yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] veitograf:
anyone knows what to do?
[Desire General] faddys123:
Hi I am rooted and my hboot is 0.93.00000001 but I tried to s off but I get an error I have attached a picture off the problem
[Desire General] thanito:
i am trying to s-off my desire but it always stucks in step 3, I am attaching a photo.

Please help:(
[Desire General] Tillus:
best way to a solution is probably asking in alpharev's irc-channel.
[Desire General] faddys123:
Can you provide me a link please??
[Desire General] 3tybagig:
Thanks.

I'm unsure what rom was on the phone when we tried the CD. I've now replaced the ROM with the Latest RCMiX-s (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=988570)

Not sure if Hboot says Alpharev or S-OFF. I sent my buddy home. I'll get the phone back and check.

At this stage should I do a full wipe and replace the rom with a standard ASOP ROM like Oxy and then run Alpharev again?

Ty
[Desire General] thanito:
i tried but cant find anyone..
[Desire General] albino71:
Damn dude, there is always someone there ;)

Take my hand....

Go to http://webchat.freenode.net

Fill in the fields as below:

Nickname: yournickname <-- change this in any nickname you want, maybe your xda username?

Channels: alpharev

Fill in the captcha and hit the connect button

Good luck mate, hope you get it sorted out.
[Desire General] Tillus:
Create a nandroid first so you can restore after s-off and don't lose any data. Then wipe everything and flash a close-to-stock rooted rom like this one. Then run alpharev and restore nandroid afterwards. Thats what I did and it went through flawlessly. :)

You should stick with your current recovery as it might cause problems to restore a nandroid which was created with a different recovery.
[Desire General] thanito:
Thank you mate,

But as it seems, the problem may occur due to GB Rom..
[Desire General] 3tybagig:
Thanks. I hit the irc channel and read the FAQ on step 3 problems. I'll do as you say.

I flashed "recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.5-bravo", Should I use a different one, older one?

Thanks again

Ty
[Desire General] manup85cupra:
update from 1.5 to 1.8

i have a question. already i use alpharev 1.5, can i update with 1.8 version?
[Desire General] fatspirit:
Since you're s-off, you don't need to use alpharev again.
[Desire General] Eris Ed:
I used this guide to s-off using AlphaRev, all very easy!

I have a quick question about the AlphaRev partition tables. I know how to do it using fastboot, that's no problem. I currently use the partitions than came with my Desire 250/40/147 - is there any benefit flashing the AlphaRev Bravo Stock 1.8 table with the same partition sizes? I know there's a benefit by changing the table depending on ROM to create more internal storage, so I suppose I'm asking if the AlphaRev tables offer any advantage after using AlphaRev to s-off?
[Desire General] Tillus:
No.

10charrrrr
[Desire General] tropical cactus:
stuck on step 3

Hi guys, I'm on LeeDroid GB 3.0.7 A2SD and I've been trying to s off. When it gets to step 3, it says this: unable to enumerate USB device on port 9. Tried other ports but getting the same response. The phone just reboots normally. What needs to be done? Thanks.
[Desire General] Ed Roid:
You should not use a a2sd or data2sd rom to s-off with alpharev, it is written in the site's page ("As techniques such as 'data2ext' have been popping up, these might disturb our finely-tuned flashing process."). I don't know if it's why you have this problem, but perhaps it is sort of a chance it didn't work !

You should use an old no_a2sd LeeDrOiD rom, or a stock rooted rom.
[Desire General] tropical cactus:
Thanks. So, I just flash an old leeDroid rom and try the s off. No need to remove any a2sd stuff? Sorry, I'm really new with this.
[Desire General] GrenW:
I flashed using an a2sd version of LeeDroid. Worked for me.

It's probably the gb version that's the issue. Seems there are some differences in the a2sd scripts from the older versions.

Either way when going back you'll have to do a full wipe (nandroid restore once you're s-off) so you may ad well go the non a2sd route.
[Desire General] Ed Roid:
I'm sure you did, but the fact that it worked for you must not hide the fact that the Alpharev's team itself tells not to do that. I also know another person who did that and then had many hours of forum search to get his phone working again.

