Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 7/22/10
 

If you feel anything is missing please PM me, I will keep this updated. Please thank the OP's.

A Tips and Tricks Blog (new so only a few posts for now)

Root
Easiest 3 clicks to fully root and unlock nand

How to get root

Full root part 2

Rooting and Flashing Evo Instructions for super n00b's on PC's

How to get root the easy method (this has to be applied every reboot)

[How-To] One Click Rooting+Nand Unlock+Permanent Recovery (Windows Only)

Keyboards
Best Evo keyboard ever
You need to put a check by it in settings/Language & keyboard/Swype, and then long press your text input area and select input method. (Yes you can switch between the keyboards).

Flash on Evo
Full Flash on the Evo

Mods, themes, clocks home screens and more
Evo Playground-Mods, Themes and More!

Evo Home Screens Thread (NSFW)

ADW Launcher

MSL Codes
Get MSL Code Without CDMA Workshop

Easy Mode Get MSL Code Without CDMA Workshop

Yet another method to get MSL if the above fail

Stock Radio
Stock Evo Radio

Video Chat
Video Chat how-to

Hide pictures, videos or files
Guide - Hide Pictures, Videos or other Files

Close Apps
How do you "end/close" an app?

Remove Facebook Birthdays
Remove Facebook Birthdays from the Calandar

Wifi Tether
Free Wifi Tether root needed

Latest Method

Apps that are safe to remove with root
Post 7 seems to be the most informative.

Ring tones and Notifications

Custom Ringtones
Set Custom Ringtones Method 1
Set Custom Ringtones Method 2

How to use the missing Ringtone Trimmer App
Ringtone Trimmer

Battery Tweaks
Battery Tweaks Discussion

Better battery life, reduce Time Without Signal

Format SD card battery trick
Rings Extender from the market lets you set any audio file on your SD card as a ringer or any other notification.
Ringdroid from the market will let you take clips from audio files and set them as ringtones or any notification.

Missing Notifications?
You can use "Missed Reminder" from the market to repeat notifications.
or
Handsent Sms You can control the vibrating pattern.

Remove Boot Sound

Emulators
Guide to setting up emulators

SMS
Backup SMS

MISCELLANEOUS
Change banner with CDMA Workshop

Programing resource for cooking roms, themes and so on

Improve call quality

Stream music from your PC

Microphone jack fix

Keep high res photos for contacts

To keep screen from turning off while charging go to Settings/Applications/Development, and choose stay awake.

To play Mpeg1/2/4, DivX/Xvid, WMV install yxplayer from the market

Use your flash as a flash light with LED Light from the market
or try
"LED Desire Light" app instead.... its way brighter, sends SOS, strobe, and you can modify intensity.
Thanks to Nutzy19 for this tip.

hold down the menu button, the keyboard pops up for you. so if you open an app or page that has the typing field at the top for example, you dont have to reach up there and tap inside to get the keyboard which i noticed needs to be done sometimes. you just hold menu key and keyboard pops up. (Thanks to Newone757)

MUST HAVE APPS
ATK (Advanced Task Killer)
Skyfire (Slick Web browser) and or Dolphin HD
Shazam (Find out the name of a song playing)
Pandora (Streaming radio app)
ES File Explorer
Layar (You just have to try it)
ScanLife (Scan bar codes to Android apps)
I Music Tao (Find any song you want) Have trouble finding it PM me.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update.
 

Original post all credit to Stericson for putting the list together.

How To Use ADB

[TUTORIAL/HOW TO] Basics of ADB ~ by joeykrim

How to Root your EVO

Root method PART 1 by toastcfh (Gaining Root Permissions)

Root method PART 2 by toastcfh (Unlocking Nand Protection And Gaining Full Root)

Root your phone without a pc by Mrono

IDIOT-PROOF Root Guide! No ADB, no fuss! by TheBiles

EVO Roms:

Complete database of EVO roms

Making your own EVO rom

HTC Android Basic Kitchen, v0.54 [Linux / Mac / Cygwin] by dsixda

EVO Hacks

*techknowfile's* - Hack the HTC EVO - 3G w/o Sprint EVDO coverage!

Brick Fixes

[Fixed] Well looks like I killed my EVO already... (Lost SD & USB) by Calkulin

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Saved For later.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

Will check it out later

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

hold down the menu button, the keyboard pops up for you. so if you open an app or page that has the typing field at the top for example, you dont have to reach up there and tap inside to get the keyboard which i noticed needs to be done sometimes. you just hold menu key and keyboard pops up.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

Great thread...very much needed and quite helpful

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

Nice one, Thank you! Going into the first post.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

This may be well known already, but just in case....

The Home and Search physical buttons also support dual input like the Menu button.

Hold the Home button to get the task / recent app switcher.

Hold the Search button to activate a voice search from (almost) anywhere, anytime.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

Great thread! Very useful and should be stickied if you are willing to keep it updated.

