yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible General] jacobsensei:
Thanks for the guide, very helpful.

Sent from my HTC Droid Incredible
[Droid Incredible General] rocksteady:
Stranded

Hey everyone, I need to be spoon fed on this one. I have been in the blank screen 5 vibrate mode for 2 days after ota, I have tried every, I mean every downgrade and other option in this forum. No matter what I've tried to do, it won't fix it. I've done just about every ruu, hboot zip, and flash I could find. Can anyone spoon feed me on this as to what my next steps should be. Maybe I am missing something here. I included a gif of my boot loader. I have

HBOOT- 1.07.0000, I've changed that a few times

radio 2.15.10.12.20, changed that a few times

...look at my pic. also s-off, changed that a few times and unlocked and relocked my bootloader many times. I am stuck. Thanks in advance.

Rocky
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Have you tried tje 5 vibes of death fix yet? http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33
[Droid Incredible General] rocksteady:
Sorry, I forgot to mention that too. yes I did.

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I just went back to hboot .92 and tried again, no luck.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Can you flash and access recovery? If so are you able to format all the different partitions under mounts and storrage, except emmc and sdcard?
[Droid Incredible General] rocksteady:
I can flash a recovery, but it never boots into it, no matter what I do. I tried 2 different recoveries, cwm, amonra, and twrp, no luck.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Try flashing this http://dinc.does-it.net/Hboots/ENG_Hboot_0.77/PB31IMG.zip enghboot 0.77 thru hboot, then thru fastboot flash this imghttp://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/mtd0.img, using " fastboot flash misc mtd0.img ". Then try running this ruu http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/3.26.605.1/PB31IMG.zip, thru hboot. Hopefully then you can boot to the os (froyo).
[Droid Incredible General] rocksteady:
Nice try. It failed, thank you tho.
[Droid Incredible General] rocksteady:
What are the chances that just because it says s-off, it really isn't s-off, but actually s-on? hence a false s-off? Anyone?
[Droid Incredible General] rocksteady:
I have a feeling it's bricked.
[Droid Incredible General] rocksteady:
this is what my info says about my phone...

INFOversion: 0.5

INFOversion-bootloader: 1.07.0000

INFOversion-baseband: 1.00.03.04.

INFOversion-cpld: None

INFOversion-microp: 0417

INFOversion-main: 4.08.605.15

INFOserialno: HT03ZHJ01613

INFOproduct: incrediblec

INFOplatform: HBOOT-8x50

INFOmodelid: PB3120000

INFOcidnum: 11111111

INFObattery-status: good

INFObattery-voltage: 3696mV

INFOpartition-layout: Generic

INFOsecurity: off

INFObuild-mode: SHIP

INFOboot-mode: FASTBOOT

INFOcommitno-bootloader: e068cb45

INFOhbootpreupdate: 11

all: Done!

finished. total time: 0.000s

After messing with it all night. I tried all suggestions too.

Help?
[Droid Incredible General] :
That's what I figured, but now get permission denied when hitting this step here:

"./flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd0.img"

This is nucking futz! :eek:
[Droid Incredible General] deadsoulboy:
You, sir, are a God among men. It's been since August that I lost root on my Droid Inc via the 2.3.4 leaked RUU. I tried your method via ADB, and using your drivers and version of Unrevoked, I once again can flash a custom ROM.

