Wanted to thank you for this guide. I was feeling a little hesitant about rooting my Evo till yesterday. This and the Quick Start guide made me feel so much more comfortable that yesterday after reading through everything in this guide and that one, I rooted my phone. I haven't got around to installing custom ROMS yet, but hey, I have root! S-OFF, etc. Differences in my real life experience vs. the guide however I wanted to share.
1.) Running HBOOT 2.10.0001 - Not sure how different it is from HBOOT 2.10, but I thought I'd mention that the guide worked on this version as well.
2.) Unrevoked3 for Evo now also includes the clockworkrecovery 2.6.0.1 as a step after rooting. I didn't have to do anything but continue to follow the instructions. It would have allowed me to also choose a different custom recovery mod, however following the on screen prompts for Unrevoked, everything went perfectly. I didn't take exact notes on the process, but it rebooted my evo approximately 3-5 times. At the end, it was already done with clockworkrecovery. Also, while using unrevoked3, I left the USB cable connected throughout the entire processes, just followed unrevoked3's prompts.
3.) When I installed ROM Manager, it updated my clockworkrecovery to 3.0.0.5; just wanted to share this piece of data.
Anyways, thanks again and wanted to share my experience. I was recently introduced to an app called JuiceDefender, and seeing as I wanted to be absolutely sure the root was successful after seeing S-OFF, I reinstalled this app. At the very bottom of the main screen of this app, after running the first time, it tells you whether or not the device is rooted. Probably not horribly relevant, but it made me better to have something else tell me that it was rooted, that knew better than I did.
Wanted to post all this so if you wanted to update any of the steps, you could.
There was one thing that I noticed none of the guides mentioned at all; what usually causes a phone to brick? I found some obscure post somewhere that mentioned that if the data cable were to be disconnected or the process was interrupted somewhere, that could do it, but are there any other reasons? I understand that if we can get to hboot, we can probably recover any error, as it is software we are dealing with, but I think a section explaining what the risks are and how to prevent most of them from happening would be great. Sure, following instructions works fine too, but mostly everywhere I see, it's ambigious statements stating, "There is a chance you could brick your phone" but nothing to explain how or why or anything. Essentially I felt like I was reading (not specifically in this guide, but all over the net) "Hey you could screw up and brick your phone, but I'm not telling you how to prevent that."
Again, thanks for taking the majority of fear out of rooting!
Thanks again!!!
-Keo
Wish I could keep my current one It was perfect! Going from HW3 to probably 4 or is there a 5 now?