STOP!! STOP!! If you got your EVO in November or After Don't root until you read!

[cruise350]

First off this needs to be stickied because all of the new Evo owners are bricking their phones.

If you have a new Evo you need to use an alternative method to root your phone!! The old methods and UNREVOKED will brick your phone. Here is what you need to know first.

#1 Software Version: You find this by going into menu/settings/about phone/software info, if you have software 3.30.651.2 or later you can't root using the old method or UNREVOKED.

#2 Hboot Version: You find this by powering down you phone, then while continuing to hold down the volume down button hit the power button. Your phone will load the bootloader and look for the line that says Hboot. If your Hboot version is 2.02 you can't root using the old method or UNREVOKED.

#3 Hardware Version: You find this by going into menu/settings/about phone/hardware info, if you have hardware version 004 or hardware version 003 and software version 3.30.651.2 or newer you can't root using the old method or UNREVOKED. This will break your camera and probably boot you into an endless boot loop. The newer phones have new camera hardware and require the 3.30 software to run and the old method of rooting takes you back to a much earlier version of the software preventing your phone from loading the required drivers thus boot looping and bricking of the phone.

#4 Hardware Version(a): Some of the Version 004 phones are coming with the older software of 3.29.651.#. This means they don't have the alternate camera hardware and can be rooted with UNREVOKED 3.21 and probably the old root method. The key is to check your Hboot, if its 2.02 then use the alternate method.

Now, that you have this information and realized you can't use the old method or UNREVOKED go here and use this method. It should work for you.

[ROOT][GUIDE] HBoot 2.02 S-OFF - Like a Boss Edition! - Updated 11/20/10 - xda-developers

I am not responsible if you brick your phone but this method has worked for everyone with the newer phones. Don't go into rooting blindly, ask questions first so you don't brick your phone. Lets all root safely and enjoy the power of the EVO.

Please Sticky this to save future EVO owners.

[itzdjwonton]

wish this was posted last night lol.

[lkillen]

there is a lot of information about the new HBoot. It has come to a point where you cannot find a root procedure without encountering it. Since all rooting requires a degree of knoweledge of your phone and several procedures, I don't think this clarion call is necessary.

[elefntkpr]

I used this method on my HW v.0003 Evo a few weeks ago and it worked great. Just follow his instructions carefully.

[jejb]

Thank you so much for mentioning this in my first post last weekend about buying an Evo! I agree this should be pinned.

[djqwikcut]

I just rooted a friends 0004 evo with a special method I found on xda. A couple of downloads and some commands and we were golden.
Sent from my EVO4G using Tapatalk.

[caleb02]

Originally Posted by cruise350

First off this needs to be stickied because all of the new Evo owners are bricking their phones.

If you have a new Evo you need to use an alternative method to root your phone!! The old methods and UNREVOKED will brick your phone. Here is what you need to know first.

#1 Software Version: You find this by going into menu/settings/about phone/software info, if you have software 3.30.651.2 or later you can't root using the old method or UNREVOKED.

#2 Hboot Version: You find this by powering down you phone, then while continuing to hold down the volume down button hit the power button. Your phone will load the bootloader and look for the line that says Hboot. If your Hboot version is 2.02 you can't root using the old method or UNREVOKED.

#3 Hardware Version: You find this by going into menu/settings/about phone/hardware info, if you have hardware version 004 or hardware version 003 and software version 3.30.651.2 or newer you can't root using the old method or UNREVOKED. This will break your camera and probably boot you into an endless boot loop. The newer phones have new camera hardware and require the 3.30 software to run and the old method of rooting takes you back to a much earlier version of the software preventing your phone from loading the required drivers thus boot looping and bricking of the phone.

Now, that you have this information and realized you can't use the old method or UNREVOKED go here and use this method. It should work for you.

[ROOT][GUIDE] HBoot 2.02 S-OFF - Like a Boss Edition! - Updated 11/20/10 - xda-developers

I am not responsible if you brick your phone but this method has worked for everyone with the newer phones. Don't go into rooting blindly, ask questions first so you don't brick your phone. Lets all root safely and enjoy the power of the EVO.

Please Sticky this to save future EVO owners.

i think you are missing something with the hardware versions and the software versions. I purchased a Evo from Best Buy on Nov 5 2010. I has:

hardware version 0004
software versiion 3.29.651.5

So you state that version 4 has software 3.30.651.2. So how is it i have a version 4 hardware and older software of 3.29.651.5?

Here are my screen shots...

[erockvr6]

i bought my evo mid november, its HW 0004, my HBOOT was not 2.02, i had the latest OTA software update and i rooted my evo fine with unrevoked. from what i understand only the HBOOT matters, the exploit in the old HBOOT was patched with 2.02

[cruise350]

Originally Posted by caleb02

i think you are missing something with the hardware versions and the software versions. I purchased a Evo from Best Buy on Nov 5 2010. I has:

hardware version 0004
software versiion 3.29.651.5

So you state that version 4 has software 3.30.651.2. So how is it i have a version 4 hardware and older software of 3.29.651.5?

Here are my screen shots...

I thought I covered that in my post where it said hardware version 004 or 003 and software version 3.30.651.2 or newer. Apparently you missed that but I am surprised that a version 004 phone didn't have the newer software so I added a #4 to clarify that so thanks of adding that info.

[cruise350]

Originally Posted by erockvr6

i bought my evo mid november, its HW 0004, my HBOOT was not 2.02, i had the latest OTA software update and i rooted my evo fine with unrevoked. from what i understand only the HBOOT matters, the exploit in the old HBOOT was patched with 2.02

I'm confused, you had 3.30.651.2 or newer and you rooted with unrevoked? You must have gotten lucky then or unrevoked finally updated their hack. I know that Hboot 2.02 is the biggest hurdle with rooting the newer phones that come with that and that is the main reason for the post. There have been so many others messing up their phones that have tried to root the traditional method when their phone came with 3.30.651.2. No one else received the OTA to 3.30.651.3 unless their phone came with 3.30 already. Anyone with an EVO on 3.29.651.5 did not get an OTA to 3.30 unless they were running a custom rom that incorporated it. 3.30 was only for the EVOs that had the new camera hardware, but works fine on older EVOs using it with custom roms.