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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckombo:
Wait... So I can't root my Evo on 2.2?

Bump
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Nobody said that.

Oh, wait, yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pscalett:
Bump even though I did ask the question myself. I've only been here a few days and I've already seen quite a few threads about it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dglowe343:
+1 on the sticky. Way toooooo many "can I I root Froyo?" threads.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjl09:
Bump
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SiL3nTKiLL:
its gonna take time buddy! no root yet!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chazglenn3:
Bump!!!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LudoGris:
Bump

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Just caught another one, first post by a new user asking about how to root and/or downgrade his 2.2 RUU.

I feel like I'm holding the vaccine and nobody's taking it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] |Jason8|:
Bumping for justice.

HTC needs to stop being lame and just ship the phones rooted. ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sprink0281:
You know what really aggravates me about this site..... the sheer number of idiots!..this thread is an example...SilverZero made a great post to sticky explaining he will take time to post as soon as a root is available. Within 45 mins somebody feels the need to post a stupid ass question that was clearly explained by the OP in the first freakn post, which was the reason for this thread. Thanks SilverZero for wanting to keep is up to date and trying to keep the evo threads a little less cluttered regarding the possibility of a root. Unfortunately we know that these idiots are going to continue not reading and just posting same **** over and over and over! Give it a rest morons! This is a great site I just wish we could weed out the idiots!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Littlefield:
Hey guys, I have an OTA Froyo 2.2, how do i root my phone?

Edit 1: Jokes aside, appreciate you trying to root us 2.2 boys; wish I was capable.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krillik08:
Lmfaoooo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloud858rk:
If you can hex edit the PRI to make it appear to be a higher version, could you hex edit the verision number to allow a RUU to downgrade? Probably wouldn't work, but worth asking.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wvaj:
Bump
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ku_:
F@!k I something told me not to do that darn upgrade....but I wanted to see what our was all about (curiosity killed the cat huh) sniff sniff

sent from my EVO 4g on the best App XDA Developers !!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjl09:
coming from newb to another.....wrong thread..post this in the Q & A forum not in the 2.2 thread.....or the seniors will destroy u!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
All of your questions have been answered hundreds of times already - check the QA section, and search is your friend. You can even use google, and get some good results that way. But I'm doing pennance for being a douche to noobs on another thread, so here you go.

yes

no - the kernel essentially tells the software how to interact with the hardware, so custom kernels are tweaked to give you more performance (like the fps fix, or faster processing) or better battery (through underclocking), things like that.

root methods generally have thier own steps, and may or may not involve flashing new radios and things like that, so it would be premature to guess at this time what the next root method will require. At the very least you'll want to back up your call log and text messages before you root.

Titanium backs up apps and settings, nandroid takes a snapshot of your entire system, and allows you to restore to exactly that spot later.

full system backup would probably refer to nand - it backs up to your sdcard.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DraginMagik:
the EVO's were given out like candy at the Google I/O in early May. The EVO offically launched in June. I think those few weeks had something to do with it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
specifically, the Evo was first rooted by three of the devs that were given Evo's at Google I/O on 5/20. It took them 4 days.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Who are "three of the devs" that you speak of?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agonzalez1010:
Thanks for the answer. Good to know whats happening. Wish I could help..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/htc-evo-4g-rooted-in-record-time-video/

found this link to corroborate - but I'm pretty sure they were actually referring to the 4 unrevoked guys though - ozzeh, joshua, shadowmite, and Matt.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h20wakebum:
Hi all,

I understand I cannot root my stock 2.2 Froyo (OTA) with build .6.

I wanted to get rid of the crappy Sprint Apps that auto start and need to root in order to do that (I UNDERSTAND I CANT DO IT YET)

I download AutoStarts (which lets you prevent apps from starting based on certain events) however, that app requires the phone to be rooted.

There is NO other way to prevent these from starting, correct?

Thanks so much,

Robert
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
Correct - you need root do anything with the stock apps. For now, just make sure you go into them at least once to set up the "do not sync" and "do not automatically login" settings
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h20wakebum:
Thanks for the prompt reply.

When I go into Sprint NASCAR for instance and hit Menu... I don't have an option to adjust it's sync/auto login settings (menu only displays exit).

Sprint Nav doens't offer this as well.

When I hit menu > settings > accounts & sync, Sprint NAV/NASCAR don't show up.

I do have Auto-Sync enabled.

