Droid Incredible gets rooted at long last

The Incredible wait is finally at an end -- HTC's finest handset on Verizon had proven quite the tough nut to crack, but at long last it has succumbed to the efforts of some industrious root-hungry coders. You should be mindful that progress is still at a very early stage, and hacking your own Incredible is said to be both "very hard" and "not very repeatable." The important thing though, is that it's happened, and we're now probably only a few days removed from a user-friendly patch that lets us truly do whatever we might want with that handsome device. They say roots are an important part of a balanced diet, and this one should go very nicely with a bit of Froyo, don't you think?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[cheami90 Posted Jun 10th 2010 8:13AM]

oh shit.

[Fault Posted Jun 10th 2010 8:22AM]

Been on the fence about the whole droid v droid incredible. I think im gonna go droid, just cause it has more support

[Kerensky97 Posted Jun 10th 2010 8:34AM]

@Fault
Up until now Incredible seems to have been overlooked when it comes to specific apps, rooting, and accessories. I've been frustrated that there still isn't a dedicated desktop dock or car mount, there is no app to use the LED flash as a flashlight, and rooting it taking forever.

Hopefully it's because of the low market penetration now, because otherwise the Incredible is better.

[shoman24v Posted Jun 10th 2010 9:31AM]

@Kerensky97 Now we can get 720p video :)

[durangojim Posted Jun 10th 2010 9:04AM]

Free wireless tethering here I come!

[j2daake Posted Jun 10th 2010 9:15AM]

Finally!!11one!! Now I can get wifi tether (because wired or bluetooth doesn't work with an iPad or iPod Touch) setCPU for awesome battery life, and Froyo; the three things I wished it had originally.

[shoman24v Posted Jun 10th 2010 9:19AM]

Once the official 2.2 release comes out I'm putting that on my incredible!

[grumbles Posted Jun 10th 2010 10:09AM]

Hell yeah. Maybe now I can get those pesky LEDs behind the capacitive buttons to turn off. Permanently.

[linuxguru Posted Jun 10th 2010 10:19AM]

I'm sorry but I think that putting this up was pre mature on all sites since this method doesn't work on all phone's. But for that worked hard on this congrats to them and there is finally some light at the tunnel. I would be all for it but people have the tendencies to flame the devs that came up with the method regardless ov the warnings that it might not work on your phone since at this time only two have been known to bend rooted at this time.

[RayVoid Posted Jun 10th 2010 10:48AM]

Having just activated my Incredible yesterday evening, I cant be happier with this news!

[kluesman Posted Jun 10th 2010 11:08AM]

About time it got rooted! Now who will make roms for it and when will they post those roms on URL(http://bit.ly/cLJcdo)

[the14thgod Posted Jun 10th 2010 11:23AM]

If I rooted my phone and Android 2.2 came out via OTA would I be able to upgrade? I'm new to smart phones and have only had one since the launch of the Incredible. Obviously I plan to wait till a more user friendly root is in place to attempt it.

[hunter P Posted Jun 10th 2010 12:52PM]

Hey all, Long time reader, first time poster. Love my Droid and hearing about the "root" progress being made out there. But where do i go on the interweb to find instructions to do this safely?
Thanks
HP....

(KILL selected apps)

[kaysee Posted Jun 10th 2010 3:25PM]

The only reason id ever want to live in america = this phone ( not fond of EVO's Size )

Sent from Motorola milestone. ..* sigh* =[

[ArcanBoi Posted Jun 10th 2010 6:15PM]

This would be great... if I knew what "rooting" was...

Google's giving me tree stuff...

Help me out...

[iKocher Posted Jun 11th 2010 10:40AM]

I acutally got mine on the 10th so this is perfect timing. Part of me is happy to have Android but I wish I didn't have to stop using my iPhone. At least I can keep the iPhone.