The folks at unrevoked.com have done it again.  They promised and delivered on figuring out the nand to flash your own recovery on the recovery partition.  They’ve created a desktop app called “Painless Reflash” and it installs clockworkmod recovery v2.0.1.0 for you.  They even made 3 versions for Windows, Linux and Mac users.  For the most part, it is very painless and completely automated.  In order for this to work, you need to have already rooted your phone.  This app does not root your phone for you.  The steps I’m going to provide have worked for me and I only had one phone to do this on.

  1. Stop any ADB process.  You can do this by using the “adb kill-server” command.
  2. Uninstall the HTC Sync applicaiton.  This will cause the reflash process to hang.
  3. You should already have the appropriate drivers installed from rooting.  If not, then follow this thread to root your incredible.
  4. Download the Painless reflash app from unrevoked’s website.  There are 3 versions so choose the one that applies to you. (windows for me)
  5. Install the app.  Personally I just created a folder on my desktop called “unrevoked” and chose it at the “choose destination folder” prompt.
  6. Plug your phone in and make sure USB Debugging is enabled.
  7. Run the “reflash.exe” file in the destination folder you chose earlier and wait for about 5 minutes.  The phone will boot, reboot and boot some more.  But it should not take longer than 5 minutes.  Once completed, you should be looking at the ClockworkMod Recovery v2.0.1.0 screen.

If your phone is stuck at any point longer than 5 minutes then it needs to be done again.  Check steps 1, 2 and 3.  You can also now download Rom Manager from the android market and update the recovery to the latest with no problems!