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[EVO 4G General] Dubez:
Rooting my moms phone, and I forgot if when you initially root do you lose anything in the phone, apps contacts etc?
[EVO 4G General] steviee7:
no turning s off and installing a custom recovery and flashing Su will not delete anything.
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
One of my co-workers took the latest update and her HBOOT stayed at 2.16 so I would assume it's good to go if anyone wanted to take it. Though you should still wait until the ROM devs cook it into their next releases.

Edit: I'm rooted via Revolutionary HBoot 2.16 and decided to take the OTA for 4.53.651.1 and after the update I'm still rooted and still S-OFF.

Edit#2: I had to put RA Recovery back on through HBoot and then reflashed SU. No probs if people take the update and are already rooted. Though the rooted OTA is already posted elsewhere in the forums so just take that one!
[EVO 4G General] tehfe089:
Have you unchecked fast boot? Its under applications, hope that helps. I finally got my evo rooted!

Can't wait to get home and play with the roms! And stream netflix and hulu to the tv with the mirror apps!
[EVO 4G General] freddykrue:
Caroline failed...

Does anyone know if there is a fix for the error "Caroline failed?"

It gets as far as Sending in Caroline, then Retrieving Caroline from certain doom, and then I believe some errors, and then Caroline Failed.

I'm kind of bummed because I've been waiting for root just as long as everyone else and then when they exploit the Hboot, it doesn't work for me :confused:
[EVO 4G General] anthonyandrews:
I asked for a refund, due to user error. They said that they did not want the user back...So I am stuck with the user. ?

On a side note, I was able to root that "users" phone in minutes without any issue on my Macbook Pro using a virtual machine with Win7.
[EVO 4G General] eoliveira711:
followed directions to a T.... an no root

Running windows 7 64 bit, have htcsync uninstalled, installed the drivers from the OP, an im stuck on zerging root. Im not a total noob, usb debuggin is on fast boot is off,,,, any help as what the issue is would be great thanks. :confused::confused:
[EVO 4G General] drizkol:
Mine did this as well on Win7 x64. Luckily I had a WinXP x86 PC that it worked on with no issues..
[EVO 4G General] Buster1500:
Ahhh. I'm going nuts rooting! After sendin in Caroline, it goes bad error, error. Can someone help me plz
[EVO 4G General] John336kjb:
Root N' Skoot.....

R/S,

J336KJV
[EVO 4G General] SkizzyNinja:
question

I have two evo's one for me and one for my lady... we both broke are screens and got replacements from asurion....mine was a brand new evo hers was a refurbed one...hers doesnt have a serial num it has a MEID HEX a MEID DEC and wiMAX num... can i still use revolutionary...i used it on my phone i also still have her old busted one...can i use that serial number before i send it back... figured it out but now the beta key wont work and i know its case sensitive
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
It should still show you a serial number when you run Revolutionary. If not, Google and see if you can find someone else's serial number. I've seen a few already posted to these forums.
[EVO 4G General] Abskurity:
I just wanted to state that typically coming from experience,dont use anything 64- bit to root.seems that certain drivers i.e. fastboot tend to get funky with 64- bit PCs.my advice,more than 3-4 GB of RAM isnt necessary,stick with x86(32 Bit)
[EVO 4G General] Abskurity:
Yes i second the last users statement.i bought my evo brand new,and i dont think i can see the serial number either.so go to settings--->about phone then phone identity.either way revolutionary should give you the serial number.also,i believe if you have done a nandroid the folders are organized by serial no. My nandroid backup folder looks like this...

Nandroid-->HT17XXXX where this number /letter combo is your s.n.
[EVO 4G General] watchcricket:
Same problem here!

I have the same problem! The refurbished phone from Asurion doesn't have the serial number! Could you please send some instructions on how to install/run android?

P.S. I searched for nandroid in the Market with no luck. Or, can I use the serial number from my damaged/old phone?
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
Use the one from your old phone. That should work.
[EVO 4G General] watchcricket:
The serial # from the old phone did not work. However, the prompt tells you the serial number which I used to get the beta key!

Enter beta key [ serial: HTXXXXXXXXXX ]:
[EVO 4G General] kiegelis:
I am getting a error.

root acquired!

sending in caroline...

retrieving caroline from certain doom...

retrying caroline...

caroline failed, but had this to say: an error occurred while writing the partition.

errors (if any):-

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00000000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00000000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00000000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00000000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00000000

mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00000000

press (almost) any key to exit.

anyone have any ideas?
[EVO 4G General] BIGLDH:
No "Nandroid" after Revolutionary...

