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A few questions before first root attempt

Ok, going to follow the SimpleRoot OTA 1.47 how-to, but I have a few questions first.
How do I back up things like my Contacts?
What the latest "radio" and how do I check and get the newest?
How do I wipe caches? Or will the SimpleRoot guide tell me?
Any ROM recommendations? I was thinking of just trying Fresh.
Do I need to do any adb setup prior to starting?
I have been reading through the guides, but there is SO much info here, it takes too long to get through it all. Plus, I'm not even sure of all the questions I need to ask!
Thanks in advance for any and all help!

1. Use Titanium Backup. It will back up whatever you want, I backed up EVERYTHING (apps + system data) and it brought back all my settings, texts, even my scenes. I had to use Unrevoked on my 1.32.651.6 stock build to install TB, followed TheBiles "Idiot-Proof" guide for that part.
2. The radio is the baseband. I actually never flashed mine, and I haven't had issues, but I don't use 4g so I wouldn't know how that works. There are links to a few radios here, but otherwise check the thread or webpage for the custom ROM you want to flash and it might link to the recommended radio.
3. Wiping caches is done through recovery (Amon RA, Clockwork, or using ROM Manager from within a rooted ROM). You do it right before you flash the custom ROM. SimpleRoot will just root the phone, then you'll want to install ROM Manager and use that flash your preferred recovery (that's a whole separate debate).
4. I've been reading up a lot in the last day or two, and Fresh seems to be very popular. I'm using it right now, no problems so far! I've used DC, I had a couple of issues, CM6 is cool but still changing all the time. Go with Fresh at least to get your feet wet. Follow the guide that flipz provides in his Fresh thread.
5. I didn't use SimpleRoot, I rooted manually using ADB. If you're comfortable with using a terminal/command line (or at least typing and following directions) ADB might be a good idea. But if SR gives you a full-root, you don't need ADB at all. It's basically just a telnet connection to your phone.
Hey, whatdya know? I answered them all! There may be better answers, but I think this is all correct. PM me if you need more help, or I'll subscribe to this thread for a few days. I'm new but I'm learning fast and I LOVE this stuff!
Also, here's a good portal for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709267

Titanium backup works great for most things but you have to be rooted to use it. Your contacts should be backed up directly to your google account if you have done it correctly. When you add a contact to your phone it will ask if you want to add it to google or as a "phone" contact. Make sure you save it as a google contact. Or you can go to your google account on your computer and sync all your contacts. I used SimpleRoot to get my phone started and then I went through this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715915
That is where I started with everything.....fully unlocked and stock rooted with the newest radio. I also used Amon recovery from SimpleRoot instead of Clockwork. SR will clear all your cache, factory data, etc. Im running Damage Control ROM right now and love it. But it's fun to get your phone rooted and then just start using root apps and go from there. Oh, and the best thing for me about using SR and then going through the next thread I posted is that you dont have to use ADB. ADB is pretty simple but the SR + thread process took me about 25min.

Yeah, on that note, it's super-easy to just make a Nandroid or Clockwork backup of your flash, then flash something else to try it out. If you want to go back, just restore the backup and you're right where you were before.
And, of course, backing up contacts on Google is easier.

Running through the SimpleRoot and it got to Starting Part 2... and it's just hanging out doing nothing, been that way for a few minutes now. I didn't copy the PC36IMG file to the SD card, was I supposed to?
Will it bork anything if I disconnect, switch back to Disk Drive as the connection type and drop the file on the SD card? Do I need to do that? Am I retarded?

Not sure as I went through toast's manual method, but it shouldn't do any damage to start over. If Android is still running, I think the system will still be intact.

Well, I think I figured it out, sort of. I never got prompted to reboot into the bootloader until I disconnected the phone. Once I did that, it told me what to do. But, when I installed the update, the bootloader gave me this message: Main version is older, update fail!
Do I need to use the PC36IMG file for 1.47 now? SimpleRoot did push the PC36IMG file to the phone, btw.

ElectricWraith said:
Well, I think I figured it out, sort of. I never got prompted to reboot into the bootloader until I disconnected the phone. Once I did that, it told me what to do. But, when I installed the update, the bootloader gave me this message: Main version is older, update fail!
Do I need to use the PC36IMG file for 1.47 now? SimpleRoot did push the PC36IMG file to the phone, btw.
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i had the same issue, you need to make sure all the steps are complete before you go into step 4 and boot into bootloader...so make sure after pushing the files you finish step 2 and 4...it worked for me...my pc kept hanging on some steps so i tried it on a different pc and it went throught perfectly the first time around.

Uhh, starting to get a little worried here. I deleted the PCIMG36.zip file per the "Starting Over..." thread, and copied the su-2.1 file on to the SD card. Rebooted into bootloader, selected Recovery per the instructions, now I have a red triangle with and exclamation point and an unresponsive phone!