The wise man doesn't use a a2sd rom in order to get s-off cause the Alpharev tutorial says not to use it and he doesn't want to take any risk to brick his phone.
[Desire General] Ed Roid:
First of all you should do a nandroid backup to make sure you can restore your phone exactly like it is for the moment. Then you can full wipe and change your rom for a rooted, no a2sd, one and try again to see if it works better ...
[Desire General] julian.kueh:
Just to clarify before I try this ;

1. Nandroid back up

2. Download pb991img and rename it .zip

3. Flash it via cwm

4. Restore nandroid

Am I right? I'm on stock hboot .83 and would like to upgrade to

93.
[Desire General] BlackMiracle:
hi, I'm trying to S-OFF my phone following this guide: [Video Tutorial] Noob Proof Everything Desire Guide UPDATED [04/04/11][Video Tut]

the process went well, I got the line said 'HBOOT flash: SUCCESS' then the next line said 'Flashing new bootblock: OK' and I stuck there for about half an hour. So I Googled it and found this on AlphaRev's site

so I pulled the battery, disconnected the USB cable and turn on the phone in fastboot mode (Back+Power) to verify that it is now S-OFF'd and it is.

But I can't boot into Android. When I boot it normally, it just boot into fastboot. And I didn't do any nandroid backup.

Any ideas? Thanks
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Reflash your ROM without wipe, and you should be fine! ;)
[Desire General] BlackMiracle:
thanks and how can I partition my SD? After installing the new ROM?

If so, should I make a Nandroid backup at this step? Or it won't help because I can't boot into Android anyway?

thanks again :)
[Desire General] Benj555:
I have an HTC Desire GSM AMOLED

on stock froyo

HBoot 0.93.0001

rooted with unrevoked 3.32

USB debugging is on.

I've tried the s-off procedure with alpharev, (live CD or USB) and each time I get the following error.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Can someone help please?

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

/home/tc/alpharev.sh:line 117
/home/tc/alpharev.sh:line 117
/home/tc/alpharev.sh:line 117
/home/tc/alpharev.sh:line 131
/home/tc/alpharev.sh:line 136
/home/tc/alpharev.sh:line 141
/home/tc/alpharev.sh:line 146
/home/tc/alpharev.sh:line 153

device model:
CID:
MID:
HBOOT version:
screen type:
your phone was not recognized or not spported.
[Desire General] Benj555:
Sorted it out. I had to use the USB connection as external hard drive, rather than charge.
[Desire General] AlxMAX:
You were supposed to activate the USB debug mode on your phone, not the mass storage!
[Desire General] Benj555:
USB debug was on, as said on the previous message, yet it didn't work if mass storage wasn't selected.
[Desire General] hmhm:
I tried it a few times with diffent USB Sticks and ports. My Desire reboots normaly again then nothing happens.

I use RCMix S v. 2.0
[Desire General] Tillus:
what - for christ's sake- is so difficult about

?
[Desire General] hmhm:
thanks man, i'll try
[Desire General] savageslave:
What went wrong?

All seems to go well, till step 3, then I get:

waiting for flashing to complete...

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 331: [: -eq: unary operator expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 343: [: -eq: unary operator expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 353: [: -eq: unary operator expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 361: [: -eq: unary operator expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 366: [: -eq: unary operator expected

tc@box:~$

then I leave it for an hour...

But no luck..

Any ideas?:confused:
[Desire General] shankly1985:
I was just about to post this, am having the same problem

got stuck at step 3-3 my phone was ment to receive instruction on-screen, but insted my phone has booted up normaly and on pc screen I have

hub1-0:1.0 unable to enumerate USB device on port 6

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 331: [:-eq: unary operation expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 343: [:-eq: unary operation expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 353: [:-eq: unary operation expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 361: [:-eq: unary operation expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 366: [:-eq: unary operation expected

tc@box: $

???

Two times I tried so not doing it again think am lucky to not have a brick.

I done a nand backup and flashed a stock RoM and went with the S-Off but it won't work.
[Desire General] hmhm:
Problem solved, i'm S-Off now.

I flashed my Desire with Oxygen Rom.
[Desire General] do3in:
good choice, indeed.
[Desire General] Technane:
Sorry but I have looked everywhere and I can't find an answer to what might be a very stupid question,

OK So I am using Alpharev S-0ff I dotn recall which version as it was a while back,

Q1 is there any benefit to ensuring you are usign the latest version of Alpharev, IE are there any functional or stability benefits?

Q2 I have seen some rom developers using the term CM7 HBOOT what is the CM7 Hboot? Is it the same thing as Alpharev with a different name?

