[VIDEO GUIDE] FULL S-OFF ROOT for Evo SHIFT. Froyo (2.2) + Gingerbread (2.3.3+2.3.4)
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I Like the guide, but I cannot confirm that it works for me.
Just picked up my replacement phone this morning and when I run the HTCDev files, it give me error 132.
Which from my searching usually means corrupt file, so I re-downloaded and still have had no luck.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks for making this stupid hard sprint. We love you.
Just picked up my replacement phone this morning and when I run the HTCDev files, it give me error 132.
Which from my searching usually means corrupt file, so I re-downloaded and still have had no luck.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks for making this stupid hard sprint. We love you.
I don't believe its a download issue.
Should I just go with the Indirect method?
From the posts in here, it looks like it can cause issues.
Should I just go with the Indirect method?
From the posts in here, it looks like it can cause issues.
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You're copying and pasting the unlock code improperly.
Please watch the videos and follow the instructions on HTCDev.com very closely.
Thank you.
Thank you for this guide. I have successfully rooted and flashed my wife's Shift that had 2.3.4. The videos were especially helpful and although this method was time consuming, it worked!
As many have said, be sure to use a clean formatted FAT 32 SD card. This made the difference for me when I ran into trouble.
As many have said, be sure to use a clean formatted FAT 32 SD card. This made the difference for me when I ran into trouble.
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@VICADAN
I tried to re-root last night, but the Visionary.apk didn't work anymore, it said something not certificated. I am on 2.2 and sounds like the play (market) had black list the visionary.
(I have the apk on the root of the sdcard, and also tried the adb run)
Please help.
adb -r install com.xx.apk make sure you have unknown sources turned on in application settings.
I can adb devices and it shows my phone and unknown sources and debugging turned on. I copy and pasted the command line from beginning of this thread (adb -r install....), and still gave me an error saying something "not certified".
Any ideas? thanks!
Never got that. You must be missing a step. Watch the videos.
Thanks for the quick response. the Videos were for 2.3. and higher, right?
I am on 2.2, and is suppose to be a easier root. I did it before when I did the root last year.
Should I RUU (your methold) again, before they update the market to "play".
My thinking is they may black list the visionary.apk after the update.
I got it working now, thanks!
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trying to root my wife's Shift. I think I can follow these steps pretty easily. Man there are a lot, wish it was more like my Epic 4G Touch with simple one clicks. Lousy HTC. Can't these all be wrapped into a single script somehow?
Anyways, does anyone have the original Visionary.apk to download? Google turns up the ModacoVisionaryPlusr14.apk. Are these the same?
Thanks guys, really appreciate the videos and help. Plus the list of ROMs is great.
Anyways, does anyone have the original Visionary.apk to download? Google turns up the ModacoVisionaryPlusr14.apk. Are these the same?
Thanks guys, really appreciate the videos and help. Plus the list of ROMs is great.
If your on 2.3.4 there is a Script you can use. Indirect's Script will simplify Rooting. I've posted the Visionary apk several times. I believe once or twice on this thread. But I've attached it again below
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42-1) Check your phone's version in settings -> About phone.
2.2: Whew! Life is easy, skip to the bottom of this thread for rooting 2.2 after completing the prerequisites.
2.3.3: Skip to the 2.3.3 section after completing the prerequisites.
2.3.4: Follow every step from step 0. Skip 2.3.3 section.
PREREQUISITES:
0) A PRECAUTIONARY THING TO NOTE: YOU WILL BE ON BASEBAND 1.07 AND WIMAX 27167 AFTER ROOTING! YOU SHOULD FLASH 1.08.01.0111 AND WIMAX 27240 AFTER ROOTING. ALSO NOTE THAT BEFORE YOU FLASH THE RADIOS MAKE SURE YOU ARE STILL ON STOCK 2.2 TO AVOID BOOT CORRUPTION AND MORE WORK. AFTER FLASHING THE RADIOS YOU SHOULD REFLASH CLOCKWORK RECOVERY, WIPE CACHE, WIPE DALVIK, FORMAT /SYSTEM, WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET AND REFLASH YOUR ROM OF CHOICE!
1) Install HTC Sync and Android SDK with platform tools so you have adb!
Android SDK available HERE:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
INSTALL PLATFORM-TOOLS ONLY!
