Root Swapping Into a Rooted EVO

[dalyx06]

So I'm totally new at this...make it simple please lol. Anyway, my old EVO stopped working due to water damaged, and now I have a friend's old EVO. I want to swap into this new phone...but it's rooted with Cyanogen. I didn't realize this until I called Sprint and they had me turn it on..

My question is this: Is there any way that I can swap out of my old broken phone into this new (working, but modded) EVO? If so, instructions would be a huge help.

Thanks!

 

[dustwun77]

Yes, you need to be on a Sense rom.

Please check out our rooting for dummies gingerbread version in the all things root sticky.

Read the part about life after root. You should make sure you have the Amon Ra recovery, it tells you how, and flash a rom like Mikg3.11. That is in our roms and kernels sticky.

That is a quick overview to offer you hope and reading material. Time for me to go off.

Read, ask questions, You will get answers. be patient! And Welcome to the Forums!

 

[ocnbrze]

what recovery does the phone have. power off then press and hold power+vol down. this will take you to the bootloader. select recovery. at the bottom of the recovery menu, it should say what you have.

 

[dalyx06]

Thanks guys. None of this makes a lick of sense to me...roms, flash, etc...but I will try to read and figure it out. I will answer your question soon as I do.

Thanks again for the help - on to reading

 

[ocnbrze]

Thanks guys. None of this makes a lick of sense to me...roms, flash, etc...but I will try to read and figure it out. I will answer your question soon as I do.

Thanks again for the help - on to reading

yeah this is the guide that dusty was referring to:http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...ooting-dummies-guide-gingerbread-edition.html. go to the after root section and read about how to flash a rom. also if you have clockwork mod on your phone i would highly recommend that you switch to amon ra. instructions are in the guide as well.

 

[MizzouBrent]

Thanks guys. None of this makes a lick of sense to me...roms, flash, etc...but I will try to read and figure it out. I will answer your question soon as I do.

Thanks again for the help - on to reading

Your rom is essentially your phone's operating system and software. Sort of like how your how PC can run windows. All of your ROMs are Android based, but there are different versions. Sort of like Windows 95, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 etc.

Flashing is the process of installing software to your phone. It can be a whole ROM or mods/themes, that sort of thing.

The HTC Evo 4G comes stock (now anyway) with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. It has an HTC Sense overlay, which is basically a theme of the stock android version with some built in HTC tweaks. There are several ROMs (again, versions of your phone's OS) built on HTC Sense and there are some built straight from the source code provided by Google, so they do not contain any elements of HTC Sense. The ROM you have installed does NOT have HTC Sense so you are unable to do some things that you can do on Sense. The good news is, it's very easy to switch over to HTC Sense based ROMs so you can get the phone activated.

There are some great ROMs out there to choose from. If you're not all that interested in the root world, I would still remain rooted. There are really no disadvantages. I highly recommend MikG 3.11 or the Evo Classic 0.1.0 for new users that have no idea what they're doing. Both of these are tweaked for better performance over the stock HTC software and are basically without issues....so they both work, and they work well. Here are some download links.

MikG v3.11 [3/9/2012]

Index of /android/classic/stable
(you want the file that's 193 MB

The best advice I can give you is to READ READ READ and then read some more. Don't do anything to your phone that you aren't comfortable with, and ASK QUESTIONS here since this is a super helpful bunch. You'll be a flashing addict in no time.