I know CM is usually Cyanogen MOD

for examples of what I mean,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1054435 mentions 2 versions 1 for Stock Hboot one for CM7 Hboot?

and I note on the first post of this topic ieftm has this on his sig,

ignore question 2 i just found it on the bottom of the alpharev page,

its a version of the hboot that works better with people that use the Cyanogen mod Rom i presume.

actually edit 2, ignore both questions i upgraded to the latest version anyway,

Cocked up my nandroid lol!
[Desire General] savageslave:
Ok, all Done, flashed Oxygen, then S-off

now all done...

Thank you http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif
[Desire General] Bibracte:
Hello,

I applied the complete procedure, with CWM-AlphaRev Recovery 2.5.1.8.

I'm S-OFF.

Now, do I flash Amon-Ra 2.01 with unrevoked ?
[Desire General] Tillus:
No,you flash recovery via fastboot.
[Desire General] Bibracte:
I did the flash with Android Flasher.

It's fast and it's ok.

C:\Prog\AndroidFlasher>@echo off
cd data\
taskkill /F /IM adb.exe
Erreurÿ: le processus "fastboot.exe" est introuvable.
Erreurÿ: le processus "fastboot.exe" est introuvable.
adb.exe reboot bootloader
error: device not found
* daemon started successfully *
* daemon started successfully *
fastboot.exe flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (3936 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.675s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.213s]
OKAY [ 1.213s]
finished. total time: 1.888s
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.779s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.011s]
finished. total time: 0.790s
Del recovery.img

Thank you :)
[Desire General] ieftm:
New HBOOTs released.. see the first post for more info, or our website.

CM7 and Oxygen have new sizes, these are required from now on.
[Desire General] Meaple:
Yep. Seems like you guys have been a little busy. Nice work with all the patching, including the no need for a goldcard again :P
[Desire General] karmatt:
On twitter you said new features with the new hboots, is there any change apart from the size?

Edit: I see now, was too quick to look on the homepage, only saw 1.8 and thought old news

Too bad the old 90mb oxygen wasn't updated, really only need like 70 in system
[Desire General] mortenmhp:
Well i don't know if this is new or what as the changelog does not seem to have been updated, but it seems like the feature list includes some special engineering commands(not fastboot commands) and they have bumped the version number from the original 0.93 to 6.93.1002 in order for it not to be removed by a ruu flash.

Still missing the downgrader hboot though.
[Desire General] hello247:
i need the downgrader hboot to go back to n1table and gingervillain :(
[Desire General] mortenmhp:
No you don't? it should only be required to downgrade using a ruu. You just download the n1 table hboot and flash it using fastboot?
[Desire General] andQlimax:
@ieftm

How to back S-ON with these new hboot? :confused:

What is a downgrader hboot?

Better add these instructions on the site, otherwise thousand of people will ask this now :D

Thanks
[Desire General] hello247:
i tried that ...it wont let me it says its been bypassed
[Desire General] mortenmhp:
Are you sure you are using fastboot command:

"fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl-n1table.img"

Just tried it with the new hboots after flashing oxygen. Flashed to n1table and back no problem using fastboot commands.

edit:

I'd bet it is a hboot without the downgrade protection so that you can downgrade to a s-on bootloader.
[Desire General] hello247:
yesh i did use that command. it dont work...currently stuck on cm7r2 hboot
[Desire General] :
You can't downgrade to a 0.93 bootloader seemingly, seems to be a version check going on.

You'll have to wait until the downgrader hboot appears, which I guess will disable the check...

Edit: (or check the link in my sig ;) )
[Desire General] hello247:
ok ill be patient and wait
[Desire General] ieftm:
Downgrader HBOOT is also uploaded.
[Desire General] gapone:
strange problem with bravo_alphaspl-cm7r2.img

I have htc desire amoled pvt1 hboot-0.93.1000 (microp-031d, touch panel-synt0101) with full battery. I did a backup then flashed the new hboot and then I tried to restore my backup. In recovery I got an error that suggested to run nandroid-mobile.sh via adb. Tried that too but got an error of mounting /system. After downgrading to older cm7 hboot, everything works ok. Maybe mount points have been changed and amon_ra 2.01 isn't compatible? I think it tried to mount p4 as a system on the new hboot.
[Desire General] pvd75:
My desire is pvt4 and S-off so far i am but now i am loosing it....:confused: I must fastboot Bravo Oxygen r2 but how... and then i have more space for my apps??

Now i have hboot 0.93 and and s-off how do i flashboot the image....

Thanxs already...

