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[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
Thanks for everyone's hard work. I was able to root using the guide in post #1197. I'll be helping my bud root tomorrow.
[EVO 4G Android Development] meinstein1987:
It said that it could not flash first pc36 due to main version being older read the FAQ and did not see an answer for this
[EVO 4G Android Development] lelalouf:
Ok, i just got a new evo after usb broke on old one. It came with 3.30 Hboot 2.02 hardware 3. I rooted sucessfully, installed frsh rom, did a nand backup, then tried to restore nand but was unable to got stuck on white screen forever. I then ran sprintlovers rom as PC36IMG regained access with root did a nand backup of that rom, tried to restore but then went into bootloader loop. Reflashed PC36IMG (sprintlovers) and all is well as long as I don't try to nand restore.

When I looked at the nand it showed boot at 0k and wimax at 0k could this be reason? It seems nand is not backing up properly. anyway to fix this?

**Update** I solved the issue by reflashing the custom recovery from the first post. I am now able to nadroid backup and restore!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
You didn't flash image or mtdeng
[EVO 4G Android Development] asgronomist:
i keep getting 'protocol failure' when i try adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-MR.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-MR.zip...any ideas???
[EVO 4G Android Development] bytes2bits:
Oh so close...

I'm in a state of confusion at the moment but I know I'm close to getting this sorted out. For those of you that have been down this road, please help.

I have Hboot 2.02, Android 2.2, hardware version 3, software 3.29.651.5, radio 2.15.00.09.01 and I ran Unrevoked 3 before discovering it is not recommended. As it currently stands I have root access but S-On. Thankfully everything appears to be functioning properly. I assumed I would not be able to flash a rom so I stopped after doing Unrevoked 3. I want to go ahead and do the procedure listed at the beginning of this thread but I'm not sure where to start. Do I just jump to the section titled Fix Broken Recovery and simply flash PC36IMG_Recovery.zip or do I complete the whole first section titled Lets Get Rooted and then do Fix Broken Recovery? Also, Fix Broken Recovery notes that I will likely need to reload my rom afterwards. Where do I get this rom from? Can I just use Sprint Lovers 12/05/10 Build? Also, do I use the All in One or the Standalone Version of Sprint Lovers?

Sorry for all the questions but I just don't want to jump in and mess this up any further.

Thank you all.
[EVO 4G Android Development] meinstein1987:
I dont have a problem i have seen posted yet. My CMD is tell me step ten error more than one device and emulator
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
either kill all instances of adb in task manager or reboot.
[EVO 4G Android Development] steveojp:
Thank you so much!
[EVO 4G Android Development] nathanotis:
Need a little help. First I wanna say thanks for this excellent walk-through. It's very easy to follow and I've found that if things get flubbed up somewhere along the path, you just go back a couple steps (or even start over from the beginning) and it works like a charm.

Having said that, I did follow the steps exactly, downloading and extracting only the files that are linked to in this post. I don't have a recovery... So I go back to step 11 as instructed and basically reinstall the recovery, the recovery works till I try to boot into it manually. I'm kinda confused. I'm stuck with the stock "recovery" area now and no ability to flash changes.

I know that I've achieved S-off, and rooted-only apps seem to work, so for that I thank you. I'm just kinda stuck now and not sure what to do. A nudge would be great.

Hardware 0003, Firmware 2.1 -update1, Baseband 1.36.00.04.02 (not sure what else might help)
[EVO 4G Android Development] suicidedoordavid:
noob question here... will i loose all of my contact info if i wipe my phone? i'm running the latest version 3.30.651.3

i want to root, just am hesitant that i will loose info that i won't get back if i wipe my phone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
I did, but I sync my contacts with Google so it came right back down. Just sync it with your google account and you're golden.
[EVO 4G Android Development] suicidedoordavid:
ok, so i synced my contacts with google. when i wipe and root, how will i get all my contacts back? flying blind here not knowing what to expect.

i went and logged into my google account on the laptop and can't find my info there. any suggestions?
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
I just recieved a replacement phone (rev 4 Brand new)

do i need to have it activated before i Root/load a custom rom?

