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Droid down... Droid or Incredible?

Thanks! I don't know what SBF, SPRecovery or RSD Lite are yet, but I'll hopefully figure it out quickly. I wouldn't mind giving all of this a shot tonight when I get home.

Thanks again!

EDIT: I think I found a post describing that first part:

http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-droid/63010-how-install-sprecovery-unrooted-2-1-ota.html

I think I'll be good to go. I can't wait to try some new ROMs. After seeing the Incredible today, I'm dying to get better performance out of the Droid.
 
You just broke an all metal phone with Gorilla Glass.. now you think a plastic phone is a good choice? Oh my... ;)
 
skunkpbguy said:
You just broke an all metal phone with Gorilla Glass.. now you think a plastic phone is a good choice? Oh my... ;)
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lol I didn't break it, it broke itself! Seriously, it just started flipping out on Monday and now the right side of the touchscreen is useless. I didn't drop it or anything. Very weird. I saw a post on another forum where someone had exactly the same problem that coincidentally began on the same day. Very strange.
 
BrandnewDroid said:
So today I made the awesome move of dropping my phone in the parking lot, shattering the screen and destroying the LCD display (it's not just cracked, the screen does not turn on).
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This is the post I was referring to. ;)
Next time, I'll be certain to quote so thread hijackers don't think their posts are being referenced.
 
johninbigd said:
Thanks! I don't know what SBF, SPRecovery or RSD Lite are yet, but I'll hopefully figure it out quickly. I wouldn't mind giving all of this a shot tonight when I get home.

Thanks again!

EDIT: I think I found a post describing that first part:

http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-droid/63010-how-install-sprecovery-unrooted-2-1-ota.html

I think I'll be good to go. I can't wait to try some new ROMs. After seeing the Incredible today, I'm dying to get better performance out of the Droid.
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Yep, that's the post. It should install everything you need, besides your having to go get ROM Manager and do the other steps I outlined. If you want to take it a step further and use custom ROMs, you can download CyanogenMod through ROM Manager or a different ROM (you'll either need the paid version of ROM Manager for a ROM other than CyanogenMod, or you can go download it, put it on your SD card, and install it with the Install from SD Card option).
 
Believe me you wont to learn everything in 1 night. But you should be able to get your first rom loaded. :-)

Learn adb and you'll get a lot farther. I've been toying with it on and off for a couple months in i'm still learning.
 
shadowdude777 said:
1) Flash the SBF that installs SPRecovery using RSD Lite *THIS WILL WIPE EVERYTHING ON THE PHONE (it won't touch the SD card's contents though)*
2) Download ROM Manager from the Market
3) Open ROM Manager and Flash ClockworkMod Recovery
4) Go into Download ROM, then go into CyanogenMod, then pick the bekit kernel. I recommend starting with a Low Voltage choice, but you should play with all of these.
5) Let it download. It'll ask you if you want to backup and if you want to wipe data and cache. Just check off the backup one, but not the wipe data and cache one. Your phone will restart, go through some voodoo magic, and that should be it.

Now you can download SetCPU and use it to change your CPU clock. Make sure you set the device to Autodetect in SetCPU, not Motorola Droid
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My apologies for continuing the inadvertent hijack of this thread. I tried all of this but I get an error when trying to flash clockworkmod recovery. It says something about permissions. I guess I don't have root yet. All I've done is what you mentioned above and nothing else. Is there more I need to do (like root the Droid manually) before I use ROM Manager?
 
Nevermind, I was following some instructions earlier that included how to root my droid. I'll go ahead and finish with those instructions and then move forward with ROM Manager. I think I was just being a noob and thought that ROM Manager didn't need root if I had already flashed my Droid with SPRecovery.
 
Yeh, I'm tempted by the Incredible, but i've bought three droids and rooted them. They are built really well. The screen being useless in sunlight is a big issue for me (i'm a photographer in Florida) and I dont know if I can get used to no keyboard. At least once a day I default to the keyboard when I need to type a long email or post....like this one!!
 
My g/f has the Incredible, I have a rooted Droid, so I think I can fairly answer this (even though by now, I'm sure you've already gotten your new phone). If you were not a root user and had no intention on rooting, then w/o a doubt, you'd go w/ the Inc. It's an amazing piece of hardware. And that camera is a thing of beauty. Sense UI is nice, and the HTC specific apps and widgets are really sweet. This device is as smooth as silk.

It does not, however, take the title of greatest phone available. That, and this is strictly my opinion (even though based on hard facts) still goes to the Motorola Droid. I'm currently running Pete's BBeast v1.0 and in conjunction w/ a 1.2GHz kernel, this is lightning fast. The screen transitions are on par w/ the Inc (if someone was able to clock that, the Inc might still edge it, but barely). However, my Droid is much faster at rendering web pages than the Inc is. Also, I'd have to say the Droid's screen is better. Go to the Market on both devices. Look at the icons. Huge difference. For everything I love about the HTC apps, there's apps that mimic them. I've got pretty good battery life for a smartphone, and it's much better than the Inc's, but I suspect that will level off soon. My Droid needed a few days and an update before it got there. And I love having the slide-out keyboard.

All in all, these are two great phones, the two best phones available on the best network available. The EVO 4G is gonna bring some new elements that are going to give some new options we haven't had before, but I think it's going to be a lot easier to call it a different option than a better phone. Regardless, Google, you've truly changed the game.
 
All I can say is my droid works like a dream, I always want the newest toy but just can't see getting the incredible until it has been out for a while and the real in the field testing has been done.
 
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