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Finally got Root with 2gig card that came with phone

I've posted this inside another thread but decided to make a new one so others can see.
To all of you guys who are giving up - DON'T !
Here's how I finally got root on my DINC after about 3 days of trying.
I've read and watched almost every post and walk-throughs available in this forum and few others and was still unable to get into ADB Shell using any of the methods and tricks available and even though none of them worked I kept trying until I found a post on adndroidforums.com by Centsy. So along with his instructions and combination of many others here's how I achieved root:
1. Download the file from the 10 minute incredible root video on YouTube by mejdam. (can't post the link cause I'm new to the forum).
2. Unzip the file and run SDK setup.
3. As soon as SDK setup runs it gives an error message. Close it. then hit Cancel on next window.
4. While still in Android SDK and AVD Manager click on Available Packages (on the left) and then hit the plus sign in the right window for the repository. It will give you a list of packages available. Download the very last one which is the USB_Driver. It will add 'usb_driver' folder to your SDK folder where you ran sdk setup from.
5. Modify android_winusb.inf file inside the 'usb_driver' folder by adding these lines at the end of [Google.NTx86] and [Google.NTamd64] sections:
;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
6. I used the 2 gig Sandisk memory card that came with the phone. Had it FAT32 full formatted on the pc.
7. insert the card into the phone wait for it to be recognized
8. connect the phone to the pc and use the modified inf file of Android SDK usb_driver to get the phone connected and drivers installed. Note that I do not have HTC Sync installed on my pc.
9. on the phone go to settings->applications->development->turn on USB Debugging. wait for the phone to be recognized
10. open command prompt, navigate to your SDK\Tools folder and type in: adb devices. when you hit enter it should list your phone as being connected.
11. at the prompt type: adb reboot recovery, hit enter
12. as soon as the prompt is back type: loop and hit enter to start the adb shell loop. As soon as the loop starts running, the phone should show the white HTC Incredible screen, start clicking in and out the sd card before you hear the device disconnected sound on your pc. keep clicking the card in and out until you hear device connected sound on you pc. If you still don't see THE message we are looking for after another 10, 15 seconds stop clicking the card. take the battery out of the phone, put it back in, wait for it to reboot and repeat steps 11 and 12.
I had to do steps 11 and 12 about 3 times when I said to myself - next time is the last time and if it doesn't work then I'm going to get the 2gig PNY card that everyone is saying helps them achieve root. Then all of the sudden it took a little longer for the device connected sound to come up and the mouse cursor turned to the Waiting Hour-Glass and as soon as I heard the sound I saw the good old error message we are all striving to see. After that I just followed the instructions on the 10 minute root video to get the phone rooted.
Never give up, Never surrender !
Hopefully this will help some of you guys to achieve root and thanks to everyone who's hard at work on getting this great phone rooted.

Hi,
Having issues with your Step #12. You say to click the card in and out when the white HTC screen comes up and do it till the first disconnect sound. Then you go on to say keep clicking untill it connects. Then you says 10-15 seconds after the connect sounds keep clicking. Don't you mean to say keep clicking from white HTC screen till 10-15 seconds after the 2nd sound(the connect sound) So basically clicking for over 30seconds.
Please clarify as I'm thinking you meant differently thne what you typed. I too have a stock 2G sandisk card that came with my phone and so want to get this rooted without buying a PNY card hah.
- Pete

sonypete said:
Hi,
Having issues with your Step #12. You say to click the card in and out when the white HTC screen comes up and do it till the first disconnect sound. Then you go on to say keep clicking untill it connects. Then you says 10-15 seconds after the connect sounds keep clicking. Don't you mean to say keep clicking from white HTC screen till 10-15 seconds after the 2nd sound(the connect sound) So basically clicking for over 30seconds.
Please clarify as I'm thinking you meant differently thne what you typed. I too have a stock 2G sandisk card that came with my phone and so want to get this rooted without buying a PNY card hah.
- Pete
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Basically once the white screen comes up, start clicking the card in and out until about 10, 15 seconds after the 2nd connect sound that windows give you. However, you MUST start pushing the card in and out before the 1st disconnect sound.

