{"id":1100,"date":"2014-05-30T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2016-02-02T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:32:34","slug":"unlockingrooting-the-htc-one-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2014\/05\/unlockingrooting-the-htc-one-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking\/Rooting the HTC One on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently bought a used HTC One that I intend on using on Ting<\/a> — it’s a phone I’ve been wanting to use for about a year. It’s one of the nicest Android phones, with hardware quality approaching that of an iPhone. (Not to mention a software skin much more “professional” looking than a lot of other Android hardware manufacturers out there.)<\/p>\n

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I didn’t want to flash or even necessarily root my HTC One, however, the only way to restore some apps (like the Google Authenticator) require rooting, so I had to do it.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s strange is that most tutorials and utilities I’ve found are for Windows (like this one from theunlockr<\/a>) — I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising, considering most PC’s are Windows, but I’d figure that there would at least be some<\/em> tutorials for Linux, considering Android’s origins.<\/p>\n

Well, the good thing is that unlocking\/rooting your HTC One on Linux isn’t really that hard at all, if you’re comfortable with the command-line, and familiar with using the android sdk tools (fastboot, etc.).<\/p>\n

I’m not going to go into how to set up the Android sdk, etc, since if you’re doing something like manually unlocking your bootloader, you should already be familiar with it!<\/p>\n

Unlocking\/Rooting Your HTC One (M7) on Linux<\/h2>\n

Prerequisites:<\/p>\n