montero23

ok im trying to root my evo shift on 2.3.4, i looked at a few vids and they say i have downgrade to 2.2 for S-Off, i tryed downgrading with the RUU but it gets stuck on 13% Checking Headers. so i unplugged it and tryed and still stuck, but i did manage to unlock the bootloard. since i couldnt try any of that i tryed these steps from XDA, ihave everything but i got stuck on step 6 placing the file in platform tools, i didnt understand anything, please help!! Also is there a 2.3.5 for the shift bcuz my regular Evo has it just wondering? 1 more thing, when im using internet pass through, it looses connection, and i have to keep refreshing everytime, even on the regular evo it does the same, and i have good connection, this all started a few days ago


1) Install HTC Sync and Android SDK with platform tools so you have adb!

Android SDK available HERE:
Android SDK | Android Developers

INSTALL PLATFORM-TOOLS ONLY!


HTC Sync available HERE (only needed on windows):
http://dl4.htc.com/setup_3.0.5557.exe

DOWNLOAD THE Shift rootkit here EVERYONE NEEDS THIS:

Goo-inside.me Downloads - Downloading shift-rootkit.rar

2) Check your phone's Android version. If 2.2 skip to rooting Android 2.2 section. If 2.3.4 continue to the next step. If 2.3.3 skip to 2.3.3 section.

WARNING: THIS VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY AND YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA IN UNLOCKING THE BOOTLOADER

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ROOTING ANDROID 2.3.4:


3) Be running stock 2.3.4 latest OTA update from HTC

4) Register at htcdev.com

5) Unlock the bootloader by choosing HTC Evo 3D for Sprint and follow instructions

6) Once you have unlocked bootloader flash clockwork recovery by downloading the following file:

http://download.clockworkmod.com/rec...2.0-speedy.img

Place file in adb "platform-tools" folder.

From the adb folder run "fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-speedy.img"

7) adb reboot recovery

8) You will see the beautiful clockwork recovery screen.

9) Goto mounts/storage, mount usb storage

10) Download su from the following location:

http://downloads.androidsu.com/super...ghi-signed.zip

11) Go back, install zip from sdcard, choose the superuser zip.

12) Reboot, open market, search for super user and install it.

13) Open superuser app go to preferences and choose update su binary.

14) Download terminal emulator and run "su" to test if you have root. $ should turn to #.

15) Place misc.img and PG06IMG.zip on sdcard using windows explorer or "adb push /sdcard/file.xxx" via usb. Again, please note that PG06IMG.zip is case sensitive.

16) Unplug the phone from USB.

17) Remove the battery cover and flash misc.img using the following command via terminal emulator or you can use adb shell with the phone hooked up via USB. Personally I feel more comfortable running this from terminal emulator on the phone:

Code:
dd if=/sdcard/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
and press enter.

18) REMOVE THE BATTERY WITHOUT SHUTTING DOWN THE PHONE as soon as you run the misc.img command. DO NOT SHUTDOWN OR POWER OFF.

19) Hold volume down button and hold the power button for one second and release while still holding the volume down button.

Phone should find PG06IMG.zip and RUU to Android 2.2. From here you can flash engineering s-off bootloader. For instructions on flashing the engineering s-off bootloader skip to the rooting Android 2.2 section.


Again before you ask, make sure you have a freshly formatted FAT32 microSD card. If your phone can't find the zip, you are doing something wrong, your SD card isn't formatted in FAT32, you aren't using CWM, or you need to try another SD card.

You will have to manually upgrade to the new cellular radio after obtaining s-off and downgrading to Froyo again.

Last edited by montero23; February 18th, 2012 at 06:46 AM.

gzetski

I just spent 3 days researching this issue, finally got it fixed. Same thing that happened to you. I am assuming your bootloader is unlocked but S-ON.

Tings you will need:

Android SDK
HTC Drivers
7-zip
RUU_Speedy_Sprint_WWE_1.17.651.1_Radio_1.07.00.112 9_NV_SPCS_1.52_1103_release_160079_signed.exe

On your computer, search for ROM.ZIP. Include system locations and hidden files.

Delete any instances of it that you may find.

Take the SD card out of the phone.

Put your Shift into fastboot (vol/down + power)

Run the RUU, let it get stuck.

On your computer, run a search for ROM.ZIP while the RUU is running. Its gonna show up in some temp folder.

Copy it to your desktop.

Use 7zip to extract it (for whatever reasons Windows can't extract it).

Open the extracted rom.zip folder.

Copy all files and place them in your SDKs platform tools folder.

Shut down the RUU, reboot the phone into recovery (vol/down + power).

Run CMD and change directories to your platform tools folder.

Type the command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (without the quotes) - this gets rid of any custom recovery like Clockwork, etc.

Reboot the phone into recovery again, you should have a triangle with an ! next to it on black background.

Go back to CMD and your platform tools, and start flashing the following:

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash dzdata dzdata.img
fastboot flash partition partition.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img

Reboot the phone.

After 30 seconds of white HTC screen, your phone should boot up fine and you will be in Android 2.2.

