[Q]Hboot 1.58 questions... - HTC EVO 3D

I'm ultimately trying to run Jellybean on my phone, with maybe the option of some overclocking...
I'm seeing ALOT of guides, and they tell me that I want Hboot 1.4, S-off, and Revolutionary. Just to be clear, I have no flipping clue to what these are, all I know is that the guides I'm reading tell me I want them.
My Sprint HTC Evo 3D which I only think is CDMA, is on Android 4.0.3, with Hboot 1.58, has twrp 1.1.1 recovery flashed, and is rooted, and I do have a recovery backup from when my phone wasn't rooted.
Out of all the guides I read, I want to avoid any "wire tricks" I wanna go the Live CD way, except that I dont know if I can burn a Live CD to a dvd or not, and I don't know which guide to follow because apparently they all have different versions, and apparently this process is so picky, that I can't do it on usb 3.0.
Just want your opinion (and link) of the best, safest or easiest guide to start on.

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i didnt want to do the wire trick at all either but it is soo easy to do and is easier than you think. It will take about 5 minutes max to follow a few instructions and be S-off, then install hboot 1.4 or 1.5 as either will work with the roms you find here. Most will recommend eng hboot 1.04 as a lot of devs use that, it is up to you what you want to use. Hboot install is very easy as all you do is rename the file to PG86IMG and reboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585846. Just follow the link and easy instructions, this phone is hard to brick so dont worry. if it was high risk then there would not be so many people with S-off this way

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Tazlo73 said:
i didnt want to do the wire trick at all either but it is soo easy to do and is easier than you think. It will take about 5 minutes max to follow a few instructions and be S-off, then install hboot 1.4 or 1.5 as either will work with the roms you find here. Most will recommend eng hboot 1.04 as a lot of devs use that, it is up to you what you want to use. Hboot install is very easy as all you do is rename the file to PG86IMG and reboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585846. Just follow the link and easy instructions, this phone is hard to brick so dont worry. if it was high risk then there would not be so many people with S-off this way
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I don't want to, but more importantly, can't do the wire trick.
The link you gave me links to the guide that is SPECIFIC in a few key details I can't do. For one, The guide mentions to use Ubuntu 64 bit version, and specifically says USB3 ports wont work. Well my older computer with USB2 ports doesn't support 64-bit systems, and my laptop that does support 64-bit systems only has USB3 ports. I know you usually expect most computers or laptops to have 1-3 USB3 ports and the rest USB2, but mine is all USB3.
I also don't have the original HTC cable. I bought this thing off ebay.
Also the guide mentions that i need to have stock ruu, I don't even know what that is, and the guide doesn't have a download for it. I actually originally wrote that I didn't know what roms or kernals even were, or what this revolutionary or s-off even is. I edited that out of my 1st post because i thought i should just leave the basics.
I guess the unfortunate thing about rooting, unlocking, and flashing android devices is that all the guides have different things... I never had to do all this junk with these ruu's, s-offs, hboots, revolutionaries, linuxes, wire tricks, and so-on with a GT1, Lenovo Thinkpad, or Nexus 7.
Everytime I get a new android device, it's like I have to relearn a totally new process. completely different from what I knew.

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Different devices use different security features and require different ways around the blocks and every time a new version of android more exploits are patched and new ones need to be found. It's a constant battle between the manufacturer and the enthusiasts. That said I'm s-off hboot 1.4 and I never did any wire tricks.. I did have to brick my device though... In a specific way
Sent from my Evo V 4G using Tapatalk 2

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I used htcdev.com to unlock and j-bear to soff, which I did on my win7 pc. I used a wire cable from an ethernet cable to do the wire trick when the program told me to. I'll double check the link.

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Tazlo73 said:
I used htcdev.com to unlock and j-bear to soff, which I did on my win7 pc. I used a wire cable from an ethernet cable to do the wire trick when the program told me to. I'll double check the link.
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Your "Win7 pc" according to that guide, was an Ubuntu PC when you tried to downgrade your Hboot. Because you were booting from the CD and not your harddrive, Windows 7 played no factor in the process. What did matter was your processor. Even if you're using a processor that supports 64 bit systems, then your Windows 7 could be 64-bit or 32-bit. But if your processor supports 32-bit only, then you can only properly run windows 7 32 bit version.
The guide strictly called for Ubuntu 64-bit. Despite what version of Windows 7 you're running, I'm going to take a shot in the dark here and say that your computer you used didn't have an outdated AMD processor from 2005. Even if the computer was sold in 2005, it can run even Windows 8, as long as it's 32 bit.
My understanding of computers and the guide is my old computer's technology can't support a 64-bit system, and my new computer's technology doesn't have old usb technology.
I'll shut my mouth and do the guide if your processor supports 32 bit systems only, or if someone can tell me using a USB 2.0 HUB on a USB 3.0 port will retard my usb3 port to usb2 standards.