OK - I screwed something up on my phone due to my ignorance. Wish I could claim otherwise but I can't.
I have been very curious about what "rooting" is and what it does and with 2.2 on my phone with all these new bloated apps - I had heard that rooting could get rid of some of these apps. I went to the DINC rooting page on the forums and while there also saw the link that said it was a demo for how to remove bloatware:
Remove bloatware from HTC Droid Incredible 2.2 - Technology - Jonamerica.com
I thought - cool - let me remove some of these apps using this. I seemed to have missed the key part of this line on the page:
Anyway - I followed the steps up to selecting Recovery and power. It then went to some weird warning / triangle / exclamation point page and froze. After a couple minutes or so I determined this was not going as planned and tried ot shut it back off - it ignored me. So I pulled the battery.
Upon restart - almost everything seems to work fine. The phone, all the apps, everything seems ot work as expected with no ill effects. Except one thing.
When I connect it to my PC - my PC no longer sees it and sees the drives. I do not get asked with the pop up if I want to charge only or have it be a hard drive. I manually switched the default when attached to the PC to be a hard drive, but the PC still does not see the phone. I used a file manager app to verify the drives are still there and intact with files. It just seems that whatever I did screwed up the ability for the PC and phone to talk.
Any ideas on how I can fix this quickly? I am hoping to not try a system rest (how do I do that anyway?) as I would like to avoid having to re-download all the apps again.
Thanks in advance for any help on my stupidity.
Glenn
I have been very curious about what "rooting" is and what it does and with 2.2 on my phone with all these new bloated apps - I had heard that rooting could get rid of some of these apps. I went to the DINC rooting page on the forums and while there also saw the link that said it was a demo for how to remove bloatware:
Remove bloatware from HTC Droid Incredible 2.2 - Technology - Jonamerica.com
I thought - cool - let me remove some of these apps using this. I seemed to have missed the key part of this line on the page:
Follow these steps to safely remove bloat from your rooted Droid Incredible.
That would of course be the bolded "rooted". Apparently I was supposed to already root the phone prior to doing this.
Anyway - I followed the steps up to selecting Recovery and power. It then went to some weird warning / triangle / exclamation point page and froze. After a couple minutes or so I determined this was not going as planned and tried ot shut it back off - it ignored me. So I pulled the battery.
Upon restart - almost everything seems to work fine. The phone, all the apps, everything seems ot work as expected with no ill effects. Except one thing.
When I connect it to my PC - my PC no longer sees it and sees the drives. I do not get asked with the pop up if I want to charge only or have it be a hard drive. I manually switched the default when attached to the PC to be a hard drive, but the PC still does not see the phone. I used a file manager app to verify the drives are still there and intact with files. It just seems that whatever I did screwed up the ability for the PC and phone to talk.
Any ideas on how I can fix this quickly? I am hoping to not try a system rest (how do I do that anyway?) as I would like to avoid having to re-download all the apps again.
Thanks in advance for any help on my stupidity.
Glenn