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[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
So... i'm stuck.

I am trying to do this on a Mac (insert joke here), and i finally am confident enough translating the Code and typing the code into Terminal, using the Mac version of the commands, and not using the miniadb_inc, but the Mac Version of the Android SDK.

However, I get stuck at the HTCDEV part, about unlocking my bootloader.

it's asking me to download a new RUU in order to unlock

"Verizon WWE	4.08.605.2	PB3120000"

however, the RUU it's asking for is .exe, which means my mac can't run it.

any suggestions?

i just want to root, my phone is still

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 3.22 unrevoked and root, and use titanium backup to freeze the ota from happening, right?

in which case if i don't get a windows computer or a mac way to use htcdev right away, i can root the old way and then do this method to get s-off after i get access to windows?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
You can skip the ruu part of the htcdev site, as you should already have the 1.02 bootloader which is already unlockable. If you dont have the 1.02 hboot, then you will need to do this ruu http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.06.605.3/PB31IMG.zip thru hboot to get it.

Just finish the htcdev site skippimg the ruu. Once unlocked fastboot flash cwm and then flash su thru recovery and you will be rooted. From there you can fastboot flash the misc partition, and then do the froyo ruu thru hboot (PB31IMG.zip). Then flash cwm again and then flash the unrevoked forever patch thru recovery. Then you will be rooted, s-off and ready to flash anythimg you want.
[Droid Incredible General] funkpod:
okay, i am on .92, so i would need to do that hboot stuff... how do i do it? or is that what htcdev take me through?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Download the PB31IMG.zip file i posted earlier and put it on your sdcard in no folders. Pull the battery, reinsert, and hold vol down and power till a white screen appears, hboot. Hboot should find the file after a few secs, and prompt you to press vol up to install it. Then continue with the htcdev site instructions skipping only the ruu part.
[Droid Incredible General] imattxc:
I have stock 1.07 hboot? How do I update that?

---------- Post added at 01:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:21 PM ----------

I have stock 1.07 hboot? How do I update that?

HBOOT 1.07

radio 2.15.10.12.20

touch panel atmelc03-16ac

I have been following this guide [cant post link]

but it doesnt give much info on updating the hboot. I downloaded the RUU updater but it doesnt detect my phone.

Sorry for the reply, but it said my message didnt send. :confused:
[Droid Incredible General] musical_chairs:
1.07 is the latest hboot, you are already up to date on that. You should be able to proceed with unlocking your bootloader via htcdev.
[Droid Incredible General] imattxc:
I was able to. im now on stock ginger rooted s-on. im about to downgrade to froyo for s-off
[Droid Incredible General] paul1701:
cwm appears to be locked

Removed post - found answer in other forum - trackball controls CWM selections on Dinc.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
no,you do not need zergrush for this guide. i wish i had used amon recovery in the guide... clockwork casues so much confusion.

you are using power to try and select menu options,but power takes you back a menu,it does not select. pressing power on the main menu takes you to.... then hat.

use the optic track pad thingy to manuver and select menu options and you should be able to complete step 2 ;)
[Droid Incredible General] musical_chairs:
I've done this complete guide on Linux too. The only part that kind of requires Windows is applying the RUU to update HBOOT. I 'ran' the RUU with Wine, and while that was never going to actually apply the update, it did extract the files enough for me to grab the PB31IMG.zip, copy it to my sdcard, and flash it from the bootloader. Many thanks to scotty1223 for the guides, my first Android root job was following one of your older guides for the dinc on another forum. Guys like you are invaluable!

Edit: For non-Windows users, it's easier to update HBOOT by downloading the PB31IMG.zip from here, rather than downloading the RUU from HTCdev.

http://dinc.does-it.net/Hboots/Hboot_1.07/
[Droid Incredible General] Meeker128:
I was successful with this last night and today except for one thing. I'm a total root virgin, btw.

After the last command in step 4, I was in a boot loop:

"fastboot flash zip PB31IMG.zip this should flash your downgrade zip file

-when the phone finished flashing the downgrade:

fastboot reboot

*when your phone reboots,you should be in froyo"

Upon my EXs advice I pulled the battery (and put it back in) and went into HBOOT (power and vol down). He told me at first to go into recovery, but that gave me a picture of the phone with the RED triangle with the ! inside. He had me pull the battery again, and go into HBOOT and do FACTORY RESET.

