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This also worked for me on the first try after many unsuccessful attempts trying other methods.

I used the 2gb SanDisk card that was supplied by verizon. I had no luck with my 8gb cat2 card. Only tried once, though with the 8gb. Seemed like people were having better luck with the 2gb so I switched them out and... boosh!

Running WinXP SP3

Thanks to all involved!
 
Finally got the desired adb shell message using this method, after trying with plain reboots into recovery mode dozens of times. Looping "adb shell" isn't even needed. All it does is tell if/when the computer sees that the phone is in recovery mode over USB. If you're on a Windows computer, you can listen for the "USB device connected" tone. At that point you can execute "adb shell" once to see if it worked or not. I started clicking my SD card in and out of the phone as soon as I executed "adb reboot recovery" to reboot the phone and didn't stop until I heard that USB device connected tone.

Thanks Centsy!

EDIT: I didn't need to reboot to recovery from adb for this to work, I just used the power on volume down boot up mode. The key, I believe, was the SD card clicking.
 
john7760 said:
Pulling memory card worked for me.
This worked for me using a Pny 4gb class 4 card. When the white HTC screen first comes on in recovery mode pop out the SD card. As soon as you hear Windows beep that it recognizes the phone and before the black screen pops up with the red triangle pop the SD card back in. That was the only way I could get it to go. Hope this helps someone else. Good luck.

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After about six hours of trying every other method under the sun (loop, adb reboot recovery, clicking the sd card, etc), this method worked on the second try. I did it with the 2gb Sandisk from Verizon, if that makes a difference. The first time I booted with "adb reboot recovery" and didn't get in (maybe my timing was off when I put the card back in), but then I pulled the battery, holding VolDwn+Power and took the card out when the white HTC screen came up. I went to recovery and pushed it in right after I heard the "USB Disconnected" sound. Typed "adb shell" expecting the same old "error: device not connected" but got in!

Keep trying people!
 
Yeah, I also used the 2GB Sandisk card provided by Verizon to remove that variable since others have had success with the card. The unrevoked site said that the worse the SD card, the better the chances.
 
HolyGrail said:
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.




Will only let me select folder, not the file, will not update ... no driver installed?


update
although windows 7 and java site said i was up to date, when in cmd no java found..
downloading jdk now and we will see...
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elroy jetson said:
HolyGrail said:
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.




Will only let me select folder, not the file, will not update ... no driver installed?
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Update driver, then Browse computer, then let me pick the driver, then Have disk, then find the .inf file.


I've installed this but still can't get it working, good luck
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For some reason none of the above worked for me. I updated driver files, formated SD card (2GB Verizon supplied), followed SDCard click, HolyGrail's methods, Diego's videio. After some reading on XDA, someone mentioned the radios using different resources. I thought to just turn of all radios, Mobile, GPS, WiFi, plugged the phone in, cmd>sdk>tools>adb reboot recovery.

Phone rebooted, started "loop.bat" from the command prompt, did the sdcard click in and out till i heard the beep of the USB recognizing a phone, and the error message came up. I'm in.

try that guys.
 
elroy jetson said:
Will only let me select folder, not the file, will not update ... no driver installed?


update
although windows 7 and java site said i was up to date, when in cmd no java found..
downloading jdk now and we will see...
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Selecting only the folder for manually updating the driver should work fine. It will find the INF in the folder and should install from there, at least that's how it worked on my Win7.
 
Thanks soooo much I have been trying ALL of the methods and I can't beleive poping in the sdcard at the right time worked. I used the 2 gb that came from vz an I am finally rooted with wireless tether.
 
WOW. I have been trying to root for three days now, and only now just got root (with the free 2th SD card) by clicking the SD card during recovery (after a failed root attempt). Thanks so much.
 
jackattack said:
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After about six hours of trying every other method under the sun (loop, adb reboot recovery, clicking the sd card, etc), this method worked on the second try. I did it with the 2gb Sandisk from Verizon, if that makes a difference. The first time I booted with "adb reboot recovery" and didn't get in (maybe my timing was off when I put the card back in), but then I pulled the battery, holding VolDwn+Power and took the card out when the white HTC screen came up. I went to recovery and pushed it in right after I heard the "USB Disconnected" sound. Typed "adb shell" expecting the same old "error: device not connected" but got in!

Keep trying people!
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this worked for me as well
 
xmonkey said:
Just rooted using this method on the first try after failing using other methods :D

I used the 2GB card that came with the phone and I'm on Win 7 64bit using just the Android SDK drivers with the modified INF. I downloaded the files that DiegoMejia posted here: http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-incredible/99437-video-10min-root-complete-guide.html

The driver was properly installed as the "adb devices" command at the prompt responded with my phone.

1. Phone was fully booted and USB debug enabled with it set to charge only
2. From there I prepped "adb reboot recovery" in the command prompt
3. Opened a new command prompt window and got to C:\sdk\tools (or wherever yours is), and prepped "loop" to run the batch file from the link above
4. Executed the reboot recovery command, then immediately started the loop command
5. From this point I just started plugging and unplugging the SD card, took about 4 seconds after the triangle screen showed up for it to get me into recovery
6. Followed the rest of the instructions from the video posted by Diego

I had the Android 1.0 error in Device Manager before and never fixed it, and was still able to get into recovery using this method.
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Thank you. Your and Centsy's method was the only one to work for me after hours and days of trying everything and repeating. I had tried everything including all drivers and files and computers. This finally worked. Thanks alot
 
Tried the method on 3 cards
1st 2gb card came with incredible
2nd 16gb from my wifes droid.
No success.

Read on XDA about people having success with 16gb class 6 cards. So I bought one(a data 16gb class 6 card bought on amazon). I tried the loop method and couple others no dice but this method of clicking in and out worked first try. I rooted,installed wifi,removed city id all in under 10 mins.
 
Xystence said:
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?
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Run your "cmd" as administrator. Right click on the icon and select run as administrator....see if that works.
 
Doing exactly what xmonkey explains is the only thing that worked when EVERYTHING else Failed. You dont have to worry about any drivers or anything beyond installing htc sync
 
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
 
TheKid075 said:
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.
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After trying quite a few of the different methods posted, I tried yours and got root on the second attempt. Your very detailed step 5. was the key. Thank you very much. :)

My card is a Sandisk class 6 8gb
 
C:\sdk\tools>adb push C:\sdk\tools\android.tether /sdcard/android.tether
push: C:\sdk\tools\android.tether/wireless_tether_2_0_2-pre14.apk -> /sdcard/and
roid.tether/wireless_tether_2_0_2-pre14.apk
failed to copy 'C:\sdk\tools\android.tether/wireless_tether_2_0_2-pre14.apk' to
'/sdcard/android.tether/wireless_tether_2_0_2-pre14.apk': No such file or direct
ory

C:\sdk\tools>adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
failed to copy 'busybox' to '/sdcard/busybox': Permission denied

C:\sdk\tools>adb push ota.zip /sdcard/update.zip
failed to copy 'ota.zip' to '/sdcard/update.zip': Permission denied

C:\sdk\tools>adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
failed to copy 'Superuser.apk' to '/sdcard/Superuser.apk': Permission denied

C:\sdk\tools>adb push su /sdcard/su
failed to copy 'su' to '/sdcard/su': Permission denied

C:\sdk\tools>


Any ideas??
 
I think my problem is that after I reboot to recovery the device driver is hosed with error code 28. Is that the way it's suppose to be? How can it get into the device if the driver isn't working. I can get it working fine before the reboot and can reboot it from a command line. What I'm I missing?
 
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