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[Droid Incredible General] dmeadows013:
I'm a Rom developer/flashing addict

I love to flash different roms, aosp or sense, and try the new software. I first rooted my phone about a month after I got it (September 2010), and installed Cyanogenmod 7. I didn't really know anything about rooting or roms back then, but the people here at XDA changed that :)

I now have my own rom, which is just a very quick, semi modified stock experience. I love to play with the xml files in the apks or do other things with it.

I'll never forget how the people here have helped me get used to android/rooting/roms, and I would be more than willing to do the same for others. If you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to contact me, and I will be happy to help.
[Droid Incredible General] JeramyEggs:
Hey guys,

My name is Andy, and I am from central Illinois. I have been a lurker here at xda for about a year. Joined in March. I found xda because everytime I Google'd questions about android and my Dinc, I kept coming back here. I have never been in the military, though sometimes i wish had been. I have two children, one of each. I also have a wife who thinks I am half nuts for being here on my phone so much. Though she likes all the goodies you guys come up with. I have met so many intelligent people here, that it is often humbling. 34 years old. Love android. Tried almost every rom out there. Got my son a Nook Color instead of other options. Offered to trade him for some new ps3 games, he just laughed at me. Even my wife's grandma rock the Dinc.Guess we are an android family. Thanks to all of you who have given so much to this forum. You all inspire me. Stang, when I pm'd you the other night, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the thread.

Adventure, Excitement, A Jedi craves not these things
[Droid Incredible General] rfox54:
wild, you got me in trouble

I never should have mentioned elephants. Lost lots of posts

Nice of you to host this though; much appreciated
[Droid Incredible General] MyBrainHurts:
Hello! Long time lurker, first time poster.

I've followed ROM development and this forum since I got my phone over a year ago, but didn't pull the trigger on rooting until last month. Now, I'm kicking myself for waiting so long. I started (like most people, I assume) with CM7, which I liked, save for the camera function. I take tons of pictures and couldn't deal with all the concessions there.

I moved on to Incredible Sensation, which I was running until today. Great, snappy Sense 3.0 ROM, but I progressively got more and more FCs and within the last week I've been rebooting a lot and apparently missing texts. I'll definitely check out the next update, but I had to move on for now.

Picked a good day to jump to Nils Business GingerSense 3.0. Just in time for v2.2. So far, so good, but we'll see how it handles when I get to work tomorrow and really check it out.

This is a fantastic community. I don't have a lot to offer aside from opinions and feedback. I'm just glad to be putting all this info to use now, rather than reading about others exploring these amazing little devices.
[Droid Incredible General] Whi7eRa66iT:
Mr. Whi7eRa66it..

Hey all. I have been lurking here and using everyone's knowledge for my benefit. I am an addict. I have 1 Droid Eris, 1 Incredible and 1 Thunderbolt. Course, the thunderbolt is my wifes but you know how that goes. I have turned many of my co-workers into Rooting and Rom addicts as well in the 8 or 9 months. I have even helped a few get away from their Apples and get onto the Android scene. (Feel like I have brought people back from the brink with that statement) LOL

Man, my experiences with Roms.. That is a long list. I have a HW 002 Incredible and been using Roms since day two on it. SkyRaider, Synergy, Nils GingerSense among many... I do not post all that often cause a simple search of the forums answers most of my questions. Every once in a blue moon, I cannot figures something out and get assistance from the smarter masses here. Just want to say thanks to you all.

As a quick note, my upgrade is ready and I am still researching what I want to get next. (yes I know its my last upgrade under the traditional Verizon system). My wife has the Thunderbolt and while its nice... its just nice. The 4G though.. Now THAT is SICK! I AM going that route no matter what.. Just researching what HTC has coming down the pipelines. And yes, I prefer the HTC brand more so than the others...

