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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
After rooting using toast I am stuck at the recovery portion.

I am running Windows 7 64bit

Text in red are my questions.

RECOVERY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Extract the evorecovery.zip to your desktop

- plug your phone into a usb port on your desktop

- In a shell: <----Where is shell?

Code:

adb reboot recovery

- this will reboot your EVO into recovery mode. at this point turn your attention to the directory u extracted the evorecovery.zip to.

Code:

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

For Vista and Windows 7 do it as Admin <---I did this part and nothing happened the cmd prompt came and went quick.

- in a shell do:

Code:

For Linux ~~> ./recovery-linux.sh

- at this point turn your attention to the phone and navigate to create a Nandriod Backup. you can now flash custom roms, write, and make changes to system.

- to flash a custom rom put the rom on the root of your sdcard. wipe data, dalvic cache and chose the option to flash update.zip from sdcard. <---How do I wipe? I am so lost here.

Any help to make this easier because I am seeing some Linux lingo and I dont know what to ignore and how to go about this with Windows. Thanks for any help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topdnbass:
First. What version? 1.47? Or below?

Swyped from my Evo 4G
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
I was on Version 1.47, then I did simple root and went to 1.17? I wanted to make sure I root correctly with NAND. So I was re-rooting Toasts way. Now I am on version 1.32. Here is a screenshot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robtrevino:
To get the shell just go to a command prompt. CD to your /tools folder and type "adb shell"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
Thats not helping. I dont know how to CD? CD is for linux? I am on Windows.

How do I do the evo recovery? Please explain in simple terms.

Step by step would help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
Im guessing I need to install adb on the computer? But the links on the how to have 404 error.

EDIT:

Found the links for the sdk install. ITs updating and installing , I hope thats what is needed.

got it from here----> http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
bump...

Really need some help. I would appreciate it very much. I dont want to go forward without doing this evo recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Acer>cd c:\adnroid-sdk-windows\tools

The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Users\Acer>c:\adnroid-sdk-windows\tools

The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Users\Acer>cd c:\adnroid-sdk-windows\tools

The system cannot find the path specified.

anything I am doing wrong?

The files are in the C drive no idea whats wrong
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
You can use the sdk, or you can install sync drivers by plugging your phone into your computer and choosing the sync option. Install the program when it asks you and you will have the adb installed!

Then you can simply open command prompt and go step by step. BTW cd is a msdos command also to change directory (get it cd :p) but if you go the sync route you won't need to worry about cd as it will set the path variable for you.

Anyway, after you install the sync, make sure to switch your phone back to charge only
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
I plugged my phone in and chose HTC sync, after connected I dont see anything asking me to install. I did install HTC sync on my computer already is thats what you mean?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
Yes. Do me a favor, open command prompt and type adb and hit enter. Does it spit out a bunch of stuff or does it say command not found?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] churchwin88:
I'm new to all this as well and have yet to root mine(still learning everything) but there is a video from youtube that might help you but since I'm a new user it won't let me post outside links.

So, hit up youtube and search EVO 4G Root Walkthrough Part 2 of 2 by aboredguy52.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Acer>adb

'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Acer>
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
if you want to help me walkthrough can we use a chat client?

let me know if thats ok.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
That is a good walkthrough but im stuck at adb-windows reboot recovery

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Acer>adb

'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Acer>

C:\Users\Acer>C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\EVO-recovery

'C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\EVO-recovery' is not recognized as an internal or externa

l command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Acer>cd

C:\Users\Acer

C:\Users\Acer>cd desktop

C:\Users\Acer\Desktop>cd evo-recovery

C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\EVO-recovery>adb-windows reboot recovery

'adb-windows' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\EVO-recovery>
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
It's easier for me to work it out here. But you are close, so let's just do this the hard way :p

You said you downloaded the sdk? So make sure its extracted. Then you want to go into that folder, find another folder called tools. Go into that folder and verify that you have a file called adb.

If so, let's set your path. Right click on any file inside of tools, click properties, and select the path or location and copy it. you should have copied the path to that folder. Then go to control panel, system, advanced system settings, then you should see a button called environmental variables. Click on that, then in the lower half of the screen scroll through the list and find the line that says PATH. Highlight it and select edit. Inside this dialog you will go to the end of the line, make sure there is a semicolon, and paste what you copied earlier and end it with a semicolon. Then apply or ok through all the dialog,s, open new command prompt as admin and do adb again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
First of all

You were on the right track. I noticed that you typed cd c:\adndroid-sdk-windows\tools. This is misspelled and probably why your computer couldn't find the directory. If you put the android-sdk-windows file folder in the root of your C drive then you should be able to go into a command prompt and type cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools . Then type "adb shell" (without quotation marks) and you should be in an adb shell where you can deliver commands directly to your phone based upon adb code. I am a new user here so I'm not able to post links but copy and past the link into your browser and put http before it. Here's the very helpful link with a recovery guide from Toast: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=701835
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
If the file is named android-sdk then open a command prompt and type cd c:\android-sdk\tools hit enter then type adb shell.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
Sorry lost track of what your question was!

