yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] Davindy:
I knew when I read this thread that I shouldn't do it, but of course my natural instincts kicked in and I downloaded the iso, preparing for the worst.

I'm using a rooted, unlocked Telus Desire, running the latest OpenDesire.

Of course I was terrified of bricking my phone but I read in the thread that other people were successful with their Telus Desires' so I forged ahead and on my first attempt I got Error #5, so I installed the latest CM6, and tried again.........

I would like to report that after using CM6 the entire process took less than 3 minutes and everything is working great....

The method I used was simply burning the ISO and booting from DVD......

Now running S-OFF with .93....thanks soooo much!!!!

***EDIT***

I should note that after posting my comments, I saw Wargy's post and I checked the OpenDesire thread, turns out I was running 4.0.28, not .32 like Wargy so this may have been the issues I had with Error #5...?!?!?!
[Desire General] beatjunky:
Successful using the livecd on Hboot 0.83 running LeeDroid 2.1a.

Nice and easy. Thanks guys.
[Desire General] chrisvx:
Version 1.32 now does all the right things permission wise.

Unfortunately it still does not work correctly on a basicly stock ROM.

I need to figure out why waitforhboot is not working correctly.

It would be easier to just flash a custom ROM to do this. :)
[Desire General] elitistphoenix:
1.32 still doesn't work for me either. And all the attempts are filling up my internal phone memory. Is it safe for me to delete: /data/local/alpha ?

Is there any other directories the earlier version used (i think they might have changed it). Maybe adding a cleaning process to the end of the script is a good idea...

What about the unrevoked-forever.zip in the same directory? Can I delete this?
[Desire General] HTCTourist:
Had the same problem on my first failed attempt. When flashed successfully it will delete this files.
[Desire General] eule2k10:
Just did it with 1.32, Unrevoked Tmob Desire, Hboot 0.75, opendesire .32, from cd.

Took ~3 minutes and it was done. Perfect! :cool:
[Desire General] :
Did it with 1.32, Unbranded Desire, HBOOT 0.93 and OpenDesire 4.0.32 via VMWare Fusion.

Perfect. I did have to reconnect the USB to the VM after the second reboot though, so if nothing is happening, thats probably what the issue is. :-)
[Desire General] toppi73:
Took 2 minutes ;)

Awsome work! Had to reinstall my recovery but this was no problem after searching a little bit in this thread ;)

Now I have HBOOT 0.93 and everything is working fine!

S-OFF :D
[Desire General] usb2007:
s-off done but now im stuck in bootloader mode..reflashing rom :/

EDIT: back on track after the reflash..and yeah..desire seems a lot faster and boots quicker too!!!
[Desire General] c4p3fi3rr:
Same happened to me. Burned the alpharev.iso on a dvd and booted it from a notebook. Flashing HBOOT went fine, but i was stuck at the bootloader. Flashing CM 6.0.2 now. :D

Before flashing it was:

HBOOT 0.80

AmonRA R5

CyanogenMod nightly 22/09

Many thanks to the coders that made this possible! :)
[Desire General] samstar:
i burned the cd and did boot of it.

Everything looks good but step 3 of 3 it hangs in the htc spashscreen for over 10 minutes...

so is that normal?

i dont dare to replug it in the usb
[Desire General] K900:
Ask guys on IRC. NEVER TURN IT OFF OR UNPLUG

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] K900:
BTW, any plans on integrating this into unrevoked?

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] ~David:
Nope, I figured I'd play it safe and burned the ISO to a CD and booted it.

Still sitting on "Waiting for flash to complete...".

My phone is (was?) running HBOOT 0.80. Not sure what to do at this point, clearly it's not responding. Gonna let it sit for now though.
[Desire General] westernmg:
Worked like a charm!

Hboot before 0.75 T-Mobile, now 0.93 S-OFF.

Done with Vmware 7 under win7x64.

Thank You!
[Desire General] Orka82:
I had to flash boot.img from recovery using nandroid to get the phone to boot after this but now it's S-OFF.

THANKS!
[Desire General] Ronaldo_9:
i cant seem to flash the stock htc splash screen...just says waiting for device
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
boot to hboot choose fastboot on device

then

fastboot flash splash1 /path/to/file/splash1.nb0
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
Im telus on .83 hboot, tested this for IEF before release and it worked fine for me. are you still stuck?
[Desire General] danward:
Edit: Worked :d
[Desire General] ~David:
Yep. Still "Waiting for flashing to complete..." and my Desire is still on the HTC spash screen.

