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[Desire General] :
Just popping by to report the success 'S-OFFING' of my T-Mobile desire which was on HBOOT 0.75 and running LeeDroid 2.2f.... Like some others here mine too hung on step 3, but a pull of the battery after 30mins then a boot into recovery is successfully reporting 0.93 S-OFF!!..... :)

Now, i'm off to find out exactly what this S-OFF means exactly!!
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Okay, that leedroid 30 minute guy portions my idea wrong. Seems LIKE I was just lucky

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] tobi01001:
Looks like this happens to a lot of t-mobile users. At least you and me. :-) I don't even have the alpharev splash but successfully s-off. Do you have the splash of still this magenta ring from t-mobile?
[Desire General] Soupe:
"I don't even have the alpharev splash but successfully s-off"

Same here, thought I was the only one :-)
[Desire General] tommo123:
i'm t-mob and s=offed in 3 mins. i was running oxygen 0.2.0 though
[Desire General] tobi01001:
Then it may be rom related cause I was running LeeDrOiD as well. Since all went well in the end, I don't care and I'm rather happy to be s-offed.
[Desire General] madd0g:
I must say thanks, I've successfully s-offed my unbranded Desire, running HBOOT 0.80 (had to downgrade hboot to root unrevoked back in the days).

Make nandroid backup.

I went for the USB method, used Universal USB Installer, made the key, booted and then it was like 2 mins. The 3rd stage lasted less then a minute.

After that :

fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl-n1table.img (i went for N1 table, im on CM)

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot erase cache

When those are done, have recent recovery downloaded (I chose Clockwork). Just fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.2-bravo.img and I'ts done. Go to recovery (volume down, power button), wipe everything and restore nandroid backup.
[Desire General] :
I do have the "why so serious" splash yes... just lucky I guess! I thinly this was asked earlier in the thread but I couldnt find the answer, am I ok to use unrevoked to update my clockwork recovery, or will it break something?
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
You could use unrevoked, but you would probably be better (and safer) using fastboot (command: fastboot flash recovery path-to-recovery.img )
[Desire General] :
Thanks, is there a tutorial on doing this? I'm new to fastboot....
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
Not a tutorial as such, but here is a page which details the commands!

http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fastboot

If you want to flash a recovery, download it to your computer (clockwork.img for example), save it somewhere on your computer (say D:\), open a command prompt and navigate to the directory where fastboot is located (It is in the tools folder of the SDK), then run:

fastboot flash recovery D:\clockwork.img

Your phone has to be in fastboot mode for this to work BTW.

Hope this is some help, any other questions, give me a shout.

Stu
[Desire General] :
Makes sense, thanks.. ill try with the latest clockwork tonight!
[Desire General] monstereo:
first of, S-OFF success!! thanks AlphaRev! :D now i would just like to clarify, i fastboot the n1table in cmd and it showed sending and writing "OKAY" but how do i check if has been successful??

EDIT: s'ok i saw that it said at the top N1table. my bad :P
[Desire General] Jagdish84:
Check to see wether the writings at the top of the HBOOT screen says Alpharev N1table...
[Desire General] konn4312:
Hi to you all.A successfull s-off running Leedroid 2.2f with the cd method.Burned a TDK dvd with nero,booted and completed without errors and hungs i passed the 3d step and it told me that now i am s-off,press any key to shut down.Battery was at 83%
[Desire General] _bryan_:
new desire

hboot 0.93.0003, can't use the latest alpharev 1.5

it says that it's not a gsm phone
[Desire General] MattCB72:
Is your Desire rooted? Did you confirm the SuperUser-Prompt on the Desire? I had the same error (Come back, when you know what the heck you are doing! :-)). I did not recognize the SuperUser-Prompt after connecting to USB.
[Desire General] vybztymz:
ALWAYS verify the MD5 checksum of the alpharev img

Just thought it worth reminding people to always check the md5 of the downloaded img against that on the alpharev page.

Make sure the md5 of the downloaded file is EXACTLY the same as on the alpharev site

If you flash a corrupt img file IT WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE.

I use HashCalc (http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/) but there are several other apps which can be used.

Happy S-Off'ing :)
[Desire General] misiu99:
Well. I have been hanging for 3 hours at Step 3 Battery was 80% - I am curious if it works yet and how long battery lasts in splash screen?

Can it ever take so long?

Had (or still have) HBOOT 0.80 / Desire AMOLED.

