yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] Twau:
1. Download your recovery and place it at the root of the sdcard.

2. Start a terminal program at your phone (example terminal emulator at market)

Type:

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/XXXXXX.img

3. You are done.

Please note, XXXXXX above is the name of the recovery, you placed at your sdcard.
[Desire General] Twau:
Then just burn the alpharev.iso you downloaded, boot it, and follow the instructions it says.

Best Regards
[Desire General] mobisat:
Thanks, my mistake, booting to cd now.
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Thats exactly what you have to ;)

EDIT: Too slow :P
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
Thanks for the help, when I do that it returns : "flash_image : command not found"
[Desire General] Twau:
Are you sure that you are s-off?

Best Regards
[Desire General] kai84m:
I think thats Rom related somehow. I also have the problem under LeeDroid but with OD it worked as far as i recall.

I'm definetely S-OFF and Hboot and recovery flashing works perfectly via fastboot!
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
Thanks for helping, when I boot I have "Alpharev" in pink/purple then Bravo PUT1 SHIP S_OFF

hboot-0.93.0001

microp-031d

Touch Panel-synt0101

Radio-5.09.00.20

BTW running Villan ROM
[Desire General] Twau:
When you tried to do it via fastboot, was your recovery.img file in the same folder as fastboot.exe? Please type what you typed.

Best Regards
[Desire General] kai84m:
It is as safe as flashing a Radio image. If you respect some saftey issues like sufficent battery and checking md5 sums there shouldnt be any problem.

I have flashed dozens of Radios, a few recoverys and two hboots so far on my Desire (not mentioning my former G1 ;)) and never had a brick!

But i admit, i would never flash things like that with windows.

Why should it be included into unrevoked? Alpharev is working brilliantly!
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
When trying to do it via fast boot I put it in the "tools" folder of my sdk which is on my desktop.

I renamed the file "recovery.img" then typed: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.

Also tried fastboot flash hboot recovery.img.
[Desire General] kai84m:
Do you want a Brick?

Please dont do that again! Recovery image is no Hboot!!!!
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
K sorry :(

As you have probably guessed I just follow advice, not actually sure what the hell I'm doing lol.
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
I don't think you should be flashing your HBOOT with a recovery image?

Sent from my Amiga 500 using Workbench
[Desire General] mobisat:
Right I have a small problem.

Installed S-Off via bootable cd and all was perfect. I now have the S-Off splash logo and the phone boots up and works fine.

My problem is that I now want to upgrade the kernel on my Desire. I thought boot into Recovery mode as usual and flash it from there.

Nope, every time I try to go into the Recovery mode all I get is the S-Off splash screen and none of the buttons do anything.

So how do I install new radios, roms etc. ??
[Desire General] kai84m:
In your case i would stop playing around if you really dont have a clue what you are doing!!!

Its just to risky and smartphones are expensive bricks!
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
I know what you are saying but its half way there so what the hell, phone works fine just cant flash a rom, surely I cant be far away from fixed, I appreciate your advice though.
[Desire General] kai84m:
Flash the recovery image again the Alpharev flasher somehow interferes with some recoverys - no big deal!

Just download your preferred recovery image, place it in one folder with the fastboot application, boot into fastboot, connect phone and flash in terminal on pc fastboot flash recovery xxx.img
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
Mate I have exactly the same problem, lemme know if what kai84m recommends works for you please.
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
can you go into a adb shell and type in cat /proc/cmdline

Give me your adroidboot.mid and androidboot.cid

should give u complete or failed immediately
[Desire General] K900:
Nice, real nice :) Maybe add a script to flash old HBOOT to the iso, too? Should help people if stuff goes wrong

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
If stuff goes wrong there will be no flashing old Hboot, it will be a brick.

If stuff goes right and they wanna flash old hboot they can via ruu, or fastboot.
[Desire General] fwers:
@juggalo_X: when i do cat /proc/cmdline i get permission denied
[Desire General] ghiki:
OHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I-DONT-BELIEVE-IT!!! It WORKED for me with VirtualBox!!!! it's amazing!!

thanks!thanks!thanksssss!