It started booting and my phone called *228 (I think) and I pressed 1 and it downloaded stuff and then took me through a first time setup, which I mostly skipped when possible.

Then I went to step 5 and had no further issues.

Oh, also, it took me a few to figure out to remove the word INFO from the beginning of my unlock key.

Otherwise, most excellent instructions! I hope this helps someone in the future.
[Droid Incredible General] gmtk1990:
hat in a circle

please help

I'm at unlocked with S-ON

I can boot into recovery but any option I choose goes to the hat in the circular arrow. It just sits there & does nothing. It's not frozen because I can hit the power button to back out to the menu again. What have I done wrong?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Use the trackball to select items instead of the power button.
[Droid Incredible General] Meeker128:
<noob>So I did all this, and installed cm7, and everything seems fine. Do I not need to relock? Isn't my phone open to evil? </noob>
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
No need to relock it, the only evil one could really do is flash a recovery or test a kernel.
[Droid Incredible General] SIRTF:
Thanks for these wonderful instructions. I've done all these on my Dinc in order to fix the low space problem. But now I am in stock froyo. Could I get back to stock gingerbread rom, like this one (http://xdaforums.com/show...hp?t=1737398)? Will the low space problem come again? Thank you.
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Yes it will come back after flashing a new rom, unless the rom has ext4 built in . The rom you posted does not have the mod, however all you need to do is flash the mod again after flashing the rom and it all fixed again. If you want mostly stock gb with all the usefull addons and ext4 built in, check out my rom Touch of Blue. The link is in my sig.
[Droid Incredible General] Krennel:
Amazing guide, worked like a charm. Thanks for the great work Scotty!
[Droid Incredible General] SIRTF:
Thank you. Now I have a problem when flashing the stock rom. After I wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, then I choose install zip from sd card. Then it says "E: Can't mount /sdcard/". And the screen got stuck here. It is useless to press the power button, volume +/- etc. What should I do?
[Droid Incredible General] cmlusco:
Do you have fastboot setup on your pc? If so do the following.

Boot into the bootloader and make sure it says FASTBOOT in the middle highlighted in red.

Open command prompt to where fastboot.exe is located and type:

“ fastboot oem enableqxdm 0 ″

without the quotation marks.

That should fix the sd card not being mountable.
[Droid Incredible General] boilermanAres:
Thanks for the info, although you might want to update the post - if you allready have hboots 1.02.0000,or 1.07.0000 then skip ahead to the next step,you don't need this.(Stated on the other site) Especially since I kept getting errors with the htc program trying to communicate with the phone.

Question- does it matter once they give you a token? It seems like every time you run for a token ring it is a different set of character?

Also what are some nice roms for the incredible?

thanks
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
i tried to update the OP awhile ago,but the original is too long to fit in the space here,so it would not let me paste the updated version. ill come here for support when i can,but i dont make it here as often,thats why the other thread is linked- the OP there will always have the more up to date info,and be better supported. nothing against the forum here,my pc time is just limited.

the token is a different string of characters every time. you can use any one of them,as they all are generated based on your phones info.

my inc hasnt been my DD for a loooooong time,so i am pretty out of touch with roms. i dont care for sense,so personally id look at cm9/cm10 based roms,and if they were missing a feature i needed,id prolly be back at cm7. hopefully some others may have some rom advice for you :)
[Droid Incredible General] boilermanAres:
If the OTA update wants to come in after doing all this, do we install it? Will it keep rooted and S-off?

thanks
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
A custom recovery will prevent the ota from actually applying. The if an ota were applied,root acces would be lost,but s off will stay. Re-rooting with s off is easy.

Best way to stop the notifications is to flash an updated stock Rom,or a custom Rom. :)
[Droid Incredible General] Agadabar:
I am attempting to use HTC dev to unlock my phone but I keep getting an error that the code it gives me is not correct.

I have used several computers and keep getting the same error. I have seen that a few people have had this problem and solved it, but no one ever says how they solved it.

Is there anyone who can help?

