Been researching root for 2.3.4 for hours now

[sjpritch25]

How did you figure it out? Im stuck where you were

its called google

Here it is
[Tool] Downgrade VivoW with hboot 0.98 - xda-developers

 

[cac2us]

Has any one tried this on the new Red DInc II?
The rep told me it will have 4GB of internal memory as well as the pre installed 8GB SD Card.
That sounded too much like the DInc I that I gave my wife. He said that it is the Red DInc II.
We will know by Tuesday...

 

[Theot]

OK, here are some links:

Downgrade hboot 0.98 - [Tool] Downgrade VivoW with hboot 0.98 - xda-developers

Root - [How to] Root Your DInc2 Tutorial! (2.3.3 GB Only) - xda-developers

The iPhone jailbreak is more automated and straight forward, but gives you less flexibility. I am not an expert by far, but I did figure it out myself with lots of web based research. I will give you what I know, and I won't guarantee to know it all or get it all right. I am not an Android or Linux expert.

You need to gain s-off before you can gain root access. S-off turns off security that allows you to gain root and flash any ROM.

You then want to install a recovery image like Clockworkmod. This allows you to clear cache, flash ROM's, backup and restore (nandroid backups).

Then you can backup your stock configuration and start flashing ROM's. As far as I know, you cannot gain root access with stock 2.3.4. You will want to try out a few ROM's. Make sure you backup. If you want global access, I recommend Skyraider Zeus or RMK's Gingersense. Both are sense ROM's with Skyraider having hybrid sens 2.1 and 3.0 features. You speed and battery life will be amazing compared to stock.

If you don't travel international, the world is open with choices. I like CM7 myself. Miui is quite popular also. Then there is Virtuous Unity and Mikmik ROM's. Several others.

Do your research before asking questions. Break it into small steps of learning. You will get there. XDA and rootzwiki have a ton of resource. Read, read, and read!

I am going to try. I might break this into multiple replies and might not get them all up tonight. I will assume you are in Windows 7 for all of this! I did use an Ubuntu Live CD to do the s-off procedure, but I think there is revolutionary instructions for Windows.

(1) First enable USB debugging on your phone by going to Settings->Applications->Development. Then turn off fastboot by going to Settings->Power (this is different than the fastboot mode choice once in recovery, which is used with the fastboot.exe that is part of the Android SDK.)

(2) Next install the HTC USB Driver for the Droid Incredible 2. You can find the download link in the XDA downgrade thread at [Tool] Downgrade VivoW with hboot 0.98 - xda-developers

(3) Install the Android SDK, which will include ADB and Fastboot. You can find the instructions and the download link here: What Is ADB And How To Install It With Android SDK

You can skip the USB driver install because you have what you need from Step (2). Fastboot is in the platform tools folder. I just moved adb.exe and adbwinapi.dll from the tools folder to the platform tools folder so they are in the same location as fastboot. I also place any files I am flashing to the phone, etc in that same folder. It just makes is easier to change to that folder at the command prompt and execute commands from there. (The easy way to open the folder at the command prompt in Windows 7 is to hold down shift and right click the folder. You will get a command window option.)

At this point you should have a C:\android-sdk-windows folder and the necessary files under it. If you have trouble to here, I don't think you should go any further.

As an alternative to step (3), and easier, is to download attn1's kit from [Tool] Downgrade VivoW with hboot 0.98 - xda-developers. It contains the files necessary to run adb and fastboot without installing the Android SDK. The key is to put all of the files from his kit under .\tools\win in the same folder as the files in the root folder of his kit (namely misc_version, zergRush, etc). Put them in c:\adb would be my suggestion.

