Hitting Volume Up and Installing the Bootloader

So I'm going to go ahead and hit volume up and it's going to start to unpack and unzip everything and install it okay when it's done it's going to say update complete at the bottom and you're going to have all the okays to the right hand side of the screen and you want to reboot now so you're just going to hit the power button. Okay, now in this step we're going to run the exploit files so we're going to be using adb again if you don't have a command prompt window open go to your start menu type cmd once the command prompt window opens type cd c colon backlash android sdk backslash tools then hit enter and now we're in your android sdk tools directory okay. So again we're going to use some adb commands so you want to hit enter after each one so we can start with the first one which you're pushing the ps neuter again so you type adb push ps neuter space backslash data backslash local backslash then hit enter.

So we're gonna do this for each individual command as as you see listed here okay when all the commands are typed out and the last one is the one that ends in the wp this we're going to go into adb shell so type adv shell enter you have the dollar sign again we're going to run the ps neuter file so you type backslash data backslash local backslash ps neuter enter now it's going to kick you out and then restart adb once again okay once adb restarts we're going to go back into adb shell so you want to type adb shell and then hit enter now you have the pound sign which indicates root again. So in this case we're going to run the last exploit so we're gonna type backslash data backslash local backslash wpthis and then hit enter okay once you have once it says done at the end and there's no other errors you want to type exit and we're done with this step.

Unlocking the MMC

Okay in this step we're going to write and push the engineering bootloader to your device use adb again and type out the first command. Alright once you're done typing you're going to hit enter and it's going to push it to your phone okay now we want to actually check the md5 sum so we're going to use the two commands you see under the number two under section seven and that requires going back into adb shell and then typing the following command. Okay once you're done you're gonna hit enter and you're gonna it's gonna pull up the md5 sum now that one matches up to the one that we need so we're done with that step okay.

Writing the Boot Loader

Now after you install the engineering bootloader we're gonna go ahead and install a rooted stock rom you can download that rom from here unplug your device okay the next step you wanna plug in your phone with the usb cable and select drive mode so go ahead and plug your phone in and then select drive mode from the main menu okay. After you plug your phone in with the usb cable and select the drive mode we're going to go ahead and transfer the file directly to the root of your sd card make sure there's nothing else on the sd card with that name you want to delete it if there is and then place the latest download directly to the root of the sd card unplug your device okay.

Rebooting with Engineering Bootloader

Okay the next step you want to plug in your phone with the usb cable and select drive mode so go ahead and plug your phone in and then select drive mode from the main menu okay once the file completely transfers over to your sd card we can go ahead and close that window go back into your command prompt make sure you're in the android sdk directory type adb shell and then reboot bootloader and this is going to automatically put your phone back into bootloader mode. Okay once you're back in bootloader you want to press power to go directly into bootloader and then your phone should automatically pick up the pg-05 img image which you can see here that it is and it's going to go ahead and set it up to flash okay.