Worked with HBOOT 0.75/Leedroid 2.1a/Windows7 x86/Virtualbox 3.2.8 r64453(last, i think) without any issues
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
please make sure you have super user permissions, if you are on the device in the terminal type su and hit return

if you are on a pc you should already have super user as adb runs as rot/admin
[Desire General] fwers:
lol, this is strange, i did 'su' in adb shell and i got permission denied.. should i install another rom then ?

running MIUI.. .24 version right now.
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
you're running terminal on the device i take it.

if so go to super user app and make sure terminal is not set to deny
[Desire General] fwers:
Juggalo_X the 2 numbers that you asked for are

androidboot.mid PB9922000

androidboot.cid TELUS001
[Desire General] K900:
Yeah, right. An unbrick script will also be great :)

Sent from my HDfied HTC Desire
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
there is no reason why you are getting invalid device then besides the rom.

flash another one.

http://www.mightyrom.com/mrx/MRX/Bravo/Test/Current/Mighty_X_240910_D.zip

thats the rom i have been working on, its not finished yet but its funtional and stable. still monkeying with stuff. but i know it works as this is what i tested the fasher on for the AlphaREV guys
[Desire General] fwers:
thanxs, gonna try this rom and get back to you.. dl it now
[Desire General] BlackWhiteOne:
Hi,

how to make a custom Splash.nb0?

thanks.
[Desire General] Ronaldo_9:
i finally flashed my splash, i had to use my netbook that have unrevoked drivers installed.

i did "fastboot flash splash1 desire_stock_splash1.img"

you can download desire_stock_splash1.img from the site in OP
[Desire General] xecuter:
not able to download the iso. is it taken off the server?
[Desire General] fwers:
Juggalo_X : that did the trick... thanxs mate.. i guess MIUI was being the cause for it to not work. thanxs again :)
[Desire General] -Mr. X-:
great :) you're welcome
[Desire General] ~David:
With some help from Juggalo_X and Undesirable on IRC, I've successfully flashed to 0.93 S-OFF :)

It seems USB connectivity was lost somewhere along the line. It may have been an incompatibility with the ROM (I was running Kali's CM 6.0.2).

The good news is, my Desire wasn't bricked. HBOOT hadn't even been touched yet. After pulling the battery, it booted just fine.

I flashed to Juggalo's custom ROM (linked above), ran the process again and it worked perfectly this time.

Thanks again for the help guys! Heart attack avoided.
[Desire General] mr_dinosaur:
Thanks for sharing because I think the same thing may happen on CyanogenMod Nightlies which I've got flashed on my device. I'll flash the ROM you used first before trying to avoid near heart attack moments lol.
[Desire General] nht_max:
Thanks so much for the awesome tool, all of you who have involved in realizing it!

I just have one question before tempting to do the job:

May there be any compatible issue If i decide to do this if my device is running OpenDesire 4.0.32? Like the case of David which he had to flash another ROM to make it through the process. My Desire is at HBOOT 0.75, rooted using the unRevoked 3.2.1 which has just been released and on OD 4.0.32.

Your helps are greatly appreciated:)
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
you should read the 1st post really shouldnt you
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
Im sorry, is that helping me? If you have nothing to contribute, don't.

Take example from the decent folk on this forum who help people with less knowledge than themselves rather than taking unconstructive shots at me.
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
well you can flash radios from the device itself, you can still boot with a borked radio.

with a borked hboot the device is a proper brick as you cannot get to anything or boot it up.

only people that can fix that is HTC
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
yes it is helping you

if you notice i lquoted exactly the thing that you need to do to fix your issue which is on the front of the thread by the op

its going to help you by telling you to read as its people like you who dont read and cause bricks because you have an afterthought rather than learning what you are doing.

i contributed if you bother looking at all but then you didnt read what i posted either and got on your high horse.

are you a troll?
[Desire General] kai84m:
Really? Thats good to know, but anyway i never had any issue with flashing so far an I hope it will stay like that ;)
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
well yeah you put the zip on the sdcard and flash via recovery (apply any zip from sdcard) if you are refering to booting with a borked radio, its never happened to me but someone on android forums had a failed radio flash. he could still get to hboot and RUU it
[Desire General] kai84m:
I know that, but if you flash a radio not suitable for your Device (like the Desire HD Radio which was floating arround here) I am pretty sure youll get a brick.
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
hmm, dunno then :/

didnt think it would affect bootloader

were going off topic though so ill stop there :P
[Desire General] mobisat:
Thanks for the pointers, all working fine now.
[Desire General] Sabrezx:
Ok, I really have to put my hands up and unreservedly apologise to you here, I have checked through the thread and you are indeed one of the helpful folk on this forum. I am sorry for snap judging you and misinterpreting your comment as a criticism. Lesson learned, I'll read before I shout in future.

