yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
It is signed by HTC, you shouldn't need to open it unless you are wanting to pull the partition images out of it. Opening it as a zip file will let you get stuff out of it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] dmels28:
Haus, seems I'm stuck at red explanation point any suggestions on why this would be. I'm installed the pc36img twice and this has happened both times.

I appreciate your suggestions.

Dan
[EVO 4G Android Development] masterfuel:
All right so it turns out I'm going to have try my best to get this phone unbricked. Any help with this would be awesome. If any other info is need please please please let me know. This is not my phone, so it is a higher priority for me
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
As the op says, "if you run into any problems please include the following information with your post: Any methods you have previously tried to root with, what it did last plus any error messages it may have given (if you can right click, select all and copy it from the terminal), and if you are in the bootloader we need to know what the top two lines say. Running this will create a log file named: autorootlog.txt. Please post this as well. "

If the phone turns on it is not bricked :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] Bowlsnapper:
Okay. I am at a wall here. I tried going this without modifying anything to a 3.7 evo. When it came time to reboot into recovery, it flashed, but then wouldn't boot. The prompt did say something like "Strange, your evo seems to have booted to the system instead of recovery," and exited. (DAMMMIT!) I tried booting recovery from bootloader, which provided me with the red exclamation point of death. I only got that green ruu-style progress bar once the entire time. Then i tried to boot into the system, and that wouldn't work either. Bootloader did indicate s-off. I ruu'd to 3.7, and tried to replace the pc36img_ud with the 3.7 file listed, it booted to system, but would not flash recovery or anything.

I swear I've never had so many issues. I had to send a guy home with an ruu'd evo to try again tomorrow, and it was embarrassing! Please help me out here guys...

Should I move to s-off like i did before with errors and then try using the 3.27 ruu and rnning autoroot again? Any evo under 3.7 I have not had an issue with, so if I can get the 3.27ruu to run without the damn error 140 message about a wrong bootloader, I think that will get me in.

AAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
If you got S-OFF the hard part is over, you just need to flash a rooted ROM. Usually if the RUU won't run it's because you have some sort of sync app interfering with it.

To flash the rooted ROM you can do so manually by putting the phone in fastboot mode, so it shows "fastboot usb" highlighted in red, and then running "fastboot flash zip res\PC36IMG-SprintLovers-AmonRA_2.2.1.zip"
[EVO 4G Android Development] Bowlsnapper:
But if the recovery flashed bad the fist time, why would it work manually? Just want to make sure man...
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
ok you just lost me with that msg :)

can you attach the autorootlog.txt file for me?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Bowlsnapper:
yep. here it is! I should state that i tried the 3.7 pc36 method first before just letting it do its thing with the original _UD.zip...
[EVO 4G Android Development] ascantlin:
Edit: Figured it out!
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
You had a bad flash, if you run the RUU and then try again it should work
[EVO 4G Android Development] Bowlsnapper:
Any Idea why the flash failed? I'm not quite sure what I'm seeing when I read the log but it looks like it flashed, and just failed to boot from recovery for some reason. I never saw any indication that the flash actually went bad. Then again, if I knew what I was doing, I would be assisting in this thread, not asking questions. lol
[EVO 4G Android Development] masterfuel:
this is the only time a root was attempted on this phone. The last thing the phone did on its own is update the pc3 file and boot into the red triangle (I THINK,, i might have had to get it to do that manually though).. the last thing the terminal said was checking bootloader status..

As soon as I get the phone back in my hands (tonight) I will let you know what the bootloader says.

Autorootlog.txt attached

Thanks in advanced
[EVO 4G Android Development] alex800:
I'm trying to root new evo and started Autorun.bat. It found the phone and pushing rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin. Its been over 10 minutes now. Should I wait any longer or try again?

TIA
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
It looks like a driver issue, it was never able to see your phone when it was in fastboot mode so it wasn't ready for you to flash the pc36img.

