Monday, May 6, 2013

How to Unlock NAND on a Rooted Evo



1. Use the shell you created when you rooted the phone and restart your phone in recovery mode. Use the 'adb reboot recovery' command. Perform a nandroid backup on your phone to make sure you can restore the ROM in case something goes wrong.

2. Connect the EVO to your computer by using the USB cable that came with the phone.

3. Open the Web browser on your computer and navigate to the forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=342667&d=1276481776 and save the archive on your hard disk. Navigate to forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=342668&d=1276481802 and save the archive on your hard disk.

4. Extract the two archives on your hard disk drive and two files are created: flash_image and mtd-eng.img. Place both of the files in the root of your SD card.

5. Run these commands in the shell:adb shell

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

chmod 755 /data/flash_image

/data/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.imgWait a few seconds before continuing the the next step.

6. Navigate to market4android.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/PC36IMG.zip and save the archive on your hard disk. Copy the archive to the root of your SD card and turn off the phone.

7. Press the 'Volume down' and 'Power' buttons simultaneously to boot into hboot. The PC36IMG.zip is verified and you are asked if you want to flash the device. Tap on 'Yes.' Tap 'Yes' when prompted to reboot. The phone will boot into Android.

8. Use the computer's Web browser to navigate to megaupload.com/?d=KKIFPLGK and click on the 'Regular download' button. Save the file on your hard disk drive and copy it to the root of your SD card.

9. Run these commands in the shell:adb shell

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

chmod 755 /data/flash_image

/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

reboot recoveryYou phone reboots into recovery mode again.

10. Perform a data wipe and dalvik cache (wipe cache partition). Go to the 'Nandroid restore' section and restore the ROM. Your NAND is now unlocked.

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