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[HTC Incredible S] lauriks:
On modifying CID: incsfree modifies /dev/block/mmcblk0p7, which contains second CID (the first in partition #18, which I modified earlier).

However when I dd partition 7 back the phone just reboots and the partition stays the same :(
[HTC Incredible S] irfquake:
Still waiting - I have an unlocked UK phone. Tried downloading the Zip from HTC, but have no idea what to do with it!
[HTC Incredible S] zezoka:
ota

Manually search (not auto)?
[HTC Incredible S] remyandcoke:
Tried that..it says not updates.

I have downloaded the zip file and tried to update through recovery.

Seems weird that you can't even update using official files even though you have a stock, untampered device.

By the way I'm no newbie..looool. I have flash my device before.
[HTC Incredible S] mr nick:
I may be over simplifying things here but as this update is only meant to run on phones with a particular CID that's presumably why lots of people are struggling to get it installed on stock phones - because they have the wrong CID. I see a few people are dabbling with changing the CID on their phones with limited success but I wonder if there is an easier way around this - could you not simply edit the android-info.txt within the OTA zip file so that it includes the CID for your particular device?
[HTC Incredible S] naathaanb96:
oh F*** screw optus ! they wonder why they fix so many bricked phones because they deley there stupid updates just to put there **** apps that have 1 star ratings in the market :@
[HTC Incredible S] poondog:
So true about their crappy apps!

Why do they bother? Users want no bloatware, but they continue to put 1 star apps on for fun?

At least make them useful or better

So much unused crap ware on optus phones

Get a grip, start listening to you customers!
[HTC Incredible S] jw82:
Not yet. If I remember correctly from the Gingerbread 2.3.5/Sense 3.0 OTA, I had to wait 4/5 days for it to reach my stock unbranded UK device from the start of the rollout.

At least we know it's on its way!
[HTC Incredible S] Rude_Dollah:
I have engineering s-off hboot 7.00.1000 and latest version of stock rom (3.11.405.2).

Dudes tell me please, how can i upgrade to ICS?
[HTC Incredible S] brentos1236:
It's pathetic and they have pushed it back from Early June then Early July and now to this. It better be damn well bug free when it comes out than if they keep this up. At least us on Virgin don't have to put up with Optus bloatware. We get the exact same update sans bloat. Could be worse. To think 2 weeks after getting the Inc S, I almost regretted it and thought the Galaxy S was the better option. Glad I did get it because while we may be getting ICS slowly, we are getting it.
[HTC Incredible S] tpbklake:
This will work with official ROM.zip files and you have S-OFF, but on the OTA update.zip file, the only android-info.txt file is in the embedded firmware.zip file.

I was able to modify the updatescript in the OTA update.zip and remove the lines that checked the CID and modelid and then was able to use ClockworkMod to apply this modified update.zip in recovery mode.

I then had to manaually run the embedded firmware.zip file by extracting and renaming it PG32IMG.zip and modifying the android-info.txt and letting HBOOT install it.
[HTC Incredible S] naathaanb96:
Man it will prob go to December ! Ah well custom roms are gunna get better anyway :D
[HTC Incredible S] mustang123:
Finally Figured out the CID Num

Its CID__038

It says HTC-India

So basically need to wait till India gets the update...

Atleast now I know which country my phone now belongs to even though I live in USA
[HTC Incredible S] skinniezinho:
Just reverted to stock today, got the notification of ICS update.

Unbranded phone from amazon.de =)

how to root?
[HTC Incredible S] Shantara123:
I have just discovered that the OTA has enabled Power+Home hotkey for screenshot capturing. Maybe this info would be useful for someone...

Also, it's unbelievable how fast are third-party launchers compared to laggy Sense. I installed Apex and it feels like I've totally upgraded my phone.
[HTC Incredible S] naathaanb96:
i think power and volume down holding them works too
[HTC Incredible S] razesky:
Still no update in South East Asia especially Malaysia... How crap is the latest update? Any problems with wifi or calls?
[HTC Incredible S] cirian75:
No ICS update for the UK spec sim free Incredible S I sold to my boss yet
[HTC Incredible S] redbullcat:
My friend is still waiting for the ICS update. UK Incredible S, sim free.
[HTC Incredible S] keithkei:
still waiting in HK... :rolleyes:
[HTC Incredible S] :
Wtf is taking do long? My hk phone is still not updated

Sent from my HTC Incredible S
[HTC Incredible S] zukri90:
Chill. It's rolling-out in batches. Probably your CID is a bit far down..
[HTC Incredible S] mr nick:
@tpbklake

I just had a quick try of this with partial success. The update.zip seemed to install OK with no errors reported but when I tried to flash the firmware.zip (txt file edited and zip renamed accordingly) it did nothing - just parsed the file and then simply flicked me staright back to the bootloader so I'm guessing that it failed.

