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[EVO 4G Android Development] MisterEdF:
Can someone download PC36IMG.ZIP "now" (not from previous days). I believe it may be corrupt. I've downloaded it about 15 times and always get an "invalid zip file" message and when I try to "install" it I never get root, just a clean wiped unrooted EVO.
[EVO 4G Android Development] splink7007:
It was doing the same thing for me. It still let me root from it though.
[EVO 4G Android Development] MisterEdF:
Strange. It seems to do an update (goes through all the loading) but when I'm done with that step I don't have root.
[EVO 4G Android Development] splink7007:
Dont forget to wipe. That was my problem too.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kuribox:
hi, I did everything but how can I know if already in root?!? I don't see nothing different?!?!
[EVO 4G Android Development] timgt:
browse to your programs and see if you have a program that starts with the name superuser
[EVO 4G Android Development] kuribox:
I can't see that, but when I install the MyBackup pro told me that I had a root system??? How can that be possible?!? I don't install custom rom just I leave with the PC36IMG, thanks for you t
[EVO 4G Android Development] jiqqaman:
you have root. superuser doesnt show up on pc36img
[EVO 4G Android Development] amallama:
Nand Restore?

Can someone please tell me how to do a nand restore? I get the error "android-mobile.sh restore" whenever I try to do one from the recovery. Any help would be appreciated..
[EVO 4G Android Development] SpectreWriter:
2.2 on EVO

Forgive this old coder's hesitation and lend a hand?

The only thing I've ever done with a phone (rather than a PC or mainframe) was to unlock and jailbreak an iPhone 3G, and that was step by step, by the numbers, plug & play. For whatever reasons, EVO is a bit more intimidating to me.

If there's someone in the Denver area who has already done this successfully, I'd be very grateful and buy the brew, to get some hands-on guidance.

If not, maybe a step-by-step, as if you were explaining it to a !clue noob, so I'll feel safe in messing with this expensive toy?

For starters, I'd want to back everything up, so I don't have to reload all the apps, saved logins, etc. Of course, I want to be able to reload the current OS, in case something goes south.

Do I need any software on the Linux or Mac box?

I know this is asking a lot, but rather than screw up my toy (which happens to be my business's lifeline as well,) I figured I'd ask the dumb questions here.

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Android Development] bcnice20:
Is there enough space on your SD card
[EVO 4G Android Development] amallama:
I have a 16GB SD card with 12GB free, so I don't think that is the problem
[EVO 4G Android Development] juancruz195:
Toast what's up. I'm new at this rooting thing. If its cool canister explain a little about what's the purpose of rooting my Evo. I want to hook my phone up and everyone I talk to keeps telling me to root my phone. Please get back to me and give me some info about what rooting is all about.
[EVO 4G Android Development] JustinLoe:
The sticky nand-unlocked root will be coming soon. Look for the Q&A for pros and cons. I think the old saying "there's no reason NOT to root" sums it up. Free wireless tether, system write ability, remove unwanted programs (sprint nascar, amazon mp3 etc, peep etc) basically it's having administrator access for your pc, you can do the removing or installing of programs rather than what htc and sprint deciding for you and locking you to that choice.
[EVO 4G Android Development] blehzz:
women... you get mad women...
[EVO 4G Android Development] spurnout:
Shouldn't this be stickied by now? Would be MUCH easier to find! :-D
[EVO 4G Android Development] WishHere:
Toast,

Does the custom EVO ROM allow one to be able to use the phone on a non-sprint network. i.e. is there a way to unlock the EVO phone from the sprint network?
[EVO 4G Android Development] geekykid:
no. this phone will only work on Sprint's network. root only allows you to have full read/write access to the phone.

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[EVO 4G Android Development] freebirds87:
I followed the instructions and after the phone reboots I get this:
[EVO 4G Android Development] briandap:
N00b post alert:

If I just flash to enable root, will this at least give me the ability to run root apps, like wireless tether, etc?

I think I'll stick to that as my first step if so, and ease my way into recovery stuff (or should I just flash the recovery just for the hell of it?)

