[Q] Root without flashing a rom - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Sorry but I haven't seen this question asked anywhere else. Is it possible to simply root the phone and use all of the wonders of root access (ie free tether and the removal of bloat ware) without having to flash a custom rom that may or may not allow my 4g, wifi, and gps to work.

um last i knew u could just root it and use free tether. like opengarden or sumthing from the market. as far a bloatware idk maybe search around the forums for sumthing to flash to it. these guys prolly have sumthing lol

You could root the phone and install a wireless tether app and then use titanium backup pro to freeze bloatware
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That is what I originally did. After a few months though I did install a new ROM.
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Ok I rooted my phone using unrevoked3 with no problems. I was and am able to use the WiFi hotspot for share my internet with other devices over WiFi (no wires) . Now my cousin just got the evo and want to have free WiFi like me and not have to pay Sprint 30 bucks a month for it. His phone is 2.3.3 so unrevoked3 won't work so I tried for the first time revolutionary. I have the Superuser and it is in s-off,,, but when i go to try the sprint WiFi hotspot I get the message that I don't have that on my plan so it doesn't work. It seem to me that it is rooted, so why doesn't this work like it does for me? Do I need to flash a ROM to get it to work or did I goof something up? Please help me out, I spent four hours playing around with this today and reading different threads on rooting the new way,, all for family but feel like I let my cousin down by not getting him what I said I was able to do. So i need to help of some of the brightest techies on the best forum ever!

roccotrisoliere said:
Ok I rooted my phone using unrevoked3 with no problems. I was uand am able to use the WiFi hotspot for share my internet with other devices over WiFi (no wires) . Now my cousin just got the evo and want to have free WiFi like me and not have to pay Sprint 30 bucks a month for it. His phone is 2.3.3 so unrevoked3 won't work so I tried for the first time revolutionary. I have the Superuser and it is in s-off,,, but when i go to try the sprint WiFi hotspot I get the message that I don't have that on my plan so it doesn't work. It seem to me that it is rooted, so why doesn't this work like it does for me? Do I need to flash a ROM to get it to work or did I goof something up? Please help me out, I spent four hours playing around with this today and reading different threads on rooting the new way,, all for family but feel like I let my cousin down by not getting him what I said I was able to do. So i need to help of some of the brightest techies on the best forum ever!
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The reason it doesn't work is your trying to use the sprint hotspot you HAVE to flash a Rom to.get the hacked sprint hotspot or you can use a wireless tether app
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Best Buy updated my phone, can i root?