When you flashed the firmware.zip, did it go through the standard procedure of asking if you want to update etc? Not sure which bit I fooked up but I was seemingly pretty close to success. But not close enough :eek:
[HTC Incredible S] tpbklake:
I had to modify the android-info.txt file in my firmware.zip to add my modelid and then copied it to the sd card and renamed it PG32IMG.zip. Yes it behaved like a standard PG32IMG.zip file and showed my which components were in the file and Volume Up to apply update.
[HTC Incredible S] mr nick:
Hmm. Exactly what I did but I obviously snarffed something up along the way. Back to the drawing board. Again....

**EDIT**

Actually, maybe it was a bit of a blonde moment on my part. I still had the bootloader unlocked when I tried so this may well have been the problem. I'll try again tomorrow and see how I go.
[HTC Incredible S] mr nick:
OK, I couldn't leave it alone and had another crack. Locking the bootloader didn't help as it gave me a security warning so I unlocked it again and tried to flash the PG32IMG file but no go so I just took the boot.img file out and flashed that from fastboot and bingo - I have a working ICS install. Now to bed....
[HTC Incredible S] owziee:
After using it for a few days now I can say it's the best update ever, by far!!! No issues at all here, signal strenght seems improved for me... At least it doesn't drop my HSDPA data connection every 5 minutes like it did before the 4.0.4 update... Also I love that we can now disable most of the apps we don't use, I've disabled around 20 system apps like stocks and other pre-installed stuff I never use... The phone is now blazing fast!!!

I have also discovered that gaming performance is improved, Modern Combat 3 is way smoother now, I wish I had done benchmark before the update to compare... Asphalt 6 though had weird graphics until I updated it and now it looks great again :)

...And believe it or not, even audio quality is improved! That was one of the first things I noticed beside the new ui of course.
[HTC Incredible S] miguelca:
Just a little comment from my experiences that started last Monday...

Benchmarking also improved with the OTA ICS Update.

I've tried the latest versions of Antutu and Quadrant. Both gave me higher scores after the update, specially in the graphics/GPU area.

It seems HTC has done some hard work on the graphics optimization with this new O.S... :D

Maybe the Adreno GPU drivers that were spread around other forums/devices here on XDA "forced" HTC to push their hardware a little further.

The HTC Wildfire S was one of the devices that won a lot of points just by replacing GPU drivers so I'm not surprised that the Incredible S was also updated in order to provide better graphics performance. :highfive:

Anyway I'm very happy until now except the first day with Poweramp ruining the calls and also music sound. After I installed the latest version of Poweramp (not from Play Store) it's great to have a "completely new" phone in my hands.

FYI: Now I'm fighting a little with Juicedefender Ultimate because ICS already comes with traffic limits for mobile data and some nice data usage optimization features (including WiFi). Must take some serious time this weekend.

Soon I will take some screenshots from the benchmarks and post them.

I'll probably create a new thread so that we can compare some stock benchmarking with custom ROM benchmarking.

It would be nice to see how HTC optimized the public update against what our fabulous devs have been doing. :good:

I'd be glad to hear from other user's experiences. ;)

Please share your thoughts. Thanks in advance.
[HTC Incredible S] :
So how much improved is the battery compared to sense 3.0?

Sent from my HTC Incredible S
[HTC Incredible S] acme anvil:
Latest ICS upgrade schedule for Bell Mobility.

http://bit.ly/M32GJq
[HTC Incredible S] lkbfreak:
Hi guys!

Tried updating from stock gingerbread, phone gives me update notification, downloading was successful but flashing wasn't - error code 7. So I decided to give it a go with stock RUU (changing off course the bootloader and making it S-on) and it updated fine to ICS.

First impressions: phone was laggy at first but seems like it's speeding up with every minute. Like some kind of self-optimizing :)

Now the only issue I have is HOW TO ROOT IT - as I never had stock roms for longer than 2 days on any of my phones, I'm kinda incomplete without root. It's not a problem cuz I'm switching this phone in 2 weeks for One X but would be nice if someone could post rooting guide for HTC Inc S on ICe Cream Sandwich.

