I rooted my LTE and its like I have a whole new phone!!!

[sabbys]

I do not understand how people are reassigning the recent apps button to be the menu button, etc.

Could someone explain please.

sabbys

 

[web05hitz]

I do not understand how people are reassigning the recent apps button to be the menu button, etc.

Could someone explain please.

sabbys

It's my understanding that this requires flashing a zip in recovery, which requires unlocking the bootloader, which currently can only be done via HTC's unlock. If I'm wrong I would love to know otherwise

 

[sabbys]

The brief discription got me confused:

it's nice to have the extra tweaks like Quick Settings, the Menu Button back . . .

So i tried a couple of "Quick Settings" apps in the market and did not see anything.

If this is refering to custom flashing then that is a bit on the obscure side for me.

I will remain confused until further notice.

sabbys

 

[dakidd]

Starfleet I gotta thank you cause I had been rooted and was on the fence about a ROM...but I read this last night and decided to do this and like you said I fell in love with my phone again other then the wifi issue

Sent from HTC Evo LTE

 

[Starfleet Captain]

OK, now I'm curious... How are you customizing the menu bar?

 

[limitproof]

Still have black bar after reassigned apps button to Menu using Root Explorer
View attachment 28402

Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2

 

[dskwerl]

I just rooted using this method, as well as the ROM Toolbox Lite tweaks, and it worked. It seems to be running well as far as I can see, though it's only been a few minutes. I haven't really had a chance to put multitasking through it's paces yet, but so far so good.

Thanks for the info!

 

[ecoleye]

OK, now I'm curious... How are you customizing the menu bar?

Still have black bar after reassigned apps button to Menu using Root Explorer
View attachment 28402

Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2

All H.O.E. (HTC One EVO) mods by RunAndHide - xda-developers

 

[Impulses]

Yes, I believe this method even notifies HTC immediately (calls home) that you have done so, so the warranty can be remotely voided.

It does not immediately void your manufacturer warranty, obviously it gives them more leeway to refute warranty claims but nowhere do they state it immediately voids a customer's warranty. (AFAIK it says "may" everywhere in the disclaimer) Plus like I said, Sprint itself is very lenient in dealing with rooted/unlocked phones (and I'm not aware of HTC sharing with them any master list of unlocked phones). At the end of the day its still something everyone has to weigh and consider for themselves tho.

 

[Impulses]

There is a free version and a donation version of the app that disables "SmartSync". No paid required. No root required. And it works (I can confirm this).

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...44Ny5zbWFydHN5bmNkaXNhYmxlciJd&token=PuzmMhtt

Thanks, I had only mentioned the paid app because the free one had momentarily disappeared the other day... The dev's work is worth a buck or two tho, IMO.

 

[Impulses]

Question. I am going to run through this process tonight. I clicked on the link to the video, and it takes you to the page for downloading the drivers and the Rooting Files. For the rooting files, it takes you to a page where you have to select your device. When I choose HTCEvoLTE there are two files in there for download. One is Evo4GLTERoot.zip, which is 1.8MB, and the other is Evo4GLTERoot2.zip, which is 18MB. The video says to run the runme.bat file from the first zip file and I can't seem to find any reference in the video or the thread about what the second file (10MB) is for. Any ideas?

In looking through the two files it looks like the second larger file has a few zips in there that look to be for flashing a custom or stock recovery (CWM-SuperSU-v0.87.zip, openrecovery-twrp-2.1.8-jewel.img and stock_EVO4GLTE_recovery.img). Can we flash a custom recovery without unlocking the bootloader?

No.

 

[Impulses]

So when you have menu button assign to your recent apps button, do your apps (fb, angry birds) show black menu band at the bottom or does it disappear?
I only wanna root it if that disappears.

Sent from EVO 4G LTE

It disappears, unless the dev half assed the mod.

Exactly. Plus, I hope he meant the menu key is assigned to the recent apps key, not the back key.

I want to say again, too, I don't think most of us think rooting is difficult.... we know it is easy. What holds most people back is what happens AFTER rooting with warranty, updates, tamper flag, unrooting, etc. Some good info has been shared in this thread, however.

Most ROMs I've seen do this will remap menu to recent apps and that function gets remapped to home long press, yeah. Could be done either way tho. I'm actually quite fond of the recent apps button in ICS (just feels so much quicker) so I tend to avoid or undo that, but that's what's great about being rooted, more choices.