Flashing the Engineering Bootloader

Once it loads like the last one that we did you're going to press the volume up button to start the update and it's going to unzip everything and start to flash it okay when it finishes you should also again see update complete at the bottom press power to reboot and then at the top you should have mecha xd engine engineering s off which means you successfully unlocked the mmc as well as flash the engineering bootloader.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys this is damian with the unlocker.com in this video i'm going to show you how to root your htc thunderbolt to get started the first thing you have to do is make sure that adb is properly installed on your pc if it's not you can head on over here to our how to set up adb procedure and it'll walk you right through all the different steps okay the first thing you want to do is open a command prompt window and to do that you head on over to your start menu in the search field down here you type cmd enter and it's going to pop up open the actual command prompt window now from here you want to change the directory to your android sdk slash tools folder so to do that you type cd space c colon backslash android sdk slash tools then plug in your device and select charge only okay the next thing we need to do is download the exploits zip file to do that you're gonna head on over to number one under section three and click on the underscored here at the end of number one the actual download should only take a couple seconds and once it's done move it on over to your desktop you can close out of this window if you like and we want to extract it so we're going to right click extract here and then we're going to copy everything that was extracted to your android sdk slash tools folder so you're going to highlight it right click it select copy and then go to your android sdk slash tools folder right click again select paste and everything is going to be pasted in the appropriate folder okay once you're in the right directory we're going to actually start to use the adb commands so we're going to do the first one which is adb push ps neuter space backslash data backslash local and then backslash again and you're going to hit enter you're going to hit enter after each line of each command okay once you're finished typing out all the commands and you've finished at the last line which is the adb shell chmod 777 uh data local busy box the next step we want to do is type in adb shell and you should have a dollar sign now at this point we're going to run the ps neuter file and it's going to allow us temporary route permission and the reason for that is we want to write the miscellaneous image and we can't do that without root permission so you want to type backslash data backslash local backslash ps neuter hit enter and it's going to kick you out of adb and actually restart it okay once you're actually kicked out of adb by running the ps neuter and then it restarts you want to go back to your directory if you're not type adb shell hit enter and when you hit enter now you should have the pound sign which indicates root access so now we're going to actually write the miscellaneous image and flash it to the phone so you type dd space if equal sign backslash data backslash local backslash misc dot img space of equal backslash dev backslash block d-l-o-c-k backslash m cblk zero p17 after you type that double check it that you've typed everything correctly and then hit enter and if you see a certain amount of records in a certain amount of records out and a success successful bytes transferred then you've done it correctly once that last steps complete we're going to download the downgraded firmware file now so you're going to click here and it's going to start the download okay the next step you want to plug in your phone with the usb cable and select drive mode so go ahead and plug your phone in and then select drive mode from the main menu okay the next step now after it completely downloads is to transfer to the root of your sd card so you want to open up the path to your xd card make sure there's no other files that are named that particular file name which is pg05 img and then transfer to the root of your sd card make sure it's not in any folders or any other hidden hidden folders it's got to be directly on the sd card unplug your device then plug in your device and select charge only okay once the file is transferred over to your sd card you want to go back into your command prompt so it's not open you want to go to your start menu again search field type cmd and then once the command prompt window opens you want to go to your android sdk directory so you go cd c colon backslash android sdk make sure that you type the correct spelling in and then you want to go to adb shell and then type reboot bootloader and this is going to automatically put your phone back into bootloader mode then hit enter after you type it in okay once your phone boots back up you're going to see the fastboot in red is highlighted and then on the bottom the bootloader is highly highlighted in blue select the or actually hit the power button that puts you in h boot and it should pick up the pg05 img image on your phone automatically as you can see here okay when it finally loads up the entire zip file it's going to ask you if you want to start the update now you want to select volume up for yes volume down for no so i'm going to go ahead and hit volume up and it's going to start to unpack and unzip everything and install it okay when it's done it's going to say update complete at the bottom and you're going to have all the okays to the right hand side of the screen and you want to reboot now so you're just going to hit the power button okay now in this step we're going to run the exploit files so we're going to be using adb again if you don't have a command prompt window open go to your start menu type cmd once the command prompt window opens type cd c colon backlash android sdk backslash tools then hit enter and now we're in your android sdk tools directory okay so again we're going to use some adb commands so you want to hit enter after each one so we can start with the first one which you're pushing the ps neuter again so you type adb push ps neuter space backslash data backslash local backslash then hit enter so we're gonna do this for each individual command as as you see listed here okay when all the commands are typed out and the last one is the one that