I went outside my comfort zone and used ADB (successfully) for the first time. This is such a breakthrough, dude. My hat is off to you!!!
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Not sure as i have never actually done this. I would try again.
[Droid Incredible General] :
I think four times is enough, but thanks for all your help in this thread. ;)
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
do you have a # prompt or a $? at the adb shell prompt,you may need to type su in order to get the #

if you havent allready,look thru the code box in that post,it should help see what the responses are to the various inputs,and may help you see where youve input something different.

im trying to read thru and see if theres anything else that i need to respond to,since cmlusco did such a fantastic job of answering your questions :)

sorry about the md5 discrepency,it dint occur that they may update it and therefore make it change :o ill check that out now. also,make sure youre placing the zergRush image inside the miniadb folder,not the whole .zip ;) if i can get some time i may reupload a mini-adb_inc file that includes zergRush in it. i just wasnt sure if they wanted it used in that manner,or downloaded from their source.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
thats an easy fix if that was your only prollem with it. cm roms need a seperate flash of google apps,or "gapps". you just need to flash that file after flashing the rom,and youll have the market and a few other proprietary google apps :)

in my defense,when i typed this i wasnt sure exactly what the download was named. most folks that post a PB31IMG file will add some description to it,so that they can keep them straight. for example,if the download was named "PB31IMG_2.2_froyo_rom",it would need to be renamed PB31IMG(technically PB31IMG.zip if windows isnt hiding file extesnisions :D)
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
i got the same thing. i think youre right about it being edited.

zergRush 3cf8a3fbceb667121d91f4ef1a66684c
[Droid Incredible General] :
Yes was in su when I got permission denied.

Funny thing is after messing with it for the past two days, at least I now have SU on it.

Don't ask me how, because with all the messing about, bouncing back and forth between this thread and others, I couldn't tell you to save my life :eek:

Thanks for the tut, and checking back.

I'll be soooo glad when tabs and phones are all on ICS :D

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Just noticed something strange. I have SU in my apps, but when I check my apps in the market, it's not there even after several reboots. SU appears to be working (asking for permissions), so I won't worry about it. At least I won't have to worry about an auto update on SU breaking anything.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1291742

;)
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
If you want it to show in the market you will have to search for it select it and then it should say update. After you update it will show in the market from then on. But like you said recent su updates have been having some issues so you might be better off leaving it alone.
[Droid Incredible General] :
Yet another difference between HC and GB.

I'll say it again, I can't wait for ICS! ;)
[Droid Incredible General] meetryan:
I was able to use the directions on the first post and go back and root and get S-OFF. I had no issues at all. I was on the 2.3.4 and it works great! THANKS!!
[Droid Incredible General] 318sugarhill:
Wow, I have never done ADB before, but I will bookmark this thread. I personally have s-off, and have been rooted, but I have 3 friends with Dincs who never rooted. 2 of them are not considering it, and one of them has gotten the GB update, the other is still on Froyo. I told the GB friend he was screwed and there is nothing I can do for him. After reading this, Looks like it's still possible. Great work man.
[Droid Incredible General] threepio:
Ok so im doing this on my sisters phone with 2.3.4 never rooted. and i cant get past the part where you do a custom recovery in unrevoked. it will go at first. but eventually says "connections with phone unexpectedly interrupted. try again."

happened 3 times now. it then boots the phone int CWM. and i have then i restart.

when i boot the phone back up. no superuser app.

Any ideas?
[Droid Incredible General] Erisnoob:
Possibly the usb port or cable? Also do you the right drivers installed and removed htc sync if installed. Just thoughts.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
if you have a working cwm,just download superuser and flash it. superuser
[Droid Incredible General] threepio:
Im flashing SU right now, do i still need to go thru the steps of downgrading? or can i just flash CM7 in CWM onces i have SU access?
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
if you just want to be s-on and run cm7,you dont need to flash superuser,just flash cm7 and gapps.

but i would pretty strongly reccomend to flash superuser,then go thru the rest of the steps to downgrade and become s-off :)
[Droid Incredible General] threepio:
well after i flashed superuser, the phone wouldnt boot past the HTC incredible screen. So i went ahead and flashed cm7. booted right up.

whats the advantage of going s-off. i forgot. My personal inc is s-off but i used unrevoked forever back a while ago before the 2.3.4 update cameout.
[Droid Incredible General] crashngo:
Hey guys, I am running into a couple problems with rooting my friends Droid Incredible.

