yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] :
@Jakedude2011

Likewise the same happened with me I think clockwork mod doesn't work to well with the new pvt4, had the same misc error and flashed with RA desire 2.0.0 now running 2.0.1 because 2.0.0 cant nandroid backup certain roms.

Now im running BAADNWZ hd sense rom v17c (tried a few including leedroid but didn't like the launchers) and have just used AlphaRev v1.8 to s-off worked like a charm the proccess took literally 3 mins and worked great simple and easy (credz to AlphaRev) I was just wondering can I continue to flash .zip roms and make nandroid backups as usual because I read somewhere there is a way of bricking the device ?!
[Desire General] Jakedude2011:
Well... Im still in the proces of learning, so the next part

of this post, is just a thought. Otherwise wait for a better answar

from one who is more in this stuff than me. :-)

But I wouldn`t think that keep doing nandroid backups,

and experimenting with other roms would brick the phone.

And U can allways return it to stock with a RUU, (this will also return S-ON!)

so if what U are saying/fearing is just a little bit true,

U could each time, U wanna try another rom, do nandroid-backup,

reverse the hole thing with RUU, and then Unrevoke-alpharev1.8-new ROM.

But I have read quite a bit in here, and I havent read about

the phone bricking if U trie many roms...
[Desire General] psilakos:
@Jakedude2011

I've got the same handset as you do but tried CWM, Amon Ra 2.0.1, Alpharev and nothing worked for me.

CWM 2.5.0.7 which I used first, tells me E:Can't find MISC:

When used Unrevoked 3 to Flash Amon Ra 2.0.1 got the "Is your firmware too new?" error.

When attempted to use Alpharev, I got the "Your phone is not supported" error.

Tough! :rolleyes:
[Desire General] negative13:
Same thing happened to me.
[Desire General] sianzb0i:
hi all,

i rooted wif unrevoked 3 and CWM tgt....my desire is a PVT4 4000 on HBOOT 0.93 and like expected i cannot backup the current rom with CWM....

so,

1) is amonra compatitble wif the new PVT4 and able to do rom backup?

2) and how do i install amonra on top of CWM (or what should i do wif my current config)

sorry...its just too messy and i have been reading everywhere with bits and pieces here and there...thanks in advance
[Desire General] ddee:
1. Yes I have used amonra for backup and restore

2. Use unrevoked with the phone unplugges, then select your amon ra download and plug phone in again and let unrevoked do its thing.
[Desire General] sianzb0i:
is ur the PVT4 4000 erase size?

are u saying i must unroot and root again? or just run the unrevoked tool?
[Desire General] Jakedude2011:
I too got the "is your firmware to new" error when trying amonra.

(at my first attempt)

But didnt try alpharev after that. First when i had reversed the whole thing

with a RUU - then Unrevoke - AND THEN Alpharev. And viola... all good!

Try that procedure... :-)

BUT REMEMBER THIS from Alpharev site:

Supported devices:

HTC Desire GSM (Bravo), all hardware models (PVT4 too)

HTC Legend GSM, HBOOT 1.0+ is NOT supported

HTC myTouch 3G Slide (Espresso)
[Desire General] sianzb0i:
will htc still cover the warranty if its rooted and s-off?
[Desire General] bluelavender:
Nope...

10char
[Desire General] andQlimax:
Never hear a RUU?
[Desire General] bluelavender:
oh ya, forget that one :p yep, you can flash RUU back ... (honestly though, i never use RUU anymore ;)

BL
[Desire General] sianzb0i:
thanks....i thought RUU was just a self installing rom and radio....din noe it restores s-off and other stuff
[Desire General] bluelavender:
It does not restore s-off. in fact, it reverse s-off and makes it back s-on and unrooted.
[Desire General] andQlimax:
An RUU restore all in ur phone (hboot (of course s-on one), radio, kernel, recovery, rom)...And format all ur data..Ur phone is like new
[Desire General] regunus:
I tried every possible version I could find of Unrevoked.

I tried it with both RA_2.0.0 and CWM recoveries...

I tried them under windows 7 32bit, 64bit, windows xp and ubuntu 10.10...

Nothing can root my stupid desire which is pvt4 40000...

I'm getting alway the message : "Validation Error : Backup CID is missing"...

Any help on this one?
[Desire General] psilakos:
Thanks a lot for the advice, I'm a total noob at this, had the phone for less than a month! Anyway, tried this and got the infamous "CID" error which means I need to make a goldcard. Soon as I get my hands on a spare card will do so and will come back with an update.