I would try again, it should only take a few seconds.
[EVO 4G Android Development] masterfuel:
ok, so how do I go about fixing this bricked phone? :confused::confused:
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
If you run the ruu while in fastboot or recovery mode it will restore the phone
[EVO 4G Android Development] ChrisChavez:
Alright so in the OP is says "The following are the ROMs pulled out of the RUUs and renamed, make sure you use the correct version for your phone.

3.29.651.5_PC36IMG.zip

3.30.651.2_PC36IMG.zip

3.70.651.1_PC36IMG.zip"

How do we know which version is correct for our phone?? I don't think it said it anywhere.... =/
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
You can find out by going to Menu -> settings -> about phone -> software, and it will also tell you what version you have when you run it
[EVO 4G Android Development] ChrisChavez:
Oh. I was just trying to get back to stock ROM (to send my phone in for repairs).

Can I just flash any one of these???
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
ohh gotcha, ya in that case 3.70 will be your best bet. The main thing you have to watch for is that you don't flash an older one if you have a newer phone and you don't want to upgrade your hboot unless you have too. The new ones are a pain to downgrade.

If you used unrevoked or have a newer hboot be sure to run the unrevoked forever s-on tool before running the RUU, otherwise your nand will stay unlocked.
[EVO 4G Android Development] masterfuel:
Ruu fails in fastboot USB. the computer does not recognize it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Your drivers must not have installed properly, you can download htc sync from the site below and that should let you run the RUU. You can also try flashing it manually by downloading the extracted PC36IMGs and either renaming it to just PC36IMG and placing it on your sd card or through fastboot by running the OpenShell file and typing

fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip 3.70.651.1_PC36IMG.zip

http://www.htc.com/us/support/evo-sprint/downloads/
[EVO 4G Android Development] Action B:
I've been trying to work up the courage to root my phone for awhile. I keep reading and reading and I'm still too nervous to do it.

What percentage of people are having trouble with this method?

I love my phone I really want it to be rooted but I'm not willing to take too large of a risk.

I can handle a 1% failure rate. I've come to terms with that kind of risk with my girlfriends oral contraceptive a long time ago :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] sty3x:
Hey, guys I tried rooting my EVO I'm at a black screen with white triangles in the corners I'm only able to run fastboot commands I'm not sure what I can do to kick it out of this state
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
It's hard to get an accurate success rate as most people only post when something goes wrong, the nice thing about the way this roots though is that anything that for the most part anything that goes wrong can be corrected. Just remember the one thing you don't want to do is pull the battery out, in this case that will get you in trouble.

There's a video on youtube of the process if you would like to get familiar with it before hand, depending on your phone it may be a little bit more involved then what his phone needed but not by much.

HTC EVO 4G ** ROOT AND NAND UNLOCK ** AUTOROOT V 2.2 ** HOW TO ** I exaggerate how easy it is to brick in the OP on purpose, for some people that's about the only way you can get them to actually read the directions :)

Looks like you had a bad flash, you can use the RUU to restore it. You'll need version 3.70.651.1. Run it from your PC and it will put your phone back to stock. You should be good to go the second time around, sometimes all it needs is a clean install.
[EVO 4G Android Development] makojr:
Hello Haus,

I have a question? I have unrooted my evo a few times with unrevoked, however this replacement phone that I have gives me "validation error: missing cid". My question is if your method would also give this error msg? Im not too familiar with the process in unrooting your method vs unrevoked so I wanted to ask?

Lisa
[EVO 4G Android Development] Action B:
Thanks, I'll probably go for it this weekend since I can't go without my phone for any amount of time until friday evening due to work. Also, I'll be sure to buy you a whole case of beer lol.:D
[EVO 4G Android Development] bigheadwillie:
I just received a replacement phone with 3.70.651 on it, and was a little worried that rooting would be a lot harder to root than it was on 2.1. I have to say this worked perfectly.

