I've been a lurker here since about the third week in April when I preordered my Incredible. I came from Blackberry and it was, and is, my first Droid phone. I finally need to ask questions, so I'll freely admit that when it comes to rooting this all sounds like a foreign language. I want to root my Incredible mostly so that I can tether it and hopefully get some better battery life out of it. I've gone so far as to DL the unrevoked reflash.dmg file but I have a few questions first that I hope someone can answer for me before I take this leap of faith.
1) Is there a site or video that walks me through the steps using unrevoked? A site that treats me like the idiot that I am and holds my hand?
2) If I root my phone could I return it to factory spec if I find that it's all more than I can handle? (Assuming I don't brick it)
3) ROMs. So I get that they are software for the phone, but is there a place that's trustworthy that I can DL the best ones from? Like I said, I want tethering and battery life but I watched a video on YouTube last night where some guy did amazing stuff with his Incredible. He even had a screen lock that with dots that he used to unlock his phone. Something that I didn't even know I wanted until I saw it.
4) If I use unrevoked, will it walk me through doing a backup or do I need something else to do a backup before using unrevoked and does it create a file that I save to my computer just in case something happened to my phone. I use Astro now and then copy the file over to my mac just in case I F up my phone somehow and ever need to replace the apps or pics etc.. A copy of a copy I suppose.
5) In case it's not already apparent, I don't know anything about this stuff. Talk to me about motorcycles, cars or videogames and I'm golden; but rooting my Incredible is like trying to learn Chinese. I need hand holding. Help?
And thanks for any help.
1) Is there a site or video that walks me through the steps using unrevoked? A site that treats me like the idiot that I am and holds my hand?
2) If I root my phone could I return it to factory spec if I find that it's all more than I can handle? (Assuming I don't brick it)
3) ROMs. So I get that they are software for the phone, but is there a place that's trustworthy that I can DL the best ones from? Like I said, I want tethering and battery life but I watched a video on YouTube last night where some guy did amazing stuff with his Incredible. He even had a screen lock that with dots that he used to unlock his phone. Something that I didn't even know I wanted until I saw it.
4) If I use unrevoked, will it walk me through doing a backup or do I need something else to do a backup before using unrevoked and does it create a file that I save to my computer just in case something happened to my phone. I use Astro now and then copy the file over to my mac just in case I F up my phone somehow and ever need to replace the apps or pics etc.. A copy of a copy I suppose.
5) In case it's not already apparent, I don't know anything about this stuff. Talk to me about motorcycles, cars or videogames and I'm golden; but rooting my Incredible is like trying to learn Chinese. I need hand holding. Help?
And thanks for any help.