Assuming you did the paragraph above, which I recommend. Do the following:

(4) Open the command prompt and change to c:\adb. Connect your phone via USB as charge only. You should have USB debugging enabled per the above. Manually execute the commands from attn1's downgrade thread. Namely:

adb shell rm -r /data/local/tmp/*
adb push zergRush /data/local/tmp/zergRush
adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp/misc_version
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/zergRush
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version
adb shell /data/local/tmp/zergRush
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c '/data/local/tmp/misc_version -s 2.18.605.3'
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash zip RUU_Vivo_W_Gingerbread_S_VERIZON_WWE_2.18.605.3_Radio_1.09.01.0622_NV_VZW1.92_release_199487_signed.zip
fastboot reboot

At this point, you should have downgraded your hboot and can gain s-off.

(5) Attn1's thread also contains the link to gaining s-off and installing cwm (clockworkmod recovery) using Revolutionary: Revolutionary

You should be able to run this per the instructions there. This will set security off and install the clockwordmod recovery. You can follow this thread for more thorough instructions: [How to] Root Your DInc2 Tutorial! (2.3.3 GB Only) - xda-developers

At this point you are downgraded with s-off and clockworkdmod installed. You now have everything you need to flash ROM's, etc.

(6) You should read about flashing ROM's, etc here: Ox's noob corner (work in progress)- everything you need to get started right here - xda-developers

There are other resources if you search.

(7) You get into recovery by turning off your phone. Then hold volume down and power on. Then you use the volume keys to move the cursor up and down one in the bootloader. Use the power button to choose options. The same goes for once you are in recovery. You should see an option called "recovery" once booted into the bootloader. This will run CWM. The first thing you should do is do a nandroid backup in the backup and recovery menu. Make sure you have a least 1 GB free on your SD-card (I keep 4 GB for experimenting with ROM's). This will backup your stock ROM setup.

(8) Now you can reboot, download ROM's to your SD card and flash them as instructed. Good luck.

Just got a Dinc2 as a warranty replacement last friday. Thanks to these posts (and a youtube video to make sure I was doing it right) I was able to find everything I need to downgrade and root my Dinc2. Being new to an HTC phone this was a big help. Thanks for the posts!

 

[quino machine]

So I just received a replacement device yesterday.
I rooted my old phone a couple of months ago and had to do this downgrade then and everything worked fine.

Now, however, it won't work. I run the script as admin in cmd and everything seems to go fine until it tries to flash the old RUU. Here's what I get.

C:\adb>fastboot flash zip RUU_Vivo_W_Gingerbread_S_VERIZON_WWE_2.18.605.3_Radio_
1.09.01.0622_NV_VZW1.92_release_199487_signed.zip
sending 'zip' (292817 KB)... OKAY [ 51.352s]
writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this i
mage...
INFOsignature checking...
INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
INFOchecking model ID...
INFOchecking custom ID...
INFOchecking main version...
FAILED (remote: 43 main version check fail)
finished. total time: 96.329s

C:\adb>fastboot reboot
rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.194s
C:\adb>

I highlighted what I think is the problem. It reboots but is still on 2.3.4

Any help would be MUCH appreciated

 

[sjpritch25]

Probably a bad download. I would re-download and try again.

 

[quino machine]

Probably a bad download. I would re-download and try again.

tried that, checked the md5, it all appears to be normal...

 

[quino machine]

I have two theories
1) Verizon changed the software version on me, in which case I'm SOL until someone at xda hears about it and updates the way to get s-off
2) Verizon sent me a refurbished phone of someone who likes to root and messed up the software somehow.

For now I'll keep searching the internet for alternative solutions/explanations. Wish me luck!

 

[sjpritch25]

Are you on .98 bootloader?

 

[quino machine]

Yes, still .98

 

[Spencer Freebairn]

I keep getting stuck at the same command. My phone is S-ON. I have no idea what to do. I used the tool linked but it still didn't work. Help, lol.

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I assume its S-OFF. You need to search for the tutorial to get back to s-on. That is the tutorial to downgrade to get s-off.
two totally different things.

I keep getting stuck at the same command. My phone is S-ON. I have no idea what to do. I used the tool linked but it still didn't work. Help, lol.