[EVO 4G General] tgruendler:
Instructions sent to me:

Video here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBZgqkKME&feature=player_embedded#!

FOR EVO OWNERS DO NOT DO ANY UPDATES JUST YET THIS WILL ONLY WORK WITH THE 1.47 SOFTWARE VERSION.

ALRIGHT HERE THEY ARE, I HAVE INCLUDED 3 DIFFERENT SETS OF INSTRUCTIONS. PLEASE READ ALL OF THEM TO GET A FEEL FOR WHAT YOUR DOING SOME GO INTO MORE DETAIL THAN OTHERS BUT THEY ALL GET YOU TO DO THE SAME THING. RIGHT BELOW IS HOW YOU GET THE WIFI TETHER APP WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO DO AS WELL. BUT JUST READ AND FOLLOW STEP BY STEP.

****RIGHT BELOW IS HOW YOU GET THE ACTUAL WIFI TETHER APP****

1. Now go back to you internet browser on your phone and pull up google.

2. Type in "android wifi tether" and click search.

3. The first option that comes up after the search called "android wifi tether - Project Hosting..."

4. Select the first option and let it take you to the web site.

5. Now the page will pull up and look for where it says "HTC Evo" under device and just to the right of that

you will see a link that says "download" click download.

6. Now click the link that says "wireless tether for root users 2.0.2.apk.

7. Click on "wireless tether for root users 2.0.2.apk" again.

8. Now click "wireless_tether_2_0_5-pre2.apk" and let it install.

******First set of Instructions******

(1) If you have the original unrevoked root installed, uninstall it by using "Menu," "Settings," "Applications," "Manage Applications" and scrolling to "Unrevoked" at the bottom. Tap it, click "Force Stop" at the bottom and then "Uninstall," "OK" to uninstall it. Then power off/on your phone just to be sure.

(2) If you haven't already installed the OTA 1.47 update, do it now: "Menu," "Settings," "System Updates," and "HTC software update" at the bottom, then click "Check Now" to get the 1.47 update. If you do this update, it takes up to 10 minutes so be patient and let the phone reboot (a few times) until it is done. Then once the update is done, power off/on one last time to get a clean start.

(3) Set your phone to "Charge Only:" "Menu," "Settings," "Connect to PC," tap "Default connection type" and select "Charge Only."

(4) Enable USB debugging: "Menu," "Settings," "Applications," "Development," and put a check in "USB debugging."

The process: DOWNLOAD THE REFLASH PACKAGE FROM http://unrevoked.com/recovery/ NO MATTER WHAT!

(1) Download the unrevoked3 install package: Go to unrevoked3 recovery reflash tool, v3.0 and click "Download for Windows." Save the "Reflash-bundle.exe" file somewhere that you can find it on your system.

(2) Using Explorer, run the "Reflash-bundle.exe" file you just downloaded. It'll ask where to install it. Don't just accept the default: change the install location to a folder you can remember: it's just going to unzip some files there: it isn't really a software installer.

(3) Once the files have unzipped, go to the folder you chose in the above step. You should find an "hboot driver.htm" file in that folder: double click on that to open the html instructions on how to install the drivers. Follow the instructions in the html file starting with downloading the actual driver files at the very top. When you download those driver files and unzip those, those are the files (the folder) you'll point to in subsequent steps in those instructions. When done with the html instructions, you should have drivers installed and shouldn't have to come back to this step.

(4) At this point, if you needed to install the drivers, you are probably still sitting at a boot menu on your phone. UNPLUG the phone from USB and select "Fastboot" and then "Reboot" to reboot the phone to restart it. Before the next step, your phone should be on and booted up in its normal operating state (not some boot menu).

(5) Now go to the folder where you unzipped the reflash bundle (step 2 above). Just double click the "Reflash.exe" file.

