Complete step by step HTC EVO Root + PS3 Jailbreak guide!

Complete step by step HTC EVO Root + PS3 Jailbreak guide!

I will try and simplify this as much as possible. There are so many guides out there for so many devices and it can get a bit confusing, or sometimes seem a bit incomplete. This is my first guide ever, so I will try and be as through as possible. If I missed something or if you have questions please let me know, thanks.


Disclaimer:

1) Do this at your own risk.
2) I take NO responsibility for anything that may go wrong.
3) PS3 Jailbreaking is for backing up games you actually own, amongst other things!
4) I suggest you read this guide from start to finish before attempting to root your HTC EVO and Jailbreak your PS3.

This method has been tried and tested working 100%

Things you will need:

* Any PS3 with F/W 3.41 ONLY
* HTC EVO
* A USB Flash Drive
* A few files/apps which this guide will cover.
* Windows OS (this was done on Win 7 64bit OS)

I will be doing linking to other tutorials so that we will have all required info in one guide.

Let's get started!

**Backup anything important to you on your phone just incase**

1) Install hboot Drivers for Android
Follow this vid very easy: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] … XDszE0Ytn8
UnrEVOked modified USB Driver installation link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] … driver.zip

2) Download and install unrEVOked v3.21 for windows link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] … ackage.exe
Follow this vid very easy: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] … feature=iv

Your EVO is now rooted and you have the required drivers needed.

3) Optional but recommended: Make a nandroid backup.

- Turn off your phone
- Press and hold volume down key while pressing and holding down power button.
- Press volume key down to you get to "recovery" then press power key once.
- Press volume down key to you get to "nandroid" then press power key once.
- Press power while on "backup" (be patient this may take a few minutes)
- When you get "backup complete! "press up arrow key once then power once, then power key again that should reboot your phone.
- All done! (Your nandroid backup you just made can be found on your SD card in a folder called clockworkmod/backup.. if you wanted to backup your backup DO NOT RENAME)

4) DOWNLOAD:

Fresh 3.2 ROM download link:
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PSFreedom for HTC Evo download link:
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- Plug you phone into your PC on your phone tap on disk drive, copy over the two files you just downloaded.
- Extract enable-psfreedom-Evo4G_BDVD to a folder on your desktop, copy over to your desktop SSBootNew and rename to boot, then copy over that file to the "root" of your sdcard.
- Go into the same folder you just extracted enable-psfreedom-Evo4G_BDVD/system/lib/modules you will see a file named psfreedom.ko copy that over to the "root" of your sdcard.
- After you transfer all files disconnect your phone and power off.

5) Flashing Fresh 3.2 ROM and enable-psfreedom-Evo4G_BDVD to your phone.

SHORT Method: (Keep all your previous droid settings)
- Power on your phone by pressing and holding volume down key while pressing and holding down power button.
- Goto "recovery" using volume up/down keys press power to select.
- Goto "install zip from SD card" using volume up/down keys press power to select, then select "choose zip from SD card"
- Use volume up/down key to you get to "fresh-evo-3.2.0.0.zip" press power key, then Use volume up/down key to you go to "YES Install fresh-evo-3.2.0.0.zip" press power key (patience as this may take a few minutes) You will get install from SD card complete.
- Goto "install zip from SD card" using volume up/down keys press power to select, then select "choose zip from SD card"
- Use volume up/down key to you get to "enable-psfreedom-Evo4G_BDVD.zip" press power key, then Use volume up/down key to you get to "YES Install enable-psfreedom-Evo4G_BDVD.zip" press power key (this will take a few seconds) You will get install from SD card complete.
- Use volume up/down key to you get to reboot system now, wait for reboot.
- Use volume up/down key to you get to "go back" press power key, then power key again to reboot your phone.