Patrick
[Desire General] madman_cro:
coud sombody help.

my hboot went from 0.93 to 6.93.1002 wtf is that ??????????????????????????
[Desire General] Tillus:
go to alpharev.nl and follow the steps below the table. ;) And yes, you have more space for apps after that. The space on your phone is limited, obviously. The Rom is installed on /system, apps go to /data, so you want /system as small as possible to have a larger /data-partition.
[Desire General] mortenmhp:
You really should be able to flash it directly, if you download the new version of the n1-table hboot as well, as then it will be the same version(6.93.1002) as the old one, and the trigger for downgrade won't kick in.

Yep if you read the site as well as the first post here and the update one page back, you would notice they recently changed this in order to distinguish the alpharev hboots from the original ones(so that they can check whether the hboot is being downgraded to original one and prevent it). This way you can flash ruu's and still stay s-off :)
[Desire General] fridlack:
Anyone have a download link for the old bravo_alphaspl-cm7.img? the one with 130mb in system, i need it!
[Desire General] ssauger:
Here you go.

MD5 Hash: 7d77af3f9b197b48d709db8cd18da925
[Desire General] :
It's because you are incapable of reading the first post in the thread.
[Desire General] fridlack:
Thanks so much!
[Desire General] Tillus:
what was wrong with being able to downgrade by just running an RUU? I liked the idea that I can just run the RUU and everything is back to stock, including hboot. I know, I can still go back to stock by first flashing the downgrade-hboot and then running the RUU, but still....why?
[Desire General] madman_cro:
oh hi mister :D. you suck as always
[Desire General] reddev0:
Unwanted over the air RUU from network or phone provider?
[Desire General] dl14349:
Must be great to be perfect.
[Desire General] willexmen:
can someone upload the alpharev.iso?

The download time from the website is slow as hell.....
[Desire General] gutsbn:
My thought was actually

- "literate"

- checked on what is new/changed before flashing some file off the interwebs

Do you also just download and flash stuff with no idea about what it is?
[Desire General] Invisionx:
It must be great to have some common sense atleast. I'm pretty sure Thalamus has nothing but that.
[Desire General] :
I have doubts about the intelligence level of the average Desire user on XDA unfortunately.

Many of them do just flash stuff and rudely demand answers to questions later (without bothering to read the info first of course).

But meh, whatever, at least it's one thing nobody can ever accuse me of doing. :D
[Desire General] kev94:
If I use Alpharev's iso to S-off my Desire, will the ROM be erased ? Is it necesary to backup first, because I just had a usb brick and it took me a couple of hours to fix it. I'm afraid to get another usb brick...
[Desire General] gutsbn:
Yes: backup, flash, restore. I did this myself earlier with the Oxygen one.

You'd backup anyway of course... no?

Note: the new HBOOT has some MISC partition flashing support for usb bricks
[Desire General] ziggy1001:
@kev94 Of course every time you change hboot you confirm current system/data/cache size you backup suit sizewise;)

Hmm wonder what Thalamus thinks of my sig:p
[Desire General] kev94:
I'm saying this because I saw in another video a guy who s-off his desire. After the computer displayed "s-off successful", he reboots his phone and it does boot without any problem. How's that possible then?
[Desire General] Tillus:
When you S-Off, you don't necessarily change the partition layout.

But I'd still create a nandroid backup - you never know ...:-)
[Desire General] fatspirit:
It was here for quite a while (since 0.93.1000). Really new is downgrade protection.
[Desire General] swinster:
Hey all,

I seem to be having some issues with the IMG file and PB99IMG.zip file from alpharev.nl for the 1.8 release for Cyanogen 7. I am currently on nightly built #97

Downloaded the IMG file for Cyanogen 7 (bravo_alphaspl-cm7r2.img) and it passed the MD5SUM check, but I can't create a live boot CD either with the inbuilt Windows Image burn utility or ImgBurn - both say the the file is of the wrong type or corrupt. If I try to explore the file with something like 7zip, I get the error saying that the file is corrupt.

So I tried the the zip file - downloaded PB99IMG_cm7r2.zip and renamed to PB99IMG.zip, placed on the SD card of the phone and rebooted into HBOOT. The phone looks for 4 different files, the last one being PB99IMG.zip, but it then says that its of the wrong type.

What am I doing wrong?
[Desire General] Ed Roid:
I'm not sure of what you want to do exactly.