Sorry

BTW got it fixed ;)
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
no problem :P glad its sorted
[Desire General] Kingdavid7:
Ok my phone is stuck on the third step right now for an hour+. Its still on and plugged in. My school network blocks irc so i need help here. I have HBOOT version .80 and is showing an O2 screen right now. I am using AphaRev 1.4 booted from startup.

Edit: I tried entering commands to the waiting screen and nothing happens. Can I exit the program and boot normally to Windows without any harrm to my phone?
[Desire General] alizandru:
Phone stuck on logo

I've tried to use the utility, using vmware. After step 3 appearing on the screen, i went from pc, but after 5 minutes the phone was still on logo, and the vmware session was closed. I don't know what happened. Is it posible that my Desire is bricked? Should i reboot the phone, or wait a few minutes?
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
ouch, you did this at school :/
[Desire General] Kingdavid7:
I'm in college right now. The people who run this network are idiots. :mad:
[Desire General] flakz0r:
What's the latest status message on your computer? Any errors?

The hboot flashing process happens really quick, and that's where the brick can happen. If you're stuck on the "O2" splash screen, that means that nothing should have been flashed, because when the process is successfull, it flashes an image of the joker as your splash screen..
[Desire General] Kingdavid7:
It says "Waiting for flash to complete" and nothing else.
[Desire General] flakz0r:
Since you still have the O2 splash, that means that the hboot flash didnt succeed. You tried to run the commands again?

Im guessing you're safe to reboot the phone, since most likely nothing should have happened, and no one has bricked a phone yet using this, but i dont want to be responsible for the first brick :)

Did you burn a CD a booted as instructed or did you use a usb pen?
[Desire General] Kingdavid7:
I'm using a CD burned with ImgBurn. What do you mean issue the commands again? I already tried dumping the md5sum in the waiting screen but nothing happened.
[Desire General] flakz0r:
You're problably safe to reboot your computer AND your phone, but you dont have S-OFF yet. As i said earlier, if the flashing process was successful, you would have a joker splash image.

Im on IRC right now, trying to get someone with higher powers to confirm me that you can reboot your phone, hang on and dont stress out, you should be fine :)
[Desire General] Handl3vogn:
Just one fast question just flashed my desire whit the alpharev 1.5 image. And i think all went well. But i did not see any joker splash screen just 3 android figuers on skateboard. And when i enter bootloader it says 0.93 S-off.

So maby the joker screen is removed or did i do somthing wrong?
[Desire General] Kingdavid7:
Ok I rebooted and its fine. It shows the Joker screen. When I boot into the bootloader its says AlphaRev Hboot 0.93. However, a lot of things are force closing when I first turn it on. A nandroid restore of before the S-Off flash did not help it. At least it's not bricked. Should I rerun the reflash utility to the newest version?

Edit: Tried a fix permissions in Amon_Ra and no luck
[Desire General] flakz0r:
Reflash your rom, lots of people have had trouble with their roms and/or recoveries after flashing :)
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
I have just installed 1.5 via the fastboot method as I have already flashed with s-off previously.

Fastboot said sending and writing both completed ok, but is there anyway I can actually check that I have the latest installed?

It installed very quick, probably a second or less?

Thanks

Sent from my Amiga 500 using Workbench
[Desire General] flakz0r:
yeah takes like .2 seconds, afaik no way to check, version number seems to be the same, 0.93.00001
[Desire General] Kingdavid7:
It worked! I now have S-Off and LeeDroid 2.2 working, thank you so much for your help :D
[Desire General] karimayubar:
just want to make a report here..

s-off a success with my leedroid 2.2 rom on singtel amoled htc desire..

greetings from singapore..
[Desire General] Judge584:
Hi,

My Desire is now Rooted S-OFF with the help of Alpharev 1.5

Big Thanks to the Alpharev Team.

History:

1-Started from an HTC Branded Desire from Orange France. (eclair modified by Orange)

2-Goldcard creation

3-Flashed the first HTC untouched official rom (eclair) (with goldcard of course)

4-Official first HTC Froyo update applied via OTA (with goldcard of course)

5-Official latest HTC Froyo update applied via OTA (with goldcard of course)

6-Rooted via Unrevoked 3.21 (no error or bug, applied flawlessly under win7 64bits) (with goldcard, don't know if was needed)

7-S-Off patched via Alpharev 1.5 (no error or bug, iso was burned on a regular CD) (with goldcard, don't know if was needed)
[Desire General] mobisat:
Probably a silly question but what is the filename of the S-Off splash screen and where is it located ?
[Desire General] Ain_Soph:
Is there a way to flash this patch without burning the iso to a cd? Something like flash from recovery etc?
[Desire General] kai84m:
If you're already S-Off you can flash the image you can get from the alpharev page via fastboot.

