new to rooting and wifi hotspot

[MzDonna]

I just bought a sprint HTC 4G phone. My job requires me to be out for extended periods without internet access, so I want to make my phone a hotspot. I have viewed many tutorials online but being the newbie I am they make no sense, is there a tutorial that someone could suggest that would help me root, and install a tethering app that wont completely confuse me? [-o<

[Karl]

did you read this one
[ROOT] EVO 4G Gingerbread 2.3 Root Tutorial - xda-developers

once you get root you can download tether app from the market

[MzDonna]

actually I did, and as I said previously I am a total newbie.. I was lost at.. copy to your root of SD card. I dont even know how to do that ...

[gullzway]

Originally Posted by MzDonna

actually I did, and as I said previously I am a total newbie.. I was lost at.. copy to your root of SD card. I dont even know how to do that ...

That just means put the file on your SD Card, not in a subfolder!
Plug the phone into your PC and use as USB storage to copy the file to the phone.

[getyourmindright]

Not to hijack my fellow thread poster, but with the changes sprint has made to the data plans is it safe to assume that if you root and download the wifi tether app will you avoid their caps on data usage?

[KIOWA69]

Originally Posted by MzDonna

I just bought a sprint HTC 4G phone. My job requires me to be out for extended periods without internet access, so I want to make my phone a hotspot. I have viewed many tutorials online but being the newbie I am they make no sense, is there a tutorial that someone could suggest that would help me root, and install a tethering app that wont completely confuse me? [-o<

well unfortunately we were all new at one time, and it just takes time and a lot of reading to get comfortable with this stuff, so what I would suggest is you read those links that were posted and also get on youtube and watch some video's of people rooting their phone, just do a search for your phone, i.e. how to root evo 4g.

Originally Posted by getyourmindright

Not to hijack my fellow thread poster, but with the changes sprint has made to the data plans is it safe to assume that if you root and download the wifi tether app will you avoid their caps on data usage?

Your best bet is to root the phone and use a custom rom that removes all that stuff that Sprint puts on the phone and then feel free to tether and use hotspot, I wouldn't worry to much unless you are roaming and using a lot of data and voice, just got a letter from Sprint complaining that I used over 300mb of roaming data in a month.

[fixxxer2012]

root your phone and use the wifitether app. if you do a google search you will find it.

[rootlinux]

We have several great roms here.

MikG3.0
Tommy's Classic

The first two are Sense roms and will be like your stock device on mega steroids.

Swiper MIUI ( Looks a lot like iphone but with widgets)

And several more..
Try them all and see what you like.

No one can say what is best because we all have different tastes.

I personally run them all.

[rootlinux]

Originally Posted by getyourmindright

Thanks for the help, I have rooted once or twice before but unrooted because I didn't want to wait for the updates sprint was pushing out, like the last one that removed that tracking software and I guess I was trying to hold out to see if some one was going to cook up a ICS rom, but I may just go ahead and do it now. Sprint is trippin

I will check and see if I can get an ics rom here for you.

[getyourmindright]

Originally Posted by rootlinux

I will check and see if I can get an ics rom here for you.

That would be stupendous