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[EVO 4G Android Development] zonyl:
50K based on the total downloads of the "Preware" homebrew application (you need to install in Dev mode on the Pre): http://www.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/preware. Im expecting the EVO to be an even bigger hit obviously.

I dont blame you for thinking that number is high, but in reality judging by the people you see in retail stores is a fault of adverse selection. Last time I was at a sprint store was to pick up the pre for launch (and I felt like an idiot cause I should have been smart enough to wait 2 hours till the store was empty and still had a lot of phones) ;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] notown775:
even with all the adriod forums combined.. (all phones included) there aren't 50,000 people. And just count the people getting EVO's who know how to root... is way less, i say <15000. (roooted)

EDIT:

BTW how do i go about buy you (toast) and fresh coffee?
[EVO 4G Android Development] clamknuckle:
Dev mode on a Pre is not root.

There probably aren't 50,000 rooted Hero's out there.
[EVO 4G Android Development] apristel:
Hats off to Toast!
[EVO 4G Android Development] Joecrack305:
Re: {how to root your htc evo} <coming soon to a thread near you>

Yea people are stupid it is what is

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Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App HTC evo
[EVO 4G Android Development] genius764:
lil help

I am curious to if anyone has used the root to enable the WiFi hotspot? If so, can u please give me a step by how u did so? Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Aridon:
Fyi. Even with root and using the updated sprint ruu with super user i still got the official update option on reboot. Naturally I declined it until i knew for sure.
[EVO 4G Android Development] DomSim:
i hope this isnt a stupid question as i am very new to android, but i followed all instructions and flashed the rom and recovery and also performed a nandroid backup, but i am not shown as a superuser. am i supposed to be? i ask because i believe i need to be to remove the useless sprint apps and such. also i am trying to move a ringtone from my storage card to the system/media/notifications folder and it will not allow me to.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xray49er:
Can i push the recovey image from the phone?

One of my good friends just ordered the evo. he does not have a computer handy and this is my work computer so i cant set up adb on here. is there a way to push amon's recovery directly from the phone. Through terminal emulator.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xstingstreetx:
So a few questions that everyone else has asked...

With any update we are able to still preform root correct?

How can we get free tethering and hot spot going as well?

Also I'm looking forward to a nooby guide. (I'm new to rooting with android, looks simple enough though, but recovery, never herd of it lol) Former WM modder lost in the android field.

Thank you,

Sean
[EVO 4G Android Development] Alexithymia:
Just wanted to drop a line that I just successfully followed the tutorial and rooted my EVO after picking it up today. There were a few headscratcher moments because I didn't have a perfect step by step tutorial, but I got everything working in the end and Im running flipz rooted stock at the moment. Looking for Froyo but havent found it yet =-(. Thanks for all your hard work!
[EVO 4G Android Development] KyleMac:
Sorry for the noob question, but how do i know if I have successfully rooted my evo. I followed the instructions, but I don't have a superuser icon or anything like that? It installed and rebooted and reset, but nothing seems to have changed. Do i have to install a custom rom to see the benefits of root? If so, i might wait until someone has a custom rom with the benefits of the new ota.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Aridon:
You have to install the custom base rom to have super user inside of android. I'll find the link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=693980
[EVO 4G Android Development] Alexithymia:
Ok, Rooted ROM in 20 steps:

This is summarizing the steps from another xda thread (cant link as i am a new member) into a failsafe rooting procedure for me on VISTA:

1 Get the files on the link provided. Now copy over PC36IMG.zip to your sdcard on your EVO

2 Turn your Phone off

3 Hold VOL DOWN and continue holdint while turning the phone on. When the white screen comes on you can let go.

4 The phone will check the .zip file and run automatically. At two points it will ask for user input. Say yes both times by pressing VOL UP as directed on the screen.

