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[EVO 4G General] mptherealmp:
Has anyone tried to replace the Rev bootloader with any of the older official HTC bootloaders?

I'm interested in installing the Engineering .76 Bootloader with the additional Fastboot command support.
[EVO 4G General] recklis:
Im looking all over my cap'n crunch(tm) cereal box and cant find a number that works.

Really? They want my serial number? Did the devs @ revs glitch into the encryption algorithm or did they shake hands with HTC? Wait, did I just say that? Slapped my own face (twice). Seriously I think it all comes down to tethering. Since every other carrier is starting to nickel and dime data they need to stay in line. The whole idea sucks but I hear you Sprint. I just realized Bandwidth is becoming a commodity.
[EVO 4G General] steve19137:
This tool is only for HBOOT 2.16.
[EVO 4G General] JagoRacing:
i have a dumb question i guess... ive been using clockwork mod since i rooted the first time and now im going to root my girls phone who updated... does clockwork not work well with this new root tool... can someone explain, everyone says use the ra recovery, im lost now
[EVO 4G General] kshadeed:
I'm a newbie just switched from Palm Pre could you send me a list of must haves for the Evo? (apps, new swipe) the custom rom thing is making my head spin LOL) thanks in advance
[EVO 4G General] Indirect:
People prefer Amon_ra because the developer is just better and it has a much cleaner way of doing the tasks it offers. I have a feeling alot of the code in CWM is sloppy and also it doesn't clean the dalvik properly from what I have seen. Amon_ra's is really nice and I am planning on using it until TWRP is fully functional.
[EVO 4G General] r3a1ist:
I'm sorry, I know I'm a noob. I'm so excited at seeing S-off. I've run revolutionary have had complete success. Does this mean I have root or do i still need to run unrevoked now? Basically this isn't just a hsboot change but a complete root I would assume. I know it's a dumb question I'm just verifying, thanks.
[EVO 4G General] r3a1ist:
nevermind, i think i figured it out, thanks.
[EVO 4G General] familyfirst315:
I have gone thru all the root steps but I am stuck at the end. I've used the tool and gained root...when booting it says S-off however I am not familiar on exactly what "flash clockworkmod" or other recovery tools means. I tried to go to recovery but then I get a picture of the phone and a exclamation point with a red triangle around it. I'm not sure what flashing means or how to go about it. does this make sense to anyone? sorry for the noob nonsense..
[EVO 4G General] treo4life:
it should have asked you did you want to install CWM and you should have said yes. you didnt see that part?
[EVO 4G General] Crash*N*Burn:
No... all it does it turn S-Off and loads a custom recovery
[EVO 4G General] donnelljrn:
I got the red triangle to. What you have to do is take the clockwork zip or which recovery you choice to use and rename it to PC36IMG.Zip or what ever it is. And when in the bootloader, it will scan and find the file and ask you if you want to run the it.
[EVO 4G General] familyfirst315:
I tried to download clockworkmod but couldn't find it in the marketplace. I think I found a link from another thread and copied the files onto my SD card but maybe it wasn't scanned?? I know that I dis not rename anything so maybe that's all I need to do with what I previously downloaded...
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
You need to rename you recovery file PC36IMG.zip, then boot to bootloader (Vol Dwn/Pwr) and when it asks if you want to update, hit yes.

BTW, really, use Amon Ra, not CWM
[EVO 4G General] sbuxreg:
thanks devs for making this happen!!!!
[EVO 4G General] egnin1:
Follow what he said. Its hard to tell what is 0 and o and O and some letters like L or l or I in the fonts they use.... I was going insane for 10 minutes then when i said OK let me open up note pad.. and copy and paste and i said OOOOHHHHH OK!!! then 4 minutes later Root magic..... :cool:
[EVO 4G General] Saint Michael23:
This is AWESOME!!!!! Thank you Devs and all your hard work you guys are the ISH!!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] asmd6230:
How do we replace the custom recovery with amon ra?

(if we wanted to... and whats the advantage of amon ra over the one that is intalled by the s-off tool?)
[EVO 4G General] mjpuczko:
download ROM Manager from the market & install Amon that way.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
ACK!! No way.

