Root First step: Evo 4G "overclocked"

[kryptonyt]

think of it this way titanum backup is only used to back up and restore apps and its data. it really should not be used for anything else. if you are looking for pics and stuff then other apps are needed. you can use a file manager like es file manager or root explorer to access you sd card.

your nandrod backups are what you will need to do to backup your entire phone settings, data, and apps.

In my post above to dustwun77 you will see that i had this break through realization. Yes i still have questions and yes i'm still a little impatient with my ability to learn this "smartphone" stuff. But thanks to you and the rest of the team here i am finally getting it.
Beside paying it forward eventually my real hope is that i can discover something new and share that with everyone. i get the sense that the ability to Flash and modify this device makes it possible to advance the technology also.
In another post that i have i talk about my crashed PC that got that way after being determined to prove to my GF that what she was saying about opening a car with a cell phone was wrong the way she was saying it could be done. We probably all have seen that commercial were a guy calls his wife who is getting on a plane and asks her if she could do it one more time. She takes out her cell phone and the car starts. Even though i didn't have a smart phone then i knew that there was an app to do that and that the car itself needed a device or an app; the ability to communicate with the phone. But she kept insisting that she knew that she read it somewhere ( "probably in my Mercedes hand book" ) that she could call home and get someone there to press the open button on the spare keys into the home phone and for her to hold her phone near her car and it would open the doors or trunk etc.
No matter how i tried to say to her that it didn't make sense and why the more that she insisted.
i went on the internet and found a site that mentioned a MythBuster clip proving that this story is just a hoax and maybe she did read it but it wasn't in her manual it was in one of those annoying MUST READ Forwarded message that pollute our email.
What i didn't realize was that it wasn't the mythbuster site but another site and as i was showing her the clip my virus program came up with a warning suggesting that i close the site immediately, run the antivirus program, reboot the computer and run the antivirus program again. i did that but after 3 or 4 days of running every maleware and antivirus program
the computer stopped booting.
She does not trust that someone can know more than she knows. Thank god i am not like that. It is obviously clear that this team is here to help. My job is to listen, follow directions and reporting back here with the results. If i ever sound like her yell at me like a drill Sargent!

Thanks again Ocn!

 

[ocnbrze]

LMOA that is a great story. makes me glad that i'm not married yet.

well we really do not yell here on the forums. so you will not see me yell or anything like that. really the only way to learn is to ask questions. and this is the best place to ask them no matter what the question is. as long as you are learning, this forum then is doing its job.

my only hope is the folks that i help out just pay it forward like i am doing. i was a noob like you and had a lot of questions and stupid mistakes. but folks here steered me in the right direction. so all i'm doing now is just paying forward to all of yall.

 

[andygu3]

LMOA that is a great story. makes me glad that i'm not married yet.

well we really do not yell here on the forums. so you will not see me yell or anything like that. really the only way to learn is to ask questions. and this is the best place to ask them no matter what the question is. as long as you are learning, this forum then is doing its job.

my only hope is the folks that i help out just pay it forward like i am doing. i was a noob like you and had a lot of questions and stupid mistakes. but folks here steered me in the right direction. so all i'm doing now is just paying forward to all of yall.

.....and a doing great job

 

[dustwun77]

Don't be so hard on yourself, the main thing is you keep coming back to find out what you want to know. The only stupid question is the one you don't ask.

Regarding your finding the right apps to use to find stuff, there you go, bud! You got it! The market is full of free and paid apps to do things and look at your stuff in new and delightful ways. That is part of the fun too, finding and app that does things in a way that suits you, like you do with roms and how you set up your apps on the pages of those roms.

Now the thing is, first you dl'd a rom, you flashed to install it, then when it is installed on your phone, you can make a nandroid, or backup of how it made your phone then. That gives you a clean starting point you can go back to after you put things here and there, you change this setting or that, and you pretty much trick it out the way you think want it, and find out you totally screwed something up. Back to square 2, you don't have to flash the rom from scratch again, you use recovery and go to the backup restore part and restore the nandroid, the backup of the rom you flashed, of your choosing. Then you can try again till you get it right and just the way you want it. Then you can make another nandroid backup, with recovery and have it on your phone. It is good to put these for safe keeping on your pc too, just copy them to that nan folder you make for yourself. You can give them names, like xyzstock, then when you get it like you want it, myxyz. You find a rom you like, maybe you hear about a different kernel that makes hdmi work, so you want to flash it. You have your nandroid, go ahead and give it a try. doesn't work? restore your nandroid and try something else.

So, you don't have to keep all the zips of roms and patches you have flashed on your sd card. And if they have the wrong name, the bootloader asks you if you want to install them every time you boot into it too. So keep them organized and transfer them to your pc, for safekeeping.

You'll want to keep those wipe zips though, like superwipe, you will use it when you get things cleaned up to flash a new rom.

You probably don't want to keep every nandroid you make on your sd card either, so put the ones you aren't working with now unto your pc. You can always take and put them back on your sd card, in the nandroid folder, then you can just wipe and restore and it will be just like you left it, with everything working, just like you had it set up when you made it.

Let us know if you can't figure out how to move stuff back and forth on the card. I think you have it though, you can hook up the phone and tell it to be a disk drive. That way screws up on me sometimes for some reason. another way is by powering down, pulling the battery and digging out that dink little card and putting it into an adapter and plugging it into your pc. Don't forget to dismount it from pc correctly when you are through. Another way I know of is using the usb ms toggle you can select while in recovery. If you have your phone in recovery and hooked up to pc with cable and activate that, it starts up a connection just like if you plug it in and tell it to act like a disk drive. It is pretty handy to work with and seems to be more reliable than the disk drive way, for some reason.

Clear as mud, huh? Just keep on asking.

 

[myea_one]

With the freedom kernals, whats the difference with the three types, its probably been answered a million times, (agressive, more, less) i know it has to do with undervolting but would it be possible for someone to explain in layman's terms. i was running the more freedom and switched to less with the mik3d rom and my phone just seems alittle choppy at times. i also have been testing out the different governors and am set on interactiveX currently.

 

[dustwun77]

With the freedom kernals, whats the difference with the three types, its probably been answered a million times, (agressive, more, less) i know it has to do with undervolting but would it be possible for someone to explain in layman's terms. i was running the more freedom and switched to less with the mik3d rom and my phone just seems alittle choppy at times. i also have been testing out the different governors and am set on interactiveX currently.

I only ran one of these kernels for a short period of time, prob not a fair test, don't think it agreed with my phone though.

 

[kryptonyt]

LMOA that is a great story. makes me glad that i'm not married yet.

well we really do not yell here on the forums. so you will not see me yell or anything like that. really the only way to learn is to ask questions. and this is the best place to ask them no matter what the question is. as long as you are learning, this forum then is doing its job.

my only hope is the folks that i help out just pay it forward like i am doing. i was a noob like you and had a lot of questions and stupid mistakes. but folks here steered me in the right direction. so all i'm doing now is just paying forward to all of yall.

It is a funny story with everyone laughing AT me! And i deserve it!

i remember you telling me about "paying it forward" and not only do i agree, i think there is a way that we HB's ( Human Beings ) can apply the practice to just about anything in life. Sadly i think that there are far too many HB's who think: "...someone else will do it...."
i'm in your camp Ocean. If i can help wherever i do.

Taking the time to read some of the how to's here and in a couple other android forums probably answers just about every basic question an Evo person might want to know.

i read somewhere that one of the members got X amount of hours out of stock battery. Well, with the new ROM and my phone taped into the house WIFI i'm going to see how long i can go without a charge...maybe i can get a record. LOL