You should be able to follow your guide now. Check out the wiki link at the top of this forum. Use the cache links since the Wilk is down. Anywho, from your first post, shell is the command prompt. So when it says open shell it means open your command prompt. The adb commands should all work.

Your question as to what wiping is, that is a feature of your recovery when you get to that part. Normally you use all the wipe options for data/cache/dalvik. This just cleans stuff out when you flash a new Rom so that you don't get any weird errors.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
this is what I have now....

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Acer\Desktop\EVO-recovery>cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools

c:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

#

So now what?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
excelent. the # sign means that you have root. I can't post links here but if you go into your internet browser's address bar and type http with the colon and slashes then past this after it there is a very easy to follow guide to getting into recovery: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=701835
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
You should be able to jump strait to step 3
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
adb shell

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

chmod 755 /data/flash_image

/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

reboot recovery
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
ok!

I finally got that part done!

Did a Nandroid backup as well as backup of the google software..

So what should I do next?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
you are ahead of me!

I just finished the evo recovery part with nandroid backup.

Now I will work on part 2 of that guide.

Let me know if I put these files in correctly. Did I have to unzip anything and should my img.zip be renamed that way?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
If you were able to do a nand backup then I'm assuming you were in recovery. It looks like a dos screen with green words. there are options like - reboot system now - usb ms toggle - backup/restore - flash zip from sdcard - wipe - partition sdcard - othere - power off. Wipe Process is as follows: Use the volume keys to navigate to Wipe. Press power to select Wipe data/factory reset and press Power to confirm. Do the same for Wipe cache and Wipe Dalvik-cache. This is the Wipe process, do it twice. If you press Vol. up and Vol. down it will take back to the previous menue were you can go to - Flash zip from sdcard and select the rom that you would like to flash. Press power to confirm and you should be good to go.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vballboarder:
I assume you're at the point where you're rooted, but nothing else?

If so, you can get a custom rom and flash it.

I rooted and flashed the stock version of the rooted 1.47 OTA.

Follow the instructions here:

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

Everything works perfectly but with root privileges.

If you want another custom rom, find it, download it to your sdcard, reboot into recovery, wipe data and dalvic cache, then apply update from sdcard and select the rom you want to flash.

There's about 3-4 threads of information you'll want to check out in the EVO 4g Android development forum.

here's another:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=709267
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
Sorry I just looked at the image you attached and noticed that you didn't have a rom to flash to. You will need to download a rom and place it in the root of your sd card (the attached image) then you can wipe and flash to it. This is a rom from flipz that I would recommend: http://geekfor.me/new-release/fresh-evo-053/ ...after you flash to this rom u can check their site for updates etc...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
i have a problem.

Note: This process will only work if you already have the engineering HBOOT. (If you have NAND unlocked, you already have it and can proceed confidently.) If you'd like to check the actual version, you can boot into HBOOT and look near the top of the screen: it should say HBOOT-0.76.2000, not 0.79.0000. If you have 0.79.0000, you will need to do Toast's Part 2 first before starting here.

I have Hboot 0.79.0000
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
Please help me unlock NAND before I consider the ROM.

Even though I did a Nandroid backup, I still have to do PART 2 of Toast but I need to make sure I do it right.

In refrence to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=701835

FILES NEEDED:

- PC36IMG.zip ~> mirror-1 <------This mirror does not work, I cannot get this file.

PC36IMG.zip md5sum~ fe8aba99893c766b8c4fd0a2734e4738

- mtd-eng.zip

- flash_image.zip

- recovery.img ~> mirror-1
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
you can do it for sure!!!

