How To Root The HTC Eye

This guide will show you how to root the HTC Eye Android phone.

Disclaimer

FlexiSPY is not responsible for rooting the Android device in any way.  Before performing any of these steps make sure you back up your Android device completely. 

What is needed to root the HTC Eye?

In order to root the HTC Eye you will need the following.

• The HTC Eye you wish to root
• A PC

Step 1 – Set up the Android SDK environment on your PC

Before you can run the rooting tools on your PC to root the Eye you must first set up the Android development environment correctly.

In order to use Fastboot to root the HTC Eye you must have the Android SDK downloaded and installed on to your computer.

You can download the SDK from here.

Step 2 – Unlock the bootloader of the HTC Eye

In order to root the phone you first must unlock the bootloader of the HTC Eye

To do this you need to visit the HTC website which is located here.  Follow the steps to unlock the bootloader and, when you have done that successfully please proceed to the next step.

Step 3 – Download the HTC Eye custom recovery

In order to root the phone you simply download a root file to your PC which you can get here.  Once downloaded save it and extract it to an easy to access location on your PC such as the desktop.

Step 4 – Download SuperSU

Connect the HTC Eye to your computer and download the SuperSU APK file from here and save it to your computer desktop.  Once saved on your computer, copy it to the connected device.

Step 5 – Boot the HTC Eye into Fastboot mode

In order to run the root file you must boot the HTC Eye in to bootloader mode which is done as follows:

1. Make sure the HTC Eye is turned off completely.
2. Hold down the volume down key and the power button until the phone starts up and it will be in bootloader mode. Use the Volume Up and Volume down buttons to select Fastboot and press the Power button to confirm
3. When the phone is in Fastboot mode connect it to your PC.

Step 6 – Flash the custom recovery to the HTC Eye

With the phone in Fastboot mode and it being connected to the PC do the following:

• On your PC navigate to where you installed the Android SDK to from step 1 and go into the Platform-Tools folder where you will see exe.
• Hold down the shift key and right-click in the window and choose Open Command Window Here
• In the command window that appears type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and press Enter to flash the custom recovery file from step 3 to the device. When that has completed disconnect the device from your computer.

Step 7 – Root the HTC Eye

You now need to put the HTC Eye in custom recovery mode.

1. Make sure the HTC Eye is turned off completely.
2. Hold down the volume down key and the power button until the phone starts up and it will be in bootloader mode. Use the Volume Up and Volume down buttons to select Recovery and press the Power button to confirm
3. When the device boots in to recovery mode choose Install and browse to the SuperSU zip file you copied to the device in step 4.
4. Once that has been flashed successfully restart the device.

You should now see SuperSU is installed as a new application which means that the HTC Eye is now rooted.