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[Droid Incredible Android Development] b16a2smith:
Im going to try that, but I have had no luck whatsoever. i even tried the 6 cmd windows open method with the loop, nothing at all. That sucks. Any ideas anyone? windows 7 x64 intel core 2 duo 6gb ram this should work, I turn off the phone

EDIT: Seth, it didnt work
[Droid Incredible Android Development] GMK83:
I'm able to ADB Devices when the phone is on, but when it is booting into recovery my computer is saying that i need to install android 1.0 driver. Is this an issue?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] b16a2smith:
Is there better luck with linux, (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] sethman408:
- Turn off phone

- Unplug USB cable

- Hold Optical track/Button, Press Power

- When in menu, hit Power (to boot FASTBOOT)

- Wait 20 seconds (until it tries to load everything it needs)

- Plug USB cable in, wait another 10 seconds for OS to catch up and detect

- Press Volume DOWN, once

- Start your 'adb shell' loop (via batch file posted in the thread)

- Press Power

I have replicated this method 5 times and it works consistantly... no reboots... dont even need the loop part

was taking me 3-10 tries with the regular reboot and loop method... seems there are still people who cant get it to work... still trying to figure out the difference
[Droid Incredible Android Development] heavensblade23:
CW recovery has been successfully installed. Unfortunately from what I gathered it's not persistent but you can run it long enough to flash a new rom.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] you_eeeeeediot:
No, you can perform the steps without having the driver installed. Ignore the message.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tcberg2010:
Really, really want to give this a try myself. I just have one question if someone could please answer this for me? I understand this is the incorrect place to ask this but, my incredible has a broken screen and i am waiting for asurion to receive more phones so i can get one. Will they have an issue if i give it back to them rooted. Was going to wait, but i can't bear seeing everyone else doing it and being left in the dark. If anyone would be willing to answer I would greatly appreciate it. thank you.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] sethman408:
Nice.. .I will have to wait on this one though till a solid recovery is built.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mozetti:
If I were you, I'd just wait. Other than removing CityID, what is /root going to give you right now? If you can list a few things that you want/need to do with /root access and you can actually do those things now, then maybe it's worth it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ilinfinityil:
I got it working after being in the IRC for a while...superuser.apk isn't installing for me. BUT i still can $ su in cmd prompt so that's still a good thing right?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] heavensblade23:
That's basically the extent of it right now. You have root with no superuser.apk, and recovery with no roms to flash.

So as of right now, the only thing it's good for is deleting or renaming stock apps you don't want.

Of course, that will change over the weekend probably. We have kernel source so it shouldn't be too difficult to cook up a basic rom to flash from CW recovery.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tcberg2010:
Honestly, my main reason is that since i got rid of my eris, i have really been missing being able to do anything involving root. Most of all i'm sick of taking **** from co-workers that are rooted with an N1 and Moto Droid. Can't wait to get some Frozen Yogurt and overclocking! lol
[Droid Incredible Android Development] daftlush:
WTF irc is invite only now?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] IncredibleGuy:
Great job to all the devs that have been working on this! I have a strange issue in windows 7. I have all the driver for android usb installed, adb sees the device. The device is still present in device manager under Android Bootloader Device but when the device hit recovery mode it does not show up in device manager. I did install HTC Sync and have tried the edited usb drivers.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] shoman24v:
Just curious......as anyone been able to load froyo?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jdmba:
Ideally

Ideally I would like to see automated root combined with fully functioning FroYo ported to the Incredible by Friday night, so I could play with it over the weekend!

Of course, I am kidding (well, not kidding, but I realize its impossible). Thank you all for your hard work; hopefully there will be a process a moron (me) can follow to Root :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] pabbas:
I'm looking for root only to use Wireless Tether
[Droid Incredible Android Development] heavensblade23:
You can't right now, because we don't have a custom kernel with netfilter installed.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] siafu:
This worked perfect for me the FIRST time! My 100 other attempts failed till I tried this method and it worked.

I was able to push the busybox and the ota, but I am not able to get the payload-update to work. Keep getting signature verification failed.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] larsdennert:
So we need a working superuser.apk to authorize apps to su? Is that basically why "root" type apps are not working at this time or are other files and chmod type stuff missing too? Like overclock widget? (actually I want to underclock...)

Is some of this stuff going to require a new ROM or can we keep the ROM we have but add root apps. I'm pretty happy with the stock build over all.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Drukan:
phone disconnects

Like someone stated earlier, in windows (with your volume up) you hear 2 distinctive sounds when you connect/ disconnect a USB device.

