Root Rooting Help for a new user.

[Texansummer]

How do I know if my phone is "rooted"? I'm new to the "smart phone" era....sadly....lol. I did a search for updates & it said that there weren't any needed at this time. I do know that I have the HTC Evo 4G 3.70.651.1 (FroYo I guess? but it doesn't say)....in the market, the app shows as compatible but it also has the + drop down that says it's not compatible....confused....

 

[dan330]

How do I know if my phone is "rooted"? I'm new to the "smart phone" era....sadly....lol. I did a search for updates & it said that there weren't any needed at this time. I do know that I have the HTC Evo 4G 3.70.651.1 (FroYo I guess? but it doesn't say)....in the market, the app shows as compatible but it also has the + drop down that says it's not compatible....confused....

hi.. and welcome to the forum... always great to see a fellow texan.

dd you purchase this phone new?
if so.. then if you have to ask if it is rooted.. then 100% it is not!

you have to go through a process to ROOT your android phone. Only the Nexus phones have a simple one-command to root.

 

[Texansummer]

Yeah...I got it new...just over a week ago actually. What is the process to ROOT it & what is that exactly?

 

[dan330]

Yeah...I got it new...just over a week ago actually. What is the process to ROOT it & what is that exactly?

that there is a big question.. and one you want to do some research and reading on before you go any farther.

start here:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/194918-rooting-dummies.html

 

[dgrobe2112]

quite simply. Rooting the phone.. is like.. "cough" jailbreaking the phone. you can run different anything on the phone.. developers out there are making new ROMS (operating systems) that have different advantages like.. better battery life.. or a newer Android system.. and so forth.. free wifi tethering..

im rooted.. but never did anythign with it until recently.. i was just wifi tethering.. thats it.. stock rom.. just rooted.. then i just recently put the new Sense 3.0 on my phone.. which.. is not available for our phone.. yet.. but a developer was able to get it working on the EVO.. so i tried it..

 

[andygu3]

Reading the above thread is all the information you should need but you can also use [ROOT] ~~~ HTC EVO - Auto Root ~~~ v2.5 (4/25/11) - xda-developers to root the phone if unrevoked does not work

 

[andygu3]

How do I know if my phone is "rooted"? I'm new to the "smart phone" era....sadly....lol. I did a search for updates & it said that there weren't any needed at this time. I do know that I have the HTC Evo 4G 3.70.651.1 (FroYo I guess? but it doesn't say)....in the market, the app shows as compatible but it also has the + drop down that says it's not compatible....confused....

Welcome to the forums, BTW There are some helpful people in these forums so if you have any questions, feel free to ask away