Thanks,

Dap
[EVO 4G Android Development] Breakthecycle2:
Ok, maybe this is supposed to happen, I don't know, but when I run the recovery, it opens but them keeps flashing back and forth between the stock recovery (blue) to the other (green). It's not allowing me to flash a custom rom. Any ideas?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Breakthecycle2:
Anyone have a clue?
[EVO 4G Android Development] firewalkwithme:
Guys I took a dump earlier and now my asshole is itchy and smells pretty bad, anyone know what went wrong?
[EVO 4G Android Development] jhdreamer:
Is it normal that to access the custom recovery i have to run the batch file from my pc every time? Ive rooted my nexus and a cliq and did not have to do this.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jdawg0024:
sorry kind of a noob... In the 1st post it says to rename the PC36IMG.zip on your sdcard. Do I pick any name?

Then it says to do this

adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/root-PC36IMG.zip

but if i rename will it still work?
[EVO 4G Android Development] jhdreamer:
You only rename it so that it doesnt try to update every time you boot into stock recovery.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jdawg0024:
Thanks!!! now I am fully rooted. Time to remove sprint bloatware
[EVO 4G Android Development] writetosomu:
error: device not found

RECOVERY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Extract the evorecovery.zip to your desktop

- plug your phone into a usb port on your desktop

- In a shell:

adb reboot recovery

I am at this part (adb reboot recovery). This is my first android phone (HTC EVO 4g) and so I am a newbie as far as rooting android goes.

I have installed android SDK and installed USB drivers from AVD manager.

This is the error I get:

error: device not found.

Can someone please help?
[EVO 4G Android Development] writetosomu:
Okay I manually booted in recovery mode

I am at the step where I need to run recovery-windows.bat as administrator (Windows 7)

I did this but I don't see an option to navigate to 'create nandroid backup' on my phone screen. I only see the recovery mode icon.

Code:

For Windows XP ~~> Run recovery-windows.bat

For Vista and Windows 7 do it as Admin
[EVO 4G Android Development] lakeside00:
can a mod please sticky this thread and the part 2.
[EVO 4G Android Development] BigBallin:
when i try to push pcimg to sdcard via mac it says access denied. do i need to downgrade my OTA update?
[EVO 4G Android Development] BigBallin:
Laptop-5:tools kgirouex$ ./adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/root-PC36IMG.zip

failed on '/sdcard/PC36IMG.zip' - No such file or directory

Laptop-5:tools kgirouex$

this is what im getting when i tried step two after reboot
[EVO 4G Android Development] flam253:
ur dirty wash ur butt
[EVO 4G Android Development] BigBallin:
anyone? please help
[EVO 4G Android Development] BigBallin:
alright i did the recovery thing and in the script its asking for a password i has no password. and when i hit enter it says sorry
[EVO 4G Android Development] BigBallin:
okay i figured this out, all i had to do was create a password. now i get this

Password:
push: files/etc/mtab -> /etc/mtab
failed to copy 'files/etc/mtab' to '/etc/mtab': Read-only file system
busybox: not found

Laptop-5:evo-recovery kgirouex$ nohup: not found
[EVO 4G Android Development] BigBallin:
okay figured this out also lol. my phone disconnected some how.

but can someone tell me why i couldnt push a file to the sdcard?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Akulamenuri:
I didn't read all the comments you may have put before hand but if you are connected to your computer and the "Disk Driver" option is selected you won't be able to push files to MicroSd via Adb
[EVO 4G Android Development] BigBallin:
whats the disk driver option?

and all my other comments were questions that i ended figuring out on my own
[EVO 4G Android Development] rmk1825:
How do you truly know if you have root?

I only ran the PC36IMG.zip successfully. What can I now check on my phone to see that I have root? We could look in bootloaders in the past to see OliPro. Is there any flag or indicator we can use to determine if we have root or not?

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Android Development] troyperez:
.1 or .6

I have the .6 OTA. After I root will I still have the SD card fix or will I start to have SD card issues?
[EVO 4G Android Development] richw510:
new to this

So rooting is like jailbreaking for droids? can rooting the phone mess up the phone cause i just got this and the dont want to mess it up already. has anyone had any problems? i dont know much about phones
[EVO 4G Android Development] SAlpIche:
just run code:

recovery-windows.bat

you will see a bunch of code, after the code ens you should see the options to do the nandroid backup
[EVO 4G Android Development] jdickerman76:
PC36IMG.zip problem

No matter what I do I cannot get this to load. I ran the RUU successfully, then placed the PC36IMG.zip on root of sdcard, when going into bootloader it finds PC36IMG.zip and moves to the next screen that says "checking PC36IMG.zip" and then it kicks me right back to the bootloader. It finds it but says no image though, or wrong image not sure which it's pretty fast. I have tryed redownloading the image 3 times even using different browsers and I am at a complete loss of what to try at this point. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
[EVO 4G Android Development] s4audi:
How do you access the adb shell??

