yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
not getting the prompt was my fault...and is normal.

i just reworte the insturctions putting the old one back in place keeping the new files of course. Im umploading that now.

hopefully this does it. Sorry guys if its not one thing...it a freakin other
[EVO 4G Android Development] lightbike:
To change directories in command prompt you type "cd c:\android-sdk-windows\"
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
ok guide completely re written new file uploaded new md5.

Im headed to bed can some one try it. I dont understand why it wont work now when it used to...doesnt make any sense...i mean look back at the thread with all the success? so thats why i think something happened to the files.

I really dont know me and treve, chubbzlou, flipper, xhaus and others have been through this at least 200 times.

Hell me and treve were prolly 200 alone....LOL

any who im going to bed. if some one can test it that would be cool. sorry guys.
[EVO 4G Android Development] asbessette:
The link to the new hboot 2.02 is not working for me....but when it does, can I just flash it....or does there need to be a slew of adb commands done out? I have the latest amon recovery and can flash Myn with no issues, but I can not for the life of me flash MIUI and I have hboot .97

So I am guessing that is the problem and I would like to upgrade...providing I can just flash the new hboot, like we could/can the pg36.img :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] aegiswa:
Thanks all you DEVs for all your hard work :)

I’ll be giving it a shot tomorrow - This looks very promising now – heck I soft bricked it like 6 times my first weekend trying to root my new EVO... I was able to recover each time but what a pain.

Have the 0003 with hboot 2.02 – I'm sure I’ll post up my success tomorrow :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] egghead221:
Still getting this error. I also get an "access denied" message during step 5 when I run "adb shell" but still get the # when I execute the next command. Not really sure what is going on.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jj970:
Well, I'd be happy to try it out, but I am not sure if I should start all over again or would that be bad.

As I said above, I got to step 11:

adb shell nohup /sbin/recovery &

and it never gave me a cursor again.

Thanks for all the hard work man.

J
[EVO 4G Android Development] mellospace:
Sorry im also new to rooting and just have some questioms before performing my first root with this method. Do I need to install and uninstall htc sync? Do i need to install any hboot drivers like the ones needed for unrevoked3?

According to some comments here, all i need is the android sdk and place it in a folder in root C:, then download files in first post and follow the instructioms. No other drivers needed to make this work, correct?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help with this questions. Its my first time rooting so need to make sure im doing everything right.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mayanka89:
So I tried it again after flashing back to stock RUU. Still got Permissions Denied. Oh well.

Thanks for all the hard work though, really appreciate it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] m1gramme:
95 % success please help with baseband update

Well I want to thank you for this thread

It has worked for me I have root I have NAND unlocked

I can flash ROMs

The only issue I have is my radio/baseband and PRI version have been lowered

I have not been able to get thise back where they whould with either update or by using teh wimax.ADDRESS.tree.xml fix (there is no file with that)

If you have any ideas how to fix this would be much appreciated

I am unable to get higher tahn baseband 1.36.00.04.02 in ant rom

when I got teh phone it was 2.15.00.xx.xx

any help would be appreciated
[EVO 4G Android Development] thasolution:
I had the same issue. I flashed a rooted version of the stock 3.30.651.2 rom and it put me back on the new baseband and radio.
[EVO 4G Android Development] neudof:
I don't know about the new version, but here is what I did with the last version, and I was able to do everything with no problems at all.

I installed and uninstalled HTC Sync.

installed the drivers for windows 7

installed ADB (wich gave me an error that java was not installed, so I installed that too).
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
the second pc36 img file you flash should update every thing

oops realized i for got to include a file...new version on its way up now...you can download the radios form cauklins thread if you need them
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
thats normal and that was my fault. i put the cammonds in the wrong order
[EVO 4G Android Development] mellospace:
Ok thanks for the help. But where/what exactly are the drivers for wondows vista? are those the hboot drivers like on unrevoked?can i download them from the unrevoked website? also, does adb gets installed by downloading the android sdk? or how do i install adb and the drivers for the phone? Im sorry im just a little confused of whaat needs to get installed before performing the command prompts. thanks.
[EVO 4G Android Development] forceOnature:
Fail-PU

I am not able to get to step 9 of the rooting procedure. Every time I've tried to flash the PC36IMG.zip for step 8, I see a Fail-PU error when the phone is on the Radio-V2 part. I also get a Fail-IC at the very end but I forgot what part it was...may have been the Bootloader.

