I am having a problem in rooting my moto droid. I am a noobie (sort of), I had the G1 (never rooted) for close to two years and got the droid about a month ago. I am using the instructions on this site ( How To Root Your 2.1 Droid | Android Community ) and I have downloaded rsd lite, the 32 bit driver (I am using vista 32bit), and the .sbf file. I have gotten my phone plugged in and to the "program screen" (I don't know the technical term), and pull up the "rsd lite" program, put the file location in the "filename" search box (the file is not on my desktop, it is in my downloads folder on my hard drive, i read that that may be a problem), and the "start" button stays grey.
I have tried several forum sites and tried many things...
one of the sites is ( [How-to] Trouble flashing with RSD Lite in Vista/Windows 7 - Motorola Development Community ) and it asks you to input in "command promt" the firmware i am flashing to my phone. I am not sure to replace those "xxxx"'s with. but i don't think that this will help because there is no filename in the folder "rsdlite" labeled "SDL.exe -f xxxx.sbf -t 2" anyways.
please help me with this as best as you can.
thanks,
-Noob
lol

When you have RSD lite open and then power your phone into the boot screen does the device pop up on the RSD lite screen?

Yes, it is showing up
By "boot screen" do you mean power and DPAD "up" key, screen?
cuz thats what i'm using and it shows up
I have attached a screen shot

It's a file permissions error with windows 7 copy your sbf file to c:\ and it will prompt for admin access. Hit yes and the file will load.

I'm running vista not 7
I put it directly on C:\
another attached image may help...???

Are you running rsd lite with admin privs?

I'm still betting it's a file permissions error. Your phone is connected but the program doesn't have access to the file.

actually that's an old way to do it. Try http://www.droid-life.com/2010/05/06/guide-to-rooting-android-2-1-on-a-motorola-droid/

however if you still have the same error I would create a folder and give your username full permissions for it. Vista/Win 7 file permissions are a pain in some scenarios.

if, by saying that, you mean that I am the admin on the cpu
then yes
if thats not what your talking about, then please explain

Close rsd lite and then right click on the short cut. Click on run as administrator.

there is no option for that when i right click
however there is an option under the "properties" link
but all the options are not highlighted, they are grey, I can't do anything (look next to the mouse pointer in the attached picture)

Try doing it on the main file then instead of the short cut. Did you goto the link I posted above? It has some videos you can watch as well. However it doesn't address the file permission problem.

on the main file there isn't anything even remotely close to that as an option
and in properties it lists me as an admin with full control of the program (as seen in attached photo)

and yes, I checked out your site, very informative, and I saved it as a bookmark and will use it when i root
thank you for that

It's been awhile since I was in vista check the properties and see if you can select the option to run as administrator.

Try this on the sbk file

How To Quickie: Vista Permissions ? PaulStamatiou.com
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ok, I used google chrome as an example... in the first picture, you see that i have right clicked on chrome and that the pointer is on "run as admin"

in the second pic you see that when i right click on rsd it doesn't give me that option

so, in the third pic, I have pulled up the rsd properties (so you can see my options)

and in the last pic I have clicked on "advanced properties" and in the pic you can see that it will not allow me to change the option and that it has defaultily choosed the "run in separate memory space" option

any suggestions????

you have to hold down shift when you right click in order to get the "run as admin" option

EDIT: sorry, I accidentally missed one of your posts... take RSD off the taskbar and put it on the desktop or somewhere... and if it still doesn't work to run as admin, then go into the RSD program directory and try it on the main app icon there

That's right or you can use ctrl-shift and open the program normally and it will run as admin.

I forgot how much of a pos vista was.

also, I said "taskbar" above, but I meant start menu - don't try and shift/rightclick it from the start menu, do it from a normal location like your desktop or the program dir

Here's an old article, or at least I think this was the one I used, for getting around the BS in Vista.

How to access the true Administrator account in Windows Vista - Computerworld

What are you trying to flash with RSD Lite? An SPRecopvery image or a pre rooted 2.1 or flashing back to 2.0.1/ It woyuld help if we knew what you're attempting.

Nate

Okay so let me see if I understand you......... You have RSD Lite downloaded and open, you have your phone at the bootloader screen but you cannot find the SPRecovery file in RSD Lite???

Did you try to click on the box that has the ... on it and browse to your downloads file and find the SPRecovery file?? If not do that and see if you can get it going. Once you find the SPRecovery file, open it and go from there.

If I missed your problem, I am sorry. I gave up trying to root my phone on Vista and went to an old computer I had that ran XP.