I did the LONG rooting process when i got my original one back in June.. and am running Fresh 3.04.01(or something like that)

So im not sure what to do first with this new phone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
If you check your gmail Contacts you should see all your contacts there, leave your phone on for a bit it might take a bit for it to push back to gmail.

Someone else can jump in, maybe there is some setting to convert regular old phone contacts to google contacts, I don't know. For me, I was always using google contacts. Assuming you get your contacts pushed to google when you flash any ROM the first thing it asks you is to put in your google info, from there it pulls it down just like it's a new phone from the store.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
I installed the unrevoked USB drivers.

They show up as "Android Phone"->"Android Composite ADB Interface"
[EVO 4G Android Development] yznhmr:
Anybody know if i need to activate my phone before i root it>??
[EVO 4G Android Development] mainguy21:
need some help..im a noob to the core..im stuck at rebooting the phone so it can find the PC36IMG.zip..it scans it really fast but the last couple of words i see before it goees off is "wrong image" but it doesnt give me an option to reboot or not..what do i do? i did it like 3 times and it finds the zip but all i have is fastboot, recovery,clear storage, simlock and hboot usb??/

edit: when i try step 10 it says in cmd "no such file or directory"

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

actually i got passed 10 now im stuck on 11..it says protocal fail and it takes like 5 mins to try and show me the speed and size of file or whatever.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Jbcarrera:
uummm i would think so
[EVO 4G Android Development] mainguy21:
how did you even get to do it again, my phone is stuck on the evo screen or the bootloader when i try to cmd all the steps again it says device not found?? any help plsss
[EVO 4G Android Development] RichR67:
Thanks!

I was finally able to root my phone certainly not a "one click" root but I imagine they will get that to work with this HBOOT soon enough.

Thanks to all who worked on this and for the encouragment I received when I ran into trouble.

I loaded Sprint lovers after I got root because I really just wanted the wireless hotspot app now after getting a little more comfortable with this I have been reading up on some of the other roms and I couldnt find an answer anywhere but can I just flash another rom over sprint lovers like I flashed sprint lovers over the rom the was originally incuded with the 7.1 version of the program from page 1

I was thinking about stock turbo mainly because I would like a little more speed I did a nandroid after rooting and again after loading sprintlovers OH I almost forgot I cant get to recovery without hooking the phone up to my MAC is there a fix for that? Did I make a istake somewhere?

Thanks again everyone!
[EVO 4G Android Development] illogos:
If you want to try a new rom do the following:

1. Use TitaniumBackup from the market to backup app data and apps you don't want to lose. I love my angry birds progress... so I always back that up.

2. Boot to recovery.

3. Make a nandroid backup of your current rom.

4. Wipe the following: data/factory reset, cache, and dalvik cache

5. Flash from zip the rom file you want to try

6. Reboot

7. Test things out

8. Selectively restore specific items from your TitaniumBackup

If you want to revert, then you would:

1. Boot to recovery

2. Wipe data/factory reset, cache, and dalvik cache

3. Restore the nandroid backup you made.

4. Restore apps/data from TitaniumBackup
[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
First off is you got a command not found somewhere you didn't unzip stuff correctly, I suggest following the excellent write up on page 120.

Second off, to get back to the boot loader you should do a battery pull from the HTC evo white screen, then hold down power and volume down.

It sounds like you got tripped up before there if you got command not found you can't just skip that step. Again, look at the guide on page 120 and follow it slowly.
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
adb kill-server

...is another quick solution to phantom/offline/duplicate devices
[EVO 4G Android Development] mainguy21:
thats what im looking at..im still stuck..i get stuck at 10-11 they fail the 1st 2 times and after that they finally go through and i keep going but i get stuck in different areas.

dont know where to go to start all overs? or it doesnt matter where i am, how do i start overs like since i cant get to my phone just at the white screen with hboot and stuff..it says on top SHIP S-OFF
[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
Are you stuck where you're trying to get to the red triangle part? If so, that happened to me to, i battery pulled did powerdown/vol to go back to bootloader, it asked me if i wanted to flash again and I said no, then had to manually select recovery from the menu. Then I finally got red triangle.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mainguy21:
im at the red triangle right now but im saying if i completely start over where can i just start at since i cant start where i orginally started which was with my phone on.