Thank you
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Copy/paste your cmd window
[Droid Incredible General] Agadabar:
C:\Users\M>cd c:\Android

c:\Android>fastboot oem get_identifier_token

...

(bootloader)

(bootloader) < Please cut following message >

(bootloader) <<<< Identifier Token Start >>>>

(bootloader) 56F8C1B732D9D35C3E593C2F113314E2

(bootloader) 2F0DFCD845552F646DAD355F97D7AF28

(bootloader) E1FDE3F3989CDD7CE1B6113B06F654A4

(bootloader) 7414DC878D37020B092D8310F713EA93

(bootloader) C3CE24AD16E10B9218650D0114089857

(bootloader) FA73B69CBC4E31F7E53DA7290CB3B842

(bootloader) 797F2C9B57789FD087E761FD1C8E8B9D

(bootloader) 72F9F0BDF1789D89F8FFE5D1F73D843E

(bootloader) 57BA6913FE3BB90DC2C2FFD8746D51C9

(bootloader) 3BC48C0DFD09D78E019314543465D357

(bootloader) 8C10C64C01DC641DC2A7060F94CB8C57

(bootloader) F273DF6EE63BAAA83188C44780DA514A

(bootloader) A886AFA752CE6B93E7A754A4E450DA9D

(bootloader) B1AE9A4096EFE1A45EF0470C3EF367F0

(bootloader) 8904A1E202F8D0415AE0BAE0F7B3A941

(bootloader) B74F7613D77E1F25008D55D606C4D04F

(bootloader) <<<<< Identifier Token End >>>>>

OKAY [ 0.063s]

finished. total time: 0.064s

c:\Android>

As well I realize that there are several versions of this phone - My boot menu shows IncredibleC XD Ship S-On (I know what the s-on is)

Thank you for the help
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Where is the error?
[Droid Incredible General] Agadabar:
We're sorry, but it appears your attempt to unlock the bootloader on this device has failed. This could be caused by several factors including simple errors in the entry of the unlock token, problems with your device, or a lack of manufacturer support for the unlocking process. Please see the specific error code listed below, and try again if necessary.

Error Code: Invalid Bootloader Token Length.

Error Reason: The submitted Token appears to be the wrong length and won't work.

I am getting a different token each time I try. - none work
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Are you certain you've copied the correct text?
[Droid Incredible General] Agadabar:
I am very sure I have it correct. I have done this with other phones.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

I am going to fatory reset the phone and try again.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
you are likely not doing anything wrong. you could have hardware mismatches,or some other software issue preventing the phone from giving you a useable token, i had a sensation member not be able to htcdev unlock after an htc repair that left him with some sort of imie/main board mismatch.

you may need to find some other means of temp root,so you can flash the modified misc image th old fasioned way in a temp root shell. you could then download to the same older fimrware linked in the OP and run unrevoked to get s off.

just becasue htcdev unlock is not working,doesnt mean all hope is lost :)
[Droid Incredible General] Agadabar:
Do you know of another guide I can try?

I have tried several computers and USB cords with no success.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
not,really,sorry. youll just need to search for an exploit or tool that works to give you a root shell in adb(#>),in the booted OS. at that point id be happy to help with the commands to flash the new misc image. i can try and help search for a working temp root,but real life has me pretty busy lately,so i dont know how soon id have any time to devote to that :(
[Droid Incredible General] zachf714:
If you try over and over again with unrevoked and it is in your folder with adb it will work
[Droid Incredible General] Agadabar:
I have found the problem

I was working too fast and not understanding it fully

I left "(bootloader)" at the start of each line.

Sorry for such a simple mistake, and thank you for trying to help.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
while im skeptical of that,stranger things have happened ;) if you run it enuff times it may well get you root access,wich you can use to downgrade(forever will not work on your newer baseband)

unrevoked can be found here: http://unrevoked.com/

he is suggesting to put the contents of "reflash package" into your adb/fastboot folder and run it from there.

failing that,there is an older version of unrevoked that has been found to work on some gingerbread builds. there is a link to it in this thread:

http://androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/427344-how-root-2-3-4-downgrade-get-s-off.html

you might try that version as well,tho in the later weeks of that thread it seemed to fail as often as it worked
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
ahhh,that will do it. ;)

disregaurd the above i typed it yesterday,and it didnt submit until now :eek:

glad you got it figured out.
[Droid Incredible General] Agadabar:
I was notable to get S-off

I followed all of the instructions very slowly (Will try again in the morning)

any suggestions or thoughts as to what I could have done wrong.
[Droid Incredible General] Pons:
Not without more info on what went wrong and where.
[Droid Incredible General] Agadabar:
S-Off

Thank you very much.

