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[EVO 4G Android Development] ratherDashing:
What did you do? If you followed the guide in the front step by step that wouldn't have happened. Did you try unrevoked 3.22? That woulda borked it. Didn't you flash another recovery besides the one provided? What woulda borked it.

There is some info in the FAQ about getting your RSA keys back, try that out (if you haven't already)
[EVO 4G Android Development] LaurieBBoutte:
I followed it to the "t", at least I thought I did. I used the unrevoke-forever that was part of the download.

I will check out the getting keys back (wish me luck)!

Thanks you!
[EVO 4G Android Development] LaurieBBoutte:
No luck. Following the unroot instructions.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nautalis:
I rooted my phone and am running Fresh's ROM. My 4G is spotty and 3G is super slow. I've tried different ROMs and updates, radio, with little improvement. I have seen the best battery life and performance with my setup on Fresh. I bought my wife a 004 Evo and it has the same spotty 4G and slow 3G stock. I'm convinced a rooted custom ROM does little to damper data services. Just my experience.
[EVO 4G Android Development] amoosavi:
So this has been driving me nuts. I got a new evo last week and had to use this root process (thank you btw). I'm running Myns 2.2. Just had am opportunity to test 4g for first time since in Minneapolis right now and its working great. But what's the deal with no custom kernels? I guess I really don't need to overclock since the phone flies in the first place, but still it would be nice. I'm still a bit of a rookie so maybe that's why I'm having a hard time understanding the reason that custom kernels won't work with this method. I would really appreciate it if someone could respond letting me know why exactly I'm limited to stock kernel and only roms that use stock. What would happen if I flashed cm6 and overclocked? Hardware issues? Thanks guys! This site has been a life saver
[EVO 4G Android Development] xoreactionzox:
hey i was wondering i have no 4g here and wanted to see if i still have my rsa keys

how can i test to see if they r still there so when i do get 4g i dont have this trouble

thanks just figured it out
[EVO 4G Android Development] C.Roll:
sdotcarlisle hooked me up using this method. Now it's time for a little customization...:cool:

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Android Development] od3llinc:
I followed this to the T, and it worked perfectly. I'm flashing Myn right now. Much appreciation.
[EVO 4G Android Development] russkimiami:
Can't get it to work

Hi i am new to the EVO and rooting.

I looked through guides and forums and couldn't find the answers to my basic questions.

During step 1: after each command what am i supposed to see or verify that the command went through???

During step 4 same thing. I am getting "usage chmod mode file" is this normal???

Lastly in step 5 i am getting "./data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage not found

What am i doing wrong???

I have the EVO set to debug and drivers are installed i think.

How to check???

I am tech and computer savy but cant seem to get a hang of this.

Please Help

Thanks

Kevin
[EVO 4G Android Development] jejb:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

That's what I used, anyway.
[EVO 4G Android Development] hellshavoc:
Of First off thanks so much for this thread, it worked perfectly on my new Evo I got 2 days ago. Just a quick question, so I know I cant use rom manager or clockwork recovery, and I see that you say to use Amon. Does Amon work the same way as clockwork and also where can I find It I cant seem to find it in the App store. Second thing is is there another program like rom manager that I can use that will work on this root?
[EVO 4G Android Development] illogos:
Recovery is what you were using to flash unrevoked_forever.zip. To get there you need to:

1. Fully power off your phone.

2. Hold down the Volume Down button.

3. Press and release the power button to turn the phone on. (Continue to hold down the Volume Down button the whole time).

4. Wait for the bootloader to pop up and release Volume Down. It will look for PC36img.zip and some other files and NOT find them - this is normal.

5. Press volume down once to highlight recovery.

6. Press power to select recovery.

7. White HTC screen will come up as it boots into recovery.

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Once in there I highly suggest going to backup/restore and doing a nand backup. This will backup your image and wimax keys.
[EVO 4G Android Development] amoosavi:
Why no custom Kernels?!?!
[EVO 4G Android Development] illogos:
Thank you!

Just wanted to say thank you very much for your thread. I followed your steps and everything went perfectly.

After I was done with your steps I did need to do a wipe of the cache/factory reset, cache, and dalvik cache as well as flash stock rooted ruu 3.30.651.3 in order to get my 4G to work. To be fair though I didn't try the xml tree reset or any of that stuff in the FAQ so that might have worked too. I just really wanted to get updated to 3.30.651.3.

