Verizon HTC Droid DNA unlocked using Bootloader Soft Mod

The HTC Droid DNA has just released on Verizon and is an extremely notable smartphone, making a lot of people sit up and take notice. It’s likely to sell like hotcakes and many new owners will be pleased with their brand-new device. Nevertheless we know that for many people their smartphone experience isn’t complete without a certain amount of tinkering and so today we want to give readers information on unlocking the bootloader of your Verizon HTC Droid DNA using Bootloader Soft Mod.

At Phones Review we never recommend that readers tamper with their phones and if something goes wrong then it’s entirely your own responsibility. However we know many of our readers enjoy this whole aspect of owning a smartphone and like to keep you informed about new unlocks, jailbreaks etc. Some of you may have been pretty pleased to see that even when the Droid DNA was first announced it became apparent that the bootloader was unlockable via HTCDev.com. That meant that before it was even released the Droid DNA got root, recovery and custom kernel.
However when Verizon got wind of this, by the time the phone arrived it could no longer be unlocked through the official route. The good news though is that fortunately a Bootloader Soft Mod is now available, developed by Justin Case, that will alter the carrier information to allow access to the official HTC tool to unlock. This news came to us from Android Police but before attempting the soft mod make sure your Droid DNA has 1GB of free space and modern ADB to support backup/restore for ICS and up.

All of the necessary download, support thread and donation links plus full instructions can be found at the Android Police link above so we imagine there will be many happy Droid DNA owners unlocking their device’s bootloaders over the next few days. Once again we’ll remind you that you do so at your own risk.
You may also be interested in some of our other recent posts about the HTC Droid DNA, which we included in our best smartphone choices for the US holiday season. We have also discussed a battery review, compared it to the Galaxy S3 and much more so check out more previous articles on the Droid DNA here.