Thanks again for the input :D
[Desire General] regunus:
So, in order to avoid the "Validation Error : Backup CID is missing" you have to use a goldcard while running unrevoked? because I tried that allready too :(:(
[Desire General] psilakos:
Like I said I'm a total noob at this. I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I'm referring to the goldcard as far as installing a stock RUU is concerned. While trying to install one I got "Error 131, invalid CID" or something similar to that. The error code, I'm sure of. Anywhere I read about this error, it says that you need a goldcard to install the RUU. Even in the cases that you have the goldcard and you still get the error, chances are that you didn't make the goldcard properly and you have to make one from scratch.

The funny thing is that the goldcard scenario is related to branded handsets and mine isn't one. I do not have a Voda splash screen neither any logos on the device.

Either way, I've already ordered the spare card and now waiting to experiment :D
[Desire General] regunus:
have you gained root yet? i know you need a goldcard for stock ruu. thought you used unrevoked with goldcard.

I'm never gonna root that stupid thing :mad:
[Desire General] psilakos:
I've got the little ninja in my app drawer and a couple of apps in that. The thing is that I haven't gotten the chance to use it yet because I cannot backup the phone which to my eyes is as if it hasn't been rooted anyway :mad:

Regarding your issue, there seems to be a bug with unrevoked that causes this sort of behaviour. I googled "unrevoked 3 Validation Error : Backup CID is missing" and the second link gave me an idea of what the issue might be. I hope it helps. ;)
[Desire General] regunus:
Seriously dude... you saved me! My desire is rooted and with RA Recovery :D:D

I can now backup and flash roms ^_^
[Desire General] psilakos:
Thank you once again for the advice. Made the goldcard, went back to stock RUU (RUU_Bravo_Froyo_Vodafone_UK_2.33.161.2_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_157522_signed) - Yes, it seems that the phone was branded :p - rooted again with RA 2.0.1 and it worked!!!

Didn't try Alpharev though, I'm still S-ON. Just finished installing oxygen-2.0-RC6 and it looks like I will get very little sleep until I go to work :D
[Desire General] psilakos:
Also, a big thank you to the whole community here. All the posts made me understand my Desire a little bit better than when I first got it in my hands ;)
[Desire General] Jakedude2011:
No problem. :-) Glad it helped U.

LOL been there, done that. :D
[Desire General] jhuebner:
I used an older unrevoked (3.2) to achieve the goal. Use amonra recovery and everything will be fine.
[Desire General] osoelpeligroso:
should also try amonra recovery to see if it is better than other recoverys
[Desire General] bigsee:
I use unrevoked 3.2.2 + CWM2513 and it's succes.

Try to install HTC Sync, and when the Desire is docked than it has to install the drivers. Next to it the HTC Sync must be uninstalled, but the driver should be remain!!!

Run - without docking the Desire at first!!! - "reflash_package.exe" and from the menu File/Custom Recovery... select the "cwmr2513.img".

When it is ready You have to see in the Unrevoked window, on the bottom: "Recovery image: custom"!!!

Now the prog is ready to use, dock the Desire and it will root it. It will show You: "Done"

ONLY OWN YOUR OWN RISK!!!
[Desire General] PuppetToupee:
Confused, don't know what to do.

I originally rooted with unrEVOked and the ClockworkMod Recovery included with it (3.0.7, as far as I know.) So should I just attempt to use unrEVOked again with AmonRA or what? Are there any other steps I need to undertake?

EDIT: Disregard that. I am using an RUU then using unrEVOked with AmonRA 2.0.1, just read up on a few things and educated myself.

EDIT2: Ignore all of this, it can be solved by simply using Alpharev, should of fixed this post up earlier. What I did was use unrEVOked, then use Alpharev 1.8 and chose to install the Alpharev version of CWM. Everything works fine and I am now running Oxygen2RC7
[Desire General] lavive:
I just followed the (very simple) procedure from AlphaRev 1.8 and managed to get S-OFFed.

For ref. my Desire is GSM (Asia RUU) rooted with unrEVOked 3.2 and recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.

At the beginning it didn't recognized the phone after I plugged in, so I went to the settings and turned On the USB debugging. Then I booted the CD once again and

it worked

.

--- AlphaRev ---

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNTH0101

RADIO-5.09.05.30.2

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

My intention was to use CPU tuner, because S-ON prevented modifying the CPU clock.

Being now S-OFF, I went into recovery and used AmonRA to mount the /system and /data. But after I booted the phone, in Astro I saw it didn't work. The permissions of /data and /system are resp. d-- and dr-

I still don't have a Write access :(

I booted in Recovery again, and discovered the options to Mount /system and /data, meaning there were not kept after I rebooted.

