[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
I've seen a couple AOSP guides pop up recently... That's great, but there are some people like me who use Sense! :)

If you are looking for an AOSP guide, check out Arrow's and Crossrocker's guides, they are pretty impressive!

I am not responsible for bricks/mistakes, I am not perfect and neither are you... All of this works for me, I don't know why it wouldn't work for you, sorry, not responsible:p

Most of this is universal for any networks. Some stuff is not, like the Hands-Free Activation and PRL update and radio updates.

POST ONE IS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE 2.3.3. IF YOU HAVE 2.3.5, THEN MORE WORK IS REQUIRED AND I WILL WRITE A GUIDE FOR Y'ALL SOON

Let's start out first with rooting. Basically any phone now has Gingerbread, and the only method to root Gingerbread is with Revolutionary.io. I have never used this method, so feel free to tell me and I will add on.

Download HTC drivers here. Go to "Downloads" folder of your computer, double-click and run.

Download the Revoltionary file here and extract it to your desktop.

Open the folder and run the Revolutionary script.

Revolutionary will detect your phone's specific serial number. Use that to generate the beta key on the revolutionary website.

Enter the beta key in the Revolutionary terminal window on your computer. Copy and paste the key from the Revolutionary website to the terminal window to avoid any issues.

Let Revolutionary run.

You should now have S-Off.

Download Amon Ra here. When the download finishes, rename it to PC36IMG (the whole name should be PC36IMG.zip - most people have extension names hidden so name it PC36IMG). The thread is here

Turn on your phone, mount as disk drive and put it on the root of your SD card (not in folders).

Go into Settings - Applications - and uncheck Fast boot.

Turn phone off.

Hold volume-down and power button. This will take you to HBOOT.

HBOOT will look for files. It will detect the PC36IMG.zip. When it asks if you want to update, choose "Yes" by hitting volume-up. Let it do its thing, then it will ask if you want to reboot. "Yes" again.

You now have S-Off and a custom recovery. Let's get you the latest radios. I have had the best battery life with them so far. HAVE YOUR PHONE FULLY CHARGED.

Download time: All new radios are now in one "flashable" zip. Go to the Mik Mik here, and look under the RECOVERY Version for Baseband 2.15.00.12.19, PRI 2.33_003, WiMax 27243 & NV 2.15_003, or click here.

Plug up the phone to the computer. Mount as disk drive in dropdown menu.

Delete the PC36IMG.zip

Transfer the downloaded radio .zip to your phone.

Unmount in dropdown menu.

Turn phone off, get into HBOOT.

HBOOT will serarch for files. It won't find any. So use your volume keys to navigate to "Recovery" and select with power button.

Ah, recovery mode... the place to flash ROMs... let's go over some basic instructions. Navigate with volume keys, select with power button. You can also navigate up (with the home capacitive button) and down (with the menu capacitive button) and select (with the search capacitive button) and go back (with the back capacitive button).

USB-MS Toggle – This will connect your phone to your computer so you can edit/delete/modify files on your SD Card.

Backup/Restore – Create Nandroids (backups) here. You also restore from backups here.

Flash Zip From SD Card – Flash ROMs, kernels, themes and mods here. Obviously.

Wipe – The lifeblood of flashing ROMs, you need to properly wipe every time you flash something. I will explain later.

Partition SD Card – This allows advanced storage of cache, dalvik or data onto the SD card, giving you more space on the phone. This is extremely helpful with the newer, larger ROMs. Highly recommended, basically a requirement.

Navigate to Backup/Restore. Choose Nandroid backup.

Select boot, system, data, recovery, android.secure and wimax with volume keys and select Perform Backup. (Cache is not needed because there is no need to save temporary files).

This is your fully stock backup. Keep this safe. I keep mine on my computer.

Return to the main screen of recovery. Navigate to Wipe.

Select cache, it will wipe.

Select dalvik, it will wipe.

Return to main screen of recovery. Go to "Flash zip from sdcard".

Break time. This stuff coming up is very important. I am not responsible if you don't follow directions. DO NOT PULL BATTERY.

Select CM-EVO_Radio-2.15.00.12.19_PRI-2.33_WiMax_NV. Once it finishes, return to main screen of recovery. Select "Reboot system now".

Let the phone sit there. You should see the splash screen and then a box with a phone and green arrow. Let it sit there. This will reboot you to recovery.

Perfect. You now have the latest radios. Time to flash a custom ROM... And we are all here for custom ROMs, now aren't we? :D

See next post...