Everytime i attempt ANY of fore-said methods i get the same results at the same time intervals. I hear the connect sound in fastboot, and when the screen illuminates white initially. But within a second of that i hear the disconnect sound, followed by the recovery screen (black with phone and triangle) Does anyone have any ideas on this? Is the phone booting to fast and the PC is not connecting the USB in time?

I have attempted from 1, to 3 cmd propts in loop. and every method for rebooting recovery, Im well over 100 reboot attempts, to no avail!

Im by far no noob to anyof this but DAYUM... i must be unlucky!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] heavensblade23:
Yes, Superuser.apk handles the gui for allowing or denying root permissions to an app.

Getting it working isn't really a major hurdle it's just that no one has really packaged it up yet.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] siafu:
nvm....................
[Droid Incredible Android Development] viper8u2:
I followed these instructions to the t.

http://androidforums.com/all-things...-prs-complete-rooting-guide-2.html#post916955

I had the original OTA update

Old dell box with windows 7 32bit

used a motorola droid 16gb card

done in 5 minutes

Thanks to all devs and people contributing
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Drukan:
Correction: under the Hboot menu,

i select recovery, plug in phone, and hit POWER. I will hear the Connect sound instantly when i plug in the phone, and ive have attempted to hit power as quickly as possible.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] WoZeR:
My phone was the first batch that was preordered from vzw site. Was received on the day it went live on vzw. But I can't get any of the methods to work.

Has anyone with a preordered phone been able to get it to work? My only other option is to try a higher capacity sd card. Both my 4gb and 2gb cards don't work.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mshick:
I got my phone rooted in no time, and got it to stick with the chmod trick. Then I rebooted my phone, entered the shell, and got su.

I was hoping to do my stock app removing after reboot, but got a "read-only file system" message. Is that common?

What needs to happen before I can take advantage of my access without booting into recovery mode? I also tried adb remount, but got "operation not permitted".
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dymanese:
I have the latest ota and I'm sure this is why I cannot get adb in recovery. I've tried the procedure in another post here "[HOW 2] Downgrade software version (before OTA)" but it never downgrades me. I'm pretty sure you must have that version installed to root with the exploit but I can't get back. Does anyone have any suggestions?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] zebdor44:
I have one of the pre-ordered phones and I was able to get it rooted. I have the standard 2GB SD card that came with the phone.

Have you tried these steps from you_eeeeeediot:

- Turn off phone

- Unplug USB cable

- Hold Optical track/Button, Press Power

- When in menu, hit Power (to boot FASTBOOT)

- Wait 20 seconds (until it tries to load everything it needs)

- Plug USB cable in, wait another 10 seconds for OS to catch up and detect

- Press Volume DOWN, once

- Start your 'adb shell' loop (via batch file posted in the thread)

- Press Power

Works for me every time I try it. Use a couple command prompts if one isn't working.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
It clearly states in the OP that we do not need to downgrade the OTA to RUU to perform this hack.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dymanese:
Well, I've tried everything posted and it just doesn't work for me. I've even tried opening 9 cmd window all running the loop in hopes to catch adb during the recovery boot and can never get it. What else is there then???
[Droid Incredible Android Development] WoZeR:
Yeah, I've tried that method above. Doesn't work for me. The only thing I can think that I have done is a factory reset on my phone a couple weeks ago.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] seanhassars:
using eeeeeediot's steps to get adb going and then the steps in 201 to get root, I got this done in one attempt after getting home from work.

windows 7 64-bit

8gb class 6 card

OTA applied the day it became available.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DigitalDementia:
dumb qyestion adb drivers didn't install when device is plugged in how do?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] TNS201:
I finally got it after many many many many many tries. What I did was go to bootloader. Then go to the part where you can choose recovery. Before you choose recovery, unplug the USB, then plug in the usb and press power at the same time to choose recovery.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] SerenadeX:
OK I have tried all of these methods that I could find on my Incredible and none of them seem to work. The only thing I haven't tried yet is the 16 GB class 6 card. I only have the 2gb that comes with the phone. Hopefully that makes the difference even though I know that some others have gotten results with different cards.

Thought I would throw in my input anyway. Let me know if you get it!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jakaro:
so i got rooted fine, did the reboot, my city id was gone! finally, but has anyone had luck installing superuser.apk?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mwyrick:
permission denied during push

I see you tried the update.zip and it failed and still could not get into it. I had that problem and found I had skipped the step where you try to load update.zip before the push, this command mounts the sdcard to look for update.zip and you need to do that before you try the push. I wonder why it would still have permission denied errors after the fail. Please let us know if you find the reason.

