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[EVO 4G General] dburna74:
Yea your rite it did. I got my token from HTC DEV, But now my only issue is The email they sent me with the code in it, I cant view it??

Does it take some kinda special view? It says its a UDF code or something? like that.. IM SOO CLOSE to unlocking it but so far at same time..

I never could get sdk tools to DL i found a ADB program that managed to make everything work just fine. It went from Pulling up NOTHING IN CMD for my phone, then with that simple download of the ADB program, It was a program someone just put the main things needed together and left out all the XTRA BS that SDK tools come with, SDK tools never once downloaded or open rite..

But as i said Ive pasted the TOKEN!! GOT SENT THE EMAIL, But the code attachment sent is not viewable, I have never run across something like this.... Ive also posted in EVO 3D about this issue, But anyone have a idea what i need to view the code?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
You don't need to "view" the code. Just save the bin file to your folder with fastboot in it.
[EVO 4G General] dburna74:
Ive saved it to the Folder that Has FastBoot and adb.. Then i go past in cmd" fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin"

But it just says error Cannot open Unlock code bin.

When i saved the program with the fastboot etc in it, I just made a New Folder, How do i make it a spefic location.. ? Like for example

C:\ANDROID

OR C:\ADB tHAT way i can type it into the CMD prompt an it recognize it? Im thinking thats one of my main problems now as well...

At first i saved my new files to My documents.. Then i sent the ones with ADB &FASTBOOT to lOCAL DISK C:\

Where am i going wrong?
[EVO 4G General] starduster999:
after placing renamed recovery.img in the root directory of my htc, from a cmd prompt I ran fastboot flash recovery recovery.img in the devices root directory with my device booted. All I get is <waiting for device> I'm a little unsure about whether I should run this with the device booted or if I supposed to run it from the device unlocked boot menu
[EVO 4G General] jcthelight:
Man this sucks it used to take me less than five mins to root an Evo now its gotta be difficult only real reason for me to root is flashing roms so now with the newest update have to go thru all this bs to root guess I won't be rooting thats if someone lives near wilkesbarre pa. thats used this new method pm me please? Thanks
[EVO 4G General] Tekn010933:
It's going to hang if you Did not Mount the SD card.

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I think this would be best for those who bought out with this bootloader 2.18/v2.3.5, but for rooted ones NEVER take an OTA update until XDA has approved it.

And for those who choose not to go back to v2.2 froyo can use

this 4.53

to by pass that and use Revolutionary root method if needed renam it PC36IMG and flash from HBoot.
[EVO 4G General] jcthelight:
Ok so I unlocked my bootloader can't I just Run the Ruu that has the 2.16 Bootloader its the same as the file you mentioned?
[EVO 4G General] Tekn010933:
Right at the step where u rename zip to flash from hboot to go back to 2.2 I think, put this in place so u will be 2.3.3 instead.

But do follow through on the guide in the OP to eliminate mishaps, great guide by the way save me some time :)
[EVO 4G General] jcthelight:
Ok can't seem to get thru this part.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cd\androidsdk\tools

C:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell

$ su

su

# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

/sdcard/flash_image: No such file or directory

#

I moved those 2 files unzipped to the root of my sd card. Am I missing something else? Thanks.
[EVO 4G General] Tekn010933:
I think your tools are in c:\android? if I am not mistaken going step for step with this guide, or did you set it up different locations?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
You can't have the SD card connected to the PC in Disk Drive mode when you're trying to run adb commands on it. The phone has to be connected in "Charge only" mode, with USB Debugging enabled.
[EVO 4G General] raidercruz:
Hate to bother anybody but I need help!

I really do do my homework before embarking on anything I am not an expert on so kind of embarrassed to ask for help but here goes.

I had rooted our EVO 4G's (my wife and I) last summer. I had to unroot to take hers back due to charging plug issue. They replaced it and she wanted root again. I saw there were issues until I found this thread so I tried today after reading thru everything.

I was able to unlock with HTC Dev and get all the way to Step 20. Once I tried to Flash su-bin-3.0.3.2-efghi-signed.zip her phone never booted all the way thru. It stayed in a constant boot. Now when I go to the boot menu it gave me issues on the PC36IMG saying nothing found. So I downloaded the File in this thread and it reads it, it Parses, asks me if I want to update, I do, then it asks me if I want to reboot. If I select yes it goes into the Bootloop. I tried a couple of different ROMs and nothing works.

