Finally rooted, and...

[nader2013]

I'm sorry I really do not remember it was either step 20 or step 21...leaning toards 21 though. There has to be something wrong with the placement of your flash or just that partifular one... it took me countless tries. I got very frustrated. Hope you can get past this.

 

[shademar]

I'd be very interested to know how the OCing affects your battery life...

Dan

I can't speak for everyone, but when I installed bugless beast at 800mhz, my battery life actually seemed to get a bit better. I don't know whether it's the lower idle speed or the fact that I installed via a nandroid backup and only reinstalled the apps I actually use, but it surprised the hell out of me. I didn't write down the before numbers to make a quantitative comparison, but I was ending a normal day at around 20% and have been ending at 30%+ since the install.

I'm going to bump up to 900mhz tomorrow. If I see a difference, I'll update.

 

[xmr405o]

I used this one: From stock 2.0.1 >to> Sholes.info ROM..STEP BY STEP..NO ADB involved. NOOB CHALLENGE! - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

First off, was "this root your droid and flash bugless beast" weekend? haha. I did the same thing after getting tired of waiting for the 2.1 release. Anyways, I could have totally used the above link this weekend. It would have made things alot easier and less stressful. Most of the instructions I found had involved ADB and I was not getting any of the steps. haha.

Thanks. I'll keep this post as reference.

 

[breadnatty08]

I can't speak for everyone, but when I installed bugless beast at 800mhz, my battery life actually seemed to get a bit better.

Yeah, I have to agree, mine seems to be a bit better as well. But I think it's also because I set the idle speed nearly all the way down to 150 or so.
I also like the fact that you can name your ad-hoc network whatever the hell you want like: "IWantMy5gig"".

 

[longdaddy]

Gonna try this again to be clear where is the root of the sdcard i just put the file on the card wasnt in a folder or anything and does anyone know where i can get the flash image file

 

[meekrab]

Running the new bugless beast release at 950 mhz. I had some trouble with wifi tether initially but it seems to be running smoothly now.

 

[longdaddy]

the recovery image i downloaded was recovery-0.99.2b the guide says place recovery-0.99.2b.img on the sdcard do i need to rename it and add the .img ?

 

[meekrab]

the recovery image i downloaded was recovery-0.99.2b the guide says place recovery-0.99.2b.img on the sdcard do i need to rename it and add the .img ?

Check in windows to see what the extension is on that file. It is very likely .img already, thus adding .img to the end will make it recovery-0.99.2b.img.img. If you'd like an easy way to check, go ahead and copy it as is and check out the file with astro.

 

[Geezer Squid]

Let's not forget that Pete has a donation link at the bottom of the first post in the linked thread and since we all love the Bugless Roms so much:

AllDroid - View topic - HELP: Info, Files, Guides, Etc.


I didn't know the proper amount to donate, but I love his product so I donated $10. His roms are great. IMHO

 

[pasquale]

Running the new bugless beast release at 950 mhz. I had some trouble with wifi tether initially but it seems to be running smoothly now.

I too just flashed 950 Beast, and by far it's the best ROM I've had on the Droid, until the next OC.

 

[spartan141]

and then used the update.zip for Bugless Beast. I made the change to Bugless beast because I kept reading great things about it and they all turned out to be true. Here is the link to the new Bugless Beast 7.2 AllDroid - View topic - [ROM] Bugless Beast [800MHz & Wifi] V0.7.2 (1/30/10)

attempting this now. hopefully i dont mess it up too bad

 

[Geezer Squid]

attempting this now. hopefully i dont mess it up too bad

Good googly-moogly, if I can do it, anybody, and I mean anybody, can do it. I just very carefully followed the instructions and double, triple checked before I pushed any button.

 

[Trident]

Rooting is for people who know the ins and outs of Linux, as Android is Linux based. Do one thing wrong and you could end up with a bricked device. I would only recommend this if you have a some what decent knowlege of Linux.