(6) You should get a window with "Unrevoked 3" on it (on the computer of course). Just follow the instructions in smaller font below "Unrevoked 3" to finish rooting. Note that when it says "Waiting for device," it wants you to plug your EVO into the computer via the USB cable. Note that it wants the EVO to be fully booted normally (not in the Hboot or recovery menus). The prompts at this point are very specific so no need to repeat them. If all works as it is supposed to, the only thing you really have to do is scroll to an item on the phone and select it when instructed. The rest is automated and should result in a "Done" message. The whole thing at this point took maybe one minute so it isn't something you have to wait for or stare at for a long time.

*****Second set of Instructions*****

All the instructions I've found for using unrevoked3 to root an Evo on a Windows PC seem to be piecemeal (all over the place and incomplete), so I thought I'd give a rundown of what worked for me. Some of these steps may be unnecessary but doing all of them should result in a "safe" root. This is written for those with little to no knowledge of rooting but with basic Windows/PC skills and knowledge of how to navigate the Evo interface:

Prep

Before beginning the process, I would recommend doing the following to your phone:

(1) If you have the original unrevoked root installed, uninstall it by using "Menu", "Settings", "Applications", "Manage Applications" and scrolling to "Unrevoked" at the bottom. Tap it, click "Force Stop" at the bottom and then "Uninstall", "OK" to uninstall it. Then power off/on your phone just to be sure.

(2) If you haven't already installed the OTA 1.47 update, do it now: "Menu", "Settings", "System Updates", and "HTC software update" at the bottom, then click "Check Now" to get the 1.47 update. If you do this update, it takes up to 10 minutes so be patient and let the phone reboot (a few times) until it is done. Then once the update is done, power off/on one last time to get a clean start.

(3) Set your phone to "Charge Only": "Menu", "Settings", "Connect to PC", tap "Default connection type" and select "Charge Only".

(4) Enable USB debugging: "Menu", "Settings", "Applications", "Development", and put a check in "USB debugging".

The root process

(1) Go to Control Panel on your system and uninstall any "HTC" software such as "HTC Sync".

(2) Download the unrevoked3 install package: Go to

unrevoked3 recovery reflash tool, v3.0 and click "Download for Windows". Save the "Reflash-bundle.exe" file somewhere that you can find it on your system.

(3) Using Explorer, run the "Reflash-bundle.exe" file you just downloaded. It'll ask where to install it. Don't just accept the default: change the install location to a folder you can remember: it's just going to unzip some files there: it isn't really a software installer.

(4) Once the files have unzipped, go to the folder you chose in the above step. You should find an "hboot driver.htm" file in that folder: double click on that to open the html instructions on how to install the drivers. Follow the instructions in the html file starting with downloading the actual driver files at the very top. When you download those driver files and unzip those, those are the files (the folder) you'll point to in subsequent steps in those instructions. When done with the html instructions, you should have drivers installed and shouldn't have to come back to this step.

(5) At this point, if you needed to install the drivers, you are probably still sitting at a boot menu on your phone. UNPLUG the phone from USB and select "Fastboot" and then "Reboot" to reboot the phone to restart it. Before the next step, your phone should be on and booted up in its normal operating state (not some boot menu).

(6) If you are running anti-virus software, turn it OFF or disable it now.

(7) Now go to the folder where you unzipped the reflash bundle (step 3 above). In XP or older systems, just double click the "Reflash.exe" file. On Vista and Win7 systems, I'd recommend right clicking on "Reflash.exe" and selecting "Run as Administrator". While this may not be necessary, I know that some USB drivers get really mad if you try to access the USB port without admin privileges (sorry, I'm a coder so I run into that stuff and warn you so you don't have to) so I did it as a precaution.

(8) You should get a window with "Unrevoked 3" on it (on the computer of course). Just follow the instructions in smaller font below "Unrevoked 3" to finish rooting. Note that when it says "Waiting for device", it wants you to plug your Evo into the computer via the USB cable. Note that it wants the Evo to be fully booted normally (not in the Hboot or recovery menus). The prompts at this point are very specific so no need to repeat them. If all works as it is supposed to, the only thing you really have to do is scroll to an item on the phone and select it when instructed. The rest is automated and should result in a "Done" message. The whole thing at this point took maybe one minute so it isn't something you have to wait for or stare at for a long time so if something gets "stuck" for a while... there's likely a problem.

