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[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
Not hating, just providing into on what I've read. I expected Koush to fix it at some point. I just don't use it so I don't know what the status is.

Ra put out an updated version for the Evo on the 18th of last month and a second a few days later to address an issue a few people were having installing it. It may not be actively being developed further but it's certainly being maintained.
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
He may need to remount /system read write as it's mounted read only by the OS by default.

adb remount doesn't work with this release because the default.prop hasn't been modified in the RAM disk portion of the boot image to allow it. This is also why you get a $ instead of # prompt when you adb shell into the system as well, thus requireing you to su before you have full access. You need to use the full mount command to remount it rw.

in adb shell first do su to get your # prompt, then type "mount" and hit return and verify your /system dir is a mount of the mtdblock4 partition. if it's something else, change the command below to match it but on the evo this should be correct.

then do "mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system"
[EVO 4G Android Development] jrmithdobbs:
Titanium backup doesn't seem to be working after using this to do an update to fully rooted 1.47.

I definitely have root and can remount / and /system rw with no problems. I can also su - in adb shell without issue as well.

Thoughts?
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
Yes, it's a bit inconveinent. I've considered pulling the boot.img and doing the edit myself but I haven't gotten around to it yet. If anybody wants to do it you can find instructions here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=443994

Could be a fun and educational project if you've got the time to tinker with it. :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] frankenstein\:
click the problems button in titanium and install busybox.
[EVO 4G Android Development] z28boy:
tagging for later
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
This is a symptom of having executed the Unrevoked OTA patch.

Did you run that? If so, your 4G may be hosed, for good.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
i do not believe i ever got it to run.. which is why i switched to the Toast method...

i ran the reflash.exe by unrev, and it never would do what it was supposed to do.. .. it never made it to patching.. it would freeze and never make progress..

is there a way to tell if it ruined it?... like i said, it will connect, if i stand out in my yard, with the phone held up high.. but it wont stay connected. i live in the middle of the 4g area, desiginated for indoor coverage..

how can i tell if i need to get my phone replaced..?
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
Follow post #1. It will let you know if your 4G is hosed. But from your symptom, I am pretty sure that it is.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=714846
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
I do not qualify for that prob.. my mac is

Dev MAC = 00:18:41:83:xx:xx

Firmware:

Check Firwmare Version (4.6.2.2v25641_)

i do appreciate your assistance..
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
I get around this by running an FTP server on my phone. It makes navigating the root file system so much easier, since I can do it on a desktop computer with a huge screen and a mouse. And I can copy files to my phone simply by dragging and dropping. And I don't have to keep switching between "Charging only" and SD card access.

Here's how you can do it:

Download this file to your SD card:

busybox-1.16.2.zip

This is a busybox binary that I built myself with an installation script that I wrote myself. It installs into /system/busybox.

Reboot into recovery and install the busybox-1.16.2.zip.

Reboot back into the normal system.

From a root shell on the phone, execute /system/busybox/sbin/inetd. This starts a telnet server and an FTP server.

Now you can FTP into your phone from your computer.

Remount /system as read/write in the usual way if you want to make changes to it through FTP.

Be careful!

Note: The phone is very slow to respond to network packets when it's asleep (screen is off). You can get better responsiveness if you plug it in to charge and enable the option to keep the phone awake while charging.
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
There was a guy in vegas who thought his 4G was busted. He then went down to the strip, and it was fine. You may want to head into a different part of town, and see.
[EVO 4G Android Development] posguy99:
Nice. Is this a busybox that can be used on the phone in general? Unfortunately using the adb-less (I like that name for it) root means you have no busybox. :(
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
Yeah, it includes pretty much everything that's helpful:

