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[EVO 4G Android Development] lbethards:
I read all of this thread, decided to take the leap this morning and attempted the SimpleRoot. All four steps worked the first time, thankfully. After everything was done, I went into Extras, Flash Recovery, ClockworkMod, nandroid backup. Once this is done, I have to figure out which ROM I want. :) Not bad for having 0 experience ever rooting/hacking a phone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] crdns28:
I am totally stuck on step 4! I know there are other messages about the same thing.. But, what do I do now? After I complete step 3 sucessfully it hit step 4 and it reboots the phone and the screen says waiting for device & starting part 2.. thats it.

I waited like that for like 30 minutes and nothing. I turned phone on and then off and it exited that dos screen. When I run step 4 again same thing happens stuck at "starting part 2" I tried turning off the phone and then turning back on while pressing vol down and it finds that PC46IMG file with the skateboards and it loads in error, it says something to the effect of version mismatch or something.

PLEASE help me! :) What am I doing wrong at step 4? Have I caused damage by only completing the 3 steps?

Also one last question.. after installing all these hacks and its rooted, will market place work? Can I download market place programs? Thanks you guys! Everyone is doing so much to help build Android.. thats awesome
[EVO 4G Android Development] mrfli:
ok...finally worked......rooted....wireless tether does not work, and I see no superuser permissions?
[EVO 4G Android Development] bprinehart:
This is quite possibly the all time greatest first post I've ever read. ;)

Any details? What steps have you taken, how far did you get, did you get any errors, at what step did you get the errors? What messages did you receive?

Did you read the entire first post carefully?
[EVO 4G Android Development] mrfli:
ran unrevoked1 and wireless tether now works
[EVO 4G Android Development] crdns28:
Thats great! How did you exactly make it passed the 4th step? I am totally stuck on that one. If you can please shed some light on what you did from the 3rd step & on. Much appreciated!

And congrats again on getting your root! :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
After I rooted the phone. I got the same error message when trying to run wifi tether.

I followed the link below and upgraded to 1.47.651.1

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

Then I reboot the phone again and installed wifi tether. Everything is running perfectly now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
I am just another noob. So take that under consideration.

Does your phone power up at all? Did you remember to turn on usb debugging?

If your phone can power up. have you try to do it again from the beginning?

Also check out my post #224. And if you can redo it. Follow the command prompt to the letter.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mrfli:
These were the best directions out of the whole thread, I didn't anywhere until this was posted...thank you...follow these to the T

Originally Posted by Newbie_from_NJ

From one Newbie to other newbies:

It's really not that complicated if you understand what you are doing. A lot of people simply jump into this blind-folded! I spent the last 48hrs. learning what ADB was, Android SDK, loading a .zip, flashing a .zip , Recovery menus, Nandroid, ROMS, etc. etc.

Just last night I successfully completed these steps (the long way without any glitches!!) and looking back at the steps, it's not that complicated because I knew what each step did. I actually learned more doing it manually.

Step 1: Your computer needs to be able to communicate with your Evo! Thus you need to install the right drivers

-Install HTC Sync (this is located in your SD Card under \HTC Sync\HTCSync2.0.31.exe

-Download & Install "Android SDK" (this is what sends/receives the ADB commands) google the download link

You cannot proceed to the other steps unless you have completed these steps

Here's a video that helped me greatly installing ADB

XXX_youtube_com/watch?v=2Wi1UagsL5g&sns=em (replace xxx with www and the _ with . )

Step 2: Run the program and follow the 4 steps

(Doesn't get easier than that! Thank you Devs, you should be expecting a contribution shortly, as I will be doing it the easy way going forward)

Last, but definitely not least, which I wasn't aware of until recently, is that this Rooting process is not 100%-Full access, if you stay with the stock ROM and do not proceed installing a custom ROM instead. (Instructions for Flashing ROMs are not in this thread though)

At the moment, I am currently getting the same error message many of you have when attempting to run Wifi Tethering = because I still have the stock ROM. Now is only a matter of selecting a ROM (as there are many -I will probably need advise on this) and flashing it. I believe its only a matter of dragging the ROM.zip file into your SD card, Booting your phone into recovery mode, Backing up if you want (nandroid in recovery mode), Wiping the phone (in recovery mode) and flashing it (also thru recovery mode).