Thanks for reading and see you in the forums..
[Droid Incredible General] carm01:
hello all,

My very first smart phone was a dinc hardware version 3. At first i was not too interested in rooting and trying different ROMs. Then I came across an issue with deleting text message threads and the phone freezing and FC while trying to delete them. The phone took an average of 1 second per text to delete. Since I can be heavy at texting this was most annoying when trying to delete 1000+ msg text threads. vzw was useless for support and reporting this since they stated " that is the way it was designed to function " LAME statement, since there were a few threads of this reported issue. My co-worker with an original moto droid did not have this issue. so it must have been linked to sense 2.x which i believe is true to date

Finally in May 2011 i decided to take the plunge. Before I did this i decided to make sure there was a method of returning the phone to stock. A post by dougpiston's methods has saved me many times btw. This is when I discovered s=on and s=off, the hboot menu, and what it could be used for as well as recovery. I used unrevoked since it was painless.

My first ROM was cm7.0.3 and got stuck in a infinite reboot the first time. after about a few hours of panicking and loosing my mind, i finally referred back to dounpistons PB31IMG Method and started from scratch and was in business.

I have been on cm7 pretty much of the time with various kernels and finally settling on chads kernel I have tinkered various sense 2.0/3.0 and straight 3.0.

Have tried synergy, McSense v1.3 - GingerSense 1.0 , Pure speed, Gingersense remix, skyraider, and nils business gingersense remix, and Miui. But settling on cm7.1 rc with chads kernals and a few mods i found. I mostly stuck with cm7 until recently mostly for the battery life, and the availability of custom kernels.

I liked McSense v1.3, but it might appear to be sense 2.x based, or have elements of it in there since the annoying deleting text thread issue was present. That was a deal breaker for me.

I recently moved to nils business gingersense 3.0 since people were reporting nice battery life, and stability. This is also about the time that iny4579 came out with his port of a kernel for the dinc for sense roms. I had some problems with his beta6 and got stuck in a infinite reboot after just rebooting without warning. I am at nils v2.2 at the moment and will continue to eval it. hopefully a sys interface for the cpu mods will be developed for sense roms, since i do not like setcpu or those other apps. There is also no issues with deleting huge text threads either. It seems to run smooth, it shows some signs of lag here and there, but fairly solid rom!

I am looking forward to increasing my knowledge of the android os, interested in app development and possibly rom development later down the road.
[Droid Incredible General] keyslapper:
Hey everyone,

I'm Lou, in the Boston area, and I've had my DInc for just over a year now. I've had it rooted for some time, but just recently decided it was time to really get adventurous when the warranty expired at the same time the first leaked GB OTA was pulled back. Timing, eh?

Anyway, I started with the rooted OTA Incubus put up and loved it. So time to try something else and compare it with. I tried Nils' Business GingerSense 3.0 v2.2, and thought it was a beautiful look. Unfortunately, I kept getting FCs on the mail app of all things. I couldn't figure out why, so I had to go back to the .2 OTA. Today I found the .3 and grabbed that, added the mods collected by jeffgman (I think I got that nick right ...) and the nag remover by Jeremy, and finally the DTR Stang posted and I love it. (BTW, big thanks again to all of the above, and those involved that were not explicitly mentioned! You know who you are, even if I don't :D)

So here I am. I may be a developer, but I'm still unfamiliar with mobile development so I'll more than likely ask a dumb noob question now and again.

Thanks again everyone, for putting this site together and getting this great work out for the adventurous!

Cheers!

Lou
[Droid Incredible General] SKA-T:
Loving my Inc!! Screwing around with these android phones is entirely to much fun. Learning enough to contribute and start helping out!!
[Droid Incredible General] BBEgo:
I'm Scott, from Riverside CA. My first smartphone was a Samsung Omnia (Windows Mobile 6.0!). I hated it from the first day, thinking it was such a shame that the software seemed so poorly written. It was laggy and ate batteries for breakfast. About 6 months after I got it I started googling for fixes, and started reading about people cooking ROMs. That's how it all got started.

I've had my Dinc since release, and I can't imagine life without it. I ran it stock for a while, 'til Froyo hit. When I watched it install itself, I started wondering again about alternate ROMs. Then I read about rooting and using the Hotspot feature, and I had to try. From there, I discovered CWM, XDA, and a host of other goodies that have allowed me to squeeze every last bit of performance out of my Dinc.

I typically try out 2 ROMs a week, but my go-to ROM as a daily driver is Nils' Business GingerSense 3D. It's a fantastic ROM, and has just the right balance of eye-candy, speed, and battery life.

