[EVO 4G General] Xedroid:
I rooted my phone this last Monday with great success, and have been happily flashing ROMs ever since. I have had a few friends/aquaintances asking me how to do this, so I thought I would post this here to help them, and hopefully a few others here.

Special thanks to evilecho. I just added a few “noob” steps to his amazing tutorial.

If installed, uninstall HTC Sync. This is very important!

Backup anything you need backed up off your phone. Most things on your phone will be safe but back everything up just to be sure.

Download SuperUser zip & Amon_RA’s recovery (if you don’t want to use the Clockwork Mod recover that ships with Revolutionary)

Note: Many people are advising that people new to rooting use Amon_RA’s recovery. Amon_RA’s recovery is very simple, reliable, and very solid and does everything you need to flash a new ROM, if you would like.​

Copy both to your root of SD card

Download and install HTC Drivers

Download Revolutionary: S-OFF & Recovery Tool

Note: The download link is at the bottom of the page. You will need to enter your EVO’s Serial number which is located under the battery. Make sure you to copy/write down the beta key. You will need it later)​

Copy the beta key to Notepad or a similar app

On your EVO:

Enable USB debugging mode: Go to Settings –> Applications –> Development –> check box for USB debugging [/INDENT]

Disable Fast boot: Go to Settings –> Power –> check box for Fast Boot

Connect your EVO to your PC with a USB cable - Select Charge Only

Unzip the Revolutionary tool and run it as admin (to run as admin, right click and select run as admin)

Open a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd)

Navigate to the folder where you unzipped the Revolutionary tool

Type revolutionary.exe

The tool will recognize your device

Enter/paste the beta key that you pasted into Notepad

Note: to paste into the command prompt, right click on the top bar of the window -> Edit -> Paste​

The phone will fastboot twice

It will ask you if you want to install the Clockwork Mod recovery. Select Yes.

Note: Instructions to switch to Amon_RA to follow.​

After Revolutionary is complete, boot into the bootloader (if not already there) by turning off the phone, then hold the power button and the down volume button for a few seconds. You should then see “Revolutionary” at the top, and “S-OFF”.

The phone should now ask you if you want to update the recovery (by recognizing the PC36IMG.zip file that we downloaded and copied to the SD card of the phone). Select yes. This will update your recovery to Amon_RA's.

Use the up and down arrow keys and choose “Recovery” by pushing the power button

Choose “Flash zip from sdcard”

Choose “Choose zip from sdcard”

Use the up arrow key to move you to the bottom of the list, then look for “su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip” and push the power button to select

Push the power button again to accept

You are now rooted!

At this point, I would recommend going to this awesome thread by sekigah84, which will walk you through creating a Nanroid backup and flashing ROMs. Enjoy!

As always, this will void your warranty and may possibly damage your phone. You and you alone are responsible for anything that you do. Everything contained in this thread is for informational purposes only.​

If any of the amazing other readers/contributors here on XDA find any discrepancies here, please let me know!​