yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] vietnam123:
I cannot use CTRL+V in this program. But I solved my problems.

You have to copy and paste beta key into Microsoft Word and change font-face.

The default font make me recognize l (L not captian) to I (I am).
[Desire General] RytisRtz:
Hey, that's long story...

1) I've flashed CM10 VJ Jelly Bean 4.1.2 v3.1 http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1945441

2) My S- was S-ON, so I wanted to make it S-OFF (on this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=805811) This happed: (Some users reports it can take over 1 hour. Passed this time, pull out the battery and reboot your phone).

3) When trying to boot my phone, it loads to FASTBOOT. Recovery is working, but even if everything is wiped, for some reason phone do not want to flash update.zip (some lines gets through, can't even notice what's written there) and I am being redirected back to recovery.

is this possible somehow to fix it?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=38698675#post38698675

--

Okay, that's clear I haven't read guide properly.. I tried flashing it on a2sd rom. Can it be somehow reverted?
[Desire General] jmcclue:
Didnt see this before.

I said "back button" not volume, he can get there without using volume buttons. Adb reboot recovery? He dont have recovery...
[Desire General] leroadrunner:
Stuck on Step 3 for over 30 mins.

So, pull out battery...reboot...and leave USB connected?

Confused and scared to brick it!
[Desire General] rs2580:
Where i can get iso to install on USB stick and additional program to get desire s-off ?

revolutionary and alpharev sites not working.
[Desire General] Chromium:
Use revolutionary it's easier. The site is working fine for me: http://revolutionary.io/
[Desire General] miillaaad:
1+
[Desire General] rs2580:
I used IRKEY tool, i have bootloader unlocked but still s-on

For revolutionary i have hboot not supported.
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
I presume that you have the 1.03 hboot. If you want to s-off, you'll have to downgrade.
[Desire General] rs2580:
I have 1.27.0000

I tryed to downgrade this method but got errors
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
This guide is for the Desire, not Sensation. Maybe ask there? You'll get way better answers than here.
[Desire General] rs2580:
OMG sorry.
[Desire General] abaaaabbbb63:
Nono, i meant this guide, the thread we're currently on :P
[Desire General] The Prince1:
Thank you for instructions, but unfortunately it is not so clear for me.

1- While installing Virtualbox it did asked to select the virtual drive O/S. you havent clear this point mate.

2- While creating the virtual machine, which version of Linux I have to select?

3- When should I connect the phone to PC? Is that before starting or after?

4- After connecting the phone on which mode shall I keep? charge only, or disk drive?

5- After connecting my device and Clicking the right mouse botton on the USB icon (in the right bottom) and select my phone, I had this error messege" hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2. Whats wrong mate?!

Edit:

6- After restarting my phone the program recognise the phone for awhile, step 1 of 3 is done,this message appaired:

Rebooting your phone.

waiting for bootloader.

Its toke me to the bootloader then nothing happened? what should I do?!
[Desire General] The Prince1:
Edit2:

For some resons its deside to work correctly so far. But its stuck on this screen for more than 30 minutes so far!!! should I disconnect the phone and restart or what?!

See the pic:
[Desire General] The Prince1:
After trying many times, Its faild to continue and stuck on the same screen as above.

Is that mean I wont be able to S-OFF my device
[Desire General] Tillus:
Pew, it's been a while but if I recall correctly, alpharev only works for certain, older hboots. You might want to try this revolutionary thingy - http://revolutionary.io
[Desire General] The Prince1:
Thanks mate,

I tried revolutionary thingy but I dont know how and what to do. nothing clear there apart of downloading 2 files.

Any Idea what to do?
[Desire General] Stewge:
Geez, I posted that a LONG time ago.

From memory, you should just need to re-attach the phone to virtualbox (step 6 in my list) then it'll continue on.
[Desire General] The Prince1:
Nah, thats doesnt solve the problem.

Anyway the problem solved by flashing new ruu rom then s-off then reroot. Thanks guys.
[Desire General] kirit007:
htc desire 600

how to s-off htc desire 600 ???

please help
[Desire General] tom0769:
Wrong section!

Two beer or not two beer, that's the question
[Desire General] rien-ne-va-plus:
Hi everyone,

I hope someone can still help me, despite the long time. I can't seem to get anything to work because my HBOOT version is 1.03.0003. I'm stuck with a custom bootloader, I can flash custom roms but they crash because of too little space and I cannot revert to anything stock because all the updates give me signature fails or similar feedback.