Just follow the guide word for word, and if anything becomes out of place, just post back here :D

Good luck!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vballboarder:
Click on "mirror-1", NOT "PC36IMG.zip"

Just worked for me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
http://sdx-downloads.com/sdx/evo/troot/eng-PC36IMG.zip
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
doh! It works so sorry. thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
VERY IMPORTANT. When you download PC36IMG.zip it will be titled eng-PC36IMG.zip. It's very important that when you put it on the root of your sd card that you rename it to PC36IMG. That way when you boot you phone to the HBOOT screen it will autoupdate from this zip file.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vballboarder:
Just found this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=717955

For anyone else who's not sure what to do next, this thread is very helpful.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
thanks I was sure to rename.

so I did this...

STEP 3~FLASHING ENG BUILD:

- hold volume down + power to boot into hboot

- it should now find and verify the PC36IMG.zip on the root of your sdcard. itll show a blue status bar on the top right of the screen.

- after a minute or so it will ask u if u wanna flash SAY YES

- affter it flashes the PC36IMG.zip it will ask if you wanna reboot. SAY YES

I finished the above....

What is next?

------------------------

DO I HAVE TO DO THIS PART????

- once booted into Android put the recovery.img linked above on the root of you sdcard

- on your PC open a shell again and do:

Code:

adb shell

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

chmod 755 /data/flash_image

/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

reboot recovery

- you should now be in recovery mode

- do a wipe of data and dalvik cache

- navigate to nandroid restore and restore the previous rom setup

- come here to the forum, get and flash the latest radio

- enjoy... you can now reboot into recovery, write to system and other partitions while in Android. Also you now have a Engineering SPL so you can fastboot and much more.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
finish the rest of the guide :D

After its done flashing, reboot and it should take you into android OS successfully :D your almost done :D

EDIT: yes you have to do that part

EDIT EDIT: after you reboot into android os and make sure you can get to that part first :D

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Wow thats alot of smiley faces :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vballboarder:
if the phone reboots, then you're in business,

Yes, you need to do that part, then flash a custom rom.

check out this thread I posted above.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=717955
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
Do I have to rename any of the ROMs I decide to use? ex: update.zip or something ells?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
no, to flash a rom just load it on the sd card, get into recovery, wipe, choose flash from zip (or sdcard or something), select the file and confirm
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
Do I do all wipes on the wipe section?

Also how can I access the Nand without using cmd and adb shell?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
DO I HAVE TO DO THIS PART????

- once booted into Android put the recovery.img linked above on the root of you sdcard

- on your PC open a shell again and do:

Code:

adb shell

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

chmod 755 /data/flash_image

/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

reboot recovery

- you should now be in recovery mode

- do a wipe of data and dalvik cache

- navigate to nandroid restore and restore the previous rom setup

- come here to the forum, get and flash the latest radio

- enjoy... you can now reboot into recovery, write to system and other partitions while in Android. Also you now have a Engineering SPL so you can fastboot and much more.

ya do this part. You will open a command prompt and in an adb shell type what it says to exactly. To get into an adb shell type in a command prompt cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools hit enter and type adb shell.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
For good measure yes, the factory data/cache, cache, and dalvik cache so all 3

If you mean how can you access recovery without cmd and adb shell, now that you have flashed your own permanent recovery, simply turn off the phone, hold volume down and press power while continuing to hold the volume down. you will get to the white screen, from there select recovery and it will take you to your custom recovery.

MAKE sure to delete any pc36img.zip files you may have on your sd card before doing that
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macramentonate:
Once you've figured this out try froyo 2.2. It's the business. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=720682
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
I want to thank you all for replying and being patient with me. Thanks to you I am rooted and have NAND Unlocked running Evo X v2 ROM!

I am super happy!:D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
Well that is great news! I am glad you have everything in order now.

Just return the favor if anyone asks a question that you may be able to help answer!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vballboarder:
Glad you got it

how is the X2 rom? I meant to flash that one, but accidentally flashed the EVOlution V9, which I think is one version prior to the X2.

Everything working on it? except the camera, mms, and 4g (which I don't mind, I don't have 4G service anyway)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
It's like running froyo with the look of Droid x. Seems good but now I just flashed to this other froyo with the sense UI. wish I knew which was the fastest Rom. Is froyo stable on our evos? I don't mind 4g or the camera right now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vballboarder:
depends on what you mean by "stable"

There are froyo roms that work, but there isn't one that's fully functional yet. All of them have broken cameras and mms I believe. Most don't have working 4G, but I think there's a patch to fix it.

If you're willing to give up camera and possibly a couple other things, then yeah they're "stable"

For me, I'm going to wait for the official release of froyo for someone to make a custom rom based on the source code so everything is fully functional.

I don't see the point of getting an awesome camera only to "break" certain parts of it to make other parts better.

