Root Need Help rooting my Evo 4g.

[outlawbiker]

I've begun the process of rooting my phone for the first time and I've encountered some problems. I think the biggest problem I have is that I have a mac and that I accepted the most recent OTA (I didn't know this would make rooting more difficult.)

I've followed this guide:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...-rooting-gingerbread-2-3-5-dummies-guide.html

I've successfully (I believe) unlocked the bootloader but I'm stuck on flashing a custom recovery. Now because I'm on a mac I'm having problems with ADB. I followed this guide to make ADB run thru Terminal on my mac. [GUIDE] Using ADB & FASTBOOT in OSX / Mac - xda-developers

I'm also trying to follow these:
[GUIDE] How to achieve S-OFF after unlocking 2.18 HBOOT with HTCDev.com - No More Watermark!

How to root an HTC EVO 4G with HBOOT 2.18.0001

and the original dummies guide above with the HTCDev method. It has the 3 options (ADB command method, android flasher method (I can't find android flasher for mac), PC36IMG method). For the ADB command method, I guess I'm confused about what the first thing I type into Terminal is. Do I have to go thru the steps from the xda-developers guide above every single time before typing in the commands?

I'm pretty positive that I successfully unlocked the bootloader because I followed those steps and it went thru and also my screen is the same as the pictures in this guide: [GUIDE] How to achieve S-OFF after unlocking 2.18 HBOOT with HTCDev.com - No More Watermark!

It says that it is "unlocked" at the top of the screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

 

[ocnbrze]

I've begun the process of rooting my phone for the first time and I've encountered some problems. I think the biggest problem I have is that I have a mac and that I accepted the most recent OTA (I didn't know this would make rooting more difficult.)

I've followed this guide:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...-rooting-gingerbread-2-3-5-dummies-guide.html

I've successfully (I believe) unlocked the bootloader but I'm stuck on flashing a custom recovery. Now because I'm on a mac I'm having problems with ADB. I followed this guide to make ADB run thru Terminal on my mac. [GUIDE] Using ADB & FASTBOOT in OSX / Mac - xda-developers

I'm also trying to follow these:
[GUIDE] How to achieve S-OFF after unlocking 2.18 HBOOT with HTCDev.com - No More Watermark!

How to root an HTC EVO 4G with HBOOT 2.18.0001

and the original dummies guide above with the HTCDev method. It has the 3 options (ADB command method, android flasher method (I can't find android flasher for mac), PC36IMG method). For the ADB command method, I guess I'm confused about what the first thing I type into Terminal is. Do I have to go thru the steps from the xda-developers guide above every single time before typing in the commands?

I'm pretty positive that I successfully unlocked the bootloader because I followed those steps and it went thru and also my screen is the same as the pictures in this guide: [GUIDE] How to achieve S-OFF after unlocking 2.18 HBOOT with HTCDev.com - No More Watermark!

It says that it is "unlocked" at the top of the screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

welcome to the forums!!!!!!!!!!
if it says unlocked, then you are unlocked. congrats!!!!

now as far as adb goes, if you follow the adb setup guide for mac you linked, you will only need to do it once. after you see that your device is listed when typing adb devices, then you will need to continue down to the fastboot commands to get that working.

from the guide:

FastBoot

I've now found you all a precompiled version of Fast Boot:
http://developer.htc.com/adp.html

Please download and unzip the precompiled version for OSX to your "SDK/platform-tools" folder.

Rename the unzipped file from "fastboot-mac" just to "fastboot". You need to fix the permissions of the fastboot file using CHMOD in Terminal.

In Terminal navigate to your "SDK/platform-tools" folder and then type:
Code:
ls
You should see all of the files in your "platform-tools" folder such as adb, aapt, fastboot, etc.

Then type:
Code:
chmod 777 fastboot
PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM ASSUMING THAT YOU HAVE CHANGED THE FILE NAME ABOVE !

Now with the permissions fixed you should be able to run fastboot.

Connect your phone via USB and set to "charging only". Then turn off your phone and leave the USB in. Then hold the back key and then turn your phone on again. You will have a white screen with 3 skateboarding androids on.

Now in Terminal type:
Code:
fastboot devices
And you should see your unqiue phone ID! (Note that you have to be at that white screen with the skateboarders for the "fastboot devices" code to run!

Now you have a fully working fastboot !!!