[How-To]Windows -- root your HTC Evo and install Clockwork recovery

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Yes i did it and no help. I am getting realy frustrated. This phone isnt very fun with out a SD card. I wondered something the first ROM i flashed was Petes first BuglessBeast which did not have the Sprints OTA sd fix in it...would that have cause problems even moving forward now that i have a RvU 1.3.2??

I have to suggest you go with Saepak on this one. Back the whole way to the factory RUU then take the OTA and see if it still happens. If so, back to Sprint cause that ain't the same as the issue fixed in the OTA.

@gbhil
Thanks for the link in. Also are you going to sticky this sweet How-To. I am suggesting it. Thanks for the awesome info.

No problem. Like I said, holler if you think anything else needs stuck in that first post.

And PM Cory or another mod about the stickiness pls. I don't wanna sticky my own thread.

 

[Saepak]

I do understand that gbhil. Will PM Cory shortly.

 

[ToxMox]

Ok so I had RvU 1.3.2 installed then followed from Step 4 on of this tutorial then restored my ROM Manager backup from before I did step 4.

Now when I try to install or update from the market it just hangs at downloading and never goes anywhere. Tried wiping cache and clearing data for market to no avail.

Any suggestions?

 

[ToxMox]

Ok I got it fixed. I did a full backup with Titanium. Then did a data wipe.
Then I re-added my google accounts manually. Downloaded Titanium from the Market and did a restore from there. Few things I need to reconfigure but the market seems to be fixed.

 

[Ky1e.YC]

Part three - temp root and Rom Manager backup

Download the PC36IMG.zip file from here http://link.geekfor.me/rootedromzip and place it on your SD card. Don't put it inside any folders, just put it on your SD card.

Download the recovery tools from here http://link.geekfor.me/evorecovery and unzip the folder to your desktop.

Turn off your phone, and reboot it to the bootloader by holding volume down while turning it back on. Don't let go of the volume down button until you see three Androids on skateboards.

The bootloader will ask if you want to flash the image (the one you put on your card above). Say yes. Also say yes when it asks you to reboot after it's finished.

When your phone reboots, take the PC36IMG.zip file back off your SD card. Leaving it there will cause problems, so don;t skip this part.

Next download a custom ROM. I recommend RvU, cause it rocks. http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc...orking-4g-sync-fixed-rom-manager-support.html . Put it on your sd card, again -- not inside any other folders.

Plug your phone into your computer, and go back to your command prompt. At the prompt type in

adb reboot recovery

your phone will boot to a black screen that looks like this:

When you get to that point, open the evorecovery file you put on your desktop and double click the recovery-windows.bat file. This will reboot your phone again, to a different recovery -- the good kind.

Inside custom recovery, flash a zip from the sd card is what you're looking for. Select it, and choose the ROM you downloaded earlier, and flash it. When that's finished, reboot.

Go through the setup after the phone reboots, and don't worry -- we're backing all this part up so you won't have to do it again. Once your phone is all setup, download ROM Manager from the market. Run it, and follow directions to install clockwork recovery, then back up your current rom.

This is like gold. Keep that backup safe.

I have one question here to ask here. It seems you forgot to mention back NAND here. Is that necessary? I mean, what if i want to unroot, can I restore NAND at this point if i backup it?

 

[KSmithInNY]

I have one question here to ask here. It seems you forgot to mention back NAND here. Is that necessary? I mean, what if i want to unroot, can I restore NAND at this point if i backup it?

I recommend making a nand anytime you have to ask if its necessary lol. I have lots of nands on my SD card but i make a lot of tweaks

regarding the second question, you cant create or load a nand if you arent rooted so ...
1)restoring a nand wont unroot you (because you didnt make one until you were rooted)
2)If you unroot, you don't have access to restore a nand because you need root to get to that screen.

Hope that helps.

 

[vbsoulpole]

Has anyone else had issues flashing the updated radio? I finished the root process but when I try to flash the new radio it just won't take.

 

[KSmithInNY]

No problems here. Where did you download it from? My be a bad download, I got mine from geekfor.me.

Also what's making you think it didn't take? When you go to menu - settings - about phone - software information, what does your baseband show?

 

[Ky1e.YC]

I recommend making a nand anytime you have to ask if its necessary lol. I have lots of nands on my SD card but i make a lot of tweaks

regarding the second question, you cant create or load a nand if you arent rooted so ...
1)restoring a nand wont unroot you (because you didnt make one until you were rooted)
2)If you unroot, you don't have access to restore a nand because you need root to get to that screen.

Hope that helps.

Thanks man. i admire you guys work there. got some further questions here, hope you dont mind.

1. do you mind to explain a little bit about NAND restore? I mean, what situation or when i should restore NAND? I read there is some general instruction about root basics somewhere here, but still have a little bit confused.

2. about unroot, what I should is just run that exe file of RUU from xda-developer forum? even after i did full root?

3. Honestly, i m spending lot of time on learning how root lately, but i haven't done anything yet. I do concern if Sprint will ban our root phone in the future, u know, after all, root is similar to jailbreak. i just dont want to lose my only contact utility, or spend another $500 on replacing it b/c of root.

 

[vbsoulpole]

No problems here. Where did you download it from? My be a bad download, I got mine from geekfor.me.

Also what's making you think it didn't take? When you go to menu - settings - about phone - software information, what does your baseband show?

I got it from geekforme as well. And yeah I checked
the baseband and it didn't update.

 

[KSmithInNY]

Thanks man. i admire you guys work there. got some further questions here, hope you dont mind.

1. do you mind to explain a little bit about NAND restore? I mean, what situation or when i should restore NAND? I read there is some general instruction about root basics somewhere here, but still have a little bit confused.

