yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO Shift 4G General] crump84:
Give this a try http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1558532
[EVO Shift 4G General] dumper1234:
@VICADAN

I tried to re-root last night, but the Visionary.apk didn't work anymore, it said something not certificated. I am on 2.2 and sounds like the play (market) had black list the visionary.

(I have the apk on the root of the sdcard, and also tried the adb run)

Please help.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
adb -r install com.xx.apk make sure you have unknown sources turned on in application settings.
[EVO Shift 4G General] dumper1234:
I can adb devices and it shows my phone and unknown sources and debugging turned on. I copy and pasted the command line from beginning of this thread (adb -r install....), and still gave me an error saying something "not certified".

Any ideas? thanks!
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
Never got that. You must be missing a step. Watch the videos.
[EVO Shift 4G General] dumper1234:
Thanks for the quick response. the Videos were for 2.3. and higher, right?

I am on 2.2, and is suppose to be a easier root. I did it before when I did the root last year.

Should I RUU (your methold) again, before they update the market to "play".

My thinking is they may black list the visionary.apk after the update.

I got it working now, thanks!
[EVO Shift 4G General] v.90:
Nice video man!
[EVO Shift 4G General] mmark27:
trying to root my wife's Shift. I think I can follow these steps pretty easily. Man there are a lot, wish it was more like my Epic 4G Touch with simple one clicks. Lousy HTC. Can't these all be wrapped into a single script somehow?

Anyways, does anyone have the original Visionary.apk to download? Google turns up the ModacoVisionaryPlusr14.apk. Are these the same?

Thanks guys, really appreciate the videos and help. Plus the list of ROMs is great.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
If your on 2.3.4 there is a Script you can use. Indirect's Script will simplify Rooting. I've posted the Visionary apk several times. I believe once or twice on this thread. But I've attached it again below ;) .
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
10 char
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
Video is directed at 2.3.4 users because it's a lot more difficult.

visionary is included in shift-rootkit.rar

Please stop directing people to other threads.

make sure you are in airplane mode when using visionary
[EVO Shift 4G General] mmark27:
Thanks for the information. I did find it in the rar after I opened it. Haven't started on anything yet, but just getting all my ducks in a row.

Thanks! It's great to see developers for this phone. I had no clue anyone else bought this thing. It needs some love over stock. I've tried to convince her for a year to let me fix this. She's unhappy there's not a fancier new slider available from Sprint. So this is option 2 and Cyanogenmod 7.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
newsense!!!
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
Posting this PM since it's a good question:

www.htcdev.com it's in the written instructions. choose evo 3d
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
Another PM/Answer:

Flash newSense. CM 7.2 is unstable. Make sure you do a full wipe before flashing.
[EVO Shift 4G General] sparksco:
Wish it was that easy but the reason a script won't work with unlock tokens is because each device has it's very own that will not work on other phones. For example if I were to send you a unlock token for another device and you tried to flash it with fastboot it wouldn't work.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Lets get a few things straight shall we. First off don't overestimate who you are. I am very simply trying to help fellow Shift users. End of story. Second your " Method " ( actually instructions ) is not the be all end all to Rooting a device. As for " your thread " , don't sweat it. If you would like I will no longer help anyone on " your thread " . You started it, so I will respect that. I will will stay off your thread. You can continue to choose who, how, and if they get help on your thread. Have fun playing King :p .
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
I just don't want users getting confused, that's all. I never said "stay out of my thread". I appreciate your help.
[EVO Shift 4G General] tomp517:
Sig Error 132

Every time I try to unlock the bootloader using HTC's method i click on Evo 3d sprint follow the direction and all but after it resets and gets ready to start erasing data, i get error 132 signature error please get correct ROM Update Utility and try again. I've tried multiple times with no success. plz help

Edit: Got it to work
[EVO Shift 4G General] tomp517:
Stuck on step 17 on the 2.3.4 process. i cant get the code to work. Im coping it correctly.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Did you make sure to place the misc.img on the Root of the SC Card?
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
Did you get the unlock code? It's easy to paste it incorrectly (there can be spaces when it's pasted when sent to and receiving it from HTC and copying it from HTC's email).

So if you got it from HTC copy it into notepad and remove the spaces. (Usually one space on the left side of each line).