But if your Nvram is still locked you need the bootable image.
[Desire General] icrazy:
For those still struggling with windows PC .

1. Get VMware player : http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_downloads/vmware_player/3_0

- Install it

2. Download Iso image : http://alpharev.shadowchild.nl/

Load image in VMware player

3. Connect your phone to the PC

Phone must be running , not in boot mode and USB debugging enabled.

Wait - dont touch phone - those 3 steps wont need any input from you. Phone will reboot and hang few minutes at step free when is writing the new HBoot . Don't panic , don't disconnect the phone just wait.

Try to have phone fully charged. I did it on 3 phones , and took less than 5 minutes on each of them , but better safe than sorry.

4. After all is done and you have S-off, you can delete the folder ALPHA and the file alpharev.log from /data directory , it will free 7-9 mb of space . If you want you can backup what you delete on sd or pc.
[Desire General] kai84m:
You should mention that you might reconnect usb to the phone with virtualization every time the phone reboots - just if people are wondering why they are stuck in a step.
[Desire General] icrazy:
with VMware player I didnt had to reconnect at all on reboots , it auto connected.

On all 3 phones that I did . Maybe VirtualBox needs this .. not sure , I dont really use that .
[Desire General] noobandroid:
thanks for the tip dude, was wondering how to do this on windows
[Desire General] mobilkungen78:
how do i check md5sum? im already s-off with the 1.1 and was wondering how to update it or dont i need that?
[Desire General] noobandroid:
need help!! i am seeing 2 side white stripes and black screen, is this normal or is mine bricked? still plugged in and untouched at the mean time

COME ON!!!! ANYBODY!!! URGENTLY NEED HELP!!
[Desire General] icrazy:
give some details.

At what step are you ?

What is saying on virtual machine screen ?
[Desire General] noobandroid:
it says waiting for flashing to complete

and my desire has 2 white stripes only
[Desire General] icrazy:
Check on the status bar of your virtual machine if the device is still connected on USB . You do this only by mouse over the usb icon .

Dont click it. If it says that no usb device is connected go to VM - Removable Devices and select the android device from there.

But I would say to wait a bit.
[Desire General] noobandroid:
it says High android phone,and that 2 stripes of white is worrying me
[Desire General] icrazy:
Then it means the phone is still connected. You need to wait. See on this thread how much took for other people . You can also ask on IRC chan.

I dont know why the white stripes since it should be the HTC logo.
[Desire General] noobandroid:
i never used IRC, can u tell me how?
[Desire General] icrazy:
sry I am on street , hard to answer fast . go to webchat.freenode.net enter a nickname and alpharev at channel press connect and you are in

leave the phone as it is , is important to not disconnect it.
[Desire General] noobandroid:
but i heard a disconnect and reconnect sound, what is that?
[Desire General] daloki83:
Hi all,

trying x times but i ever got the same failure :-(

sending 'recovery' (4216 KB)... OKAY [ 0.580s]
writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 1.017s

can some 1 help me with this...going crazy :-(
[Desire General] noobandroid:
bugger! after i pulled out the battery and re-insert, everything is normally loading

and I HAVE S-OFF

damm that 2 stripes freaked me out!

so it completed but didnt complete the reboot, so it freaked out
[Desire General] mobilkungen78:
when i try with cmd and fastboot it just says waiting for device and nothing happens..help please?

i have the old 1.1 alpharev but i want to update with 1.5 but it just says waiting for device and

nothing happens so i unplugged and tried again but waiting for device

i have win 7
[Desire General] noobandroid:
perhaps if u do like me, u MIGHT just make it work, read above post of my long scary story, and a pull of battery worked.

WARNING: USE WITH CAUTION!!~ THINK CAREFULLY
[Desire General] noobandroid:
are you in the correct thread? this is S-OFF thread not recovery, anyways.. disable signature verification before you proceed, that should do the trick
[Desire General] icrazy:
@noobandroid good to hear that things worked out for you.

For others that get this problem , be sure that you give the phone enough time before unplugging it leave it 1h or so. If you remove the battery before the flash is done you will brick your device.
[Desire General] mobilkungen78:
got it working through cmd and fastboot..had to try with my laptop and it worked
[Desire General] manutitou:
Positive feedback

Just apply the S-OFF on my Desire (LeeDroid V2.1a, HBoot 0.80) without any issues (only had to change my pants afterwards...)

