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[Droid Incredible Android Development] samuraixzodus:
Still no root?

I am trying to achieve root I have hboot.77

I pre-ordered the Incredible and got it a day before its release.

I have tried every suggestion possible to achieve root and no success.

I thought I would try downgrading.....this is what the hboot screen says

SD Checking....

Loading [pb31diag.zip]

no image!

Loading [pb31diag.nbl]

no image or wrong image!

Loading [pb31img.zip]

no image!

Loading [pb31img.nbl]

no image or wrong image!

Ive made sure the zip is correct installed in the root of my sd and rebooted the phone.......what else could I try?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] 87jason:
Ok so i have had mine rooted once but lost it on reboot.So now everytime i try to get root i get to the payload update command press power to apply update in recovory and then hit enter to do the adb push payload-update.zip /sdcard/update.zip command and it aborts it everytime i have tried everything and cant get it to work, any suggestions would be great.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wraithdu:
I have HBOOT 77. I was able to get the root process to work using a trick from the 10 minute root video.

1) power the phone off and plug in the USB

2) PULL THE BATTERY - this seems to be important

3) boot into recovery via vol- and power

4) wait 10 seconds or so until the menu says HBOOT USB PLUG

5) run the adb shell loop

6) PRESS AND HOLD vol- so that RECOVERY is highlighted

7) PRESS AND HOLD power

8) CONTINUE HOLDING both buttons until the shell loop says 'exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)', maybe 20 seconds or so

I did this successfully twice in a row, so good luck!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] RLKirk:
uninstalled htc sync and everything that had to do with it including drivers, but now when i go into recovery in my device manager it just shows htc andriod phone usb devices in the other devices, cant get it to install custom drivers either, anyone else have this problem?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ZOMBII MATT:
ughh ive followed just about every guide on how to root the incredible but i still cant get it rooted. Does anyone know how long until unrevoked team makes an easier method?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Cronus1995:
It could be in the next couple hours. It could be months from now.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Boomh4u3r:
I will get this tonight.

pny 4gb c4 card
[Droid Incredible Android Development] hexto:
Did you try downgrading?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] danmiko:
HELP

I still cant get root on the dINC, iv tried several methods and several sd card on several computers. I also heard that downgrading to before the OTA update might work, is that possible to do on a non rooted Dinc? Please help someone
[Droid Incredible Android Development] hexto:
I downgraded and got root in one try. Here's the how to. Its super easy. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695825

Don't install the OTA update afterwards
[Droid Incredible Android Development] NCX Designs:
I've tried 3 different methods so far and none work for me, its worth noting that my DI is a pre-order that didn't get the Droid branding, along with H-Boot77.

Tried to root with OTA, and even flashed back to pre-OTA and tried, no luck

tried so far with:

2GB SanDisk (stock card that came with DI) (doesn't work)

4GB PNY Class 4 (doesn't work)

4GB Trandscend Class 6 (on loan from an XDA member) (doesn't work so far)

can anyone help me? :( I can't make it to ADB Shell with any method to even start root . . . :(
[Droid Incredible Android Development] kwaad:
Adb is the hard part.

I used a 10$ walmart 2gb pny card... It worked after formatting it to fat 32 with 512kbyte blocks.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] llCloNell:
I know its been said before that pushing in and out the SD Card works but some even then couldnt get it to work.

This is not another method to root but a suggestion on how your doing the 'pushing' of your card in and out.

I tried 20+ times a day and could only get adb running in recovery 1-2 times if that. But then i guess you can say i got frustrated and was pushing the SD Card in and out fast as i could and finally it worked and ever since then ive got it 100%.

Basically.... As soon as you hit recovery and it goes to the white screen start pushing your SD Card in and out fast literally do it fast dont try and listen for it to click in and out just push it in and push it out about half way and then push it back in as fast as you can and keep doing it until you get to the black screen with the ( ! ). like your pushing a button really quick. If you dont hear the click of the SD Card dont worry just keep going but make sure it clicks in when you stop.

not another method just a possibly tip for anyone still attempting to get it to work. When i read in and out i actually let the card come all the way out and then pushed it back in and let it click and then clicked it back out.