I figured this is because I'm still S-ON but I cannot go S-OFF with either of the methods described here. Alpharev doesn't find my phone (maybe because it's CM?) and Revolutionary says my HBOOT is not supported. I feel stuck.

Can anyone help me?
[Desire General] jmcclue:
U need to downgrade ur hboot to 1.02 then use revolutionary to s-off. Theres guides here on xda, have a quick search for them.
[Desire General] standal.10:
Hallo, revolutionary.io is down. How can I get beta key?

Thanks
[Desire General] ronaldace:
It is available at http://rev.alpharev.nl/
[Desire General] mikesmith2107:
I would sugest usb bootable for windows using rufus. If the iso will fail at bootup due to a missing file(example: making a linux based x64 bootable usb, it will tell you the files needed to run correctly. Google search file needed as most linux based systems are freeware. Downlad place in rufus folder, and write usb) then on pc boot up press f8 or f12 depending on system to enter boot menu. Boot from usb. Some systems will require you to change boot order in the bios. Only change hard drive priority to usb in slot one, or if you can just change boot order to usb in slot one. It *should* boot then.

I used windows 7 x64 bit to write iso to usb using rufus. Booted perfectly.

Linux users use Unetbootin or search how to use dd image to usb.
[Desire General] bari12pl:
Htc

Hello i wanted root Htc Desire but revolutionary shut down when i choose YES and try download and flash Clock ... When i did again it says S -off but still shut down in same time.
[Desire General] zodijacky:
hey

i don't have an os on my phone , so i can only open it on fastboot , when i boot on linux mod to turn the S off , the system cannot read it ? what to do ?
[Desire General] ze7zez:
Cable tested?
[Desire General] Zseblampas:
Hi guys, I just bumped in to tell everybody that Revolutionary is still available and functional on the http://rev.alpharev.nl/index.php site. I just S-OFF-ed a Desire a few minutes ago. Now comes to flash the 4Ext Recovery and a custom rom. Finally!
[Desire General] pesamurai:
Hello everybody!

Someone have the Alpharev.iso file? All the website are down and I would like to reuse my lovely Desire.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
[Desire General] Zseblampas:
You just had to look above your post... Revolutionary is faster than Alpharev and is still available on the link above. Once more, just for you: http://rev.alpharev.nl/index.php

But if you want the Alpharev iso and nothing else, I have it on my gdrive. Be my guest!
[Desire General] pesamurai:
Thank you Zseblampas!

I have aòready tried the above linkl but http://rev.alpharev.nl/index.php is it not still available!

I have tried all link I have found in this forum without find one that worked.

Thank you for the file, you saved my and my Desire life! :D
[Desire General] pesamurai:
I'm stuck at the point you could see in the file attached.

what is my mistake?

what should I do?

thanks in advance
[Desire General] Zseblampas:
First: the site seems to be down, i really hope that it will be available soon (again, coz it was down many times in the past).

I encountered this error too, when I tried to use Alpharev. It may be caused by "wrong" Android version or who knows? I hope you had USB debugging enabled.

I tried to find out how to circumvent this error message, but in the end i found the right site and used Revolutionary instead. But the whole site is down now... we must wait and hope
[Desire General] lance69987:
I am already rooted and bootloader unlocked and twrp. I've installed xposed it says installed but doesn't work I think because of the s-on/s-off thing .I am new to this stuff pretty much I know I'm a boob and I don't want to aggravate anyone but I would appreciate one of you experienced guys would break it down for me and or Point me in the right direction to achieve s-off I would really appreciate it
[Desire General] Zseblampas:
Hi, as I said to you in PM, I know only one viable solution (if your phone is lucky enough), namely to use the Alharev iso. You can download it from here. Be my guest and good luck! The best in the Alpharev is that it doesn't need Windows because it is a booting ISO.

If it won't work, you can still find ROMs which doesn't need S-OFF, try them to find the best one for your needs.
[Desire General] -V-O-Y-A-G-E-R-:
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.
[Desire General] mumilover:
No go. I tested with system.img alone inside a system.zip.... and with all other imgs except hboot. Still get the same msg: data length is too big!!!

