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[Q] How to root a new Evo

Hi
I bought an Evo on Nov 23rd and need to root it for wifi tethering.
I have been researching on the net and found a gazillion sites, videos and links for it, but not sure which one is really applicable in my case.
Also, based on my research on this forum, I found the following thre links that might wor, but not sure which is really applicable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=787304
For your reference, the phone has HBOOT-2.02.0000 with S-on, Android version 2.2 and Software number 3.30.651.3.
Thanks

I was able to soft root my phone using z4root 1.3 (it has a permanent root option also). My wifi tethering app is installed but i am not able to connect to the network using it from my laptop.
I have an open question on the forum still on this so I am not sure this is the way to go but is an option.

Seems like z4root 1.3 does not work with HTC Evo.
See link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
Evo needs a NAND unlock
:-(

lazymish said:
Hi
I bought an Evo on Nov 23rd and need to root it for wifi tethering.
I have been researching on the net and found a gazillion sites, videos and links for it, but not sure which one is really applicable in my case.
Also, based on my research on this forum, I found the following thre links that might wor, but not sure which is really applicable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=787304
For your reference, the phone has HBOOT-2.02.0000 with S-on, Android version 2.2 and Software number 3.30.651.3.
Thanks
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Be very careful! I say that from experience. I have an Epic also that was super easy to root. But, I got the EVO the other day and have the same software as yours. Unrevoked root works with all EVO's except ours. And I bricked my EVO on a one-click method. Fortunetely it was so messed up that Sprint can't do anything with it except give me a new phone. I'm gonna leave root alone for awhile with this phone.

You can NOT root version 3.30, and you can NOT root using unrevoked3 if you are running Hboot 2.02
I mean you can root by going back to another version - but i couldnt even begin to tell you how to do all that...

JayStation3 said:
You can NOT root version 3.30, and you can NOT root using unrevoked3 if you are running Hboot 2.02
I mean you can root by going back to another version - but i couldnt even begin to tell you how to do all that...
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I found this link on xda forums for HBoot 2.02: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
Would this method work?
Let me know. If it doesn't, I might have to wait for some time to have some Android genius find out a way to root my Evo version.

The first post is the one you need.

HELP
I am having the same problem. I just picked up this phone today. I been rooting phones like my moment for a while. I am now use to the HTC and will appreciate the help. I would like to root this phone with recovery.. Any help would be great..
thanks...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=828437
check this one out - this one might work for you...

thank you.. I will wait till they come out with the all in one for this...

[Q] Rooting Evo with New Firmware

I know this has been asked a hundred times. Just wanna check on the best method for rooting with my software configuration.
Software #: 3.70.651.1
Hardware Version:.0003
I am pretty familiar with adb and rooting Heros via CMD so if I could use a method like that, it would be great. So in essence if its possible to RUU back to an older rom version to root that way, I would prefer.
Thanks.

the hboot version you have will determine which method you can use to root your phone...since you have a hardwear version 0003 and sfotware 3.70 i am assuming you have hboot 2.02 or 2.10
check your hboot to make sure by going into bootloader...
here is the guide for root with hboot 2.02 or 2.10 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
if you have a different hboot let me know and i will direct you to the proper thread to root

firmware too new?
I am trying to root my EVO 4G HBoot 2.16.0001 and after running unrevoked I keep getting a message "firmware too new". I've already done the factory reset and it hasn't helped. Any ideas?

aviwas said:
I am trying to root my EVO 4G HBoot 2.16.0001 and after running unrevoked I keep getting a message "firmware too new". I've already done the factory reset and it hasn't helped. Any ideas?
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omg not again.... facepalm
YOU CANNOT ROOT THE NEWEST OTA! There are over 60 threads about this, if you would have taken 10 seconds to look, you would have found your answer. And FYI, you dont need to revive an 8 month old thread...