The first problem is, that CW will not work. I have used the revoked tool and re-flashed multiple times, downloaded rom manager from the market and nothing works. The version CW reads is 5.0.2.0 and by nothing works i mean none of the menus work, not even the reboot or power off selections work.

The other problem that I am having is when I'm trying to use the command prompt to downgrade. I have the mini-adb_inc on my C drive and when i copy and paste the commands from the OP it gives me this error "The system could not find the path specified." Also if it matters i have the PB31IMG.zip on the sd card of the phone. The SD card has been formatted to FAT32 multiple times to make sure that the card was fully formatted.

Thanks in advance guys and sorry if these questions seem noobish, I am used to moto devices.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
make sure you clear data in settings/applications/manage apps/superuser to get superuser to work and grant permissions.

do you have the extracted mini adb file on your c drive? or do you still have it zipped up?

do you get a serial number from adb devices ? make sure your phone is in charge only,and usb debugging is on.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
no siginiture checks on things capable of being flashed in hboot. radios,recoveries,and the ability to go backwards in firmware numbers with RUUs. could give you more options if in a soft brick situation.

also,assures youll always be able to re-root when flshing ruus or accepting OTAs,as this is radio s-off that will remain no matter what hboot you run. :)

its well worth the effort to downgrade and run unrevoked forever to get it,IMO.
[Droid Incredible General] crashngo:
I cleared the data for superuser, and still the CW will not work. Like when i boot the phone into recovery, CW is there it reads v5.0.2.0. It gives me all the menus and options such as "reboot phone, apply update from SD, wipedata/factory reset, wipe cache partition, install zip from SD, back up and restore, mounts and storage, advanced, and power off" and no matter which one of these I select, it gives me a black screen with the CW logo in the center and does nothing, even after wiping.

And it is still zipped up, by the mini adb file, do you mean the adb executable file?

And no it does not give me a serial number.

And the phone has usb debugging and charge only.

Again thank you for all the help.
[Droid Incredible General] SlimSnoopOS:
So you are officially rooted? Your last post in this thread was a troubleshooting post which is why I ask. If so, are you sure you are pressing the optical button to select an option not the power button?
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
this. sounds like he is trying to use power to select instead of the optical thingy. on the inc,the power button takes you back a menu,not select. if you push power from the main menu,you get the hat logo.

if you have clockwork,you are good to go. you dont need to have rooted firmware to have a working custom recovery,so it doesnt matter if superuser is in your app drawer or not.

the important thing in doing the downgrade,is that superuser is granting permissions to things when the phone is booted. if you download rom manager or set cpu and launch them,do you get a pop up that says "xxx has been grandted superuser permissions" ?

if superuser is really not working with the phone booted,all you need to do is flash superuser in recovery. superuser download
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
1)mini-adb_inc needs to be a folder,not a zip folder. you need to extract it. windows 7 you should be able to just right click,then "extract". older windows you many need something like 7 zip to extract it. there is no executable file in mini-adb_inc... just adb tools,and the images needed.

2)you need to have changed to that directory in your command window(cd c:\mini-adb_inc)

3)you need to have installed unrevokeds drivers,or htc sync drivers.

any one,or combination of,those things will give you the errors youre experienceing.
[Droid Incredible General] crashngo:
Yah you guys were right, I feel really stupid, I was using the power button like on my X2. So Cw is working correctly now.

I just extracted the files to a folder, but since the phone is a friends phone I currently do not have it but I should have it again soon.

I also have one more question, my friend is getting a new phone in a couple of weeks but the reason I am rooting it is because his messaging stopped working on 2.3.4 and I am hoping a custom ROM can fix this. Now onto the question, do I have to revert all the way back to stock and turn S-off because in a few weeks he will have his new phone so an OTA knocking his root off wouldn't effect him. also can I ROM his phone is the current state on rooted 2.3.4 without S-off?

