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bimzrus 06-07-2010 04:17 AM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
ok i'm getting board tried it again same problem. I forgot to mention that it recieved the ota update on saturday. How long is it suppose to take? I grew impatiant after 7minutes this time and held the Pwr + vol. up. Now I have in a blue menu and below it in yellow E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command.
OPtion 2 says sdcard:update.zip however I rooted my phone with the unrevoked apk

iknowsquat 06-07-2010 08:28 AM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
@Fast-Dammit! I go thru the trouble of, ya know, using my brain and stuff and kinda sorta figure out this root thing. Then here you are with this incredibly clear, concise, awesome post. You Sir, owe me a bottle of Excedrin Migraine.
:) Thank you! This is great, I'm ready to jump in now.

re: App2SD- There's a very good chance I'm wrong but I *think* that is a feature of Froyo. Just root or root and OMJ's ROM may not be enough?? Happy to be proven wrong on that.

jimmiekain 06-07-2010 08:42 AM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by FastRX8 (Post 1797929)
Sorry for the slow response. After rooting, you still get the message I believe. Honestly, I don't remember.:scratch:

As far as I know, if you do accept the OTA update, you can still use the unrevoked site to root. I thought they made it so you can root even if you did the update.

@fastrx8

Thanks for the reply... i didnt use unrevoked i used your method on page one. Should I still be getting the msg to install ota? if I do will it mess anything up?

Also, why dont i have the little ninja monkey? this is all i have that wasnt there b4 the root. (its the little blue and white # symbol)

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...607_055124.png

when I click the # symbol this is what comes up... nothing.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...607_055131.png

is it normal for this to be blank? (ignore the bottom right thats just from the phone lagging a little when it rotated.)




(screen shots taken using shoot me its in the marketplace for free... check it out)

tool2269 06-07-2010 08:42 AM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
so anyone getting apps to save to and launch via storage card yet?

jimmiekain 06-07-2010 09:09 AM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by tool2269 (Post 1798180)
so anyone getting apps to save to and launch via storage card yet?

i still havent figured it out... if anyone figures it out please pm me, send a smoke signal, carrier pigeon, singing telegram, somthing! please! I dont listen to music on my phone so not being able to install apps to sd defeats the purpose of getting a class 6 card with 8gb. (good thing i didnt go for the 16gb)

FastRX8 06-07-2010 11:35 AM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by jimmiekain (Post 1798178)
@fastrx8

Thanks for the reply... i didnt use unrevoked i used your method on page one. Should I still be getting the msg to install ota? if I do will it mess anything up?

Also, why dont i have the little ninja monkey? this is all i have that wasnt there b4 the root. (its the little blue and white # symbol)

Yes, you will still get the OTA message. I get it too. I haven't installed it. I don't know what happens if you do. I was under the impression that unrevoked will root even after OTA. So I assume that if you accept the OTA, then you would need to
1 - Root again using a method that works w/ OTA
2 - Do all the other steps required if you want to install custom roms again (recovery, Nand backup, etc)
Also, there is a way to turn off that feature so it stops checking for the OTA. I did it when I first got my phone, but now I can't find it. Some setting somewhere needs to be changed to Manual check for updates.

The blue "Superuser Permissions" icon is exactly what you should see. Keep in mind I just learned about Android on Friday. I'm no expert by any means. As far as I know, you don't actually do anything w/ that icon other than open it to get info about what apps you've given access too.
If you try to do the wifi tethering using this app, wireless_tether_2_0_2-pre14.zip, which works flawlessly BTW, when you first start the wifi, it will ask if you want to grant permissions to the program. I selected "Always Allow" and now if I go to the Superuser Permissions icon, I see info about the wifi tethering app. I don't know what it means, but the info is there.