also when i unzip the file into "hroot" when i look in the C:\HROOT\pc36img its completely empty am i supposed to add something in there or what?

lol im super frustrated..now when i try to start overs it says c:\hroot is not recognized as in internal command or batch file. *shoots self*
[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
If your pc36img folder is empty you did not unzip it correctly, it should have two zip files in there.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
Also if you're at the red triangle you should be able to start up at that step then and continue with the instructions. however i'm not sure if it would work because I don't know if you followed the pre-req's for the first part.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mainguy21:
i know but where do i get those 2 files? i downloaded the main file in the OPs POST..and it gives me a empty folder in that one. o_O am i supposed to download more stuff or what?

i got past that part i found the files..but still cant get past the hboot screen..says "pc36diag" no image or wrong.

but now i cant get into shell is it cause my phone is already "s-off" or what? it keeps saying /system/bin/sh' failed no such file.

im just going to give up...but 1 last queston lol

adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip why does it say on step 10 or whatever pc36img-eng zip but after that its img.zip but without the ENG? the 2 files i have now have MR. AND ENG? is that right?
[EVO 4G Android Development] statik711:
I'm having a fail-pu with this. Don't know what Im doing wrong. I have software .3 and hardware .4 . Please can anybody help?
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
Fail-pu is normal in the flashing process. Continue as the instructions say...
[EVO 4G Android Development] lil-dice:
Um those files are in the directory inside the zip file! I'm not sure what you're seeing. I just confirmed it though.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mainguy21:
is there a way i can sorta unroot and go back to stock?? even though i cant get out of bootloader? and even did a full root
[EVO 4G Android Development] exploited789:
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This is the only root method I could get to work this is awesome! Now I'm gonna back up and flash so many interesting ROMS.

I've had a headache for 3 days trying to get root but this solved it. JUST FOLLOW DIRECTIONS! when you copy over the pc36 zip files they take awhile dont get impatient.

Thank you again!

Edit: im also hardware 002 with HBOOT .97 for some reason nothing else worked but thie method.

Hope this helps.
[EVO 4G Android Development] suicidedoordavid:
the intructions on pg 120 is awesome....

i have been following the steps on pg 120 up to the red triangle. i get the red triangle, and at step 27 after typing in "adb push recovery /",

i am getting "adb server is out of date. killing..... "

next line is "daemon started successfully"..

and what is stopping me in my tracks is the next line.." daemon still notrunningerror:cannot connect to daemon"

i haven't seen this error listed yet. where do i go from here?

thanks for everyones help here!
[EVO 4G Android Development] daincha:
THANK YOU!

yes it's the ONLY root method I found for late 003 EVO.

My EVO 4G was manufactured on Nov 12 2010, and I made lots of efforts simply trying root it.

I was lucky to find this thread. THANKS!
[EVO 4G Android Development] suicidedoordavid:
i took a shower and came back to try where i left off, which was the command prompt of " adb push recovery /".

the first try i was given the message of "adb server is out of date. killing..." the curser dropped down a line and has been blinking for 20 minutes now, sorta like it's going through it's process. can't type anything either....

could this be just a hang up? or does it really take this long for this step to process?

what can i do to move this along? can i do anything with powering it down and rebooting it? or can i manually put it in recovery mode myself?
[EVO 4G Android Development] brianbooker1:
I'm stuck on step number 42. It never asks me if I want to flash. DoI need to completely start over? Please say no
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
no your phone does not need to be activated.

I cant help you with those instructions since they are even more convoluted than mine.

