![]() ![]() ![]() Head to my Google Drive here and download the latest version of the toolkit you see on that page and save it to your desktop.Ģ. This will erase all the information on your device, so be sure to save anything you want to keep to your computer before continuing.Ħ. On the HTC One M8, go to Settings > Battery Manager > Turn OFF Fastboot. This process may void all or parts of your warranty according to HTC.Ĥ. Make sure your battery is over 75% charged to ensure it doesn’t die unexpectedly during this process.ģ. Apparently, Verizon has blocked their devices from being able to use HTC’s bootloader unlocking tool, so they are stuck for now unfortunately.Ģ. This will work on all models of the HTC One M8 (AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and International Models). Interested? Good! Then here’s a video on how to root the HTC One M8. Tons of other customizations when you use your new found administrative rights to flash a custom ROM (again, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).Update to a new version of Android (by flashing a custom recovery/ROM, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).Increase performance (after removing apps that are always running, the device will be less bogged down and run smoother).Increase battery life (apps that might have been running constantly can be removed).Free up storage space (because of the above benefit).Remove apps that were preinstalled by your carrier/manufacturer from your device.Why should you do this you ask? Well, a lot of reasons including: ![]() In this procedure we’ll be using Hasoon’s All-in-One toolkit to help automate the process of unlocking the bootloader of the HTC One M8, then flashing a custom recovery, and then installing SuperSU to manage what applications get root permissions, etc. ![]() It may seem like a lot of steps, but they are all relatively easy and fool proof (since we don’t have to hack the device, again, thanks to HTC allowing us to do this). Thanks to HTC’s amazing policy on unlocking bootloaders (essentially that they promise to always allow you to do so), rooting an HTC device isn’t too hard and the HTC One M8 is no different. ![]()
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