I don't know what the ninja monkey is? Are you referring to the icon for Advanced Task Killer? It's a free app in the store. Check their icon and let me know if that's it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tool2269 (Post 1798180)
so anyone getting apps to save to and launch via storage card yet?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimmiekain (Post 1798193)
i still havent figured it out... if anyone figures it out please pm me, send a smoke signal, carrier pigeon, singing telegram, somthing! please! I dont listen to music on my phone so not being able to install apps to sd defeats the purpose of getting a class 6 card with 8gb. (good thing i didnt go for the 16gb)

After doing a bunch of reading, I'm pretty sure that winmonewbie is right. Installing apps to the storage card is a Froyo thing (Android 2.2).
From my personal experience with custom roms on Windows, I tend to wait for a couple chef's to start using a build before I decide to try it. At least I know when it becomes popular most of the kinks are worked out. My "goto" chef is OMJ. I know he's new to Android, but the stuff he did to make my Touch and Touch Diamond last longer was amazing. He tends to error on the cautious side. So if he post a rom w/ Froyo, you can pretty much bet it's working very well.

The way things on are moving on the Evo, I'm sure any day now we'll start seeing several 2.2 roms. If you don't want to wait, you can install the existing Froyo rom they have on xda. I'm not sure what issues it has though.

BTW - If I throw up a smoke signal, I think you'll see it, looks like we're neighbors.

BlackDynamite 06-07-2010 01:18 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Cool, so I see I can root even though I installed the OTA. I have a few text messages that I need to keep though.

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?

OMJ 06-07-2010 01:37 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
very nice tutorial FastRX8!!! you have it spelled out perfectly. I thought about making one for linux users, but it's a big can of worms.

kgbcapthowdy 06-07-2010 01:43 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
what custom recovery are there that can be installed, i am rooted using flipz rom, but if i do the vol down and power i get the same recovery that i have to be connected to pc to use.

jimmiekain 06-07-2010 02:13 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg (Post 1798773)
Cool, so I see I can root even though I installed the OTA. I have a few text messages that I need to keep though.

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?

There may be a better way but here is what i do. Fw them to a friend. Then have send them back to you.

Hope that helps

madoc 06-07-2010 02:19 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by OMJ (Post 1798823)
very nice tutorial FastRX8!!! you have it spelled out perfectly. I thought about making one for linux users, but it's a big can of worms.

So, can we clarify the loss of 4G? Is it lost with the OP root method?

It is not lost with the unrevoked method - I can attest to that. If I knew enough about this, I'd start the thread - but I am a little lost as to the differences. I went unrevoked because my device was OTA updated.

BlackDynamite 06-07-2010 02:40 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by jimmiekain (Post 1798915)
There may be a better way but here is what i do. Fw them to a friend. Then have send them back to you.

Hope that helps

I thought about doing this, but then I figured there has to be a better way...

BlackDynamite 06-07-2010 03:14 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
FYI, I found this:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.bobarctor.smsbackup

It puts all of your text messages into gmail. So if you have something you don't want to lose, this will let you keep it. You can set it to do automatic backups of your SMS into gmail too, so kind of cool.

ratman24 06-07-2010 07:54 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
i follow the steps above for the recovery and my evo wont go into rcovery mode dont know if im doing something wrong or not very frustrating is there an easier way:cussing:

FastRX8 06-07-2010 08:07 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ratman24 (Post 1799748)
i follow the steps above for the recovery and my evo wont go into rcovery mode dont know if im doing something wrong or not very frustrating is there an easier way:cussing:

There actually isn't an easier way.

Can you give some more details as to what's happening?
I can try to help you, but I need to know what you're doing on the phone/pc and what's happening when you do those things.

ratman24 06-07-2010 08:17 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
typed all the commands step by step it goes thru the prosess but my phone wont go into recovery it wont even sync now so i dont know been at this for like an hour im 2 seconds away from smashing this phone

Boo Boo 06-07-2010 08:26 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
unrevoked is by far the easiset way to root

FastRX8 06-07-2010 08:27 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ratman24 (Post 1799817)
typed all the commands step by step it goes thru the prosess but my phone wont go into recovery it wont even sync now so i dont know been at this for like an hour im 2 seconds away from smashing this phone

Call me. I send you a pm w/ my number. You're practically next door.
Don't call from the EVO though :|

FastRX8 06-07-2010 08:27 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Boo Boo (Post 1799844)
unrevoked is by far the easiset way to root

He's not trying to root, he's trying to do the recovery.

BlackDynamite 06-07-2010 09:03 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Boo Boo (Post 1799844)
unrevoked is by far the easiset way to root

I did the unrevoked root, but I can't get the recovery to work either...

