HTC Sales figures bouncing back: November sales up 23%

The Taiwanese company is bouncing back for the first time in 4 months of gloomy sales revenue, Market-Analysts say. Although they predicted earlier, HTC revenue would drop drastically during Q3 and Q4 of 2012; the windows 8 line-ups, HTC 8X and HTC 8S could have helped HTC to see whole 23.3% increase in November sales. According to reports, November revenues were at NT$21.2 billion (US$730 million), where as October revenues were NT$17.2 billion (US$ 592 million).

During April/May HTCs One Android phone portfolio (HTC OneX) was not able to turn things around for them when it launched prior to Samsung's Galaxy S3. It seems 8X and 8S must have played significant role in this scenario. Its quite uncertain though whether newly announced OneX + would incur any help. The only other significant Android launch for HTC was its 5 inch Butterfly J/Droid DNA smartphone. But it’s only available on Verizon and that too since November 21. Its for sure, HTC will need to do lot better because cumulative revenues from January to November 2011 were actually a 39% decline from the same period in 2011 and that’s a pretty huge gap.

Well, Ups and Downs are part of the smart-phone market-war; lets hope the Taiwan born HTC bounces back soon with all their brilliancy.

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How To Root HTC One V

Today, I 'll share how to Root the HTC One V easily. Rooting will improve your user experience as you would be the super-user and would be able to overclock the device; not only that, you would be able to uninstall/freeze manufacturer/carrier bloatware, install custom ROM’s like Cyanogen Mod, MIUI etc. Follow the instructions precisely to root your HTC One V.

Things to know First

• The instructions provided here are only for HTC One V.
• We are not at all responsible for any damages caused to you or your Gadget while you follow our instructions.
• Rooting will void the warranty of your phone.

Requirements

• Backup all your Phone Data. Read our guide on how to take a complete backup of Android Gadgets.
• Enable USB debugging on your phone by going to "Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging". Make sure the USB Debugging option is ticked. 
• At-least 70% of Battery juice (charge !) remaining.
• You need to unlock your phone’s bootloader from htcdev.com.

Step by Step Instructions

1. First you need to download the HTC One V rooting package from HERE. 

2. Now save the zip in a folder in your PC. Extract the downloaded zip files using any decompressing software. After the extraction make sure that you have these following files :

3. Now,download the modded boot.superboot.img file from HERE. 

4. Now replace the original boot.superboot.img present in the file you extracted in step 2 with the modded boot.superboot.img file you downloaded in step 3. 

5. Switch-off your phone. 

6. Now switch on your phone by holding power + volume down buttons. 

7. Now select Fastboot with the help of your volume rocker and press the power button.

8. Finally, connect your phone to PC and double click on “install-superboot-windows.bat“. This should take some time.

Voila ! You have successfully rooted your HTC One V. Enjoy your gadget as a super user.

Good-Luck !

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