[Mac Procedure]: How to Root the HTC Thunderbolt

**Cyber Warrior** · 09-09-2011, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by thowell

I am at the start of the ADB commands and it is telling me that no device was found, even though I am plugged in and in Disk Drive mode with USB debugging turned on. Please help!

Try exiting out of HTC Sync on the computers task bar.

**zigone** · 09-18-2011, 06:19 PM

Absolutely well written. I've followed the steps to a tee. After I added Superuser, Titanium Pro and so on I rebooted now my tb shuts off and displays the droid under a triangle with an exclamation point in it. Can someone, anyone, tell me what i did incorrectly?

**zigone** · 09-18-2011, 06:20 PM

Also the port and proxy were never defined.....

**vwroad87** · 09-21-2011, 05:01 AM

First time root, long time hack, instructions worked perfectly on a Verizon TB purchased 09/18/11 with the lastest pushed verizon bloatware.

Thank Q

dp

**infectdead** · 09-28-2011, 11:43 AM

This was awesome and I appreciate all of the work. How do I unroot? I really want to see the OTA 2.3 GB update that VZ is pushing out. Thanks for the help.

**dirtdevil8298** · 09-29-2011, 02:57 PM

I'm at a complete loss with this I'm new to dab but it looks like adb isn't getting killed

mark-Argentis-MacBook-Pro:tools evilrid3r$ ./adb push busybox /data/local/
1888 KB/s (1062992 bytes in 0.549s)
mark-Argentis-MacBook-Pro:tools evilrid3r$ ./adb push psneuter /data/local/
1729 KB/s (585731 bytes in 0.330s)
mark-Argentis-MacBook-Pro:tools evilrid3r$ ./adb push misc.img /data/local/
1978 KB/s (262144 bytes in 0.129s)
mark-Argentis-MacBook-Pro:tools evilrid3r$ ./adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/busybox
mark-Argentis-MacBook-Pro:tools evilrid3r$ ./adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/psneuter
mark-Argentis-MacBook-Pro:tools evilrid3r$ ./adb shell /data/local/psneuter
Failed to set prot mask (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
mark-Argentis-MacBook-Pro:tools evilrid3r$

I'm running the new gingerbread, do i have to revert back to the previous software
Software information
android 2.3.4
software #
2.11.605.3

**dirtdevil8298** · 09-29-2011, 06:26 PM

sorry for the noobness but im looking and i think i need to downgrade from 2.3 to 2.2 for those files to work it really has me scratching my head.

response would really be appreciated

**Jaxx1982** · 10-22-2011, 10:02 PM

So if I've already upgraded to the OTA Gingerbread, then there's no way for me to root my thunderbolt using a mac? Is there any way to downgrade?

Any help would be appreciated....

**SPD** · 10-26-2011, 11:01 AM

Man I cannot get my device to show. This is as far as I can get:

Last login: Wed Oct 26 08:54:10 on ttys000
Coyote:~ mattbucur$ cd ..
Coyote:Users mattbucur$ cd ..
Coyote:/ mattbucur$ cd and*
Coyote:android-sdk-mac_x86 mattbucur$ cd tools
Coyote:tools mattbucur$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached

Coyote:tools mattbucur$

Don't know if it matters but I have the 1.70.605.0 software currently installed.

EDIT: Deleted the easytether file from my mac and finally got the it to recognize my device.

**jm329410** · 11-17-2011, 07:01 PM

I'm having the same exact problem as zigone

**jm329410** · 11-17-2011, 07:16 PM

Phone wont stay on at all, so any help ASAP will be appreciated!

**Cyber Warrior** · 11-17-2011, 07:18 PM

Can you get to Recovery?

**BigMace23** · 02-06-2012, 05:12 PM

Is there a way to downgrade firmware and use this method again? Haven't found a Mac solution for rooting the thunderbolt on this firmware...

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**neutronjeff** · 02-12-2012, 01:06 PM

All,

What about using the HTC unlock? Can we do that on Macs?

I know there are issues about HTC & VZW knowing we rooted, but in the absence of Revolutionary for Mac, or the desire to setup a Linux VirtualBox...

**DJRulesall** · 05-11-2012, 03:28 PM

I just replaced my old Rooted Thunderbolt with a new Un-Rooted Thunderbolt... but I cant' get it rooted again because I have a mac... any help? The files and instructions seem to be outdated with the removal of the file sharing websites.