5 Saying YES the second time will reboot your phone. Yay you're rooted. But you won't have superuser access with this rom. Therefore:

6 As soon as you are able after booting change the name of PC36IMG.zip to something else. Developers suggest "root-PC36IMG." Which is what I did (I renamed through mounting the disc drive via windows)

7 Now power your phone down and reboot holding volume down again. This time your phone will try to load something and fail (at least it did in my case)

8 It will provide you with options. Use the volume keys to navigate to "RECOVERY" and use the power button to accept

9 Your phone will display "HTC EVO 4G" then turn to a black screen with an exclaimation point in a triangle.

10 Connect your phone to your computer. In the evo-recovery files you downloaded, run recovery-windows.bat as administrator (by right clicking and choosing the option)

11 A command prompt will pop up and stream files to your phone. This in turn will enable options on your phone.

12 go to backup/restore using the same navigating you have been.

13 Choose nand backup and then confirm. This backs up your NAND in case you EFF things up. It will be stored in a folder on your SD card as NANDROID. be sure to keep a copy safe somewhere.

14 when its done return to the main system recovery menu and enable "USB-MS" which will mount your SD card. Copy over your Supersonic_1.32.651.1_rooted.zip courtesy of Flipz to the root of your SD and then untoggle "USB-MS"

15 Now navigate to "Wipe" in the recovery menu

16 navigate to 'Wipe data/factory reset" and confirm the selection

17 navigate to "Davlik-cashe" and wipe that as well

18 return to recovery main menu and choose "flash zip from sdcard"

19 Choose Supersonic_1.32.651.1_rooted.zip or the rooted rom of your choice and let it install. Choose to reboot your phone. (IF YOU SKIP STEPS 16 AND 17 YOU WILL BE STUCK IN AN INFINITE BOOT AFTER INSTALLING THE ROOTED ROM. This can be remedied by returning to recovery mode (after pulling your batery to stop the loop) and following steps 16 and 17)

20. Superuser access is now available.

Hope that helps
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sporkman:
it keeps telling invalid image or rom when i hold vol down and power runs its little check the nothing

with adb i have nothing listed i did with my hero ?
[EVO 4G Android Development] anfjc06:
Is there a way to do this using mac osx
[EVO 4G Android Development] amelcher:
I just got the Evo from the Sprint store and the Sprint Rep decided to "help" me out by installing the update on my phone (HTC update) before I start messing around with rooting this, is this what you where talking about in the start of the thread and if so, what are my options now?
[EVO 4G Android Development] shizs14:
My phone just got updated. Can I still root the EVO or wait?
[EVO 4G Android Development] splicitysplat:
Try it. People have been saying that you can.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Alexithymia:
make sure you put PC36IMG.zip on the root of the folder if this is the first rom you're flashing. If youre already rooted and flashing another ROM, this is fine, because you need to choose recovery mode anyway.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sporkman:
the .zip is in the root of the sdcard and im still getting nothing

and my evo is not showing up under adb
[EVO 4G Android Development] ausch30:
I went through and installed the updates and then went through the root process just to see if it would still work, it did. Followed Alexithymia's post (thank you to all those who made this possible by the way) and everything worked as it should, took about 10 minutes.
[EVO 4G Android Development] spincycle76:
Did the root work after the update? I need the update, since mine is stricken with the SDCARD issue.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Aridon:
You put the zip on the sd, not in a folder just the zip on the root of the sd card

shut off the phone

Hold down the volume button

Keep holding down the volume push power

Keep holding it down until you get the white screen

Follow the rest of the directions in the post
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sporkman:
yes i can read and thats what i did and nothing

the error is No image or Wrong image
[EVO 4G Android Development] crackerstyle:
I do this, and when I try and run that recovery batch file, it just says device not found a bunch of times. Something else I need to be doing?
[EVO 4G Android Development] timothydonohue:
his instructions are exactly right. if you are having problems with adb, you will need to update your drivers. the sdk has new bits and pieces to it, so update it, then you should be able to find your usb drivers in there.

and, there are several reports of the root process working after the OTA, at least by this method.

i don't know if i would recommend flashing the current supersonic ROM. it goofs up 4g (according to reports), and the root access must be touch and go, because i had issues just getting adfree to work. i'm flashing back to this, because if i have to look at ads, i may as well have the rest of the stuff working too
[EVO 4G Android Development] timothydonohue:
if you can't get adb devices to register your device, you need to update the driver
[EVO 4G Android Development] sethdaniel2011:
wireless tether for root users

I have seen this question asked a few times in previous posts, but I haven't seen it answered.