I tried to erase system and flash the system.img... still no go!

Why is that so... i downloaded other RUU and they all have system.img with sizes over 220 mb!
[Desire General] Blinkydamo:
S-Off a rooted SLCD with HBoot 0.83.0001

Could someone please tell me if this process will work ok for the above device? When I rooted my desire the first time I had to use a recovery image for the slcd screen. Will this one be ok to copy over the top of my existing clockworkmod recovery image?

Cheers in advance

Blinky
[Desire General] Yorzua:
Definetly the Alternative 2 (by -V-O-Y-A-G-E-R-) worked fast and GREAT !!!!

Just need VMWare station and the alpharev.iso

Thanks guys for your magic work on XDA !!!!!!!!!!!!

Love it :)
[Desire General] simonovicc:
just to confirm that usb method works great. no more than 5 minutes.

thx
[Desire General] kkttt:
I've been stuck at step 3 flashing for 45 min :(

Should I reboot and risk bricking the phone?
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
Here is the answer :)
[Desire General] kai84m:
I flashed it using the bootable CD-Image. It worked without any problem in about two minutes.

Than i flashed the Alpharev 1.5 Hboot via fastboot - took 2 seconds after i hit enter ;).

I'm so happy that i have FULL Root now.
[Desire General] DreamWiva:
Silly question, but will this work with Vista?
[Desire General] robbiekhan:
Many thanks for this :)

I used the CD method as I CBA with Virtualbox (I'm a Windows XP mode VM user for sandboxing :p) so burnt the Alpharev iso to a CDRW and did the S-OFF flash from a spare PC.

The process took less than 2 minutes, it was painless even though a brick was waiting to be shat at any moment :p I didn't need to reflash my recovery (AmonRA R5) either, everything just worked as before, just now with S-OFF.

Here's what to expect on a successful S-OFF:

I like the new boot logo (before the anim):

Now my Desire is up to the same level my HTC Magic was back in the day :)
[Desire General] enigmatical:
I am trying the VM method and after I plugged my phone in and accepted the disclaimer, it just says "waiting for device" and has been for about 10 min now, is this the 3rd step where I might have to wait up to 30 min?
[Desire General] Rudolfje:
If it's step 3 this would be visible on the screen.

All the steps are printed as output to the console.

Verify your USB (Debugging) and the forwarding to the VM.
[Desire General] enigmatical:
I see. Well the usb-debugging is on but it will still not recognize my device. Do I need to plug it in as a disk drive?
[Desire General] patrickrivard:
Not a GSM phone !!!!!?????

SOLVED

Google's truly a men best friend

I tried the CD method got to the Disclaimer screen; plug the phone; and it said that the phone was not a GSM phone and comeback when you know what your doing... or something similar.

I know for a fact that this is a GSM phone as it is now operating on the ROGERS network which does not offer anything else than GSM...

It is simple, the SW says my phone is not GSM when in fact it is... There has to be a logical cause for that message to be displayed...

The only thing that I have done so far is to "Root" it and SIM unlock it...

Thanks for any help.
[Desire General] ectole:
i just can´t do it

i´ve done the usb method, rebooted my pc from the usb, it shows the disclaimer on screen, i plug the phone and then nothing happens. the computer screen just gets black.

the phone must be on fastboot screen right?

i don´t know what´s going on wrong
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
Nope, you must be in your rom directly.

But I gonna precise it on the tutorial, sorry ;)
[Desire General] dooniem:
No phone :(

Hi, just did the steps to this "tutorial" but my end results are not good :(

I got the HBOOT flashed (had to pull out the battery though)

flashed the clockwork mod img (success!)

did a reboot and got stuck in fastboot.

Meaning, I can't boot into my system anymore.

I came from LeeDroid 2.2 with a2sd, so I tried to reinstall, but everytime I try I get the error "can't symlink system/xbin["

"failure at line 16"

"symlink busybox SYSTEM:xbin["

"installation aborted"

Don't know what to do next : / Will I wake up in time tomorrow when I can't set the alarm on my Desire? :(
[Desire General] 2000impreza:
Try using fastboot to flash a working boot.img from a previous nandroid backup or rom.
[Desire General] bhutanigaurav:
Got the USB method to work on my HTC Desire in less than 3 minutes. Thanks guys for writing this guide for us..kudos to the alpharev team for getting this out in the first place!
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
As I was on a 2.2 leedroid rom, I can remember I had exactly the same error as yours while trying to flash the old 2.2 rom with No-A2SD version. Latest one is 2.2a (and soon 2.2b), did you tried it ? normally it will solve your problem.

