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[Droid Incredible Android Development] vzw:
Could it be my specific device?! Could it? Uhg

Day 4 or is it 5?

Hours logged... countless

Mission to get adb shell booted into recovery with my device able to be seen.

Methods... scratch

(unrevoked team and shadowmites)

(some guy on youtube with the adb reboot recovery and adb devices)

(some other guys youtube video droid root in ten mins)

(A "if all else fails" ten step process with usb drivers and sd card)

Fail...Fail...Fail... FAIL!

I can get into the recovery boot showing my device but it says its offline

c:\sdk\tools\adb devices

List of devices attached

HT04GHJ02832 offline

using the adb reboot recovery method

(it only shows device for one command line then I hear the dreaded DING~ and away it goes then I do: adb devices I get nadda....

I have tried loop over and over and over and over....

:TOP

over and over and over

GOTO TOP

I am so frustrated... So I am now doing the tools\android.bat update sdk as a last stitch effort since everything else has failed to get passed adb shell into recovery...

If anyone knows what I can try please let me know.

They reserve round rooms with padded walls for people after spending this much time FAILing...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] gotroot801:
No luck with a standard install, adb install, or even copying the apk straight into /system/app...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Zabii:
Get a different sd card.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] HolyGrail:
Hi guys, quick question. When I delete a file using Root Explorer it reappears after I reboot. Is this a limitation as of now, or did I miss something when I rooted? :confused:
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mandroid2010:
well going to go to wal mart and try a different card but i highly doubt that will work. One of the issues that came up was driver not installed Android 1.0 WTF is that all about but everything else is set any suggestions.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] john7760:
Busybox never pushed the first time but the rest of the process took fine. Now I try to redo and I keep getting a permission denied error. I even formatted the card again in hopes it was locked somehow.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihtfp69:
We have root access but nand protection is still enabled. We need to be able to flash a new kernel with it disabled before we can really start messing around. This is also why things like MetaMorph will not work yet. I managed to get it installed and keep it open without it closing after the checks, but it is not able to patch anything yet. We also need a custom recovery image that sticks so we can do nandroid backups in case you mess something up. Right now, nand protection is only disabled in recovery. If you want to delete something from /system, you will have to do it there.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] HolyGrail:
aww....I see. Thanks ihtfp69. ;)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] EPayne123:
Where is this .inf file that I must be altering? I have looked in the sdk/tools folder and nothing. I have HTC Sync and HTC Drivers installed(the drivers that HTC Sync installs) but do not see the .inf file or USB drivers folder people are instructing me to look at.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] veli69:
I think this is it, my phone is a the black screen before my computer beeps to recognize it. I only have Sandisk Cards.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] LeoD:
After three days trying EVERYTHING posted here. I FINALLY rooted my phone.

I have tried 4 different SD cards, all of which did not work with the process. followed all the videos, and all the users steps to gain access to recovery without success.

This is my take on it. I'm running win 7 ultimate, 4 gigs ram, have HTSync installed. I've edited my inf file to match what has been posted in this thread. I knew from day one my drivers and setup was fine. I to like everyone else was watching device manager and seeing the drivers loading up and unloading going into recovery. NOW I can say this is NOT a factor for sure. windows should be performing as such. As long as you know your set up correctly and have the android drivers loaded via that inf file your good. I've read through every thread here and have done everything I can come up with including a few of my own "tricks" to no avail. After all this the only thing that made any sense to me was the SD card as MANY have suggested here.

This morning as a couple of other good folks have posted here I went to walmart and purchased (2) PNY SD cards, (1) 2 gig and (1) 4 gig.

When I got home went to the [How to] Install android_winusb.inf, create adb shell loop, and root your phone thread turned on the video posted there tried the first method with the (2) gig PNY card and got right into recovery. yeah like other here have said my jaw just dropped. So again my take is if you know you have everything set up correctly in my mind it is without a doubt the SD card thats the factor in us getting in.. or not getting in.

This is my take on whats going on. as with everyone else this is my story with my phone. no clue if all phones are created equally.

I hope this helps alot of people that have been racking their brains out trying to get this to work.

My respect and gratitude goes out to the whole XDA Development team!!

You guys do great work and I sure hope you enjoy what you do as much as I do.

Thank you:)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mandroid2010:
I just set up a ubuntu box but have no clue for the commands can anyone help?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] andrew53517:
Are we pretty close to fixing all of this? Or still a good amount of work away?

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[Droid Incredible Android Development] LeoD:
one addtion

When I applied the method in the video, before I booted to recovery I inserted the SD card at that point.. Brand New!

