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Root Rooting my droid

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RBburrus

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i have followed the steps to a T that i have found on here in many places but i keep gettting to the part where you apply it and it says verifying update package.....
E:failed to read footer from/sdcard/update/zip
(is a directory)
E:signature verification failed
installation aborted



why do i keep receiving this instead of it loading up like it says in the instructions.........thanks for the help in advance
 
When I go to apply it from the sdcard it gives me an error saying it can't verify the signature and stops the update
 
"I have tryed this method and its not working. I have done everything correctly. When I try and apply the update.zip file it says the signature failed and aborts the update. Any idea how to get around this? Thankyou…."

"Try downloading this update.zip and retry the process:
http://www.sholes.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/update.zip

It could be a problem with the embedded signature."

Sounds like whats happening to you, so give that update a try.
 
When I did this I accidentally only downloaded the superuser tools instead of the droid root. Make sure you have the correct file renamed to update.zip unlike I did at first. If you did try to just download a different link.
 
Make sure it's update.zip and not update.zip.zip, and that the file is intact (the one I used looks to be 10.1MB, fwiw.)
 
RBburrus said:
what link did you use cause the ones i have seen have just 10 mb
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In truth, I can't recall. I'm seeing 10,600 specifically. (I think it may have been alldroid, but the specific link seems to be down now.) I've had a folder full of root-related files sitting on my desktop a while waiting for me to get a little bit more familiar with android...

Google rootyourdroid and there is a very good resource on the subject by that name.
 
Just rooting, no - if you install a new image (say, the 2.1 image or a custom image with other tweaks from other places) then most likely yes.
 
Correction - I only lost a few of my apps, those that I specifically 'manually' installed - all others were still there. (this is with updating the OS with a new 3rd arty ROM).
 
hey guys ive followed the instructions to a T.....got through the update.zip part and rebooted fine....the problem im running into is that when i enter the command "su".....i get an error message saying "access denied"....so frustrating cause i know im right there....and cant seem to get around this.....

please help
 
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