Hey everyone... Sorry if this is NOT in the right thread. After following the guide on rooting with Revolutionary, I have S-off and I followed / installed the additional packages as outlined. However, when I go to the Recovery option, I get the dark blue screen and select Backup & Restore, and nowhere do I see create a "Nandroid" backup. I DID select the backup option and other than the "No ext-SD Detected" message, all went well and it said backup was completed. Question... WHERE does the backup save to? :confused:(I don't see anything on the SD card like I used to with the NANDROID folder...) Also, should I be seeing the Nandroid backup option? If so, I am totally lost.... here. Any help or advice?

BTW I was running 2.16 prior to root on the EVO 4G Stock with GB. Ideally the friend I did this for only wants the wi-fi tethering option and is not concerned with ROMS / Themes or Radios, etc... So I am not sure if I truly have anything to be concerned about. Just thought I would appeal to all of you, the 'higher powers' for some enlightenment.

Thanks to you all for your amazing, informative posts and to the DEV's for your hard work. Donations have been made!!! Hope it helps a tad...

BIGLDH
[EVO 4G General] Active_Matrix:
I could be wrong but the recovery you are using is based off of clockwork mod. So checked that, there should be a folder in there!
[EVO 4G General] firegeek:
I had the same error so I took it to the revolutionary irc... well the answer was bad news... it means we have a bad NAND. and there is nothing we can do right now besides get a new phone.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings.

Erik
[EVO 4G General] jasKaos:
To flash, you mean to place files on SDCARD then boot up the phone with it right?? On the root of the SDCARD???

Please, this is my first time attempting to root a phone and I'm at this part.

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out on my own :) Nowhere does it say you need to boot recovery and install the zip from your sdcard that way to install SU. Luckily I find this stuff pretty easy and simple to figure out if you're stuck. :)
[EVO 4G General] BIGLDH:
Complete noob question here... If it is indeed a Clockwork mod, IS there a way to install the nandroid backup ? or do I need to wipe, and restart the root?
[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
Nandroid = backup; its the same thing. If you need to restore, simply go to backup/restore, then select the backup you want.
[EVO 4G General] BIGLDH:
That was my assumption, but I know what happens when you (or I) assume anything. So again, thank you all very much for the advice and help!
[EVO 4G General] KCuadrado:
Clockwork question

Is there any way to manually flash Clockwork Recovery? I have S-Off after restoring to 2.3.3 with a RUU, I was on 2.2.
[EVO 4G General] HammDroid:
Yep, just drop the clockword mod zip file on the root of your sd card. Rename it to PC36IMG.zip, then boot to hboot, and when you go in, it should automatically see the file and ask if you want to update. Up for yes, down for no.
[EVO 4G General] KCuadrado:
Thank you HammDroid. I'll try that.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[EVO 4G General] bostonshaker:
Anyone root the new update?

I, unfortunately, was unlucky enough for my power button to fail and received a brand new Evo with all the newest updates on it today. I am not sure how well I am going to deal with this since I haven't had a stock phone in quite a while. Any news on the horizon about the new version getting root yet?
[EVO 4G General] xxllplayallxx:
To get root (required to backup apps on the phone before installing a custom ROM), you must flash this package in the recovery

this is were i am stuck how do i do it?
[EVO 4G General] playya:
huh what is it you are trying to do? sorry a lil confused by your statement.

Are you rooted?
[EVO 4G General] shortydoggg:
If you have software version 4.24 or 4.53 with hboot 2.16, the root has been out for over a month now. Matter of fact, it's on the first page of this same thread.
[EVO 4G General] mlass:
Thanks for the info (to the OP)

Worked great on OTA Update #9 4.24.651.1 2.15.00.05.02.

Was able to install CM7 nightly 200.
[EVO 4G General] verwon:
Go into recovery and install the zip file it told you to download and put on your SD card.
[EVO 4G General] derric0313:
Im stuck at revolutionar waiting for device heeeeeelp!!!!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
Do you have the drivers installed and is USB debbuging enabled?

Sent from my amazing Evo on king bliss beta v7
[EVO 4G General] linf94112:
Aye, I guess I'm not rooting this EVO anytime soon. I got directed over here with my problem which is the same as posted.

