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prerunnerseth

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Which Method: Reboot/fastboot, details
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows/mac/linux
SD Card Used: Size/class
SD Card Status: Full/Empty, previously used
USB Debugging enabled: Yes/No
USB Cable Used : Moto, generic, HTC OEM
any other thoughts?

Which Method: Both
Computer OS: Windows 7 32 bit /dell D830
SD Card: Stock moto droid 16gb class 2,
SD Card status: about 3gb of data on it, the moto droid it came from was rooted
USB Debugging: Enabled
USB Cable Used: Moto Droid Cable
 
Which Method: Reboot
Computer OS: Windows Vista 64 bit HP Laptop
SD Card: Stock moto droid 16gb class 2,
SD Card status: about 1gb of data on it, the moto droid it came from was rooted
USB Debugging: Disabled
USB Cable Used: HTC Incredible Cable[/QUOTE]
 
Which Method: Reboot
Computer OS: Windows 7 64 bit HP DV6 Laptop
SD Card: 16gb class 2,
SD Card status: about 8gb of data on it
USB Debugging: Disabled
USB Cable Used: HTC Incredible Cable
Got mine rooted in less than 10 minutes, including downloading all of the files.
 
Which Method: Reboot to recovery through Fastboot.
Computer OS: Windows 7 64 bit Desktop & Vista 32 bit Desktop
SD Card: The 2GB card that came the pre-order of the Incredible
SD Card status: about 1/2GB of random files
USB Debugging: Enabled
USB Cable Used: Generic
 
Success!!

Which Method: Reboot to recovery through Fastboot.

Computer OS: Ubuntu 10.10 alpha 1 on Macbook pro 5,5

SD Card: The 16GB card that came with the Motorola Droid

SD Card status: about 12GB of music and other files

USB Debugging: Enabled

USB Cable Used: Motorola Droid charge cable

Had to add key file for HTC incredible first.
 
Success:

Which Method: Reboot
Computer OS: Windows Vista 64 bit Dell XPS 420 Desktop
SD Card: 8GB PNY Class 4
SD Card status: 20% full
USB Debugging: Enabled
USB Cable Used: HTC Incredible Cable

Details:
I used the loop batch file, and once I knew the procedure, it worked EVERY time for me.
  1. Plug in phone
  2. Shut off phone
  3. Start batch file
  4. Power+VolDown - wait (20sec)
  5. VolDown to highlight Recovery - Power to select Recovery - wait (1min)
  6. VolUp+Power
  7. VolDown to highlight update.zip - Power to select update.zip
  8. Run adb commands one by one
  9. Run adb push update.zip 1/2 second just as instructions
  10. Finish through instructions

Hope it helps,
jakewill
 
Which Method: Reboot to recovery through Fastboot.
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 64 Bit
SD Card Used: 8GB Class 4 Kingston
SD Card Status: Not full, not new
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used: generic

I did not unplug my USB cable. I left it plugged in during the process. I never got it to to work by unplugging it and plugging it in after entering FASTBOOT. I was also stuck on the step of pushing the payload 1/2 second after pushing the power button until someone (ShortBus from IRC) gave me the tip to wait until I saw text on the screen. I was apparently pushing it too soon.
 
Ruggar said:
Which Method: Reboot to recovery through Fastboot.
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 64 Bit
SD Card Used: 8GB Class 4 Kingston
SD Card Status: Not full, not new
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used: generic

I did not unplug my USB cable. I left it plugged in during the process. I never got it to to work by unplugging it and plugging it in after entering FASTBOOT. I was also stuck on the step of pushing the payload 1/2 second after pushing the power button until someone (ShortBus from IRC) gave me the tip to wait until I saw text on the screen. I was apparently pushing it too soon.
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Same for me. I waited until I saw the text and then BAM!
 
Method: Reboot/fastboot method in Prerunnerseth's thread
OS: Win XP 32 bit
SD Card - 2 GB PNY card (don't know the class, it's what came with the phone at launch)
SD Card Status - 10% full
USB Debugging enabled - yes
USB Cable Used - Blackberry branded
 
Which Method: see below
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows xp
SD Card Used: 16gb
SD Card Status: 2.7GB free
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used : Blackberry
any other thoughts? see below

I tried every little trick and here is what I noticed.

- unplug your phone from your USB cable
- turn your phone on normally...like you would every day. so you can use it.
- then don't power it down...just pull the battery out
- then press the optical jotstick & power button
- then follow the rest of the instructions listed in previous posts

i think for some reason...rebooting the phone into recovery from various states does not work (it did not for me). i think when you just kill the phone from it's normal state and then boot into recovery it works (it did for me).

i hope this helps!!!
 
Method: Reboot recovery / insert-remove sd card method
Comp OS / Hardware: Acer timeline win7 32x
SD Card: SanDisk 2 GB which came with phone, unknown class
SD Card Status: In use, 1.5 GB free
USB Debug enabled: Yes
USB Cable: HTC OEM

Used ADB to reboot using adb reboot recovery, then started loop. Then as, phone booted, quickly inserted and removed sd card multiple times while booting till the correct message in loop appeared, then root per regular instructions. The two other methods failed multiple times, this method worked in two tries for me. My first try, I was unable to insert and remove the card very quickly. A tip: Don't insert the card till it clicks, insert it till just before and then let the spring push it back out. This lets you insert and remove very quickly, which increases your chances of success.
 