The first time I ran everything and was in recovery my root didn't stick. The walk through on that video does NOT include the persistant script, so I had to go into recovery a second time. While the first method did not work that time ( I assume cause the card was no long in virgin state) I got in again with the second method within 1 minute. So again at least to me it is obvious the SD card is factor.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] krelvinaz:
Still lots of work to do.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mandroid2010:
just curious are there instructions to rooting in linux enviroment i set up ubuntu can anyone give me help?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] R1lover:
for anyone having the driver issue, please give this a try and let me know if it works for you. :)

http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...tall-win-7-64-try-if-your-having-trouble.html
[Droid Incredible Android Development] R1lover:
Give it a try.... they are 32 bit drivers so it should
[Droid Incredible Android Development] immjg:
My question is did you try with your original cards, and fail, then try the new cards again? Do the New cards work every time?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] blw1230:
The PNY card work for me. Anyone know what to do about putting your normal memory card back in. What exactly would I need to do so everything works like it should?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] veli69:
When you guys go into recovery does windows recognize your phone before it gets to the black screen or does it not matter?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] bast525:
Ran down to wal mart in 102 F weather to pick up the 2gb PNY card only to find that it didn't fix anything... I am still unable to get ADB in Recovery after probably 100 tries.....
[Droid Incredible Android Development] reagianicparable:
Rooted on:

Windows 7 64-bit

Stock USB Cable

HTC Sync drivers

16GB Sandisk Class 6 Micro SDHC

FYI, for those of you that don't understand what is going on, this is a lot like the Memory Card swap trick for the old PSP homebrew on 1.5.

This has nothing to do with drivers or card speed (faster cards make it a little harder though). Basically, the ota.zip file is signed, so when the DI verifies that file, it will allow it to run. The trick it to copy the unrEVOked file over AFTER the verification. And if it doesn't work the first time, remember you will need to copy the ota.zip back over before trying again because you just replaced it with the unrEVOked file.

Got it on the third try. Just press enter right AFTER it says "Verifying blah blah blah".

Happy rooting! :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] LeoD:
yes I tried with all my cards (4), for three days I could not get a peep out of recovery. I have the original from the Dinc, I have the 16 gig from the moto droid and not a thing. The only change I made this morning was the PNY 2 gig SD card. worked first time and everytime after.

I have done it 3 times today twice on the first try and once on the second try.

Again I do know and have known my drivers are loaded correctly.

It is interesting to know that before today I tried everything I could think of, pulling/pushing the usb, pulling pushing the SD card during boot. at different times etc. none of it worked at all.

Again I do not know if all phones are created equal but if anyone asks me the SD card is without a doubt the most important factor here as long as your setup correctly.

if your also interested I have HTC Sync installed and I had debug on.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] LeoD:
Based on what I seen this morning, My guess is one of two things. Either your configuration is not set up correctly or as I said maybe all DInc's aren't created equal. I would gamble on the settings though.

did you follow that video on the thread I posted earlier?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] areghas:
After days of trying, I reluctantly went out to Wal-mart and bought the 10 dollar PNY 2gb card, and sure enough, worked first try. Highly recommended imho, days and hours spent on every single method here, got the PNY card, followed the 10 minute youtube vid, and snap. Everything worked like a charm!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] AlexanderJohn:
Did not work for me... Wal-Mart is 11.88 richer today because of me... and I have a worthless pny 2gb card.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] zerf:
didnt you keep the reciept? take it back... walmart takes everything back... it didnt fit your phone *wink* *wink*
[Droid Incredible Android Development] b00sted:
i thought the same thing and started to swear but then i followed this and it worked...

1. Load up the fastboot menu by holding down power and the optical trackpad.
2. Plug in the USB cable
3. Press power again to select fastboot.
4. Click the SD card out, highlight recovery, and then press power to select recovery.
5. As the first white HTC screen is loading, you will hear a "detach" sound if you are on a windows computer. Immediately click the SD card in at this time.
6. Try to get into shell.
7. If you did not get into recovery, reboot into the OS by holding down power and volume up and clicking power again. Do a battery pull and repeat steps 1-6.

credit goes to who first posted it (dont remember now tho sorry :/)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
Very good observations. You're obviously good with programming, and I am not, but I guessed that recovery was checking in the sdcard and preventing adb access for a non-passable card. As soon as I get get access using the Kingston 4gb/class4 sdhc I just bought for $10 :D, I'll let you know. I was trying to hang it up with a 2GB Sandisk loaded with the img and .zip files, but obviously it's looking for something specific. I have my doubts that anything we know of will work since I have a <week old DI with .79 HBOOT, but we'll see, wish me luck ;)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] bast525:
after buying the PNY 2GB card I uninstalled EVERYTHING, deleted EVERYTHING, rebooted and started comletely from scratch following the video to the letter, using the files in the zip posted in the same thread as the link to the video. So I installed the SDK, Installed HTC Sync, booted the phone with opt button and power, connected the USB, booted into recovery, tried running ADB Shell, device not found.....
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mandroid2010:
just wiped my phone if this doesnt work i dont know what else to do I keep getting screwed by this Android 1.0 driver not being there WTF is that any help will be great.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jratzo:
Open the android SDK click on available packages get "Usb Driver package, revision 3" after that is done installing open up the SDK folder, you should now see a folder "usb_driver" in the folder is "android_winusb.inf" open that file and add this to the end of "[Google.NTx86]" and "[Google.NTamd64]"

