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Root ROOTING For Dummies Guide.....the Gingerbread Edition

HAMBO said:
That's the spirit! :D

I actually have a spare SD card (unused) at my office from another EVO (someone replaced their phone and kept their old card) so rather than reformat mine maybe I can just pop that one in tomorrow, factory reset my phone and give it another go?
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Yup, put that card in. Format card. Factory Restore phone. Try again.

(Also, make sure you're contacts are synced with google, it's a real pain typing in contacts...)
(maybe SMS backup works without root, not sure... try that if you can for sure).
 
ocnbrze said:
thank you gonna add some more info to the guide at some point. any ideas that you think you want added pm me. i think gonna add info on nandroids and how to flash a rom.
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I would definitely add a new sticky on flashing a rom and such.. But not to this one.. Too much clutter in here already
 
beastinbolts said:
I would definitely add a new sticky on flashing a rom and such.. But not to this one.. Too much clutter in here already
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Maybe add the "Hide" options like in the rooting for dummies guide?

These two treads are very similar, just this one is now more relevant. I don't know the forum magics, but I'd imagine a merge wouldn't serve well here.

But I agree with beasinbolts that the OP looks a bit cluttered.

(Or if you could make the word "thoroughly" blink or something :P that'd help a bit I'm sure)
 
9to5cynic said:
Yup, put that card in. Format card. Factory Restore phone. Try again.

(Also, make sure you're contacts are synced with google, it's a real pain typing in contacts...)
(maybe SMS backup works without root, not sure... try that if you can for sure).
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Thanks, will do. Just to clarify, steps are (after backing up):

Put in new SD Card, reformat it (do I just choose Erase SD card or do I need to do anything else?)

Then Factory Reset (just settings>SD&phone storage>Factory data reset?)

Sorry for the noob questions...:o
 
when it goes to fastboot it ask "do you want to start update" if I dont it just goes to ra and then I flash the rom restart and it asks the same thing again. The phone itself wontstart up.
 
Wow should have checked before I asked.. The edited OP is awesome... lotsa good info in there.. Did I say you were doing ann awesome job.... Any one seen evomattic around.. That dude used to make me laugh
 
HAMBO said:
Thanks, will do. Just to clarify, steps are (after backing up):

Put in new SD Card, reformat it (do I just choose Erase SD card or do I need to do anything else?)

Then Factory Reset (just settings>SD&phone storage>Factory data reset?)

Sorry for the noob questions...:o
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Yup, sounds good to me. That looks right.

Marcisawesome said:
when it goes to fastboot it ask "do you want to start update" if I dont it just goes to ra and then I flash the rom restart and it asks the same thing again. The phone itself wontstart up.
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Wait. Are you talking about the first boot menu? Do you have the pc36img file on the root of your sd card. If *no* then you should get some error messages saying that no image was found.
 
HAMBO said:
Thanks, will do. Just to clarify, steps are (after backing up):

Put in new SD Card, reformat it (do I just choose Erase SD card or do I need to do anything else?)

Then Factory Reset (just settings>SD&phone storage>Factory data reset?)

Sorry for the noob questions...:o
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yes everything looks good to go.
 
beastinbolts said:
Wow should have checked before I asked.. The edited OP is awesome... lotsa good info in there.. Did I say you were doing ann awesome job.... Any one seen evomattic around.. That dude used to make me laugh
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Not in a while.
And Mr. Ed is now on AT&T I believe...
 
Wait n/m yeah those are already on my phone but im still getting the update. and it still says no image found. I just ordered the 3d though cause im tiered of trying to figure this out and falling asleep. Thank you guys for the help
 
ok so i tweeked the op a little. renamed some sections and added a few more to the before rooting section. i also added a nandroid section. and corrected some grammar and such. check out the new changes.
 
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ocnbrze said:
ok so i tweeked the op a little. renamed some sections and added a few more to the before rooting section. i also added a nandroid section. and corrected some grammar and such. check out the new changes.
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Great job on this and all the other threads here in the entire Evo section. I know there are others that help out too, but you have been going nonstop since Revolutionary was released. I am still learning just by reading your responses to questions. Keep up the good work!:D
 
Evo said:
Great job on this and all the other threads here in the entire Evo section. I know there are others that help out too, but you have been going nonstop since Revolutionary was released. I am still learning just by reading your responses to questions. Keep up the good work!:D
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thanx man, just paying it forward is all i'm doing. i rooted with matlock's guide and i figured that i wanted to give back to this awesome community.
 
I need some help, I am almost done...I hope. Have sucessfully rooted, but when flashing "sprint lovers ROM" I get FAIL during parsing on [4] SYSTEM, and [5] USERDATA. Update fail.
 
This procedure worked beautifully for me the first time. Thanks for the guide. Now I've been satisfied with a Mik FIX :-). I did notice something after the procedure though....I couldn't find a way, in Recovery, to connect up to USB in order to transfer things over while in recovery. Anybody else notice that????? Or did I just miss it?
 
Ekring67 said:
I need some help, I am almost done...I hope. Have sucessfully rooted, but when flashing "sprint lovers ROM" I get FAIL during parsing on [4] SYSTEM, and [5] USERDATA. Update fail.
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Hmm.. That sounds very un friendly.. Much different then any error I got when flashing a rom pre 2.3.3

The word you used parsing.. Is an hboot term..flashing a rom is done in recovery..
 
QuickDraw said:
This procedure worked beautifully for me the first time. Thanks for the guide. Now I've been satisfied with a Mik FIX :-). I did notice something after the procedure though....I couldn't find a way, in Recovery, to connect up to USB in order to transfer things over while in recovery. Anybody else notice that????? Or did I just miss it?
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there should be a mounts and storage option correct? with a mount usb storage? i do not have the latest clockwork mod. so i could be wrong.
 
QuickDraw said:
This procedure worked beautifully for me the first time. Thanks for the guide. Now I've been satisfied with a Mik FIX :-). I did notice something after the procedure though....I couldn't find a way, in Recovery, to connect up to USB in order to transfer things over while in recovery. Anybody else notice that????? Or did I just miss it?
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You can't transfer any thing to you phone quilter in recovery.. Boot your phone up.. Then select use drive as disk... Some putters have different langege but your phone has to he booted up
 
ocnbrze said:
there should be a mounts and storage option correct? with a mount usb storage? i do not have the latest clockwork mod. so i could be wrong.
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Yes, this is the way that it used to be, but now however there is no USB option after going into "mounts". The only options now are:

-Return
-Mount /system
-Mount /cache
-Mount /data
-Mount /sd-ext
-Mount /sdcard


Mounting the last "/sdcard", doesn't do anything within recovery, as far as the usb connection to the computer anyway. Without the usb options, it only adds a step or two anyway, so it's not really a BIG DEAL to me, I was just wondering if I missed something. :-) Thanks for the reply, oh and thanks again for the guide, it helped me out tremendously.
 
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