Bootloader has become the essential part for rooting, installing custom ROMs and kernels too on various HTC Android devices. It is now becoming an essential part again for rooting the HTC Tablet. Regarding to the company’s offer to unlock the bootloaders for some devices through the website, the Taiwan based company now has decided to unlock the bootloader for their tablet, the HTC Jetstream. If you were one of this tablet users and had planned to root the device, today seems to be your lucky day, as DoomLoRD, the XDA-Developers forum member has shared the method to gain root access of HTC Jetstream. Unfortunately, the rooting method comes to the HTC Jetstream users in form of manual method, not a simple one that is performed in one click method. However, if you were still interested to root your HTC tablet using this method, you would know how to get this done by reading on this article.
Before we move on to the rooting instruction, it is recommended to those who want to root the Jetstream using this method to note that we are not responsible if your device gets damaged or bricked due to practicing the method below. Therefore, please practice the entire instruction at your own risk.
Just like rooting the other Android devices, the method to root the HTC Jetstream also requires the user to fulfill its requirements. Below is the list of requirements that needs to be satisfied by the Jetstream’s users.
Requirements to root HTC Jetstream:
• Unlocked bootloader. You can do that at the HTC Dev. website.
• ADB with fastboot installed.
• Insecure kernel.
• Root toolkit.
Instructions for rooting HTC Jetstream:
1. The rooting process begins with downloading the kernel and the root toolkit from the links above and extracts the contents of the toolkit.
2. Once done, you need to rename the kernel to insecure or anything easy.
3. After this, you have to connect the device to the PC and make sure USB debugging is enabled.
4. Once done, you have to reboot the device in fastboot mode. It can be done by opening command prompt and entering the following command on your PC:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot boot insecure.img
5. When the device has finished booting, then you have to run RUNME.bat from the toolkit you extracted.
Once you have finished with the entire instruction above and everything goes as planned, now you should have gained the root access of your HTC tablet permanently. If there was something you want to ask related to this method, simply visit the forum thread at XDA-Developers. You can find also information update of this method in there. Have a nice try people.
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