yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
ok i got in ok just had to try 3 times. its working fine so far
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
Yeah I only remembered that after it came up in IRC this morning, and then again here tonight. Anyways, Jose, you would get priority treatment if it came to that. ;)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
got that right!!!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] DavDoc:
Done - I am unlocked and going to bed.

Thanks again for the hard work.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Linch89:
But black ops 2 just came out NO SLEEP!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
Off topic I know... But I am so excited for the new COD, too ... Plus now this unlock that we've been working for this whole time. Stimulus overload!

But seriously ... it's been a good week!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Here's my money shot:

So happy to have TitaniumBackup again.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] bberryhill0:
I tried to use MyBackup. Useless. I miss Titanium. I can wait a while to see if we get S-off. Thanks for the screenshot.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] dajogejr:
Special thanks to Captain, Mower and Jose for helping several of us on IRC to walk us through this.

Much appreciated guys!!!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
+1 thanks a lot guys! everything worked fine first time and had no troubles. really appreciate the hard work you went thru to help everyone get it working and also creating the auto script. great job!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] homers1:
ADB backup

For those who ask, "how can I do an adb backup," here are a couple of links. Yes, it's searchable. But, I'm being nice.

Good adb backup guide

[GUIDE] Full Phone Backup without Unlock or Root

Guide for backing up apps and moving to new, same OS, phone (just in case it wasn't an obvious extension of the first link ;) )

[TIP] Backup/Restore user apps and data from old phone (without needing root)

KEEP CALM AND ROOT ON
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
Titanium backup should work once you go through this unlock and root process. You shouldn't need s-off to use it. I plan to s-off still, but no word on when that will happen.

---------- Post added at 07:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:55 AM ----------

No problem. I think that, now that the dust has settled, anyone else having issues can just raise them here... No need to jump on IRC again today.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] TheGOAT232412:
I second that thanks, Jose & Captain your help is much appreciated
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] j13smiley:
oh wow, is this interesting - that will be useful!

thanks!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] csilvest:
So close I can taste it...Has HTC already shut us down?

Have read through the entire thread and have not seen anyone mention this problem yet...

I've succesfully made it all the way through to the point in the script where I go to htcdev.com, register, and then click on Unlock Bootloader. Unfortunately, when I select "All Other Supported Devices" and click on "Begin Unlock Bootloader", I get stuck on the legal screen. Clicking on "Yes' to acknowledge that I'm sure I wish to continue yields an "error on page" in the lower left corner of the browser and I am unable to click on anything else except "No" which of course gets me nowhere.

I'm using IE8 on WIndows 7 Pro 32 bit if that makes any difference at this point.

Anyone? I can't have come this close to fail now!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Try going directly here: http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/unlock-instructions/page-3

Note: If you are not already logged in, login at the top of that page, then click the link again.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
make sure your still logged in when it goes to another page, it does that sometimes
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
This sounds like a web browser issue. Maybe try Firefox or Chrome?

...or just try mdmower's suggestion. ;)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] csilvest:
Never mind - got around it by using a different browser on another computer and then copying the URL from the point after choosing yes to continue...and I just saw that same suggestion from mdmower :)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
One more thing for everyone's reference:

If you've successfully done all these steps, and are concerned about somehow losing your Unlock by an OTA update somehow reverting what we've done here, simply follow this article and you won't need to worry about that anymore:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1973347

Thanks, andybones!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] gfresh4:
Everything is working fine jose51197. I just have to do fastboot now. I was unable to do. I borked my Viao last night. Nothing a little artic5 can't handle. Once again my friend thanks for coming through for me. All of the devs and non dev for this matter. :thumbup:

Oh forgot to thank Andybones for this badass ROM and support. :D

Donations coming soon!

Sent from my Unlocked I4GLTE using Viper ROM 1.0 with xda app-developers app
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
Thanks for all, i just got back from college and saw your post, any more help just ask
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] IceWilly:
I won't have time to learn this and implement it until after Thanksgiving weekend. Is there anything here that could be time sensitive (disabled) by anything other than an unwanted OTA Verizon update? I realize another OTA is unlikely considering the first one was the reason we have this root to begin with.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] homers1:
What I learned in this process:

1. This is GREAT! thank you to all involved.

2. Do an adb backup - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34057428 HTCDEV UNLOCK IS A FACTORY RESTORE PROCESS.