I Mounted them once again and powered off. I went into Recovery and discovered they were unmounted.

==> What the hell is wrong here? Did I miss something? Any issue with AmonRA2.0.0 :confused:

I also tried the App from Beansoft "Mount /system (rw /ro)". Although it claimed it was successful, it didn't grant w permission. Same results with Root Explorer. Weird and annoying!

thanks for the comments.
[Desire General] htctard:
Hi everyone. I'm a n00b with a GSM Orange-branded HTC Desire of the PVT4 erasesize 40000 variety.

I tried to get root with unrevoked 3 and now have the ClockwordMod Recovery v2.5.0.7 'E: Can't find MISC:' error. (interestingly - 'abd shell' gives me a root prompt in this state).

Following earlier posts, I tried unrevoked with custom recovery AA-desire-v2.0.0.img. This gives me 'Error: Failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?'.

I'm a little unsure of the next step. OP now says use AlphaRev 1.8, but the developers' site says a rooted ROM is a prerequisite (and I'm not sure if I want or need S-OFF yet). Later posters flash an RUU, but I see some people have got into trouble flashing with ClockworkMod in this broken state: I still have a working phone.

Please could someone give a clue to the clueless?
[Desire General] PuppetToupee:
Check your phone to see if you have the Superuser app in there, if it is, you're rooted. When I flashed my Desire with unrEVOked, the recovery wouldn't work but it was rooted. Use Alpharev 1.8 and get s-off, I did it on Friday and it's really simple to use. Besides, if you ever need to return your phone under warranty or something, you can just use an RUU and revert it back to factory conditions. I'm certainly no expert, but I think you might need a goldcard if your phone is branded. Lurk a bit more and you should find some answers.
[Desire General] ozneb:
+ 1

First using Unrevoked 3.21 ... it flash Recovery but the ClockwordMod Recovery v2.5.0.7 'E: Can't find MISC:' error. (interestingly - 'abd shell' gives me a root prompt in this state).

Then I try to flash 3.0.0.5 recovery with Unrevoked 3 and custom Recovery, but the the flash failed.

My phone (PVT4 Hboot 0.93.0001) is rooted, but alway's S-ON and the recovery doesn't work.

So I try AlphaRev 1.8 but failed too with "Is your firmware too new?'".

Any idea ?
[Desire General] Phil402:
see how it worked out for my PTV4 4000 Desire:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=937956
[Desire General] ebi023:
i have pvt4. s-off with alpharev. rooted with unrevoked with clockwordmod 2.5.1.8. my rom is rcmix hd. works great. everything is fine. :)
[Desire General] saharnir:
hi there

my desire is in the same .

how do you fix this ?
[Desire General] sarvadaman.singh:
@ieftm: Can I use Alphrev to Nexus One also to get S-OFF???
[Desire General] Playron:
WOOW. I have to try this !
[Desire General] sindrefyrn:
PVT4 S-ON

Hboot-0.93.0001

Does this mean I can't root?
[Desire General] blackrat62:
This is doing my head in - can anyone post a simple how to guide please. I have jailbroken iphones, cracked GPS devices with ease but this is defeating me at every step.

I managed to root my Desire but it won't download a custom ROM (get errors as reported in early posts). So put back to stock (unrooted) and hoped to use Alpharev to root fully but that needs rooted ROM, tried to put pre-rooted ROM on using Fake-Flash but post above correctly states can't use with new devices (nothing happens when I run as administrator) - aaaaaaaaah.

The upshot is I have a brand new desire which is not branded or locked to any network out of the box - I think I need to put a pre-rooted ROM on (but cannot find how), then root using Alpharev, then put custom ROM on - or should I have a cup of tea and start again?

Be grateful of your help.
[Desire General] redsokkx:
rooting trouble

hi im a newb would appreciate some help

I have used unrevoke3 to try root the phone..I have a superuser icon but the following errors:

E:Can't find MISC:

E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command

E:Can't find MISC:

E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log

E:Can't fint MISC:

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT 0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

RADIO-5.09.05.30_2

I then read this thread and used (recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0) to reflash using revoke3 in the custom option..but i get error failed to root and is your firmware too new

what am i doing wrong please.

