ONE incredible has been rooted.

[iamtone]

That would be REALLY cool.

How could that happen?

thats what im wondering thats pretty cool

 

[extra_medium]

Because hacking a computer isn't simple.

I think his question is more why this one in particular seems to be more difficult than others that happen relatively quickly.

 

[_JKK_]

Yeah, I'm really impressed by these guys that can make that happen. Real talent (wish I had some).

Just be glad these guys aren't the ones making the security

 

[XXXdc5]

Because hacking a computer isn't simple.

yeah maybe for YOU


i asked because i know the people involved are very reputable in the android world and know the system well. I was curious as to what differences there are with the incredible compared to other android phones that have been rooted

 

[VZWBB]

yeah maybe for YOU


i asked because i know the people involved are very reputable in the android world and know the system well. I was curious as to what differences there are with the incredible compared to other android phones that have been rooted

I think the issue is verizon. They want to lock everything down on thier phones. I think its because they believe that overall this will lead to less consumer complaints because we won't be able to "mess our phones up" or something like that. They haven't figured out that its just the opposite.

Could be worse though. They could have made the phone unable to use gps for things like google maps or google nav....forcing you to pay for VZNav...lol.

 

[imma_rage_quit]

I think the issue is verizon. They want to lock everything down on thier phones. I think its because they believe that overall this will lead to less consumer complaints because we won't be able to "mess our phones up" or something like that. They haven't figured out that its just the opposite.

Could be worse though. They could have made the phone unable to use gps for things like google maps or google nav....forcing you to pay for VZNav...lol.

I wouldn't have purchased the phone if that were the case...

 

[borgey401]

The whole trick is just to get abd in recovery and the rest is extremely easy. It took me about 3 days to finally get into adb while in recovery. A lot of trial and error. Now all we need is a custom recovery and we are good and let the roms get cookin baby!!!!

Sent from my Droid Incredible using Tapatalk

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

I think the issue is verizon. They want to lock everything down on thier phones. I think its because they believe that overall this will lead to less consumer complaints because we won't be able to "mess our phones up" or something like that. They haven't figured out that its just the opposite.

This is exactly why. Verizon had HTC take extra steps on the Eris and the Incredible to harden the shell so the phones couldn't be rooted. They exchanged one security hole with another, so it takes time to find a new method. No system that allows user input is unrootable, and I hope they realize that now

Verizon (and Moto oddly enough) are on record saying users that want root access to their phones should buy a Nexus 1. They do it in the customers best interests, no matter how much we disagree lol.

 

[Incrediboy]

Does anyone know if the root methods presented here will prevent future OTAs??

Or if those future OTAs will "de-root" the phone?

I'm new to 'root'ing.. so I don't know exactly when OTAs get knocked out.

 

[XXXdc5]

I think the issue is verizon. They want to lock everything down on thier phones. I think its because they believe that overall this will lead to less consumer complaints because we won't be able to "mess our phones up" or something like that. They haven't figured out that its just the opposite.

Could be worse though. They could have made the phone unable to use gps for things like google maps or google nav....forcing you to pay for VZNav...lol.

yeah i agree. we've all seen the same issues with blackberry when people try to do anything with those phones. But hey no matter what big brother does there will always be a team to "crack the code" so to speak lol. i was actually really shocked that this phone has BOTH wifi aaaaaand gps haha. pretty good win for all of us