yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] shoemeistah:
Just posting a reply here because I installed S-Off without reading any tutorial.

I just used VMWare and loaded the ISO as FreeBSD and connected usb port to that machine. Works fine!
[Desire General] davedes:
My phone is now s-off but I can't seem to install oxygen hboot. If I try installing from sdcard it says CID error. Does anyone else know a way around this or another way to install the hboot? Don't understand the sdk method so if someone can help me through it I would really appreciate it.
[Desire General] davedes:
Do I use cmd prompt in windows or emulator in sdk? I'm confused as ****
[Desire General] davedes:
Sorted out:) now officially running oxygen hboot. Can't believe I didn't do this ages ago. Now my phone can run like its meant to
[Desire General] komakino76:
Thank you, worked like a charm using a pendrive. :-)
[Desire General] pranavd1980:
Gave 2nd trial today with CD Method.....Same result...

Device is not booting up after

Step 1 of 3 is done, rebooting your phone.

Waiting for bootloader..OK!

Booting to Android for the next step.

Waiting for your device… ??????

I have seen here that ppl are having problem at step 3..but ny case is different it seems....

Please some one help me.....I need S-OFF on my desire......
[Desire General] mistake37:
Thanks, it works like charms with only few minutes ^^
[Desire General] Ricardo89:
help

I have problem.... i tried to S-off my desire.. i used the usb method.

everything was working until i came to step 3. Also my phone was stuck at this point but not for an hour like others experienced but after 15min the phone rebooted into bootloader but still S-ON with HBOOT 0.93.0001 and recovery is not working anymore.

I realy don't know what to do. I tried to flash recovery but the phone shows fastboot usb but adb says no device and fastboot is also not working.
[Desire General] BigMrB:
Edit: Done
[Desire General] adicken:
Excellent - 5 minutes start to finish!
[Desire General] unikum:
Does it matter what ROM you have in your phone before you do this? I use GingerVallain 1.6 if it matters....
[Desire General] unikum:
Dont bother to answer.... :confused:
[Desire General] mrweisslee:
try virtual box...made me sick...!!!! all the time usb was disconnected...

but....i used this....

usb method is the most "powerful"

within 5 minutes....all done...

i wish to see batman instead of joker.... :)

i use Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.3.7.exe under windows xp

and choose "try unlisted linux iso (new syslinux)"

browse alpharev.iso

and choose my usb drive letter (usb plugged with no data)

and create!

then change first boot from bios to this usb...and connect phone...done....

my amonra 2.0.1 was replaced by cwm-alpha recovery rev 2.5.1.8

thanks all
[Desire General] DreamWiva:
I did the same, whole thing took 5-10 minutes. Thanks guys
[Desire General] :
I don't believe it matters... I had this question also and in the end I decided to just do it (on Oxygen 2.0.1) and all was fine.

To my knowledge, flashing hboots doesn't touch the rom.

Someone else should confirm this though! :cool:
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
I can confirm, all you guys need is just a ROOTed ROM, even the stock rooted one, can make it :D :cool:
[Desire General] craig1965:
Ok guys need a bit of help here ive tried this procedure twice now using the usb method both times it hangs at stage 3 for over an hour the phone shows alpha rev 2.0 splash screen at the top of the screen at the bottom it shows Normal nand detected non pvt4 any ideas to what im doing wrong phone is rooted clopckwork recovery ver 2.5.0.7 using starburst rom ver 1.3.3.5 also unlocked using the unlocking facility on the xda forums

I can recover using nandroid back up so no problem there phone isnt bricked but would really like to S-Off
[Desire General] davebugyi:
Use the Bootable Cd method. Was done in 5 mins.
[Desire General] craig1965:
Thanks for the advice but I can't use the CD method as I only have a netbook so USB method is my only option
[Desire General] rakludnet:
I've used vmware player..took <5min..easy
[Desire General] Zammo76:
Hi I'm trying this method to try an S-Off my phone:

Perhaps the easiest way is running this through virtual machine.

I used VMWare.

.: VM METHOD :.

1) Download ISO from AlphaRev

2) Start VMWare or any other VM software that you have (Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox)

3) Choose File -> New in VM software

4) Locate AlphaRev.iso and choose to continue without the CD. I chose declaring this iso as Ubuntu.

5) Attach/connect your phone to VM (in VMWare you do that by clicking corresponding USB icon in the bottom right corner)

6) Press big Play button in the middle of the black VM screen

7) Press any key to accept the disclamer.