Okay cool. Fingers crossed I have been trying since yesterday and about to jump out the window hah.
- Pete

Wow, I got it first time with this method! Thanks a lot! I am also using the stock 2gb card that came with the phone.

Thanks man. I got this to work twice in about 4 tries. 1st time it worked I accidently selected reboot option. So had to retry this method. My clicks were medium speed not very fast and not excessively slow in case that helps anyone. About 1 a second.
- Pete
(2G Sandisk Rooter hehe)

Hey this method worked to get the error but I can not write to the SDCard, I get the following when I try to push something: failed to copy 'busybox' to 'sdcard/busybox: Permission Denied
It is the same with any file and I did Apply sdcard:update.zip
Please help!

I think this will help
KingJ50 said:
Hey this method worked to get the error but I can not write to the SDCard, I get the following when I try to push something: failed to copy 'busybox' to 'sdcard/busybox: Permission Denied
It is the same with any file and I did Apply sdcard:update.zip
Please help!
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Once you get error, I believe that you need to run the "apply update.zip" once and let it fail. Then you can adb to the sdcard.
PS, this method never worked for me, no matter how much I tried.

dreamersipaq said:
Once you get error, I believe that you need to run the "apply update.zip" once and let it fail. Then you can adb to the sdcard.
PS, this method never worked for me, no matter how much I tried.
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Same here, i still can't get to adb shell . . .

I got into adb doing the click on the 3d try but it kept failing to push the payload and then I accidentally restarted the phone. AHHHH, just spent 30 minutes doing the same thing and couldn't get back in.

Awesome, I got it to work using your method.
First I tried the "10 min..." video, but it was unclear in some areas. I had to try a few times (10+) to get it to work. Problem for me was the speed at which I was putting in and out the SD Card. I did it at some odd pattern like In (4 sec), out (.5 Sec), in (4 sec), etc. Then all of a sudden it worked.
Got it rooted .
Thanks again!

Finally got it. Thanks

Spent probably 6 hours messing with it. Not worth it anymore.

What does this mean:
8. connect the phone to the pc and use the modified inf file of Android SDK usb_driver to get the phone connected and drivers installed.
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I've connected the phone, it shows up when I type "adb devices", but I have no idea how to "use the modified inf file... to get the phone connected and drivers installed."

dmauro said:
What does this mean:
I've connected the phone, it shows up when I type "adb devices", but I have no idea how to "use the modified inf file... to get the phone connected and drivers installed."
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if your phone shows up then you may proceed further. Howerver if after quite a few tries you still can't root then you should try updating the driver with the modified inf file.
go to your device manager, you should see the very first item should be Android Phone. right click on the phone and choose update driver and point to the modified INF file.
if your pc tells you that it cannot find a better driver, just uninstall the phone from device manager (right click and choose uninstall), unplug the phone from the pc, wait about a minute and plug the phone back in - but use a different usb port just in case. Then when found new hardware manager comes up point it to the modified INF file.
Good luck.

Doesnt work for me. annoying
*edit* Finally got it 7 seconds awesome

I cannot get my inc to take the driver .inf file. I have edited it correctly, tried forcing the driver to it, and it keeps telling me that the driver is not valid for a 64-bit os. Tried doing it as a legacy device as well.
Win 7 ultimate 64-bit

dont see the plus sign
hit the plus sign in the right window for the repository well for some reason i dont see any plus sign in there to hit tell me what i might be doing wrong

Please Help If You Can
I am logged in; got the recovery; followed the instructions, and it didn't say unrevoked. so i did it again and
did a whole bunch of things
Finding update packge
opening update package
verifying update package
installing update
veridying curernt system
unpacking patches
removing unneeded files
patching system fioles
symlinks and permission s...
then I got
e:multiple firmware images
e: can't store zip image
installation aborted
Now I also cant get into ADB SHELL
when I type adb shell I get
- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -
but no prompt
I will try to stay logged in and everything BUT PLEASE HELP. What do I do?

