Using Unactivated Droid Incredible ~As WIFI ONLY DEVICE~

[chamathpali123]

This is my first post in XDA and im sorry if i have done anything wrong..
Im not responsible if something happens wrong...

I created this thread because there are many people out there having an Unactivated Droid Incredible and hoping to use it as a WIFI only Device.
This can be done even your not in USA. (Im not in USA too).. Any place this will work because nothing to do with VERIZON I got the phone from ebay for a very cheap price and now its really worth when you can use it as a wifi only device..
It was really hard to me to use my DINC as a wifi only device .. i had to search for more than 4 days to get it completed ..
I think this will be helpful for many guys....

Here how i Started
1) First of all you have to unlock your Bootloader via HTCdev.. and Install CWM recovery

UNLOCKING THE BOOTLOADER WILL FACTORY RESET YOUR DEVICE!!!...YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

1. Head over to HTC Dev http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/.

2. Create a account or sign in (you must use your real email address).

3. Go to unlock bootloader.

4. Select “HTC DROID INCREDIBLE*”.

5. Follow the directions and install all the software provided and you will end up with a unlocked bootloader with s-on. Save a copy of the unlock_code.bin to your pc, so you have it after dooing the froyo ruu.

6. Enter FASTBOOT again on your phone.

7.Open the command prompt again on your pc to where adb.exe is. (ie. C:\android-sdk\platform-tools or C:\adb

8. Download this - CWM recovery 5.0.2.0 http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_N...t/recovery.img, and place it in the same folder as fastboot (where you put unlock_code.bin ie. C:\adb).

9. For simplicity’s sake rename the above file to recovery.img if it doesn’t already save it as recovery.img.

10. In your command prompt navigate to the folder containing your fastboot files and recovery.img

11. Enter the following in the command prompt:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Code:

12. Once that completes navigate to recovery on your phone and press power to select it.

13. Once CWM recovery boots on your phone use the volume up and down to pick "Mounts and storage" press the trackball to select it.
Actually this is from this Thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506258

2) You have to flash a new ROM to your device....
NEVER USE A STOCK ROM because it will ask for that stupid Verizon Activation
Please use the below thread links to get roms and its good if you can use the instructions in them.

To flash a ROM follow these Steps,
1) Download the ROM You like(NON-STOCK)
2) Turn on recovery(power+volume down then Recovery *YOU SHOULD HAVE INSTALLED CWM recovery in STEP ONE*)
3) Do a Full data/factory wipe and wipe cache
4) Then in CWM goto Mounts and storage > Mount SD
5) Then Copy the downloaded ROM (the ZIP file) to the SD card and unmount it after copied
6) Then go back < the choose install zip from sdcard
7) Choose the zip file you copied to the sd card and install it..
8) wipe cache
9) AND PLEASE TO THE STUFF THAT ARE SAID IN ROM THREADS *EXAMPLE-*Flashing GAPPS
9) reboot
10) NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR DINC AS WIFI ONLY DEVICE



I have used the below roms and i was able to use them with no activation required..
I think any CyanogenMod or AOSP will do the work

Jellybean AOSP- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=17781903
CM10 Unofficial - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882918 << Im currently using this and its really great
CM10.1 Unofficial -http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050930
CM7.1 Nightlies - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916881

NOW YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH YOUR DROID INCREDIBLE EXCEPT CALLING AND TEXTING
:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

If I said something useful be sure to hit the "Thanks" button! and if this helped you a lot Donate

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HTC Droid Incredible - MP3 Player/Offline Device
Rom: CM10 (Unofficial)

 

[GeNYC07]

This is my first post in XDA and im sorry if i have done anything wrong..
Im not responsible if something happens wrong...

I created this thread because there are many people out there having an Unactivated Droid Incredible and hoping to use it as a WIFI only Device.
This can be done even your not in USA. (Im not in USA too).. Any place this will work because nothing to do with VERIZON I got the phone from ebay for a very cheap price and now its really worth when you can use it as a wifi only device..
It was really hard to me to use my DINC as a wifi only device .. i had to search for more than 4 days to get it completed ..
I think this will be helpful for many guys....

Here how i Started
1) First of all you have to unlock your Bootloader via HTCdev.. and Install CWM recovery



2) You have to flash a new ROM to your device....
NEVER USE A STOCK ROM because it will ask for that stupid Verizon Activation
Please use the below thread links to get roms and its good if you can use the instructions in them.