Question: Can I delete all the files that I pushed to the phone after I am all done and have my nandroid backup?
[EVO 4G Android Development] russkimiami:
Drivers

How do i know if i have the right drivers installed???

What should i see in the device manager etc...???

Thanks

Kevin
[EVO 4G Android Development] bschrag812:
Ran into a problem with the root... everything has gone smooth until step 12. I had to pull the battery to power off phone. When I press VOL-DN and power button it brings up bootloader no problem. After that when I select flash PC36IMG.zip it says

"E:Can't open /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip (bad)"

What now? Do I simply copy the PC36IMG-MR.zip back over in the USB-MS mode and rename it?

Help and thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G Android Development] #Winning#:
Where did this guide come from? I didn't see it in the OP. Was this one that you kind of came up with yourself to make it easier for people that don't understand the first post?
[EVO 4G Android Development] evofreak80:


I have the same radio version but

my software is

3.29.651.5

My prl version is

60672

And im havin trouble rooting my mew evo 4g

I ran the comand prompt to push all the files i need and when reboot the boatloader the phone says nothin on the screen and then goes into the red triangle with the (!) In it

Andy
[EVO 4G Android Development] foresure84:
andy redo the steps but do this but remove the.zips :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] Alexsoccerboy:
I just got my evo yesterday and went straight to Unrevoked3 since it worked for all of my friends who got their phones over the last few months. Apparently doesn't work on hardware version 004 that I have. I'm running 3.30.654.3 baseband version 2.15 kernel 2.6.32.15 pri 1.77_003 and PRL version 60672.

I decided to do Unrevoked because it sounded like an easy root. It looks like the steps to follow above say that they shouldn't be done after trying to run Unrevoked3. If I boot and clear storage will that give me a fresh phone to work off of if I want to try the method listed in this thread? Would I just be better off waiting for Unrevoked to push out a new release?

Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jejb:
That's what I'd try first.
[EVO 4G Android Development] bschrag812:
I have tried simply copying it over and still have the same problem. I also switched to the laptop with a fresh download and tried to copy it over. Still getting the same error. Any suggestions? Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] theultimatev:
I rooted my new evo 004 hardware with this method after trying unrevoked3 & it worked great. Everything works, however, apparently unrevoked might have broken your 4g keys. I got lucky & mine are fine. Whatever you decide to do, good luck!
[EVO 4G Android Development] theultimatev:
Can I flash a custom kernel on this root method or will that brick my phone? I saw one person post that they had netarchy's kernel installed
[EVO 4G Android Development] Koush:
What's the issue with Clockwork and what do I need to do to fix it? I do not have an Evo and am not aware of the problem.
[EVO 4G Android Development] voc627:
Ok, so I followed the directions on this post and got my friend's EVO to "HBoot 2.02 S-OFF" But I'm not seeing Super User when the device boots up. What step did I miss?
[EVO 4G Android Development] oohoy:
read it somewhere that u may have to download it off the market
[EVO 4G Android Development] #Winning#:
Yeah, it doesn't come with it. If you are a NOOB I would highly recommend not using this method because some steps and specifics have been left out. If you are not familiar enough with adb or command prompt I would not advice this method!
[EVO 4G Android Development] oohoy:
what other root method do u recommand ? my white evo is comin tomm. theres so many guides here i duno which to pick and seem most of em are all adb involved ?
[EVO 4G Android Development] #Winning#:
Well, I mean there really isn't too many problems with this method, I mean it works IF you know exactly what your doing. They left out a few steps. I can try and get a guide typed up for you or just edit this one and post back.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ZELL22:
The directions above worked out great. Just FYI, I am a total Noob to adb, and even CMD, and I was able to get it done following the directions written step by step. For some reason though, to start out I had to connect my phone to HTC Sync. After I did that all the adb commands went straight to my phone and I only had a minor hiccup during the entire process, but that was a user error. All in all, great guide. My shinny new $98 Wirefly WT Evo is now rooted.

