Gonna pick up my Evo in an hour

[jonlee83]

ok i dont understand how to root the phone... it was alot easier with the tp2. Can anyone help? i live in the los angeles area

[yankees45us]

Originally Posted by jonlee83

ok i dont understand how to root the phone... it was alot easier with the tp2. Can anyone help? i live in the los angeles area

Depending on the version you have I would just use unrevoked. Its easy and reliable. When I got my evo I switched from a tp2 which I unlocked and had a custom rom on. I was a little hesitant at first but with unrevoked I did it easily and fast.


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[gullzway]

Originally Posted by jonlee83

ok i got the phone and its nice... I was going to wait for the LG optimus 2x to come out for sprint (if it ever did) and switch out my TP2 but i couldnt wait any longer. Now i got to root my phone. Anyone use video chat? if so what is the recommended or most commonly used one. I am using Qik right now...

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[leerage]

Since you just got the phone, I guarantee you have HBOOT 2.02 or 2.10. DON'T USE UNREVOKED. The current unrevoked will not work, and if it does... you probably just wiped out 4G.

You need to use this tutorial:

[ROOT][GUIDE] HBoot 2.02/2.10 SOFF - The Savior Edition - Upd. 12.26.10 - xda-developers

[yankees45us]

Originally Posted by leerage

Since you just got the phone, I guarantee you have HBOOT 2.02 or 2.10. DON'T USE UNREVOKED. The current unrevoked will not work, and if it does... you probably just wiped out 4G.

You need to use this tutorial:

[ROOT][GUIDE] HBoot 2.02/2.10 SOFF - The Savior Edition - Upd. 12.26.10 - xda-developers

Like he said. Check your hboot. If you want to root now and have the newer hboot you'll have to follow xda rooting guide or wait for unrevoked which just posted on twitter that they are almost done with the new version of unrevoked that works with the newest hboot and ota. Its your choice what you want to do depending on your hboot. Good luck.

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[jonlee83]

Hey guys thanks for the responses. I have Hboot 2.02 running 004 hardware. I will weight my options. I was reading up on the rooting from the thread here on PPC geeks for everything rooting and just didnt understand... Maybe my brain was fried or something but nothing was sinking in. Plus the link for the hboot 2.02 off was a dead link.

[mrtomaso]

dont bother rooting right away.

again, don't bother rooting right away.

I came over from a touch pro 2 as well. You WILL love your new phone. I still get excited thinking about how much better the evo is compared to the touch pro 2.


learn to use market. Understand how the android OS works. Learn about app2sd. You have a lot to learn, but it'll be worth it. Rooting your phone IS worth it, but there is not an immediate need to do so. It's not like the touch pro 2, where sprint stock is crap. The stock evo is a wonderful phone.

[jonlee83]

Originally Posted by mrtomaso

dont bother rooting right away.

again, don't bother rooting right away.

I came over from a touch pro 2 as well. You WILL love your new phone. I still get excited thinking about how much better the evo is compared to the touch pro 2.


learn to use market. Understand how the android OS works. Learn about app2sd. You have a lot to learn, but it'll be worth it. Rooting your phone IS worth it, but there is not an immediate need to do so. It's not like the touch pro 2, where sprint stock is crap. The stock evo is a wonderful phone.

Thanks. I downloaded the app2sd. I was hoping there was something like that. yea I will mess with the phone. still a lot of things I don't understand like apk and so on... I just noticed that my phone starts to lag a lot and I need to restart my phone. just typing this message is laggy and I have 3g and sometimes 4g where I am lying down right now. I use adv task killer but heard killing tasks is useless. is something wrong with my phone? i figured if i rooted my phone and installed custom Azrial ROM itll take care of this lag...

[jejb]

I'm also an X-TP user. I came over a month ago to the Evo, with the same HW and SW versions as you have. It is a change, that's for sure. It took me a lot of reading and re-reading the root thread over at XDA since the android terminology is so different than WinMo. But I got it done within the first couple of days. I wanted it done immediately so I could tether to my laptop as a modem. You can't do that without paying Sprint otherwise. And it works beautifully.

Anyway, here's a link to a post inside that XDA thread that may help. It's a more detailed step by step to complete the rooting. So same deal as the first post in that thread, just has more detail about how to do and where to get things. I wish that had been up before I rooted mine!

[yankees45us]

Originally Posted by jonlee83

Thanks. I downloaded the app2sd. I was hoping there was something like that. yea I will mess with the phone. still a lot of things I don't understand like apk and so on... I just noticed that my phone starts to lag a lot and I need to restart my phone. just typing this message is laggy and I have 3g and sometimes 4g where I am lying down right now. I use adv task killer but heard killing tasks is useless. is something wrong with my phone? i figured if i rooted my phone and installed custom Azrial ROM itll take care of this lag...

There should be no reason for your phone to be laggy. My evo is rooted but I still use stock rom. Only reason I rooted was for wifi tether. My phone only lags when I update my apps through the market and I update 4 or more at a time. I haven't had to reset my phone in months. You should see if you've installed an app that's making your phone laggy. Also I've heard that some evos get laggy when 4g is on. They say the latest ota update fixed that. Either way if your phone is still laggy after checking it out I would just hard reset and start from scratch. Hope you can figure out the problem.

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