I dont understand this......

Do:

adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/root-PC36IMG.zip
[EVO 4G Android Development] troyperez:
root question

I have the EVO with the .6 OTA update. I installed the unrEVOked app and it placed the superuser app in my apps. I installed titanium backup and was able to delete the sprint bloat but upon reboot the phone reinstalled the sprint bloat. I installed the overclockwidget and it seems to be working. Is their a way to verify that the overclockwidget is working even though i never rooted my phone. it seems to be working.
[EVO 4G Android Development] iTouch24:
just a quick question before i start on this ... this is ok to do even if u installed the OTA upgrade on your phone as soon as u activated to correct that SD card issue correct?
[EVO 4G Android Development] slimm9969:
Your going to want to learn all about adb.

Go here--> since I'm new and can't post links you'll need to add the "http" part in front of the following link

://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=694250[/URL]

Or search for [TUTORIAL/HOW TO] Basics of ADB.

I know that will help. I've never crack/jailbreaked/rooted anything before a day ago. Since then i've got my htc evo fully rooted.
[EVO 4G Android Development] scottspa74:
i have not done this yet....

haven't done this because, honestly, I still have A LOT of questions I haven't found answers to (mainly the how's and why's). But I've been reading this thread as much as I can, and back around page 83 or so (give or take a few pages), I believe it is answered that it is fine to do this after that release day OTA update, but take a look for yourself.
[EVO 4G Android Development] skantman69:
the link for the zip file is down...anyone have a mirror??
[EVO 4G Android Development] frettfreak:
Trying to root.. but telling me i dont have root

So... I followed the instructions, but it is telling me that i do not have root.

Prior to this, i had already did the OTA and used the unrevoked root for a bit.

I am thinking this is why, but just need to know the best way to get around it. Do i need to downgrade to the RUU prior to the update (a link would be GREAT)?

Any suggestions would be awesome!!

TIA
[EVO 4G Android Development] mrjkwik:
wrong much?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Greenarcher707:
I forgot to ask, will an apps2sd script be included?
[EVO 4G Android Development] engagedtosmile:
Where can I donate...
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
So what are you guys waiting for then? Release it?
[EVO 4G Android Development] maejrep:
From what I can tell, only a few things are not working yet:

* 4G doesn't /appear/ to be working, but I was kind of expecting that, since it's not only the first 4G phone on the market (not even "really" on the market yet), it's the first running android, and mine in particular is the first running Froyo.. So, big surprise :p

* Camera does not work at all, which again is not surprising.. HTC has modified the hell out of the camera libraries (and Camera app), in order to support the kick ass camera in this phone. From what I can tell, Froyo still doesn't support more than 1 camera out of the box, so getting both cameras working is going to be pretty challenging anyway, unless we just port the HTCCamera.apk app. This one is a killer for me, and I'm sure many others, because the camera on this phone is truly amazing.

* MMS on first test, appears not to be working: I sent an MMS from my Hero to the EVO, and I get the message, and it has the Download button, but doesn't seem to actually download it.. Still more testing to do (and I think toast said he may have a fix for this, if it isn't working)

To be honest, it's certainly usable to play with, and if you don't use MMS often, and/or don't live in a 4G area, those two things are kind of dismissible. I do live in a 4G area, so I'm definitely going to see what I can do to get that working. But like I said, Camera not working makes it really hard for me to keep Froyo installed on it, and this is probably going to be one of the hardest things to get working.

Thanks for the reminder.. I just checked, and when clicking "Portable Wi-Fi hotspot" in the settings, it changes to "Turning on ...", then "Error". My guess is it's missing something in the kernel (tun?)

