yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] ~David:
If you can't boot into your ROM after successfully completing the S-OFF process: Reflash your ROM or do a nandroid restore.

If you can't boot into your Recovery after successfully completing the S-OFF process: Reflash your Recovery with unrEVOked 3.21.
[Desire General] Phily757:
...or flash the recovery with fastboot (androidsdk\tools\)

"fastboot flash recovery <recoveryfile>"

To do that, you must reboot into Fastboot mode
[Desire General] landwomble:
done

AuraxTSense 7.6.1, Bootloader of 0.80.

Flashed via VMware player - created a new VM with no HDD and with the CD drive set to point at the .iso. Booted off the .iso, connected phone whilst booted with USB Debugging enabled and made sure that VMWare was connected to the phone via USB, and hit "Go". Forced myself to go and make a brew and just leave it - took about 2 mins, worked great.

Was left on FASTBOOT screen so just did a power down and reboot from there and all good.

Great job guys. Just need to work out what to do with it!

Going to customise the boot screen with my name and number for security purposes next.
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
I know how to do that, I was completely reading it wrong :p

I was just saying that not everyone knows how to do tgis by saying 'burn it, boot it, done.'

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] Phily757:
But, someone who doesn't understand it, shouldn't do something like that!!^^

btw...it's really that simple :D
[Desire General] ~David:
Oh yeah! Geez, I completely forgot you can do that now. I have to get used to having S-OFF :D
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
Just remember, everyone was a noob once.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] gatsu_1981:
Going to test titanium and EStrongs File Manager in root mode, I am moving some app from EXT to /system.
[Desire General] teorouge:
All working, thank you guys once again! Is this S-OFF concurrent to Unrevoked? May that push some root issues (Titanium Backup asks for root continuously)?
[Desire General] ItsDace:
So true
[Desire General] Mekrel:
Maybe you should go read up on the basics of computing, such as burning an ISO and changing your boot priority before asking stupid questions and then being sarcastic to people who reply to you.

Now seeing as you pretty much trashed Tron's ROM thread by insulting his work, you have no right to complain about people not replying to you in a respectful manner.
[Desire General] fogbav:
Strike ... was on 0.75 HBoot - T-Mobile Germany

Opendesire 4.0.32

Created boot CD - security measures ...8) .. no vm

Waited 3 Steps ... some magic people did some tricks on the display ... Strike !

S-OOOOOFFFF .... 8)

Thank you so much (still wondering why nothing went wrong - normaly its me when one device crashes ... ) ...8)

THHHAANK YOOOUUU !!!!
[Desire General] Toisan:
Ok, after reflashing AmonRa Recovery all works! thanks for help and tips!

Thanks!
[Desire General] wallah:
No chance

Good evening,

I try at least 10 times without success,

with .iso and burn on cd

every time I got to the 3 step

and he told me that the flash failed, I

recall that my ROM must be root .....

And yet i am [ROM] [09.07] HTC 5.AuraxTSense v7.6.1 2.2 .....

Is that you knew where it came from?

Thank you
[Desire General] Madeli:
Worked fine for me! now S-OFF :)

hboot before: 0.80

Rom: Modaco r9
[Desire General] Spoinky:
Successfully installed, well hello Busybox!
[Desire General] Yoyoa:
Hello, great thanks,

Worked for me,

hboot before: 0.80

Rom Itanium Froyo
[Desire General] juberg:
Woot...

s-off finally, thank you so much, great job.

hboot: 0.83 before

rom :froyo delite 0.8 modded
[Desire General] Dragooon123:
Worked like a charm! Burned the CD and S-OFFed my Desire(HBoot 0.83, VillianRom 1.0) on my MacBook.
[Desire General] Arcalius:
Does my phone have to have a rom installed? I have it rooted but I am just using the stock rom. None of these fancy custom ones.
[Desire General] Eleventh:
Did it and was successful!