Thanks for these instructions, Op.
I was successful by exactly following your steps.
Edit to provide additional details -- I tried unsuccessfully upwards of 100 times following the instructions in the 10min video. A couple things that probably attributed to the success of this method for me:
1) Formatted 2GB card to FAT32 (4096) as recommended.
2) Uninstalled HTC Sync / HTC Driver Installer. I used the "SDK Setup" to download the USB drivers.
A tip if you're having trouble getting the USB drivers to download... I had to go to the "Settings" menu in the Android SDK and AVD Manager, and check the "Force https://... sources to be fetched using http://..." otherwise the Available Packages menu would fail to get the repository.xml.
I then applied the recommended changes to android_winusb.inf in C:\sdk\usb_driver\ and used this .inf as the Android Phone driver. It was possible to assign the driver after setting to "Debug" mode in the OS.
3) I started clicking the SD card as soon as the white screen would come up, instead of waiting for a few seconds after it appeared. I used a 2 seconds in, .5 seconds out, 2 seconds in, ... pattern.
4) After each failed attempt, instead of pulling the battery and holding volume- + pwr, I went with the ops method. This was to abort the "loop" tool on the PC, pull the battery, boot the phone normally to the OS, verify the phone was recognized by typing "adb devices" on the PC cmd prompt, commanding "adb reboot recovery" to reset the phone into recovery mode, starting "loop" as soon as the command prompt came back, and finally clicking the SD card as described above.

[Need Help] "Missing operating System"

Hi all,
I don't know if my problem as already been solved but I didn't found anything.
At first, I have to say I installed windows 8 as principal operating system (I know, it's stupid...).
I used windows 8 without big problem since the deployment but today, after a bug, I reboot the PC and now I have just black screen with the message "operating system missing"... The system does not boot, just black screen with the message
Does anybody have an idea how I can solve this problem ?
(Sorry for my english)

you can put dev preview DVD or USB whatever you used to install.
and run the installation and then repair Windows 8 (if it detects a Windows installed). with system restore or maybe it will repair. if not you will have to refresh your win8.
also it can be (if you have more hard drives) that you aren't starting the one with Windows 8. so you can try and see in bios if thats the case. thats when i have seen this message.

Thanks for your answer.
When I run the pc, it doesn't launch anything, just the black screen. It's probably the bios but I can't do anything, just the message but I'm not allowed to do anything :-(
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

Finally, the problem is quite solved.
When I have this message, by pushing ctrl+alt+suprr, if I'm enough fast, I can push F12 and choose wich part I want to run. Then I placed my W7 backup on CD and runned it.
It was not easy but W7 is successfull restored.
Of course, all my personal data were deleted...
But whe I reboot the PC, I've always the message "missing operating system", then I have to ctrl+alt+suprr and after F12, and then choose the hard drive, and the PC W7 boot.
It's not yet perfect but for the moment the PC works...

Thats exactly i told you. of course it changes between bios and motherboard. your problem is not your windows. its the priority of your harddrive.
I dont know what motherboard you have.
so i will find pictures to explain what you have to look for. because you didnt have to repair your Windows if thats the case. the problem its (like i mentioned) your harddrive priority.
so you go to your bios and look for the Boot section.
http://www.motherboards-reviews.com...ges/ASUS_M2N68-AM_PLUS_BIOS_boot_settings.jpg
if you go to Boot Device Priority, you can check if your harddrive is second (the one with your OS) and if you want your cd or usb to boot first if not you can leave it first.
http://motherboards-reviews.com/ASU...s/ASUS_M4N78-AM_BIOS_Boot_Device_Priority.jpg
something like this.
and if that part is right you have to go to Hard disk drives
http://www.laptops-battery.co.uk/images/maintain/bios-boot-hard-disk-drives-445x261.jpg
so there you have to check if your harddrive is first or the correct one. and ready... its probably this Hard disk devices thing. and then you don't have to use that method of changing manually which boots

Thanks for your help
I'm not at home for the moment. I'll try your method tomorrow or wednesday, I'll let you know, but thank you for the time you spent on my problem.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

[Q] Where is the adb whitelist?

