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[Desire General] vichimp:
I can not S-OFF my phone , it give me this massage.

HTC Desire White

Device model:PB992

CID:11111111

MID:PB992

HBOOT Version:0.93.0001

Screen Type:

Your phone was not recognizet or is not supported at this time.

...............

PLEASE HELP!!!
[Desire General] bates060:
Revolutionary!

That's all you need ;)

Bates060
[Desire General] ronilzizou:
Just S-offed my desire using revolutionary!

I am soo surprised at how quick and easy it is!
[Desire General] errecielle:
Thanks! (there is not the button :-) )
[Desire General] ZaLiTHkA:
At the bottom left corner of the page (scroll all the way down) switch the theme to "-- XDA 2010", the old theme doesn't have the 'thanks' button implemented.
[Desire General] pattiman:
(SOLVED) Stuck at step 3

I got till step 3 (using the CD method), where I've waited for more than 45 minutes. But nothing changed/happened. I took out the battery and rebooted the phone. The phone does boot, but only to the HBoot (?) screen where I can select Fastboot / Recovery / ... I'm not able to boot my ROM.

Specs showed on the HBoot screen:

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
...

so S-OFF procedure did not work (?)

Any suggestions on how to proceed? Install stock ROM first? Repeat the S-OFF procedure?

[edit-1] I choose to install CWM HBoot as part of the S-OFF process

[edit-2] I installed CM7 ROM and repeated the process, but this time I choose not to install CWM HBoot. Everything is working fine now :-)
[Desire General] Tillus:
The solution was not the "I-didn't-install-cwm-recovery"-, but the "I-flashed-cm7-before-S-off"-part.
[Desire General] ZaLiTHkA:
Yeah, I second that thought... I was on Oxygen 2.1.6 when I went through my S-off procedure.

While requirements on the AlphaRev site show:

Maybe someone could confirm this, but I think the important part here is that the ROM you're running when you try set S-off must not be tweaked in any way to redirect storage to any EXT partitions. CM7 and Oxygen are both AOSP based ROMs, and although they have their own tweaks, they don't require specific EXT3 or EXT4 partitions in order to work.
[Desire General] f4flake:
I went s-off this morning, using revolutionary, without problems.

Also running Oxygen at the time, simply because GingerVillain had given me a segmentation fault when trying to run Revolutionary, and as I was wiping the cache and data in an attempt to sort that out, I figured I should throw a simple, un messed with ROM on.

Thereafter revolutionary ran without a hitch, from within a vmware windows xp 32 bit install on a 64bit W7 install (due a to driver issues).

sounds complicated but it really was a breeze.
[Desire General] cspirop:
Not working

hi, i have s-off in my desire for a long time, lately i decided to return to stock ruu and i flashed in my device, i saw however that s-off is still here. why? can you help me to make is s-on again

thank you
[Desire General] andQlimax:
Always the same kind of questions everywhere

from http://alpharev.nl/ :

Mean nothing will overwrite the alpharev hboot, untill u flash the downgrader hboot

Flash the Bravo Downgrader hboot..After u can run the ruu
[Desire General] cspirop:
how to do this? my phone is still unrooted and i have not clockworkmod to do this. in boot menu do not have a select to flash the downgrade PB99IMG.zip

please help a little more
[Desire General] andQlimax:
Just place that zip in the root of ur sdcard and boot in the bootloader menu..the update will start automatically..u have just to select yes with volume keys and confirm with power button

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] nfsnfsnfs:
Phone - HTC desire.

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP s-ON

HBOOT -0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH panel - SYNT0101

RADIO 5.09.05.30_2

Aug 10 2010 , 17:52:10

STOCK 2.2 rom .

Steps followed.

1.Rooted using unrevocked.

2.Did a nandroid backup .

3.Enabled USB debugging .

4.Downloaded Alpharev 1.8 and booted the USB with alpharev image.When HTC desire is connected ,it gives device not recognized ,rebooting in 60 seconds.

When alpharev asks for the device to be connected ,should the desire be in HBOOT screen or on the main screen (booted Up) .?

Am I missing any steps ? ,

Should it be in charge only mode ,

should I do a full wipe and clear before alpharev ? and restore after S-off ?

thanks for any help /suggestions .
[Desire General] ZaLiTHkA:
No, it should just be booted normally. The bootable AlphaRev tool will restart you device on it's own once it connects.

Recently I've seen a lot of people having this problem with the AlphaRev tool, no idea why though... You could try Revolutionary instead though. It says it's still in beta, but I haven't heard anybody complain about it yet.
[Desire General] tajimura:
Hello there.