Error is:

05-30 14:47:27.162 D/SoftapController( 52): Softap driver stop: 0
05-30 14:47:27.162 E/SoftapController( 52): Softap fwReload - function not supported
05-30 14:47:27.162 E/WifiService( 94): Exception in startAccessPoint()
[EVO 4G Android Development] theillustratedlife:
Great to hear your progress, maejrep. I forgot this is the first released handset to have two cameras.

I suspect that WiMAX will be easier to get working once we have access to the FroYo branch in AOSP. If there's nothing in there for dual-cameras, there should be in Gingerbread. (Many handset manufacturers are looking to add dual-cameras to their new models).

Do you have experience with AOSP? Do you think that dual-camera support will be contributed before Gingerbread, or do contributions only come in big chunks from OHA members?
[EVO 4G Android Development] eyecon82:
Sorry if this has been asked,

but if we root our Evo 4g's is there any way do undo this and make it back to factory default settings with Sense (how we first got it out of the box)? Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] bcpk:
Dell Mini 5 (aka Streak) and Samsung Galaxy S are going to have front-facing cameras too, if that's of any help. I know there are a couple of Dells out there already.

Great work btw.
[EVO 4G Android Development] TheBiles:
Well everyone was pretty confident that you would not be able to re-root if you flashed the official update, and there were multiple topics warning people about it. Can you really expect the devs to turn their attention to a dying phone that has already been rooted forever because a couple people ignored everyone telling them not to flash and upgraded anyways? And he can't flash the first RUU because he is at a later version currently.

It is time to look forward to a brighter EVO- and Froyo-filled future!
[EVO 4G Android Development] theillustratedlife:
bcpk:

This was touched on at the Android Handset Manufacturers Fireside Chat at I/O. When OHA members want to add a new piece of hardware to a handset, they notify Google. If support for the feature isn't baked into the OS, the manufacturer must roll its own API to support the feature. (See WiMAX and the front-facing camera in the EVO's 2.1 build.) The Google rep will work with the manufacturers to try to make their APIs similar, so it's easy for developers to migrate to the official API in later builds of the OS to support all handsets with a given feature.

Unless Dell uses similar hardware and releases the source code to their implementation, unfortunately its camera will probably be of little use to us. A better hope is for official front-facing camera support in FroYo's source code.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Fadakar:
Whoever's packing the froyo rom for release should probably push the sense camera app as default, that has the tap to focus functionality not to mention the option to switch between the front and back cameras.
[EVO 4G Android Development] toastcfh:
not so simple. htc apps are tied into the frameworks. froyo has no htc crap in its framworks. its possible to merge the changes needed for camera app to the froyo frameworks but again that most likely a massive operation. but "massive operation" has never stopped me and maejrep before :p
[EVO 4G Android Development] clayginn:
Enjoy the coffee and keep up the great work
[EVO 4G Android Development] joeykrim:
correct me if im wrong, cuz im def not an expert on this.

tun.ko is for tunneling/vpn which the wifi tether apk (used in previous android versions, idk bout froyo) doesn't require and i dont think barnicle requires either. ive always viewed wifi tether and vpn/tunneling as separate, not the same. plus eclair comes with some vpn support out for the box so it would make sense for htc to support tun.ko either in a separate module or built into the kernel when shipping with elcair.

is portable wifi hotspot in froyo similar to the wifi tether apk used in previous versions of android, like with eclair? if so, the wifi tether apk requries netfilters in the kernel. does the stock htc kernel have netfilters enabled? is it possible to grab proc/config.gz from the stock kernel to determine? does the wifi tether apk work in the stock android 2.1 the EVO ships with (requires root which a few people already have)?
[EVO 4G Android Development] toastcfh:
nice post. i didnt know this was their planned method. it does make since for them to do it this way and it may help clean up the fragmentation issues in the past. again thanx for this post, it brings hope
[EVO 4G Android Development] theillustratedlife:
Yay: I contributed value! :)

I just looked through the live wave to see if there was a transcript or video of this session, but I could not find it. Hopefully I described it clearly enough.

I just checked developer.sprint.com. This phone has 1GB of internal flash memory. It would be awesome if there was something like fastboot boot built into the recovery, so we could test multiple ROMs without semi-permanently flashing them all the time. How cool would it be if you could pick the partition to startup on on a per-boot basis without being tethered to a computer?
[EVO 4G Android Development] maejrep:
I followed it with a question mark for a reason :) I just said the first thing that came to mind; but yes, you're right.

