yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
It has the ext4 mod built in. But newer kernels have been rleased since the one the rom comes with.
[Droid Incredible General] bobsinvt:
Thanks. All working now with one apparent problem. Can't get my contacts from Backup Assistant. Always force closes. Trying to send them down from browser doesn't workeither.Any ideas??? BTW:Thanks for all the quick and accurate replies....

EDIT: process com.android.htccontacts stopped unexpectedly. Try again...
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
The vzw backup assistant app is not included in the touch of blue rom. If you would like it though, you can flash this http://dinc.does-it.net/APKs/VZW_Backup.zip, thru recovery like a rom. Just wipe cache and dalvik-cache first. Most people just sync their contacts with google so i removed it from the rom.
[Droid Incredible General] bobsinvt:
Beautiful. All is good with this old man (except for all the captchas trying to post!)... Thanks for all the help!
[Droid Incredible General] marty30:
I have successfully navigated myself up to step 10. I appreciate this guide as it is the only one I have been able to follow. However, I have become stuck and don't know what to do now. This is where I am...

After the phone reboots, you will now see a black screen with some blue options on it. Use the volume buttons on the left to scroll down to "install zip from sdcard" and click the optical trackpad button at the bottom of the phone to select it.

When I go into ROM Manager and choose "reboot into recovery", it reboots, but brings me to a screen that is black with white bars on the side, but no blue options.

Please help me, I can't take the low space error anymore.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Instead of using rom manager to get to recovery, try booting to hboot and then select recovery.
[Droid Incredible General] marty30:
I just tried it 3 times and I am getting the same result...black screen with white bars on the side.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Your s-off right? If so try reflashing cwm recovery http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/CWM_5.0.2.0/PB31IMG.zip thru hboot.

If your not s-off try running unrevoked 3.2 again with the custom cwm img.
[Droid Incredible General] marty30:
I ran unrevoked again with the custom cwm img and it worked. Thank you so much for your help.

Now I can run happily through an open field, shout from the highest mountaintop and shed a tear of joy.
[Droid Incredible General] w0j07:
So I followed these steps and everything was fine until I got to step 10.

Now after installing the zip to fix this low space error, my phone is stuck in a boot loop repeatedly. I simply get the htc Incredible screen over and over again. I made a back up, but when I go to restore from clockwork, it tells me that no directory is found. So now I am stuck with a phone perpetually booting.

Any help out there please?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Not sure why it bootloped, what android version and rom are you on? If cwm gave that error i think it means that there are no backups, or your sdcard isnt mounting. If you go to flash from sd sdcard does it show files on the sd or does it error again? Or can you manually mount it from mounts and storrage?
[Droid Incredible General] w0j07:
Gingerbread, final update (build 4.08 whatever the rest of the numbers are)

No ROM, the instructions here didn't seem to imply that was necessary.

SD card shows up with data on it, mounts on my computer too from Clockwork.

There is a quick message i noticed from hboot that is hard to read because it's so fast but it looks like it is saying it can't find PB31IMG, which if I'm correct (I'm no expert at this stuff) is the actual OS it can't find.

EDIT: If by ROM you meant which version of clockwork, it's 5.0.2.0
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Do you have more than just that one backup saved or are there others? The PB31IMG.zip thing is hboot looking for an ruu, radio, etc, to flash not the os, its normal. Are the clockworkmod folder and the backup files physicly still on the sd?

My only 3 sugestions to try, in this order would be:

1. Reflash cwm thru hboot, then see if you can restore your backup.

2. Flash this http://dinc.does-it.net/wildstang83_inc_4.08.605.2_11232011.zip stock rooted 4.08.605.2 rom only wiping cache and dalvik-cache first.

3. Do an ruu either thru hboot as a PB31IMG.zip or with an ruu.exe from a pc.

No by rom i ment rom. But it sounds like you just rooted the ota so your not technicly on a rom.
[Droid Incredible General] w0j07:
There is no clockwork folder on the SD.....not sure why. Made a backup and it said complete. Didn't think to double check that before I went any further.

