senthamil

Hi,
You need to flash ClockworkMod recovery using 'fastboot' commands from PC.
1. Put the CWM .img file in sdk directory. (ex. C:\android).
2. Go to hboot menu on the phone and select 'fastboot'.
3. Type this from cmd on PC:
Hopefully this will flash the CWM on you device.

To root your device:

Copy root.zip on sdcard, goto hboot select 'Recovery'.
On the menu, select 'Install Zip from Sdcard' and select the 'root.zip' and flash it.
Now the device will be rooted.

Hope this may be useful......

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FreeBird Azhar

Hi! Thanks to u bro! I now successfully installed ClockWorkMod recovery 5.0.2.8 through rom manager.

Now I need to install a better rom. I’m currently using CM9.0.0-RC2-CRYPTOMILK-ALPHA7-marvel. But this rom has a lot of problem like doesn’t have usb passthrough, no incoming call, no video recording, can’t play a video. So I need to install a better rom. A rom which has all these things working properly.

Can you please suggest me a rom like that for HTC Wildfire S A510e, and where can I get it?

More details if u need:
MARVEL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.09.0099
MICROP-0451
RADIO-7.53.39.03M

Caro332

Great!! Congrats

I know CM9 is not really stable at the moment. The best is actually CM 7.2 right now although they are working on CM10 and I believe that when it will be stable, it will be better than CM 7.2...

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chandan96

hi i am a noob to root and you have mentioned not to try this as a first project...but i want to root no matter what. could you please give me the important steps that are crucial where a beginner should not go wrong so as to avoid any kind of failure during the said process. also is it ok if the phone is with the sd card and sim on during the entire procedure.

thank you

Caro332

It does day not to try if you're a total noob but if you read the instructions very carefully and watch a couple of youtube videos, you shouldn't have any problems. That's what I did and it worked perfectly

7thGalaxy

Hello

I couldn't find a straight answer to this in this thread. I'm trying to root my HTC Wildfire S, following the Guide provided. I am trying to unlock the bootloader, but my ROM is 2.26.61.1, and the tool that HTC provide wants me to upgrade to an earlier version! How do I return to an older ROM? WIll a factory reset do the trick?

Thanks

slimchance

Your ROM doesn't need upgrading - go straight onto the unlocking section...

7thGalaxy

But when the phone is in HBOOT it claims to be locked.

Caro332

No since you have the most recent update, you can skip that part. It should work

That means you still haven't unlocked the bootloader

Last edited by Caro332; September 21st, 2012 at 02:02 AM.

joemoore22

I have followed the steps but still no joy, i have rebooted the phone into HBOOT, the screen reads Fastboot USB as required.

the Img file is located in my Android folder where the fastboot.exe sits.(hope this is the correct place)

i have put the text into CMD but still getting the same error. any ideas

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Caro332

I'm thinking there's an error somewhere. Either in the location path or the name of the file. Make sure everything is typed correctly

joemoore22

Looking at the instructions i is typed correctly, is my img file in the correct location? i have it in android- platform tools.

if so once im in fastboot USB, WHAT EXACTLY do i need to type in CMD

thanks for taking the time to help

senthamil

Hi Joemoore22,

As I see your attach file image, you put the recovery image somewhere and executed the command on somewhere. put all in the one folder and proceed.

Just create a folder on "C:\android " and copy ONLY adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll and fastboot.exe along with your <clockworkmod.img> file.

Now type the same fastboot command from "C:\android" as I explained earlier......
and this will definitely flash the recovery on the device!!.
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Last edited by senthamil; September 21st, 2012 at 10:34 AM.

GMR0210

I was able to get to the point where I needed to go from the HBOOT (or some letters like that) then click recovery. Now all I have is a white screen that says HTC. How long should I wait before trying something different? I'm starting to worry about the phone being messed up.

senthamil

Hi GMR0210,
Welcome to AF...

Can you say which step you proceed on the guide....?

I think you need to flash ClockworkMod recovery according to you model (marvel/Marvelc).

GMR0210

I put the root thing on the sd card (4B)
then I put the sd card back in my phne turne it on while holding volume down and then pushing power. The hit recovery and it is still on the white screen. I evn tried it without the sd card and it didnt do anythikng witin the first five mis so I put it back in and it is still the same white screen with htc.

GMR0210

What format should the ClockworkMod? And should it go on the sd card to go on the phone?

