Can you tell us about your phone. In particular, what else does it say on the HBOOT screen as well as S-On. Do not attempt to flash the radio again until you have answered this question.

The main reason I ask is that unrevoked only does S-Off on CDMA phones, and you do not want to try flashing a radio on one of those. If you have a custom hboot then flashing radio through recovery can also be dangerous (though you should be S-Off if you have one of those). In fact unless you have an android 2.1 radio you don't actually need to update that for any ROM. I'm a bit cautious about a misbehaving radio flash, as they can destroy the phone, and I don't know why it isn't working at the moment (S-On should not stop you flashing a radio via recovery).

Most probably the problem you have with the ROM is your SD card. Have you put a 1GB or larger ext4 partition on it, as described in the root memory faq (from the All Things Root Guide sticky post)? If not that ROM won't work - it's too big to fit in the Desire's memory, so part of it is on an extra partition on the card. This is true of all Sense 2 or Sense 3 ROMs.

 

Can you give me a link to the ROM thread or site? Want to make sure I'm talking about the same ROM.

No, unrevoked roots GSM and CDMA, but only gives S-Off on CDMA. There should be no problem flashing a radio on that phone, but the one you have should be fine. Which radio were you trying to flash?

 

The reason I asked those questions is that I'd assumed you'd meant one of the RevolutioN ROMs. However, I've discovered that there are ROMs called "Android Revolution" for the Desire HD, but that is a different device. And I met one tutorial site that just talked about updating the "Desire" until the last page of their tutorial, when they meant the DHD all along!

So I wanted to be sure that you weren't trying to flash the DHD ROM, because that certainly won't work.

 

Your radio should be fine, but if you want to update visit the toolbox thread here. 5.17.05.23 is the most recent, and there is also an md5 code available for it. That's important, because you don't want to risk flashing a corrupt radio (you'll have a dead phone if you do!). If you aren't familiar with checking md5 codes, see this thread.

The toolbox thread links require a username and password. Searching the thread for the word "password" should show you these. The most recent password is right at the end of the thread at the moment, IIRC. These are there to stop people linking directly from their blogs and leaching Rastaman's bandwidth.

The thing to note with a radio update is that the flashing is reasonably quick, but that's also mainly copying the img to the /cache partition. The actual install occurs when you reboot the phone - you'll get a little installing icon on the screen, then the phone will reboot itself a couple of times. I'm telling you this so that you don't panic and assume the phone is in a bootloop. Do not interrupt this process - flash the zip, reboot from recovery (don't do anything else after the radio flash, just reboot) and just leave it until it finally boots into android.

 

Flashing a ROM isn't too bad. In most cases the steps are just as described in the rooting faq here: back up user apps and data, copy ROM zip to sd card, boot into recovery, take a backup from recovery ("nandroid"), wipe phone, install ROM from zip, reboot, restore user apps/data. Some have fancier installers, but even then the only such I've used was still the same procedure (it just asked me a few questions during the install).

The main gotcha is to read the ROM's requirements before installing. The first post of a ROM thread at XDA usually tell you whether there are any special requirements. An ext format partition of some minimum size is the commonest. Some ROMs are optimised for particular custom hboots, so it's worth checking that as well (e.g. if it says there are "stock" and "CM7" versions that's what it's referring to).

It seems a lot of stuff, and can be a bit overwhelming the first time you do it, but when you've done it a couple of times it actually becomes routine! The single most important part of those instructions was "take a backup from recovery". If you do that then if anything goes wrong, or you forget a step, you can rewind and try again.

 

There's a sticky thread here about what ROMs (or ROM types) people use. May give you some impressions.

Really depends what you like. Some go for ROMs based on the latest HTC software that can be ported to the Desire. Others (like me) go for something stripped-down and minimalist.

 

hi,
yeah MW is one of my faves - currently one 4.1.3 ox version which is smoooth
also like dGB - very small and smooth too
latest one ive got is zm oxygen - also very nice and smooth

these are all good imo

btw: ive not got apps to sd setup - just using cm7r2 hboot - and find i have 100mb+ free all the time - depending on which rom ive got on at the time

good luck

cheers
dan