Usee the PC36IMG from the Amon Ra thread in the Development section!
[EVO 4G General] Uglytuc:
What is the difference between Amon and the backup/restore in this Custom recovery?
[EVO 4G General] thebluegoose:
Ever since i got my transformer I have wanted to tether it to my EVO 4G but was unable to without root. Thank you so much to the devs who got this working. It was super easy and seamless. :D

The bluegoose
[EVO 4G General] HunterNIU:
Crap, I was completely ready to try this. Went to revolutionary.io and downloaded the zip. Read through everything and got setup, went back to revolutionary.io to get my beta key...

The system is down...
[EVO 4G General] woonkie:
I am assuming the site is down then? I click on the revolutionary link and it doesn't go anywhere
[EVO 4G General] waianaedawg:
I hope its not down!!!! I just finished reading through this ENTIRE thread...I was going to try this afternoon! Maybe I should have done it late last night :(
[EVO 4G General] logie:
swapped out my old evo since GPS/audio port was hosed and got my replacement.. no way to root with revolutionary down.. this isnt good

dang the need for a key :\
[EVO 4G General] familyfirst315:
I apologize for the stupid question in advance....what exactly are you referring to as the "recovery file"? is that clockworkmod? as you can see, my vocabulary with all of this is very minimal. I thank everyone for there quick responses.
[EVO 4G General] dgatlin:
Where do you save the PC36IMG.zip file...

I did this and all I get is a red triangle with an exclamation point.

Thanks...
[EVO 4G General] plainjane:
So, for everyone asking for Amon Ra, here it is. http://db.tt/WP0beNa

It's already named properly, just download it & put it on the root of your SD card. Boot into the bootloader, accept the update, say no to reboot, select recovery, and flash away.

... And while everyone was *****ing and moaning about no root, why didn't you do your research then?
[EVO 4G General] logie:
Because their site was down. I was just able to get my key and am rooted now.
[EVO 4G General] plainjane:
No, I mean the time between the OTA update & the s-off tool release. I'm not pointing my finger at everyone just now rooting, but you'll notice that the people who complained about not being able to root are the same people who are now asking questions that are easily answered.

My point is that instead of posting about how the Evo has been abandoned and the developers suck and not being able to root is the worst thing ever, they should've been reading so that they'd know what to do when root was finally available.

But now I'm complaining, so I'm going to shut up about it.
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
Just go back to Revolutionary site, click the download link... you can cancel the download, and generate a new key.
[EVO 4G General] Alex@XDA:
While this may be a lame post with no real value....

... I am finally rooted once more. Life is Good!!

Huge props to the devs..
[EVO 4G General] wmblalock:
This is great timing, I just had to order a replacement phone today and requested a new, not refurbished unit, so chances are it will be a new phone with GB.. glad to see I can root it when it comes!
[EVO 4G General] sprada:
It work's without any problem! So if you doubt or refuse to put in your serial #, there's no need to worry...I'm hacked (rooted) and I'm back myn's rom!!!!
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
I think I found my problem. After I went through set up I said NO to custom after it was done and I should have said yes. That is why I am not fully rooted.

What file do I need to flash to reverse my error?
[EVO 4G General] HunterNIU:
revolutionary.io is back up!

And this worked awesome! S-OFF, Amon RA, and as soon as Synergy + godmode is done downloading that is going on!

Thanks awesome DEVs, this is great since I had to get a refurb when my charge port crapped out. (I hate that I had to pay $100 for a replacement phone when the charge port breaking wasn't my fault and a known issue though.) Glad to have it rooted again!
[EVO 4G General] HunterNIU:
You need the Amon RA or Clockwork ZIP.

(I used Amon RA for the first time, always used to use clockwork. I like it so far.) They can be found on the first page of the thread I believe, and they were reposted in a few different pages.
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
That works fine.. I am able to wipe.. and everything. I even have a rom installed.. just no super user. I have busy box and everything shows I am not rooted. I have tried 3-4 superuser files.. same thing.. no root
[EVO 4G General] cvpi:
You actually need to hold down power and both volume buttons.
[EVO 4G General] HunterNIU:
I had the same problem. I used titanium backup to update my SU (it just grabs it from the market from what I can tell)

Then I used BusyBox Installer (market) to install busybox. (It asked for SU perms)

I rebooted the evo, and BAM! full root access.
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
I tried that also.. Thanks.. no matter what I do I cant get it working.. :(
[EVO 4G General] HunterNIU:
Start the entire process over?
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
I tried that also.. it just gives me a message about s- already done "what are you trying to do"

lol..
[EVO 4G General] HunterNIU:
Ouch man, wish I could be of more help, but I'm just a n00b who followed the thread myself...
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
I have the same problem. If you were like me, you should have S-Off and be able to boot to recovery. If so:

Go to the Development forum and snag the file in the first post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1218386

Get the File su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip

Boot to recovery.