Really not sure what to do at this point.

I'm fairly certain mine was HBOOT 0.80 though, not 0.83. Odd that two versions would be shipping for Telus.
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
On the console on the boot cd were there any errors copying files? whats step are you on?
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
I think you may be mistaken, as i got mine launch day, and it was .83 but regardless it shouldn't matter.

how long has it been apporx' and were there any errors at all?
[Desire General] Kernel:
OMG \o/ thx so much for this

HTC Desire no branded

HBOOT 0.75

Now

HBOOT 0.93

Flash done with live cd (no risk)
[Desire General] Deathisfatal:
I'll try this out once I get a micro USB cable that doesn't fall out at the slightest touch...
[Desire General] ~David:
No errors at all. Stuck on Step 3/3 now for about 30 minutes, "Waiting for flashing to complete..."

(And you're right, it is HBOOT 0.83. Just noticed it's written at the top of the script, staring at me in the face.)
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
30 min is a lil excessive, if your not exagerating out of panic, probably time for us to move yaha on to a AlphaREV member for some support. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD do not shut the pc down, the device down or unplug that usb.

Can you join IRC Chat on irc.freenode.net , channel #alpharev
[Desire General] Ronaldo_9:
i done fastboot flash splash1 desire_stock_splash1.img but its not flashing it :/
[Desire General] Termana:
Just confirming that this worked fine.

Telstra Desire with HBOOT 0.83

Thanks to everyone that worked on this.
[Desire General] Jgruar:
Worked flawlessly and took like 1 min, thanks a lot!

Now, what to do with s-off... ;)

e: hboot was 0.80, unbranded
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
i assume you're in the directory of the splash with that command

your in fast boot not h boot right?

is it giving you an error?
[Desire General] fwers:
booted of usb keep getting the following error.. i have htc desire(gsm) SLCD, hboot 83

edit:

getting the same error in virtualbox, i am running the MIUI rom, not sure what i am doing wrong, if anyone can help i would really appreciate that.. thanxs
[Desire General] Ronaldo_9:
yes in fastboot

after i type

C:\androidSDK\tools>fastboot flash splash1 desire_stock_splash1.img

sending 'splash1' (768 KB)...

do i need different drivers like unrevoked ones?

thats all i get left it for like 10mins no change
[Desire General] gingercat:
Same happened to me. Ended up taking a deep breath and unplugging, then taking out the battery to reboot. This left me stuck on the bootloader screen :eek: ...but then using the Android SDK and re-installing clockworkmod-recovery using the instructions here and the clockwork img from here (either rename the file or alter the command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" to suit) ...got me back to being able to re-install my ROM. Now all up and running again, and the S-OFF did indeed succeed :D
[Desire General] Aqua-Niki:
Hi every one

I just did it on my Desire, it took 3 minutes and everything seems to be right, but I can't find the extended fastboot command...
[Desire General] LivingDeadDivision:
The last friday I did the Hboot flash and all went perfect. Quickly and easy, no problem detected after and...simple perfect!

Thanks for your hard work!
[Desire General] fatboygrim:
Burnt to a dvdr and then booted from it - worked perfectly - big thanks to the devs :D
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
If you are in emulation, remember to reactivate usb after all the desire's rebooth.
[Desire General] diamos:
worked for me...

i used VirtualBox, u just have to reconnect the usb after each reboot... and wellllaaaa S-OFF with 0.93 :D

thnx
[Desire General] Nekromantik:
I got s-off, can we now install a custom recovery manually?

if so then any instructions?
[Desire General] milkynex:
wtf!

please tell me how to change this image on boot screen after i used Alpharev.

I know, it's cool, but it could be pain to sell Desire with this creepy clown...

NVM. Done.
[Desire General] :
Thats not hard, the instructions are on the page that you downloaded the .iso from which S-OFF'd your Desire. :)

You can get the .img file and the command to flash the stock HTC Splashscreen from the bottom of that page.
[Desire General] wollyka:
Installed it via LiveCd.. worked perfectly. Thanks

Quick question for the experts: now that S-off is released, is it possible to have an A2SD+ that also moves the data/data to the SD card?
[Desire General] milkynex:
thanks :)

done!
[Desire General] Svennebannan:
Just did this, no problems at all.

Was on OD 4.0.32 with hboot .93
[Desire General] :
No probs.