USB DEBUGGING ON

CHARGE ONLY SELECTED

TRYING WITH SD CARD IN THE PHONE

i have tried three times and the same message any help appreciated
[Desire General] thecoby:
Hmm...........
[Desire General] papedo:
i managed it with recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.1 and it worked. before i had the same problems.

if this doesn´t work your phone is maybe branded. mine has been branded. of course i bought it as unbranded, but i had to make a goldcard-> went back to stock with latest RUU and rooted with custom recovery in unrevoke.
[Desire General] raikesy:
Uninstall "Zysploit" from your phone, then try it again using unrevoked with custom RA recovery as you done before, it should succeed this time.
[Desire General] DeeJayDark UE:
My Desire is PVT4 but erasesize is 20000! Does it mean I can use unrevoked3 method?
[Desire General] andQlimax:
EVERYONE can use unrevoked, the last version works an all desire..
[Desire General] FastPete:
Hi all. I have a quick question (im a total noob!). I am trying to install CynogenMod on my pvt4 erase 40000 and am having trouble. My desire is rooted with amonRA and recovery seems fine. I can NAND backup, which also works fine.

When i try to install CynogenMod from my sd, it comes up with an error:

"assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "z71 || getprop("ro.buiE:unknown command [ld.product")]

E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip

(status 7)

installation aborted.

When I reboot, its back to normal

I have also tried Gingervillian. That installs but hangs on the villianrom boot screen.

I have stock android 2.2 =. my desire is unbranded and unlocked.

Any help would be great
[Desire General] Hamditj:
plz hellllp

hello,

i have the same problem,

so now i'm looking for "CWM-AlphaRev Recovery 2.5.1.3" buth i couldnt find it

my htc desire is still working but i think i have not compleet root acces becouse i got the errors if i start cwm in recovery :

E: Can't find MISC:

E: Can't mount CACHE: recovery/command

E: Can't find MISC:

E: Can't mount CACHE: recovery/log

E: Can't find MISC:

so please help me that i can solve this problem, i'am a noob in this

p.s. sorry for my bad english

thanks in advance
[Desire General] negative13:
I had this problem too. What I did was use Alpharev to s-off then the problem is gone.
[Desire General] blade200375e:
hmmm.............
[Desire General] mulle78:
Hi @all, I've also an problematic HTC Desire. It is an german T-Online branded phone with the following BOOT.INFO:

BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-0.93.0001

MICROP-051d

TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101

But the Erasesize is 20000 and not 40000.

I was not able to permroot, to addfree or to install a recoverysystem. If I understand the S-ON correctly all changes were only stored in the RAM an will go away after a reboot. So I have to update the HBOOT to a S-OFF or to a S-ON ignoring version. I'v tried the current version of AlphaRev, but it can not find the Handy Identification and will not work. And also the rooting with the current version of unrEVOked is not working. After installing of bootmanager and the following reboot unrevoked loose the connection to my phone by rooting "Error : failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?".

Is this also available for the Desire? DHD "[GUIDE] Root, flash a custom recovery and/or S-OFF your Desire HD the "easy" way!" http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=835746
[Desire General] eGozelle:
i have a desire with the same boot.info (branded o2). actually i didn't check about the erasesize, but i didn't have any problems to root, flash and s-off it.

i think i followed a tutorial using unrevoked for root (replacing clockworkmod with amon ra afterwards).

for s-off i followed this guide.

don't know if a desire hd guide will work for the desire too.. i'd be scared ;)
[Desire General] Frieslander:
Hi, i want to root my desire. i've read a lot of this topic. i want just to be sure that i am doing te right thing. i am too afraid to brick my Desire

i have a Desire PVT 4 Erasesize 40000

should i use unrevoked with recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img ???

now i'm useing just the stockrom, just the way i came out of te box.

and is S-OFF really required for root?
[Desire General] markdomingo:
In my experience, you don't need s-off to root but you most likely would need s-off if you want to flash a custom rom.

I also have a PVT4 Desire and I used plain unrevoked to root it then used alpharev to s-off it so that I can install a custom ROM (currently using CM7 RC1)
[Desire General] erj22:
kabayan! do you also have hboot 0.93? my desire is rooted, but haven't done s-off yet. planning to use alpharev's... care to share the steps? :)
[Desire General] eGozelle:
u can use the recovery that comes with unrevoked. i personally found amonRA v2.0.1 more userfriendly, so i flashed it with unrevoked afterwards.
[Desire General] eGozelle:
use this guide to S-OFF

made me S-OFF my desire without problems.

off topic: half pinoy here! ;)
[Desire General] Frieslander:
i did that once.... but than i get weird messeges in Clockwork

E: Can't find MISC:

E: Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command

E: Can't find MISC

E: Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log

E: Cant find MISC

in the first i igored this, but when i used apps that needed root, the phone reboots
[Desire General] erj22:
thanks kabayan eGozelle! :D
[Desire General] markdomingo:
The guide looks good. You should try that out erj22, it's essentially the same steps I did.