 

[meekrab]

Rooting is for people who know the ends and outs of Linux, as Android is Linux based. Do one thing wrong and you could end up with a bricked device. I would only recommend this if you have a some what decent knowlege of Linux.

I have zip, zero, zilch knowledge of linux. There is no reason why you need knowledge of linux to do this.

How-to: Install bugless beast for noobs! - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

That's about as straightforward as it gets

 

[Geezer Squid]

Rooting is for people who know the ends and outs of Linux, as Android is Linux based. Do one thing wrong and you could end up with a bricked device. I would only recommend this if you have a some what decent knowlege of Linux.

I have to disagree with you on this one. The message boards are full of folks that have totally screwed up the procedure (not "one thing wrong") and no one yet has a bricked phone. they have all be able to resurrect their phones. There are totally safe ways to do this and there are numerous tutorials and guides. You don't have to know squat about programing to follow a "cook book" set of instructions. You just have to be able to read and type. This ain't Brian Science or Rocket Surgery .

 

[Trident]

Because what is included in that fancy tutorial is the extent of what you’re doing with your device. You're not taking full advantage of rooting it. Aside from that, I do hope you know what you're doing. All I'm saying is one step in the wrong direction and you're device is nothing more than a paper weight.

 

[Trident]

I have to disagree with you on this one. The message boards are full of folks that have totally screwed up the procedure (not "one thing wrong") and no one yet has a bricked phone. they have all be able to resurrect their phones. There are totally safe ways to do this and there are numerous tutorials and guides. You don't have to know squat about programing to follow a "cook book" set of instructions. You just have to be able to read and type. This ain't Brian Science or Rocket Surgery .

People have bricked their phones, trust me.

 

[Geezer Squid]

People have bricked their phones, trust me.

There may be people that gave up on the recovery process, and declared their phones were bricks. But on all the droid boards I've been reading since November, there has not been one single phone bricked by rooting (that I can recall). There have been a lot of people that started off saying there phones were bricked but they were all resurrected with the help of board members on the boards where the developers and hackers hang out. Tell you what, have the people that bricked their phones while trying to root, contact me - I'll buy their bricked phones.

 

[Trident]

There may be people that gave up on the recovery process, and declared their phones were bricks. But on all the droid boards I've been reading since November, there has not been one single phone bricked by rooting (that I can recall). There have been a lot of people that started off saying there phones were bricked but they were all resurrected with the help of board members on the boards where the developers and hackers hang out. Tell you what, have the people that bricked their phones while trying to root, contact me - I'll buy their bricked phones.

Not a bad idea- buying the "bircked" phones. haha.
The point being, it's only bricked if you let it..

 

[dcorn]

Root done! I really didn't want to do this, but after the overclocking came around and people said how fast the Droid was, I got tired of waiting for 2.1 and did it. Amazing! This thing is flying now, way better than it ever had before.

I followed the walkthrough in post #39 and it was just about spot-on.

 

[stephejo]

Hey guys...

if you root your Droid and run Bugless Beast, what happens when Verizon send out over the air reprogramming (like when a new version of OS goes out)?? Is there a risk??

THanks for the advice.

 

[inssane]

For those following - 7.3 is out...
AllDroid - View topic - [ROM] Bugless Beast [950MHz & Wifi] V0.7.3 (2/2/10)

 

[meekrab]

For those following - 7.3 is out...
AllDroid - View topic - [ROM] Bugless Beast [950MHz & Wifi] V0.7.3 (2/2/10)

nice

Hey guys...

if you root your Droid and run Bugless Beast, what happens when Verizon send out over the air reprogramming (like when a new version of OS goes out)?? Is there a risk??

THanks for the advice.

You will not receive OTA updates. However, updates are self-installable. If I remember correctly, 2.0.1 was downloadable within days of its release. I think that running an oc'd rom is worth the added wait for OTA, I'm really not sweating 2.1 enough to go back to 550mhz max.