GMR0210

C:\Android>fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.8-marvel.htm
sending 'recovery' (4494 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.747s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 2.198s]
finished. total time: 3.945s

this is what came up when I put the information in the black box.

joemoore22

Thanks for your help im still getting the same error,

when the phone is in hboot should the device come up in the list off attched devices when 'ADB DEVICES' is typed into CMD? i only get the device show up when on in normal mode,

if anyone has any ideas i would be greatful, maybe i have a file missing somewhere?

HTCWildfireSHK

Help! I'm a noob and have run into a problem at Step 4A: Download the official 5.0.2.8 image at ClockworkMod’s download page.

When I try to download the file using Internet Explorer, it wants to download this img file as an HTML file.

If I download the file through Google Chrome, then when I try to extract the xip file, I get an error message that the file could not be opened or is not a valid zip file.

Am I doing something wrong (right-click, save target as...)? If not, is there another link to this file?

senthamil

Hi,
You can go to here for the official release:


For Marvel Phones
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.8-marvel.img

For Marvelc Phones:
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.8-marvelc.img

***Hope this may be useful***

HTCWildfireSHK

Really appreciate the quick reply. I'd tried out this link from your previous thread, but I'm still not able to extract the file using WinZip. Apologies for being such a newbie, but is there another way to extract the file?

senthamil

If you download from this above link, you will get the recovery .img file.
You don't need to extract it.
Just flash using fastboot commands as in the guide.

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HTCWildfireSHK

Or, is there an unzipped version of this img file somewhere? Thanks for your help!

HTCWildfireSHK

Sorry for the crossed signal - will give this a try. Thanks again.

drunkenMonkey

Hi all,

I tried rooting my HTC Wildfire S but got stuck :-(

I've tried several ways, but none will work...

When I'm using this guide I'm stuck at the following point:

When I go into HBOOT and then choose Recovery then the HTC logo comes on the screen and my screen gets black after that.

I also tried htcsupertoolv3 but with no luck...

Any ideas?

drunkenMonkey

Problem solved... after googling a lot I found this site:
Lucky Zone

The tool they offer there helps my solving my black screen (I get to see everything on my pc instead of on the phone).

I thought I would share it here for the people who has the same troubles!

arulebenezer

I have rooted my phone according to the above procedure.now neither my tethering nor my WiFi hotspot function would work... Can anybody please please help me???

Caro332

That's strange...Rooting itself shouldn't change anything at all. It just 'unlocks'. Nothing about the rom itself is changed. Have you made any modifications after rooting? Have you uninstalled something?

Swagg422

im having trouble rooting my wifes wildfire s.

Service provider: Metro
Android Version: 2.3.4
HTC sense: 2.1
Software #: 3.01.1550.2 710rd
Cant update to 2.3.5 because its a marvelc and cant get the push update from metro. stuck at step 3 cant get the loader. Ive tried it manually keeps telling me Update Fail! Main version Older!

please help

arulebenezer

no... I didn't uninstall anything

yeah1000

Dude, why did you mention that it is required to backup the stock rom in the last step

jamesbil

after rooting, my stock music player will not display settings, i have to force close it when i tap for settings.
any ideas?

mena_13

Thank you for that effort bro, i have got a problem starting with the 4th step, i had unlocked the htc wildfire s, but when i open the command prompt it refuse to do anything it says : flashboot is not recongin\ed as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

im stuck & i could use a hand here, thnQ

Darkrune

I need some help. I just did the clockwork recovery step.

sending 'recovery' (4424 KB).
OKAY [ 1.738s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 2.170s]
finished. total time: 3.909s

That came up in CMD. Then I added the zip to the sd card and put it back in the phone. Now when I hit recovery from the HBoot section the phone just restarts a couple times. I get no options to select the zip. What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by Darkrune; October 2nd, 2012 at 08:34 PM.

senthamil

Hi,

First you need to install HTC Sync, Android SDK and Java Runtime on your PC. I hope you might have done this.

If you type the 'fastboot' commands from the android directory you won't get this error.

Now copy Adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll and fastboot.exe form your "C:\program files\android-sdk\platform tools" directory to a new folder on "C:". For example : "C:\android".

Probably when you type 'cmd' or 'command' you will be on your users directory on MS-DOS Prompt. (ex: c:\users\your name).
Type 'cd\' and the type 'cd android' which will get you, to the android directory.

Now type the commands as in the guide. (i.e from "c:\android" dir).

senthamil

Did you choose the correct recovery image file (marvel/marvelc) for your model ?

