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[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] junkmail9:
I believe you should be able to configure the Ubuntu 32-bit bootable USB to ignore your hard drive OS.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] ILikeBubbles:
unfortunately that's not the way it works. there's a new firmware or something they use in the BIOS that prevents all that from happening... but it's sort of resolved now because my roomie came back and said i could borrow her laptop. :) it's windows 7x64 but at least it's been "proven" to work..
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] junkmail9:
Perhaps you have a 64-bit only processor? Good luck!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] ILikeBubbles:
WELL i'm running the Rabies Shot right now. on windows 7 x64.. and i just wanted to note how AMAZING the rabies shot is lol it has so much humor built in and it really makes waiting both more fun and more apprehensive! lol

aaaaand its been almost 12 hours (mainly becaues i'm retarded lol) and i finally have s-off. haha time for bed! thanks so much team unlimited!!!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] SpyderPride:
No, new Windows 8 computers use UEFI which is basically a different type of BIOS or some kind of a BIOS setting. I looked into it and 32-bit Linux currently is incompatible, it won't install or live boot.

EDIT: I did a little more digging, and I guess it is possible to boot a liveCD on a uefi system if you temporarily switch your BIOS to "legacy mode". Install is still practically impossible though.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] junkmail9:
Thanks. Good to know.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jose51197:
I installed it but it was kind of hard, had to make quick key pressing and make a new partition
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
I don't know how many times I have said this.. but I will do it once more:

64bit OS's have already been "tested" by the team - they are not stable and we won't support them. The drivers that HTC makes and the way that the OS works - IS NOT STABLE AND CAN CAUSE BRICKS - which is why we have chosen not to support it.

Also - EVERYONE under the sun has "access to a 32bit system" (yes, even you Windows 8 UEFI people) all you need to do is boot an Ubuntu LiveCD (NOT LIVE USB) and run it under "try".. This automatically gives you the best environment to use our tools - no Windows drivers conflicts, no AV issues, No HTC Sync that you forgot to uninstall.

We're happy you guys want to try something not supported, but we're getting really sick of people flaming us for "not supporting Win8" or "64bit OS" or the people who come into our support # to tell us "Windows XP worked!".. that's all find and good but we don't care.

We built directions with the safest, most reliable way to use our tools. If you want to deviate from that feel free but when you brick your phone by not following directions, or get yourself stuck somewhere because the drivers puked halfway through running our tool - WE CANNOT HELP YOU.

So if you want to go the route of using an unsupported OS - have fun! Don't come to us when you're device is hosed and you need help.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] whodisname:
Yes yes. This tool works. I have softened my phone and my wife's phone with this. Once with a 10 year old windows xp desctop and once with a windows 7 tiny laptop LT4010u.

It works great. And if you Gunna use this then you already had to temproot once anyway. (For the ppl who know who they are) all the tools on this CDA site work. I have used them all.

I want to add here that I have been modifying android phones for several years and I have found the windows xp setup works best with all phones. Causes the least problems all the way around.

Hats off to team fireballas.

I'm pretty ignorant about all things android but thanks for the effort and thanks for the results. **** works.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] 24ky:
well i wasnt a Team Fireballas Member Then but on be-half of all of them now, you are welcome.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] kramer56:
LOL ok first off I have been trying for 2 weekends to get the ubuntu livecd to work and it just wont. So I finally got the ubuntu to work next to windows vista so great right?, well not exactly the one I installed was 64 bit even tho the link drop down said 32 bit, so the wifi will not connect at all due to some drivers crap. Next I replaced it with the 32 bit ubuntu and set it all up and now again no wifi. I thought this was supposed to be easy haha. Anyway I am going to do this s-off if it kills now just out of spite because somewhere out there someone or something is against that happening for me lol. This is one of the reasons why I haven't yet activated the phone on my line until I get the s-off and rooted with my cm10.1 rom just in case it goes awry trying to use windows vista. Any suggestions on the temp root thing?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] somerandomname1:
It is easy if you follow the instructions. No offense, but it seems like you don't know much more about your computer other than turning it on. As far as temp root goes, when you get to that part, you can use the script package from this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35960433#post35960433

You would use procedure number 6 to temp root.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Klown80:
Hello all,

I am attempting S-off, but I cant get the phone S/N to pop up after I issue "adb devices", it shows list of devices attached but it does not show the Incred's S/N. I am still learning a few things in Unbuntu, Is this the correct method to connect the Incred to Unbuntu?

http://androiddeveloperspot.blogspot.in/2013/01/usb-debugging-in-android-ubuntu.html

Again, sorry for the noobish question but I am obviously missing something, worked on this for like 4 hours last night, I think I may be missing something at this point and wanted to get advice from an expert on the subject before logging a few more hours figuring it out.. Any and all help/advice on the matter would be very greatly appreciated!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
Support for our tools is provided via IRC. You may click the "support" link in my signature to get there if you don't have an IRC client.