HTC Sync available HERE (only needed on windows):
http://dl4.htc.com/setup_3.0.5557.exe
DOWNLOAD THE Shift rootkit here EVERYONE NEEDS THIS:
MIRROR1:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tjnn1b
MIRROR2:
http://d-h.st/m8U
MIRROR3 (BROKEN RIGHT NOW):
http://www.goo-inside.me/roms/VICODAN/shift-rootkit.rar
2) Check your phone's Android version. If 2.2 skip to rooting Android 2.2 section. If 2.3.4 continue to the next step. If 2.3.3 skip to 2.3.3 section.
WARNING: THIS VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY AND YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA IN UNLOCKING THE BOOTLOADER
3) Watch these 4 videos before starting:
Here are all 4 video howtos on rooting from 2.3.4:
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ROOTING ANDROID 2.3.4:
3) Be running stock 2.3.4 latest OTA update from HTC
4) Register at htcdev.com
5) Unlock the bootloader by choosing HTC Evo 3D for Sprint and follow instructions
6) Once you have unlocked bootloader flash clockwork recovery by downloading the following file:
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-speedy.img
Place file in adb "platform-tools" folder.
From the adb folder run "fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-speedy.img"
7) adb reboot recovery
8) You will see the beautiful clockwork recovery screen.
9) Goto mounts/storage, mount usb storage
10) Download su from the following location:
http://downloads.androidsu.com/superuser/Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip
11) Go back, install zip from sdcard, choose the superuser zip.
12) Reboot, open market, search for super user and install it.
13) Open superuser app go to preferences and choose update su binary.
14) Download terminal emulator and run "su" to test if you have root. $ should turn to #.
15) Place misc.img and PG06IMG.zip on sdcard using windows explorer or "adb push /sdcard/file.xxx" via usb. Again, please note that PG06IMG.zip is case sensitive.
16) Unplug the phone from USB.
17) Remove the battery cover and flash misc.img using the following command via terminal emulator or you can use adb shell with the phone hooked up via USB. Personally I feel more comfortable running this from terminal emulator on the phone:
and press enter.Code:dd if=/sdcard/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
18) REMOVE THE BATTERY WITHOUT SHUTTING DOWN THE PHONE as soon as you run the misc.img command. DO NOT SHUTDOWN OR POWER OFF.
19) Hold volume down button and hold the power button for one second and release while still holding the volume down button.
Phone should find PG06IMG.zip and RUU to Android 2.2. From here you can flash engineering s-off bootloader. For instructions on flashing the engineering s-off bootloader skip to the rooting Android 2.2 section.
Again before you ask, make sure you have a freshly formatted FAT32 microSD card. If your phone can't find the zip, you are doing something wrong, your SD card isn't formatted in FAT32, you aren't using CWM, or you need to try another SD card.
You will have to manually upgrade to the new cellular radio after obtaining s-off and downgrading to Froyo again.
Radio flashing instructions here:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1479466
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ROOTING ANDROID 2.3.3:
Note: If you are running Android 2.3.3 YOU MUST follow the instructions below to get downgraded to 2.2 and from 2.2 you can get full s-off root!
1) (ANDROID 2.3.3 ONLY) Obtain temproot using Fre3vo:
Code:TEMP ROOT Instructions: Download http://tinyw.in/1lI Unzip if required and put in your ADB folder Launch command prompt (or terminal on mac/linux) and navigate to your ADB PLATFORM-TOOLS folder (note: ALL FILES MUST BE COPIED TO THE PLATFORM-TOOLS FOLDER) 1) adb push fre3vo /data/local/tmp/ 2) adb shell 3) chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start fbb58a00 -end FFFFFFFF (if this doesn't work, try rebooting phone)
Download these 2 files here and put them in your ADB directory:
su-3.0-alpha7:
http://www.mediafire.com/?81pxf3wp4pnhh1k
Superuser3-beta1.apk:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4djxewue85lgl0c
or here if link is broken:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14927732#post14927732
Code:TEMP ROOT Instructions (continued): Exit back to command prompt if you aren't there already adb push Superuser3-beta1.apk /data/app/ adb push su-3.0-alpha7 /data/local/tmp adb shell (should now see # instead of $) cd /data/local/tmp chmod 777 su-3.0-alpha7 ./su-3.0-alpha7 cd / mount -o remount,rw -t rootfs rootfs / rm vendor mkdir vendor mkdir vendor/bin cat /data/local/tmp/su-3.0-alpha7 > /vendor/bin/su chmod 4755 /vendor/bin/su You now have temp root. Disregard any notification about outdated SU binary. Root will go away if you reboot. If you reboot your phone you can obtain root again by just running the following adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start fbb58a00 -end FFFFFFFF adb shell (should now see # instead of $) cd /data/local/tmp chmod 777 su-3.0-alpha7 ./su-3.0-alpha7 cd / mount -o remount,rw -t rootfs rootfs / rm vendor mkdir vendor mkdir vendor/bin cat /data/local/tmp/su-3.0-alpha7 > /vendor/bin/su chmod 4755 /vendor/bin/su
2) To check that you have temp root run "adb shell" and you should get a #. Be sure to check your phone for a super user confirmation when running adb shell to allow it. If you don't get one and get # instantly that's fine.
