Unlock Evo LTE ?

[bigmase23]

Can someone please tell me if the htc dev unlock is the only way to unlock our phone so that we can flash new roms. I have it rooted now, but I believe I need it unlocked as well. Is this correct? I am just trying to find out the best way to do this. The HTC DevUnlock seems to be very frustrating. Thanks, and I am sure I am not the only one with this question. I see a couple tutorials for rooting but not for unlocking.

 

[david279]

Right now it is. It's not that bad. I unlocked in about 20 minutes. Worse thing for me is I had to factory reset. I had just set everything up but if you had rooted before it will still be there because the unlock only wipes data not system.

Sent from my EVO 4G LTE

 

[leerage]

Can someone please tell me if the htc dev unlock is the only way to unlock our phone so that we can flash new roms. I have it rooted now, but I believe I need it unlocked as well. Is this correct? I am just trying to find out the best way to do this. The HTC DevUnlock seems to be very frustrating. Thanks, and I am sure I am not the only one with this question. I see a couple tutorials for rooting but not for unlocking.

HTC Unlock is the only method as of right now.

 

[wi11ie]

followed all instructions EXACTLY and would not communicate with phone.. Shows ***tampered***
***locked***
Damn Sprint!

 

[jdogg836]

Root phone > Back up everything with Titanium Backup > Unlock with HTC Dev > Flash custom recovery (TWRP) > Flash new ROM > Restore apps. No biggie.

 

[wi11ie]

Root phone > Back up everything with Titanium Backup > Unlock with HTC Dev > Flash custom recovery (TWRP) > Flash new ROM > Restore apps. No biggie.

I just got the phone this morning.. did yours say "tampered" and "locked" when you got it?
***TAMPERED***
***LOCKED***
JEWEL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.12.0000
RADIO 1.02.12.0427
OPEN DSP-VER25. 1.0.32.0405
eMMC-boot
Apr 26 2012,19:54:01

 

[scottspa74]

Weird. I don't think it should say **TAMPERED** when you first get it. But I haven't looked yet. Sorry.

sent from my Evo LTE, usually.

 

[wi11ie]

Did the RUU from here using the HTC program and all is well..
Bootloader unlocked and fixing to ROOT!!!

 

[glgehman]

Can someone please tell me if the htc dev unlock is the only way to unlock our phone so that we can flash new roms. I have it rooted now, but I believe I need it unlocked as well. Is this correct? I am just trying to find out the best way to do this.

I just used the procedure discussed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672072&highlight=+hboot+2+18+

to unlock the HBOOT 2.18 boot loader on my OG EVO 4g. I have no idea what it does or how, but it produced exactly the same result as HTCDev without going through HTCDev. From unlocked, I was able to flash an older RUU that let me achieve S-OFF using Revolutionary.

Now, I understand that EVO 4G LTE has no earlier versions that have been unlocked. So, no RUU to fall back to, but I wonder if the method used in the EVO post could be applied to at least get us non-HTCDev Unlocked.

glg