[HTC Wildfire S] iH8ra!n:
INFO ABOUT THIS STUFF

DISCLAIMER

[COLOR="Red"]/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, broken hearts,
* thermonuclear war, you getting fired because the alarm app failed, or
* unfulfilled sexual partners. Please do some research if you have any
* concerns about features included in this ROM before flashing it! YOU are
* choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me
* for messing up your device, I will point that finger back at you and laugh. */[/COLOR]

CREATE A FOLDER ON YOUR PC'S HARDDRIVE [C:\]CALLED "MY WILDFIRE S" OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS, FOR PUTTING ALL IMPORTANT FILES IN IT

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STEP 1, UNLOCKING THE BOOTLOADER

[COLOR="Red"]After you're Bootloader got unlocked your phone will be factory reset!
If you want to make a backup of your existing ROM and files first, do [SIZE="5"]STEP 2[/SIZE]
and [SIZE="5"]STEP 3[/SIZE] now and then proceed to this step again![/COLOR]

1 Go to http://htcdev.com/ and register! After you've registered, unlock the Bootloader of your HTC Wildfire S! You do not need to do the steps on the first page, go Android SDK Tools, Java Runtime Environment and HTC Sync! Also install the ADB and Fastboot drivers!​

STEP 2, RECOVERY INSTALLATION

METHOD 1, VIA PC

2.1 Download a working Recovery image on your PC, for example this one ! :)

2.2 Make sure you have ADB and Fastboot drivers installed on your PC! If you can't understand this Tutorial, google for one in your language! :)

2.3 After you installed ADB and Fastboot drivers on your PC, you have to connect your phone in fastboot mode (Bootloader > Fastboot) via USB Cable to your PC. Then it should say "Fastboot USB" on your phone's screen. Open a command prompt on Windows - click the Windows button and "R" at the same time on your keyboard, in the search field type "cmd"! After, type - with phone connected- :

cd C:\path to recovery\

and enter!

2.4 Then, type:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

and wait for it to finish. Select "reboot bootloader", then "recovery" and you should be done!

2.5 Wait a few seconds, until in cmd it says "finished total time x.x.x.x.". Then disconnect your phone, close the cmd window. In Fastboot select "Reboot Bootloader". Wait for it to reboot. Select "Bootloader", wait for HBOOT finishing its thing. Then select "Recovery"!

METHOD 2, VIA YOUR PHONE

You need to be [URL="http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1878031"]rooted[/URL] to work with this mehtod!

2.1 Download a working Recovery image on your device, for example this one and place it in the root of your SDCard [/sdcard] and NOT in a folder! For that, download a File Manager from Google's Play Store, navigate to the folder "Download", cut the file out and place it in "/storage/sdcard0" [the root of your SDCard]! :)

2.2 Make sure you have the Terminal Emulator installed on your device!

2.3 Open the Terminal Emulator on your device and type:

su

and hit enter! In the SuperUser-Pop-Up-Window select "accept/allow"!

2.4 Again: Make sure that the recovery.img is in the root of your SDCard [/sdcard] and NOT in a folder!

Then, type:

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

and hit enter!

2.5 You might get a stream of almost identical looking code after hitting the enter key, this is normal, as long as you got no error messages in the code and you got a "#" at the end!

Then you can type in this:

reboot recovery

and hit enter! This will take you to your new recovery's home screen.

HOW TO BOOT INTO A RECOVERY

Power your phone off. Hold down volume down and the power button at the same time. Wait a few seconds, until you get to a screen with three skating Androids at the bottom. Without doing anything HBOOT will start to search for a PG76IMG (another method to install a recovery) on your phone but it won't find anything. So if you see the main screen again, navigate with the volume down button to recovery and confirm your decision with the power button. Now you'll see the HTC Logo and after a few seconds, you'll see the home screen of your Recovery.​

STEP 3, NANDROID BACKUP

3.1 Boot into Recovery (Bootloader,Recovery), select "backup and restore", enter with power button and select "backup",you're now doing a "Nandroid Backup"!