Unless there's been any new developments?
[EVO 4G General] firegeek:
Unfortunately there is no good news. Unless you find a "problem " which I did... Yay! I had a bad screen, blown speaker, borked lights... So i got another and was up and running really quickly. It's a bad phone. Simple as that.
[EVO 4G General] oZo:
<driver issue resolved>

<post edited>
[EVO 4G General] Thoragh:
I just rooted my wife's HTC EVO 4G (supersonic) phone with this method, worked great! Thanks again!!!
[EVO 4G General] kalapa:
worked like a charm!
[EVO 4G General] gmoney41685:
Worked perfect by following the directions to a T! Thanks, devs and everyone else that helped!
[EVO 4G General] Kill3rmonk:
Same problem here, is there any possibility this can be fixed or should I just be running Sprint updates.
[EVO 4G General] firegeek:
As far as I know... There is no fix besides replacing phone. At least I couldn't find anything at all. Wish I had better news. I got my phone replaced and its all good now.

Erik.
[EVO 4G General] Kill3rmonk:
I can't go into the store and tell them I have a bad NAND for a replacement can I? haha
[EVO 4G General] firegeek:
No... sadly you can't. Thankfully the phone I had was absolute junk!

So I hope you have the insurance and can find a defect...

E.
[EVO 4G General] johnnychimpo:
Pretty easy to do. Unlocked wifes phone yesterday with it.
[EVO 4G General] jcooklock:
i get to the part whewre i need to download goo-inside.me/superuser/su-2....fgh-signed.zip and i cant seem to get it to download. does anyone have another link for this?
[EVO 4G General] chadjr2005:
stuck at sprint 4g animation

Hey Guys/Gals new here and ran into an issue yesterday i ran thru the steps to root as per the initial post,all went fine and got S-OFF running stock. Some time

later started to download CM7 nightly thru ROM MANAGER and during the download the phone did a random reboot,now i am stuck with the Sprint animation reloading over and over. Did not get a nandroid bacup but got a titanium backup,but cannot get past the animation for sprint...any help to return to normal or factory would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
[EVO 4G General] Pandachaser:
Are there unrooting steps to this?
[EVO 4G General] {ParanoiA}:
Pull battery and put it back in. With phone still off, hold the volume - key (the opposite of the volume + key) and press and hold the power button (don't let go of either until it starts booting up). This should bring you to the hboot screen. Scroll to recovery using the volume keys and when its highlighted, select it with the power key. Now you should be in recovery. Wipe cache then wipe dalvik cache. Reboot. Are you back into your rom now? Also uninstall rom manager.

Sent From My Pocket
[EVO 4G General] plainjane:
If the rom fully downloaded, just boot into recovery, wipe data/cache/dalvik, and flash the rom. If you cannot get your phone to boot back up by wiping cache/dalvik as mentioned above (don't wipe data unless you're flashing) and the rom didn't finish downloading, you'll need to get a rom on your SD card. Download whatever rom you want from your computer. I'm not familiar with Clockwork, but you should have an option for USB-MS or mount usb or something. Plug the phone into your computer and then select that option. Move the rom zip to the root of your SD card, unmount from the computer, and then wipe and flash. If Clockwork doesn't have that option or you can't find it, you can use a card reader if your computer doesn't have a SD slot. You'll probably need an adapter as well.

I'm going to echo the suggestion about ditching Rom Manager. Download your roms directly from the source (you can find them all here in the development section) and do all of your flashing manually through recovery - preferably not CWM, but that's your decision. You'll have a lot less problems doing it that way, and I promise it's not hard.

Supersonic Evo 4G | MIUI | Tapatalk
[EVO 4G General] mnxd9:
I'm confused maybe someone can help me out here, I was rooted through unrevoked on 2.2, couldn't get the OTA 2.3 update to go through, so I tried to unroot it through the instructions on the unrevoked site, hoping it would then allow me to accept the OTA GB update it wouldn't..... SO I ended up just flashing Version 4.22.651.2 De-Odexed from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1038701 and I'm on 2.3.

Then doing some searching I came across this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1319881 so I flashed to the 4.54.651.1 Deodex'ed.

Looking into things a bit further my radio/wimax and such could be updated, then I discovered I 1. Couldn't really get to the bootloader (power on, hold vol down) and 2. when I finally managed it it says I'm currently running hboot 2.10 and I have s-on, but I do have root, I can use titaninum backup, and wifi tether...

How do I fix this? get the s-off and do I want hboot 2.15/2,16? or how do I flash the radio updates with s-on?

