Root Best EVO ROM

[marcusts02]

Well, if you want Sense, Cyanogen is out of the question.

I just successfully rooted my evo and downloaded wifi tether & rom manager. The first rom on the list was Cyanogen. I took all the necessary steps and downloaded it. I received a msg saying I needed to reboot the phone to activate the Rom. It took forever to reboot, but finally got to the screen that had the blue android on the skateboard. It stayed on that screen for over 40 minutes, so I figured it was stuck and pulled out the battery to power off the phone. When I tried to power the phone back on it would never go past the white evo 4g screen. I've tried everything from recovery to clear storage. I still cant get the phone to go past that screen. I rooted my phone out of pure curiosity, and really don't understand any of this. Can you please walk me through what to do to get my phone to fully power on. I'm so afraid I've destroyed my phone, I should've just left it alone. Please Help!!!

 

[evomattnc]

I just successfully rooted my evo and downloaded wifi tether & rom manager. The first rom on the list was Cyanogen. I took all the necessary steps and downloaded it. I received a msg saying I needed to reboot the phone to activate the Rom. It took forever to reboot, but finally got to the screen that had the blue android on the skateboard. It stayed on that screen for over 40 minutes, so I figured it was stuck and pulled out the battery to power off the phone. When I tried to power the phone back on it would never go past the white evo 4g screen. I've tried everything from recovery to clear storage. I still cant get the phone to go past that screen. I rooted my phone out of pure curiosity, and really don't understand any of this. Can you please walk me through what to do to get my phone to fully power on. I'm so afraid I've destroyed my phone, I should've just left it alone. Please Help!!!

Likely the wrong thread for help but we found ya...anyhow

What exactly did you do? rooted your phone, wiped everything? flashed cm7, rebooted, stuck? Battery pull, wont get past splash screen, wiped everything again? Did you make a nandroid back up after you rooted btw?

Can you get to hboot and recovery? Power off, hold down vol down+power, goes to hboot, does it say s-off? what radio does it say?

navigate to recovery, select it, what does it do? go to recovery?

 

[youdoofus]

Mr. Ed has a very valid point, not to sound like one of "those guys" but there have been a ton of threads about this... if you have specific ?'s about diffs between roms that you cant determine yourself, ask away, but i gotta say (and please dont take offense) but take some time to try a rom or 2 out. Make a nandroid b/u ALWAYS MAKE A B/U lol (sorry for yelling, but its that important ) and play around with em a lil bit. Some things youll want if youre gonna delve into the realm of rom flashing are quickboot(just makes it a lil faster of a process), Titanium backup(darn near necessary, sms backup/restore, and Amon Ra(amon is an alternative to clockwork, if youre unsure of what im talking about, lemme know) and get some rom zips.... i like Konis ESIII for sense, but i STRONGLY prefer CM7 which is non-sense aka AOSP... good stuff

 

[evomattnc]

LOL doofus this thread died a week ago but poor marcusts above me came in here looking for help, im not sure why but i found it and im trying to help him, we arent discussing best roms lol, Hes lucky i found it this was the only thread i had not checked on my screen and my ocd wanted me to check it off...

 

[youdoofus]

LOL doofus this thread died a week ago but poor marcusts above me came in here looking for help, im not sure why but i found it and im trying to help him, we arent discussing best roms lol, Hes lucky i found it this was the only thread i had not checked on my screen and my ocd wanted me to check it off...

Oops, i just saw an update from today and didnt bother lookin at the dates on the previous posts LoL my bad see what i get for trying to be a nice guy?!?!?! LoL jk maybe someone else who stumbles upon this thread as i did could get some use from it... meh, im bored at work with limited web access. D@mn net nannys.... but, happily this site isnt blocked LMAO!!!!

edit: and yes, im back on CM7.... i think ive just got too used to AOSP to go back

edit2: and yeah, marcusts IS lucky that you found this!!! Atta boy!

 

[evomattnc]

Oops, i just saw an update from today and didnt bother lookin at the dates on the previous posts LoL my bad see what i get for trying to be a nice guy?!?!?! LoL jk maybe someone else who stumbles upon this thread as i did could get some use from it... meh, im bored at work with limited web access. D@mn net nannys.... but, happily this site isnt blocked LMAO!!!!

edit: and yes, im back on CM7.... i think ive just got too used to AOSP to go back

HA I have the same problem, AF isnt blocked but everything else is just about. I work for GE, we cant do shit! If i was allowed i would be dl'ing roms right now but thats certainly not allowed here. Surpirsed i get espn and AF, thats about it.

