Root Root is out!!!!!

lufria55 · Jun 5, 2010

grandmasterlarry said:
there is no folder named "root" it is simply the main folder of the sd card

usmc!

seigex · Jun 5, 2010

lufria55 said:
usmc!

Sigh *shakes head* ... Marines... I was stationed on Okinawa for 2 years with 35,000 marines... remember the game lemmings?

Grandmasterlarry · Jun 5, 2010

No the scary part is how did he know!

pingpongboss · Jun 6, 2010

DougFunny said:
Anyone else roaming after updating to froyo?

This fixes it. Take a look {ROM-DEV} FrOyO-EVO - Page 3 - xda-developers

freeza · Jun 6, 2010

Can anyone verify that:

-4G works
-You can download HTC Widgets without receiving the error "Unable to download widgets. Tap to try again."

after rooting with the toast method?

swazey · Jun 7, 2010

are the home, menu, back, and search buttons glowing blue now? or is that my eyes playing tricks on me? it looks sooooooooo gooooooooood

pingpongboss · Jun 7, 2010

swazey said:
are the home, menu, back, and search buttons glowing blue now? or is that my eyes playing tricks on me? it looks sooooooooo gooooooooood

Hahah just the camera.

mmarino77 · Jun 7, 2010

I see lots of comments about wireless tethering and maybe I'm missing something but if you have WLAN access and your laptop has a wireless modem, what's the point in tethering?

v01rider · Jun 7, 2010

step by step directions!! worked well for me!!

object.unoriented

you need sdk and htc sync installed on your machine.
when connecting phone to machine, choose htc sync instead of disk drive or charge.

SHO_ONE · Jun 8, 2010

bck9900 said:
How-to: Root the HTC Evo 4G - xda-developers

From XDA! Yay rootemtootem

This link seems broken

pingpongboss · Jun 8, 2010

SHO_ONE said:
This link seems broken

{tutorial} how to root \0/ - xda-developers

mmarino77 said:
I see lots of comments about wireless tethering and maybe I'm missing something but if you have WLAN access and your laptop has a wireless modem, what's the point in tethering?

Even if your laptop sees a bunch of wifi networks, it doesn't help you if they're all secured with a password.

LiquidLife · Jun 8, 2010

mmarino77 said:
I see lots of comments about wireless tethering and maybe I'm missing something but if you have WLAN access and your laptop has a wireless modem, what's the point in tethering?

Think of your phone as a mobile wireless router that uses 3G/4G signal as your ISP connection, which can be used to get your laptop on the internet, anywhere, anytime...

cjtheisen · Jun 9, 2010

Im a moron and have no idea how to root my phone. I have some computer knowledge. Quick tips on how to do this?

pingpongboss · Jun 9, 2010

cjtheisen said:
Im a moron and have no idea how to root my phone. I have some computer knowledge. Quick tips on how to do this?

Follow directions very, very closely. They are very precise if you pay attention. It's actually quite easy.

Sherman901 · Jun 9, 2010

aliveon2legs said:
Sure, I just wish somebody would come up with software that would back up all of your apps and settings, and then reinstall them after the upgrade is complete.

Do people who don't root also lose everything when they upgrade the OS?

My Backup and Titanium Backup do a good job of that.

htc.EVOlution · Jun 10, 2010

i can't for the life of me get the computer to recognize the phone. i got the phone to flash the rooted file. But flashing a custom rom is much harder than flashing the root. I know how to get the phone into recovery mode, but when i connect the phone to the computer, I can't run the adb to get the phone pass the Exclamation Screen in recovery mode. HELP!

pingpongboss · Jun 10, 2010

htc.EVOlution said:
i can't for the life of me get the computer to recognize the phone. i got the phone to flash the rooted file. But flashing a custom rom is much harder than flashing the root. I know how to get the phone into recovery mode, but when i connect the phone to the computer, I can't run the adb to get the phone pass the Exclamation Screen in recovery mode. HELP!

Assuming you've flashed toast's PC36IMG.ZIP, then when you put your Evo in recovery make sure you run toast's custom recovery.

