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[Droid Incredible General] khw1959:
New Guy

Retired Navy with 30 years in Subs. (Missile Technician)

I used this forum to root the other day.

This site seems to be used as a reference for others so I went to the source.

I rooted to the CM7 and the new radio that came out with gingerbread.

After going through the rooting process I am ready not to go through the setup again. TB kept force closing after each app install(took a long time:confused:) I'll wait for awhile and let the guru's play with the new GB and see what develops.
[Droid Incredible General] RMarkwald:
I am Ryan, been here since day 1. The root process was crazy involved then... Memories! But I got it, after three days of trying after work! I try to help here from my experiences I've had with my Inc. I've rooted my girl's Desire, my Xoom, and this week my buddy's Inc is getting the business!

I've done some minor tweaking of existing code, but haven't done any ROM creating/modding. I've made themes for myself, so I understand how to replace/edit/create draw 9 PNG's and replacing other files in APKs. I've become pretty good with GIMP, but have never created images from scratch.

Other than that, I'm a smart ass, like to golf, and am currently moving in with my girl. I've met really cool people in these forums, who I continue to talk with via Twitter or Gtalk.

Looking forward to helping anyone out, and meeting new/existing DInc owners.
[Droid Incredible General] POQbum:
This sounds like an android support group ha

anyway..

Hi!

My name is Paul I've had my phone since November of last year, but only later decided I wanted to try this rooting shenanigans in January. I was again slow to switch from sense over to AOSP, but now since I've done all that I really love my phone and even now I just figured out there's a whole mess more you can do with widgetlocker and other theming apps.

I've recently found a really cool site for android theming:

http://mycolorscreen.com/category/android/

Some of the stuff on there I had no idea you could even do, it's amazing.
[Droid Incredible General] AJGO23:
I think there'll probably be more user who've had their Dinc for a while rather than newer users BUT ANYWAYS.... Well my name's Antonio and I'm 17. I'm hoping to go to either Princeton or Boston University and become an Anesthesiologist. The Dinc is my first smartphone and I got it in September 2010, but didn't root until sometime around December. I had no idea what root was, I found out more about it when Gingerbread first came out and builds started coming out for the Dinc. I began to do some research and I found Xda, but I didn't become a member until March of this year. I have since then become a flashaholic and the longest continous time I've had a ROM has been Pure Shooter for two weeks so far.... Do we get a gold star for this? Lol
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Oh wow guys, I didn't think this thread would gain such an awesome reaction. I've put my story in the OP so yall can see where I'm coming from as well.

Great stuff guys!
[Droid Incredible General] TheWhiteBandito:
Well I'm not new, but I figured I'd chime in a bit!

Hi all! I'm Bob and I'm a college student with a major in Computer Science and minor in Information Systems. The HTC Incredible is my first smartphone, and since I got it on launch week, I've been hooked! I was pretty active on Android Forums, helping people out and whatnot but I finally decided to make XDA my permanent home.

I've recently begun developing apps for Android just as a fun side project. I have not made a ROM yet, but I have been heavily debating it. I think I'll give it a try when the real Gingerbread OTA comes out, but we'll see since I'll be busy with school starting back up AND work in a few days...

I try to help people out because this is a community. I try to give feedback as much as possible and like to point people in the right direction if ever needed. I am a bit of a ROM flashing addict and even the ROMs that I don't try, I at least read about and get familiarized with! The Inc community is seriously awesome, and we've only gotten better as a whole. Thanks to the devs and to all the members for making my hobby even more enjoyable!
[Droid Incredible General] jayochs:
cool idea; you know, i've always wondered about a lot of us here..we always talk phones and whatnot, but we dunno anything about eachother lol

well i'm jay (clearly lol) and i'm from the shore of NJ, born and raised (not to be affiliated with that dirtbag trash on that bull**** TV show, sigh.) i'm 24, i've got my bachelors from rutgers university and my masters from monmouth..unfortunately, since our wonderful government is utter **** right now, the fact that my degrees deal with getting a job in the state/federal government realm isn't helping whatsoever, as I can't land a gov job for the life of me...so i currently work for a small family-owned Verizon store that sells vzw phones, accessories and FiOS. besides that, i'm a musician of 11 years (bass, guitar, drums) and i play bass in a band.