I did use v1.5 on a USB bootable stick with the use of Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.0.1

Just had to follow to boot on the USB, wait for the program to wait for the phone to be connected (while normally switched ON), overall process took around 3min, but it actually feels much longer :D

Thanks for this great tool
[Desire General] esskaypee:
Many Thanks!!!

Did exactly this, had to un-plug phone after FIRST initial restart, after that it was fully automatic & working perfectly. Took around 4mins.

Came from: HBoot 0.80 S-On (Leedroid 2.2, AmonRa recovery)

Now: Hboot 0.93 S-Off no need to re-do recovery, everything is fine! :D
[Desire General] homeplayer:
:D

me s-off, to, did the same
[Desire General] Schnitzel77:
Everthing worked fine for me. No need to be scary. :-)

did it with VMWare Player under Windows7. Took me 2-3 Minutes.

HTC Desire (Amoled)

Came from: HBoot 0.80

ROM: Rooted HTC Sence Stock (Froyo [2.2])

Thanks for this cool feature to get S-OFF.
[Desire General] Buzzdee:
Success! :)

0.75 / T-Mob / DeFrost 5.1

via VMware / Win 7 64

needed two runs, got that mysterious "error 5" first
[Desire General] LemmingKing:
Done this!

was HBOOT 0.80.0000, OpenDesire 4.0.34, AmonRa 1.7.0.1-R5.

5 min with fair cd burning (didn't use VirtualBox or anything).

No need to reflash recovery or ROM or do something else (though I wiped cache and dalvik cache to verify that the recovery is alive).

AlphaRev, that's great, thank you!
[Desire General] sirperes:
Hi guys i have s-off But I don't have splash.img that with joker any idea whay?
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
@sirperes

For some reason it just happens sometimes, do not worry about it ;-)
[Desire General] jubaz:
Maybe someone know this !!

On a desire gsm..

I used unrevoked 3.2.1 to root, then I used alpharev 1.5 hboot to have "full root"

everything works great, but when I install rom manger (2.5.0.4) it says

"You must have clockworkmod recovery installed"

My recovery (clockworkmod 2.5.0.7) works just fine, so is this because of the "hboot patch" (alpharev)

:confused:
[Desire General] hallydamaster:
Update your recovery image using fastboot, then all problems should be gone...
[Desire General] tatey2457:
This has nothing to do with alpharev, you can either let Rom manager place clockwork on your SD card or you can use the option to tell it that you already have a custom recovery installed...personally I just let it place the files on my SD card.
[Desire General] jubaz:
Just did that, and it worked nicely, thanks.
[Desire General] vybztymz:
Could you re-post the screenshot, I could'nt quite see it........from Space :)
[Desire General] flowtec:
Just want to report - one more with s-off... :D

After freezing at Stage 3 with the magenta circle (T-Mobile) for about 30 min. i tried to try the “adb remount” but got an error.

After take off the battery and boot in recovery everything gone fine...puuhh...

HBOOT: 0.75.000 S-ON >> 0.93.0001 S-OFF

Had no problem with Clockwork or the Leedroid!

Infos:

CID: T-MOB101

LeeDroid: 2.1a

ClockworkMod: 2.5.0.7

Meanwhile LeeDroid 2.2a... :cool:

Thanks for your fantastic work and btw i like that joker-splash!
[Desire General] aaargh777:
Just S-OFFed my Desire...

It took the longest 5 minutes in my life and now I have to change my pants but all went fine! :D
[Desire General] niaoRen:
Hey. Just one quick question.

-Desire AMOLED

HBOOT 0.92 from official HTC Froyo Update

rooted with unrEVOked

So will the new version of alpharev work? and must I be on a linux system?

Thanks in advance! (:
[Desire General] Lennyuk:
you just run it from a cd, it boots its own linux, you don't need linux already installed to run it.

Its called a "live cd"
[Desire General] -sci-fi-:
My Desire Displays

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.80.0000

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

RADIO-5.09.00.20

Mar 29 2010,21:34:33

I think mine is already S-OFF when I bought this phone. What I did is only rooted with unrevoked, upgrade the Radio and install Pinky ROM 1.8.

How can I upgrade to HBOOT 0.93.0001 with S-OFF
[Desire General] niaoRen:
I was just concerned about the compatibility with the hboot. So the hboot 0.92 will do just fine without any problems if I do proceed with the s-off procedures?