My 8GB Class 4 card has not worked after tring 20 times on two different phones.

My 16BG Class 6 works about 50% of the tries in both phones.

I don't use a loop, just reboot with adb into recovery, if it does not show up using adb devices as in recovery mode, reboot with menu, then reboot with adb again. Never takes more than 2 or 3 times with the 16GB Class 6 card. I don't use any commands except adb reboot recovery and adb devices until it is in recovery mode and never more than one each, I don't keep sending commands over and over, just one adb devices, if not there, I reboot via the menu, and issue the adb reboot recovery command when I hear the USB connect sound play in windows, I wait for the recovery mode to come up, use Vol up + Power and check again with adb devices. Once it shows in recovery in adb devices, I use adb shell and proceed.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tcbj:
dude...that so worked!!!!!!!! just did it after 3 hours of D***in around. thanks.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] siafu:
I got root finally.

Wifi-tether-for-root recognizes the root and will now run..... and it thinks it is running, but I do not have the netfilter files or whatever they are called so no IP is assigned.

Progress is being made!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kulaa:
Linux Bruteforce, simple as set it and forget it.

*

On the host, run adb shell in a loop.

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On Linux, syntax will be something like while true; do adb shell; done

*

Repeatedly reboot your device into recovery mode (if it comes up normally, adb reboot recovery).

o

If the shell repeatedly says error: device not found when in recovery mode, press vol-up and power at the same time, then reboot and try again.

o

If the shell repeatedly says - exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -, then ADB is running in recovery mode; congratulations.

Epic truly Epic!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] WoZeR:
Did not work for me.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Thevolta:
I also have a sandisk 8 gig card that its not working out on, I have tried all 3 methods.

Also tried to wipe phone/sd card to factory and still cant get past adb shell.

Win xp & Win 7
[Droid Incredible Android Development] gotroot801:
Took three tries, but I got it working. Lost nothing except CityID, which for the moment is all I want. But it's nice to finally be able to live up to my username. :)

Has anyone tried installing the HTC News & Weather widget once the phone is rooted?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] brstorrie:
Still no root...

Have tried a zillion ways, videos/walkthroughs on every forum, still "device not found" error... on my 60th reboot I quit. Oh well, guess I'll wait until they figure out how to expand it... (using a Droid stock 16gb MicroSD card)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] :
this worked for me, on windows 7 64bit. and the shootme app on the market works.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] pozer69:
nm...still didn't work
[Droid Incredible Android Development] cf81:
This worked for me too! After more than 6 hours of constant looping, it worked on the second try. I'm not sure why, but this seemed to do the trick for me. Thanks a million!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihyln:
finally got root but the class 2 4GB SD card did not work. my girlfriends 8GB one did. go figure.

still cannot install superuser or busybox though. getting the same error as everyone else.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tcberg2010:
use her sdcard to root ur phone, then just give it back to her.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] xvenom89:
Really? It worked for me on the first try! :)

Although, I can't get Superuser.apk to install or busybox copied to /System/xbin/ using Root Explorer.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] AwsmAdm:
I have a 16 gb class 6 sd card, do you think I should use a crappier one that my friend has? Also, what are the risks of this method?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihyln:
that's what I did. I get su through adb through reboots so I know it's persistant at least. Also, drocap2 and shootme work. I think we just need to wait for an updated superuser apk, though. Still quite happy with the results and the hack was not that difficult.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] seanhassars:
has anybody tried using http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=682828 to get the superuser.apk installed?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ihyln:
I have but those will not work. We need an updated manifest file it looks like.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] SerenadeX:
returning to the booting in recovery mode and getting adb to work in recovery mode for those of us who haven't gotten it, i have noticed that the Android Composit ADB device driver in device manager doesn't load unless the phone is on (at least for now). When that device is detected in device manager, adb works. Why the phone won't load it for some, but will for others, is still a mystery but I thought I would bring your attention to that fact.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DigitalDementia:
I notice when I boot into recovery and plug my usb in it goes dundundun very quick as opposed to the doodleoo noise made when it's accepted anyone else get this? I have also not been able to achieve root and any news on a package or better system for root being released? Also amazing work guys much appreciated even though I can not take use of this marvelous discovery as of yet.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] mims1979:
yea DigitalDementia, thats the same thing that happens to me, I've tried every method mentioned here about 1000 times and thats it. The other thing I notice is that in device manager the only evidence of android connected is that 2 drives show up under portable devices and in my computer, but trying to open it just says please insert a disk...

