All Evo Froyo 2.2 "is it rooted yet" talk [solved] - Page 3

nico4k · #1 (**permalink**) 08-12-2010, 01:05 PM

i dont understand why is it so hard to load a copy of the original RUU of 2.1 that came with the phone and then follow the instructions root...is this not possible with android? (i mean, i did this with Windows Mobile all the time, even on the HD2)...somebody correct me if I'm Wrong on this...

cddmh · #2 (**permalink**) 08-14-2010, 09:47 AM

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What I don't understand and maybe someone can explain this. You have root access with roms running Froyo, and you update to a yet unrootable Rom with the same stuff. I came to Android from WM and I am learning.

edufur · #3 (**permalink**) 08-15-2010, 04:27 PM

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What I don't understand and maybe someone can explain this. You have root access with roms running Froyo, and you update to a yet unrootable Rom with the same stuff. I came to Android from WM and I am learning.

I'm new too.. but I think it boils down to the fact that you have to have once been able to root in order to get a custom recovery image on there (similar to multi-boot OS loader on a computer) and then with that recovery selector, you pick a rom... and those ROMs would have the additional root power baked in. But without that OS loader, you are out of luck. I may be wrong here, but I think that's essentially it. And for those of us who are presently on the unexploited 2.2, we cant modify the recovery image selector. So, we cannot load rooted roms.

jpwhre · #4 (**permalink**) 08-15-2010, 06:59 PM

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I'm new too.. but I think it boils down to the fact that you have to have once been able to root in order to get a custom recovery image on there (similar to multi-boot OS loader on a computer) and then with that recovery selector, you pick a rom... and those ROMs would have the additional root power baked in. But without that OS loader, you are out of luck. I may be wrong here, but I think that's essentially it. And for those of us who are presently on the unexploited 2.2, we cant modify the recovery image selector. So, we cannot load rooted roms.

about dead on. stock 2.2 guys have to wait for root. unrevooked (spell checker don't know this one) forever might get you started, user input would be required for further info. (rooted already can't help)

**00_MACKIE_00** · #5 (**permalink**) 08-15-2010, 11:20 PM

So if you do the OTA to 2.2 , you can just flash back to the 2.1 shipped rom and root from there?

edufur · #6 (**permalink**) 08-15-2010, 11:27 PM

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So if you do the OTA to 2.2 , you can just flash back to the 2.1 shipped rom and root from there?

No. You cannot flash back to 2.1 unless you had previously rooted and changed the recovery partition. So once again... if you accepted the OTA as it was, it destroyed root and locked you down... and it probably over-wrote the recovery partition... which means even those who were rooted before it were out of business.

Basically, the only way to have survived was to NOT take the OTA but rather to wait for someone to extract the image out of the OTA file... where they then rooted it up (not sure how) and then take the modified OTA image. But.... unless you waited and did it that way... you are out of luck until someone exploits 2.2

It will be a long wait I think. Longer than the wait for FroYo itself.

**clockcycle** · #7 (**permalink**) 08-16-2010, 11:18 AM

Are we there yet?

edufur · #8 (**permalink**) 08-16-2010, 02:34 PM

I am betting that by the time the 2.2 root exploit comes, we will see Gingerbread come out which will close that exploit as well... taking out another 50% or so of the exploiters... unless we learned out lessons... lol.

pbrussell · #9 (**permalink**) 08-16-2010, 04:21 PM

You know its also a possibility that they have successfully exploited 2.2 already and just are waiting for gingerbread to come out to release it so we will not only be able to root 2.2, but gingerbread as well.......i mean it would make sence to hold off on the release so that when gbread comes out the deva won't have to deal with the new era of evo-ers SOL bc they upgraded b4 the gbread was routed!!

**amw1972** · #10 (**permalink**) 08-17-2010, 01:35 AM

I'm curious to ask...for those who accepted the 2.2 upgrade from Sprint/HTC...why do it IF you already had full root?

Knowing that AOSP will be released soon after as with the source coming from HTC??

I know lots of folks were in a hurry to get at Froyo...there were MORE than a few alternatives out there...damned good ones too (Avalaunch's V and X series come to mind...)

This reminds me of the whole 6.1 to 6.5 adventures in WM...by the time 6.5 OFFICIALLY released to the devices...most of us geekers were already running some form of 6.5.3.

I stayed out of any official updates from Sprint since their stock ROMs have always been somewhat buggy. I decided to stay rooted...and flashed updated radios, kernals, and of course ROMs. Only thing I think I'm missing is 4G...not being in a 4G market really doesn't impact me at all...

of course this doesn't cover those that got their device AFTER the update...and they are in that root waiting game