It seems that more people are having problems with those than the ones I originally put in the op

edit: If thats where your stuck then it looks like you need to take the PC36img-mr.zip file which should be on the root of yoru sdcard and rename it to pc36img.zip and then power off the phone and turn it back on by holding power and vol down
[EVO 4G Android Development] brianbooker1:
Im stuck on step 42. It never asks me if I want to flash. Please tell me I don;t have to completely start over. When it says loading PC36img.zip it says no image
[EVO 4G Android Development] brianbooker1:
But HOW? lol. I'm stuck in the boot loader right now
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
pull the battery, pull the sdcard, rename it. replace card / battery. power+voldown
[EVO 4G Android Development] brianbooker1:
Just for clarification, what should the two PC36IMG.zip files be named?
[EVO 4G Android Development] brianbooker1:
Sorry. I was actually naming the file zip.zip in the folder. Dumb mistake
[EVO 4G Android Development] suicidedoordavid:
i figured it out and my phone in now rooted!

i rebooted the puter and opened up another comm. prompt. and tried where i left off and after a few times, it took. followed the rest of the steps and it worked. thanks guys for the help!

now i just have to get familliar with flashing a ROM. the notes are here somewhere.....
[EVO 4G Android Development] ga0bi:
Followed the steps exactly and got my phone rooted with no issues. Thanks for the great tutorial to everyone who contributed :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] vinconti:
sorry if this has been answered. I searched and tried to read as much as I could. Maybe version 9 gets a new thread? thoughts on that below.

does this method of rooting permanently turn s-off or does it do it via script at every reboot?

thoughts on the new thread. maybe make a new one with the following rules; A) before you post a question, search the thread. if that turns up nothing B) search the old thread (this one) and if you find the answer, post the question AND ANSWER in the new thread. if you can't find the answer in either place C) post the question
[EVO 4G Android Development] tizman:
Very new and Learning!

does anyone know why everything loads onto the sdcard; and when going through the steps onto recovery; i get the red triangle. i try to use the: adb push recovery / and i keep getting error: device offline. What am i missing?

Lunch is on me with the right help!
[EVO 4G Android Development] blitzfire:
I've never even used ADB before, and used illogos's guide to root my Evo, and it worked like a charm! I installed tjohnsonjr's Evo-Nonsense ROM, and love it!
[EVO 4G Android Development] dis_dj_sin:
for those who are interested, netarchy custom kernal does indeed work for me. I have 4g access, camera and camcorder use.

I followed the instructions from the OP only. I'm not guaranteeing it will work for your phone so please don't blame me if the kernal breaks your wimax keys and/or camera. Again you try it at your own risk. I'm also running Netarchy's Burnt Droid rom. I have 004 hardware and its on the 2.02 hboot. Maybe I lucked out.

Good Luck World!
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
S-Off is permanent

There will not be a new thread because all the suggestions like searching and what not are actully listed in the instructions and the faq
[EVO 4G Android Development] tizman:
zikronix,

I have a beer with your name on it! Lil help?
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
Type "adb devices" and give us the response... you probably need to install additional drivers.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tizman:
it comes up with: List of devices attached

HTOBYHLO4421 device
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
Which drivers do you have installed?

If it is listed as a device, you shouldn't have this problem... try installing the unrevoked drivers

If you have those drivers installed I would try restarting adb with "adb kill-server" and then "adb devices" again
[EVO 4G Android Development] luin4g:
YES!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS POST!!!! My phone is back to normal now, due to me thinking I should have rooted before reading ALL POSTS about rooting. doh!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] whoisjlk:
Boot Problem

Hey,

Does anyone have any insight about this problem?

So, the EVO bootloops when turned on only into a continuous white HTC EVO 4G boot screen over and over. If booted into the white Android boot page....

SUPERSONIC EVT2 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT - 2.02.0000

TOUCH PANEL-AMTELc03_16ac

RADIO-1.36.00.04.02

When plugged in, it installed Android Bootloader Interface when updating drivers and also the HTC Bootloader drivers. Can I use these drivers in any way? I can hear my computer recognize the phone through headphones.

I have tried the HBOOT recovery fix but was unsuccessful. Also a few PC36IMG ROMs.

Put your minds to it. I will put $25 on it via Paypal with successful boot.

Proper Thanks!
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
What step are you on in the OP guide on page 1?

It is 100% normal for this to happen after Step 12, which usually ends in a white screen. Pulling the battery (after unplugging USB to completely de-energize the phone) and powering on while holding the volume down is necessary to get back to the hboot to flash the next step.