Otherwise, I sugger you to ask directly in leedroid thread, don't think it's due to a hboot procedure as it seems you can flash again ;)

hope it helps.

btw I'am an impreza 2000 lover too :D:D
[Desire General] dooniem:
I have tried both 2.2a and 2.2b with no luck : /

I got a thread going in the "leedroid forum", hoping for a fix up!

Right now I'm on DeFroST ROM, which have some cool elements I like, but not as good as LeeDroid :)
[Desire General] net_vampire32:
I tried both VMWARE and the USB method and both failed. VMWare did not recognize my desire was plugged in and the USB method came up with errors when pushing the necessary files to the phone.

WHAT DID WORK WAS CD MODE. Everything went very smoothly in CD mode with NO ERRORS. I am now S-Off'd

Thanks :)
[Desire General] whikiey:
Great work
[Desire General] AndroidGX:
It highly depends on the quality of the usb device you will install the image on.

I can remember I tried installing win 7 on a no-name usb key, which wasn't working worrectly remaining many errors while trying to install. ;)

I recommand for the USB method to always use quality usb keys (I installed my S-OFF via a Transcend 2GB usb key).
[Desire General] kieu96:
I use HBOOT v0.80

Do I need S-OFF ?
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
You don't NEED S-off, its up to you if you want it or not!
[Desire General] Spannaa:
I used the CD method and had S-Off in about five minutes.

Re-flashing my recovery wasn't necessary.

Cheers Guys :-)
[Desire General] EiQue:
Thanks dude

Worked great with OpenDesire. I flashed a boot.img from a nandroid backup and now all just work out fine.

Edit:

Ahrr Wifi doesn't work anymore and I have no clue why. Someone here with similar issues?
[Desire General] djmickyg:
I have the same issue,

what do do now?

I tried sending the recovery image, but it doesn't help

EDIT: i think its fixed.. the recovery image fix allowed me to get into the recovery mode and re flash my backup..
[Desire General] Jamin_1:
Hey,

I have problem because after s-off my Desire I got very often some crashes and bootloops at the splashscreen.

Can i fix this problem when i flash a new image?

Here AndroidGX this would be very helpful on the first page or???

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794638

Its the same like to flash it with fastboot or?
[Desire General] 2000impreza:
You could try extract and re-push the bcm4329.ko (WiFi module) file from the Open Desire rom. It's located under \system\lib\modules in the zip file. If that doesn't fix the issue you might have to do a complete restore from a nandroid backup or do a wipe/factory reset and reflash the rom.
[Desire General] Jiia:
I get it to boot via USB but it says my phone model is not Desire GSM. I definately do have Desire and it's definately GSM. I'm using MIUI 0.10.15. On my About Phone menu it says "Model number: HTC Desire" so it doesn't think it's N1 or anything like that.
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
I had the same problem with Opendesire (that other people have used without issue), to solve the problem:

-nandroid backup

-full wipe

-install cyano or modaco rom (like team suggestion)

-launch the s-off utility

-wipe all

-restore nandroid backup

Enjoy!
[Desire General] dakdroid:
which step is supposed to take 30mins ?

I am looking at "Pushing necessary files to phone.." since about 60mins...

(win7 virtual mashine)

shut down vm, burnt the iso, everything went fine
[Desire General] Jiia:
Went with DeFrost and it worked. Thanks for the tip! :)
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
YES! :)
[Desire General] :
How to S-OFF your HTC Desire
[Desire General] Kashban:
LeeDroid is working too... just in case somebody runs into the same problem.
[Desire General] Orphee:
Thank you for this usefull tutorial, I just flashed my OD HTC Desire in less than 5 minutes !

Thanks to AlphaRev team too :)

i have a multi linux USB Key, I just added AlphaRev files in it and added lines in menu.lst ...

title AlphaRev HTC
kernel /Outils_boot/alpharev/BZIMAGE initrd=/Outils_boot/alpharev/ALPHA.GZ quiet vga=791 consoleblank=0
initrd /Outils_boot/alpharev/ALPHA.GZ

(directory are my choise :))
[Desire General] Sandeman1976:
Yesterday I decided I should be S-OFF too..