;

;HTC Incredible

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C9E

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C9E&MI_01

%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C94

Then when your computer is looking for Android 1.0 go into the device manager right click it (should haev the yellow triangle on it) say update driver, select browse. Browse to the SDK\usb_driver folder and you should be good to go
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dave716:
Loss of wifi on rooted Incredible

1st android post. Thanks for the rooting instructions. Worked on the 1st try for me. I'm having a strange problem. The phone will no longer connect to my router. The router is still listed in my wifi settings but it's not connecting. When I try to re-enter the info for it, it accepts everything but stays on 3G. Anyone else having this issue? Any suggestions on a fix? Thanks again
[Droid Incredible Android Development] 0mie:
Superuser is installed, Drocap2, WirelessTether and other root apps installed/working, but nothing asks me for permissions to allow them in Superuser...what am I missing?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] k.electron:
so can anyone answer this:

if after rooting, i restore to factory settings, is the phone back to exactly how it came from htc? so i can revert back to stock if i need to.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rebelglitch:
It worked!!!

After days of trying I got it! I, like others here have done everything including wiping my pc, using Linux, and banging my head against the wall. As time past more and more post started talking about the slow SD cards having success. I thought why not I'll give it a try. The Kmart store around the corner had some very old 2gb MM/SD cards.

The first thing I noticed was when I went into HBOOT and it checked the SD card it took forever. Each line came up one at a time with one or two seconds between the next, not all at once like before. Then loading into Recovery took 37 seconds before it loaded to the black screen. And yes on the first try with this card it worked!!!!

So for me it seems like it was the card. If so, how or can we make new cards bog down?

THANKS TO ALL for your hard work!!!!!!!!!!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mandroid2010:
Thanks a million holy $**T lets see what happens now :D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihtfp69:
It more than likely means su is not reporting as uid 0 but something else. Try using adb shell. Request root and type whoami or /system/xbin/whoami. If it does not report that you are uid 0 then none of your root apps will work correctly. Follow the procedures on the following post perfectly and your apps will start requesting root access. Just make sure you pull the battery in the end and not choose reboot. Unfortunately, this requires you to do the root hack again.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6776218&postcount=443

If this command "ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su" reports that the link already exists, just ignore it and move on.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] CaptainTaco:
A) I have stated it before, I have seen the HTC Sync driver cause issues for some, would highly recommend using the Android_SDK Setup to install the USB 3 driver from Google, and editing the ini to have windows recognize your phone to be associated with it.

B) On your last step, you were running the ADB Shell loop, and not just trying adb shell once after it booted into recovery right? Because, at least for me on the 3 DI's I have done this on, this would only work every time if running the loop, and would not work if I waited until it was in recovery to try running adb shell.

To recap; this should be your order;

"booted phone with opt button and power"

press power to start bootloader

Plug USB cable in

volume down to select recovery (don't press power yet)

***Start ADB Shell loop*** (if on windows use a batch file)

Press Power on the phone to boot to recovery

Wait for the "Device Not Found" message to change.

Windows batch file should be a text file that reads

:TOP
adb shell
GOTO TOP

saved as FILENAME.bat (filename can be replaced with whatever you choose.

note: these are all reiterations of steps listed throughout this thread, obviously none from me :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] E30kid:
I reposted Borgey's method. We've been using it on the IRC with some really consistent success. I am really thankful for it, as nothing else has worked for me.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] b00sted:
it has got me there 2 times, i deleted something I should not of and still trying to get back for the 3rd lol
[Droid Incredible Android Development] areghas:
AFAIK, as long as you dont remove any apps in the adb shell, you should be fine. I removed some apps, did a factory reset, and the apps were still removed, which was the purpose of me rooting my phone to begin with. Now if i could just find a way to get rid of htc sense.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] trunksta:
If you buy GDE from market, you can get the regular android UI. I tried it, and personally i like the sense ui better
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
That's exactly what I want to figure out--I haven't gotten the correct card in my DI yet and don't have root YET, but I am quite sure from others' experiences that the key is in the card so that timing and driver/windows/daemon responsiveness isn't such a B$%^h to get right :D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mandroid2010:
I give up, f**k the incredible i wasted 2 days trying to root. Back to the droid i go I got froyo on that. maybe when a better method comes about then ill try again. If i dont sell this HTC POS. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Cole119:
Woah, settle down dude. It will get easier once the developers pinpoint the cause of this exploit or create an automated process, just give it some time.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] trunksta:
Try using a different card. I would recommend the 2GB PNY card. they sell it w/ an SD adapter at wal mart for 10 bucks. I was feeling the same as you until i bought that and it worked first try right out of the package

