Droid incredible made its way into the market from the Taiwan-based handset vendor HTC Corporation with Google’s Android 2.1 platform. So far the smartphone lives upto its expectation with a snappier and overpowered response UI. And xda-developers wants to take this to the new level by leaking out instructions on how to upgrade HTC Droid Incredible to Android 2.2 Froyo.
Although the rumors flying around the web is that HTC droid incredible — along with droid and droid X — will have an official Android 2.2 a.k.a Froyo update on August 6th.
However, if you’d still like to fiddle with your HTC Droid Incredible and run the Stock 2.2 ROM with Sense then check out the threat posted at XDA-developers.
I’ve recreated the steps here with all the download links, you can follow the thread for user updates and troubleshooting. Also, once the device is up and running using this tutorial, droid will have a smooth flow of Camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and the rest.
Performing this with 2.x radios means: 720p recording, flash on camcorder, HTC Flashlight, 3G mobile hotspot, FM Radio widget, Gmail with Copy & Paste, and a nice range of other addition (to check the radio navigate to Settings > About phone > Software information > Baseband version).
Note that Wiimote app doesn’t work after updating droid incredible to Android 2.2 Froyo.
How to flash the 2.x radio.
For Rooted HTC Droid Incredible Phone
1. Download PB31IMG.zip and place it in the root of you SDCARD. Make sure the FS is FAT32, otherwise PB13IMG.zip will not flash.
1a. Link has been updated so you no longer have to apply the VZW exchange OTA.
2. Now go to the bootloader.
2a. Run ‘adb reboot oem-42’ if powered up or hold Power + Volume Down if your phone is off.
3. It should automatically start loading PB31IMG.zip. Then accept it when it asks you to load it or not (pretty sure Vol Up).
4. You are now completely stock. You should remove PB31IMG from your SDCARD now.
5. Download dinc_ota.zip, rename it to update.zip and place it in the root of your SDCARD.
6. Now boot into recovery and apply the zip.
6a. adb reboot recovery if powered up or Power + Volume Down then select Recovery.
6b. Now hit Power + Volume Up to bring up the Recovery menu.
6c. Now select apply update.zip
7. Go to Settings > About phone > Software information > Baseband version and verify that it’s 2.05.00.06.11.
8. Now download and run Unrevoked 3 to reroot and install ClockworkMod recovery.
9. Now you can go ahead and install the Stock Froyo ROM.
For Non Rooted HTC Droid Incredible Phone
1. Download dinc_ota.zip, rename it to update.zip and place it in the root of your SDCARD.
2. Now boot into recovery and apply the zip.
2a. adb reboot recovery if powered up or Power + Volume Down then select Recovery.
2b. Now hit Power + Volume Up to bring up the Recovery menu.
2c. Now select apply update.zip
3. Go to Settings > About phone > Software information > Baseband version and verify that it’s 2.05.00.06.11.
4. Now download and run Unrevoked 3 to root and install ClockworkMod recovery.
5. Now you can go ahead and install the Stock Froyo rom.