*Shrug* worth a try
[Droid Incredible Android Development] D3vr04:
Root success. YEAH!!!!

JUST GOT REWTZ!!!! :p

I was just about to give up and go eat then study for school.

Used VZW SanDisk microsdhc 4GB class2. Got it first try after switched to this card.

itz all about luck trying to hit that window. But if anyone is still interested in which protocol I used let me know and i'll post.

Wifi tether worked!

Now for Recovery reflash tool! :cool:
[Droid Incredible Android Development] winnernet5000:
Meh, I spent a few hours doing literally 6-7 different methods MANY times each lol. I have a sandisk 16gb class 2 card, but I don't live near a walmart so buying one and returning it would be around 3 hours of driving + 20 bucks in gas/depreciation lol. Not worth it imo. I'm just glad that progress is being made, but many of us cannot get root due to our cards not working with this method. I hope they get an automated, or non-card dependent solution for those that don't have access to the PNY cards. Thanks unrevoked!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rfarrah:
THAT would indeed be a good thing. :cool:
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Zadok0552:
Got it, finally

Like the previous poster said, DO NOT GIVE UP!

I was working this thing for over a week, on and off.

For the 3rd or 4rth instance of attempting this. I used the physical method "Alternate Method (Credit: Binny)" while adapting it since I have a Mac Os 10.6.whatever

Anyway, I grabbed the 2 GB SD that came with the thing (took out my 16GB) that I was using in my HTC TITAN (reformatted by the DInc), did the slowly in and out with the sdcard AFTER plugging the USB in ONLY when I was in the recovery console. Then didn't plug in the card until the screen flashed. tried it a couple of times and was ready to give up. Suddenly the "We have adb recovery" message came across while talking with a colleague.

Yes I used the adb recovery helper for Mac.

Again, if your Linux geek this is easy to understand stuff. If not, then like they said maybe you should wait.

THANKS n_i_x !

THANKS UNREVOKED!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Mammal186:
Im not getting any other packages in the "Available Packages" part of the SDK and AVD Manager.

Just... "Failed to Fetch URL:HTTPS SSL error" (Caution triangle with ! inside in front)

and

"No Packages found" (yellow X in front)

and
[Droid Incredible Android Development] samuraixzodus:
I believe you have to select the force push option...not sure just remember someone having the same issue. It's somewhere in the manager.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Boomh4u3r:
Oh i was soooo close!!!! I had it in recovery but messed up timing my enter button on the keyboard.fml
[Droid Incredible Android Development] christophercomp:
Annoyed

I have just got to say this... How annoying is it that HTC made this damn thing so hard to root?!

I have been trying this for days and cannot get it. I wont' say that I have tried "all the methods", but I have tried the ones that seem to have the most clout and cannot get them to work.

I'll keep trying, it's just annoying how hard this stupid, overpriced, plastic phone is to root!:eek:
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnoyeb:
Whats really fun... I finally hit the timing just right on inserting the USB while the loop is running... got the root finished up using the 10min root video files.

Now, the other four guys in the office with Incredibles are wanting me to go ahead and do theirs.. (keep in mind it literally took me 2 days of trying various things to just get mine going! heh..).

guess the fun will start tomorrow when I get into the office....
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Boomh4u3r:
Ok so it seems since i didn't press enter fast enough, it applied the update? I can't get back into recovery to save my life. Do i need to reset my phone or just keep trying to get into recovery again?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Mammal186:
Damn..

I finally got into it after half a night of trying.. and got Superuser installed... yadda yadda...

Now to install anything I have to repeat this process to install unrevoked ROMs?

WTF? Kill me?

BTW! Thanks for the method above with adb reboot recovery. It worked after 5 or so tries.