Sorry to get off topic, but hopefully should alleviate issues.

I think I am going to hold off on the update to 1.47 until unrevoked gets their finished...
[EVO 4G Android Development] thanatosxvi:
i had the same problem. then i tried to do everything manually and ran into the same problem. then i gave simple root another shot and somehow it ended up working. wasted 4 hrs of my life but i guess its a luck of the draw.

yes u can still download market place programs.
[EVO 4G Android Development] eakrish:
does this make battery life worse? Also, how do I update the radio/winmax?
[EVO 4G Android Development] bimzrus:
I don't know if this has already been answered, You can use Astro file manager app to do a back up in this app or you can go to the Market and use DL App Brain it tracks all the apps that you have installed on your phone. when you reinstall the app after a wipe it will show you all the apps you had installed and do a push
[EVO 4G Android Development] eakrish:
its still not working
[EVO 4G Android Development] jaysmi32:
ok the rooting procesed worked and i went ahead and flashed the newest verison of Baked Snack, everything is working great, one thing i didnt do is make a backup after i rooted using this method, is there anything i can do to correct this even tho i already flashed a rom? can i go back to square one? thanks in advanced ;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
The thread below will upgrade you to 1.47.651.1 with 2.05.00.06.10 radio. I followed it to the letter and it went flawlessly. wifi tether also works after the upgrade.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715915
[EVO 4G Android Development] erball:
Am I correct in saying this method just reverts you to pre OTA update?
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715915

kinda like square one.. except you go to 1.47
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
yes. you can then run the thread I've been posting to upgrade to 1.47

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715915
[EVO 4G Android Development] theseteeth:
Its still bugging me that i got no where after successfully completing this, could someone please type up a simple walk through on how to flash a custom rom after this is done? Or if you could please point me in the direction to a thread that if i followed completely would get me to where i wanna go.

As far as i know (after reading around) this is step 1 of 2 for a complete root? so i need to complete step 2 first, but every thread i have read, step 2 is done after a different method of step 1 so i dont think i can do it that way after using this program.

It doesn't have to be as complex as an idiot proof guide but when someone says something like "OMG SO SIMPLE I JUST DID THE NANDROIDS AND FLASHED THE BACKUP AND THEN FLASHED THE ROM!" it drives me crazy. Just tell me which files i need, where they go if it is that simple.

I believe I'm super close, and I'm willing to learn, but I've read so much and it just confuses me further :(

thanks.
[EVO 4G Android Development] car_lost:
I'll try to help you...

1. Make sure you have completed all 4 steps.

2. Go to extras and complete one of the recoveries. I did the clockwork one.

3. Once that is done, go to extras and click theme item to delete the rooting files that were pushes to the phone in step 1.

4. Download the ROM you want to install.

5. Move it to your sdcard. Do not put it in any folder.

6. Turn off phone. Once off, press the down volume button and hold it and turn on the phone. This will start you in bootloader mode.

7. Follow the instructions posted in the thread of whatever ROM you downloaded.

8.VIOLA! (hopefully)
[EVO 4G Android Development] limakev123:
I am stuck on step 4 all is does after it rebots is says starting step 2 and stays there and nothing else. It does that in the command window after the phone rebots into the regular home screen. what am I doing wrong am? should it be rebooting to the screen with the android on the skateboards should I be holding one of the volume buttons or does it just take really long on that starting step 2 ? please someone help
[EVO 4G Android Development] Tattrpuff:
Thanks kennyc this is exactly what I've been searching for!
[EVO 4G Android Development] lbethards:
After I sucessfully completed the SimpleRoot process, went into Extras, clicked Recovery, and chose ClockworkMod, and had my phone running on the old software (I forget what it is now), this is what I did...

1) Picked a ROM from this forum. Technically, I picked two. BakedSnack and DamageControl. I ended up using DC for the time being.

