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First of all I take no credit for this. This is after almost 4-5 days of research and then finally getting the root on my Incredible through this method that I thought may be I should write summary of what I researched so as to make the job easier for some noobs, like me. 1.Begin by installing HTC sync. 2.Also install Android SDK along with the USB driver. Now this driver is and its .inf is in the sdk folder/usb driver. 3.Edit .inf of usb driver by opening the .inf file and adding following lines under google.nt86 at the end of section: ; ;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 Save this file. 4.Update drivers in device manager by browsing to path to saved USB driver, usually c:\sdk\usb_drivers. 5.Now download this Incredible Rooter app from Rooter Applic 6.extract to tools folder in sdk directory. 7.Now with phone on and connected to PC through USB, click rooter application from tools directory. Step 1. link "download" when finished downloading it will say finished, click OK. Step 2. link "Reboot into recovery" will cause the phone to reboot into recovery, Step 3. will check the success and will output "success" or "fail". If fail restart and continue from step 2. If you get "success", before going to next step, you should still be in the triangle with the ! screen. press vol up and power to go back to the menu. DO NOT REBOOT. 8.Press vol down to highlight "apply: update.zip" and press the power button It will say failled .... NO PROBLEM, carry on 9.In the Rooter application that is still running hit following: Step 4. "Push Files" will push all files. 10.now open cmd prompt type cd \ cd sdk cd tools 11.Now type the next command but DO NOT PRESS ENTER YET adb push payload-update.zip /sdcard/update.zip 12.Next step is on phone AND PC so read before executing. Press the power button on Apply: update.zip within 1/2 second (just as you see meter like thing start on phone) press enter on the command window to execute the above command. 13.If successful you should see “unrEVOked for Incredible” with some other stuff 14.Now type the following commands to make it persistent through reboot adb shell su /system/bin/cat /system/bin/sh > /system/bin/su /system/bin/chmod 4777 /system/bin/su export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin cd /system/app cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > Superuser.apk cd /system/bin cat /sdcard/su > su ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su /* IF YOU GET AN ERROR HERE DO rm /system/xbin/su THEN REDO */ chmod 06755 su 15.Now you are rooted and can uninstall city id, etc /* City ID */ /system/bin/rm /system/app/CityID.apk 16.For wifi tether just click Post step "Enable WIFI Tether" link in Rooter application, Download wifi application from the link that will come up and save to SD card after reboot and install as any .apk. Hope this may help few in being rooted more easily.