yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible General] eoraptor:
I started running into this problem just tonight. It kept insisting that my memory was low. I started pushing stuff off to the SD card, removing apps I did't use that often (My dinc serves as a palm-sized computer so I have everything I could ever need on it, including the proverbial swiss army knife app) but I kept getting the error. Tried Auto memory manager, and that didn't help either...

but i remembered seeing this thread while looking for other stuff. I came back here and downloaded the zip, dumped it in, and so far so good!

thanks muchly for the work to clear up the problem!
[Droid Incredible General] Prime Time:
Rooting a 2nd Incredible

I used the instructions posted by soniclude to root my droid incredible to erase the low on space warning. They worked perfectly. I then tried to do the same with my wife's incredible but I end up getting an error while running unrevoked. It says "Failed to flash recovery image." I've tried multiple times even uninstalling and reinstalling both Clockwork and Unrevoked. Is there something I need to do to my computer/wife's phone in order to root a second phone from the same computer?

I believe the issue starts earlier with the Step 7, installing the USB drivers. My phone was found just as the instructions said in Other devices. My wifes phone doesn't show up there. At the top of Device Manager it says Android Phone and it already shows the Bootloader Interface.

HTC Incredible, Verizon, Version 2.3.4

I'm also now getting a System UIDs Inconsistent error and the only option is to click "I'm Feeling Lucky"

Help please!
[Droid Incredible General] ranger473:
THANKS!!!!

Thank you for taking the time and energy to post such a detailed fix! It worked as posted!
[Droid Incredible General] shinaz:
I am having an issue with my phone now that I tried the ext4 mod. I was using an incompatble rom/kernel (figure this out AFTER the fact of course) and now I even lost my recovery. I can hold Power and Vol and boot to HBOOT/FASTBOOT, and I can reflash files that are on SD titled PB31IMG. I attempted to roll back to stock so I could re-root and start over as my recovery was lost, but something is still wrong with the internal partitions of my device. For example on Stock 2.2 (which doesn't always boot) I cannot see/mount SD cards in the phone. I am looking for a way to ensure that the internal partitions (including recovery) are overwritten back to the way they need to be.

I also am having an issue with ADB where i connects, I type a few characters and it disconnects. I may have to switch to Windows and try it (in Linux currently).

Any thoughts how to recover from a failed convert to EXT4? I am downloading the Wilestang83 ZIP now to see if it works better than the previous files i have tried. I attempted putting Clockwork recovery back on via the HBOOT menu, it finds the ZIP but never asks if i want to install it.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Are you s-off? What hboot version?

If your s-off, format your sdcard fat32 with a pc. Then try to flash cwm http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/CWM_5.0.2.0/PB31IMG.zip thru hboot. If it flashes, go to recovery wipe everything and flash a rom.

If that dosent work or your s-on, try to do an ruu http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip thru hboot now that the sd was formated.
[Droid Incredible General] TTT05Mikes:
Thank you soniclude for such fine work. I came across the EXT4ALL solution a month or two ago via some other search I was conducting on some other site. In any case, I installed the mod and it has been working great since. That being said, your guide is so well written and detailed, I almost want to do it all again just to offer you tribute. I won't, but my consideration is most sincere my friend!

What if... I get the Low Memory warning because I've loaded up with maybe 700MB of app "stuff" and I want even more space to play with? That's exactly the problem I've run into. Yes, I have a ton of apps on my Dinc. No, this new problem isn't mission critical like the original Low Memory problem was. But I still find it puzzling why, with so much memory available, I can't bump it up to a GB or 2. Is there a way that you know of that can get me past the ≈750MB mark for memory. I'm camera and multimedia heavy on this phone, so I'ld like more room to play if it's possible. Any suggestions?