I've personally tried it with 1g, 2g, and 16g sandisk cards with no luck so far!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] SerenadeX:
i'm trying it right now but it just seems to do the same thing I've been doing for a long time and nothing seems to be changing
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DigitalDementia:
Well no luck since i got out of work at 6 :[ anyway work again at 11 thanks so much for all your hard work folks over at unrevoked keep it up we all have faith on you guys figuring out how to better enhance this process!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Skapunker:
Hopefully this won't matter for long so I didn't think it needed it's own thread, but how about people post the root apps they've found that work with this method?

So far I've found Lamppu and Clear Market History work.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnchattan:
That may well be the case depending on your sd card (and possibly usb connection has been suggested). It won't necessarily be a fix-all-be-all, (it's still a matter of luck) but hopefully it may have some more consistent results for some people.

If nothing else this at least lets you run it over and over with minimal interaction (and beeps when you need to reboot the device to try again); and no extra console windows :).
[Droid Incredible Android Development] kntdookoo:
Nice! Thanks dev team for this.:D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
It would be a good idea to specify from which Inc state this utility is supposed to start to run. I assume it's not full boot, as Sense has never had an implemented soft boot feature AFAIK, and if it did it would require root, wouldn't it? SO I guess this starts from bootloader?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnchattan:
Nope, you can run it from your normal device state. A device can be booted into recovery mode by using "adb reboot recovery", which is the first step this tool takes.

It should be mentioned though that the device should be connected as HTC Sync for ADB (and thus this utility) to be able to interact with the device at all.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
Ah, I missed that little detail. The OP needs to be updated with all the collected knowledge from the last 24 hours. Too many smatterings! Thanks for the help.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DigitalDementia:
Wait I'm confused explain to me the HTC Sync bit. I installed it on my comp and all but I thought that's all that had to be done.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rynosaur:
Utility has to be installed in Windows and the phone has to be in HTC Sync mode when you connect. I shoulda stayed in linux! :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnchattan:
When you connect you device using USB, your inc should ask what kind of connection you want (charge only, HTC sync, storage, etc.). You need to select HTC Sync (at least in my experience).

If in doubt, run 'adb shell' with your phone connected. If you get an error, then that's the first thing you need to get working before any of the other steps will work.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DigitalDementia:
So run my phone in HTC Sync mode then what step from there? adb reboot recovery?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] DigitalDementia:
Awe guys come on >.< do I set my Incredible to always run htc sync? what exactly am i supposed to do once I have my incredible running with htc sync set?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] zeke1988:
deleted, im idiot....
[Droid Incredible Android Development] drtrmiller:
When I am in recovery mode, Windows recognizes my device in Device Manager as 2 new disk drives "HTC Android Phone USB Device" but I don't get anything but error: device not found on the "adb shell" command.

If I run the adb shell command while the device is booted normally, I get the $, so why have I been able to reboot into recovery dozens of times but it only detect the disk drives?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] daddymacbuff:
Ok it rebooted my phone but just sits there now. says rebooting devices into recovery and then stalls. What now..
[Droid Incredible Android Development] seanhassars:
you don't need htc sync, i've never installed it or used it.

you need to have the usb adb drivers installed which involves modifying android_winusb.inf

googling "incredible adb" will get you the instructions for that
[Droid Incredible Android Development] kntdookoo:
For ADB on the incedbile follow these instructions:

http://www.flexjunk.com/2010/05/01/installing-htc-incredible-android-sd-drivers/

To save you some time people here is the modified INF file that the above link references. Put it in your Android SDK Windows folder:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4H57FS02

You will use this for installing the USB drivers for your phone.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] kingsfan33:
I just spent way too many hours trying this. to no avail.

if there is anyone in the los angeles area that would be able to help me with this please pm me.

thx
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Braden:
The last one on there su-2.1-e-unsecure-signed.zip worked for me. I pulled the apk out of the zip and adb installed it on the DI.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] larsdennert:
I think the drivers can't load fast enough and the PC's autoplay functionality gets in the way. By the time the drivers load, the race condition is long over and the phone is sitting in recovery waiting. Effing PC is slower than the phone.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Greasy Joe Bick:
Used the "The PRS Complete Rooting Guide" on androidforums and it seemed too easy for me.

4 battery pulls and I seen "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -" pop right up.

When applying update.zip I pressed power, said "one" in my head and hit enter. Chmod, City ID, reboot, done.

Thanks all you awesome devs and testers out there!

Win 7 64bit

SDK Drivers manually installed and the .inf was modded with paste bin 323174

Old moto droid 16gb card