aviwas said:
I am trying to root my EVO 4G HBoot 2.16.0001 and after running unrevoked I keep getting a message "firmware too new". I've already done the factory reset and it hasn't helped. Any ideas?
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Get in line like everyone else with 4.22 or 4.24 waiting for a new root method.

aviwas said:
I am trying to root my EVO 4G HBoot 2.16.0001 and after running unrevoked I keep getting a message "firmware too new". I've already done the factory reset and it hasn't helped. Any ideas?
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As everyone else has said, you will have to wait until a developer or person in general finds out a way to root the latest firmware. No root method for now, though there is a temp root method in the Android Development forum for the HTC EVO 4G

sitlet said:
omg not again.... facepalm
YOU CANNOT ROOT THE NEWEST OTA! There are over 60 threads about this, if you would have taken 10 seconds to look, you would have found your answer. And FYI, you dont need to revive an 8 month old thread...
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Atleast it looks like he searched. People like you ruin xda. Most of us members were just like him but when people like you talk that way, it turns the new members away
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I'm usually a patient person, but, even, I am getting a little annoyed by all the (what seems obvious to us) questions about rooting hboot 2.16 and gingerbread.

Crossrocker said:
Atleast it looks like he searched. People like you ruin xda. Most of us members were just like him but when people like you talk that way, it turns the new members away
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I'm interested into the research that you did that brings you to this conclusion. Or is it just an opinion? Because, in my opinion, people like you ruin xda. See how easy that is?

Children!
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github said:
I'm interested into the research that you did that brings you to this conclusion. Or is it just an opinion? Because, in my opinion, people like you ruin xda. See how easy that is?
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He's got a good point..

github said:
I'm interested into the research that you did that brings you to this conclusion. Or is it just an opinion? Because, in my opinion, people like you ruin xda. See how easy that is?
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All I'm saying is that instead of being intimidating, be kind. He brought up an old thread about rooting new firmware(maybe he searched using tapatalk?). If he would have made a new thread in dev section then a little flaming is pretty much required
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Atleast it looks like he searched. People like you ruin xda. Most of us members were just like him but when people like you talk that way, it turns the new members away
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Well IMO people like YOU ruin xda.
And no, he didn't do a search. If he did, he would have found the 60 or so threads that answered his question. And if for some reason he didn't find his answer, he didn't need to revive an 8 month old thread that has nothing to do with his question.

samah said:
As everyone else has said, you will have to wait until a developer or person in general finds out a way to root the latest firmware. No root method for now, though there is a temp root method in the Android Development forum for the HTC EVO 4G
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Wait... WHAT???

samah said:
No root method for now, though there is a temp root method in the Android Development forum for the HTC EVO 4G
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No there isn't.

Sounds like now might be a really good time to sell my evo.....
If anyone is interested, shoot new
A pm.
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[Q] Help!!! I Think My Evo 4G Is Bricked!!!

Okay so i rooted my evo using unrevoked 3 everything went fine my phone was doing awesome... but then i get the smart (stupid) idea after watching a video to root with simple root and then use the amen_ra recovery image...guy in the video said it was better cuz clockworkmod didn't really wipe everything (i had clockworkmod) so i reroot my evo using simple root, when it was updating to things failed the radio update and something else...and when it reboots i get stuck on the start up screen...the hTc EVO 4G white screen... i checked my sd card and on a clockworkmod folder a have a backup in there which is the one that was working great before simple root... but i get to the recovery when i select recovery on the bootloader it gets stuck on the screen with a phone and an x on it and nothing pops up....
PLEASE HELP!!!! I'VE ONLY HAD THIS PHONE FOR A WEEK AND A COUPLE OF DAYS!!! I LOVE THIS PHONE AND REALLY NEED IT TO WORK FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCIES FOR MY SON!!!!
PLEASE HELP AND THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!!

