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[Limerick]

Thank you very much, neither method in the 10 minute video worked, this worked first time!

 

[Piiman]

Everytime I have my phone connected to my pc, it registers it fine but when I type "adb reboot recovery" I get a message saying "Permission denied"

Any advice?

Do you need the adb in that command? I noticed when I get syntax wrong I get the permission denied error. try "reboot recovery"

 

[llystra2008]

Success thanks for the tip. I was able to root on the second time of releasing the memory card.

I also corrupted the memory card and that worked also. I had to root the second time cause I forgot to remove some of the apps.

 

[shotinthenads]

I find it really odd that I cannot seem to get this to work. I understand all the tips and tricks and using several different sd cards and the tricks others have used, but for some reason I cannot get it to work. I am sure I am doing something wrong, but I am following the directions exactly. By the sounds of it the majority of people are now able to root.

 

[llystra2008]

I find it really odd that I cannot seem to get this to work. I understand all the tips and tricks and using several different sd cards and the tricks others have used, but for some reason I cannot get it to work. I am sure I am doing something wrong, but I am following the directions exactly. By the sounds of it the majority of people are now able to root.

Have you tried to reformat the sd memory card into different formats? Than try the push in and out the memory card method? I think the Dinc rooting is very random.

 

[akvtiger]

Finally after about a week of trying everything this worked perfectly!

THANKS!

I am happy to say that I rooted my phone, I followed the above advice, however it took a few times.
First I want to say that the following method is not mine, I am just reposting to help out as many users as I can... this is what worked for me.

1. Load up the fastboot menu by holding down power and the optical trackpad.
2. Plug in the USB cable
3. Press power again to select bootloader.
4. Click the SD card out (before it searches for the missing files), highlight recovery, and then press power to select recovery.
5. As the first white HTC screen is loading, you will hear a "detach" sound if you are on a windows computer. Immediately click the SD card in at this time. THE CARD MUST GO IN BEFORE THE SCREEN TURNS BLACK. You have to be very fast. If you push the card in after the screen goes black, too late. Keep trying and you will get it.
6. Try to get into shell.
7. If you did not get into recovery. Do a battery pull and repeat steps 1-6.

Like I said, I tried this first and messed it up, but it was when I got card in before the screen went black, that I immediately got the correct error.
I hope this helps.

-The KiD
Oh, found this here if you want to read, I combined two comments to form this.
Droid Incredible root instructions now available (updated) | Android Central

 

[shotinthenads]

Have you tried to reformat the sd memory card into different formats? Than try the push in and out the memory card method? I think the Dinc rooting is very random.

Yes,used 5 different cards 3 pc's and a Mac. Pushing and pulling the card.....tried many many times. I will give it another try tomorrow.

 

[merlin666]

tried about 300 times today. turned off mobile connect and put into airplane mode and rebooted to put card in again and went fine that time.

 

[Piiman]

tried about 300 times today. turned off mobile connect and put into airplane mode and rebooted to put card in again and went fine that time.

I other words you got lucky
I keep trying and hoping to get lucky also but so far all I can say is my batch files loops really good.

 

[DeaconBoogie]

worked with my noika 1GB class 2 (slowest i think)

failed 9 times with 4GB class 6

here are my steps:

Unplug the USB

Press and hold the optical Trackball and press power

Once in the menu press power again

Wait 20 seconds for it to do its bit

Plug USB in and wait another 10 seconds for your computer to detect the phone

press menu down to highlight "recovery"

set up the cmd for adb shell loop

Press power on the phone + hit enter on cmd at the same time.

the screen should change from "error: device not found" to "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -"

for the rest, i fellowed "The PRS Complete Rooting Guide"

ps: it worked for me.

OH MY GOD... ONE THAT FINALLY WORKS!

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you .......

 

[fearofth3dark]

here are my steps:

Unplug the USB

Press and hold the optical Trackball and press power

Once in the menu press power again

Wait 20 seconds for it to do its bit

Plug USB in and wait another 10 seconds for your computer to detect the phone

press menu down to highlight "recovery"

set up the cmd for adb shell loop

Press power on the phone + hit enter on cmd at the same time.

the screen should change from "error: device not found" to "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -"

for the rest, i fellowed "The PRS Complete Rooting Guide"

I don't think I can put into words how much I love you right now..

 

[RandomJoeBob]

Finally got it. Thanks to all that provided assistance!

I went out and bought the 2gb PNY mentioned above formated in FAT. I was able to get it to work with a 4gb class 4 card as well.

When you reboot the phone you should be able to use "adb reboot recovery" to restart you phone. If you are not able to do this before the Verizon boot screen shows up, you probably do not have the correct drivers.

Once you reboot, as mentioned above, listen to you computer. I started putting in the card and removing it until I heard the usb connect sound.

I also received the access denied message when trying to run "1.bat". I just pressed the power+volume up and selected the second option. It failed but then allowed me to run 1.bat.

Hope this helps.

 

[Piiman]

Finally got it. Thanks to all that provided assistance!

I went out and bought the 2gb PNY mentioned above formated in FAT. I was able to get it to work with a 4gb class 4 card as well.

When you reboot the phone you should be able to use "adb reboot recovery" to restart you phone. If you are not able to do this before the Verizon boot screen shows up, you probably do not have the correct drivers.

Once you reboot, as mentioned above, listen to you computer. I started putting in the card and removing it until I heard the usb connect sound.

I also received the access denied message when trying to run "1.bat". I just pressed the power+volume up and selected the second option. It failed but then allowed me to run 1.bat.

Hope this helps.

That's becasue your supposed to press power+ volume and select the 2nd option FIRST

 

[Piiman]

Yes,used 5 different cards 3 pc's and a Mac. Pushing and pulling the card.....tried many many times. I will give it another try tomorrow.