Thank you all for your input, advice, and participation. I look forward to testing your ROMs!

I'm currently running Bliss Sense 3.5. It's gonna be fantastic!
[Droid Incredible General] droidian1441:
Haha same here man I've had my incredible for 9 months or so and I flash more than ever than I did a few months ago
[Droid Incredible General] Alton (Halo 2):
hey all I wanna know how to create a ROM ? lol I bet its hard huh stang ?
[Droid Incredible General] romsRfun:
I'm Tom. Been looking at XDA for a while now, since the OG droid days.
[Droid Incredible General] Sirknifealot:
Name is James/22. I had purchased the DInc December 2010. Unfamiliar with Android at the time I had no idea of what to expect but had scene images of Cyanogenmod that immediately had me hooked on Android as far as UI and would have rather had a pay-as-you-go phone over iPhone so not to much of a hassle to decide what I wanted to go with. I went with this phone pretty much because of the slim design as compared to what was available at the time of purchase. To be completely honest I was hooked the moment I picked the display up and knew I wanted this one.

I rooted in February 2011 after finding out more information about Android OS on Droid Forums which then led to XDA.

My name comes from an epic level up war on MW2. Originally named Knife, from my hobby of collecting them, to Knifeahoe after being annoyed by all the drama and s*** talking by other people that clearly had their accounts powerleveld to max and lacked the skill to attain it by paying skilled players/or by off chance someone who just knew how to hack. So I found humor in changing the name to fit the system in which I found myself in. A place where the majority of those met would try to profit off of other people. So the name stuck with me and I turned it into a call name.

Currently attending a JC to receive an AS degree and become a Firefighter.

I will one day decide to get involved in developing but am unsure as to what I will start out with.

I do not have many posts because I have not had many questions that I was not able to find the answers to in some way. Also because I do not want to pretend to know what I am talking about.

Cyanogenmod7 1.8.1

Chadsincredikernal#9

Radio:07.07
[Droid Incredible General] Erisnoob:
Long time lurker here, had my Inc for a little over a year. Started with a Eris I still play around with. Really appreciate this site and devs.
[Droid Incredible General] wildstang83:
That's pretty cool. I'd say most Eris users did move on to the Inc. Wonder what most Inc users will be moving on to...

I know if I had my choice I'd be getting a vigor.
[Droid Incredible General] Erisnoob:
Thats what Im thinking also. Looks beast.
[Droid Incredible General] thisisepic0727:
My name is Peter. I'm from Baltimore. I've been checking out the xda fourms for about a year now, but I haven't really posted anything till now.

I recently rooted my Incredible and I am currently running CM7.1 RC1 and I have to say I am very happy with it. I've also updated my radio to version 07.07. Other than that, I'm new to the whole thing. I've flashed a handful of other roms to check them out, but I keep going back to CM. I actually rooted because I did not receive the OTA update and I read on the forums that people were not able to root once they downloaded the OTA. I didn't want to lose the option to root, so I jumped into the fire.

Now that I'm finally rooted, I can't imagine not rooting my next phone. It's pretty much an addiction, once you root, you never go back. Never.
[Droid Incredible General] tbone52:
Hi my name is Terry. I've had my Inc since Jan. 11. My first smartphone was the omniscient 910. I was not happy with winmo 6.1 and it looked like it would never get an upgrade ( never did!). So I took the plunge and rooted it and put pallmalls 6.5 ported from an HTC phone and it was a great improvement! I got tired of waiting for the gb upgrade for the Inc and rooted it last month thanks to all I've learned from the great people on this awesome site. I am now on cm7.1 and have flashed a half dozen other roms but keep coming back to cm. This is my first post, so I am a bit behind on my thank yous, so let me get a big THANK YOU! out to all of you. I love my since and thanks to the great support here I can't imagine why I can't be happy with it for the next year till my Sept. 2012 upgrade. By the way, that new live wallpaper from the vigor is by far the best out there! Thanks to that my phone feels new again today. Yay!
[Droid Incredible General] kbrian:
I'm Brian and i'm a flash freak and I was wondering how you really do develop roms? I want to try lol
[Droid Incredible General] bellj949:
The DINC was my first smart phone and have been loving it ever since I got it almost a year ago. Had been avoiding smart phones for a while because of the extra data charges (I'm cheap) and I just didn't think the technology was quite there yet to make it all worth it. But I knew it was finally time to make the plunge. Plus I got my wife and myself the DINC for free through a Best Buy deal that was just too good to pass up.