ElectricWraith said:
Uhh, starting to get a little worried here. I deleted the PCIMG36.zip file per the "Starting Over..." thread, and copied the su-2.1 file on to the SD card. Rebooted into bootloader, selected Recovery per the instructions, now I have a red triangle with and exclamation point and an unresponsive phone!
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you're fine that's just telling you that you're in recovery mode follow the steps....it should tell you to run a command in you're command prompt which will get you into recovery and then you backup nand, wipe, and load image from sd card

Ah, OK. I pulled the battery and it came back to life. Didn't see anything in that thread about commands, but I will read it again.

just boot your phone holding power and volume up button and then when you see the white screen go down to recovery and press the power button...now you should be in recovery mode from there just follow instructions. you should backup nand, wipe cache and wipe data, and install rom from sd card.

That's the problem, following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715915, I don't get any instructions for the recovery portion that match what I actually get on the phone. I don't get the different menu so I don't get a chance to flash from the su-2.1 file.
Arrrgh! Here's what I did:
Replaced the PCIMG36.zip file that was in the SimpleRootOTA folder that I downloaded with the PC36IMG-1.47.651.1_eng-hboot_RA-1.7.0.1.zip file (renamed to PCIMG36.zip)
Ran SimpleRootOTA, followed all instructions
When I got to the place in Step 4 where I was supposed to be prompted to install the update at the bootloader, it didn't happen. I assume that this was due to the fact that I had already applied that update
I unplugged, looked in the root of the SD card, found that the PCIMG36.zip file had not been pushed.
I copied the file on to the SD card, rebooted into the bootloader, let it scan the PCIMG36.zip file and apply the update, then rebooted.
So, that's where it sits now. I'm out of time and can't do anything more with it, so I just re-installed MyBackup and am restoring apps and data.
Any ideas as to what I should do next?

Hopefully you are just transposing numbers in your post? According to the thread you linked, the name of file should be PC36IMG.zip....you are writing PCIMG36.zip....those are very different.
edit...and if you are getting stuck at step 4...that sounds like what you did.

youngdhillon said:
just boot your phone holding power and volume up button .
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volume DOWN button
2. Power off your phone.
3. Hold down the Volume Down and Power buttons until the white screen appears.
4. HBOOT will scan the PC36IMG.zip file. You'll see a blue progress bar on the right side of the screen.
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ElectricWraith said:
That's the problem, following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715915, I don't get any instructions for the recovery portion that match what I actually get on the phone. I don't get the different menu so I don't get a chance to flash from the su-2.1 file.
Arrrgh! Here's what I did:
Replaced the PCIMG36.zip file that was in the SimpleRootOTA folder that I downloaded with the PC36IMG-1.47.651.1_eng-hboot_RA-1.7.0.1.zip file (renamed to PCIMG36.zip)
Ran SimpleRootOTA, followed all instructions
When I got to the place in Step 4 where I was supposed to be prompted to install the update at the bootloader, it didn't happen. I assume that this was due to the fact that I had already applied that update
I unplugged, looked in the root of the SD card, found that the PCIMG36.zip file had not been pushed.
I copied the file on to the SD card, rebooted into the bootloader, let it scan the PCIMG36.zip file and apply the update, then rebooted.
So, that's where it sits now. I'm out of time and can't do anything more with it, so I just re-installed MyBackup and am restoring apps and data.
Any ideas as to what I should do next?
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ok if you has updated without any errors and you're rooted...
1)turn off your phone power it back on holding the volume down button and power button at the same time
2)when you see the white screen with HBoot menu scroll down using volume down button, highlight recovery and press power button.
3)you should now see a different menu (black&green) you are now in recovery from here:
4)select backup nand it will ask you to confirm hit power button and wait till it backs up you're nand
5)go down to wipe data...highlight wipe data hit power, confirm
6)wipe cache...confirm
7)load rom from sd card (you should have the su-2.1 in you're sd card) it will let you choose, choose su-2.1 hit power, confirm and let it finish.
you're done wait for the phone to reboot into you're new rom

sablesurfer said:
volume DOWN button
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oops sorry about that, volume down

Yes, I was just transposing digits, DERP.
I will try again later. Thanks for all the help!

Well, I just booted into the bootloader, it scanned the PC36IMG.zip file, but didn't do anything else but put me back at the bootlader menu. I selected Recovery, hit the power button, then black screen with image of phone and red triangle w/exclamation point.
No idea what's wrong or what to do now except pull the battery.

