How to Unlock Bootloader On HTC Smartphone Device.

Unlock Bootloader On HTC. We know that HTC Phones devices always came with a locked bootloader. why someone needs to unlock bootloader? This is the reason why should anyone unlock the bootloader. Someone try to unlock bootloader because they want to activate developer option or want to install custom or modified ROMs, flash a custom recovery and other tweaks on their phones. So.. they have to unlock the bootloader.

When you finished flash custom recovery, you would give tons of features and install other tweaks that require full system access to your android devices. Now, I will explain to you how to unlock the bootloader on your HTC phones devices.

Unlock Bootloader On HTC

Attention :  Unlocking your device may void all or parts of your warranty by HTC.

What Should your prepare?

1. Make sure that your device is HTC phone because our guide is specifically for HTC phones only.
2. Download and install USB Driver of your HTC phone.
3. Download and extract fast boot file in C:/drives.

https://www.htcdev.com/process/legal_fastboot_win

4. After you install it, connect your device to your PC or computer
5. Download HTC Sync for USB drivers. Here

http://www.htc.com/www/help/

6. Next step that should you do is make sure your phone battery is 70% - 80% charged.
7. Warning: Your phone might go dead permanently when your phone goes off suddenly because your battery power is not charger properly when you performing flash ROMs or installing mods and updates
8. All your important data, like music, video, and the application will delete or wipe all. So, you must backup all data before unlocking the bootloader.

Guide to Unlock Bootloader.

I will explain to you step by step how to unlock the bootloader on HTC smartphone. You must read all the activity carefully before you apply to perform it to your HTC smartphone devices.

1. At the first, you must Visit HTCDev.com. Here 

   http://www.htcdev.com/
2. When the website was opened, you can find register link on top of the page, then you click it to create an account at HTCDev website.

   

   Unlock Bootloader On HTC

3. Fill all form that appears on the website. be careful to make a password, you have to use minimum One Uppercase, One Lower Case, and One Number combination.
4. After you finished filling all registration form, you will see notification page that you have completed registration.
5. Next step is Activate your account by open your Inbox at your Email.
6. When you find new Email from HTCDev, Open it and find a link like this picture below. then click it.
7. You will redirect to Account Activation Page, that gives you a notification if your account is activated.
8. Now, you open HTCDev.com. Here again to Log in using your activated account.

   http://www.htcdev.com/
9. Then click on Unlock Bootloader button.

   

   Unlock Bootloader On HTC

10. And click Get Started button

    

    Unlock Bootloader On HTC

11. It will show you about Unlocking Bootloader page, below the Supported Device you can find your device by click Select Your Device drop-down list. Then you click Begin Unlock Bootloader.
12. You must Carefully read the warning popup message and then press the ‘Yes’ button.
13. Check both the boxes in the Legal Terms popup box. Now press the “Proceed to Unlock Instructions” button.
14. Now we back to our HTC smartphone device.
15. Turn Off your HTC by Press and Hold Power Button for 10 seconds
16. After your HTC smartphone devices fully turn off, press Volume down and Power Button to start your device into Bootloader Menu.

    

    Unlock Bootloader On HTC

17. When you in bootloader menu, Use the Volume buttons to select up or down. Then you Highlight Fastboot and press the Power button to select.
18. After you done it, now connect your HTC device to your PC with USB Cable.
19. Then Activate your windows command prompt, by press and hold windows logo + R, then you type cmd.exe
20. when command prompt window opened, now you can type the following command and press Enter.
21. type : cd c:/fastboot

    

    Unlock Bootloader On HTC

22. then type: fastboot oem get_identifier_token
23. Now, you will see long integer as your token, then you open this page.

    http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/unlock-instructions/page-3

    

    Unlock Bootloader On HTC

24. Copy and paste this text into the token field below (in the Windows command prompt: Right Click > Mark > highlight the block of text > Right click to copy. Mac users can use cmd-option to mark and select text.).
25. When copying the token, start with this line: <<<< Identifier Token Start >>>> 
26. And end with this line: <<<<< Identifier Token End >>>>> 
27. Note: Only copy the highlighted sections above. Do not copy the INFO or (bootloader) prefix
28. After you copied, paste that identifier token into the box at the bottom of that HTCDev page and then click Submit.
29. Then You will receive an email from HTC (on the registered email) with a link to the second part of the instructions and your “Unlock_code.bin” file attached.
30. Download “Unlock_code.bin” and save it in your Fastboot folder (C:\fastbooot in our case).
31. Now type the following command in Command Prompt and press Enter. fastboot flash unlock tokenUnlock_code.bin.
32. Then Check your phone. Read on-screen instructions. Press Volume Up to accept and the Power button to confirm.

Now you can install custom ROMs, flash a custom recovery and perform other system tweaks on your HTC phone because your HTC Smartphone device has Unlock Bootloader. congratulation.

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