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UNREVOKED. I just tacked on the perm procedure and regurgitated it in my own words. \
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I nor anyone else is responsible if you break your phone. try this at your own risk!!
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the screen should fill up with "Error - Device not found"
Press the and hold the volume down button then press and hold power
once in the menu press volume down to highlight "recovery"
Press the power button
the screen should change from "error: device not found" to "error: device not found" to "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -"
If you do not get this message within 10-30 seconds pull the battery and do it over again.
1. With your phone booted up and plugged in via USB, type adb reboot recovery.
2. Start your adb shell loop (using the while loop or bat file).
3. Click in and out your SD card repeatedly while the phone is booting into recovery (apparently every 0.5 sec will do).
4. Watch for "- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -" to appear in your terminal ******************End Method 3**********************
*****************There are a lot of other methods floating around. I will not add anymore methods to this thread until we have a confirmed %100 working method. So if you are not able to get adb in recovery from the above 3 methods, then look around there are a lot of other methods to try posted here. I will be watching the other threads and will update as soon as I see a method that has a very high rate of success responses. *********************
now you should still be in the triangle with the ! screen. press vol up and power to go back to the menu. DO NOT REBOOT.
Press vol down to highlight "apply: update.zip" and press the power button
It will fail at this.
Go back to the CMD window and type the following commands.
Now type the next command but DO NOT PRESS ENTER YET
Code:
adb push payload-update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
Now press the power button on Apply: update.zip within 1-2 seconds press enter on the command window to execute the above command.
If successful you should see
“unrEVOked for Incredible” with some other stuff
Now type the following commands to make it persistent through reboot
Code:
adb shell
su
export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin
cd /system/app
cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > Superuser.apk
cd /system/bin
cat /sdcard/su > su
ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su /* IF YOU GET AN ERROR HERE DO rm /system/xbin/su THEN REDO */
chmod 06755 su
to get rid unwanted apps do this
Do not type the /* TITLE */ Part... just whats underneath it to remove that particular app
***********Disclaimer**************
I have not personally removed all these apps - Remove at your own risk
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Code:
/* City ID */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/CityID.apk
/* Friend Stream & Widget */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/com.htc.FriendSteamWidget.apk
/system/bin/rm /system/app/FriendStream.apk
/* HTC Facebook */ <------------*****REPORTED TO CAUSE FC's if removed******
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcFacebook.apk
/* HTC Twitter & Widget*/
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcTwitter.apk
/system/bin/rm /system/app/com.htc.TwitterWidget.apk
/* Teeter */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/teeter.apk
/* Stock Facebook */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/Facebook.apk
/* Verizon Visual Voice Mail */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/VVM.apk
/* HTC Footprints and widget */
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcFootprintsWidget.apk
/system/bin/rm /system/app/HtcFootprints.apk
choose reboot from the menu and Your phone will now reboot and you will have root
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where can I get loop.bat @ - obviously it isnt in my tools folder to edit?
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It can take a few tries...
yeah I tried last night while i was in irc room - i was doing manual and this loop.bat script is a savior from typing it - well heres trial over 50 haha
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One of the users just said " I've been successful now accessing using Win7 32 and 64 bit, WinXPPro. Even my netbook was able to do it. Sdcard is a class 6 16gb"
then dont do it? point is you can use apps that you need su - like drocap etc
Was not planning on it. Waiting for a custom rom or some nice easy instructions first. If you brick it...its going to be a long time before you get a new device...
Thanks for the info. Worked like a champ. I did have some issues at first though. Tried 2 different SD cards and nothing. Rebooted about 20 times. Not sure if it helped the root or not but as soon as I unplugged from the USB port on the front of my PC and plugged into one on the back coming off the actual motherboard, it kicked in the first try. No more CityID!!
Windows 7 64bit
2GB Kingston Card (No clue what class)
Great job devs! Thanks so much and thanks for the guide!
I'm having issues though installling the superuser.apk. I can't install directly from phone and when I adb install, it says 'Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]'
Great job devs! Thanks so much and thanks for the guide!
I'm having issues though installling the superuser.apk. I can't install directly from phone and when I adb install, it says 'Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]'
Any ideas as to why this is happening?
We have root access... doesnt mean that all things root will work. some stuff is confirmed, some stuff will still have to be figured out. The su.apk is one of them that is not working yet. There are a lot more permissions and such that all have to be sorted before everything will work.
30+ times no luck.... anyway to test the SDK to the phone to make sure that is working? or adb?
yes... boot your phone normally ... make sure debug is turned on.. and then do adb shell... you should get the prompt.. you just wont be able to do anything
maybe having debug enabled is the key?
you did install HTC sync to get the driver installed correct?
i found that running loop in 5 or 6 different command windows made it so i only had to do it 3 or 4 reboots... now, i can't seem to get the timing right for the push update.zip part
i found that running loop in 5 or 6 different command windows made it so i only had to do it 3 or 4 reboots... now, i can't seem to get the timing right for the push update.zip part
that was the easiest for me.. i did it almost immediately.
Still not having any success here, adb sees the device once its booted, but not from recovery mode. Verizon is already shipping me a new Incredible on the 11th, so bricking my phone is not a problem,
I've been trying the adb devices trick to see if it sees it, then during reboot I use adb reboot recovery and it will automatically reboot it back to the recovery screen, better than pulling battery IMHO
Ok this method seems to be working... please if you have had no success try this and get back to me... this is just for the boot up part
- Turn off phone
- Unplug USB cable
- Hold Optical track/Button, Press Power
- When in menu, hit Power (to boot FASTBOOT)
- Wait 20 seconds (until it tries to load everything it needs)
- Plug USB cable in, wait another 10 seconds for OS to catch up and detect
- Press Volume DOWN, once
- Start your 'adb shell' loop (via batch file posted in the thread)
- Press Power
I have tested this 3 times in a row and it seems to work perfectly.
Last edited by prerunnerseth; June 10th, 2010 at 06:56 PM.
No luck, and the only thing i am noticing based on these instructions which I did not notice before is a strange USB connect sound with this - "- Plug USB cable in, wait another 10 seconds for OS to catch up and detect"
But after that I get a normal disconnect and reconnect while it is on the "!" screen.
So far I have tried 4 times with the same results.
Ok this method seems to be working... please if you have had no success try this and get back to me... this is just for the boot up part
- Turn off phone
- Unplug USB cable
- Hold Optical track/Button, Press Power
- When in menu, hit Power (to boot FASTBOOT)
- Wait 20 seconds (until it tries to load everything it needs)
- Plug USB cable in, wait another 10 seconds for OS to catch up and detect
- Press Volume DOWN, once
- Start your 'adb shell' loop (via batch file posted in the thread)
- Press Power
I have tested this 3 times in a row and it seems to work perfectly.
No luck, and the only thing i am noticing based on these instructions which I did not notice before is a strange USB connect sound with this - "- Plug USB cable in, wait another 10 seconds for OS to catch up and detect"
But after that I get a normal disconnect and reconnect while it is on the "!" screen.
So far I have tried 4 times with the same results.
There must be some other issue then... i have replicated the results on my phone several times with the new method and it works every time no reboots.
for those of us who cant get it to work, is everyone using the free 2GB SD card that came with the phone? And for those who are getting it to work, are you using a different SD Card?
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