[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cac2us:
Rooting IS just the beginning....

Rooting and or downgrading is kind of hit and miss.

As in sometimes the cable has fits, the USB port on the donor PC has identifiable issues, (try different ports) and avoid using a USB hub.

The drivers and the OS need to work together, and sometimes an older WinXP machine works better.

But like the others here have stated, rooting very painless.

The real hurt sets in when you discover that you now have exclusive control of what your device is capable of.

You must now decide which direction you want to go in regarding ROM types.

Hi my name is cac2us and I'm a recovering flashaholic.

I used to cook WinMo ROMs, then I became assimilated, yes resistance WAS futile.

March of 2011 I made contact with a DInc I. Now I have 2 more DInc II.

Having to maintain a family plan is a mixed blessing.

I buy cheap clamshell phones from EBay for the kids, get handy with plastic wrap and they never know that daddy got the upgraded smartphone.

It's worse when you can use one of the phones for a ROM slave while the other one has to just helplessly sit there and watch.

Enough of that tho.

Most of the sense based ROMs are de-bloted stockers, as in they have most of the stock functionality preserved like World phone functionality, access to data programming codes, in case you can't get *228 to work and have to call tech support and manually enter the data settings. Or want to manually backup your data settings ##3424# send connect to software on the PC and wreck havoc.

The rest of the sense based ROMs are usually ports from other devices that may not have full compatibility with our device. But if you never need World phone access, the choices are vast.

Other types of ROM bases are AOSP MIUI, and ICS.

AOSP used to be updated very frequently with nightlies (that's what got me hooked so long ago), but now the CM team is focused on the CM 9 project.

They firmly believe in making everyone wait until soups on for everyone.

Once again, IF you don't need access to ##Phone Codes, AOSP is a choice for a lot of custom tweaks.

Getting back to your main question,

Just pay close attention to where you place all of the files that you unzip.

Some files get unzipped or unRARed and some .zip files stay zipped.

The latest version of 7z will handle both .zip and .rar.

I always take a peek inside the zip files to see if there is a folder containing the files needed. If there is no folder then one needs to be created either by the sub menu (extract files or extract here) or create one manually.

The difference will determine where the ADB terminal commands can find the files it's looking for. I think path-names are the major reason for minor issues.

Take the time search utube, there are at least two great vids that I know of.

I ended up doing drag n drop of some of the commands to get the downgrade kicking in. Everything worked better having the vwhk-12102011-c folder in the root of C:\ and the support files within that folder. Depending on the method used.

There is a lot of help here and other forums as well as Google and utube.

Just remember that once you unleash the beast within, taming it is a whole nother story.:eek:

OH, and you have been warned:D