ElectricWraith said:
Well, I just booted into the bootloader, it scanned the PC36IMG.zip file, but didn't do anything else but put me back at the bootlader menu. I selected Recovery, hit the power button, then black screen with image of phone and red triangle w/exclamation point.
No idea what's wrong or what to do now except pull the battery.
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I remember this problem and I'm trying to remember what I had to do. It seems like after it scanned the PC36IMG.zip it asked if I wanted to scan and I had to say "no" and then after that I could boot in to recovery. I remember it being some dumb little mistake that I made like 2 times in a row and then had a "d'oh" moment when I realized why I kept getting the red triangle. Man, I'm gonna try to remember this and post later. Hopefully you get it though.

Cannot get in Recovery Screen

Ok, so I had rooted my phone and was attempting to install a custom ROM when I accidentally put the wrong PC36IMG.zip file to my sd card. When it went to HBOOT and asked to update I said yes. It did not update and this is what I get Radio V2- Fail, System- Fail, and WIMax- Fail. When I try to reboot it comes up to the HTC EVO 4G white screen and it stays there. Doesn't do anything. Tried to reload the corret PC36IMG file but I still get the same error. I've been reading through the forum and cannot find find anything that describes my problem. I've tried different solutions but my problem is that I cannot get tomy sdcard and the computer will not recognize my Evo as a drive. I also tried getting to the Recovery screen but it doesn't bring it up. When I select Recovery it goes to the white HTC EVO 4G and it stays there. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Laurido92 said:
Ok, so I had rooted my phone and was attempting to install a custom ROM when I accidentally put the wrong PC36IMG.zip file to my sd card. When it went to HBOOT and asked to update I said yes. It did not update and this is what I get Radio V2- Fail, System- Fail, and WIMax- Fail. When I try to reboot it comes up to the HTC EVO 4G white screen and it stays there. Doesn't do anything. Tried to reload the corret PC36IMG file but I still get the same error. I've been reading through the forum and cannot find find anything that describes my problem. I've tried different solutions but my problem is that I cannot get tomy sdcard and the computer will not recognize my Evo as a drive. I also tried getting to the Recovery screen but it doesn't bring it up. When I select Recovery it goes to the white HTC EVO 4G and it stays there. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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What recovery u useing?
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I really can't tell you. I have no idea. I'm new at this rooting thing so I don't know. How can I find out?
BTW sorry if I posted this in the wrong section.

do you have rom manager on your phone? are you currently rooted?

I thought I was but I cannot do anything or get to any screen thoer than the HBOOT, BOOTLOADER, and HBOOT USB screens. I cannot access the sdcard. I'm pretty much stuck on that white screen. Tried ADB commands but it says no device, or device not recognized. What are my options? Go to Sprint and get a new one? Please help!!!

Try selecting HBOOT USB and push a recovery image through adb commands. Look at Toast's guide "How to Root" in the development forums. Since you can still get to the bootloader screen, you are not bricked. But since you do not have a custom recovery, you will have do a little adb.
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I beleive I have the Amon RA recovery but don't know how to get to it. I will give it a try and see what happens.
Thanks

Can you be a little more specific. I'm trying to do an adb push and it's telling me device not found. Am I doing somthing wrong?

Laurido92 said:
Can you be a little more specific. I'm trying to do an adb push and it's telling me device not found. Am I doing somthing wrong?
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Did you select hboot usb in the bootloader screen? This should allow communication with your PC. If not, you will have to pull the sdcard out of your phone and insert it into a card reader and then copy over a good PC36img.zip file. Then put it back into your phone and press vol dn + power to boot into the bootloader. It should then recognize the .zip file you just loaded and ask you for an update. Press vol up to select yes.
Then go to Amon_RA's thread in the dev forum and follow his instructions on installing his recovery.
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I tried the card reader in my laptop and my pc and neither will recognize the card. I'm going to try my wife's netbook and see if it reads it.
Thanks

wont recognize it... sounds like a bad card or bad microsd to sd adapter
just follow what the others have stated
boot to bootloader, choose hboot usb
your computer will show you the screen like you inserted a sdcard and ask if you want to browse it
do it! and delete the bad file.
then while you are there format the drive in my computer and see what happens.
if nothing,, see my other recomendation.
preferred method ( ??? )
boot to bootloader screen
fastboot will be highlighted, hit the power button, you are now in fastboot mode
then use adb to flash the amon ra 1.8 recovery.
(you can also try "clear storage" but i have never done this so do not know if it only clears sdcard)
just look for that thread in the dev. section and folow the instructions to a T on how to install amon ra 1.8
i made a possible flawed assumption above.
amon ra 1.8 can be flashed using fastboot, i did not do mine that way and assumed it means boot into bootlaoder and choose fastboot, then flash using adb.
if that is incorrect, i apologize.
lastly have you tried pulling the battery.

Ok, here's the latest update. I used my wife's netbook and it read the card. I removed the bad PC36IMG and replaced with a good one. Rebooted to the bootloader menu, updated the PCC36IMG and everything is good.
Thanks to all that helped and recommended different slutions. I really appreciate it.

