How to Root HTC Sensation 4G with S-ON (Temporarily)

The HTC Sensation 4G being one of the most popular phones has been one of the longest phones awaiting Root access that we’ve seen up until now.  TeamWin has finally came out with a Temporary root for this phone.

Prereqs for Rooting the Sensation 4G:

1. You must be able to push files via adb to your phone.
2. You must know what a shell is.

Temporary Root Instructions for HTC Sensation 4G:

1. Download the fre3vo zip file (download link)
2. Unzip the fre3vo binary
3. Push the binary via ‘adb push fre3vo /data/local/tmp’
4. Change the permissions via ‘adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo’
5. Run the binary via ‘adb shell /data/local/tmp/fre3vo’
6. You will be sent back to a command prompt
7. run ‘adb shell’ and you should have a ‘#’ prompt instead of ‘%’.
8. Congrats you have root access (temporarily)!

This is temporary root. Rebooting your device will remove root access. Please read on for Permanent root access to your HTC Sensation 4G.