How-To Full Root of Evo 4G on Mac

[cd5love96]

OO EMM GEEE I finally did it. Holy crap. I'm exhausted it was harder than I thought because I had to keep telling it to go back to ./adb. That's what I get for closing terminal after every try. Nice write up

Now that it's all said and done. How do I verify it's rooted? Am I supposed to see a special icon in the apps?

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

OO EMM GEEE I finally did it. Holy crap. I'm exhausted it was harder than I thought because I had to keep telling it to go back to ./adb. That's what I get for closing terminal after every try. Nice write up

Now that it's all said and done. How do I verify it's rooted? Am I supposed to see a special icon in the apps?

connect to your mac
open terminal
cd android-sdk-mac/tools
./adb shell

you should get a # which is root. If you weren't rooted, you'd get $
root does nothing more than give you access to /system/ on the phone. We needed this in order to flash a new recovery image (which would be another way to verify root). Now you can run custom ROMs, delete bloatware, run root only apps like wifi tether....

 

[cd5love96]

Ok. I verified that I'm rooted.

Does this allow me to remove apps from within the OS or do I have to be in recovery?

How do I remove bloatware?

 

[trooper54]

the easiest way would be to flash the RvU ROM, its built in permissions let you do a simple uninstall many of the bloatware apps. Details listed in the thread. Other wise you have to do it manually, and carefully not to delete anything you don't know.

 

[cd5love96]

What is RvU? I'm on XDA and just signed up here to post on this thread. I don't want to flash any roms yet but I wanted to remove some bloatware. I'll wait until later to flash.

 

[everfine]

I'm stuck and getting this for part 2 step 2:


./adb shell
# cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
/sdcard/flash_image: No such file or directory

 

[trooper54]

What is RvU? I'm on XDA and just signed up here to post on this thread. I don't want to flash any roms yet but I wanted to remove some bloatware. I'll wait until later to flash.

you will have to delete manually then, theres a thread above in sticky i think that titles removing bloat ware =)

 

[everfine]

After 3 days I have full root and recovery of my EVO. Thank you Rufflez

 

[KSmithInNY]

How do I remove bloatware?

HERE

 

[edbtzy]

i need help!!!

i did the last part but when i typed in "reboot recovery" im stuck oon the screen with the exclamation point!!!


EDIT: I think i got it working...

 

[JOHNGAETANO]

Why am I getting this error??
./adb shell
adb server is out of date. killing...

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Try closing out terminal and restarting it. type:
cd android-sdk-mac/tools
./adb devices

see if you get you device listed again.

 

[JOHNGAETANO]

I have tried this at least 30 times, and every time I try and boot the PC36img, I get the error "Main version is older". I have every PC36img file off my sdcard. No zip files, just the one PC36img.zip.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Then the step to allow downgrade didn't work, repeat that part in Part 1.

 

[todivefor]

I am an Android newbie, but I am getting no where with this. Installed the SDK, attached phone selected as disk), turned on USB debugging. I get the disk icon (as No Name) on my Mac desktop. When I do ./adb devices, I get listing devices and then nothing. What am I missing?

Never mind, just tried it again and it worked.

 

[tdoshi9]

ok so when i get to the cd desktop/evo-recovery/recovery-mac.sh i get this

"EVO Recovery Mode

Pushing required files to device...

Password:"

what do i type and how do i do this? i can't seem to get this to work... and i am sorry for being a newbie on this subject!

 

[mhespenh]

I already have partial root (everthing but NAND)- am I correct to assume I can start at part 1 step 4? I've been using Clockwork recovery, can I use that for Part 1 step 4 and beyond, or do I need to use the recovery you're using in the guide?

 

[todivefor]

I am an Android newbie, but I am getting no where with this. Installed the SDK, attached phone (selected as disk), turned on USB debugging. I get the disk icon (as No Name) on my Mac desktop. When I do ./adb devices, I get listing devices and then nothing. What am I missing?

Never mind, just tried it again and it worked.

I am back to getting nothing in the list for ./adb devices. Is the order important for turning on USB debugging? If I turn it on after connecting device, I get an error from OSX that the device was not ejected before removing. I am missing something here?

Edit: something flakey is happening with my USB port on Mac. If I plug it in the back, I never get the EVO recognized as disk by Mac. If I plug it in on the left keyboard USB, it is recognized by Mac, but ./adb devices shows an empty list. If I plug it in on right keyboard USB, everything works.

2.5 yr old iMac, running 10.6.4

 

[as4life]

Can't wait to try this. Just waiting for a Froyo build with a working camera

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

FYI, don't mount the SD card. It will not work because you need to send files to it through adb push and it thinks its unmounted.