If you do a search on here theres an app called nbimg which allows you to turn a .bmp file into a splash screen which you can flash.
[Desire General] spidergoat:
Tried this with VirtualBox and the latest LeeDroid and HBOOT .75. I could use a bit of help, I'm at a loss.:confused:

I was sweating for a while waiting for step 1. Then I read through about 20 pages of the thread before finding that others had to add the phone under USB devices, so I did that and it got to step 2 and then again to get to 3.

It stopped again on step 3 after the phone rebooted and is on the HTC screen. I went under USB devices to check the phone once more, but then I got the error: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1. After this, I got an error message from VirtualBox saying something about the USB crashing and after that, nothing showed up under devices and I couldn't do anything in VirtualBox.

I tried restarting VB and now it sees USB again, but it doesn't resume at step 3. The phone is still on the HTC screen, since that step 3 warning message had me too nervous to reboot it. Am I screwed? I hope at least that this is helpful for anyone else having problems with VirtualBox, since there doesn't seem to be much info that I could easily find. Not sure what to do now...
[Desire General] Caffeine81:
I installed this HBOOT when version 1.3 was out. Now I saw that there's version 1.32. The changelog says

Does it make sense to reinstall the AlphaRev HBOOT? Does the changelog refer to the HBOOT image or just the process of applying it (the CD-ROM image)?
[Desire General] diamos:
when i reached step 3 in virtualbox the usb name was the same as when the device was fully booted exept for the number between

[*]...

if am remembering right it was [226] for fully booted and [100] for the boot screen "step 3" make sure that u pick the right 1.
[Desire General] wollyka:
+1

Also i would like to know that just to be sure, but i think it is just for the process
[Desire General] thekeiron:
Burnt the iso, booted from disc, followed the instructions leaving the phone alone while being sh*t scared, worked like a charm! Hboot .75
[Desire General] spidergoat:
Thanks for the advice. I had to shut down the VB machine to add the phone to the filter. After that, it lists it twice as Android Phone [100] and Android Phone [226]

I think I lucked out. After posting I read another 20 pages of the thread and found someone else with a similar issue on step 3, so I decided to chance it and just pull my battery. I soon saw the "Why So Serious?" and was a bit relieved. It boots into the ROM and recovery just fine, and HBOOT says S-OFF.

I am sorta waiting for the other shoe to drop though. It really didn't seem to be that long on step 3 before the USB crashed, so I am wondering if everything went alright or not. Still, everything is OK so far. I'm not comfortable with recommending to pull the battery, but in this situation it worked for me. But, I couldn't think of anything else to do anyway.
[Desire General] buzmay:
Hello I have 2 questions will this work on SLCD desires?

And the other one is has somebody here done this running vmware fusion on Mac?

What I have done so far is copied the iso file into a cd then open Ubuntu on vmware fusion, once the cd is in I reboot the virtual machine with the cd in and ntohing happens what am I doing wrong??
[Desire General] sonyboypatrick:
Rom: Leedroid 2.1a

Radio: 5.11.05.14

Bootloader: 0.75

Recovery: AmonRa

& T-Mobile branded

Everything sucessfull on first try :)

greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat thing :D
[Desire General] hawwy:
using imgburn , burnt image file to disk , but when i insert cd it just opens up cd drive folder with the following 3 items : ISOLINUX , ALPHA and BZIMAGE

how do i exactly play the cd, im on vista btw

thanks
[Desire General] Nitrius:
Think it's meant to be booted on, so you need to restart the computer and boot on the CD.

Question, will this do so am able to updated apps in /system from market for example?
[Desire General] twicejr:
It worked :) 0.75 to the new one.

Well.. how can I now make the system partition -rw on boot?
[Desire General] hawwy:
how do i exactly boot on it?
[Desire General] twicejr:
Boot menu is usally F8 or something like that, you see it when you power your pc on.
[Desire General] Beobrin:
Work as you say

My first post!

Work for me too!

Before:

BRAVO PVT SHIP S-ON

BOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.14

AUG10 2010, 17.52.18

Unrevoked 3.21

Mighty_X_240910_D

Now:

BRAVO PVT SHIP S-OFF

(with Livecd, off corse!)

Now i have opendesire 4.0.32 and backup with Titanium!

Thank all of you for a guide
[Desire General] buzmay:
Which OS are you booting the live cd on? Windows or Linux?
[Desire General] Beobrin:
Linux livecd
[Desire General] sc1991:
thanks

i like this

but for the concern

many security reasons...

i'm not suggest / (root) partition is writeable (rw)

because user mistake ( rm -f / ) or malware android apps... etc

if /system partition is deleted.. then you can possible reflash roms and recover

but, if / (root) partition is corrupted you won't be possible reflash roms and

you can't possible power on, that mean is your phone is bricked

can u possible to modify root partition is not able to r/w mounted?

thanks
[Desire General] Fightspit:
I did it with VirtualBox !