Cheers!
[HTC Incredible S] poondog:
Hello :)

If you want root on ICS, you might have to unlock your bootloader with HTCdev

I am not sure if nonverbose's downgrade method works for ICS and whether or not anyone has tried it
[HTC Incredible S] mr nick:
I rooted mine by using HTC unlock for the bootloader, installed 4ext recovery by flashing via fastboot and then flashed Superuser from recovery. After that, installed BusyBox from the market and I'm all done. Ti backup, Adfree etc all working no problems.
[HTC Incredible S] lkbfreak:
Thanx a lot Nick, I forgot the method cuz hasn't used it for a while. That was soooo easy. Root gained :P

Cheers
[HTC Incredible S] MrToastbrot:
Anyone else who has problems, that the touch isn't not everytime responding. It's very annoing, some games are unplayable now.
[HTC Incredible S] elpuertorro:
Details??

Any chance you could give us more details of what and how you did it so I or anyone else who wants to give it a shot can try this?? :D
[HTC Incredible S] incrediblealex:
We should benefit from the desire s kernel right?
[HTC Incredible S] pec0ra:
Probably, but it seems like there is still a lot of work even to port it when it's ready for the Desire S.

Let's trust our devs and see what do!

If you want to follow the developement for the Desire S you can follow it on the CyanogenMod 9 thread
[HTC Incredible S] keroro430:
I can't wait ICS for IncS. So now... All in my signature.
[HTC Incredible S] incrediblealex:
The HTC evo 3d just got ics
[HTC Incredible S] zizou_cr:
How many time did we wait for these OTA update.... thats a pitty...

I began thinking that HTC company never will give up the ICS for our mobiles....:(
[HTC Incredible S] skinniezinho:
LOOL, tell me wich other mobile brand got ICS on devices other than current top of the range...

From what I do know, none :P
[HTC Incredible S] mradulov:
Sony Experia Arc S of my wife received ICS 4.0.3 at 23/04/2012. In addition i would say that Sony 2011 phones of 4'' screen has all start receiving ICS since beginning of April 2012.

I'm very unhappy with the HTC decision not to put any updates on their blog. It seems this is their new brilliantly quiet policy!
[HTC Incredible S] Vaxx93:
I'm not happy with it too, some small updates about the development would be nice. Just so we know at what time we can expect ICS.
[HTC Incredible S] dgproduction:
End of this month first ICS will be served in EU for incredible S, for other country i dont know..
[HTC Incredible S] Splux:
And do you have any source to back up that statement?
[HTC Incredible S] InsertDumbNick:
Yeah some source would be helpful!!
[HTC Incredible S] thiagofbrito:
So much time to wait it's killing me.
[HTC Incredible S] skinniezinho:
I guess it's killing you, me and the devs too.

Altough I find that till June is a "acceptable" timing for launching ICS for non-Top of the range phones, it just encourage people to sell the phone and buy something already updated (maybe that's the deal with HTC holding the updates so we will buy a One series phone :P ),
[HTC Incredible S] Vaxx93:
The Dutch HTC helpdesk still don't know anything about the release date for ICS for our IncS...
[HTC Incredible S] ldaryl:
China getting ICS in end May.

http://www.htc.com/cn/help/
[HTC Incredible S] aerosmith:
Probably he meant the developers at htc would be getting ICS to work on the end of May :D .
[HTC Incredible S] skinniezinho:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...set=a.477210308083.252809.101063233083&type=1

I guess this mean something too..
[HTC Incredible S] Vaxx93:
The Dutch HTC fb account posted that too yesterday, and if I'm right they announced the HTC Desire C....
[HTC Incredible S] Ozgurce:
Can any people translate this http://www.htc.com/managed-assets/cn/promo/software-note/software-note.png table please =)
[HTC Incredible S] aerosmith:
The fourth row is for incredible S. It says the upgrade to ICS would be in the mid of June. But it does not say if it is this year or the next :D.
[HTC Incredible S] tpbklake:
The official RUU for ICS 4.10.405.1 has been released and posted, so there really isn't any reason to use this method any longer. You can just use the RUU to install ICS 4.10.405.1
[HTC Incredible S] mustang123:
Anyone knows a link where we can find the release dates of ICS by region or country?
[HTC Incredible S] Cookie Ninja:
The million dollar question. If something like this was posted by HTC, would these guys be wandering from thread to thread, creating this thread.....?

Sent from my HTC Incredible S
[HTC Incredible S] elpuertorro:
My CID is BSTAR301 so i just want to make sure and also was the official RUU the one posted from

http://fotadl.htc.com/OTA_VIVO_ICS_35_S_HTC_WWE_4.10.405.1-3.11.405.2_release_26607852ppgo5o99q87515.zip ?

thanks and sorry for the noob questions :(
[HTC Incredible S] mustang123:
When does usually India gets the updates once OTA is released for some regions?
[HTC Incredible S] tpbklake:
Yes, the WWE version of 4.10.405.1 was released, so you would need to use a goldcard in order to install it.
[HTC Incredible S] elpuertorro:
Thanks so much for the info. :victory:

Last but not least

I did the downgrade to get S off from the and it's on 2.3.3 as per FallenSuisydal's post : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1705913

Do I need to follow an upgrade path or can I just go straight to ICS?? :fingers-crossed:

Also if i need to follow and upgrade path can you point me in the right direction?

