[GUIDE] Rooting 3.7/Hboot2.02+ w/screen shots (1/27/2011)

[2CupsWithString]

One question, would I be able to tether (sp) using this root method?

Yes you can.

 

[wlc108]

I just want to say.. Thumbs Up for this guide. I tried a one-click-solution before (AutoRoot) and it failed to root my phone. I was stuck with an unbootable phone and finally found a way to get it back to stock. Since it was all automated I had no clue what it was doing or why it failed.

I used that method because I couldn't find a step-by-step way. I decided to follow this guide (and I know what I'm doing when it comes to computers) and made sure each step completed successfully. It worked flawlessly. Thanks

 

[digitalkarma]

this is probably a pointless question.. i've got all the necessary files from this thread but i'm not ready to root it just yet. if i just wanted to go into command prompt and enter those commands just for the heck of it without my phone being connected, will those files be altered? i just wanted to get used to it first before actually proceeding with the real operation.

 

[2CupsWithString]

this is probably a pointless question.. i've got all the necessary files from this thread but i'm not ready to root it just yet. if i just wanted to go into command prompt and enter those commands just for the heck of it without my phone being connected, will those files be altered? i just wanted to get used to it first before actually proceeding with the real operation.

No they won't be and you'll get an error message as well because no device will be connected.

& Welcome to AC!

 

[2CupsWithString]

I just want to say.. Thumbs Up for this guide. I tried a one-click-solution before (AutoRoot) and it failed to root my phone. I was stuck with an unbootable phone and finally found a way to get it back to stock. Since it was all automated I had no clue what it was doing or why it failed.

I used that method because I couldn't find a step-by-step way. I decided to follow this guide (and I know what I'm doing when it comes to computers) and made sure each step completed successfully. It worked flawlessly. Thanks

Welcome to AC! I'm glad you found the guide helpful.

 

[dooboo]

After following this guide, when everything is complete, do I need to back up? If so, how do I do the back up?

And maybe dumb question, when "back up", what am I really backing up?

 

[2CupsWithString]

After following this guide, when everything is complete, do I need to back up? If so, how do I do the back up?

And maybe dumb question, when "back up", what am I really backing up?

You can create a nandroid, which is an image of all your partitions. You can do this in a program called Rom Manager, just open it up after you're all done and go to backup current ROM. It'll save it to the sdcard and be available to restore through rom manager or through recovery.

*You may need to install ClockworkMod recovery, which you can do from ROM Manager as well. I suggest version 2.6.0.1

 

[digitalkarma]

i finally got around to unzipping it. however, i got all the files mentioned except for rommanager apk. do i need to redownload the zip? thanks for the help.

 

[igotsanevo4g]

i finally got around to unzipping it. however, i got all the files mentioned except for rommanager apk. do i need to redownload the zip? thanks for the help.

You can get rom manager from the market.

 

[digitalkarma]

i see. thanks again.

ziktronix mentions he included in the zip folder Amon Ra Recovery and goes on to say Clockwork Mod is unstable so he recommends using Amon Ra. so does that mean using Rom Manager is irrelevant and i could just use Amon Ra in the rooting process? and which folder is Amon Ra located in zip folder?

 

[n4mrc]

I would like to add my thanks for this guide.

I am not (yet) interested in doing a full root, but I did want to use WiFi Tether. I had been looking for some solid reliable information on how to temp root my Evo. There are so many conflicting posts out there that it was really hard to sort through it all. This guide was clear, easy to understand, and the picture of the software version screen at the top is #1! I knew this was what I had been looking for since all the version numbers in that picture matched what was in my Evo.

To achieve temp root on my Evo I did EVERYTHING EXACTLY the way the guide said to do it down to the point where z4root indicated that the temp root was successful WITH THE EXCEPTION OF STEP # 1 (I did not want to wipe my phone so I skipped step # 1). The install of z4root failed the first time I tried it but I rebooted the phone (power off/on) and tried it again. The second attempt worked exactly like the example picture in the guide.

I now have WiFi Tether working and I just completed my first Titanuim Backup.

If you are a Android noob (like me) and you have tried z4root on the Evo before and failed, give this guide a try. Based on things I have read on a bunch of other posts, if rebooting does not help, you may have to uninstall some apps and/or do step 1 in this guide (factory reset) to get z4root to work, but it definitely does work.

Thanks again for the great info. If/when I decide to do a full root, I will be using this guide.

 

[digitalkarma]

help

i'm stuck at direction 6A

mkdir /sdcard/nandroid
mkdir /sdcard/nandroid/RSA-PR-BACKUP


it says mkdir failed, but back up exists.

 

[2CupsWithString]

i'm stuck at direction 6A

mkdir /sdcard/nandroid
mkdir /sdcard/nandroid/RSA-PR-BACKUP


it says mkdir failed, but back up exists.

What do you mean back up exists?

 

[digitalkarma]

i checked my rsa keys, its in my sdcard.

now i'm at the screen with the red triangle. i enter adb push recovery but it says device offline. where do i go from here?

 

[31794ty]

I connected my phone so i could look at the sd card after I installed htc sync. Is this a problem?

Nevermind. I just uninstalled and reinstalled it.

 

[31794ty]

Never mind I got it to work.