Anyway.. I have SU privilages... I just cant do a damn thing with them :confused:
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnoyeb:
Now you're actually all set... goto the other thread (the recovery reflash ) and run that tool. That'll install the clockwork recovery which you can easily get back into without doing all the crazy steps.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Boomh4u3r:
Ok so i have the timing down to get in recovery, but when i do the adb push payload update etc, my command promt floods with what looks like a help command. Is it because of my timing on the enter key?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Boomh4u3r:
So now i get to where I press enter and it fails...says E: can't verify something something
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnoyeb:
if you haven't watch the 10min root video on youtube... he shows what errors will show up on the screen and when to just ignore/keep going forward. I literally used his from minute 5:45 or so on but used someone's push in the USB cord after the screen flickers method for the first part.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] nscott69:
went to best buy, bought the PNY 2 GB card and it literally worked on the very first try using the method in the 10 minute youtube video. i recommend this to anyone having difficulties obtaining root. afterward i used the reflash tool provided by the great folks over at unrEVOked. flashed a new kernel to overclock my processor to 1.152. installed wifi tether and lamppu (led flashlight for root users). again, highly recommend going out and spending the $12 for the card.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] PDAnuby:
Great to know but let me ask you this, has your phone been downgraded? what is your software info? 2.1-update1?

Please post your:

Firmware

Kernel version

Build Number

Software number

Pri Version

Thanks.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] nscott69:
Firmware - 2.1-update1

Kernel version - OC'd to 1152MHz (flashed after root)

Build Number - 1.22.605.2 CL161494 release-keys

Software number - 1.22.605.2

Pri Version - 1.28_002
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wpbear:
I have the same # as above (except no OC). I used a walmart 8GB Sandisk Class 2 card. Works about every 5 or so times to get in. I am pretty sure those numbers are verizon's latest updates.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnoyeb:
its really amazing how hit or miss it is... I ended up in getting the company to fork over the 10$ for the PNY 2gb card to see if it would help (I got the black cardboard box one from walmart, I think the one people need is really the white cardboard box one that they have at some stores and also at best buy). I think it probably opened my window a little.

Overall it just seems to me that its all about timing. I just got done rooting four Incredibles in the office this morning. All were on the OTA update and had .77.

I used a hybrid method on all four phones that was similar to the Alternate Method credit Binny on Unrevoked's site. What I altered was where I started and instead of popping the sd card, I popped the usb cord.

1) unplug usb unplug battery. leave sd card in. Start up a loop.bat (look at other methods)

2) put the battery back in, hold down vol- and power together. let go once it gets into hboot. let it attempt and fail at loading the img files, then use vol- to go down to boot recovery but don't let go of vol-

3) continue to hold vol- and then press power to select reboot recovery. (begin counting, use a second hand on a pc to aide) (also, I kept holding power and vol- until done with step 4)

4) wait for the scan line flicker that happens around 7-8 seconds after pressing power (on the HTC screen, you cannot miss it). Insert the USB cord just after the scan line flicker but just before the black screen. (if you have good hearing, you should also hear the phone make some weird pft type sound right at this time too, I think when I hit it perfect is in the .5 seconds between the scan line showing and the weird pft sound coming from the phone)

if all goes well you'll get the magical error screen in your command prompt... from there I followed the 10min vid method (started at about 5:45min into it) on youtube and used his files.

on the four phones I did this on today, it took the following:

phone 1 - 2 tries

phone 2 - 8 tries

phone 3 - 16 tries

phone 4 - 10 tries

All of these were done on the same windows 7 64bit box with altered drivers. Anyways, the moral of the story is it is all about timing. I've seen so many posts about that so far, but I wanted to chime in with a 4/4 tested method so far on 4 different incredibles.

Just don't give up. :)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] PDAnuby:
Ok thanks for the info I am going to get the bet buy card and follow these instructions hopefully I will get lukcy.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] NCX Designs:
I also have all that same info (software/PRI/Build number)

and i've been trying for maybe about a week now with no success on 3 different cards

and its worth noting i have a 4GB Class 4 PNY (in white packaging) purchased from Staples.