It is at Froyo unlocked and s-off.
[Droid Incredible General] CheeseMcGee:
Just ran through this today and it worked perfectly, thanks for the awesome tutorial!
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
glad it was helpful :)
[Droid Incredible General] skygod71:
Thank you !!

TRIED getting s-off before to no avail. Your guide was easy and now I have a fully rooted Dinc Thank You!!
[Droid Incredible General] owl75:
Thank you!

Second HTC Inc successfully unlocked, rooted, downgraded, rooted and s-off.

The first Inc is my DD which still gets the job done. The second I just got yesterday from my cousin and will use for ROM testing.

Thank you scotty1223!
[Droid Incredible General] ckshowtime:
My daughter recently got a new device, and I inherited her old HTC Droid Incredible. I like to take old devices and update them when possible, recycle baby!!!

Anyways I love this write-up, I made to # 3 flash superuser root files. I followed all the steps:

1)place superuser 3.07 onto the root of your sd card. DONE

2)enter recovery via the hboot menu(power off,power on while holding vol down. once in hboot,wait for green writing to flash,then select recovery with power button and vol rocker) DONE

3)use the recovery menu on your phone to:

-make a backup of your stock,unrooted rom. completely optional,but a very good idea,IMO.

-wipe cache DONE

-wipe dalvik cache NOT AN OPTION

-install zip from sd card(chose your superuser file) FAIL

-reboot

I noticed everyone saying to use the optic track and not the power button. I can use the optic trac to move up and down, but I cannot use it to make selections. Only the power button works for selections. When I select Recovery I immediately get the red triangle w/ exclamation point. I hold volume up and power and that gets me the Android System recovery menu. I have an error waiting for me that says:

E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command

If I choose Apply update from sdcard, and hit power, I get --Invalid Operation--.

I am at a loss for what my next step should be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Go back to step 2 and reflash your recovery . What you're seeing is the stock recovery and it will not work to install superuser;)
[Droid Incredible General] ckshowtime:
So I went back thru #2 and found the error in the attached image.
[Droid Incredible General] ckshowtime:
c:\miniadb_inc > fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-inc.img

sending 'recovery' <3064 kb>... OKAY [ 0.971s]

writing 'recovery' ... INFOsignature checking ...

FAILED <remote: signature verify fail>

finished. total time: 1.372s
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Sounds like you are still locked
[Droid Incredible General] ckshowtime:
Ya I am getting ready to do a factory reset and start the process over.
[Droid Incredible General] ckshowtime:
I went back through and made it through the unlock / root. However, the md5sums PB31IMG.zip returns a string of numbers and letters OTHER than what is required. I am re-downloading the PB31IMG.zip file.
[Droid Incredible General] ckshowtime:
Yet another update...downloaded the PB31IMG.zip again and that worked.

Now I am stuck at:

c:\miniadb_inc>adb push flash_image /data/local/

failed to copy 'flash_image' to '/data/local/': Is a directory
[Droid Incredible General] Pons:
Try:

adb push flash_image /data/local/flash_image

And when you ran yours, you're sure you had the very last character as a forward slash? I've seen that error pop up when you leave out the forward slash at the end, because it thinks you're trying to push to the file to /data and name it local (which you can't because local is a directory).
[Droid Incredible General] ckshowtime:
OK everything I saw didn't have the 'flash_image' at the end there. That worked. I am further along now. Thanks again guys.
[Droid Incredible General] ckshowtime:
SUCCESS!!