FastRX8 06-07-2010 09:15 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg (Post 1799919)
I did the unrevoked root, but I can't get the recovery to work either...

I just talked to ratman24 on the phone and got him squared away.

Here's what I had him do;

Power off the phone. Hold "Down Volume" while you power the phone back on.
The screen that appears will have a few options. Select "Recovery."
Then you should go to the screen w/ the EVO and the /!\ on it.
Connect the phone to your pc and run the "recovery-windows.bat" file. Step #8 from the recovery section of the 1st post.

Let me know if that works.

ratman24 06-07-2010 09:22 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
:toothy7:And thx again for ur help:toothy7:

FastRX8 06-07-2010 09:31 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ratman24 (Post 1799978)
:toothy7:And thx again for ur help:toothy7:

No problem.

Now update your device info :razz:

BlackDynamite 06-07-2010 09:48 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by FastRX8 (Post 1799954)
I just talked to ratman24 on the phone and got him squared away.

Here's what I had him do;

Power off the phone. Hold "Down Volume" while you power the phone back on.
The screen that appears will have a few options. Select "Recovery."
Then you should go to the screen w/ the EVO and the /!\ on it.
Connect the phone to your pc and run the "recovery-windows.bat" file. Step #8 from the recovery section of the 1st post.

Let me know if that works.

The bat file runs and then just disappears. My phone screen stays on the /!\ screen indefinitely. I had to take the battery out to get out of that screen.

EDIT:
I did install the OTA update. Do you think the OTA update kills the recovery?

FastRX8 06-07-2010 10:15 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg (Post 1800044)
The bat file runs and then just disappears. My phone screen stays on the /!\ screen indefinitely. I had to take the battery out to get out of that screen.

EDIT:
I did install the OTA update. Do you think the OTA update kills the recovery?

I might be wrong here, but if you can get to the recovery screen, you're rooted. Which means the OTA shouldn't be affecting anything.

BlackDynamite 06-07-2010 11:03 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by FastRX8 (Post 1800106)
I might be wrong here, but if you can get to the recovery screen, you're rooted. Which means the OTA shouldn't be affecting anything.

What normally happens when it recovers properly? My bat file runs, then disappears, and my phone just stays on the recovery screen...

madoc 06-07-2010 11:11 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg (Post 1800192)
What normally happens when it recovers properly? My bat file runs, then disappears, and my phone just stays on the recovery screen...

^^me too^^

I am a bit leery of trying to install a custom until I get this squared away. Not a super big deal, phone is great as is, but someday I might get bored.

imneveral0ne 06-08-2010 12:14 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
I'm stuck in the same spot, it just stays there. i open the file, it pops up for a second and goes away. and now when i turn my phone on, and try to sync the phone, it doesnt even try anymore, it didnt do this until i tried to get recovery working. i had no trouble with getting recovery to work on my hero :-\

p-slim 06-08-2010 12:27 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
all you guys trying to get recovery working do understand this is not a sticky recovery (yet) Everytime you want to access recovery mode you will have to use adb to boot to recovery, then use that bat file once that red triangle pops up.

imneveral0ne 06-08-2010 12:38 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
yeah, so i'd like to know that if i wanna do this, it will work.

after trying to get this recovery to work, my computer doesn't recognize my phone at all :-\

p-slim 06-08-2010 12:55 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by imneveral0ne (Post 1801309)
yeah, so i'd like to know that if i wanna do this, it will work.

after trying to get this recovery to work, my computer doesn't recognize my phone at all :-\

Is adb able to recognize your phone before recovery?

BlackDynamite 06-08-2010 01:01 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by imneveral0ne (Post 1801309)
yeah, so i'd like to know that if i wanna do this, it will work.

after trying to get this recovery to work, my computer doesn't recognize my phone at all :-\

Mine didn't try to sync anymore either either until I rebooted the computer. Now it's back to business as usual.

