Root LTEVO ROOTING FOR DUMMIES {The Complete Guide}

[ocnbrze]

Ok, now I have a
*** TAMPERED ***
and
*** UNLOCKED ***
message on the screen. If I go to recovery I have the TWRP v2.3.3.0 window! Going to try and load MeanBean now.

YESSSS! now go and get your flash on with meanbean.

congrats

 

[m6284505]

Install TWRP using fastboot.

FastBoot worked, none of the other ways did (ADB or Goo).

try doing it manually. the instructions are in the guide. go to section 2 and under the htcdev method there are instructions on how to install recovery manually. check it out.

and of course please feel free to ask questions.....no ripping on noobs here

Of course, I missed that part of the instructions!!

Thanks for the help, looks like I'm in business (I hope)!

 

[windsorclarenc]

Awesome! I'm glad you got TWRP installed successfully. To flash your kernel you'll do the same thing you did to flash TWRP. Extract the kernel (boot.img) from the Rom zip and put it in your working folder on your computer that has fastboot and all of that good stuff in it. Boot into fastboot on your phone, open a command prompt on your computer, navigate to your working folder. Then enter this command: fastboot flash boot boot.img. It should take less than 3 seconds.

You'll do this after wiping everything but storage and flashing the Rom. After flashing the Rom and before flashing the kernel I always wipe cache and dalvik cache, but I'm not certain you have to. But it couldn't hurt.

 

[EarlyMon]

Unless the rom has an s-on kernel installer or is using the same kernel as your present rom, then you don't have to bother.

Personally, I find wiping cache and Dalvik as the last flashing steps works best, I made it a rule for every flash, including fixing permissions.

 

[Lord Vader]

So if Lazy Panda is no longer available, and I don't have access to a 32-bit PC (mine's Windows 7 64-bit), there's no way to get S-OFF. Am I reading that right?

 

[EarlyMon]

So if Lazy Panda is no longer available, and I don't have access to a 32-bit PC (mine's Windows 7 64-bit), there's no way to get S-OFF. Am I reading that right?

Depends. What's your hboot revision?

You can make a bootable Live CD or USB, boot Linux.

 

[Lord Vader]

I'm still on hboot 1.12 with an old baseband of 1.05.11.0606

 

[EarlyMon]

Are you rooted now and running a stock rom?

That's important, I forgot to ask.

You can go the Dirty Racun way, update your phone to a supported version and use that.

 

[Lord Vader]

I'm rooted now with an ICS custom ROM from xda's site. I'm using flex's ROM but one of his version 2.XX ones. I'm S-ON, however, and not S-OFF; hence my asking the question a few posts back.

The Dirty Racun way seems to indicate they don't support PCs that have 64-bit OS's.

 

[EarlyMon]

I'm rooted now with an ICS custom ROM from xda's site. I'm using flex's ROM but one of his version 2.XX ones. I'm S-ON, however, and not S-OFF; hence my asking the question a few posts back.

The Dirty Racun way seems to indicate they don't support PCs that have 64-bit OS's.

Flex's will be ok.

And the way to go is to boot into Ubuntu using a Live CD. It won't mess up your Windows to do that at all.

 

[Lord Vader]

OK, got it. Thanks.

 

[Granite1]

Like EM said above load a 32 bit live CD of ubuntu, and you're good to go.

My laptop is win7 64, and I have a dual boot 32bit ubuntu loaded, worked fine for S-off.

Follow DirtyRacun, you'll be fine. Make sure you load up ubuntu before you start , that is a must in my book. Qualcom download mode lurks, and the only way to recover is in ubuntu.

If you get stuck, give a shout, we'll help.

 

[Lord Vader]

OK, stupid question, considering I haven't done something like that before--when you say load a 32-bit CD of Ubuntu, do you mean simply just insert the created CD into my PC and begin?

 

[ocnbrze]

OK, stupid question, considering I haven't done something like that before--when you say load a 32-bit CD of Ubuntu, do you mean simply just insert the created CD into my PC and begin?

yes this is called a live cd. it is basically the ubuntu os that is run on your cd rom.

 

[EarlyMon]

Boot from the cd, you get the choice to install or run - run.

 

[Lord Vader]

Sounds good. I'll give it a try (just as soon as I can find the damn time now--LOL).

 

[Lord Vader]

If I read the Ubuntu directions correctly, I download Ubuntu, which appears to be an iso, then burn that iso to a CD, which is now the Ubuntu Live CD, correct? Then I reboot my PC from the CD drive containing this newly-created CD. Is that correct or did I misunderstand anything?

 

[EarlyMon]

That's it.

 

[Granite1]

When it loads up, it may ask you to load a boot manager. If it loads ubuntu automatically, no need to install this. If it won't load ubuntu automatically, load this, and upon boot your PC will ask what OS you want to load. Use the arrow keys to select, then press enter. Easy Peezy.

 

[Lord Vader]

OK, but before I do this, I have to figure out how to properly upgrade my phone's old firmware and hboot. From what I have read, the Dirty Racun way won't work for me since I'm on hboot 1.12 and old firmware.

 

[ocnbrze]

OK, but before I do this, I have to figure out how to properly upgrade my phone's old firmware and hboot. From what I have read, the Dirty Racun way won't work for me since I'm on hboot 1.12 and old firmware.

use the ruu that is on the team unlimited's site....that part is in the instructions on their website. the ruu has the firmware according to your hboot. the ruu.exe file is run on the computer.

 

[Lord Vader]

OK, so to make sure I do it correctly, from my current rooted and ICS ROM phone, I would:

1. Make a nandroid backup (and my SD card as well)
2. wipe and all
3. install the RUU to which you refer
4. Then run Ubuntu and Dirty Racun to get S-OFF
5. Then install the JB ROM I wish to install

Just making sure that those are the proper steps. If I've left anything out or have something out of order or incorrect, feel free to point it out.

 

[Lord Vader]

use the ruu that is on the team unlimited's site....that part is in the instructions on their website. the ruu has the firmware according to your hboot. the ruu.exe file is run on the computer.

OK, I went to Team Unlimited's site and saw that they have an RUU for hboot 1.15 and an RUU for hboot 1.19. I don't see an RUU for hboot 1.12. Am I interpreting your original comment above correctly? That is, do I need to flash an RUU that gets me to the next hboot, like the RUU hboot 1.15, or do I need to find an RUU hboot 1.12 to flash? If the latter, then how do I get TO hboot 1.15 to flash its RUU?

 

[ocnbrze]

OK, I went to Team Unlimited's site and saw that they have an RUU for hboot 1.15 and an RUU for hboot 1.19. I don't see an RUU for hboot 1.12. Am I interpreting your original comment above correctly? That is, do I need to flash an RUU that gets me to the next hboot, like the RUU hboot 1.15, or do I need to find an RUU hboot 1.12 to flash? If the latter, then how do I get TO hboot 1.15 to flash its RUU?

ok i see what you are saying now........any one of those ruu wil work. it will just upgrade your phone to one of those hboots....which one? it really does not matter.

 

[Lord Vader]

OK, that sounds simple, then--much simpler than I originally thought. So once I flash, say, the RUU for hboot 1.15, then I'm good to go with Ubuntu then flashing a JB ROM, correct?