Will they come out with a easy way to root the thunderbolt - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I don't have my computer up now but are they a another way to root with out using computer can you guys help me out thanks
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Not at this time , you have to connect your phone to your computer to run the root program.
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thunderboltman said:
I don't have my computer up now but are they a another way to root with out using computer can you guys help me out thanks
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Friends family no one has a computer?
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Thanks for your help
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Keep your fingers crossed that HTCdev site adds the Thunderbolt in the future, you may want to hit up craigslist and look up Thunderbolt in or near where you live. I know here in Arizona you can pay someone around 20 to 30 bucks and have them root it for you. Make sure they use the long root since I have heard bad things about one click devices having to do with the Thunderbolt. Good luck.
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Thanks for your help
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Grnlantern79 said:
Keep your fingers crossed that HTCdev site adds the Thunderbolt in the future, you may want to hit up craigslist and look up Thunderbolt in or near where you live. I know here in Arizona you can pay someone around 20 to 30 bucks and have them root it for you. Make sure they use the long root since I have heard bad things about one click devices having to do with the Thunderbolt. Good luck.
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If your talking about HTC adding the thunderbolt to the bootloader unlocking site, then you must realize that it doesn't root your phone. It only unlocks the bootloader, and in turn void your warranty (don't think they won't flag your device when you use their tool).
Sure you'll be able to download a rooted RUU and flash it via hboot, and this might open the doors for a one click root app if your bootloader is already unlocked, but is that worth your warranty?
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Oh I am sure they will come up with someway to keep track of the phone that do unlock, that is why I will continue to use the unlock method through ADB and the great hackers of android. Then when the phone takes a dump, I wont know where I left it and file a lost phone claim and attempt to fix it with all my might to have parts or a spare phone.
orkillakilla said:
If your talking about HTC adding the thunderbolt to the bootloader unlocking site, then you must realize that it doesn't root your phone. It only unlocks the bootloader, and in turn void your warranty (don't think they won't flag your device when you use their tool).
Sure you'll be able to download a rooted RUU and flash it via hboot, and this might open the doors for a one click root app if your bootloader is already unlocked, but is that worth your warranty?
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Grnlantern79 said:
Oh I am sure they will come up with someway to keep track of the phone that do unlock, that is why I will continue to use the unlock method through ADB and the great hackers of android. Then when the phone takes a dump, I wont know where I left it and file a lost phone claim and attempt to fix it with all my might to have parts or a spare phone.
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Solid plan. Always good to do things manually so if something messes up, you might know where and why it messed up, and how to fix it.
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[Q] About current rooting method

Does it delete everything in your phone or is it one of those that just roots your phone within a few clicks and doesn't reset anything? Thanks in advance.
It only resets some thing with the radio where you have to talk to sprint... First time you make a phone call to anyone, it will connect you to sprint and they fix it. Other than that, you stay fine
Note this only for s-off, temp root didn't change anything at all
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danaff37 said:
It only resets some thing with the radio where you have to talk to sprint... First time you make a phone call to anyone, it will connect you to sprint and they fix it. Other than that, you stay fine
Note this only for s-off, temp root didn't change anything at all
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Thank you, that's all I needed to know.
2 EVO 3Ds.
Hboot 1.30.000 rooted with no issues.
Hboot 1.40.000 had error 16.
Neither phone had taken an OTA.

Unlock bootloader, and perm root

Is there anyway to unlock the bootloader to gain perm root without htc dev and keeping warrenty?? If not should I return this phone and get one that can be? And if so, which phone would be best?
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zetsumeikuro said:
You're worrying over nothing. If the device is defective due to manufacterer defect, and breaks down becaue of said default. They will honor warranty/exchanges since they are the ones at fault. Now if you fragged your phone because of an oc, bad flash, wrong software, that's your own bad and you're on your own. Unless you have insurance and the phone met its untimely end under your vehicle.
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Ok.. I have had 3 phones that I rooted and never had a problem. I just didn't want htc to tell Verizon that I did it and if something did happen that they wouldn't give me another.
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wormyMNT said:
Is there anyway to unlock the bootloader to gain perm root without htc dev and keeping warrenty?? If not should I return this phone and get one that can be? And if so, which phone would be best?
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if you want to unlock the bootloader and gain perm root
and still keep warrenty, then you should go with galaxy nexus.

