Anyone working on rooting Droid Incredible 2?

[WorldOfJohnboy]

If I'm not mistaken, you only need HTC Sync for the drivers. As I understand it, you can remove HTC Sync right afterwards, but you'll still have the drivers.

I believe he was referring to the Phone setting. You don't need to select HTC Sync on the phone, you can select charge only.

Also, there are other ways to install a driver without having to download/install HTC Sync on your PC.

That's what I do. The only thing I had issues with though, and I'm not sure it was from the restore process, was with my PIN that I use to unlock the phone. I had been doing some testing yesterday, completely rebuilt the phone, did a full restore, and no matter how many times I typed in my PIN (correctly too), it rejected it. Ultimately ended up wiping the device because of it.

That said, I've restored multiple apps, removed bloatware, etc. I generally don't run in temp root, and I'm quite content functioning this way so far.

Awesome, that helps a lot, I think I will surprise her tonight in that case!

 

[MLIB]

If anybody is able to help me out it would be much appreciated, i want to get the bloatware, DRM protection, and vzw processes etc... off my droid so i can achieve max battery potential. anyone have a solution, i am willing to root but i just dont want to make the phone glitchy because as of right now it runs so smooth. And if anyone could tell me the difference between temp rooting and freezing etc...cause im new to this whole rooting process.
Thanks

 

[bik2101]

you'll need root to do any of those things MLIB. so unfortunately that won't be possible. the only option is the temp root, which unfortunately gets undone anytime your phone is rebooted. freezing requires root, temp or permanent.

 

[WorldOfJohnboy]

you'll need root to do any of those things MLIB. so unfortunately that won't be possible. the only option is the temp root, which unfortunately gets undone anytime your phone is rebooted. freezing requires root, temp or permanent.

I just noticed that without permanent root, you can't get rid of bloatware. I Moved all the apps to the SD Card and rebooted and they still came back.

Oh well, guess I will have to wait for a permanent root! At least I was able to restore my wife's Titanium backup of her old phone.

 

[bik2101]

just freeze them. pretty much the equivalent of removing them except for the fact that you won't get the space back, which imo isn't a big deal. i just went in and froze a few apps too. hoping that i get better battery life now.

 

[devator22]

Once you temp root, you have to use either TB freezer or bloat freezer from the market. IMO, bloat freezer works better. You have to run it in S-ON mode (in settings). Not running it in this mode will cause it to not persist through a reboot. Another method suggested though not tested by me is to go into the system folder using root explorer and renaming the apk's to .bak...though not sure if this will work with temp root. Make sure you only freeze/rename/delete the apps listed as safe on xda..there's a thread there somewhere. Messing with certain apps will potentially soft brick your phone, but with no custom recovery it might as well be bricked. Note that in the past, phones without the bloat intact were unable to receive OTA updates...a good reason to freeze or rename instead of deleting.

 

[WorldOfJohnboy]

just freeze them. pretty much the equivalent of removing them except for the fact that you won't get the space back, which imo isn't a big deal. i just went in and froze a few apps too. hoping that i get better battery life now.

This isn't an option for my wife... she reboots her phone probably 2 times a day and would have to TempRoot each time and re-freeze them.

Once you temp root, you have to use either TB freezer or bloat freezer from the market. IMO, bloat freezer works better. You have to run it in S-ON mode (in settings). Not running it in this mode will cause it to not persist through a reboot. Another method suggested though not tested by me is to go into the system folder using root explorer and renaming the apk's to .bak...though not sure if this will work with temp root. Make sure you only freeze/rename/delete the apps listed as safe on xda..there's a thread there somewhere. Messing with certain apps will potentially soft brick your phone, but with no custom recovery it might as well be bricked. Note that in the past, phones without the bloat intact were unable to receive OTA updates...a good reason to freeze or rename instead of deleting.

The DInc2 and TBolt have a lot of the same apps and I tried renaming all her bloat apps to ".old" this first time. After a reboot and not temp rooting, the files automatically renamed themselves back to the .apk I then copied and pasted to the SDCard and rebooted, and again they reappeared.

With a temp root, you have to freeze them every time you reboot... I will wait for a permanent root and just do it then. I was happy to at least be able to restore her Titanium Backup/MyBackup Pro from the old phone.

 

[anguish]

I used Titanium Backup to freeze some of my bloat, and even after a reboot, they haven't showed back up.

 

[bik2101]

yeah once you freeze them they're frozen until you yourself defrost them. so it won't matter whether the root stays or not .

 

[WorldOfJohnboy]

Sweet, I wasn't aware that was the case, since the other methods did not work, I just assumed.

 

[WorldOfJohnboy]

Temp Root and Freezing did work on everything except for the HTC Lock Screen... my wife loves the AOSP lock (as do I) as you can silence the phone on the lock screen.

 

[bik2101]

Sweet, I wasn't aware that was the case, since the other methods did not work, I just assumed.

thats cool.

 

[anguish]

Temp Root and Freezing did work on everything except for the HTC Lock Screen... my wife loves the AOSP lock (as do I) as you can silence the phone on the lock screen.

Yeah, I do kind of miss that from my D2G. That's probably one of the only things I miss though.

 

[WorldOfJohnboy]

Temp Root and Freezing did work on everything except for the HTC Lock Screen... my wife loves the AOSP lock (as do I) as you can silence the phone on the lock screen.

Yeah, I do kind of miss that from my D2G. That's probably one of the only things I miss though.

As soon as Perm-Root is available, just remove the "com.htc.lockscreen" apk in the /system/app/ folder and you get it back. My TBolt is rocking the AOSP lock screen.

My wife's old DInc had perm-root, but when I got rid of the HTC Lockscreen, she couldn't snooze nor dismiss her alarm. I hope the DInc2 isn't the same way for her once perm-root is available.

 

[anguish]

Temp Root and Freezing did work on everything except for the HTC Lock Screen... my wife loves the AOSP lock (as do I) as you can silence the phone on the lock screen.

Yeah, I do kind of miss that from my D2G. That's probably one of the only things I miss though.

As soon as Perm-Root is available, just remove the "com.htc.lockscreen" apk in the /system/app/ folder and you get it back. My TBolt is rocking the AOSP lock screen.

My wife's old DInc had perm-root, but when I got rid of the HTC Lockscreen, she couldn't snooze nor dismiss her alarm. I hope the DInc2 isn't the same way for her once perm-root is available.

That will be interesting to find out. Probably will be though.