Used iMac with VMWare Fusion

Unbranded Desire on LeeDroid 2.1a
[Desire General] hateman:
Worked like a charm!

used: Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.0.0

hBoot : 0.80

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

Thanks
[Desire General] mountnorth:
Successfully used AlphaRev 1.1 HBOOT reflash utility with VMWare Player 3.1.2 on Win7/32bit and Win7/64bit.

If you never used VMWare Workstation/Player before you should just burn that ISO.

If you want to do it with a Virtual System anyway here some hints for VMWare Player:

1. make sure you enable "Automatically connect new USB devices":

2. make sure the VM recognizes your connected phone in all possible states

BEFORE you start the procedure:

bad: phone is not connected to the VM

good: phone is connected

- boot up the vm to the initial disclaimer screen, leave it there

- connect your booted / USB debug enabled phone and make sure it gets routed to the vm (check the lower right USB devices list at the VMWare Player main window)

- mount phone as HD and check

- boot to HBOOT and check

- switch to FASTBOOT and check

Now that you checked that your phone is connected to the VM in every needed state you can boot up the phone and start the procedure.

It seems that the device name you see (e.g. High Android Phone / High USB Device / USB Mass Storage / Android Bootloader Interface / etc.) depends on host os / drivers / phone version / phone state - I had very different devicenames across 64bit/32bit Windows, but it worked all the time.
[Desire General] Muskie:
Quick question: if I ran Unrevoked after this (to update my recovery), would I still have S-OFF?
[Desire General] cybermessiah:
Cant wait to get this sweetness on my desire!

Finally can have a customized splash boot image.

Pretty confident that it will go easily, but just curious....

Has anyone tried this with:

[ROM] Official 2.2,with busybox,old A2SD+,Open VPN[TUN],Ex4 Support.802.11 N-

Success or issues wif this rom... better to know beforehand.:confused:

Amazing work!!:o
[Desire General] JonesWTF:
Fantastic work guys! Worked just like it said it would. I became unemployed today, so this was the little ray of sunshine that brightened my day :) Thanks.

Originally .75 hboot running CM 6 nightly.
[Desire General] fxone:
Success - gsm

before:

hboot 0.75 - s-on

after

hboot 0.93 s-off

i have made it with Vmware 7.x
[Desire General] matrixis2day:
I dont know how to use the iso and busybox
[Desire General] marinierb:
Cool! Anybody know how to resize the /system and /data partitions?
[Desire General] AdamG:
nice fastboot works
[Desire General] ieftm:
Wow, it failed without even telling you?

Could you describe to me exactly what happened right before it turned off?

If it won't turn on again, there's little I can do. But, please provide your phone details, this is extremely curious as it should never fail without telling you first.
[Desire General] ephumuris:
It never failed. It still said waiting for hboot to flash or whatever it says. I wouldn't have touched it but the phone was definitely off for a while.

Hboot was 75.

T-Mobile handset.

SenseHD rom the flashable zip r2.
[Desire General] maliiina:
Phone must he on? Or bootloader or what?
[Desire General] GANJDROID:
Struck by lightning twice with your Desire now :(

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] ieftm:
The method is set up so it:

1. Will try to flash hboot.

2. Verify, if old hboot is still on, fail and reboot.

3. If that failed, reflash old hboot again.

4. Verify again, and fail with a message to keep everything online and get on IRC.

I'm very, very curious as to know what went wrong here :/

Might be quite the long shot: Your battery was fully charged when you tried this? :(

Just on. As in android.
[Desire General] ephumuris:
Battery was around 50% i guess i was a little careless. How long should stage 3 take?
[Desire General] ieftm:
Normally no more than 2 up to 5 minutes.

By then, you should've received feedback. That is, unless USB communication got disrupted somehow, then you might never see the feedback from the flashing process going on inside the phone..
[Desire General] quanghaidv04:
Guide

please,give me the guide more detail such as step by step, I downloaded file .iso but I don't know how use it?
[Desire General] ephumuris:
Burn it. Boot it. Done.