ash, basename, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot,

cp, cut, date, df, dirname, du, egrep, env, fgrep, find, free, ftpd,

grep, gunzip, gzip, head, hexdump, inetd, install, kill, less, ln,

login, ls, md5sum, mkdir, mktemp, mount, mv, netstat, nice, nslookup,

passwd, ping, readlink, rm, rmdir, sh, sha1sum, sleep, sort,

start-stop-daemon, su, tail, tar, tee, telnet, telnetd, touch, tr,

umount, uniq, unzip, uptime, watch, wget, which, xargs, zcat​

You can get a busybox root shell simply by running /system/busybox/bin/login and logging in as root (no password by default, though you can set one using passwd).
[EVO 4G Android Development] MalaysianMafia:
thank you thank you thank you! I thought I had screwed everything up!
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
going for a drive now... ;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] m03sizlak:
Seemed to work for me. Cheers.
[EVO 4G Android Development] herzzreh:
bleh... I'm a fool.
[EVO 4G Android Development] herzzreh:
Oh, wait... So I have to run adb as root on my local system? Crap... just smack me! I feel like an idiot...
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
Don't do that.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
OK ..

So if i drive 300 yds from a cell tower.. big as life in front of me.. i get 4g

not full bars.. but like 2-3 bars

coverage in or outside my house is non existent.. now that i have rooted (toast 1 and 2) and upgraded to 1.47

it at least would connect to 4 g and give me 1 or 2 bars inside,

and 3-4 bars outside previously before the upgrade...

Hmmm. thought it was supposed to get better.. not worse..lol

now what :confused:
[EVO 4G Android Development] Psionicsin:
Ok I THINK it worked. But why, if it's rooted, do I get "$" instead of "#" in "adb shell"?

EDIT: This is really weird, but Root Only Apps (ie. Quick Boot) seem to be working, and not being me that "Not a Root User" error. But adb is still giving me "$". What's up with that?
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
so i can turn my EVO into a walking FTP server.. that is VERY COOL..

never thought about it before
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
type "su" and it will turn into #
[EVO 4G Android Development] Psionicsin:
Ok that seemed to have worked. Never had to do "su" before, so that's why I was lost.

Do you know if Joeykrim's "Alpha ROM Removal App" can work with this?

I've tried applying it in recovery, but it's giving me a signature verification error.
[EVO 4G Android Development] posguy99:
No, that's not what I said.

What you run adb as on your local machine, makes no difference. What you are on the other end, makes all the difference.
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
You run a speed test from the tower?

http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.zwanoo.android.speedtest
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
yes i ran it 5x and the best was almost 2mb

average was 800kb

using that exact software..
[EVO 4G Android Development] RichTJ99:
Hi,

I rooted a few weeks back. I wanted to check this out before I proceed.

I am currently running baseband

1.39.00.05.31

Software:

1.32.651.6

I have not done any further updates due to people losing root.

If I follow the steps in post 1, will I still have root & be fully up to date with both the radio & wimax?

Does adb still work after this?

Thanks,

Rich
[EVO 4G Android Development] tool2269:
I used another tutorial to do toast1 and toast2.

then followed the steps here and am now fully rooted, with the new OTA, and my 4g works. I get more 4g bars and a more consistent 2.0 mbps average speed. (earlier it was iffy on the bars and around 1.5 to 1.8 mbps)

could using a rom w/ the newest OTA break anything?

Ijust want to kind of want to remove some sprint apps/bloatware.

also, i thought this new OTA fixed the reverse front camera image? I still got that problem.
[EVO 4G Android Development] posguy99:
Nowhere did Sprint say they were going to make that change.
[EVO 4G Android Development] GumboChief:
It is still very new, but there seems to be a 1.46.651.1 root available now. Maybe you should just replace your phone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] fastamx79:
I was probably running the same setup as you... but I had unrevoked installed for root, and I installed unrevoked2 for clockwork mod. I was also holding off on updating because people were either losing root, or running updates that screwed up 4G, or updating with files that didn't contain the radio updates, and I want my phone to have stock everything, except be able to have SU access, or have the option to flash if I ever got the itch.