Which Method: fastboot
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 64 bit
SD Card Used: 2gig pny class 2
SD Card Status: Empty, brand new
USB Debugging enabled: No
USB Cable Used : HTC OEM
any other thoughts?
Could only get it with the pny card tried 4 others but it was the only one that worked.
 
Which Method: Fastboot
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows XP x86
SD Card Used: 2 GB Lexar, unk class
SD Card Status: 1/2 full
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used : LG

Took a few tries. SD card had to be formatted after root. (All data was still intact though)
 
Which Method:
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.
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 32
SD Card Used: 8GB that came with my BB Storm
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used : Blackberry


I've tried everything for about a week. The method above work perfectly!
 
Which Method:
1. phone is on, booted normal, usb cable removed, sdcard unclicked
2. battery pull
3. power and optical pad to boot to the hboot
4. select bootloader, press power
5. wait about 10 seconds, and run your adb shell loop (makes life easier, not necessary though)
6. highlight recovery, plug in usb cable, wait to hear either a 'hardware connected' noise or a 'hardware error' noise (this may come out weird, but the former sounds like 'duhdee', and the latter 'duhduh').... i got the hardware error because it couldn't find Android 1.0 ... no big deal
7. put my finger on the sdcard, and pressed the power button to select Recovery
8. As soon as you hear the hardware disconnect noise ('duhdohh') click in the sdcard, this MUST be done before the screen turns black, if you can even get it before the hardware disconnect noise ends that would be perfect.

EDIT:
For my second phone this method worked every time.

I would type in loop and not actually run it yet. I would hit the power button for recovery and start counting one one thousand, two one thousand, etc... at six one thousand I would hit enter to run boot and at 8 one thousand I'd push in my card. It may be different for every computer but that was the timing that worked for me. As soon as I said 8, the computer beeped almost immediately and the timing was perfect.

Computer OS/ hardware: Dell Inspiron e1505 Windows 7 32 bit
SD Card Used: Stock 2GB that came with the phone
SD Card Status: Empty aside from folders it adds when first turned on
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used: HTC OEM
Any other thoughts? I tried this for days on end with every card and pc available. I think the trick is the timing part as listed above in step 8. This is the criticle part and what I had been missing the entire time.
 
Which Method: Reboot to recovery through Fastboot.
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 Ult 64 Bit
SD Card Used: 16GB Class 6
SD Card Status: 2GB full with music and photos
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used: HTC Incredible Cable

Rather simple and got it on the first try.
 
Which Method: Reboot to recovery through Fastboot.
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 64 Bit, HP DV6736 laptop
SD Card Used: 8GB PNY from Wal-Mart (purchased just for rooting)
SD Card Status: empty (did a full FAT32 format first)
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used: Generic 6' microUSB cable from TigerDirect

Removed and inserted card once during recovery. That was all it took. The rest of the process went flawlessly.
 
Which Method: Fastboot/ SD Card Removal
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 64 bit
SD Card Used: PNY 2GB / class no idea
SD Card Status: Empty, previously unused
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used : HTC OEM

The step 5 from my post in "New Root Method" Thread... something that made all the difference in my attempt.
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.
 
Worked first try!

Which Method: Reboot
Computer OS/ hardware: Win7 x64
SD Card Used: 2GB SanDisk that came with the phone
SD Card Status: Had music/pictures on it
USB Debugging enabled: No
USB Cable Used : HTC OEM
 
This worked every single time for me!

The trick is to have the SDcard out before going into recovery, enter recovery with your speakers on and as soon as you hear the 1st bepping noise, plug the sdcard in right away... if your doing loop.. you'll see the connection/error message soon after!

akvtiger said:
Which Method:
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.
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 32
SD Card Used: 8GB that came with my BB Storm
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used : Blackberry


I've tried everything for about a week. The method above work perfectly!
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Which Method: The 10 minute root method (not sure if its reboot or fastboot)
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 64bit
SD Card Used: Kingston 1GB. Class 2
SD Card Status: Full, previously used (its from my LG Dare)
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used : HTC OEM

Other thoughts: Stock 2gb card that came with phone would not work at all, but this card (1gb class 2 kingston)works first time every time. I get the directory failed message immediately without having to even use the loop.bat .

someone please tell me if this is fastboot or reboot. I'm not sure what the diff is.
 
Which Method: Reboot, Optical sensor and Power to restart
Computer OS/ hardware: Windows 7 32-bit / 2.93 P4 2.0GB Ram
SD Card Used: 4GB PNY class 4
SD Card Status: Empty, Not used formatted by Phone
USB Debugging enabled: Yes
USB Cable Used : Generic, Possible from my old Storm

Other Thoughts: Used the Modified USB Drivers. Unplugged the SD card before Hitting power at recovery prompt. I noticed that after hitting power to go into recovery mode and the HTC Incredible Screen came up, before the usb dissconnect sound I had a black line flash at the bottom of the screen. Looked like a graphics glitch right before the screen turned black. I clicked in the SD card when I saw that black line and got the directory failed message immediatly. That line i saw appeared about 1/4 of an inch from the bottom of the screen.

I hope this information is understandable and is helpfull.
 
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