There's even a ROM that substitutes HTC's card interface for recent apps with the original vertical thumbnail menu from ICS.

 

[Impulses]

The brief discription got me confused:



So i tried a couple of "Quick Settings" apps in the market and did not see anything.

If this is refering to custom flashing then that is a bit on the obscure side for me.

I will remain confused until further notice.

sabbys

If that was from one of my posts, I wasn't alluding to any market apps, but to stuff done within custom ROMs... You took it completely out of context. I'd suggest you reread them a bit, or i can provide specific examples of what I was talking about if you're curious. Dev threads on Xda for the EVO LTE seem to be pretty light on screenshots right now, even the full ROM threads (which usually like to highlight what they've changed).

 

[Impulses]

Still have black bar after reassigned apps button to Menu using Root Explorer
View attachment 28402

Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2

There's two mods involved, one to reassign the buttons and one to hide the bar afterward... If you're doing it manually anyway. If you're flashing a custom ROM or something like runanhide's mod its all done for you, you'd have to be fully rooted/unlocked for that tho.

 

[Impulses]

Starfleet I gotta thank you cause I had been rooted and was on the fence about a ROM...but I read this last night and decided to do this and like you said I fell in love with my phone again other then the wifi issue

Sent from HTC Evo LTE

What Wifi issue?

 

[dakidd]

What Wifi issue?

When I have wifi on and Bluetooth on....my Bluetooth will start disconnecting and reconnecting over and over.....it seems to happen if im browsing sometimes if im not.....it's frustrating....since there's no lte and sprints service isn't giving good speeds...I depend on the wifi....it's so bad im considering leaving sprint....I don't use much data on sprints network and I have the unlimited plan and im getting pissed.. Been paying a premium for so called 4g for years now and have not once experienced it from my launch evo,to new evo at least allow me to enjoy my wifi....

Sent from HTC Evo LTE

 

[cloak.n.dagger]

I remember when people were rooting weeks ago, people had issues with camera not working...Are there any issues?

Camera is working fine for me after running this root process. Not seeing anything major performance wise. The multitasking issue has improved some, but is still present for me. The refresh is not nearly as bad as it was and I haven't lost any content so far. Facebook seems to be having more issues loading images as what not, but I don't use FB a lot. Overall, I'm not feeling like I have a whole new phone from this process, but I am happy to have root access and to have improved multitasking! Once I unlock the bootloader and flash a new ROM I'll be right as rain!

 

[strudel#AC]

Does anyone else have a difficult time getting the Auto Memory Manager values to stick? After a reboot, my values always go back to default. I had this problem with ROM Toolbox for my OG Evo as well. "Apply on boot" is checked. I even ponied up for the Pro verison.

My VM Heap does seem to stick, however.

I noticed that my Auto Memory Manager Values are not sticking either except for VM Heap. After a reboot they are back to defaults. Is anyone else having this issue? I have fast boot disabled and am using the Pro version of ROM Toolbox

 

[strudel#AC]

I got a good reminder why we either need the dev community to modify the source code or HTC to fix what they broke with multitasking today.

I was taking my dogs for a hike in the woods, plotting my path with My Tracks and listening to Pandora. I stopped to take a couple photos. The music paused for a second while the stupid shutter sound played (a reminder that I really should take care of that) and in that second Pandora was killed because my music did not start back up after I took my pictures.

I have adjusted the Auto Memory Manager values, reduced the VM heapsize and made some adjustments to Sysctl Conf (Kernel Tweaks). There is some process that is aggressively killing of processes that are idle for even a second or two. Granted, I may have hit just the right condition to have it occur but how quickly the processes are killed makes no sense to me. Why not kill idle processes after, I don't know, a couple minutes? I refuse to believe leaving Pandora paused in the background (or any other idle process for that matter) for an additional minute or two would have that big of an impact on battery life.

 

[p2cactus]

I noticed that my Auto Memory Manager Values are not sticking either except for VM Heap. After a reboot they are back to defaults. Is anyone else having this issue? I have fast boot disabled and am using the Pro version of ROM Toolbox

I have this problem too. Start on boot is selected. Anyone actually getting thus to work?

EVOLTE and AC FTW!