[HTC Wildfire S] GuestK00178:
I know there are quite a few root guides out there but I just wanted to share exactly how I rooted my Wildfire S and installed CWM Recovery

1.

First things first: is your bootloader unlocked or S-OFF? To find out, turn off your phone, then hold in the vol- button and while holding it in, press the power button. Do not let go of volume down until the bootloader menu appears. It should say at the top LOCKED or UNLOCKED and/or S-ON or S-OFF. If it does not say either S-OFF or UNLOCKED, you will need to unlock your bootloader before you can root the device so proceed to step 2. Otherwise, skip to step 3.

2. (Bootloader Unlock)

Warning: this step voids your phone's warranty!

Head over to HTCdev and register an account. Then click the Unlock Bootloader button on the main page. It will walk you through all the steps to unlock your bootloader. Nothing to add to their instructions really. If you get really stuck here's a video guide

3. (Root)

There are several root methods but I chose to use htc supertool v3 which you can get here

Credit to frigid for this tool. The tool is not mine.

Extract the zip file that you should have downloaded from that thread. If you didn't download it, do so.

Open the SuperTool.exe file in the extracted folder.

You should be confronted with a terminal window with this text:

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MENU
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1 Prep (using zergRush CREDITS to Revolutionary)
2 Prep (using TacoRoot CREDITS to jcase)
3 Attempt Perm Root (Must prep first)(if
4 Attempt S-OFF, SIM Unlock, and everything else (Using gfree)
5 Unlock bootloader (using HTCDev)
6 Relock bootloader
7 De Sense (Disables Sense DOES NOT DELETE)
8 Re Sense (Re-Enables Sense)
9 Wireless Tether Exploit
10 Unroot
reboot Reboot your device

Make a choice or hit ENTER to quit:

Press 1 to prep with zergRush and press enter. then when it comes back to the main menu, press 3 and then press enter. This will attempt to root your device. If it doesn't work, try using option 2 instead of option 1. If it still doesn't work, try both again. Hopefully your device will be rooted by this point.

4. (Install CWM Recovery)

There are two ways I'm going to go over to achieve this, the ROM Manager method and fastboot method.

BTW CWM Recovery is something you need if you're gonna flash any ROMs or mods or anything really..

ROM Manager Method

Go into the Play Store and search for "ROM Manager" (the developer is called clockworkmod)

Install the app and open it.

There will be an option to install recovery. Use it. :rolleyes:

It will install CWM recovery in a few seconds.

To get into recovery mode, boot into bootloader (you should know how to do this by now) and choose recovery in the menu and it will boot into recovery :)

Fastboot Method

Find a recovery image. (Make sure it's for the right device!)

Boot into bootloader then select fastboot in the menu (with the phone plugged into PC). You should know how to get into fastboot by now, anyway.

Open a command prompt in the same directory that you have the recovery image in. (If you don't know how to do this then it's a good time to learn how to use Google ;) )

Use this command:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

If the recovery image was not called recovery.img then type the actual name. It will always end with .img

It will flash teh recovery :eek::silly:

The End.

Please say if I missed anything out. I wrote this 100% from memory