The program works great, and the instructions were really well written.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Action B:
I saved my appropriate RUU to my desktop.

Does this program leave me with my stock RUU or the sprintlovers?

If I have a problem at any point and your not available to help, do you have a link or instructions as to how to manually load my stock RUU from my desktop onto the phone to save it and return it to stock?

Thanks! - Brandon

EDIT: I reread the beginning and see it flashes sprintlovers
[EVO 4G Android Development] sty3x:
Okay it worked but now it keeps looping on reflashing userdebug
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
It sounds like it is still not flashing right, you may need to finish by hand. Use ctrl+c to stop it and then then check to see if you can get the recovery to come up from the bootloader menu
[EVO 4G Android Development] IP IHI II IL:
WOAH...

This is AWESOME! I went through an ordeal with Sprint to try and get the 0004 build, and 4 phones later, I received a brand new... 0003... BOO! Anyways, I'm tired of trying for the new build, and used AutoRoot for the first time today. WORKED PERFECTLY!

Thanks so much for this! I'd donate if I could afford to, and will once I can!

AWESOME TOOL!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] garrette:
trying for first time and i keep getting......

lookin for root...

ADB server didnt ACK

any ideas. im have a stock evo

baseband version 2.15.000.11.19

software version 3.70.651.1

hboot 2.10.0001

hrdw 0003
[EVO 4G Android Development] garrette:
in cmd get failed to get root shell
[EVO 4G Android Development] garrette:
stuck at red exclamation point any help out there
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Make sure to close any sync programs you have on your desktop and that you have the htc sync drivers installed, something is interfering with it talking to your phone.

Will the phone boot up? If so I would try it again from another computer, otherwise you can run the RUU from there to restore it back to normal.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
This shouldn't affect your CID, rooting this way uses the phones updater to flash unlocked software.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Big-O-Devil:
OK so i am coming from the hero side to the evo side... this worked like a beast... thank a lot.... :D:D:D:D:D
[EVO 4G Android Development] Action B:
A couple more questions, sorry!

1. Can I use a 32 bit vista computer?

2. I live in an area with 4g, is there a risk to losing my 4g or any other connectivity with this autoroot?

I watched that video on youtube and the guys phone has exactly the same specs as mine so that made me feel a little better.

I've been reading a lot but still have a bunch to learn I appreciate your help.
[EVO 4G Android Development] garrette:
thanks for the help, worked like a charm after advise about other sync programs interfering with phone thanks again
[EVO 4G Android Development] makojr:
Thank you for your reply! You were correct and it didn't have an CID error as I did with unrevoked! I was able to root with your method pretty easily. The video clip you had attached to this thread gave me a good idea prior to rooting and didn't have me all nervous. Thank you! The only thing with the Autofull zip was that I kept getting an error message saying I needed the Sprint lovers rom, (which was there because I looked through the whole zip.) The only thing was that I had to change the name for it to match the system request and everything went smoothly! :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Vista should work but for some reason it seems like it has more trouble than xp and 7, just be sure to have htc sync install the drivers for the phone before hand and keep an RUU handy in case you need to restore.

Your 4G should be safe, this was the original way to root the evo and I'm not aware of anyone losing 4G from it. I've done it on mine countless times and have never had any trouble with my 4g.

Keep in mind it is possible for you to have the same specs as another phone but for the process to be slightly different, if that is the case it will give you directions on how what to do though.

Thanks for letting me know it worked for you! Just curious about the sprint lovers rom though, what was the name it was looking for that it couldn't find it?
[EVO 4G Android Development] makojr:
The Sprint Lovers file was named " PC36IMG-SprintLovers-AmonRA_2.2.1.zip " and the system was looking for " PC36IMG-SprintLovers-AmonRA_na " (both names w/o the quotations) I just simply renamed the first file to the second file (that the auto root was looking for) and it worked perfect.