I'll be back i have to leave the entire GE campus to smoke a cigarette, its a short 5 minute drive to smoke, 7 to smoke, and 5 to drive back....good thinking GE

 

[evomattnc]

Oops, i just saw an update from today and didnt bother lookin at the dates on the previous posts LoL my bad see what i get for trying to be a nice guy?!?!?! LoL jk maybe someone else who stumbles upon this thread as i did could get some use from it... meh, im bored at work with limited web access. D@mn net nannys.... but, happily this site isnt blocked LMAO!!!!

edit: and yes, im back on CM7.... i think ive just got too used to AOSP to go back

edit2: and yeah, marcusts IS lucky that you found this!!! Atta boy!

Tried evervolv? I havent played much but i flashed it the other day for a few minutes and liked it enough to make a back up so i can set it up when i get time.

 

[evomattnc]

I mean asking for help in a thread like this is a horrible idea, us more senir members avoid these questions like the plague lol, too bad im ocd and have to select every thread that is on my screen currenty so they all go to not bold...

 

[youdoofus]

I mean asking for help in a thread like this is a horrible idea, us more senir members avoid these questions like the plague lol, too bad im ocd and have to select every thread that is on my screen currenty so they all go to not bold...

LMAO!!!! i have OCD too!! ive taken 5 different SSRI's over the last 11 years of suffering with it, so i feel your pain man!! When i first rooted, i tried everevolv, but wasnt savvy enough at that time to know about the fact that its an AOSP rom, nor did i know that there was such a striking difference between sense and aosp. now that ive progressed a lil bit, i think ill give it a whirl i dunno why exactly(cuz i think theyre fare more similar than different in functionality) why i like AOSP better, but i just think its smoother and more funnerererer

 

[evomattnc]

LMAO!!!! i have OCD too!! ive taken 5 different SSRI's over the last 11 years of suffering with it, so i feel your pain man!! When i first rooted, i tried everevolv, but wasnt savvy enough at that time to know about the fact that its an AOSP rom, nor did i know that there was such a striking difference between sense and aosp. now that ive progressed a lil bit, i think ill give it a whirl i dunno why exactly(cuz i think theyre fare more similar than different in functionality) why i like AOSP better, but i just think its smoother and more funnerererer

Peas in a pod we are doofus lol. Its actually torturous for me to have this open at work and have people comment because i HAVE to click it, i dont even always read it, but i click it . Is your desk completely orthogonal too? My friends use to slightly set one thing like my phone cord off at an angle and wait for me to yell, who did it LOL Its why im an engineer, i live in the tedious...

It has some different functions, the beauty of aosp...i mostly like the stock launcher and its dock haha thats what got me to back it up and go ahead and try and set it up and see how it runs.

I also tried it when i first started and couldnt get the hang of it, it was in rom manager i think is how i ended up with it. I much more equipped now to make it run like a dream.

 

[youdoofus]

Peas in a pod we are doofus lol. Its actually torturous for me to have this open at work and have people comment because i HAVE to click it, i dont even always read it, but i click it . Is your desk completely orthogonal too? My friends use to slightly set one thing like my phone cord off at an angle and wait for me to yell, who did it LOL Its why im an engineer, i live in the tedious...

It has some different functions, the beauty of aosp...i mostly like the stock launcher and its dock haha thats what got me to back it up and go ahead and try and set it up and see how it runs.

I also tried it when i first started and couldnt get the hang of it, it was in rom manager i think is how i ended up with it. I much more equipped now to make it run like a dream.

Indeed we are good sir! yeah, i used to have the need to have stuff at perfect angles n so forth, but my ocd has kinda mutated into the germ-a-phobe type of thing. I cant stand being touched by people or things that i didnt have direct control of or stuff thats been on the ground is totally outsky... I HATE OCD!! lol anyways, what do you know about idroid? my buddy just put it on his 1st gen ::forgive me for swearing:: ipod touch. Id love to twist that knife in Job's ribs a lil and put it on my 3rd gen (won it at work a lil over 2 years ago, whaddaya do? I jailbroke it, but i havent found a rom that i can flash to it.... nor a recovery method. I dont wanna brick it, and i cant seem to find ANYWHERE NEAR the support for it as the almighty EVO has... any idears?