Also that link that you list has nothing to do with our tool and those instructions should _not_ be followed prior to running our tools. Please follow the directions on our website only.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] whodisname:
To everyone with a problem with this tool. It works. It works very well. If you can't make it work then you aren't smart enough to even have root.

And that's not an insult, that's a warning. Now would you feel if you just hot a phone and excitedly modified it and it didn't boot IP and all that $ was wasted?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Texas_T-Bolt:
hey i downloaded the dirty racun file and all the files have ? marks and idk if tha cause anything to not work i did everything right but i just havent got pass this

cd into the folder where you extracted and run the following cmd:

Note: This cmd returns a blank new line if you have done it correctly.

chmod 755 RabiesShot adb fastboot

i am on temper root and i have su gain acess and i am on 1,15..... the main file i just downloaded the LINUX DIRTY RACUN do i put that in my cd ? or do i leave it on the desktop? i did all my comands right i just dont know if it is working or i am doing something wrong by mistake.

sorry im sure yall get ask alot of question.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] whodisname:
You still having trouble? I might be able to help you. What kind of setup you got? Give me a lil info.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] TeChNoC4AzY:
Does this work for Windows?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] junkmail9:
Not anymore, no. You can use a 32-bit Ubuntu Live CD - boot to Linux without affecting your system at all. If you're on a newer computer (i.e. Windows 8/8.1) you may need to temporarily modify a setting in your BIOS to boot to the CD.

A freshly FAT32 formatted 2GB "temporary" SD card is also recommended for use during the process.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] TeChNoC4AzY:
So I would be running Linux off of the USB?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] therreid:
I believe their instructions say to run it off a cd/dvd. I could never get it to work for me, so I used Team Infernal Fake CID and Facepalm s-off. Worked very well for me. But nothing will likely work if you got the new OTA in January. I snagged a different Dinc4g off Ebay that had not been updated.

Not much dev love fore this phone. I doubt we see a way to get root/s-off after this last OTA.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] scotty1223:
What is the issue with the latest update? Is p4 now write protected, or is it simply that the old means of temp root has been patched?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] therreid:
I am not sure. I do have a phone that I would gladly let someone experiment with to see what the issue is.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] squeezyb:
woooohooooo!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jonno95:
i had that as well.

go to their site for help.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] *Madmoose*:
I guess I'll be passing on this. I haven't had a 32bit OS in the last 5 years.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] globatron:
You can use the linux live CD method.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] slacka-vt:
I've never gotten a clear answer on this -I was lucky enough to get HTC Dev unlock before they removed our device from the site -is there anything to gain by s-off?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
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There's many things to gain from S-OFF..

you can revert RUU, say a leak came out, and you wanted to flash the RUU, with S-ON you are stuck on this, with S-OFF you have full control and can flash back to an older RUU.

You can use many more hboot commands with the ENG hboot provided by Unlimited.io team,

you can flash kernels with the ROM in recovery rather than in bootloader.

you can flash radios..

That's about all off top of my head.

:good::good:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] globatron:
Not if posted in this thread. We want any issues to be taken through the support channel so that the directions can be refined as needed.

We do not want random pieces of information scattered in this thread causing confusion and further issues.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] *Madmoose*:
I've yet to find a way to inject temp root via the livecd method
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] globatron:
look at post 13
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] *Madmoose*:
Alright, well I just went and got all crazy and completed the steps with Windows 7 64 bit. Completed successfully. Now I officially quit for the day :)

Thx UnlimitedIO...awesome stuff.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
I AM S-OFF, no problems, only problem i had was the (adb shell echo "ro.kernel.qemu=1">)at this point i was leaving a space between > &/ and i got the error then i didn't leave a space and it ran perfect, that's it!!! WWWWOOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOOOO
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] x2kjosh:
I may join you in trying that tomorrow if I don't get to my 32 bit machine tonight.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
I fear there are a lot of inexperienced folks forgetting to ask themselves, "why do I need S-OFF?"
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] litetaker:
What if somebody tried this on 64 bit windows? I don't have access to 32 bit machines and I would reaaally like to S-OFF!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] *Madmoose*:
It completed successfully for me with Windows 7 64 bit. With it not being recommended by UnlimitedIO I wouldn't attempt to get much support for it.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] globatron:
You will get

no support

for it and using it will drastically increase your chances of bricking. It is not that it is not recommended, it is that it is NOT supported. We can't stop you from trying but you are completely on your own if you do.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
sorry, didn't think about that.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] blazingwolf:
Sigh. Not working for me. I keep getting a response that the racun has been spotted. :(

