{GUIDE} Perm-rooting the HTC EVO Shift!!! Recovery added

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ok first off i would like to give many thanks to all the people that help test and figure out the easiest and most effective way of pulling this off.
Joeykrim (for his help with figuring out the easiest way of implementing this)
Toastcfh (for providing us with the eng spl without this we would be nowhere!!)
scotty2 and Guhl (for all the insight they have given me over the past couple of weeks)
preludedrew (for helping me with testing and of course the recovery he working so hard on right now)
riggsandroid and Cosine83 (for helping test things out)

Now on to the good stuff!!

Disclaimer
Please read each and every step in this guide and do them fully failure to do this exactly as it is layed out could result in a permanent brick as usual I am not responsible for anybody's failure to read directions.

Step 1
ok download this file and extract it to the root of your sdcard
www.thebcblends.com/shift/Shift-root.zip

Step 2
make sure you have adb properly setup on your computer before continuing
temp root using either visionary or z4root
open up command prompt and cd to your sdk platform-tools directory
then type adb shell then su
if you havent already u must press allow on your device to enable su perms

Step 3
check the md5sum of both of the files to make sure they match

md5sum /sdcard/Shift/hboot_orig.bin

md5sum /sdcard/Shift/hboot_eng.nb0

386c19451e8dd18f9b98fad6b11be4c0 hboot_orig.bin
60ec1006e6ec2e8acb370d6aad35b17e hboot_eng.nb0

if these do not match do not continue redownload the files then check the md5's again

Step 4
Flash the eng spl!!! (dangerous part)
make sure these commands are exact or you could risk bricking your phone!!!
now you should still be in adb shell with root permissions
runs this command and DO NOTT!! reboot till I tell you to

dd if=/sdcard/Shift/hboot_eng.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

you just flashed the eng spl!!! now lets make sure it took

Step 5
Check the md5 of new flash hboot and restore if necessary
run this command to pull the newly flashed hboot to your sdcard

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 of=/sdcard/Shift/hboot_check.nb0

now we check the md5 to see if it matches

md5sum /sdcard/Shift/hboot_check.nb0

it should read 60ec1006e6ec2e8acb370d6aad35b17e
if the md5sum matches then congratulations its safe to reboot!! you can skip the next bit and continue on to step 6

if you absolutely cannot get the eng hboot to flash right then run this to restore the stock hboot

dd if=/sdcard/Shift/hboot_orig.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

then pull it to check md5

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 of=/sdcard/Shift/hboot_check1.bin

then check the md5sum

md5sum /sdcard/Shift/hboot_check1.bin

it should read 386c19451e8dd18f9b98fad6b11be4c0
if it doesnt keep trying until it does but DO NOT!! reboot till it matches

Step 6
check hboot and perm root!!
ok now reboot your phone into bootloader
turn off phone and hold power+vol down till it boots into bootloader
look at the top and make sure it says s off
if so reboot the phone back into android
put the phone into airplane mode
temp root with visionary
after your temp rooted then attempt to perm root with visionary (haven't tested perm root with z4 yet)
your phone will reboot and you are now officially perm rooted any changes you make will now stick on reboot
Recovery is coming soon!!!!!!

Recovery
for now this recovery does not backup your wimax keys
we shall do that manually and store them in a safe place just in case

Backup Wimax Partitions

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p25 of=/sdcard/Shift/wimax.bin

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p30 of=/sdcard/Shift/udata_wimax.bin

Flash Recovery Image
download this zip and extract the img to wherever you please on your computer
recovery
if you do not already have fastboot setup get it
cd to wherever the recovery was placed
then power down your device and hold power+voldown at the same time till it loads the bootloader
click on the fastboot option

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

now boot into recovery and see if it worked if so create a nandroid backup!!!

reserved again!!!

you got thanks!

Thanks to everyone involved

worked like a charm thanks brah!

I am honored to have been able to witness this happening in front of my eyes in IRC.

Doing this now...once again, excellent work guys.

Thanks, first of all. Second, perhaps I should wait and see if something comes out later that doesn't look as intimidating as this. Yeah, some might say its easy and what are you crying about? I'm not going to dive in right this minute because I don't have confidence in my abilities with this yet.

Especially since I'm fighting keeping my eyes open. Me so sleepy. Maybe tomorrow I will be more with it.

no shame in that, better to feel comfortable than mess up your phone or something.

You guys are amazing. Kick ass job!