Left it stock for a couple of weeks but then started to explore what all I could do with it and haven't been back to stock since. Have been favoring ASOP roms but recently went back to a Sense based rom (Nils 3.5). Like the look and feel of Sense but miss the speed and ability to customize pretty much anything with ASOP.
[Droid Incredible General] BabyBlues:
The DInc was my first foray into a truly smart phone and I have loved it from the first boot. I just rooted this summer after getting a bit bored with it and fell in love all over. I have a slight flashing addiction now but it's calmed down a little.

I've lurked on the xda site for a long time, finally joined a while ago and am now posting.
[TouchPad General] KnightRid:
Well I bought the last touchpad in my area (after ordering from BB online and getting a backordered email) and it is the demo model which will not let me set up a webos account or anything. I read over in the pre forums about it and posted there as well but was hoping maybe someone here might know a way around this?

I am calling HP tomorrow because I read that the serial numbers are locked to a demo unit in case of theft and they can remove the lock so you can use it normally (crossing fingers) but I really do not know till they open tomorrow. I called the WebOS number included in the box and they said to exchange it for another one (I laughed) and then they said to just return it. I really want to have one of these things to play with so any help is really appreciated.

Waiting till the touchandroid thing comes out might not help since I have to return it within 14 days I believe for them to give me my money back. I would have to have a perfectly working tablet to keep it rather than spending $150 on a demo unit that wont work.

Hoping for help

Mike
[TouchPad General] TEK112:
Or, buy one from here (16GB for $99 with $5 shipping) and when you get a tracking number, return the one you have for a refund.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056UOUC8
[TouchPad General] KnightRid:
Thanx for the link but on my end they are all showing as $415.53 and up - even on the right hand side of the page where amazon keeps other sellers. Lowest priced one says $234.98.

I am still hoping HP will fix this.
[TouchPad General] TEK112:
Yeah, sorry man. the price was $100, but that company appears to have sold out. The name has changed which is weird that Amazon would have the same link for a different company.
[TouchPad General] bluepoint951:
Check here:

HP TouchPad Demo Unit Solution - Bypass Activation

I put together some instructions that where complied from a few sites; has worked for quite a few others.
[TouchPad General] KnightRid:
Very nice! Now if we could get to register webos accounts, we wouldnt need HP anymore :)

I may do this later today after seeing if HP will fix the demo units or not. Still might keep it, I don't know yet.
[TouchPad General] olagaton:
The activation bypass works to an extent. You can get past the webos login, and enable developer privs to add homebrewed apps thru preware, but it seems very unlikely that you can sideload the apps only available through the login app store. At least you can web browse and watch movies and such on it. If anyone knows how to get non homebrewed apps on it, i would like to know. For now, i think its worth the value, even for the demo unit, to wait for android port.
[TouchPad General] KnightRid:
Just spoke with someone at the 1-866-477-3824 number and she told me I am basically out of luck. She is transferring me to tech support now to see if they know of a way to do it but it is looking like HP is gonna be pricks and not release the serials. She told me the serial numbers for demo units are set to not allow the webos account creation and access so if they wanted to, they could release them it seems.

Ok tech support just hung up on me - gotta love it.
[TouchPad General] PDun:
WebOS account

OK well I was doing some thinking and can think of 2 possible ways to fix the app problem. 1 is impostah and changing everything we can to clone a non demo touchpad. This will hopefully fool them into allowing us to create or log into an account. If this doesn't work my second idea is a better app repository to put apps onto it. Since HP is discontinuing it's work on the webOS we will likely have a need for the repository eventually.