as for my wonderful android journey, it only began in may of 2010 when my buddy sold me his htc eris for 20 bucks when he got his dinc on release day in the mail in april. he told me it'd be fine for me since it was my first smartphone, but he was sick of it already (had it for like 4 months lol) and that it was super laggy to him, so he got the dinc. well, the eris lasted me barely 3 months..even after rooting it and upping my processor speed with setcpu, the thing was still super laggy and the typing lag was atrocious..

so i was one of the people who ordered the Dinc during the Great Amoled Shortage of '10 hahah...ordered it early July, and got it on July 29th...kept it stock for a while, thought the phone was AMAZXING bc there was no typing lag etc...and then that damn Froyo OTA hit, and my phone just started crapping out. typing lag was about as bad as it was on the eris after that OTA, and i almost threw this phone so many times. so finally, in january of '11 i rooted...put on lou's redemptive revolution, still had keyboard lag, and was just super angry.

then i saw Z roms come about, and my lag was finally gone, and i've been playing with new roms ever since. so yeah, safe to say i've easily had this phone for a year and have no intentions on upgrading anytime soon! haha

whoa, that was a book! but whatever. i love my inc, and after just installing synergy again and the Warm theme for the first time, it's bringing me back to my early days of rooting when my first Z rom was warm z two.point.two!! ahh nostalgia. :cool:
[Droid Incredible General] lssanjose:
I'm somewhat new here, due to my recent activity. But I recently got hold of an Incredible after my Droid A855 had growing digitizer issues. I haven't looked back because I really grew to like the device because it's extremely light (sometimes a little too light for comfort), and it's been smooth as melted butter. I'm currently running gingerbread inc deck 1.2b beta on my rooted Incredible. For what I consider(ed) a stop gap device, I'll be hard pressed to find a 4G phone I'll like enough to use my upgrade from VZW..
[Droid Incredible General] watt9493:
Another march guy. My name is cameron. I'm 17, currently jobless, have way too much on my plate for a 17 year old, and have the best girlfriend and family I could ask for.

The job field I want to get into its automotive. I've been tearing apart 350 small blocks, 429 big blocks, honda engines, and everything in between since I could walk.

I'm an admitted crackflasher (flashed every rom in the dev section at least once) I was introduced to android when I got a motorola defy for christmas (it blew)

One day I eventually wanna have a family of my own with this girl right here.

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So that's about it for me. Have a good night everyone!

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[Droid Incredible General] donnyp1:
Am i the only one over 40?

If ive helped you, please hit the damn thanks button!
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Yea we all know you fart dust old man.
[Droid Incredible General] AJGO23:
Lmfao that made my day.
[Droid Incredible General] AJGO23:
And Stang (it feels weird knowing your real name lol) I just wanted to say thank you for the service that you have given this country to give us the many rights and liberties we so often take for granted. And even though our government screws the military every chance they get, I really am grateful and thankful for all the men and women who dedicate themselves to the safety of others who they sometimes don't know or who don't appreciate them. Thank you.
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Thank you for that.
[Droid Incredible General] watt9493:
Yes, thank you wildstang.

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[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Thanks guys
[Droid Incredible General] loonatik78:
Greetings... My name is Shawn and my dInc has a distinction I'm fairly sure few others have. It's been to all 48 states. And, in it's own opinion, 5 time zones. I live between Ohio and FL, depending on what I'm doing. I'm am currently divorced, married, and with a girlfriend. In my various lines of work I've played with some REAL cool toys. I've done NC programming on EDMs, prototype machine work on various Mazak turning centers, inspection work on CMMs, I have a class A CDL-X endorsed, and I'm certified Red Cross volunteer with religious affiliations. I'm also a former student of theology. My current interests are writing, cognitive psychology, and sleeping as much as humanly possible. Too bad I'm a chronic insomniac.

I liked my dInc because it often served as a portal to information, media, people and places that were very far from me. The dInc is retired from my use now, but still soldiers on.

