[Tutorial][Windows]Unlocking Bootloader And Rooting HTC Explorer

[Saumitra Yadav]

Hey Xda Members,
This Is A detailed Tutorial On How To Root Your HTC Pico. I Know There Is A Tutorial By Jaggyjaggs But Many of Pico Users find it difficult to root there htc pico by this tutorial . So I am Trying to make things easy for Newbies

Rooting Your HTC Pico Requires Three Steps:
1. Unlocking The Bootloader
2. Flashing A Custom Recovery.
3. Installing Superuser App(Getting Root Previllage)

Now You MUst Know Certain Things Before Rooting Your Device:

WHAT IS A BOOTLOADER?
The bootloader performs basic hardware initialization, verifies the integrity of the operating system, starts the operating system, and provides a method to update device software. This validation is important to verify that the software loaded on the device will not damage sensitive components (radios, processors, etc.) or violate regulatory or carrier requirements. Google provides a base bootloader as part of the Android operating system, and most device manufacturers optimize this for their specific devices.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER?
Unlocking the bootloader is the first step towards gaining root privileges. Some developers and enthusiasts unlock and root in order to experiment with applications or with custom builds of Android. Needless to say, you should not attempt to unlock the bootloader unless you know what you are doing.

WHAT IS ROOTING?
Rooting is when the user has gained root or administrative privileges on the device. In general, this gives users access to make modifications that would not normally be possible. With such privileges comes both risk and additional capability-best left to the very technically savvy. With rooting, you could make changes to the device that may permanently damage it or render it inoperable.

Follow This Tutorial At Your Own Risks . I Am Not Responsible For Any damage To Your Device But I say If You Follow The Steps Correctly Then There Will Be No Damage To Your Device

 

[Saumitra Yadav]

Unlocking The Bootloader

In Order To Root Your Pico You Must Unlock The Bootloader.

Now Goto This Link https://www.htcdev.com/register/ And Register Yourself At HTCDev

This Is The Website:

This Is The Registration Page:


Now You Must Register Yourself With A Working Mail ID,Because They Are Going To Send You an Email with Unlock_code, with Which You Will Unlock Your Bootloader .

After Registering Yourself login as a user And Goto This Link http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/

Select All Other supported Models In The Devices List As Shown Below

And Select Begin Unlock Bootloader

Then There Will be some conditions pop-up and you will have to accept them
Dont Forget To Say Yes To The Most Important one that you will lose your warranty


Now Before You Begin Unlocking Your Bootloader You Must Have These Required Resources :
1. Google Android SDK Zip : http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Java Runtime Environment:
JRE 32-Bit: http://filehippo.com/download_jre_32/
JRE 64-Bit: http://filehippo.com/download_jre_64/
3. Htc Sync(Windows Only): http://www.htc.com/www/help/

After Installing The Required Components Follow The Steps Below

Follow The Steps Written In The Image They Are Pretty much easy to understand


After Doing The First Four Steps You Will Now Skip The Three Steps On The Next Page And Goto Step 8

Now You Will Navigate To Diectory As Shown In The Image Below:


Now Hold Shift+Mouse Right Click And Select Open command Window Here.

Now Type This In The Cmd:

fastboot oem get_identifier_token

Now You Will See This In The Command Window:

Now You Have To Copy The Token :
When copying The Token Start With :

<<<< Identifier Token Start >>>>

And End With This Line:

<<<<< Identifier Token End >>>>>

You Should Copy The Token Like This :

Now Copy Your Token And Paste The Token As Shown In The Image Below:


Now As You Submit Your Token You Will Get A email With A link To Follow The Instructions and An Attached File Unlock_Code.txt. Download The Unlock Code And Paste It In THe Directory As Shown Below:


Now Head Over To The Next Step Flashing A Recovery

 

[Saumitra Yadav]

Flashing A Recovery

Now Navigate To This Directory:

Now Execute The Following Command in CmdOpen Cmd With Shift+Right Click)

fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin

Now You Will See The Following Screen On Your Mobile:
Select Yes Using The Volume Keys

Now,
On Selecting Yes Your Phone Will Reboot
Pull The Battery And Reboot Into Bootloader By Pressing the Power button+Volume Down.
Select Fastboot And Make Sure Your Device Is Connected To Pc. It Should Show Fastboot USB

Flashing A Recovery:
We Have Three Recoveries Working on Pico:
1. CWM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=913094&d=1329843100
2. TWRP:http://www.mediafire.com/download/a17t0atwqg4tai7/recovery.img
3. Philz Recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265055
Download The Recovery You Want And Rename it to recovery.img.
Copy-Paste It In The Directory Given Below:

Now Open The Cmd In This Directory And Type The Following Code :

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

And Then Type:

fastboot reboot-bootloader

Your Device Will Boot Into Bootloader.
Now Select Recovery And Your Device Will Boot Into Recovery

Now Select Reboot(System) In Recovery As We Now Need To Copy Some Files To Root Your Device

 

[Saumitra Yadav]

Installing Superuser App

Now You Have To Root Your Device:

Download This File:http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=832400&d=1325076959

Copy This File In Your Sdcard.

Reboot Into Recovery And Goto Install. Browse To The File You Pasted In Your Sdcard(Superuser.zip)

Swipe to confirm flashing the file. Then, “Reboot system”.

Now You Have Succesfully Rooted Your Phone

If you ran into any troubles, please notify in the thread.

