[Q] 2+ yr old Hboot 1.58 EVO 3D ROOT/CONVERT !!!HELP!!!

Depends alot on how you want to do things.

Check to see if hboot says; locked, unlocked, or relocked. If locked you will need to go to htcdev website to get unlock token and see how to unlock. Unlocked hboot lets you install custom recovery, from which you can install su. If it says relocked, all you have to do is send fastboot command to unlock, phone has unlock token already.

It sounds like you are using windows, newer then xp, which you will need to find drivers :and fixes to get phone to connect.

I would use ubuntu, linux, no need for drivers and can run from flash drive. Or windows xp, anything newer has usb issues.

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turn phone off, pull battery, to ensure full power down. Put battery back. Press and hold vol. down button, then press power button.

Read this for more info:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1817513

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You unlock, or s-off.

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I put together an easy(easy as it gets) guide for s-off'ing your CDMA Ev03d with hboot 1.5x

the process is a little more complicated for 1.5x hboot phones due to revolutionary s-off not supporting any version newer than 1.4. And don't bother with unlocking with the token retrieval / HTcdev.com mess. It won't work with hboot 1.58. besides you will not have the full benefit of S-off with just unlocked phone

So you must brick the phone, then plug into linux terminal and and run recovery tool which will downgrade the hboot to 1.4 and the main version to 0.01. Then flash the main version to 1.13 by running a RUU exe. After that, you may run revolutionary s-off and you're rooted. Run the latest RUU and you are done and back on main version 2.95(after system updates) with hboot 1.58 and S-OFF, fully rooted

Things you'll need:

blank CD and burner, know how to boot from a CD
data USB cable
Micro-sd adapter so you can put files directly on your micro-sd from your PC

All summarized in my post here


http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2794935


Good luck

Cieran said:

could ya explain all that to in a way that even a noob like me can understand?

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Without some basic tech know-how, you're going to have a bad time

Your Hboot 1.58 needs to be downgraded to 1.40(the dirty way) before you can run revolutionary S-OFF.

Things you'll need:

Linux live boot disk/USB, trial version
USB data cable
Micro-sd adapter so you can put files on your micro-sd from your PC

All summarized in my post here in the first post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2794935

This isn't completely true. You can soff on hboot 1.58. It's been done many times and I did it myself.

This guide is pretty straight forward and geared exactly toward your situation: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1889438


Otto, how's it going? , I know your situation sucked. It happens for some people, but it's not the case that everyone on 1.58 has to go through it. Most people can just go with juopunutbear s-off. It's usually when there's a phone repair and the motherboard had been swapped. It causes a mismatch in firmware with no option to run an ruu.

Brian706 said:

This isn't completely true. You can soff on hboot 1.58. It's been done many times and I did it myself.

This guide is pretty straight forward and geared exactly toward your situation: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1889438


Otto, how's it going? , I know your situation sucked. It happens for some people, but it's not the case that everyone on 1.58 has to go through it. Most people can just go with juopunutbear s-off. It's usually when there's a phone repair and the motherboard had been swapped. It causes a mismatch in firmware with no option to run an ruu.

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Oh yeah you could do that! Though I am totally unfamiliar with the juopunutbear, I was under the impression that it was for GSM only

I recently walked another user through rooting their sprint 1.58 hboot with success with brick/downgrade, though unknownforce's ultimate.zip did not work for them

http://xdaforums.com/htc-evo-3d/cdma-development/help-root-unlock-t2829008