Flashed a stock version, but that seemed to eliminate the fix of the .zip file. Though my phone is operational now, so that was the bigger issue. Also, it appears that it's no longer rooted, so maybe I did something wrong when I flashed it. Regardless, I don't have an overpriced paperweight, so I am still pretty happy at this moment.

The woman of the house is coming home soon, so I'll probably put this on hold and try again tomorrow. Thanks for helping me in getting my phone back up and running though!
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Not sure why it didnt save your backup or if it did how it got deleted.

Sorry i forgot to add the link for the stock rooted rom http://dinc.does-it.net/wildstang83_inc_4.08.605.2_11232011.zip, not sure where you got yours from, but you can flash this one over it again and it should be rooted.

Yes every time you flash / reflash a rom the mod gets wiped out, you need to do the mod again after every rom flash.

Or you could flash my rom Touch of blue. It is mostly stock with a few enhancement, and best of all the ext4 mod is built in.
[Droid Incredible General] w0j07:
I was looking at your Touch of Blue, and I think I am going to give that a shot. It looks like a good starting point for me to try something different.

I was doing some research on custom kernels, and I see they can do a lot of different things, such as adjust voltage levels to conserve battery, or overclock the cpu.

I am a total noob to all this stuff, so if you could point me somewhere what the advantages of this gingertiny kernel (I googled it but couldn't find a clear cut list of advantages it has) I'd appreciate it.

Thanks again!
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
I dont know of any disadvantages. But it has tons of advantages. The advantages are under/over clocking, over/under volting, changing the governor which controlls how the processor speeds up and down and at what frequency, changing the governor can also save you some battery. You can change the I/O scheduler, which controlls how data is written and read from the flash memory and sdcard. Changing the I/O scheduler can slightly speed up your phone by making it read/write faster. Gingertiny also brings audio boost, which makes all sounds coming from the phone louder. Also usb fast charge which is self describing. It supports wireless N thru the 2.5ghz band - faster wifi. It supports 3/5 point multitouch - can touch multipul spots in the screen instead of just 1, usefull for games. Swap support - move apps to a ext2/3/4 partition on your sdcard, frees up space. ext4 support - allows use of ext4 partitions. Vpn support - virtual private networking. There are probably more but that all i can think of. Custom kernels beat stock kernels in every way.
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
One possible disadvantage is stability. Other than that I can't think of any.

Just a few corrections:

1. Audio Boost is a boost to call volume that's it.

2. The incredible out of the box supports 2 point multitouch.

3. Swap support - it's not the same as apps2sd which lets you copy apps to sdcard which may be native in CM (which uses a custom kernel) not sure about sense. Maybe you're thinking of sd-ext which can work with stock kernel I think.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Yeah i was thinking of something else. I use to have an sd-ext that i put a swap on.
[Droid Incredible General] FinlStrm:
Just flashed on my dinc. Works awesome!

CyanogenMod7.1

latest Incredikernel
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
has anyone tried this mod on ics roms? aokp, etc?
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
It works on drk.hd's CM9 ROM. I'd imagine all ICS AOSP ROMs are fine as CM9 is based on AOSP and basically the mod converts the filesystem (not ROM specific) and changes a certain line in the ramdisk.
[Droid Incredible General] myincrediblesucks:
Am I blind or is there no download link in this thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1315372
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
I think the thread was locked and the links removed. If your looking for the ext4 files the thread was restarted by tiny here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1623038
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
Op can you point to the new thread?
[Droid Incredible General] hunterhk:
Or just post the link itself:

http://dinc.does-it.net/EXT4_Mods/

Or better yet attach the needed file:

http://dinc.does-it.net/EXT4_Mods/Convert2Ext4_no_data_limit_normal_dalvik.zip
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
I prefer the thread so discussion can go on there.
[Droid Incredible General] grid101:
Perhaps it is just staring me right in the face, but I am not seeing where I can download "Convert2..."

EDIT: Never mind, I just saw the post a few before mine. Downloading now.

Durrrr.....
[Droid Incredible General] TheJGits:
Thank you!

