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[EVO 4G Android Development] mobilemaniac:
Read the grayed out portion of the first post. If you have the engineering HBOOT, I think you can flash Whitslack's PC36IMG-1.32.651.1_eng-hboot_RA-1.7.0.1.zip and get back to the initial release of everything. I recommend removing the recovery.img from that zip though. You will also lose root.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tonyh703:
From the original post, seems like you have to use Amon RA 1.7.0.1 so you can flash updates signed with the test keys. I am a noob however so you may want another opinion.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tonyh703:
Also, I used these steps first, which put you a software version behind. Once it was rooted I came to this forum and updated to the 1.47. Everything worked flawlessly for me, although I think the 3G was a little more stable with the first one. Hope this helps.
[EVO 4G Android Development] robtrevino:
Ok, trying it as I type.
[EVO 4G Android Development] robtrevino:
I tried it and It's a no go. Any advice before I go to a repair center?
[EVO 4G Android Development] robtrevino:
I decided to create a thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=722407 If you guys are willing to continue helping me.
[EVO 4G Android Development] CaptClay:
Could someone tell me if I understand this correctly...

I used the OTA Simple Root method to get root. Seems like it took me from 1.47* to 1.32* I can currently flash custom roms and do nand backups.

If I do what is described in the original post, I get back up to the OTA update, 1.47* and enjoy those benefits of the OTA update and still keep my root? I would still be able to flash new ROMs?

Do I understand this correctly? If so, do I need to wipe before flashing the 1st .zip? BTW - I currently have hboot version 0.76.2000

Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
Yes, this will upgrade you to the 1.47 ota rev including radio and wimax radio. DL and remane the PC36IMG.zip file, place it in the root of the sd card and power off the phone, then hold volume down and press the power button again. HBOOT should find the PC36IMG.zip file and ask if you want to flash it. This will upgrade you to an unrooted 1.47 rev of the rom, completely stock.

Then boot into recovery and flash the super user zip file to root the rom.

This will give you a rooted stock rom implementation. There are a few things that won't work at this point including the adb remount command which will report permission denied if you try it. Also, when you do adb shell you will wind up at a non root $ prompt instead of the # root prompt. You will have to type su at the $ prompt with the phone display on to get to the root prompt. Watch the phone as you will get a super user access request that you will have to accept to get root shell access.

To fix this you can flash the default-prop-mod-kernel.zip file I've posted here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715915&page=64

This is the stock kernel with the default.prop file in the ram disk modified to allow adb remount to work and adb shell to take you directly to the # prompt as you would get with the other rooted ROMs in the forum.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ret4425:
If anyone can help, when I run it is says the Recovery Fail-PU. Partition update fail...

I also can't boot into recovery, it hangs at the white HTC screen. It shows me on 1.47...

Any ideas?

Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] gezzuzz:
i started with a evo with the OTA

i did the SimpleRoot OTA 1.47.651.1 Edition method

then i did this fully rooted stock 1.47.651.1 method...

well i seems to have word.. i did it for the wifi tether...

the wifi tether works.. great! but i cant get it to turn off with out turn off the phone...

im using android-wifi-tether 2.0.2... same thing i used when i had unrevoked shortly after release..

is there a different tether program people use now.. or does everyone use this...

thank you
[EVO 4G Android Development] mobilemaniac:
This problem is so common to the point of being nearly universal. I think the first post needs to be updated to address this. You need to use fastboot to flash a custom recovery. I recommend Amon-Ra v1.7.0.2 rather than v1.7.0.1. You can find it in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=705026
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
you should upgrade to android wifi tether 2.0.5-pre2. it supports infrastructure mode operation as opposed to ad-hoc mode only in the 2.0.2 rev and has support for wpa security among other added functionality. I've attached the apk for you here. just copy it to your sd card and use an explorer app to like astro or an installer app to install it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] OMJ:
hey thx man.....could you also post the modified default.prop file?

thx
[EVO 4G Android Development] gezzuzz:
wifi tether 2.0.5-pre2 does the same thing.. i can kill it only by turn on ariplane mode.. or restarting my phone
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
sure. find it attached...

the value that needed to be modified is:

ro.secure=1

to

ro.secure=0
[EVO 4G Android Development] martouf13:
Can I do this and still use the Clockwork recovery? The reason I want the Clockwork is because I need it for ROM Manager. If i can still you use, do I just need to push the Clockwork Recovery "recovery.img" file and overwrite the new one that is created when I do this update? Thx!
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
You can put any recovery you want on once your rooted. It's up to you...

