are there many diffrent droid roots for moto droid?

[tdawg5480]

are there different versions of droid root? I had one version was a snap and when i entered su command it said access granted thanks to alldroid.com or something well I was doing the recovery mod and accidentally hit button aand ran update.zip.....lost my root so I go and look a boostnscoob's sig that has bunch of info there use the droid root posted there now when things go n wanna use root i get prompted on my droid to allow or deny access...very cool I like it just curious if there are any other differences and if I would want one over the other. TIA

[boostdscoob]

you have to allow yourself root access the first time. click remember selection checkmark and hit allow. you will have full root.

[boostdscoob]

and no they are pretty much all the same, the one you initially had, probably had the superuser permissions set to auto allow. that or it bypasses that.. as i dont know anyone who would hit deny,lol

[ei8htohms]

We're still very early in the game so things are changing fast. One of the earliest rooted update.zip packages had an ad stuck in the su about magic android or somesuch and no SuperUser Permissions app. A more recent one included a permissions app and did away with the ad. The basic privileges are the same.

[Se7enLC]

Correct, there are multiple versions.

The first one involved su that only worked through ADB.

The second one was an update to the first one. Once you got su working through ADB, you would push a new su binary to the phone that allowed local su. That new su binary would ALWAYS allow root access.

The third one was a nicely packaged installer. It installs a "SuperUser Permissions" app and an su binary. When you run su, it will pop up a dialog asking you to allow/decline, and gives you the option of saving that preference. The SuperUser Permissions app is a manager for the preference selection.

The third option seems to be the best choice so far.

[640k]

Correct, there are multiple versions.

The first one involved su that only worked through ADB.

The second one was an update to the first one. Once you got su working through ADB, you would push a new su binary to the phone that allowed local su. That new su binary would ALWAYS allow root access.

The third one was a nicely packaged installer. It installs a "SuperUser Permissions" app and an su binary. When you run su, it will pop up a dialog asking you to allow/decline, and gives you the option of saving that preference. The SuperUser Permissions app is a manager for the preference selection.

The third option seems to be the best choice so far.

there are different methods but they all accomplish the same thing. there aren't multiple roots. there's only multiple ways to get to root. root is root, you can't change what root is or how it behaves.

to have anything other than root access defies the meaning.

[jasondcannon]

Correct, there are multiple versions.

The first one involved su that only worked through ADB.

The second one was an update to the first one. Once you got su working through ADB, you would push a new su binary to the phone that allowed local su. That new su binary would ALWAYS allow root access.

The third one was a nicely packaged installer. It installs a "SuperUser Permissions" app and an su binary. When you run su, it will pop up a dialog asking you to allow/decline, and gives you the option of saving that preference. The SuperUser Permissions app is a manager for the preference selection.

The third option seems to be the best choice so far.

I can't find where to download the "third option" can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

[Se7enLC]

there are different methods but they all accomplish the same thing. there aren't multiple roots. there's only multiple ways to get to root. root is root, you can't change what root is or how it behaves.

to have anything other than root access defies the meaning.

I interpreted the question to mean "are there many different rooting methods / kits?" which is what he was looking for, I think.

[Se7enLC]

Correct, there are multiple versions.

The first one involved su that only worked through ADB.

The second one was an update to the first one. Once you got su working through ADB, you would push a new su binary to the phone that allowed local su. That new su binary would ALWAYS allow root access.

The third one was a nicely packaged installer. It installs a "SuperUser Permissions" app and an su binary. When you run su, it will pop up a dialog asking you to allow/decline, and gives you the option of saving that preference. The SuperUser Permissions app is a manager for the preference selection.

The third option seems to be the best choice so far.

I can't find where to download the "third option" can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

This is the file I used:

http://alldroid.org/download/file.php?id=659

It's a 10mb file that includes the root kit and the necessary padding to make it apply.

I can't find the forum posting that I got it from. The closest I can find is this one:

AllDroid.org - View topic - How to Root your Droid<<<ONLY

This posting links to a 23kb root kit and explains how to create a 10mb update.zip by appending the root kit to the signed update file.

EDIT: I found the instructions I followed. It was on xda-developers, but linked to that alldroid file:

[DROID] Root instructions (UPDATED) - xda-developers

[640k]

there are different methods but they all accomplish the same thing. there aren't multiple roots. there's only multiple ways to get to root. root is root, you can't change what root is or how it behaves.

to have anything other than root access defies the meaning.

I interpreted the question to mean "are there many different rooting methods / kits?" which is what he was looking for, I think.

i just don't want to propogate the confusion that a "different root" would have garnered other results because user didn't use a different method.

root is root, pick a method you're comfortable with. that part should be made clear.