Thanks to all!!!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] #Winning#:
Okay, I take back what I said earlier this method is possible for a noob. No bashing on you guys because we were all one once. After reading through this again there is really nothing that is horribly wrong with the directions posted by illogos on the page before this. I have rooted many phone via adb and one click and there was a few things that were left out.

----26. Go back to your computer screen and your command prompt. You should not have a #

27. Type into the command prompt: adb push recovery /

In between these two steps in order to get the steps from 27 on to work you need to type: cd c:\hroot into your command prompt. If you do not type this in the following command will not work and you won't make it into the recovery they are talking about in the following steps.

----Also, when they tell you to rename the PC36IMG files make sure that you DO NOT include .zip in the new name. The file is already a .zip file extension so if you add .zip in the name it is going to cause errors when you try to run it in bootloader. I have noticed several people getting stuck on these steps and that is my guess as to why.

----Otherwise, I would follow the way that illogos posted to a T and you should be fine. Make sure you flash a stock rooted rom as he describes because when I rooted my buddies 0004 tonight his wifi broke as well and the stock rooted fixed this issue.

----DO NOT FLASH KERNELS UNLESS YOU WANT A BROKEN CAMERA!
[EVO 4G Android Development] zanthor:
Step 10 didn't behave as expected for me, even after executing it I didn't h ave recovery (green screen).

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

I tried a reboot, repeat the process, no love...

adb shell
nohup /sbin/recovery

That however got me the recovery on screen, followed up with step 11 as described.

Everything else worked great, really appreciate it! If this issue was noted anywhere else in the bajillion pages here, I missed it... and I'm sorry for signal to noise :).
[EVO 4G Android Development] dis_dj_sin:
I do have netarchy's kernel installed ;) I actually have been using my phone now for over 24 hours and have used both the camcorder and camera for multiple things and I didn't have any issues, lags or hiccups. I do want to clear everything and re-flash the kernal so I know its fresh on the phone to say that this kernal is good. hopefully I can get around to doing that today and update you guys tonight, or if someone else would like to flash netarchy's great kernal and find out
[EVO 4G Android Development] oohoy:
where u gettin step 26, 27 or 28 ? im only seeing steps up to 15 on the OP's post ?
[EVO 4G Android Development] AviationAtom:
Radio_v2 Fail-PU and Bootloader Fail-IC Errors

What is the consensus on how to remedy the Radio_v2 Fail-PU and Bootloader Fail-IC Errors encountered at Step 9? I searched this thread for how people resolved it, but it seems like many different things "worked" for many different people. Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
[EVO 4G Android Development] illogos:
Just a retype of the OP with a little added from my own experience running the root from OP.
[EVO 4G Android Development] AviationAtom:
Scratch that request. For those experiencing this issue, continue on with the directions, then follow step 12c if you arrive at the white HTC screen after finishing all the steps prior.
[EVO 4G Android Development] evofreak80:
Ok i just tried running thru the entire steps and i couldnt get my evo to root! It checked the pc36img file but never gave me the option to update the new pc36img!!!! I want to get this rooted can someone please help!! I dont know where to go from here to get this phone to root!

My radio version is 2.15.00.09.01

And running 3.29.651

Hboot 2.02

0003

Andy
[EVO 4G Android Development] Morphean:
My buddy left the sprint store about 2 hours ago and I just rooted his phone with this guide.

This guide works.. I done it with 4 EVO with HBoot 2.02. If you follow the guide correctly your phone should be rooted.

Problem a friend of mine had was forgetting to NOT mount his phone. But he had some stupid software that kept mounting it.

and what step did you fail at?
[EVO 4G Android Development] wfee:
how to Evo

Hey guys i just got my Evo and know nothing about this Root stuff is there a video on how to do this my Evo has 2.2 baseband 2.15.00.09.01 and kernal is 2.6.32.15 with HB 2.02 hardware is 0004. This is my first poet here glad to find you guys and ive been reading all the info here and i just dont feel comfy enough to do it. I like videos.Ha Ha.. But i came the iphone world and i know how to jailbreak those but i know nutin bout the androids but like it alot better than the iphone. Any help would be great and thanks.
[EVO 4G Android Development] evofreak80:
When the bootloader came up on screen to flash the pc36img it found the file but didnt go to the screen askin if u wanna apply update it just went back to the