For that matter, you can use ROM Manager with RA if you want to. Just DL the rom you want via RM and then flash it manually once you reboot into Ra's recovery.
[EVO 4G Android Development] gezzuzz:
i completely uninstalled it and install 2.0.5
[EVO 4G Android Development] Bloodsville:
hello

Will this work to the people that updated the evo ( by mistake, like me (will never ever do it again )) to the sprint version 1.47.651.1. i hope some one answers yes because i have been a way for a wile .... and i miss the wifi theter
[EVO 4G Android Development] gezzuzz:
i did the SimpleRoot OTA 1.47.651.1 Edition method first.. look for the thread... after that i did this method.. now im 1.47.651.1 with root..
[EVO 4G Android Development] Bloodsville:
thank you i read about that one

thanx for confirming and saving me time
[EVO 4G Android Development] Lento10:
quick question

I have a quick question, I did simple root and got rooted. But when I follow the intructions from the first page and check cmd line (adb Shell), I got "$" access denied. Not sure how to get root back? thank you for your help in advanced.
[EVO 4G Android Development] evohnoo:
I take it you tried to get the stock 1.47 with root? If you did, and would have read a few pages into the thread before attempting, you would have seen that many people lose root with this because you are essentially flashing a stock build, but then applying the SU update, (second file on the page) to get the root back, as well as the superusers app.

If you still have a recovery, which you probably dont... you can boot into recovery and flash the second file to get the root back.

If you dont have a recovery anymore, you must re root your phone, flash a recovery, then remove the "recovery.img" file from the PC36IMG file. This will keep your recovery, and allow you to boot into recovery, and flash the SU file... read a few pages into the thread
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
This is because whitslack did not modify the package in any way (by choice) and in order to go directly to the # prompt via the adb shell command you need to make a change to the ramdisk image in the kernel.

I created a package with the stock kernel and the single change necessary to the ramdisk image in order to make this work here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715915&page=64

Just flash the kernel attached to my post here and you should be good to go.
[EVO 4G Android Development] pongoface:
Can not get su 2.1 to install

I rooted my phone using the 1.47.651.1 simple root method. I then followed whitslacks instructions and installed pc36img.zip. But everytime I tried to install su2.1 I kept getting E: no digest for pc36img.zip.zip - E: verification failed.

I then proceeded to flash damage and have full root priviledges with wifi tether and 4g working no problem. I know it sounds stupid but all I want is the stock rooted rom with superuser priviledges. I was getting better battery life with the stock rom. What Am I missing? I am using ra-evo-v1.7.0.1 recovery.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Roy
[EVO 4G Android Development] evohnoo:
is your pc36img file named "PC36IMG" or "PC36IMG.zip"... if its the latter, take the .zip off of the end of the file name and re-run it
[EVO 4G Android Development] pongoface:
no digest

I installed the first application pc36img correctly otherwise it would not recognize it. The first step went through with no problems. I keep getting no digest. I even went inside the su file and changed the name on the pc36img.zip to pc36img and it came back with no digest for pc36img.zip lol

Thanks for trying
[EVO 4G Android Development] pongoface:
Got it to work. Trial and error. For some reason ra recovery would not let me load the su file. So I downloaded clockmod recovery file and renamed it to update.zip. Flashed it via ra recovery. Once clockworkmode recovery was loaded I was able to load su 2.1. Weird but it worked
[EVO 4G Android Development] jjohn999:
this whole thing is really starting to piss me off. i have been working at trying to get my evo rooted for about 16 hours straight now. i followed the first step fine, i even deleted the recovery image for the second step. i have tried every possible way of getting this recovery to work. i have tried installing drivers for fastboot and adb but nothing seems to work. im tired and sleepy somebody please help me pleaseeeeeeee
[EVO 4G Android Development] alex2792:
Thanks for the guide it worked great I was able to to get everything working now I'm rocking the latest OTA with root and nand unlock.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tformed:
I did the same thing too. I left the su 2.1 while named as is, and ran it through clockworkmode recovery. It said it installed, and I rebooted the phone.