Rebooting after this leads me to a screen with a phone and red triangle. When I try to adb into the phone at this point I get this message on command prompt: "- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -".

Any ideas how to get around this? I am getting this after using the files from hboot202-s_off-V7.zip

Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
reflash the pc36img-eng file thats on your sd card. reboot to the rom and continue the process
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
guys ill be out of contact for at least 3 hours...i hope this solves some of the issues.

Some one posted that it was working for them...they installed all drivers. make sur eyou have the right drivers people.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mellospace:
What are the drivers that need to be installed (hboot drivers?)? I have windows vista by the way.
[EVO 4G Android Development] m1gramme:
100 % sucess

THANK YOU

My Evo

Hardware 004

Build 3.30

Hboot 2.02

Baseband 2.15.xx.xx

is now sucessfully rooted.

I did have some problems after being able to flash ROMs of not haveing PRI and Baseband updated.

On thread #787756 there are downloads that can be flashed to fix this problem if anyone else is in that boat.

zikronix sent me there for the fix...I believe he is adding it to this thread but if it isn;t there yet I wanted to add it now for anyone in my boat.

Again this method works and there is sucess.

Happy rooting
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
I am about to try this with:

HW 003

Build 3.30

Hboot 2.02

It looks like at least one other person has posted success with that config. This is my first time fooling with the EVO after doing a lot with the hero, so I just want to ask a couple of other simple questions. I don't want my familiarity with the hero to screw me over on this process...

When I finish this process, will this evo be:

1. s-off

2. rooted

3. with a recovery installed

4. able to flash create/restore nandroids

5. ready to flash a custom rom?

thanks for any answers/help/suggestions!

I just upgraded to the latest version of the sdk on winXP, do I need to fool around with HTC sync or any other drivers?
[EVO 4G Android Development] forceOnature:
Fail-PU workaround

Finally got everything squared away. My phone is rooted with a custom ROM installed (Fresh 3.4.0.1).

To get past my sticking point I pulled out my sdcard and used my laptop to do the renaming of files in step 9, reinserted the card into phone, Vol+down + Power to boot into bootloader, went into recovery, and then proceeded with step 10.

Thanks to all those who put in the hard work to get this process figured out.

Phone specification prior to rooting, for reference:

SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-2.02.0000

MICROP-041f

TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac

RADIO-2.15.00.09.01

Oct 14 2010, 19:14:47

HW Version: 003

Baseband version: 2.15.00.09.01

Software #: 3.30.651.2
[EVO 4G Android Development] chubbzlou:
Do you have sync installed? If so or not you should be fine.

I have sync installed on my laptop running windows7 the process worked for me just make sure you read the process carefully.

Yes you will see s-off which means you are rooted. You will be avle to flash via recovery and be able to nandroid backup and restore.

Good Luck.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mellospace:
Can you help me with this question...

But where/what exactly are the phone drivers for wondows vista? are those the hboot drivers like the ones that need to be installed to use unrevoked3? Can i download them from the unrevoked website? also, does adb gets installed by downloading/installing the android sdk? or how do i install adb and the drivers for the phone? Do I need to install and uninstall HTC Sync Im sorry im just a little confused of whaat needs to get installed before performing the command prompts.
[EVO 4G Android Development] chubbzlou:
I don't know about the vista drivers but once you install sdk adb should be installed. Try to install HTC sync and you should get the drivers for vista.

Good Luck.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Vandelay007:
I am definitely interested in hearing how you make out with this - I am expecting my Evo to arrive sometime on or before Monday - and I already know its 003 - and, like you, I have plenty of experience flashing the Hero - and also worried that I would be 'over cocky' and mess something up because of that -

Thanks Man!
[EVO 4G Android Development] mellospace:
Ok thanks. I'll try it later today.
[EVO 4G Android Development] chubbzlou:
Cool let me know your results .
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
I find people seem to have issues with the htc sync drivers. Id go with the adb drivers or the unrevoked hboot drivers. Ill add links to them all when i get a chance.

