Root [Guide]S-OFF and ROOT HTC Desire with Revolutionary - Windows (published 4th November 2011)

[darkurza]

Sorry to be posting this message here but I read the FAQ on rooting and the S-OFF process. I'm still a little confused as to whether or not my HTC Desire needs to be S-OFF'ed before I can install a custom ROM such as Cyanogenmod. Do I need S-OFF to install Cyanogenmod or another other Custom ROMs?

 

[SUroot]

Sorry to be posting this message here but I read the FAQ on rooting and the S-OFF process. I'm still a little confused as to whether or not my HTC Desire needs to be S-OFF'ed before I can install a custom ROM such as Cyanogenmod. Do I need S-OFF to install Cyanogenmod or another other Custom ROMs?

From The FAQ:

Do I NEED S-Off?
Well, it depends what you want to do, but for most things you do not need it.

So no

However if you're on android 2.3, you have no choice but to S-OFF to achieve root.

 

[Dopebabeex0]

Can anyone please tell me the official and most successful way to root my HTC Desire Z Android 2.3.3!?? Please, Had this phone for a year would love to know its full potential! = )

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Can anyone please tell me the official and most successful way to root my HTC Desire Z Android 2.3.3!?? Please, Had this phone for a year would love to know its full potential! = )

wrong forum section mate

 

[Bradden]

HI

I just wanted to check.. I rooted when I was running 2.2.2. I've installed a 2.3.7 ROM. Is there any benefit to me S-Off now?

 

[SUroot]

Only S-OFF if you identify a requirement to do so. You haven't so don't worry right now.

 

[Samsi]

I got one silly question. Is there possible to S-OFF a HTC Desire these days with:

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT 1.03.0003

My current ROM is modified: CM9-ICS.


If so, how? By downgrading HBOOT first?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

I got one silly question. Is there possible to S-OFF a HTC Desire these days with:

BRAVO PVT3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT 1.03.0003

My current ROM is modified: CM9-ICS.


If so, how? By downgrading HBOOT first?

ive not seen that hboot before, where is it from

 

[Hadron]

If you can downgrade the hboot that would work, but I've not seen anyone claiming to have succeeded. Feel free to try, but I fear it may be a case of wait and hope someone cracks this one.

Did you get this by trying the official bootloader unlock (which I think "upgrades" the hboot to this version)?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

If you can downgrade the hboot that would work, but I've not seen anyone claiming to have succeeded. Feel free to try, but I fear it may be a case of wait and hope someone cracks this one.

Did you get this by trying the official bootloader unlock (which I think "upgrades" the hboot to this version)?

i feared it could be that, but when i took it apart it looked like 1.04
hmm maybe it will let him flash hboot?
maybe if he flashed a froyo sense rom it will let him use teppics downgrader?

 

[Hadron]

Only place I've seen 1.03 is in discussions of the bootloader unlock, but I've also seen 1.04 mentioned in those. Didn't look too closely.

Samsi, if teppic's downgrader works could you let us know? This would be useful information.

 

[Samsi]

thanks for the reply guys =) i can confirm that hboot came from the official unlock tool provided by HTC. I kind of hate them now :/

I'll try to install an old rom and see where it leads me. I'll post back later.

 

[Hadron]

It's not the first time. When HTC released their gingerbread for the Desire it initially could not be rooted or S-Offed. In that case revolutionary came to the rescue, and maybe they will again, but who knows.

I think the advice is that when HTC offer something that we can already do in other ways, don't be in too much of a hurry to try their version . The Gingerbread update turned out to be rather useful to us, not because it's Gingerbread but because it offers a pretty universal "return to stock for warranty purposes" tool (as it works with many networks' handsets) and now can be rooted as well. The bootloader unlock seems to offer less than alpharev/revolutionary, and still voids the warranty if I've understood their slightly non-committal wording right, so at this moment I don't see any advantage to using it rather than revolutionary.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

we dont know if hes able to flash hboot from fastboot yet. we dont know what commands have been included as they havent disclosed it
if he can fastboot flash the alpharev stock hboot then its all good

EDIT: just to reiterate

flash a stock rooted 2.2 rom
the get teppics downgrader and see if it works. if it does it will take you to a 2.1 rom with an early hboot. you can then root with unrevoked and flash the a rom of choice (remember to update radio)
after that is done you can s-off with alpharev

 

[Hadron]

Discussion of the official bootloader unlock at XDA says that it won't let you flash hboot or radio. I'm assuming this information is correct, but yeah, I guess that the worst that happens if he tries to fastboot flash hboot is that it doesn't let him.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Discussion of the official bootloader unlock at XDA says that it won't let you flash hboot or radio. I'm assuming this information is correct, but yeah, I guess that the worst that happens if he tries to fastboot flash hboot is that it doesn't let him.

wheres these discussions? xda?

 

[Hadron]

Yeah, there's a discussion in the desire general forum here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439410. Someone in that thread was having a similar problem, though I didn't see teppic's tool mentioned.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Yeah, there's a discussion in the desire general forum here: [Official Unlocking Bootloader] HBOOT HTC Desire - xda-developers. Someone in that thread was having a similar problem, though I didn't see teppic's tool mentioned.

i reckon it would work
teppic mentioned it should work on most hboots as long as the rom was rooted.
the issues with the 2.3.3 RUU is that you couldnt downgrade the hboot as you couldnt achieve root

 

[SUroot]

i reckon it would work
teppic mentioned it should work on most hboots as long as the rom was rooted.
the issues with the 2.3.3 RUU is that you couldnt downgrade the hboot as you couldnt achieve root

Yep, this is what teppic said

 

[Samsi]

Teppics downgrader zip file seems to be corrupted or somethin'. Tried to find it in several webpages with no luck. How ever i managed to run an old RUU bravo version ([RUU][RADIO] Official shipping RUU's + Radio's in update.zip's [13/06/10] - HTCPedia.com forums) by flashing bravo_downgrader (AlphaRev 1.8).

I thought an old ruu version would downgrade the hboot version itself, but i didn't :/

Any further suggestions?

 

[Hadron]

Did you try Teppic's XDA thread? The link's there, and I'm trying to download version 2.3 to test - it's a slow download, but seems to be working.

Edit: Yes, the utility downloaded, and the md5 code checks out.

But I'm puzzled by the rest. If you succeeded in flashing the downgrader then that would be 1.03 gone, and the RUU would replace the downgrader. So presumably that flash failed, but if so how did you run the RUU at all? I think I must be missing something here.

 

[SUroot]

Maybe flashed the wrong RUU?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Did you try Teppic's XDA thread? The link's there, and I'm trying to download version 2.3 to test - it's a slow download, but seems to be working.

Edit: Yes, the utility downloaded, and the md5 code checks out.

But I'm puzzled by the rest. If you succeeded in flashing the downgrader then that would be 1.03 gone, and the RUU would replace the downgrader. So presumably that flash failed, but if so how did you run the RUU at all? I think I must be missing something here.

indeed.
when you flashed the downgrader did the hboot say alpharev at the top?

 

[somin]

Hi,

Now i am having S-Off HTC Desire Mobile.

I have stuck in step 6 (adding Custom Recover)

I

 

[Hadron]

Type the actual command from stage 6, "fastboot flash recovery", followed by the recovery image file name.

And if you were trying to get CWM from the toolbox thread the password is near the end of the thread (I assume you have erase size 20,000, or else you must use amon ra anyway).