[Q] Help with S-Off

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OK, I know I am lining up for a flaming here, but I need some help. I have done as much searching and reading as I can handle and am even more confused.

I have dl'd and burnt alpharev.iso to disc and booted from it. I connect phone when I read "Waiting for your device" and then proceed.

Step 1 of pushing necessary files completes, then I get "waiting for bootloader...OK!". Once phone has booted (twice...??), I get the following-

hub2-0:0-1 unable to enumerate device on port(x)

Then "preparing for H-Boot flash...Done!" and back to bootloader. Then step 3, and reboot (twice) followed by same error report as above.

Finally, I see lines of

/home/htc/alpharev.sh:line331:[:-enq:unary operator expected

Then phone reboots into ROM.

Looking at HBoot, I still see S-On and clearly the phone is not bricked...thankfully. I think I am getting an error thru my USB port, but changing to different ports just gives me a different number at (x) in the error report, with the same end result...

Any help would be great. Cheers.

Sometimes, when you try S-Off.... you will always see S-on in the menu. Sometimes it doesn't mean anything. Alpha Rev, if I remember from the old days, only changes the Bootloader.

But, if you saw the Heath Ledger Joker when you boot after Alpha Rev, you are S-Off.

With other programs, you need to try and replace the spash1 for example, through adb, to know if you have S-Off.

Ohhhhh somebody correct me if I'm wrong...

Thanks for the reply... I got no Joker at the end, which is why I was pretty sure the process hadn't worked...

Will try again today. Maybe with a different method...

I had exactly the same issue (I had SuperNova rom installed with Data2SD) i had then installed the new Oxygen 2.1 (no Apps2SD/Data2SD this time though) and gave it a try again on the off chance.

This time it worked a treat

(might be a conincidence, but it worked for me )

Originally Posted by Daemonic79

I had exactly the same issue (I had SuperNova rom installed with Data2SD) i had then installed the new Oxygen 2.1 (no Apps2SD/Data2SD this time though) and gave it a try again on the off chance.

This time it worked a treat

(might be a conincidence, but it worked for me )

I had a different issue when trying to s-off - the utility wouldn't recognise my device on rooted stock rom after I created a goldcard - I too flashed oxygen and it worked first time!!
Maybe a thought. You can switch back to whatever other rom after you s-off.

Originally Posted by Daemonic79

I had exactly the same issue (I had SuperNova rom installed with Data2SD) i had then installed the new Oxygen 2.1 (no Apps2SD/Data2SD this time though) and gave it a try again on the off chance.

This time it worked a treat

(might be a conincidence, but it worked for me )

No coincidence. You will always have trouble on a Sense based ROM using AlphaRev. I think it has something to do with the relationship between the stock HBOOT and the boot.img on the \boot partition of the phone (but I am not sure about that)

One thing I can tell you for sure is that if you flash to any AOSP ROM (CyanogenMod, Oxygen etc) then do the AlphaRev S-OFF process and you will have success.

Happy S-OFFING!

Originally Posted by Daemonic79

I had exactly the same issue (I had SuperNova rom installed with Data2SD) i had then installed the new Oxygen 2.1 (no Apps2SD/Data2SD this time though) and gave it a try again on the off chance.

This time it worked a treat

(might be a conincidence, but it worked for me )

It's not a coincidence.. It's mentioned on the supernova and starburst site on the list of faqs under ' how to s off while running data2sd'

It's also mentioned on the alpharev site

Originally Posted by jimmytheflea

No coincidence. You will always have trouble on a Sense based ROM using AlphaRev. I think it has something to do with the relationship between the stock HBOOT and the boot.img on the \boot partition of the phone (but I am not sure about that)

One thing I can tell you for sure is that if you flash to any AOSP ROM (CyanogenMod, Oxygen etc) then do the AlphaRev S-OFF process and you will have success.

Happy S-OFFING!

It's not a sense issue as such, but of those roms which use a2sd+/data2sd

Swyped with my Starburst based Desire. Please ignore any typos or grammos.

Swyped with my Starburst based Desire. Please ignore any typos or grammos.

droidzone is right. Just flash stock rooted rom and then try to s-off. I bet it'll work. Had same problem as you.

gonna try a stock ROM or Cyanogen before trying S-off again...thanks guys

Awesome, thanks for contributions folks!

My PC is in for repair atm, but will try flash one of the AOSP ROMs soon and have another go.

Cheers