And yes i did update the zip to flash the pri, i forgot to add it when i built the secondary pc36img-mr file.

That file is the stock 3.30.651.2 system with the updated radios, modded amon_ra recovery, and the ota kernel.

I plan on changing it to the 3.30.651.2 with the ota kernel and busybox and superuser. Just havnt got around to it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] chubbzlou:
Zikronix here is unrevoked hboot drivers also the link on how to install the drivers hboot-drivers.
[EVO 4G Android Development] runningnak3d:
So you were able to root even though you get FAIL-PU and IC-FAIL? Were you getting the permission denied when trying to do the busybox install?

-- Brian
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
Thx
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
This just happened to me... how do I get back to reflashing the file as suggested here >>>reflash the pc36img-eng file thats on your sd card. reboot to the rom and continue the process<<<

I am using v7.1, should I pull the battery, boot holding volume up or what? I'm sort of lost here...

After the error, I chose not to reboot, chose fastboot>hboot

it now shows the 12 items, with the last one, "BOOTLOADER-Fail IC" "Image Check Fail!" "Update Fail!"

and asks me if i want to reboot again.

I selected yes and I get a phone with a red triangle :(

Anybody out there? I guess I shouldn't have tried this while everyone is out to lunch!
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
Did you re-do the step 8 flashing procedure?
[EVO 4G Android Development] wantanotherbeer:
If you continue -- following the rest of the instructions it will work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jaxtripp:
Tried to use windows w/ same result...

adb shell busybox --install /sbin

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: Permission denied (13) -

Anybody have any success getting past this?
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
I did what the forceOnature did... renamed the files using a sd-drive and now I have rebooted with the power+vol down. I see the HBOOT and FASTBOOT in blue with other options underneath.

I can't seem to make it do anything from that screen.

If i just reboot by pulling the battery, boot to the red triangle, and try step 10:

10) When you see the red triangle. Type the following:

adb push recovery /
adb shell busybox --install /sbin
adb shell nohup /sbin/recovery &

edit #4:

ok things are falling apart on me fast here... I really need some help!

Here is what I did.

1. Ran steps 1-7 just fine

2. At the end of step 8, got fail-pu error

3. attempted step 8 again, but the bootloader didn't work this time

4. Pulled the card out and did the renaming manually

5. cannot get adb to connect now to run the next step. A normal boot gives me a phone with a red triangle.

any ideas?
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkreign2049:
What OS is everyone running that is having problems?
[EVO 4G Android Development] runningnak3d:
Win7 x64

-- Brian
[EVO 4G Android Development] jaxtripp:
Linux (ubuntu 10.4), and Windows7
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
WindowsXP here
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkreign2049:
OK, I'm just trying to figure out what you guys have in common that it is giving you problems. What USB drivers are you guys running?
[EVO 4G Android Development] runningnak3d:
Hmm I have tried the ones that come with the latest HTC Sync (yes I uninstalled Sync), the ones posted on the Unrevoked site, the ones included in the other 2.02 S-ON thread, etc...etc.... If there is a USB driver out there, I have tried it.

-- Brian
[EVO 4G Android Development] wantanotherbeer:
I had the same issue where the fail-pu and fail-ic happened but continued with the rest of the instructions and it completed without a problem
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
So I put the files back, and I am running step 8 again right now. I just fgot the Fail-PU and Fail-IC.

Scratch all that. "GO TO STEP 10"

I am a such a little ***** and this may be working
[EVO 4G Android Development] wantanotherbeer:
EDIT:

It looks like the instructions changed -- the adb reboot recovery shouldn't be there -- just go to recovery without rebooting

then step 10 you will enter the recovery screen where you can run the unrevoked-forever.zip.