I still hate touch screen keyboards.
[Droid Incredible General] khw1959:
no, I have a little time myself.
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
If 59 is your birthyear that's neat. My dad just turned 52 the 17th. Still working hard too.
[Droid Incredible General] donnyp1:
My wife and kids say i fart toxic waste!

If ive helped you, please hit the damn thanks button!
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Dave, your post made me really miss the mil. You talking about the M88 and being recovery. I was H8 qualled on the wheeled side of things driving the good ole' M984A1 HEMTT Wrecker

I had some time within the M88A1(Big Bertha not the M88A2 Hercules) while I was at the port of Beaumont unloading the ships. I was on recovery ops there.

And then heres a pic of me with my M1089A1 FMTV Wrecker about 6 months before I retired.

In my opinion nothing else in the world compaires to being Recovery.

And yes, I'll be Ordnance Corp for life.
[Droid Incredible General] PGleo86:
I've been here a little while, but what the hell.

My name's Jacob, I'm 16 and in my junior year in high school. I got my DInc last year, just as the AMOLED shortage ended. I did manage to get an AMOLED model, and I'm glad I did. It took me a while to go to AOSP ROMs as it did for many, but AOSP is now my preference. I like helping people out, doing small themes as requests, etc. I personally own 5 computers, and building another soon. I'm a gamer on a serious budget, and I love Team Fortress 2. If you play, add me on Steam at http://steamcommunity.com/id/PGleo86
[Droid Incredible General] SynisterWolf:
Ill do it again too.

Hi my name is Justin. I am also a crack flasher. I have done some development work in the past, not so much now because i cant find the time. I am 26, and work as a material specialist for D.O.D. contracted company (we make neat toys for you boys in the service.) I have a degree in mechanical engineering and i don't even use it. :/ I'm really into FPS and MMO games. :D No kids but i do have my 3 year old Sheltie named Lana which is more than enough for me right now.
[Droid Incredible General] MyronW:
You youngsters crack me up.

My name is Myron, and from what I've seen, I'm probably one of the more <ahem> "seasoned" members.

I was in the Marine Corps from 1975 to 1979, working on RF-4B Phantom avionics. I got out and got a degree in Industrial Arts from San Diego State University, and spent the next 20 years working in plastics as an injection molding process engineer.

Then in 2002, I reinvented myself as a Quality Engineer. I now spend my days auditing Quality Management Systems, doing risk analysis, and a bunch of other stuff that will turn your blood to pudding.

To counteract it, I work out with kettlebells at a local gym twice a week. The workouts are always different, but they are always brutal high intensity interval sessions of one kind or another. I always appreciate the fact that the rest of the class doesn't laugh at the worn-out geezer in the back! But hey- I'm 54, and I deadlifted 300 lbs. and did 92 kettlebell snatches in 5 minutes last April. We'll see if I've improved in four weeks, or slid the other way.

Anyways, back to the phones. This is my first Android, and I rooted it the day root was announced.

I've flashed just about every ROM out there, and I have my favorites and my wall of shame.

I used to code, but now it just makes my brain swell up and want beer, so I skip the coding and have a beer once in a while.

My wife and I have eight kids. (yes, we know what causes that. we hatched two and adopted the rest.) Two have grown up and have families of their own, and six still live at home. We have five grandkids, and we just got a new puppy yesterday. A four month old Great Pyrenees...

Regards from Casa de Chaos

Sent from my dinc using Messagease
[Droid Incredible General] warrior4God:
Intro

Hey what up every one!

My name is Aaron, I live in So Cal (California) I am 28 years old, I'm married and have two beautiful girls, I do customer service for PlumberSurplus.com I really enjoy it.

I got my wife and I Dinc's back in March and we love them, she is very satisfied with the phone the way it is, but I'm thinking if I could get the hang of how to root and rom it and get rid of all the bloat ware on her phone she would like it even more. I had a DX before this one and I hated it.

I really would like a very simple step by step on how to root my phone and put a custom rom on it. If any one has any recommendations on roms, I was looking at a new one that just came out with the sense 3.0 Not sure of the exact name it was on Android Central but it is down right now for some strange reason. I think it was like GingerSense or something like that.

