[Droid Incredible General] jcclow:
So, I'm a newb. I got my Incredible and all I wanted to do was root it so I could start picking it apart. I patiently waited, reading all the posts on here and all the flaming by complete jackholes, that weren't contributing at all to any of the discussions. unrevoked, with all of their hard work, nailed it! It is now pathetically simple to root your Incredible.

I recently started installing custom ROMs on my Incredible (Jager, Virtuous, Ultimate Droid and SkyRaider). They're all great ROMs, but I totally dug CrystalClearROMs Ruby. It's slim, fast and intuitive. But, it had some bloatware that I didn't want, namely Amazon MP3. I researched and found a couple of pages that explained how to remove .apk's from other phones but not from the Incredible (correctly). After piecing the parts together, I came up with this...hope it helps.

I take no responsibility for you screwing your phone up. This worked perfectly on mine.

Pre-requisites

Your Incredible must be rooted

You must have ClockworkMod installed

You must have ROM Manager installed (buy it, it is totally worth it)

You must have the Android 2.2 SDK installed

You have to be able to follow directions

These directions assume you are using Windows 7

I would post links to all of this stuff, but I'm a newb and I can't post links...sorry.

OK, here goes...

Connect your Incredible to your PC with the micro USB port. You need to have the proper drivers installed and USB debugging turned on.

Open ROM Manager and select "Reboot into Recovery".

After your phone reboots, select "mounts and storage" and press the optical trackpad.

Select "mount /system" and press the optical trackpad.

Press the power button to return to the previous menu.

On your PC, unzip the Android SDK and place it in a folder, where you can get to it.

Browse to the Tools folder in the SDK and hold down shift while you right click inside the folder. Select "Open command window here". A command window should open in C:*****\android-sdk-windows\tools>

Type "adb devices" (without the quotes. all directions from here out are without the quotes). Your display should say..."List of devices attached" followed by a custom string of digits and the word "recovery". If you don't see this, you've done something wrong.

Try using your up and down arrow keys while in the cmd window instead of re-typing

Now type "adb shell". You should get "~ #" in the cmd window.

You are now browsing your Incredible using the shell.

Useful commands while inside the shell...

ls = list

cd = change directory

cd / = to the top directory

exit = exit out of the shell

Type "cd /system/app". You are now browsing the "system/app" directory.

Type "ls" to see a list of apk's that are currently installed on your Incredible.

The Amazon MP3 apk was named "com.amazon.mp3.apk".

To delete it, type "rm com.amazon.mp3.apk" and press enter.

This will work with any apk. However, make sure you know what you're deleting. You can do really bad things to your Incredible if you delete the wrong apk!

Once you've deleted all the apk's you want to, select "reboot system now" on your Incredible and sit back and enjoy an adult beverage, while your Incredible reboots.

Hopefully, if you've done everything right, your phone reboots with the offending app gone from your Incredible. If not, you better re-install your OS.

I hope this helped you in your quest to create the perfect ROM. Let me just say again that I love CrystalClearROMs Ruby. If you're looking for the ultimate in trimmed down ROM, look no further. If you want the Market, make sure you install the version with Google Apps or you'll be installing apk's to get it.

Good luck!

Jeremy