edit: ive also repeated the method using the 2gb card, so no it wasnt just luck. there WAS one time it didnt work, I just deleted all the files off it and it worked like a champ again
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Mr. Spontaneous:
That's why it's always a good idea to buy something for what it is, not what it could be. I bought my Inc knowing that it may never be rooted, or that it may take a while. And, coming from a crappy Storm, I'm totally cool with that.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] money226:
First off thank you to whoever posted these steps originally and thank-you for reporting.14 hours 3 SD cards, every method, cleared storage, lost 1300 pics,( have most backed up though),lots of Captain Morgan's and I finally got it by doing exactly what this said and using a 2gb pny. No love at all from sandisk so don't bother. Goodnight XDA.

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[Droid Incredible Android Development] AlexanderJohn:
I got one of the top secret ultra secure DINCs... so there... not even the 2gb PNY can crack my DINC... When was the last time I complained about something that worked the way it's supposed to? lol
[Droid Incredible Android Development] bast525:
I've tried it with the SDK USB 3 driver and with the HTC drivers. Initially I was following methods posted here which started with the SDK USB drivers, and I'd never installed HTC Sync before that. And I was using the loop.bat. When that didn't work I uninstalled/removed everything, then followed the method in the video to the letter, using the files posted there. BOTH methods in the video. This was all with a SanDisk 8GB card. Today I went and bought the PNY 2GB and started completely over, trying different methods with both the SDK drivers and the HTC drivers. I've spent at least 8 hours on this today and 8 hours yesterday trying all these different methods, not to mention being out $10 :P

Seriously, all I wanted was Titanium Backup. I spent $5 on the highest rated backup app in the market and it sucks... it doesn't back up any app settings or game saves or really do much of anything other than save you some time, which I found out after doing a hard reset when a stupid HTC email bug was eating up internal memory on the phone. I'm done trying until something new comes down.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rsjet:
Got Incredible root in 10 minutes !

Got ROOT! Thanks everyone at unrevoked. I'm a total newbie and I was able to do it by following this video ( ugh... cant post link because i'm new account :( ) . This guy packaged all the files and gives you really easy step by step instructions.

If you have already installed the drivers for your phone, you can skip the HTC sync install portion of it.

PS, I used an old 1gb micro SD from my previous phone (LG Dare) and I got the "/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory" message that you need on the very first try.

Very easy method, and quick. This coming from a newbie too.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] AlexanderJohn:
Finally got it!!! I couldn't get it with the PNY card that I just bought... but I got it with the card that it came with... Thanks guys!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
Is yours very, very new? Mine is 5 days and I'm convinced HTC flashed it differently than most other Inc's here. I have 79 hboot, may 14 2010. Too bad they decided to tighten up the Inc and let pre-release Evos out. I HATE Sprint, and this is the finest device I have ever used, so I am still happy with my purchase!

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[Droid Incredible Android Development] acbyrd:
Finally

All I can say is that I tried this with 5 different cads. A 16GB class 2 sandisk, a 8GB sandisk, a 2 GB sandisk (old), and a 1GB sandisk (super old) and none of them worked. Saw a post about the PNY 2GB card at Wally World. Went and bought it and got root on first try instantly. IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES BUY THIS CARD FOR 10 BUX AND FOLLOW THE YOUTUBE VID FROM THIS THREAD

[VIDEO] 10min Root complete Guide -

Here on XDA
[Droid Incredible Android Development] andrew53517:
"Still working on cleaning up the Incredible root. Soon...

about 9 hours ago via web "

From the Unrevoked Team's twitter page...

Hopefully we get something like the Evo root apk. soon! :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] vzw:
Is there an IRC channel or some other way of knowing when they release the "Cleaned up" version of the root process? Or do I just keep checking in the forums?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] krelvinaz:
Checking the forum is probably easier than watching the irc channel.

via my Dinc...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] E30kid:
My incredible has a May 30th manufacture date and recovery and root still worked for me. Took some time, but it was possible.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] polo2883:
Went out and bought a 2gb PNY card and it worked!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] qwho:
anyone know what my super user apk uninstalls itself every time I reboot? it's not too much trouble to just reinstall it each time, but that will get annoying I am sure.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] xcsdm:
Did you push it to your sdcard, then copy it to /system/app? Or did you simply install it once your rebooted?

This should be in /system/app which can only be done from recovery

XC