Sorry it took so long for the reply, again thanks for all the help guys.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
you certainly do not have to go back to 2.1 you can flash roms in its current state.

however, with s-on you canot flash anything in hboot(like recoveries or radios) that is not signed by htc. i would pretty strongly reccomend finishing it out and becoming s-off. its really not hard,the longest part is waiting for the ruu to flash. its well worth the effort,IMO.
[Droid Incredible General] threepio:
Dont worry about it man haha. I forget this sometimes too and im like WTF is wrong with this thing! then i realize how special our DIncs are.

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Yea i decided not to do this on my sisters phone. Getting cyanogen on it was good enough. She's not as advanced a user as me or ppl on here.

my DInc tho...s-off and all the goodies. :D
[Droid Incredible General] sbattosai:
Hi guys, sorry to bother you with a noob question, but when I tried to downgrade my Incredible using the unrevoked method, everything was fine until the first reboot after installing the PB31IMG for 2.2

Now my phone is constantly looping after the "Droid" sound and the Droid Eye. It doesn't go any further. I tried to remove the battery and reboot but I still have the same issue, the phone won't let me access anything.

Any idea to solve my issue?

thanks!
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Try running he PB31IMG again. A few folks have reported a bootloop,and a second flash fixed it :)
[Droid Incredible General] TMAC 13:
uhhh ok so i followed each step - and im at the point where i let unrevoked do its thing but i got the following error

unrevoked on my pc says done but my incredible is reading an error :

Error verifying extendedcommand.

Error processing ROM Manager script. Please verify thay you have ROM Manager v4.4.0.0 or higher installed.

/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log/ Please open rom manager to report the issue

BUT thats not what has me worried - when i try to reboot or power down my incredible it just goes to the black screen with the orange CWM hat symbol its not mine lol

Should I pull battery? I DEF dont want to brick this phone especially considering
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
sounds like you are in clockwork recovery. pressing power takes you back a menu,and if you go back a menu from the main menu,there is no menu to go back to so you see the hat.

pressing power again on the hat screen should take you to clockwork recovery where you can use the optic tracball thingy to scroll and select from the menus. chose reboot,or power off.

you can pull the battery if you wish,but id try and select something in clockwork rather than doing that.
[Droid Incredible General] threepio:
you have to use the trackball to move/select things in cwm. pressing the power button makes the menus disappear.
[Droid Incredible General] :
Question

First of all scotty1223 thanks for the write-up.

My question is the following: I am currently runing Froyo and got the 2.3.4 update notification today. Should I just update and then follow this guide to root or can I do something before updating to ensure root stays?

Thanks!
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
I would pretty strongly reccomend to root first. Running unrevoked 3.32 will give you root,recovery,and s-off.

At that point you would be better off to simply flash a custom gb rom,but you technically could accept the ota by reinstalling the stock recovery :)
[Droid Incredible General] :
Hi scotty,

I am already rooted with unrevoked when I initially installed the 2.2. If I accept the OTA, what would be the easiest way to root again?

Thanks.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Are you currently s-off? If so,its as easy flashing recovery in hboot,then flashing superuset in recovery.

If you are s-on,you'll want to flash the "forever" patch in recovery first,to become s-off.

Again,you will need to have the stock recovery to apply the ota.
[Droid Incredible General] :
Yes, S-OFF

So I can just apply the OTA and then go on with 'flashing recovery in hboot,then flashing superuset in recovery.'?

!Thanks!
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
If you are running the stock recovery,then yes. If you're still running clockwork,or some other custom recovery,then you'll need to install the stock recovery first.

Just remember the official ota is not so great,and has driven a lot of users to root that had no interest in doing so prior.

