HTC EVO 4G was the smartphone launched in the year 2010 running on the Sprint’s WiMAX Network to provide ultra-fast speed to its users. The smartphone was among those initial devices which were running on the 4G network and still the phone is considered to be the best for the 4G connectivity. If you are interested in rooting your device to gain much more customization access, here’s how you can root your HTC EVO 4G smartphone.
By editandroid.blogspot.com
I. Before You Begin:
1. The warranty of your device will be voided if you root it. Keep this in mind and go ahead.
2. You must be on HBOOT 2.18.
3. You must have unlocked the
bootloader of your device. You can do so from
here.
II. Downloading Required Files:
III. Rooting the HTC EVO 4G:
1. Download and place the Root Package file onto your Desktop.
2. Extract files from the Root Package to your Desktop. Make sure that you’ve fastboot.exe file on your Desktop.
3. Turn OFF your smartphone.
4. Reboot your device into the bootloader mode. Just press and hold Volume DOWN+Power buttons together and you should enter the bootloader mode.
5. From the bootloader menu, select the Fastboot option using the Power button.
6. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.
7. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do so, press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard and right-click on any empty area on the screen and choose Open command window here.
8. Enter the following command into the Command Prompt Window you just opened:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-supersonic-v2.3.img
9. You need to wait till it finishes flashing the custom recovery on your device.
10. On your device, select the Bootloader option using the Power button.
11. You now have a few options on your screen, choose the Recovery option.
12. From the Recovery menu, choose USB-MS toggle option.
13. Your device will be shown as a disk drive on your PC. Transfer the CWM-SuperSU-v0.87.zip file you extracted from the Root Package to the root folder of your device’s SD card storage.
14. Now, from the Recovery menu, choose Flash zip from sdcard option followed by Choose zip from sdcard.
15. Head to the folder where you transferred the file in Step-13, select it for flashing.
16. Reboot your device after the file has been flashed.
Your device is now rooted ! You shouldn’t be waiting here after rooting your device, go load a custom ROM on your smartphone.
IV. Flash a Custom ROM (Optional):
1. If you are ready to flash custom ROMs on your device
Now that we have root access and a custom recovery image, we need to find a ROM we want to flash. Thanks to the amazing third party developers (most of which do this in their spare time), there are a bunch of ROMs to choose from.
2. After you download the .zip to your computer, plug in your device via USB cable.
3. Copy the .zip file to the SD Card (do NOT extract it, just copy the whole zip file).
4. Unplug your device.
5. Now, open ROM Manager again.
6. Select Reboot into Recovery and wait for the device to reboot.
7. Once in recovery mode, use the volume buttons to navigate and power button to select Backup and Recovery.
8. Then select Backup and hit yes to confirm. Wait for it to finish backing up your current system (this will save you if something goes wrong).
9. Select Wipe Data / Factory Reset.
10. Select Flash zip from sdcard.
11. Select Choose zip from sdcard.
12. Find the ROM we copied to the sdcard in .zip format and select it. Then select yes to confirm. Wait for it to finish flashing.
13. Select Reboot System Now. Once it reboots (which will take a while the first time), you’ll be running the new ROM.
To flash a different ROM, just redo all the steps in Section IV here. Enjoy and don’t forget to comment on the ROMs you try in the repository so others can see what they’re all about.
How To Unroot HTC Evo 4G?
If you are tired of using custom ROMs on your smartphone and want to start everything from beginning, you should unroot your device. It will restore your device to the stock firmware with all those default apps, like Gmail, Maps, and you will have an unmodified device. Here we have a guide on how you can unroot your HTC EVO 4G smartphone, follow all the steps and you should end up with a device running on the official stock firmware. Here you go:
I. Downloading Required Files:
III. Unrooting the HTC EVO 4G:
1. Download and place all the files onto your Desktop.
2. Double-click the JRE file and install it on your PC.
3. Install the HTC Sync on your PC. It will install the required drivers on your PC to recognize your device.
4. Connect your device to the PC using the USB cable.
5. Extract files from the Flash Image as well as MTD Eng archives to the root folder of your device’s SD card. It is the topmost folder.
6. After the files have been extracted, change the connection type of your device to Charge only from Disk.
7. Enable USB debugging on your device by going to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging.
8. Disable the Fastboot on your device from Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Fastboot, remove the checkmark.
9. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do that, press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard and right-click on any empty area on the screen, choose Open command window here.
10. Type in the following command into the Command Prompt Window you just opened:
adb shell
11. You should see # in the window, it means everything is okay and you can proceed further.
12. Next, type in the following commands into the Command Prompt Window one-by-one:
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img
13. Reboot your device.
14. Rename the PC36IMG_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.67.651.3.zip file you just downloaded to PC36IMG.zip.
15. Transfer the renamed file to the root folder of your device’s SD card storage.
16. Turn OFF your device.
17. Reboot your device into the bootloader mode. To do so, while your device is turned OFF, press and hold Volume DOWN+Power buttons together.
18. You will be asked to update your device with the PC36IMG file. Hit Yes.
19. Reboot your device after it has been updated with the stock firmware.
Congrats ! You are done unrooting your HTC EVO 4G smartphone. It wasn’t that tough to unroot the device, was it?