8) /!\ DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING TILL YOU GET THE FINISH MESSAGE AT STEP 3 /!\

(Some users reports it can take over 30 mins so take your coffee break or KitKat)

9) After a successful install you can delete this Linux virtual machine from your VM software.

If you get stuck in the 3rd step wait for about 30 minutes or more, just to be on the safe side and then pull out the battery and reboot the phone.

Unfortunately I'm a bit lost.

So far I've done this:

1) Download ISO from AlphaRev

2) Downloaded and installed VMWare Workstation (I'm not even sure if this is the right VMWare software).

3) Choose File -> New in VM software (I had to choose Virtual Machine here as it was the only option that seemed slightly right).

4) The tutorial now says to Locate AlphaRev.iso and choose to continue without the CD. I chose declaring this iso as Ubuntu. (I actually had to create a Virtual Machine here I selected the AlphaRev.iso and then clicked I will Install the operating system later. At the next prompt I selected Microsoft Windows operating system and Windows XP for version).

5) The tutorial then says to Attach/connect your phone to VM, in VMWare you do that by clicking corresponding USB icon in the bottom right corner. (At this point I connected my phone via USB but couldn't find any USB icon in the bottom right and all fiddling about did not seem to help. Basically I hit a brick wall).

Can anyone please help, as I've been doing this for hours now with no joy?!
[Desire General] mantidae:
It worked like a charm !!!! You guys are the best. I've done it with VirtualBox method, whole process took like 5min. No hangs at all, thank You once more :):) Another desire set free from chains :D:D
[Desire General] latawa:
Need Help:

I tried the virtual box method and after being stuck for around 1hr on step 3 i had to reboot in recovery and restart.

Now i'm trying again..but with failure to detect my phone in initial phase. Getting error as unknown device.... any suggestions?
[Desire General] :
I had exactly this problem until I flashed a custom rom (in my case oxygen).

Soon as I backed up, full wiped and flashed, alpharev picked up the phone right away!
[Desire General] mzobe7:
I still get my desire to boot, in fastboot i get the following error message:

SD Checking...

Loading... [PB99DIAG.zip]

No image!

Loading... [PB99DIAG.zip]

No image or wrong image!

Loading... [PB99IMG.zip]

No image!

Loading... [PB99IMG.zip]

No image or wrong image!

My phones details are as follows as per fastboot commader:

Radio version: 5.14.05.17.

SPL/hboot version: 0.93.1000.

product: bravo.

mid: pb9920000.

security: off.

build-mode: ship.

What is it that i need to do exactly?? Spent the past 3 hours trying to resolve this with no luck.

Thank you.

Oh i am running CM7 RC1 with CMW 3.0.05
[Desire General] Tillus:
Hello,

search didn't come up with something useful and 240 pages are...a lot! So I apologise in advance if my questions have been asked before.

My phone is rooted, Hboot .80, currently running Auraxtsense 2.4 and I am about to try the s-off-procedure, so I made a cd with that alpharev-iso-file.

After booting, it asks me if I want to flash cwm-recovery during this process. I am currently on Amon RA 1.7.0.1-R5 and I'd like to keep it that way so I can restore nandroid-backups I created eartlier (afaik you cant restore nandroids created with Amon RA by CWM).

So will it be a problem, if I decline the question about flashing cwm-recovery?

Second and last question: It it important to use the original htc-usb-cable or can I also use a nokia-cable? It never gave me problems during file transfers or adb'ing.

Thanks a lot!
[Desire General] latawa:
Done..! Finally after three attempts.. was able to do it by CD method...
[Desire General] :
I declined this when I did s-off and no discernable problem at all!
[Desire General] paweh:
Was in Oxygen2.0.3+dalvik-cache2sd:

Stuck in 1st try using VMware method [waiting for bootloader ...]...pull out battery after 1hour.

In 2nd try , flash LeeDrOiD_v2.2f_No_A2SD & retry in VM. I got s-off in ~10min :D

Good guide.... :)
[Desire General] :
Need some help, pls!

hi guys

i have a new desire with the original latest rom. i have rooted my device with unrevoked3. so i have CWM 2.5.0.7 installed. all runs fine...

now i want to s-off my device. i tried it 5 time and everytime i got this message in step 3:

Waiting for flashing to complete...

