Htc One is one hell of a powerful smartphone with marvelous specifications. This tutorial will focus on how you can free your root HTC One M7 (any variant) by unlocking its bootloader, rooting it, and installing a clockwork mod recovery into it. Like I always say, a rooted android device allows its users to install various powerful apps that offer you better control on your devices such as Titanium Backup, ROM Manager, proxy droid VPN, startup manager, lucky patcher, Terminal Emulator, and Barnacle Wifi Tether.
Meanwhile, CWM recovery helps you install custom ROMs as well as allow you to perform some advanced system task that you can’t o with stock recovery. Here is a detailed tutorial to help you with the necessary procedures on how to root, unlock the bootloader and install CWM or TWR on your root HTC One M7 on Any carrier.
A quick reminder: for you to root and install recovery into your HTC One, you need to first unlock its bootloader. So if you are not ready to unlock the bootloader of your htc one, don’t proceed with this guide
Disclaimer!
This tutorial is only for the intended android device (HTC One (M7) all variants). Don’t try this guide on any other Android device. Check your device’s model number in Settings » About phone. Also, we are not responsible for any damage caused due to negligence, carelessness, or failure to follow the instruction given on this page. Try this at your own risk. Although, it is very unlikely that your device will be damaged if you follow all the instructions because it has been tested before posting
Rooting Warning:
Once your device is rooted, the warranty will get void; However, you can reclaim the warranty by applying the official firmware update. To check if you successfully rooted your device or not install an app called “Root Checker” that is available for download from the Google PLAY store for free.
Final Reminder:
- Rooting your HTC One (M7) will void the manufacturer’s warranty.
- Though root usually does not affect your phone data it’s advisable to follow the prerequisites that we mentioned below as a precaution.
- By following this instruction you will get Root and CWM recovery.
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Pre Requisites for Rooting a Device:
Back up your data first using below mentioned instructions, so that if you lost any data you can recover it easily.
- FOR SMS & Call Log – Use SMS, MMS & Call Log Entries Backup & Restore App Downloadable from google play
- FOR Your Contacts & Settings – Use Android default backup options.
- Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to Internal/External SD card or to a hard drive on your computer.
- For APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”
- And lastly for WhatsApp Messenger – Simply back up your WhatsApp conversation.
Requirements:
- Make sure your device has at least 70% battery power
- Also, make sure you already have a USB Driver Installed for Htc One in your PC [you can follow this link if you are using windows 8 64bit].
- Enable USB Debugging from settings>>Developers Options otherwise you won’t able to transfer files between PC and mobile.
- To gain root on stock ROM. Flash recovery in fastboot then flash this inside of recovery. There are two root programs. Superuser and SuperSU. Both are listed.
Superuser – http://goo.im/devs/Flyhalf205/Superuser-1.0.1.8-CWM.zip
OR
SuperSU – http://download.chainfire.eu/315/Sup…erSU-v1.25.zip
Below are the earlier versions of TWRP Recovery Image andCWMR Recovery Image
CWM_6.0.2.8_M7.zip7.03 MB TWRP_2.4.3.0_M7.zip7.82 MB
CWM_6.0.2.8_M7.zipIf however, you want to download the latest versions of TWRP and CWMR then follow the links below
Now that you have downloaded all the needed files, I will now take you through how you can perform the processes of Unlocking your bootloader, rooting, and installing CWMR or TWRP on your HTC ONE android phone.
How to Unlock Your HTC One Bootloader (The Easiest Way):
- First off, Go to http://www.htcdev.com and create yourself an account.
- Next, download the adb/fastboot files
- Make a new folder on your C:/ drive called fastboot for example.
- 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 to 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 the 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 unlock token Unlock_code.bin
- The Display Will change on your phone, press Vol + to accept and power to confirm.
How to Install Recovery Mode In HTC One
- Download the Android SDK (optional)
- Download the recovery of your choice, here are a few links:- CWM
- Or
– TWRP From my links above - Place the Recovery file you downloaded where the fastboot.exe is (Either in the location of your downloaded fastboot drivers or in the Android SDK directory)
- Now open the cmd and navigate to the folder where the Recovery File is located or just open a cmd with shift and right click at the correct directory
- Now type:fastboot flash recovery name_of_the_recovery.imgFor example:fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.2.8-m7.img
Watch the video below for more info on how to install recovery in your HTC One
Congratulations! now, your recovery is installed
How to root your HTC One M7 on Any Carrier
- Download SuperSU from the link above or SuperUser from the link above
- 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 sd card
– choose zip from sdcard
– select the downloaded SuperSU/SuperUser zip file and flash it
– Reboot now
Now you are rooted and able to install any Custom ROM
Final Tutorial: How to Install Custom ROM into Your Htc One
With htcdev unlock you need to flash the boot.img after every ROM installation. Now most of us android users, are not always patient enough to wait for the release of official firmware. So if you are one of such, then you can flash any custom ROM into your device. Only make sure you are using a compatible ROM. XDA developer’s forum is a good place to look into when searching for custom ROMS.
Note: Most of the custom ROMs have a script that lets the boot.img flash automatically with the ROM, so probably the steps after flashing the ROM are not needed.
If you are in a boot loop though, I recommend you to perform these steps and flash the boot.img with fastboot
- Download the ROM you want to flash
- Open the ROM zip with an archive manager and extract the boot.img out of it and place it in your fastboot directory
- Copy the ROM to your sdcard
- Now boot into bootloader again (explained above) and choose recovery with your volume keys and power button
- In recovery wipe data and cache aka full wipe before flashing your ROM if you are moving to a new base (for example from CyanogenMod to a Sense ROM, don’t forget to backup your data files, like apps) (Often ROM chefs leave a note in their thread if a full wipe is needed or not, just follow their advice)
- Now flash your ROM by installing zip from sdcard
- If this is finished, reboot and reboot into bootloader again
- Connect your phone to your PC in fasboot mode (choose in bootloader with power button)
- Open a cmd in your fastboot folder with your boot.img and type these two commands:
“fastboot flash boot boot.img“
“fastboot erase cache”
Lastly, reboot your phone and wait some minutes later, you will see your new ROM boot up.
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