash via recovery.
[Desire General] deeeez:
I have read the last 20 odd pages, can someone please confirm what the latest 1.5 is for.

From the main page I am assuming that there is a different Hboot for normal android and one for Sense roms?

If so what is the reason, because i am currently S-OFF and have used both types of roms with no problem.
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
The description is right. On system you put the Rom. It's usually protected by s-on an cannot be written. So unused space there is wasted. Bit bigger cache can speed up things. Data is the part, where your apps and settings go. So smaller system makes bigger data...
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
It's the same hoot for every Rom. Only thing is: there are 2 hboots with different partition tables. Take the default one, and you are fine with all find. Just wasting a bit of hdd space if you use an non-sense Rom. But a2sd can silver this:-)
[Desire General] basthet:
Just wondering - I tried to install Metamorph, however it is always quiting with the message complaining about missing space in /system

I am on DeFrost 5.3 - might it be, that the partition table is a bit too small dimensioned?
[Desire General] TymmyD:
So using MCR r9. Appstosd+ how does it make use of the enlarged cache partition?

Just use Appstosd? So without moving dalvik to SD?

Thanks.
[Desire General] TymmyD:
Also with this partition table are we ok to flash radio from recovery. I first used the custom patch which prevents this only allowing radio flash via fastboot.

Thanks

.
[Desire General] waffl:
Hi I flashed the sense hboot. How do I revert to the old partitioning ?
[Desire General] bemymonkey:
Flash the one for updating to 1.5's hboot maybe? Just guessing here :p
[Desire General] waffl:
I flashed the Sense HBOOT and also encountered symlink error during installation of LeeDroid2.2a ROM

Yeah I flashed the one for 1.5 HBOOT
[Desire General] bemymonkey:
This link: http://alpharev.nl/bravo_alphaspl.img

from here

"If you are already S-OFF, you can get our newest patched HBOOT (without going through the entire procedure again), from AlphaRev HBOOT for Bravo here. (MD5Sum: 2092edb4aa79638199e3165a99896b0f)."

on

http://alpharev.nl/

?

That should have the original partition sizes AFAICT...
[Desire General] waffl:
Oh sorry :)

I'm flashing the default 1.5 HBOOT now. The previous one I did was 1.5 for Sense :p

Edit: It worked ! Thanks !!!!
[Desire General] SeanyC:
Wow thanks. This worked a treat
[Desire General] basthet:
The link Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7 recovery image for bravo

in the first post is dead, can s.o. please help out?
[Desire General] bobbenedetti:
I was one of the early adopters with version 1.0 on a slcd Desire. Is there any point in going through the process again with 1.5?

I alternate between two ROMs Leedroid and RCMixHD
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
i would suggest updating, if you got the 1.0 version.

from alpharev.nl

so a lot of fixes - you dont have to do the iso-process anymore, you can flash fastboot directly via fastboot - instructions on mentioned homepage
[Desire General] horst0815:
here you go: klick
[Desire General] ourfear:
after applied N1Table and flashed a new rom, now i found 2 dalvik-cache, /cache/dalvik-cache and /data/dalvik-cache, is it normal?
[Desire General] mr_dinosaur:
Same here.

I just checked mine and it's the same with me. Unless I am mistaken I though all dalvik-cache will now be in the cache partition. But, it looks like all apps in the system partition dump their dalvik-cache in the /cache partition while, apps in the data partition is using /data/dalvik-cache.

Is this how it's supposed to be.
[Desire General] ourfear:
my 95mb cache now only used 37MB :-(

can i move /data/dalvik-cache to /cache ?
[Desire General] Caffeine81:
What does that mean? I'm very disappointed by the standard partitions of the HTC Desire (/data way too small). I'm currently running CyanogenMod 6.0 on my Desire.

Can I flash these HBOOTs? Do I have to reinstall CM afterwards? Do they even work with CM?

Please help ;)