Need Help Unrooting. S-ON already done but now Says Aborted?

Quick Back story I went to Florida on vacation and while at movies It fell 2 feet from the cup holder and the touch screen wasnt fully functional only parts of the screen so I knew I have to take it to sprint to get it repaired. So I backed up my contacts and apps/data.
Then I tried taking out the battery a couple of times but nothing it would just stay loading on the HTC Evo Screen I left it, 1 hr later came back still the same. Loading.
I cleared the dalvik cache and cache. then clear storage on the device still nothing So came online read how to turn on the S-ON did so by flashing the "unrevoked-forever-son.zip" It rebooted but never came fully on so after 5 mins took out battery checked it and was now with S-ON.
Now I have to remove the clockwork mod Ive tried flashing the "PC36IMG.zip" through the choose zip option it says aborted and it is in the main directory of my sd card.
Any help would be appreciated.
R.Soul

RhythmaticSoul said:
Quick Back story I went to Florida on vacation and while at movies It fell 2 feet from the cup holder and the touch screen wasnt fully functional only parts of the screen so I knew I have to take it to sprint to get it repaired. So I backed up my contacts and apps/data.
Then I tried taking out the battery a couple of times but nothing it would just stay loading on the HTC Evo Screen I left it, 1 hr later came back still the same. Loading.
I cleared the dalvik cache and cache. then clear storage on the device still nothing So came online read how to turn on the S-ON did so by flashing the "unrevoked-forever-son.zip" It rebooted but never came fully on so after 5 mins took out battery checked it and was now with S-ON.
Now I have to remove the clockwork mod Ive tried flashing the "PC36IMG.zip" through the choose zip option it says aborted and it is in the main directory of my sd card.
Any help would be appreciated.
R.Soul
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If your flashing a PC36IMG.zip file you have to flash it through.the bootloader not via recovery
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Download the newest 4.54 pc36img. Boot into bootloader and apply.
Support TrevE !!

I havent done much flashing of roms for about 7 months since I found Synergy and loved it. So I need a little refreshing on what you mean by using the bootloader.
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The way Im trying to do this is by:
--> Volume Down + Power
--> Recovery
Loads ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.0.5
--> Instal zip from sdcard
--> Choose zip from sdcard
I then select
--> PC36IMG.zip
--> YES
It then reads:
-- Installing: /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Installation Aborted.
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I tried also doing this:
--> Volume Down + Power
--> Fastboot
--> Bootloader
Nothing, I also tried
--> Volume Down + Power
--> Fastboot
--> Reboot Bootloader
As you can tell Ive been out of the loop for a bit.
If you can post up a link or youtube video to get me back uptodate with the bootloader that be nice.
@{ParanoiA} do you have a link to that rom/backup?
Thank You again fellas

Rename to PC36IMG.zip power button+ volume down make sure the PC36IMG.zip is not in any folders it will scan for it accept. Also you flash RUUs through the bootloader also
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First of all, if you're s-on then you can only flash official PC36IMG files, no recoveries or anything.
Here are the steps that should get you to where you need to be in order to take it into Sprint.
1) Download this file. Do not rename it, just put it on the root of your SD card.
2) Hold volume down and power simultaneously. This will take you to the bootloader (hboot). Hboot will scan for the file, find it, and ask you to update.
3) Accept the update by following the on-screen instructions. Let it flash, don't pull the battery or anything. When it finishes you can accept the prompt to reboot, if you decline it will take you back to the bootloader.
4) You can check to see if you have the stock recovery by selecting recovery from the hboot menu. If you have the stock recovery, you'll see a red triangle with an exclamation point. This means that you're fully unrooted, s-on, stock.
Notes: If you have ClockworkMod, you may want to make a nandroid backup first. Though you shouldn't restore backups across phones, Titanium Backup Pro can restore apps from backups made with CWM or TWRP. If you decide to go that route, don't restore system apps.
You will possibly get a device other than the Evo, like the 3D. If so, be careful restoring apps across different phones.
If the file is not detected by the bootloader, then there's probably a problem with your SD card. You can double check the file name as well, but don't add a zip extension if you don't see one. If you continue to have problems flashing the RUU, you can download one as exe and run it from a PC.
Good luck!
Supersonic Evo 4G | MIUI | Tapatalk