 

[Knewz]

anything "king" branded or referenced

 

[evomattnc]

Indeed we are good sir! yeah, i used to have the need to have stuff at perfect angles n so forth, but my ocd has kinda mutated into the germ-a-phobe type of thing. I cant stand being touched by people or things that i didnt have direct control of or stuff thats been on the ground is totally outsky... I HATE OCD!! lol anyways, what do you know about idroid? my buddy just put it on his 1st gen ::forgive me for swearing:: ipod touch. Id love to twist that knife in Job's ribs a lil and put it on my 3rd gen (won it at work a lil over 2 years ago, whaddaya do? I jailbroke it, but i havent found a rom that i can flash to it.... nor a recovery method. I dont wanna brick it, and i cant seem to find ANYWHERE NEAR the support for it as the almighty EVO has... any idears?

LOL how are those ssri's goiing? I dont bother, i have gotten better over the years i can sit at a restaurant table now without making everything straight (of course likely because im drunk lol), there are papers on my desk that im working on, i get anxious but i fix it by getting wasted or smoking helps sometimes...Oh wekk enough about our incredible dysfunction

Ha idroid...the only i anything I approve of lol. Idroid has a wiki and something called bootlace recovery...bout all i know...the wiki is pretty good though, i dont have ianything in my home.

 

[youdoofus]

LOL how are those ssri's goiing? I dont bother, i have gotten better over the years i can sit at a restaurant table now without making everything straight (of course likely because im drunk lol), there are papers on my desk that im working on, i get anxious but i fix it by getting wasted or smoking helps sometimes...Oh wekk enough about our incredible dysfunction

Ha idroid...the only i anything I approve of lol. Idroid has a wiki and something called bootlace recovery...bout all i know...the wiki is pretty good though, i dont have ianything in my home.

Ive stopped taking the ssri's cuz theyre pointless... they mess with my stomache so bad i cant hardly eat without feeling sick, so i decided to continue trying to manage it myself, and its worked in some respects, but its still there... the drunk thing helps me too, but doesnt seem like a long term solution LoL anyhow, yeah i have 3 ipods from back when they were the best portable music player and won that stupid touch here at work. I have a zune too, but i also hate microsoft LMAO!!!! Ill check out the wiki on bootlace tonight after my tour in this hole is over for the day (stupid net nannys again LoL)

 

[evomattnc]

I have an evo, it ports music...wish my stereo didnt have the ipod interface i put in there a few years back, i would just usb to it but i cant its ipod specific now and im too lazy to eff with it. meh, i have some ipod headphones and an old ipod charger from when i had the 1st gen ipod classic one, what a huge bitch that was...almost as big as an ipad

 

[youdoofus]

I have an evo, it ports music...wish my stereo didnt have the ipod interface i put in there a few years back, i would just usb to it but i cant its ipod specific now and im too lazy to eff with it. meh, i have some ipod headphones and an old ipod charger from when i had the 1st gen ipod classic one, what a huge bitch that was...almost as big as an ipad

it ports music? and yeah, those old classics are effen huge!!!!! i have a 30 and 80 gig classic colr, my touch, the zune and my evo anlong with an amassing of 8 gig micro sd cards (i kept having to swap out my old BB Tour and they give you all the new accessories along with keping the old ones lol got a ton of micro usb cords that way too lol) anyways, i only use the zune and ipods when exercising and in my car so my EVO isnt dead when i get somewhere lol

 

[evomattnc]

it ports music?

yes...?

 

[evomattnc]

i said it jokingly as port is just to move from one place or another but in all reality i can port it off of my desktop, theres an app for that gmote! among others...

 

[youdoofus]

i said it jokingly as port is just to move from one place or another but in all reality i can port it off of my desktop, theres an app for that gmote! among others...

ohhh, by saying port from your desptop, youre referring to like a p2p transfer? as in evo being one peer and your computer being the other peer? or do you stream music from your computer to your evo using your computer as a server?