If you are s-on and want to s-off, yes you need a live-cd but you won't create it with any hboot.img but with the alpharev iso ;)

If you are already s-off, want to change hboot, and your current hboot doesn't install PB99IMG.zip, it's because you're phone is branded and you need a goldcard to use this method. Then you should better use the 'fastboot flash hboot theHbootIWant.img' method.
[Desire General] Large Hadron:
Since the latest ones are "super cid patched" you presumably only need to do this once, and can use the PB99IMG method after that?
[Desire General] swinster:
I have gotten things a bit muddled here. I have indeed S-Off'ed with the Alpharev ISO (current HBOOT ver 0.93), and was looking to upgrade the the HBOOT. I had thought that the IMG file was simply another disc image of a live CD - I often create disk image using the IMG format, not just ISOs.

So the obvious answer is that I need to figure out exactly what the "fastboot flash hboot theHbootIWant.img' method" actually is!
[Desire General] Ed Roid:
That's what i understood too.
[Desire General] Tillus:
The answer is on alpharev.nl:

1) Nandroid backup in recovery.

2) Verify the MD5SUM of the file you downloaded against the one in the table.

3) Flash HBOOT with your phone in fastboot mode (Back+POWER) -> 'fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img' (change into the correct filename for the HBOOT you downloaded)

4) 'fastboot reboot-bootloader'

5) 'fastboot erase cache'

6) Boot recovery, wipe everything and restore.
[Desire General] swinster:
Yes, I can read that, but once the phone is booted in into fastboot mode (Back + Power), then what?.

I keep reading the same lines and it seems pretty obvious to everyone, but for some reason its not obvious to me. Maybe I'm just being thick....
[Desire General] Tillus:
well, then you need to have your computer set up to use fastboot (like, set up the android sdk, including to usb-hboot-drivers included in that sdk), start your phone into fastboot, connect it to your computer, start cmd in "tools"-folder (the folder containing fastboot.exe, if you're using windows) and type in the given commands.

I'm sure there is a tutorial for setting up your computer accordingly.

_______

thats what I remember:

1) install htc sync

2) uninstall htc sync but leave the usb drivers that came with htc sync

3) go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and download the .zip.

4) in that zip there is some sort of configuration tool that lets you choose the components you want to download. You download the usb-drivers. Then you boot your phone into bootloader, connect it to your pc and select the downloaded hboot-drivers.

I'm sure I forgot something - it's been a while, when I installed it myself, so use forum search and look for a proper tutorial. You can also look for a adb-setup-tutorial. The setup is pretty much the same, except you use fastboot.exe instead of adb.exe when you're finished. ;)
[Desire General] PlayPetepp:
You don't have to use your PC to change hboots, you can just use your phone. Here is the tutorial on how to do it, copy/pasted from alpharev:

It's essential that you make a nandroid before doing anything so you can restore your currently running system. I used the quoted method for changing hboot to cm7r2 and it worked without any issues. Remeber to put the PB99IMG.zip on the root of your SD card so your phone recognizes it. After powering the phone with voldown+power it will ask you if you want to upgrade, answer yes and that's it. ;)
[Desire General] Ed Roid:
Yes he needs, because it will be simpler than making a goldcard (his phone needs one).
[Desire General] PlayPetepp:
Didn't read back far enough, my mistake.
[Desire General] swinster:
@PlayPetepp - thanks, but this doesn't work work as explained above.

@Tillus - I must admit, when I rooted and Soff'ed my phone it was a while back too. I used a program called Unrevoked. I have the relevant drivers installed but don't have but have never used the Android SDK. I thought the Unrevoked may be able to help in flashing a new HBoot - you can select a custom IMG file, but this didn't appear to work. I will have a go at using the SDK.
[Desire General] PlayPetepp:
I noticed that after I made my post (noob behaviour :o). Good luck in using android sdk, it should work.
[Desire General] DaNiEl FrEnCh:
every time i reach stage 3 i get this?

"Waiting for flashing to complete...

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 331: [: -eq: unary operator expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 343: [: -eq: unary operator expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 353: [: -eq: unary operator expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 361: [: -eq: unary operator expected

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 366: [: -eq: unary operator expected"
[Desire General] swinster:
Phew - 4 hours later....

I should add

5) From the SDK files that are downloaded (from the ZIP or even the installer), the path variable needs to be changed to include the full path to the "\platform-tools\" and the "\tools\"folder in the SDK folder structure. In this way the "fastboot" program can be called from any command prompt.

Now you can run the "fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl-cm7r2.img" and the other commands at a command prompt opened in the same folder as the downloaded IMG file from Alpharev.

Hopefully this will save someone else some time.