ends in the wp this we're going to go into adb shell so type adv shell enter you have the dollar sign again we're going to run the ps neuter file so you type backslash data backslash local backslash ps neuter enter now it's going to kick you out and then restart adb once again okay once adb restarts we're going to go back into adb shell so you want to type adb shell and then hit enter now you have the pound sign which indicates root again so in this case we're going to run the last exploit so we're gonna type backslash data backslash local backslash wpthis and then hit enter okay once you have once it says done at the end and there's no other errors you want to type exit and we're done with this step okay in this step we're going to write and push the engineering bootloader to your device use adb again and type out the first command all right once you're done typing you're going to hit enter and it's going to push it to your phone okay now we want to actually check the md5 sum so we're going to use the two commands you see under the number two under section seven and that requires going back into adb shell and then typing the following command okay once you're done you're gonna hit enter and you're gonna it's gonna pull up the md5 sum now that one matches up to the one that we need so we're done with that step okay now we're actually going to write the boot loader to your phone if you're not in adb shell you don't have the pound sign here go ahead and type adb shell then hit enter and then we're gonna type the following command okay once you type out the command and hit enter you should have a similar output to what you see on the screen here if you do you're done with that step okay after you install the engineering bootloader we're gonna go ahead and install a rooted stock rom you can download that rom from here unplug your device okay the next step you wanna plug in your phone with the usb cable and select drive mode so go ahead and plug your phone in and then select drive mode from the main menu okay after you plug your phone in with the usb cable and select the drive mode we're going to go ahead and transfer the file directly to the root of your sd card make sure there's nothing else on the sd card with that name you want to delete it if there is and then place the latest download directly to the root of the sd card unplug your device okay the next step you want to plug in your phone with the usb cable and select drive mode so go ahead and plug your phone in and then select drive mode from the main menu okay once the file completely transfers over to your sd card we can go ahead and close that window go back into your command prompt make sure you're in the android sdk directory type adb shell and then reboot bootloader and this is going to automatically put your phone back into bootloader mode okay once you're back in bootloader you want to press power to go directly into bootloader and then your phone should automatically pick up the pg-05 img image which you can see here that it is and it's going to go ahead and set it up to flash okay once it loads like the last one that we did you're going to press the volume up button to start the update and it's going to unzip everything and start to flash it okay when it finishes you should also again see update complete at the bottom press power to reboot and then at the top you should have mecha xd engine engineering s off which means you successfully unlocked the mmc as well as flash the engineering bootloader youhey guys this is damian with the unlocker.com in this video i'm going to show you how to root your htc thunderbolt to get started the first thing you have to do is make sure that adb is properly installed on your pc if it's not you can head on over here to our how to set up adb procedure and it'll walk you right through all the different steps okay the first thing you want to do is open a command prompt window and to do that you head on over to your start menu in the search field down here you type cmd enter and it's going to pop up open the actual command prompt window now from here you want to change the directory to your android sdk slash tools folder so to do that you type cd space c colon backslash android sdk slash tools then plug in your device and select charge only okay the next thing we need to do is download the exploits zip file to do that you're gonna head on over to number one under section three and click on the underscored here at the end of number one the actual download should only take a couple seconds and once it's done move it on over to your desktop you can close out of this window if you like and we want to extract it so we're going to right click extract here and then we're going to copy everything that was extracted to your android sdk slash tools folder so you're going to highlight it right click it select copy and then go to your android sdk slash tools folder right click again select paste and everything is going to be pasted in the appropriate folder okay once you're in the right directory we're going to actually start to use the adb commands so we're going to do the first one which is adb push ps neuter space backslash data backslash local and then backslash again and you're going to hit enter you're going to hit enter after each line of each command okay once you're finished typing out all the commands and you've finished at the last line which is the adb shell chmod 777 uh data local busy box the next step we want to do is type in adb shell and you should have a dollar sign now at this point we're going to run the ps neuter file and it's going to allow us temporary route permission and the reason for that is we want to write the miscellaneous image and we can't do that without root permission so you want to type backslash data backslash local backslash ps neuter hit enter and it's going to kick you out of adb and actually restart it okay once you're actually kicked out of adb by running the ps neuter and then it restarts you want to go back to your directory if you're not type adb shell hit enter and when you hit enter now you should have the pound sign which indicates root access so now we're going to actually write the miscellaneous image and flash it to the phone so you type dd space if equal sign backslash data backslash local backslash misc dot img space of equal backslash dev backslash block d-l-o-c-k backslash m cblk zero p17 after you type that double check it that you've typed everything correctly and then hit enter and if