[GUIDE] How to Unlock, install Recovery, and get Rooted topic

THIS GUIDE IS FOR 32-BIT DEVICES ONLY

BEFORE CONTINUING, MAKE BACKUPS OF
ANYTHING ON YOUR DEVICE THAT YOU WISH TO KEEP!

ALL COMMANDS ARE IMPORTANT AND NEED TO BE FOLLOWED STRENUOUSLY!

BY FOLLOWING THIS GUIDE YOU ARE VOIDING YOUR WARRANTY
AND I DO NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY IF YOUR PHONE BLOWS UP

For a GUI based method, try WinDroid

Please give Thanks to these people
for making this process possible:
@beaups, @Dees_Troy, @jmz,
@wolfaas12345, and @CurbThePain

Prerequisites

• ADB & Fastboot (Also, add ADB to PATH)


• HTC Drivers


• An account with HTCdev (if you're not registered, you can do that here)


• TWRP recovery image


• SuperSU binary

Let's get to work.

Unlocking the bootloader

• Power down the device


• Hold the down volume and power buttons at the same time. This will boot you into hboot


• Using the volume rocker select FASTBOOT and press the power button


• Connect the device to your computer


• Open cmd and ensure that your device is recognized by typing adb devices


• You should get something similar to the following: FA4AJSR04292 fastboot


• Now type, fastboot oem get_identifier_token , this is your token you'll need for HTCdev
  


• Minimize cmd and go to: htcdev.com/bootloader/ and select the HTC Desire from the dropdown


• Skip to Step 5 and in cmd right click and select Mark, select the token starting at the top <<<< and ending at the bottom >>>>>, paste this into the textbox at the bottom of the page and submit


• Go to the email address you used to register with HTCdev and there will be an email with an attachment named Unlock_code.bin


• In cmd, cd to the folder you've downloaded Unlock_code.bin to


• Now type, fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin


• As I said above, this will erase everything on your phone (pictures, sms, videos, apps, etc) and restore it to stock, so I hope you made backups.


• Your device will now have a screen that asks if you want to unlock the bootloader, use the volume rocker to select and the power button to enter


• Once it's done your phone will reboot, power back down (or remove the battery and reinsert) and boot to hboot, your device should now say UNLOCKED at the top.


• Now lets install TWRP recovery...

Installing TWRP recovery

• If your device is connected, disconnect it


• Power down the device


• Hold the down volume and power buttons at the same time to boot into hboot


• Using the volume rocker select FASTBOOT and press the power button


• If you closed cmd, reopen it and cd to the folder that you downloaded openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-a11.img


• Now type: fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-a11.img


• Let it do it's thing and now you have TWRP installed on your device

Getting Rooted

• Power down your device if it is booted (or by taking the battery out and reinserting it)


• Hold the down volume and power buttons at the same time to boot into hboot


• Using the volume rocker select RECOVERY and press the power button


• This will boot you into TWRP


• Open cmd and cd to the folder that you downloaded UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.16.zip


• Now type: adb push UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.16.zip /sdcard/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.16.zip


• In TWRP tap install and in the file browser tap sdcard and then tap UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.16.zip


• Flash UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.16.zip

Congrats your bootloader is unlocked, TWRP is installed, and you've gained root access!

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