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thank you
where where you 2 hours ago hehe
 
hey whats up. i just bought the htc evo for boost mobile and i can't seem to enable wifi for free without paying like i did on the samsung transform ultra on boost mobile. I downloaded foxfi and everything but it auto shuts off my internet so wifi wont work? you know a way that'll keep the internet on therefore tricking the phone into thinking im using regular internet thru the phone instead of wifi so it won't disconnect when it senses the internet hotspot being active. also, can you please tell me step by step how to root this phone completely? Im a ultra beginner so please help me !!! also if you have a youtube video that'll help :)
 
thebeast567 said:
hey whats up. i just bought the htc evo for boost mobile and i can't seem to enable wifi for free without paying like i did on the samsung transform ultra on boost mobile. I downloaded foxfi and everything but it auto shuts off my internet so wifi wont work? you know a way that'll keep the internet on therefore tricking the phone into thinking im using regular internet thru the phone instead of wifi so it won't disconnect when it senses the internet hotspot being active. also, can you please tell me step by step how to root this phone completely? Im a ultra beginner so please help me !!! also if you have a youtube video that'll help :)
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Okay I'm gonna give this a try.... keep in mind I'm not that great at a step by step guide lol. But this is what worked for mine........
First download and install the HTC Sync drivers from here HTC Sync
Second unlock your boot loader by registering an account here and choosing the Evo Design Sprint model then click begin unlock bootloader HTCdev - Unlock Bootloader
Follow the instructions they give to unlock your bootloader.
Third get the CWM recovery Apache Thunder modified from here http://androidforums.com/evo-design-all-things-root/562047-clockworkmod-5-0-2-7-boost-mobile-version.html
Download the PH44IMG.zip file and put it on your SD card on the phone, DO NOT UNZIP IT! Reboot the phone and hold down Power and Volume Down keys until the HTC hboot screen comes up.... the rest is automatic by the phone.
Now remove the PH44IMG.zip from your SD card or else hboot will install it everytime you boot into it, then simply download the file Zombu2 made at the top of this thread where it says "Grab the CWM Zip file from HERE or use the MIRROR" and put it on your SD card then reboot holding down power and volume up, you should be in CWM recovery.... choose install zip from SD card and use volume down or up to navigate to the file you downloaded and press power to choose it, confirm installation then wait. Reboot and enjoy your rooted phone.
That's pretty much it I think. :)
 
i tried to unlock bootloader, i am registered already, but when i press the button "begin unlock bootloader" nothing happen, so what im doing wrong?
 
josefco007 said:
i tried to unlock bootloader, i am registered already, but when i press the button "begin unlock bootloader" nothing happen, so what im doing wrong?
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That happened to me a couple times too, just keep trying and it'll pop up a window for you. Not sure why it does that.
 
josefco007 said:
i already tried firefox, google, IE but still none of the working, what can i do?
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Log out. Refresh. Login.
Else... Log out. Refresh. Wait an hour. Refresh. Login.

I had same problem... It logs your ip and needs to clear be you can access/reaccess.
 
josefco007 said:
i already unlock my boot loader, i did ota before unlock the boot loader, so can i install cwm and then root it whitout issue?
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I would think you should be able to. Install CWM and then run the root zip from CWM and you should be good to go.
 
Yes. After I did the OTA update, I was still able to unlock the boot loader and install CWM. The root via CWM method still works and likely will continue to work as long as HTC continues to allow us to unlock our bootloaders. :P
 
I got my phone unlocked with no problem. I pulled the battery, and while pressing the power button and + vol button at the same time, it just boots up normally. I tried again and again, and the same thing. I then did the power button and - vol and tried doing recovery, as it starts to work I get a red triangle with a red exclamation point through it. I let it sit and the phone will restart after about 2 minutes, but when I check with root checker, it says my phone is not rooted.
What can I be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance

HTC EVO Design 4G for Boost Mobile
 
AceKing721 said:
I got my phone unlocked with no problem. I pulled the battery, and while pressing the power button and + vol button at the same time, it just boots up normally. I tried again and again, and the same thing. I then did the power button and - vol and tried doing recovery, as it starts to work I get a red triangle with a red exclamation point through it. I let it sit and the phone will restart after about 2 minutes, but when I check with root checker, it says my phone is not rooted.
What can I be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance

HTC EVO Design 4G for Boost Mobile
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Do you have the stock recovery flashed, or CWM flashed? It sounds to me like it's stock recovery. Flash CWM, then once in CWM you can select install zip from SD card, then select the root zip, then reboot and you should be good to go.
 
guyphs said:
Do you have the stock recovery flashed, or CWM flashed? It sounds to me like it's stock recovery. Flash CWM, then once in CWM you can select install zip from SD card, then select the root zip, then reboot and you should be good to go.
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guyphs, I must have missed something in the tutorial. After I unlocked the phone, I put the cwm-root-htc-evo-design-4g.zip file on the micro SD and tried starting the phone holding down the power and + vol. which didn't work. I was able to hold down power and - vol. and went to recovery, but that didn't seem to work. Am I missing a step before that? Do I need to do a back up from the phone, or the computer?
I really appreciate your help.
 
AceKing721 said:
guyphs, I must have missed something in the tutorial. After I unlocked the phone, I put the cwm-root-htc-evo-design-4g.zip file on the micro SD and tried starting the phone holding down the power and + vol. which didn't work. I was able to hold down power and - vol. and went to recovery, but that didn't seem to work. Am I missing a step before that? Do I need to do a back up from the phone, or the computer?
I really appreciate your help.
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I think the zip file you're working with there is the actual zip file to root the phone, but i can only be flashed in Clockworkmod recovery -- not the stock recovery on the phone. After you've unlocked the bootloader, the next thing you have to do is put clockworkrecovery on your sd card, rename it to PH44IMG.zip, then boot into hboot (remove the battery, then boot by holding vol - and power). Then it should automatically detect the zip file and ask you if you want to update and you select yes and reboot. Then you have to remove the sd card from your phone and boot into hboot again (otherwise it will keep trying to update with that same file) and select recovery. Then you should be in Clockworkmod recovery -- you'll know because it'll say at the top.

From there you have several options. Best practice is to do a full backup FIRST and then save that backup on your computer in case anything goes horribly wrong. Select backup and restore then do a full backup. It'll save to your SD card in clockworkmod\backup. Then you can select install zip card from sd, select the zip you're working with now (the root zip) and install it. Then reboot and you should have root.

You MAY have an issue with the 4g / wifi not working if you've unlocked the bootloader prior to doing the OTA update to 1.10. If so, Apache Thunder has a fix for that.

The problem is that I guess Apache's version of CWM for Boost Mobile's version of the phone got taken down, I guess because of a GPL beef. If you don't already have that file, send me a PM and I'll send it to you.
 
I believe it may be possible to flash root to a phone without CWM at all but that would still mean unlocking the bootloader.

BUT it would bypass the need for CWM at all so it can be publicly posted here without any GPL violations and such. It's a good alternative for now for any new users who just got their phone and want to root it.

So I need to figure out how to convert the tar files that CWM makes with it's backups to IMG files that are typically used for hboot. IMG files are also used for custom roms that are flashed via ODIN which was a popular method for flashing roms to the Prevail. So I need to find out what goes into making one. I can probably convert the system tar file prerooted and can provide that as a flashable file for hboot.

So how bout it guys? Approve of that? :D
 
Apache Thunder said:
I believe it may be possible to flash root to a phone without CWM at all but that would still mean unlocking the bootloader.

BUT it would bypass the need for CWM at all so it can be publicly posted here without any GPL violations and such. It's a good alternative for now for any new users who just got their phone and want to root it.

So I need to figure out how to convert the tar files that CWM makes with it's backups to IMG files that are typically used for hboot. IMG files are also used for custom roms that are flashed via ODIN which was a popular method for flashing roms to the Prevail. So I need to find out what goes into making one. I can probably convert the system tar file prerooted and can provide that as a flashable file for hboot.

So how bout it guys? Approve of that? :D
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You, sir, are a mad scientist.
 
Looks like I finished the hard work of setting up Ubunto in a virtual machine, installed Android Kitchen, ported over my current rom with integrated OTA update (thankfully it looks like Ubontu supports the tar files natively that CWM generates when making backups. :D) and is currently being zipaligned and deodexed. YEAH BABY!