One thing, unrevoked has been fixed so that the root is now "sticky" and will remain after a reboot. The version that was not stickied was only available for a few hours but was removed and the new "sticky" version was uploaded shortly thereafter.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

Very good thread, and holding the home button is a very good tip. thanks for that! I've been trying to find the best way to switch between different tasks I'm doing on my phone.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

Yeah the new one is "sticky" but because it automatically runs at each reset. Right?

Wirelessly posted (Sprint HTC Evo : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

Double tapping the home icon while on the home screen shows all 7 home screen layouts for easier switching or view in general

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

Any one know how to make a new notification alert? ....Its killing me that i cant figure it out!

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

Ok i think i got it now...Thanks guys

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Awesome list. Thanks

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Tap and hold within a text field to bring up the list of available keyboards. This is helpful if you have multiple keyboards installed and want to switch between them to adapt to different typing situations.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

great thread...........thanks

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Sweet!! I have been immortalized in a STICKY!! (or soon to be )

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

I wanted to share a few vids I made this will probably not help many of you vetrans but maybe useful to some noobs, at least youtube viewers have thought so. I plan to make more. I hope this helps some of you a little http://www.youtube.com/user/Royalone31

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Cool added to first post.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Thanks! I appreciate any support, these are my first vids and I want to try to keep doing these. Let me know if there are anythings you guys would like to see and I'll try my best to make a vid Grad school/ work schedule permitting lol

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Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

I asked this in one of the rooting threads, but it is also a good fit here. Should be in the first post if an answer is found...

Can anyone tell me how to backup my text messages so that I don't lose them when I root?

I am not even seeing a way to copy and paste them into a document or anything. Any Android vets know how I can go about saving them to the SD card, or emailing them somehow, or somehow sync them to the cloud, or even copy them to my computer?

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Motorola Droid has an app called Car Home. any similar app for EVO?

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Try this thread Salty. It might help, might not :)

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Anyone get SEtcpu to work right on the Evo and if so what device do u select since the Evo isn't on there?

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Thanks but that's a no go. They are talking about copying stuff from WinMo to Android. I just need to copy to my storage card, the cloud, my computer, or even a copy and paste into some sort of notepad or something that I can then save on my storage card.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

This post is for you Salty, forgot to quote.

I know there was a way to do this on the hero, I will figure it out later when I am at a computer and post back.

Sent from my HTC Evo using Tapatalk

Re: Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Nice, I was looking for this thread forever on tapatalk cause the stickies were hidden. Anyway thank you.



Sent from my HTC Evo using Tapatalk

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

I found this:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.bobarctor.smsbackup

It puts all of the text messages into gmail, so that will work.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

I am not sure, though that would explain why unrevoked is running each time I reboot. Either way, the wording in the OP insinuates that it may be necessary for the end user to root the phone on each reboot when it's done automatically and the average user probably wouldn't notice if the root stuck or was being reapplied at each reboot. Nonetheless, thanks for the great thread and for keeping it updated!

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/6/10
 

I think it did need to be rooted after a reboot when it was first released but then they released an update that fixed it.

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Yeah the update just has it run automatically at startup and reroot in the back ground, so you dont even know it. So not technically sticky.

Sent from my HTC Evo using Tapatalk

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Cool I am glad you found it. Gonna add this to the first post.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

anyways of removing all the facebook people from the dialer.
i would like to only have my phone contacts on there and not a bunch of wrong numbers.
i live in the US but most of my friends on facebook are not from the US and all the phone numbers are missing the country code and such... so its pointless to have that up there.
if anyone knows... thanks.

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

I stumbled across this at xda--apparently Android phones are set to search for a GSM signal as well as a CDMA one :dontknow:
Makes no sense to me but I read the below thread and applied the change as mine was set to GSM-auto.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&highlight=tws

Thanks for a great thread!!

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

As of yet I do not know of a way. People are talking about it however, if I see a solution posted I will update you.

I must be smoking something because I tried this just to see and I couldnt even access the menu. Glad you like the thread, thanks for the support :D

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Your choice of 'relaxation' aside...:)
Did you type it exactly like this:

*#*#4636#*#*

Reason I ask is when I tried it the first time I missed the *#*# in the beginning. Just tried it again and it worked fine.....:scratch:

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

Wow that is so odd... I tried like 3 times before and now reading your post I try again and poof there is the menu, intresting what being super tired can do for you. Mine was set to CDMA but I will add this to the first post tomorrow that "test" menu has some sexy stuff in it. Thanks for the info!

Re: Evo Tips, Tricks and anything I find useful. Will update. Updated 6/7/10
 

If you read the linked thread, you'd see that it is a visual glitch. Once youre at the last screen, hit menu and select radio band which will cause a force close. Wait a second and then go back into the last screen. You'll see that its set to GSM-Auto. Select CDMA-Auto (prl) and you should be golden..