I really fear that the whole story ends with Brick.

Translated with Google (from German).
[Desire General] misiu99:
Problem solved.

Have after 3 hours of battery taken out and restarted. Now I have HBOOT 0.93 and S-OFF.

Thank you.
[Desire General] cv1ekas:
Hi all., my desire is s-off with older alpharev hboot,should I flash it with newer one -AlphaRev Sense- ? because i am using only sence rom's, and is it possible to reflash when phone allready s-off? thank's for answers
[Desire General] reddev0:
Only flash the Sense version if the rom you are flashing uses less than 180 mb in /system, otherwise you should stick with the default version.

Sent by my Droid
[Desire General] unknownDaemon:
splash + dmesg output

Excuse me.. Can you make splash1 with dmesg output? It j4f ;-)
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
No

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] :
Hello guys,

just a question, I actually have Defrost Rom, this means I should use N1 version.

Right?

But, what if I change the rom to a Sense based rom later on? Any issue?

Thank you in advance.

Regards
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
If you change to sense, you have to change to default partition table again. But since you can flash new/other versions via fast boot really fast (without the cd) once you are s-off, that is not a big problem.

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] patp:
Best to check how big your /system is by doing a nandroid. I was planning to flash the Sense table, but actually my system is 244M.

Is there a table anywhere of the sizes of various ROM's? Mine is just a stock+root+busybox, but I'm sure there are smaller sense roms about.
[Desire General] madd0g:
I would say, download the ROM zip and unpack it, then check the size. If you're close on the size limit, you can still move some apps to /data or delete uneeded files. But Sense ROM probably cant never be stripped that much, that it fits on a N1 partition table.
[Desire General] Atis:
Hi!

My little problem:

http://jumboo.uw.hu/SDC10719.JPG

hm... any idea?
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Would be much more easy to open a terminal and do a "df -h" command. It shows all partitions, their size, used space and available space

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Would be helpful if you give details about the phone you wanna mod. What model, what does hboot say, have you a rooted rom?

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] Pheezrook:
Panic: Step 3 of 3 lasts 40 minutes

I try make S-OFF with last alpharev.iso, the last step lasts for 40 minutes.

on screen i see "Waiting for flashing to complete..."

How long does it usually take this step?
[Desire General] arnev:
Just did it with succes.

Bravo PVT4 SHIP S-OFF

HTC Desire GSM (slcd)

HBOOT 0.930001

aug 10 2010

The whole process only lasted 2 to 4 minutes.
[Desire General] Invisible Elf:
I know it's important to check checksum on files downloaded, but how do you check if the CD was burnt properly? Any way to see a checksum on a CD drive? I'm kind of worried about my kind of crappy CD-burner :o
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Honestly, in reality, how often do you have a broken download today? Checking check sums is really over rated as long as it's not a security related matter. I can't remember a broken download for the last couple of years

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] Saenic:
I just went through the process and managed to get S-OFF on my T-Mobile Desire with 0.75 HBOOT.

After "waiting for flashing to complete..." there was nothing more going on and after ~10min I got this message here

[ can't post images, then please look it up yourselves ] htt p://w ww.rad onsp ace.de/uploads/images/s-off.png

After another 10min (and some praying :p) I removed the Battery and it was S-OFF after reboot. Flashed AmonRa 2.0 and LeeDroid 2.2f and it's really nice beeing able to delete /system apps with TitaniumBackup.

hub 2-1.4:1.0 hub_port_status failed (err = -32)

But does this error message mean anything important?
[Desire General] nodiaque:
ok I just tried fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-bravo.img and I get a "FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)"

I have clockwork 2.5.0.7 already installed with unrevoked and leedroid 2.2a installed. I have the SLCD version (telus). I tried updating to new usb driver from the sdk, changed usb port, rebooted phone, it change nothing.

I'm booting using vol down, then fastboot, then plug. Is there something I'm missing?

edit: I'm currently on HBOOT 0.83.0001
[Desire General] nodiaque:
Since fastboot doesn't work, I tried using unrevoked but it didn't enabled s-off... unless I'm doing something wrong but when I boot in bootloader, it doesn't say s-off
[Desire General] nodiaque:
ok, I just understand that the first link was simply to have clockwork installed. I though it was a all in one img. I've downloaded the new images.

edit: worked with virtual box. Thanks!
[Desire General] shyamk:
I have a S-OFF and a n1 partition table. I tried upgrading my radio and the phone is now stuck in the "Why so serious" screen of S-OFF.