Can someone else verify this?
[EVO 4G Android Development] thewagssgd:
I'm pretty much stuck in the same spot (Radio_V2 - Fail-PU), when i try to get into shell i get

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

now im really stuck
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
edit: this was painful, I re-did step 9 manually using an sd-reader (once again, because I had done&

undone the same thing earlier)

I am now s-off and am now flashing the image in the bootloader in step 13... that was sucessful and the rom is booting

now to do step 14+15, backup, and flash a new rom.

update #45: rebooting into fresh now

In summary: It works, but don't let step 8 throw you for a loop. You will get an error, reboot and go like they didn't happen!
[EVO 4G Android Development] forceOnature:
I did not redo step 8.

I manually renamed the files by putting the SD card on my computer then returned to the recovery screen by booting into bootloader, not applying the PC36IMG.zip file and then selecting recovery.

Then I proceeded with step 10.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Noobe:
I am at the steps down below. I rebooted the bootloader but im confused as to what to do when it says flashing. Do they want me to reload the PC36IMG file again? . Its a rather confusing step. And I'm not very tech oriented when it comes to the HTC EVO. So can someone tell me what i have to do after i do reboot bootloader?

reboot bootloader

9) After your phone is done flashing Say yes to reboot. Once inside the rom type the following.

adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-ENG.zip

adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG-MR.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip

adb reboot recovery
[EVO 4G Android Development] darkreign2049:
Well I finally tried it. It does work. Ya, step 8 can be a little tricky if you don't read it correctly. It kinda sounds like you are supposed to restart the phone with the power button and turn it back on, DO NOT do this or you will have to take the card out and rename the files with a card reader.
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
instuctions were reverted to the older ones...because people were having problems going directly to recovery....i reverted them last night.

Im mobile at the moment but if you tell me whats wrong with it ill correct it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] canon3133:
All Step 9 is doing is

moving (mv) PC36IMG.zip to PC36IMG-ENG.zip

and

moving (mv) PC36IMG-MR.zip to PC36IMG.zip

like a copy command
[EVO 4G Android Development] canon3133:
from the DOS window type "cd \android-sdk-windows" without the quote
[EVO 4G Android Development] wantanotherbeer:
There is an issue with at least some that after the first PC36IMG file loads it says Radio fail-pu and bootloader fail-ic.

If you reboot at this point it freezes at the white start up screen and can't get to recovery by any other way then to remove/install the battery and power on holding the down volume button. So adb reboot recovery doesn't work.

Last night step 9 and 10 were reversed (I think) and adb reboot recovery wasn't in there. if you don't reboot and just go to step 10 it works.

Another thing I believe is tripping people up is when they follow:

adb push recovery /

adb shell busybox --install /sbin

adb shell nohup /sbin/recovery &

It leaves it at a flashing prompt and doesn't return.

I had to crl c out of it to continue. No biggy I was able to continue from there and all worked great.

Hope this makes sense.

~ My knowledge of this is very basic so I may be way off
[EVO 4G Android Development] Noobe:
Oh ok. So all they want me to do is to just go back to the phone and do the command prompts?
[EVO 4G Android Development] wantanotherbeer:
Yes -- so the idea here is you are actually changing the names of the files:

adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-ENG.zip

Changes PC36IMG.zip to PC36IMG-ENG.zip

and

adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG-MR.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip

Changes PC36IMG-MR.zip to PC36IMG.zip

So when it looks for the PC36IMG file it will find the new one.
[EVO 4G Android Development] catseyenu:
Thank you for clarifying that.

So long as school is in would you be so kind as to explain these lines?

"adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip

adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-MR.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-MR.zip"
[EVO 4G Android Development] Rem3Dy:
Those commands are pushing the files from your computer to the sd card on your phone through adb.

adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip <---location on your computer /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip <----- to location on your sd card (root directory)
[EVO 4G Android Development] catseyenu:
I understand "push" it's the syntax that has me confused.

For example:

"adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip" looks as if 2 files "pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip" are merged or renamed to "PC36IMG.zip" on the sdcard. ?
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
Ok ill revert it back. Thanks guys for helping oeople out. And its normal to not recieve a prompt after pushing the recovery
[EVO 4G Android Development] wolffer691:
Hello everyone i am a newbie at this android stuff but i cant get a good copy of the hboot file i have a hardware ver 0004 and hboot 2.02 and have tried everything like i stated i cant download a good copy of the file i keep getting crc errors btw i am using winrar dont know if that would make a difference!
[EVO 4G Android Development] runningnak3d:
Has anyone that was getting the PU-FAIL / IC-FAIL errors AND the permission denied error for /system/sbin/sh been successful in rooting their device?