ok, so while best buy was activating my phone (which took a litle shy of 3 hours) , they updated the firmware or the software (whatever it is that was updating at the time). when i had a touch pro 2 i rellied heavily on xda-wifi program to provide internet to my laptop. am i screwed now that best buy updated my phone? how can i get my phone to provide wifi to my laptop? i am in the dark, and even tho i love the evo's speed it still does not compare to a laptop and what it can do. Please help. i feel like if i am in the dark ages without wifi hotspot.
Like the hero when it first came out, wifi tethering in it's classic form doesn't work yet. HOWEVER: Go enable your sprint hotspot app...I believe I heard that haven't locked it down yet so even though you're not paying for the service, it should work in a pinch.
I seen i lot of this going on at best buy while i was waiting in line. They didnt get to mine though.
hmm ill try it, im guessing using the sprint hotspot "free" until they fix it will be uncapped huh?
but now that they updated me, am i going to be able to root? i saw a few post that people were able to get wifitethering after root but it was kinda of tricky.
i, for one dont mind the sprint tv, navigation and other sprint stuff. i actually enjoy using them (i mean im paying for em right?). but i would like a program like xda-wifi (the one i had on my tp2) where all i had to do was run the cab and it installed the program.
is there anything out there now where i can use the wifitethering abilities of the phone while keeping my rom "LIKE" stock with all programs that came out the box?
mrjeancw said:
hmm ill try it, im guessing using the sprint hotspot "free" until they fix it will be uncapped huh?
but now that they updated me, am i going to be able to root? i saw a few post that people were able to get wifitethering after root but it was kinda of tricky.
i, for one dont mind the sprint tv, navigation and other sprint stuff. i actually enjoy using them (i mean im paying for em right?). but i would like a program like xda-wifi (the one i had on my tp2) where all i had to do was run the cab and it installed the program.
is there anything out there now where i can use the wifitethering abilities of the phone while keeping my rom "LIKE" stock with all programs that came out the box?
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when i go to sprint hotspot and check the sprint mobile hotspot it gives me "error code 67. Registration failure. your pcs vision username and/or password may be incorrect. please try again"
The (temporary) free hotspot only works on 4G.
ah, that would make sense...seeing as how im in boston and 4g not getting here till 4th quarter 2010...this is insane...what do i do now in order to provide my laptop with internet from my phone? if someone could help me with the root or something. but my phone is updated, can i even do it now?
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when i go to sprint hotspot and check the sprint mobile hotspot it gives me "error code 67. Registration failure. your pcs vision username and/or password may be incorrect. please try again"
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I don't live in a 4G area. Last night I was able to tether my HERO, my iTouch (I know), my wife's PRE, and my laptop. But today, I get the "error code 67". Darn it!
You can root ur phone after the OTA if you go to http://unrevoked.com/m from your phone browser and download the .apk, then run it... seemed to work pretty good for me at least it appears I'm rooted now (I couldn't get wifi tether to work tho)
On a side note...anyone else use this method or know if this is safe and/or from a trusted source? I usually stick to XDA for mod stuff, I just happened to run across this, this morning someone on Twitter posted it
EDIT: I see the other thread, nvm
steb0ne said:
You can root ur phone after the OTA if you go to http://unrevoked.com/m from your phone browser and download the .apk, then run it... seemed to work pretty good for me at least it appears I'm rooted now (I couldn't get wifi tether to work tho)
On a side note...anyone else use this method or know if this is safe and/or from a trusted source? I usually stick to XDA for mod stuff, I just happened to run across this, this morning someone on Twitter posted it
EDIT: I see the other thread, nvm
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the only reason i would root is to get access to get access to wifi tether, otherwise i have no reason to root (im not into removing apps and stuff).
what other threat did you see that had to do with my issue?
the updates started the moment she activated my phone. saw the word 'firmware' and yelled "NO!", reached over her shoulder and hit cancel.
Hope so because my friend was testing my phone and when he gave it back it was doing the update. He told me there was an update available, but he made it seem like it was an update in the market place! Now qik force closes overtime I open it.
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[Q] New to Dinc. 1st day questions. Coming from EVO. What must I do first day?

ok, have a rooted EVO. wireless tether for root to get my tethering. My company is porting me over to Verizon and getting me the incredible. need some help bringing me up to speed with the dinc. i will only have about an hour to get device set up and used for the next 10 hours. want to make sure my homework is done first.
Questions,...
1. is the root method just a simple unrevoke now?
2. what do i need to do to get wifi tethering going?
3. anything else i should know or do day one?
I am running a mac and I just want to have everything downloaded and really for monday when I get my new device. I hope to have the darn thing rooted before they finish the activation. my boss is cool, but not cool enough to pay for the mobile hotspot, so wifi tether must be running monday morning as well.
i have loaded tons of custom roms, but like to run rooted stock most of the time. just want to be able to remove some junk, take screenshots, wifi tether, and maybe setcpu.
anything thing else you Verizon Dinc users would recommend to a new users coming over from the dark side (sprint) lol?
Thanks, Cody
1. Yes Mucho simple
2. You need wireless teather.apk for root users, might have to change an epst setting or 2, no biggie pm me if you get into trouble
3. be weary of setting the device on its back side on rough surfaces, camera lens will scratch
P.S. The device works great with stock, but I have had this device since launch and I can tell you the skyraider series with sense ui are by far the most stable and quickest roms. I currently am running 3.2 RC3.
Thanks for the reply. This espt thing. Can you tell me more about it, or post a link so I can learn. Like I said earlier, I want to be ready to be up and running within the first hour. Won't have internet on laptop after 8 am Monday until late Monday night. It will be a long Monday morning without everything working.
Which version of wireless tether for root OS working good on the dinc? I want access point tether and not the ad hoc. Pre 8 works for me on the evo where pre 9 didn't. Pre 9 worked on the epic and 8 didn't.
Thanks to everyone who posts in this thread, Cody
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Pre 9 works best for me. I'll try pre 8 at some point, I guess.
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list?can=2&q=wireless+tether
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Help with tethering for iPad

