Hey i really would love to root my evo i just have no clue how with the new up date im worried ill mess things up by using an older way of rooting the phone. Could someone show me how to root my phone in a way that will work with 2.3.3? please
The only way is to downgrade,but there is always temp root but It's gone after a reboot
Shifted to the extreme, cause I rawk Supreme
Hey i really would love to root my evo i just have no clue how with the new up date im worried ill mess things up by using an older way of rooting the phone. Could someone show me how to root my phone in a way that will work with 2.3.3? please
Welcome to Android Central Strapped! lol
Check this thread for a "how to" STEP BY STEP HOWTO: root your phone, flash a rom (sense or AOSP), backup your phone - xda-developers
I have been talking about this with different folks on the Sprintusers.com site, and the argument is that, the Shift is a great phone, but came out at a bad time, where it didn't differentiate itself from some of the other more exciting phones that came out around it. That, coupled with the concept that users tend to gravitate towards, and write/hack for, the more exciting phones, means that there just hasn't been enough experienced attention to be devoted towards the Shift. So, apps such as "Gingerbreak" "Z4" and "Fr3vo" which are simple, push-button, turnkey solutions, won't even temp root a Shift running 2.3.3 and the writers are devoting no attention to the Shift, or similar devices, to make it work.
I'm not "nontechnical" but I consider it a major hoop jump to temp root by installing SDK files and tel-netting into my device, especially each time I reboot. If I had an app I could just activate each time I reboot, it wouldn't be a big deal.
I don't understand why no one who took the time to do it for other devices, will take the time to do it for the Shift. If anything, the Shift is actually better reviewed and benchmarks higher, than most of the devices of it's release time, including the EVO 4g. It deserves a LOT more attention than it gets and, if I knew how, I would have done it many months ago. But, I am willing to contribute to someone else if they will, and I'm sure many users feel the same.
When the Shift first came out we had a lot more dev support. Since the 3D release, we lost a lot of those developers. Even then we didn't have a "one click" root until months after root exploit was found. That being said, there is still lots of development for the Shift. Evident by the fact that I'm running ICS with twrp 2.0 recovery.
The temp root is achieved on 2.3 by using the fr3vo exploit, it's just not able to be used as an apk.. People have tried but without success. However Indirect created a script that will temp root your phone by running program on your pc.
[Updated!] Batch script to root the evo shift! Noob proof! - xda-developers
Part of the reason the Shift gets "no attention" for root methods, is because we already have one.. And it really isn't that difficult. Most phones (even the nexus, which is one of the easiest phones to root) requires you to have the Android SDK. Once that is set up its nothing more than pushing a couple of files.
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I downloaded the fre3atlast zip. I know it says "noob proof" but, what do I do? I looked for some kind of instructions and found none.
Will it work with a MAC or do I have to run it from a PC?
Thanks!
Just as an FYI, that batch script won't give yo S-Off and when I tried it I couldn't even achieve temp root.