Root [S-Off] Facepalm S-Off for HTC Evo 4g LTE

Rxpert83 · Mar 26, 2013

BmW1394 said:
how do i do that? flash the SU? its been a while lol.. i think im still rooted i have seeder qand lagfree installed along with titumim back up and all of those are working fine.

When are arw trying these commands what state is the phone in? Booted? Off? Recovery? Bootloader?

BmW1394 · Mar 26, 2013

Rxpert83 said:
When are arw trying these commands what state is the phone in? Booted? Off? Recovery? Bootloader?

when im entering the "ADB shell" codes the phone is booted.
when im entering the "fastboot flash boot boot.img" im in the bootloader fast boot mode.

BmW1394 · Mar 26, 2013

what is "arw" ?

EarlyMon · Mar 26, 2013

BmW1394 said:
sorry guys im kinda a noob at this stuff. i dont use ADB very offend.
so if i understand right after i type "adb shell" you want me to type "-" then hit enter? sorry...

No, in the following, the dash is to say, "here comes the command."

EarlyMon said:
Won't be a password.

After adb shell, please try -

which su

Let us know what it says.

The "which su" command will alert us if there's a problem with the root installation.

Forget about passwords.

novox77 · Mar 27, 2013

huh...

I might have to give this a try.

I'm S-ON, and despite knowing "a thing or two" about root, despite EarlyMon sending me a personal email detailing an earlier procedure on how to S-OFF, and despite wanting to update my radios, I still haven't attempted to S-OFF.

I just skimmed thru this thread and saw that the majority of it was dedicated to troubleshoot an issue for someone. Anyone have no issues on first try?

I'm thinking tonight's the night....

ocnbrze · Mar 27, 2013

i was able to google chat with a member, and he was able to get facepalm to work with no issues. i have not tried this out myself, do not plan to....LOL seems easy enough though.

give it a try and let us know how it went.

Rxpert83 · Mar 27, 2013

novox77 said:
huh...

I might have to give this a try.

I'm S-ON, and despite knowing "a thing or two" about root, despite EarlyMon sending me a personal email detailing an earlier procedure on how to S-OFF, and despite wanting to update my radios, I still haven't attempted to S-OFF.

I just skimmed thru this thread and saw that the majority of it was dedicated to troubleshoot an issue for someone. Anyone have no issues on first try?

I'm thinking tonight's the night....

I couldn't gett it to work for me. I'm not sure we've had many successes

Granite1 · Mar 27, 2013

novox77 said:
huh...

I might have to give this a try.

I'm S-ON, and despite knowing "a thing or two" about root, despite EarlyMon sending me a personal email detailing an earlier procedure on how to S-OFF, and despite wanting to update my radios, I still haven't attempted to S-OFF.

I just skimmed thru this thread and saw that the majority of it was dedicated to troubleshoot an issue for someone. Anyone have no issues on first try?

I'm thinking tonight's the night....

If Facepalm doesn't work, you can still get S-off with LazyPanda / DirtyRacun novoxx.

What hboot are you on BTW?

novox77 · Mar 28, 2013

Granite1 said:
If Facepalm doesn't work, you can still get S-off with LazyPanda / DirtyRacun novoxx.

What hboot are you on BTW?

off the top of my head, I'd say I'm on the earliest boot version possible. I got the phone on launch and rooted it shortly after.

I believe the email I got from Early was the methodology for LazyPanda.

Didn't get to try Facepalm last night. Will try today and report back.

I'm not flashing a ton of ROMs these days, and I've always preferred using fastboot to flash rather than bootloader .zip. Which is the main reason I'm still S-ON. But I have a few radio issues that I'd like to troubleshoot by getting the most updated radio firmware, and I thought I read somewhere that this was either risky or impossible without S-OFF...

Rxpert83 · Mar 28, 2013

novox77 said:
off the top of my head, I'd say I'm on the earliest boot version possible. I got the phone on launch and rooted it shortly after.

I believe the email I got from Early was the methodology for LazyPanda.

Didn't get to try Facepalm last night. Will try today and report back.

I'm not flashing a ton of ROMs these days, and I've always preferred using fastboot to flash rather than bootloader .zip. Which is the main reason I'm still S-ON. But I have a few radio issues that I'd like to troubleshoot by getting the most updated radio firmware, and I thought I read somewhere that this was either risky or impossible without S-OFF...

Correct, the only way to update the radio while s-on is to take the ota or via RUU, neither of which is recommended because youll get the newest hboots.