plainjane said:
First of all, if you're s-on then you can only flash official PC36IMG files, no recoveries or anything.
Here are the steps that should get you to where you need to be in order to take it into Sprint.
1) Download Do not rename it, just put it on the root of your SD card.
2) Hold volume down and power simultaneously. This will take you to the bootloader (hboot). Hboot will scan for the file, find it, and ask you to update.
3) Accept the update by following the on-screen instructions. Let it flash, don't pull the battery or anything. When it finishes you can accept the prompt to reboot, if you decline it will take you back to the bootloader.
4) You can check to see if you have the stock recovery by selecting recovery from the hboot menu. If you have the stock recovery, you'll see a red triangle with an exclamation point. This means that you're fully unrooted, s-on, stock.
Notes: If you have ClockworkMod, you may want to make a nandroid backup first. Though you shouldn't restore backups across phones, Titanium Backup Pro can restore apps from backups made with CWM or TWRP. If you decide to go that route, don't restore system apps.
You will possibly get a device other than the Evo, like the 3D. If so, be careful restoring apps across different phones.
If the file is not detected by the bootloader, then there's probably a problem with your SD card. You can double check the file name as well, but don't add a zip extension if you don't see one. If you continue to have problems flashing the RUU, you can download one as exe and run it from a PC.
Good luck!
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Perfect! Thank You PlainJane that got it fixed.
My phone has finally turned on completely and working only issue is parts of the touchscreen is non responsive so I'm planning on calling sprint get an eticket created and stop by a local store and have it either repaired or replaced.
If they say they are out of stock what replacement phone would you recommend?
Weird this is my original Evo I got on launch day (1 year and 6 months) and its been through so much, Dropped it so many times highest was around 5 feet. Its gotten soaked with water and screen is scratched, but still worked
The most heavy duty phone I have ever had.
Just to think a small drop from those movie theater cup holders would mess up my phone. Crazy!
Again thank you all for the help!

dumb noob question :(

trying to root my evo 4g. using revolutionary. how do i move the superuser folder to my sd card? everything worked flawlessly until i tried to recover at the end. phone locked up and showed a exclamation mark. had to take out battery. luckily it didnt brick the phone. sorry... this is my first time rooting

If you hboot shows the 6.16 hboot, you're rooted; you just have no recovery. You can go to the dev section, download and flash the amon ra (style), cwm, or twrp/2.0 recovery at your choice.

teh roxxorz said:
If you hboot shows the 6.16 hboot, you're rooted; you just have no recovery. You can go to the dev section, download and flash the amon ra (style), cwm, or twrp/2.0 recovery at your choice.
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be careful with twrp, certain releases are bricking evos now.

MPH33 said:
trying to root my evo 4g. using revolutionary. how do i move the superuser folder to my sd card? everything worked flawlessly until i tried to recover at the end. phone locked up and showed a exclamation mark. had to take out battery. luckily it didnt brick the phone. sorry... this is my first time rooting
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Save flashable zip from here to desktop. Then mount phone as disk drive via usb and copy flashable zip to root of sd card. Boot into custom recovery and flash zip. If you are rooted and do not have a custom recovery I suggest Amonra recovery from here.
You can also download super user from the market here

bencollinz said:
be careful with twrp, certain releases are bricking evos now.
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Hmm, that's odd. Twrp 1.x works fine; it must be either the .2 or .3 version of Twrp 2, because I used the initialize version just fine. The only issue was that it sometimes didn't wipe a second time after flashing an initial rom.

bigdee1974 said:
Save flashable zip from here to desktop. Then mount phone as disk drive via usb and copy flashable zip to root of sd card. Boot into custom recovery and flash zip. If you are rooted and do not have a custom recovery I suggest Amonra recovery from here.
You can also download super user from the market here
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man... still want work. i put the recovery on my sd card and it still gives me the exclamation mark and the phone locks up. i guess i need to start over. how do i start over the whole root process? this really sux. this is like 20th time ive tried to root this phone and gave up

Dude i promise you when you get it right you'll realize that it wasnt as hard as you thought. Trust me i been there before. Look w/ revolutionary if you did it right it'll ask you do you want to download clockworkmod from the internet. Hit "Y" for yes.
It does it automatically. I did a bunch of phones the same way.

MPH33 said:
man... still want work. i put the recovery on my sd card and it still gives me the exclamation mark and the phone locks up. i guess i need to start over. how do i start over the whole root process? this really sux. this is like 20th time ive tried to root this phone and gave up
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Put the recovery on your sd card as PC36IMG.zip (make sure it's not PC36IMG.zip.zip).
Turn phone off and pull the battery.
Put battery back in and hold volume down while pressing power (press the volume down first before pressing power).
Hold until white Hboot screen comes up (should say Revolutionary at top).
Wait for it to scan your sd card and press volume up to let it update.
You can reboot phone or go staight into recovery by not rebooting and selecting recovery with power button in Hboot
here's a link for AmonRa 3.11 (recovery that I recommend) http://www.multiupload.com/UW89IC4DBW

bobarune said:
Put the recovery on your sd card as PC36IMG.zip (make sure it's not PC36IMG.zip.zip).
Turn phone off and pull the battery.
Put battery back in and hold volume down while pressing power (press the volume down first before pressing power).
Hold until white Hboot screen comes up (should say Revolutionary at top).
Wait for it to scan your sd card and press volume up to let it update.
You can reboot phone or go staight into recovery by not rebooting and selecting recovery with power button in Hboot
here's a link for AmonRa 3.11 (recovery that I recommend) http://www.multiupload.com/UW89IC4DBW
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i tried all of that... says revolutionary on top with non stop on the booty screen. everytime i hit recovery i get the exclamation mark. shows recovery on disk (e) on my computer. still want want work. i dont get it

dont hit recovery in hboot until you have flashed a recovery
Look at this guide for help. Follow numbers 8-13 on the first section.

