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Root Complete Newbie's Guide to rooting and flashing Evo V 4G ROMs/Kernels using fastboot

jmz said:
Did you do the HTC unlock procedure?







Right now the only s-off procedure available requires you to be HTC unlocked and rooted anyways
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Can you use ext4 touch recovery with smart flash so you can flash roms with s-on..
 
i just switched to teamwins 2.0 recovery the one where you can touch the screen its actually much better and now im rooted and already have a rom in :)
 
kenosuke117 said:
i just switched to teamwins 2.0 recovery the one where you can touch the screen its actually much better and now im rooted and already have a rom in :)
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Do you have s-off aswell?

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk
 
kenosuke117 said:
ok need quick help im ready t flash a rom but when i got to recovery and put beging flashing zip part all it says it added /sdcard/*name of rom*.zip nothing else after that and it doesnt do anything
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If you're using TWRP 1.1 (which it looks like you are) then you have to select Flash Zips Naowz (or whatever it says for Flash now). TWRP 1.1 allows you to flash multiple zips at the same time, so it's just waiting for you to say go.
 
Sorry for a noob question but if I root it this way will it be a "vanilla" ics or will it still have Htc sense On top of it?
 
lebrown said:
Sorry for a noob question but if I root it this way will it be a "vanilla" ics or will it still have Htc sense On top of it?
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You still will have HTC Sense, but after you unlock via this procedure, you can install a CM9 or any other AOSP (vanilla Android) ROM to remove Sense. However, the AOSP ROM pickings for this device are slim and they're buggy.
 
Quick question, I'm at the HTCdev - Unlock Bootloader section. Do I choose EVO 3D (Sprint)* as my supported device?

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I just selected EVO 3D (Sprint) and now it says to update the RUU. Do I do that first or just skip step 1 and do step 2?
 
I skipped the ruu part and it worked fine for me. I think they discussed that a bit earlier in the thread, take a look.
 
So I got it unlocked and now I am trying to enter in TWRP 1.1.1. How do I go about doing that? So far I'm on step 5 and I've done the following:

We need to turn off one of HTC's defaulted on features. It is the very frustratingly named 'Fast Boot' in Settings > Power. No, this is not 'fastboot' in the Android SDK. This is a feature that is like Hibernate in Windows but for HTC devices. I really hate how HTC calls it this, but that's what they decided to call it.

Next, go to Settings > Applications > Development and check USB Debugging. You'll need this enabled for the adb reboot command. Plus a number of rooting apps require it. Give the computer a few minutes to recognize your phone, install drivers, and so on, if it needs to.

Connect your phone to your computer. From now until you're done flashing your ROM, you will not disconnect the USB cable. So don't even think about it!

Quick tip: Do NOT connect to a USB 3.0 port. For some reason, fastboot will not detect your device if you're connected through a USB 3.0 port. If you're unsure if you have a USB 3.0 port, don't worry about it unless your fastboot commands say that they're waiting for device when the device is hooked up.

Now, in the command prompt, type (or copy and paste):

Code:
adb reboot bootloader




You should now be in your bootloader. It should say "FASTBOOT USB" in red highlight. If so, this is good! If not, make sure HBOOT in the menu is highlighted and push the power button. This will change it to FASTBOOT and it'll detect that it's connected to USB and change in a few seconds.

Now type (or copy):

Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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It just reboots my phone and I do not enter TWRP 1.1.1


****EDIT****

I had the older version of TWRP so I placed TWRP 1.1.1 and now I am in recovery :)
 
eatsaimin said:
So I got it unlocked and now I am trying to enter in TWRP 1.1.1. How do I go about doing that? So far I'm on step 5 and I've done the following:

It just reboots my phone and I do not enter TWRP 1.1.1


****EDIT****

I had the older version of TWRP so I placed TWRP 1.1.1 and now I am in recovery :)
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Just to confirm I understand you correctly: You said you had an older version of TWRP and you used TWRP 1.1.1 to fix your problem. Or you tried using TWRP 1.1.1 and used a newer version (TWRP 2.0 or 2.1) to fix your problem?
 
jerofld said:
Just to confirm I understand you correctly: You said you had an older version of TWRP and you used TWRP 1.1.1 to fix your problem. Or you tried using TWRP 1.1.1 and used a newer version (TWRP 2.0 or 2.1) to fix your problem?
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I tried installing TWRP 1.0.3 but then I installed TWRP 1.1.1 and it installed no problems. Now I'm Rooted :)
 
thanks alot for the guide jerofld!
got my Sprint branded EVO V yesterday and rooted it as soon as I got home.

after rooting a coupla LG Optimuses(thanks JerryScript), a Kindle Fire and some Nextbooks, this one had the most steps.
your instructions were well laid out, most definitely.
 
jmz said:
Did you manually wipe data or do the factory reset option in recovery
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I manually wiped all data. I had to reload twrp recovery and restore a nandroid backup i made when I first rooted the phone. 4ext wouldn't do it.
 
am I able to rename the folders that my backups are in like I can with cwm? If so that would be helpful for me to differentiate the different backups I would be doing
 
Snake X said:
am I able to rename the folders that my backups are in like I can with cwm? If so that would be helpful for me to differentiate the different backups I would be doing
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Yes. If you used Rom manager to start the backup you can rename it then
 
Hey guys i'm trying to flash the recovery but every time i try it say "can not load recovery img" i've followed the instructions pretty carefully and tried flashing it multiple times without any luck. I also tried locking hboot again with RUU, and try the whole process over. If anyone has any clue please let me know

p.s i am putting the recovery in the root of my sdk-tools, and fastboot works when i type it into cmd
 
papas228 said:
anyone have any ideas?
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I had the same problem, it turned out then when i renamed the recovery file to "recovery.img" it actually already had the extension .img so it was "recovery.img.img" and was refusing to flash via fastboot. Rename the file just "recovery" and then do the command as stated

"fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"

If that doesnt work, try to re download the recovery, you might have just gotten a bad dl.
 
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