Fun With the HTC Rezound Janus Ixion For NoVAHackers

Acknowledgement  Thanks to the following groups for making this process so easy:  HTC – Bootloader unlock  XDA Developers – how tos  Amon-Ra – Recovery  Team Venom (PKMN) – Awesome Rezound roms

Why unlock and use Custom ROM  Q: Why unlock the bootloader?  A: To allow yourself the option of using custom recovery images and custom boot ROMs.

Why unlock and use Custom ROM  Q: Why use custom recovery and custom ROMs?  A: To haz infinite fun with your Rezound. Root access, special toys can’t get otherwise, more security options, nandroid backups and much much moar!

WARNING!!!!! Danger Will Robinson!  Warnings:  This may (probably will) void your warranty. Or maybe not…  This guide does not include S-Off.

Preparation  Download the stuff n junk you’ll need:  Android SDK  Amon-Ra recovery image  Custom ROM image  Custom ROM kernel

Preparation  Unzip the android sdk  Remove metadata  xattr –rd com.apple.quarantine /path/to/your/folder/  Or just double click the script in Finder and say yes.  Install the android sdk by navigating to the folder where the android sh script lies and execute:  android sdk

Preparation  Click the box beside Android platform-tools and then hit install  That will give you fastboot which will be used throughout this guide.

HTC Unlock Bootloader  You will want to start by creating your account with HTCDev. This will allow you to have access to the tools you need to unlock your bootloader.

HTC Unlock Bootloader  Go to the HTCDev website, log in, click unlock bootloader and go.  Follow the directions to unlock the bootloader.

HTC Unlock Bootloader  Power down the phone  Remove battery  Wait 30 seconds  Replace battery  Press power and vol down and hold until you hit HTC screen

HTC Unlock Bootloader  Select fastboot  Plug your phone into your machine  At the command line enter: ./fastboot oem get_identifier_token  Copy and paste that token into the HTC Dev site.

HTC Unlock Bootloader  Submit the token.  Wait for the .  Download Unlock_code.bin to your android platform tools directory  Execute: ./fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin

HTC Unlock Bootloader  The phone will ask you if you really wanna.  Do you really wanna?  If so then tell it yes using the vol down/up keys and power to submit.  BAM! You’re unlocked

Amon-Ra Recovery  Copy the amon-ra recovery image to your android platform tools directory  Execute:  fastboot flash recovery recovery-ra-vigor gnm.img  BAM! You now have amon-ra recovery

Amon-Ra Recovery  You can now take nandroid backups, wipe caches, destroy stuff, slap kittens, and load custom ROMs.  Probably a good idea at this point to take a nandroid backup of your stock image.

Team Venom Viper ROM  Attach the usb cable to your machine again go back to recovery.  Format all/upgrade Ext4  Toggle USB SDCard (not internal)  Copy the PS98IMG.zip to the root of your external storage or your sd card  Use the flash from zip option.  Select your rom to flash and install it

Team Venom Viper ROM  Reboot back into HBOOT one more time.  This will scan your storage for the PS98IMG.zip file and install the kernel.  Reboot one more time.  BAM! You should be running a custom ROM

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