How To Gain S-Off, Flash a Custom Recovery, and Root Your Android Phone Using the Revolutionary Method in

The people that brought you theUnrevokedtool for rooting devices back in the day, and the people that brought you theAlphaRevrooting tool have joined forces and come up with a new tool to root, gain S-Off, and load a custom recovery on a decent list of devices. This tool is called Revolutionary. Here’s the devices it is known to work on and here’s how to use it.I. Before You Begin1. This is a DEVELOPER relse, so it isn’t the siest method as of yet. They will relse more stable versions as time goes on, this version is if you rlly can’t wait, but keep in mind there will be bugs to iron out in the initial versions.2. List of devices the developers claim it works on:Revolutionary currently supports the following Android and HBOOT versions:HTesire(bravo) 0.93.0001, 1.02.0001 DesireMA(bravoc) 1.06.0000 Wildfire (buzz) 1.01.0001 Aria (liberty) 1.02.0000IncredibleS (vivo) 1.09.0000 and 1.13.0000HTroidIncredible2 (vivow) 0.97.0000 (Gingerbrd only!) Desire S (saga) 0.98.0000 and 0.98.0002 View (express) 1.09.0000 and 1.13.0000 Flyer (flyer) 1.10.0000, 1.11.0003 Sensation (pyramid) 1.17.0006, .0008, .0011 and .0012, 1.18.0000Evo3D (shooter) 1.30.0000 and 1.40.0000 EVO 3D GSM (shooteru) 1.49.0007, 1.49.0008Thunderbolt(mecha) 1.04.0000, 1.05.0000 EVO 4G (supersonic) 2.15.0001, 2.16.0001myTouchSlide4G (doubleshot) 1.44.0007 MyTouch 4G (glacier) – You must do ourhow to downgrademethod first then come back to this one.Revolutionary will permanently unlock NAND write protection by default on the following : Sensation (pyramid) Evo 3D (shooter) EVO 3DGSM(shooteru) myTouch Slide 4G3. If you are using , download and install these Fastboot drivers.Fastboot Drivers4. If you have Sync installed on your computer, you may have to remove it if you are having issues.II. Gain S-Off1. Download the latest version of the tool from the developers here (the initial versions require you to erate a beta for you to use the program, just follow the steps to do so. If it lets you download the program without a beta , then it’s a newer version than at the time of writing this, just continue):Revolutionary2. Plug in your device.3. Select charge only if the option exists on your device, or just do NOT mount the SD Card.4. On your device, click on Settings > Appliions > Development > Turn USB Debugging ON.5. Find the Revolutionary program you downloaded and unzip it somewhere.6. Right click it and select Open as Administrator (if you do not have that option when you right click, simply select Open).7. Input your beta you received and wait for it to do it’s thing (if you are using a newer version of Revolutionary then it might not ask you for this. If that is the case, just continue).III. Flash a Custom Recovery 1.. Once done gaining S-Off, it will ask you if you want to flash clockworkmod recovery, type in y and hit enter.2. Once it is done flashing the recovery it will close the command prompt window.3. Onyourphone, you should see S-Off at the top.4. Take out the battery and put it back in.5. Turn on the device, by holding down volume down and power until the screen boots up.6. Push volume down and then power to select recovery.7. If thephonerebootsto the clockworkmod recovery screen you are all set.IV. Gain Root Access.1. With the phone still in clockworkmod recovery from the last step, plug it in via USB cable.2. Select Mounts and Storage by using the volume buttons to move and power to select.3. Then select mount sdcard (the sd card directory should pop up on your computer screen)4. Download the root .zip file and save it to your computer (do NOT extract it)Root .zip File5. Copy the root .zip file to the root of your sdcard and wait for it to transfer (not in any folders, just on the sd card itself).6. On your device, select unmount sdcard.7. On your device, select go back.8. Then select Install zip from sdcard and choose the root .zip file.9. Wait for it to flash, once done, select reboot system now.10. Once your device reboots, open the app drawer and you should see Superuser permissions there. If so, you are all set, you are rooted, have S-Off and a custom recovery .