"Fastboot

Revcovery

Sim lock or whatever is between

Hboot usb"
[EVO 4G Android Development] evofreak80:
Now when i was doin all this i had the phone in charge only and usb debugging on
[EVO 4G Android Development] davidstjohn1:
Easy as pie

I just wamted to chime in and say Thank you very much for the tutorial on rooting my white evo newest one out with the version 4 hardware worked great!!!! I did it with the steps outlined in this thread. I did have the 4G and wifi stop working but installed the rom that was outlined incase this happened, but! the first one has a bad link or something so i installed the second one deodexed... It worked fine i just dont know what the difference was???? That fixed my 4G and wifi... perfectly! I have since installed setcpu for battery reasons and it worked beautiful, so my question is now i tried to install wifi tether, but for some reason dont work, :-( is this beacuz i dont have the right kernel? Other than that i am totally impressed with the work that went into this fix. I want to add that this was so easy and what i did was follow step by step and carefully read what was said , and it may be longer than the erovoked but is so simple if u just read it. Thanks again..... Dave:)
[EVO 4G Android Development] Morphean:
I am guessing your failing after Step 8? If your failing at that part.. it mean you missed a step from 1-7. Make sure you type everything in CMD and make sure you get no fails / Permissions Denied

edit: Don't rush too buddy.. you want to make sure your computer fully connect with your device.
[EVO 4G Android Development] evofreak80:
I figure out what i did! I missed a step and just redid the whole thing and i got it to work!!! Whooohooo!!! Now the 4g should still work right?!
[EVO 4G Android Development] Jbcarrera:
cross your fingers and pray to whatever god you worship that i does. it all depends on where you messed up i belive
[EVO 4G Android Development] evofreak80:
well before i redid everything again i went and reset my entire phone and downloaded sprint's ruu that i got my from sprint guy and everything went thru this time perfect!
[EVO 4G Android Development] talon_dgnr8:
Thanks so much

This worked perfectly! Just wanted to give my thanks. Great work!
[EVO 4G Android Development] marcusva79:
I hope I didnt fry my phone. I have been trying to install MYN's rom, I wipe everything and this is what I get about half way into installing:

Think i messed everything up now:

e:Can't chown/mod /data/sd

(no such file or directory)

e:failure at line 10:

set_perm 0 0 0777 DATA:sd

I have no idea what the hell that means. Think I fried my SD card

I have not idea what the hell is going on.

HELP
[EVO 4G Android Development] evofreak80:
Which kernel is the one for best battery life im running #17 now
[EVO 4G Android Development] Morphean:
Glad you fixed the problem.. Just read and make sure you follow each step correctly next time.

edit: 4g should still work..

As for kernels.. each phone is different. But if you just got the EVO.. your hardware won't work with any other kernels beside stock #10 & #17
[EVO 4G Android Development] alehoop:
thanks for this guide, it helped me out a lot

i was just wondering which ROM i can run in this root.

yeah thanks a lot again

also if i flash roms will some of them break my 4g??
[EVO 4G Android Development] oohoy:
so one of the requirements is to get unrevoked hboot driver... assuming its referring to the unrEVOked modified USB driver downloaded from unrevoked site ? do you still need to install htc sync driver before rooting ? sorry for the noob Qs. i've read too many guides on this forum and gettin lil confused. lol
[EVO 4G Android Development] marcusva79:
Okay guys I tried to go back to stock in the instructions that was given. Everything worked fine but it gave me a FC on the android.process multiple times cause the phone not to work at all. So I took back in into best buy and got a white one cause they didnt have anymore black ones. :o Now I got 2.02 hboot, 0004 hardware version, 3.30.651 software. It should still be a go, correct?

Ps: Did I do anything wrong putting everything back to stock? I really dont want to take back another EVO. By the way I am still in my 30 days.
[EVO 4G Android Development] dtlach:
I was able to root my phone after this guide but now I can't use fastboot! When I try "fastboot devices" I can see the phone, but when I try to send a file ("fastboot boot zImage" for instance). I get a FAILED...remote: not allowed message.

