yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
Sorry, I didn't realize you were in the inner circle and were up on everything that all of the devs have tried (because each and every one of them posts absolutely everything they do here, on this thread, in xda). You're obviously on a first name basis with all of them and have been privy to all of their experiments and attempts. I also didn't realize you had the power to summon them to this thread late on a Wednesday night to demand a progress report.

By all means, give it a shot.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
double post
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
Well now you've made me feel like the devil on his shoulder as opposed to the voice if reason....honestly it could get rooted tomorrow but we've all been under that assumption for weeks...but you can always try later, but if you do it and brick your phone I'll wish you wasted....like the ota I don't know what I was thinking when I pressed download but in retrospect I normally would have waited bc as I said you can always update LATER once you do it there's no turning back....but come on you can't tell me you didn't crack a smile when you read my speech:) plus lol the suspense will get to someone eventually
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matt_TX:
Has anyone seen this? I'm really confused, and I'm sorry if this is dumb (please don't flame me - it doesn't help any of us).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=714157
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ep3n3wp:
I got 5 bucks towards your insurance claim if it doesn't work.. Lol... I want a gold card.. its like a golden ticket...

Sent from my Second Wife using Swype on the XDA App
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
The very beginning of THIS thread touches on every thing that cannot be done. Goldcard isn't even mentioned. I was merely answering someone else's speculation. So are YOU in the inner circle? Are YOU qualified to say that HAVE tried it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim M:
Sorry, this is old news for the 1.47..... OTA that was released a while back.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meo1pr:
Do it, it'll make you famous.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
The very beginning of THIS thread touches on some of the things that have been done, by some of the devs who frequent XDA. However, it mostly consists of posts by folks who think that changing a file name (or something similar) will somehow allow them to root, and what they've tried. This thread is definitely not an exhaustive database on all root attempts, by all devs, nationwide.

And me? I'm no dev, I'm just a guy.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
He was probably noticing it because the tail end of that asks the new question about the goldcard. I put the question in there.

I think I am not going to do it until I get some concrete info as to 1. Whether or not it has been tried yet. and 2. What might I be up against in terms of bricking... in other words, what would make it "brick?"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IRepTheKing:
Falling out my seat laughing at this.. LOL
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
Good for you - this is the proper attitude.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcmarx:
Go for it, its a 100 bucks for lost/stolen claim... then you can always sale it on ebay...

Can those guys flashing Cricket or MetroPCS to Evo use bricked phones? I know they use the bad esn's

Or does Brick mean BRICK?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
Listen fur. Why don't you pull up the update you have off htc site hex edit it and cntrl+Z to info what I've done.....re zip.... And try you flash that....u altered it, so the sig will be nill and is no different than what your phone is running now bc it will be the latest 2.2 ...so then atleast we will know if the concept is even possible....and we will take the appropriate steps from there. Be smart and advantageous.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
You can bet this hole was plugged along long time ago.someone just got root on the droid 2 though, anyone know how they managed it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
I am not sure what you are trying to say. What would I need to hex edit? The gold card was hex edited but the image file wouldnt need to be... i dont think.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
No I mean just get a copy of the current 2.2 ruu after the file then undo your changes (bc once you alert the file the signature would be gone) hence our problem... And flash that with the gold card, so u would be flashing your phone with the current software your running.... (so you wouldn't have too worry about bricking) and then you'll know if the idea of bypassing the signature verification is possible if you don't get an error trying to flash the unsigned copy of 2.2 ur running on the phone now........ so if you don't get an error took know the gold card isn't just something we've done to pass the time waiting for the devs ....ya digg
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bisby:
what he's trying to say is if you dont edit the image and you wind up flashing stock 2.2 onto your phone... anyone can do that. flash an up to date signed image.

If you take stock 2.2 and edit it (to break signing) and undo the changes. you now have a unsigned image. If you can flash THAT onto the phone youve made progress

But since its the official stock 2.2, chances of something going awry and bricking are VERY slim (supposedly). I didnt read up on the gold card thing enough to know if flashing a normal update from a gold card could cause any damage.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsnyder217:
Goldcard

I've made a goldcard also but how do I use it?