I looked an could not find anything in other threads so I put this one in hear because I figured it is general. I just bought an wifi only iPad and I wanted to know if there was anyway i could tether the internet to it. I do not have a rooted slide and I am not looking to go in that direction. I was thinking my best bet is through Bluetooth but don't know. I thought about pdanet but I don't think it will work. Any sort of help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank You
Unless a new wifi tether app that does not require root has come into existance without my knowledge, no, you can not wifi tether with this phone at the moment. Until tmobile updates us to 2.2 or you root, you will not see wifi tether on your phone. And since tmobile make exclude (i am not implying they will) wifi tether in the 2.2 update, you might as well root. I personally cant figure out how anyone has lasted this long without root. Simply not enough space for apps.
Isnt buying an ipad an abomination to android owners? It is to me lol!
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IF you root can you still keep the stock rom?
ldominguez1986 said:
IF you root can you still keep the stock rom?
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Yeah, check out Chiefzreload rom. Same as stock. Or you can go with one of the other sense roms. There is a 2.2 with sense that has working Bluetooth and wifi
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Once rooted can it be unrooted? Does anyone know if 2.2 will have wifi tethering?
Yes, its possible to unroot. Take a look at the latest tmobile 2.2 phones and if they have wifi tether then you can probably assume we will. We will get wifi calling though
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Congratulations on your iPad purchase. I'm sure you'll love it too. I also have the wifi-only version and a mytouch slide.
If you do not want to root, you can wait for T-mobile's 2.2 (froyo) update and I would expect you will be able to pay T-mobile $15 per month to use your slide as a wifi hotspot.
If you are willing to root your slide, you can turn your slide into a hotspot now.
The first thing I did was root my slide. After I did that I did NOT put the Eng build on at the time--I left my slide stock but rooted. I couldn't get the Barnacle tethering app to work at that time but the Wireless Tether app worked just fine with the ipad.
Recently, I flashed the Eng ROM and then I flashed Cyanogen 6.5 RC1 ROM. Wireless Tether app didn't work, but I installed Barnacle and it is working just fine with my iPad.
So, I just want to tell you that if you root your phone, you will be able to use it as a wifi hotspot. If you don't want to root, just hold on and I expect that T-mobile will offer the feature soon.
Thanks for the post. You said that you could not get barnacle to work but you did get a wireless tethering app to work. Which app was that?
the wifi tether can be obtained from here:
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
After you root your phone, email it to yourself and open. Otherwise, transfer to your SD card and open with a file manager program like ASTRO.
Barnacle is available through the market.
which one would i download. And if i root the phone will i still receive over the air updates?
If you plan to use CM6.1 RC1, wireless tether version 2.0.5pre14 works great.
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would I still be able to receive ota updates?
Not from T-Mobile. However, CyanogenMod is updated more frequently and there are nightly builds for those of us that want to have the latest and greatest. Although at the cost of stability at times. But that's what makes it fun.
That being said, when T-Mobile decides to update, shortly after someone will make a rooted version.
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I'll just add to what you said. If you root BUT stay on the stock rom (don't flash the ENG build or anything) you will receive the ota updates. I'm not 100% but I think CR_MOD will get them also since it has the APN and a few other settings required to be pushed updates.
On CM6.1 RC1, wireless tether version 2.0.5pre3-test3 did not work for me (it worked on rooted stock). I later tried Barnacle and it worked fine so I did not try other versions.
It is good to know that if I had tried 2.0.5pre14, it would have worked great.
I am new to rooting/modding etc. and appreciate the help on XDA.
Anyhow, if one roots the slide, they should be able to use a hotspot app to tether with the ipad over wifi.
What is the best way to root and keep the stock without having to flash anything. And what app would i use to tether wifi? does barnacle work well?
The stickies on the Development section can help you.
The current method to root the slide is here (sticky in Development section):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754020
The old way that I used in July before the T-mobile update:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=702973
It is my understanding that the old method won't work if your phone has the latest T-mobile update on it.
If you root the slide but do not flash the Eng ROM, your phone will be rooted and it will keep the stock ROM.
You can try Barnacle from Market or get the wireless tether program. Between the two programs, one will work for you once your phone is rooted. I know it is a little intimidating to root the phone, but I am very glad that I did it. I am also glad that I put the cyanogen ROM on my phone too.
Thanks for everyones help on the subject. I found the best way for me to tether for my ipad and i don't have to go through the process of rooting. It's called universalandroot and it works on the mytouch slide. It roots the phone temporally and i am able to keep the stock rom like i wanted.
ldominguez1986 said:
Thanks for everyones help on the subject. I found the best way for me to tether for my ipad and i don't have to go through the process of rooting. It's called universalandroot and it works on the mytouch slide. It roots the phone temporally and i am able to keep the stock rom like i wanted.
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Hi - I'm interested in tethering too with the mytouch slide. Please tell me which version of univeralandroot you used, and which tethering app did you use.
TIA
this is the video I used before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFJvPxMThI

[Q] just rooted but no free wifi hot spot? HELP!!