To flash a ROM follow these Steps,
1) Download the ROM You like(NON-STOCK)
2) Turn on recovery(power+volume down then Recovery *YOU SHOULD HAVE INSTALLED CWM recovery in STEP ONE*)
3) Do a Full data/factory wipe and wipe cache
4) Then in CWM goto Mounts and storage > Mount SD
5) Then Copy the downloaded ROM (the ZIP file) to the SD card and unmount it after copied
6) Then go back < the choose install zip from sdcard
7) Choose the zip file you copied to the sd card and install it..
8) wipe cache
9) AND PLEASE TO THE STUFF THAT ARE SAID IN ROM THREADS *EXAMPLE-*Flashing GAPPS
9) reboot
10) NOW YOU CAN USE YOUR DINC AS WIFI ONLY DEVICE



I have used the below roms and i was able to use them with no activation required..
I think any CyanogenMod or AOSP will do the work

Jellybean AOSP- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=17781903
CM10 Unofficial - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882918 << Im currently using this and its really great
CM10.1 Unofficial -http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050930
CM7.1 Nightlies - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916881

NOW YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH YOUR DROID INCREDIBLE EXCEPT CALLING AND TEXTING
:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

If I said something useful be sure to hit the "Thanks" button! and if this helped you a lot Donate

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HTC Droid Incredible - MP3 Player/Offline Device
Rom: CM10 (Unofficial)

you can indeed call and text with a wifi only device there are plenty of apks that do just that. search them out as long as you are hooked up to your wifi you should be able to make calls and txt no problem

 

[chamathpali123]

For CDMA Phone??
In my country we dont have CDMA carriers..

 

[tiny4579]

For CDMA Phone??
In my country we dont have CDMA carriers..

If it's Wi-Fi only the network type wouldn't matter (CDMA or GSM) as Wi-Fi would not use the network at all.

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[chamathpali123]

If it's Wi-Fi only the network type wouldn't matter (CDMA or GSM) as Wi-Fi would not use the network at all.

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2

U mean like skype , viber ? in this thread im talkng about using DINC when it cannot bypass activation(without verizon signal)
when it is on activation screen nothing will work,...

 

[cmlusco]

U mean like skype , viber ? in this thread im talkng about using DINC when it cannot bypass activation(without verizon signal)
when it is on activation screen nothing will work,...

Click activate and wait for it to fail. Do this 3 times and it will let you bypass it. It has to say programing in progress, and then programing unsuccessfull 3 times.

 

[altimax98]

There's an mod that murders the radios, mix that with MIUI or Pete's builds and you have a great player with days of use

Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD

 

[chamathpali123]

Click activate and wait for it to fail. Do this 3 times and it will let you bypass it. It has to say programing in progress, and then programing unsuccessfull 3 times.

It wont work without verizon signal!! i have tried all the ways of bypassing activation... but nothing worked....

 

[cmlusco]

It wont work without verizon signal!! i have tried all the ways of bypassing activation... but nothing worked....

Do a backup, and then flash this http://dinc.does-it.net/Mods/RemoveCellStandby.zip thru recovery.

 

[chamathpali123]

it didnt work ??? im on tinys cm10

 

[biodiesel.ufo]

I'm already rooted

This interests me. My HTC Inc is no longer active, but I rooted it when it was active. I have a Clockwork Recovery and CyanogenMod 7 ROM installed. To completely deactivate the radio (in order to save the battery life), perhaps all I need to do is to factory reset the phone?

Has this process worked for others?

 

[tekweezle]

i just have my wifi only Dinc in airplane mode but with wifi toggled on. getting good battery life even with stock 1300 mah battery an Tiny's 5-16 rom.

 

[retrorobot]

I have flashed the contents of the zip file to kill radio, if someone has more advices for wifi only Incredible optimization please post here...

 

[RepeatUntilTheEnd]

I've seen a couple threads about this here and there's never any info I didn't already think of, which kinda sucks. I guess there's only so much you can do with an ancient wifi only device.

I'm on CM7 with CWM recovery. I'm using the airplane mode wifi app as I'm sure others are as well. Tried to run the wifi only script at boot but was still seeing battery drain from cell standby. Now I get really good battery life. I mainly use it for GPS tracking when I exercise with Endomondo Pro. Google Play Music is amazing. Tablet talk will transmit SMS over Bluetooth or wifi so you don't have to use a different number or wifi calling. Other than that stuff there's not much I do differently than my gnex and sero7...

Check out them battery stats haha


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