Have to wait for folks to wake up in IRC.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Linch89:
Fuses is usually on around 1300 est

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But what trouble are you having? Did you lock your boot loader? Flash ruu? Temp root?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Skidoo03:
I plan on trying this on one of my school's computers because I'm running Windows 8, I shouldn't need any special permissions on it should I? Can't wait for it!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Method320:
Some schools restrict the use of command line, other than that you should be fine.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] blazingwolf:
Yes to all of the above. Going back over everything again. :/
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jamminjon82:
Is windows vista possible or do I need to suck it up and do the live CD?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Linch89:
If it's 32 bit it should be fine. But Vista is trash. Can't go wrong with ubuntu
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] IceDragon59:
Success! Now to flash the old radio and see if my lag in receiving messages goes away! Thank you, Team Unlimited.IO!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Pete02:
I just did it successfully on my bro's Vista 32bit computer. The process ran just fine. However my ext-sd card did get wiped. :( Should've taken their advice and backed it up. Another lesson learned!

Many Thanks to Team Unlimited for doing this! You guys rock! :good:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] IceDragon59:
Yeah, the same happened to me. It didn't actually wipe it so much as destroy the file system. All the data's still there, just have to know how to access it.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
To all of those that are thinking about doing this on an unsupported OS .. let us be very very clear. The % of likelihood of bricking your device goes up exponentially if you do not follow directions. There is no recovery process from bricking with DirtyRacun on this device. If you do not have a supported OS please use Ubuntu LiveCD.. if you run into problems DO NOT post to this thread. Please come to our support # so that we can help you through this process.

If you see a step posted by someone other than myself, globatron or Fuses we highly suggest you ignore it and come directly to the source (us) for help..
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jcpowell:
Is this going smoothly for everyone cause I got those "i'm kinda sick going to brick my phone butterflies in my stomach" guess I'll give it a try tomorrow

Sent from my all powerful Inc4G
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Aldo101t:
follow the directions, you'll be fine.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] litetaker:
Worked seamlessly. Though LadyX stated clearly that other OS's like Windows 64 bit or Linux 64 bit are unsupported, I would like to report that I had success with Windows 7 64 bit. Since I and another reckless soul, aka *Madmoose*, experienced success on Win7 64 bit, may be we can request Team Unlimited IO to consider adding that into the list of supported OS's so that people have more options? Its just a recommendation of mine and nothing more, of course the team's decision is final and binding.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
Read their thread over at evo 4g, they really want people to stick to their recommended OS choices. try not to rock the boat and listen to ladyx when she asks folks not to post recommendations and procedures in this thread
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] IceDragon59:
The reason they suggest 32-bit operating systems is because they are utilizing the command line, and if it is the true command line (i.e. DOS), then some of the code may be 16-bit, which generally doesn't work in 64-bit operating systems. If it's inside a 32-bit executable, and it is, then it could potentially work on certain systems, which is why it worked for you. It will not work for everyone. I didn't take the chance with my important piece of hardware.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] blazingwolf:
Looks like I have a "special" phone and I won't be getting S-off. :(

Thanks to LadyX for the help.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] MJL99:
Why are you guys so worried about using ubuntu with live cd or creating a partition to dual boot either Windows or ubuntu when you want it? You can always uninstall it when you are done with it. It's simple to use and nothing to worry about.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
100% agreed, I installed Ubuntu as it was needed for S-OFF testing, and I just gave it a simple 20GB, and anytime I want to get rid of it I just delete the Ubuntu folder in C:/ Drive.

If I have to get a refurb for any reason, I'll just use the Ubuntu to S-OFF
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] nitsuj17:
whats so special about it, that it wont work?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
The reason we do not support 64bit OS' is that the drivers are unreliable. We did not make the drivers and we will not support any part of the process that is "unreliable" because we do not want to risk your device to sudden bricking.

That said.. each and every one of you can make the decision yourself. We're telling you what to use and what will work.. if you want to use another OS - feel free. We (Team Unlimited) do not recommend it, and will not support you while you're on it, and we cannot help you recover from a brick from using the wrong OS or not following the directions.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] dajogejr:
First off, thanks Lady X and all of Team Unlimited.

Second, I joined the IRC with no response earlier today...and I don't want to muddy it up

My only question, coming from a rooted device per Team Fireball..