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

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

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

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

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

tc@box:~$

...and my device boots till the login screen!

whats wrong here? i dont know hat i have to do!

i have usb-debugging on!

MD5 checksum from alpharev.iso is correct!

step 1 ok!

step 2 ok!

best regards

se-freund
[Desire General] dexter93:
Guys, if I want to change the partitioning to cm7, what should I do? Do I need to replace my hboot?

[Sig] dId you know? If you Insert a Coin on your Desire, then it levels up to HD, Z or S :[/Sig]
[Desire General] andQlimax:
partitioning = change hboot ;)
[Desire General] dexter93:
Thanks.Is there any way to take a backup of my current hboot?

[Sig] dId you know? If you Insert a Coin on your Desire, then it levels up to HD, Z or S :[/Sig]
[Desire General] latawa:
just backup ur ROM and re-flash Stock Hboot if u want to get back to original.
[Desire General] dannylill1981:
did this yesterday, if i can give any advice it is to read, read, and read some more, and at every point make sure you re-read the instructions for that bit, oh and do a nandroid backup before you start.......... worked first time, using the live cd method.
[Desire General] dexter93:
The problem is that my stock hboot is factory s-off and would like to be able to go back to it after I change. I don't think that there is a zip out there with my hboo, so my question is: is there anyway I can "backup" my hboot and make a flashable zip out of it?

[Sig] dId you know? If you Insert a Coin on your Desire, then it levels up to HD, Z or S :[/Sig]
[Desire General] kafe4ever:
hi can you help me

My rom is ginger villain 2.1 HBOOT 0.93.0001, PVT1, in PC USB driver from the root unrevoked, and PC Windows 7 64 bit, enabled USB debugging

when i start installation of the S-OFF root, it ask me, whether I want to install a modified clockwork recovery, so I put yes and started the process ..

I got to Step 3 on the display and it says to me that PVT4 isn´t installed and thats all .. no other instructions, even after hour of waiting....-then I remove the battery and go to recovery and flash the rom again..so no bricked phone, but no S-OFF

I try USB, CD and VirtualBox METHOD

....whats wrong??...
[Desire General] ngkwdaniel:
can I s-off after installing a custom rom
[Desire General] Tillus:
yes, but do a nandroid first. Just in case...;)
[Desire General] Tillus:
Are you using Data2SD?

Flash a different ROM, without data2SD - that should do the trick. I used Modaco w/o A2sd and Leedroid, also without A2SD. That solved the problem.

:)
[Desire General] Jameswgm:
Just flashed the original bravo-stock hboot using fastboot, coming from bravo-sense, got successful confirmation of this. Now trying to restore a nandroid backup I get; Error in CACHE : recovery/log (No space left on device) after attempted restore. On reboot, the screen hangs at splash screen.

Before changing hboot layouts, I upgraded my CWM to 3.0.2.8 from 3.0.0.5. I had a custom mtd.

I can reflash a brand new clean version of the old ROM and but I can't restore data. Any ideas on how to restore my nandroid? I've tried wiping before restore using recovery, and I've tried restoring nandroid through fastboot commander.
[Desire General] Tillus:
can you check the size of the nandroid-files? I think your cache-file is too big for the 5MB /cache-partition of your new table.

You can either revert back everything to the previous state, then wipe cache and create a new nandroid-backup or - just guessing! - try to delete the cache-file in your nandroid folder, maybe delete the corresponding entry in the md5-file (also in this nandroid folder) [actually I wouldn't delete it, but move it somewhere else, out of the nandroid-folder] and retry to restore.

EDIT: forget what I wrote. I just reread your post and, well, I haven't got a clue, sry. The size of /cache in both partitions is the same.

Did you wipe everything before restoring the nandroid? :confused:
[Desire General] Jameswgm:
It's confused me, yeah tried a full wipe before restore, but when I try to restore the last couple of nandroids I get the error message after it confirms backup complete. Full wipe and reflash of stock rom, Titanium had everything backed up from yesterday, I just thought as I was reverting to stock hboot, there wouldn't be any issues.

All I wanted to do was try a different rom, that required a larger system partition: I ended up spending well over a couple of hours restoring the damage I'd caused over the space of a minute!
[Desire General] umair_903:
Hi

Iv done s off but now there's no option in bootloader to reboot in recovery. I'm asking because if I get a bootloop I have to go in bootloader and then reboot in recovery but now thereabouts no option for that
[Desire General] ssauger:
When you are in bootloader hold back button and press power. Then then you can enter the recovery.
[Desire General] flakz0r:
You need to go into recovery and choose advanced restore. Restore everything you want except cache, the restore fails because your cache partition was bigger on your older hboot.

