[HTC First] SneakyGuyDavid:
the unlock bootloader thing is pretty safe its just a command you run while your phone is in bootloader just make sure you have adb and fastboot ill see if i can get you some pictues and screenshots in the meantime

by the way most htc phones go through this process haha, so yeah i guess it is time to learn

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unlocking bootloader instructions:

1) Make sure to have adb and fastboot, oh and the htc drivers

here are some standalone adb and fastboot if you need it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42407269

here are the htc drivers: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2217396

2) Head to the htcdev website, sign in or register and somewhere on the homepage it should show an option to "Unlock Bootloader"

heres some screenshots and such:

HTCDev Homescreen:http://i.imgur.com/dXHfiPF.png

After clicking unlock bootloader option: http://i.imgur.com/G753Ou7.jpg

Make sure to pick this under which device: http://i.imgur.com/f8kiOBf.png

i just realized this is alot of work to make a guide so heres a link if i lose you in my lazy guide below :good: http://technosamigos.com/unlock-bootloaders-htc-first-facebook-home-phone/

Quick Lazy Guide

do as above , then htc will send you an email to the email you registered with attached with a file called "unlock.bin" put that file into the folder that you have the adb and fastboot, at that point you can then turn your htc first off and then enter bootloader by holding down power button and volume down while the phone is off and you can keep holding both buttons intill you reach the white bootloader screen, once in bootloader plug it into the computer then press the power button on the fastboot option, it should show fastboot in red and be detected since you should have installed the htc drivers by now, then hold SHIFT while right clicking somewhere in the folder and click the option in the context menu to "open a command promt here" at that point you're gonna run the command: fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin .... then after that you should see

THIS:

http://i.imgur.com/G5FxYSZ.png , press volume up till you highlight yes and press the power button , BOOM YOU HAVE UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER WOOOOOOOOO PARTY PARTY PARTY

BOOTLOADER LOOKS LIKE THIS:

http://i.imgur.com/rJ3Vn5w.jpg

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Now the recovery

now that the bootloader is unlocked you can then restart the phone and then go back into bootloader to flash a recovery, you can do either but i prefer twrp since it allows you to flash supersu before you restart your phone.

here are links to:

TWRP: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2241782 GIVES AN OPTION TO FLASH SUPERSU BEFORE YOU RESTART PHONE

please remember that twrp has graphical issues that can be fixed once the screen times out in however many seconds

CWM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2241777 THE CWM THREAD SHOWS HOW TO GET ROOT BY FLASHING SUPERSU ZIP

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Now to get S-OFF

there are two methods, Moonshine and RumRunner. both have already good guides which are the websites, try moonshine but if it doesn't work try rumrunner.

Moonshine: http://moonshine.io/

Rumrunner: http://rumrunner.us/

like i said try moonshine, but for me moonshine didnt work so i had to use rumrunner, and after i used rumrunner i had S-off but my phone kept bootlooping,

MY SOLUTION

(saying this because there are many and i cannot promise that it will work for you) was to RE-LOCK the bootloader (by running the command

fastboot oem lock

or something like that i will find out later)after obtaining S-OFF (you can verify if you have S-ON or S-OFF through the bootloader should say it somewhere near the top, so it sounds crazy but you can still do all functions after the bootloader is locked you can still flash roms and access custom recovery and everything, the stock rom just responds bad to having S-OFF and unlocked bootloaders for some including me.

---------- Post added at 06:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:24 PM ----------

I am an extremely lazy person if you haven't noticed, you should feel honored to have me make you a half-assed personal guide with few photos here and there lol i kid i kid.