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I've been going back and forth on whether or not to root my evo for the past week, and I think I'm finally up for it. I've done some basic looking around and I believe that I need to follow this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765496. I would like to keep 2.2 and not have to go back down to 2.1. One thing that I did notice was the whole HBOOT ordeal. I checked and I have the .97 version. Is there anything special that I need to do before following the instructions in the link above? I plan on using the stock 2.2 rom and possibly experimenting with different roms in the future. I'd say I'm experienced with computers, although I will admit that I'm new to rooting and have yet to toil with coding. If anyone has any suggestions or a better method, I'm all ears.
i would suggest you follow this method instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
i rooted my evo with the method that you mentioned but that is an older process, it involves downgrading and then upgrading. even though the process will still work, you will be better off using an updated method.
spalding1028 said:
I've been going back and forth on whether or not to root my evo for the past week, and I think I'm finally up for it. I've done some basic looking around and I believe that I need to follow this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765496. I would like to keep 2.2 and not have to go back down to 2.1. One thing that I did notice was the whole HBOOT ordeal. I checked and I have the .97 version. Is there anything special that I need to do before following the instructions in the link above? I plan on using the stock 2.2 rom and possibly experimenting with different roms in the future. I'd say I'm experienced with computers, although I will admit that I'm new to rooting and have yet to toil with coding. If anyone has any suggestions or a better method, I'm all ears.
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With your hboot you can use unrevoked 3.21 and not have a problem them just download Rom manager and get amon ra recovery img and flash that through Rom manager and you have full root nand unlock and a good custom recovery. Plus its ten times easier
Sent from my EVO at the edge of hell
rajas_evo said:
i would suggest you follow this method instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
i rooted my evo with the method that you mentioned but that is an older process, it involves downgrading and then upgrading. even though the process will still work, you will be better off using an updated method.
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Thanks! I was hoping that my post would bring about results or suggestions. I think I'm gonna hold off on Rooting until tomorrow night since it's already 3 am and I would prefer doing this with a fresh mind, haha. Thanks again. I'll make sure to post my success!
Jbcarrera said:
With your hboot you can use unrevoked 3.21 and not have a problem them just download Rom manager and get amon ra recovery img and flash that through Rom manager and you have full root nand unlock and a good custom recovery. Plus its ten times easier
Sent from my EVO at the edge of hell
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unrevoked.com/recovery/ just download the exe from that link and run it? Sorry for being a bit confused >.<
I'll link you djrez's instructions when I get home but its really simple
Thanks a bunch! I'm sure this'll help other "newbies"
here is djrez's thread link and a link to unrevoked's download areahttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=787304
and this is for unrevoked download unrevoked3 painless root
http://www.unrevoked.com/#evo
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm also considering rooting my phone to stock android, but have never rooted and have a couple questions.
Why do it? And the software (I guess?) That Evo comes with is designed to work specifically with the Evo(right?)...well if I rooted, is that software or whatever its called (yes, I'm a newbie) designed to take advantage of the Evo hardware etc..?
Thanks
Edit: oh and if I don't like it can I undo it like I never did it in the first place?
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G.
First off, Jbcarrera thank you so much for the links (and I LOVE your avater, being a huge AC fan)! I just rooted my evo in I'd have to say about 10 minutes. That's a good question for the seniors here, josh. My phone right now (rooted) looks exactly the same as it did beforehand. All apps still there, sense is still on it, and for me, I'm going to use this to turn on my mobile hotspot feature for free. My way of seeing it (and I'm sure others see it this way too) is that android is OPEN SOURCE carriers will lock features down, and rooting just unleashes the full potential. again, thanks to everyone here, I am sure to visit back often for many tips and tricks!
Hmmm if I were to root I'd want just deadstock original froyo 2.2. No sense no nothing lol.
10 mins is all it took? I'm just nervous, my luck I'll ruin my phone lol
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G.
josh995 said:
Hmmm if I were to root I'd want just deadstock original froyo 2.2. No sense no nothing lol.
10 mins is all it took? I'm just nervous, my luck I'll ruin my phone lol
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G.
