i am posting this just so everyone know, not all rooting is easy and no, sometimes it dose'nt go right.
well I took the plunge today and rooted my droid, used easy root and followed the directions found on this forum. root was tricky at best as nothing went smoothly. but alas i got it rooted. then tried to install a theme for my new liquid froyo i just installed and thats when all hell broke loose. the phone became unusable. the amount of errors showing up on screen were only matched by the self reboots. eventually the phone just traded off from the DROID screen to the red eye screen and back and forth. at this point i came back to the forums to see what i could do. and thats were my thank you comes from. i found the post about returning your droid to the unrooted 2.01 and thats what i did. after a quick lesson about .7z files (who knew they were the new .zip files?) i was back up and running. in all it took me 7 hours to root, destroy, reflash and reload all my apps so i could be right back were i started.
a full day it was!
alot was learned!
alot was said (loudly)
alot was deleted
and alot was reloaded
in the end i am thankful for the experience but only because my phone still works. this post would have been alot different if it did not
my name is jim.... an i am again unrooted.... and most likely going to stay that way
well I took the plunge today and rooted my droid, used easy root and followed the directions found on this forum. root was tricky at best as nothing went smoothly. but alas i got it rooted. then tried to install a theme for my new liquid froyo i just installed and thats when all hell broke loose. the phone became unusable. the amount of errors showing up on screen were only matched by the self reboots. eventually the phone just traded off from the DROID screen to the red eye screen and back and forth. at this point i came back to the forums to see what i could do. and thats were my thank you comes from. i found the post about returning your droid to the unrooted 2.01 and thats what i did. after a quick lesson about .7z files (who knew they were the new .zip files?) i was back up and running. in all it took me 7 hours to root, destroy, reflash and reload all my apps so i could be right back were i started.
a full day it was!
alot was learned!
alot was said (loudly)
alot was deleted
and alot was reloaded
in the end i am thankful for the experience but only because my phone still works. this post would have been alot different if it did not
my name is jim.... an i am again unrooted.... and most likely going to stay that way