Can someone please help me out? Been doing this for about 9 hours with no progress and my wife is pretty angry with me right now. If I can even just get a stock image on it I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
You can find the stock 4.67 PC36IMG file at the bottom of the first "My Links" link in my signature. Just rename to PC36IMG, put on root of SD card, and try flashing in bootloader. If that works, you'll then have to reflash a custom recovery. You can use the PC36IMG file I attached in this post to do that (recovery is RA-supersonic-v2.3). Then you can try flashing the superuser binary again.
[EVO 4G General] raidercruz:
Getting closer but not there yet

Thanks for the response. Ok, so followed the directions and it seems that it reads the PC36IMG file better (I get a Blue Progress on the right) it still BootLoops however when it restarts. I can't get to Recovery menu now, however so I tried a command prompt and ran the

"fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-supersonic-v2.3.img" here is the response:

C:\Android>fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-supersonic-v2.3.img

sending 'recovery' (3544 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.030s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 1.529s]

finished. total time: 2.558s

when I select Recovery it just BootLoops.

I have my EVO and what I have been doing is taking her SD card and using it in mine to load whatever files I need but for some reason I can't get the phone to get to recovery now to load from zip. Is there a way to do from command prompt?

Thanks again for the help!
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
Did you try flashing the stock ROM first to see if that helped, or did you only flash the recovery?
[EVO 4G General] Tekn010933:
post 22, have you tried that 4.53.zip rename it to "PC36IMG" and flash from HBOOT since there is no recovery?

I Ran this guide til I got to where it says to go back to 2.2? Didn't really "didn't" like that timezone so I just use this zip after flashing mtd.eng and boot.img steps in the OP with recovery CWM5.0.2.2blue, and ran it from HBOOT screen. when done I removed CWM and replace it with 2.3Armon_ra and restore my nand backup.
[EVO 4G General] raidercruz:
Thanks everybody.

I ended up taking the phone back to the Sprint Store. I had a friend who helped me out and just replaced it. I don't think I'll be doing this again. The steps seemed easy enough but I guess I don't know enough to be doing this. Thanks again to everyone who answered and tried to help. It was appreciated but I figured if they could just get me a working phone then I was good.

Take care, you guys do a great job on this site!
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
NVM

10char
[EVO 4G General] jcthelight:
Ok I got it my laptop need a reboot cause I updated adb. Great guide.
[EVO 4G General] IrideAgro:
2.3.3, 2.16 with this tutorial

Running 2.3.3, 2.16

Want to avoid using Revolutionary but still get s-off.

Can I use this method without going 2.3.5 first? (Every method i've seen for 2.3.3 employs Revolutionary to get s-off) Or, is there a method I haven't found for 2.3.3, 2.16 that doesn't require revolutionary?

More detailed post here, my welcome post - may have chose a bad place to start.

Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] Tekn010933:
Curious why avoiding the root method?
[EVO 4G General] IrideAgro:
No likey providing my serial

edit:

So I just realized HTC's bootloader unlock requires the same darn thing. Can someone please explain to me why HTC and Unrevoked/alpharev require my serial?
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
they have had millions of people root using revolutionary i doubt theyll do anything with a serial number to a cell phone. They cant do anything with a serial number of a cell phone if thats what your worried about
[EVO 4G General] Tekn010933:
Well they going to need that or some kind of number from You in order for KeyGen to give you a Key? :)

Go HERE and scroll down to common questions.
[EVO 4G General] IrideAgro:
Thanks for the response.

1. I am curious if it is technically necessary, seems like it should not be. The reason provided on the Rev wiki seems to elude to this.

2. Every US serial is able to be tracked to an individual, so while I don't think any imminent nefarious thing will happen, it makes me wonder bigger picture things.