If you got an unlock code from HTC then you definitely SENT the code to HTC properly. If you can't unlock the using the code you got FROM HTC you're pasting it wrong in to the command prompt/terminal.
[EVO Shift 4G General] tomp517:
Yes its on the root of my sdcard.

And i already did the pasting of the htc code they sent. That all went well im rooted with the clockwork recovery. Im now stuck on flashing the misc.img using the following command via terminal emulator. I type the following code "dd if=/sdcard/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17" in but it says its not recognizing it. My android folders is on my C: drive so im doing everything else correctly just 17 is stumping me.

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Yes its on the root of my sdcard.

And i already did the pasting of the htc code they sent. That all went well im rooted with the clockwork recovery. Im now stuck on flashing the misc.img using the following command via terminal emulator. I type the following code "dd if=/sdcard/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17" in but it says its not recognizing it. My android folders is on my C: drive so im doing everything else correctly just 17 is stumping me.
[EVO Shift 4G General] sparksco:
Um, it kinda sounds like adb is not in your path command line or you need to cd to the same folder where adb and fastboot are at which by default for the sdk is in the platform-tools folder. For example mine is just simply C:\Android\platform-tools. Since adb is in my command path I don't have to cd but you may need to cd C:\Android\platform-tools or whatever the path to your android sdk is.

Also Vicodan I found out you don't need root to flash misc.img. once you flash the recovery you can boot straight into recovery, type adb shell and it gives you root access with the "#" symbol ;)

Then run # mount /sdcard

In order to be able to flash the misc.img from the sdcard.

Once you do that just make sure PG06IMG.zip is on the root of sdcard (transfer over in recovery if need be), then pull the battery to boot into bootloader to downgrade. Saves an extra step of having to boot up with root just to loose it all over again after the downgrade.
[EVO Shift 4G General] tomp517:
Ive tried that idk. this is making me very frustrated. I have rooted many phones and never had this much trouble.

Can some one please tell me what command to type. Ive been doing adb commands in recovery with no problem. But getting this misc file is hard.

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Everything is in my C:\android (adb, adb..., and fastboot)

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Thanks for every ones help i got the command to find the misc file but it didnt not go back to 2.2 so i give up. im ready to breakthis dumb phone. lol
[EVO Shift 4G General] tello2323:
Step 6

im stuck on step 6 i do what it says but instead it says burn disc image, i might be doing something wrong please help
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Did you run the RUU to downgrade back to 2.2 ? Or Flash the PG06IMG in HBoot?
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
Unlock code is supposed to be on your computer not on the phone. You run fastboot from command prompt on your computer dude.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
You are supposed to pull the battery right after flashing misc.img and then flash PG06IMG.zip

Please watch the videos.
[EVO Shift 4G General] tello2323:
r error: cannot load 'recovey-clockwork-5.0.2.0-speedy'

i keep getting this error and i am a noob
[EVO Shift 4G General] sparksco:
Are you starting to feel like a broken record lol? I mean how hard can it be to watch videos, and have a ton of people trying to help? :rolleyes:
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
:angel: :rolleyes:

prolly gunna go through the entire thrad and add a faq
[EVO Shift 4G General] tomp517:
Yes i am. smh lol.

But i decided to try again. I finally got the misc.img file to go through using terminal emulator. Now my problem is when i look at my software information it still shows me to be on 2.3.4. The PG06IMG file is on the sdcard also names exactly as it says and i have ran it through hboot and it says no image then no image or wrong file.

Edit: FINALLY on 2.2. Now lets see how this process goes.lol
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
What did you do differently to get on 2.2? Please explain for other users (I already know what you probably did).
[EVO Shift 4G General] tomp517:
Gladly.

What i found out i was doing wrong when it came to step 17 was not being in "adb shell" (su). I got the impression to just get to the destinated folder and type step 17 command code.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
Thanks. Glad you got it working.
[EVO Shift 4G General] MadFresh:
I would like to now if this can be done on a mac. I am having problems with this and need some help or just an answer :/
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
I suppose it could be done on a Mac. Although I've never tried. You will of course have to have ADB setup. After that it should be the same. In case you do not have ADB setup. I found a Guide on THIS thread on how to setup ADB on a Mac. Also a Video on how to do it HERE.
[EVO Shift 4G General] sparksco:
As long as you have adb and fastboot you can do it on anything. I've even done it on linux.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
It can be done on a Mac. I've done it. No drivers required. Just adb and fastboot (which come with Android SDK platform-tools.)
[EVO Shift 4G General] rockingondrums:
Oh man I'm having a lot of issues.