Cannot help but be serious about the fact that the phone does not boot up now. Any tips ??

Shyam
[Desire General] Product F(RED):
Not sure if this will help but after I flashed a new radio on my Evo, I kept getting kicked into recovery even though it told me to reboot the phone. Turns out I had to turn off the phone completely, then turn it back on.
[Desire General] shyamk:
Yes, I tried all those methods too. I tried flashing the radio, then waited for 30 or so minutes before I removed the battery, booted into recovery, did a complete power down and all that combinations. It now refuses to go beyond the S-OFF screen.
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
hboot 0.83.0001 is NOT the alpharev s-off hboot from this thread, so you cannot flash recovery with it.

first root your device and add clockworkmod with unrevoked.

then install a custom (rooted) firmware.

then do s-off.
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
this is not s-off related and so totally off-topic. its not a screen of s-off. it just replaced your boot logo, which probably was the white htc on black background before. you can replace that boot logo with "fastboot flash splash1 blahblupp.nzb".

even its not s-off related, do a wipe cache first, so you sure got enough space on cache partition for flashing radio
[Desire General] Atis:
Hello!

HBOOT: 0.93.0001

ROM: RoDrIgUeZsTyLe™

ROOT: Unrevoked

Thank's!
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
no idea then. the only thing i know is, that s-off doesnt work on developer phones which have real s-off already. but the setup you mentioned here shouldnt produce the error you screenshoted

edit: did you boot from the cd/usb stick? or did you use any kind of vm?
[Desire General] Atis:
boot from DVD. Sorry, we do not know English well. :)
[Desire General] Ullion:
Hello !

I'm new on the forum and I want to thank for your method ! It's really GREAT !

I tried it from a boot cd, I got stuck in step 3 so I let it run during 2 hours (I really don't want to brick my phone...) then I rebooted manually my phone and it rebooted

I didn't have the joker splash but I went directly to the fastboot and I couldn't boot my rom so I flashed the clockworkmod recovery 2.5.0.7 to see if it was due to that (I'm a novice and everything is not clear to me) but it didn't change anything so I flashed my rom again and it worked...

But I have a question concerning the recovery: before that I was using the amon ra one from my computer (with a windows-recovery.bat file) and I could partition my sd card from this recovery, but now when I run the recovery I don't have the red triangle I go directly to the clockworkmod recovery in which I didn't find the option to partition, so I tried to run the amon ra one connecting my device to my computer but it seemed that I had the both recoveries running (sometimes one was appearing while I was moving into the menu and some other times the other one was appearing... I hope I'm clear!)...

So would you have any solution to avoid running on the clockworkmod one to run on the amon ra in order to partition my sd card? I'm not really clear with the recovery concept...

Thanks!
[Desire General] KBanause:
Unbranded HTC Desire

HBoot 0.80

OpenDesire 4.0.32

Procedure was successful

edit:

Root Explorer tells me /system is still r/o. Pushing the button "Mount R/W" works. How can I make it r/w on bootup?
[Desire General] JeckyllHavok:
Gentleman, you're the masters.

Straight up from hboot 0.80 via burned iso, works like a charm (even if i was short before a heart infact while the procedure was working)
[Desire General] Lucas0511:
+1. Second that, was a piece of cake with the LiveCD provided. Thanks guys!
[Desire General] simonthor:
I don't really have any disks. But does it work with VMWare?
[Desire General] KBanause:
yes it does :)
[Desire General] flakz0r:
Another happy camper, hboot .80 now s-off!
[Desire General] simonthor:
Cool:D Thanks!:)
[Desire General] KBanause:
Well, at least it's working with VMWare Player 3.0.1 build-227600
[Desire General] scott4:
great, any tutorial to plot this S-OFF for Windows XP users?
[Desire General] maliiina:
jupi 100% sukces , my problem was in the rom , I change it from opendesire 4.0.30 to ledroid 2,1a and no problem :)
[Desire General] ivarson_swe:
Very nice, and seems to be working indeed.

