Thinking Of Rooting my Thunderbolt

rooting is super easy and worth it!

I rooted my Thunderbolt using the Revolutionary tool and I flashed the BAMF Forever 1.0.7 ROM on it and it runs great! To be honest even just rooting gives you the ability to disable the bloatware

Good luck!

 

I also used the Revolutionary hack and have had zero problems. There is even a way to reverse the Revo changes, so
if you had to return the phone, S-ON would be restored and the device would be unrooted.

I definitely recommend Revolutionary over the HTC website. While there is no smoking gun stating
that they are voiding warranties, the chance exists using the HTC method since they can then
ID your phone. Using the Revo hack, zero information on that travels back to HTC, so as far
as they are concerned, it's still STOCK.

If you don't like the SENSE overlay, consider an AOSP ROM. Liquid Smooth 3.2 is what
I use and I love it.

Good Luck!

 

The process is very simple, but does require a direct connection (data cable) to a Windows or Linux box.

Head to this site:
Revolutionary

Before you run the program, read this section:
public:revolutionary [RootWiki]
(It's not long and gives you a basic idea of the process and some basic troubleshooting info should things go awry.)

A 3rd party WalkThru for Revolutionary on Thunderbolt
Gain S-Off On HTC Thunderbolt In One Click With Revolutionary 0.4


Understand that anytime you mod a device you run a risk. To protect your device and your sanity,
I highly recommend reading whatever you can find on a given process BEFORE running it. The processes
aren't usually very difficult, you just have to follow the steps exactly and normally things work right.

 

I've never used a BAMF Rom. The first Rom I flashed was Liquid Smooth 3.2 and I love it. Never needed to flash another.
Literally thousands and thousands of people have used Revolutionary.io to gain S-OFF/Root and install Roms, so I personally
felt it reasonably safe. I ran it on mine in Nov/2011 and haven't had a problem.

 

Rooting gives you so many options, its like jailbreaking a SP-64 it sucks until you jailbreak/root.

-AqworldThunder ^…^ ¶.¶ *.* Thank me if i helped please!

 

If you wait for ICS, you'll also have to wait for them to find a root exploit. Also, if you plan on waiting, get comfortable. Its probably 6 months out for the TB yet

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Root now. Have your friend do it if you don't feel confident doing it yourself.