Full Root On Mac OS X

[touch_rules]

With "My Backup" you can backup your current 7 home pages, not all of your different scenes.

When you follow the tutorial above, you will be installing a rooted version of the stock rom or a custom rom, your choice

I believe the differences with not full and full root are the fact that you can have a recovery file, do a nandbackup/restore, and have full adb (or command line access) to the root of the OS

Nand backup and restore is an awesome way to restore your phone back to the exact way you backed it up, as if you never put a custom rom on it or anything. It is basically an image of your drive in windows speak. Kind of like what Ghost used to do.

What you do is get your phone set up exactly the way you like it and running perfectly and then do a nand backup. Once this is done, start flashing custom roms all you want and if you want to you can always return to old faithful without any hiccups via nand restore.

Hope this helps. I'm about to dive in, I'm on my mac now.

[hotspace]

Guys...I am a Mac user also. I don't think you'll be able to fully root your device. There is something in the process that absolutely requires windows. I'm just throwing my .02 into the pot. I could be wrong....but I don't think I am.

[hotspace]

I googled it and came up with this

http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g-roms-hacks/17766-how-full-root-evo-4g-mac.html

I hate to link to another forum....

[touch_rules]

Originally Posted by hotspace

Guys...I am a Mac user also. I don't think you'll be able to fully root your device. There is something in the process that absolutely requires windows. I'm just throwing my .02 into the pot. I could be wrong....but I don't think I am.

You need windows to be able to install HTC Sync and therefore get nand access. I believe you can do steps 1-35 on a mac, but then you need a windows pc.

[rydah805]

We should find a way to get all mac and Droid users to bug HTC for a mac sync app. How's it going in your mac so far?

Sent From My HTC Evo Using Tapatalk!

[rydah805]

ive tried the mac solution posted above.
only got to finish pt 1.
on part 2 i only was able to finish nand back up. any help?

[touch_rules]

Ok, I finally have success but let me tell you, it wasn't easy.

Here are a couple of notes:

1. When you download the files to your mac, it will try to unzip them and that messes the files up.

2. I was able to compress the pc36img.zip file and was able to get that part to work.

3. I was unable to do the same for the update.zip and the stock rooted image .zip file.

4. I ended up setting up google, going in to the market, and downloaded Astro file manager.

5. I then downloaded the 2 files I needed directly to the phone from the two sites listed.

6. I then renamed whatever needed to be renamed from within Astro file manager and moved them both to the root of my sd card using Astro file manager.

7. Everything worked fine after that.

8. I then downloaded Titanium to restore my apps and was prompted with the phone was not rooted.

9. I continued in to the program anyway and did the busy box download again.

10. Now it went through without any errors (in other words I was rooted)

11. When I restored my apps I purposely unchecked "unrevoked" as we only needed that to be able to use Titanium and the phone was completely rooted at this point.

12. I restored everything else using "My Backup" and now I am just changing my settings back to the way I want them.

Now I will get everything perfect, go on my windows pc and do the nand backup portion and then I will start putting custom roms on this a little later tonight or tomorrow.

Hope this all helps.

[touch_rules]

I'm on my windows pc and am now going to complete the rest of this.

[touch_rules]

Originally Posted by touch_rules

I'm on my windows pc and am now going to complete the rest of this.

Wow, that was intense but otherwise no problem. Definitely needed to be done on a windows pc for the Nand stuff.

[rydah805]

since i got as far as to the point of nand backed up, can i finish the rest on pc?