[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramjet69:
Hello,

Trying to root my first phone and downgrade it following the directions (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1298990) very precisely...or so I thought. I keep getting an error at the second to last command when the rom actually gets flashed. Google has turned up several threads but those remedies don't seem to apply here. I'll give you my phone details as it stands right now.

HTC Droid Incredible 2

***UNLOCKED***

VIVO_W XB SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-0.98.0000

RADIO-1.09.01.0722

eMMC boot

July 18th 2011, 12:39:36

HBOOT

Vol up / down etc instructions then fastboot, recovery, etc with 3 droids on boards at the bottom.

So this may be redundant but I'm going to paste every command and the results.

I start from the phone fully booted looking at the home screen.

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>adb shell rm -r /data/local/tmp/*

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>adb push zergRush /data/local/tmp/zergRush

1883 KB/s (21215 bytes in 0.011s)

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp/misc_version

1546 KB/s (15837 bytes in 0.010s)

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/zergRush

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>adb shell /data/local/tmp/zergRush

[**] Zerg rush - Android 2.2/2.3 local root

[**] (C) 2011 Revolutionary. All rights reserved.

[**] Parts of code from Gingerbreak, (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew.

[+] Found a GingerBread ! 0x00016118

[*] Scooting ...

[*] Sending 149 zerglings ...

[+] Zerglings found a way to enter ! 0x10

[*] Sending 149 zerglings ...

[*] Trying a new path ...

[*] Sending 149 zerglings ...

[*] Trying a new path ...

[*] Sending 149 zerglings ...

[*] Trying a new path ...

[*] Sending 149 zerglings ...

[+] Zerglings caused crash (good news): 0x401219c4 0x0054

[*] Researching Metabolic Boost ...

[+] Speedlings on the go ! 0xafd25bb9 0xafd39a87

[*] Poping 24 more zerglings

[*] Sending 173 zerglings ...

[+] Rush did it ! It's a GG, man !

[+] Killing ADB and restarting as root... enjoy!

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c '/data/local/tmp/misc_version -s 2.18.605.3'

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

--set_version set. VERSION will be changed to: 2.18.605.3

Patching and backing up partition 17...

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>adb reboot bootloader

At this point the phone reboots back to the "bootloader screen??" with the three droids at the bottom. It says FASTBOOT USB. One thread I read on this forum said the 99 error was because you were not in fastboot so I threw in this command and my device shows up???

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>fastboot devices

HT14VMA22756 fastboot

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>fastboot oem rebootRUU

... OKAY [ 0.158s]

finished. total time: 0.160s

The phone now goes to black with HTC logo on it. From what I've read in other forum threads this is proper.

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>fastboot erase cache

erasing 'cache'... OKAY [ 0.277s]

finished. total time: 0.279s

C:\Users\GPGVM\Desktop\Rooting>fastboot flash zip RUU_Vivo_W_Gingerbread_S_VERIZON_WWE_2.18.605.3_Radio_1.09.01.0622_NV_VZW1.92_release_199487_signed.zip

sending 'zip' (292817 KB)... OKAY [ 49.180s]

writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...

INFOzip header checking...

INFOzip info parsing...

FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)

finished. total time: 55.007s

And there I sit unable to get past this 99 unknown fail.

Any thoughts, suggestions or helpful reading would be appreciated.

TIA

JB