How to install custom recovery and root HTC Explorer ~ Techno Inspiron

HTC Explorer is an budget friendly device which was announced by HTC last year with Android 2.3 gingerbread. It is already confirmed that it will not get ice cream sandwich update anytime in future. In this article, I will be explaining how to root HTC Explorer so that you can remove unused apps and install recovery to load custom ROMS

Before you proceed:

Network Locked devices are not supported
Minimum battery should be more than 60%.
Enable USB debugging on your HTC Explorer. To do this, go to Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging.
Rooting removes your phone’s warranty.
You are following this tutorial on your own risk and androidplus won’t be responsible for any kind of damage that may cause.

Download following files

HTC Sync > Download
Download A310E recovery > Download
Superuser.zip > Download

Steps to install recovery and root HTC Explorer

To root HTC Explorer, you first need to unlock the bootloader of it.
To unlock the bootloader, visit this and follow appropriate steps there.(HTC Explorer isn’t listed as working device there but it has been tested and works perfectly. So, choose “all other supported models” when selected device )
Once you have unlocked bootloader, extract A310E recovery in any drive on your windows PC(recommended c:\HTC)
run recovery.bat file with phone in fastboot mode(first option in “3 android menu”) and connected with USB
Now, its time to root HTC explorer and for that put Superuser.zip in root of SD-card.
Go into recovery mode by restarting the device and then pressing volume down and power key simultaneously till it boots into recovery.
Select install zip from SD card and navigate to where you placed superuser.zip
select superuser.zip there and let it complete its process.
finally reboot the phone.

If everything is perfectly done, you will have rooted HTC Explorer in your hands.
Now as you have rooted your device, you can move all your apps to sd-card using link2sd

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