Well, first of all, I have an AMOLED Desire with .75 HBOOT flashed with CoolSense ROM. Revolutionary doesn't work for my HBOOT version, so I have to go through AlphaRev. Wanna ask: could I do that with Gingerbread on-board, or I'll have to go back to Froyo?

Thx in advance, friends.

Wrote the post on ma lovely Desire using XDA App.
[Desire General] ianm:
Thanks to this thread I got S-Off set on my Desire.

Was running GingerVillain 2.8 with Hboot 0.80.

Had been going in circles for a while and getting no where, using the Alpharev ISO via USB and VMWare I was always getting stuck on step 3 never completing, which seemed a common issue.

I read on the thread that some ROMS don't work, I followed someone's advice (sorry, can't remember which post to credit for this) to install CM7. Once I installed CM7 and tried again using the VMware method it worked right away. I had tried previously wiping, reflashing the latest GingerVillain and the latest Oxygen ROMs to no avail.

Didn't notice in the first post, but it may be worth specifying that a fresh flash of the latest CM7 or rooted shipped ROM to be a prerequisite before starting to avoid these issues in future.
[Desire General] TheWhiteDragon:
Am i bricked ??

Hi All,

i tried the S-Off using the CD and somethings gone wrong,

the end of the stage 3 comes up;

/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

then drops me to a prompt

tc@box:~$

can anyone help ?

i have gone back though the process using the virtual box method as someone else above said and still the same error, i have redownloaded the image and done it again and still nothing..

please help if anyone can.
[Desire General] andQlimax:
just flash a rom that doesn't have a2sd, then try again
[Desire General] TheWhiteDragon:
Doh !!

thanks sorry i was being a dumbarse, i forgot to actually search the thread for answers 1st, other posts said using a diffrent image and try again, so im doing that now :)

Cheers.

giving it a go with the other images.
[Desire General] swimon:
Hi everyone,

quick question:

which drivers do I need on my laptop running ubuntu 11.10 to s-off my device using the alpharev.iso ? My Desire is already rooted, but I don't have any drivers installed at this point.

Grtz!
[Desire General] Tillus:
none, because you don't use the ubuntu installed on your pc but the linux in the iso-file.
[Desire General] ZaLiTHkA:
Yeah, as Tillus said, no need for drivers.. Just to expand on that, it's a bootable ISO that you download. So burn it to CD, then connect your Desire using the USB cable and boot from the disc. :)
[Desire General] swimon:
Hmm, so the problem lies with Virtualbox then probably.

But I already managed to S-off using Revolutionary
[Desire General] ZaLiTHkA:
Well, in that case you shouldn't need to do anything else. As stated on the Revolutionary website, it's Alpharev and Unrevoked in one app...
[Desire General] rowbaggie22:
[If one day you want to S-ON your phone again, just reflash an original RUU rom !

i used ruu to on my fone 2 get s-on but im still s-off
[Desire General] Tillus:
you have to flash the downgrader hboot from alpharev.nl first.
[Desire General] rowbaggie22:
Hi tillus thanks for reply do I get from there website
[Desire General] ragingredbull:
AndroidGX and Stewge thanks a million for this thread. Was absolutely "bricking" myself when going S-OFF, but this thread has been priceless. Thanks again.
[Desire General] Timebreak:
nice tut androidGX:) didn't really understand alpharev guide, but this guide was easy. so will try it later to night:D
[Desire General] morfini:
It s a shame but i didn't even manage to boot from cd. I m using windows 7 x86 , i burnt the iso using the windows program and i pressed F8 at the begining. Then i chose to boot from dvd. Nothing happens. Windows appear as usual.
[Desire General] MadMic:
Nice tut matey - maybe point out the device MUST be charged to 100% first...
[Desire General] ponde:
I fail. burned the iso image succesfully but giving me this error: ISOLINUX 3.82 1009-06-09 ETCDisolinux: Image checksum error, sorry

boot failed: press a key to retry

tried everything, downloaded alpharev iso again, burned again, used several computers running XP.

could somebody help
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
Are you sure it's F8 ?

In general F8 = recovery of windows (just before starting windows), and F12 or ECHAP keys are for booting from devices.

Be sure to burn your CD or DVD at the MINIMUM speed required to make perfect one ;) (generally 2x or less, no more).
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
Same for you, I guess it's a burning speed problem.
[Desire General] ponde:
I burned first at 8x speed, then 2x speed
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
Did you verified MD5 checksum of your CD ?