Under my system settings I still get:

Software Number: 1.17.651.1

Build Number: 1.17.651.1 CL160858 test-keys

Baseband Version: 1.36.00.04.02

Firmware Version: 2.1-update1

It doesn't show up as the latest. It has the old qik too.

The phone is rooted now, as I can use root applications.

Hboot says the following:

Supersonic EVT2-2 ENG s-off

hboot .76.2000 (PC3610000)

microp-041f

radio - 1.36.00.04.02

mar 30 2010, 11:24:04

How would I go about getting the latest version of the software?
[EVO 4G Android Development] snowwy66:
i got totally different numbers for software, baseband, build version but damn my battery sure is draining quick. only been unplugged for 5 hours while i went back to bed.
[EVO 4G Android Development] pongoface:
Ok tformed, you are in good shape because you are were I was before I got to the rooted stock rom with superuser permissions. You have to install the pc36img.zip from the beginning of this thread first then the su 2.1 file. Download the pc36img.zip file from the beginning of this thread.Rename it to pc36img then zip is added automatically because it is a zip file. The pc36img.zip file includes ra recovery built into it. Take the pc36img file and put it into the root of your sd card. Power off your phone and then boot into recovery by holding the lower volume key and power button.

It goes to a white screen and the hboot will start to load the pc36img file. When it ask you to update make sure yes is highlighted and hit the power key. The phone will update to this file as well as load the ra recovery. It will ask to reboot and select yes. When the boot is rebooted you should have 1.47 rooted stock rom but you will still need superuser permissions. This is were su 2.1 file comes in. According to the instructions, delete the pc36img.zip file from the sd card otherwise when you enter hboot/recovery mode it load again. Next put the su 2.1 file in the root of your sd card. Power off the phone and press lower volume key and power button again. When the screen comes up, select recovery and the phone will reboot into recovery. Select flash from sdcard. Choose the su2.1 file and the file should load and you should have superuser permissions. Fully rooted stock rom with superuser.

This is were it went wrong for me. I kept getting e: no digest for pc36img.zip.zip E: verification failed. So I did a little homework and found a solution. I googled clockworkmode recovery supersonic zip file. Downloaded the recovery supersonic zip file. Once downloaded, I renamed it to update and once again the zip is added automatically because it is a zip file. Then I put the update.zip file in to the root of the sd card. Next i booted into recovery mode, selected flash from sd card and picked the update.zip file. When it reboots it has clockwordmode recovery.

Once again I powered off the phone and powered on with volume key and selected recovery. Select install zip from sd card using volume keys. go to choose zip from sd card and select su 2.1 file from list. It accepted the file and I have 1.47 rooted stock rom with superuser permissions.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mobilemaniac:
Take a deep breath and try to explain where you are at. Were you able to do Toast's root method part 1 and 2? Do you have the engineering HBOOT? Are you just stuck on flashing a custom recovery? What software version are you currently on? You'll need to get the USB drivers installed to use adb or fastboot.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tformed:
I went ahead and redid it again, but this time I can't get into the Recovery Mode. I select recovery and it goes to the white HTC EVO 4G screen. and stays there.

I tried using the recovery flash from simple root..clockwork..and the same thing happened. it gets stuck on the HTC EVO 4G. :/

Going to try step one again. lol

okay...I got [5] Recovery: - Fail-PU

If anyone has a quick solution for this please let me know. I'm looking through google as well.
[EVO 4G Android Development] wicode:
WOOOOOW~~~!!!

I fianlly Finally Finally have the phone fully rooted and nand unlocked. and have the clockwork mod recovery installed and am able to backup/restore my roms from it and everything.

For some crazy reason after completing "STEP 2" I didn't have the option to enable su permissions and clockwork mod would install but always failed to update the recovery image. I must have completed STEP 2 properly or I would not have been able to do this now ,, Right??