I really hope unrEVOked comes out with an easier root method :'(
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jermaine151:
Thanks! I've been wanting a flashlight that would use the LEDs and lamppu works great.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] PDAnuby:
Ok went best buy and got the 2GB PNY white card, they had the black card ones by the camears but i went to the cell phone dept and asked the guy there and he showed me the white card, so i got that.

All attempts of root with plugin in the USB method failed, did it over 20 times, not sure what was goin on but there seems to be a big delay on my system detecting the usb plugin and i think that is what was making me fail.

So i went to the scary method of clicking the card in and out :eek:, first try success! And i did not have to downgrade.

I sure do hope I dont have to do this again, now on to recovery reflash tool.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] greno1:
I was able to get ADB in recovery about 5 days ago, but messed something up and SuperUser.apk was never installed. I've been trying ever since to get back to recovery without any luck.

Tonight, I broke down and bought the PNY 2 GB card (white package). I tried again a dozen times or so using the ADB Shell command in a loop, still no luck.

I've tried doing the loop from multiple computers, and one thing I noticed was that on my Vista computer, the loop would show the ADB Shell command about once every second (seemed too slow). On my XP machine, the loop flies, scrolling so fast I can hardly read it. In fact, if I keep the loop going too long it hangs the ADB deamon process and I have to kill it in task manager.

Anyway, I switched over to the faster looping XP machine to try it, and the first couple of times it didn't work. Now getting very frustrated at going out and getting the card, I went back and re-read the instructions on unrevoked. I figured I'd try their Alternate method, since I've been using ADB Shell in a loop and it had not worked. This time, I just used this method, and it worked the first time:

(From unrevoked:)

Alternate Method (Credit: Binny)

* Start from the !triangle screen

1. Hit Power and volume up

2. Hit reboot and pop out sdcard

3. Wait for the white HTC Incredible screen then type

adb reboot recovery

until it reboots

4. Wait for the white HTC Incredible screen again

5. Soon as you see flicker on screen pop in sdcard

6. Wait for the !triangle screen and type

adb devices

* If you see device listed with (recovery) next to it, follow the instructions below. If not, start at step 1 again.

I followed the rest of the instructions there without a problem, and have tethering working now. I'm very happy! Not sure what made it work though - the switch to the XP machine, the PNY card, or the alt method.

OK, now on to the next phase - reflash. Has anyone seen the new reflash tool at unrevoked? I only got to this through a link posted on AndroidGuys. You can see it here:

unrevoked.com (slash) recovery

When I run it now on my XP machine, it hangs saying "Obtaining superuser privileges. The reflash will not continue without authorization."

Anyone else get to this point? I'm not sure if that means I need to take some action, or what. I don't see anything going on over on the phone. I don't actually need this now, but I figure this will come in handy if I need to install anything else.

-Gregg
[Droid Incredible Android Development] flyinitalian:
Here is what I did. Download the hboot driver and follow installation instructions. Then I uninstalled HTC sync. Turned phone off then back on wait for mounting sd card and phone memory. Started Recovery Reflash tool. Once that was running I plugged in USB cable into the phone. The same thing happened. Then what I did was plug in the phone 1st then stated Recovery Reflash tool. When hboot usb appeared on the phone toward the top of the screen I just waited, did not hit any buttons and it worked perfect. I also had Rom Manager already installed on phone. I do not know if that helped any, but it did work.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Cronus1995:
well I too finally broke down and bought the $10 PNY sd card in the black package. got into recovery the first try using this.

1) unplug usb unplug battery. leave sd card in. Start up a loop.bat (look at other methods)

2) put the battery back in, hold down vol- and power together. let go once it gets into hboot. let it attempt and fail at loading the img files, then use vol- to go down to boot recovery but don't let go of vol-

3) continue to hold vol- and then press power to select reboot recovery. (begin counting, use a second hand on a pc to aide) (also, I kept holding power and vol- until done with step 4)

