Root Simple unrEVOked 3 rooting for stock Incredible or Evo on 2.2

[Bob Denny]

This article was linked from the channel topic announcement by Joshua_ last night. He had some suggestions which I took and edited. So you'll see it (via a bit.ly shortened URL).

 

[toord]

Would someone be so gracious to upload the IRC version of reflash somewhere us w/o IRC clients can download from? Thx.

 

[pdavey]

Awesome directions. Very easy and very quick!

 

[wayrad]

Yes, that's one of the most prevalent ones. The problem: The Android SDK has drivers, but they don't have the interfaces needed for the HTC phones. Enter HTC Sync, which has the same drivers but with the additional interfaces in their .INF files for Incredible and Supersonic (aka Evo). So you have people telling you to install HTC Sync to get those drivers, then uninstall HTC Sync (leaving the drivers) so it doesn't get in the way of the rooting process by binding to the phone when it's plugged into USB.

Rereading your other post, I got confused again - it says:

You do not have to remove HTC Sync if you have it installed. These drivers will replace the ones that came from HTC Sync and be usable for that as well as rooting. The trick is getting these drivers to replace the ones you have from the Android SDK or HTC Sync or ??? (or simply installing them if you have no drivers yet). The idea is to plug your phone into USB while it's in HBOOT mode, forcing Windows to look for Bootloader drivers. Only the ones here provide that.

Anyway, here's how:
Uninstall HTC Sync,

Which is it?
Also - here's a dumb question - I'm not familiar with IRC, but followed a link elsewhere to sign up for the correct channel. Didn't really understand what I was looking at , but there was a link at the top for the reflash.exe file, which I downloaded. It's a 23 MB file. Is there any way to check whether it is the correct version? On my desktop the version number reads 1.2.0.715 when I look at file properties. This looks very strange.

 

[Bob Denny]

Which is it?

The second. The first appears to be one of my hastily typed IRC messages

The Reflash.exe (Windows Reflash) from that link is definitely the correct one (well it leads to a page that has the real ones for all OS). The IRC channel is operated by the unrEVOked team.

 

[Polt]

Thanks Bob for your guide. It made things incredibly simple. I was rooted within minutes.

 

[V3rm]

I'm trying to find one source on how-to correctly flash my EVO with CM6 after gaining root using unrevoked. Any suggestions out there?

 

[Musky]

Ok, been trying to do this for a while tonight. I install the "USB drivers" as listed, and when it finished, my phone shows in device manager as "Android Bootloader Interface".

So I follow the next steps, fine. Then when I plug my phone back into the computer with "charge only" selected as stated, I check back into Device manager and instead of "Android Bootloader Interface" it shows under "Android USB Devices" it says "My HTC" and won't let me update the driver again.

l tried running the "reflash.exe" anyway and I get the error "Not a 7-zip archive" and will not run.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: I had a bad download, second one worked fine, Thanks!

 

[kermit87]

Excellent job with the guide. It took about 10 minutes for the whole process to happen, but now I'm rooted and it was easier than I thought it would ever be. The hardest thing was getting Windows 7 to not install the wrong drivers when I plugged in the phone. After a second go, it was easy breezy! Thanks!

 

[itbedave]

OSX doesn't give you the option to format in FAT32 so that's best done elsewhere if you need to format your sdcard.

Actually, you CAN format in FAT32 on a Mac using Disk Utility. Just select the MS-DOS (FAT) option when erasing it.

 

[gladman]

I have an htc desire with 2.1 on it, unrooted of course. Can I use this?

 

[Casbah]

Actually, you CAN format in FAT32 on a Mac using Disk Utility. Just select the MS-DOS (FAT) option when erasing it.

Ok. I've tried that before then checked it on a windoze box and it said it was Fat16.

 

[wayrad]

The second. The first appears to be one of my hastily typed IRC messages

The Reflash.exe (Windows Reflash) from that link is definitely the correct one (well it leads to a page that has the real ones for all OS). The IRC channel is operated by the unrEVOked team.

Thank you.

By the way, would you recommend a factory reset first? I haven't had any significant problems (at least, none that a factory reset is known to fix) after doing the OTA update on my DInc.

 

[Casbah]

I have an htc desire with 2.1 on it, unrooted of course. Can I use this?

Yep! This link will take you straight to the page for the desire:
unrevoked

 

[Incroidible]

Thanks and thanks again Bob

That is an extremely well-written and documented procedure.

I just got my Incredible on Wednesday, and now I believe Root-Day will be very soon in the future.

Great job

 

[Kubla]

I did it yesterday and I'm now having fun getting rid of bloatware.
My phone now feels better to me because I don't see a lot of things that I wouldn't use.
Great procedure.
Thanks.

 

[mykrlz182]

Best guide ever thank you! Just rooted took about 5 min including backup!

 

[Bob Denny]

Thank you sir!!! I see they've released 3.21, so I'm going to edit the post and cross-post.

 

[IcellPhones]

Awesome walk through. Actual rooting of the phone was easier than reading on how to properly setup for root, and having the drivers configures correctly. Adios bloatware...

 

[Bob Denny]

OK the article has been edited to include the link to the Reflash package, and removal of the pre-release status and IRC info.

 

[IcellPhones]

Ok, been trying to do this for a while tonight. I install the "USB drivers" as listed, and when it finished, my phone shows in device manager as "Android Bootloader Interface".

So I follow the next steps, fine. Then when I plug my phone back into the computer with "charge only" selected as stated, I check back into Device manager and instead of "Android Bootloader Interface" it shows under "Android USB Devices" it says "My HTC" and won't let me update the driver again.

l tried running the "reflash.exe" anyway and I get the error "Not a 7-zip archive" and will not run.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: I had a bad download, second one worked fine, Thanks!

I had the same problem last night, and it tooke me a few tries to figure it out, i had to uninstall all htc drivers first, then install the usb driver that are made for the hboot. I had the same issue with the device manager saying "Android Bootloader Interface' and then "Android USB Devices". After a few tries it came up as what it should say which is "Android Composite Adb Interface".

 

[Casbah]

Wow so much trouble for Windows users. At least this is one place the Mac's don't have to worry about. haha

 

[1967ls2]

I installed all the Drivers and my device manager says Android phone, ADB. I downloaded the Unrevoked 3.21 and it gives me the reflash package.exe file. I open it up and it has a big pop up box that says Unrevoked3, Painless root and reflash, Plug phone in etc....

I plug my phone in and enable debugging mode and nothing happens. I have no HTC software on my PC, I have no verizon software on my PC.

What am I doing wrong here?

 

[UBRocked]

Link posted in the sticky HERE

Thanks for sharing this info

 

[1967ls2]

I installed all the Drivers and my device manager says Android phone, ADB. I downloaded the Unrevoked 3.21 and it gives me the reflash package.exe file. I open it up and it has a big pop up box that says Unrevoked3, Painless root and reflash, Plug phone in etc....

I plug my phone in and enable debugging mode and nothing happens. I have no HTC software on my PC, I have no verizon software on my PC.

What am I doing wrong here?

Anyone?