Install from ZIP the file you downloaded.

Once that's done, you will have SuperUser and be rooted.
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
I have tried that also.. I have no idea why it wont work. I have searching the forums for answers. It just does not make any sense.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Uhh, no you actually don't. Just Vol Dwn & Power.

If you're running a 2.3 ROM, you probably have fastboot enabled
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
Here's a novel idea. Since you're S-Off, find an official Evo 4G RUU and run it. Once you're back to official, do the OTA to bring you back to HBOOT 2.16 and then run the Revolutionary tool again. That's about all I can think of trying at this point.

Mine went well. I had S-Off but no root until I did the ZIP file I recommended to you. Since that didn't work for you, give this next suggestion a try and report back.
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
That is a great idea
[EVO 4G General] Exiled44:
When I try to install the HTC Drivers i get an error message saying he windows installer service could not be accessed! I am running windows XP. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? Thanks
[EVO 4G General] familyfirst315:
Has anyone used the cyanogen 7.1 yet? I found it on another thread...from what I read, the easiest way to download ROMS is using ROM Manager. I downloaded this app and when I chose Download ROM, it says I need to download Clockwork Mod. I then click the "install clockwork mod" button...chose my phone model...and then get an error "error occured while attempting to run privileged commands" I'm not sure what I'm missing. I assumed it was one file to download a ROM and then either using the bootscreen and flash a ROM (obv have never done this before) or use ROM Manager...to install the ROM. I have done a nandroid backup earlier. Any suggestions?
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
You can try this

Log on to your computer as an administrator.

Click Start, and then click Run.

In the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK.

At the command prompt, typemsiexec.exe /unregister, and then press ENTER.

Type msiexec /regserver, and then press ENTER.

Verify that the SYSTEM account has full control access permissions to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive in the Windows registry. In some cases, you may also have to add Administrator accounts. To do so:Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.

Click the following registry hive:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

On the Edit menu, click Permissions.

If SYSTEM is not listed in the Group or user names list, click Add, make sure that the local computer name appears in the From this location box, type system in the Enter the object names to select box, click Check Names, and then click OK.

Click SYSTEM in the Group or user names list, and then select the Full Control check box under Allow in the Permissions for SYSTEM box.

Click Apply, click OK, and then quit Registry Editor.
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
Have you tried to use the fix permissions button?

Just my 2 cents.. I would never use rom manager to download and install a rom.
[EVO 4G General] Exiled44:
Thanks man, I actually just found that right before you posed it. Just had to unregister & reregister. Thanks for the response.
[EVO 4G General] Exiled44:
I just found two videos on Youtube for this root process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AXEHjRdXs8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWGqpINqhOs
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
ROM Manager is really not a good way to flash or D/L ROMS. The best way is o get it form the ROM's thread and follow those directions and stay with Amon Ra.
[EVO 4G General] cvpi:
Oh just noticed that I did thanks.
[EVO 4G General] heywire:
I just wanted to give a big THANK YOU to the dev teams behind this. Another success here S-OFF!
[EVO 4G General] Majishin:
Ok Im not new to rooting am however new to the evo and I have what I think is a stupid problem that I've already read others having Im not an idiot and have patience with that said... The beta key doesnt work for me I've tried to type it, copy and paste it, and copy and paste it into notepad then into revo and still I get invalid key I've tried to regenerate keys always get the same one... I've even tried 2 different computers and different usb cables just in case and I'm still unrooted can you guys come up with a solution?
[EVO 4G General] cvpi:
How would I get out of the recovery screen I accidentally clicked on it after I rooted. Now it just shows the ! in the red triangle next to the phone.

