[HTC Rezound] sweet6s:
I have spent days here (and other forums) attempting to enable WiFi Hotspot on my Rezound (Verizon). I have flashed RUUs, ROMs, kernels, radios, recoveries, and on and on. I have done everything possible (or it feels that way) on this phone short of getting S-Off.

Well, I have finally achieved what I set out to do and WiFi hotspot is working on my Windows 8 laptop.

If you don’t know about unlocking Android devices, rooting, or ROMs, then you’re probably thinking BIG WOOP. Well, I have an unlimited data plan and now I have unlimited internet by using my phone as a wireless hotspot.

If you do know about unlocking Android devices, rooting, or ROMs, then you’re probably thinking BIG WOOP. Well, as I mentioned this is a Rezound and that should mean something.

And, if you know about unlocking, rooting, or ROMs on a Rezound then I say BIG WOOP. I did it myself.

I will list (generally) what I did to make this happen. If this seems elementary or redundant to you please let this stand for those that may be able to use it.

This is what I started with:

Phone: HTC Rezound

Carrier: Verizon

Android: v 4.0.3

Last Update: 05/03/2013 ADR6425LVW_4.05.605.14-3.14.605.13

Kernel: 30.16-gf131e4 htc-kernal@ul8000-build-144 #1 SMP PREEMPT

HBoot: 2.28

PCs: Yes LT- Win 8 (64) USB 3.0 only, LT- Win 7 (64) USB 2.0 only, and DT- Win XP

HTC Sync: Yes (3.3.53)

Internet: Yes

USB cable: Yes (original)

Micro SD: Yes (16Gb, 8Gb, 4Gb)

IMPORTANT: I was unable to get my Windows 8 Laptop with only USB 3.0 ports to work with ADB not matter what drivers I used. I had to use another laptop with USB 2.0 ports.

These are the final steps I took:

I used SuperBackup to backup all the things it could and moved the backups to my extSD.

Enabled USB Debugging on phone.

Followed Scotty’s noob friendly root guide (I cant post the link so you will have to look it up) for the unlocking and recovery. Be sure to keep your Unlock_code.bin file in the mini-adb_vigor directory. I used his temporary method for recovery all the way through this and went with Amon Ra (Ra3.15PH98IMG.img). For Super User I used CMW-SuperSU-v0.94.zip but didn’t need it in the end because of the ROM I went with.

Booted into recovery (using Scotty’s temporary method) and preformed a full backup.

Shut down from AR (AmonRa) recovery

Removed my main SD and used a spare 4Gb card and rebooted and put the phone is disk mode to transfer files to it.

Using Infection 2.9.1 I did the following (a compilation of other’s and my instructions):

Open the INFECTION-2.9.1.zip and extract the boot.img from it.

place the boot.img into the mini-adb_Vigor directory (from Scotty’s guide).

Put the INFECTION-2.9.1.zip on the root of temporary SD Card

Put phone into Charge Mode

Compare MD5 Sum (I used winmd5free)

Type – CODE: adb reboot bootloader and [enter] to get to Fastboot

Boot to Recovery using (Scotty’s temporary method) – CODE: fastboot boot Ra3.15PH98IMG.img

When recovery loads scroll down and select "Wipe"

Wipe the following: (x2 means do it twice, etc.)

-Wipe ALL data/factory reset x2

-Wipe /data x2

-Wipe /cache x2

-Wipe Dalvik-cache x3

-Wipe /boot x2

-Wipe /system x3

-Optionally wiped:

-Wipe battery stats

-Wipe rotate settings

Scroll to and press return

Install Rom from SD Card using the ZIP menu while still in Recovery.

Return to the main menu of the recovery and select "Developer Menu".

Select "Reboot to bootloader

Ensure your device is connected to your computer and that your device is now in fastboot mode. This is a white screen and it you should see FASTBOOT USB on it.

While still using the terminal and still in the mini-adb_Vigor directory.

Issue this command ---- fastboot flash boot boot.img to flash the boot.img we placed in the mini-adb_Vigor folder earlier. (when using Scotty’s temporary recovery method you probably do not need to flash this boot.img but I did just for good measure)

When that flash has succeeded type this command on computer ----- fastboot reboot

Now the phone is unlocked and rooted with the ROM Infection 2.9.1

For wireless hotspot I did the following:

System Settings|More…|Tethering & portable hotspot-- turn on Portable Wi-Fi hotspot

Set up Wi-Fi hospot

I used the default SSID (AndroidAP) and security (WPA2) but changed the Password to a 63 printable ASCII character code. (You may want to get the hotspot working before changing any of these defaults.)

That was it. Easy peasy. Whew! This is a rundown of what I did. It may or may not work for you but good luck. Oh, and Scotty absolutely rocks!!!