FIRST I DID READ MANY THREADS AND DID SEARCH THE SITE BEFORE POST. NOT NEW TO THIS RODEO. I rooted my phone using unrevoked3 with no problems. I was and am able to use the WiFi hotspot for share my internet with other devices over WiFi (no wires) . Now my cousin just got the evo and want to have free WiFi likeme and not have to pay Sprint 30 bucks a month for it. His phone is 2.3.3 sounrevoked3 won't work so I tried for the first time revolutionary. I have the Superuser and it is in s-off,,, but when i go to try the sprint WiFi hotspot I get the message that I don't have that on my plan so it doesn't work. It seem to me that it is rooted, so why doesn't this work likeit does for me? Do I need to flash a ROM to get it to work or did I goof something up? Please help me out, I spent four hours playing around with this today and reading different threads on rooting the new way,, all for family but feel like I let my cousin down by not getting him what I said I was able to do. So i need to help of some of the brightest techies on the best forum ever!
yes you have to download a rom that has it integrated or find a wireless tethering app to download.
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roccotrisoliere said:
FIRST I DID READ MANY THREADS AND DID SEARCH THE SITE BEFORE POST. NOT NEW TO THIS RODEO. I rooted my phone using unrevoked3 with no problems. I was and am able to use the WiFi hotspot for share my internet with other devices over WiFi (no wires) . Now my cousin just got the evo and want to have free WiFi likeme and not have to pay Sprint 30 bucks a month for it. His phone is 2.3.3 sounrevoked3 won't work so I tried for the first time revolutionary. I have the Superuser and it is in s-off,,, but when i go to try the sprint WiFi hotspot I get the message that I don't have that on my plan so it doesn't work. It seem to me that it is rooted, so why doesn't this work likeit does for me? Do I need to flash a ROM to get it to work or did I goof something up? Please help me out, I spent four hours playing around with this today and reading different threads on rooting the new way,, all for family but feel like I let my cousin down by not getting him what I said I was able to do. So i need to help of some of the brightest techies on the best forum ever!
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I answered your question already
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Think you've been reading the wrong stuff. It sounds like you haven't fully rooted your phone or rooted it with one of the latest ROMs. I know some ROMs don't include wifi sharing - also known as tethering.
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You need a hacked hotspot or simply get wifi tether from the market. Iirc, using unrevoked comes with a rooted stock rom with hotspot being an included app. But I'm not sure since I used unrevoked only once a long time ago. Using revolutionary doesn't flash a rom. So everything about the rom is stock...but you have an unlocked boot loader. Flash a rom with unlocked hotspot, most of them have it
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You can also use Caulkins mod to unlock the hotspot/usb tethering
Check this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785271&highlight=caulkins+wireless+tether
Download and flash using the recovery of your choice. Note this will only work over 3g. If you want to tether 4g you will need an app like wifi tether.

[Q] Rooted finally and foxfi still not working

Well I've spent the last 6 hours trying to root my OTA 4.3 I747.. I finally have root access and tried to use FoxFi and it still is blocked. How do I get around this? I thought the root would fix this??
Hello, I hear you... I was fighting for days to find an app that does a wireless hotspot. I think it should be illegal to block our hotspots like this and cause us to risk our phones by bricking them. Anyways Foxfi does not require root so rooted or not rooted it wont work on the GS3 with 4.3
I honestly never found a hotspot app that worked even with root access then I came across a app called "Wifi Hotspot Router" downloaded it and it worked perfect for me, I am using a SGH-I747 running 4.3 stock rom.
Here is the link: (it does cost money but for $1.95 its well worth the money instead of paying these worthless carriers)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.snclab.wifitetherrouter&hl=en
If it works hit the "Thank you button"

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