Root [CDMA] Well I guess this blows

[_-Jay-_]

I picked up a slightly used Evo3D on Friday. So naturally, first thing I did was come here to look into rooting it since my Epic was rooted and running SRF. After looking around here and over at the XDA forums, I learned that because the guy who had it before me updated it to hboot1.5, it basically borks my chances of rooting the phone correctly. Guess I'll have to wait a bit until the XDA devs figure out a way around it. Or did I miss something somewhere? I know there is a way to unlock the phone from HTC through HTC's bootloader, but read somewhere else that by doing so, you will not be able to unroot it ever. That scares me a little.

Oh and hi by the way.

 

[ovrrdrive]

hboot 1.5 allows for the htc unlock method. I'm quite certain one or more of the stickies at the top of the forum will explain it in detail for you.

It isn't quite as nice as the revolutionary root method but it will allow you to run a custom recovery and install roms.

As for working on full root for it, I think they pretty much decided that it wasn't worth it because you can still do everything with the htc unlock.

 

[_-Jay-_]

hboot 1.5 allows for the htc unlock method. I'm quite certain one or more of the stickies at the top of the forum will explain it in detail for you.

It isn't quite as nice as the revolutionary root method but it will allow you to run a custom recovery and install roms.

As for working on full root for it, I think they pretty much decided that it wasn't worth it because you can still do everything with the htc unlock.

Will it allow me to run Titanium Backup? I think you need full root rights to run it.

Also, it says after unlocking it with HTC's bootloader, it will watermark the phone permanently. What kind of potential repercussions could that have for me down the road? I will be carrying insurance on the phone through Sprint. Will it be possible for them to deny me insurance coverage because the phone was unlocked?

 

[wake69]

You will have full root. It does not watermark the phone but registers phone with HTC as unlocked. You can run tb but since the unlock is not soff you can not directly write to the /boot partition. There is a way around this. Also sprint will service rooted devices and if problems are hardware related phones can be replaced.

 

[_-Jay-_]

Okay. Thanks a lot for the help guys.

 

[_-Jay-_]

Well I did the HTC Unlock method. Everything was successful. However, I still cannot use Titanium Backup. Gives me an error that my phone is not rooted. Which really sucks because I shelled out $7 for the Pro version lol. That sucks.

 

[wake69]

Well I did the HTC Unlock method. Everything was successful. However, I still cannot use Titanium Backup. Gives me an error that my phone is not rooted. Which really sucks because I shelled out $7 for the Pro version lol. That sucks.

did you flash a custom recovery? what about su through recovery? have you flashed a rooted rom? if not you are not rooted at all, just unlocked and that is like drinking nonalcoholic beer

 

[DonB]

Flash a recovery image, and make sure you have the SU app in your app list, if yes, then once you flash the recovery, make sure you give TB SU rights., if not you may need an updated Busybox.