Verizon contract

Just curious.... has anyone ever looked at the contract lately. I was looking to see where it said anything about rooting devices but no dice. Can someone clear that up maybe with a link? Thank you
I don't believe the contract says anything about it, but the warranty on the other hand is a different story.
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I always wondered, if you told Verizon you are or were rooted, do they write it down? So even if you unroot they will know your warranty is void?
im_high_tech said:
I always wondered, if you told Verizon you are or were rooted, do they write it down? So even if you unroot they will know your warranty is void?
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Well with the Rezound, you need to use an unlock key from HTC's site, so they know you rooted your phone..
mjones73 said:
Well with the Rezound, you need to use an unlock key from HTC's site, so they know you rooted your phone..
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I don't think they coordinate with vzw on that ... I would be very surprised I'd they did. But as for warranty... how would it void that?
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First of all, they probably won't check the bootloader to see if you've unlocked it. And if you really wanna be precautious, you can revert back to locked, although it is an extensive process
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Honestly i really understand why unlocking the bootloader voids your warranty since you cant really break your phone being S-ON, now if you were S-OFF that is a whole other story. And honestly someone who is unlocked and/or rooted is likely to have enough experience to be able to fix almost any software related issue(not always the case though). Being unlocked and/or rooted shouldnt hold you back from sending it in for warranty. Although i have heard some people say it goes through warranty just fine being rooted and unlocked.
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First of all, they probably won't check the bootloader to see if you've unlocked it. And if you really wanna be precautious, you can revert back to locked, although it is an extensive process
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I know what I can do... but it has nothing to do with my device ... I just am curious if vzw has anything legit in place against modifying software on the phones. I've seen where it says you can not modify the hardware but saw nothing of software
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cslingerland said:
I know what I can do... but it has nothing to do with my device ... I just am curious if vzw has anything legit in place against modifying software on the phones. I've seen where it says you can not modify the hardware but saw nothing of software
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I don't know legally what they can do, but I've had a few conversations with the local reps in my area. They don't care if you phone is rooted as most of them have rooted phones. I was in with my dad the one day back when he was getting the Tbolt, and the rep noticed that my bolt was rooted. He said honestly, he would never recommend the bolt to someone who wasn't going to root it anyway. I've been told that they are a lot more lax about rooting now than they were in the past.
At the Verizon store near me, the only person that cares is the manager. The rest of the employees don't care
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As far as I know Verizon doesn't care at all if you root, (I've unlocked the bootloader, relocked and sent in many Rezounds and they never cared) and HTC just tells you they have the right to not honor your warranty when you unlock your bootloader, at their discretion, but they almost always honor it.
Another thing, unless you have the extended warranty with Verizon (I think), your Rezound's warranty is handled by HTC, Verizon is just the middle man.
Legally Verizon can't do anything as it is legal for any consumer to root and do whatever the hell they want with the software on their phones, but they can choose not to honor your warranty if they feel your modifications are the reason the phone became faulty. Link http://www.intomobile.com/2010/07/26/iphone-jailbreak-and-android-root-declared-legal-in-us-feds-exempt-smartphone-hacks-from-dmca/
So your safe, have fun rooting worry free !
Isn't there a way to trick your phone so that Verizon can't tell you did it?
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My thought has always been yes I received a unlock code, but show me proof that I actually used the code and unlocked the bootloader.
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I have already sent back 4 Rezounds this year under the warranty and as I made of fact I am now awaiting my 5th any day. Each one was unlocked and rooted. I re-flash the RUU before sending it back and have not had an issue yet.
Jimi Mack said:
I have already sent back 4 Rezounds this year under the warranty and as I made of fact I am now awaiting my 5th any day. Each one was unlocked and rooted. I re-flash the RUU before sending it back and have not had an issue yet.
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have you sent them back for legit problems? and what were you problems? (even if you made them up )
I think the only risk you would have is if they somehow found out you were tethering. It does day in the Verizon contact that you can't tether without using (and paying for) their service.
But I've also heard from countless people that they would never know. Unless you returned a phone with the tether app and files still in there.
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Doesn't tetherguard tell them you are tethering?
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They throw the returns in a bin. The whole idea of non removable battery is to make it easyer on the return department
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chrisjz said:
Doesn't tetherguard tell them you are tethering?
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No...they can't do anything unless you were stock and they had an app or service running at all times to monitor it. Otherwise they would have no way to tell
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cslingerland said:
No...they can't do anything unless you were stock and they had an app or service running at all times to monitor it. Otherwise they would have no way to tell
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Not 100% true. If you are doing a WiFi tether, where the device is acting as a hotspot they can tell because they can see more than one private IP being routed through your devices' public IP. This combined with the fact that you don't have hotspot on your account can be considered a breach of contract.