Google PC36IMG 3.70, put it on your sd card somehow, and restart in bootloader. You should be back to stock.

thanks a lot man... but i ended up doing the fastboot and connecting my phone to the computer and then using the ruu utility for the htc supersonic and it worked but bow im back to all stock brand new.... thanks a lot for your help though...

eliudromo23 said:
thanks a lot man... but i ended up doing the fastboot and connecting my phone to the computer and then using the ruu utility for the htc supersonic and it worked but bow im back to all stock brand new.... thanks a lot for your help though...
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And now the rooting adventure starts fresh. For future note, you can change what recovery you use through Rom Manager.

eliudromo23 said:
Hi i was wondering if you can help me out with a big problem that i have... can you check out this thread i posted please....
thank you in advance....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=964175
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So you are back to stock? If you want to root again try the following:
Use Unrevoked
http://www.unrevoked.com/#evo
Easiest method. Make sure you have 30% battery when attempting anything with your Evo.
You can also use the Autoroot method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
Here is a video tutorial on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z6gtrxwTQk
Once you are rooted, I suggest you use MikFroyo or Myn's Warm 2.2 ROMs. Follow the instructions on their respective threads. They are both very stable and very fast and have a lot of nice things in them so you can be available for emergency calls.
Once you are back up and running, if you have any other questions feel free to PM. Tried to reply back to you but you aren't accepting PMs.

sekigah84 said:
Once you are rooted, I suggest you use MikFroyo or Myn's Warm 2.2 ROMs.
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Good info sekigah84 and +1 on Mikfroyo and Warm, even though I'm partial to Mik. Click below in my sig to jump directly to MikFroyo. Good luck!

eliudromo23; said:
then i get the smart (stupid) idea after watching a video to root with simple root and then use the amen_ra recovery image... so i reroot my evo using simple root,
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This is what you did wrong.
There are many ways to flash an alternate recovery, and that isn't one of them...

last time I tried simple root was on a friends evo, that bricked his device also... so now Im sticking to unrevoked.

Thanks a lot everybody for your help... so I ended up rooting with unrevoked using the clockworkmod recovery... and I'm using the fresh Evo Rom... and personally I love this Rom its modern and simple... I love it....but I will try mikfroyo and warm 2.2... and I'd I'm not accepting pm is because I think my settings are set to only receive pms from friends so if any want to add please do so... I am currently reading the c programming language and a java book... I will hopefully be cooking soon....
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[Q] Please HELP gain root!!

I have a US Cellular Desire that has been updated to 2.2. This phone has never been rooted. I would like to root it now but I guess there is no way to root a 2.2 that wasn't rooted with 2.1... yet anyways. Can someone help?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044
Thats the way to go

Thanks... I have seen that. Unfortunately that doesn't work for the US Cellular Desire that wasn't rooted when it was running 2.1. There are many of us that are in this situation... we updated to 2.2 and now want to root but are unable to.

thijsken said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044
Thats the way to go
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Well, I guess I should ask because someone may know something I dont... is there anyone with a US Cellular Desire who has successfully rooted, using the above method, a 2.2 that did NOT have root with 2.1?

I am in the same boat. It would be awesome to have S-ON also when S-OFF is available. S-ON was never available on the CDMA version of the Desire.

Anyone?? Can anyone help??

I am having the same problem, have looked everywhere and can't find anything.
PLEASE HELP!!!

Same situation here. Need to root my Lady's phone But I upgraded to 2.2 for her before rooting. Tried UnrevoKed to no Avail.. Gold card crap seems like a lot of work and may not work for this. Anyone that could throw us A bone would be GOD!!

P.S.
Anyone that could do a Desire HD Rom Port to Desire CDMA would be Titts!! Thanx in advance!

I am in the same boat as everyone else, can anybody help? When we updated to 2.2 it gave us hboot 1.06 and nothing seems to root that. I'd even be willing to do a gold card to downgrade, but I don't know if that works on CDMA phones. Can't find anything that says one way or the other, does anyone know for sure? Thanks in advance!