After upgrading to Android 4.2.2, a new secure feature is introduced to adb. The first time a computer wants to connect to an Android device, a popup window will appear on the screen of the Android device.
I've already upgraded my /opt/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb and I mis-pressed the "No" button on the screen when the popup shows to let me confirm the RSA key! Now there are no more popup windows! No matter how I adb kill-server or even restart my computer and Nexus 7, the popup will not show for the second time, not giving me a second chance to confirm the RSA key...
I tried another Linux computer and the popup window shows correctly. How can I somhow edit the whitelist/blacklist file in Android and let the popup windows show for the second time for my computer? Where is the adb whitelist/blacklist file in Android?

If I recall correctly it doesn't have remember autolocked so it should show up again.
Maybe restart the machine itself or the device.
And this goes without saying but make sure USB debugging is on

There is a "remember" setting when choosing. I know a factory reset will fix it or flashing a new rom if rooted, but that might be a little extreme. But I cannot figure out what app would hold that data, so that might be your only choice if you need adb.

Windows 8 Boot Options

Greetings Everyone,
I wanted to share with everyone what I encountered.
I didnt like windows 8. I had severe kernal issues, 4500+ errors on a brand new computer and if I sneezed BSOD occurances! If you want help in any form removing windows 8 just let me know! It can be intense since it isnt a simple 'Install Windows 7'.
I know getting into safe mode or any of the BIOS is difficult to do without the start up disk.
I did a quick write up on how to get into boot options and BIOS as well.
**Note I didnt do a search, I am feeling lazy! **
Steps to get to the Boot Options in Order to get into Safe Mode -
1- Rest your cursor in the upper right hand corner for the charm to appear.
2- On the bottom of the charm you will see ‘Change PC Settings’ Click on that.
3- In this window you will see a few options, the one want to click on is - Update and Recovery.
4- Next you will see Advanced Options. This could potentially be different depending on the version.
5- Choose the Procedure to get into ‘Troubleshoot Start Up options’ (I can not remember the exact name, it is one that will get you into boot up and start up options)
6- Now you should be able to configure into the BIOS and what needs to be corrected are 2 main steps.
A- Change Secure boot to disable
B- Change to Legacy Boot Enable
C- This is an option to disable UEFI as well if you want.
7- With these tasks done you should now see that getting into BIOS, Boot options and safe mode is feasible.
Enjoy!!
XDA has freely given to me and I will freely give back when I can. By all means, share, give thoughts, make love..lol

Or you can do it the normal way.... F2, F10, F11, F12 or whatever other key your computer has set to bios, just press it as you turn the machine in and the PC boots straight into bios not windows. I thought this was common knowledge... Seriously, takes all of a second compared to your method.
Might be useful for guys on tablets and no external keyboard though, thats about it.