Rxpert83 · Mar 28, 2013

So has this been confirmed to work with 2.19 for anyone?

ocnbrze · Mar 28, 2013

Rxpert83 said:
So has this been confirmed to work with 2.19 for anyone?

yes it works with all hboots. i just helped someone who had the latest hboot and was able to get s-off.

novox77 · Mar 28, 2013

Ran into a USB issue (i think):

[HIGH]
C:\android\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot oem writecid 11111111
...
(bootloader) Start Verify: 3
(bootloader) Start Verify: 3
(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = 534642032 (0x1FDDFD70)
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 1.040s
[/HIGH]

I've gotten that "Too many links" error before when doing other fastboot commands like flashing a new splash page. I forgot how I ended up getting it to work last time.

Digging around some more, it seems like the issue is USB-related... either too many old drivers associated to the USB port, or the cable isn't good enough, or USB 3 vs 2, etc. I tried a bunch of cables, all of my ports, a laptop with different OS... nothing. Always get that error.

Pretty sure the problem is not specific to facepalm. It's a USB issue but I have no clue what the cause is or how to resolve it.

Granite1 · Mar 30, 2013

Hmmm, have you tried to delete all HTC stuffs and reload the drivers?

Not sure if that even applies whilst in fastboot or not. I think it's worth a try though.

Also if you're still on the 1.12 hboot, LazyPanda is the method you'll need. No doubt EM helped you out with that since Team Unlimited pulled all the files for it. If you need any help with that method or need any files let me know. I've still got everything, even the un-bricker.

novox77 · Mar 30, 2013

My adb and fastboot drivers are from HTC. I have default Android drivers for adb but not fastboot. Anyone have those handy?

EarlyMon · Mar 30, 2013

LazyPanda required a specific set of HTC drivers, I they were linked in the old LazyPanda thread, right Granite? I think that those are the ones that you have.

Granite1 · Mar 30, 2013

EarlyMon said:
LazyPanda required a specific set of HTC drivers, I they were linked in the old LazyPanda thread, right Granite? I think that those are the ones that you have.

Hmmm, I'll need to look at my files. I can't remember off the top of my head. I did mine in ubuntu, so I didn't need the windows drivers. I'm at the zoo with the kids, give me a few hours to look.

ocnbrze · Mar 30, 2013

EarlyMon said:
LazyPanda required a specific set of HTC drivers, I they were linked in the old LazyPanda thread, right Granite? I think that those are the ones that you have.

Granite1 said:
Hmmm, I'll need to look at my files. I can't remember off the top of my head. I did mine in ubuntu, so I didn't need the windows drivers. I'm at the zoo with the kids, give me a few hours to look.

when i wrote the dummies guide for lazypanda it only mentioned that you need the latest htc drivers.

i moved the lazypanda part to the second post in the guide. it has a link for the htc drive(HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe), if you need that one.

Granite1 · Mar 30, 2013

Ka-pow, there we go. I probably have those on my external drive, haven't looked in that folder in quite a while.

Thanks Ocn.

EarlyMon · Mar 30, 2013

Anyway, he stills needs the Android fastboot driver. That's different than the adb driver??

Plus - are we talking Windows 8 here??

Are there even working drivers for this on that?

ocnbrze · Mar 30, 2013

EarlyMon said:
Anyway, he stills needs the Android fastboot driver. That's different than the adb driver??

Plus - are we talking Windows 8 here??

Are there even working drivers for this on that?

the fastboot driver comes after you use lazypanda. you basically change the boot to 1.12.2222 which then allows fastboot commands.

and no lazypanda will not work on windows 8 from what i'm aware of.

novox77 · Mar 30, 2013

i'm running win7 x64, so i should be good. i'll get the latest drivers and check back in. thanks

EarlyMon · Mar 30, 2013

LazyPanda on Windows is rolling the dice.

I've done LazyPanda on Windows and Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is the far superior way.

ocnbrze said:
the fastboot driver comes after you use lazypanda. you basically change the boot to 1.12.2222 which then allows fastboot commands.

and no lazypanda will not work on windows 8 from what i'm aware of.

Yeah. I wasn't asking why you need the fastboot driver in Windows or about LazyPanda on 8, I was asking about any working Windows 8 drivers for anything.

Like facepalm.

Granite1 · Mar 30, 2013

Agreed on going with ubuntu. No drivers needed, and any hiccups, you're in the right platform to recover.

windsorclarenc · Apr 1, 2013

I agree with EarlyMon and Granite. I tried MANY times to get Lazy Panda to work on Windows with no luck. I'm talking 15+ tries. Tried it once in Ubuntu and it worked like a charm.

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