unrEVOked!

[bensEVO]

You can load custom ROMs (i haven't checked out the app, cause I don't have an evo, it should have a custom recovery image) by doing exactly what you said, load it up in recovery mode, make a nandroid backup, wipe data (put the .zip file as is in the root of the sd card), flash .zip. If you don't like the ROM, nandroid restore back to as it was before the flash, 100%, no messed up data.

I don't see a thanks button but thanks

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

you don't have enough posts. You need 10, almost there. But I appreciate the gesture.

 

[Spunks3]

if i use this to get root and then delete original apps (sprint nascar and such) and then uninstall the unrEVOked app to unroot, with this mess things up? or will it even "unroot"?

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

well, currently, the only way to remove sprint apps is with a custom ROM. It wouldn't unroot, either. The typical way we've been using to remove bloatware doesn't work. It comes back again after you reboot the phone. :/... Also, the custom ROM that allows you to do it broke 4G, so if you're in a 4G area (Rochester unofficially does, right?) I wouldn't worry about this until we get a 100% working ROM out.

 

[ronron23#AC]

They come back onto the phone upon reboot, because its a sprint pushed app.

Same thing with blackberry, Hybrid OS's as well, there was no way around sprints pushed apps.

But a flashed rom will eliminate them on android?

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

The one currently out in this section allows you to mount dev/block and remove them permanently... at the expense of no 4G.

 

[eyecon82]

They come back onto the phone upon reboot, because its a sprint pushed app.

Same thing with blackberry, Hybrid OS's as well, there was no way around sprints pushed apps.

But a flashed rom will eliminate them on android?

at least with a blackberry, you can uninstall and it is just an icon you can hide and doesn't waste memory. With android, it is the full blown app ....very stupid IMO

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

at least with a blackberry, you can uninstall and it is just an icon you can hide and doesn't waste memory. With android, it is the full blown app ....very stupid IMO

Correction: Not Android... Sprint. Big difference there.

 

[oddlou]

Wow. Super easy. Just go to the unrevoked site from your EVO, download and install.

 

[Spunks3]

well, currently, the only way to remove sprint apps is with a custom ROM. It wouldn't unroot, either. The typical way we've been using to remove bloatware doesn't work. It comes back again after you reboot the phone. :/... Also, the custom ROM that allows you to do it broke 4G, so if you're in a 4G area (Rochester unofficially does, right?) I wouldn't worry about this until we get a 100% working ROM out.

thanks for the info, yep, im getting better and better 4G as the days go by, didnt get it at all in my house, but now its starting to pop up even inside. I'm not sure if rooting would benefit me at the moment, ill give the forums a search to check the Pro's and Con's

 

[vbsoulpole]

Am i suposed to be able to perform a nandroid backup after i run this? because when i run the bootloader and choose recovery i get the triangle with an exclamation mark inside of it

 

[xorg]

where do we find a list of rooted apps?

 

[Aridon]

Keep in mind we only have ghetto root right now.

If you want recovery you have to use the other method this one doesn't do that. I believe is toasts method. You flash the zip, go to recovery, connect to pc, run .bat file which brings you to the recovery menu. Once you do it the first time you don't have to flash the zip again but it's not sticky for now you have to run the .bat files every time you want tip flash or back up. That will change eventually.

Many root only programs do not work yet because with both methods we doo not have /system access yet to write inside of android which messes up su in android. Some stuff work, some do not. This will get better once the nand protection is figured out.

 

[MichaelMcEntire]

So what can you do with this unrEVOked root that would be of benefit to a new Android user such as myself? Wireless tethering? Anything?

Thanks in advance

 

[Aridon]

So what can you do with this unrEVOked root that would be of benefit to a new Android user such as myself? Wireless tethering? Anything?

Thanks in advance

I'm using toasts (i think he released it) version right now because I want recovery, adb shell and backups. This unrevoked method may offer better su and some apps may work better. Either way no one has write access too system so apps like my backup and root explorer won't work correctly or fully until we get that.

As a noob, try out the other method and read up on xda on how to remove the bloat ware apps (themes apps section). ADB is fairly easy, there are a lot of similarities to dos cmd prompt commands.

Thing is, right now with a little reading you can do almost everything. You just need a pc. Eventually we won't ned that anymore but the basics are still the same and the knowledge you gain will be beneficial.




EVO 4G Android Development - xda-developers

Also the forum for themes and apps had some good tutorials on how to remove the unnecessary apps. Its nice getting rid of all that junk you don't use so iras not constantly starting and using resources.

EVO 4G Themes and Apps - xda-developers

 

[slopokdave]

I understand you run the unrEVOked and its a simple, one touch root. I want to do this soley for tethering purposes. I'm not going to be running custom ROMs etc.

So say I need to take my phone into service. How do I get it back to its unrooted state?

 

[imtravis]

I understand you run the unrEVOked and its a simple, one touch root. I want to do this soley for tethering purposes. I'm not going to be running custom ROMs etc.

So say I need to take my phone into service. How do I get it back to its unrooted state?

Using unrEVOked, just reboot the phone and Root is gone.

 

[duckwars]

So to get the phone back to normal you just have to reboot? This also means you have to run the root program every time you reboot if you wanna use the root-necessary apps?

 

[imtravis]

So to get the phone back to normal you just have to reboot? This also means you have to run the root program every time you reboot if you wanna use the root-necessary apps?

From what I've read and experienced yes, you'll need to run unrEVOked each time after boot for root.

 

[slopokdave]

Using unrEVOked, just reboot the phone and Root is gone.

So to get the phone back to normal you just have to reboot? This also means you have to run the root program every time you reboot if you wanna use the root-necessary apps?

From what I've read and experienced yes, you'll need to run unrEVOked each time after boot for root.

Wasn't this on the first version? Then it was updated so that it sticks after a reboot?