you see a certain amount of records in a certain amount of records out and a success successful bytes transferred then you've done it correctly once that last steps complete we're going to download the downgraded firmware file now so you're going to click here and it's going to start the download okay the next step you want to plug in your phone with the usb cable and select drive mode so go ahead and plug your phone in and then select drive mode from the main menu okay the next step now after it completely downloads is to transfer to the root of your sd card so you want to open up the path to your xd card make sure there's no other files that are named that particular file name which is pg05 img and then transfer to the root of your sd card make sure it's not in any folders or any other hidden hidden folders it's got to be directly on the sd card unplug your device then plug in your device and select charge only okay once the file is transferred over to your sd card you want to go back into your command prompt so it's not open you want to go to your start menu again search field type cmd and then once the command prompt window opens you want to go to your android sdk directory so you go cd c colon backslash android sdk make sure that you type the correct spelling in and then you want to go to adb shell and then type reboot bootloader and this is going to automatically put your phone back into bootloader mode then hit enter after you type it in okay once your phone boots back up you're going to see the fastboot in red is highlighted and then on the bottom the bootloader is highly highlighted in blue select the or actually hit the power button that puts you in h boot and it should pick up the pg05 img image on your phone automatically as you can see here okay when it finally loads up the entire zip file it's going to ask you if you want to start the update now you want to select volume up for yes volume down for no so i'm going to go ahead and hit volume up and it's going to start to unpack and unzip everything and install it okay when it's done it's going to say update complete at the bottom and you're going to have all the okays to the right hand side of the screen and you want to reboot now so you're just going to hit the power button okay now in this step we're going to run the exploit files so we're going to be using adb again if you don't have a command prompt window open go to your start menu type cmd once the command prompt window opens type cd c colon backlash android sdk backslash tools then hit enter and now we're in your android sdk tools directory okay so again we're going to use some adb commands so you want to hit enter after each one so we can start with the first one which you're pushing the ps neuter again so you type adb push ps neuter space backslash data backslash local backslash then hit enter so we're gonna do this for each individual command as as you see listed here okay when all the commands are typed out and the last one is the one that ends in the wp this we're going to go into adb shell so type adv shell enter you have the dollar sign again we're going to run the ps neuter file so you type backslash data backslash local backslash ps neuter enter now it's going to kick you out and then restart adb once again okay once adb restarts we're going to go back into adb shell so you want to type adb shell and then hit enter now you have the pound sign which indicates root again so in this case we're going to run the last exploit so we're gonna type backslash data backslash local backslash wpthis and then hit enter okay once you have once it says done at the end and there's no other errors you want to type exit and we're done with this step okay in this step we're going to write and push the engineering bootloader to your device use adb again and type out the first command all right once you're done typing you're going to hit enter and it's going to push it to your phone okay now we want to actually check the md5 sum so we're going to use the two commands you see under the number two under section seven and that requires going back into adb shell and then typing the following command okay once you're done you're gonna hit enter and you're gonna it's gonna pull up the md5 sum now that one matches up to the one that we need so we're done with that step okay now we're actually going to write the boot loader to your phone if you're not in adb shell you don't have the pound sign here go ahead and type adb shell then hit enter and then we're gonna type the following command okay once you type out the command and hit enter you should have a similar output to what you see on the screen here if you do you're done with that step okay after you install the engineering bootloader we're gonna go ahead and install a rooted stock rom you can download that rom from here unplug your device okay the next step you wanna plug in your phone with the usb cable and select drive mode so go ahead and plug your phone in and then select drive mode from the main menu okay after you plug your phone in with the usb cable and select the drive mode we're going to go ahead and transfer the file directly to the root of your sd card make sure there's nothing else on the sd card with that name you want to delete it if there is and then place the latest download directly to the root of the sd card unplug your device okay the next step you want to plug in your phone with the usb cable and select drive mode so go ahead and plug your phone in and then select drive mode from the main menu okay once the file completely transfers over to your sd card we can go ahead and close that window go back into your command prompt make sure you're in the android sdk directory type adb shell and then reboot bootloader and this is going to automatically put your phone back into bootloader mode okay once you're back in bootloader you want to press power to go directly into bootloader and then your phone should automatically pick up the pg-05 img image which you can see here that it is and it's going to go ahead and set it up to flash okay once it loads like the last one that we did you're going to press the volume up button to start the update and it's going to unzip everything and start to flash it okay when it finishes you should also again see update complete at the bottom press power to reboot and then at the top you should have mecha xd engine engineering s off which means you successfully unlocked the mmc as well as flash the engineering bootloader you\n"