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Root Update Evo 4G to ICS
- Thread starter ednyfed
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welcome to AF!!!!!!!!!!
are you rooted? do you have s-on or s-off? what recovery do you have?
if you are rooted and have a custom recovery then all you would have to do is flash an ics rom. i think the best one for ics is strike. but it is an aosp rom and not sense, so it will be different from what you are used to with your phone.
you can find strike here:http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/618281-list-utilities-apps-roms-kernels-og-evo.html under aosp and then ics.
ok if you are going to root the phone then use this guide:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...-rooting-gingerbread-2-3-5-dummies-guide.html
rooting is the only way you can get ICS onto your phone. you will never see an official ICS OTA ever for the og evo
let us know if you have any questions.
well recovery is where the magic happens. recovery is a mini os that operates separately from the android os of the phone. it is where you flash custom roms, kernels, themes, mods and tweaks.
you will use it to make nandroid backups which is a backup just in case of something bad was to happen you will have a backup you can restore back to.
it is also used to wipe the phone. it can do a factory reset. it can wipe dalvik cache and cache and lastly it can wipe the rom clean. wiping is essential to flashing roms. you need a clean environment if you want a proper flash of the rom. flashing is the term we use to mean install of roms and kernels.
you need a custom recovery to complete the rooting process by either flashing the su file or flashing a rom. you will not be fully rooted until you do one or the other.
NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i would follow the guide and try out mikg as it is still a great rom. the steps are in the guide.