UPDATE! OK... now on my phone it says revolution in blue and it shows several commands. says...
reboot system now
apply update from sd card
wipe data factory reset
wipe cache partition
install zip from sd card
backup and restore
mounts and storage
advanced
power off
go back
im not doing crap unless i know exactly what to do from this point on. i think im on thr right track. any advice from this point on?

MPH33 said:
UPDATE! OK... now on my phone it says revolution in blue and it shows several commands. says...
im not doing crap unless i know exactly what to do from this point on. i think im on thr right track. any advice from this point on?
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Switch to AmonRa Recovery. CWM and the latest TWRP recovery seem to have problems. AmonRa is rock solid recovery

bigdee1974 said:
Switch to AmonRa Recovery. CWM and the latest TWRP recovery seem to have problems. AmonRa is rock solid recovery
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i dont get what i have to do from this point on... it shows revolutionary not in the white reboot page on the phone. should i just hit reboot system now... or what? i downloaded the amonra recovery. maybe its flashed on working on the phone. hell i dont know if it is or not. all i know... is im seeing something that i didnt before. the revolution command thats on the phone now

MPH33 said:
i dont get what i have to do from this point on... it shows revolutionary not in the white reboot page on the phone. should i just hit reboot system now... or what? i downloaded the amonra recovery. maybe its flashed on working on the phone. hell i dont know if it is or not. all i know... is im seeing something that i didnt before. the revolution command thats on the phone now
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If you downloaded from the link I gave you in post above then rename zip to "PC36IMG" (all caps) and place on root of sd card and boot into hbot.
Notes:
To boot into hbot hold "vol. down' and "power" at same time. When you boot into hbot it will ask if you would like to update recovery. Select volume up and let it do its work and yes to reboot when finished.
PS: When you have finished updating recovery either rename PC36IMG zip or erase from sd card.

great.... now it want even reboot when i hold the power and volume button down. wtf!!!!

Pull the battery then try again. I had that issue once awhile back.

this is getting on my last nerve!!! i downloaded recovery ra supersonic and finally got it on my sd card. i click to download through revolutionary and it says cant open file. this is getting old! ok... please remember i am a totall noob with all of this. i suck bad with software. awfully bad. i can build a computer but i can not do programming and stuff like that.
after i download a recovery tool to my computer... what do i do after that? unzip the files... what? ive just been copying the folder and moving it to disk e where my sd card is. wow... this aggravating

i dont see how in the hell it shows the recovery file in my sd card then when i try to upload the file through revolutionary it says bad file... did not download. what in the hell else are you supposed to? this sux!!!!

MPH33 said:
this is getting on my last nerve!!! i downloaded recovery ra supersonic and finally got it on my sd card. i click to download through revolutionary and it says cant open file. this is getting old! ok... please remember i am a totall noob with all of this. i suck bad with software. awfully bad. i can build a computer but i can not do programming and stuff like that.
after i download a recovery tool to my computer... what do i do after that? unzip the files... what? ive just been copying the folder and moving it to disk e where my sd card is. wow... this aggravating
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Wrong. Leave the recovery zip, [named PC36IMG] zipped on your sd card, then boot into the bootloader [power off the phone, hold vot+down until you see the white screen] it should then prompt you to update and should say recovery, select up, select up to reboot, hold vol+down, this time decline the update, select recovery, and you should be on amon ra.

teh roxxorz said:
Wrong. Leave the recovery zip, [named PC36IMG] zipped on your sd card, then boot into the bootloader [power off the phone, hold vot+down until you see the white screen] it should then prompt you to update and should say recovery, select up, select up to reboot, hold vol+down, this time decline the update, select recovery, and you should be on amon ra.
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mine says...
hboot
fastboot
recovery
clear storage
hboot usb
if i click recovery... it will take me to revolutionary command. soo... i should not download the recovery through there? i dont get this. this getting really old and i have better things to do with my time than play with sorry phone

[Q] I need help please! Trying to Fix HTC Evo!!