Okay first, I'm trying to do this on my friend's phone. Not a noob to flashing, been flashing the Droid 1 and currently have a fully s-off, rooted, ROM'd Rezound. So over 2 years of experience with this.

EVERY tool I'm downloading off the net is not working. I tried the Script that someone mentioned a few pages back. It returns a bunch of errors but still claims to succeed. I told it to download the RUU but the RUU won't do it because of the version number (I'm guessing it's similar to mainver issue for Rezounds). I've tried the HTC dev RUU for the Evo 3D, gives me some other error. Luckily, the phone hasn't been wiped to oblivion by now... But this is extremely frustrating. Phone is 2.3.4 so that's probably why it's a pain in the ass. Was going to try running the shift-rootkit rar without dev unlock but I have to re download it. Even temp rooting wouldn't work. Could I get a little help? I've tried numerous threads across the web and have downloaded more things than I can remember.

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Edit: Now I can't even download shift-rootkit.rar. It gets to the end of the download and then FF is just stuck at "A few seconds remaining" of the download... :crying:

Edit: Another thing when I run the script, when it tells me to go to recovery and reboot again before pressing Y, the recovery says: E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command

Edit: typing "zip" just sends me to a page to download the exe...
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
sigh..

1) dont use the script.

2) read this thread.

3) watch the videos

4) the link works.
[EVO Shift 4G General] sparksco:
I never used a script and now I'm rooted :victory:
[EVO Shift 4G General] XxFerociouS:
i Cant get past the Unlock bootloader part on htcdev.com!

really frustrating i run "Fastboot Flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin" and all i get is error: cannot load 'Unlock_code.bin'

is there anyway to get past this? btw im on a mac
[EVO Shift 4G General] sparksco:
Your phone has to be in fastboot mode and your Unlock_code.bin in platform-tools folder of your sdk. The most common error is having your phone in bootloader mode and not fastboot.

Also the word "Flash" needs to be lower case "fastboot flash" but I'm sure that was just a typo.
[EVO Shift 4G General] XxFerociouS:
ive done all of that and i still get the same problem. i dont know why it wont let me do so
[EVO Shift 4G General] sparksco:
Very strange indeed... The only time I've had that error is when my phone wasn't in fastboot

Are you sure you have a evo shift? Just noticed your carrier says t-mobile and you've been posting in the G2/HTC Desire Z sections a lot.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
You're not copy pasting right. Go back a few pages in this thread. Question has been addressed already.
[EVO Shift 4G General] pokechop:
This was helpful
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
thank you
[EVO Shift 4G General] JohnnyEpic:
Trying to do this for my daughters phone and getting stuck at this point...

dd if=/sdcard/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17

In term. emulator it tells me what I do not have READ access to this MISC.IMG. Also I was unable to PULL the battery without the device shutting down.

Any clues as to where I went wrong?

The audio in the videos was very hard to hear through my crappy computer speakers. May have to start over again..... sigh
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
Did you watch all the videos in their entirety?
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Make sure you have the misc.img on the Root of your SD Card, and in the platform-tools folder of your computer. Also as VICODAN said make sure you watch the videos all the way through at least once, and re-read the Instructions a few times.
[EVO Shift 4G General] thornej4:
Thanks!