EDIT: ah you already knew that, anyway advanced restore should work, just dont restore the /cache partition :)
[Desire General] negatron:
Did anyone find a work around for the problem below?

I havea rooted desire and can get through the frst 2 steps using the usb method but it errors on step 3:

Waiting for flashing to complete...

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

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

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

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

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

tc@box:~$
[Desire General] kepz:
The most easiest I've found is to download VMPlayer, install it and run Alfarev.iso in VMPlayer with your phone connected. It runs as a virtual machine or you can download the *.iso, burn it to a cd and reboot your pc with phone attached.
[Desire General] V6-Maniac:
Can anybody help me please?

After reading on how to s-off I made a live cd with the alha iso.

Booted it up and connected my Desire to my laptop when asked for it.

Step 1 and 2 went fine but I,m not sure about step 3.

I think it's stuck for over 30min on the same screen (see attachement)

I have a rooted desire with rcmixhd 3.6.1 loaded.

I do not dare to reboot it.

If I try to look at the logfile via adb it says there isn't a logfile at /tmp/

(Swiped from my Overcome loaded GT1000 using XDA Premium App)
[Desire General] V6-Maniac:
Never mind my previously post.

After several attempts i reflashed a stock rooted rom and then tried the whole s-off procedure again.

Yeah... got it s-off now...
[Desire General] RucaNebas:
Hi Guys,

I tried to S-OFF my Desire GV 2.3 using the USB method and I have Non-PVT4 issues all time.

As far as I understood with the previous posts, if I will flash rom CM7 for example, I will be able to S-OFF my phone.

My question is:

If I will be successful on the above procedure, can I return back to GV 2.3 rom without lose the S-OFF?

Thanks for your help
[Desire General] Tillus:
you can use any rooted rom you like for S-Off, as long as it is a) rooted and b) doesn't use data2sd or similar. After that you can flash any rom you like via recovery or restore the nandroid you created prior S-Off'ing (as long as you dont change the partition table) and you won't lose S-off.

To get you phone S-ON again, you need to run a RUU.
[Desire General] RucaNebas:
Thanks a lot Tillus - I'm S-OFF now ! :) :)
[Desire General] shareonline:
only bootloader?

Hi everybody!

I have a problem. I tried installing the newest GB Leedroid rom on my desire but now my phone can't boot? It's stuck on the white HTC logo. My phone is S-ON but with a clockwork recovery image (2.5.x.x) i can boot into the normal boot loader and i can boot fine into the recovery image, but no matter witch rom i try to install i never get passed the white HTC logo?

I was wondering if you could get S-OFF without booting youor phone completely? I mean can you do it from the recovery image or through ADB fastboot?

Through virtual box i too get this error:

Waiting for flashing to complete...

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

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

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

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

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

tc@box:~$
[Desire General] joeyzbg:
Hi there!

I had the same problem.

The solution is really simple.

Just flash a standard rooted rom and try again.

Link to the rom wich worked for me:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833310

Good luck!

~Joey
[Desire General] physwiz:
just S-OFFed today with the USB-method.

fast

painless

HUGE THANKS :)
[Desire General] MrKancho:
worked like a charm!

I am now FINALLY s-off and trying the new gtalk ;)

thank you! peace
[Desire General] tropical cactus:
A million thanks. Clear and simple instruction. :D
[Desire General] ziarkas:
Sorry, the question is for the following message..

Delete this post please. (I dont know the way)
[Desire General] ziarkas:
Hi,after this message i can't do nothing.

My phone reboot to htc screen and reboot reboot reboot alone...

When i get into bootloader and recovery i take this screen:

ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.7

-reboot system now

-aply sdcard:update.zip

-wipe data/factory reset

-wipe cache partition

-instal zip from sdcard

-backup and restore

-mounts and storage

-advanced

Whatever ι choose, the screen just goes black..Press the power button again and return to previus screen..I can't do nothing,can anyone help me?

My phone is rooted and have the latest official htc wwe rom.