I am hoping someone can help me. My boyfriend recently had his HTC Evo for Sprint rooted to Boost mobile. It was rooted to Syneagy Rom. Things started going wrong for instance, icons disappearing, sound and ringer stopped working, etc. So he was informed he could just reset the phone and things would start working. I tried to do a factory reset both on the rom and on the phone itself. Nothing happened still rooted with more issues. So, I downloaded the free rom software from the android market and in the android magazine they tell you how to install a custom rom. I tried Cyanogen. Everything was fine til it rebooted then I got stuck with the white logo Htc Evo screen. I tried to connect to the pc but wont recognize anything, also tried to download files to my sd card and do the bootloader but no such luck. Any thoughts or ideas, on how I can get this phone to work again even if it means unrooting. Thanks!

Give us the specs of the phone.
Ex: Bootloader
Recovery
How it was rooted (unrevoked, revolutionary, bootloader unlock)
Then we can try to help. I already have a slight idea as to what went on

death-by-soap said:
Give us the specs of the phone.
Ex: Bootloader
Recovery
How it was rooted (unrevoked, revolutionary, bootloader unlock)
Then we can try to help. I already have a slight idea as to what went on
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I believe it was rooted with revolutionary...I wish I knew more of the specs! He had someone root it for him so I have no idea on some of the info. Sorry

chevygirl2474 said:
I believe it was rooted with revolutionary...I wish I knew more of the specs! He had someone root it for him so I have no idea on some of the info. Sorry
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If you have the phone, go into bootloader. (Hold Power + volume down) and it should say at the top.

death-by-soap said:
If you have the phone, go into bootloader. (Hold Power + volume down) and it should say at the top.
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Thanks for being so patient with me.
Okay it says ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.2

chevygirl2474 said:
Thanks for being so patient with me.
Okay it says ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.2
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Also restarted it again and it says Revolutionary SuperSonic EVT3 Ship S-OFF HBOOT 6.16.1002 MICRO Chip 041f Touch panel ATMEL224 16ab
Radio 0 2011.17:0215 March 8 2011
Then says fastboot underneath and below that says bootloader....Not sure if you needed that info but thought id list anyways

Start by turning your phone off. Then, press the volume down button, and then press and hold the power button, as you did above. Let the bootloader boot up, and then use the volume keys to move up and down to the recovery option. Then press the power button. The phone will boot into recovery mode. You should see an option that says 'Wipe Menu', or something along those lines. Use the volume keys to change the selection, then use the power button to select it. Select Dalvik cache, and use the power button to confirm that you want to wipe it. Then select data, and wipe it, also. At this point, back out of that menu and reboot the phone and see if the phone will boot up. If it does, you're all set. If not, I'd try flashing the ROM again from the recovery menu. Also, once you get things going, I'd dump ClockworkMod recovery and install Smelkus. Here's the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661543
Let us know how it works out. We'll be glad to help any way we can.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand

FinZ28 said:
Start by turning your phone off. Then, press the volume down button, and then press and hold the power button, as you did above. Let the bootloader boot up, and then use the volume keys to move up and down to the recovery option. Then press the power button. The phone will boot into recovery mode. You should see an option that says 'Wipe Menu', or something along those lines. Use the volume keys to change the selection, then use the power button to select it. Select Dalvik cache, and use the power button to confirm that you want to wipe it. Then select data, and wipe it, also. At this point, back out of that menu and reboot the phone and see if the phone will boot up. If it does, you're all set. If not, I'd try flashing the ROM again from the recovery menu. Also, once you get things going, I'd dump ClockworkMod recovery and install Smelkus. Here's the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661543
Let us know how it works out. We'll be glad to help any way we can.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand
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As stated above, try flashing a rom. Try something other than CM7 because I read somewhere that it doesn't work.on some hboots. If you are looking for stock rooted, check out captain_throwback's 5.07 rom.
Yeah FinZ! Teamwork! :highfive:

death-by-soap said:
As stated above, try flashing a rom. Try something other than CM7 because I read somewhere that it doesn't work.on some hboots. If you are looking for stock rooted, check out captain_throwback's 5.07 rom.
Yeah FinZ! Teamwork! :highfive:
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Okay thanks FinZ and death by soap for your help. Appreciate it. I followed your instructions but will still not boot. Is there any chance you could give me step by step instructions on how to flash a rom. I feel like a newbie. I just want to make sure I am doing it right. Thanks!