3. Backup your calendar, contacts, pics, vids, AND GOOGLE PLAY LOGIN INFO seperately. Adb backup will NOT restore your account info. (Also record any subscription service logins)

4. Follow post 1 and get HTCDEV unlocked, restore your adb backup (seems to "hang" at com.android.sharedstoragebackup; let it run. My 12Gb .ab took 40min), follow post 2 to get SU, restore everything independently backed up above. Your phone should look just like before, only with ROOT!

5. Nandroid backup in TWRP

6. Remove (rename until you're sure) bloatware.

7. Nandroid backup again when happy.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
I have a cautionary tale from a recent experience. It's not meant to scare you, but rather to keep you informed so you know what to do in a similar situation.

Some background: I was unlocked using this method, running stock with SU installed, and TWRP was flashed over my recovery

On Tuesday, I could no longer make or receive calls. This was apparently a software issue because I could actually see a call trying to come through, then com.android.phone would crash. The same process would crash when I tried to dial out. Unfortunately it couldn't be fixed with the usual tricks:

clearing data from phone, dialer, contacts app, and facebook sync

factory reset from the bootloader

switching ROMs to Viper (properly wiping along the way)

re-locking the phone and running the RUU (both from the .exe and from the PJ53IMG.zip method), then factory resetting

I was pretty bummed at this point.

I had wondered about reverting the cid from SuperCid back to VZW__001, but didn't think it would mess with communication to the radio. jose51197 suggested that it actually could if integrity checks were being made by any processes, so I applied this hack again and set my cid back to VZW__001. After factory reset, my phone worked just fine. Note: factory reset after cid change likely not necessary, but remember to remove /data/local.prop so your phone can boot again.

First and foremost, if you find yourself in a similar situation, know that it can be remedied. The only unanswered question right now, is what would happen to your phone if you revert your cid while your bootloader is still unlocked. I doubt this is advisable. To be on the safe side, lock your bootloader before changing your cid back to VZW__001.

For those experiencing this issue, or for the cautious who want to take precautionary steps, you can follow this procedure:

SuperCid

Unlock bootloader

Mess with stuff (install a new rom, flash a new recovery, flash a new package)

Re-lock bootloader

Revert cid to VZW__001

I hope this doesn't become necessary for everyone, because it's cumbersome and requires you to keep messing with mmcblk0p4, but it is at least an option.

EDIT: Another side effect of this issue was contacts refusing to sync. Of my 300 Google contacts, only 14 ever came through.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
yeah this happened to me after i flashed Viper, all i did was went to recovery, wiped cache and dalvic, then from bootloader i reflashed the old software boot.img again, and all was ok, benn 2 days now still ok, don't know if it will happen again or not. But my phone worked ok on stock rooted rom, it did this after flashing viper, may not be related to your problem
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
No, the problem you're describing is different. Failure to clear data/cache when switching to Viper causes repeated crashes of com.android.phone and com.android.process.acore upon booting. The problem I'm describing cannot be fixed with a simple wipe and only occurs when trying to dial out or receiving calls.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
yeah that's exactly what mine did, but phone worked ok on stock rooted rom, i think your right, your's is a different problem, ok thanks

i wipied everything twice before flashing viper.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
Will update thread with this as promised
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
Are you 100% positive you are you the correct kernel? (boot.IMG)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Yes, I downgraded to the 1.43 boot.img before installing Viper 1.0. I assure you my problem was distinct from this, as it began before installing Viper, which was only done as a test to see if another ROM would remedy the issue. I'm curious if a non-sense based ROM would have exhibited the problem, since I'm almost certain the com.android.phone crash was due to a consistency check somewhere.

I'm actually happy that no one else has chimed in that they have experienced this, and I hope this turns out to be a unique case.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
that's weird..

did you make sure you were on "CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto" for network type?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
That couldnt work since *#*#4636#*#* didnt showed anything meaning radio was almost f+%%#d up
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
if he is on the Viper ROM, you can get to it in VenomTweaks.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
Most probably doing that would crash the app, since mdmower sold me his device ill try to recreate problem and try
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
awesome to have you on board man!

very glad you got a phone!

:good::cool:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
I'm guessing fix permissions has already been tried? A wipe should have cleared that up but if you were only wiping /boot then maybe not. Just checking... I bet it has, just making sure.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
I did in fact try to change the network type first thing after factory resets. Global mode was initially selected always, then I manually selected CDMA/LTE without any change in behavior.