Let me know if it worked out for you, I just fixed mine less than an hour before writing this up.

Also, if anyone out there sees anything redundant, or can help me clean this process up a bit, I welcome your input.

montero23

sounds legit, but wen i open the cmd to platform tools or to flash the recovery, it doesnt recognize or something with the Path

gzetski

move your patform tools folder to C: using windows

then when you run cmd, you should be able to get in by typing cd c:\platform-tools

montero23

holy shit thanks bro, the cmd came thru, i was testing it with out the phone connected and it worked, i just have to find the rom.zip file u said for i could downgrade to 2.2 and S-Off, then i will upgrade back to 2.3.4 and root again

unbrkshft

I am having the exact same issue but am not able to locate the rom.zip file. I am searching for it in Windows Explorer while RUU is running (hangs at 13%), but nothing comes up. Any advice as to where to look?

Thanks in advance!

Nevermind -- looks like I just had to do the search within my %appdata% folder. Hopefully this helps someone else down the line. Back to trying to unbrick my shift...

Last edited by unbrkshft; February 28th, 2012 at 01:38 AM.

unbrkshft

I made it to 2.2 -- thank you gzetski and montero23!

montero23

if u want to find the rom.zip, u have to open the RUU and let it run, once open, dont press the next button when u are on where the pictue of the evo is, go to start run and type %temp% it might be the first file, with a bunch of numbers, keep clicking till u see the rom.zip take it and copy it everything in the file, do it once cuz the file keep changing everytime u open the ruu....but anyways if u on 2.3.4 why dont u just root, mine is rooted perm, and i havent had no problem, running Warm Synergy, and if u go to 2.2 to do S-Off soon as u update S-On again not really worth it

unbrkshft

My end goal is to get Cyanogenmod on this phone. I'm working on rooting 2.2 at the moment, with no luck following the instructions on the Cyanogenmod wiki (everything works until step 10 of temp root) or ShiftRR (I get an error message telling me not to turn off my phone). Any thoughts on what I should do? Sorry if this is getting too off topic.

montero23

go here for the 2.2 root and temp root, but u could get Cyanogen on 2.3.4 just saying
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357157

Last edited by montero23; February 28th, 2012 at 03:15 PM.

unbrkshft

Thanks. I'm still unable to root 2.2 or get S-Off. I think a big issue is that my HBOOT is at version 0.99. Any ideas of how I can get to 0.93? I'm currently running Android 2.2.

montero23

lol, im telling u use the link i gave u, update to 2.3.4 and then reroot and u will be able to go to 2.2 and perm root it would be easier thats what i did, now im just having trouble instaling the ICS rom it keeps getting stuck in the HTC screen idk why but my synergy is good

crump

You are on Android 2.2 with the .99 Hboot? Did you just flash a 2.2 ROM? If you RUU'ed down to froyo, your Hboot should be .93..

unbrkshft

I tried updating the phone to 2.3.4 via the system updates. The install hung (froze at the screen with the yellow exclamation in the triangle). I'm thinking that it did not take because the phone is rooted in some form. How did you get 2.3.4 back?

unbrkshft

RUU froze for me, so I had to manually downgrade using gzetski's method above. It brought me to 2.2 but left the hboot at 0.99. I tried running RUU again just now, but it hung again at 13% (I left it along for about 40 minutes just to make sure)... I have the image file for the 0.93 hboot on my hard drive, is there anyway to manually flash it?

montero23

do it again, theres more then 1 download on the OTA theres like 3 or 2

gzetski

Yeah, he prolly is on the .99 radio, so am I. My method is for a brick fix, not a legit downgrade. The phone needs to be RUU to the latest version, then rerooted. There is a radio/rom version mismatch here, hence the BS to get anything working right.

crump

I would agree, your guide is more for brick situation. It's definitely not typical to have to manually flash every partition...And IMO should be a last resort.

AFAIK You would have to somehow exploit the .99 Hboot before you would be able to overide it. Can you run the latest 2.3.4 or 2.3.3 RUU? If not I would suggest trying to take the updates all the way up to 2.3.4. Once you have everything back in order root following the guide someone posted earlier in this thread.

Edit: I missed where you said you've already tried taking the OTA. Is your bootloader unlocked via the HTC tool?

gzetski

I am including the latest update that came through as OTA but I found it in RUU version. This may do the trick. I haven't had time to mess with it yet.