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firstly what hboot do you have? 10 mins is for anything with hboot under 2.02. if you don't know how to get to your hboot its easy just turn off your phone and let it power all the way down, next your hold the volume down and power button at the same time and voiala you are in hboot at the top of the phone it will state a few things one of them says hboot that number is your version of hboot if it says .97 or below your good to go if not then you will have to root with a more complicated method.
spalding1028 said:
First off, Jbcarrera thank you so much for the links (and I LOVE your avater, being a huge AC fan)!
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thank you it took me a while to find it
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firstly what hboot do you have? 10 mins is for anything with hboot under 2.02. if you don't know how to get to your hboot its easy just turn off your phone and let it power all the way down, next your hold the volume down and power button at the same time and voiala you are in hboot at the top of the phone it will state a few things one of them says hboot that number is your version of hboot if it says .97 or below your good to go if not then you will have to root with a more complicated method.
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Says 0.97.0000
So if I follow the method you posted earlier, I'll have stock 2.2?
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G.
josh995 said:
Says 0.97.0000
So if I follow the method you posted earlier, I'll have stock 2.2?
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G.
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yeah now to answer your other question a no sense rom there are a few that do this but to my knowledge no 4g on these roms one is cyanogen i have never tried it but there are very good reports very very few bug almost non existant and then there is virus airborne i belive both awsome no sense roms they're others but i don't know much about them feel free to search the development section of the forum for more info now sense roms i can name some very good ones but i'll let you decide after you decide what to do
Ok I will check those out. Thanks
And thanks spalding for starting this thread. I think it helped me in my decision to root!
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G.
No problem! I'm glad it wasn't a waste of time for people! By the way, wifi tether works like a champ! not sure if I can post the how to for that on here or not, so I will leave it up to a senior/admin to post if it's allowed.
Scared S!ht-less
I recently purchased a White Evo a few weeks ago. I've been reading the forums and in a few months i'll probably look back at this post and LOL at myself. Anyways I have HBOOT 2.02 with S-On. I tried installing Unrevoked when i first got the phone (easier way), but got the infamous "misc error"
I want to make sure I do this right and root the right way. I want to do a complete back up of the stock rom, but i tried doing a recovery with the HBOOT and all i got was a phone with a red triangle. I pulled the battery out and the phone restarted. Got scared.... So how do i do this the right way? Looks like I need to do some sort of nandroid backup, but what and where do i download nandroid? I also want to install this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=808656 I also don't want any radio problems since i have great 4g service. Do i need to do a backup of radio files since i also want to do this mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696073
Thanks and hope you can help me out.
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Yeah - This Thread is pretty helpful to me as well... Im still reading greek 'cause - although Im no noob when it comes to tech challenges I am a noob to rooting. I taught my self Homebrew for PSP, How to build themes for my PS3, how to write HTML for my website and have always been good at learning this kind of stuff on my own, BBUUTTTT I also like to read ALOT before I do some thing. This thread is now book marked and will probably be referred back to a million times...lol - THANKS!!
I have a ton of questions but I am searching the forums for the answers - I will probably be posting up my own thread when I get done doing my current research.
Jbcarrera said:
firstly what hboot do you have? 10 mins is for anything with hboot under 2.02. if you don't know how to get to your hboot its easy just turn off your phone and let it power all the way down, next your hold the volume down and power button at the same time and voiala you are in hboot at the top of the phone it will state a few things one of them says hboot that number is your version of hboot if it says .97 or below your good to go if not then you will have to root with a more complicated method.
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Exactly if you have .97 or below simply use unrevoked3 one click root works great and installs clockworkmod recovery bootloader. My one recommendation after that is to then download Rom Manager and flash the bootloader to Amon_RA and do a nandroid backup before deciding to flash any roms. Clockwork does not create a wimax image and people have been having issues while trying to flash the wimax. I personally created a nandroid using clockwork then flashed to Amon and did another backup with it. Safe is better then sorry.