I just wanted to say thank you. So here it goes, "Thank you!"

Now that i've rooted my phone to fix that evil error, it's time to go figure out all the other neat things i can do now!

Thanks again!
[Droid Incredible General] tsmvengy:
Well I already have my phone rooted and am still using the stock 2.2, so I followed step #10 only. It didn't work. I didn't have the low space error before (but was right on the edge and constantly have to delete stuff) but when I rebooted after following step 10 I had the error.

Does this not work with the stock setup?

Thanks for this guide BTW, many things on XDA are missing plain English instructions, I guess in an attempt to dissuade newbies from doing things.
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
Can you run from terminal and post the output of

df /data

And

df /data/data
[Droid Incredible General] tsmvengy:
With the EXT4all update or without? I restored my nandroid backup so I could get functionality back but can install EXT4all again.

without the update I get:

/data: 765992K total, 541768K used, 224224K available (block size 4096)

/data/data: 152576K total, 136884K used, 15692K available (block size 4096)
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
Either is fine. I'm just curious how much space on each total and I'll be able to see either way. If you want to do it now I can still see what I need to. I'm wondering if the no data limt makes a combined amount of space nearing 750MB. Do you have a lot of apps?
[Droid Incredible General] rick311:
Is it normal for this thing to wipe my phone clean?
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
No, I don't see any part of the process that would. Are your apps and app data gone or just apps? Something may have gone wrong.
[Droid Incredible General] rick311:
apps are there. but everything (including my wall paper) is off of my home screens. It's strange. no apps laid out, no widgets etc... also my setting for brightness and ringtones etc are gone.
[Droid Incredible General] tsmvengy:
Yeah, I do have a lot of apps. That probably screws things up.

without the update I get:

/data: 765992K total, 541768K used, 224224K available (block size 4096)

/data/data: 152576K total, 136884K used, 15692K available (block size 4096)

with the update:

/data: 765992K total, 676416K used, 89576K available (block size 4096)

/data/data: 765992K total, 676420K used, 89572K available (block size 4096)

So yeah, probably because I don't have enough space...
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
Likely one of two things happened:

1. The copy command failed to copy all your app data to the data partition and as a result your app data was still wiped as part of the script. This could happen for a number of reasons.

2. The copy command still succeeded but your /data/data partition is still mounting as the boot.img edit failed.

What is the result of your mount command?

Also if you nandroided back already you can try running the ext4all_no_data_limt_normal_dalvik.zip in a fresh recovery session.

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That's about 87MB. That's still a good amount. Kind of weird. Not sure the criteria for low space. /sdcard and /emmc have sufficient right?

Also, /data/data shows the same results because it's the same partition after the mod (that is the partition doesn't mount so it gets stored on /data). So really the df /data/data isn't so useful after the no data limit is applied. I forgot that that would happen after the mod.
[Droid Incredible General] tsmvengy:
Yeah, SD has over a gig and so does EMMC. Going into settings it says almost 50MB free out of 750. Very strange.
[Droid Incredible General] rick311:
maybe i'm flashing the wrong one. Even after flashing it, and having it reset all my settings, it still shows my phone's memory as almost full. Can someone please link me the correct file?

I'm running the latest cm9 a9 build with incredikernel beta 2 if that makes a difference.
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
This is the zip to use:

http://dinc.does-it.net/EXT4_Mods/Convert2Ext4_no_data_limit_dalvik_moved.zip

First try running the mount command from terminal after flashing it and confirm that /data/data is NOT on the list.
[Droid Incredible General] rick311:
I wonder if this fix isn't compatible with this rom. I keep getting the same problem. Also, when I king press the power button, all. Get are the power off, screenshot and reboot options. But reboot doesn't give me additional options: like getting into recovery etc.
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
Did you run mount like I asked? That is the best way for me to tell if it works. You should have several results with ext4 and also /data/data would not show up if its working.
[Droid Incredible General] rick311:
How do I run mount?
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
It's actually described in the original ext4all mod thread but you install a terminal emulator app if you don't have one and type the command mount.