3) Exit adb and mount your phone's sdcard as USB storage.
4) Copy misc.img to the phone via windows explorer/finder/etc.
links to misc.img here:
http://www.box.net/shared/0l8ex73zne0tfr10ob69
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15373824/misc.img
MD5Sum: c88dd947eb3b36eec90503a3525ae0de
5) Unplug your phone from the computer
6) Download terminal emulator from market, type "su" and go from $ to #
7) After you get # in terminal emulator type the following:
and press enter.Code:dd if=/sdcard/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
8) Once this is done you are ready to downgrade to 2.2
9) 2 ways to downgrade to 2.2. RUU or PG06IMG.zip.
a) RUU is slower, but easier
b) PG06IMG.zip might not work on a lot of sdcards.
Anyways here are the instructions on downgrading to 2.2 if you don't want to run RUU
1) Copy PG06IMG.zip to the SDcard via windows explorer/finder/etc just like the misc.img.
2) Using adb type "adb reboot bootloader" and IMMEDIATELY UNPLUG PHONE FROM USB
3) The phone will reboot. Select bootloader by pressing the power button. The phone will search for a few files and will eventually find PG06IMG.zip REMEMBER THE FILENAME IS CaSe SEnSiTiVE AND THE ".ZIP" PART MUST BE LOWER CASE. SO FILENAME SHOULD BE EXACTLY PG06IMG.zip
If the you see a status bar on the top right corner of the screen it has found the file.
4) If your phone cannot find the PG06IMG.zip check filename case sensitivity and/or try a different sdcard and/or download of the file was corrupted.
JUST RUN FROYO RUU. IT'S EASIER IF YOU CAN'T FIGURE THIS OUT.
5) Press volume up to accept the update and come back to your phone in 15 mintes. It should tell you to press the power to key to reboot. Once it does that you are now on Android 2.2 and can do the normal root steps from the bcnice guide (which I will write out here anyway).
Official ruu file for downgrading to 2.2 - http://www.multiupload.com/15N2D30H6C MD5SUM: a4b880954d2ac29d5bdf0dade9dede3c
PG06IMG for hboot downgrading to 2.2 -
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41040697/PG06IMG.zip
Mirror for PG06IMG - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15373824/PG06IMG.zip
Mirror for PG06IMG: http://dev-host.org/xmlaaco0s2ph/PG06IMG.zip
MD5SUM: d20be478fd860b80f5e800c958f79077
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ROOTING ANDROID 2.2:
1) Download this file (shift-root.zip) http://www.mediafire.com/?h568sgdmkb1dkis
mirror: http://www.multiupload.com/VZOSJHIZYA
2) Extract it to the root of the sdcard of your phone
3) GET TEMPROOT USING VISIONARY, NOT Z4ROOT. I HAD PROBLEMS WITH Z4ROOT.
Visionary instructions:
a) Go to phone settings and allow installation from unknown sources and enable USB debugging.
b) Download visionary at the following link:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1974858134/com.modaco.visionaryplus.r14.apk
c) Copy the visionary apk file you just download to the same folder as adb..
(i.e. C:\program files\android-sdk\platform-tools)
d) run adb install -r com.modaco.visionaryplus.r14.apk
e) Should work. If you do not see the app, reboot your phone.
f) After phone reboots run visionary, get temproot.
g) run adb shell, and then then run the command "su" (without quotes) and look at your phone. Click allow for the superuser prompt and then verify $ goes to #
h) move on to next step, do not exit adb shell yet
4) Verify md5sum of hboot bin files from shift-root.zip
Run the following commands with adb shell:
Code:md5sum /sdcard/hboot_orig.bin md5sum /sdcard/hboot_eng.nb0
386c19451e8dd18f9b98fad6b11be4c0 hboot_orig.bin
60ec1006e6ec2e8acb370d6aad35b17e hboot_eng.nb0
WARNING: If these do not match do not continue redownload the files then check the md5's again
6) If md5sum's match run this command:
DO NOT FAT FINGER THIS COMMAND. YOU COULD BRICK YOUR PHONE. I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.