After doing S-OFF, you may also want to check out the patched HBOOTs from alpharev.nl to adjust your HTC Desire's partition. This is nice if you are using a custom ROM and would like to adjust the space allocated for your phone's internal install space.
[Desire General] erj22:
Thanks for the tip!
[Desire General] bigsee:
The PVT4/40000 was the last modification of the NAND by the HTC or are there any newer versions too? Anyway what are the benefits of this PVT4/40000 form?
[Desire General] psygbert:
no added benefit. just different mtd layout.
[Desire General] shahrulazahar:
as i read the post from the beginning, there are no issues question by user regarding the famous rebooting HTC Desire. Did anyone having the same problem after applying those? or rebooting after device heat up or after turn on gps for sometimes? :D
[Desire General] gav12345:
mine is fine and i didnt do the s off at all

all apps and all games work fine no issues
[Desire General] Fieser-Kardinal:
A friend of mine has a PVT4 Device. We want to S-Off his device too. Will AlphaRev flash a compatible Recovery or have we to flash a recovery on our own?
[Desire General] maximus1965:
Please have a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8358703&postcount=1

You can also use this recovery:

http://www.android-hilfe.de/735093-post1.html

is is working fine with pvt4 devices
[Desire General] XartzMAX:
By flashing a compatible recovery can we use normal Desire ROMs etc. without a problem regardless of the NAND differences?

EDIT:The new Amon-Ra and recovery-RA-Desire works fine with this right?
[Desire General] svprm:
Mine is new model with 20000.
[Desire General] XartzMAX:
With Amon Ra 2.0.1 (or 2.0.0 for that matter) for Desire aka RA-Desire, your PVT4 Erasesize 40k device can flash anything like the old Desires. Enjoy freedom again!
[Desire General] PartTimeLegend:
This makes sense. I just rooted by Grandad's Desire. Booting to CWM shows that is can't find E:.

I will try a modified recovery image, I wanted to get him to LeeDrOiD as he's having issues with battery life.
[Desire General] jejelomo:
hi,

please i need to change my htc desire 2.2 to 2.3.

can you help?

Thanks
[Desire General] 123xdagsm:
Hi

how unroot phone desire?
[Desire General] 123xdagsm:
I want S-off convert S-ON

How?
[Desire General] bigsee:
Run RUU from the computer with the connected Desire.
[Desire General] 123xdagsm:
Thanks

please give me link download software RUU
[Desire General] bigsee:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=htc+desire+RUU

BTW: http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.exe

edit: smiley ;)
[Desire General] mrchris40:
Hi all, first post so be kind! This thread seemed to be the best for my query without starting a new one!

Have one of these PVT4 with cache size of 40000, and simply cannot get the phone rooted.

Have tried every single way I could find in XDA and elsewhere (unrevoked 3.21, 3.22, 3.32 with either amonra 2.0.0, 2.0.1 or cwmr 2.5.1.3; have used a Mac, Windows and Slax Linux). Unless I am using 3.32 (where I get the firmware to new error), I always get the 'cannot find misc' error. Oddly I can get a Temproot with Visonary, but it does not work when rebooting and I am desperate to get a custom ROM and free up space on my phone.

I freely admit to being an Android noob compared to some of you guys on here, but having played sucessfully with a Blade and a Vega, I am finding this issue so frustrating!!

My details:

Bravo PVT4 Ship S-On

HBoot - 0.93.0001

Radio - 5.10.05.30

Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18

Any suggestions would be gratefully received at this time!

Thanks :confused:
[Desire General] XartzMAX:
First remove the Zysploit app, then try again. Worked for me. :D
[Desire General] mrchris40:
Thanks, I have tried that one as well - I think I saw another post that said that and gave that a try, but that didn't work either.

Cheers
[Desire General] jeffreyljb:
I rooted my DesirE which has the same SPL/PVT etc,I did rooted without AlphaRev ISO,AlphaREV does not work anyway,so I did rooted by a RUU rom developed by a chinese and then I got rooted successfully.

Here's the information:

Original thread:WCfunker origianl thread(in chinese)

Download link:WCFuncker(RUU & ROM included)(MD5:7F8BD19EF4A246B405C4448B0FD6BB7F)

Hope this information can help you to got rooted your desire :D
[Desire General] LaMpiR:
Will try this now.
[Desire General] Sordep:
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-OFF. works fine
[Desire General] LaMpiR:
What did you do exactly?

I rooted my desire with Unrevoked 3.21 but keep geting those errors in recovery... A S-on.
[Desire General] parsvbulletin:
thanks

thanks for all xda users