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Root ROOTING For Dummies

MRROGERS1 said:
Reinstall the drivers and it will fire up for you. You may have to do I again after the dirt reboot as well.

You want to be in debugging and charge only on the USB.
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Thanks, I ended up doing what you suggested and my EVO is rooted! I'm on Step 6 now.

I can't find Press MENU > Perflock Disabler > on my phone. I do have the SETCPU so I don't know if it'll make any difference if I can't find the app and disable it but by what it says it looks like it'll prevent me from making any setting changes since I can't disable it.

More questions. This time about section 3 and 4.
Do you have to do section 4 if you don't have a rom thats been downloaded? I have just the stock version and I did section 3. Is section 4 for new ROM's or do it anyways?

Titanium Back up section.
After Pressing "RUN: Backup all user apps + system data" on Titanium back up pro it takes me to another screen with "Run the batch operation"-select all or deselect all. Under that is Kill active apps or Exclude active apps. All the apps have check marks you can activate or unactivate. Do I have to choose one of these or am I done with the procedure?

Well whatever it does I hit "Run the batch operation" with all the apps checked and its backing up everything.

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Again TIA!
 
I have some questions and hope someone can give me a quick answer

One of the reasons I got the EVO is to be able to used wireless router or Hotspot after it's rooted, but will I have to put a custom ROM for Hotspot or can I use a wireless tether app? If I have to use a ROM, which one should I used that will also allow 4G?

TIA
 
I just rooted last night. I'm not using a ROM and using wireless tether. Only problem I'm having is with the encryption other wise without it it works great.
 
jamesdean said:
The default ROM and Wireless Tether works fine.
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JD is correct.

But if you do get curious about other Roms, Myn's Warm is an Excellent ROM and very close to stock. It just seems to work better than the stock ROM and takes the UI up a notch. And it also unlocks the native tethering app so you do not have to DL Wireless Tether...just FYI.
 
Well, rooting went ok, but flashing a ROM seems to be giving me fits.

Trying to flash the Fresh ROM using ROM Manager, but it reboots, goes to the "4G" white screen, and hangs there - until I pull the battery. It has done this 2x so far.

Anyone got any tips?
 
-DRM- said:
Well, rooting went ok, but flashing a ROM seems to be giving me fits.

Trying to flash the Fresh ROM using ROM Manager, but it reboots, goes to the "4G" white screen, and hangs there - until I pull the battery. It has done this 2x so far.

Anyone got any tips?
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Try downloading the ROM on your desktop and plop it on the root of your mSD card. I was having issues with Myns 2.2 that ROM Manager would download. I then just downloaded it myself and flashed it myself.
 
goodboy said:
Try downloading the ROM on your desktop and plop it on the root of your mSD card. I was having issues with Myns 2.2 that ROM Manager would download. I then just downloaded it myself and flashed it myself.
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sometimes that white will stay there for 4-5 min on mine :confused:
 
I am also trying to flash Myn2.2 through rom manager. My evo also hangs up on the "HTC EVO 4G" White screen. I let it go for 20+ minutes. nothing happened, so I pulled the battery. What am I doing wrong? I have th .zip file in the root folder and everything.
 
Flash it straight from the bootloader into recovery...select "install zip from SD Card"....then select "choose zip from SD Card"...then the ROM should show up on this long list...depending how you put it on there. I will admit to installing my ROMs "over the air" instead of pushing them from the computer....because of this, they end up in the "/download" folder. Anyway, a while back somebody rhetorically asked what was the purpose of ROM manager....and I am now beginning to understand. The only thing I can think of is that it allows you to name your ROMs/Backups...other than that, you can do everything thru the bootloader and usually do it much more reliably.
 
*To last two posts*

Have you wiped Data and Dalvik caches? If you're ClockWork, trying doing it multiple times before you flash the rom again.
 
flyjbaker said:
Flash it straight from the bootloader into recovery...select "install zip from SD Card"....then select "choose zip from SD Card"...then the ROM should show up on this long list...depending how you put it on there. I will admit to installing my ROMs "over the air" instead of pushing them from the computer....because of this, they end up in the "/download" folder. Anyway, a while back somebody rhetorically asked what was the purpose of ROM manager....and I am now beginning to understand. The only thing I can think of is that it allows you to name your ROMs/Backups...other than that, you can do everything thru the bootloader and usually do it much more reliably.
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When I go to the manual bootloader screen and choose recovery, I don't get any choices, it just goes straight to the white screen and hangs there.
 
On behalf of all Dummies I thank you. I actually found a thread that helped me to root but then I had no idea what to do next. But I do have one question I hope can be answered. I like the idea of having a clean and wiped backup. Unforunatley I did not see this untill after i rooted. So i made one backup of my current rooted state with apps and alll. How can I make another backup of no apps and a wiped phone. If I do a factory reset will I have to root all over again?
 
drslippyfist said:
On behalf of all Dummies I thank you. I actually found a thread that helped me to root but then I had no idea what to do next. But I do have one question I hope can be answered. I like the idea of having a clean and wiped backup. Unforunatley I did not see this untill after i rooted. So i made one backup of my current rooted state with apps and alll. How can I make another backup of no apps and a wiped phone. If I do a factory reset will I have to root all over again?
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Factory reset will not un root your phone
 
drslippyfist said:
On behalf of all Dummies I thank you. I actually found a thread that helped me to root but then I had no idea what to do next. But I do have one question I hope can be answered. I like the idea of having a clean and wiped backup. Unforunatley I did not see this untill after i rooted. So i made one backup of my current rooted state with apps and alll. How can I make another backup of no apps and a wiped phone. If I do a factory reset will I have to root all over again?
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I know you think you need a stock rom but you really don't. All you need is a safe rom to recover to. If you end up unrooting your phone for service/warranty purposed, that procedure will take you back to stock. So I guess my longwinded question here is why do you think you need a wiped stock rom?

If you must have it, then I think you can find a stock image over at xda and just download it to your card/puter.
 
I'd like to say thanks for writing this review, but I have a question,

Starting with Section 3 with ROM Manager, when I click Flash Clockwork Recovery, "An error occurred while flashing your recovery".

Edit: Figured it out, apparently WiFi had to be enabled.
 
This might be kinda off subject... Any of you guys or girls using CM6.1? If so do you have a kernel recommendation? Not sure if I should use Snap or Toasts beta kernel, or are there more that Im not aware of?
 
wrapkgb said:
This might be kinda off subject... Any of you guys or girls using CM6.1? If so do you have a kernel recommendation? Not sure if I should use Snap or Toasts beta kernel, or are there more that Im not aware of?
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I'm using it. But using the stock CM. Don't feel like tinkering with Kernels.
 
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