Really appreciate a community like this and thank you to Stang who started this thread and for serving our country.
[Droid Incredible General] donnyp1:
Rooting is very simple with the unrevoked method, takes just a few minutes. If you search for unrevoked for the inc, you will find the download and instructions. I would do it soon so cause if the ota update rolls out, you will be stuck there.

If ive helped you, please hit the damn thanks button!
[Droid Incredible General] warrior4God:
Do you have a link to where I could find good clear instructions? Thank you so much for the advice!
[Droid Incredible General] zman0125:
I have had by DINC for about a year and rooted recently. I used Nils business gingersense and love it. I wish i had rooted earlier.
[Droid Incredible General] warrior4God:
Where did you get the info to root your Dinc?
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Hey W4G, nobody is gonna help you out if you aren't gonna take it upon yourself to read or learn by your self first. We are not mean people, however rooting your phone is nothing new. We are tired of explaining the process over and over. Especially since rooting is very well documented. Here on XDA and Google.

I'll be nice and get you started.

http://unrevoked.com/#inc

I assure you, everything you need to know is within that link.

Have fun.
[Droid Incredible General] jasonwojo75:
My name is Jason, got my dinc in jan. and finally rooted and flashed my first rom a few months ago. Coming from a winmo phone i was pretty happy with it stock, eventually got board with it and needed something new. I am a mechanic at a jeep dealer for over 15 years now. By the way thanks for your porting instructions stang, been trying to find the time to start but have a 5 and 7 year old who both started school and soccer. Hopfully can find the time to port my first rom.
[Droid Incredible General] smurfeaters:
hey everyone my name is gavin just wanted to say whats and im glad for all the devs that give there time to port and build roms and ill be hitting that thanks button alot
[Droid Incredible General] jimbiss:
Not new to the dinc, but new to xda. Got my dinc when it was released
[Droid Incredible General] nrvous1:
I've had my dinc since Dec 2010 and finally got around to root. But, after I downloaded unrevoked and the drivers for windows 7 I couldn't get any of my home PC's to recognize my phone. So, I went to Verizon today and I'll be getting a replacement dinc by Wednesday hopefully.
[Droid Incredible General] Juanito216:
Bought an Incredible earlier today(previously had a Droid X), it currently has MIUI on it.
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
That's cool bud. Glad to see you made your decision btw. Enjoy.
[Droid Incredible General] enomele:
I'm not new, been lurking around the Inc forums since I got it a week after release, but figured I would post anyway.

I am Nate, Ill be turning 26 this September and I live in the beautiful state of Wisconsin, where the cows are happy and the beer is endless. I do not have a wife or girlfriend, but do enjoy disc golfing and some good FPS and RPG to pass the time. I currently work under the regime of John Menard, and plan on returning to school this spring to finish my Systems Admin degree.

I love android so much but never really gave coding a chance. After a year of so seeing the likes of rmk, adrynalyne, and all them crazy fools who jumped ship to the Tbolt. and the wave of magicians porting these crazy Sense 2 and 3 roms and stuff like Stang and incubus, it really makes me appreciate the time you guys put into this. I don't have a lot of money so I hope you guys (the amazing dev's here in my post and the countless other who aren't) can deal with a donation of love and appreciation.

I've been able to upgrade for a while but all these Sense ports and CM7 running so smooth I've had no reason to. Keep up all the good work and ill be able to wait til the Vigor or the push of Ice Cream handsets. Maybe on of these rainy days when I've run Deus Ex HR dry of replay value ill try my hand at the CM7 them I want to make.

PS Mad love to all the vets who have served. That's one thing I couldn't do myself but have utmost respect for anyone who has.
[Droid Incredible General] RedHotLama:
Hey everyone,

Ken here. I've had my Dinc since day 1. Just rooted my wife's Dinc this weekend (hoping it would help solve her reboot issues, but no :() Tossed CM7 on hers and am in the process of doing mine. Going to toss on Nil's Business Sense 3.0

Hope to get active here.

