All-in-one toolkit for unlocking and rooting the AT&T and Sprint HTC One now available

April 22, 2013

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Well that didn't take long at all. If you're looking for a very simple and quick way to unlock and root your AT&T or Sprint HTC One, you can do it now thanks to hasoon2000 over at XDA. He already posted a toolkit for the international version a month ago, so this is very similar. This desktop application will install HTC Drivers, unlock the bootloader, and flash your own recovery. You want to make sure you grab the correct download that matches the carrier version of your phone so hit the appropriate source link below for instructions.

sources: XDA – Sprint version / XDA – AT&T version / XDA – International version

Robert Nazarian Author

Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.

12 comments

Muneeb Baig says:

October 7, 2013 at 9:23 AM

Hi, I have HTC One x running 4.1.1 stock rom, Unlocked boot loader, CID_044, S-On with CWM Installed. Im trying to install 4.2.2 via OTA but it always restart in the recovery mode. I have also tried to install zip from SD Card via Recovery but failed. I have lots of apps and i dont want to lose them. Kindly Help how can i update my phone to 4.2.2 without erasing my apps/user data…..

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Mike Marley says:

June 19, 2013 at 7:00 AM

i only have one question..the “unlock” being referred to in these posting are sim card unlock right ?..meaning i can use this to turn the sprint phone to a gsm world phone right ?

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ron says:

April 30, 2013 at 9:03 PM

nothing seems to work with the sprint version of the HTC one! I tried everything and get that dam error message “error cannot load unlock_code.bin”

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1. Jason Masters says:
  
  June 8, 2013 at 2:48 PM
  
  So does this simunlock or just bootloader unlock ?
  
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Jose Glez says:

April 29, 2013 at 11:43 PM

So this will sim unlock? For the sprint HTC one since it has all gsm bands and SIM card?

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soulrebel says:

April 24, 2013 at 11:15 PM

Once unlocked can I use this phone overseas with a sim card?

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Darek Slaby says:

April 22, 2013 at 8:39 PM

Will this void my warranty?

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1. Jose do says:
  
  April 23, 2013 at 6:11 PM
  
  Yes
  
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2. Matt says:
  
  May 5, 2013 at 8:16 PM
  
  Yes, BUT if you factory restore your phone there is no way the manufacturer or ATT can check to see if you rooted before.
  
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  1. Justin Winker says:
    
    May 20, 2013 at 6:36 PM
    
    Not technically true… Re-locking the phone doesn’t restore the factory lock, but it prevents additional changes to the device’s bootloader. In addition, the **TAMPERED** moniker stays in the bootloader permanently (unless someone’s found a way to remove this?).
    
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    1. David Rudolph says:
      
      June 2, 2013 at 5:57 PM
      
      i just performed this step by step this morning and it did work perfectly.
      i then followed a guide from xda on locking the bootloader
      and clearing the tampered with message in recovery. That also
      worked perfectly. Then after a factory reset, i just swapped it at a Sprint store for the Note 2 that i should have just stayed with in the first place without any questions or issues.
      
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      1. Justin W says:
        
        June 4, 2013 at 10:14 PM
        
        Yeah, I restored mine using an RUU so I could update it (and I don’t really use anything that requires root anymore). It removed the **TAMPERED** moniker, but the **RELOCKED** moniker was there.
        
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