Edit: I feel really dumb figured it out.
[EVO 4G General] churro7:
this guide definately worked!!!!
[EVO 4G General] :
agh

No matter what I do i can't get passed "waiting for device", downloaded the drivers and ran the installer, never had htc sync downloaded, and tried to run in both 'charge only' and 'htc sync'. Help?
[EVO 4G General] cvpi:
Did you run revolutionary as administrator, disable antivirus?
[EVO 4G General] treo4life:
I'm trying to do my 3rd EVO, but the key its giving me is not a good one, I did 2 EVOs yesterday without a problem, but this one well u know..
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
Yo do not have the drivers installed or you do not have USB debugging enabled.
[EVO 4G General] oski252:
worked for me when rooting a friends phone, went back to root my phone and revolutionary site is down.....damnit...shouldve rooted mine first......

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
[EVO 4G General] rexilus:
Followed the directions and it worked for me, thanx
[EVO 4G General] godS3nd:
The site's up, go nuts!
[EVO 4G General] jarsong:
ANyone happened to try this on an EVO 4G yet? Justs lists EVO 3D but I was thinking they used the same boot loader...

http://htcdev.com/bootloader/

On Edit: I posted this on the wrong thread... Looks like a solution is here!!! Exciting!
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
In addition, if you previously had drivers installed, get the latest drivers. Once I did that, my issue of waiting went away.
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
Have you managed to get root yet? Just curious if the last method I suggested managed to work or not.
[EVO 4G General] PhreakAccident:
I would copy the key provided from the web page screen, then use the PASTE feature of the CMD box. When I rooted mine, they key wasn't being accepted. Happened that I was confusing lower cased letters with numbers or some other screwy thing. But once I did copy and paste, it worked like a charm!
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
It was the rom I was using.. I changed roms and it works perfect..
[EVO 4G General] cac5b:
Thanks for this I have been waiting since the day I got the phone and made the mistake of downloading the ota gingerbread to have root. I had a droid X before and it was rooted and so now that I'm rooted and running cm7 I couldn't be happier.
[EVO 4G General] oski252:
Oh yeah, on my way home now!
[EVO 4G General] unclefarkus:
i am having trouble rooting, i have followed all of the directions... drivers installed, no htc sync, debugging and fastboot on, etc and i keep getting stuck here.

i have a screenshot but i can't post it. anyways, my error says

root acquired!

some stuff about caroline

caroline failed

errors:-

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

any ideas?
[EVO 4G General] IIDeViiNII:
Invalid Code

:(

I copy and pasted and typed it like 20 times already...... i guess no rooting for me
[EVO 4G General] kawyboy:
HTC EVO4G Hboot2.160001

Worked great. Uninstalled htc syn 1st. Installed Htc Drivers from link.

Put Recovery zip on sd card. Enabled USB Debugging.

Ran revolutionay!!

Great. Very fast 10-15 minutes to root install recovery, and have wireless tether up and running.

Thanks guys.
[EVO 4G General] :
I ran the installer but how can i check my current driver? It must be the drivers because i have usb debugging on, ran revolutionary as admin, never had htc sync installed and used charge only and htc sync, and still stuck on waiting on device.
[EVO 4G General] Rizzlinux1388:
Thank you to all the developers! My first smartphone and first time rooting and flashing a phone! This is awesome, thanks again!
[EVO 4G General] Fictorie10:
I just came down from my flash high

**sigh** I'm on cloud nine :cool:
[EVO 4G General] oski252:
Still can't get the revolutionary site to come up....WTH!!!
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
It must have something to do with your ISP.

I was trying for hours at work using XO.. I can get on fine using Comcast.

I even tried another DNS and was unable to get on.

Do you have the software?

http://hotfile.com/dl/127121426/1de50bd/revolutionary-0.4pre4.zip.html

paste your sn and I will get you a key
[EVO 4G General] infallibleapex:
I dont want to read througg allll the posts but i had to run the tool in admin mode

sent from my supersonic evo .:CM7:.
[EVO 4G General] oski252:
i was able to root a friends phone yesterday took them the phone came back home to root mine and no go for rev site...been that way since.......

HT09DHL00452
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
ttwM1Lyz4Vip4jkk
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
if you get bad invalid, you need to download the new version I posted above.