One of the steps to S-Off is to make a backup. I realize the S-Off process wipes the whole phone.

Once S-Off is achieved and recovery installed, can you recover that backed up image to your phone?

(In other words...can I just restore or am I going to be setting up my phone from scratch all over again. Time planning thing, work phone, that's why I ask...)

Thanks!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
We recommend taking everything off the phone and SD card. Both may get wiped as the instructions say. You're welcome to do or not do.. once the data is gone it's gone..
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
if you are rooted now, you can make a nandroid backup, put it on your computer from your SD-card (since S-OFF wipes the card...) then after S-OFF, put custom recovery back on your phone, put the nandroid back onto your SD-Card into the correct folder again (making it if necessary, or just pull the whole TWRP folder from SD-Card to cpu before S-OFF. then throw it back on again after)

and you can recover that nandroid after S-OFF, yes.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] blazingwolf:
Not sure. It just wont take for some reason. I just spent another 3 hours with hyuh and got to the same spot I did last night.

I'm not complaining though as the unlimited.io team has provided fantastic service.:good:
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] dajogejr:
Thanks Andy. Nandroid restore is exactly what I was asking.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] junkmail9:
I completely agree. I had issues with my Kindle Fire while rooting because of Windows 7-64 bit drivers. My Kindle has different USB Enum Identifiers for normal device and for fastboot. When the Kindle was put into fastboot, Windows didn't see it anymore and the process was dead stopped with a black unresponsive device. I had to use a different (32-bit) computer just to recognize a device, dig into the device properties, find the EnumID, and modify the device .inf for the computer to actually see it and finish the process. Lesson learned - before rooting a device, I now connect it and set the device to each mode to ensure I can talk to it with adb and fastboot while in each respective mode before moving on to any more dangerous processes. The Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit LiveCD worked flawlessly for me in communicating with the Dinc4g last night.

Just my opinion, and intended to reinforce the dangers of straying from the instructions posted at unlimited.io. If this strays too far into giving instructions, please let me know and I'll edit/remove.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
Use of a USB stick is not supported at all. You need to download and untar the files in Ubuntu itself to the default location as stated in the directions. Running any part of this operation off a USB stick is a really bad idea.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] canpitt27:
Well I am now S-Off! Success. Thank you Unlimited.IO!!! (and Andybones)
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] x2kjosh:
I was nervous as hell during the process but the scripting cracked me up. Thanks Unlimited.IO for really unlocking this for us!
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] andybones:
very welcome, but all the thanks should truly go to the Unlimited.IO team.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
Actually this is incorrect. If you do not follow the directions exactly you risk bricking your device. We've tested this process quite a bit and we have had quite a few people already doing this process exactly as it's stated in the directions. You're always welcome to attempt something that isn't supported, but again.. the risk goes up and we will not support anything but the directions exactly.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] squeezyb:
guys, when i am trying to run the RunMe.sh i am getting a permission denied error. I am doing sudo ./RunMe.sh and the program open in terminal. But all i get is permission denied .... any help?
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
The team specifically requested that support requests go through IRC. Try that.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] squeezyb:
they also specifically say they cant help with temp root
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] mdmower:
If you have a shell with #, then you are temp root. After that they should be able to help you with the RunMe.sh script.

Edit: I wrote this under the assumption that RunMe.sh was part of the linux Racun package and squeezyb had already achieved temp-root. I now see that it is not and comes from a different source related to temp-root.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
We do not help with temproot.

Please do not post help for unsupported pieces of this process. This is OFF TOPIC for this thread.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Makaveli1490:
I guess I can't use this. Windows 7 64-bit

And I don't want to "brick my phone"
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] LadyX:
One word: LiveCD
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Makaveli1490:
Naw, I'm good
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] dbrits:
Why not? Booting a LiveCD is very simple.

EDIT: I mean to say that if you're confident enough to try for s-off that booting a LiveCD shouldn't be an impediment.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] junkmail9:
The LiveCD is very easy to use and set up. It will not do anything to your existing OS, (unless you intentionally mount hard drives and change something).

The hardest part was leaning how to spell Ubuntu. :p

Sent from my Fireball using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Jafmf95:
Like it or not, temp root is part of the process. It is very much on topic for this thread. You are welcome to ignore questions about the temp root part of the process. Others here can help.

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Ahhh....now I see what you mean. I copied and pasted the command and ended up with the space. Deleting it solved my problem. Now S-OFF. Thanks for this.
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] jamminjon82:
Really dude? They are the reason we have s off and I think they can choose what they want to be a part of the topic. Try showing a modicum of respect if you know how
[Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE] Skidoo03:
+1 They are the reason we have this.