I know there is the homebrew repository but one that also has apps from the official store would be awesome. An all in one app store that is completely free and open. Would be a first to some degree on the mobile platform. I would set this up but I can't access the app store so wouldn't be able to contact Devs and such about putting their apps onto it.
[TouchPad General] |Jason8|:
This is basically PreWare. Except it wouldn't fly because of all the warez. PreWare is fine for now. Put your effort into that since it is already going strong. :-)
[TouchPad General] olagaton:
preware

Preware just doesn't have very many (useful) apps available.
[TouchPad General] Mattatha:
I have found a way to Create a WEBOS account after going into Developer mode. Now i am using WEBOSDoctor to reinstall WebOS 3.0.2 and will try logining in with the account I Just creadted. I can log into the WEBOS site online through HP's website which it didnt allow me to do earlier. Will keep everyone posted!
[TouchPad General] Mattatha:
IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took everyone's work so far and went a step further so I am taking as much credit as everyone else who managed to crack this! I first flashed it using WEBOSDoctor to 3.0.2. Then i used the devicetool.jar to put it into Developer mode. Then I used Preware to install Impostah. I then used Impostah to create a WEBOS account. Reflashed it to 3.0.2 using WEBOSDoctor and logged in with the WEBOS account I had just created! Then once up I launched the HP APP STORE and it came up with an error. I closed it out waited a few more minutes and the loaded it again and quickly tapped on the Categories tab at the bottom. Clicked on Games and Installed Angry Birds. WE HAVE ALL CRACKED THIS AND NO LONGER NEED TO FIGHT WITH HP OR RETURN OUR UNITS TO THE STORES! GREAT JOB EVERYONE INVOLVED!
[TouchPad General] olagaton:
Confirmed this worked!!!, but in a different manner. I didn't use Impostah to accomplish the fix.

1) Went to https://developer.palm.com/

2) Signed up for Developers Account (disregard paypal memo)

3) Fill out info (first name, last name, email), click continue.

4) Check your e-mail, and validate your WEBOS developers account.

5) From registration page, fill out e-mail address, create a pw, and choose/create a security question; Continue.

6) Fill out Contact Information; Continue.

7) Once you reach Tax Info page, just close your page (you might be able to earlier than this, but I went that far and it worked).

Your account is "kinda" created.

8) Turn on HP Touchpad (you might have to follow Mattatha's instructions above), and get to WEBOS login screen. Choose Create Profile, and type in the same Name, E-mail, password, security question as you created earlier.

Note* I tried clicking Sign In on my HP Touchpad after doing steps 1-7, but it still didn't seem to work, but step #8 got me in, and able to use the app store.

Verify your login my going to Device Info.

Enjoy your HP Touchpad Demo with full capabilities!
[TouchPad General] KnightRid:
Called the store i got it from and they told me if I try this they will not take it back. They said if HP won't help, I can get a refund unless I try to hack around the demo stuff.

If I try this and it does not work for me, is there a way to put the demo software back on and remove everything else?
[TouchPad General] Mattatha:
Someone else had asked for it as well and on one of the forums there was a link to it. But trust us this will work!
[TouchPad General] Mattatha:
I had created a developer account as well but it didnt let me log in with it.... Nice job though!

Also Knightrid what store did you buy it from cause that is BS!!!
[TouchPad General] Davolin:
You can now create a WebOS account

:) you can now create a WebOs Account ...if you bought a demo unit

:cool:
[TouchPad General] KnightRid:
RadioShark - they said if it is not in the same condition they do not have to take it as a return.

I may give this a shot, just wish I knew if the one I ordered from BB was gonna ship (won't let me cancel anymore but still says "Order Status: 1 item(s) - Order in process of being fulfilled; Usually ships in null - null days."), if so, I would return this in a heartbeat.

If I do try it then the wife would have to let me keep both of them if the BB one ships too LOL If she doesn't kill me, then she would get to keep both :cool:

Trying to figure out how to do the preware and impostah thing right now - if I figure it out, I think I will try that way to see how it goes. I am afraid the developer accounts may get cancelled after a certain period of time without having the paypal and tax info in them (I don't know if this will happen, I am just thinking it may).

You guys/gals/people/aliens are awesome for figuring this stuff out! Came here for my Droid Eris and have Cyanogenmod on it now :) Awesome site!