Rehabilitating on old DINC, need advice

[Vance14]

Hello! My son needs a new phone and I am considering just using my wife's old DINC which has sat dormant for a year or so. The phone is fine, but the "low on space" issue was incredibly annoying and occasionally it would not send or receive texts (possibly a carrier issue).

If I understand right, the "low on space" issue has something to do with a caching problem, but is there a permanent fix for it (rather than just having to clear cache all the time)?

Does rooting and putting a new ROM on solve this problem? If so, is there a "one step" root process? I rooted my old OG Droid and my Nexus, but I have not tried to root an HTC device before.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!! Thanks!

 

[strabo231]

[GUIDE] One Click How to Root the Incredible with Unrevoked 3.21 - xda-developers

This is the one click root method. Rooting the phone and installing a custom rom will make that thing like a brand new phone. It will take care of the low on space issues as well

 

[Vance14]

Awesome, that is what I wanted to hear!!

 

[PvilleComp]

Vance - No need to root if you don't want to - when you re-activate the phone for your Son, just do a factory reset and the problem will go away. You'll need to do a reset anyway to use a different gmail account on the phone.

 

[Vance14]

Actually, that is exactly what I ended up doing. I read that the new update would come when there was a factory reset. And that is what ended up solving the problem.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Android Central Forums

 

[PvilleComp]

Glad it worked out!