I found this thread, read (at the time) all 32 pages and said 'to hell with it' and gave it a try. I ran toast's root method part 1 then part 2, then installed this method and I am golden. I have the newest radios, and software and am still rooted. Only thing I have not tested yet is 4G because I am currently in an area where I can't connect to 4G (they are working on that though but that is another story) but will be going back home to Chicago early next week and I'll be able to try it out... but from what I am reading I should be golden since my 4G was never messed up to begin with.
[EVO 4G Android Development] brownhornet:
This went great for me.... no hiccups and im still rooted and nand unlocked.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nefas110:
Is your battery life improved? Pros and cons to updating?
[EVO 4G Android Development] fastamx79:
My battery life is insanely better than prior to the update. I was lucky to get 9 hours out of my phone.. and now I have had it unplugged for 13 hours under the same conditions before the update and I still have 25% left.

The screen is also more responsive (but I never had that grounding issue others complained about - 0003 hardware here)

Wifi seems better as well.. using wifi analyzer I notice a better/stronger signal and improved wireless speeds.

And my root works great! Able to use Shoot Me, and I'm still getting kick ass speeds with Wireless Tether :D

Have not found any negatives at all yet.

I am very glad I found this thread and held off on updating my phone... makes it even more worth it in the end knowing I did the update correctly and not having issues like many other users.
[EVO 4G Android Development] bluehaze:
This update is hugely frustrating, it wipes the recovery partition and removes root so you end up with no recovery and you can't install one because you do not have su permission. Tried this twice starting from scratch with toasts root then eng build then doing this and it does not work. extremely furstrating because you have to start over from scratch each time because it wipes the damn recovery...

Update failed... Recovery partion FAIL-PU failed to update recovery partition.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nefas110:
Cool. Try out your 4g reception later and report back. Waiting for the bugs to be found is definitely the way to go.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Land Master:
Read post 375....good luck
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
Dude, you don't have to start over! Use fastboot to flash whatever recovery you want.
[EVO 4G Android Development] fastamx79:
Trust me I would love to, but I can't as I am not currently in a 4G area and won't be until next Wednesday evening...

I am only assuming my 4G will work since I never messed with any prior updates/hacks besides unrevoked/unrevoked2 and those mods are no longer on my phone due to rolling back and unrooting according to the instructions from Toast :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
Whoa, what are you doing to your phone?! I've been on battery for 14 hours 40 minutes, and I have 71% remaining.
[EVO 4G Android Development] fastamx79:
I work at a radio station with 7 signals, and a ton of other equipment, plus I work in a basement that was built back in the 40s-50s as a bomb shelter (used to be a TV station and that basement was a backup studio if the US was attacked) so my signal is very weak.. maybe 1 or 2 bars if I am lucky, and usually goes back and forth from roaming off Alltel so the performance I am getting now is freakin fantastic! I'll know this weekend when I am off how much better my battery life is since I will have a solid signal
[EVO 4G Android Development] bluehaze:
Finally managed to get it by deleting the recovery image from the zip, sorry for *****ing but just get home from work at 6 messed with this for hours and was at my wits end. Suggest adding advice that if you get the FAIL-PU message for recovery to delete recovery img from the zip to the first post so that others can avoid this frustration.

It's easy for folks that have been sitting around refreshing the thread reading every page all day to ***** at everyone else for not reading but walking into this thread fresh at this point is a bit overwhelming. I doubt many people are going to read through 65+ pages to try and find a solution to thier problem, seems like adding advice to the first post would be the way to go.

Anyways thanks for the rom, prefer stock roms without a doubt, just like to have root and the latest updates.

Much appreciated.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
Is 146 newer than 147?

If i were to replace my phone, what do i have to do to it before i send it back?

(to make it look like i didnt futz with it?)
[EVO 4G Android Development] kjprice26:
landscape home screen

i have a question. i ws using fresh rom 0.5.3 and i switched to this stock rom so i can have the new 147.0 update. can i add the landscape on this and not mess up my phone or does anyone have an apk that will make the landscape homescreen work. please help.
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
I think "1.46" was a typo. 1.47.651.1 is the newest.