I have had the Dinc since last June and I am JUST now looking into unrevoked and all this stuff. I just need somebody to help me root my phone, and get me out of the dark. PLEASE
First, Welcome to XDA. Second, all your questions can be answered relatively easily, Simply visit here and you will be rooted and then you are free to install ROMs.
idk what else to tell you... lol, other than FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS!! You don't want a paperweight.
lol yeah i read all of that. I fully understand what i wanna do, but im a beginner but im gonna learn eventually. ive already tried unrevoked and fail miserably lol but im not giving up.
The important thing is to keep trying. Before rooting, if you're on Windows you need the HBOOT drivers, get them on the unrevoked page...
And always remember to golden rule of rooting: as long as you can power on, however little (even if you're stuck at the HTC Incredible screen) you are not bricked. It's actually pretty hard to brick these things as far as I can tell
For me when i would use the reflash DL from the Unrevoked website the flash would always fail. I was pretty positive i had the drivers installed correctly but it never would complete the process. It sounds stupid but it didn't work for me until i clicked a forum link to the reflash_package.zip that someone had uploaded. It was kind of a what the hell move as i had pretty much given up and I expected it to not work like it had not been but it actually finished.
I am trying to unroot. I used the 2-step method guide but didn't know that using Unrevoked3 actually also used Unrevoked Forever so I skipped step 1 and just flashed the pc36img.zip in step 2. Everything ran perfect except I did more research and realized I should've ran the s-on tool because I am still s-on.
Is it still possible to apply the unrevoked_forever_son.zip using the stock recovery?
Thanks
No....you will need to root all over then flash the s-on tool again and then flash the pc36img.zip. shouldn't take much time.
Thanks for your reply!
Okay I know how to do that but I think I have another problem...because I panicked, I updated to the latest OTA thinking that would automatically unroot me but still says "s-on"
FYI - I did thus because I'm trading in my EVO for the 3D.
The guy at Target told me the phone just needs to be in excellent condition and working to be able to trade my phone in...
Should I even worry at this point?
aagbulos said:
Thanks for your reply!
Okay I know how to do that but I think I have another problem...because I panicked, I updated to the latest OTA thinking that would automatically unroot me but still says "s-on"
FYI - I did thus because I'm trading in my EVO for the 3D.
The guy at Target told me the phone just needs to be in excellent condition and working to be able to trade my phone in...
Should I even worry at this point?
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Ouch. If you took the ota there's no going back. Check bootloader to see if its s-on, if its still s-off you might be in luck to flash another recovery and s-on again!!! Check!!
Id say yes give it to them with s-on at least you don't want something getting traced back to your account.
S-ON is unrooted / locked bootloader. I'm a bit confused here. Isn't that what you want it to be on.
Oh oops...I meant to say it's still "s-off"
Darn keyboard autocorrect!
I'm trying to get it BACK to "s-on" because it's currently "s-off"
Sorry for the confusion.
Do I have any options at all? Thanks for helping out guys!
If it's still s-off just flash amon RA in bootloader and then boot to recovery to flash s-on. You are lucky! Flash the pc36img.zip version.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
Make sure you don't get it confused with the other pc36img.zip that's already on your sdcard.
OMG! Thank you so much! That is why this is the best Android forum out there! I will definitely take your advice and I will let you know how it goes. Again...many thanks!
aagbulos said:
OMG! Thank you so much! That is why this is the best Android forum out there! I will definitely take your advice and I will let you know how it goes. Again...many thanks!
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I hope it works dude! Enjoy your 3D if you get it!
If it doesn't work its because you have the ota gb radio and you will need to downgrade it to the 11.19 radio from froyo then s-on should flash.
Remember you need the 11.19 radio to flash s-on. Its also flashed from recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
Ok thanks for the tips!
One last thing before I give it a go...I'm only flashing the pc36img.zip file via bootloader. The other zip file is if I was pushing the file using adb, correct? Please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't want to mess up any further lol
aagbulos said:
Ok thanks for the tips!
One last thing before I give it a go...I'm only flashing the pc36img.zip file via bootloader. The other zip file is if I was pushing the file using adb, correct? Please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't want to mess up any further lol
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Yes that's the recovery. Just flash in bootloader no need for adb. Once you get recovery up delete that pc36img from your sdcard. You will need to grab that 11.19 radio and flash that in recovery then reboot. Once you're back to bootloader go back in recovery then flash the s-on (after the radio).