Download this ROM to the root of your SD card (not in any folders):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671395
You can download it via recovery, by selecting USB-MS (it may say Mount USB storage, instead) and turning it on. You can also remove the card from the phone and place it in a card reader and hook it up to your computer. If you downloaded the file via recovery, select USB-MS and turn it back off before you go any further once the ROM has downloaded. Boot your phone into recovery mode and follow the wipe instructions I listed above. Then, choose the option to 'Flash .zip file from SD Card' (or whatever it is in ClockworkMod-I can't remember). Find the ROM you downloaded and use the power button to make your selection. When it's done installing, go back to the wipe menu and wipe everything as you did before. Then, back out to the main menu and reboot the phone. Hopefully the phone boots into the ROM
I still also recommend changing recoveries, but for now, let's worry about getting the phone to boot into the ROM, and we'll worry about that later.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand

Okay one other question, the sd card is blank....was it suppose to have folders on it? Somehow everything got wiped. I will keep trying. Determined to get the phone to work! Thanks for all your help. It is appreciated! I installed from the link that you posted onto the SD card.
FinZ28 said:
Download this ROM to the root of your SD card (not in any folders):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671395
You can download it via recovery, by selecting USB-MS (it may say Mount USB storage, instead) and turning it on. You can also remove the card from the phone and place it in a card reader and hook it up to your computer. If you downloaded the file via recovery, select USB-MS and turn it back off before you go any further once the ROM has downloaded. Boot your phone into recovery mode and follow the wipe instructions I listed above. Then, choose the option to 'Flash .zip file from SD Card' (or whatever it is in ClockworkMod-I can't remember). Find the ROM you downloaded and use the power button to make your selection. When it's done installing, go back to the wipe menu and wipe everything as you did before. Then, back out to the main menu and reboot the phone. Hopefully the phone boots into the ROM
I still also recommend changing recoveries, but for now, let's worry about getting the phone to boot into the ROM, and we'll worry about that later.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand
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chevygirl2474 said:
Okay one other question, the sd card is blank....was it suppose to have folders on it? Somehow everything got wiped. I will keep trying. Determined to get the phone to work! Thanks for all your help. It is appreciated! I installed from the link that you posted onto the SD card.
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Not a problem. Just install the ROM as previously stated, then flash it from recovery. We can worry about formatting the card once we get the phone running properly.
Now that I think about it, though, I wonder if the SD card being wiped is part of the problem here? Just try and flash the ROM, and we'll go from there.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand

FinZ28 said:
Not a problem. Just install the ROM as previously stated, then flash it from recovery. We can worry about formatting the card once we get the phone running properly.
Now that I think about it, though, I wonder if the SD card being wiped is part of the problem here? Just try and flash the ROM, and we'll go from there.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand
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May have a corrupted file system on the sd card. We'll worry about that once the phone boots.

death-by-soap said:
May have a corrupted file system on the sd card. We'll worry about that once the phone boots.
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Its not working. I deleted everything on sd card going to try and download again and start all over.

chevygirl2474 said:
Its not working. I deleted everything on sd card going to try and download again and start all over.
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What do you mean it's not working, exactly? Were you able to boot into recovery and select the ROM and flash it? Walk us through what you did and what happened.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand

chevygirl2474 said:
Its not working. I deleted everything on sd card going to try and download again and start all over.
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Did you wipe the card after you downloaded the file? be careful about that!!!

death-by-soap said:
May have a corrupted file system on the sd card. We'll worry about that once the phone boots.
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Okay so this is what it says everytime I try to load info...Install from SD card, finding update package, opening update package, E:cant open sdcard/update zip no such file or directory installation aborted.
Do you think I am better off buying another phone? I am wondering if this phone is just corrupt. Had issues from the time I had it rooted.

Sounds like an issue with the SD card, not the phone itself.
One more thing to try without changing cards out. Rename the file on the card PC36IMG.zip (make sure there is no extra .zip extension on it or this won't work). Make sure the file is on the card, and turn the phone off. Load into the bootloader by pressing volume down+power. After a few seconds, you should be prompted as to whether or not you wish to install the update. Use the volume keys to move up and down, and use the power button to make your selection. If successful, the new ROM will load and you can reboot your phone. If not, we may need to look at swapping SD cards.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand

FinZ28 said:
Sounds like an issue with the SD card, not the phone itself.
One more thing to try without changing cards out. Rename the file on the card PC36IMG.zip (make sure there is no extra .zip extension on it or this won't work). Make sure the file is on the card, and turn the phone off. Load into the bootloader by pressing volume down+power. After a few seconds, you should be prompted as to whether or not you wish to install the update. Use the volume keys to move up and down, and use the power button to make your selection. If successful, the new ROM will load and you can reboot your phone. If not, we may need to look at swapping SD cards.
Sent using my HTC EVO 4G and a magic wand
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I tried another SD Card....I renamed the file and it says image not found or wrong image...
I appreciate all your help, but I think this phone is trashed. I will prob pick up another EVO. Hope you both have a great evening!

chevygirl2474 said:
I tried another SD Card....I renamed the file and it says image not found or wrong image...
I appreciate all your help, but I think this phone is trashed. I will prob pick up another EVO. Hope you both have a great evening!
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Okay update!! I tried once again and it let me update it. It now says Install from sdcard complete! Installed the zip folder!