If you want to set your phone completely back to stock, run the 1.47.651.1 RUU. Note, you will lose root, and it's difficult (formerly impossible) to get it back on this version of the system.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
so then what are the odds, that a new phone will have the update applied.. and then what.. I cant Root?
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
I don't know whether you can, but it is possible now to root an EVO that started out as a totally stock 1.47.651.1 system.
[EVO 4G Android Development] marclile:
if you get a new phone and it has the update already on it, the you have to follow these steps:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=718889

it's not the easiest thing in the world to do but it works great. i did it earlier today.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
should i try to run the stock ruu, and see if it fixes my 3/4G problems? and then use this method to reroot?
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
This method won't work if you've run the stock RUU. You need the engineering HBOOT for this method to work. (Read the post!!!)
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
whitslack

Originally Posted by yznhmr

should i try to run the stock ruu, and see if it fixes my 3/4G problems? and then use this method to reroot?

This method won't work if you've run the stock RUU. You need the engineering HBOOT for this method to work. (Read the post!!!)

You mean this one? The one we were discussing in the post previous mine?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=718889

First line says

"This method developed by an anonymous user. It is for rooting the new OTA v1.47.651.1. If your stuck with the new ota or just bought an EVO with this version, this is for you."

I would take it as "stuck"

with the new OTA, it means if you are on it no matter where you got it from..

I have READ every line in this thread, and many others..and it gets a bit daunting.. but i believe i get it.. but i want to confirm my theory before i try it....

I understand A LOT of people dont read...and others read and dont get it..

but yelling at some one to READ is a bit assumptive..

My phone is not working as i expect.. and im hoping to try to make it right with the help of people more in the know, than I am, and learn something along the way.

Now to ask my question again.. should i try to run the stock ruu, and see if it fixes my 3/4G problems? and then use this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=718889 method to reroot? , or does that sound like a bad plan?
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
Yes, that method will enable write access to the misc partition, which will allow you to flash the mtd-eng.img, which will allow you to flash the engineering RUU, which will give you the engineering HBOOT, which you need for the method described in the original post of this thread.

Sorry for yelling at you. It's just that I feel like I've answered the same questions about 100 times on this thread. (Ironically, the thread wouldn't be so long if people would stop asking the same questions, but they ask the same questions because the thread is so long and they don't want to read through it all to find the answers.)
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
I personally would *not* do that. The PC36IMG.zip linked the OP of this thread is exactly the stock RUU except with the engineering HBOOT and Amon RA recovery substituted in place of the stock bootloader and recovery images.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
Well sorry to be repetitive.. just looking for a method to troubleshoot my phone..

If i should swap it out, and see if a new one is any better, or run the stock ruu, and then test.... i could swap the phone, and the prob is the same..

if i call sprint right now, are they going to ask me to do something that will not work (cause im rooted), or have me do something to unroot my phone to test, to see that their coverage is NOT what they claim it to be.... I live in an area claimed to have coverage INSIDE.. and i can barley if even get a connection outside holding it above my head..

What would you do?

"Punt" is not a help full answer... ;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
I would rule out bad hardware as a source of the problem by going back to fully stock 1.32.651.6 (so it's easy to re-root) and testing my 4G signal. If it still sucks balls, then I can simply return the hardware as defective for an exchange. If it works great on 1.32.651.6, then it's clearly a regression bug introduced with the 1.47.651.1 system, so I'd wait for Sprint/HTC to release a new version that fixes the regression.
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
I have this file i DL back when it was first available.. i believe this is what will put me back to stock?

RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.6_Radio_1.39.00.05.31_release_171253_signed.exe

correct?