I'd rather have everything work and be mostly awesome, rather than some parts broken and other parts "totally awesome"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] novanosis85:
I hear ya. Still enjoy checking out froyo.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Reaqdy:
I tried to put a sappimg on my phone and half the updates failed. Then I tried to boot into Recovery but this phone isn't turning on at all. No charger led, nothing. Can't start up by pushing ANY buttons. Took battery out for 30 sec..nothing. I was thinking of telling T-mo(my carrier) that I had lost my phone in order to get a new one. But before I do does anyone know what this could be?:confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] gaby04:
Im new to this and i might be 100% wrong but i think you might have followed the instrutions for the old mytouch.

Did you make a gold card?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Reaqdy:
Yes, I made a gold card. And I did follow the old instructions. I couldn't find anywhere else to unroot. But now, all I get is a flashing red light when holding the power button, and an orange led light when charging and a blue led light when holding the trackball and and power but nothing turns on.
[HD2 General] rysky007:
The original Stock ROM 2.10 I believe had major issues with sms, 2.13 was supposed to fix those, we had sensitivity issues, that was fixed by great users here.

One of the major problems my phone had was that if i attempt to send a sms, heck even type a sms while in the middle of a phone call, my phone would lock up.

I thought 2.13 would fix this, but today first try same thing occurred. Tried the "send text" when some one is calling you option, phone locked up, attempted to respond to an sms I got while on the phone, and it locked up again.

I can view text messages but as soon as I hit reply locks up.

Any one else experience this? any fixes?

Thank you.
[Legend General] podaskie:
hi, i hve brought my htc legend phone 3 days back, and installed lots of software nd games, but the problem is all software hve been installed in phone memory:mad:...& now even i could not read messages where its indicating that"phone memory is full delete some data"..

plz tell how can i free up the phone memory?

how to install the software in sd cards??

//thanks in advance//
[Legend General] raf2k:
Its not possible to install apps on SD card, not with Android 2.1
[Legend General] pjhoughton1976:
Android 2.2 upgrade expected for legend anytime now, 2.2 supports storing apps to SD card you will just have to make do til then
[Legend General] podaskie:
Thanks for ur info...i hope android 2.2 comes soon:)
[Legend General] Sckank:
Nope not before xmas, if we're lucky :-/
[Legend General] sian88:
We will just have to wait & see :)
[Legend General] GingerPiston:
And with 2.2, although it allows for apps to be installed on the SD card, I understand the app itself has to have been written to allow this to happen and from what I gather, most of the current crop currently don't!
[Legend General] dgupta:
I hv upgraded frm n95 8gb to legend. Its realy worth for yr money including lot of nice features except below things:

1. Camera: picture quality sucks specialy in night mode. There no shot mode selections available. Zoom and brightness like basic features are dificult to handle. These should be easily accesed by some shortcuts like volume button.

2. Sound and speaker: sound quality is not that great as expected. Speaker sucks as its blocked when phone placed in a flat space.

3. Voip: its pathetic than nokia's voip. Voice cracks.

4. Keyboard: while in text input mode it stucks sometimes when u try to scroll cursor through track ball.

5. Apk install: i dont understand y google has not kept in mind about installing apks in sd card as its a very basic feature of any nokia phone. Y we need to take some extra pains like rooting our phones OR waiting for froyo updates. I feel only 5 to 10% ppl would be ready to take a chance of doing root process coz it could be risky to lose, damage their phones.

6. Last bt not the least is about the aluminium body of the phone. I really like the robustness and uni body bt its so slippery that it gets slipped frm yr hand a lot of time. It should b lil bit sticky while u carry on yr palm.
[Legend General] jul644:
.

1. welcome to slim smart phone cameras

2.well you must have it upside down than :X

3. voip thats very general do u mean google voice?fring? over 3g wi-fi?

4.do you even have a legend becuase it dose not have a track ball

5.copy protection ovb, why cant i copy dvd to my dvd drive without any extra soft, ware welcome to the year 2000.

and risk to damage your phone? have you ever done i firmware update on your nokia? you took the same risk

6.your hands must be very soft and luscious lol id suggest getting a silicon case
[Legend General] dgupta:
:(

Thanks for your hilarious response. Here i am talking about legend problems and not the workarounds. There is always a workaround for every problems in this world. So really thanks for letting me know the alternative ways to handle it. lol

Thanks a lot for your biased reply but u also know it very well that where legend (softwares and hardwares) lags just u dont want to accept it publicly.
[EVO 4G General] notmike:
How did you locate the 4g tower closest to you?