Anyways .. Great work :)

Oh Yeah ... It appears that 720p is working on the back cam now too :) .. before it looked horrible now it's as crystal clear as my old D8 Sony Handy cam on 720p :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] mobilemaniac:
Use fastboot to flash Amon-RA. I recommend v1.7.0.2
[EVO 4G Android Development] TJDuckett:
Ok, so I went ahead and did this, and, now my superuser permission is blank, and my adb shell goes to $ and typing su gives me permission denied.

Does anyone have any ideas? My Hboot is still 0.76
[EVO 4G Android Development] mobilemaniac:
Sounds like flashing su-2.1-e-unsecure-signed.zip didn't take. Try to flash that again.
[EVO 4G Android Development] OMJ:
thx man!.....
[EVO 4G Android Development] tformed:
I finally managed to root my phone. I have to use the recovery.img file mentioned in toast's root method. Everything is working great. Thanks guys. :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] speedracerbubba:
Thank you, whitslack.

My phone became quite buggy after doing the 3 step simple root (it did root it, though) and after doing this it is running great and everything is working as it should.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jasondmoore1:
I am having trouble in the second process. I get to the screen where I am to choose recovery and then I get a picture of a phone with a red triangle overlapping the phone. I have posted at androidcentral but no one has replied. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I figured it out after reading. I needed to rename the original zip. I had named it with zip at the end. Once that was removed everything worked great.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ticklemepinks:
can some post the .zip to the stock sound???? i did this to get wimax udated and once i try to flash it via recovery it won't work... so help please? lol
[EVO 4G Android Development] ilovemytilt1:
Thanks a billion for this now I have the correct baseband
[EVO 4G Android Development] RelaxedMomentum:
Noob Thanks

I can't test 4G but everything seems to have worked..Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] mrjeancw:
ok, i have been messing with this phone since like 1am...its now 450a and i think i got it working. i had hboot .79 so i did http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=721055 first and then followed the instructions in this thread. everybody works THANK GOD!! my only concern is that with all the bad wimax talk that there is, im wondering whether i have a good wimax. how can i find out? im in boston and my 4g lights up connects for a few seconds (probably about 10 or so) then shuts off again. held it up to the window and did it again. does this mean im good or not?
[EVO 4G Android Development] forty9er:
i did this and now i cant flash any roms keep getting a verification failed any help thx:confused:
[EVO 4G Android Development] Echo2Lincoln:
no image or wrong image

when trying to reflash I get these messages:

SD Checking

loading.......[PC36DIAG.zip]

no image!

loading.......[PC36DIAG.nbh]

no image or wrong image!

loading.......[PC36IMG.zip]

no image!

loading.......[PC36IMG.nbh]

no image or wrong image!

then it stops, i can keep clicking the power button and it just repeats.

I used SimpleRoot OTA Edition to root phone, I have HBOOT ver. 0.76.2000 installed. I have read and read and haven't found a solution. I have downloaded the first file, PC36IMG-1.47.651.1_eng-hboot_RA-1.7.0.1 twice and renamed it with same results. Any clues?
[EVO 4G Android Development] churchwin88:
What exactly did you rename it to? It should just be PC36IMG

EDIT: And you placed on the root of your SD card?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Echo2Lincoln:
Pc36img.zip, ok that was my problem :) thanks, i just dropped the zip. do I do the same with this file? su-2.1-e-unsecure-signed
[EVO 4G Android Development] churchwin88:
Take the zip off. Just name it PC36IMG ....Not sure if capitalization is key or not but might as well cap them all.

EDIT: If you add a .zip it will look like PC36IMG.zip.zip if you name it just PC36IMG it will look like PC36IMG.zip.
[EVO 4G Android Development] churchwin88:
No, it stays the same as it is. Just select "flash zip from sdcard" and it will show up. Exactly how I did it.