I also am going to make a donation for you because I appreciate your hard work I also notice how you help people with problems and you look into situations that are brought up to you. Developers that do so should be rewarded accordingly! Thank you very much! :)
[EVO 4G Android Development] dteze88:
How do you run the RUU exactly? Do you have to rename it and run it from the SD card? Step by step would be awesome, thanks! I downloaded the 3.70PC36IMG.zip ruu from the 1st post..
[EVO 4G Android Development] wmstwo002:
Worked perfectly on my GF's EVO.........thanks!

:D
[EVO 4G Android Development] Action B:
Would you recommend instead that I used my girlfriends old xp laptop instead? Its a lot older and less powerful than my vista but it works alright.

I wasn't aware they had 4g in florida, they have it there too?
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Thanks man, I appreciated that. It looks like the script couldn't find the ini file which is why it didn't know the correct name. Could you give me a little info about your set up like windows version, where the folder was, how you ran the script, etc.? You're the first person I know of that had that happen to them but then earlier today I got an email from someone else who is having the same problem. lol
[EVO 4G Android Development] tke0834:
To the OP, thanks for this. I got a replacement phone yesterday from service & repair. I picked up the new device @ 1:00, got home @ 2:00. I was rooted by 2:30 & had new ROM installed & all my apps restored by 3:15.

The script worked flawlessly!

Thank you
[EVO 4G Android Development] Action B:
If you don't mind, what happened to your old phone?
[EVO 4G Android Development] nate735:
Rooted my phone and my dads evo with this. Booth went without any issues. Really great software and completely automated process. Thanks !

just donated 5.00 your way.
[EVO 4G Android Development] sfcbr:
I've used this to root 2 EVO's, both went without a hitch (1 was HBoot .97, other Hboot 2.10, both 3.70 software, both 003 hardware).

Windows 7 64bit laptop.

Thanks much for making it so easy!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] mshnayde:
Can't seem to be able to flash any other ROM after rooting using this on a new EVO. Thanks for any suggestions
[EVO 4G Android Development] brennod10:
how do i run the ruu from fastboot, im in the bootloader and the fastboot is red but i don't understand what to do from here
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Which rom are you trying to use?

The RUU you run like any other app, just start it up on your computer and go from there.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xemerge:
I was running the auto root and right after it said booting into recovery after it flashed the unrevoked forever and then my phone just stopped at the phone with the ! sign

then i booted it now i have that rom but no recovery?

what do i do?

i attached my auto root
[EVO 4G Android Development] tke0834:
I dropped it on a brick patio in a drunken stupbar & shattered the screen....
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Looks like it lost your phone, make sure you don't have pdanet or anything else that can interfere with it running and try again.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
Ya I'm stuck at the red triangle with the exclamation point I was tryn to root my lil bros evo please help me

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[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Can you attach the autorootlog.txt file to a post for me to look at? That will say what happened and how far it got.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
How do i do that sorry my hero was so much easier

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[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Below the Submit Reply button there is a button to Manage Attachment, that will allow you to post it. The file is name autorootlog.txt and should have been made in the autoroot folder whenever you ran the script.
[EVO 4G Android Development] onlysafonne:
my phone is stuck on htc with 4 exclamation marks in the four corners...the batch ran all the way through and said it was fully rooted,that screen stayed on after i pressed any key to exit,the dos window disappered and i waited five minutes and the phone stayed with the excalamtion marks and htc in the middle,then i unplugged the phone and it went to fast boot and only showed RUU. On the root of my sd card i dont have pc36img.i can put it on there if needed,any help would be great.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
No Its just I don't have a SD card reader for the notebook and am using NY hero to download the ruu I would start all over but can't boot past the evo screen and try going to recovery but it just goes to the exclamation screen

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[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
You had a bad flash so it locked itself in RUU mode, you'll need a good flash for it to let you out. Can you post your log as well?

