[Droid Incredible General] dadicus:
Hey guys, I didn't make this guide, nor did I contribute to it at all. This is in no way an attempt to toot my own horn.

I am linking this guide because I have followed it with my HTC Incredible at it worked flawlessly and figure some of you might be interested in running Ubuntu on your phones too.

Here is the guide, it was written for the Nexus One but works great for the Incredible too.

http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-hacks/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-your-nexus-oneandroid/

Some things to note, I am running Cyanogen 6.0 RC3. You must run an android with a modified kernel that supports loopback devices. Cyanogen 6.0 RC3 has loopback devices enabled. Also it goes without saying, but I will say it any way, you need to have a rooted phone. A quick down and dirty of what you need to do to get started is as follows.

**** MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PHONE PLUGGED IN FOR ALL OF THIS!!! YOU DON'T WANT YOUR PHONE DYING AT ANY POINT IN THIS QUICKY GUIDE****

Go here: http://unrevoked.com/#inc

Download both Unrevoked3 and Unrevoked Forever. Connect your phone to your computer and run unrevoked3. This will root your phone.

Once rebooted go to the market and find and install "Rom Manager" by ClockworkMod. When you open this up it will ask for root permissions, give it. then use the "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery"

Now place unrevoked forever zip on your sdcard.

Open up Rom Manager again and select Reboot into Recovery.

Once in recover select "Install zip from sdcard" locate the unrevoked forever zip file and install it.

Now reboot your phone. Your phone is now completely rooted and nand unlocked. Congrats!! (Oh by the way, now that you have finished you might want to know you just voided your phones warranty. Should you ever need to return your phone make sure you revert all of these changes and go back to an unrooted phone before sending it in. There are guides for that, just look for them.)

Now we need to update your radio but first lets do a nandroid backup! These backups are great as they can save you countless hours of trying to return your phone to operable status after you screw it up (trust me, I found out about nandroid backup WAY WAY WAY after I should have, you should start with it earlier than I did)

Go back into Rom manager and find the "Backup current Rom" selection, select it. Now change the name of the backup to something like "stock rooted rom" that way you know what it is, the date and time stamped names never help me. Now click ok and let it do it's backup. This will take a minute. Once it is finished take a deep breath and relax, you likely just saved your future self many hours of frustration. Now reboot the phone it's time to update the radio.

Attention!!! DO NOT SCREW THIS SECTION UP!!! IF YOU DO, YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE!!!!

(by the way, I am not responsible for any bricking that may occur due to not following this guide to the "T" Also I am not responsible for any bricking that may occur due to following this guide to the "T" You assume ALL of the risk for attempting any of this stuff)

Download the following radio update: http://adrynalyne.stfuthxbye.net/radio/2.15.00.07.28/PB31IMG.zip

Place it on your sdcard in the bottom directory.

Now shutdown your phone. Once your phone is powered off hold down the volume down button and the power on button. A white screen should appear and say something about HBOOT.

It will locate the PB31IMG.zip file on your sdcard and ask you if you wish to update with it, answer yes. (If it does not find the file then you need to shut your phone off, take the sdcard out and put it in your computer and save the contents off of the sdcard into a folder on your computer and format the card to fat32 then replace the contents back onto the sdcard, put it back in your phone and boot back into HBOOT and let it find the update and get to the point we are at now)

DO NOT, DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT RUN THIS UPDATE MORE THAN ONCE!! IF YOU SCREW THIS UP AND RUN THE UPDATE TWICE, YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE.

Once it is finished press the power button, this should change the list of options, you should now see a reboot option, reboot your phone. Congrats you now have an updated radio (and hopefully a phone that isn't bricked)

No go back into Rom Manager and select "Download Rom" Find the Cyanogen rom and download it. Make sure if it asks, you select to download google apps too, don't wana be stuck without those! Also when it asks, you need to do a wipe too, a backup isn't needed but if you are scared, you can do another backup anyway.

Once it is done downloading it should ask to finish or reboot, once you send it on it's way, it will do it's thing and reboot your phone and flash it with the Cyanogen rom. Reboot the phone and you now have Android Froyo 2.2, rooted, with loopback support, overclocked kernel with tons of optimization. Cyanogen's roms are VERY excellent, so enjoy.

Once all of that is done, you are ready to follow the guide at nexusonehacks.net to get ubuntu linux running on your phone.

Also if you have any SIMPLE questions, I may be able to help you with them, however if they are in any way complex, please be sure to scan the comments posted in his guide to find a solution and post your own comment in his guide should you be unable to find a solution already there. I am in no way able to provide complex support to help you get this working on your system.