BTW thanks..
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
Yep, that'll flash every flashable partition on the device back to stock 1.32.651.6.
[EVO 4G Android Development] N00dle:
This woorked great for me to get the update on my rooted EVO however did anyone else loose their Google Nav app? All of a sudden I can't find my little blue triangle. :-(

does anyone have the apk?
[EVO 4G Android Development] schottjy:
I lost my Navigation app as well using this, but uninstalled and reinstalled Maps through the market and that seemed to restore it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] frozndevl:
I have exactly zero 4g connectivity, something is messed up. I applied the 2nd RUU file, the .6, and that had no effect on my 4g connectivity.
[EVO 4G Android Development] whitslack:
Did you break your WiMAX MAC address?
[EVO 4G Android Development] N00dle:
Weird. I didn't actually uninstall I just went to the market and updated Maps and rebooted and Nav showed back up.
[EVO 4G Android Development] schottjy:
That could have been all I did as well, my recollection is hazy now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] afreed1:
This worked great. Thanks.

I am new to this and did toast 1 and 2 and this all at the same time. After getting to 1.47.651.1 and restoring with titanium backup, I did a nand backup.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Tundricles:
I did the root for OTA's http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=718889 now im back to square one unrooted with ota after following the instructions in OP -_-

edit: ok im back to rooted/nand unlock with ota update.. now lets see which rom will screw that up..
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
ill try this later today ,, thanks for your assistance..
[EVO 4G Android Development] sw99:
Thanks everyone for posting your experience. I was able to update with the above instructions and everything worked. I only had one hiccup, and am surprised that no one else did.

It seems that HTC sense was updated, when I used Titanium Backup to restore all my system files I got stuck in an Sense FC loop upon bootup. The only way to fix this was to wipe my data and restore it again without restoring the Sense data. This means that I had to recreate all my phone settings (shortcuts, widgets, screen timeout, etc).

The only other thing I seem to have lost was my text messages.

I also don't know if I have something configured wrong, but Titanium also restores app that I have deleted prior to my last backup, this is very annoying, especially when I removed something because of a conflict.

I miss my Palm Centro backup where I had a low level backup app that restored the entire phone exactly as it was at the time of the backup.
[EVO 4G Android Development] fastamx79:
I used "MyBackup" (free edition) from the Market. I didn't have any issues (well, besides accidentally restoring my contacts, which flooded my google account with 5-12 dups on many of my contacts - but I cleared that out).

I was able to restore my apps, most data for those apps, SMS, MMS, call logs, HTC Sense settings... my phone was about 99% restored. Stupid stuff like wallpaper, WiFi settings and ringtone settings didn't stick, but again, easy fix.
[EVO 4G Android Development] gapoochi:
I'm not sure why but I can't use the mail program now. I just get force close every time I try to access it. I have tried rebooting and that didn't help so I'm not sure what to do now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] sw99:
I've had gmail fail in the past after restoring my apps. Try clearing out all the user data (from settings -> applications -> Manage Applications.

Then just re-enter your account information and you should be good to go. I don't use the mail application, but they did fix something in Exchange with this release, which is probably why you could not just restore your data.
[EVO 4G Android Development] gapoochi:
thank you ...trying that now.

Can we flash new roms now? I'm so unsure about what is ok to do...I don't want to break anything :)

ok so I did clearing everything in gmail and mail programs...I still get the force close.
[EVO 4G Android Development] gapoochi:
Can I go back to stock, apply the update and then root with the method posted for phones with the update? Would that be better? If so...how can I go back?
[EVO 4G Android Development] fastamx79:
You may not like this answer but I would do a factory reset (you will lose all your settings/apps)

Go into settings --> privacy --> factory reset.

To me it sounds like something is corrupt but it may or may not work... but IMO it is worth a shot
[EVO 4G Android Development] gapoochi:
will a factory reset still keep root or will I have to do this again? or will it put me back to the way the phone was when I got it and I can do the update and then root?

Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] sw99:
I agree - had to do a couple of factory resets myself. Everything will be fine except your data.

You could just unselect those apps when you do your restore (at least in Titanium), that way you can recover you email manually.