Originally Posted by ziggy1001

So above "HBOOT 0.93.0001" it doesn't say Bravo PVT* SHIP S-OFF and above that in pink AlphaRev CM7

No, I'm Stuck with it saying AlphaRev Sense... and I do the PB99IMG.zip flash (of the CM7 one from the apharev website)...and it flashes text for about a quarter of a second, and ...well I thought that was it. But now, it's simply not working...this is what it says:

"AlphaRev Sense" (in pink)
"Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-OFF"
"HBOOT-0.93.1000"
"MICORP-031d"
"TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101"
"RADIO-5.11.05.27"
"Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18"

worryingly, i've now tried the sotck HBOOT version of the ROM, and it too doesnt work
can I have done something wrong during S-OFF procedure? I am willing to offer a tasty paypal donation to any problem solving ideas! (the phone needs to work by 7am...or I'm dead...lol)

after 7 months of using ny htc desire and amazed withit and flashed over 200 ROMs
i still don't know what is dalvik cache and what does it do
and i also want to know if a swap partition would increase performance
thx in advance

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Originally Posted by Drag-On

No, I'm Stuck with it saying AlphaRev Sense... and I do the PB99IMG.zip flash (of the CM7 one from the apharev website)...and it flashes text for about a quarter of a second, and ...well I thought that was it. But now, it's simply not working...this is what it says:

"AlphaRev Sense" (in pink)
"Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-OFF"
"HBOOT-0.93.1000"
"MICORP-031d"
"TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101"
"RADIO-5.11.05.27"
"Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18"

worryingly, i've now tried the sotck HBOOT version of the ROM, and it too doesnt work
can I have done something wrong during S-OFF procedure? I am willing to offer a tasty paypal donation to any problem solving ideas! (the phone needs to work by 7am...or I'm dead...lol)

you dont have the stock hboot neither the cm7 hboot
you have to flash either from alpharev.nl and i recommend the fastboot method

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Originally Posted by ali_loly10

you dont have the stock hboot neither the cm7 hboot
you have to flash either from alpharev.nl and i recommend the fastboot method

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I am really trying! lol...I used the CM7 zip update method and that seems to have failed... my problem with the fastboot method is, I dont really understand, from the alpharev website, what (or where) I am supposed to do/place the .IMG file?
on the phone as well?

Android Flasher
Have a look at this nice easy GUI program to flash hboots (download the CM7 bravo_alphaspl-cm7.img from alpharev and MD5 check)
Phone must be in fastboot mode it will say "Fastboot USB" in that menu if you have the right divers installed. If you are on Win7 or Vista use attached drivers

Originally Posted by Drag-On

I am really trying! lol...I used the CM7 zip update method and that seems to have failed... my problem with the fastboot method is, I dont really understand, from the alpharev website, what (or where) I am supposed to do/place the .IMG file?
on the phone as well?

download the cm7 image file, place the file into the same folder as the fastboot command on your pc. boot phone into fastboot. open a command prompt and cd to the tools folder where the fastboot command should be and type fastboot flash hboot (then the name of the cm7 image file including the .img press enter.

or as he says above

Originally Posted by ali_loly10

i still don't know what is Dalvik cache and what does it do

Learn how Java language work, understand what is the bytecode and when does a Java program compiles and you will understand the purpose of Dalvik.

A java program is composed of (many) classes and ressources, etc...
Classes files are in Java sourcecode format (.java in .jar packages)

In order to run on a processor it must become binary, so the java source code must be compiled.

The binary code (ByteCode) resulting from compilation is independent from the processor architecture.

Then it runs in a virtual machine, that's the role of JavaVirtualMachine (the one about 25MB you download from oracle.com) or here the Dalvik's one.

A java program will always run on a device where a recent JVM is available, just as .NET C# with MS .Net Framework.

It would be silly to compile it each time you run a APK, so the Dalvik cache stores ByteCode, moreover it makes complex adjustments http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=pla...t.html;hb=HEAD

Finally the ByteCode is converted in an .dex Dalvik EXecutable and run.

That's why when you first launch an app it can take long time to start.

PS: I'm not a developer so don't hesitate to correct this short explanation

Originally Posted by ziggy1001

Android Flasher
Have a look at this nice easy GUI program to flash hboots (download the CM7 bravo_alphaspl-cm7.img from alpharev and MD5 check)
Phone must be in fastboot mode it will say "Fastboot USB" in that menu if you have the right divers installed. If you are on Win7 or Vista use attached drivers

Thank you for that. a GUI makes things so much easier for noobs like me!

However, although I managed to get my HBOOT to be CM7 with your help, the installation of the ROM seems to still be taking an awful long time (although this time, at least, I've heard it restart (vibrate) a few times at least...) been 10 minutes now.... is this right? could the fact that my ext3 partition isnt 1gb but something like 800mb have something to do with this??

again, to all who have (and hopefully still will) help: THANK YOU!

Originally Posted by randomelements

Just flashed the compass kernel patch and it works like a charm after recalibrating

/me = Happy Camper!

+1

(now where's the nearest wilderness to test it....)

Rom reboots 3 times on first boot for darktremor script 800Mb is fine, i have used 500Mb (fat32 folowed by ext) Sadly if it doesn't boot then complete wipe is best including wiping, reformatting sd-card preferably with G-parted rather than a recovery program