That's a great suggestion. However, it won't work until you disable secure boot and enable legacy boot. Windows 8 is a different animal. I wish it was as easy as rapidly mashing the F keys..
The entire purpose if this is to get to the F mashing sequence.. This will get people to that point.
Sent from something not stock

Droidnoobi said:
That's a great suggestion. However, it won't work until you disable secure boot and enable legacy boot. Windows 8 is a different animal. I wish it was as easy as rapidly mashing the F keys..
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Both windows 8 laptops I have tried did it first time with no modifications or altering of settings in windows. Secureboot/legacy boot *do not* prevent bios access. One of these 2 machines is my own, I certainly did not change the settings, the other was a relatives brand new machine. I also have a windows 8 desktop, however it had windows 7 previously which I updated to windows 8, so that may not be the fairest test to say that it can boot into bios directly (which it can) without altering windows 8 settings.
Windows does not have access to change the bios settings. It has no way to prevent your system booting into bios, hell thats how a PC works, load bios from RAM which then loads the bootloader from hard disk which then loads windows. Pressing F keys just interrupts the BIOS before loading the bootloader, windows doesnt even exist at this point in the boot cycle.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Both windows 8 laptops I have tried did it first time with no modifications or altering of settings in windows. Secureboot/legacy boot *do not* prevent bios access. One of these 2 machines is my own, I certainly did not change the settings, the other was a relatives brand new machine. I also have a windows 8 desktop, however it had windows 7 previously which I updated to windows 8, so that may not be the fairest test to say that it can boot into bios directly (which it can) without altering windows 8 settings.
Windows does not have access to change the bios settings. It has no way to prevent your system booting into bios, hell thats how a PC works, load bios from RAM which then loads the bootloader from hard disk which then loads windows. Pressing F keys just interrupts the BIOS before loading the bootloader, windows doesnt even exist at this point in the boot cycle.
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Then your settings or something must be different because in order for me to even do anything at all I had to follow specific steps, turn legacy boot on, turn secure boot off..
I am grateful you have an easier time then I did.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Both windows 8 laptops I have tried did it first time with no modifications or altering of settings in windows. Secureboot/legacy boot *do not* prevent bios access. One of these 2 machines is my own, I certainly did not change the settings, the other was a relatives brand new machine. I also have a windows 8 desktop, however it had windows 7 previously which I updated to windows 8, so that may not be the fairest test to say that it can boot into bios directly (which it can) without altering windows 8 settings.
Windows does not have access to change the bios settings. It has no way to prevent your system booting into bios, hell thats how a PC works, load bios from RAM which then loads the bootloader from hard disk which then loads windows. Pressing F keys just interrupts the BIOS before loading the bootloader, windows doesnt even exist at this point in the boot cycle.
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Droidnoobi said:
Then your settings or something must be different because in order for me to even do anything at all I had to follow specific steps, turn legacy boot on, turn secure boot off..
I am grateful you have an easier time then I did.
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@Droidnoobi is correct, you have to disable secure boot on the UEFI to access the BIOS. Otherwise, Windows boots too fast for you to press the keys. I believe it boots in 200 miliaseconds, which is too fast for anyone to press a key.
I did manage to disable secure boot and driver signature enforcement and enable legacy boot. However, I still can't install a second OS on my HP laptop. I've got both Ubuntu and Android (x86) installed, but they won't boot. Any suggestions?

Ph0enix_216 said:
@Droidnoobi is correct, you have to disable secure boot on the UEFI to access the BIOS. Otherwise, Windows boots too fast for you to press the keys. I believe it boots in 200 miliaseconds, which is too fast for anyone to press a key.
I did manage to disable secure boot and driver signature enforcement and enable legacy boot. However, I still can't install a second OS on my HP laptop. I've got both Ubuntu and Android (x86) installed, but they won't boot. Any suggestions?
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Funny that this *stock* HP laptop which came preinstalled with windows 8 allows me to do it without modification.... It most certainly does not boot in 200 milliseconds, add another 0, plenty of time to press a key.
Duplicated on several machines now. I am yet to find a single one requiring this so called hack.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Funny that this *stock* HP laptop which came preinstalled with windows 8 allows me to do it without modification.... It most certainly does not boot in 200 milliseconds, add another 0, plenty of time to press a key.
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I've got an HP Sleekbook 15". It booted so fast that I couldn't boot the BIOS. I had to disable secure boot to access it at all.