So freakin confused right now! I was going to try to root it with Revolutionary but the beta key only lets me select hboot 2.15/2.16.
[EVO 4G General] dvsnis:
I like alpha rev! why i cant comment to a dev on their thread about a ROM is kinda forum nazi'ish until i have 10 of these lame post's.. I feel like a forum fluffer
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
You don't need Revolutionary. You can unlock your NAND (S-OFF) with unrEVOked, since you have HBOOT 2.10. As long as your radio is 2.15.00.11.19 or older, you shouldn't have any problem doing that.

The reason you can't get into Bootloader is likely because Fast boot is enabled. Disable that, and your device should completely power off.
[EVO 4G General] mnxd9:
Well that all seems to make enough sense, I'll make the changes tonight when i have the time.
[EVO 4G General] mnxd9:
Nevermind I got the lastest ruu to work, I think I'll be able to take it from here and head back into my learning and lurking mode

unrevoked failed, error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?

I am on the 2.15.00.11.19 radio....
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
If you're flashing a stock ROM, you should flash the last Froyo update - unrEVOked was made to root that. That's probably your issue, since you're currently running Gingerbread, right?
[EVO 4G General] mnxd9:
Not that it matters much anymore, but I was running Froyo, stock rooted (rooted orignally with unrevoked), I did at one point try a couple GB custom roms, but couldn't get them to work 100%, that was before GB was offically rooted, so maybe somewhere in there, something didn't like something, iirc I nandroided back to 2.2.

But I ended up using revolutionary and flashed what I figured was the latest stock rom, (then rooted it) Now I'm up and running again smooth without issues. In due time I'll probably play with some custom roms and see if there is anything out there I like better, I guess I'm just picky and can't very rarely find anything more reliable than stock, so I lose out on some of the bling and swag of the nice custom roms in exchange for reliability.

Anyways thanks for your help and support.
[EVO 4G General] chrisbluejames:
I'm unable to root my evo unfortunately because I keep getting this download error when trying to download revolutionary

"C:\Users\OFWMFSKTADGAF\Downloads\revolutionary-0.4pre4(1).zip.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

Try again later, or contact the server administrator."

anybody know what's causing this or any fix for the problem ?
[EVO 4G General] Mersch:
Just wanted to add that you don't have to take out your battery. If you run the revolutionary tool it will show you your serial number after it connects to your phone. Or it did for my evo anyway.
[EVO 4G General] chadjr2005:
Thanks for the response. When I got home from work I found MIUI and got the most recent ROM....1.8.5 I believe...did a full wipe X3,flashed MIUI and have been running sweet ever since. The new ROM coupled with a new extended 3500mah battery and I am loving my EVO once again. Sometimes since rooting I wish I had of jumped on the train sooner,but glad I stuck it out until this update was found. Thanks to the devs on this...much props people.

---------- Post added at 10:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:04 AM ----------

Thanks for the help....I got MIUI 1.8.5 running later that evening. Sorry it took so long on a repined,work and the holiday coming up has me working my ass off. I second the move to remove the ROM manager,much easier and less complicated when you can dictate the install. Once again thanks for the help.
[EVO 4G General] mbrad291:
Havving the same issue. Have refurb from assurion and keep gettin caroline error mesage. Someone please help
[EVO 4G General] rc51rider:
My wife recently dropped her phone in the toilet and had to get a refurbished phone using the insurance through sprint.

I am trying to root it through rovolutionary.io.

I downloaded all the drivers, entered the beta key,and the prompt said root successful, but when it goes to download "caroline" it fails and shows a few ECC errors.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks :D
[EVO 4G General] VECTUS:
Delete post...
[EVO 4G General] rc51rider:
I know my post count is low, but someone else out there has had the same problem..

Can someone please help? thanks
[EVO 4G General] firegeek:
What are the errors exactly? Does it say cannot write? Or bad blocks?

Erik.
[EVO 4G General] otaku1984:
Nice! Love how easy that was.
[EVO 4G General] rc51rider:
When sending caroline, it says something like saving caroline from doom,says failed, it puts four ECC codes and says press any key to exit.
[EVO 4G General] firegeek:
Is it like this? If so... Its bad news! Your NAND is bad. And there's no fix besides new phone... But that's the only errors I'm familiar with. You can always go to revolutions irc channel and chat and ask... VERY helpful.

Erik.
[EVO 4G General] rc51rider:
Exactly! Except it shows some ECC errors.

Thanks for your help Erik
[EVO 4G General] Kill3rmonk:
Phones with a bad NAND are now rootable!!!