Unfortunately it wasn't as easy for me as for most.

I used the boot-from-live-cd update and I got stuck at step 3.

Because both my pc and phone were..euhm..occupied :D I had to dig up my old Touch Diamond an explore the forum with that, to find out what to do next...

Finally after 1,5 hours I had the guts to remove the battery. (please don't brick, please don't brick, please don't brick). It didn't brick :D

Unfortunately the troubles weren't over though. My Desire didn't boot beyond the bootloader so after some fiddling I decided to restore NAND+ext and now everything is fine :D

It was a bit of an old backup (doh) so I'm reinstalling a lot of apps now.. Oh well, my own fault for not following my own rules (backup, backup, backup).
[Desire General] ehalai:
how to change back to original HTC white boot Screen, i need it instead of alpharec S-OFF screen...

please help me with it...

ill be thankfull to you all...

thanks
[Desire General] Sandeman1976:
Check the FAQ on this page: http://alpharev.nl/

At the bottom: "I don't like the splash screen you've installed! How can I change it?" :rolleyes:
[Desire General] D0GuKaN:
worked for me, thanks
[Desire General] remalifrank:
Very usefull tutorial .

Thnx m8.

Use the VMWare METHOD

and everything OK.
[Desire General] DroidBois:
I haven't run in to any problems that I can see with my phone, I can flash ROMs and themes and generally have a good time, so I don't know why I would need to risk damaging my phone by S-OFF? I thought rooting pretty much covered everything anyway?
[Desire General] jig55aw:
you can use the android flasher...to change your splash screen with any .bmp with the resolution of 480x800 and 24bit depth...(use photoshop)...simple as that!;)
[Desire General] LuffyPSP:
i'm on step 3. and if i passed the one hour mark, should i still wait for the finish message or just unplugged my device?
[Desire General] Sandeman1976:
I unplugged it (after 1,5 hours) and it didn't brick. Had to do a Nandroid restore though because it got stuck in the bootloader, but after that all was good :D

ps. it's still your own decision, i'm not responsible if your results aren't the same :p
[Desire General] Tsuneku:
If you are in virtualizzation, you must reconnect USB every time that the phone reboot.
[Desire General] LuffyPSP:
i removed it after 20 minutes..kinda 21 minutes i think. hehe i'm s-off!
[Desire General] tshyong:
can i use window xp to do this?
[Desire General] tshyong:
bro, im using virtualbox method, but i seems that it can't detect my device..

stuck on ' waiting for device...'

any solution on this?
[Desire General] jonmall1441:
Hey guys tried accessing my device thorugh adb but all i keep getting is can't find device. Could this be because of S-OFF. I have accessed my device through adb before. Thanks

UPDATE: Just Format my pc and forgot to install USB drivers. HTC Sync fixed that :) Now to get the android keyboard apk out hehe
[Desire General] Ascenca83:
Hi

I tried the USB Method.

I got to step 3.

There I got the message: USB 1-6: Device not accepting adress 12, error -71.

So I waited 30min and nothing happened.

So I then tried to choose the "reboot" option in the bootloader, but the phone wouldnt boot into android but only to the bootloader again.

After a nandroid restore I can again boot the phone into android.

Does anybody know what the problem is with my phone?

Can I power off my phone now without having fear to brick it???

Hope someone can explain what I have to do now.

Thanks in advance.

Ascenca
[Desire General] jackfrostn:
happened to me as well, i had to reformat my sd card to fat32, and remove the sd-ext, and flashed open desire on my phone, then downloaded rom manager to partition my sd card, then reflashed my leedroid 2.2e rom.

hope this helps you, thought i bricked my desire. now it's working again
[Desire General] Rastaman-FB:
i dont understand the obssession with virtual box when you can just boot to CD and will have a more safe way of doing it.

this unplug/replug usb thing would scare the crap out of me
[Desire General] jackfrostn:
if your using a mac, then this would be a good option. S-offed my phone using virtual box, you just have to right click the usb icon and choose the phone everytime the phone reboots.
[Desire General] zoga50:
I used VMWare Player (free) and it automatically mounts and attaches USB devices without all the hassles of re-attaching USB devices like Virtualbox. Extremely easy to S-Off