I've tried to reboot adb, change drivers, etc but nothing seems to work. The phone's on software version 3.30.651.2 running Hboot 2.02. Any ideas would be great. Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] Lessthantito:
Why does SwitchPro "break 4g" or just not work correctly? it's one of my favorite widgets and I have yet to find an answer to this
[EVO 4G Android Development] flight01:
Holy S@#t. I actually did it. The op confussed the heck out of me but i followed illogos guide found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=829045&page=120 and it is completely noob proof. Also after looking at illogos guide the op is actually pretty straight forward and easy. Follow every direction of illogos or op's guide. if u are running build .3 u have to follow illogos directions for Stock RUU root 3.30.651.3. Because this root method puts .2 and is not compatable with .3 evo's but after doing Stock RUU root 3.30.651.3 everything works; camera, 4g, wifi, everything. Thanks zikronix, illogos, and XDA
[EVO 4G Android Development] mmcintosh:
adb shell issues

I am in the middle of attempting this root and am having a problem. I get step 10 push recovery that works fine but when I attempt to go back to the adb shell I get a permission denied (- exec ' /system/bin/sh' failed: Permission denied (13) -

I am not sure where to go to get back to # shell I had earlier

Any help appreciated.

Mac
[EVO 4G Android Development] mmcintosh:
recovery issues

I am having some trouble with this process post push recovery after I push it I am not able to get back to shell ie...

adb shell busybox --install /sbin

permission denied (13)

adb devices shows device and recovery mode

any ideas???

Thanks

Mac
[EVO 4G Android Development] hdtsai:
will this work with HBoot 0.97?

I rooted mine with these instructions for my hboot 2.02. now my friend who has hboot .97 wants to do the same. will this work as well?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Jbcarrera:
no just use unrevoked 3.22 painless and follow the wiki
[EVO 4G Android Development] marcusva79:
Have u tried starting over?

Got my evo working like a champ! White evo hb 2.02, 3.30 osa
[EVO 4G Android Development] mmcintosh:
Hi yes I have gotten past it had to switch to a windows pc for some reason would not work from an Ubuntu machine I have not had this trouble before.

thanks root and happy ;))
[EVO 4G Android Development] jackveneno:
i need help with this i keep getting stuck on step 10 and i think i have everything install if not people guide please i really need my phone rooted!!! cant stand the stock rom!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] frailimb:
I used unrevoked 3.22 before realizing that my phone was hboot 2.02 and the two were not compatible. My phone is obviously not rooted but I still have 4G network access, according to the notification bar icon and the 4G settings. Did I luck out? Is there anything else I should check to make sure my phone is OK before going ahead with this guide?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
your ok proceed
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
Version 8 is now up....Fresh like pine cones edition

nothing has changed except the inclusion of a rooted rom being flashed in the second half, and updated radios

courtsey of sprintlovers rom
[EVO 4G Android Development] ZeusIII:
I need help. I just used this method and then flashed Fresh Evo 3.4 and was good until I used nand backup. Now when I restart it just stays on the white htc evo screen. What do I do to get back into my phone?
[EVO 4G Android Development] zikronix:
pull the battery/ replace

power on see if it works

if not pull battery / replace

power with vol down and power button

restore or flash a different rom.

i dont think fresh is current with this hardware.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ZeusIII:
Thing is, Fresh worked but then I wanted to try Cyanogen so I started using ROM Manager and did a backup. When I tried to restart after that it just sits on white evo screen.

Flashed unrevoked-forever, tried reboot and still stuck on white evo screen

EDIT:: Trying to install Cyanogen 6.1.0 it says that the installation was aborted because an error in /sdcard/update-cm-6.1.0-Supersonic-signed.zip (Status 7)
[EVO 4G Android Development] ZeusIII:
I just ran the instructions on reverting to stock and that seems to have worked and I'd rather have stock than a phone that doesn't work. Thanks for the guide. I might try this again after I gather up enough courage to do this again.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Rem3Dy:
Your problem is using rom manager. Due to the fact rom manager requires clockworkmod recovery which BTW is not compatible with phones running hboot 2.02. If u want to try cm6 download. 6.1 and flash from amon_ra recovery from this thread only.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Testrunner:
Thanks!

Just wanted to say thank you for this rooting guide. Iv'e been able to root about ten EVO's using your method without a problem.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ZeusIII:
That would make sense. Thanks for the answer. I'll probably re-root tomorrow and install cyano and go from there.