(MD5Sum of alpharev.iso: 6ca900ca68e34601fe46187ae9abbfd5 )
[Desire General] ponde:
downloaded again from alpha rev site, the MD5Sum is correct, burned iso image at speed of 2x then booted from CD and got the same error =(
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
Did you tried to burn with a different software ? (I'm using Nero lite)
[Desire General] Stewge:
Hasn't anyone figured out to use VirtualBox yet?

So much easier: avoids crappy cd burning issues, MD5 mismatches from a poor burn, multi-platform, no system rebooting and you don't have to worry about whether your machine can actually boot the iso ;)

Instructions:

1. Download/Install Virtualbox Personal Use version(NOT the OSE edition, it doesn't ship with USB drivers)

2. Create a NEW virtual without a harddrive.

3. Run the virtual.

4. On first run it will ask you to use an install medium. Find your alpharev ISO and use that.

5. Wait for the virtual to boot to the first stage.

6. Click the USB icon in the bottom right and select your phone.

7. Follow the rest of the steps. BUT remember that every time the phone resets/reboots it is recognized as a different device so you will have to repeat step 6 each time. On the 3rd stage it takes about 5 minutes while it is "stuck" on the HTC screen. This is fine, give is a minute or 2 then and do step 6 again.

8. Once you're done, let your phone boot to the S-OFF bootloader, and reboot your phone/go to recovery etc.

9. The virtual should shutdown at this point.
[Desire General] mumilover:
Thx for this and thx to AlphaRev 1.5.

Worked like a charm.

Likes that i have the same options as in my old magic :0)

I have 1 little problem.

When i flash system.img which i got directly from an RUU (i snatch the rom.zip from temp folder while the RUU was working) i get :

C:\Users\****\Downloads\desire>fastboot flash system system.img
sending 'system' (229028 KB)... FAILED (remote: data length is too large)
finished. total time: 0.004s

I tried 2 different radios with no problems. I could delete system,boot,recovery and cache partitions with no problem!

I also tried to use the tool i made for magic (works for all devices which have s-off) with same results.

Edit: for the tool check my signature!

The only thing is i can't flash that damn system.img file...

I just want to have STOCK 2.2 whit out overwriting my hboot.

I found other stock roms which i flash trough custom recovery and they are working great. But why can't i flash the my own stock system.img??
[Desire General] nawoa:
CD Method worked great here, very foolproof, cheers to everyone involved in putting this together!
[Desire General] tubo22:
Can anyone help me.

After plug in the phone, received:

Device: PB992****

Device not recognized.

then stop.

Rdgs,
[Desire General] TieT:
imho you cant flash a stock .img file leaving your hboot s-off.

The image in an ruu needs the hboot thats in the ruu.

Also, it has nothing to do with the radio.
[Desire General] iamkuza:
Great work guys!

tested this with VMware 7.1 using alphadev.iso

process took no longer than 5mins

love the splash logo
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
ADDED ! :cool:

Thanks Stewge !
[Desire General] ieftm:
It's too big. Fastboot has a limit of about 220M.

You can however compress all the img as a zipfile, and flash like that.

Same as with ruu Rom.zip, you can just delete the hboot update and flash :)
[Desire General] chareos12:
Perhaps a nOOb question:

My Desire is rooted with unrEVOked.

To s-off, I've to follow this guide in 1st post (I'd go the usb key way), then re-unrevoke ?
[Desire General] mumilover:
Thx for that. I'll try later today...
[Desire General] jozef710i:
I m stuck on 3rd step about 50 min what should i do??
[Desire General] robocat_pl:
Tested and approved :D thx !
[Desire General] sandervanzijl:
with the alpharev and revolutionary sites both down, where do we go to get the s-off software?
[Desire General] ZaLiTHkA:
A quick search shows a post from last year November in which a user created a mirror for Alpharev's ISO and IMG files (link). Looks like it's still up, but it's a bit outdated... That mirror doesn't have the CM7r2 or Oxygen r2 HBoots. However, I have the CM7r2 HBoot if you need it.

If you want to check MD5SUM, use Google search and open a cached copy of the Alpharev page. Try this link, if it doesn't work for you, then you'll have to do the search and open the cached page from your side.
[Desire General] sandervanzijl:
just a silly question, do i need a different hboot?

or is it possible to s-off and leave the stock hboot intact?
[Desire General] ZaLiTHkA:
The S-OFF method flashes a lightly modified HBoot to your device, it's essentially stock. For example, i you use the Alpharev CD (from the ISO file) it will flash an HBoot that has the same system, cache and data sizes as a default unbranded Desire/Bravo, but it will have the Security lock disabled (S-OFF).

