Do you want to get the most out of your HTC Thunderbolt? Want to root it but are to afraid? We have you covered!
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I. Setup ADB
1. Head to our How To Setup ADB procedure, once you can see a serial number at the end of that procedure, you can come back to this one to continue.
II. Opening a Command Prompt in Windows:
1. Plug your phone in, using the USB cable and select “drive mode”.
2. On your computer, click on the Start menu.
3. In the search box in the start menu, type cmd and hit enter.
4. When the command prompt window opens, you must navigate to the folder adb is in. Type the following with hitting enter at the end of the line:
cd C:\androidsdk\tools
III. Steps to Root
1. Download the exploits
zip file from
here.
2. Extract them to the androidsdk\tools folder on your hard drive (they should be in the same folder that adb is in).
3. In the command prompt that you should still have open from Section II. Type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:
adb push psneuter /data/local/
adb push busybox /data/local/
adb push misc.img /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/psneuter
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/busybox
adb shell (You should see a $ which indicates no root access)
/data/local/psneuter
IV. Write Misc.img
1. In the command prompt, type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line: adb shell
dd if=/data/local/misc.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
exit
V. Flashing the Downgrade RUU File
1. Download the PG05IMG from here.
2. Make sure the usb cable is still connected and you are still drive mode
3. Place the PG05IMG file on the root of your sd card (not in any other files or folders).
4. In the command prompt, type the following with hitting enter at the end of the line: adb reboot bootloader
5. On the phone, choose the bootloader option and press power, let the ROM COMPLETELY flash and DO NOT interrupt this process. When asked to upgrade, press the volume up button to select yes and let it completely install. Once it’s done, it will ask you to reboot. Select yes.
VI. Running the Exploit Files:
1. In the command prompt, type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:
adb push psneuter /data/local/
adb push busybox /data/local/
adb push wpthis /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/psneuter
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/busybox
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/wpthis
adb shell
/data/local/psneuter
adb shell
/data/local/wpthis
exit
VII. Write the Engineering Bootloader:
1. In the command prompt, type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:
adb push hbooteng.nb0 /data/local/
2. Now to check the md5sum and make sure it matches - 6991368ee2deaf182048a3ed9d3c0fcb - type the following into the command prompt and hitting enter at the end of each line:
adb shell
/data/local/busybox md5sum /data/local/hbooteng.nb0
3. IF THE CHECKSUMS ARE DIFFERENT DO NOT CONTINUE and STOP! REPEAT THE DOWNLOAD AND THEN REPEAT STEPS 1 & 2..
4. In the command prompt, type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:
adb shell
dd if=/data/local/hbooteng.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
VIII. Installing a Rooted Stock Rom:
1. Download the upgraded rooted ROM from here. 2. Plug the phone in via USB and select drive mode. 3. Transfer the rooted stock rom file to the root of your sd card. 4. In the command prompt, type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line:
adb shell
reboot bootloader
5. Choose the bootloader option and press power, let the ROM COMPLETELY flash and DO NOT interrupt this process. When asked to upgrade, choose yes, by pressing volume up.
Once this is fully completed, select reboot.
Congratulations you are now rooted!