I think you're referring to "Background Data" under the Accounts & Sync... If I uncheck that, will my gmail/facebook and news still auto sync?

thanks so much,

Robert
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
not background data under accounts and sync, but you can start there. make sure that you go into each item listed there and disable background sync individually - so hit the item for gmail, and maybe have sync you contacts, calendar, and gmail, but not picasa web albums. Go into news, and select no background syncing. I don't have those apps anymore, so I'm going off memory here. When you go into the apps settings (outside of accounts and sync), there should be a sync setting, notification setting, update frequency setting, or something similar. These should all be set to manual. If manual isn't an option, then choose once/day or whatever the longest timeframe is. Talk is the big one though. Go into talk and make sure that it's not set to automatically log in - that will suck your battery superfast, and most people don't even know it's there. The nascar one might be the exception - I don't remeber if that one specifically had a sync/update setting. Sprint nav, too - that one only saps battery/cpu if you use it. Figures you'd find the 2 exceptions first ;) I was referring to things like news, stocks, peep, talk - things like that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erlanleyva:
what about this? unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever

do you guys think is a good idea to do or not? :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
read the update in red in the OP....no
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
It is a great idea. However, it will not give you root access on 2.2.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Thank you. That was interesting.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldojr:
I have a non-rooted phone with 2.2 so already you guys know i can't root or downgrade. Well under fastboot no matter how many times i tried we know its unusable fastboot flash,update will get you signature fails,remote not allowed and usually sending...Okay Writing....Go f yourself correct. Well i tried a few different ways to bypass or find the right opportunity. Well i fastboot flash update update.zip hundreds of time but for a split second i did it during one of my trials and error and got sending..OKAY write....OKAY. Do you think we still have a chance or am i drinking the water of hellz no.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erlanleyva:
but can you install a custom rom when you do this and then root? or is this just a permanent unlock of the phone. what im trying to say is, that if any one does this can they install any custom rom in it and then root it for example 2.1
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
You have to have root access to install any custom or older ROM.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pestilencec11:
Can't wait till they find a way to root 2.2 :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beneath:
Same, gotta love the evo coming with 2.2 already on it...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayrock310:
cant wait man.. waiting for the froyo root to happen is makin me crazy.. the main reason i bought this fone was to root and theme it. and also 4g tether/speed.. it feels like i just drank 6pack of monsters everytime i look in the last post of this thread.. please root it already.. i will donate 20$ and u have my word.. im telling you who ever find the solution will come in alot of money for the people who bought it 2.2 froyo stocked or updated on accident..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] palmdude:
I think you guys don't know these developers. they are doing this for the challenge, not for a couple of bucks. Look at the iphone dev team site, not a single ad or donation button.

If you are talented enough to root, then you have a pretty good career ahead of you anyway :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Yes you can.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Wow, kid, I feel sorry for you. You need to get help and get your life fixed. That's just sad.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] locoboi187:
Haha obviously you haven't had a recent apple product. Almost all jailbreak sites ask for donations, most known is that prick geohat.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Those sites are not developers. Your argument is invalid.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayrock310:
its called motivation [expletive deleted].. dont call me a kid im probably older than you.. youre probably playin some video games right now and bein serious.. wtf i wanna be serious for? u really think i would donate 20$ on a root? [expletive deleted] me..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim M:
WJW

Perhaps you should act your age.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captainkrtek:
Calm it down in here
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NotATreoFan:
Please tone down the language, there is no reason for it.

@Gary: when did you defect to the CDMA world?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tformed:
Thank you for this post. I will subscribe for further updates.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Wow. Really sad.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrPockets:
Annnnnyyy day now..

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone working on finding this 'sploit. Even though we haven't broken through yet, myself and other members of the community are very thankful for the hard work and effort others are putting into the R&D.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] /b/laZ1n:
Just want to say thanks to all the devs working on this. Pay no mind to the guys with rage over no root. You guys crack it the first round is on me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manooti:
everyone is just anxious to root. i am too but not to that extreme lol. if im not searching to see if froyo has been rooted i order parts for her (my phone). bought the dock/cradle, some screen protectors, backside clip on protector thingies, klipsch headset, about 7 soundgates bought 3 for my gf too so total if 10 lol. extra batteries and some other stuff i ordered last night but i forgot what they were lol.

