Root method without adb in recovery!! Plus custom recovery included!

[borgey401]

This is for all you guys who could not get root with adb in recovery. this tool released by unrEVOked will root and flash a custom recovery on your HTC Droid Incredible. No more playing around with sd card for hours and all that BS. So here it is everyone unrevoked ENJOY!! Also be sure to stop in ##incredibleroot or ##incredibleroms and thank unrEVOked for all their hard work.

 

[Qazme]

Good job devs, I dropped by the channel and gave a thumbs up to the Devs. Hopefully someone saw it....thanks for all the hard work guys! The things you all are doing are appreciate but rarely thanked for the contributions thousands or people use and abuse. So thanks for the time put in and thanks for the toys! Now time to get ready for the rush of people into the forums! lol.

 

[rmiles7721]

Trying it now.

 

[rmiles7721]

I've tried it a few times now. Basically it copies over the clockwork recovery, goes through a couple of reboots and tells me that 'Communications with phone unexpectedly interrupted. Try again.' The phone is one the ClockworkMod Recovery screen but the reflash tool doesn't give enough time to get to that point before giving me the prior message.

 

[Incrediboy]

First of all..
Thanks for keeping us updated... I felt like a nincompoop rebooting over and over and over...

Alright.. the Qs

1) Will I still get OTAs when they come in?

2) Would the OTAs be able to break root?

3) does this change anything else on the phone?? or it just gives me root?

Thanks and I'm sorry if its already written.. but its kinda "greeky" to me.. so I don't fully understand it.

Thanks,
Incrediboy.

 

[rmiles7721]

Once I got it to that point I was able to finish manually. Excellent! Now have root.

 

[borgey401]

First of all..
Thanks for keeping us updated... I felt like a nincompoop rebooting over and over and over...

Alright.. the Qs

1) Will I still get OTAs when they come in?

2) Would the OTAs be able to break root?

3) does this change anything else on the phone?? or it just gives me root?

Thanks and I'm sorry if its already written.. but its kinda "greeky" to me.. so I don't fully understand it.

Thanks,
Incrediboy.

yes you can still get OTAs once rooted NEVER ACCPET AN OTA UNTILL DEVS DECLEAR IT SAFE! a lot of OTAs will infact break root. but we always get a root safe version of it that people whip up. no rooting will change absolutely nothing about the ROM on your phone (unless you flash a custom ROM) but that's optional. basically rooting is like running your windows PC under an administrator account. it will give you access to more things that's all.

 

[rmiles7721]

yes you can still get OTAs once rooted NEVER ACCPET AN OTA UNTILL DEVS DECLEAR IT SAFE! a lot of OTAs will infact break root. but we always get a root safe version of it that people whip up. no rooting will change absolutely nothing about the ROM on your phone (unless you flash a custom ROM) but that's optional. basically rooting is like running your windows PC under an administrator account. it will give you access to more things that's all.

Thanks for making it clear about the OTAs. Good to know.

 

[Incrediboy]

yes you can still get OTAs once rooted NEVER ACCPET AN OTA UNTILL DEVS DECLEAR IT SAFE! a lot of OTAs will infact break root. but we always get a root safe version of it that people whip up. no rooting will change absolutely nothing about the ROM on your phone (unless you flash a custom ROM) but that's optional. basically rooting is like running your windows PC under an administrator account. it will give you access to more things that's all.

Thanks for your patience,
Next Questions:

Using this new method... will it be possible for me to load the wifi tethering capability???

I saw some people delete that annoying cityid... would i be able to delete that?

 

[crondable]

Of course, I just got root today using the old method. Oh well, this is still awesome! Should be great for people that were scared off by the previous root method.

 

[rmiles7721]

Thanks for your patience,
Next Questions:

Using this new method... will it be possible for me to load the wifi tethering capability???

I saw some people delete that annoying cityid... would i be able to delete that?

Don't know about WiFi tethering because I haven't tried it yet but as far as the second question yes. I got rid of CityID, Friendstream and Footprints immediately.

 

[jmcsmith]

anyone else seeing that they removed the incredible from the unrevoked site linked in the original post?

 

[Incrediboy]

anyone else seeing that they removed the incredible from the unrevoked site linked in the original post?

Its there... IE gives me trouble... chrome works to access it though.



IE has "Done but w/ errors"

 

[anon26174]

So newbie question here... If you delete things like Friendstream or CityID, are there options to uninstall them, or do you have to go into Astro, find the right APK, delete it from there, etc? I guess I worry that just removing something might not be enough if it leaves a bunch of system files all over the place.

 

[Qazme]

You have to boot your phone into recovery mode. Mount the /system partition inside the partition menu. And use the rm command inside of bin to delete the app in question out of /system/app directory. This is in a locked section of the NAND and those apps can not be deleted with the phone fully booted.

 

[anon26174]

Great info, thanks.

 

[nmyeti]

Awesome tool

 

[jmcsmith]

i wish this was out three days ago when i got root

 

[Argent]

it is really as simple as downloading that exe, plugging the phone in to the computer and running that exe? or is there more to it?

 

[Peanutbutter_N_Jelly]

it is really as simple as downloading that exe, plugging the phone in to the computer and running that exe? or is there more to it?

It's as simple as uninstalling htc sync and other drivers you might have previously installed to get root, installing the correct drivers, downloading that exe, plugging the phone in to the computer and running that exe