Thanks a lot Alpharev :)
[Desire General] tampiss:
Hi guys, please I would need your help.

I did successfully flashed s-off. I have also successfully pushed my splash screen into my Desire.

I am using OD .32 ROM. Any-time before, I wanted to flash new ROM I did it through ROM manager (or sometimes through recovery) - both always worked.

Now when I want to flash new update of OD .33 through ROM manager (or recovery) the loading always stacks on my splash screen - then it does nothing. I have to remove the battery and restart the Desire. The phone works correctly after restart again.

Please can anyone advise what to do? How to boot into recovery again?

Thank you in advance,

tampiss
[Desire General] shokwaav:
f*ck me i want to do this but im scared it'll brick mah phone....

shiiiiiiiiiit
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
Don't warry, open your IRC client, ask help from the guys (that are incredibile) and start the root.

For me all is done at 3 attempt.

Good work guys, thank's !
[Desire General] makedoc:
Easy to do. Thanks. I did a bootable usb from the image file and started the computer with. Everything was running smotely.

makedoc
[Desire General] snear:
thanks im s-off at last! now to make a splash!:D
[Desire General] buzmay:
How can you find them in the irc channel I go to http://irc.freenode.net/ and is not working
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
you need a client irc.
[Desire General] buzmay:
Does anybody have a tutorial on how to change the splash1 screen?
[Desire General] fueled:
Sorry if my question is already asked, what are the benefits and what difference i will see after flashing it.
[Desire General] shokwaav:
omfg thank god its working :)
[Desire General] K900:
If you don't know what it does, don't flash it

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] snear:
I cant seen to get recovery back using clockworkmod?

where do I find the recovery img?

Thanks
[Desire General] mortenmhp:
As rom manager still does not flash the recovery on the desire, because it has not been possible until now, you can of course not get it back this way. All rom manager does is to download a zip file with the most current recovery as fakeflash, but this still require you to have an actual recovery installed.

All clockwork mod recoveries can be found here on koush's own site:

http://koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries/ (note that for desire/bravo it is available as an img file as well as fakeflash)

Here is 2.5.0.7:

http://koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-bravo.img

Just install it using fastboot commands :)

This is because your recovery somehow got screwed up doing the process. It is quite easy to restore. Just download the recovery i linket above and flash it using fastboot commands :)

If you dont know how to use fastboot to flash an img file send me a pm, and i'll guide you some time tomorrow ;)
[Desire General] snear:
thanks for the help! all working now:rolleyes:
[Desire General] diamos:
Well, step 3 didn't take a long time with me to finish ' few seconds', the whole process took like 2-3 mins, so it looks like the usb crashed after step 3 was done but no feedback sent to the VB.

I wish that everything is ok with u ;)
[Desire General] bwells88:
Hey all.... well I finally figured I'd give it a go and I got stuck at part 3... I was using an iso disc in my laptop and it went thru all the steps until the third... I got an "buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0" error...

I've been trying to find the irc.freenode.net via web page and through mirc but can't find anything... what irc client should I use to find the developers irc so I can get some help... thanks if anyone can give me a nudge in the right direction... cheers

My cell is just sitting there, plugged in hung not wanting to touch it.. :) it does have a black stripe across the screen below the HTC logo...

HTC Telus Desire, rooted via Unrevoked

LeeDroOid 2.1a

HBOOT .83
[Desire General] inkredi:
I'm still stuck at htc splash... It's been at least 15 minutes. How long does it usually take???? :confused:

I'm using VirtualBox and the screen turned black after saying "waiting for HBOOT flash to complete.." ???
[Desire General] inkredi:
Ok... thank god! it was just something that has to do with either windows or my drivers... I had to manually select "Devices > USB Devices > (my phone)"

and it just went to the recovery screen with S-OFF.. all works fine. Thanks a bunch :)
[Desire General] ieftm:
and 1.4 is up, for those of you that still run a rooted stock ROM. :)

Verified and working :)
[Desire General] elitistphoenix:
1.4 works for me! w00t w00t!
[Desire General] Nitrius:
Trying again..

Will i be able to update stuff in system/app through market with this? As if i've understood it right, we now got rw on /system and /recovery when booted into the OS? Which means i can used /system/app to install apps on so i get even more space on my phone? Or am i only dreaming?
[Desire General] wiggles87:
has anybody successfully changed the partition sizes?