3.2 After it finished, take out your Phone's SD Card, and plug it in to your computer with an micro SD Adapter.

If you do not have such an Adapter, select "reboot system now" in Recovery's Main Menu, and connect your phone via USB cable. On phone's SDCard, go to clockworkmod > backup, and pull it into your created folder!

3.3 If you want to save your contacts, select in "Contacts", with pressing the menu button, "export to sd card". After doing this, put the vcard - stored on your Phone's SDCard - into the created folder!​

STEP 4, ROOT YOUR PHONE

4.1 Connect your phone via USB cable to your PC, make a right click on your phone and select "Format...". In Pop-Up window, select "FAT32" in the second row, then click on "start formatting". Yes you read right: Everything on your Phone's SD Card will get wiped. That's why I said, backup your data!

4.2 Download the root.zip, put it on your phone's SD Card. Shut down your phone!

4.3 Boot into Recovery and wipe everything [advanced > wipe battery stats;wipe dalvik cache;main menu > wipe cache partition;wipe data/factory reset]!

4.4 In Recovery's Main Menu select install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard and select the root.zip file (it should be the only displayed file).Let the recovery do its thing!

4.5 Reboot your phone and check if your rooted. For that, make sure the App "SuperUser" is installed. Go into this app, swipe to the left and update the su-binary!​

INFO ABOUT CUSTOM ROMS

In the world of Root there are two big ROM (=

R

ead

O

nly

M

emory) making companies:

CyanogenMod and MIUI. I'd suggest to use CyanogenMod 'cause it's Stock Android based and not modded.

If you want to have the latest Android Version - Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with the great Google Now - installed on your HTC Wildfire S A510e (MARVEL-GSM-EUROPE), go here!​

STEP 5, INSTALL A CUSTOM ROM

[COLOR="Red"]We are working with CyanogenMod 10 in this case,
but it is the same procedure for any other Custom ROM too.[/COLOR]

Download these two files...

CyanogenMod 10

Google-Apps

...and put them on your phone's SD Card.

1. Boot into Recovery - you're a Pro in this now, right? ;). Wipe everything as done in step 3.3 [advanced > wipe battery stats;wipe dalvik cache;main menu > wipe cache partition;wipe data/factory reset]!

2. Install the two zip files via "install zip from sdcard" > "choose zip from sdcard".

First, flash the CM10 zip, and

!!!AFTER!!!

the GApps zip.

Be patient it may take a while!

3. Select in Reovery's home screen "reboot system now", but be patient: the first boot may take up to five minutes!

4. After a while your phone will ask you to unlock your SIM Card. Wait a few seconds until you see that your phone is connected to the mobile phone network!

6. Set up your phone!​

ROOT APPS

ROM Manager (recommended):

With this App you can install ROMs (zip files),you can create backups, fix permissions and a lot more, cool stuff!

Astro File Manager:

An excellent and famous file manager, which with you can see, open and edit all the files stored on the SD Card.

Beats Audio Installer:

For sure, you already heard from "Beats Audio" - installed on a few HTC Android flagships i.e. the HTC one series. With this App you can install the great Beats Audio Sound on your HTC Wildfire S! After you installed and rebooted, a message will appear which says that you've added a new SIM-Card - if not,you're lucky - just click on "Reboot"!​

NOW...

...that you've rooted your phone, you entered a completely new world of Android

...you can feel free to ask me if you did not understand anything

...you can flash a Custom ROM on your phone via "install zip from sdcard" > "choose zip from sdcard"

...you can do a factory reset/full wipe via "factory reset/full wipe"

...you can only wipe the cache via "wipe cache partition"

...you can wipe Battery Stats and the dalvik cache via "advanced" > "wipe dalvik cache"/"wipe battery stats"
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