Look for two lines in particular, one should have /data and ext3 or ext4. The second line would have /data/data and yaffs2 or auto in it. If /data is ext3 and /data/data is there (presuming you applied the no data limit one) the mod probably didn't apply correctly and I'd need to look into editing the mod or making one compatible with your ics ROM. Did you have a problem with gingerbread or CM7 or which rom are you running?
[Droid Incredible General] rick311:
first off, thanks! I wiped, reflashed my rom, reflashed gapps, refashed the ext4 mod, then the kernel and it works now. i looked in terminal emulator and didn't see what you described. looked in "apps" in my system settings and i have all the space i need for apps now. thanks again!

EDIT:

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Actually, i don't think i'm destined to have this. the moment i install my apps again, the internal storage space drop back to about 297mb. I don't get it, i give up.
[Droid Incredible General] Raddy13:
I used Unrevoked and installed ClockworkMod, but got the following message when it was done:

clockworkmod revovery v5.0.2.0 (other stuff...)
wating for sd card to mount (other stuff...)
sd card mounded...
verifying sd card marker...
sd card marker not found...
checking internal sd card marker...
error verifying extendedcommand.
error processing rom manager scipt. please verify that you have ROM manager v.4.4.0.0. or higher installed
/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log Please open ROM manager to report the issue.

Per the instructions, I rebooted and now I'm stuck in a boot loop with the HTC Incredible screen. I can get to the ClockworkMod recovery screen, but I wanted to make sure I take the right action before proceeding. I saw before that someone recommended flashing a backup ROM, but I haven't made a back-up ROM yet (it's the next step in the instructions). If I make a back-up now and try to recover from that, won't it just throw me back into a boot loop?

The other recommendation was to flash from a "fresh" ROM; what's the recommended ROM to flash from and will I lose my data in the process?

Thanks for your help guys.

HTC Incredible

Android 2.3.4
[Droid Incredible General] Shano56:
go to recover and select "backup", it'll backup everything on your phone to your SD card, hopefully you can recover some stuff, you wont be able to get it back to the state you had it tho. You can install any ROM for the Incredible, you have to decide. I'm only familiar with CM9 on the incredible, but it works great if you want an ICS rom
[Droid Incredible General] Raddy13:
Perfect! Created a back-up, restored it and the phone booted up just fine. Finished the rest of the instructions without a hitch. Thanks!
[Droid Incredible General] kckndrgn:
I'm trying to root my phone to get rid of the "Low Disk Space" but I'm stuck on step 8.

I get to the underlined step and nothing happens, at all. I verified that I'm using version 3.22. What state should the phone be in? Just "on" or at the bootloader prompt? It would seem that I should just have the phone on, but nothing happens, the "unrevoked" program just sits there.

Not sure what information you need to help me out so ask away and I'll get it for you.

Thanks
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
It should just be on. Do you have the phone drivers installed on your pc? Can you access the phone thru ADB? Under device manager on your pc when the phone is plugged in to it, is there an android phone category and when expanded an android bootloader interface entry?
[Droid Incredible General] ap1618:
Im going to try this on CM9 with glitch kernel... hopefully run ok...
[Droid Incredible General] kckndrgn:
OK, so before i was using windows, I just completed the root process with my Linux laptop.

The only hiccup, i guess, was after the unrevocked process completed I was stuck at the ClockWorkMod menu. Only way to get past it was to pull the battery and pray.

It worked, i'm doing a back up of the ROM now.

Thanks to all the contributors on this thread!

Taking a look a the data usage the "application data" numbers haven't changed, so will I still get the dreaded message again?
[Droid Incredible General] soniclude:
Wow, I haven't been back to this thread since I wrote it, and it's up to 31K views! You're welcome everyone!

I will try to answer some of the unanswered questions if I can, but first a huge thanks to cmlusco and tiny4579 for helping people out with their issues!
[Droid Incredible General] soniclude:
Honestly, I just haven't tried that one! I was thinking about giving it a shot to see if it made the phone any faster, as the original mod did introduce some lag whenever apps are reading/writing data. Has anyone else tried this one?

cmlusco posted this response and I think it is the right answer. I'll update the OP with this info.

