HTC Incredible Root

[mjs31]

Desire took a month, and that phone's almost identical. Look how long the Droid Eris (the last HTC phone on Verizon) took to root 2.01...they haven't even rooted 2.1 yet last time I checked. You might not wanna hold your breath. I even heard that its da#n near unrootable. I pray one of these days I come home from work and hear its rooted but I doubt it'll be soon. Plus cause its an exclusive CDMA (Verizon) phone, there are only a handful of actual (reputable) "Devs" working on it. Most devs are gsm (europe mainly). Nice site you got here

Yep, looks like mid april. This is for the Droid...do not try this with HTC. Just showing that 2.1 has been done.
2.1 SP Recovery SBF has arrived !

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[stopthebus]

If someone offered to modify your car's engine (knowing it was legit and safe), and it would add many more miles per gallon, increase the life, boost the horsepower, and make it an all around better car--for FREE... wouldn't you do it? It doesn't mean your car as it is now sucks, but if the option's there, why wouldn't you take advantage of it?

I think you misunderstood about rooting. I don't think you can turn it into something that is not...without breaking/shorting something else.

[mjs31]

Huh. I think you misunderstand. Companies program in what they want for us. I am sure you believe that they have our best interest in mind, but chances are that is not the case. Rooting allows the user to adjust what they need to work for them. That may be speeding up a processor, adding the ability to take a screen capture, back up not only the app but the data you built up over time, change an annoying feature that was put in by some person that doesn't know what you like, run apps from your sdcard, and so much more. It does what the poster said and more. Whether you choose it or not is up to you, but it gets rid of the limitations of a device you own.
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[SoCalMiles]

2.1 still hasn't been rooted. Thats a phone specific way to flash a custom recovery/rom right over whats currently on there. Meaning that way won't work for anything else but a Motorola Phone. If an exploit for rooting was found in 2.1, Google would have to patch it for all phones. I think the only way they could patch that is added security in RSDlite.

[mjs31]

2.1 still hasn't been rooted. Thats a phone specific way to flash a custom recovery/rom right over whats currently on there. Meaning that way won't work for anything else but a Motorola Phone. If an exploit for rooting was found in 2.1, Google would have to patch it for all phones. I think the only way they could patch that is added security in RSDlite.

Right, but it does give them the option to do this. I know it was specific to the Droid which is why I mentioned that. I guess you are right that is has not been completely hacked though but still progress

[OpsMan]

Ok guys -and gals. This root issue has begged some questions.

Getting root means the same on the phone as it does on the desktop. In windows it's called administrator and root on unix/linux. Root is basically privelege escalation so that your permissions are drw on the phone and not just -r- or -rw. When an update occurs OTA or otherwise files are overwritten. Some, most, but probably not all need root access to be overwritten(updated). Now the update doesn't necessarily install new ROM so there must be root password or such to allow overwriting of these files. I would prefer to know password or key to change/modify programs or files and then restart with regular permissions.

Remember that in Android every app runs in it's own process space (address) this is the sandbox methodology. Now if you root your phone with a rom you lose this sandboxing protection. Without this protection malware, spyware, and virii will start to run rampant on our precious Dinc. How about a solution more kin to guest/power-user/administrator accounts as on desktops. I rarely run my administrator account on my laptop, for the same reasons described above. If I need to make system changes a password allows me root for changes and then back to power-user. This sounds more to my liking and least likely to cause OS software issues.

Just a thought.

[mjs31]

Ok guys -and gals. This root issue has begged some questions.

Getting root means the same on the phone as it does on the desktop. In windows it's called administrator and root on unix/linux. Root is basically privelege escalation so that your permissions are drw on the phone and not just -r- or -rw. When an update occurs OTA or otherwise files are overwritten. Some, most, but probably not all need root access to be overwritten(updated). Now the update doesn't necessarily install new ROM so there must be root password or such to allow overwriting of these files. I would prefer to know password or key to change/modify programs or files and then restart with regular permissions.

Remember that in Android every app runs in it's own process space (address) this is the sandbox methodology. Now if you root your phone with a rom you lose this sandboxing protection. Without this protection malware, spyware, and virii will start to run rampant on our precious Dinc. How about a solution more kin to guest/power-user/administrator accounts as on desktops. I rarely run my administrator account on my laptop, for the same reasons described above. If I need to make system changes a password allows me root for changes and then back to power-user. This sounds more to my liking and least likely to cause OS software issues.

Just a thought.

This has been argued to death. Check out the Droid Forums and do a search on this. No need for me to re hash it, but this threat is over played.

[eorourke01]

Droid Incredible owners that have been patiently waiting for root access will finally get their wish - checkout how to root your Droid Incredible here: Droid Incredible Gets Rooted | Eugene O'Rourke

[mjs31]

Droid Incredible owners that have been patiently waiting for root access will finally get their wish - checkout how to root your Droid Incredible here: Droid Incredible Gets Rooted | Eugene O'Rourke

Several topics on this along with more details and step by steps. Check out the other posts, including the stickies, in the hacks section.

[Xenologist]

I'm new to smartphones in general, so this is kind of a noob question. If I root my phone (I'd really like to get rid of some of the native apps), and then get the OTA update of froyo when it comes out, will it remove my root privileges? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.