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

[shauny13]

u can do it

 

[Nagrom]

Okay sat on my wifes laptop while this thing is running, and it still doesn't seem to be doing much. The PC says "Waiting for flashing to complete", and the phone says

AlphaRev SPLBOOT version 2.0

Normal NAND detected, Non-PVT4.

Is that what it's supposed to say?

Not much activity on the PC. This is the same place where it hung all last night.

 

[Nagrom]

25 mins and still no change. Me thinks it's not worked again.

 

[Hadron]

The first posts of the tutorial thread at XDA says "some people have reported it taking up to an hour", though it only took about a minute for me.

Some people have also reported it hanging at the last step, but being S-Off after they gave up and rebooted.

Trouble is, most people only do it once, so don't get so much experience of this.

 

[Nagrom]

Well seeing as it wasn't S-OFF after three and a half hours last night, and the phone still worked, I'm guessing it'll be safe to give up.

What do you suggest?

 

[shauny13]

it hung on mine. I pulled battery after an hour and it had worked, only strangely i never had the joker splash screen, so i just flashed that at a later date.

 

[Nagrom]

Okay I'll give it another 15 mins, that'll be an hour then. Then we'll see, if I have a nice S-OFF Desire, or a rather expensive paper weight LOL

 

[Nagrom]

Okay, left it an hour. Dropped the battery, rebooted, and restored. Still S-ON. I think I'm just going to have to accept that my phone doesn't like the idea of being totally unlocked, and S-OFF.

Git!!!!

Thanks for all your help though guys.

 

[Hadron]

Are you running GingerVillain?

Try this: take a nandroid (always a good idea before running alpharev anyway!), wipe, install a simple stock froyo ROM (e.g. Teppic74's). Don't bother restoring anything, just run alpharev.

Once it's done, just restore the nandroid.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

ok i think i know what the issue is here,
1st of all you are running a non "sense" rom. this can cause issues with flashing
it is recommended by alpharev to backup current rom, flash to a standard custom sense rom like teppics or leedroid 2.x etc. run the utility and once complete restore the backup

from your sig you are using GV 2.7 which is AOSP not sense

 

[Hadron]

driver, you 33 seconds late

 

[Nagrom]

Okay thanks guys. That's a job for tomorrow night....if the missus stops complaining that a spend more time with my phone than her LMFAO

 

[GingaB]

ok i think i know what the issue is here,
1st of all you are running a non "sense" rom. this can cause issues with flashing
it is recommended by alpharev to backup current rom, flash to a standard custom sense rom like teppics or leedroid 2.x etc. run the utility and once complete restore the backup

from your sig you are using GV 2.7 which is AOSP not sense

Rasta is right. I used Leedroid nona2sd rom and I was S-OFFed in matter of minutes!

 

[Rastaman-FB]

driver, you 33 seconds late

not by my watch

 

[SUroot]

if the missus stops complaining that a spend more time with my phone than her

From now on I shall call you "Dreamworld Andy"

 

[ducky1979]

Rasta is right. I used Leedroid nona2sd rom and I was S-OFFed in matter of minutes!

i used leedroid to and i s-off'd without any problems.
it took a few minutes thats all.

 

[Usta]

Yep, I also couldn't S-OFF on Gingervillan ROM. It worked on an early version of Redux though. Probably, it was too plain to hinder anything in the process...

 

[Nagrom]

Okay got LeeDroid 3.3.1 sat on my SD card ready to try this out. I'll let you know later.

 

[Nagrom]

Okay that's it. I OFFICIALLY give up on this S-OFF palava.

Just tried to run AlphaRev, twice with LeeDroid 3.3.1 SENSE ROM, and both times I got an error after stage 2 of unable to enumerate USB device. Also got this message not longer after stage 3 started, along with 4 line error messages.

The phone still booted fine, but STILL S-ON.

The weird thing is I also got these enumerate messages when the USB cable fell out the other night, this time however, the cable was in tight.

I might just have to accept that my phone is destined to always be S-ON.

I've switched to Redux ROM now after the good reports on size, and battery life.

Thanks for all your help guys. Looks like I lost this battle.

Desire - 1
Andy - 0

 

[shauny13]

could be the cable, is it the official one that came with the phone. Try another usb port maybe.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

dont know much about the 3.x leedroid as its based on gingerbread
i was refering to the 2.x leedroid as its froyo and htc build

 

[Hadron]

Yeah, don't want to beat deceased equines here, and I understand the desire to call it a day, but I also used a Froyo Sense ROM for this (what the tool was developed for).

Sorry it's been such a pain

 

[Nagrom]

So I need a FroYo Sense ROM? Be easier to find some rocking horse s**t, as every ROM seems to be Gingerbread now.

 

[SUroot]

Use leedroid 2.x or teppic74's rooted stock or your own nandroid of original Rom

 

[Nagrom]

I've found one called NeoPhyte. Going to run this. Says its FroYo, and sense, so should do the trick. Let you know how I get on.

Bugger. Downloaded a verion without the radio. Dumb Schmuck.

Going for Teppic74's base ROM as advised.