Hmm well i didn't move or knock the phone. The cable has never caused me any problems in the past.
[Desire General] maliiina:
I have 'device found ....

Bit of error

Device not recognized ... power off

...'
[Desire General] qubz:
+1

I'll post a screenshot if I am able to reproduce it.
[Desire General] maliiina:
I have this after plug to usb
[Desire General] qubz:
ouch..

Still hung on the HTC screen...

ieftm what are the irc details?
[Desire General] mari0s:
Flashed successfully, and S-OFF working flawlessly :)

for creating Live CD with USB flash drive i used *unetbootin-windows*
[Desire General] Undesirable:
IRC details are: irc.freenode.net , channel #alpharev

Several people have had the "can't open '/tmp/feedback'" issue, and needed to verify their HBoot image on IRC to check that it was safe to reboot. Two people have successfully rebooted after that error so far.
[Desire General] ieftm:
for everyone with the same error, hold on for a bit.

There's a small error in the script, nothing major/bricklike.
[Desire General] ephumuris:
Yes it's pretty failsafe. The only way it could possibly brick you is if you know the flash is working and you pull your battery. If it just hangs for 15 minutes you know the flash hasn't even happened.

I'm back up and running now. Sense HD rom, S-OFF. Done.
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
Well I just flashed it using a USB Stick prepped using UnetBootin with CM6 Nightly 09102010.

S-OFF - happy days!! :D
[Desire General] boz:
Full S-OFF CD pictorial installation guide now available!

What fantastic addition to our Desires. :D

I personally strongly advise that you use the ISO burned to CD method to install S-OFF onto your Desire, why complicate things by using other methods such as virtual/flash drives etc to increase the chances of failure and perhaps a bricked device.

Fair enough if you haven't got a CD/DVD drive to burn an ISO, but If you have a CD/DVD burner built into your PC/Laptop then use it, why take risks with your expensive device!

For anyone wanting to know how to use the CD method I have written an in depth pictorial guide to installing S-OFF at our website HERE, please feel free to link to it in the main post. I have linked back to this site in my thread.

Thanks Boz. :)
[Desire General] muhabla:
everything worked fine...

the only problem is that i can't go to the recovery with rom manager.

the phone shut down, but don't restart to the recovery. the only thing i see is the "Why so serious?" bootscreen but nothing else (doesn't boot the phone)...
[Desire General] kwaille:
Works also for me.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe you could create a poll to view s-off flashing results?

But it seems to be ok for everyone,with sometimes little annoyances...
[Desire General] Phily757:
just type "recovery" into search, then you would get the answer ;)

you must flash the recovery again. For some it is bricked, for some not. Mine was bricked too. A few sites behind it is described ;)
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
OK, Noob question time!

Now that I have S-OFF I know I have full control over my phone, but if I download a radio update and flash it via Amon_Ra, will the Amon_Ra recovery still verify the signature on the radio update before flashing?

I still want to ensure that Radio updates that I flash are verified before flashing? So I wouldn't be using fastboot to do it, I would prefer to do it via recovery and be safe, if this is possible?
[Desire General] fogbav:
Jup ... recovery is dead here also .. Hboot change was fine ... ... but no problem i think ...8)
[Desire General] mountnorth:
You don't need Unrevoked anymore to flash your recovery.

Just get the recovery image you want, boot your phone to FASTBOOT and "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img".

Just updated my Unrevoked perma-flashed Clockwork 2.5.0.1 to 2.5.0.7 this way.
[Desire General] hk5354:
any way to go back if need to repair by htc?
[Desire General] Ghashul:
Might be a dumb question, but will it work just as well burned to a DVD-R as a CD-R?

I don't have any CD-R's.
[Desire General] Minux31:
Thks a lot, it worked great (with live cd for more security)

Before hboot 0.75, after 0.93-S-OFF

Thank you very much !
[Desire General] Phily757:
there are 2 other options. start a vm and load the iso

or "install" this iso on a usb stick (described it previous posts) and boot from the stick
[Desire General] ~David:
DVD-R will work, yes. Kind of a waste though, it's only 11MB :P
[Desire General] morgan39:
Wow¡¡¡¡ Congratulations and thank you very much.

