actually the time stamp of the last post in that other thread is before the first post of this thread so it won't be jumbled, but I'll leave it as is since thats what you want.
carry on.
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carry on.
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Thank you so much for putting this in layman's terms.
So the "Root your 2.2" should be "Downgrade your 2.2 to 2.1 then root and upgrade to a rooted 2.2 ROM".
Thanks again for the explanation. As soon as I get a decent replacement I'm rooting my phone!
So the "Root your 2.2" should be "Downgrade your 2.2 to 2.1 then root and upgrade to a rooted 2.2 ROM".
Thanks again for the explanation. As soon as I get a decent replacement I'm rooting my phone!
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so um.......i did everything step by step, got 2.1, rooted with Unrevoked3, did unrevoked forever.......i reset the phone (power off, power on). Now it wont turn on.....!!! ****.
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Pull the battery. Put it back in, and immediately hold down power and vol-down. Can you get the white bootloader screen to come up?
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AND STAY PATIENT - these little hiccups happen, don't let angry fingers hurt your phone!
I had something similar in my first root - that sort of thing novox is saying fixed it - just stay patient.
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Sweet post. Rooting my friends evo here in about an hour, im not new to the root scene, but for EVO's i am lol.
I owned a D1, and currently a DX, both rooted, froyo on the X (woop!). So i can follow a lot of this.
Once this is all done, with the simple root at the end, which i will use instead of unrevoked, what is a good recovery to flash for the evo? I always use Clockwork, but i hear some bad things about it with the Evo.
Could anyone point me in the direction of some instructions installing a recovery after I root the 2.2?
Thanks.
I owned a D1, and currently a DX, both rooted, froyo on the X (woop!). So i can follow a lot of this.
Once this is all done, with the simple root at the end, which i will use instead of unrevoked, what is a good recovery to flash for the evo? I always use Clockwork, but i hear some bad things about it with the Evo.
Could anyone point me in the direction of some instructions installing a recovery after I root the 2.2?
Thanks.
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I had 2.2 Stock froyo...did this and now i'm creating a backup on my rooted evo. It took me about an hour and this is my first experience with rooting so if I can do it, then (hopefully) anyone can.
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good to hear! did you run into any issues or hangups? ive been paranoid about my evo since 2.2 rolled out because i knew that if it effed up and i used my insurance to get a new one, id have an unrootable 2.2 one.
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Thank you for the explanation, very clear.
BUT... Now I have a new question. What this seems to be doing is taking a 2.2 Froyo and making it into a 2.1 again. What about all the hype about how great 2.2 is compared to 2.1? Do we lose all the benefits of 2.2? I like several of the 2.2 features. I only want to root to get the hotspot working.
Do you think that there will be a root for 2.2 that keeps the phone at 2.2 but gives root access?
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Pretty sure this is 2.2. For now, the way they are doing it is taking your phone back to 2.1 and then rooting it and then bringing it back to 2.2. That is the workaround at the present moment. If you want to wait to see if something simpler pops up, that is your perogative. But it seems that the dev community has been putting most of its efforst into bringing rooted 2.1 people into 2.2 because the common belief is that you do NOT update until the devs have it figured out. This root method is for those that updated or those that recieved a phone with 2.2 already on it..... I hope that makes sense to you!!!...it barely does to me.
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They're both useful. IMO, ClockworkMod is a little more flexible in that you can name your backups, and going back up the through the menus is easier. Flipz' Fresh ROM updater requires Amon, plus there's an ongoing rumor/debate that CWM doesn't adequately wipe Dalvik Cache, though I don't know if that's true.Sweet post. Rooting my friends evo here in about an hour, im not new to the root scene, but for EVO's i am lol.
I owned a D1, and currently a DX, both rooted, froyo on the X (woop!). So i can follow a lot of this.
Once this is all done, with the simple root at the end, which i will use instead of unrevoked, what is a good recovery to flash for the evo? I always use Clockwork, but i hear some bad things about it with the Evo.
Could anyone point me in the direction of some instructions installing a recovery after I root the 2.2?
Thanks.
The good news is that you can actually have both, and swap from one to the other with ROM Manager. You may need the pay for the premium version to do it (don't remember), but RM is one of the most useful apps on my phone, and IMO is worth every penny.
You can start out with Amon, install RM, and flash CWM any time you want.
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You have it right.
The exploit is kinda like a time warp - think of it that way.
You go back to 2.1, root there and then install anything you like - including the same stock 2.2 rom you just started with - only - the modified one that would be rooted.
I was rooted at 2.1 with nand access. Follow the same rooting procedure and there'd be no difference if you'd rooted a month ago or two months ago and upgraded to a rooted 2.2, as others have - or if you're doing it today.
Here's your rom collection for the Evo - note the one that says 3.26.651.6 - if you want to install that once rooted - from this source - then you'll have your phone back - rooted.
HTC Supersonic/ROMs - XDA-Developers
Hope that somehow clarifies rather than confuses.
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i am one of the unfortunate ones having permission denied when trying to write the PC36IMAGE the unrevoked-forever and the mtd-eng files to the sd card I get all the way to the # after toggling airplane mode but when i try to ./flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img it says error opning: no such file or directory.
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I get to where i need to push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin, and it says that it cannot find the path specified?
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if you are running windows I believe you dont want to ./ flash the image.
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when i put these into cmd they get no files detected
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/
and i see on the video he released he has them in his folder but they aren't in mine. any ideas
see this might be a problem but this happens on like the first steps, just ignore it and move on?
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/
and i see on the video he released he has them in his folder but they aren't in mine. any ideas
see this might be a problem but this happens on like the first steps, just ignore it and move on?
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You just lose it temporarily (unless you choose to remain on 2.1) until you flash a new ROM. Whether that be a rooted 2.2 or a custom, at which point you have Flash back.
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No, don't ignore it, fix it. The guide says in reference to the contents of "evo-root.zip:"
Code:
It contains a few files necessary to root the EVO.
Unzip the contents of the zip to your android sdk tools folder.So if you skip it, and those files are necessary, how are you going to complete the rooting process?
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