4) wait for the scan line flicker that happens around 7-8 seconds after pressing power (on the HTC screen, you cannot miss it). Insert the USB cord just after the scan line flicker but just before the black screen. (if you have good hearing, you should also hear the phone make some weird pft type sound right at this time too, I think when I hit it perfect is in the .5 seconds between the scan line showing and the weird pft sound coming from the phone)

My step 6 however was to run in the other room where my fiancee was and do the happy dance.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] RLKirk:
did the same thing and it worked the first time
[Droid Incredible Android Development] NCX Designs:
OMG!!! I finally got ADB Shell!!! can someone help me with what exactly to do next? :)

ok i did the push commands and got "unrEVOked for Incredible" to show up on my screen

how do i give the phone permanent root though? :'(
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnoyeb:
That's about what I was doing when I got it... except I was gtalking to all my coworkers to let them know to bring their incredibles to me so I could do theirs next. ;) glad my little hybrid method worked for you.

good to know, hopefully it'll help others as well...

if you haven't already, I highly recommend watching the 10 min video version and start around 5:45min in. if you use his files it'll work. they aren't as new as the latest payloads but work.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] NCX Designs:
well i think i'm too far now, i now only get the # option on the cmd window

and i didn't use his files, i used the unrEVOked wiki to do it along with there files

I'm so afraid to reboot the phone on fear of having to do this all over again . . ., while the update.zip was successful and all that, i didn't get to put the superuser.apk on the phone yet . . :( does this mean i have to start over or is there another option?

i typed su afterwards and it gives me the #

while i now know its possible to root even my phone after hundreds of failed atempts,

i'm still afraid to reboot the phone until i can find out for sure what else i need to do since i apparently missed a step . .

that 10 min video i watched a dozen times and his instructions are vague, and you have to use his premade .bat files . . . (which i didn't start with so that doesn't help me)

if anyone can help me, it would be greatly GREATLY appreciated :'(

and this is what my screen currently says:

unrEVOked for Incredible
[URL]http://unrevoked.com/incredible[/URL]

Setting up a proper adb shell . . .
su in adb shell if you want to flash image
or reboot for stock permaroot

Reboot via menu to complete
installation.

While i jumped the gun and went ahead and rebooted, i definitely dont have root . . . i feel like a moron. . . i followed the wiki from unrEVOked to the letter . . .

but i did manage to delete cityid. . .

Edit: 2:33pm

I rebooted, got ADB Shell back (again!, I think i got the hang of this now, i think it has nothing to do with the SD card)

now, after i get to the part where i do the update.zip and unrEVOked shows up, what exactly do i do to root the phone? (that 10 min video is vague and not very easily to understand

and each time i'm supposed to reboot, i lose root
[Droid Incredible Android Development] christophercomp:
Finally! We have root!

I can confirm that this method works. I have been trying for days to get rooted and this is the only way that it worked.

One thing that I have to add is this: I did not go out and buy a new PNY card, I used the 2GB card that ships with the phone and formatted it to FAT32 on a Windows 7 machine. After I did this it only took one try with the method above.

Thanks, Cronus :p
[Droid Incredible Android Development] bluetooth_decay:
Has anyone gotten this to work using XP? I've tried both the "loop.bat" method (and the modified version where you delay plugging in the USB) as well as the simple "up-arrow" method, and neither works. I'm wondering how I am to hit the race window when XP takes 4 or 5 seconds to recognize that the phone is communicating...

I was trying to avoid loading this on my Win 7 machine, as I already had HTC Sync on my XP box.

I guess next I'll do the SD card eject/insert method.

I suppose a more fundamental question is this: do all these gyrations keep adbd running on the phone indefinitely in a recovery session, or just delay it getting killed for a bit?

TIA.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Shadowmite:
Wait, the current payload at our wiki doesn't work? If that's the case I need to fix it. Check that you have /system/bin/su. Also when you try to adb shell and su, check the screen of the device, superuser must grant access or it won't work...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dnoyeb:
if you were referring to my comment about using payload off the youtube video, nah, ya'lls worked great.

i'll quit referring to the youtube method and refer to the wiki instead.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] greno1:
Yeah, just look back a couple of posts back - #1021