I personally would flash the gb radio in hboot,then flash a custom gb rom in recovery. You'll have less issues and better performance that way.
[Droid Incredible General] :
Thanks for the help!
[Droid Incredible General] Topsnake:
Scotty, Non Rooted S-Off inc running 4.08 ota, can i flash the 2.2 pb31img and be back to froyo? I know I can do it with the 4.06 ota that came in september.
[Droid Incredible General] spitzaf:
If you have S-Off, you can successfully downgrade. I think you will just have to regain root first (should be able to get it with unrevoked 3.22). Just follow the OP straight through.

And for what its worth, this thread was a life saver. Girlfriend was getting the "low app data" message but was already on 2.3.4. Rooting with this method allowed us to take care of that issue.
[Droid Incredible General] jastop:
Followed this procedure on my two dincs, for one I stopped after root, the other I fully downgraded, achieved s-off and loaded CM7. Took about than 10 minutes each no issues.

thanks!!!
[Droid Incredible General] ugzz:
running s-on non-rooted 4.08

same errors as posted above:

error verifying extendedcommand

error processing rom manager script. please verify that you have v4.4.0.0 or higher installed

cant get this going. "Hopes: DELETED"

is there no hope for us poor fools who accepted these OTA updates? :(
[Droid Incredible General] ugzz:
any other options or threads i may have missed?

im dying here.. ever since the first 2.3.4 update it broke so many features. i just want to flash to something else to make my phone useful again :P
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
If you are s-off,you don't need to do anything... just flash he PB31IMG. no need to root first.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Just ignore the rom manger error. As long as it gave you clockwork continue with the guide.
[Droid Incredible General] ugzz:
oh no freakin way!

i did this the first time, and had no superuser, so i assumed it was a fail cause of the error.

i did it a second time, got the same error, no change in anything.. BUT i just checked today and the superuser is there!

oh man, now im itching to get home and continue the steps from here. thanks for the help, and my bad for not noticing it took after the second time.
[Droid Incredible General] pwned3:
I already have adb on my computer. Do I still need to download the mini adb
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
yes. it contains flash_image and then new misc image,and the "md5 sums" utility.

you are more than welcome to take everything inside miniadb and place it inside whatver folder you normaly push files from.(tools or platform tools in most cases)

6 of one,half dozen of the other wether you push things from mini adb_inc,or from android-sdk-windows/tools. other than the cd c:\<directory> , rest of the commands should be the same.
[Droid Incredible General] ugzz:
Awesome

got everything in order, downgraded, s-off, got clockwork going great, changed both hboot and my radio to diff builds to better support a custom rom, flashed rom with no probs. everything is steller

i love xda forums, and im glad i de-lurked over here ;)
[Droid Incredible General] tmsykes:
Thanks scotty1223. I just got a replacement device with 2.3.4 and the zergRoot method was fast and painless.

If anyone is on a mac and wants to do this and doesn't have the SDK installed check out siedkins' tutorial on setting up it up.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9842005
[Droid Incredible General] accord1:
The first time I did this method, it took me for ever to do. Now lately I just can't decide whether to roll with stock or rooted with a different Rom. So I have been unrooting, upgrading, downgrading, and rerooting multiple times a week. Lol. But man am I glad someone figured out a way!
[Droid Incredible General] kodakeos:
Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but im trying to return to Stock without root -

In an effort to erase all rooting, I used CWM to format /system/

On my droid, i would simple SBF and it would replace everything on the phones system.

Apparently thats not possible with HTC. Woops

So now im left with CWM and Ive gotten Cyanogen working.

from here, will this write up get me to a stock, non rooted 2.2/2.3?
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
just run the latest RUU:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BJZX5B1Q

note that this a .exe file(run it o your PC) not a PB31IMG
[Droid Incredible General] kodakeos:
AH! THATS what I was looking for!

This is the unfortuneate part of android. Each manf has different methods for applying updates / SDK / boot loaders.. iphones have it 'easy'!
[Droid Incredible General] refthemc:
Thanks for this guide OP, just rooted my buddys Inc 2.3.4 today.