Thanks Vicodan, I followed your videos and instructions (from 2.3.4) and rooted my first Android device without too much trouble. The videos helped a lot. Are you still using UKE as you preferred rom? I know that a lot of ICS roms have popped up for speedy since you created this tutorial. Thanks again!
[EVO Shift 4G General] ix3u:
Just posting so it shows up in "participated"... Hopefully going to root my dad's phone tomorrow :-)
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Good luck :fingers-crossed: . Be sure and read, read, read, and read again before you start. There are also Videos which would be a good idea to watch a few times. Any questions, just post up. There are usually plenty of people around here on the Forum that will help out.
[EVO Shift 4G General] tello2323:
Achieve S-OFF after custom rom

i was following this guide and got stuck on certain parts, so a friend did it and i do not know how, but my phone still have S-ON and i have installed custom roms and all that...... Can i still get S-OFF?
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Where you watching when he did it? Reason I ask is because it sounds like he did not downgrade your HBoot. By skipping that step it limits what you can do to the device. In other words you do not have Full Root. BTW you should still be able to achieve S-Off.
[EVO Shift 4G General] tello2323:
I was next to him but i did not really saw was he was doing he said that he just flashed the recovery image or something like that......
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
I would if possible ask him what he did, like what steps. Then go from there. I would recommend being fully rooted. Even if that means starting the whole process over. But that's a choice you have to make.

TEAM MiK

MikROMs Since 3/13/11
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
NewSENSE
[EVO Shift 4G General] medeoker:
I'm getting the 132 error as well, but don't quite follow what you're saying about pasting the unlock code.

I've pasted over the rootkit into the platform tools folder.

On htcdev I'm selecting "EVO 3D (Sprint)" on the menu.

I run the exe and it fails with the [132] error.

I don't feel as though I'm required to do much until this point, so I don't see where I could be going wrong. I watch the video, but you skipped through this step pretty briefly.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
There could be spaces in the token you are copying from the phone or from HTCdev. Please make sure there are no spaces (on the right or left side) of the tokens.
[EVO Shift 4G General] megadiputs:
Between steps 13 and 14 for rooting 2.3.4 I installed rom manager and downloaded/installed cyanogenmod. Now my phone boots to the white/green htc logo, and goes no further. I can still hold power down and get into boot loader. Is there anything I can do to fix this, or have I permanently bricked my phone?
[EVO Shift 4G General] spenzalii:
I was fighting with this one last night. Unlocked the bootloader. Got clockwork on there, got superuser on (su went from $ to #, so I should be good up to there). However, the Shift Rootkit I downloaded had a bit of an issue. winRAR said the PG06IMG.zip file was corrupted. I couldn't figure out how to pull just that .zip from the archive to either push or drag & drop to my SD card, and the Goo.im site was down a good part of last night too. Any help?
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
You did not finish the process for downgrading, and rooting :( . You have to complete the entire process before you try and start flashing Roms. Re-read the instructions, and watch the videos. I would start the entire process over to be sure it's done correctly.

You should be able to view the file with WinRAR, WinZip, or 7-Zip in archive. Then just drag and drop onto your SD Card like you normally would.
[EVO Shift 4G General] spenzalii:
I must have had a bad download. Seemed to work just fine today. Now to try and finish the process. Thanks!
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Well keep us updated on how it goes.
[EVO Shift 4G General] spenzalii:
Finally got some time to get back to it. My original download was indeed bad. S-Off is a go, and NewSense has been flashed. I also flashed the radio per Vicodan's link. Not sure if the 4G radio works (not quite in range at my house; I"ll have to check that tomorrow. Now to dl all my apps and move them to the sd card.

Thanks for the writeup and videos. My Shift now has some more life left in it.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Glad you got it sorted :) . NewSense is a very good Rom, 4G should work with zero issues. As for moving your Apps to the SD card, newSense has A2SD built in. All you have to do is activate it.

Open Terminal Emulator

Type su

Then type a2sd reinstall

It will do it's thing and reboot. After that any App you DL will automatically go to your SD Card. no more moving them manually.
[EVO Shift 4G General] TADitto:
Ooops Forgot a Step

