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10th June 2013, 09:03 AM | #1

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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:
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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:
Quote:
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.

Quote:
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.

Quote:
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 :P But
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I say If You Follow The Steps

Correctly Then There Will Be No
Damage To Your Device
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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

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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/

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After Installing The Required

Components Follow The Steps
Below
Follow The Steps Written In The Image They Are Pretty much
easy to understand :P

After Doing The First Four Steps

You Will Now Skip The Three
Steps On The Next Page And
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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:
Quote:
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 :
Quote:
<<<< Identifier Token Start >>>>
And End With This Line:
Quote:
<<<<< Identifier Token End >>>>>

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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

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Flashing A Recovery
Now Navigate To This Directory:

Now Execute The Following Command in Cmd

With Shift+Right Click)

Open Cmd

Quote:
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
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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.xdadevelopers.com/atta...4&d=1329843100
2.
TWRP:http://www.mediafire.com/download/a1...7/recovery.img
3. Philz Recovery:
http://forum.xdadevelopers.com/show....php?
t=2265055
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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 :
Quote:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
And Then Type:
Quote:
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

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Installing Superuser App

Now You Have To Root Your Device:
Download This File:http://forum.xdadevelopers.com/atta...0&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)

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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.

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Nice job, even though the images are kanged :p

My phone's screenguard is still chipped above the HTC logo
Gotta change that.
Meanwhile, nice job
(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

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Quote:
Originally Posted by vineethraj49
My phone's screenguard is still chipped above the HTC
logo
Gotta change that.
Meanwhile, nice job
(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
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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 ....
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10th July 2013, 06:48 PM | #8

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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

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Did you install HTC Sync?

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

Mukesh7
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12th August 2013, 01:53 AM | #10

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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
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its displyin waiting fr device n command prompt and no

respnse after tht ..also i enbled usb debbuging..pls help
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