 

[digitalkarma]

after attempting to root, here's what i observed:

after the screen with the red-triangle, i took my battery out, put it back in. i went into hboot mode and said yes to update pc3600.zip, then i went into recovery mode. while i'm doing this, S-ON isn't S-OFF..so i didn't root it. the screen goes from HTC EVO logo back to screen with the red-triangle again.

however, when i take the battery out, put it back in and power it on like normal - instead of the Sprint Splash Screen, i now have the HTC Quietly Brilliant Splash Screen. now it works like it normally does, but i notice some changes. my 3G on the status bar looks bolder. some of the sounds are different. for example when i turn down the ringer on the volume rocker. i got apps like CIQ Tools, Dev Tools, HTC SSD Test, Wiimax Router/Settings. The Firmware Ver. on this is 2.1-update1 and Software is 1.17

when i turn it off like normal, it shuts off, but i can't power it back on. i have to take the battery out and repeat the process if i want to use my phone..

so can someone explain to me what just happened? i know i didn't root it, but at the same time my phone isn't bricked. am i running a backup OS? i can still use the phone

 

[2CupsWithString]

after attempting to root, here's what i observed:

after the screen with the red-triangle, i took my battery out, put it back in. i went into hboot mode and said yes to update pc3600.zip, then i went into recovery mode. while i'm doing this, S-ON isn't S-OFF..so i didn't root it. the screen goes from HTC EVO logo back to screen with the red-triangle again.

however, when i take the battery out, put it back in and power it on like normal - instead of the Sprint Splash Screen, i now have the HTC Quietly Brilliant Splash Screen. now it works like it normally does, but i notice some changes. my 3G on the status bar looks bolder. some of the sounds are different. for example when i turn down the ringer on the volume rocker. i got apps like CIQ Tools, Dev Tools, HTC SSD Test, Wiimax Router/Settings. The Firmware Ver. on this is 2.1-update1 and Software is 1.17

when i turn it off like normal, it shuts off, but i can't power it back on. i have to take the battery out and repeat the process if i want to use my phone..

so can someone explain to me what just happened? i know i didn't root it, but at the same time my phone isn't bricked. am i running a backup OS? i can still use the phone

You only got to the point where you installed the HTC engineering software build.

You need to pickup at step 15 from the stock recovery.

 

[digitalkarma]

You only got to the point where you installed the HTC engineering software build.

You need to pickup at step 15 from the stock recovery.

thank you fred! sorry for bombarding you with all these questions. lol.

everything was smooth sailing right up until step 9 where it started throwing me for a loop.
i copied and paste: mkdir /sdcard/nandroid, and the prompt repeated the line back. then when i copied the 2nd one: mkdir /sdcard/nandroid/RSA-PR-BACKUP, then it started saying "mkdir failed. backup exist or file is there etc etc".
then i copied and paste the third line and it said the same thing. when that didn't work i tried copying all three lines at once and kept saying the same thing.

i got a little ahead of myself and started panicking when my command prompt didn't match the one shown in the thread. i've been looking back and forth for reference the whole time and making sure mine was exactly like it. looking back now i've noticed in the picture that you didn't put: "mkdir /sdcard/nandroid" in the prompt but rather "mkdir /sdcard/nandroid/RSA-PR-BACKUP" first and then the last one. so in the guide do you really only need to do two commands rather than three to back up RSA Keys?

also what's the significance of "sync" in step 11? does that need to be inputted in command prompt? i think what i also did wrong was: "./data/local/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img sync" i pasted sync together along with the 2nd line.

then when i tried the command: "reboot reloader", my phone didn't automatically reboot. i thought i had to manually power off the phone and go into hboot.

 

[2CupsWithString]

thank you fred! sorry for bombarding you with all these questions. lol.

everything was smooth sailing right up until step 9 where it started throwing me for a loop.
i copied and paste: mkdir /sdcard/nandroid, and the prompt repeated the line back. then when i copied the 2nd one: mkdir /sdcard/nandroid/RSA-PR-BACKUP, then it started saying "mkdir failed. backup exist or file is there etc etc".
then i copied and paste the third line and it said the same thing. when that didn't work i tried copying all three lines at once and kept saying the same thing.

i got a little ahead of myself and started panicking when my command prompt didn't match the one shown in the thread. i've been looking back and forth for reference the whole time and making sure mine was exactly like it. looking back now i've noticed in the picture that you didn't put: "mkdir /sdcard/nandroid" in the prompt but rather "mkdir /sdcard/nandroid/RSA-PR-BACKUP" first and then the last one. so in the guide do you really only need to do two commands rather than three to back up RSA Keys?

also what's the significance of "sync" in step 11? does that need to be inputted in command prompt? i think what i also did wrong was: "./data/local/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img sync" i pasted sync together along with the 2nd line.

then when i tried the command: "reboot reloader", my phone didn't automatically reboot. i thought i had to manually power off the phone and go into hboot.

No problem about the questions.

You're right, the original guided called for the backup directory to be made on one line, some people had problems with that so I split it up in to two lines. (I'll update the guide pointing this out, thanks!)

Sync is a linux command it just pushes out all stuff in memory to the disk, the command you ran ./data/local/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img sync, flashes the misc partition on the phone with older version information so you can downgrade the phone with the older PC36IMG.zip. I don't think that command has support for all of those switches, so it probably didn't do anything.

Were you in adb shell when you typed in reboot bootloader or did you type: "adb reboot bootloader" - both of those ways should work. Even non-rooted adb I believe should respond to reboot requests.