HTC Incredible 2 Root(ing) Trying to load Cyanomod 7

[Mike Prettyman]

Hello to all and thanks for the opportunity to be here.

I own an Incredible 2. It WAS running Android 2.3.4. I had heard so much about rooting and running custom roms that well, I had to try it out for myself, and I did. Thing is, now it goes to the white hTC screen and there it sits.

I went to the HTC site and did what I had to do to unlock the boot. Now when I hit the volume down and power buttons, it boots to the start screen. At the very top it says UNLOCKED. It still says S-ON, and below that it says HBOOT-0.98.0000.

I installed ClockworkMod and SuperUser 3.1.3.

I select wipe data/factory reset, then wipe cache partition, then wipe dalvik cache. Then I go back and try to install cm-7.2.0-vivow.zip. ClockworkMod shows the progress bar, it fills up and then says that it is done. From there I reboot and voila! I'm right back to watching the white hTC screen for another hour.

So, can anyone out there help me? I really like this phone and I even have and extended use battery for it. It figures, I wanted to do my first experimenting on some other, preferably cheap android - you know, to get the feel for it - but of course I got carried away and here I am.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and for any help you might be able to give me.

Mike P.

 

[Mike Prettyman]

okay, form what I've dug up in the interum, I'm guessing that I need to go back to 2.3.4 and then downgrade to 2.3.3 and go from there? Okay, I can live with that. I still have the email fro htc with my bootloader unlock info, so that should be easy enough. I have been looking all over for a 2.3.4 rom, but every time I think that i've found one, the link is either bogus or just expired.

can anyone help me find - or at least point me in the right direction to a stock 2.3.4 rom? I wouldn't think it would be so hard to find, but then again im new at this so maybe i'm grasping at straws...

thanks for any help at all folks.

mike p.

 

[czroy69]

this worked for me when I thought i had bricked my phone. the links do work on this site, and your phone will do OTA updates to latest version without any problems.

Unroot Droid Incredible 2 — DroidFiles.us is the link that i am talking about... takes you back to Froyo, but does the OTA up to 2.3.4


UPDATED 7/8/13 10:19

FYI... I was rooted with S-off, and now back to standard rom via OTA. I will be rooting my DInc2 to S-off later on this week. use the Revolutionary method for S-off and root.