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Originally Posted by jrmatics
 hey guys and gals. i am quite new to android. been messing around windows mobile for a while, but when i got my evo i started to see ADB and all this other stuff. i havent messed around linux/unix since 2001. i wanted to root my evo then all this adb push and shell stuff got me confused for a second. the guide in this thread is the best i have seen so far but to know all of this adb shell stuff would be great knowledge along side all the wm stuff. if u go here and read carefully it will give u the sdk u need and how to install and use. i read it about 10 times and i am gonna read some more. it was very helpfull. go here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and happy reading  |
The sdk is fine and all, but I didn't include this in the guide because I didn't want to confuse people.
Everything I did was done on a windows machine using the EVO-recovery.zip file and no Android SDK.
I was totally confused when I started trying to figure out Android. None of the original directions about rooting mentioned the SDK, (probably because everyone knew about it in the thread at XDA) so I fumbled around just using the evo-recovery.zip files until I figured out that "adb" could be substituted for "adb-windows" from the zip file I had.
As long as I was in the right folder, the command worked.
So, for people familiar w/ Android, they use
Code:
adb shell
adb reboot recovery
For people that don't know what that means, they can use
"c:\evo-recovery\adb-windows reboot recovery" in a run window.
Again, I'm not saying that learning the SDK is bad, only that it is not necessary to do any of these steps. It will help w/ any future hacking/mods individuals might want to do.