Thanks guys
[Droid Incredible General] koolkidkorey:
boot loop

so i know this thread is a few years old, but i recently acquired a droid incredible and am having some fun with it. I tried to follow this guide, but after flashing the froyo image and fastboot rebooting, i am stuck in a boot loop. i get the htc splash, the droid eye, and then it restarts. any suggestions for a fix?

edit: nevermind, i got it
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Glad you are sorted. Holler if you have questions :)
[Droid Incredible General] darkharbinger81:
Question, my dinc hasn't been rooted, unlocked or rolled back, it still has s-on would it be possible to roll back to froyo, root and try to update to 2.3.4 gingerbread while using ota root keeper to keep my root since all I want is a rooted phone at the mpment. I'm not sure about flashing custom ROMs since I've never flashed one on this phone, so I'm unfamiliar with it. At some point I want to try carbon Rom but unsure about the kernel and flashing procedure. Thank you for the guidance and I'm hoping to get the hang of using the phone and bringing you guys some ports since I've been porting for the Xperia play cdma version from Verizon so I'm very familiar with what needs to be done for cdma to work on some ports
[Droid Incredible General] musical_chairs:
Sure. it's possible (not sure about rootkeeper), just follow the guide, then flash a rooted stock ROM. cmlusco's is good:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2141642

Or, if you'd rather flash a truly stock gingerbread ROM and install Superuser from recovery, you can do that too. Once your bootloader is unlocked, rooting is no big deal. It is also not strictly necessary to downgrade and get s-off, you can get root and flash custom ROMs with just unlocking the bootloader. But s-off does add more options.
[Droid Incredible General] darkharbinger81:
I'm just getting all my ducks in a row so to speak, just waiting for a different phone before I decide to tinker with this and flash carbon or infected rom
[Droid Incredible General] lolash123:
The link for superuser 3.07 is not working and androidsu.com appears to no longer exist. Any help?
[Droid Incredible General] scotty1223:
Use superSU. There is a thread here on xda
[Droid Incredible General] equinecpa:
Anyone know where unrevoked-forever.zip can be downloaded (original link is no longer working)? Trying to root and get S-off on an HTC incredible, followed instructions up until here but the unrevoked-forever.zip file I have isn't working. Or is there another way to get s-off?
[Droid Incredible General] musical_chairs:
Looks like cmlusco still has a copy on his site:

http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/unrevoked-forever.zip

If you are still having trouble, cmlusco's guide is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1506258

Scotty's guide is correct, but sometimes it helps to read a different one.
[Droid Incredible General] CMD!:
HELP!

can somebody please tell me the exact commands to type in while using "adb shell".

I just don't get the whole shell command :confused:
[Droid Incredible General] dcooterfrog:
anywhere else to fins the unrevoked-forever.zip
[Droid Incredible General] darkharbinger81:
I might have it on my laptop to upload I'll have to look though
[Droid Incredible General] dcooterfrog:
thank you
[Droid Incredible General] darkharbinger81:
Unrevoked forever link

http://www.mediafire.com/?ro6q6ekalgn92c1
[Droid Incredible General] dcooterfrog:
thanks
[Droid Incredible General] darkharbinger81:
No problem i unlocked and rooted still have s-on but am currently running infection inverted Cdma dev edition.
[Droid Incredible General] dcooterfrog:
argh

i had it perfect. unlocked s-off rooted gingerbread with a nandrid. then i tried to install teh kk rom.

went to 5 buzs of death but still ahd recovery and fastboot.

enabled sd card

flached cm 7.2

enabeld USB ( fastboot worked but not adb)

downgraded, got s-off

BUT I AM NOW RELOCKED

so I cant flash form fast boot. or put a recovery.

fastboot oem get_identifier_token

... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!

OKAY [ 0.007s]

finished. total time: 0.007s

flashing recovery gives me

sending 'recovery' (3064 KB)... OKAY [ 0.493s]

writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)

finished. total time: 0.495s

flashing unlock token gets me fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin

sending 'unlocktoken' (0 KB)... OKAY [ 0.014s]

writing 'unlocktoken'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)

finished. total time: 0.016s

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I was able to get cwm loaded by putting it in a pb31img.zip file ( i was s off so it worked fine)

i also have adb in recovery

i saw this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2509821

which shows it can be unlocked but i bet the blocks are different

"echo -ne "HTCU" | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 seek=33796"

Do I care if I am S-off and can use pb31img.zip and have recovery

i bet I just need a different h boot

which number should I have