Once again - great, great guide. Thanks so much.
[Droid Incredible General] shinaz:
No way back when I originally rooted (two years ago) I never left S-OFF. My issue now is regaining that I believe. Most of the recoveries I try to flash do not take as it doesn't see an HTC zip. SD is Fat32 (made sure of that) I was able to flash one HTC zip recovery but it didn't cure things, the phone only boots when plugged in USB. If not plugged in it just gives the five vibrates and the led flashes green about once every three seconds.

I have tried the CWM 5.0.2.0. It sees the ZIP tests it but never askes to push VOL UP to flash, just goes back to the menu (believe due to S-ON). I also have tried 4.08.605.2 and 3.26.605.1... 3.26 complains it's too old and won't flash. I am currently running HBOOT 0.92.0000 and Android 2.3.4, my radio is recent (from when I had CM10 on the device).

I believe if I can get S-OFF somehow (unrevoked wont work) then I might be able to flash CWM recovery.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
First fix the 5 vibes and sd problem with this http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33. Then do this ruu http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip. Then head to htcdev.com/bootloader and unlock the bootloader. Then fastboot flash cwm, full wipe, and flash a rom.
[Droid Incredible General] Joshermon:
Failed to flash recovery image

After unrevoked3 tries to flash the new image, I get the "Failed to flash recovery image". Any ideas why?

Every time I plug the phone into the USB cord Internet Explorer pops up and verizon's back up assistant website prompts me to sign up with them. I have tried everything to get that off. I even factory reset and opted out of Back up Assistant. You think that might me interrupting the flash?
[Droid Incredible General] zachf714:
You have to flash the misc and downgrade to 2.2 look in this part of the form and u will find how to downgrade and soff
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Unrevoked 3 has become troublesome for many people. As a result it is now prefered to htcdev unlock your bootloader and fastboot flash cwm recovery, then flash misc partition and downgrade to froyo. Once on froyo flash unrevoked forever patch thru recovery to get s-off. Once s-off procede with flashing the ext4 low space mod.

If you want to stop the backup popup, uninstall htc sync from your pc, and remove cdrom.iso from /system/etc on the phone once s-off.
[Droid Incredible General] shinaz:
Well the first step on the 5 vibe page (fixing SD worked) and now I have SD card useage which makes the phone a little better. However I cannot complete the next steps due to not having root on the device. The z4 app mentioned to get temp root doesn't work it just hangs up and chews CPU (didn't realize it was even running anymore in the background) and ate the battery overnight. Never achieves root either.

Tried going to HTCDev as an alternative, but couldn't as my HBOOT is .92 and they want something higher to generate the code. Basically again I am back to needing to find a way to gain root. z4 did not work, neither did gingerbreak (I was just curious, figured it was worth a shot). ADB is unstable and disconnects after a few seconds so I can't even reliably use that. The only truely stable thing is FASTBOOT USB connection.

Any suggestions left out there? I've been digging for over a week, starting to hit rock bottom. I ended up ordering a nice used DINC off ebay for now, will make sure to take S-OFF from the beginning to avoid this issue again. If I managed to fix the old one at least I have a backup. I almost went to Verizon to get a DINC 4G or Moto Razr M, then decided to wait to see how the community swung toward one or the other first. I love the fact the DINC has so many people still working on them, and those two phones are still fresh and from what I see unrooted yet.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Now that the sd is readable, see if you can flash the latest ruu. That will upgrade your hboot to an unlockable version.
[Droid Incredible General] MysticCobra:
I used Unrevoked back in Feb to get root on my Dinc and it worked great. Very painless.

I tried to repeat my success on a friend's phone a week or so ago, but I guess maybe the recent Verizon OTA broke Unrevoked's exploit, because it failed. Ended up using the instructions from here, which are a more detailed version of cmlusco's advice above. From start to finish, it took a few hours....
[Droid Incredible General] shinaz:
Nope it acts like it can't connect via USB. . When the phone is booted up USB seems to reset every thirty seconds. Driver won't load properly. If I try to flash from hboot/fast boot screen of rejects the zip.
[Droid Incredible General] hellbringer616:
Hope someone is up to fix this as i desperately need help.