Yes, the directions will work for 2.3.4! You have to be sure to get the right version of Unrevoked. I'm not sure what will happen if you need to unroot - my /data/data folder is huge now and I would agree that the phone wouldn't like going back.

I have no idea! You could try going into Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications, wait for it to load, and then click Menu -> Sort by size to see what the biggest apps are. For me, the biggest culprit is Facebook (since it downloads photos for all of my friends).

I will update the OP with the helpful links others have posted to get at the files that are no longer there!
[Droid Incredible General] soniclude:
Thanks for these links! I'll update the OP to include them.
[Droid Incredible General] iiXbox Liive:
Hey, I made an account here just so I could say thank you. I ran into a few problems along the way but in the end, I got it to work. So now I want to bake cookies for you. For the rest of your life. Forever. Thanks again. :)
[Droid Incredible General] dc93gt:
Thanks for the awesome tut. Very helpful. Fixed my low on space issue.

Probably a dumb question, but after going through the whole process, now I'm getting a software update notification to upgrade the system software to 4.08.605.15. I'm guessing that this is going to screw things up, right? Or can I let it run the update?

If the update will screw things up, is there a way to get rid of the notification?

Thanks in advance.

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Android 2.3.4

Kernel 2.6.35.14-gingertiny-v2+ Feb 13 2012

Build/Software 4.08.605.2
[Droid Incredible General] soniclude:
You're very welcome! Are the chocolate chip cookies?? Those are my favorite!

You're welcome! The software update is happening for everyone and I think it would be best to avoid it. I've been looking for a way to turn off the notification as well and I think the answer is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=844702

Since this is a newer update, the correct 6-digit number should be 264040. I haven't tried it yet but I'm about to!
[Droid Incredible General] dc93gt:
Cool. Thanks. I'll be curious to hear what your experience is after you try it.

You'd think that if HTC/Verizon is going to still put out an update for the dinc, they'd do one that addressed the biggest issue that every dinc owner has to deal with, i.e. low on space...
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
question, i heard that verizon is sending out another OTA, over the air update for the Incredible.

Will that take away our root? what do we need to do in order to keep root and not mess up our phone?
[Droid Incredible General] soniclude:
OK I finally figured out how to do it. It's not as straightforward as in the thread I linked because my phone is not "s-off". Long story short, I had to download ADB (Google's Android debugger software), update my USB drivers, reboot into recovery, pull the build.prop file, edit it, push it back, and reboot. Now the notifications are gone!

This thread has directions on how to get ADB: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=709220

Let me know if the process isn't easy to follow and I can write another guide to disable notifications.

Don't update! The new OTA doesn't do anything useful anyway. See above for directions on how to get rid of the notifications. Again, I can write a new guide if you need a step-by-step, just let me know!
[Droid Incredible General] dc93gt:
Okay. Thanks again for the help.
[Droid Incredible General] JacquelineSeth:
AMAZING! Truly amazing! Thank you SO SO SO MUCH! :D
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
What notifications did you get rid of?

Sent from my Incredible.

Aw yeah.
[Droid Incredible General] soniclude:
You are very welcome!

The nagging alert that tells you to install the system update. It won't go away unless you install it (which you can't do if you're rooted). Your options are to upgrade your ROM to a version that includes it or to trick the phone into thinking it's already installed. I took the latter route and it's all good now!
[Droid Incredible General] dc93gt:
Yeah, I had to download ADB, pull the build.prop file off to my sdcard, edit it with the new "ro.build.fingerprint=verizon_wwe/inc/inc/inc:2.3.4/GRJ22/264040:user/release-keys" line, then push it back to the phone. But it seems to have done the trick. I've rebooted and the notification hasn't come up anymore. Not only that, but I checked the /cache folder where the update was sitting before and unless I'm losing it, the file looks like it's gone. I don't remember manually deleting it, so I'm wondering if somehow it was dumped automatically. In any case, the phone seems to be working fine.