2) Download the ROM of your choosing. They seem to be roughly 150mb as a .zip file. Mount the EVO as a disk drive, and copy the .zip file to the base of the sdcard. Do not put it in a folder or anything.

3) Power off the EVO... you know this part well by now lol

4) Power on into the recovery mode (holding the Volume Down key and pressing power like you have before)

5) Scroll down to the recovery option. (follow the prompts to make a backup if you haven't already, so you can restore to the Simpleroot state if needed)

6) Choose the option to wipe data/factory reset, then wipe cache partition, then go to advanced, and wipe dalvik as well.

7) Select install zip from sdcard, then choose zip from sdcard, scroll down to the .zip file you copied earlier, hit the power key to select, and wait for it to say install complete.

8) Select the reboot now option, watch your phone reboot, and hope for the best.
[EVO 4G Android Development] iroczkid:
Hello, i am about to attempt to root my phone, i am just curious as to what is the general rom everyone else seems to be running?
[EVO 4G Android Development] robl45:
does this work on new white evos? someone seemed to be having a problem with the white evo.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lbethards:
DamageControl, Fresh, and BakedSnack seem to be the main three I have seen people talking about. I downloaded all three now, and just keep flashing a different one to see which I like the most. :p
[EVO 4G Android Development] Tyzing:
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Simple Root 1.47.651.1 OTA Edition

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Pushing files, PLEASE WAIT!.....

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* daemon not running. starting it now *

* daemon started successfully *

failed to copy 'flash_image' to '/sdcard/flash_image': Permission denied

failed to copy 'mtd-eng.img' to '/sdcard/mtd-eng.img': Permission denied

failed to copy 'part1' to '/sdcard/part1': Permission denied

failed to copy 'part2' to '/sdcard/part2': Permission denied

failed to copy 'part3' to '/sdcard/part3': Permission denied

I cant get passed this.....tried everything...rebooted PC & Evo...in Charge only
[EVO 4G Android Development] iroczkid:
thanks! i just wish someone would make the rooting program for a mac! so i didnt have to use my old PC lol
[EVO 4G Android Development] iroczkid:
Does the phone under the USB connection type need to be under htc sync? or disk drive?
[EVO 4G Android Development] muhbuhtuh:
i did all of the steps... i see things that i didnt have before like the wimax buttons and hdmi controller and such. i even downloaded the overclocker app to see if i am rooted and it works... but when i try to go into recovery mode i see a picture of my phone with a red exclamation point in the top corner of the phone. and it just stays there and i have to take out the battery to restart the phone

i was told that if my phone was rooted i would have the super user in my programs but i dont see it? but i dont understand because i have the overclocker app and it works..
[EVO 4G Android Development] theseteeth:
Thank you very much!

I'll try this when I get home from work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tuzalu:
I am on step 4 and after it reboots it goes to the screen with the skating androids.

I push the power key to go to the bootloader screen. It then starts trying to load some files and for each one it says loading no image then at the bottom it says no image or wrong image. Do I need to manually copy files over to the root of the sd card to load them or did some other step mess up?
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
Did you enable the usb debugging? (settings > applications > development)

once again, charge only.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tuzalu:
Also to help some people out. I was getting the problem where on step 4 it would get stuck on starting part 2. What I did was put the phone in storage mode and delete all the files that the program transfered over. I would then restart the simpleroot program and start over from the first step (including going back to charge only mode). After I did this, when I got to step 4 it finally got past the starting part 2 part.
[EVO 4G Android Development] iroczkid:
my apology i missed that, i just went to try and use simple root, but when i hit root, and it opened my phone up to the bootloader, i hit power like it said..it ran a short checklist of things...and just continued to sit there, how long does the first step take? before the "Install option" comes?

