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Root From stock 2.0.1 to Bugless Beast ROM (For beginners)

One thing I just discovered, at least with DroidRootPro--the camera button on the Motorola Droid selects, does not go back a menu. You have to open the keyboard and press the "delete" key in the upper left. I accidentally made a Nandroid backup 3 times learning this...heh.
 
Jinnai said:
Is there a major difference between DroidRootHelper and DroidRootPro? Thinking about the Pro to support the dev, but wondering what's extra in it?

Also, where would I find the update.zip file for BB? Have been debating which route I want to go with this--the only data on the phone is the contacts and the apps, both of which should be fairly easy to recover.

Finally, I'm assuming BB has a better home screen setup? I'm currently using OpenHome, but not sure if the need would be there for it with BB....
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1. No major differences, just a couple extra addons, nothing extremely significant

2. the update.zip for BB is available on the same page as the nandroid backup for it

3. Yea i dont think you will need open home anymore, BB has 5 home screens unless there are some other features you want that openhome has but i like the stock BB homescreen
 
Thanks to all for the help--it's done, and so far I like BB 0.7.5. What was added in the 0.8 series, or is that the group of 2.1 ROMs??
 
Jinnai said:
Thanks to all for the help--it's done, and so far I like BB 0.7.5. What was added in the 0.8 series, or is that the group of 2.1 ROMs??
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there is no bugless beats past the 7 series, the 8 series you may be talking about is bugless beauty, no overclock or wifi tether, but same features.

pete did realease a 2.1 ROM a couple of weeks ago if you wanna chack it out.
available on his page where you got BB. it is simply a nandroid restore which you should know how to do now ;)
 
toker11 said:
once i try this, how hard is it to go back to "stock" if i dont like it?
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thats why you make a nandroid backup so you can just restore it. as far as 100% stock like no root and stock 2.0.1, there are some guides that can get you back you will just have to google it
 
Found it after doing some digging, so deleted.

Again, thanks to everyone for the help and advice on getting this to work--the step-by-step guide was a huge help
 
dmodert66 said:
Sounds like your SBRecovery (99.2b recovery) was not installed properly or fully. You might try doing that step again...
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Alright. I went back and started the process from Get the Tools on down. Eventually I got it. Thanks guys! Im in love with my Droid all over again!:D
 
I'm a noob and have no idea what root means or any of the other terms being used throughout the forums. After reading this guide though I now understand why you would want to modify your phone... to make it much faster, I want this just as bad as any other person. So thank you Kirch, I'm going to go home and try this with a brand new understading of what I will be doing. I almost used the Smupdater from the market too.
 
exqueezme said:
I'm a noob and have no idea what root means or any of the other terms being used throughout the forums. After reading this guide though I now understand why you would want to modify your phone... to make it much faster, I want this just as bad as any other person. So thank you Kirch, I'm going to go home and try this with a brand new understading of what I will be doing. I almost used the Smupdater from the market too.
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Your welcome! Glad your going to take the time to learn it will pay of in the end FOR SURE
 
Great post. I love the Droid even more now.

Only thing that happened to me was I had to completely delete all folders on the SD card before the droid would read the install for the root. I would get the signature file invalid or something like that. Took me a few hours to finally try that. Just putting it out there.
 
This was a really nice and easy-to-follow guide, thank you so much. I haven't found a guide that outlines everything for me yet, and then I came across yours and decided to go for it. Thanks again! :)

If I may suggest an addition: The most annoying part for me was getting the tools into DroidRootHelper. It might be easier to provide a download link for the tools folder so users can just download it on their PCs and then copy it over via USB to the SD card. Just a suggestion.
 
shadowdude777 said:
This was a really nice and easy-to-follow guide, thank you so much. I haven't found a guide that outlines everything for me yet, and then I came across yours and decided to go for it. Thanks again! :)

If I may suggest an addition: The most annoying part for me was getting the tools into DroidRootHelper. It might be easier to provide a download link for the tools folder so users can just download it on their PCs and then copy it over via USB to the SD card. Just a suggestion.
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Yea that would be a good idea, but i cant edit my post anymore :( glad i could help though
 
I'm kind of curious, has anyone that installed 0.7.5 successfully tell me how their "decline call" behavior acts? Mine sends the caller to a beeping sound like the line is busy. According to other members on the forum, their decline call function sends them to their voicemail (how I want it to act). Not sure if this is a bugless beast 7.5 problem or something else on my end.
 
Kirch21 said:
HERE is the download for a nandroid backup of Bugless Beast
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This link brings me to a page that says:


The requested topic does not exist

is it available elsewhere.. I might be interested in this mod as well

Nevermind, I found the links.. Really considering this
 
I am in process of doing this, but I've run into a problem. I have a question: once you flash nandroid recovery, how long does that last? Should that replace the stock recovery system permanently?