If it doesn't work try installing 'Rom Manager' from play store. Then flash 'Recovery' from 'Rom Manager'.

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westman995

Well I am stuck at the part where I need to use the command prompt. I tried doing this a few months ago, I got as far as unlocking my phone from the htc site etc etc..

was using windows7 64 so i was having problems before, i couldnt get it to find the java install, im using 32 bit now and i got all that figured out and installed fine now..

Now my problem is the command prompt.. I dont know what to do???? i typed everything i have found and none of it works, all it keeps saying is not recognized as internal or external or whatever it says.... No matter what i type it doesnt work.. Where should i put the img file and how do i get the command to work??? I dont understand that..


EDIT: by the way i couldnt download clockwork recovry or whatever its called from the link, EVERYTIME i click on it it just opens a new page and its all "code", I click "save target as" and it just downloads an html image so not sure whats up with that, i googled it and downloaded it, hopefully i got the right one.. Either way i cant do anyhing since i cant use the command prompt..

senthamil

Hi,
You just refer my previous post (#886) to execute fastboot commands and also for the recovery, post (#750) on previous page.

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westman995

I saw that post, i tried that. I was having that problem, it was showing my user name first or whatever, then i did what you said to get to "C" driver or whatever, but i still could not get it to work.

I dont know where to put the img file. I must be doing something wrong

aordraco

Hey all, First of all i'd like to say thank you for making such an in depth guide rooting a wildfire s.

I'm having a little bit of a problem trying to get the phone to recover the root.zip, keeps saying it's a bad file.
I'm managed everything else so far including installing clockworks.

here is what my phone says on the hboot men.

*** UNLOCKED ***
Marvel pvt ship s-on rl
hboot-1.09.0099
Microp-0451
radio-7.57.39.10m.

and this is what it says when i try and load the root.zip while in the clockworks recovery section

installing: /sdcard/root.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
E:Can't open /sdcard/root.zip (bad)
Installation Aborted.


I followed everything to the book apart from doing part from 3b as my phone said it was ***LOCKED*** all ready.

Please help if you can as this is really bugging me as to why it isn't working

senthamil

Hi,

The file root.zip might be a bad download. Try download one more time and root it.

Anyway if it works (or not) post it back.

You can also try to root using HTCsuperTool, but sometimes it's not reliable.

aordraco

i Tried downloading it a few times (using the fress download every time) and still got the above. i'll try 1 more time today to see if that makes a difference,.

any guide for using htcsupertool?

*edit* save adding another post, just tried again and ejected the sd card instead of just pulling it out and it seems to have worked this time.

Last edited by aordraco; October 6th, 2012 at 08:52 AM.

senthamil

So it seems not working for you.
You can try the HTC SuperTool method. Refer the thread below and download the tool from here. (if the download links there doesn't work)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343114


I rooted my device with this method only for the first time.

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violeta_col

Hi all,

I'm someone who is not very good with cellphones, but I definetely want to improve the memory of my htc wildfire S. I bought it in Canada, but I live in Colombia.
The information I have is that my HTC is A510a, is S-ON and all I want is what this guy wanted: Wildfire S ~ Removing System Apps And Rooting Help?, which is only to get rid of systems app that I don't even know how to use, like the zoompass, bell tv, or the like.

Thank you.

btw, my phone info

HTC wildfire S
Model: PG76110
Android 2.3.3

I am trying to follow this post.
Thanks

Last edited by violeta_col; October 9th, 2012 at 10:55 AM.

Mustangs85239

Hey guys, I'm hoping someone can give me a little help. I followed everything correctly and all was well until I got to step 4C. Flash root.zip.
When I get to hboot it runs an image check for about a second or two and then gives me all the options. When I select recovery the phone goes to the white HTC screen and hangs there. If anyone could give me a heads up on what to do it'd be greatly appreciated.

jonny wad

What recovery did you install?
CWM doesn't work for everyone. I use TWRP 2.2. It says for gsm phones but it works great on my metro wfs.

Last edited by jonny wad; October 9th, 2012 at 04:02 PM.

Mustangs85239

I just selected Recovery on the list of things to select as specified in the instructions.
Let me add that I did add the Root.zip onto my SD card.

jonny wad

Get twrp here TWRP Recovery now 'official' for Wildfire S
Install it the same way you install cwm in step 4a. Please let me know if this helps.

Mustangs85239

You see, I'm having issues with the Recovery on the Hboot screen. It won't let me open it to find my zip file. It just goes to the white HTC screen. Would downloading this help that?