Root HTC Legend

ROOT YOUR HTC LEGEND

Great phone.

Rooting your Legend phone can be a bit pain. Its a bit lengthy procedure.

I have tried to keep it as simple as possible. Hope it helps.


(If you still feel this is not simple enough, the link to the original guide is at the bottom of the screen)

REQUIREMENTS TO ROOT HTC LEGEND

This tutorial works on only those HTC Legend devices which have 0.43.xxxx hboot / bootloader or below and 1.31.xxx.x ROM or below. But how would you check it? Well, to do that, simply switch off your device and turn it on while holding the Back button. On doing so, it would display you with hboot and bootloader version.

You need a computer regardless the OS it is running on. It could be Windows, Linux or even Mac.

You also need a USB cable and memory card, because we would backup your phone memory as this erases your phone memory. You also need to backup your SD memory card as we might need to erase that too.

In addition to all these, we would also need Root files. We would be sharing those links below.

ROOT HTC LEGEND

STEP 1: To start with, you need to transform your microSD card into a GoldCard. So, here is the tutorial for it.

STEP 2: Now, download the R4 Legend Root files on your computer and extract them.

STEP 3: Now open the command prompt or terminal window, depending on your OS and navigate it to the path where the extracted files exist.

STEP 4: Now you need to reboot your HTC Legend in bootloader. To do so, keep pressing the Powerbutton and Back button. And once you see FASTBOOT on the display screen of your HTC Legend, connect it to your computer.

Once you do so, you would see FASTBOOT USB on the screen.

STEP 5: Now on the opened Command Prompt or Terminal windows, enter the below command for respective OS:

Windows: step1-windows.bat

Linux: ./step1-linux.sh

Mac: ./step1-mac.sh

STEP 6: Now the above step would have taken few minutes. Once it is done with it, replace the GoldCard with a fresh microSD card. Or else, format the same memory card using a card reader and use it again.

STEP 7: Now since you have plugged in the fresh microSD card, choose the BOOTLOADER by usingVolume UP and Volume DOWN keys for navigation and Power button for selection.

STEP 8: Now navigate the menu similarly and choose the option, Recovery.

STEP 9: Now on the opened Command Prompt or Terminal windows, enter the below command for respective OS:

Windows: step2-windows.bat

Linux: ./step2-linux.sh

Mac: ./step2-mac.sh

STEP 10: Once it is done with the execution of the scripts, check out the display screen of HTC Legend, as it would display Recovery.

STEP 11: Now choose the option labelled as Wipe and wait as it erases your Legend’s ROM.

STEP 12: Now choose to apply zip from sdcard, using the ‘rootedupdate.zip’ file that was copied to your phone’s SD card in the previous steps.

STEP 13: Now, hold on and wait. As the rooted ROM is now about to flash on your phone.

Once it is done, restart your phone and that is it.

Enjoy :)


(Its better you stick to a single guide, still if you wish to see the original guide click here)