However, looks like wifi-tether uses pand, a binary called "tether', iptables (for routing from one interface to the other), and some other stuff. Froyo is trying to use softap, which shouldn't be too different. Haven't had a chance to look into it yet.

Kernel config is here:

http://xda.privatepaste.com/18709b2e33
[EVO 4G Android Development] KERKEDAGAIN:
Re: {how to root your htc evo} <coming soon to a thread near you>

Froyo is great n all, but are there any plans on releasing an optimized, fully functional "godmode" stock release?

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[EVO 4G Android Development] chuckhriczko:
My plan is to compile and work on AOSP 2.1 until the 2.2 sources are released.
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
Does barnacle wifi work in it? Also please do try and getting the camera working... just don't start porting too much stuff, because HTC broke bluetooth with HID devices.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Tornadobarrage:
run "recovery-windows" thats the one with .bat

i just found out right now i am also a noob.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Just_s:
please help

If I have rooted all the way through part 2 and have been running roms, can I still get back to original state by flashing the RUU in this thread?

The real trick is how. My EVO is pretty messed up. I am stuck with Baked Snack rom. Anytime I try to do anything with recovery, I get the error

"E:Can't open /tmp/recovery.img"

So I am not sure how or if I should go back to the original setup and re-root from there. Does anyone, anyone at all know what this error is about and how to fix it? Or can tell me how to proceed to reset everything?

My EVO won't get past the splash screen period. I am sitting in Clockworkmod Recovery v1.8.2.1 hoping someone can tell me what to do next.
[EVO 4G Android Development] beastmods:
recovery

today i went to flash a new rom to my evo.

when i click windows-recovery.bat it asks me which program to open it with

before it always just ran when i clicked run as admin.

ANY HELP PLEASE??
[EVO 4G Android Development] silva.lgs:
please help

Got the phone today already with the OTA update from sprint (1.32.651.6) tryd to root and the pc36img.zip wont update, it starts but it wont update .. so i downgrade it to (1.32.651.1) and it still wont work ..

any advice..... of what i'm doing worng

so please help
[EVO 4G Android Development] rahb0sse:
I'm running into the same issue as you silva... it finds the zip but says

No image or wrong image on the nbh file...
[EVO 4G Android Development] jgarozzo:
Trying to root and I rooted but I can't go to my sd card to rename PC36IMG.zip file. Even pulled the card and used adapter and I can't access the card.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jedarojr:
Can not receive the update?

Hello, got the EVO, unrooted...have wifi tether and everything is fine, however, when I'm asked to do the HTC OTA Update, my phone downloads and gets about 1/4 of the way to installing...puts up a question mark on the screen...reboots, and then does not apply the update to .6....any way to fix this? (sorry if I missed something!)
[EVO 4G Android Development] mayfly82:
Nandriod backup

Sorry for being new to this. I have rooted my phone and want to do another backup. Whenever i go to recovery I do not get the green options like nandroid. It just hangs on the exclamation point phone with no options at all. Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G Android Development] neckface:
When you're at that screen, hold down the power and volume up keys to get to your recovery.
[EVO 4G Android Development] dougdascenzo:
I just got done running through this process. Then when installing the rooted version of the OTA rom and the updated radio, I had no problem with the OTA, but when doing the radio, it would never complete. Then when booting all the way into the phone, the SD card wasn't recognized, and neither was the usb. I did the fix from the thread about bricking the EVO to get the sd up and running again. Installed Rom Manager, switched to clockwork recovery, and reinstalled the rooted OTA and then completed the radio update no problem this time.

BUT, now I still have USB problems. The phone charges when it is plugged in, but no notification to choose the connection type. Can't mount as disk, sync, or anything.

Anyone have any experience with this issue and have an idea of what I can try?

nevermind, I fixed it by doing the second step of the same thread that solved my SD card problems. Guess I am an idiot for not reading the rest of the post to begin with.
[EVO 4G Android Development] fkm6180:
having same issues as these...ive read and read tutorials on how to do this before taking the plunge...its a no go here...any help would b great..TIA!!!