I had a search through the forums and couldn't find anything
[Desire General] livetag:
I would definately recommend booting from a USB stick, I did so on Win 7 x64 , total time took 2 minutes maximum. There is a link for the program used to boot from USB in here somewere but dont think I can post links yet, just search for unetbootin

Regards :)
[Desire General] bwells88:
gutted.... tried s-off and it's hung on HTC for a couple of hours... I think I'm on the IRC chat with alpharev but no one seems to be answering my questions... I'm stuck on step 3 with a "buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0" and there it sits.... can you access alpharev channel on mirc?... I'm not sure why it's not working but I'm severely gutted....

Telus HTC Desire

Leedroid 2.1a

Hboot 83

edit~ got mad and pulled the battery... all is good and definitely s-off in the bootloader... what a relief... :)
[Desire General] kielkiam:
DONE :D

all ok in 3 minutes

Alpharev 1.4 on burned cd

From:

Pre-rooted Stock Froyo (2.10.405.2) [Optional mods]

HBoot 0.83

-Clockworkmod recovery still here :)
[Desire General] wilfried63:
Help, my phone is stuck on the droid skating screen

I tried to apply the S-OFF patch, thought it was ok cause I was on the droid skating screen with this written :

"Alpharev"

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S6OFF

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP6031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.11.05.14

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

I can't reboot my phone, always returned on that screen, and if I want to restart on rcovery mode my phone stuck on HTC screen............. I try to find a somution but nothing works and I don't understand how to apply the clockwork recovery image given at the first page.

Please help me......:(
[Desire General] kielkiam:
Ask on irc here: irc.freenode.net , channel #alpharev

(you must use a irc client :o )
[Desire General] wilfried63:
Sorry, but I'm at work and I'm blocked by the firewall......

Anyboby on the forum have got the clue?

EDIT: I finally succeed in flashing my recovery, I did a nand restore and it's working.....great
[Desire General] Bartman007:
OR just use the web client:

h*tp://webchat.freenode.net/
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
If you are on VirtualBox or similar (virtualizzation) you need to enable the USB port each time the phone reboot.
[Desire General] Bartman007:
GET IN!!! :)

Thanks mate
[Desire General] kai84m:
Hi,

why cant I flash recovery via terminal emulator? It says unkonw command!

Im using LeeDroid 2.1a.

Thanks in Advance!
[Desire General] Der_Michael:
Flashing S-Off worked here using your boot cd. Thanks a lot.

I did´nt need to flash a new rom. I got RCMixHD SenseHD rom on my device. The Clockworkmod seems also to be intact after the s-off procedure.

Thanks again!
[Desire General] ieftm:
You're supposed to flash it via fastboot.
[Desire General] Bip44:
Yess, it's OK for me now, Thanks ! :D
[Desire General] tampiss:
Thank you for your help. I have downloaded and successfully flashed the recovery.

All works fine for me again :-)
[Desire General] Rockzz:
"It's amazin' it works !"

v1.4 ran flawlessly on a branded Orange HTC Desire (unrelated: Amoled screen) in the following configuration-state : debranded stock Orange RUU v2.1, goldencarded, flash-downgraded to stock HTC RUU v1.15, iterately OTA-upgraded to stock HTC RUU v2.2, (unrelated: app2sd-wannabe-sdcard-partitioned), unrevoked-rooted, (unrelated: app2sd+ed, aka DarkTrevor App2sd-ed), (unrelated: vold.fstab-issue-patched).

v1.32 was failing, without bricking the phone ("An unexpected error occured: code 5", during step 3, setting runtime at OS-booted-SIM-password step, and letting user power-off or reboot the phone, in normal, fast or recovery boot, flawlessly : restored the before-soff-flash backup for safety).

Let get some porn files in the system (or make something good with it if you can :p) !!
[Desire General] davdavo:
For fear of bricking the phone and coping a massive black eye from the other half, I haven't had the guts to try this yet :D

...but please, someone convince me :D
[Desire General] Rockzz:
@davdavo : Please input your detailed configuration, to identify possible issues if you do it. But as much users performed it now, and the few issues that came out are listed as solved in the alpharev changelog. i think this tool is really reliable now, but if you have doubt, go to their IRC channel to get info before : better to get informed than to be pissed off. They're very welcoming and cool in addition : 1UP!
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Just remember that noone has reported a bricked phoned! ;)
[Desire General] Filiab:
This does work on a Telus- Branded HTC Desire correct?

Thanks again for all the hard work team!