Uninstall ver 3 and install ver 4
[EVO 4G General] oski252:
thanks, i will dl new drivers if i have too....will report back in a few

okay so just dl new software......
[EVO 4G General] Xtazy305:
Im getting invalid beta key im making sure im putting the right one :/ any advise thank u
[EVO 4G General] Product F(RED):
Your serial # is the one it gives you in Revolutionary, not your ESN. I made that mistake when rooting my 3D.
[EVO 4G General] amorse2183:
It asks me if I want to flash and install clockwork recovery and then the program fails and closes.

I got through and i have s-off but i have no idea how to install the other file to actually get root. i even tried to just install rom manager through the market but i can't flash clockworkmod because I don't have root
[EVO 4G General] ronnienyc:
It's case sensitive.
[EVO 4G General] inifekt:
:( Won't work with Japanese EVO.
[EVO 4G General] jraz305:
does it matter . that it crashes while doing clock work mod ..... and also what rom should i use .. i never flashed a rom but i now have s off woo hooooo
[EVO 4G General] filefly:
Works great, I am now S-OFF :) Thanks AlphaRev, unrevoked, and of course XDA for making me aware this was available. WOO!
[EVO 4G General] jraz305:
you guys f'iiinnnnnggg

Rock..... Another day and i might of slit my wrist,,, naw just playinh lol
[EVO 4G General] tgrantjr:
Im wondering the same thing. I do not have superuser yet but have the revolutionary recovery installed. Im a little confused. Well i just flashed cm7 with the new recovery and it was stuck at the evo screen for a little bit and now is at the cm7 boot screen. Lets hope i didnt brick.

edit:

Im bootlooping on cm7 boot screen. Going to try again. Maybe this time ill wipe everything before i attempt to flash. I was impatient and forgot.

edit again:

I wiped the partition and cleared all of it and now it booted into cm7. Now just have to flash the new clockwork and im good go to.

Thanks again devs for all your hard work
[EVO 4G General] shortydoggg:
Go to for clockwork

http://www.mediafire.com/?5otzpnt2ld1lmdo

Go to for Amon RA

http://www.mediafire.com/?hiaavcq1tiwass1
[EVO 4G General] inifekt:
If you have the CM7 screen you should be okay. Unless it stays there forever. And if it doesn't, you should be rooted automatically with that rom.
[EVO 4G General] jimcgov3:
What is the Serial Number that I use to get Revolutionary to generate a Beta Key for me?
[EVO 4G General] Ipaulone:
i first read this on twitter.. damn brought a bigass smile to my face. worth the long wait, thanks to the devs.
[EVO 4G General] jraz305:
FIRST TIME ... what do i do

so should i use clock work or amon ra
[EVO 4G General] Noodles_44:
Got S-OFF and it crashed when trying to download and install CWM Recovery. Just run Revolutionary again, it will recognize that you have S-OFF and skip to the CWM step. Worked great and getting my MIUI fix :D
[EVO 4G General] Product F(RED):
For everyone rooting for the first time, use Amon Ra recovery. It's MUCH more reliable and will allow you to flash older ZIPs that Clockwork refuses (yes refuses) to flash.

Take my word for it, I've done this for the past year.
[EVO 4G General] kingjuice:
Does this work with Mac?
[EVO 4G General] shortydoggg:
Amon RA is usually better.

Just remember to wipe factory and Dalvik-Cache from Amon recovery (or Clockwork) menu before you flash a custom ROM. I think quite a few people are forgetting to do this.
[EVO 4G General] lorddaddy84:
Omg, this is freaking awesome. My rooted evo just randomly shut off the other day, now when I turn it on it vibrates 5 times then shuts off. So I am getting a new one in the mail and I was so pissed because I couldn't root it. But now I can. Thanks xda!
[EVO 4G General] Evo4gLI:
OMG that completely worked for me!!!! I'm now S-OFF!!!!! Now to figure out what to do next!!!!
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
cool.. It should work with ver 4.

I am heading home in a few, I will check the thread when I get home.
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
another mirror

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1697340661/revolutionary-0.4pre4.zip
[EVO 4G General] oski252:
dl the new ver and i am getting invalid beta key, aborting
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
This is evo 4g

Your beta key:

ttwM1Lyz4Vip4jkk

are you c/p or typing it out?
[EVO 4G General] budeone:
make sure non of the dll's or there. Use another directory if you have to.

and using admin account when running the program.