Previous exploits have not required passing a serial to a server, in my experience.
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
unrevoked used NV to achieve root but revolutionaries exploit was achieved through HBOOT
[EVO 4G General] weetleflames:
I had my phone rooted by a friend and tried to unroot it so I could take it in to sprint, I thought I had done so and updated to 2.3.5. Turns out my phone wasnt unrooted. I followed all the steps on htc dev and that worked, but now I can't get back into fastboot. My phone just powers on. Help?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
Go to Settings -> Applications and disable Fast boot. Then your device will actually turn off so you can get into the bootloader.
[EVO 4G General] rzurita:
that was easy thanks
[EVO 4G General] JJsax:
Following the guide, get to step 32 and then run into issues.. get an error with the cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image. it says invalid length. what do you do now. I did get all the files throughout the process and have been following everything , double checking as i go.

Just for troubleshooting purposes... everything is in the proper places, unzipped, and I have the pound sign #
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
That sounds like a bad download. Try downloading and unzipping it again. You did unzip the file, right? Make sure you don't have the zip file on the sd card - just the extracted flash_image binary.
[EVO 4G General] JJsax:
Redownloaded and yes it's unzipped just the flash_image on the root of the sd card. No clue why it's failing.
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
And you have the device connected to the computer in "Charge Only" mode, with USB Debugging enabled?
[EVO 4G General] JJsax:
Yup... I'm actually trying to help one of my readers Captain. Can you maybe help? NOT TRYING TO HIJACK I SWEAR!! http://therootofallevo.com/2012/02/htc-evo-4g-root-hboot-2-18-0001-gain-s-off/
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
I used this guide on my evo twice :)
[EVO 4G General] bokingwen:
I must be doing something wrong, I followed the guide and tried on 3 different computer and I get the same error:

...

(bootloader) [ERR] Command error !!!

OKAY [ 0.007s]

finished. total time: 0.007s

It seems like the fastboot oem get_identifier_token command is not there, any idea??
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
Do you actually have HBOOT 2.18?
[EVO 4G General] JJsax:
Alright, got it figured out. Reader was putting the files in a folder on his SD card.
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
Cool.

P.S. I'm trying to get my activation e-mail resent for your site, and I keep getting a MySQL error.
[EVO 4G General] bokingwen:
You were right I have 2.16 I apologize that I didn't pay attention to the title. I was excited when I saw this thread because I am not able to use revolutionary to root I keep getting can't write to memory. :(
[EVO 4G General] JJsax:
That's odd... Have you tried just hitting F5? I know sometimes when I write to the site I get the same but just hit F5 and everything seems to be good after that.
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
Well if you update to the latest OTA, then you can use this method ;)
[EVO 4G General] doc_honda:
I am stuck on step #20. I have "UNLOCKED" hboot 2.18.0001 and recovery build RA-supersonic_v2.3 - HAUS rev.A.

The phone boots to HBOOT. I suspect I am in need to flash a stock ROM?

Any Idea's?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
Now you need to select "RECOVERY" from the HBOOT menu so you can flash superuser. At no point should your ROM have been removed, unless you did something to remove it.
[EVO 4G General] doc_honda:
So I should search the market on the computer for superuser and busybox and not the phone?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
I guess I'm confused. Did you already flash the Superuser binary in Recovery? Did you reboot after doing so? We're going to need more information to understand what you've done, to find out where you are and how to help you.
[EVO 4G General] doc_honda:
Thanx for the assistance in advance. I wanted to un-root and flashed the newest hboot I could find on harware version 002. The hboot had "locked oow" at the top. I was running Kindom Synergy Rom. I don't believe I have ever NAND backed-up.

I was able to proceed through step 20. I am confused if the phone is to boot to a ROM and acess the market from there or am I to use the computer...

PS. the phone has destroyed 3 micro SD cards...

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I went back to the OP and loaded SU-BIN...zip. Executed it from recovery. The install completes with no errors.

Upon reboot it returnes to the HBOOT screen.

A brick with HBOOT and recovery? lol (very small case lol that is)

So I am stuck on step 22.

UPDATE I was able to find ss_stock_notrooted.zip here on XDA. Flashed the zip from recovery and the phone "turns on".

Onwards with the rest of the list. Thanx XDAers!
[EVO 4G General] THC Butterz:
there's no such thing as a brick with recovery...lol
[EVO 4G General] lbbooga:
What about when flashing radios?
[EVO 4G General] adjohns1:
Difficulty

I make it all the way down to put the PC36IMG.zip on the card. When I restart into bootloader nothing happens. Reading what it says, it looks for like four files, one of them being the one that is there the PC36IMG.zip, but it says not found. I've renamed it a bunch of different ways trying to get it to recognize it but nothing works.