Ditto here too. I just want to uninstall all the bloat ware and permanently fix the audio issue with Rhapsody. I could care less about doing the s-off fix, and I would unroot it as soon as I uninstalled all the crap on it. I was going to do the gold card downgrade but it says it won't work on CDMA phones. Ugghhh...

Yeah me to PLEASE!!. THX _Tom

Anyone!????????

Really? 320 views so far and there isn't one person on this forum that is capable of helping us with this?

I am not sure there is much love for cdma phones on only the us cellular network. I hope someone can help us out. I am willing to help anyway I can.

Couldn't you just find a stock img and flash that from fastboot?
Or a stock nbh?
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Not with S-ON
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I wish I knew how to do this myself. Does anyone know how I can contact the people at Unrevoked?

trmason said:
I wish I knew how to do this myself. Does anyone know how I can contact the people at Unrevoked?
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The only luck I have ever had was on the unrevokedtest channel via http://webchat.freenode.net/ Maybe if a bunch of us start asking about it we can get somewhere.

Unrevoked has been pretty unhelpful on this. It says on the IRC chat not to ask about anything with hboot 1.xx I don't know if maybe their particular hack doesn't work on these newer versions or what.

[Q] revert back to 2.2

got my htc evo 4g and came with gngrbd 2.3 I have s-on can someone please give me a detailed description on how to revert to 2.2 or throw me a link.
thank you!

You can't the new hboot won't allow downgrading and ps put in Q and A nexttime
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you have to download hboot, nv, pri, wimax flash them one at a time. than install a 2.2 rom

enigma7820 said:
you have to download hboot, nv, pri, wimax flash them one at a time. than install a 2.2 rom
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Wrong. You can't flash back from 2.3.3 & S-ON at this time. Don't spread false information.
OP: Please search next time. Wrong forum, and question has been answered numerous numerous times.
Flame on.
HTC EVO: The new budget device.

github said:
Wrong. You can't flash back from 2.3.3 & S-ON at this time. Don't spread false information.
OP: Please search next time. Wrong forum, and question has been answered numerous numerous times.
Flame on.
HTC EVO: The new budget device.
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You called the hell out of it git. I'm leaving this forum in two weeks. Thank god.
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evo with s-off
I have been able to get my evo with gingerbread and s-off below are the pics for any non-believers. yes I am new to this but willing to assist however possible even if I need to ship off my phone to get everyone a working root.

ry8785 said:
I have been able to get my evo with gingerbread and s-off below are the pics for any non-believers. yes I am new to this but willing to assist however possible even if I need to ship off my phone to get everyone a working root.
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How did you do it?

I had it rooted and had problems with a rom so I flashed a factory rom back on it and it updated to the GB OTA but I never turned the s-on. Of course that was before I knew we couldn't get a working root. I have tried everything possible I can think of to get it rooted again. This is why I said if need be I would send to a dev to see what they can do with it since it does have s-off.

thats cool. From what i've read today they are super close

1ShEiTaN1 said:
thats cool. From what i've read today they are super close
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Where did you read this info?

a couple threads on xda and a couple twitter feeds-something about achieving a temp root (dont know too much about that)

ry8785 said:
I have been able to get my evo with gingerbread and s-off below are the pics for any non-believers. yes I am new to this but willing to assist however possible even if I need to ship off my phone to get everyone a working root.
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No one is going to argue you on this one. There are countless threads of people being s-off. So long as they rooted at some point.

ry8785 said:
I have been able to get my evo with gingerbread and s-off below are the pics for any non-believers. yes I am new to this but willing to assist however possible even if I need to ship off my phone to get everyone a working root.
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That's like bragging that I can get into my apartment. Sure, I have a key to the door, which helps.
If you were S-OFF before GB, there's no problem. If you weren't S-OFF and you updated, there's no solution yet.