[Q] is my dna i ordered pre-ota

i ordered a droid dna as my rezound stopped working and this is the info they have they ordered it before december and they said it was never updated so here it is
android 4.1.1/software 1.15.605.4 710rd/ build 1.15.605.4 cl 123160 release-keys
will i be able to root or s-off as soon as i get it?
snowman122 said:
i ordered a droid dna as my rezound stopped working and this is the info they have they ordered it before december and they said it was never updated so here it is
android 4.1.1/software 1.15.605.4 710rd/ build 1.15.605.4 cl 123160 release-keys
will i be able to root or s-off as soon as i get it?
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U my friend is one lucky guy
YES, u will be able to unlock,soff,root your phone.
NJoy
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amit_sen said:
U my friend is one lucky guy
YES, u will be able to unlock,soff,root your phone.
NJoy
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thanks for the reply and perfect i cant be without s-off as i am not that good with adb push
snowman122 said:
thanks for the reply and perfect i cant be without s-off as i am not that good with adb push
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There's no need to use adb push even with s on.
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Lucky guy... got mine from Amazon about a month ago and it was already updated when I got it. Seriously disappointed, but it's still a great phone. Even simple root would make it a lot better, though.
Bigandrewgold said:
There's no need to use adb push even with s on.
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Really I guess it was different for the rezound the rezound we had to flash the boot.img via adb so I never really flashed anything until I was s-off
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snowman122 said:
i ordered a droid dna as my rezound stopped working and this is the info they have they ordered it before december and they said it was never updated so here it is
android 4.1.1/software 1.15.605.4 710rd/ build 1.15.605.4 cl 123160 release-keys
will i be able to root or s-off as soon as i get it?
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Did you order it from Verizon? I'm wanting to upgrade to the DNA on Friday 4/26 but the no root is not making me want to. What did you all to make sure it was good?
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howellcp said:
Did you order it from Verizon? I'm wanting to upgrade to the DNA on Friday 4/26 but the no root is not making me want to. What did you all to make sure it was good?
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Hey Buddy!
Just send it off to get JTAG before you take it out of the box I just did one that way. I picked it up and powered it on though before I stuck it back in the box and shipped it out.
Honestly I'd probably buy one outright and save the upgrade for a new phone.
CharliesTheMan said:
Hey Buddy!
Just send it off to get JTAG before you take it out of the box I just did one that way. I picked it up and powered it on though before I stuck it back in the box and shipped it out.
Honestly I'd probably buy one outright and save the upgrade for a new phone.
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Hey, good to see a name I know. I'm actually using my wife's upgrade to get the DNA and keeping my unlimited data. She is going to take my rezound. Once I can get the upgrade on my line I will use wire fly to transfer my upgrade to her and get a newer phone. Im trying to my unlimited at all cost. I never heard of JTAG. I'll check it out.
Also what's up with the no root?
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howellcp said:
Hey, good to see a name I know. I'm actually using my wife's upgrade to get the DNA and keeping my unlimited data. She is going to take my rezound. Once I can get the upgrade on my line I will use wire fly to transfer my upgrade to her and get a newer phone. Im trying to my unlimited at all cost. I never heard of JTAG. I'll check it out.
Also what's up with the no root?
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The devs exploited the bootloader to get us unlocked and achieved a 1 minute s off process. Then one of the updates closed up the hole we were using basically. Everyone who ever unlocked before the update is fine. it's only phones that didn't have the CID changed (HTC-Dev hboot unlock is achieved by changing the CID from Verizon's to a custom 2222222 CID then using htc-dev.com like normal) that can't be unlocked.
JTAG accesses the service ports on the main board with a special hardware called a riif box. It accesses the device at the lowest level so locked bootloader is no obstacle. It's like what the manufacturer uses to flash the DNA firmware onto the board. So its kinda like if HTC plugged up the phone and unlocked it and turn the security flag off.
You send them the phone, they open it up, wire it to the hardware box and use the accompanying software to do whatever you need, it will even flash at a low enough level to repair a true software brick as long as its not a hardware explosion or something that bricked it.
Mobile Tech Videos is the name of a real reputable shop in Texas I've dealt with a lot. PM me for my GTalk if you want to talk to some more.
snowman122 said:
i ordered a droid dna as my rezound stopped working and this is the info they have they ordered it before december and they said it was never updated so here it is
android 4.1.1/software 1.15.605.4 710rd/ build 1.15.605.4 cl 123160 release-keys
will i be able to root or s-off as soon as i get it?
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Whatever you do, don't let it update when you get it! I recommend not installing the SIM (so it can't phone home) and unlocking it first. If you're not too comfortable with using adb, I think my writeup (in my sig) explains it well enough for you to follow.
howellcp said:
Did you order it from Verizon? I'm wanting to upgrade to the DNA on Friday 4/26 but the no root is not making me want to. What did you all to make sure it was good?
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Yes I did get it from verizon
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drumz0rz said:
Whatever you do, don't let it update when you get it! I recommend not installing the SIM (so it can't phone home) and unlocking it first. If you're not too comfortable with using adb, I think my writeup (in my sig) explains it well enough for you to follow.
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Oh I didn't put my SIM card until I unlock my phone. I never do that. I unlocked the bootloader then did the s-off method and put venom Rom right away not into sense 5
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[Q] If you have a rooted phone, can you use the One Up program for an upgrade?

