[HTC Rezound] pball52998:
Okay, first, what machine are you on? Linux,mac,xp,vista,7? You can't unlock on 8.1 drivers aren't compatible. But Yes you unlock via HTC dev, I have a tool to help for that if you want to try it :eek: it helps first time root :eek: you still have to take the info that it gives you and put it into HTC dev then put the code you get from the email you get into the folder but I don't know if you would want that :eek: I need someone to test it :eek: But continuing.

Unlock via HTC dev if you want to do it manually with the command first.

1. Open a cmd prompt where your fastboot tool is using shift+right click.

2. Boot into fastboot by pulling the battery, then holding volume down and power, then clicking on the first thing which is fastboot by clicking power.

3. Back to the computer type

fastboot devices

4. If your device is found your good to get your unlock data, if not you need to reinstall drivers/check your connection/or your on windows 8/8.1

5. Now to get your unlock token.

fastboot oem get_identifier_token

6. Copy and paste this into HTC dev starting at

<<<< Identifier Token Start >>>>
And ending with this line:
<<<<< Identifier Token End >>>>>

7. Submit the unlock token it will say if its valid or not and send you a email with it is.

8. When you get the email it will have a item called Unlock_code.bin place this item into the same folder in which your fastboot is in.

9. Initiate the command

fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin

10. It will then send the Unlock_code.bin to your phone, you will see a prompt saying "Unlock bootloader" Then volume up and click yes. It will wipe ALL of your data back it all up before you do anything...

11. When your phone finally reboots. If you would like a custom recovery boot back into fastboot again, (Pulling battery then volume down+power button and clicking on fastboot

12. Then once into fastboot, back to your computer download either

TWRP: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/vigor

PhilZ: http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/vigor <-------you must use this if using a ROM by snuzzo "aka Plain-andy or illusion ROM

CWM: Or go here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1914215 Download one of the zips, Extract it with your favorite extractor. You should get a .img in a folder, extract it and put it in your fastboot folder. This is only for CWM.

Take one of the .img's from above that you just downloaded and place it in the folder with your fastboot.

13.Back to your computer to push the recovery. Then while your phone is still in fastboot and connected to the computer make sure your device is still found.

fastboot devices

then if your device shows up, you are good to then flash the Recovery. Initiate this command.

fastboot flash recovery <name of recovery>.img

14. It should write the img successfully.

15. If you would like to go into recovery, you can either press "bootloader" In the fastboot option then click recovery and go into it from there. Or do

fastboot reboot

it will reboot your phone like normal. Then you can put your ROM and correlating GAPPS of choice onto your phone via USB Mass storage, along with SU. Put it on the root of your external SD card. Then you can reboot into recovery. After booting normal and transferring the ROM of choice you can then enable USB debugging and do

adb reboot recovery

16. It will reboot you to the recovery that you used. You might get a lot of errors on your phone. IGNORE THEM!!

17. Go to install and find SU from your external SD card. Install that. Then after that I would suggest

STRONGLY

making a backup (NANDroid) By clicking the backup button in any recovery, make sure you back it up to your external SD card.

18. Make sure that you have your ROM of choice on your SD card.

19. Wipe the hell out of everything once your ready to install your ROM.... EXCEPT SD CARD :eek:

20. Install the ROM and GAPPS in that order.

21. After a confirmed flash, wipe, cache and dalvik.

22. Boot into fastboot. (Power+Volume down and clicking fastboot)

23. Take your original <Name of ROM>.zip and extract it. Open the folder. In the folder will be a item called boot.img

24. Place this boot.img into the folder with your fastboot.

25. Again initiate the command

fastboot devices

make sure the device is found.

26. Initiate the command, this will flash the kernal aka "boot.img"

fastboot flash boot boot.img

27. Once you've confirmed that it has flashed the boot.img do

fastboot reboot

it will reboot your device. WAIT AT LEAST 20 MINUTES!!! FIRST BOOT CAN TAKE A WHILE!!!

28. Once rebooted set up :p

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Now talking about s-off, if you like to flash ROM's a lot I would suggest it, if not and your just staying on one ROM then just stay s-on. s-off allows you to write to every partition to the phone. s-off can be dangerous as if say you flash a ROM made for the S3, well your phone will flash it happily and well brick itself going down happily... But with s-on it will abort the flash or anything. That being said theres also the advantage of s-off being you can flash a ROM for your phone, flash and go, no computer. S-off can do some stuff inside the phone such as bootlogo's etc.. BUT its not needed for almost any app in the play store or any ROM... s-off just simply means you can write to every partition freely. No its not required. Now if you were to mess up and something goes corrupt on the phone and you need to return to stock for some reason......Well.... You almost kinda need s-off for that.... unless you do

fastboot oem lock

relock your bootloader and run a RUU..... But while s-off you can simply run a RUU (ROM upgrade utility I think :eek:) But you can just run it.... This is how your would "return to stock" if anything messes up.... s-off can be EASILY obtained via rumrunner, use the universal 0.5.0 it will s-off your device http://rumrunner.us/downloads-2/

Unlike the old version of s-off which requires linux and a 22ga wire.... Hope this answers any questions!

I will post anything if i missed something, have to go, typed this real quick, please don't do this yet :eek: I think its right though....

edit: Just checked over it and made some changes... This should be exactly step by step... Or for what I did and what most others did. If I missed anything, someone else please post...