Root Fully rooted but still with S-ON! How?

[Nagrom]

SUCC FRIGGIN SESS!!!!

It FINALLY worked.

It was great to see the "The procedure has been successful" line.

I'm now officially S-OFF!!!!!

Now what? LMFAO!!!!!

Just restoring my GV2.7 backup. Am I right in understanding that I should have ALOT more space now?

A HUGE thanks to you all for helping me get my thick head around this. Especially SUroot, Hadron, and everyone else.

A VERY happy Andy.

Okay checked the size. Still 32MB free. I guess I need to flash hboot with one of these tables. I've downloaded the CM7 r2 one from AlphaRev's site, as I think this is closest to GV. It says flash HBOOT with your phone in Fastboot mode. I'm in Fastboot, and I have the image file on the SD Card. I cant see how to flash this new file though.

Sorry to be a pain in the ass again.

 

[Hadron]

Fastboot commands are run from your computer over USB. The actual commands you need are on alpharev.nl, and I'm sure the root memory guide says something about setting up fastboot on a PC (if you are Mac or Linux let us know - it's a separate download from HTC for those platforms).

Edit: Sorry, it's in the ADB and Fastboot for Windows guide.

 

[Nagrom]

Ahhh I already set up that fast boot on the PC a few days back. Found a good guide thanks to your links. I'll let you know.

Thanks again.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Ahhh I already set up that fast boot on the PC a few days back. Found a good guide thanks to your links. I'll let you know.

Thanks again.

dont put the image on your sdcard, put it in on your computer.
for ease of use put it in c:\hbootname.img (example)
then you can use fastboot flash hboot c:\hbootname.img

 

[Nagrom]

Okay sussed it, and flashed it. I'll keep you filled in how much space I've saved.

Andy.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

no worries and well done, we dont like defeat in the root section and dont generally allow it
well done for persevering and taking on board what we were saying

enjoy

 

[Nagrom]

38mb to 158mb free

'kin sweet. Thanks again for all the help and advice guys.

 

[kdehairy]

here is what i did in sequence:

1. i used unrevocked to root my device. (htc desire gsm)
2. i tried unrevocked forever but with no luck. it said "unsupported system" in the log file.
3. i tried alpharev 1.8. no luck.

it said:
cat: can't open '/tmp/cmdline' : no such file or directory
...
it gives an error in alpharev.sh line 117: unarry operator expected
...
your phone was not recognized or is unsupported at this time.

it did not read any of my device data (CID. MID, HBOOT ...etc)
​

my device: htc desire
HBoot: 0.93.0001
PVT4
erase size: 20000
build: 2.32.415.3
radio: 5.11.05.27

what shall i do?

 

[SUroot]

unrevoked forever is only for cdma devices. you have to use alpharev.

 

[kdehairy]

i found that to be true .. so i used alpharev as i explained in my previous post.
it said "your phone was not recognized or is unsupported at this time".

 

[Hadron]

If alpharev 1.8 isn't recognising the device, then assuming you have a good burn of alpharev the next question is what ROM are you running? As you've seen from this thread, that can matter.

Edit: sorry, just spotted that your details say "rooted factory ROM"...

 

[AceMathias]

question regarding s-off process. Note i am following the guide here:
[TUTORIAL] How to S-OFF your HTC Desire - xda-developers

Apparently during the aplha rev s-off boot installation it will ask if you want to install clockwork recovery. I have already rooted using the unrevoked method, my phone is PVT1 so did not use amonra. I believe i therefore already have clockwork recovery, should i therefore say no to this? Or is this alpharev version different and therfore should be accepted?
Cheers.

 

[Hadron]

That alpharev version is different and should not be accepted. 2.5.0.7 which you have is more reliable.

 

[AceMathias]

cheers hadron

 

[AceMathias]

trying to fastboot flash the CM7 alpharev partition table, having just s-off'd. Am really bad at using cmd dos type code, so may be missing something basic, but i need some help as this is my first time.

I have have setup adb/fastboot on pc following suroots guide. I enter:
fastboot flash hboot c:\bravo_alphaspl-cm7r2.img
into cmd and it says that AdbWinApi.dll is missing.
I can find it though in the folder C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools though so i know its on the system.

In the setup i pointed the extra location to tools, should it be platform-tools then? I tried this but the same error comes up.
Can anyone help?

Cheers.

 

[kdehairy]

here is what i did in sequence:

1. i used unrevocked to root my device. (htc desire gsm)
2. i tried unrevocked forever but with no luck. it said "unsupported system" in the log file.
3. i tried alpharev 1.8. no luck.

it said:
cat: can't open '/tmp/cmdline' : no such file or directory
...
it gives an error in alpharev.sh line 117: unarry operator expected
...
your phone was not recognized or is unsupported at this time.

it did not read any of my device data (CID. MID, HBOOT ...etc)
​

my device: htc desire
HBoot: 0.93.0001
PVT4
erase size: 20000
build: 2.32.415.3
radio: 5.11.05.27

what shall i do?

i found that my phone has to be fully on .. i mean on the home screen, not locked. accept the pop up that asks for the root permission. then all went smooth in less than 5 minutes. thanks guy anyway

 

[Hadron]

Thanks for telling us - it's another "gotcha" we can watch out for next time someone has problems.

 

[AceMathias]

Hey, Hadron, any help for me please?

 

[AceMathias]

Pooooo.
Tried That Android flasher that suroot recommended and when it tried to flash, it failed.
went to clockwork restore screen on phone and then tried rebooting but it put me back to same place.
Am trying a nandroid restore.

 

[Hadron]

Hey, Hadron, any help for me please?

Unfortunately I don't use Windows for any of this stuff, so not sure about the setup things you describe.

 

[AceMathias]

Phew, phone still works. Nandroid got it back.
Right can someone please give me step by step noob friendly guide to flash the alpharev partition as i can't get it to work and don't want the scare of thinking i've just bricked my phone again.
Thanks.

EDIT: Have rebooted phone and checked the bootloader, says its cm7r2 rather than alpharev and the internal memory is now 287mb so looks like the process has somehow worked?!

If someone could post how to use fastboot properly then that would help me in future in case i need to do again. Thanks.

 

[SUroot]

Phew, phone still works. Nandroid got it back.
Right can someone please give me step by step noob friendly guide to flash the alpharev partition as i can't get it to work and don't want the scare of thinking i've just bricked my phone again.
Thanks.

EDIT: Have rebooted phone and checked the bootloader, says its cm7r2 rather than alpharev and the internal memory is now 287mb so looks like the process has somehow worked?!

If someone could post how to use fastboot properly then that would help me in future in case i need to do again. Thanks.

Read the faq in the "all about rooting" sticky thread

 

[AceMathias]

Read the faq in the "all about rooting" sticky thread

I did, but as you can clearly see, i didn't follow it, therefore i would appreciate some help.
From post 65 you can see what i put in and it didn't work, why not?

 

[SUroot]

whats in the faq should be enough. Not sure why it doesnt work for you. Try adding the path to your environment variables like this:

xda-developers - View Single Post - Missing AdbWinApi.dll

 

[Nagrom]

Just a quick update folks.

The other night, I was trying our CyanogenMod 7, and it REALLY sucked up the free space I created.

So....

I decided to do a clean install of GV 7, and after I reinstalled all my apps, I was still left with 210MB free space.

A HUGE!!!!!!! thanks again for all your help.