Edit: how do I flash things from it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernruffryders:
I agree
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
Couldn't have said it better myself.....although I think I did, but yea....that!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
Theoretically, you should just be able to copy an image to that card and boot recovery and flash it:

http://www.knowyourcell.com/htc/htc-evo-4g/evo-4g-guides/463925/how_to_root_the_htc_evo_4g.html
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsnyder217:
Goldcard

Unless I'm doing something wrong this doesn't work it keeps giving me an error message "main version is old"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
Yea man you have to modd the ruu so it shows greater or equal to the rom ur running currently.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsnyder217:
And how would I do that? Are there any premodded ruu's?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
U need to extract the rom.zip from the 2.36 and the 1.47 ruu and compile them together for a modded rom.zip....and use that
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsnyder217:
And then how would I flash it on to my evo?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
Put it on the root of your sd card and reboot your phone into recovery mode.

PR wonderbread lives!...who missed me?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsnyder217:
Ok every time I reboot into recovery it's just a phone with a red exclamation mark i tought you could only flash things from recovery if you were rooted?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAttitude7689:
Your missing a few steps i think,

Root:

Make your microSD card into a goldcard by following these instructions

Copy the PC36IMG.zip file downloaded above to your memory card's main directory

Hold down the 'volume down' and 'power' buttons until you see a white screen appear

Once your EVO 4G has read the contents of the memory card, it will ask if you want to flash - select yes

When the flash is complete, reboot your phone

Viola! You now have a rooted HTC EVO 4G!

Note: You should now delete the PC36IMG.zip file on your memory card.

You're now ready to flash the recovery image so you can install custom ROM files.

Unzip the EVO-recovery.zip file you downloaded above onto your desktop

With your phone connected to your PC, open a command prompt and type "adb reboot recovery" (without quotes) to put the EVO 4G into recovery mode

Once you see the the red triangle and exclamation point appear on the screen, run the recovery-windows.bat file you unzipped in step 1

When the flash has finished, reboot, and you are DONE!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juniorcortes:
Thanks for the update. What is the unrevoked team Twitter name? I want to follow them .
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
Yea but that link with there downloads won't work....our they will but will ned to be altered like I said above bc the ruu need to show greater or equal to the rom your running now...but everything else is the same basically

PR wonderbread lives!...who missed me?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsnyder217:
Wait what do you mean by greater or equal to?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
Couldnt he just grab any of the newest rooted roms and put that on there since they are equal?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsnyder217:
Ok I've tried it twice now and it doesn't work
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
Tried the same thing twice? Or two different things? Did you try taking one of the stock rooted roms and load that as the PC36img?

What happens when you try?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superlinkx:
@unrevoked said: Amazing work from Sebastian Krahmer. His latest exploit also works on Froyo 2.2 on the EVO: http://c-skills.blogspot.com/

Looks like root is coming soon!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarjockey:
@unrevoked

Amazing work from Sebastian Krahmer. His latest exploit also works on Froyo 2.2 on the EVO: http://c-skills.blogspot.com/

Looks like we have the root!!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bisby:
OMG OMG OMG OMG

what do i do with my life now???
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whodat105:
i wanna scream like a little schoolgirl!!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarjockey:
I got the twitter update in text message and first thing I did was plug my phone in so it can fully charge so I can root it then grabbed my laptop and pulled up xda lol.

Tonight will be a good night =)

Edit: I forgot to add some more info: @unrevoked

unrEVOked forever v1.1 is now available. S-ON, more EVO radios and CDMA Hero: http://unrevoked.com/forever
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greenfieldan:
Depends on what statistic you're polling from. For the majority of phone users? Absolutely a waste of money. For an Android user who regularly flashes various ROMS he didn't create or is trying new things on his phone? I'm willing to it's a much better buy ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greenfieldan:
We can root?

...

I really don't know how to react now...I got up at 1:45 in the morning to take a crap, happened to respond to something, and you tell me I can finally root my phone.

I think I'm too tired to comprehend how awesome this is.

...I guess I'll just freak out like a little girl tomorrow morning. Sweet.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crimeslunk:
umm has anyone gotten this gold card thing to work yet? I see lots of talk about this and compiling and versions and some other nonsense that I'm not quite catching onto. But is there any success with this? If so can someone post up a modded ruu for DL the Gold Card doens't seem like a hassle to make just the rest this crazy talk.