Leaves in our hands many more possibilities for our DESIRE, good job.
[Desire General] ephumuris:
Thanks for the obnoxiously oversized post! I couldn't flash using CD so i used Virtualbox. I don't see the big deal about this. It's almost as simple and worked for me. That's your opinion but no need to FORCE IT ON EVERYONE ELSE. :D

Yeah it should still check as it's a feature of the recovery. However only download radio's from a source you trust anyway. It's kind of life or death for your device.
[Desire General] AzureusPT:
Flashed without problem with Live CD from HBOOT 0.80

Thanks a lot!
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
Yeah I know, I always download them from AdamG (although I wish he would post MD5 Hash's so I could confirm that the download is correct).

I thought it was built in to Amon_Ra, so I am going to continue using that to update my Radio! It has saved my ass once before!! :D
[Desire General] fogbav:
Do you have a link to the right image ? i don't want to flash the wrong bits there ...8)

would be wonderful ... thanks !

@All - check recovery after successfull Hboot ... !
[Desire General] Egan:
I S-OFFed my Desire succesfully with VirtualBox.

before:

HBOOT 0.93

MCR r9

after:

HBOOT 0.93.0001

MCR r9

However when I arrived at step 3/3 all text disappeared and with a reboot it lost the USB connection. I kept seeing the HTC bootscreen and nothing even after 20 minutes. I removed the battery then and was praying not to brick my phone. Likely all was fine and appeared finished. The text appeared again after I removed the battery and hang at something like "Wait for flash to finish...".

Luckily nothing got bricked and I see this nice joker bootscreen, HBOOT telling me S-OFF and a reference to AlphaRev :-).

Thanks alot to the guys making this possible!
[Desire General] AdamLC:
Another success story from HBOOT 0.75 on a UK Orange Desire. I am using LeeDroid.

Although! I had to do a nandroid restore, but other than that all went well :)
[Desire General] boz:
It was that obnoxious you used it again to quote me, and the text isn't quite as big as yours in the second post of this thread! :rolleyes:

I made it that size to stand out, so that it would help members to update their Desires if they don't quite grasp what to do. The 'How to' was made in my own time and for free to help others which is something you obviously wouldn't understand, there is nothing at all in it for me.

Even if it helps only one person I will be pleased, if you don't like it don't read it, simples pal!

I won't be posting another reply to anything you have to say as I don't want to fill this thread up with crap, nuff said. :)
[Desire General] fogbav:
Please help me with a quick "verify"

My recovery is dead ... only shows jocker after h-Boot S-Off

so i downloaded clockwork recovery 2.0.5.7 ...

stored it on root on sdcard (/sdcard)

conected with adb shell

no i'm going on in full booted opendesire rom with :

flash_image recovery recovery.img

correct ? please reply ...
[Desire General] Twau:
Still failing using livecd, at 3/3 step "Failed to flash hboot".

Then it reboots to normal, without any change.

Tried different computers, and cables, and ROM's :) Nothing changes.

Hboot 0.75
[Desire General] Komadyret:
Patience is not a virtue :p

2-3 hours ago I posted in another thread that I'd wait with the S-OFF untill LeeDroid had a ROM that took advantage of the S-OFF.

Seems to be plenty success stories here so mine probably isn't needed, but here it is anyway

From:

HBOOT 0.83 (downgrade from 0.92 OTA)

LeeDroid 2.1 (not upgraded to 2.1a yet) A2SD+ version w/512MB EXT3

Booted the CD, as it is less prone to present issues than the virtual alternatives, and ain't much more job either. Burning a disk is quick work.

General advice tho; burn at slow speed (24x/16x) for these disks. I always do for OS disks, and it eleminates possible burn-errors that may occour when burning at max speed.

