How I rooted my Incredible, and installed busybox.

[mach330]

So can u do wireless tether? I'll wait a bit until this is easier and more straightforward.

 

[R1Lover]

yes, wifi tether works great.

 

[Caelum Bound]

Thank you for posting these additional step-by-steps, Adrynalyne. While I've been rooted since the morning after the breakthrough, I wasn't sure how to install the Superuser.apk and get busybox fully functional. I'm happy to have Titanium Backup and wifi tethering up and running now, even if there aren't any ROMs to flash (just yet). I too hope to see some of Team Chaos's amazing work find it's way to the Incredible, once workarounds are found for the current limitations.

Caelum Bound

 

[droidzone]

adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
adb shell

$ su
#export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin
#cd /system/xbin
# cat /sdcard/busybox > busybox
# chmod 06755 busybox
# busybox --install -s /system/xbin
# rm /sdcard/busybox
# exit
$ exit

this would all need to be done during the rooting process (aka in Recovery)

Trying to install Busybox on my HTC Desire using your instructions.

I get the following in Revovery mode:

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
SH08APL00297    recovery


C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
1985 KB/s (1745016 bytes in 0.858s)

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell
~ # su
su
/sbin/sh: su: not found
~ # export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin
~ # cd /system/xbin
cd /system/xbin
/sbin/sh: cd: can't cd to /system/xbin
~ # cd /system/xbin
cd /system/xbin
/sbin/sh: cd: can't cd to /system/xbin

 

[CaptainTaco]

adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
adb shell

$ su
#export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin
#cd /system/xbin
# cat /sdcard/busybox > busybox
# chmod 06755 busybox
# busybox --install -s /system/xbin
# rm /sdcard/busybox
# exit
$ exit

this would all need to be done during the rooting process (aka in Recovery)

Trying to install Busybox on my HTC Desire using your instructions.

I get the following in Revovery mode:

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
SH08APL00297    recovery


C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
1985 KB/s (1745016 bytes in 0.858s)

C:\Software\htc\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell
~ # su
su
/sbin/sh: su: not found
~ # export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin
~ # cd /system/xbin
cd /system/xbin
/sbin/sh: cd: can't cd to /system/xbin
~ # cd /system/xbin
cd /system/xbin
/sbin/sh: cd: can't cd to /system/xbin

This was a loooong time ago. There are much easier ways now, I believe the rooting process by unrEVOked installs busy box for you. However, if you really wanted to do it manually there is a typo in the above instructions

busybox --install -s /system/xbin

should be

./busybox --install -s /system/xbin