How To Simple Droid root instructions

[qoncept]

When I rooted my Droid last week I had a hard time finding complete and easy to follow instructions for rooting the Droid and noticed many people struggling with them. I wrote my own guide to try to clarify the process.

Gaining root access - Droidipedia

 

[aloha hailey]

When I rooted my Droid last week I had a hard time finding complete and easy to follow instructions for rooting the Droid and noticed many people struggling with them. I wrote my own guide to try to clarify the process.

Gaining root access - Droidipedia

awesome,.. I've yet to see anyone supply the "undo" instructions. Thanks

 

[DevMcLovin]

Thanks for the link. I may try rooting my droid now.

 

[ldougherty]

ty very much, this will assist me when I'm ready.

 

[lekky]

Added to Droid How To's. Thanks for the effort with this qoncept

 

[Shroomzor]

Thanks, going to try it out now. Will post results.

EDIT: Wow, downloaded the pre-made update.zip, transfered it to my sd card, and booted into recovery mode. Took about 5 seconds to flash and it rebooted and now I'm rooted.

This was almost too easy.

Thanks!

 

[vonfeldt7]

Worked flawlessly, now I just have to play the waiting game... (wait for custom Roms for the Droid).

 

[eclipse0007]

afer i download the file do i rename the file update.zip were wen u open it there r two other files in side

 

[eclipse0007]

i dont if i write the zip name on the fold

 

[eclipse0007]

the file is in a winzip format is that ok then i changed it to update.zip then put it in the sd card is that rite

 

[eclipse0007]

Can u help

 

[anderson.mcdaniel]

Nice, thanks. Actually rooted from the phone. Downloaded update.zip, moved to root of the SD card, updated. Also, as a precaution/fallback, I renamed the official firmware update.zip and put that in the root of the SD. Just in case.

 

[Shroomzor]

Man, I just can't install busybox.

I keep getting permission errors.

 

[mikehall112]

are you suppose to delete the old update.zip file on the SD card. I did the manual update

 

[qoncept]

i dont if i write the zip name on the fold

Winzip format will have a .zip extension, you probably have them hidden for known file types (default in Windows). It's probably right, but to double check, google "hide extension for known file types" to see how to turn that off.

 

[qoncept]

are you suppose to delete the old update.zip file on the SD card. I did the manual update

If there's one still there, yeah, go ahead and delete it or just overwrite it with the new one.

 

[javapop]

If there's one still there, yeah, go ahead and delete it or just overwrite it with the new one.

I have followed directions via droidipedia.

Keep getting the error:
E: Cant open /cache/recovery/command

I verified the md5 checksum via MD5, and it matches up fine. Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?

 

[javapop]

I may be mistaken; I tried using terminal, and typing su, get a #

YET, when trying to use Screen Capture, it doesn't seem to work, with a note at bottom "YOUR SCREEN NEED TO BE ROOTED"

Is there a good app that'll let me know if I have rooted the device?

 

[drocksixers]

Do you keep your phone number, contacts, and all other information after the root?

 

[dopeismarcus]

once you root the droid can you unroot? the same goes for custom roms and etc.? i'm wondering because incase the droid messes up and i have to take it back to verizon can you flash it back to stock?

 

[tgeiger]

where can i get the update.zip file??

 

[adr3nalin3]

link doesn't work?

"MediaWiki internal error.



Exception caught inside exception handler"