I have tried just about every permutation that I can think of and a few additional tricks and I am getting no where.

Thanks,

-- Brian
[EVO 4G Android Development] surferseth:
Hosed 4G and WiFi

Followed the steps outlined and received the Fail-PU and Fail-IC errors, but was able to get S-Off after doing step 9 with the SD Card reader. I have hardware version 0004.

I booted back in to the provided ROM after step 14 and now I cant turn on WiFi or 4G at all. WiFi states "Error" immediately and 4G states "Failed" after trying to turn on for ~20 mins and doing a battery pull. Both of these were working prior to this and yes, I did a Profile and PRL update. Any thoughts?

Also noticed I dont have root in the OS, but have S-OFF in HBOOT. (tested with Titanium Backup root)

Edit:

Fixed WiFi and 4G issues by loading Fresh 3.4.0.1. Appears there is / was an issue with the Stock ROM supplied.
[EVO 4G Android Development] runningnak3d:
I really hope you did a nandroid backup the minute you were able to....

-- Brian
[EVO 4G Android Development] surferseth:
I have some old Nandroid backups (with borked 4G thanks to UnRevoked 3) from my old EVO but I wanted to see stuff work before I took a new backup... Also, I dont *think* Nandroid backs up radios anyway, so how would that help?

I hope it as simple as flashing a radio version or something, but I dont know enough to figure this one out.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Rem3Dy:
You should never restore a nandroid from a different phone. This will most likely cause you to lose your RSA keys for 4G
[EVO 4G Android Development] Rem3Dy:
You just found an error in the instructions. Sorry I didnt catch that the first time. It should read.

for step 3

adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-ENG.zip

Then you would have to rename the file by

adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG-ENG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip

OR. rename the PC36IMG-ENG.zip on your PC to PC36IMG.zip prior to step 3.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jj970:
Done.

I had a 0003 with hboot 2.02.

I'm now rooted with OMJ EVO 2.2 ROM 4.0, running great.

Thanks to all who helped, especially OP.
[EVO 4G Android Development] torremitsu:
Ladies and gentlemen...WE HAVE ROOT!!! Everything worked, just a bit fuzzy on step 9 and 10, but nothing a little bit of thread searching couldn't fix. Thanks for this, you've been a great help. Too bad im one of the idiots that bricked my first evo by doing the downgrader
[EVO 4G Android Development] Noobe:
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell busybox --install /sbin

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: Permission denied (13) -

I keep getting the error above when i get to step ten.

Im running Windows 7 64 bit and i right clicked and opened as admin for the cmd prompt. Anyone know how to fix this?
[EVO 4G Android Development] catseyenu:
Amon_RA nandroids are supposed to from what I've read, thankfully I've never had to find out.

Post 2:

Note: If your keys are intact this command: grep RSA /dev/mtd/mtd0

Should end with:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
damn this connection is slow...

ok what do i need to fix in the instructions now...i saw a post earilier
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
actully it should work the way it is did it not?

i could name that file hosenose.zip if i wanted to. because thats just the specified destination filename

by pushing with the command

adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip

the file becomes the first flashable zip that is needed
[EVO 4G Android Development] Noobe:
Has anyone figured out how to get around this busybox permission denied error?

I have tried to do all the steps all over again and read through the thread and couldn't find anything regarding this permission denied busy box error.
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
I thought some one determined it was a driver issue or adb issue
[EVO 4G Android Development] Noobe:
Really? So where do i get updated drivers or fix the adb issue? Anyone know or its still up in the air for the moment?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Rem3Dy:
So you can change the filename while pushing the file to the sdcard? Sorry I did t realize that was possible. Carry on!
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
yea...im working on revising the directions again.
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
are you using the adb that was included with the zip file?