*#*#4636#*#* was never the exact code I saw come through google chat, so that's why it didn't work. In fact that menu was accessible and I did access it successfully through the application "Phone Info". With the app, I tried switching to CDMA only mode (my city has 4G LTE so that's what my phone was trying to use automatically), but the behavior did not change.

Now here's a real possibility that I'm ashamed to say I didn't consider. I don't know how many times fix permissions saved the day for app crashes under CyanogenMod 7.x on my HTC Incredible. I didn't think that function touched anything outside of /system and /data (which were both wiped and overwritten several times), but if it does perhaps it would have helped. Alas, this issue is already resolved and I'm not particularly motivated to re-create the problem right now.

I was one of many receiving this backorder notice today from Google. Some folks are still getting shipping notices even after receiving the backorder notice, but I haven't yet. I really don't want to be without phone while waiting for my new device to arrive. If you're anxious to have it by next week, I might have to let you down and ask that you look elsewhere; but if you have patience until my new phone arrives, you definitely have dibs.

Seeing as this issue is so isolated, and could simply be a file permissions problem, perhaps this doesn't need to be written in full glory in the OP. Maybe a little notice under "Potential issues" with a link to my post would suffice. There is enough community knowledge about it now that I'm sure folks will know where to point if it ever does arise in the future. Your call of course, just my thoughts.

Edit: Seems not so isolated
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
I dont have it yet ill pay it monday
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
We totally re ruu it in different ways
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
Dont worry ill be patient just tell me when youre ready
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jtdogblue:
I'd like to add that after unlocking, I installed nitsu's 2.17.605.2 stock rom and everything worked perfectly. Then I flashed to viper 2 beta, thats when things turned awry. I recovered back to stock, and things worked again. Food for thought ;)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jamminjon82:
Just trying to clear up some of my confusion. Can you edit the cid after unlocking to prevent the phone issue that mdmower had or relock and maintain root/recovery/previous ROM and boot.IMG?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jtdogblue:
:confused:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Re-locking will not affect any changes you've made; it's safe to perform. We don't know if it's safe to change the cid before re-locking though, so I've recommended re-locking and then changing the cid.

With that said, I would recommend just using your phone as is and only worrying about re-locking/cid-modding if this issue surfaces for you. So far it has only affected me and one other.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] litetaker:
If ever I have to do this, after re-locking and changing CID, can I unlock again? Or even without unlocking again, can I flash custom ROMs? I don't want to lose the precious unlock.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jamminjon82:
If it doesn't change the recovery then flashing roms that doesn't need a bootstrap.img should not be an issue
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
You shouldnt have any problem re unlocking again
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] fjm568:
Unlocked my bootloader and rooted. Thanks to all who made this possible.

I'm a newb at this. Had an issue or two of my own making, but worked through it. Only experience I've had at rooting before this was my OG Dinc. Still running stock on my Inc 4G. Don't really know a whole lot about this stuff. Just followed directions. If I could do it, anyone can. Now waiting on more ROMs to choose from and S-Off.

Again, Thanks to all...
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mark9876:
Is this process supposed to revert you to 4.0.3 / Sense 4.0?

I just noticed I'm back to the version before the update? Did i miss a step? Should i re-run the OTA?

I'm fully rooted and unlocked, just curious.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
did you make sure you were on ics 4.0.4 before doing this?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
Does this automated script work or is everyone doing it manually which is best?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
the auto script does it all, follow on screen directions
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
Is it supposed to say I'm offline when telling my device is connected
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] gfresh4:
Everything is working fine for me. Thanks to all.:highfive:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
Having htcdev site issues it won't allow me to click yes I want to proceed on its first popup warning me but it will let me say no wtf? I'll try again at a later time it apparently wants to screw with me.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
are you registered and signed in.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
Yes registered and signed in but after 13 attempts to get it to except my yes I gave up factory reset and now sitting here wondering why
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
Maybe try a different browser? There were some issues last week when using IE.

---------- Post added at 10:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:02 PM ----------

That didn't happen for me. It sounds like you were on the old OTA before you started.

Then I thought about that for a sec...