While in recovery: connect Evo to computer, run the appropriate evo-recovery script on your computer. It should push a bunch of stuff to the phone, and you'll see the custom recovery. Then on the custom recovery you can select the option to flash a custom ROM.

Make sure you have HTC Sync installed. That provides the drivers for the Evo.

jhale83 · Jun 10, 2010

Does anyone know if there is a way to root without having to start from scratch with the ROM? Just got all the apps installed and settings set to my preference and don't feel like doing that again. Coming from the Hero I remember rooting on it didn't wipe my device so I'm hoping to find something similar for my EVO.

fireburster · Jun 10, 2010

If i have done the update can i still do this to root?

suprmallet · Jun 10, 2010

OK, I'm stuck. I've flashed PC36IMG.ZIP, put the phone in Recovery, and run the recovery file from the "evo-recovery" folder. It says it's pushing files to phone, then nothing happens. Any suggestions?

Is there an intermediate step I'm missing? I notice this step is listed:

"- Extract the evorecovery.zip to your desktop
- plug your phone into a usb port on your desktop
- In a shell:

Code:
adb reboot recovery"

But I assume that was simply to get your phone into recovery mode, which I did manually.

I go into recovery, load the recovery file from evo-recovery, it says it's pushing files, then when I go to the menu, it says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" and it gives me the regular recovery menu, not toast's. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

pingpongboss · Jun 10, 2010

jhale83 said:
Does anyone know if there is a way to root without having to start from scratch with the ROM? Just got all the apps installed and settings set to my preference and don't feel like doing that again. Coming from the Hero I remember rooting on it didn't wipe my device so I'm hoping to find something similar for my EVO.

I don't believe so right now. You can try some backup solutions, but most of them don't work on Evo yet in my experience. Try AppBrain.

fireburster said:
If i have done the update can i still do this to root?

Yup. A lot of people reporting success.

suprmallet said:
OK, I'm stuck. I've flashed PC36IMG.ZIP, put the phone in Recovery, and run the recovery file from the "evo-recovery" folder. It says it's pushing files to phone, then nothing happens. Any suggestions?

Is there an intermediate step I'm missing? I notice this step is listed:

"- Extract the evorecovery.zip to your desktop
- plug your phone into a usb port on your desktop
- In a shell:

Code:
adb reboot recovery"

But I assume that was simply to get your phone into recovery mode, which I did manually.

I go into recovery, load the recovery file from evo-recovery, it says it's pushing files, then when I go to the menu, it says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" and it gives me the regular recovery menu, not toast's. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Try using adb reboot recovery to go into recovery as opposed to getting their manually thru vol_down+power

Also make sure you are running the evo-recovery BAT file as administrator.

suprmallet · Jun 10, 2010

OK, I might be thick here, how do I get it to do the adb reboot recovery? I opened up the terminal on my computer and entered the command, got a "adb is not a recognized command filetype" or some such error.

pingpongboss · Jun 10, 2010

suprmallet said:
OK, I might be thick here, how do I get it to do the adb reboot recovery? I opened up the terminal on my computer and entered the command, got a "adb is not a recognized command filetype" or some such error.

Have you ever used ADB before?

Download the Android SDK, extract the contents of the zip somewhere, and look for the tools folder. Let's assume the tools folder is in C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\ and that your Evo is connected thru USB and with Debugging Enabled

Then in a command prompt, do this

Code:

cd \android-sdk-windows\tools\
adb reboot recovery

suprmallet · Jun 10, 2010

Ah, no, I didn't have the SDK. Let's try this again!

htc.EVOlution · Jun 11, 2010

For those having trouble flashing to a custom rom after rooting

-First, I needed to install HTC Sync (can be found on HTC's website in the download section for the Evo).
-Install then restart the computer.
-Boot into recovery mode
-Make sure the Evo-Recover folder downloaded is put into the C:\ root folder of your computer.
-Plug in the phone.
-You should hear a sound that usb connected or something similar.
-Launch the bat file using administrator.

Root Root is out!!!!!

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