Maybe that recovery is just compatible with the unrevoked method (or at least on phones that nstalled the OTA).

imneveral0ne 06-08-2010 01:21 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
well i did the unrevoked method, but i decided to go ahead and do toasts method. i'm stuck here:

"6) When you select bootloader, it will show you more options. Don't pick anything at this time, just wait. It will read your storage card. This takes about 30secs and there is a progress bar on the top right. It's reading the PC36IMG.zip file you placed on the card."

its been sitting here for 5 minutes and its not asking me anything about updating or anything.

any sugestions?

EDIT: i coppied everything to my 8 gig card that they gave me, and now the rooting part is working, weird...

clockcycle 06-08-2010 02:06 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by yang704 (Post 1794537)
Here is your answer. hacking and distribute idea are illegal........... Click the link if you think I'm kidding http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Tw...gslist-706397/

I guess ppcg, xda-devs and all of the hacking/tweaking/customizing communities are in trouble eh?

BTW, what does rooting; giving yourself superuser/administrator access to your own phone have to do with "Selling Pirated Software on Craigslist"?

-CC

p-slim 06-08-2010 02:08 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by yang704 (Post 1794537)
Here is your answer. hacking and distribute idea are illegal........... Click the link if you think I'm kidding http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Tw...gslist-706397/

dude they were selling pirated software, you don't think thats illegal? you didn't have to post this. they didn't get arrested for making cabs and roots, lol. what they were doing is extremely illegal and should be common sense.

blazin-asian 06-08-2010 03:31 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
1 Attachment(s)
im another user having trouble with the "windows-recovery.bat" portion. i ran command prompt with admin rights, ran the adb recovery command and got to the screen with red triangle and exclamation point.

i have rooted using unrevoked as well and attached is the error i get when trying to run "windows-recovery.bat"

am i missing something?

BlackDynamite 06-08-2010 03:47 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Okay, so I guess the question is:
Has anyone actually been successful with the recovery if they rooted using the unrevoked method, on a device that has the OTA update? I'm seeing a lot of people that couldn't get it to work (me being one of them). I am seeing people say it worked for them, but I haven't seen anyone specify that they were using the unrevoked method on a device that has the OTA installed.

FastRX8 06-08-2010 04:01 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by blazin-asian (Post 1801729)
im another user having trouble with the "windows-recovery.bat" portion. i ran command prompt with admin rights, ran the adb recovery command and got to the screen with red triangle and exclamation point.

i have rooted using unrevoked as well and attached is the error i get when trying to run "windows-recovery.bat"

am i missing something?

I got that same error last night on my wife's phone. Her phone had not been rooted yet.
Just to see what would happen, I did the OTA and used unrevoked on her phone.
When I tried to go to recovery, I had the same issue.
I disconnected the phone, rebooted the pc, then connected the phone using HTC Sync and tried the .bat file again and it worked.
Then I was able to flash OMJ's rom.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg (Post 1801766)
Okay, so I guess the question is:
Has anyone actually been successful with the recovery if they rooted using the unrevoked method, on a device that has the OTA update? I'm seeing a lot of people that couldn't get it to work (me being one of them). I am seeing people say it worked for them, but I haven't seen anyone specify that they were using the unrevoked method on a device that has the OTA installed.

I did it last night. The truth is, it's probably easier just to downgrade.
Basically you flash the latest signed rom, then you flash the original signed rom. Then you're back to square 1. Just follow my directions afterwards.

FYI - I'm recording a video of this process. Will be up later tonight hopefully.

BlackDynamite 06-08-2010 04:09 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by FastRX8 (Post 1801807)
FYI - I'm recording a video of this process. Will be up later tonight hopefully.

A video is exactly what we need. That would be very much appreciated...

blazin-asian 06-08-2010 04:20 PM

Re: Rooting and Flashing EVO Instructions for super n00b's on PC's
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by FastRX8 (Post 1801807)
I got that same error last night on my wife's phone. Her phone had not been rooted yet.
Just to see what would happen, I did the OTA and used unrevoked on her phone.
When I tried to go to recovery, I had the same issue.
I disconnected the phone, rebooted the pc, then connected the phone using HTC Sync and tried the .bat file again and it worked.
Then I was able to flash OMJ's rom.

i just tried it again. i forgot to mention that i was connected using HTC Sync the whole time. im still getting the device not found error. im looking forward to your video and flashing this thing for the first time!


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