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Im assuming youre bored of Android v2.3 (Gingerbread), fed up of limited storage memory, and
frustrated because of the pre-installed unwanted apps (bloatwares) which cant be uninstalled? And you
want to root your smartphone? Install a new or custom version of Android maybe? Please be advised,
unlocking bootloader is the rst step you must follow to proceed further to rooting and other stu . So, if
you want to do any of the mentioned things, you need to unlock bootloader on HTC Explorer/Pico (In
some countries HTC Explorer is sold as HTC Pico).
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Disclaimer: The warranty (partly or wholly) of your device may become void as soon as you unlock the
bootloader. Also, you will be solely responsible for any damage done during the process, and we wont be liable
for any damage or harm to anyone or anything. Unlocking bootloader is an irreversible process.
Before you start the process, dont you want to know what bootloader is exactly? In simple words,
bootloader is a set of code which executes before any operating system when you boot your device. So,
when the operating system boots, it needs to go through the bootloader. In fact, it is responsible to boot
the OS and load system partitions when the device starts. You can now easily understand why it is
necessary to unlock bootloader.
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Step 1.
First thing you need to do is, shut-down your phone and remove battery by opening the back panel.
Reinsert the battery properly. Now press and hold down the volume down key (second button from top, at
the right side) with the power key (at the top) to enter into bootloader mode.
If you see *** LOCKED *** written at the top, it means that bootloader is currently locked. It wont be the
same at the end of this tutorial though. The phone in the image above is already bootloader unlocked.
Step 2.
Once youre in bootloader mode, use volume up/down buttons to navigate up or down in the list.
Highlight Fastboot and press power button once to go into fastboot mode. You should now see Fastboot
open in browser PRO version
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written on the screen. Now connect the phone via USB cable to computer, and proceed to the next step.
Step 3.
Open the folder where you extracted the ZIP le containing adb.exe and fastboot.exe. Press shift key and
right-click anywhere in the white-space area of the window. Now select open command window here. It
will open command prompt at that speci c location.
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Alternately you can open command prompt by pressing windows key + R , and navigate to the folder
where the extracted les are located, from the command window itself. To do so, type the drive letter
(with colons) in which that particular folder is located, and then type cd following the path of the folder.
For example, type D: (if the folder is located in D partition), and then cd /htc/explorer/adb/ (location of
the folder).
Step 4.
open in browser PRO version
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The command window should now show the path of the folder where you extracted the ZIP les. If you
did everything correct so far, type fastboot devices (without quotes) and press enter to check if its
detecting your phone.
Now type fastboot oem get_identi er_token (without quotes) and hit return. You will see a long block of
random characters, it is the identi er token of your device which will be used to get unlock code.
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Step 5.
Now you need to copy the identi er token (long string of random characters), which is tricky if youre not
familiar with command prompt. To select the text, right-click anywhere in the command window, and
choose Mark. It will enable text selection.
Select the text, starting from <<<< Identi er Token Start >>>> and ending to <<<<< Identi er Token End
>>>>>. Do not select <bootloader> or INFO at the beginning of the text. The selected text should look like
this:
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To copy the text, just press right mouse button anywhere on the selected text. Now paste the identi er
token in a text le, you will need it later.
Step 6.
Fortunately, HTC has made it really easy to get unlock token via their o cial website for developers. So, is
it o cial? Yes. And it still voids warranty? Yes.
Register an account on HTCdev website, its free obviously. Once done, login using the username and
password you registered with.
Step 7.
open in browser PRO version
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Once logged in successfully, go to unlock bootloader page to get unlock token. From the dropdown menu
on right side, having the list of supported devices, choose All other supported models as HTC Explorer
is not listed there. Dont worry it works (unless you do something stupid). Click Begin Unlock Bootloader.
Con rm your action after reading the disclaimer.
It will then take you to step 1 of unlocking bootloader for your HTC Explorer (Pico). Now you can either
open in browser PRO version
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waste your time reading the stu , or skip to step 10 (on page 3) because youve already done the rst 9
steps and that too in less time.
You should now see a text eld asking you to enter identi er token of your device. Paste the text we got in
step 5 in this eld, and hit Submit.
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Step 8.
You will then receive a mail on the email address you used to register on HTCdev website, with the subject
The key to unlocking your HTC device . Download the le attachment (unlock_code.bin) you got with the
email, and save it in the same folder where fastboot.exe is located.
Switch to command prompt, and type fastboot ash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin; press enter. You will
see something like this:
Step 9.
On your phones display you will now see a disclaimer to con rm if you want to unlock the bootloader.
Read it, think again, and choose Yes if you still want to do it.
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To check if bootloader is unlocked, go to bootloader mode (by pressing volume down + power button). If it
shows *** UNLOCKED *** at the top, you did everything right. You may now proceed to root your phone.
Yes, Ill be posting a tutorial for rooting your HTC Explorer really soon.
If you experience any problems or have any questions, post them in comments below.
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the 1st image in step 7 is not shown after i click on the bootloader
priyank
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Dinesh Sharma
Sagar
Khadeer
sending unlock token, after that its not getting further. Please
help!
I have HTC Explorer, but have one problem with the bootloader. I
Arun K C
got unlock bin le (its having the VLC icon). I am not able to
unlock bootloader. When I tried that it displays cannot
determine image le for unlock code.bin.
Hi sir,
Mukesh
Thanks,
Mukesh
Pankaj
Please help!
Apr 30, 2015 at 08:39 pmReply
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