Code:dd if=/sdcard/hboot_eng.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
You just flashed the eng spl!!! Now lets make sure it took.
7) Check the md5 of new flash hboot and restore if necessary. Run this command to pull the newly flashed hboot to your sdcard
Code:dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 of=/sdcard/hboot_check.nb0
now we check the md5 to see if it matches
Code:md5sum /sdcard/hboot_check.nb0
It should read 60ec1006e6ec2e8acb370d6aad35b17e
8) If the md5sum matches then congratulations its safe to reboot!! Before you do reboot please make sure you run rm /sdcard/PG06IMG.zip
Check hboot and perm root!
1) ok now reboot your phone into bootloader by running "adb reboot bootloader" or by removing the battery and reinserting it then hold the vol down button and press the power button.
3) Look at the top and make sure it says s-off
4) If so reboot the phone back into android
5) put the phone into airplane mode
6) Temp root with visionary (again)
7) After temp root then attempt to perm root with Visionary
8) Your phone will reboot and you are now officially perm rooted any changes you make will now stick on reboot
9) Download Rom manager from market and flash latest clockwork recovery (USE WIFI).
10) adb reboot recovery (or use ROM manager) to get into recovery and flash your ROMs! (Basic instructions and links below). But there you go! Enjoy!
HOWTO flash a ROM:
1) Download ROM zip file, copy to phone and boot in to clockwork recovery.
2) If AOSP you will want to wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, advanced wipe dalvik cache, and wipe /system and /data. Then you will want to choose "install zip from sdcard", flash aosp rom zip file, and flash gapps zip. You should also flash a custom kernel if you plan on doing so during this step.
3) If flashing SENSE based ROM, just flash the zip file. If you want to flash a custom kernel I recommend dodge kernel 1.6, flash this right after you flash the ROM zip file. Follow the same steps as AOSP for wiping cache,dalvik, etc. Before flashing rom.
4) Reboot phone, wait 10 minutes, and enjoy!
BACKING UP YOUR PHONE:
2 methods. You should use BOTH.
1) TITANIUM BACKUP available from market. PURCHASE the full version. WELL WORTH THE MONEY!
2) NANDROID from Clockwork recovery.
a) boot in to recovery
b) goto backup and restore
c) run backup
Links to popular ROMS that are in current development:
AOSP:
UKE (Ultimate kanged edition)
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=17393.0
Cyanogenmod 7 stable:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1297572
Cyanogenmod 7 nightlies + changelog:
http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=speedy
Cyclonic
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1257777
MIUI (no 4g)
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1337185
SENSE:
Supreme Sense
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1201233
Mikshifted-G
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1150481
gingerbread-shift-deck
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1092261
Synergy
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1237957
NFX.Speedy.Kingdom
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1316368
Latest google apps:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1311342
RADIOS
CELLULAR:
1.07:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=934285
1.08:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1082192
1.08.01.0111
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1479466
WIMAX:
27167:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=934287
27240:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1082192
EVO SHIFT WIKI
http://xdaforums.com/wiki/HTC_Speedy
More howto's coming to this thread later.
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Um, it kinda sounds like adb is not in your path command line or you need to cd to the same folder where adb and fastboot are at which by default for the sdk is in the platform-tools folder. For example mine is just simply C:\Android\platform-tools. Since adb is in my command path I don't have to cd but you may need to cd C:\Android\platform-tools or whatever the path to your android sdk is.
Also Vicodan I found out you don't need root to flash misc.img. once you flash the recovery you can boot straight into recovery, type adb shell and it gives you root access with the "#" symbol
Then run # mount /sdcard
In order to be able to flash the misc.img from the sdcard.
Once you do that just make sure PG06IMG.zip is on the root of sdcard (transfer over in recovery if need be), then pull the battery to boot into bootloader to downgrade. Saves an extra step of having to boot up with root just to loose it all over again after the downgrade.4
If it is that big of a deal, why are you not creating it yourself? Is it because you do not have the ability to? Because you lack the skills required to do so? Exactly, you are here to sponge off everyone else s hard work just like the majority of people here, so stfu already and go back into your hole. Quit your whining and crying unless you are ready to step up to the plate and do something constructive.3Are you starting to feel like a broken record lol? I mean how hard can it be to watch videos, and have a ton of people trying to help?
Sent from my PG06100 using xda premium
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prolly gunna go through the entire thrad and add a faq
