How to Unlock Bootloader and Root HTC One X+

Warning: unlock bootloader and root HTC smartphone may void the hardware warranty. This has been confirmed by HTC Malaysia via it's Facebook page. Please check with your country's HTC to confirm.


Unlocking Your Bootloader

Note: After doing unlocking bootloader, all your data/apps are gone so make a backup to your PC first.
You will need to run the initial setup again.

1. Go to "http://www.htcdev.com/" and create yourself an account on HTCDEV.
2. Download These Fastboot Files
3. Make a new folder on your C: drive called fastboot.
4. Extract The Zip downloaded in step 2 to the new folder
5. Go to http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/ and select "All Other Supported Models" and "then begin unlock bootloader"
6. Yes, Tick both Boxes, Proceed
7. Skip up to step 8 as we have all we need for the first 7 steps
8. Power off your phone by holding the power button down for 5-7 seconds (the three keys will flash a few times then it will power off)
9. Hold volume down button, the device will boot to HBOOT
10. Select Fastboot With Volume+or- then press Power once (you'll be in fastboot mode)
11. Plug your phone into your PC and open a Command Prompt.
(windows XP - Click Start > Run > type CMD in box then press OK
(Windows 7 - Click Start > type CMD in search box then press Enter)
12. cd to your folder where we put fastboot files cd c:\fastboot
13. Type this into your command prompt window fastboot oem get_identifier_token
14. Select & copy the text as per step 9 on the HTCDev website
15. Paste your identifier token into the box at the bottom and submit
You Will Very Shortly Receive an email from HTCDev with a link to the second part of the instructions and your "Unlock_code.bin" attached
16. Download the "Unlock_code.bin" from the email and save it to the same folder that we extracted fastboot files to in step 2
17. Type this into your command prompt window fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
18. The Display Will change on your phone, press Vol + to accept and power to confirm.

Congratulations You Have Successfully Unlocked Your Bootloader.


Rooting with RootBoot

THIS WILL ONLY WORK WITH THE INTERNATIONAL(UNLOCKED) VERSION OF ONE X+ which match with Football's Released RUU ON OTHER VERSIONS THERE IS A CHANCE OF IMEI LOSS UNTIL THERE IS A RUU SO PLEASE DO THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND HAVE A RUU AT HAND.
DOWNLOAD: EXPERMIENTAL http://shubham.viperbravo.info/RootBootV3.zip

1. Connect your phone to PC and put it in USB Debugging Mode.
2. Double click on ‘RootBoot.bat’ after extracting the zip file
3. It will do its thing and ask you to press enter when you see the lockscreen.
4. It will reboot again and will install a boot.img and modules.
5. It will reboot once more.
6. You should have a SuperSU app in the app drawer and rebooting should fix any other problems
7. Enjoy!



THIS CAN WORK WITH ALL VERSIONS BUT IS NOT TESTED.

DOWNLOAD: EXPERMIENTAL http://shubham.viperbravo.info/RootBootV4.zip

PLEASE BE ON STOCK KERNEL.

1. Connect your phone to PC and put it in USB Debugging Mode.
2. Double click on ‘RootBoot.bat’ after extracting the zip file
3. It will do its thing.
4. You should have a SuperSU app in the app drawer and rebooting should fix any other problems
5. Enjoy!



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How to Unlock Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9

 XDA is always full of wonderful people. This time its member yassine22 shared the method on unlocking Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9.

pix source: samsung.com

Step 1: Root your tab
[ why root the tablet: unlocking the tablet requires access to hidden system files in the root. The root is not normally made accessible to the standard users]

• From the web, search a Root package (easy to find on the web, just google ‘galaxy’ ‘root zip’ you’ll get a small zip file, it may be root.zip, root2.zip, doesn’t matter)
• Download the root zip file.
• Copy it to your tab and remember exactly the folder where you paste it.
• Turn off you tab.
• Press simultaneously the volume (-) and power buttons and continue pressing until you got a system screen with two items menu (download, and …).
• Press the volume (-) again to navigate through the two items of the menu, select upgrade.
• In the top of the screen, you’ll get a list menu with 4 items. Scroll to item “install from SDCard” (use volume (-) and (-) to scroll).
• Press power button to select.
• You’ll have to select the root zip folder, navigate through the folder structure using volume (-) (+) buttons.
• Press the power button to execute the zip file.
• Rooting operation will start, you’ll see many progress messages, just wait until the whole process finishes, it takes few seconds.
• Navigate back the menu item “reboot the tab”, press power button.