Glad you got it working. :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] pocky1:
i read somewhere on this forum not this thread that Pc36img flash wont allow picture msging im most likely wrong but would like to confirm everything since will most likely be using my evo as a rooted stock evo. Will picture messaging still work? With this flash would i be losing any features or just be gaining awesomeness???
[EVO 4G Android Development] Echo2Lincoln:
ok, maybe I'm way too noob for this, but i did it anyhow. my question now is that now that I have done this (thanks for the help churchwin88 and all developers) the wimax apps have disappeared. i have a superuser app but it is empty except for a couple menu options. The wimax was all I was looking to get for now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] audioeptesicus:
Thank you so much!

I have, I believe, successfully rooted my Evo, but I still can't modify system files. I thought this would do this? I'm new to android too.
[EVO 4G Android Development] churchwin88:
I don't have wimax here so I have no clue on that.

Also, just to be safe and make sure you still have root access(which you should but who knows) download like wifi tether or titanium backup and it will ask you if you want to give superuser permission or something like that when it does just hit 'yes'.

On the titanium backup it might give an error the first time if it does hit "problems" at the bottom it will ask to install busybox(or something like that) allow it. Then it should work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] churchwin88:
What exactly are you trying to do?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Echo2Lincoln:
trying to stop a double post.......argh
[EVO 4G Android Development] churchwin88:
Are you talking when you open up the app it is blank? If so, it's because you haven't given permission to certain programs that need it(like wifi tether and titanium backup).
[EVO 4G Android Development] Echo2Lincoln:
yeah, ok i see how that works now,I downloaded titanium. Anyhow I was under the impression (may be showing more ignorance here) that by rooting I could use EVO like a wireless router with WIMax. I'm I way off base? Even so this has been a learning event!:o
[EVO 4G Android Development] churchwin88:
If I read you correctly, you can. I turned on wifi tether earlier and connected my laptop to my phone running off 3G.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Echo2Lincoln:
Well, seems everything makes since now. downloaded tether app and wireless works, I was thinking some programs I saw when I first rooted was what i needed and that somehow I deleted them. All is good now, Thanks Again!
[EVO 4G Android Development] vWvSTATICvWv:
Man, i wish i had 4G to test. I had flashed 3.2.2.1(when released) then flashed Neotelos_com's radio & wimax full img's individually after each reboot. My phone shows the latest baseband, software etc. My 4G turns on but only scans(no 4G in the Bronx). Should i assume all went well? I'm currently on 3.2.3 & have no problems.
[EVO 4G Android Development] audioeptesicus:
A number of things, but there are some boot image that I am wanting to change, sounds, etc. Also, apps like amazon mp3, I want to get rid of. stuff like that.
[EVO 4G Android Development] :
Hey, so I did the Simple OTA Root then followed that with the stock root by whiteslack. Everything is working perfectly fine but I cannot receive any MMS/Picture mail. I can send MMS out however. I always get a message saying downloading....

Is there something that breaks this in that root? Or is there an apk available to re enable mms downloading..? Under my settings for messaging/connection settings my MMS proxy says not set and MMS port says not set also..

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated
[EVO 4G Android Development] onEnterFrame:
thanks, Helped me too.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jones79:
ADB and SU to access Root

The install was a breeze and I am now rooted and happy.

I have one question:

With this ROM is there no way to obtain root access via ADB without first typing in SU?

ADB ROOT also gives the error adbd cannot run as root in production builds.

The reason I ask this is I think a majority of the programs that try to access ROOT are not including in the SU command to do so and therefore are failing, for instance Root Explorer and SU Explorer & Terminal do not actually gain RW access to the system folder because it never actually deletes a file.

Am I doing something wrong or do I need to find a different ROM?

Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G Android Development] audioeptesicus:
I tried this. I still can not read/write in the /system folder, when in adb shell, it displays "$" every time. I type "su" and of course it displays "#". I tried "mkrdir test" and I get "mkdir failed for test, Read-only file system"...

I don't know what to do to fix it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] firewalkwithme:
Here's the problem with adb root access (should return a zero):

adb shell
$ getprop ro.secure
getprop ro.secure
1

This means that adb doesn't have root by default, and can't remount

I was trying to push a custom boot animation and now I don't know if that will be possible with this ROM.
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
ADB won't remount, but you can still remount after you switch to the root user using the mount -o remount,rw command. (Look in any of a bazillion places on this forum for the full syntax.)