right now im sharing a heineken with her. shes wearing a zagg right now thats very see through and sensitive to the touch. her backside is covered with a nice rubbery hard plastic protecting her rear so no accidents happen. she loves me. i cant wait to get down n dirty and root her... shes going to love it more than i am OMG

my suggestion for the people that have anxiety problems and cant wait.. just go spend money on her, make her happy and get your mind off the root for a bit.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayrock310:
wats really sad is i wasnt talkin to you. if your not trying to find an exploit than my post had nothing to do with you obviously. you nosey bastard. i dont know if your trying to be funny or cool with your comments. it still wont help your rep.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim M:
Can someone hit this guy with the ban stick please?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldojr:
I got the stick, point me to the direction. I say ban and lets get back to topic. As far as my progress has gone meh. You guys have to understand if anyone finds the exploit it might still take a day or two before they or hopefully ME will say anything. Bricking can happen ask unrevoked jk they are cool. But it happens so test test test must be done even if that means for a week we will get angry waiting. Now off topic BAN
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] locoboi187:
Geohat is a developer. Your existence is invalid.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NotATreoFan:
He has been formally warned a few posts up. As of right now, a ban is not warranted. But that can change if there is any more flaming.

@Everyone: Any more flaming in this thread will result in a ban of no less than 3 days. For some this is a second warning. For others it is a first. Regardless, there will be no more warnings given to anyone. Now please guide the thread back on topic.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
June 21, 2010, when I got the EVO. I'm sure I will switch again soon. Just not sure what to go to. And... I really do like the Evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Sad how the people with only a hand full of posts are acting like disturbed little children. Wait till they have to earn a real living in the real world.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] /b/laZ1n:
Nah people like that will live at home until they are 40
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manooti:
not fair, i still live at home!! :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
That's okay. I live at home too. The home I paid for with the small amount of money the Federal Governent let me keep from the large amount of money I earned.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim M:
I'm 55 and I live at home... my home. Now if I could just get this new replacement EVO rooted.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeNaFi:
Wow I found this today. Unfortunately my Evo is on froyo 2.2. Well I will be patient until the well talented developers find an exploit.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
And I don't live far from you. See... over there... that's me waving to you.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldojr:
29 and I also live in my own home. The difference between you and me is when i need to relax, I sit down to drink a beer and I prefer Dos Equis. Wow i'm weird.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
I prefer a great dark rum. And I also like QE Brandy.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim M:
I don't always drink beer, but when I do I prefer Dos Equis.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Littlefield:
23 and live with two roommates... can i have root now?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdusen:
Stay thirsty my friend.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernruffryders:
Any word yet? I don't like knowing I'm paying the extra 30 bucks for tether! Not a good feeling!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strauss0829:
All these dumb replies with no meaning and no answers still how come the devs are letting us know anything its getting really annoying the last update was 4 days ago I can't believe that no one has made any progress whatsoever so can we please have a legitimate update
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
If I were working on it, and I read your message, I'd take the weekend off and not even think about trying to gain root access to 2.2.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RotoRooter:
Master Yoda says....

Yep. In fact, I would suggest they take the weekend off anyway. It's just a phone people. I've hacked/rooted every phone since the actual XDA from whence this site is named. Every one fell to the power of the dev eventually. Believe it or not, I have found you can still make phone calls without root. Pretty cool huh?

And one more thing. You do realize that to gain root they must find an exploit? It's really is like looking for a needle in a haystack. You just keep poking at the code until something breaks. There are tons of dead ends. If, by chance, there are zero mistakes in the code then there will be no root... period. Luckily, no programmer is perfect so a mistake is eventually found.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevesteve64:
I don't think the DEv are even worrying about a new root method

The Dev already have root, which means they're not really worried about getting the people who updated early to get root access.. I believe if this was the same situation like 2.1 where they too, the DEv, wanted to have total control over their device, then a root method would have been discovered the second day of the release. I think the developers are comfortable with where they are at the moment. I dont think even they want to risk losing root, to find a new root method.. It's just my opinion
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iAmNotorious:
I can't figure out if you are a troll or just have no idea what you are talking about...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhriscoy:
I lost him after the first sentence....

Dude im no dev or anything but dont assume what they do to be easy . You cant snap your fingers at them expecting them to crack every update and have it out the second day. Jesus they may or may not have rooted yet, well just have to wait patience is a virtue my friend.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manooti:
i love this thread. its bringing out peoples true colors.

why not buy easytether for 10 bucks or use their trial which is free and only restricts access to secure sites.

i bought it so i can use it on the go with my laptop and to support that dev cuz its a cool app for a fairly decent price. cheaper than pdanet and same performance.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syntax404:
I HAVE been looking at it, but my cracking experience isn't really in this area... however, seeing you have such a mouthy opinion on it, why don't YOU crack it yourself?