Do any of these custom roms allow wireless tether for root users to work?

I'm pretty sure I've seen that the 2.2 one doesn't work, but what about either toast's or flipz's roms?

Anyone tested this successfully or not?
[EVO 4G Android Development] sph33r:
I tested the 1.6 version and one of the 2.1 versions and neither worked. The 1.6 version didn't seem to be even broadcasting as my laptop didn't see it. The 2.1 version would show up on my wireless but I couldn't ever get an IP from it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Aridon:
Maybe try deleting it, re download and try it again? Perhaps it was corrupted or something.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sporkman:
first thing i did when i got the error :/
[EVO 4G Android Development] crackerstyle:
Thanks, I installed HTCSync off the sd card and it updated the ADB driver. Got it into the recovery console now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] _Burst_:
is this really that simple/risk free?

i dont want to hurt my new baby. :confused:
[EVO 4G Android Development] kami49:
Need Help

Can someone please call me ... i need to root this Evo 3 0 4 2 3 7 6 1 6 8....

Please
[EVO 4G Android Development] koolhand79:
Yea i cant get the sprint hotspot app to work or the wireless tether app from the market either. Kinda sucks. that was my main reason for rooting
[EVO 4G Android Development] crackerstyle:
I can't get any versions of the wireless tether app to load either. 1.6 tells me I'm not rooted when I did the root process listed. 2.0.1 doesn't say I'm not rooted, but won't start the tethering when I click the green tether button.
[EVO 4G Android Development] koolhand79:
I dont get either of those messages. Mine appears as if everything is fine until i tether it to another device then i get nothing. On the hero sometimes i would have to turn Airplane mode on and off to get it going. That has no affect with the Evo.
[EVO 4G Android Development] timothydonohue:
i honestly think something is a little goofy with the root permissions with the ROM that is supposed to give you root permissions, within android (posted up by flipzmode). i tried to get adfree to work and it asked for root permissions, so i thought all was good, but when it tried to get the host file, it rebooted the whole phone. 3 times.
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
Hotspot app only works (free trial offer) if you have 4G in your title bar. I dont think California has 4G, yet.
[EVO 4G Android Development] swaze:
Hey, just wanna say have a little patience. I know you all want things to be 100% day one, but give it a little time. Flipz will get to the heart of all the issues you guys are having, but let him get to them first. I have learned from my time here that patience is a good thing, and your questions will all be answered eventually. Not trying to start nothing, but just offering my 2 cents.
[EVO 4G Android Development] colorado_al:
Not true before root. I could use the WiFi tether on 3g or 4g. Nat that root, no WiFi tether. I can still USB tether.

PS- Thanks to all who have made root possible! Looking forward to seeing how things improve as time goes on. You Rock!
[EVO 4G Android Development] brennen.exe:
Anyone else getting a force close on Accounts & sync after removing stocks or news? I'm going to try removing just one or the other, but with both uninstalled I get a force close every time.

Edit: I haven't tried searching about this yet, so sorry if it has been brought up, but I cannot download HTC widgets anymore.
[EVO 4G Android Development] swaze:
Try going to menu-settings-applications, and go to HTC sense, and click clear defaults and force close it. Then try loading the widgets again.
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
Not according to sprint.

Maybe you were a fluke. What I stated is the way it is supposed to work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] blehzz:
before root: i could find Qik on the market (updated version for EVO 4G)

after root and after flashing the stock update.zip it's not on the market

:(
[EVO 4G Android Development] timothydonohue:
it's there, i just got it 30m ago, using the pc36img, not flipz
[EVO 4G Android Development] utnick:
so i spent all day at work "customizing" my phone until i could get it home to root. and now i learn the root method deletes all data. someone call me a pansy so it motivates me to root my phone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
My phone is non-rooted, 100% stock, and I dont see it.

It does appear in appbrain, but it errors out when it tries to install.
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
Pansy! You remember to curtsey as you left the store this morning?!?