I followed the instructions to the letter (after the rooting process as i already have s-off and Root) and now my phone will not boot, just bootloader over and over and over, i can get into recovery, But like a fool. i didn't backup. and i HAVE to have the data off my phone (mainly a few contacts and some info)

What is it i did/am doing wrong? and what can i do to fix it?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
No idea what your doing wrong, but try flashing a kernel, preferably the stock one http://dinc.does-it.net/Kernels/Stock_GB_2.6.35.13.zip. Or try reflashing your current rom without wiping anything. You should always back up before flashing any mod. :p Good luck.
[Droid Incredible General] hellbringer616:
I did the reflash wipe after trying a kernel and it worked. (the kernel did not) i've no idea what i did wrong, but that was a big scare i never want to deal with again.
[Droid Incredible General] gts24:
sadly, this was the last straw that killed the dinc for me. Every one of the space issue fixes had it's own set of drawbacks. The big one being slowness. :(
[Droid Incredible General] ardax:
It's possible to make a data increasing mod that doesn't do any ext4 conversions. If anyone is really interested I'll build one for the stock ROM and cm7. cm10 uses ext4 anyway.
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
hello! question, I just got a Droid Incredible from a friend who didn't want it anymore!

anyways, it's factory reset.

how do I root this phone? Since I can't set the settings to USB debugging mode on.

I want to root this phone, use the EXT4all mod and put games on it for my kids, use it as a spare and nostalgia.

I don't want to activate it, do i? i can't get to any settings without going through the activation screen.

what should i do?

Thanks!
[Droid Incredible General] ardax:
There's several threads in General about unlocking and rooting this phone. If you have problems with a particular guide, post in its thread.

IIRC, the "four corner" trick works on the stock ROM. Basically you just tap on the four corners of the screen in clockwise order to bypass activation. I can't remember which corner you start on, so I always end up going around at least 5 corners before it takes.
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
hey, sorry about that, thanks for the help.

question about this method,

I had used this thread to root my incredible back in march. I have heard that there has been an update since then... did it break this method?

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also, fwiw, thank you for the tip. i ended up hitting "end" during the activation call 2 or 3 times and it let me bypass it.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Yes the update broke previous methods. However htc now allows you to unlock your bootloader and flash a custom recovery, letting you root, downgrade, and get s-off.

Use this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1600904 or this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1506258. Both achieve the same thing, just written differently.
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
thanks for the info. i started looking at the your new thread, I just am trying to figure what to do on my Mac, when I see the adb.exe part, i can't use that part, right? i have to do the mac counterpart... or something like that?

question also, this incredible that I have now seems to not have been turned on in a while... when did the OTA come out? How do i check to see if the OTA is out for this? maybe it never got the OTA cuz it was off, and i can use this method to root still?

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in fact, when i just connected it to WIFI, it asked me to install an update! good news, right? maybe i can still use this method and freeze the OTA? how can i check a version number to be sure...
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
OH!

i have this on the phone.

software number

4.08.605.2

baseband version

2.15.10.07.07

build number

4.08.605.2 CL 185897 release-keys

and it keeps asking me to update to this one...

4.08.605.15

http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-droid-incredible-verizon/software-updates

I believe that is the update that breaks this method, right?

So i can probably still use this and root, and use titanium backup to freeze the ota from happening, right?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
The exploits became obsolete with thr first release of GB 4.06.605.3. Not to mention it is easier to just unlock your bootloader and flash cwm amd su, then yoir rooted.
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
yeah, i want to root s-off and all that, i am just having problems finding a MAC version. i understand what's happening, i think, while reading the directions, but am not sure what to do whenever i get to the adb part (adb.exe?)