Generally speaking, you don't need to change your HBoot, certain ROMs may require it, but in that case the ROM author will say so in his ROM thread. Most people flash a different HBoot (such as Oxygen r2 or CM7r2) because they don't need as much space for the actual ROM (the Android OS itself), which leaves more space for applications to be installed to the device.

Do the standard Alpharev S-OFF method first, and then when you want to install a custom ROM, I'd suggest you ask in that specific ROM thread and see if the users/author of the ROM have any recommendations for a better HBoot.

Keep in mind that at the end of the day, the only real difference you'll see is the size of the partitions, it won't affect much else. :)
[Desire General] ez321:
A little problem here

Flashed Alpharev 1.8 from USB

Everything seems to be OK (splash screen show alpharev Why so serious logo etc.)

But when i am in bootloader the HBOOT is still 0.93.0001

At the top it says --- AlphaRev ---

And when i try to flash new radio throw AndroidFlasher it gives me error:

"The file 'radio.img' already exists" and buttons Details, Continue, Quit

Any suggestions?
[Desire General] Silverazzo:
Hi to all, big problem here!

i'm trying to s-off with cd-rom method, but when it starts the third fase i get an error followed by a long log and the process freezes...after 20 minutes I pull out phone cable. The first error is something like "kernel bug"

Nowadays I've 0,80 hboot (standard), rooted phone and LeeDroid 3.0.8.2 ROM

Any suggestions to solve this problem?
[Desire General] dinoalbert:
Hi...may I please ask if I can proceed with the S-OFF (I will choose CD Method) procedures even if I am using a custom rom like the RunnyMed007 rom which I am currently using?

Please advice...

thanks..,
[Desire General] dexter93:
It should work. Go ahead ;)
[Desire General] dinoalbert:
Thanks for the reply. I tried to do S-OFF using Revolutionary, followed the instruction step-by-step.....got the serial from the exe file, input it in the revoultionary.io, got my beta key. BUT when I input it, it always give me "Invalid beta key, aborting...Press any key to exit".

I tried to do it again and again many times, carefully copying every single letter/number from the serial and key....still the same result :(

My Hboot is 0.93.0001, running on RunnymedMod007 rom.

Please advice....

Thanks again...
[Desire General] ckpv5:
Check carefully, there is always confusion between 1 (number one) and l (lower case for L), they looks the same at their site. It is best to copy that beta key and paste it to Notepad++ so you can see clearly.
[Desire General] dinoalbert:
Woah! Thanks! You are right....its lower case L.....I see it capital I hehe thank you very much sir!

Lemons and lemonade! my Desire is now S-OFF! :)

Now its asking me to download and flash ClockworkMod Recovery...but I believe I have that already even before I S-OFF.....so I dont need this step, right?

Im trying to follow the steps here:

http://theunlockr.com/2011/08/02/ho...android-phone-using-the-revolutionary-method/

I dont need steps III and IV, right?
[Desire General] ckpv5:
@dinoalbert

As you already rooted prior to s-off and have a CMW, it is not necessary for steps III and IV.
[Desire General] xXx8004:
Hi

Ifollowed the steps but i get

kernel panic - not syncing no init found. try passing init= option to kernel

what is the wrong

thanks
[Desire General] dexter93:
Are you root??
[Desire General] xXx8004:
yes rooted and s-on
[Desire General] dexter93:
Make a nandroid, flash a stock rooted rom and try again. The CD method is preferred against the virtualbox one ;)
[Desire General] xXx8004:
Hi

What do u mean by Make a nandroid, flash a stock rooted rom and try again ???
[Desire General] dexter93:
1)Nandroid backup from recovery

2) find a stock rooted rom and flash it normally

3) follow the s-off guide.

Its really simple. If you have problems just use the search button
[Desire General] xXx8004:
thank u i tried cd method worcked perfect
[Desire General] zlatkoimamovic:
Ok...For everyone having troubles with Alpharev failing to push necessary files to the phone this is what I've done and it worked.

I've flashed Oxygen 2.3.2...didn't do any rom setup and I've used VM Virtualbox to do the trick as discribed in the thread...and tadaaaaa S-OFF!!! Took not more than 5 minutes.

Previously I've tried to S-Off with BCM9 0.3.7 ICS 4.0.3, Sandvold's ICS, Miui V4... didn't work....
[Desire General] ...Ali...:
Have problem with cm7 r2

i use revelu program to s-off my phone.

after that for any rom i use cm7 r2 hboot the phone stopped working and hanged on the alpharev logo....

what is the problem?
[Desire General] Cookster2.1:
FYI. Alpharev works on Sense ROMs only, so try using a Sense ROM. Took me a week to find that out :(
[Desire General] harryschool2:
Warning: USE of revolutionary is impossible to revert

Warning: when applying S-off with revolutionary it is impossible to undo on HTC desire.

