Need some Root help/advice

[S Freud]

I am attempting to root my motorola droid running 2.1-update1

Every time I search for a guide or even locate one it contains broken links or a five page tutorial of how to downgrade my firmware and then re-apply the update.

I am in search of a tried and true guide on how to root my phone.

If anyone could please provide an explanation of what the root directory is so I know where to place the updated.zip file I would greatly appreciate that.

Thank you

 

[Spoooon]

Try here: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...g-root-access-you-phone-after-2-1-update.html

I don't even remember what I did to root mine (got it at launch).

edit: Somewhere, someone posted some other link to a guide.

 

[Glitchny]

I am attempting to root my motorola droid running 2.1-update1

Every time I search for a guide or even locate one it contains broken links or a five page tutorial of how to downgrade my firmware and then re-apply the update.

I am in search of a tried and true guide on how to root my phone.

If anyone could please provide an explanation of what the root directory is so I know where to place the updated.zip file I would greatly appreciate that.

Thank you

hmm back when I rooted I'm pretty sure I just put the update.zip in the main directory on the sd card and then just booted into recovery and updated. However I think that is the "unsafe" way or whatever, but I just dove in and it worked.

this is a step by step guide... however it is 26 steps long. (scroll down to where it says "install from windows" or whatever os you are using.

 

[rudeguy]

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/512-official-faq-read-first/

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Full_Update_Guide_-_Motorola_Droid

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=668

^^^ That is the best place to ask questions about rooting.

 

[S Freud]

Thanks for the links everyone!

I was able to finally root my phone thanks to the guides provided by rudeguy!

I have encountered a new set of problems now..where do I get custom themes and such? Also, how do I delete some of the bloatware that comes pre-installed on the phone?

Thanks again!

 

[rudeguy]

Thanks for the links everyone!

I was able to finally root my phone thanks to the guides provided by rudeguy!

I have encountered a new set of problems now..where do I get custom themes and such? Also, how do I delete some of the bloatware that comes pre-installed on the phone?

Thanks again!

Droidexplorer can help you uninstall pre-installed apps. Go to XDA for themes and such.

 

[Spoooon]

Download ROM manager from the market and give cyanogen or bugless beast a try.

 

[notposting]

I will direct you to droidforums.net and mydroidworld.com, both pretty friendly and helpful.

Couple tips: when it's running good, make a nandroid backup of your phone, which is basically a complete system image.
A good backup app is helpful, Titanium Backup is pretty good. It can restore your apps, and their data, and restore market links for them, makes trying new roms a lot quicker (no downloading from the market each time).
ROM Manager is helpful, especially installing Clockwork Recovery instead of SPRecovery. That way you can pick any zip file (doesn't need to be named update.zip) from anywhere on the sd card (doesn't need to be root directory).
I probably have a dozen roms on my sdcard right now. Plus different themes, kernels, etc.

The Droid does seem to be a very individual device--people have wildly different experiences with the exact same software on what should be identical hardware. FWIW, I have Bugless Beast 0.4 running on mine with a ChevyNo1 ULV 1.1GHz kernel. Have tried some others but keep coming back to that combo for now.

Enjoy!

 

[Anubis]

im asking here first before i go scouring the net but ive been trying to root my droid for like an hour or so and the only thing ive succedded in doing is wiping all the data off my phone (yes i backed it up)

following the wiki like posted above

when i first boot into the console it says this but i ignore it and proceed to go about the rest or the instructions

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

when i got to apply my update file which is located in the root of my SD card named simply update i get this lovely error

--install from sdcard...
finding update package...
opening update package...
verifying update package...
signature verification failed
Installation aborted.

so anyone got any ideas? and no my file is not update.zip.zip according to windows

 

[Spoooon]

Have you tried redownloading the update file?

 

[Anubis]

that seemed to work, rapidshare version didn't work. mega upload one did

 

[Spoooon]

that seemed to work, rapidshare version didn't work. mega upload one did

Cool, time to start trying different ROMs.

 

[Anubis]

cyanogen should be done installing in about 30 seconds

 

[Spoooon]

cyanogen should be done installing in about 30 seconds

How is it going from stock to custom? What are your impressions?

 

[quakefiend420]

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2010/05/29/how-to-root-motorola-droid-on-android-2-1/ worked for me with the same setup you have...didn't even lose my apps and settings..1.2Ghz really makes this phone fly!

 

[FallenHero]

How is it going from stock to custom? What are your impressions?

Always be careful when you go to a custom and make sure you read the release notes and bug reports. Up until recently, alot of custom roms for my EVO didn't have the camera, MMS, or 4g working correctly, so those would have been broken had I updated blindly.

Other then that, depending on what you are looking for will dictate your experience for each rom.

 

[notposting]

Always be careful when you go to a custom and make sure you read the release notes and bug reports. Up until recently, alot of custom roms for my EVO didn't have the camera, MMS, or 4g working correctly, so those would have been broken had I updated blindly.

Other then that, depending on what you are looking for will dictate your experience for each rom.

Yep, even on the Droid which along with the N1 probably has the most amount of modders and support each ROM usually comes with some interesting quirks or fixes that need to be made.

Good to wait a day and then check the release threads to see what's happening as far as oddities, fixes, updates, etc. Personally...I always wipe data/cache, but I am usually trying different enough ROMs that I should.

 

[Anubis]

How is it going from stock to custom? What are your impressions?

its functions pretty much the same ADW is similar to launcher pro, the main difference is the speed and battery useage improvements

now i just need to go about uninstalling the crap like amazons mp3 store which ill never use

FH, i haven't had any issues other then theres a few apps that don't seem to have 2.2 versions yet cyano isnt lacking any standard functions