;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] ChrisDos:
I rooted my wifes and my phone today. The SD card used seems to be a bit flaky. Especially if there is already a bunch of information on it. I had to use a different SD card for my wife's phone and it found the file and then asked to flash it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jabbawalkee:
Same here...I've had the Evo for over a week now and the following apps showed up in the market when it was stock: Handcent SMS, Qik, ADW.Launcher, LauncherPro Beta. After using this root method, none of these apps show up. I'm not *****ing or complaining...I'm just hoping to find a fix for this because it is driving me crazy. I'm tempted to go back to stock. Hopefully someone can help out. I'm happy otherwise, just need these apps :) thanks in advance
[EVO 4G Android Development] extrafuzzyllama:
i am missing same apps but my evo is stock havent rooted
[EVO 4G Android Development] timothydonohue:
there's a handcent apk floating around here somewhere, that's what i had to use
[EVO 4G Android Development] jabbawalkee:
I don't want to use that. That's all fine and good but I just want ALL standard apps that I use to show up in the market.
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
Something else is going on here. I typed in all those apps in the search, and they are not found on my 100% stock phone. Only "funny" thing about mine, is I did NOT apply the OTA patch.
[EVO 4G Android Development] colorado_al:
I'm on a Google I/O phone. Both were useable for 30 days, until June 20. But I think you are right on retail units.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jabbawalkee:
That's very odd man. Mine's rooted and didn't apply the OTA either. Something fishy is going on here that's for sure.
[EVO 4G Android Development] blehzz:
Anyone else notice there is no Navigate app anymore? Updated maps to 4.2
[EVO 4G Android Development] toastcfh:
WOW i rooted no problem in 64bit linux. woot!!! ok now to get dirty :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] Alexithymia:
As far as the corrupt or wrong image do what another poster said and redownload it. it could have downloaded wrong. And with flipz rom, i DO get 4G. I don't know what functionality others were missing. I get the 4G icon (only one bar in my area) and I did a speed test with the speed.net app to be sure I was getting connectivity. Check and Check. I did reboot my phone before trying it, but I'm sure everyone else did too.
[EVO 4G Android Development] infamousjax:
Dudes... some apps don't show up in the market after you root and flash because the market is affiliated with the build.prop... just have some patience, and you'll get all your little apps back eventually:)
[EVO 4G Android Development] colorado_al:
I've only confirmed loss of WiFi tether. Can still USB tether. Will try 4G when in Denver on Monday.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ausch30:
Anyone have any issues with HTC sync, syncing outlook data to the phone's contacts? I setup the phone and played around with it a bit to get used to it before rooting and since rooting my sync seems to no longer work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Alexithymia:
I didnt check before I started porting my number, and the port is taking longer than it should so I cant check now, but I just sync from my contacts on google. No issues there. and I dont use Sync for anything so I couldnt tell you =-(

Even if itis messed up, I have faith that in a few days all the big kinks will be worked out. Its day one of the public release anyway!
[EVO 4G Android Development] ausch30:
Agreed, I'm sure now that everyone's got the phone a lot of these little issues will be ironed out. BTW, thanks again for the walkthrough on rooting. I've never had an Android phone so a lot of this is all new to me and the instructions before that were a bit more difficult to follow. Also thanks again to Toast, keishou, maejrep, Flipz, Paul, Amon_RA, and everyone else who's working on this.
[EVO 4G Android Development] carter53022@gmail.com:
Can't boot into Custom Recovery

I've had the Sprint Hero rooted and hacked to bits since Nov of 2009. I've followed all of these steps in Toast's tutorial multiple times and I now have root for the EVO. BUT!, I cannot boot into the custom recovery after running the recovery-windows.bat file. Can somebody pleases, please help me. I had no problems at all rooting the Hero and that was like 7 months ago and I knew absolutely nothing about Android. I'm not a developer, but I'm FAR from new to hacking Android. What is going on here?
[EVO 4G Android Development] brennen.exe:
That was the first thing I tried. I had this same issue on my Hero once I was rooted, but I hoped it would be different this time around. I downloaded and installed the notes widget, for example, before I rooted my EVO; after root I can't even install it using the apk, let alone download it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] JustinChase:
I love that you truly sound excited about it! You are one of the ones that made it happen, but just got your own phone today, and finally got to do it yourself; that is truly kick @ss!!

Thanks for making this possible, and I am really excited to see this develop.