The tutorial : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1310014 does not work. fastboot flash hboot hbooteng.nb0 ends up with an error.
[Desire General] tsokaris:
My Desire is S-on with Hboot 0.80 it is possible to make it S-off as i see rhe Revolusionary don't suport this Hboot:(
[Desire General] ironjon:
Yes, with Alpharev
[Desire General] kmetek:
so when using alpharev cd option for 0.80...what's the next step for changing table? please step by step.
[Desire General] chaplinb:
Do you need to be bootloader unlocked to try this S-OFF method?
[Desire General] erklat:
The next step after burning that cd would be reading instructions on alpharev website. All is written there, and more. Please letter by letter.
[Desire General] kmetek:
usually how long does it take? 1/2h, 1h?
[Desire General] kmetek:
i kinda bricked i think...trying to nandroid restore....where to put files on micro sd?

what directory should be?

nandroid/HT04GPL13516/BCDS-20101231-1932

on root?
[Desire General] dankerk:
Just a quick reply, the cd method worked for me, many thanks to those helped with it.cheers. :laugh:
[Desire General] lifeisfun:
Tried the CD method and it worked fine till till step 2

Step 3 never happened, phone rebooted (not bricked)

got several messages device not found or something like tah and then just green prompt.

My Hboot is 0.92.0001, running Leedroid 3.3.3

I'm also unable to upgrade my CWM from 2.5.x.x. to latest version

Still S-ON :(

Tried several computers, every time same result ...
[Desire General] Bubach28:
i think the problem is in leedroid rom.try flashing stock rooted rom and then try to S-off :o
[Desire General] lifeisfun:
You're probably right but I'm hesitant to do that since it's my day to day phone

If I do nandroid back up and save it on my PC I would still have to partition my SD card manually like before LeeDroid install ...right?

Or can I just remove the SD card and flash new ROM without it?
[Desire General] Tillus:
why do you want to remove the sd-card? Make a nandroid, flash a rooted close-to-stock-rom or oxygen or alike, run the s-off-procedure and then restore your nandroid.
[Desire General] lifeisfun:
That sounds easy enough, I thought I have to do complete whipe first.

Will try that

Thanks
[Desire General] lifeisfun:
Finally S-OFF and 4EXT installed

Thanks for the help :victory:
[Desire General] antuning:
Hello, i,m already try everithing in this tread to put my htc desire to s-off, I already tried all ways and does not work, with virtual machine and with cd the result is the same, to beginning the program detects the phone but then just gives some errors and then says that the phone may not be compatible. I wanted to do this on your phone to install another ROM because I have a little problem of capturing network where network should capture maxima it detects 2 dashes where should detect two traits he did not detect anything. It was thus no apparent reason.

when I press down button and power he shoe this:

BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-031d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

Radio-5.11.50.26

Aug 10 2010,17:52:10

Please help me, what can i do.

Sory my bad English

Regards
[Desire General] jmcclue:
S-off with

http://revolutionary.io/

Read this guide first and setup computer according to the guide

http://androidforums.com/desire-all...ff-root-htc-desire-revolutionary-updated.html

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] mcdanishdk:
I just bough this wonderful phone as spare, but the volume rocker does not work. I wanted to S-off it and root it and flash a minimum ROM to make use of the power it has. Is there a way to S-off and root without using the 3-button combo since the volume rocker does not work?
[Desire General] jmcclue:
u can boot in to bootloader by turning off ur phone then press and hold back button + power then once in fastboot, just press the power button to select bootloader then u can post ur details here, bravo pvt?, hboot? etc etc
[Desire General] Mato_K:
volume button doesnt work for him

@mcdanishdk

try adb commands

adb reboot recovery

adb reboot bootloader

or try QtADB (user friendly)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=972758
[Desire General] vietnam123:
I download http://revolutionary.io/

But the beta key is invalid! So confusing!

Try many times again, not working.

---------- Post added at 10:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:48 PM ----------

I chose USB method to S-ON my desire.

But I is stucking in stage 3 now!

On the screen is:

AlphaRev SPLBOOT version 2.0

Normal NAND detected. Non-PVT4.
[Desire General] Large Hadron:
Try copy and paste the beta key. Many people have trouble with typing it (I did myself when I last tested this).