Don't know about you 2 but I needed to go to a secret retreat hidden in some mountains to meditate in order to acquire the uber l33t haxxor skills of pressing F10 as soon as the display backlight turned on.
I did however need uber l33t haxxor skills to get youtube embed working so have a link instead: http://youtu.be/6_3OCjMY_pg
For whatever reason XDA instead of neatly embedding my youtube video has opted for display chunks of HTML no matter what format the youtube URL is given as. Cant really be bothered to argue with it.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Don't know about you 2 but I needed to go to a secret retreat hidden in some mountains to meditate in order to acquire the uber l33t haxxor skills of pressing F10 as soon as the display backlight turned on.
I did however need uber l33t haxxor skills to get youtube embed working so have a link instead: http://youtu.be/6_3OCjMY_pg
For whatever reason XDA instead of neatly embedding my youtube video has opted for display chunks of HTML no matter what format the youtube URL is given as. Cant really be bothered to argue with it.
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Okay, I can access the BIOS. However, now I can't get a different OS to boot. Anytime I try to boot Ubuntu or Android (x86), it fails to start and tells me that the .mbr file is missing, even though I can see it in Windows Explorer. Any thoughts?
Oh, and my computer threw a hissy fit when I pressed F10 at boot. It kept beeping and beeping and beeping quite loudly. Maybe this is why I am not allowed to have nice things At least I was able to access the BIOS.

Ph0enix_216 said:
I've got an HP Sleekbook 15". It booted so fast that I couldn't boot the BIOS. I had to disable secure boot to access it at all.
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Try holding the power button until it powers off instead of shutting down. That should at least slow down the Windows boot up. The default windows power off utilizes a form of hibernate. Or you can disable hibernate entirely, there are instructions online in various places.
I don't really have any problems with getting into bios myself.

NEED HELP

my windows 10 PC start , sttings ,windows 10 apps not opening , edge browser shows class not registered

reset pc

Gokul Rajan said:
my windows 10 PC start , sttings ,windows 10 apps not opening , edge browser shows class not registered
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Since the only constructive response was "Reset your PC" without telling you how to do so even though you say "Settings and Windows 10 apps not opening", I will do that person one better and actually give you instructions for resetting.
Reboot your machine, at the login screen, instead of typing your password or PIN, hold shift and while holding shift press Restart from the Login screen (click the power button and choose Restart). Continue holding shift and it will bring you into the Windows Recovery Environment. Choose Troubleshooting, Reset This PC.
@ahmadus The user wouldn't be able to reset his PC without getting into Recovery Environment. As the Reset this PC function is exposed through the settings app that OP says does not open. In this case, the user may not know how to enter the Recovery Environment from alternative means. If you're going to provide help, actually provide constructive help.

@ShadowEO I thought reset pc is the easiest thing to do on windows 10.

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@ShadowEO I thought reset pc is the easiest thing to do on windows 10.
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It is, but it's only easy if you can access the Recovery Environment to start the process. The good news is that you can start the process using a Windows 10 Installation disc (either USB or DVD) by choosing "Repair your computer" instead of "Install" when the installer starts up.

Latest Version
Try this version: http://www.softolite.com/windows-10-lite/
This is the official trial version with the latest build.

Wrong, you should ONLY download media from sources you trust, such as the official Windows 10 media creation tool or ISOs available at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10, THIS is the official URL to download Windows installation media. Also @CarlRock, all versions of Windows are trials until they're licensed, that blog is not the official source of ANYTHING Windows related.
You should also NEVER use a "lite" version of Windows unless you yourself built it, or you understand both what was removed and the consequences for removing that Windows component. Many users on the Windows subreddit go removing components without a full understanding of what they do or their full purpose in the OS, then come and complain that the system isn't working right.
Just use Windows as it was meant to be used. If you don't need a feature, don't configure it, or just plain don't use it. Dont just eviscerate it from the system without a thought to stability.