Now, off to explore the posibilities.....
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
No you need to store the recovery image on your computer (D:\ for example), rename it to recovery.img

Reboot your phone to fastboot mode and type "fastboot flash recovery D:\recovery.img" (WithOUT the quotation marks and substituting D:\ for wherever your recovery image is stored, you can get rid of it completely if recovery.img is in the same directory as fastboot, just type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)

Hope this helps!
[Desire General] Jagdish84:
Seems that the procedure breaks Clockwork recovery while AmonRas recovery stays intact...
[Desire General] NeoDriver:
Mine worked great =D

Flashed from 0.800 HBOOT to 0.93.0001 perfectly.

My phone was originally a branded, locked O2 handset, unbranded it and unlocked it, running CyanogenMod 6.0.2 =)

good luck everybody else!
[Desire General] fogbav:
Strike ! ... thank you very much ... works like a charm ...
[Desire General] aslsthlm:
Had the same problem, I used android sdk tools to flash recovery image

I did like this:

1. downloded amon_ra 1.7.0.1 R5.1

2. put it in android sdk tools

3 Opend a command prompt in tools

4. typed: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

5. got phone in fastboot mode

6. and BAM flash

Simple as that...:D
[Desire General] roady85:
"flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img" works too. Juste type it in terminal emulator
[Desire General] reidar.ostrem:
Burned and ran the liveCD.

Unbranded Desire with HBOOT 0.80 running [ROM] [28/09] Pre-rooted Stock Froyo (2.10.405.2)

And now - S-OFF!

Edit: And ClockWorkRecovery still intact.
[Desire General] fogbav:
That was my hope ... is this the new way since S-OFF ? 8)
[Desire General] umd:
Worked for me. I used USB stick to boot.

LeeDroid 2.1a ROM and Hboot 0.80.

I don't know exactly what it's benefits but if it's coming from you guys it would be good :D Thanks for your work.
[Desire General] HC4Life:
Sorry to ask,

But how i burn the iso file into a cd? With Nero as a data file?

Thanx :o
[Desire General] Naphtaline:
For archives and data :

- Nandroid OpenDesire 4.0.30

- Flashed MightyX rom

- Used VirtualBox and AlphaRev 1.1

- Restored nandroid

My device :

HBOOT 0.75

Orange France

Radio 05.14

Job done.
[Desire General] cjm1979:
Piss simple. Was on 0.80 and using LeeDroid 2.1a. Used the usb stick method for the iso and it's left my rom and recovery intact.

Thanks a lot guys.
[Desire General] quake2005:
Amazing, works a charm :D

Hboot 0.80 AMOLED running Desire HD rom
[Desire General] tatey2457:
Quick question for the OP or anyone else that can shed some light...If we now have full read/write access, why is it that most file explorer apps eg Astro file manager can not see System partition as R/W?
[Desire General] DesirableHTC:
can someone please explain in laymans how to do this using virtual box, thank you.
[Desire General] Rudolfje:
Because you have to (re)mount the partition as R/W first.

Worked as a charm.

XP SP3, VirtualBox

HBOOT 0.75 Cyanogenmod 6.0.2

Edit: The new splash is cool.

Huh, why did it boot into 'Safe Mode'....

Kept booting into 'Safe Mode' until I shut it down.

Works fine now.
[Desire General] aslsthlm:
You have to change it to R/W, personaly I use root explorer.
[Desire General] ieftm:
Astro doesnt run as root. Only root can view system and data.

Just use root explorer instead.
[Desire General] ~David:
If you use Windows 7, you can right click on the .ISO and select the "Burn disc image..." option.