Again thanks man and sorry for the noobness lol
[HTC Incredible S] l3g1oN:
i'm also waiting for a noob guide -.-

i got [ROM][Apr-05-2012][RUU][STOCK][GB 2.3.5][Sense 3.0][WWE] 3.11.405.2 (root | busybox), android found the update and downloaded it ota

system rebootet => now i got a yellow callsign and a blue android :confused:

do i need to get back s-on to get it working?

bootloader says:

alpha rev

vivo pvt ship s-off rl

hboot-6.13.1002

radio-3822.01.08.14_m

emmc-boot

apr 1 2011,18:34:39
[HTC Incredible S] thiagofbrito:
As WWE RUU is finally out we just need to wait for some kernel development. Let's see how far kernel 3 from htc can reach.
[HTC Incredible S] tpbklake:
Yeah let's see how long it takes for HTC to release the IncS kernel source so that the tweaking can begin.
[HTC Incredible S] l3g1oN:
got it back s-on, tryd several guides and callsign is now red :crying:

anyone knows what to do?

//edit:

unlocked it again with htcdev, got clockwordmod 4 running again

currently installing modded rom again (same as posted before), flash boot.img separately - booting again :-)

but HOW do i get ICS running???
[HTC Incredible S] elpuertorro:
Ok I tried the gold card way and no luck said something about wrong model id or something to that effect..

Please can anyone that already has it give us a guide of how you did it , doesn't have to be a step by step but at least the basics, and the not so obvious that us noobs or people with diceves that do not match the CID listed for updates seem to be missing :fingers-crossed:

Thank you!!
[HTC Incredible S] tpbklake:
If you are getting wrong model id, then that means you have a HTC Incredible S that is not model id PG3213000. The North American version is PG3212000, so you must have S-OFF and then manually edit the android-info.txt file contained in the PG32IMG.zip file.

If you are S-ON and are simply trying to run the RUU, then you must have a IncS model id PG3213000 to use the files that have been posted.
[HTC Incredible S] elpuertorro:
yeap that is my problem that's why i had ask you before how you did yours (the editing part) as i had a model not from north america the one they sell in Puerto Rico is a canadian/south america model.

any help you can give me/us would be really appreciated :D

I have S=off visionary method

info if needed:

INFOversion: 0.5

INFOversion-bootloader: 1.16.0000

INFOversion-baseband: 3805.09.03.27_M

INFOversion-cpld: None

INFOversion-microp: None

INFOversion-main: 2.28.515.5

INFOserialno: HT18ZTA02459

INFOimei: 3551********

INFOproduct: vivo

INFOplatform: HBOOT-7630

INFOmodelid: PG3212000

INFOcidnum: BSTAR301

INFObattery-status: good

INFObattery-voltage: 3762mV

INFOpartition-layout: Generic

INFOsecurity: on

INFObuild-mode: SHIP

INFOboot-mode: FASTBOOT

INFOcommitno-bootloader: dirty-d3a3895d

INFOhbootpreupdate: 12

INFOgencheckpt: 0

all: Done!

that was before root now booloader is 6.13 = 1.13

if you need any more info let me know

ps I did venture into looking at the files in the ICS update for editing after i read your post on the success you had doing it, saw the lines with cid's and in the txt the model stuff but did not know what to do or delete so left it as that , that's when i posted you on how you did it lol
[HTC Incredible S] n1cnak:
View attachment PG32DIAG_PG32xx.nbh.zip

Why don't you modify your phone rather than the files!

There are a few different methods around but if you get it S-OFF & flash an engineering OR modified bootloader(HBOOT) you should be able to change your modelID to PG3213000 and CIDnum to one of the WWE types (HTC__001 etc.) & then you can flash the RUU ICS update.

Edit: Try throwing this page http://bbs.anzhi.com/thread-5237189-1-1.html at translate.google.com it might help with my suggestion above.

I understood enough of the English translation to make it sound promising. I'll attach all the files mentioned but I think you'll only need to grab the PG32DIAG_PG3212.nbh file from the zip. I'm pretty sure you rename it to just PG32DIAG.nbh & put on SD-Card (if it doesn't work 1st time, put the file on a GoldCard and retry). The author suggests that you can permanent(radio) S-OFF with this method also!

