I was cleaning my closet and found my HTC Incredible S (which I had bought in 2011). I gave the phone some juice for few hours and booted it, surprisingly it was working :) I thought about rooting it and flashing with new rom in market. I searched xda fourm and found this (Cynogen 13 based Rom for Incredible S). I started to flash it. but, my bootloader was still locked. I went to HTCDev to unlock the bootloader. but Fastboot was not able to detect my phone. After 3 hrs of internet searching I found this simple fix. I think this can work with all the android phones. you need to create a registry entry (below) and reboot the system(PC). [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbflags\0BB40FF00100] "SkipBOSDescriptorQuery"=hex:01,00,00,00 after the registry fix, it worked liked a charm. Thanks