Rooting my Incredible 2

[zacbrown]

Is there an easy way to do this, I have read previous threads and it seems a little complicated. Thanks

[MatthewsNC]

Is there an easy way to do this, I have read previous threads and it seems a little complicated. Thanks

Zac,

You will have to define easy first! :cool:

I have not rooted any of my phones yet. For me it is all too complicated compared to what I am wanting to do. Unless you really are a techie and like doing this kind of stuff it is not going to be "easy". Remember, if you take your phone away from "stock" then you aren't going to get the factory updates, YOU have to do all the updates. Most of us on the forum won't be able to help because most of us use the stock software. But you might have a really good reason to root it and mod it. There are those here on the forum that do it and think nothing of it. And there are plenty of web sites to check out.

So, why are you wanting to root it? :)

[TheMountainMan]

Rooting a phone is VERY easy IMHO. I personally would not even consider putting an Android phone on PP without rooting it. There are just too many things that run on the stock ROM all the time that consume data. If you are going to be on the 55, you can probably get away with not rooting, but forget about it on the standard plans, and you would still have to be careful on the 100 meg per month plans. I have rooted the following Android phones. HTC Incredible, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 1. Not one of them was hard to root. The Sense interface used by HTC seems to use a bit more data than those on the Motorola phones from my observations. This would not be a factor with most carriers with more data allowance, but does matter with PP.

I wouldn't worry about bricking a phone too much. The only thing I have ever bricked was a cheap tablet, and that only happened after it suffered some sort a memory failure 1st.

[hkleiner]

Is there an easy way to do this, I have read previous threads and it seems a little complicated. Thanks

Everything you need is linked here, since I am assuming you will need to downgrade first.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298990

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[zacbrown]

I'm not on any plan, just minutes. I'm just sick of all of the stock garbage on the phone. I guess by ease, I mean downloadin, restarting, then working.

[bluskies01]

First, you will need to downgrade your phone to 2.3.3. I followed this guy's videos, first to downgrade, and then to root. Sorry I don't have a link for the downgrade video, I'm at work :P, but just look under his name. It was relatively simple, my only issue was that I have Vista.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGEAS...feature=relmfu

[TheMountainMan]

I'm not on any plan, just minutes. I'm just sick of all of the stock garbage on the phone. I guess by ease, I mean downloadin, restarting, then working.

Since you are on the Standard plan, rooting is a must! I rooted my Incredible 1st, then after a few months went to a custom ROM. My phone's data is now under MY control, so much so, this is my last month on "the 12", as I simply don't use much data, minutes or text.

The instructions posted by hkleiner are pretty close to what I used when rooting my inc.

If you are going to stay on the Standard plan, ALWAYS keep you 3g data turned off when not needed.

[zacbrown]

I do have the 3g turned off. The video didn't work. I couldn't just download the cyanogenmod?

[TheMountainMan]

No, your phone has to be rooted before you can use cyanogenmod. Once rooted, you can backup your current rom and then load cyanogenmod. That way you can revert to the stock rom you rooted if you want to.

[Boz]

At least one person here even roots certain Motorola phones while they are driving! :rolleyes: :o :lmao:

[MatthewsNC]

At least one person here even roots certain Motorola phones while they are driving! :rolleyes: :o :lmao:

Well, we all can't be MIC-Wonderful! :rolleyes:

[zacbrown]

Unrevoked???

[foosball]

Unrevoked will not work on the Inc 2.
Their is only one way to root it. That is to downgrade it.

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[hkleiner]

Unrevoked???

The only point of the downgrade is that you can then use unrevoked. There is no backing up of Rom or data if you have to downgrade first, because this step will wipe everything other than your sd card.

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[ted]

Maybe the wrong place to askbut..What is rooting?

[zacbrown]

Great. But, I still don't know how to do this...

[hkleiner]

Maybe the wrong place to askbut..What is rooting?

What a baby does when it's hungry :p

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[ted]

Nice.

[tmason68]

Maybe the wrong place to askbut..What is rooting?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android_OS)


Rooting is a process allowing users of mobile phones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones), tablet PCs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer), and other devices running the Android operating system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)) to attain privileged control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation) (known as "root access (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superuser)") within Android's subsystem. Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_carrier) and hardware manufacturers put on some devices, resulting in the ability to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software) that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user. Rooting is analogous to jailbreaking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking) devices running the Apple iOS operating system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_(Apple)) or the Sony PlayStation 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3). On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system.

[MatthewsNC]

Maybe the wrong place to askbut..What is rooting?

Since I haven't ever rooted or modded my phones I will post an online description as I would probably say something that was completely wrong...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android_OS)

There can be several reasons someone would root their phone, but basically it takes control of your phones software away from the Manufacturer/Phone Carrier and gives the user control. It allows you to take off programs you don't want that had been "locked" to the phone. It allows you to install apps or features you couldn't have otherwise have used.

The Grim Reaper beat me by seconds! :cheers:

[tmason68]

Since I haven't ever rooted or modded my phones I will post an online description as I would probably say something that was completely wrong...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android_OS)

too slow Matt

[MatthewsNC]

too slow Matt

ahhhh....ya got me! :p

[zacbrown]

Nothing?

[foosball]

Nothing?


There are several steps involved to accomplish this.
Here is what i used.



http://androidforums.com/incredible-2-all-things-root/444428-downgrade-2-3-4-gingerbread-2-3-3-prepare-root.html

[njbedell]

Zac did you have any luck?

Rooting isn't hard just takes a little/lot of research (depends on your comfort level). I have rooted every android I have ever put on page plus for my personal use. Between droidwall and mybackup pro freezing apps. I used a little more than 1 mb of data last month. Too bad it doesn't roll over.

Rooting isn't needed, but it does make life easier.