**Edit** Now it wont even kick my phone into the bootloader screen period when i click root....
[EVO 4G Android Development] Success100:
this is the same problem i was having. go back and start over, step 1 is CRUCIAL to the simpleroot. You need to give step 1 about 10 minutes to push all the files, wait til it says complete! I kept going to step 2 without letting this happen thinking it was doing the right thing. I just happened to go sit on the toilet during step 1, and then i come back, and VOILA it had sad push successful, where it never said that before to me. Hope this helps you out some
[EVO 4G Android Development] tuzalu:
what about where step 1 says cannot stat part 4 no such file or directory? Will it automatically keep going at some point after it says that?

Edit: Nevermind apparently it does keep going. Thanks.
[EVO 4G Android Development] XmentalX:
I just wanted to stop in and say THANK YOU! this method worked so smoothly on my win7 x64 laptop i was rooted in no time at all :-) you have made my weekend and next week for my trip
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
I would recommend starting over.. put your phone in usb disk drive mode. remove the files that was pushed onto the sd card and start from step one.

remember to put the phone back on charge only and debug mode once you remove those files at root of the sdcard.
[EVO 4G Android Development] iroczkid:
ok thanks! but which files are the ones that i need to delete? i just got the phone back into the boot loader screen, and hit the power button, it did the short list of things, and now is back at the fast boot,recovery, and all that, im trying to be pacient, but i think i will have to do what you said and delete the files
[EVO 4G Android Development] accdealer:
ok, i have more than 20hours into this process now.

late last night, i was finally able to complete step 4. thinking that i had the phone rooted, i installed wifi tether and it didn't work. then i downloaded rom manager and tried to load another rom. no luck. then i put the rom on my sd card and deleted the pc....rom, restarted to recovery mode and only had 3 options on a blue screen, no delvic-cache and no way to select a rom to load except update.zip which the phone could not find.

this morning i tried to redo the easy root program, but now i hang in step 4. i have restarted without cables plugged in and still unable to complete step 4.

i am thoroughly disgusted with all of this and i am ready to throw in the towel.

if anyone here is in the philadelphia area and knows what they are doing with this procedure, i would gladly pay them to get my phone up and working.

thanks

dan
[EVO 4G Android Development] tuzalu:
Gah redid it all and got stuck on part 2 of step 4. One more try then I am taking a break.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
There should be a file named PC36IMG.zip. Delete that off the root of your sd card and start over. I know the program copied (or tried to copy) more than that. I just don't know which other ones.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
After you completed step 4... follow this to upgrade to 1.47.

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

I got some your device is in an unknown state error after step 4. I followed the steps above and upgraded to 1.47 and wifi tether is working fine now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] iroczkid:
its not there? i even did a search within the "removeable disk" and still nothing showed up?
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
If you are on vista/windows 7 it might be helpful to run the program as admin.

you right click on the ota simpleroot.exe icon and click on "run as administrator"

Knowing how W7/Vista are with securities doing this will not hurt.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
Just start over then. Run the program as admin.
[EVO 4G Android Development] accdealer:
wish i saw that before trying to re-root my phone. current problem is that i keep trying to rerun the simple root program, but i get stuck on step 4.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jiqqaman:
Factory reset your phone. And start from step 2 if youre having issues with step 4.
[EVO 4G Android Development] muhbuhtuh:
no one has answered my question yet.. ive started over multiple times and this still happens D:
[EVO 4G Android Development] dallastx:
what about your 4g and wifi tethering on the latest OTA Rooted?
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
4G turns on. wifi tethering works fines when I upgraded to 1.47 rooted.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Smac7:
well im new to android and rooting. and i was planning on rooting but im a bit confused about this adb. i took a look at this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=694250

It didnt help me much since the download link was broken so i googled android sdk and i found a windows sdk package. when i go to set up this package though it says "Failed to fetch URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml, reason: HTTPS SSL error. You might want to force download through HTTP in the settings." so what do i need to do to get this straitened out? do i even need to do this adb for the simple root?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Ninjack:
Hmm stuck on step 4. Did a factory reset someone suggested and started from step two...now it seems that the flash site will not load.

Before I was stuck on Part 4 and it said loading step 2 for like 20 mins...

H E L P

EDIT*: Hmm I thought I had posted this already.....