I know little/nothing about how it all works, but hope to learn, and enjoy the fruits of others' labor along the way ;)

Fantastic!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] fearedbliss:
I'm new to Android but not to Linux or hacking/modding devices. I updated my EVO 4G today to 1.36.XX from 1.32. I then read that I can't root my device if I had updated it. I attempted to root it anyways and it appeared to work. When it listed the images inside of the zip it said OK for almost everything. Once it got to TP (1) , it stayed blank, then at TP (2) it said Bypassed. Then after that I don't remember exactly what happened. It then restarted and it displayed HTC and all the factory defaults. Once I viewed my App list, there was no super user there. I did note that my version went back to 1.32. So for some reason that I don't understand yet, attempting this root basically wiped my install (which it's suppose to do) but also downgraded the version as well.

[1] BOOT OK

[2] BOOTLOADER OK

[3] MICROP OK

[4] RADIO_V2 OK

[5] RECOVERY OK

[6] SPLASH1 OK

[7] SYSTEM OK

[8] TP <blank>

[9] TP Bypassed

[10] USERDATA OK

[11] WIMAX OK (I believe)

There is something called USB Debugging that wasn't there before. Maybe remnants of the root?
[EVO 4G Android Development] PlankLongBeard:
Okay, am i the only one.. I am going through the process of changing roms.. Everytime I go into recovery... I get the htc screen and not the custom.. Anyone else having this issue..

If so, is there a way to keep recovery installed.. not having to do it every rom change.. Thanx.. :cool:
[EVO 4G Android Development] CReePeR610:
Hello first post.

I got one of the evos today. this phone is incredible. its my first "smartphone" & Android.

Thanks to all who put time & effort into the scene.

My question/problem is I followed the directions and everything went fine, ran the file to root the phone , rebooted in to root, renamed it, ran recovery and backed up to nandroid. but when I get back into android I don't have the Superuser permission/ the icon isn't in menu.

Am I missing something. Do I have to install froyo or the rooted stock rom.

I thought I would have the supperuser Icon after all this.

Thanx
[EVO 4G Android Development] rockcrawler:
No...that is one of the pitfalls of this method.

must do everytime:

sudo ./adb reboot recovery
sudo ./recovery-linux.sh

or whatever the commands are for your particular operating system.
[EVO 4G Android Development] rockcrawler:
You have to install the stock rooted rom by flipz at the end of toast's tutorial.
[EVO 4G Android Development] gbdesai:
Quick question for which I did not find an answer to... I followed the instructions and all is well. I did the following:

1. Rooted the EVO

2. Installed the Recovery (EVO-Recovery)

3. Flashed the stock ROM

All is working fine, but now when I try to boot into recovery (power+down vol) then choose recovery, I get an error that it can't read from the system cache directory and I get a very simplistic set of recovery options, not the full AmonRa menu. Did I lose the recovery when I did the flash?

Should I just try to install recovery again? Any help would be appreciated... Also anyone know if ClockworkMod's ROM Manager works with the EVO?
[EVO 4G Android Development] rockcrawler:
Dont know if this has been established but I :

-rooted

-flashed flipz su rom

-ran update from HTC

and I still have root.

Hope everyone is having the same results :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] rockcrawler:
to get back into recovery you are going to have to use the method that you used the first time. For ubuntu linux it is :

sudo ./adb reboot revovery
sudo ./recovery-linux.sh

Then I am back into recovery.

I still get SU in the terminal emulator and can run root explorer, so root is still present.
[EVO 4G Android Development] gbdesai:
Yeah root is persistent but you're saying that recovery is not? That's annoying... With my Droid the recovery stays persistent between boots so I can go back into it anytime I want to do backups/restores without needing Win, Linux, etc... Is there something about this root method that limits our ability to keep the recovery around?
[EVO 4G Android Development] rockcrawler:
Yes,this initial method, recovery is not persistent, must be done from a terminal every time. Hopefully in time, it will be worked out. This is the ABSOLUTE only thing that makes me miss my Hero :(
[EVO 4G Android Development] CReePeR610:
Now I am stuck in a boot loop, anyone else have this problem. It gets to the 4G the goes to sprint, the music to 4G and so on.

ANY FIXES KNOWN, I tried Wipe and the dalvik-cache & I tried wiping ext partition