[ Your tablet will reboot now, you will notice no change, but the change is there, your tablet is now rooted]

Step 2: Preparing to unlock

• From the market, install the free app “super user”.
• Open the newly created shortcut “super user” and validate any message you get, close if necessary, [the SuperUser is an app that will work in the background and grant permissions –when necessary- to other applications to access root. Without it, rooting a tab is meaningless].
• From the market, install “root manager” [root manager is now your file manager that can go deep through the folder structure and access root folders].
• Launch the “root manager”, the first time you do that, you’ll be prompted to allow “Super User” to grant permissions to “root manager”, allow that.
• Take some time to make yourself familiar with “root manager”, it’s a very simple but powerful file manager.
• Now go back to serious work, locate the folder \efs at the root, [efs folder is very important, it holds all the information to validate your tablet to the GSM/3G operator, it validates the authenticity of your IMEI].
• Just make a copy of the whole folder and save it in a safe place – your PC or a memory stick-. We’ll be back later to this copy, continue now on the tab.
• Open \efs folder, locate the file nv_data.bin.
• Make a copy of nv_data.bin in the same folder \efs and rename the file eg: ORIGINAL_nv_data.bin
• Delete all the files in the \efs folder except nv.log. Don’t delete the sub folders ( you should normally have the following sub folders .files, imei, gyro….). 
• Now leave the tablet powered on (don’t turn off) and move to your PC to continue job,

Step 3: Molding the nv_data.bin file

• In the copy of the \efs folder that you previously made, locate the original file nv_data.bin.
• Make a copy of this file somewhere in your PC. That’s the copy you will be working on.
• Edit nv_data.bin with HexEdit.[ If you are not familiar with depths of binary files, don’t be daunted by the array of codes and bytes].
• Locate the byte 0x181469, it should read 01 value, just edit it to 00 value, do nothing more, just save and exit.
• Now you have created the molded copy of nv_data.bin.
• You need to move this copy of nv_data.bin onto your tablet, either using a memory stick or by USB cable. Paste the file in the \efs folder.

Step 4: tweaking the molded nv_data.bin file

• Now that you pasted the molded nv_data.bin to \efs folder, it needs some minor adjustments before being used.
• In the “root manager”, press and hold on the newly pasted nv_data.bin.
• You’ll get a menu, select properties.
• In the properties box, check all the 9 options (read, write, execute), leave the others.
• Save and exit root manager.
• Go the market and install the free app “terminal emulator”.
• Launch the terminal emulator, accept any message for super user permission.
• In the terminal emulator, execute the following commands [press enter after each line of command]:
• su
• chown 1001:radio \efs\nv_dat.bin
• reboot
• It’s done, your tablet will reboot unlocked.

Verification to make sure everything is OK

• Go to settings, about device, status. Make sure you have a valid IMEI number, the one you have printed on the back of your tablet, not the fake one: 00004**********
• Insert a valid SIM module, you’ll be promted to enter PIN code if configured so.
• Enter PIN code.
• Enter the APN provided by your operator (necessary to access internet 3G).

Warning: unlock/root your Samsung Galaxy Tab may void the warranty as well as brick the device, do it at your own risk.


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How to Downgrade to Gingerbread for Samsung Galaxy Note

I said this too many times, but I still want to say this, XDA members are wonderful and talented people. This time XDA member thehackersz posted the guide on how to downgrade to Gingerbread from ICS on Samsung Galaxy Note.

Why do we want to downgrade when we supposedly upgrade the OS? Sometime it might be loosing the root, sometime it might be buggier than we thought, and some might don't like the new OS. For whatever reason, downgrade sometime is the only option.

So here is the method:
- download any GB custom rom, copy to your sdcard
- download jBroid Kernel Cleaning, copy to yout sdcard
- download AbyssNote v4.2 kernel, copy to your sdcard
- download CF LPY kernel, EXTRACT zImage and copy to you sdcard.
- Mobile Odin, flash zImage
- reboot to CWM recovery
- flash jBroid Kernel Cleaning
- flash AbyssNote v4.2 kernel
- reboot recovery
- flash new GB custom rom
- flash new kernel (if you prefer other than AbyssNote kernel)
- FULL WIPE
- REBOOT

For the full thread, go to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654721

Warning: for International Samsung Galaxy Note only
Warning: you might brick your Samsung Galaxy Note in the process, be careful and I am not responsible if anything bad happen to your Samsung Galaxy Note.



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