The log file should be on your computer with the autoroot script. You can use the StartRecovery file to bring up the recovery and finish but if you had a bad flash you're going to want to restore first.
[EVO 4G Android Development] onlysafonne:
is it the autorootlog.txt ? if it is i will upload it..

here it is:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ISX68FQ5

How do i get a clean root from here?
[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
Well when adb tried to go it don't work I can't boot up to check USB debbugging on and when I click the start recovery batch it don't do anything but still it shouldn't if adb wont work right I'm freakn I know its not brickd but s×it

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[EVO 4G Android Development] stargaterules:
I used this new auto root method to root my friend's 004 phone and did it in 5 mins. This is so much easier than the old way of doing it through adb. It is awesome.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Your phone has outdated software and that is why it wont let you boot, the log file will say exactly what happened but if you got an adb error it should be ok. Just use the StartRecovery file while your phone shows the Red Triangle and use that to flash the URFSOff.zip file. Once that is done all you need to do is flash a rooted ROM and your phone is rooted.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Looks like it threw an error when trying to update the wimax partition, you'll need to run the RUU and try rooting again. Your bootloader is already unlocked so it should skip everything up to the end there.
[EVO 4G Android Development] onlysafonne:
how do i run the RUU?

i see you have the RUU to restore 3.70.651.1 on the OP but when i turn on my phone it just goes right to that screen and then when i unplug the phone it goes to fast boot and has RUU there...when i press power,it doesnt select it at all.thanks for the help.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Run it from your desktop and it should do everything for you.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
Man u got me some where tryn to flash cm7 but I got failed: write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.Img","boot

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[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
Your phone is still locked then. Use the flash zip option and flash URFSoff.zip

You will still need to update your radios and what not later on as well, just be sure to make a nandroid before hand.

Edit: Scratch that, your phone shouldn't be locked in recovery mode. You'll need to finish rooting properly before continuing.

To do that flash the URFSOff.zip, open the "OpenShell" file from the autoroot folder, then type the following at the prompt:

adb shell reboot bootloader
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip res\PC36IMG-SprintLovers-AmonRA_2.2.1.zip
fastboot reboot

you can copy paste it but make sure to do it one line at a time
[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
Flash RA recovery via. Zip sorry I have cwm Nd didn't even update that one on NY hero n did it through rom manager

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[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
I got the one before that doing it now but should I flash the recovery

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[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
Ok got soff tried cm7 again and still no go

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[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
Ok sorry I was lookn like a ffool didn't see u said scratch that so I got the adb shell to reboot bootloader how do I got about putting n fastboot OEM reboot ruin it just says command error do u hhave to do the start recovery again

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[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
double check to see if your phone is in fastboot mode, it should have "Fastboot USB" highlighted in red. If not another way to get there is by holding Volume Down while turning your phone, saying no to the update, no to reboot, then pushing power again to select fastboot.

Once there you will be able to run the fastboot commands.
[EVO 4G Android Development] onlysafonne:
ok so i ran the ruu,im going to run the autoroot again because when i go to boot i still dont have amon's RA.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
I keep getting cannot load also when I did install the update before it did say boot which I'm guess is boot.img wasn't there idk my bros stuck here till I fix it sorry for sounding like a noob I had my hero down but never messed with a evo I can get to fastboot ect just says cannot load res\pc36img.sprintlovers-amonra_2.2.1.zip

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[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
Take that back got it to send but it said writing zip failed remote not allowed

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[EVO 4G Android Development] xHausx:
You'll need to put it in ruu mode, your phone will go back and show htc when it is ready to flash.

'fastboot oem rebootRUU' should get you there. Also remember it is very picky about spelling and capitalization, make sure it is typed exactly.

The three fastboot commands ran exactly like in my previous post should be all that is needed.
[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
Ok so I got past the evo screen but was back to the exclamation screen

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[EVO 4G Android Development] lows10:
It also has cwm recovery now but still fail to write raw image

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[EVO 4G Android Development] onlysafonne:
thanks for all the help,im running some roms now.Thanks Haus