Anyway, I was stuck on Step 4 with Starting step 2: I stoped it afte 20mins, and I did a Factory RESET. I then started from STEP 2 Again. Now it did take a bit for the FALSH SITE to come up, but be paiteint, it will. I was then able to get past STEP 4: Part 2 easily. I now have a rooted Phone! Thanx to the user that earlier in the post suggested this. Also thanks for the Dev who design this pretty trouble free fix.
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
I did not have to do that to get root.

This is what I did.

I have never rooted my phone before. Figured I will give this a try.

W7 Ultimate x64

1. I downloaded .NET 4, HTC Sync and the zip file.

2. Read all 22 pages, twice.

3. Installed .NET 4 and HTC Sync. Rebooted PC.

4. Rebooted EVO

5. Unzipped the zip file on to my desktop.

6. Ran "OTA SimpleRoot.exe" as administrator (just in case)

7. Step 1: 2 minutes - DO NOT CLOSE THE RED WINDOWS when you see "press any key to continue. READ THE INSTRUCTION!!

8. Step 2: 2 minutes.

9. Step 3: 2 minutes.

10. Step 4: 11 minutes. This one took the longest.. As long as you follow the instructions and don't press the "any key" too quickly.. You will be fine.

The initial HTC "quietly brilliant" loading screen will take longer than you expected. Don't panic! It will come up.

I had zero issue. Everything went according to instruction.

READ the instruction. Read it again after that.

Then I use http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715915 to upgrade to 1.47 rooted.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jiqqaman:
im gonna have to post a video on this...:rolleyes:
[EVO 4G Android Development] kennyc1:
Thanks for doing this! Awesome work sir!
[EVO 4G Android Development] evohnoo:
http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-hacks/how-to-install-android-sdk-and-adb-drivers-for-htc-evo-4g/

Third picture down shows you how to get past this... you must go into settings and check the appropriate box "force https" etc... PLEASE read a bit before posting :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] patch321:
seems as though the flash site doesn't work anymore?
[EVO 4G Android Development] bigheadwillie:
thanks for your work, this seems to have worked fine. booted into engineering rom just fine.

Now i have another weird issue. I booted into recovery in order to flash another rom. When i scroll down to recovery and hit the power button i dont get a recovery menu. instead i get a htc evo 4g splash screen.

can anyone help me please?
[EVO 4G Android Development] evohnoo:
Sounds like you dont infact have a recovery... if you still have root, go ahead and flash a recovery, then retry
[EVO 4G Android Development] evohnoo:
try www.tinyurl.com/evo1234
[EVO 4G Android Development] bigheadwillie:
Ive tried installing recovery using toasts method. I enter the adb reboot recovery command. After that my phone reboots to the whit htc evo 4g screen adn just sites there. At that point i attempt to run the windows-recovery.bat, and i just get a bunch of device not found errors.
[EVO 4G Android Development] seanman13579:
hey can someone host the DL file somewhere else i am having trouble dling it from megauploads
[EVO 4G Android Development] evohnoo:
If youre going into recovery, and getting the white splash screen and not getting anything else, you dont have a recovery.

I assume you have root at this point as well...

Download this file http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=356882&stc=1&d=1278617894

Place those 3 files on your SD card

open adb... go into shell and type this

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image(hit enter)

chmod 755 /data/flash_image(hit enter)

/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img(hit enter)

reboot recovery(hit enter)

should work for you
[EVO 4G Android Development] bck9900:
Hey guys just found out that bit.ly is CASE SENSITIVE. So type it ver batim exactly as you see it. The link is still valid. I never thought it mattered in a url but with bit,ly CAPITALIZATION makes a difference. Go figure
[EVO 4G Android Development] Smac7:
so am i. ive already had 4 downloads stop. ive been trying to download this for the last two hours. i give up until theres either a new link or theres some downtime on the server.
[EVO 4G Android Development] sashamw33:
Downloaded this last night. I'm FINALLY rooted! I can't thank you enough for this! I have my custom rom, my android eyeball boot screen and I'm even MORE in love with my EVO than before! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!