BTW: I can't read, write, speak or comprehend chinese in any way (but I occasionally eat it!). Chinese sites often come back as search results when your keywords have anything to do with a mobile/cellular-phone!!
[HTC Incredible S] eSouL:
Can I flash the ICS RUU? I have:

VIVO PVT SHIP S-OFF RL

HBOOT-6.13.1002

RADIO-3805.06.03.03_M

eMMC-boot
[HTC Incredible S] n1cnak:
You haven't given enough information.

Finding out your CID number would be useful!

Try "CID Getter" from the Market(Play):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tritonsoft.cidgetter&hl=en

In the result list you'll find something like [ro.cid] = ????????

Post what you get for the question marks!
[HTC Incredible S] elpuertorro:
DONE!

Got it!! thanks so much for your help tpbklake :highfive: you sir are truly a great and helpful person!!

I'll be posting later on the steps of how i did it!! thank you so much !!! ;)

any hints on how to root this one?? :fingers-crossed:

by the way where is that face unlock thing? :confused:
[HTC Incredible S] mr nick:
@n1cnak

So have you tried this then? I see lots of people posting stuff like this, none of it tested and none of it proven to work. I've not seen this method before and am intrigued as to whether you have tried and tested it yourself.
[HTC Incredible S] cenkcnk:
i am fed up with waiting. when will they release this update for Turkey?
[HTC Incredible S] thiagofbrito:
You might receive it before end July.
[HTC Incredible S] razesky:
Will wait for the official OTA ICS patiently... :(
[HTC Incredible S] jalaram:
Thanks for the link. My ro.cid = HTC__038. I assume that's not WWE.
[HTC Incredible S] cenkcnk:
mine says cid htc_m27, what is supposed to mean?
[HTC Incredible S] gmkv:
i heave cid HTC__001,wwe,also not riceve yet the new update ics,still wait..
[HTC Incredible S] teddyx2:
It seems that the update like halted somewhere. Not much news about other region getting the update.:(
[HTC Incredible S] abhijay.jagini:
Hi, I was able to flash stock ics the Rom onto my device. My bootloader is locked(s-on). I made a goldcard and ran the exe posted on the list of orginal roms thread. My USB port isn't good so I had a couple of retrys but in the end, it finally worked.
[HTC Incredible S] n1cnak:
Since you have "HTC__001" you should be able to use the OTA update by renaming it to "update.zip" on an SD-Card & *flash through recovery.

*That is provided your phone model ID is PG3213000 AND your are currently running STOCK GB 3.11.405.2 firmware/ROM!

Ideally I think you should just backup your phone & update it to ICS with the Official WWE ICS RUU:

RUU_VIVO_ICS_35_S_HTC_WWE_4.10.405.1_Radio_20.74.30.0833U_3831.18.00.11_M_release_266013_signed.exe

If anyone else wants to know if their phone CIDnum is in the WWE list:

HTC__001, HTC__032, HTC__E11, HTC__203, HTC__Y13, HTC__102, HTC__304, HTC__A07, HTC__405
[HTC Incredible S] n1cnak:
Really sorry I didn't notice your query earlier!

To answer your question - I HAVE had perfect success with changeCid using ENG HBOOT 0.96.2000 and also with BlackRose (latest) so I assure you it isn't just rumour. Now, I may have had a better starting point than many because when I grabbed my IncS from Optus pre-paid they were down to around $270 (now $370) so I also splurged on an XTC-Clip (from HongKong but arrived really quick). Consequently I was able to permanent S-OFF. Maybe some of these commands also work with other S-OFF methods but can't say for sure. Most of the time I've had CWM Recovery installed as well.

Seriously, have a look at my post on page-20 (with the PG32DIAG_PG32xx.nbh.zip attachment at the top) and take a look at that Chinese page through translate.google. The method they're using looks surprisingly similar to what I went through with the XTC-Clip. The hidden links on that page are to the files I zipped into that attachment. I mean - be careful and everything - but it might just give you radio S-OFF with superCID which is the starting point I had for all my mucking about with the Incredible S.

Cheers!
[HTC Incredible S] Cookie Ninja:
If you guys are s-off and can change cid, why waste time in waiting for OTA? Just trot over to the dev section and flash ARHD 3.0 or tpbklake's rooted stock Rom.... IMO it seems pretty dumb to lose s-off and root by applying OTA update...

Sent from my HTC Incredible S
[HTC Incredible S] cirian75:
Cool

My ex inc s I sold to my boss has the right

CID, firmware and model number to get the upgrade

I just wish htc would release a dual core version in GSM of this phone.