Oh, right, you can't.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syntax404:
Here's your legitimate update:

Nothing to report at the moment. Further updates to follow.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siouxlasley:
Thanks for the update, also for letting me know there was an XDA app!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgalyan:
Should have listened to the cute chick...

Bought my EVO a few days ago at a Radio Shack from a cute girl who mentioned that I shouldn't download the OTA because it had been messing up phones. I think she may have had other motives for the advice and I was too busy looking at her butt.

She did give me her digits and when my gf noticed us texting she got pretty pissed, lol.

Good luck to those dev's much smarter than me!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernruffryders:
Good idea, about to call sprint!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Which Radio Shack?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snood123:
Do not post which radioshack on this forum as this could potentially cause issues between her and the company's policies.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RotoRooter:
I'm sure this is what she was talking about. Her information was just a little outdated.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/sprint-halts-evo-4g-update-due-to-reports-of-it-bricking-phones/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] locoboi187:
That's from June lmao
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluediablito:
so i went to bestbuy in nyc to buy an evo for my wife. (sold out every were else but one besbuy) lol hopping to have 2.1 i notice the phone came with 2.2.

this suck ..... now we have 2 evo with 2.2 .............and now we wait.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vavaud:
I'm looking forward to a 2.2 root, i will be switching to sprint at the end of the month and i have my eyes on the epic and evo. not sure which to pick but that besides the point. I'm hopping for a easy solution to the 2.2 rootmare.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomit12:
Actually, his opinion isn't totally unreasonable, and certainly isn't worth getting your panties twisted over.

He's simply saying most people, devs included, already have root, so what would be the rush for working on something that only affects an unfortunate few. I'm sure someone is working on it, but that doesn't mean its not a valid point.

As for the "Oh, right, you can't," I'm not sure what the point of throwing stones from your glass house was.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manooti:
the "unfortunate few" is ever growing. the first month the phone has been sold out everywhere so not all that wanted the phone could of gotten it. the amount of people that have the phone as of date is purely a small percentage of all the people interested and looking to get the phone.

ill throw some speculation and assumptions your way. lets say "ffs" that there are 500 best buy stores in the 5 boroughs of new york city. moving on, lets overestimate the amount of phones in each shipment to 20 at each bb store.

this comes out to .... 10,000 evo 4gs sold in a month since launch and still sold out all over nyc. providing the phones availability in a major city like new york with the amount of people and time, its safe to assume that it will be back-ordered for a while and many more people are and will be receiving froyo on their phones which will outnumber the amount of people on 2.1. the phone is still currently out of stock everywhere. **NOTE** keep in mind that there are nowhere near the amount of bestbuy stores mentioned above. the amount of best buy stores and amount of phones per shipment were severely overestimated to include other stores such as radio shack as well. radioshack would probably receive 2 phones at most lol jk(sarcasm)

another note to consider. since the phone is still sold out in a majority of the evo 4g maddened community i feel it is safe to assume that people are switching carriers for the phone which will in turn add to the number of people on the waiting list and add to the populace with unrooted 2.2.

the amount of phones per shipment was overestimated from the original ranging anywhere from 5-13 which is listed on this site: http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-Buy-and-Geek-Squad-Policies/Evo-4G-Debaucle/m-p/116569

i was one of the lucky ones to drive out to my uncles place in riverhead long island (70 miles 1 way) and called a random best buy to find that they had the last white evo in stock and they even held it for me. when i got there they asked me for my name and id to make sure it was really me that called so i they wouldnt give it to someone else.

maybe im wrong and just exaggerated myself to exhaustion. so if you bash me please do so kindly lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomit12:
The "unfortunate few" is indeed growing. I definitely wasn't suggesting they weren't.

I do think, however, that your math on how many might be a touch off. :D

Using a wildly random number, assume 10,000 EVOs sold yesterday to new customers. That's a far cry from saying there are 10,000 more people all waiting for a root. I'd actually be shocked if it were even 1% who are.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyfunk:
Now that there is a method to gain root access to the Slide running OTA 2.2, we can think that a method for the Evo will come soon. We just have to wait a little longer.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=754020