I've been doing a lot of reading about rooting, flashing ROM's and kernel's and I think I'm ready to try rooting my Incredible. I was hoping to just get a quick sanity check of the steps I was planning to follow and clarify a couple points.
1. Download Android SDK, unrevoked3 recovery tool and drivers.
2. Install SDK.
3. Unpack recovery tool and install drivers.
4. Run unrevoked recovery tool.
5. Perform Titanium and Nandroid backups.
6. Use ROM Manager to flash new ROM. I was going to try out Incredibly Re-Engineered v2.20 first as it looks like that also includes Lou's #8 which I was interested in trying for improved battery life.
Does that sound right? I'm planning to follow this guide.
Updated: Root the HTC Droid Incredible - Technology - Jonamerica.com
I have 2 questions.
1. When connecting the phone to my PC when ready to run unrevoked, do I choose the option to connect as a Disk Drive? That seems to make the most sense but I wanted to be sure.
2. Assuming I am correct about Lou's #8 being automatically included with Incredibly Re-Engineered v2.20, if there's a time when I want to try a different ROM and kernel combo that aren't bundled together, is there an order in which those should be flashed? For example should the kernel be flashed before the ROM or anything like that?
Thanks to all the posters in this forum for the useful posts!
1. Download Android SDK, unrevoked3 recovery tool and drivers.
2. Install SDK.
3. Unpack recovery tool and install drivers.
4. Run unrevoked recovery tool.
5. Perform Titanium and Nandroid backups.
6. Use ROM Manager to flash new ROM. I was going to try out Incredibly Re-Engineered v2.20 first as it looks like that also includes Lou's #8 which I was interested in trying for improved battery life.
Does that sound right? I'm planning to follow this guide.
Updated: Root the HTC Droid Incredible - Technology - Jonamerica.com
I have 2 questions.
1. When connecting the phone to my PC when ready to run unrevoked, do I choose the option to connect as a Disk Drive? That seems to make the most sense but I wanted to be sure.
2. Assuming I am correct about Lou's #8 being automatically included with Incredibly Re-Engineered v2.20, if there's a time when I want to try a different ROM and kernel combo that aren't bundled together, is there an order in which those should be flashed? For example should the kernel be flashed before the ROM or anything like that?
Thanks to all the posters in this forum for the useful posts!