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Root How to Root Your Droid (For Non-Linux/Non-Geeks)

Ok rooters. I need major help from you experts. I used the sholes updater to update and everything was working just fine no problem. tonight I updated to the 2.0.3 rom from the 2.0.2. Now I forgot to uncheck to keep my stock apps on my droid. Now I lost my built in email app and mp3 store app whick is what I actually care about. How do I get them back. Im not an expert on rooting thats why I used to sholes app. So explain it to me like Im a 4 year old kid how to get those apps back and put it back on my Droid without making things worst.
 
craigrn16 said:
Ok rooters. I need major help from you experts. I used the sholes updater to update and everything was working just fine no problem. tonight I updated to the 2.0.3 rom from the 2.0.2. Now I forgot to uncheck to keep my stock apps on my droid. Now I lost my built in email app and mp3 store app whick is what I actually care about. How do I get them back. Im not an expert on rooting thats why I used to sholes app. So explain it to me like Im a 4 year old kid how to get those apps back and put it back on my Droid without making things worst.
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Sholes updater removes those by default, but presents a screen to de-select those apps that you do not want to remove -- so, when you see that screen, use the down volume key to highlight the apps you want to keep, and press the camera button to de-select.

Just re-run the sholesmod updater to do it over -- no big deal.
 
OK, I've done as the first post and it worked fine, I'm rooted thanks for posting it step by step, since I'm new to droid coming from a blackberry it was great help. Now I have one question, how do I set the speed the CPU speed to 800? I've downloaded the app setCPU and the max it gives me is 550mhz, i tried choosing autodetect under device selections and it didn't help me, could anyone tell me how to do it?
Thanks
 
Le0_Br4zUc4 said:
OK, I've done as the first post and it worked fine, I'm rooted thanks for posting it step by step, since I'm new to droid coming from a blackberry it was great help. Now I have one question, how do I set the speed the CPU speed to 800? I've downloaded the app setCPU and the max it gives me is 550mhz, i tried choosing autodetect under device selections and it didn't help me, could anyone tell me how to do it?
Thanks
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Rooting on its own does not give you an O/C. It just grants you the access to do so.

The easiest way to O/C is download a custom ROM that has it built in, like Smoked Glass or Bugless Beast.

If you would like to O/C without a custom ROM the link below will give you great step by step instructions on how to do so. I would highly recommend backing up your phone first. Instructions on how to flash a recovery image and nandroid back ups can be found on this site as well.

Overclocking the Droid | Root Your Droid
 
p8ntballah21 said:
Rooting on its own does not give you an O/C. It just grants you the access to do so.

The easiest way to O/C is download a custom ROM that has it built in, like Smoked Glass or Bugless Beast.

If you would like to O/C without a custom ROM the link below will give you great step by step instructions on how to do so. I would highly recommend backing up your phone first. Instructions on how to flash a recovery image and nandroid back ups can be found on this site as well.

Overclocking the Droid | Root Your Droid
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thanks for the reply and help, I've been searching in the market for "smoked glass and bugless beast" but i can't find it, do i download this from somewhere else or I should search in the market using another name> Thanks again
 
Le0_Br4zUc4 said:
thanks for the reply and help, I've been searching in the market for "smoked glass and bugless beast" but i can't find it, do i download this from somewhere else or I should search in the market using another name> Thanks again
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Bugless Beast can be found here:

AllDroid - View topic - [ROM] Bugless Beast V0.7.5 (2/10/10)


Smoked Glass can be found here:

AllDroid - View topic - [ROM] Smoked Glass v4.1 - White or Blue Clock *Updated 2/10*


Both give pretty good instructions on how to install them. Like I said before I would read up on rootyourdroid.info about recovery images, backups, abd and all those things first before installing one of these roms. Big Lou on rootyourdroid.info plans on putting up a step by step guide on how to install smoked glass very soon. His tutorials are really the best i've seen, they are super easy to follow.
 
Jarek said:
Click Start on your computer, and click run. Type cmd in the box, and hit ok. Now type the following, pressing Enter after each line:

cd c:\Android\tools

adb push su /data/local

adb shell

su

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

cd /system/bin

mv su osu

cat /data/local/su > su

chmod 6755 su

ls -l *su
(you should see the following)
-rwsr-sr-x root root 76200 2008-08-01 05:00 osu
-rwsr-sr-x root root 76200 2009-05-30 11:28 su
(now continue typing these following lines to finish)

sync

reboot

You're done!
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Are there typos or is it just me?
Go to cmd prompt and type cd C:\android\tools? If you extracted the folder, its "C:\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools"

And then adb push, etc? 'adb' is not a valid command in command prompt also.
 
Tried this... had problems.

When I reboot the phone with "update.zip" on the SD card, I get to the option list, and when I hit "apply sdcard:update.zip" I get this list:

finding update package...
opening update package...
verifying update package...
E:E0CD marker occurs after start of E0CD
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.

That's problem a)

Problem b) is that when I go through the windows command prompt, I get the "error: device not connected"

btw, this is an A855 and I'm using WinXP. Help!!
 
Looks like the RootYourDroid.info site referenced a few times in this thread is now a spam site. Anyone know of a new site?
 
I have tried this and many other ways found in other threads to root my phone. I am not technologically ******ed usually, but I just cant get it to work. I do everything that you say to do, but still end up with the same message E:failed to open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory) yet the zipped file is saved directly in the open on the sdcard. i am so frustrated. any advice?
 
To the last three posters: this method is WAY old and therefore obsolete. It was for the first android version that was shipped with the A855, and the method changed a few times with each new OTA update. The owner of rootyourdroid.info stopped maintaining his site/guides well over a year ago after the method changed once, and in all actuality his guides were full of holes to begin with. The rooting method has now been refined to work on all android versions for the Motorola A855 phone.

I believe super one click (google it, it'll be easy to find) will work if you're looking to try an easy way. The most reliable way is the method by MotoCache1 over a droidforums.net. The only thing is that he stopped maintaining the thread and the link for RSD Lite 4.6 is broken, however I have it in my collection linked in my sig. Thread:

Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

good luck
 
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