Ken
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Good luck Ken. Please report back with your success.:)
[Droid Incredible General] RedHotLama:
Got it up and running on my phone, just need to get my accounts all setup and my apps reinstalled. Annoyed android market fprgets your phone when you wipe it so i just can't have it resend the apps.

Also need to find facebook for HTC sense for friendstream. Nil's rom does not seem to have an option for those accounts.
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Yea bud, some roms seem to do better at that than others for some reason. Like I know for 'me' the CM Nightly roms always redownload for me, it gets annoying sometimes lol. But its always the Sense based Roms that never restore for some reason.
[Droid Incredible General] xdadevelopers-user:
Hello,

I am xdadevelopers-user. I am a user of xda-developers.

That is all.

Thank you,

-xdadevelopers-user
[Droid Incredible General] loonatik78:
7 more to go....
[Droid Incredible General] sharka9x:
HA! Funny thread. The start date gave me a laugh. I really IS a great phone when such a thread was created so recently.

I'm Adam. 33 years old, got my Dinc in the mail one day before the official release. My wife and I have matching Dincs aside from the cases. They're even setup similarly.

I rooted shortly after Froyo came out thanks to this board. All I wanted to do was remove the crapware, and I did just that. I renamed various files to .old and replaced Sense with LauncherPro and lived a happy life. I never loaded a ROM because I was quite happy with how my phone ran. But then they started making noise about rolling out 2.3, so I started looking for ROMs.

So I came back here and started researching things. I grabbed a handful and started flashing and seeing which I liked best. I settled on InSensitive Minimalist and wanted to thank the developer, so I registered on the board. And then I found out I needed 10 posts before I'd be allowed to post in the Dev area (and see the thanks button), so I'm slowly building up to 10. The 5 minute wait between posts means I get to make 1 or 2 a day before my various jobs call me away. I'm hopeful that ROM will still be under development by the time I can see the stupid thanks button. =)

Anyways, that's it. Loving my little phone. I wish I'd started playing with roms ages ago.
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Welcome bud, glad to see so many people still enjoying their dincs.

I'm voting for RP by the way:)
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Nothing wrong with that. Hopefully we'll get the right man for the job this time around regardless. Provided our current fearless leader leaves a country to be led thats not completely distroyed.
[Droid Incredible General] LoraxEleven:
Stang, man thanks for posting the pics, I was 8th Engineers from Ft. Hood, TX. That really made me miss my 88... I still think of the days sleeping out on the spade, dung-rollers far below, in the almost-cool nights in the sand, waking up to the orange-twilights to roll out and 'rescue' a lost lieutenant who was just holding his plugger sideways or something equally 'mistaken'... I really loved recovery, too. I did some road service for some years after, and that's about as close as you can get out here in the 'real-world' I suppose. Well, other than four-wheelin, that is... What a beautiful piece of machinery she was, though. I had a lot of experience with the HEMMT wrecker, too. One of my all-around best pals was our wrecker operator, and we made some serious magick happen on numerous occasions with that thing, I still think it's as close to an aircraft carrier ride a man can get with dirt under his heels, but a real workhorse, none the less. I wish I had some pictures left to shoot back with, but all of mine were taken hostage in a break-up and probably suffered much torture before their almost certain demise. Sad way to go, a lot of good memories gone for stupidity's sake... Clear The Way, man. Thanks again for the pics, great memories stirred up from those.
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
Absolutely, you know the only thing I regret about my service in the Army? The day I had to pass outbound through that mighty Fort Hood Main Gate one last time. I was to exited about leaving to look back then but wish I had now. Fort Hood was my stompin' grounds for about 6 years out of my 10 years of service. Made some of the best friends in the world there as well. 'The Great Place' Thats what they called it. We always said Fort Hood, the great place, not because its awesome or anything but simply because it was so huge. I got some more pics around here if I ever get a chance or can even find them. I just retired this past January out of Fort Hood and me and my wife still haven't unpacked all of our household goods. We figured, eh, whats the rush? We got all the time in the world now, heh. Time rolls on.

Anyways, its always good to find people like yourself to talk old war stories and good times. Thanks for taking the time to tell us about yours.