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How To How to root and install droid 2.1

Hi all,
I'll be the first one to say I'm a complete and utter noob when it comes to hacking anything so in trying to get this to work, I ran into a couple issues:
1) None of the steps performed in roothelper work for me. I have all the files I need in the root, but clicking does nothing ( in RH, as far as I can see).
2) Where exactly do you "put" the usb driver in the Android SDK? In what field? It won't let me copy and paste or drag and drop anything anywhere.
I know these must be really, really dumb questions and I'll definitely have more, but I'm stuck and afraid to permanently damage the phone
What to do?
Thanks guys.
 
As mentioned earlier in this thread, I see lots of dots...LOTS of dots. I've been waiting for almost an hour now. I do have about 101 apps on the phone. Should it REALLY take this long to make a backup of my original system .img?
 
litetrix77 said:
Hi all,
I'll be the first one to say I'm a complete and utter noob when it comes to hacking anything so in trying to get this to work, I ran into a couple issues:
1) None of the steps performed in roothelper work for me. I have all the files I need in the root, but clicking does nothing ( in RH, as far as I can see).
2) Where exactly do you "put" the usb driver in the Android SDK? In what field? It won't let me copy and paste or drag and drop anything anywhere.
I know these must be really, really dumb questions and I'll definitely have more, but I'm stuck and afraid to permanently damage the phone
What to do?
Thanks guys.
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1]if the roothelper didnt work then that means you didnt properly root b/c simply pressing the designated buttons in roothelper works in a matter of seconds
2]you just put the tools in the folder and if it's not letting drag and drop, that means you didnt extract it
3]yes these are dumb q's but trust me, i asked the same shit to others last week so you're not alone
 
kjohnso88 said:
As mentioned earlier in this thread, I see lots of dots...LOTS of dots. I've been waiting for almost an hour now. I do have about 101 apps on the phone. Should it REALLY take this long to make a backup of my original system .img?
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nandroid shouldnt take more than 2 mins to create a backup at most, if anything re-do the flashing busy box and recovery steps again, i updated the droidroothelper to the latest version [v5] so hopefully that helps
 
hey guys, im new to all this stuff so bare with me please =).

i've completed the How To Root first part, but i am completely lost in the second part Flash Busy Box and Recovery, mainly because after looking for 2 hours online i can't find a working link for step 1 "1. Download http://alldroid.org/download/file.php?id=832 by crotalusfreak and unzip it, now copy the folder named Tools to the root of your sdcard"...

even after clicking the newly posted link by wsbsteven, i can't find the file that needs to be downloaded in order to complete "now copy the folder named Tools to the root of your sdcard" am i completely missing something here?? What exactly is this file named, because i downloaded everything on the page the link sends me to and after extracting the files there was no "Tools" folder.

Please help =\
 
mlav151 said:
hey guys, im new to all this stuff so bare with me please =).

i've completed the How To Root first part, but i am completely lost in the second part Flash Busy Box and Recovery, mainly because after looking for 2 hours online i can't find a working link for step 1 "1. Download http://alldroid.org/download/file.php?id=832 by crotalusfreak and unzip it, now copy the folder named Tools to the root of your sdcard"...

even after clicking the newly posted link by wsbsteven, i can't find the file that needs to be downloaded in order to complete "now copy the folder named Tools to the root of your sdcard" am i completely missing something here?? What exactly is this file named, because i downloaded everything on the page the link sends me to and after extracting the files there was no "Tools" folder.

Please help =\
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idky it would take you 2hrs and get nothing out of it, the link says its under alldroid.org so you couldve simply gone there, go under development> motorola> droid/milestone and find it there, there's only 2 pages worth of forums so that couldve taken 2mins at most. i updated the rom and the root helper app so just click the link and follow my guideline and you should be fine
 
Hi guys,

I'm new to rooting, too. I successfully rooted the phone, I have the "SuperUser" thing in my apps.

HOWEVER,

I'm really afraid that if I don't like 2.1, I will have lost my 2.01.

I am deathly, deathly afraid of bricking my phone.

So, can someone tell me at which step is it that I make a backup copy of my 2.01 phone? And if I don't like 2.1, can I definitely go back, or am I stuck??

I am so afraid!!!:eek:
 
DroidJnkie said:
Hi guys,

I'm new to rooting, too. I successfully rooted the phone, I have the "SuperUser" thing in my apps.

HOWEVER,

I'm really afraid that if I don't like 2.1, I will have lost my 2.01.

I am deathly, deathly afraid of bricking my phone.

So, can someone tell me at which step is it that I make a backup copy of my 2.01 phone? And if I don't like 2.1, can I definitely go back, or am I stuck??

I am so afraid!!!:eek:
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you cant brick your droid b/c if you follow my steps and most devs at alldroid.org [im not a dev] then you'll have a nandroid backup of your 2.01 firmware so if you dont like what you see in 2.1 [highly doubt it] then you can flash your 2.01 back and be back at square 1
 
PeDe7 said:
you cant brick your droid b/c if you follow my steps and most devs at alldroid.org [im not a dev] then you'll have a nandroid backup of your 2.01 firmware so if you dont like what you see in 2.1 [highly doubt it] then you can flash your 2.01 back and be back at square 1
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Sweet! I'm going to go ahead and try it then.


:eek:
 
When I try flashing the sirPsycho 12.0, it doesn't give me that option.

It says flash 14.0

Does that matter?

ALSO,

when I go to "cmd C:\android\tools"

on the black screen I type "adb shell" and it DOESN'T recognize that as a command.

What now??:(
 
DroidJnkie said:
When I try flashing the sirPsycho 12.0, it doesn't give me that option.

It says flash 14.0

Does that matter?

ALSO,

when I go to "cmd C:\android\tools"

on the black screen I type "adb shell" and it DOESN'T recognize that as a command.

What now??:(
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just follow the steps and you should be fine, dont take shortcuts
 
PeDe7 said:
just follow the steps and you should be fine, dont take shortcuts
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I'm not taking shortcuts. I'm getting to the step where I flash recovery and I don't see sirPsycho. I see 14.0

I picked 14.0

Then did the whole debugging thing.

Then went to cmd C:\android\tools

Then a black DOS-type screen came up.

I typed in

adb shell

Nothing happened.:confused:
 
Ok. I think I know what the problem is.

I got to the point where I press RUN then type in

cd C:\android\tools

But nothing happens. It gives me an error.

says "WINDOWS CANNOT FIND "CD""
 
DroidJnkie said:
I'm not taking shortcuts. I'm getting to the step where I flash recovery and I don't see sirPsycho. I see 14.0

I picked 14.0

Then did the whole debugging thing.

Then went to cmd C:\android\tools

Then a black DOS-type screen came up.

I typed in

adb shell

Nothing happened.:confused:
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did you install the android sdk? did you download the usb drivers and put them under the android sdk folder? did you go to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> check USB Debugging on your droid? did you go on your comp's device manager and find motorola a855? did you press Update driver -> Browse for driver -> Let me pick -> Computer -> Have disk -> Browse -> C:\android\tools\usb_driver?
 
PeDe7 said:
did you install the android sdk? did you download the usb drivers and put them under the android sdk folder? did you go to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> check USB Debugging on your droid? did you go on your comp's device manager and find motorola a855? did you press Update driver -> Browse for driver -> Let me pick -> Computer -> Have disk -> Browse -> C:\android\tools\usb_driver?
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Never mind. I'm an idiot. Sorry. I didn't type

"cmd" in the RUN to get the black screen.

I now have access to adb shell and am rebooting into recovery

SORRY! My mistake.
 
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