At first I wondered if you were updated to latest OTA. I had thought the first OTA didn't support backup/recovery of settings, which would have prevented us from getting temproot. Now I'm wondering if adb backup/restore worked in the first OTA and we could have had this unlock all along. Spilled milk, though.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
I started with chrome but the first popup wouldnt even come up so I tried IE and this is what happened has to be a browser issue so I'll try again tomorrow thank you for this script, help and root when I finally achieve it
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
Either a browser issue or HTCDev.com problem. They might have had a guy getting paged on it if it were mission-critical for them. ;)

Silly question, but are you clicking all their annoying checkboxes when they warn you about the risks of unlocking?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mark9876:
No, i was definitely on the new OTA (100% sure). I did do an ADB backup and restore, but i thought i excluded system stuff. Any ideas what will happen if i install the OTA to clean things up? Will the bootloader stay unlocked? What will happen to the recovery?

I'm thinking i should wipe and start again.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
It is best to update and unlock again since roms coming out will be for people who unlocked using this method
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] nitsuj17:
its best to be on the latest ota for updating firmware/hboot/radio

but as long as those who are still unlocked from original htc dev unlock fastboot the new boot.img, ota update.zip roms are fine (i never updated to latest ota personally)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
Good to know that, would like to know differences betwen both hboots
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] lwinstead:
I used the automated script this morning on my DInc4G. Not a single problem. :good: :highfive: I'm running Win7x64, incidentally.

I'm not bashing on the authors of the script, but I would like to say it could be cleaned up a bit, grammatically speaking. Funny enough, though, I tried to do just that and ended up crashing the script. Apparently, it's been a while since I've written/studied DOS scripts; punctuation - even in @echo lines - can cause all sorts of weirdness. Who knew? :eek:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
I agree, and I commented on this in Post 167. I sent an updated version of root.bat to jose51197 (which really should be renamed to unlock.bat since this process is unrelated to giving your phone root) but he hasn't gotten around to updating the package with it.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
Question if this tricks htcdev.com to unlock bootloader what does bin4ry's script do because before all this happened I had been watching his thread and ran his script upon each update with no temp root
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
Forgot about it before sorry will upload right away

Edit:

Uploaded
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
Anyone else having htcdev.com issues? Doesn't look like this is going to happen for me unless something changes. I cannot get past the first warning after you click unlock bootloader and on chrome it does nothing when I click unlock bootloader no popups.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] litetaker:
Check if these direct links help:

Instructions:

Page 1: http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/unlock-instructions

Page 2: http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/unlock-instructions/page-2

Page 3: http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/unlock-instructions/page-3

Page 3 has a form that once you submit should provide you with the unlock code.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] CaptainRewind:
FYI the difference here is that we could only gain temproot via Bin4ry's method (and only on the latest OTA), and only THEN could we apply the SuperCID/FakeCID. This is basically just a slightly modified combination of two different methods that were already out there.... finding the right combination was what took so long. :)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
Can I skip straight to link 3 or aka last step I'm assuming?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
You only need page 3
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] litetaker:
Yes. The others are just instructions in case you want to know all the steps... But I think most of us are well versed enough that you can safely skip them. The fun stuff is on page 3. No these aren't the tabloids... :silly:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mclaser:
Hi Guys, I'm not super experienced here, but I did get CM7 running on my Inc2. I thought I'd give it a shot with the Inc4 now that unlocking is available again. I just unlocked (via fake CID) and installed TWRP ok and Viper ok (I think -- I get the Viper banner on boot). I also flashed the old boot image as described in the 1st post on the Viper instructions. My problem is when I attempt a boot I get the error ...the process com.android.acore has stopped... I get the message a few times then the phone reboots -- repeat. I've pulled the battery and re-installed Viper but get the same thing. Does anyone know what step I screwed up on? Thanks.

-- Since I just unlocked, I did have the OTA update.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
See the bugs section, if this error is related to unlock method the bugfix should work, after that unlock again
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mclaser:
Sorry...I searched the VIper, this thread, and the general threads...what/where would I find the bug section, or the bugfix??
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Jafmf95:
Is your bootloader unlocked? If you installed TWRP, it would seem so. So if you aren't having problems unlocking via fakecid, please post into the appropriate forum. No need to clutter up the fakecid sticky thread with ROM questions. If you post in the ROM thread, someone will help.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mclaser:
Yes, I'm unlocked. I apparently installed Viper 1.0.0. I just re-checked and it's now at 2.0.0 so I'm going to try that. Your right, I should have posted there...and I will if this doesn't work. Thank you.

--edit---

Well, got past that but now process android.phone crashes. Moving over to the ROM thread ...
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
The bugs section is the last part of the first post
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
I want to thank all involved in making this happen and a thank you to litetaker for the link that just happened to be the missing link in my quest for root.