maybe i'm not just seeing them, but nothing comes up when i search for mac, or else when i find something, the directions are outdated or obsolete.
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
can i still use unrevoked 3.22 for the baseband i have, though? i can't get to a windows computer (yet) and i can't figure the mac way.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
No you need the froyo radio for unrevoked to work. To get that you would need to root and downgrade.
[Droid Incredible General] genestang:
Lopping on white HTC splash screen

I completed step 8 including the optional backup and my phone is looping on the white HTC splash screen. I have searched for resolutions even see that there is a post here where someone else had the issue. I cannot break in to attempt any of the fixes that I hace located. Pressing and holding volume down and power has no effect. What am I missing? Can some one help please?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Pull the battery, reinsert and then hold vol down and power. Hboot should pop up. From there you can flash an ruu, or access recovery and do a restore or flash a new rom.
[Droid Incredible General] modawg:
I did this on MIUI and ran into a problem. However, that was probably because I didn't perform the upgrade on a clean install.
[Droid Incredible General] melcher70:
Ugh

I think I just bricked my phone.. sitting here with a black screen and white bars on bottom.. am I screwed?

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Actually I'm not! All I needed was a battery pull
[Droid Incredible General] melcher70:
Weirdness

So this worked great.. went through all of the steps, checked and said I had 748 mb total space.. except I only had 50 mb available and had a low space error! Any ideas?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Either you have a ton of apps installed, or somehow during the conversion process files got coppied twice, or not wiped or something. Or your /data partition was already full with something before /datadata got moved on to it. I know it sucks, but i would wipe data and start fresh installing apps.
[Droid Incredible General] melcher70:
Yep.. that fixed it.. and still rooted and plenty of space to avoid the low space errors.. thanks!
[Droid Incredible General] frogfactory:
Bricked phone at last step!

Hi,

First off, thanks for this guide. Until the very last step, it seemed to be working just great. I got this far:

I rebooted, and it booted into the HBOOT menu. I powered off, powered on, and could only get the HBOOT menu. I've removed the battery, tried again, no joy.

I went into Recovery to see if there was anything I could do there, but the 'select' button doesn't work at all anymore - it just hangs on the Clockwork hat icon if I press the power button and doesn't select the menu option. I don't quite know what to do at this point - is there some way of modifying the SD card if I put it directly in my laptop that'll help? Or some other way to fix this? I'd be really grateful for any help, as my phone is now completely unusable. Stupidly, I did not make a recovery thing.

Phone is: HTC Wildfire S, version is 2.3.5.

Thank you in advance.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Sounds like something went wrong and there is no boot image. If on a custom rom flash it again. If that dosent work try an ruu. This is the incredible forums and i dont have a wildfire, so i cant provide any files or much specific help. Try reflashing recovery, doing a wipe, and then reflash your rom.
[Droid Incredible General] frogfactory:
thanks

Thanks for your response. However, I have no idea what any of that means. Any reading material you can recommend?
[Droid Incredible General] zachf714:
try to boot into recovery but instead of recovery use fastboot and go to the Platform Tools folder with Fastboot in it and download a new recovery and rename it recovery.img .. open command window there and type with the phone pluged in fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Sent from my Transformer using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
What is your phones current status?

Hboot version (locked/unlocked)?

Radio (baseband) version?

Android version?

Rooted?

S-on or s-off?
[Droid Incredible General] frogfactory:
Let me just type out the top part of the screen

*** UNLOCKED ***

MARVEL PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-1.09.0099

MICROP-0451

RADIO-7.57.3910M

Feb 8 2012, 18:2931

Yes, it is rooted. By Android version, is 2.3.5 what you mean?

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Also, because Unrevoked doesn't work with Marvel, I used Clockwork 5.0.2.8. Maybe that was the bad thing I did?
[Droid Incredible General] frogfactory:
The buttons in Recovery seem to work fine now - no idea what I did. Still no idea how to get it back to booting into anything other than HBOOT and Recovery, though.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
You will need to find an ruu for your phone and flash it thru hboot. Or go into recovery, wipe everything in the mounts and storage menu except emmc and sdcard, and then flash a rom of your choice.
[Droid Incredible General] frogfactory:
Thanks very to everyone who responded. I now have my phone back!