Update to the latest HTC Software Version and follow this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1473373
[EVO 4G General] dvsnis:
this is how I rooted two of my phones and it works!
[EVO 4G General] tgrantjr:
Now im just messing around with it and decided to try and ruu back to stock just in case. I use the newest ruu file and it gets stuck at bootloader. Now im stuck on cm7 with no market and seems i cannot add my google account to it for some reason. ugh
[EVO 4G General] amorse2183:
I've been out of it for the last couple months. How do I install the amon-ra or clockwork mod? I rooted this thing when I bought it in September but I haven't since and frankly I don't remember how. do I change the name of the file to pc36img or should I leave it as it originally is?
[EVO 4G General] lstaler21978:
arrg got invalid beta key :confused:
[EVO 4G General] mxl180:
i never rooted OG before.

From reading some threads... i think i'm suppose to

1) Get s-off

2) ?

3) root

4) install loader

5) install rom

am I missing something in #2) ?
[EVO 4G General] xalucardx:
me too , also a big woohooo LOL

it works btw , but the app crashed when trying to install cwm , but i can do that manually

*edit* any recommendation on a sense rom with good battery life? its my mom & wife phone lol
[EVO 4G General] reggiedarden:
Well I'm not having any luck getting the recovery to download on linux or windows. Program crashes everytime.

Got recovery on through PC36IMG.zip Nandroiding now. Oh my which ROM do I run first?!?!?!?!?
[EVO 4G General] airalcorn2:
Yesssss. So pumped!
[EVO 4G General] steviee7:
im stuck on a page that says zerging root may take a couple of minutes... and its been like that for like 5 mins
[EVO 4G General] j1ayjay:
I am new at Rooting, can you help?
[EVO 4G General] tgrantjr:
I was stuck there for a good 4 minutes. It will go thru.
[EVO 4G General] j1ayjay:
I have the HTC EVO 4G with Sprint and have ver 2.3.3.
[EVO 4G General] Evo4gLI:
I've got the S-OFF and I got the recovery to download, but Titanium Backup and Busybox both say I'm not rooted....IDK why....I'm making a Nandroid Backup now, and then I'm going to try flashing some stuff. I'll let you know how it works out for me.
[EVO 4G General] Mark_Hardware:
evertime I try and run revolutionary.exe I get an an error message saying "adbwinapi.dll isn't found. It's right there in the same zip, can someone tell me where I should put it/ do with it to fix this problem?
[EVO 4G General] iBlowpot:
SUPERUSER?

Does anyone have Superuser permissions?
[EVO 4G General] j1ayjay:
Can you help me root my HTC EVO 4g? I will donate to you! Thank you!
[EVO 4G General] tgrantjr:
Make sure you extract the files to your hard drive first. It cant read it from the zip if you haven't extracted it.
[EVO 4G General] shortydoggg:
Go to your settings/applications and clear settings in Titanium and force stop. Then try running Titanium again.
[EVO 4G General] heythatsghetto:
From what I understand guys... This is a bootloader unlocking tool. It only gets temp root to unlock the bootloader. You still need to flash a custom recovery and a rooted Rom, for those of you who didn't get the memo
[EVO 4G General] Mark_Hardware:
That's what it was. I just opening, not extracting first. Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] jimcgov3:
Does anyone have a full walk-through yet?
[EVO 4G General] macmillan.23:
I am having a ridiculous issue. Regardless of the souce, im having an impossible time getting the htc drivers to install. Any help?
[EVO 4G General] heythatsghetto:
Just install pda net... It inclued the drivers
[EVO 4G General] Evo4gLI:
Here's what I'm not getting....My boot screen says S-OFF, and I was able to install the recovery, however I still can't get Titanium Backup to recognize root. I also made a Nandroid backup, but I can't find it on the SD card anywhere when I try to transfer it to my computer....I don't want to go any further with flashing before I'm sure I have a backup....Any suggestions?
[EVO 4G General] shortydoggg:
Go to your computer's device manager. What drivers do you have under Android devices, or do you have any Android devices? Also go to settings/applications on your phone and go to deployment. Make sure USB debugging is checked.
[EVO 4G General] rcijamal:
im having trouble with the root .. its says that it cant send to caroline
[EVO 4G General] saboture:
My beta key will not work. I've tried case sensitive and non case sensitive and I've gotten no where. Any ideas?
[EVO 4G General] shortydoggg:
Do you see a superuser app in your applications?
[EVO 4G General] Mark_Hardware:
did you install the busybox installer?