New HTC EVO 4G LTE User. Rooted Phone Yesterday, but Have Some Questions

[kronosqq]

I'm looking at CM10 Nighties for the HTC EVO 4G LTE; anyone have any experience with this ROM? Reviews seem good.
And will I need to back up my contacts/app data/etc before I put a new ROM on my phone? I figure I do, but I wanted to be sure.

Edit: Also, I'm wanting to update my phone from ICS 4.0.4 to the latest version of Jelly Bean (I'm pretty sure it was supposed to come with Jelly Bean; at least that's what it said on the web site). Is OTA RootKeeper the best app for maintaining root privileges across the update?

The CM10 stable build definitely works pretty nicely, I actually prefer sense now though. The one downside is that since image sense has certain custom camera drivers, the quality I've gotten on CM10 has never been as good as on Sense ROMs.
I don't have any experience with root keeper utilities. I'd highly advise you to just flash the rooted stock jelly bean ROM if you want the update. Much safer and much easier in my opinion.

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[rudyh246]

Ah, thanks. Can you tell me where I can find a stock Jelly Bean ROM?

Would I flash it in TWRP? I've never flashed a ROM onto my phone before.

 

[kronosqq]

Ah, thanks. Can you tell me where I can find a stock Jelly Bean ROM?

Would I flash it in TWRP? I've never flashed a ROM onto my phone before.

Yup, just throw it the zip on the SD card, flash, and wipe data/cache.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2045929
There's the link to stock. MeanBean is also in the Android Dev section


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[mstrblueskys]

Jelly Bean just doesn't have a root method yet since that's something that has to be redone for every phone and every major update (the method, not root access if you already have it). To flash ROMs you also need to get s-off and install a custom recovery, you can find out how to do both over at xda, easy stuff. After that though I'd recommend using MeanBean which is the update of MeanROM for jelly bean. Flashing that will take you directly to jelly bean while mainaining root, and it's a great ROM. It's sense based but strips out some of the bloat and improves performance in pretty awesome ways.


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I am rooted on the newest update. I used the HTC Evo Hacks Method and it's perfectly rooted.