Everything listed in the OP worked, apart from having to use a different recovery thing, and the final step. Can anyone suggest how to find the correct fix for my phone (Wildfire S)? I've tried googling, but can't find anything useful. But that might be because I'm not all that familiar with messing around in the guts of my Android.
[Droid Incredible General] Hand76:
Did this ever happen? Could it?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
No i dont think so. & Yes it could be done with a little work. But why, whats wrong with ext4? Ext4 is faster than stock ext3.

EDIT: I edited the ext4 no data limit mod to not convert to ext4 and instead just move /datadata to /data/data. It has been tested and does work, but still FLASH AT YOUR OWN RISK! And always do a backup first. :)

http://dinc.does-it.net/EXT4_Mods/No_Data_Limit_Mod.zip
[Droid Incredible General] Hand76:
I think (if I read correctly) that the original download will change the kernal on the stock GB rom. My phone has never responded well to a different kernal. Over time I get random reboots.

cmlusco does the download you just provided change anything other than the size of data/data?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
It may. I was always under the impression that the mod always flashed the gingertimy kernel, but somewhere i remember tiny saying it only does in certain situations. However i cant remember what those situations are exactly. But you can always flash the mod and if it does install the gingertiny kernel, just flash back to the stock kernel afterwards. I believe the only reason the kernel is needed for the mod is for ext4. Since the new mod dosent convert to ext4, it is safe to flash any kernel you want after flashing the mod. Hope that helps, mabey tiny will see this and chime in.
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
Yeah, you can use stock kernel if you don't use ext4. But it saddens me that someone is still having issues with my kernel :(. It only changes the kernel on sense ROMs so you'd need to flash stock or remove the kernel changing part and force it to keep the same kernel.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
I would remove the kernel changing part, but im not exactly sure what needs to be removed and what dosent. I think you would just remove the #determine part, and the (sense) and (asop) parts?
[Droid Incredible General] viper909:
Worked for me, I do this every time I flash a new rom. Thanks for the guide.
[Droid Incredible General] raghublr:
First of all.. Thank You OP. Finally got rig of the Low space error.

However, I am missing several apps. I tried the following

1. Disconnect and reconnect battery

2. Unmount and mount SD card

3. move files from .android folder on SD card to internal memory

Nothing seemed to restore my missing apps. When I do a search on astro, I find files related to the missing apps.

I am not able to reinstall these files either from the play store or .apk files

Since this fix, I am not able to update any apps either. I get an error saying " Invalid package".

I have spent the last 2 weeks looking on several forums for a fix. No luck so far :(

Hope one of you guys can help.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Go to recovery - mounts and storage and format /data, and /datadata. That will solve your issue, but also you will loose all your apps and settings.
[Droid Incredible General] raghublr:
Thanks cmlusco

Is there any value in backing up data/apps or is it useless at this point ?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Probably pointless, as it would just restore messed up apps.
[Droid Incredible General] tiny4579:
I was digging around on the low disk space issue and I believe to have an idea on this based on some research when looking into increasing the partition size. First check this post I found by googling a bit ago:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/cyanogenmod-dev/8X2cWEamedA

Also this patch from CM7:

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/9431/

So in other words at least a temporary fix for the low /data/data issue is implemented in gingerbread. I'll see if this exists in CM10.

Also these terminal commands run as root if not listed before will help show space used in /data/data

df /data/data

du -ch /data/data/*/cache | tail -n1
[Droid Incredible General] raghublr:
Hi cmlusco

Sorry for being such a pain in the @$$. I did as you recommended (formatted data).

I was able to restore my email accounts and contacts. However, the play store app is missing. How do I go about restoring my apps?

Thanks in advance!
[Droid Incredible General] Zimeron:
You need to flash gapps to get the market back.