How to Root HTC Wildfire S

How to Root HTC Wildfire S:

                                      

HTC Wildfire S is the affordable android handset. It has the HTC’s characteristic uni-body design, but the rear section is simply a plastic back-plate. It gives it an attractive look. HTC Wildfire S come up with 3.2 inches HVGA, TFT Capacitive Touchscreen, display size of 320 x 480 px, 5.0 Mega Pixels Camera with Auto Focus and LED Flash, digital zoom, Android OS, v 2.3 (Gingerbread). It has display features like Gorilla Glass display, HTC Sense UI, Touch-sensitive controls and sensors like G-Sensor, Digital compass, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor. Also it comes up with Camera features: Geo-tagging, face detection, touch-focus, image stabilization. Here are steps by which you can root your HTC Wildfire S.

                                                     

The Precautions you should take:

You need to be cautious before performing this operation. It involves risks, no, not the risk of going to jail or such. You may brick your device. So, follow these precautions to be on the safe side

1) If you are complete novice, it would be better for you to seek help from a fellow more experienced in such Android related operations. If anything goes wrong, he would save your day.

2) Keep your phone’s battery level at a minimum of 60%. The point here is to not to allow the phone to die during the root process. It could brick your phone.

3) Turn off antivirus programs and firewalls on your phone. These may prevent the process.

4) Do not try this method on any other phone other than the Samsung Wildfire S.

5) Backup all of your important data, documents, contacts, media files etc.

                                                     

Disclaimer:

By reading upto this part of this hub you should understand that this process may brick your device, if something goes wrong. So, you must understand the risk and proceed by your own accord.

This website or the author will not be responsible for any damage

Instructions: 

Step I

1) You need to unlock the bootloader of your HTC Wildfire S. For doing it got tohere.

You need to enable USB debugging on your phone. If you do not know how to do it then go to : Settings > Applications > Development and the check the box beside “Enable USB Debugging” to turn it on

Step II

1) Power your PC on.

2) Connect it to the internet connection.

3) Download the PG76IMG.zip file from here.

4) Now download this script from here.

5) Bring the USB cable in action to jack your handset with the PC.

6) Now transfer the downloaded PG76IMG zip file to the phone’s SD card.

7) After that disconnect the device from the PC.

8) Disable FastBoot.

9) Switch the phone off.

Step III

1) Reboot the phone into the HBoot mode by pressing the VOL UP +DOWN + POWER keys combinations.

2) It will prompt “Apply Update”.

3) You cannot be able to use the touch screen here and so you need have to use Vol UP key to click. So, click on the prompt to start the update.

4) Now reboot the phone using the power button.

Delete the zip from the SD card

Step IV

1) PC to the SD card.

2) Disconnect it form the PC.

3) Reboot into HBoot mode again by following the above instructions (Step III: point 1)

4) Use the volume keys to navigate the HBoot menus.

5) Enter the recovery mode inside HBoot.

6) Now select “Install Zip from SD card”.

7) Select the root script zip file.

8) Now select confirm to start the download process. Wait for some time for the process to be completed.

9) After the complete root process the phone will be rebooted.

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