LoL had this screen open for a couple of hours and check whats been posted before mine and looks like its already in the works. Good Stuff a thanks goes out to all the Devs who been working on this and who are making it happen.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
There is no information yet. The exploit beta file that is out there is just that... a .tar file. no info on what to do with it. The unrevoked forever upgrade means nothing still... we still need root first. and there is no info on what to do with that .tar file.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bisby:
so, is this one of those "follow the droid 2 instructions/files" or is there going to be specialized EVO versions coming out that we should sit tight for
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tiffany84:
Is it the method that it says its for the droid 2 that's posted on the link that was provided and If so how do you get it because when I click on the link it takes me to the sight where it talks about the droid 2 and when I click on it it tells me to enter my name and password. Can someone please tell me what I need to do. I'm like freaking out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
lol, I've posted in this thread twice trying to get someone to take a look at the droid 2 rooting method and everyone kept worrying about a method that hasn't worked for months now.

No the gold card method does not work anymore, glad to see we have another option though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
it looks like the binary file for the droid-2 is written for a different type of processor than what the EVO has, that would need to be redone before it would work on ours
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bisby:
so we have a root method, its just not available to us non-devs.

doh. Either way, this is good news eh?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarjockey:
The Login and Password is beta.

it says right in the post.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bisby:
the login/pass are both beta... but that gives you the droid2 version... which isnt the same processor as the EVO... but then again the droid2 doesnt have an arm5 either... im so confused, i just want root
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinpaul:
login------ beta

password-------- beta
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
Yeah... but again... the file is useless unless you know what to do with it. do you happen to know? I didnt see a readme anywhere.

:(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bisby:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=764950

the thread actually has ALL the files you need there too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinpaul:
here,s the readme file

RageAgainstTheCage/README 0000644 0000764 0000144 00000004072 11435214210 014727 0 ustar stealth users The Android Exploid Crew

========================

(b)rings you root for the masses:

Android 1.x/2.x softbreaks

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

As always:

<ATTENTION>

This code is under the GPL.

It comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY, and you cant blame

me for any damage it may cause.

This program may make your device completely unusable and broken.

You may loose all your data and warranty of the device!

The program is intended for educational and demonstration

purposes only.

</ATTENTION>

Since jailbreaking is no longer illegal (DMCA), we now

also provide ARM5 ELF binaries for your convenience.

The source of rageagainstthecage will be provided soon, as feedback

arrives. It is exploiting a missing retval setuid() check inside adb.

This tarball also includes the original and modded versions of exploid.c

as well as rageagainstthecage.c which is

particular for the Droid2 and Backflip devices or devices

where exploid-hole has been patched OTA.

If you like what we are doing you can send us PayPal money to

7-4-3-C@web.de so we can compensate time, effort and HW costs.

But you are not forced to do so.

You can use the provided gif/jpg as a background

image of your phone in order to feel cool in front of the gatekeeper

before he kicks you because you look too geeky for

the disco-girlz! Mind the crap!

Exploid2 creates /system/bin/rootshell which is only accessable via adb,

so no evil appz can execute commands as root. If that fails,

it makes /system/bin/sh +s root though.

The binaries have to be uploaded to the device via "adb push"

inside a writable and executable directory such as

/sqlite_stmt_journals

/data/local/tmp

/tmp

After executing, they are self-explaining. After seeing '#' you

are root. The jailbreaking has actually been done then,

no matter what other tutorials tell you! You might want

to install your Superuser.apk then in order to enable

tethering etc. You can use one of the many instructions found

on the web to do so.

For those not familar: we know; exploit is written with 't'!

RageAgainstTheCage is named after a similar named band which

makes good music.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tiffany84:
I have no idea what to do with it. I just know that just like all of you I am dying to root this thing. All I can say is it looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel after all.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinpaul:
thats all that was found in the file, I hope this helps..........
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
The droid 2 rooting thread with instructions is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=764950

Definitely worth a shot if you don't have root yet
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubbate:
i cant wait, im tired of thiz weak bullshyt :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldojr:
I am actually getting it to work. I can confirm it is working now pushing the some files to see for sure.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarjockey:
If I know for sure it works, I'm next in line to do it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldojr:
I have this symbol now # mmmm. Give me a second i am trying
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarjockey:
that's suppose to happen, says so in the instructions if you're worried.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
Congrats, you have root
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ep3n3wp:
ARE WE THERE YET? LOL...

