[HACKS] Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version

[aristoid]

Thanks ! ! ! to the patience...

MotoCache1, furbearingmammal,
Thank you for your information and patience. I have been lurking for a few months and appreciate your information as well as tolerance to folks like me looking for the answers we need to get done what we want to do.

Moto...your guide got me rooted. I love the link added to your sig about 'how to ask questions the smart way' ... I'm not a hacker, mebbe a power user at best. But I did learn over a decade ago how to work within those that have the knowledge, and this is a great reminder.

Both of you have saved me personal and public embarrassment with your posts, and more than a couple of handfuls of hair...

Again,

Thank you, dancedroid:lifting::beer2::yahoo::yahoo::i-m_so_happy:

 

[hockeykid949]

hey I have been doing everything right except when i get to the RSD lite...it will not pick up my device at all....any advice i would greatly appreciate



thanks

EDIT : silly me i forgot the drivers

 

[guidot]

So you got it taken care of?

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[hockeykid949]

So you got it taken care of?

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yes thanks to your brilliant post...


only problem i have is when i downloaded this theme from :

REVOlution DROID 1.2r1

the "REVOlution_all_sense" download and i put it as"update.zip" on the root of my phone and i boot my phone into the bootloader and i tell it to get the rom from the sd it says E: no tar file found. And then i try to install it it always aborts....

is there any way you can help me with that


thanks

 

[jeffe65]

hockeykid949 - I haven't installed any ROM's yet, but if you're trying to install an update.zip file shouldn't you be doing it from SPRecovery and not the bootloader?

(Or ClockworkRecovery if that's what you're using)

 

[omnomnom]

I just followed your proceedure and it worked perfectly. I had the OTA FRG22 update with no root, and now I'm rooted again! BTW, my PC has Win 7 64-bit, and I ran into NONE of the potential problems you mention.
Now, do I flash Cyanogenmod? or wait. Hmmmm.
Thanks again.

:welcome: to the forums!

Wait or not, it's up to you, but consider the fact that the sooner you try it the sooner you can say "I can't believe I waited so long!"

Thanks for the welcome!

Well, I waited, but only a day. Now rocking CyanogenMod 6.0, and loving it.
I had previously run CM 5.0.8, but got impatient at some point and flashed a leaked, rooted FroYo ROM. Shortly after, I got the OTA FRG22 update, and lost root. I've been been missing my root and CM ever since.

 

[hockeykid949]

hockeykid949 - I haven't installed any ROM's yet, but if you're trying to install an update.zip file shouldn't you be doing it from SPRecovery and not the bootloader?

(Or ClockworkRecovery if that's what you're using)

how do i get to the spr recovery?

 

[guidot]

You need to do some more reading my friend. It is in the guide on the first page. X+power button.

-Droid Does

 

[hockeykid949]

You need to do some more reading my friend. It is in the guide on the first page. X+power button.

-Droid Does

thats what i do and i get the error....I downloaded Rom Manager and its backing up my old rom and installing the new one

EDIT. After doing that my phone rebooted and is stuck on reloading the "DROID" writing in white..it keeps retrying to load it and thats it...WHAT do u think i should do know


EDIT2: I erased all the cache from the partition and the user data now its on a black screen....

PLEASE HELP SOMEONE

 

[guidot]

Are you using clockwork to do this? Or sprecovery? If its asking for a tar file I believe that's clockwork.
I haven't used clockwork.
You flashed using motocache's guide correct? If so you over wrote sprecovery. Someone else may be able to chime in.
Did you make a nandroid backup when you flashed sprecovery?

-Droid Does

 

[hockeykid949]

Are you using clockwork to do this? Or sprecovery? If its asking for a tar file I believe that's clockwork.
I haven't used clockwork.
You flashed using motocache's guide correct? If so you over wrote sprecovery. Someone else may be able to chime in.
Did you make a nandroid backup when you flashed sprecovery?

-Droid Does

i used clock work and I used a theme from the site that I put in my earlier post . It did ask me to either make a backup or not and I said yes. Right now im running the nandroid and its "restoring data"

any clue as to whether the theme .zip i downloaded could be to blame or clockwork?

EDIT: IT JUST FININSHED AND IM BACK AT HOME.....whew i almost **** my pants there

 

[guidot]

Could be either. My money is on ROM manager. Everyone on here has seen both ends of the spectrum. Either it works wonders or it totally screws the phone.

-Droid Does

 

[hockeykid949]

Could be either. My money is on ROM manager. Everyone on here has seen both ends of the spectrum. Either it works wonders or it totally screws the phone.

-Droid Does

I used sprecovery first and i keep getting the E:no tar archives found when i try to install the update.zip

 

[guidot]

Could have been the downloaded file then.

-Droid Does

 

[fetchman]

Sounds to me like you are taking the "install ROM from SD card" option in SPRecovery. Don't. Just "allow" and then "install".