[Tutorial]Root, Unlock, Recovery and flashing a Custom ROM

• Go on http://www.htcdev.com and create yourself an account on HTCDEV.
• Download These Fastboot Files
• Make a new folder on your C:/ drive called fastboot.
• Extract The Zip downloaded in step 2 to the new folder
• Go Here http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/ and select "All Other Supported Models" and "then begin unlock bootloader"
• Yes, Tick both Boxes, Proceed
• Skip up to step 8 as we have all we need for the first 7 steps
• Power off your phone by holding the power button down for 10 seconds
• Power your phone on by holding power and volume down
• Highlight Fastboot With Volume+or- then press Power
• Plug your phone into your PC and open a Command Prompt.
• (windows XP - Click Start > Run > type CMD in box then press OK
• (Windows 7 - Click Start > type CMD in search box then press Enter)
• Change directory to your folder where we put fastboot files cd c:\fastboot
• Type this into your command prompt window fastboot oem get_identifier_token
• Select & copy the text as per step 9 on the HTCDev website
• Paste your identifier token into the box at the bottom and submit
• You Will Very Shortly Receive an email from HTCDev with a link to the second part of the instructions and your "Unlock_code.bin" attached
• Download the "Unlock_code.bin" from the email and save it to the same folder that we extracted fastboot files to in step 2
• Type this into your command prompt window fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
• The Display Will change on your phone, press Vol + to accept and power to confirm.

• Download the Android SDK
• Download the Interim CWM Touch Recovery of Paul or Official CWM of koush (HTC One S)
  (Thanks Paul/koush for the Recovery!)
  
• Place the CWM File where the fastboot.exe is (Downloaded with the SDK)
• Now open the cmd and navigate to the folder where the CWM File is located
• Now type:
  
  fastboot flash recovery name_of_the_recovery.img
  
  For Paul's:
  
  fastboot flash recovery r2-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville.img

• Now root your phone with SuperSU by Chainfire, thanks a lot!
• Download SuperSU from the end of the thread
• Flash it with the Recovery:
• Power off your device and then hold the VOL DOWN + Power to boot into the Bootloader
• Navigate with VOL and Power to Recovery
• Now flash the .zip:
  
  - install zip from sdcard
  - choose zip from sdcard
  - select the CWN-SuperSU-v0.87.zip file and flash it
  - Reboot now
  

rugmankc said:

what exactly are you typing at command prompt

you need to have usb debugging checked on phone
you need the recovery image in same folder as your fastboot.exe/adb files
you need to cd to that directory/folder
you need the recovery image in that same folder
you need to be booted into bootloader with fastboot highlighted
and phone plugged into pc

you have to type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

where recovery.img is the exact name of the recovery image image you put in the folder where fastboot/adb is--usually tools or platform tools of your sdk

you can check the exact name by right clicking the recovery image in the folder and going to properties. I usually just copy and paste that into the command line

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4305ms said:

hm.. first time unlocking, rooting etc using a mac and well, it could be going smoother.
Anyways.

Ive unlocked the bootloader but when i try to flash the cwm recovery I'm getting the message;


unknown partition 'recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-ville.img'
error: cannot determine image filename for 'recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-ville.img'

What am i doing wrong? The file is in the same folder as fastboot.exe and I've tried renaming it to a shorter filename (thinking I were typing it wrong).
Ive tried both versions of cwm with the same result.


Im using this command;
./fastboot flash XXXXXXX.img

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fastboot flash [B]recovery[/B] recovery.img