HTC Droid Incredible Froyo ROM Gets Leaked; You Know the Drill [HTC Droid Incredible Android 2.2 Froyo Update Available Via Manual Update; Not Official Yet] (u)

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HTC Droid Incredible owners need not to be annoyed anymore as their Froyo build is available already. Unfortunately, just like with the HTC EVO 4G and the Motorola Droid, this Android 2.2 is not yet official and you might be better off waiting for that unconfirmed September 1 date to be confirmed.

Why is waiting a better idea? Well you do remember what happened to those people that decided to upgrade early to Froyo on their HTC EVO 4G units, don’t you? And since the Droid Incredible is also an HTC-made device, you’d better wait for the official OTA update to come out.

This leaked Froyo version is only proving the fact that an update is following soon, just as it happened for the EVO 4G and the Droid. That September 1 date might not have been confirmed yet but a full Android 2.2 Froyo version is available for the HTC Droid Incredible and it’s an RUU which is basically as good as it gets.

Like always, we can show you how one installs Froyo on the HTC Droid Incredible from this leaked ROM, but you’re the sole responsible for the outcome, whatever that may be. Also we’ll note that we don’t have any way of verifying if this works for you so, handle it with care:

1. Install this update, get rom.zip from the RUU file, rename to PB31IMG.ZIP (somewhere in this thread there is a post with link to rom.zip, but you still have to rename it [Ed: check this link too]), make sure your SD-Card was formatted as Fat32 and put this on the root.
2. Boot into hboot
3. Install PB31IMG.ZIP (not the one I attached to this post)
**Step 3 note** Your phone might reboot to either hboot or recovery after trying to install PB31IMG.ZIP, just get back to hboot and install again, when you get back to hboot you should notice its version .92 and S-OFF is still on, just install PB31IMG.ZIP again and all should be good. I believe at one point after it updates hboot it has to reboot to finish the install, so this might be what you are seeing.
4. Reboot, setup your Google account, etc.
5. Put the files I attached to this post on root of your SD-Card
***Files are PB31IMG.ZIP (this is not the update, either delete the other PB31IMG.ZIP or rename it to PB31IMG.BAK, this is just clockwork recovery in the PB31IMG.ZIP) , payload-update.zip, and su-2.3.2.1-ef-signed.zip*** [Ed: all files are found at the via link below]
6. Power down phone and boot to hboot (hold optical button + power)
7. Install PB31IMG.ZIP in hboot, this installs clockwork recovery
8. Once that is done installing, press volume down, so your phone doesn’t reboot, then select recovery
9. Once you boot into recovery choose install zip from SD-Card, then choose payload-update.zip
10. After that installs, choose to install another zip and install su-2.3.2.1-ef-signed.zip
11. Reboot and enjoy your rooted phone.

Do let us know if you’re going to follow this path, and if it all works out for you!

Update: It looks like the Froyo update for the Droid Incredible is going to be made official tomorrow, August 27, so you might want to skip all those steps above!