[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rawintellect:
This guide will enable you to easily root your phone in 6 steps. I've taken out the mystery and complications.

:)

1) Go to HTC Dev site and manually unlock your bootloader. Select "register" and create your account.

1a) After you are registered select "all other supported models" in the pull down box

1b) Click "begin unlock bootloader". it will ask "are you sure" yes of course you are. acknowledge legal terms. then continue.

1c) Ignore the battery pull instructions as we can't pull the battery. hold down the power key and the volume down key until the bottom buttons stop flashing and your phone shuts off (don't worry if you take a screenshot. It happens all the time). then release ONLY THE POWER BUTTON. Keep holding the volume down key until the bootloader screen shows up.

1d) Follow "step 3" and the rest of the instructions as listed on the HTC site to unlock your bootloader manually.

2) Install android ADB/SDK on your pc. This video shows how to do it nicely:

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2a) ****NEW UPDATED 03/05/13*** Alternatively if you DON'T want to install ADB/SDK you can just download the NON-FLASHABLE platform-tools.zip file located in my dropbox folder here.

Just extract this folder to your desktop using WINZIP or whatever archive tool you use and proceed to step 3.

3) Open a command line in your "platform-tools" folder by holding shift+right click anywhere within the folder and selecting the menu option "open a command window here". Then click here to install TWRP using fastboot. Follow the "Download - Fastboot Method:" instructions.

3a) If your phone isn't detected by windows please install the proper USB drivers for your operating system. Go here for 32bit. Go here for 64 bit.

4) Flash SuperSu and Busybox on your device:

4a) Click here and download the latest version of SuperSu. save it to your sdcard.

4b) Go to my dropbox and download Busybox 1.20.2 and save it to your sdcard.

5) Reboot into recovery (via the bootloader selection)

6) Flash the SuperSu zip and the Busybox zip listed in 4a and 4b

That's it!

"So now what?"

you may be asking.

You are now free to flash ROMs that support s-on. :D

Two are my favorites are

(1) Stock with Goodies. (my personal favorite and the one I use today). This is a great ROM for beginners and people who prefer a slimmed down ROM (minus the bloat) and lots of free memory!

(2) Viper4G. This is a ROM for more experienced users and offers TONS of customization.

You can also run apps from Google play that required ROOT access! :D

If you're feeling slightly adventurous you can flash a custom kernel (which will allow you to overclock your phone). Two of the kernels I use are:

(1) ElementalX by flar2. Click here to take a trip over there. This one is especially important to flash as it seems HTC was up to shenanigans with the latest HBoot (2.09).

If you're unlucky enough to have HBoot 2.09 they have RESTRICTED access to your /system partition. What does this mean to you? It means that if any app writes to your /system partition (ROOTED or not) the phone will "panic" and reboot. Shady behavior if you ask me. The solution? Flash this kernel! it will give you write access so that everything works properly.

(2) The Arc-Reactor kernel! This one is for people that are s-off (see below for an explanation of s-off) only! It's the kernel I currently use and is the fastest kernel out there! Highly recommended if you decide to go s-off!!! :D

If and when you're feeling more adventurous you can go "s-off" (security off) which removes any security limitations of your phone. It makes flashing ROMs and updating firmware a lot easier. You can find out about s-off by taking a trip over to the DirtyRacun thread here. I will NOT walk you through this process. They will totally help you on their IRC channel. Just read post # 1 in that thread.

There's also a new method of s-off which literally takes 2 minutes. It's called facepalm and is located here But is NOT for the feint of heart, bad typers, nor people that cannot follow instructions! Why? One typo here and your phone is a brick. A paperweight. Useless. Well...you can recover...but that's not the purpose of this thread. If you DO brick your phone PM me. I'll help you out. :)

I take NO credit for any of this. It's all out there to learn I just put it all together. In one spot.

Any questions feel free to PM me.

If I helped you out hit the

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button...or buy me a beer! Either way lol!