Or is this a completely different problem happening after trying to flash a custom rom?
[EVO 4G Android Development] fnordelus:
WOW

The VP of my company just got a new EVO with 2.2 (3.30.x OTA) on there, and I was reluctant to root it, since I know it can be cumbersome

BUT THESE INSTRUCTIONS WORK FLAWLESSLY!!!!

THANK YOU FOR THE GUIDE!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] Puma81:
"IM GOING TO REPEAT MYSELF FOR THE SLOW PEOPLE....USING ANY OTHER RECOVERY SUCH AS CLOCKWORK OR OTHER VERSIONS OF AMON_RA WILL NOT WORK. USING ANOTHER RECOVERY COULD COST YOU YOUR 4G RSA KEYS AND BREAK 4G PERMANENTLY. THIS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CODED FOR THE NEW PARTITIONS IF IT DOES ITS PURE LUCK!"

I guess Im one of the slow people but does this package you have put together in the guide keep 4G rsa keys intact? I see youre using an Amon Ra recovery but is this one correctly working keeping 4g intact with ability to flash other roms.....
[EVO 4G Android Development] tizman:
Hey sladehawke,

i just reinstalled the hboot drivers and i still get the error: device offline

what gives?????

then i type in adb devices with my device still attached even with the red triangle and it still shows offline
[EVO 4G Android Development] stevenp1200:
So I've been at this for months now. before I was unable to get passed step 4, but I think it was due to the way I was typing the cmds. So i checked everything this time thoroughly, but now i can't get passed step 10. Ive tried everything, from changing the names of 2 pc36img files (in my sd), uninstalling re-downloading the SDK/advanced drivers, switching PCs, hard resetting, and looking through this whole forum but apparently all were failed attempts. I currently have 3.30.xxx3 software and 004 hardware. The issue is when I type "adb push recovery /," I get "Error: device offline. I've read to type "adb kill-server," then type "adb devices," it continues with some sort of script then i type "adb push recovery /" and walah nothing. Can someone please help this laymen root his EVO?.
[EVO 4G Android Development] tizman:
It can't be this difficult!!!!! There is no way
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
Wow... have you tried a different usb cable in all of that?
[EVO 4G Android Development] zookafg3:
Thank you!!!! This is the best description on how to root.

I tried different threads and this is the only one that really works. :o)

Everything works great and until now I have full use of my phone.

I already tried about 4 different ROM's and personally, I like

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=793471 Check it out!
[EVO 4G Android Development] sladehawke:
'adb push' will work even when 'adb shell' or other commands will not. Try it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] wasnt:
So... I followed the steps. I got to step #10 and I got hung at the HTC loading screen (white). I pulled the battery and put it back in. Turned the power on holding the vol down button and it loaded the phone like it was brand new (setup prompts). I if open an "adb shell" it has a # but the phone software info says Firmware 2.1-update1.

Shouldn't it be at 2.2? Also... I never got to steps 11-13. Is that okay? Seems odd, but it's still showing I'm rooted. Did the new rom just not load (PC36IMG)?
[EVO 4G Android Development] ven0mX:
Were you on 2.1 on to begin with unrevoked would have worked just fine its only the new 2.02 Hboot thats running 2.2. Honestly i haven't seen a 2.1 with a 2.02 Hboot.. You might just want to run a ruu RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.26.651.6_Radio_2.15.00.07.28_NV_1.40_release_140444_signed "google or xda" and try running unrevoked3 for the evo :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Adb is still disabled in your recovery, you will need to flash the engineering pc36img again. Make sure your bootloader says s-on first though. If it says s-off there is an easier way and flashing out again can mess up your phone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] wasnt:
I have no idea what the hell you just said. LOL

I was on 2.2 (Froyo) prior to my rooting.

Oh and I re-did all the steps and got all the way through to completion. Still curious about the 2.1 and not 2.2 thing.
[EVO 4G Android Development] stevenp1200:
So I've tried a different cable twice on 2 different computers, but after typing "push root recovery /," I still get "error: device offline." Can someone confirm that this works on Hardware 004? If so can someone please send me a PM or post what you did. I am seeing alot of success stories, but I am also seeing posts where people are experiencing the same problem I am experiencing. None the less, with this new HBoot 2.02 S-OFF I was able to go farther than before. So great job to zikronix and the others credited.