I noticed when i get to step 36 and try to do 37 at the top of the bootloader screen it says" locked (00w)" but after after completing the HTC steps it says unlocked.

I re-did the steps to unlock the bootloader and successfully did that. Gained root again, busybox was already installed. Got all greens on the su preference thing.

I guess something may go wrong with the flash_img and the other file. I enter the commands and push enter, it doesn't give any errors so i assume it's correct. I tried "exit" and fastboot reboot bootloader, but it says no permission. So i pull the battery and enter bootloader that way. And here is where nothing happens with the PC36IMG.zip on the root of the sdcard.

***UPDATE-SOLVED****

I put in a different microSD card and moved the PC36IMG.zip to the newly partitioned card and the file was recognized in the bootloader.

Still had an issue decided to go for revolutionary.io root. so flashed the ruu PC36IMG.zip when finished i downloaded and tried to run the revolutionary.exe and nothing happend. After multiple attempts i found an article about rooting using revolutionary, and one of the first steps is to UNINSTALL HTC SYNC!!! Once i uninstalled HTC sync the revolutionary.exe worked and I was able to achieve S-off.

Thank you for your thread it really came in handy.
[EVO 4G General] joeynreggie:
conflusterd!!!!

I have followed the unlock process and got the bootloader unlocked, but when I re-enter fastboot and try flashing cwm it keeps giving me an error. Says signature verification failed, cant load recovery.img....what might I be doing wrong? Thanks in advance! Joey
[EVO 4G General] obnxus:
stuck

got to step 8 c:\android>Type in Command Prompt: fastboot oem get_identifier_token.

Just sits sayn .......Waiting for device ......... debugging mode and charge only.

help ??! thanks
[EVO 4G General] adjohns1:
I think for fastboot you have to restart holding vol down and power. and select fastboot. then plug in the USB cord and it should work.
[EVO 4G General] Tekn010933:
when in FastBoot Check USB Chord, can be that sometimes too.

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can you do an DIR in the command prompt from the c:\android directory and see what cwm image file is spelled out?
[EVO 4G General] KL45SiiK:
Thanks man I successfully rooted :)
[EVO 4G General] jonathan.strunk:
Thank for the thread! Got my refurb ins replacement EVO yesterday with a locked hboot... went through this step by step and it worked beautifully.
[EVO 4G General] tmkivt:
im getting

pc36diag.zip

no image!

pc65diag.nbh

no image or wrong

its reading pc36img though.

any help?
[EVO 4G General] CSOS:
HBOOT 2.18

GB 2.35

Man ohh man, I was stuck on STEP 10-11

I finally ended up doing the following.

INSTEAD of renaming the downloaded file to "recovery.img" I removed the".img" and it worked.

This was on Win7 x64

Command is

C:\Android>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (3120 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.898s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 1.371s]

finished. total time: 2.269s

On to next steps.

STEP 21 gave me a scary Commodore 8bit screen BUT it rebooted.

Ok, it all worked,m I am coming from a long way back Dell Axim, have Samsung 2 "Sprint" Samsung S4G as well as LG Optimus and this was my first ever HTC, I am absolutely stunned at the difficulty.

WITHOUT the OP post, I would have thrown in the towel for sure.

PLEASE add what i experienced to your post if you can, I cannot be the only one?!

Part I did NOT understand is

Isn't this what HTCdev was for?

EDIT, what is "34.rename the above file to PC36IMG" for?

Sorry but I am trying to decipher what you all know already.

THANK YOU
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
HTC dev on gives you s-on unlocked. With s-on unlocked you miss out on some of the stuff s-off users have like splash screens. Also the file that your supposed to rename will downgrade your hboot radio ect based on what version the RUU is if you followed everything correctly and will allow you to s-off through unrevoked or revolutionary exploits
[EVO 4G General] CSOS:
Thamks, I ended up with ICS 4.03 last night 2 different Roms.:cool:
[EVO 4G General] dboogz:
been doin alot of lookin around and tryin diffrent things to get this

and only have gottin to where i type in the cmd fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin and says error: connot load Unlock_code.bin

got all the files in the same folder and just added the bin file to it like it said

but thats where i'm stuck

any help would be thankful
[EVO 4G General] dboogz:
yea nvm found my own mistake :p
[EVO 4G General] ximony:
good guide,I will try it.thanks.:)
[EVO 4G General] bluedawgalex:
anyway to downgrade hboot so i can root with revolutionary?