If not, my personal favourite app to burn ISOs is ImgBurn.
[Desire General] impolyt:
ES File Explorer is doing a great job on system - for free! :-)
[Desire General] landwomble:
Install vb. Create new virtual machine. Set no hard disk. Set cdrom to point to ISO you downloaded. Boot vm off ISO. Connect phone.
[Desire General] cjm1979:
Have you not got a usb stick you could put the iso on? That's all I did and booted from that. No faffing with burning or virtual box.
[Desire General] DesirableHTC:
Thanks, got it all set up, but when i plug phone in it just sits waiting for device....? do i need to enable disk drive or anything?

Anyone help?

BTW, im using VillainRom for desire
[Desire General] hk5354:
any other boot logo?:p

hope to have original one.
[Desire General] cjm1979:
No. All I did was plug it in. Debugging has to be enabled but it does this anyway when you plug it in.
[Desire General] ghiki:
With Vbox, when it's runing simply click in "Devices" (in top area of the window)> USB Devices> HTC Android phone.

Repeat the procedure when reboots in bootloader & 4-5 times again, this disconnects when Desir go to Fastboot/ADB/HBOOT USB and needs recconect (it's easy, but you have to do 4 or 5 times, first make sure ADB Drivers and Bootloader's drivers are installed [ADB Composite interface/ Android ADB... in Device Manager])

PD: You need to install "Virtualbox USB Drivers" installed, they're on "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\USB"
[Desire General] ph0rce:
This is not true, I've got Clockwork mod & mine is still fine.
[Desire General] cjm1979:
There is a thread and a tool for this in the forum this thread is in.
[Desire General] luckysession:
Is it possible to update via ROM-manager, like clockworkMod?

Thanks.
[Desire General] HC4Life:
I´m running Windows 7 32-bit and burn the ISO file with Nero as disc image. But when i put the cd in the drive it won't boot automatically. Ask me to open the files.

I can't install this. :(
[Desire General] Drefsab:
It shouldn't matter what you burn it with but if Nero isn't working just download imgburn its free and one of the best burning programs out there.
[Desire General] aslsthlm:
Try burn it slow.
[Desire General] mobilkungen78:
will this s-off thing take the custom recovery away?

and do i need to flash the custom rom again?
[Desire General] Phily757:
for some users recovery bricks, yes. someone sad clockworkmod bricks and amron keeps on working
[Desire General] 9600pro87:
HTC Desire SLCD GSM

HBOOT: 0.83 to 0.93

OpenDesire 4.0.32 with 5.11.05.14 installed.

I've booted the iso from a pendrive Created by unetbootin and all work good.

Thanks for this great hack.
[Desire General] DesirableHTC:
I have got it to start

pushing files to phone

step 1 of 3 is done reebooting your phone

waiting for bootloader..

its doing nothing....
[Desire General] Orka82:
If recovery "bricks", just re-flash it!

Search for recovery in this thread. SO easy.
[Desire General] vicster:
S-OFF Success

Unbranded - Defrost 4.7 - Hboot 80

burned -> booted -> S-Off

Thanks guys !
[Desire General] :
Anyone here can give me hand on how to setup VB? I have it installed but creating a new VM is where I get stuck.

Or is it more simple if I just reboot my laptop and just run the iso?

Thanks in advance.
[Desire General] ghiki:
Theorically is more simple burn the iso & reboot, but if you have any issues [or if you haven't cds xD] (or you like to do with VB, ask it again [it's easy way])
[Desire General] roady85:
It is more simple if you burn the iso and boot it
[Desire General] :
Thanks I will reboot and run the iso instead.
[Desire General] DesirableHTC:
I will wait until tomorrow when i will buy some CD's. I dont know why it wouldn't work just now, got to waiting for bootloader, then stopped!
[Desire General] cjm1979:
Maybe it would be easier if you burnt the iso or put it on a usb stick. Nearly all the users having problems seem to be using Vm box or some other virtual drive.
[Desire General] pc99mk:
Thanks guys.

Worked flawlessy first time.

Was on TMobile HBOOT 0.75 S-ON

Now 0.93 S-OFF
[Desire General] hk5354:
how to flash back the official spl ?(if need to repair )

we only got ota update in hk