(9) Don't forget to turn your anti-virus software back ON.

Now, when I followed these steps on my Win7 x64 system, reflash.exe detected the phone and started working (we're in step 8 here) but about 4 messages into the process I got the "communications lost... try again" message that unrevoked refers to on today's Twitter. Some say that (contrary to step 1) installing HTC sync actually solves the problem. I didn't try that. After about 6 tries on my Win7 system and even pulling some "tricks" to try to pause reflash.exe at certain points, I gave up and simply booted my old XP laptop and repeated the above steps and it worked perfectly the first time. At the point of the failure, you hear the two tone usb-device-disconnected sound followed by a use-device-connected sound about 20 seconds later. Somewhere in between is where the "communications lost" message appears so it looks like some sort of USB ack/nack issue. Hopefully it'll be resolved soon. My best advice if you get that error: try a new machine. The XP machine that worked perfectly for me had never seen any HTC software. Maybe that helped. And maybe after I uninstalled the HTC software on my Win7 x64 system (the one that didn't work) I should have rebooted before continuing: I didn't because it didn't prompt for a restart and I couldn't find anything "HTC" running in task manager.

****Third set of instructions****

http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/0...tc-droid-incredible-explanation-instructions/

*******READ BELOW FIRST BEFORE GOING TO WEB SITE ABOVE********

Alright here is the web site that you need to follow. First of all make sure you have USB DEBUGGING checked on you phone and UNKNOWN SOURCES is checked as well.

To do this go to Settings-->Applications--> check UNKNOWN SOURCES, then right below that click development and check USB DEBUGGING.

Now this is just as important you HAVE to uninstall any program that automatically comes up when you plug in your android phone (HTC Sync, DoubleTwist or any other program). If you do not do this it will not work. Trust me it took me 3 hours to figure this out but once i uninstalled these two programs it worked the first time. So if you follow all of the directions on the web site it will work without a hitch.

Go ahead and go to the web site and read it over one good time without doing anything JUST READ IT! When you do that come back and read the rest.......Go on read it but just read it don't do anything else till you read the rest of this email :)

You will need to do the steps below to get the app for wireless tether so you can do it before or after you install the directions from the web site above.

1. Now go back to you internet browser on your phone and pull up google.

2. Type in "android wifi tether" and click search.

3. The first option that comes up after the search called "android wifi tether - Project Hosting..."

4. Select the first option and let it take you to the web site.

5. Now the page will pull up and look for where it says "HTC Evo" under device and just to the right of that

you will see a link that says "download" click download.

6. Now click the link that says "wireless tether for root users 2.0.2.apk.

7. Click on "wireless tether for root users 2.0.2.apk" again.

8. Now click "wireless_tether_2_0_5-pre2.apk" and let it install.

Those are the instructions for the actual app that will turn on the tethering.

When you go to the web site above you will need to follow the steps from where it says "instructions"

First download the software fromunrevoked.com for your hero or evo to your computers desktop, then make a new folder on your desktop and put the app that you downloaded from unrevoked.com and put it in there because that is where all of the files will extract too when you run the unrevoked program.

Second you will need to install the drivers, on the web site click on the install drivers hyper link and it will take you to the web site to download the drivers again just make a new folder on your desktop and extract the files into it, it is very simple if you just take it slow and follow the directions.

After you install the drivers you will run the reflash package inside the folder that you made on your desktop when you do that it will extract the files and you will finally run the application on your computer called ReFlash. Try plugging your phone in first and then running the program or vise versa. Let the app do its thing and follow instructions on the programs screen. When it finally says Done your phone will be on a screen that you have never seen before but you will want to click on the first option with the power button that says restart phone. (or whatever the first option is it should say restart). You will see in your apps on your phone a app called superuser permissions. That is what you want to see to know if it worked. Once that is there run the wifi tether app that i showed you how to install earlier.

The web site above has some very good help forums but to be honest this is very simple to do just take your time and if you have any computer skills at all and can follow instructions you can do this.