i had my old phone rooted and working perfectly but the mic went out.. and now i got this replacement with 2.18
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
ummm this guide tells you how to downgrade the latest hboot
[EVO 4G General] bluedawgalex:
just noticed that.. my mistake :o

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ok i have a question.. im now fully rooted with s-off

im about to flash a custom rom.. do i have to flash new radios since i flashed froyo in order to achieve s-off?
[EVO 4G General] cerius:
im trying to root my evo 4g and it keeps getting stuck on step 15 with the superuser file

... i got it to say unlocked at the top and i got the ra recovery on it...

this is what it says on the top of fboot:

unlocked

supersonic evt2-3 ship s-on

hboot 2.18.0001

radio 2.15.00.12.19

software info

android ver - 2.3.5

baseband ver - 2.15.00.12.19

kernal - 2.6.35.10-g4b48446

htc-kernal@and18-2#1

build number - 4.67.651.3 cl239674 release keys

software number - 4.67.651.3

pri ver - 2.33_003

prl ver -60683

double checked all the right files are in the right place and installed and still cant get it to flash over
[EVO 4G General] daPorkchop:
So im on step 10 :(

In the command prompt, i get:

C:\Android>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (4124 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.229s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) signature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 1.844s

I'm using the RA recovery. 3.11.

Can someone tell me what im doing wrong, please?
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
it does say unlocked S-on on your bootloader correct?
[EVO 4G General] daPorkchop:
Heh. Nope. Hmm...did all the HTC Dev stuff...anyway. Thanks BRB.

Edit: Son of a Woman. You had to HOLD the up button when telling it you wanted to unlock it. Grrr. Thanks again.

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cool all rooted up. thanks a ton for the guide. thanks for the help evo4noob
[EVO 4G General] MattPneumatic:
How did you end up resolving this. I'm having the same problem on my Mac.
[EVO 4G General] rasperin:
Edit: scratch that, got it working! Please delete it, I messed up and tried installing a different kernel and that's why.
[EVO 4G General] Danieliyo:
I am stuck at step 11,I keep getting an error code saying "recovery.img" can't be loaded.
[EVO 4G General] Sweet Peaches:
Hi I'm stuck after going into ADB Shell and doing the:

cat /sdcard

Everytime I do this it says "no such directory" here I'll post how it's done and I don't see what I'm missing and it's driving me crazy since I don't know what I'm doing wrong and I did all the steps correctly:

C:\Android>adb shell

$ su

su

# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

/sdcard/flash_image: No such file or directory
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
The device must be connected in "Charge only" mode, not "Disk Drive" mode for the adb commands to work.
[EVO 4G General] Sweet Peaches:
Trust me, it is in "charge only" mode with debugging on and it gave me that message so I'm thinking that there is a step missing between those codes like something you're supposed to load into the SD card and I have all those files in the first page of this thread loaded, I have recovery loaded then I have the other 2 files that you place into the root of the card, I went into recovery to flash one of the files stated, I did all the steps and I still get that message nothing is working.
[EVO 4G General] CRXspeed:
So I've unlocked my evo with no problem but I'm having problems getinng s off. I used mikmiks method everytime I go to the bootloader it finds the pc36img loads it but then sends me back to fast boot. I've tried both the pc36imgs he provides with the same results. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
Are you using the instructions from this thread , or my thread over at themikmik? If you're using my instructions, it'd be more helpful if you posted over there, and explain what steps you've done, and exactly where you are in the process. Any error messages would be helpful too.
[EVO 4G General] Drizzin:
Used this guide and it worked great, thank you very much.
[EVO 4G General] AreDouble-U-Shift?:
Confirmed that the process works...

So.. I've rooted my EVO and not can't figure out which new ROM I want to use. Should I stay "stock-ish" w/ HTC Sense, or AOSP and go to the Cyanogenmod 7 (until 9 w/ICS comes out). HMMM... Decisions, decisions, decisions...
[EVO 4G General] CRXspeed:
Thanks man ya I've been using your guide. Ill talk to ya on your website. It Proly wont be today though I have to study for a test.