The first time I go through the process of flashing nandroid and do the "recovery reboot" it works perfectly (loads into the nandroid recovery). However, if I reboot, turn the phone off, and load the recovery menu (by holding X), it loads the stock recovery menu. I'm a bit leery of doing this because, if anything goes wrong and I don't have the nandroid recovery menu, I don't know if I'll be able to flash a good version back onto the phone.

Sorry for the noob questions, but I just want to make sure I'm doing everything right before I potentially ruin my phone.

Thank you for the guide!
 
thesandman00 said:
I am in process of doing this, but I've run into a problem. I have a question: once you flash nandroid recovery, how long does that last? Should that replace the stock recovery system permanently?

The first time I go through the process of flashing nandroid and do the "recovery reboot" it works perfectly (loads into the nandroid recovery). However, if I reboot, turn the phone off, and load the recovery menu (by holding X), it loads the stock recovery menu. I'm a bit leery of doing this because, if anything goes wrong and I don't have the nandroid recovery menu, I don't know if I'll be able to flash a good version back onto the phone.

Sorry for the noob questions, but I just want to make sure I'm doing everything right before I potentially ruin my phone.

Thank you for the guide!
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Wow this is weird normally it would permanently replace the recovery. What happens if you hit "reboot recovery" in droidroothelper?
 
Kirch21 said:
Wow this is weird normally it would permanently replace the recovery. What happens if you hit "reboot recovery" in droidroothelper?
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If I don't follow your steps (doing the chmod and such, the original steps you put forth), hitting "reboot recovery" within droidroothelper boots into the regular recovery menu. The only way I can get nandroid recovery to come up is if I go through all the steps each time. Would I be well advised to not do any ROM flashing without the ability to use nandroid at will?
 
thesandman00 said:
If I don't follow your steps (doing the chmod and such, the original steps you put forth), hitting "reboot recovery" within droidroothelper boots into the regular recovery menu. The only way I can get nandroid recovery to come up is if I go through all the steps each time. Would I be well advised to not do any ROM flashing without the ability to use nandroid at will?
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Honestly i wouldnt for now, but i PROMISE you if you follow this guide step by step your will have the correct recovery flashed. did you use this guide?

This is just so weird how you somehow have both recoverys all i can think of is to start over and make sure you have everything right. "Tools" on the root of your sd and little things like that. Good luck let me know if you have more questions
 
Kirch21 said:
Honestly i wouldnt for now, but i PROMISE you if you follow this guide step by step your will have the correct recovery flashed. did you use this guide?

This is just so weird how you somehow have both recoverys all i can think of is to start over and make sure you have everything right. "Tools" on the root of your sd and little things like that. Good luck let me know if you have more questions
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Yeah I followed your guide to the word. I'm going to find out how to unroot, and then start everything over.

Thank you for your hbelp and for the awesome guide!
 
I don't have my phone on me, but there's one extra button you need to press in DroidRootHelper to make SPRecovery permanent. After you flash the recovery and before you reboot the phone (it's important you do it within that time frame), there's a button that says something along the lines of renaming some boot thing... it's not grouped with any other buttons and it's just there randomly, and I think it's the only button with the word rename on it. You'll know it when you see it. Press that button. It'll prevent the phone from flashing the stock recovery over SPRecovery during every reboot cause you'll have moved the stock recovery's file.
 
thesandman00 said:
Yeah I followed your guide to the word. I'm going to find out how to unroot, and then start everything over.

Thank you for your hbelp and for the awesome guide!
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shadowdude777 said:
I don't have my phone on me, but there's one extra button you need to press in DroidRootHelper to make SPRecovery permanent. After you flash the recovery and before you reboot the phone (it's important you do it within that time frame), there's a button that says something along the lines of renaming some boot thing... it's not grouped with any other buttons and it's just there randomly, and I think it's the only button with the word rename on it. You'll know it when you see it. Press that button. It'll prevent the phone from flashing the stock recovery over SPRecovery during every reboot cause you'll have moved the stock recovery's file.
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This! I should have thought of this. You didnt hit rename recovery you need to install the recovery the rename it in droidroothelper like shadowdude said
 
Kirch21 said:
This! I should have thought of this. You didnt hit rename recovery you need to install the recovery the rename it in droidroothelper like shadowdude said
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I had the same problem when I first used DRP, I believe I watched a youtube video after on how to use it and it worked. I'm pretty sure that renaming step was included in his video and not in your instructions. I had the same problem as the guy before. I got into nandroid but when I went to reboot into recovery to flash my rom i had the stock recovery image.
 
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