Ok so last night I finally sat down and rooted my wifes Evo Shift 4G via this great guide you guys have put together. However I got to excited and started flashing ROMS before I did this step of the guide 0) A PRECAUTIONARY THING TO NOTE: YOU WILL BE ON BASEBAND 1.07 AND WIMAX 27167 AFTER ROOTING! YOU SHOULD FLASH 1.08.01.0111 AND WIMAX 27240 AFTER ROOTING. ALSO NOTE THAT BEFORE YOU FLASH THE RADIOS MAKE SURE YOU ARE STILL ON STOCK 2.2 TO AVOID BOOT CORRUPTION AND MORE WORK. AFTER FLASHING THE RADIOS YOU SHOULD REFLASH CLOCKWORK RECOVERY, WIPE CACHE, WIPE DALVIK, FORMAT /SYSTEM, WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET AND REFLASH YOUR ROM OF CHOICE! My question is do I need to revert back to the orginal back up that i made and flash the radios and wimax or can I follow the directions for flashing new radios and wimax via gingerbread ROM since thats what i have currently running?:rolleyes:
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
You can if you want to add a bit of extra precaution. But as long as your are already S-Off Fully Rooted, and follow the Directions to Flashing the Radios to a " T " . All should go well. Just make sure you READ the Directions, and watch the Video before you do anything.
[EVO Shift 4G General] TADitto:
OK cool. I really didn't want to revert back and then flash radios. Thanks.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Keep us posted ;) .
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
You should be ok.
[EVO Shift 4G General] camronm21:
Problems with PG06IMG.zip downgrade to 2.2 step

So I did everything right up to the point after you take the battery out and reboot into HBOOT. It does that fine, then looks for PG06IMG.zip, loads it, checks it, then returns me to the HBOOT menu without asking for the update. How do I get it to update?
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Is it named properly ? It is case sensitive. Make sure it's not named zipzip. The other thing is did you FAT32 format your Micro SD Card ?
[EVO Shift 4G General] camronm21:
Yeah, I tried it using adb push as well as just copying it directly to the sdcard. I did do a format on the sdcard, both quick and full. It loads the .zip, but I can't get it to ask me to update.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Do you have another SD Card you can try? Try Re-downloading the PG06IMG zip , to make sure it's good. Make sure you download the file over Hardline, or WiFi.
[EVO Shift 4G General] camronm21:
Yeah, I have my old one that I can try in a few days. The one I have in now is a 16 GB, but I didn't think that would make a difference. Also, the PG06IMG.zip file I have is 226 MB; there were two I saw in this thread, and I wasn't sure which one was correct. Do you know which one I should use?
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
I believe VICODAN has one linked in the OP that is the correct one.
[EVO Shift 4G General] VICODAN:
SD cards make a difference.

Also make sure your SD card is formatted FAT 32
[EVO Shift 4G General] Keturah:
I've been looking around and have reason to believe that the link to the rootkit is no longer working.

Not sure if it is mentioned to be elsewhere in this thread, but I searched google and found similar threads with the same link.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
So do you still need it? Or did you find it already?
[EVO Shift 4G General] Keturah:
I still couldn't find it, would be helpful if I can get my hands on it :3. Thanks for the reply by the way.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Hey VICODAN you need to Re-Upload the shift-rootkit.rar zip .
[EVO Shift 4G General] bryank930:
:good:
[EVO Shift 4G General] gargamonk:
adb doesn't recognize phone in bootloader

Thanks for the guide!

I was wondering if someone could help me. I'm trying to root my Evo Shift running 2.3.4

I'm on step 6, but after unlocking my bootloader, the computer doesn't seem to recognize the device from the bootloader screen.

I was following through the video pt 2 of 4, but where he uses adb reboot recovery, I get "error: device not found", and adb devices doesn't show the serial.

If I reboot, the phone is recognized normally, and adb devices shows my serial number.

Under devices, it appears under "unspecified" as "Android 1.0" instead of under "Devices" as "Android Phone".

My bootloader screen reads as follows:

*** UNLOCKED ***

SPEEDY XF SHIP S-ON

...

FASTBOOT USB

USB Debugging is enabled, charge only mode. And ideas what would cause/how to fix this?

(Thanks in advance --gargaM0NK)
[EVO Shift 4G General] graphic1982:
I'm super eager to try this out. My wife just got a shift as a replacement and I'm gonna root it for her. Just need those files reuploaded to get started.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Paging VICODAN

TEAM MiK

MikROMs Since 3/13/11
[EVO Shift 4G General] KcLKcL:
Yeah please upload shift-rootkit.rar!
[EVO Shift 4G General] WhySoSerious_058:
Vicodin isn't even listed in the goo developers listings anymore... is there another way to root without his kit? I have a Epic 4G Touch that is my daily driver but wanted to play with my evo shift on the side..