[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] peanut 475:
big problem, need help.... i think.....

let me break it down for you, (total noob here) i know a bit of stuff only learned by trial and error. but i got my incredible 2 the other day and decided to root it, i had my 1st incredible rooted by someone else and i rooted my womans droid 1, so i thought i could pull this one off.

first of all i did a little reading and found the alpha rev thing, and the cwm 4.0.0.4 recovery and the su file needed. i downloaded all of them and went to work. ran alpharev and got me some lemonade, then it asked if i wanted to install the cwm version right there and so i did, phone booted into hboot a couple of times then bootloader for alpha rev disappeared.

let me try to make this long story shorter... i did everything except running commands for fastboot in adb. i don't know what all the terminology really means so i'm lost completely when i read about sdk stuff but some postings pointed me thataway.. needless to say i couldnt figure it out. i go into my hboot and is says alpharev at the top and also says s-off. i made a backup of stock rom, i have su permissions, su app seems to be working, i have rom manager, and a couple of other things that have requested superuser permissions, i granted them and everything was or seemed to be ok. yay i got root!!! but without running fastboot and doing the cmd stuff or adb or sdk???

i updated recovery to version 4.0.0.8, downloaded kingdom rewind a1 for incredible 2, then flashed it and everything went haywire, weather images were all scattered colors like the image rendering was on crack, (that was only image problem) i kept losing mobile network (3g), phone app kept forceclosing, could still make calls intermittently but other end couldnt hear me, camera wouldnt even open???

so i then downloaded incredibly debloated (again for my device) it wouldnt even boot up after doing wipe and flashing in recovery, wouldn't boot after reflashing su or cwm files, either stuck at white htc screen or just black screen.

only way to get phone to do anything even half way normal was to reflash kingdom rom, couldnt even restore backup of stock.??

so then i go back to reading about the sdk stuff, still so very lost, then stumble onto cm7 for inc 2, made backup of kingdom even tho it doesnt work but did it anyway because its my only link to a semi functional phone. flashed cm7 and everything is working just fine?!!? proceeded to reactivate service to new phone (had to revert to old phone due to functionality issues)

couldnt activate service with cm7 because it was like the setup screen on new phone, i could hear automated prompts telling me to push 1 to activate phone but i had absolutely no number pad, no matter what i did it wouldnt show up.

restored backup of kingdom, got service back, then restored cm7 and everything still working..

so i'm really bummed i cant use kingdom because i really like the interface, on old dinc was running hybrid rom with insomnia nights theme and loving how original the ui was.. i guess cm7 is ok, i've used it forever and i love the theme chooser, (want to continue enjoying something new i guess) but i'm also concerned about all of the previous issues before getting to this point, and the fact that i cant restore stock backup.. do i even have root? is it temp root? i just dont know wtf.. just wait for stable release of kingdom?? (if that was even the problem) any input would be profoundly appreciated..