RUU_Speedy_S_Sprint_WWE_2.77.651.3_Radio_1.08.01.0 111_NV_SPCS_2.97_01206_PRL60674_release_237263_sig ned

http://www.4shared.com/file/AqB4uHOd/RUU_Speedy_S_Sprint_WWE_277651.html

Last edited by gzetski; February 28th, 2012 at 06:39 PM.

unbrkshft

Yes, the bootloader is unlocked via the HTC tool. Last night this phone was in a soft brick situation, gzetski's method thankfully got me out of it. I appreciate any help you can offer.

gzetski

If you're gonna unlock bootloaders, use HTCdev.com, less shady IMHO.

unbrkshft

I apologize, I did in fact use the HTCdev.com method.

gzetski

I have 6 other warranties to void, so no time right now to mess with the Shift

However, the first one of you guys to get perm root and S-OFF from this will get a cookie

I don't mean to sound redundant, but follow this once you get to 2.3.4. I think this is the only way to go with manually rebuilt libraries and who knows what radios... Update to the latest and the greatest, then downgrade from there.
[VIDEO GUIDE] FULL S-OFF ROOT for Evo SHIFT. Froyo (2.2) + Gingerbread (2.3.3+2.3.4) - xda-developers

unbrkshft

Is your thought that once we have this file available, we just run the exe file and hope for the best, or should we do it manually as we did with 2.2?

gzetski

Pretty much, yes. File is up, try it.

Last edited by gzetski; February 28th, 2012 at 06:44 PM.

montero23

anybody tryed ICS 4.0.3 deck or CM9, if so help me out,im getting stuck on the HTC screen when i reboot,

gzetski

Well, pretty much go back to the beginning of this thread, follow my brick fix, upgrade to 2.3.4 so you have a nice clean install, then follow the XDA thread on rooting and getting S-OFF, then do like 3 backups, and only flash roms using Clockwork's ROM manager. Should keep it from happening again.

Also, you have different requirements for AOSP ROMs like CM7/9 and Sense based ROMs.

montero23

wait what? lol i tryed warm synergy and it worked perfect but not ICS, and i idk how to get back to stock, my RUU gets stuck at 13% and the 2.3 RUU i had wont open i get a error

gzetski

Use the method I described earlier to get to 2.2, then update from there and reroot....

gzetski

Okay, here goes:

Unlocked S-ON
HBOOT: 0.99.0001
RADIO: 1.08.01.0111

Android 2.2 with full root access (even though its S-ON)

Gonna try to update to the latest RUU and see what happens. I'll let u guys know in a minute.

EDIT: Failed! Error 155. Back to the lab.

Last edited by gzetski; February 28th, 2012 at 07:16 PM.

montero23

man idk sounds like work, but im saying if the synergy could through the ICS could go through too, i think im doing something wrong but idk what it is

montero23

use the OTA 2.3.4, and u be good, just have to unlock bootloader

gzetski

that was the OTA 2.77.651.4


I just have it in a RUU format, look at the file I posted a few posts back.

montero23

oh ight, im bout to use that later on

unbrkshft

RUU failed for me. Tried the manual method, but had an issue with the last step:

montero23

keep doing it, or u did something wrong in the Terminal

gzetski

flash clockwork recovery, wipe all cashes and partitions, try again.

On a side note, I think its a kernel mismatch, that's why the RUUs are not taking. What was the stock kernel with 2.2? Anyone know?

unbrkshft

No luck. I wiped data/factory reset. Wiped cache/partition multiple times. Tried flashing the files. The same error message happens when I try to flash the system.img. I tried flashing it multiple times. I guess I'll flash back to 2.2 now so that the phone is at least usable.

unbrkshft

For some reason it is either frozen trying to update back to 2.2 or just taking an extremely long time. I've been loading the system.img for about an hour now. It did not take this long in previous attempts. It seems that loading the 2.3.4 RUU files may not have been a great idea...


Update: But it finally finished! So not all is lost.

The kernel is 2.6.32.21-gcd7abbd
Made Sat Nov 10

Last edited by unbrkshft; February 28th, 2012 at 09:35 PM.

montero23

i did what u said, but when i rebooted the phone, it bootlop on the 4G screen, never passed that, did it like 3 times

montero23

i did what u said, but then my phone gor stuck on the 4G screen, kept rebooting, and everythime i flashed the radio or partion and dzdata said failed, but since i was already getting stuck on the 4G i pressed the Factory reset on the bootloder and it worked, now im on 2.2 but my baseband is 1.08 the 2.3.4 idk why

unbrkshft

I managed to get my hands back on the Shift today after the owner had tried to run an HTC update which resulted in it soft-bricking. I was finally able to solve my issue of being at 2.2 with a locked hboot and thought I would post the method I used in case it helps anyone.

All I had to do was re-install 2.2 per gzetski's instructions. Then I followed the rooting instructions at the top of this post as if I was running 2.3.4. It was flawless. I was able to downgrade the hboot and S-OFF. The phone is now running CM7 and the owner is quite pleased.

Thank you all for your support.

prboy1969

Man . Crump you are everywhere . Good thing to, from the looks of it

crump

Haha.. I help when I can. Haven't been around lately since I upgraded to the LTE.

sod7227

ok ive tried everything. this way is the closest to working i have gotten but i still have a problem. my adb doesnt recongnize my phone when its in recovry so i can flash anything. when i try to flash it when the phone is on it just sits and says waiting for device. please help :/

prboy1969

What Android version are you on?

CNexus

It might also be that your computer isn't using the right driver for your phone. Try uninstalling the driver your computer uses for your phone right now, unplug your phone, google HTC drivers and download it, run the exe, connect your phone again, and then see if your phone shows up when you run "adb devices" in command prompt from the platform-tools folder