Oddly, once the setup process was done, it was easier to do in Linux then when I tried to deodex something in Windows. (back when I had the Prevail, lolz)

If everything works as planned, new users can just skip the OTA update and flash my deodexed, zipaligned rom and go direct to root and June OTA update preinstalled.

It's going to kick ass. :D

Spent all day looking for a way to repack a system.img and might have found a way. (since CWM generates tar files : ( )

I grabbed the rom.zip file out of the leaked RUU installer thats been running around (basically a stock system.img this phone starts out at) and will use a tool I FINALLY found to convert and mount it in Ubuntu and replace all the files with the new ones that got deodexed and such and then convert the raw file back to img and hopefully it will flash correctly via hboot.

Don't worry, I'll test it before anyone gets to see it. :D

EDIT Also noticed that there is a splash.nb0 file inside the rom.zip. The "rom.zip" is one gigantic hboot compatible zip file. One of the files it appears to flash is splash1.nb0 . I believe this to be the HTC logo you see when you first turn on the phone.

I figured out what format it's in but will need to install Photoshop first to edit it without destroying the original structure of the file. I should be able to mod it so that you can have a custom logo on power on. I've already customized the image and save the draft as a bmp. I will then use Photoshop to paste it into the nb0 file. :D

But it's getting way to late, so I'll keep ya'll posted tomorrow since I need to sleep now. :(
 
guyphs said:
I think the zip file you're working with there is the actual zip file to root the phone, but i can only be flashed in Clockworkmod recovery -- not the stock recovery on the phone. After you've unlocked the bootloader, the next thing you have to do is put clockworkrecovery on your sd card, rename it to PH44IMG.zip, then boot into hboot (remove the battery, then boot by holding vol - and power). Then it should automatically detect the zip file and ask you if you want to update and you select yes and reboot. Then you have to remove the sd card from your phone and boot into hboot again (otherwise it will keep trying to update with that same file) and select recovery. Then you should be in Clockworkmod recovery -- you'll know because it'll say at the top.

From there you have several options. Best practice is to do a full backup FIRST and then save that backup on your computer in case anything goes horribly wrong. Select backup and restore then do a full backup. It'll save to your SD card in clockworkmod\backup. Then you can select install zip card from sd, select the zip you're working with now (the root zip) and install it. Then reboot and you should have root.

You MAY have an issue with the 4g / wifi not working if you've unlocked the bootloader prior to doing the OTA update to 1.10. If so, Apache Thunder has a fix for that.

The problem is that I guess Apache's version of CWM for Boost Mobile's version of the phone got taken down, I guess because of a GPL beef. If you don't already have that file, send me a PM and I'll send it to you.
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Thank you for taking the time to give me a step by step. It is much appreciated!
 
Apache Thunder said:
I believe it may be possible to flash root to a phone without CWM at all but that would still mean unlocking the bootloader.

BUT it would bypass the need for CWM at all so it can be publicly posted here without any GPL violations and such. It's a good alternative for now for any new users who just got their phone and want to root it.

So I need to figure out how to convert the tar files that CWM makes with it's backups to IMG files that are typically used for hboot. IMG files are also used for custom roms that are flashed via ODIN which was a popular method for flashing roms to the Prevail. So I need to find out what goes into making one. I can probably convert the system tar file prerooted and can provide that as a flashable file for hboot.

So how bout it guys? Approve of that? :D
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I'm pretty sure all you have to do is flash the su binary via fastboot to obtain root. In any case
 
K, so i was able to get this all working rather nicely. but (knock on wood) i didnt have one problem with the OTA update? I did update it before i unlocked and flashed CWM on it, and i just used the CWM Root .zip for the root process, however i did do a factory reset, and cleared all caches before backing up. figured that doing a factory reset would have wiped out the OTA update, but after unlock, flash, and root i go to HTC Software Update, its says there are none available? so i guess the update stayed on before i started freeing my phone? Wifi and 4g turn on no prob, superuser pops up quickly asking for permissions, all in all it worked perfectly (again knock on wood) thank you guys for all your hard work and information :D
 
Is this file only for boost?

i have the custom CWM version 5.0.28 or whichever the newest one for the design 4g sprint and whenever i go to install the su file via cwm it does nothing..no text no installing file no..nothing..i'm not new to rooting so i'm used to clockwork saying ya know something..

just wondering..
 
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