I was just wondering will Sprint let you upgrade to a new device with the One Up Program (or with their standard upgrade program) if you have a rooted phone? I have an EVO 4G LTE rooted with CM 10.1 and my upgrade is a few months away. Did Sprint give anyone problems? Or do they not care?
Thanks
It is best that you unroot your phone, but it shouldn't hurt you. just hide the root app
mammothjojo88 said:
It is best that you unroot your phone, but it shouldn't hurt you. just hide the root app
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I've brought phones in running aosp and my tech never really seemed to care.
mammothjojo88 said:
It is best that you unroot your phone, but it shouldn't hurt you. just hide the root app
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My store (in Orange County, CA) is a pain in the butt with the phone being in a hacked state, if you can hide the Unlocked bootloader state, you will almost be certain to be good to go.
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Thanks everyone. Hopefully sprint doesnt give me any problems.
The store here didn't care when I traded in my rooted and custom ROM Evo 3D
I've never seen em give a damn about root and custom ROMs, after having my screen replaced 3 times and speaker twice (last speaker got me a whole new bezel, but I remained S-off, so I know they didn't swap out. YMMV. If there's more than one store close, I'd just go do it with root, if they give you any guff, flash stock and hit the other one.
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You can always just RUU the phone and use regaw leinads tool to set it back so the bootloader looks like it is s-off!
I've traded in rooted phones at my local corporate store and they never cared, even when I told them it was rooted.
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