 

[Saumitra Yadav]

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For Future Updates

 

[thewisenerd]

Nice job, even though the images are kanged

My phone's screenguard is still chipped above the HTC logo Gotta change that.
Meanwhile, nice job :good: (But, I still feel that most of the instructions are just kanged and made windows like from this tutorial here)
Also, to help the OP, here are some useful links.
Java Runtime Environment is enough for unlocking bootloader and stuff. One can download their respective versions from the links below: (Credits to FileHippo for servers)

JRE 32-Bit: http://filehippo.com/download_jre_32/
JRE 64-Bit: http://filehippo.com/download_jre_64/

Also, consider reversing back to Yannou90's recovery as some users had problems flashing SuperUser.zip in TWRP 2.4.1 :fingers-crossed:

 

[Saumitra Yadav]

My phone's screenguard is still chipped above the HTC logo Gotta change that.
Meanwhile, nice job :good: (But, I still feel that most of the instructions are just kanged and made windows like from this tutorial here)
Also, to help the OP, here are some useful links.
Java Runtime Environment is enough for unlocking bootloader and stuff. One can download their respective versions from the links below: (Credits to FileHippo for servers)

JRE 32-Bit: http://filehippo.com/download_jre_32/
JRE 64-Bit: http://filehippo.com/download_jre_64/

Also, consider reversing back to Yannou90's recovery as some users had problems flashing SuperUser.zip in TWRP 2.4.1 :fingers-crossed:

Yeah I just followed that tutorial and used some images from it .... And thanks for the java runtime environment thing :thumbup: I will update the post...

Ps: I just used your format of writing the tutorial ....

Sent from my HTC Explorer using xda app-developers app

 

[HarshilYadav]

Hi guys plz. help. When i am in fastboot mode my pc says device not recognised and in command prompt there is "waiting for device" only......
i downloaded all the required files correctly

 

[thewisenerd]

Did you install HTC Sync?

Hi guys plz. help. When i am in fastboot mode my pc says device not recognised and in command prompt there is "waiting for device" only......
i downloaded all the required files correctly

The HTC Drivers for the phone are installed along with HTC Sync, So,... it is recommended that you install it first. :cyclops:

 

[Mukesh7]

Hi i try to unlock bootloader n htc explorer...i did all the instructions as per htcdev....but finally at the tim of getting code its displyin waiting fr device n command prompt and no respnse after tht ..also i enbled usb debbuging..pls help

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[htc_bing]

Thank you for such clean tutorial- best yet found anywhere over web. :good:
Just want to make sure some things before I root my htc_pico:
1) I am having windows8 64bit OS on pc, is it going to be any problem (driver issue or anything)? 'cause i think htc did not update sync for explorer for win8, because i cant run internet-passthrough through my pc (Yet I managed using virtual OS(Vmware ) )
2) Is it really necessary to download and install "Google Android SDK Zip"?
3) While giving commands in cmd prompt, What should be the connection type when I connect my phone to PC? (Charge only,or HtcSync) ?
--
I'm sorry but I might ask a lot of questions regarding the topic 'cause I am new (and noob ) and I want to be sure that I do not brick my phone....
Thank you

 

[shriiram]

@Saumitra Yadav Followed your steps installed TWRP recovery but unable to flash super user zip file gives error help please..

 

[thewisenerd]

@Saumitra Yadav Followed your steps installed TWRP recovery but unable to flash super user zip file gives error help please..

The superuser.zip in jaggyjags tutorial is... for older recoveries...

In short: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32696899&postcount=71http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32696899&postcount=71

 

[shriiram]

The superuser.zip in jaggyjags tutorial is... for older recoveries...

In short: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32696899&postcount=71http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32696899&postcount=71

I got a new Rom installed thanks for your suggestions

 

[thehamza149]

ERROR while flashing SUPERUSER!!!

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Dude i followed everything u mentioned in the tutorial but got stuck while flashing superuser.zip...Its giving a error n not hav root access yet.wat shud i do now??? plz reply ASAP

 

[xavescoronel]

Need Help!

Hey Xda Members,
This Is A detailed Tutorial On How To Root Your HTC Pico. I Know There Is A Tutorial By Jaggyjaggs But Many of Pico Users find it difficult to root there htc pico by this tutorial . So I am Trying to make things easy for Newbies

Rooting Your HTC Pico Requires Three Steps:
1. Unlocking The Bootloader
2. Flashing A Custom Recovery.
3. Installing Superuser App(Getting Root Previllage)

Now You MUst Know Certain Things Before Rooting Your Device:






Follow This Tutorial At Your Own Risks . I Am Not Responsible For Any damage To Your Device But I say If You Follow The Steps Correctly Then There Will Be No Damage To Your Device

=========================================================

I tried downloading SDK for the 7th time, it will show that it has downloaded 480/480 MB, then the clock counts down with all the excitement then, BOOOM!! Network Error. I don't know what is going on. Why does it keeps on failing. Not only in one of my PC's, but all of them (1 desktop, 2 laptops).

Hope you can help me out.

 

[thewisenerd]

Hi OP,

Here's something that's likely to interest you, and save the users their bandwidth:

[TOOL] [WINDOWS] ADB, Fastboot and Drivers - 15 seconds ADB Installer v1.1

:fingers-crossed:

 

[Rajeev Nair]

Cant root my htc pico

In the last step of rooting ,while installing superuser.zip ,the screen showed failed .and i used an rootchecker to find i was successful and ,i wasn't. Don't know what went wrong ,please do comment on this

 

[shubhojit89]

In the last step of rooting ,while installing superuser.zip ,the screen showed failed .and i used an rootchecker to find i was successful and ,i wasn't. Don't know what went wrong ,please do comment on this

I hope you have unlocked your bootloader successfully..

Now comes the installation of recovery.. I think you have installed it successfully..

No what you have to do is reboot your phone to recovery..

Now from install zip select the superuser zip and flash..