It should be very easy and wont take that much time.
Cool. I will do that. Glad you were so helpful! I sure hope the 3D phone lives up to its billing...I came from MikG 2.1 and that was a killer Rom. I do know that the developer aamikam is getting that phone too and is going to cook up a Rom once HTC release the unlocked bootloader update.
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Cool. I will do that. Glad you were so helpful! I sure hope the 3D phone lives up to its billing...I came from MikG 2.1 and that was a killer Rom. I do know that the developer aamikam is getting that phone too and is going to cook up a Rom once HTC release the unlocked bootloader update.
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Im jealous. My upgrade is in September not that far away. I also liked miks roms he's a great dev. My evo is doing pretty good plus my better half has her Nexus S so I can always play with that if I get bored lol.
It worked! I am so happy but sad at the same time lol. Happy it worked and sad that I will be trading in my EVO. I appreciate the help dude! You saved my a** hehe.
And now the waiting game begins for the 3D update...
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It worked! I am so happy but sad at the same time lol. Happy it worked and sad that I will be trading in my EVO. I appreciate the help dude! You saved my a** hehe.
And now the waiting game begins for the 3D update...
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Glad you got it going man. Enjoy your 3D! See you on the other side dude lol
Hi, i apologize in advance, if this thread is of. So i bought a DHD like a month ago, and it worked fine. It had custom rom on it, but the man made it to stock rom again. Now my Wifi has died. I need to take my phone to profesionals, couse it still has guarantie, and it looks like it's the motherboard. Now the problem! I need to make the phone S-ON, and i read and try, and read and try, .... i have S-Off and SU with no permission?? I can't get in to recovery it just shuts down and doesn't wont to reboot, i need to take out the batery. I have manage to use different recovery once, but it was luck, couse i cant do it again, i tried downgrade, but like i said SU is not working. The hack tool well if i understand it i have S-Off so... I am kind of new and tried to read everithing and tried a lot of different things and i need HELP!!! I have to make my phone Stock with the correct rom and S-ON. So can someone help me? and again sorry if i missed something. Thank's in advance
The Hack Kit can revert you back to stock, unrooted and S-OFF, just read the manual
Sent from another dimension...
thanks don't hurt ya know?
GuyInTheCorner said:
The Hack Kit can revert you back to stock, unrooted and S-OFF, just read the manual
Sent from another dimension...
thanks don't hurt ya know?
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Ok Thanks i will go throo it again right now.:good:
Hey guys!
I'm not even sure if this matters or not but I enrolled in the Trade-Up program when pre-ordering my HTC One. Well, now I have the One and it's time to send off the good ole' HTC Evo (which has been a darn good phone by the way).
I ended up booting in to recovery and wiping all user data which did get me back to a near factory state except for the fact that I still have the same rom and that the phone is still rooted.
I may be able to send it to them like this but I don't want to take any chances as they are very specific in this rebate/trade-in programs.
So if I get revert my device back to the stock Sense Rom and also "de-root" my device that would be great.
I've had to do this before in the past when I had to have a repair made to the device but I can't find that post and am not sure if things have changed since then or not.
If anyone can help me with going back to the factory state I would certainly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
PAinguIN
Found some help I think...
So I found this thread which I am following now.
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...gerbread-2-3-5-dummies-guide.html#post3847623
It was made by "ocnbrze"... So I'll be sure to thank him upon successful completion of the unroot and what not.
However, if anyone has any advice of tips please feel free to post.
Thanks!
PAinguIN
Not getting S-ON and HBOOT-2.18 Like I should be
So in the thread I posted before I should be seeing S-ON and HBOOT 2.18.
But, I'm still seeing S-OFF and HBOOT 2.10...
Hmmm, not sure what to do, going to follow the rest of the steps and see what happens.
Well the phone is still technically rooted but I'm back to my stock Sense rom. Time to package this baby up and mail it back to HTC for my $100 pre-paid Visa card. Hope all of you or pre-ordered the HTC One signed up for this program.
Laters!
PAinguIN
Mods please close or remove this thread. I've resolved my issue and this thread is now just taking up space.
Thanks!
PAinguIN