Using LeeDroid, Im not able to connect to neither open nor closed WLAN's no longer, no mather if i reconfigure them in settings/wifi... anyone else? Im reflashing the radio now to see whether it helps

edit: after reflashing the radio, the latest.. it immediatly connected to an open wifi, and after 3 retries, it also connected to my WPA2-encrypted WiFi. Phew.. thanks again OP and Co. Great news for Desire-community :-) I'll try to donate a few bucks right now if Paypal allows my e-Card
[Desire General] Poodlemastah:
Seems that it somehow ****ed up my recovery, stuck on why so serious image each time I try to enter it.
[Desire General] superliam:
um, maybe im missing something, but i have read the site, and i understand that it removes the secruity. but, whats the point? what will we gain from doing this? my phone already rooted and i can dump loads of roms on to it. so is it needed? what can i do once i have got it to s-off ?

thank you, sorry if im being a dumb ass!
[Desire General] beatjunky:
i believe you can do things like modify system files without having to go into recovery. i'm still going to wait a bit before i do this. i don't think i need it yet...
[Desire General] Daelyn:
Same problem. Tried it last night and spoke to IEF about some errors. Don't seem to be OpenDesire friendly ;)
[Desire General] KBanause:
Negative. I have OpenDesire 4.0.32 installed and I got the new HBOOT installed.

Only thing is: /system is still r/o but I can remount it r/w using root explorer. I will check another ROM...
[Desire General] jungoed:
just flash with .img burn into CD, and flash under last opendesire , works like a charm , now time to change bootscreen :)
[Desire General] d3sm0nd:
Just did it in VMWare Workstation... went really easy!

Thanks and nice work!

Time to delete some useless system apps... :D
[Desire General] Daelyn:
Weird. I use 4.0.32, clean installed, and it fails on step 3of3 when flashing Hboot. Old HBoot remains and it reboots into OpenDesire just fine.

AMOLED // .75 Hboot
[Desire General] maliiina:
Ver 0.32 is new source android 2.2.1 , ver 0.30 is old one
[Desire General] Ultrakiller:
on alpharev home page:

"If you are already S-OFF, you can get our newest patched HBOOTs from here. (without going through the entire procedure again)."

link on "here" doesn't exist :)

it can be fixed?

tnx for all!!!!!
[Desire General] westy4096:
Respect to the crew! A great tool indeed :)

All good....S-OFF. Run in VM without a hitch.

HTC Desire/HBOOT 0.93 (pre-run), HTC 2.29 rooted-ROM
[Desire General] peewster:
another desire with hboot 0.80 unable to s-off. tried it many times but never passed step 3. Always have to flash a new rom after trying.

ideas?
[Desire General] Saenic:
Any comments on my encountered error?

hub 2-1.4:1.0 hub_port_status failed (err = -32)

I don't have the Joker loading screen but the skateboard androids (which I like better anyway).
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Cache partition N1table

I have been wondering for some time now. Why is the cache partition in N1Table so big? When compared to the stock spl, N1table only has 50 MBs extra for DATA, and that seems just stupid considering the SYSTEM partition is over 100 MBs smaller than in stock!? Or am I missing something? I was thinking it could be more like this:

/SYSTEM 150M

/CACHE 50M

/DATA 251M

That way we could have both AOSP ROMs, and even small Sense ROMs still with 251M for /DATA

Just a suggestion...
[Desire General] madd0g:
When system cache goes there, its 50mb free. More info how to that here -> http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/8504-gapps-package-updates/page__p__75149#entry75149
[Desire General] Akarim47:
many thanks for your effort

2 questions: do I have to flash any of the HBOOTs from your site or just having S-OFF is enough and will this be effected if I install any custom roms later?
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
I'm Sorry, but that does not really answer my question regarding partition layouts! It just describes how to flash N1 Table! :)

Hallydamaster
[Desire General] madd0g:
Yeah, how to flash the N1 table is in the 1st part of the commands, in 2nd part it is explained how to get system cache to be put on the /cache partition ;]
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@thed0g

OK, I see what you mean, I didn't realise it when I first read it, but that actually seems like a reasonable mod! Thank you! ;-)
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
scroll a bit down.there is a table which contains all four releases with their partition size and working links. use the first default one. That's the link you are missing

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Try ota update first, so you got hboot 0.93... It should usually run with 0.80, but perhaps this helps in your case

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Possibly a bit of a fail here...

I had S-OFF and the N1Table but got bored so went to flash the stock RUU and it all went through except

[6] SYSTEM - FAIL-PU

Any help guys?
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
First of all, you only have one recovery. That one starts, when you power on your phone while holding volume down, and then choose recovery. The other stuff you see is called fake flash. It means you copy the recovery temporary to cache partition and tell the kernel to use it. Its not permanent.

