[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Team Scream:
Hey peoples,

Just wanted to say hey and thanks for all the hard work you obviously put into this phone, it is pretty amazing.

I have had the phone for about 2 weeks now.

It is my first Android based phone and my first smart phone.

I really want to be able to use tethering and so I have decided that it is worth it to me to root the phone and try my hand at making it work.

So, I have been reading for the last week, trying to digest all of the information and really trying to wrap my head around just how to do this the right way.

Here is what I have done, and how I have succeeded and failed.

I downloaded the following:

PC36IMG.zip

EVO-recovery.zip

and placed PC36IMG.zip in the root of my sd card.

Went through the motions and successfully flashed from within the bootloader of the Evo.

Rebooted as instructed.

Now, here is where I got lost, or really was unable to confirm if I was successful or not.

I extracted the EVO-recovery.zip file to a folder I called "evo".

I placed that folder in the root of my c drive.

I opened up a command prompt and typed "cd \evo" and confirmed I was in that directory.

From there I typed "adb reboot recovery" and hit enter.

Then, once that process started, I opened up the evo folder and double clicked "recovery-windows.bat".

The process seemed like it was doing what it should be doing, and once it was complete, I navigated to and created a NAND backup.

That is where I think I went horribly wrong, as once that was done, and I rebooted the phone, I was shocked to find that all of my contact data was gone, which was painful because I had spent the last 2 days getting that all sorted out and new numbers transferred from my old phone (manually).

Anyway, after the initial shock wore off, I started looking around and realized I now had a blank phone.

All of the sprint apps were still there and nothing seemed to have changed other than my phone was now void of everything that I had installed and added to it.

So, feeling like I had probably rooted the phone, but failed to back up at the right point in the exercise, I really had nothing to lose since I was going to have to add all that data again anyway.

That brings me to today.

After much reading, and poking around, I figured all I really had at this point was a rooted stock rom on my phone?

I could not find any super user app in my apps pane, nor any other indication that I had done anything in particular other than wiping my phone clean.

So, I then decided that I needed to install a custom rom.

That seemed like the logical next step.

So I downloaded "RvU_1.3.2.zip" from Android central.

I placed that file on my sd card, shut the phone down, and then powered it up while holding the volume down key.

I navigated to and flashed the file to the phone and was ultimately stuck in infinite (reboot) loop after the process was seemingly complete.

In a bit of a panic, I pulled the battery, and rebooted the phone with the volume key depressed, and from there I wiped the caches (delvic and cache) and reset to factory default within the same menu.

From there, I went in to restore mode and restored to the NAND back up I created.

Now I was back in the same spot prior to trying to flash the RvU_1.3.2.zip rom.

Feeling a bit deflated, I decided that I really needed to see if I could get the phone back to factory fresh stock condition and was successful using "RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.6_Radio_1.39.00.05.31_release_171253_signed.exe" which I downloaded from a link on this site.

So,

If you are still with me after this long winded post, and are even remotely interested in helping me figure out where I went wrong in the process, I would really appreciate any help you may offer.

At the end of the day, I would really like to root this baby, get a rom which has all of the Sprint crap ware deleted and ultimately be able to tether my laptop.

Is anyone interested in helping an old guy out?

Thanks in advance, this seems like a place with a hell of a lot of knowledge and skill.

I appreciate being here.