I would add that you should try all the methods on all those different PC's. I finally went back to the ten minute video after I tried the push pull method. While that works on one of my PC's it doesn't on the others. So try them all on each PC.
Good luck

 

[unclaimed baggage]

ok noob question, once rooted - always rooted? Do you have to keep the 2 bg card in?

 

[Tony N.]

this method works for me everytime i do it. it's the only method that im able to root 100% success rate. thanks! i'm using kingston 2gb sd card.

 

[Tony N.]

ok noob question, once rooted - always rooted? Do you have to keep the 2 bg card in?

once you are rooted the super user prog is installed into sys memory. you do not need the sd card to remain rooted. thank me =)

 

[Stam2000]

I am happy to say that I rooted my phone, I followed the above advice, however it took a few times.
First I want to say that the following method is not mine, I am just reposting to help out as many users as I can... this is what worked for me.

1. Load up the fastboot menu by holding down power and the optical trackpad.
2. Plug in the USB cable
3. Press power again to select bootloader.
4. Click the SD card out (before it searches for the missing files), highlight recovery, and then press power to select recovery.
5. As the first white HTC screen is loading, you will hear a "detach" sound if you are on a windows computer. Immediately click the SD card in at this time. THE CARD MUST GO IN BEFORE THE SCREEN TURNS BLACK. You have to be very fast. If you push the card in after the screen goes black, too late. Keep trying and you will get it.
6. Try to get into shell.
7. If you did not get into recovery. Do a battery pull and repeat steps 1-6.

Like I said, I tried this first and messed it up, but it was when I got card in before the screen went black, that I immediately got the correct error.
I hope this helps.

-The KiD
Oh, found this here if you want to read, I combined two comments to form this.
Droid Incredible root instructions now available (updated) | Android Central

After 5 days this finally worked! Rooted and wifi tether all working great....but I cant get into recovery again to get rid of apps and do the wireless n thing

 

[mdonova33]

After trying many different ways to no avail, I got it to work this way. I'm using Windows 7 64 bit.

It seems to be a combination of drivers and the sd card.

This is for users who already know most of the steps but still can't access Recovery, and have tried every single method with no success.


1. First thing, in your usb driver folder in your sdk dir, we need to edit the "android_winusb.inf"

Look for and add this under [Google.NTx86] and [Google.NTamd64] lines.

;
;HTC Incredible
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C9E
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C9E&MI_01
%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C94
and save. (credit goes to onodontbescurred)

2. Plug in the phone, an open device manager. Look for Android, click the drop down menu, right click and update the driver. Follow the steps and point it to "android_winusb.inf" If it asked you to restart just do it.

3. After restart have your phone plugged in go back to the device manager. Leave device manager on for the next steps.

Turn you phone off, with the usb still plugged in. Press and hold the optical Trackball and press power. Once in the menu press power again. Wait 5 seconds. At this time you will see in Android in the device manager just like before. Do step 2 again and update the driver. Yes you have to do this again. Do I know why, no. Does it work, yes. After you do this go ahead and tab down to recovery, wait, then hold down volume up and power, from here reboot the phone. We'll be back in a second.

4. Now from here, ether use another sd card, or copy your intire sdcard to the computer (you can copy everything back later).

5. Now from here your going to have to Take out your sdcard from your phone to Format your sdcard. To do this the right way, your going to have to use a card read of some sort. The reason being is formatting the card through the phone won't work, because files are put back on by the phone. After you have your sd card in your reader, just right click on it and format it. I'm used the extra free 2gb sd card that came with the phone.

6. Leave the card out and turn off your phone. Then insert the sd card you formated back into the phone.

7. Open up cmd, and restart the loop.

8. Refollow the steps (credit to you_eeeeeediot @ XDA for the new procedure)Press and hold the optical Trackball and press power

Once in the menu press power again

Wait 20 seconds for it to do its bit

Plug USB in and wait another 10 seconds for your computer to detect the phone

press menu down to highlight "recovery"

Press power

wait 20 seconds

the screen should change from "error: device not found" to "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -"

9. If succesful, you can follow Perunnerseth's instructions here.

http://www.incredibleforum.com/forum...art-added.html

10. Send me a Wonka Bar with a Golden Ticket.

Hmm..i wonder If this will work...

Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk

 

[sanderscm2]

This is the method to use if you have a sandisk 16gb class 2. Also I used my hackintosh so I didn't have to worry abouy drivers. Loop the shell command and your good to go. Took me two tries the first time then 10 the second.

how do you loop the shell command in terminal?

are you logged in as your standard administrator or the root user for the computer?

do you have the files on the hard drive folder or in the user folder with the house on it?

 

[iowabowtech]

Hmm..i wonder If this will work...

Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk

I tried it today and it did not work. Hopefully it will for you though.

 

[Piiman]

After 5 days this finally worked! Rooted and wifi tether all working great....but I cant get into recovery again to get rid of apps and do the wireless n thing

Download the Unrevoked tool and install it. Once you do that you can use it to get into recovery and do those same things. Once you have it installed just do
VOl down + power and then select recovery.
Once in the Clockwork recovery screen connect your usb cable (if you haven't already) and Mount /system and the /SDCARD.
Open a cmd window like you did when rooting and type "ADB SHELL".
You should see (I believe) `# prompt which means your in SU mode and can just copy and paste the commands. I did this off the top of my head so it may be a little off but the bottom line is you don't have to get back in it the way you first did to root the phone.

Hope this helps

 

[GAUG3]

I'm getting no luck with the Transcend 8GB class 6.

Any luck with the memory card that came with the phone? If not, I guess I will have to buy the PNY.

 

[htcbwb]

Same luck with the Transcend 8 GB.