For partitioning your sdcard, there are several ways. One common is using the free rom manager from market. Another is to partition via pc with connected usb. Usually done with gparted.

with s-off, you can easily flash a recovery via fast boot, but always reboot after flashing.

Hope this covers most of your problems

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Further to this the phone just rebooted and it's hanging at the HTC logo. I'm assuming it's down to the N1Table and me not going back to normal before flashing the RUU due to the assumption that all gets reset when going back to stock. If this isn't the case then perhaps you should make a note of it on the OP

Still, anyone know how to rescue this or is it dead?
[Desire General] mad-murdock:
Just flash the standard partition size hboot, and then do the stock install. If there is nit enough space, hire should it work?

Swyped with HTC Desire. Excuse typos.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
How can I do that on the stock HBOOT, though? Everything else during the flash went through fine except that. I'm no longer S-OFF
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Just tried to flash via fastboot but it failed signature checking (obviously). Might have to be an insurance job unless someone knows a way to get S-OFF without a working phone
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Failure avoided - flashed the PB99IMG.zip again and this time it completed...panic over!! :D
[Desire General] 77flem:
i had this yes and i've flashed stock table before rebooting ;)
[Desire General] Ullion:
Thank you for your explanation! It's clear now; I wasn't aware of the "fake flash" concept.. Now I am

What I did finally is that I gave up the Amon Ra fake flash and the Clockworkmod recovery and I flashed the last Amon Ra recovery then I made my partitions from it

I'd have a last question: using a "fake flash" means that you don't have any recovery image on you phone or you have one which only gives the signal to the phone to wait for an usb plug (I mean when you have the red triangle)?

Thank you!
[Desire General] Akarim47:
help anyone
[Desire General] madd0g:
You dont need to flash any HBOOT, if you're happy with the current partition setup, all ROM's are fine with it. However if you change to N1table, you cant install Sense ROM's, because lack of space. Hope this clears it up for you.
[Desire General] lennshow66:
Is there any step by step instructions for doing s-off and the new tables ?
[Desire General] Akarim47:
Many thanx, that cleared it, what about flashing custom roms later do I need to remove anything from them, will they overwrite the HBOOT like the stock RUU?
[Desire General] madd0g:
No, they arent like official RUU's, so no worries. There were ROM's who had radio included though, but they separate that in 95% nowadays.
[Desire General] lennshow66:
Hey, how long does this part normally take????

Thanks
[Desire General] Akarim47:
thanx........
[Desire General] Ullion:
From what I read here almost 5 minutes in the best case, but many people got stuck at the step 3

I got stuck and I let it run for 2 hours just to be sure (but it seems that after 30 minutes nothing happens so that you can unplug), then I rebooted and everything went ok
[Desire General] Freddychuk:
Worked perfectly for me with the N1 table. Oxygen Rom runs without any problem, thanks guys! =)
[Desire General] xwishmasterx:
Hi Bro's

I have a question. Still my hboot is 0.75 - how can I make this 0.93 before switching it S-OFF?
[Desire General] rr3636:
I see this S-OFF HBOOT is a Bravo HBOOT. My Desire is an AMOLED UnBranded phone. Can I use this S-OFF HBOOT safely, and not sudenly get a branded phone? i.e. Can I use it with any ROM and still be unbranded? I think my current HBOOT is 0.80. Can I go directly from that to this S-OFF HBOOT?

(posted in both tutorial thread and this - wasn't sure which thread to post it)
[Desire General] websinister:
You can use this with any GSM Desire...
[Desire General] rouvax:
I also used your Alpharev iso thank you.
[Desire General] Jaeensson:
My phone is stuck at the point where the hboot is being flashed... feels like **** tbh.

The hboot 0.80 was installed and now it's stuck where the computer says turning the phone off will brick it. It's been like this for hours, what am I supposed to do?

[EDIT]

After a while I actually unplugged my phone, pulled out the battery and it actually rebooted with S-OFF, flawless... It seriously scared the **** out of me.
[Desire General] ermacwins:
Thanks for this worked great. How do I restore the default HTC splash?
[Desire General] madd0g:
Its on alpharev.nl site at the bottom.
[Desire General] scaeac:
When Legend?

My Desire has been S-OFFed, and I'm waiting for my Legend to s-off......
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
You don't need to, the S-OFF process flashes a 0.93 S-Off'd HBOOT!