2. about unroot, what I should is just run that exe file of RUU from xda-developer forum? even after i did full root?

3. Honestly, i m spending lot of time on learning how root lately, but i haven't done anything yet. I do concern if Sprint will ban our root phone in the future, u know, after all, root is similar to jailbreak. i just dont want to lose my only contact utility, or spend another $500 on replacing it b/c of root.

1. Well a nand restore can be helpful in lots of situations. I'll use an example that's near and dear to my heart and talk about removing a piece of bloatware. Lets say you followed my guide and got a little overzealous and deleted a bunch of apps and now are having major problems. Rather than flashing a ROM and starting over (which sometimes requires a full wipe) you just use the nand restore feature and your right back to where to started, assuming you made a nand backup, which i highly recommend before making any serious changes. Assuming your not going to be jumping around from ROM to ROM, and your not going to be making all sorts of fun tweaks, just get your phone setup exactly how you want it, make a good nand backup and you should be fine.

2. Yep, running the sprint official RUU will take you right back to stock. Imagine it as re-imaging your hard drive. It wipes the crap, and puts a fresh copy of windows on (in this case its obviously Android OS though lol )

3. This is my personal opinion, i wouldn't encourage you to root if it makes you uncomfortable in any way BUT, if the phone is broken and wont turn on .... Sprint will never know it was rooted because the phone wont turn on. Conversely, if you need to take the phone in and its still in functioning order, see # 2 above

 

[Ky1e.YC]

1. Well a nand restore can be helpful in lots of situations. I'll use an example that's near and dear to my heart and talk about removing a piece of bloatware. Lets say you followed my guide and got a little overzealous and deleted a bunch of apps and now are having major problems. Rather than flashing a ROM and starting over (which sometimes requires a full wipe) you just use the nand restore feature and your right back to where to started, assuming you made a nand backup, which i highly recommend before making any serious changes. Assuming your not going to be jumping around from ROM to ROM, and your not going to be making all sorts of fun tweaks, just get your phone setup exactly how you want it, make a good nand backup and you should be fine.

2. Yep, running the sprint official RUU will take you right back to stock. Imagine it as re-imaging your hard drive. It wipes the crap, and puts a fresh copy of windows on (in this case its obviously Android OS though lol )

3. This is my personal opinion, i wouldn't encourage you to root if it makes you uncomfortable in any way BUT, if the phone is broken and wont turn on .... Sprint will never know it was rooted because the phone wont turn on. Conversely, if you need to take the phone in and its still in functioning order, see # 2 above

hahaha....thank you so much for your patience and vivid examples. guess I have some idea for nand. that is pretty much like software ghost doing for pc os, making an image of one partition or the whole disk, just in case we need to back to the second when we created the image, right?

As to root or not root, i see your saying. May I say that unroot is not officially turn back your phone to "unrooted", just restore os to the stock, and sprint cannot tell if you rooted or not, correct?

So if I wont bring phone back to Sprint, so they cannot tell if the phone is root or not. does that mean that they cannot detect your phone root status on the air, furthermore, they cannot ban your phone since they dont know if you root you phone or not?

 

[amc_oldsarge]

After installing Clockwork's ROM Manager Utility on my phone, updating Clockworkmod recovery (1.8.1.9), I'm trying to backup my current ROM via "Backup Current ROM". I launch it, it asks for a backup name (staying with defaulted name), I hit OK and it drops me back to the ROM Manager Main Screen.

I have the phone disconnected from my PC, but no file ever is created in my clockwork/backup folder.

Any advice?

 

[trooper54]

Are you running the custom rom? i tried to do the same thing with the stock rom, and i had the same situation. Then i flashed the RvU and ran clockwork, and it did what its supposed to do.

 

[amc_oldsarge]

I believe that might have been the case.

Now when I boot my phone, it goes to the HTC EVo 4G Screen, then loads the animated Sprint > Now > 4G, and keeps doing it over and over till I pull the battery.

I have followed the directions twice now, and still getting the same thing. --Help--

 

[trooper54]

wow, that one sounds like it sucks....

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

I believe that might have been the case.

Now when I boot my phone, it goes to the HTC EVo 4G Screen, then loads the animated Sprint > Now > 4G, and keeps doing it over and over till I pull the battery.

I have followed the directions twice now, and still getting the same thing. --Help--

Wipe everything from recovery to get booted. Unfortunately that means you lose everything.

OR

Try shutting it off, holding volume down and power to reboot, and then pick recovery from the list you see. Volume rocker is up/down, power button is select

 

[spidy]

Wipe everything from recovery to get booted. Unfortunately that means you lose everything.

OR

Try shutting it off, holding volume down and power to reboot, and then pick recovery from the list you see. Volume rocker is up/down, power button is select

Had the same issue and had to wipe but everything is working as advertised.

 

[amc_oldsarge]

To break myself out of the reboot, I remove my SD card from phone and copy the PC36IMG.zip back to the root of the card. Reboot holding Volume Down Button, until the recovery screen comes up. I reapply the update and reboot the phone, at which point I can get into the phone, albeit a wipped phone, which is just fine.

If I go back to the instructions, I get the same result. I'm either dense (which I don't believe is the case), missing something simple, or is it possible there is something wrong with the RvU1.3.2.zip custom rom? Should I try the RvU1.3.1.zip instead? Everything seems peachy till I apply the custom rom.......

Thanks Again Folks.

 

[amc_oldsarge]

Nope, RvU1.3.2.zip is fine. I needed to wipe my storage. Credit Saepak with an earlier post that helped me out.

@vbsoulpole
is this the sprint screen reboot? if so then you are going to have to do a hard reset. go into boot loader, vol down to wipe storage, power button, (i believe power botton again to confirm) all out of memory. this wipes your user data. at that point it will boot. good luck