Hi - I'm probably unfamiliar to some of you, I was away for a short while, but I started at AF here in Evo-land, so I hope you don't mind if I pitch in.
I'm not 100% current on all rooting today, I rooted my Evo 6 months ago (couldn't be happier!) - and I'll shoot you square on what I _do_ know.
If you followed the procedure in Matlock's first post (I'm going to call it the OP from now on) in Section 3, Option 2, then YES - you'll get a nand backup.
BTW - just for lurkers, 'cause I'm often asked - those little, teeny "Show" glyphs in the OP are buttons - they do what they say - they show things.
It used to be that when you selected the wipe checkbox, what it really did was rely on a script in the rom to perform the wipe - no script - no wipe.
The safest thing is to do it from recovery, it's an option you can select.
If someone comes along with more recent experience than I - trust that.
In the meantime - if you choose not to do it and things get pear-shaped, then you're going to end up in recovery wiping data and dalvik-cache as your first debugging step _anyway_ -- safest to just get it right from the start.
OP Section 8, Option 1 says YES - it does wipe correctly. So, I could be wrong. If you go without wiping in recovery and use this option and anything gets screwy, what I'm about to say will help you.
I've got a few goodies in there for you
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Despite the fact that XDA has gotten more - I don't want to say chaotic, let's just say more active, it's seems hard to know what to trust or what to match to what.
BUT - there's a simple answer, bookmark this link, you'll always want it for reference (and it's the same as in OP Section 8, Option 1, Step 3, pp2):
HTC Supersonic/ROMs - XDA-Developers
There's a table for the stock roms - it matches roms and radio and wimax revisions. Always keep these in alignment.
These days, clicking on the 3.70 link does NOT take you to a list of the several sources of stock rooted roms at XDA.
But - I'll address that here.
PRI (that's an eye, not an ell - that's a typo up there) / NV / HBOOT are optional and only install if you've got S-off.
Why are they packaged separately from each other, and from the rom?
I don't know what to tell you about the right download without a link - but - all of the rom devs I've seen in the past have been crystal-clear as to which link does what, easy to understand. If he's not done that, or if you didn't read carefully - don't go there.
Maybe consider using the Sprint Lover's rom in my earlier post - two options - with and without all the extra goodies.
Hope this helps.
I'm not 100% current on all rooting today, I rooted my Evo 6 months ago (couldn't be happier!) - and I'll shoot you square on what I _do_ know.
If you followed the procedure in Matlock's first post (I'm going to call it the OP from now on) in Section 3, Option 2, then YES - you'll get a nand backup.
BTW - just for lurkers, 'cause I'm often asked - those little, teeny "Show" glyphs in the OP are buttons - they do what they say - they show things.
Unless they've updated it and I've not heard - NO.
It used to be that when you selected the wipe checkbox, what it really did was rely on a script in the rom to perform the wipe - no script - no wipe.
The safest thing is to do it from recovery, it's an option you can select.
If someone comes along with more recent experience than I - trust that.
In the meantime - if you choose not to do it and things get pear-shaped, then you're going to end up in recovery wiping data and dalvik-cache as your first debugging step _anyway_ -- safest to just get it right from the start.
OP Section 8, Option 1 says YES - it does wipe correctly. So, I could be wrong. If you go without wiping in recovery and use this option and anything gets screwy, what I'm about to say will help you.
Yes - BUT! - I highly recommend you refer to this post - http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-support-troubleshooting/141369-how-fix-froyo.html
I've got a few goodies in there for you
:- How to ensure that your contacts are REALLY on Google
- How to save and restore your current scene (desktop layout)
- If you're like me, you've got your widgets and desktop layout just so
- Without this, you're about to lose all of that and have to redo your desktop
- This only works for stock rooted Sense roms - Titanium is your friend
- In addition to whatever app backup you use - I recommend a backup of your apps with Astro File Manager
- I use a few file managers because I've not found ONE that does everything perfectly, so even if you have a file manager and NOT Astro - this still isn't bad advice
- Insanely friendly user interface
- Just another backup, repeating what you did with Titanium - why?
- Paid Titanium gives you one level of backups, paid - all you want
- Too easy to choose the wrong Titanium option or to incorrectly add something to a backup - do this wrong and when you go to recover with the free one, you might be missing an app - Astro saves you
- Next week, you're playing around, you delete the wrong app - it's much easier to just get one back with Astro
- With new roms and tools, you'll still want to clear things if they get tangled - the link above will help with that, often as effective but much faster than going to recovery and clearing and restoring as a debug / fix route
For maximum stability and knowing you're safe, when using the rooted equivalent of an OTA update, you definitely want to match that with the same radio and same wimax included in the update.
If this is all correct I think I'm just about set!
EDIT: I was just going over the XDA thread where member SteelH posted this info about the lastest ROM:
What concerns me is this last paragraph - will I also need to flash the radio/wimax/pri/prl/hboot/nv files as they're not a part of the ROM itself?I thought I could just flash this new Sprint ROM and have everything like stock - but rooted?
I'm also curious about the differences in these ROM downloads, and not sure which one I should use now?
Despite the fact that XDA has gotten more - I don't want to say chaotic, let's just say more active, it's seems hard to know what to trust or what to match to what.
BUT - there's a simple answer, bookmark this link, you'll always want it for reference (and it's the same as in OP Section 8, Option 1, Step 3, pp2):
HTC Supersonic/ROMs - XDA-Developers
There's a table for the stock roms - it matches roms and radio and wimax revisions. Always keep these in alignment.
These days, clicking on the 3.70 link does NOT take you to a list of the several sources of stock rooted roms at XDA.
But - I'll address that here.PRI (that's an eye, not an ell - that's a typo up there) / NV / HBOOT are optional and only install if you've got S-off.
Why are they packaged separately from each other, and from the rom?
- History!
- In earlier days before S-off, you had to chicken dance to update those things
- Labor - then as now, one guy would do radios, another the rom, each responsible for their own packaging
- Modularity and surety
- I've seen posts with guys failing to operate with 3.70 and PRI 1.90 needing to go back to 1.77, others with 1.90 and no complaints
I don't know what to tell you about the right download without a link - but - all of the rom devs I've seen in the past have been crystal-clear as to which link does what, easy to understand. If he's not done that, or if you didn't read carefully - don't go there.
Maybe consider using the Sprint Lover's rom in my earlier post - two options - with and without all the extra goodies.
Hope this helps.
