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

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Phantom Pt. II

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After all this, can I get the phone back to stock with a locked bootloader as well?

For example if it needs to go in for repairs.
 

robkonz

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Any way to back up prior to Unlocking

I got this phone a few days ago. Got it all set up just how I like it and wanted to unlock it. Now I see that it will wipe it. Is there anyway to Nandroid backup or other back up before unlocking it? Thanks in advance.
 

Totòòò

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So which is the latest(most stable recovery) right now? I have paul's r2 but I dnt think thats the latest version...
 

dan.kels.r

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One S unlock ?

i was wondering about sim unlock on the one s. i am moving to okinawa japan and the band they use is similar to t-mo and att. if i root the one s, is the sim unlocked?
 

skygear

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Where am I to place my Unlock_code.bin?
I put it in the platform_tools folder where my fast boot is...
Do I need to CD to that folder?
I keep getting
new-host-3:~ skygear$ fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
error: cannot load 'Unlock_code.bin'

help please.
 
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Wel1973

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Good night . Ladys and Gentelman
The first thing to congratulate for this magnificent Tutorial ... it is less.
And now only one doubt.....
After unblocking the hboot and doing root: If does the phone have any problem? Does RUU's exist for this terminal?. And Stock hboot?
Where can I find them?
The fact is that however much I look in Htcdevs, I do not find her.
Alone meeting for the HOX and HOV. But nothing for the HOS ... it is strange.
Unless it uses one of these. If it is like that: which to them would belong?
Estube reading for the thread, and I could read that that thing about was possible the hboot Stock, but I do not remember that it paginates...
My only interest is to know, that the process is reversible, for topics of guarantee, skylight it is.
Excuse if the questions are repeated, but thread is much that to read ... Anyway, excuse the inconveniences..
And as I said earlier, Good work!!
Greetings.
 

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    Just a quick step by step tutorial to get a Custom ROM working on your One S.

    Step 1: Unlock

    • 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.

    Thanks to bagofcrap24 for this part!

    Step 2: Recovery


    Step 3: Root

    Make sure you are on the stock kernel!

    • 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

    Now you are able to flash any Custom ROM.

    Credits:

    Paul for the Recovery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1579584
    Chainfire for SuperSU: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1538053

    Video-Tutorial by Flow-Wolf (thanks buddy):

    Bootloader Unlock:


    Recovery Installation:


    Root:


    Custom ROM Installation:


    If this helped you, make sure to thank me and to donate to Paul, Chainfire, koush or/and Flow Wolf!
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    The HTC method is good as well :)

    Android without root is nothing..
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    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

    i solved it! i was missing the command fastboot flash "recovery" keyword before the recovery name! :D im dumb! lol thanks though
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    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

    Should be
    Code:
    fastboot flash [B]recovery[/B] recovery.img

    looks like you forgot the recovery bit
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    But don't be afraid of htcdev, you don't loose the whole warranty

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