Sorry for my bad english..
[Desire General] tropical cactus:
I got the same thing the first time, but my phone rebooted. If you can, flash the rom mentioned by Joey at the top. You'll need to download it, remove your sd and use a card reader to move the rom onto your sd card and flash it after wiping data, cache and in advanced dalvik. I'm s off now, thanks to him.
[Desire General] marcelotorres:
I've tried both methods: USB and .iso cdrom.

When i reach the 3 step i receive this message:

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

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

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

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

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

tc@box:~$

Infos about my phone:

HBoot: 0.9300001

Mid: PB9920000

CID: E11

Don't know how to S-off my phone.

Tomorow i'll try rooted shiped rom to s-off.

Thanks for all
[Desire General] marcelotorres:
Hi all!

After tried for several times the S-OFF method, i decide to try using another rom.

I've flashed the Oxygen's rom (ver. 2.1.3) and use the live cd method.

Now i'm S-OFF!
[Desire General] Syd159:
/edit: Nevermind.
[Desire General] dbanzon:
i followed the cd method and after 5-10 minutes im now s-off! woohooo

What's nxt after s-off though? flash new hboot?
[Desire General] rascarlo:
Exactly. Choose the table that fits your rom.

Alpharev.nl
[Desire General] 619headman:
s-off or s-on?

I've followed all the step until it went to step 3 out of 3, during that step it said waiting for flashing to complete, I waited for alot more than an hour and then it wrote on the computer "TC@box" in green so I removed the batery and put it back in, it kept booting into fastboot (androIds on skateboards). And I had to restore the nandroid backup to get my from back:.

Now is the desire s-off or son?
[Desire General] zepoind:
I followed the VirtuaBox method.

I had to install CM7 ROM first or else I was stack in step three.

I followed the above steps

1. nandroid backup my current rom

2. install cm7

3. s-off (Virtual Box method: you have to select the appropriate usb device each time desire (re-)boots.)

4. nandroid restore to previous rom
[Desire General] f4rell09:
hello everybody,,appreciate any help?trying to s -off my desire ,but encountering this problem!this is what it says!!

hub 1-0:1.0: unale to enumerate USB device on port 5

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

/home/tc/alpharev.sh: line 343 {: unary operator expected

with the same words and it continues to the no. 353 ,361, 366

tc@box ,,highlighted in green, next to it $,,

anything wrong ,,did i miss anything,,here,,,,thanks....

htc desire pvt4 s-on

rom supernova gingersense 1.0.2.6

AmonRA 2.0.1
[Desire General] f4rell09:
i used the cd method.!thanks
[Desire General] AlxMAX:
Try to use the rooted stock Desire ROM in the S-OFF process.
[Desire General] f4rell09:
Yes,done.it.and.I'm s-off now..with no problems . wasn't aware that u needed stock rooted Rom first.to flash alpharev..thanks..anyway...
[Desire General] MrTimms:
G'day

I have read and searched through this but it is not quite right in my head.

I have been s-off for some time, but I haven't changed the partition layout because I was ROM jumping a lot. I have since settled on one ROM and was looking to change the layout to remove my reliance on A2SD and a SD-EXT partition.

My question is if I nandroid and change the HBOOT then reapply to backup into the new partitions, If I have removed the SD-EXT that will break those apps?

Do I have to just run a titanium backup and do a clean install or is there another way around it.

Thanks
[Desire General] ZaLiTHkA:
If I've already flashed a custom ROM (in my case, Oxygen 2.1.6) I understand I'll need to revert to a rooted stock ROM before installing this... Got a few questions before I attempt this though, I'd rather be safe than sorry, so:

I made a backup of the original Android 2.2 (after rooting it) in the 'Recovery' bootloader option, could I restore that backup and do the S-OFF thing?

If I create another backup of my current ROM (Oxygen) before restoring the original, can I simply restore my Oxygen ROM backup after S-OFF or do I need to reinstall Oxygen again?

Do I need to re-partition my SD card after this, or can I choose to leave it as-is? I'm only interested in S-OFF, space isn't really a big issue for me.

Edit: Got it sorted last night. :) *jumps on the bandwagon* I am now S-OFF as well...
[Desire General] HD2freaKK:
what i must select in the first selection in UNetbootin... Ubuntu or what? cause i cant boot in alpharev..:( Im running on my pc Win 7

Pls Help!
[Desire General] paolo-red1:
You have to download the ISO utility from alpharev's site, then in NetBootIn tick 'choose ISO file's (or similar). It creates your own bootable pen drive. In the end you boot your pc from pen drive and follow the indications.