LONG Method: (Clean install)
- Power on your phone by pressing and holding volume down key while pressing and holding down power button.
- Use volume up/down key to you get to wipe data/factory reset and then press power.
- Use volume up/down key to you get to YES -- delete all user data then press power, should take a few seconds.
- Use volume up/down key to you get to reboot system now, wait for reboot.
- Power down phone again.
- Power on your phone again by pressing and holding volume down key while pressing and holding down power button.
- Goto "recovery" using volume up/down keys press power to select.
- Goto "install zip from SD card" using volume up/down keys press power to select, then select "choose zip from SD card"
- Use volume up/down key to you get to "fresh-evo-3.2.0.0.zip" press power key, then Use volume up/down key to you go to "YES Install fresh-evo- 3.2.0.0.zip" press power key (patience as this may take a few minutes) You will get install from SD card complete.
- Use volume up/down key to you get to "go back" press power key, then power key again to reboot your phone.
- Select HTC Sense or Launcher Pro then power off phone.
- Power on your phone again by pressing and holding volume down key while pressing and holding down power button.
- Go to "recovery" using volume up/down keys press power to select.
- Go to "install zip from SD card" using volume up/down keys press power to select, then select "choose zip from SD card"
- Use volume up/down key to you get to "enable-psfreedom-Evo4G_BDVD.zip" press power key, then Use volume up/down key to you get to "YES Install enable-psfreedom-Evo4G_BDVD.zip" press power key (this will take a few seconds) You will get install from SD card complete.
- Use volume up/down key to you get to "go back" press power key, then power key again to reboot your phone.

Down to the good stuff.

6) Download manager.zip + format USB jump drive to FAT32
manager.zip link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] … anager.zip

- Extract manager.zip onto desktop and copy over to newly formatted jump drive, disconnect jump drive.

7) Now disconnect the main PS3 power or use switch for PS3 Phat, connect the phone to the PS3, reconnect main power, press power button immediately followed by eject.

- You will see new icons under games if you did this correctly.
- Once PS3 is booted plug in your USB jump drive and on your PS3 install manager.
- Remove USB Flash Drive
- Put game into drive and install game onto HDD, wait for game to completly install and power off PS3

Getting close now

8)Download: Android SDK + winrar + JDK

Android SDK link :http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r07-windows.zip (you may need JDK it will prompt if you do when you run SDK Manager for the first time... download and install link below)

JDK link for windows x64 (64bit): [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] … ws-x64.exe

JDK link for windows x86 (32bit) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] … s-i586.exe

winrar link choose version for your OS 32 or 64bit: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

9) Setting up the Android SDK

- Unzip to your desktop downloaded the file from above
- Take the "android-sdk-windows" folder and move it to the root of your hard drive (C:\)
- Power off your phone
- Power on your phone by pressing and holding volume down key while pressing and holding down power button.
- Press volume key down to you get to "recovery" then press power key once
- Using volume up/down keys go to "partions menu" press power key to select
- Using volume up/down keys go to "mount /sdcard" press power key to select
- Run SDK Setup.exe on PC (it may prompt you to update, accept updates)
- Open up Command Prompt (Go to run, type in cmd, press enter or go to start, all programs, accessories, command prompt)

Type in:

* cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools then press enter
* adb devices then press enter you should see your device listed
* adb shell then press enter you should see # in the next line

Now type in:

* flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img then press enter (shouldn't take but a couple of seconds) you will see
flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img
~ #

- Using volume up/down keys go to "go back" and then "reboot now"

10) Once your phone is rebooted go to market and search for "ConnectBot" download and install

- Go back to your PS3 disconnect the main PS3 power or use switch for PS3 Phat, connect the phone to the PS3, reconnect main power, press power button immediately followed by eject.
- On your EVO run Terminal Emulator and type: (At some point superuser will come up, tap always allow)

* su
* cd /sdcard
* insmod psfreedom.ko

(IF YOUR PS3 FREEZES NO WORRIES just disconnect the main PS3 power or use switch for PS3 Phat, connect the phone to the PS3, reconnect main power, press power button immediately followed by eject)

Insert a different game other than the one previously installed and go to backup manager load game that was installed

ALL DONE

**Notes**

Known bugs:

* This will disable wi-fi until the original boot.img is flashed back. (confirmed)
* This will also disable USB mass storage. (confirmed)

A work around would be:

- To restore that nandroid backup you made earlier in this guide (be warned that would remove the files from you droid that we worked so hard to put on there)
- Make another nandroid backup of the current ROM and settings (this way you can go back and forth between them)

Myself personally I do not use wifi on my droid even prior to the ps3 jailbreak, also it's a pain, but I remove my SD card from phone and place in a card reader read/write files and then replace card back.

This Guide was written and compiled by buddatech!

Huge thanks to all that made this possible!!


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