Sent from my Second Wife using Swype on the XDA App
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bisby:
According to IRC, the # is as far as the droid 2 guide will take you. Other steps involved after that for all the other fun stuff you can actually do with root.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldojr:
Am i the first. Yeah i have the symbol just trying to push some files over. I need to install busybox before i can use CP and then push superuser and su. But yeah all good so far.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whodat105:
so we dl the aug 21st file?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tiffany84:
So I need a computer to be able to do this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whodat105:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=765496
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
"adb remount" from dos should let you push the files to /system
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarjockey:
@unrevoked

If you're desperate to root an EVO with Froyo, watch this space for a downgrade/unrevoked^3/unrevoked forever method: http://bit.ly/dg2Fu4
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Looks like it's about time to change this thread's title! :)

Let's not go crazy on this thread, either. I'll watch closely and update as soon as something official is up and verified. And I think it would be polite to stay quiet on the guide thread as well, just so there's not 40 pages of "OMFG REGAW IS TEH HAXX0RZ !!11ONEONE" and such.

Otherwise, I think the time has come.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarjockey:
And what makes it even more awesome is it is all falling upon xda with the information :). I can say I'm glad I no longer need to check this thread to see if the root has come upon us.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sprink0281:
2x post deleted
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sprink0281:
I posted something like that on the guide thread but we know nobody will listen! But I tried...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jt1394:
Just made a donation to the EFF as a thank you for the hard work the developers have put into this. If reverse engineering and fair use matter to you, consider doing the same.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ginjeet:
Meanwhile..

For those of you glued to the console, and can't bear to leave, I'll be delivering Red Bull around the hood. Of course, it will be marked up. A lot. Sleep is overrated. :-)

(Of course the markup profits will go to the EFF.)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarjockey:
If your willing to drive out to Oregon and bring me one I'll take it, and as payment the update will be here and I'll let you root your phone on my computer when you get here ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topgun966:
Confirmed 100% works rolls the phone back to 2.1 so can be rooted again :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agonzalez1010:
We need a mirror for the PC36IMG.zip. I imagine it is being download by tons of people and i'm getting a crappy download speed on an OC12 at work right. Whenever it downloads, i'm going to up one to 4shared.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhughes3:
Well I've been watching this for the past week an a half or so checking just about every hour. Thanks to all the devs for what you have been able to accomplish! I wish I was at home right now instead of work so I could get this phone rooted again! I just don't know what I'm going to do at work now that there is a fix for this...I guess I'll just have to wait for whenever Gingerbread comes out to follow the madness that is finding an expliot and rooting this phone.

Thanks again!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
NICE!

I just posted a thread in the general section calling out all the folks (without naming names) that pledged to donate to the dev who found root - they should all be donating to the EFF also.

Sadly, I think only a small percentage will actually donate. Hopefully I'll be proved wrong.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc_touch_mn:
Great Job, even thou I'm already rooted.

It is still nice to see
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvaj:
I'm surprised Android central hasn't posted about this yet....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ku_:
Yeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! A donation is well deserved. It will be done as soon as I get home, (both root and donation).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trident:
I've got a copy that I downloaded right before I got my EVO on Tuesday. I was trying to read up on what to do so I could do asap. Then I found out that I had FROYO already installed and yada yada.

Do we still need a mirror? I could post it up somewhere.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
I'm sorry, what is it you were saying?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KyrosWulf:
So to my understanding, this root does not work if you're using Windows7, 64bit?

I could of sworn I read that its not working for said windows users. Can anyone confirm it has worked for them running windows7 64bit or not? :/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pbrussell:
Hook...line and sinker people congrats folks.

PR wonderbread lives!...who missed me?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
I think the only issue would be installing HTC Sync and/or using ADB, both of which work fine for me on my W764 machine as of last night. Why wouldn't it work?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jspallister:
thank you for getting that done
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KyrosWulf:
Alrighty then, thanks much. I'll go ahead and give it a try.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snrbobo:
TYYERHRDB

"GHW"EOBIV

WEW!

i'm getting my evo today with 2.2 on it.

lets hope i'm successful!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
It does work. I did it on Windows 7 64 bit. If you have HTC Sync installed, you have to uninstall it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kseise:
Can it be done on a linux machine?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greenfieldan:
Let me get this straight, this method puts your phone back to 2.1 and THEN you can root it, correct?

Also, can someone send me the link to where i can install HTC sync
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kseise:
It is on the phone. Just plug it into a windows machine and install from the sdcard.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] locoboi187:
If you understand English, you know what I am saying. My statement stands as is.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
Here you go

http://tinyurl.com/37bg96z
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] correnos:
Are you sure HTC sync is necessary? It may be on Windows, but I just successfully rooted my phone via linux. Does it provide drivers for windows hosts?