attempting to root droid..press start in rdslite and nothing special is happening.

[TuBitMittens]

alright, I'm completely new to this and I'm attempting to root my droid from 2.1 which I manually updated awhile back. I'm pretty sure I have all I need. I made a folder called nandroid in my root of my sd with the froyo upadate 2010(whatever u call it) inside the folder, I download the 32 bit driver and so on. I've successfully got to the bootloader menu of my droid where is says battery ok and ok to program. anyway as I said, I have rdslite open I press START and NOTHING IS HAPPENING... my pc says found new hardware and is offering me to install SE Flash OMA..blablabla..DO I INSTALL THAT TOO? Cuz the tutorials I used just said to press start in rdslite from..yeah u get my point.
I appologize of my noobness and if this is in the wrong section. lol plz help me its likr 90 degrees in my basement and Im all over the place here...
AND I APOLOGIZE IF THIS IS IN THE WRONG SECTION I JUST WANTED TO GET THIS POST AFTER CUZ IM VERY UNCOMFORTABLE SITTING HERE LOL

 

[blackngray70]

You need the sprecoveryese81.sbf file on your PC then navigate to it from rsdlite then click start.

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[TuBitMittens]

You need the sprecoveryese81.sbf file on your PC then navigate to it from rsdlite then click start.

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I do..and nothing happens.
THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING

 

[blackngray70]

Does rsd show your device?

 

[TuBitMittens]

Does rsd show your device?

I click the show device button and the info remains the same
Filename..sprecovery_ES81.sbf
creation date.....
File size..some big #
RAM dl version..N/A
bootloader version N/A
Platform CDMA OMAP
HAB type signed production

 

[TuBitMittens]

nvm had to isntall the driver first.

 

[blackngray70]

Lol, glad you got it. That was going to be my next question, I assumed you had already done that.

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[TuBitMittens]

Lol, glad you got it. That was going to be my next question, I assumed you had already done that.

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WAIT Im naming the backup, but I CANT GO BACK, I press the power button and nothing happens..what do I do??? lol:icon_eek:edit nvm, got it, keep this thread open till Im settled, a little nervous dont wanna mess up my phone..thanks guys

 

[TuBitMittens]

E. cant open /sdcard/update.zip(bad) installation aborted..I followed this link for instructions..damn this is so stressful and nerveracking
http://forum.droidmod.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=d1a99017a9f4d6cd934457640bbd251e&topic=1004.0

 

[blackngray70]

If you have Astro on your phone try the rename option and make sure the file is named update.zip and not update.zip.zip.

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[TuBitMittens]

If you have Astro on your phone try the rename option and make sure the file is named update.zip and not update.zip.zip.

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I have it in the root of my sd. and I made sure to name it update.zip
it has META-INF and another folder called system in it. IS THIS THE RIGHT THING???
I renamed the folder I downloaded, which was called 20100429h_update.zip(then extracted it with the same name with winrar) than renamed that unzipped folder to update.zip...so idk if I was on the right track with installing the right thing...

 

[blackngray70]

Problem is if you copied it using your PC it may have added an extra .zip.

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[blackngray70]

Or using your PC name it just update with no period.

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[TuBitMittens]

Problem is if you copied it using your PC it may have added an extra .zip.

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I dont know honestly whats going on. it says update.zip! and I accidentally wiped cache during this whole thing a few minutes ago I hope I didnt get rid of anything important
thanks for all your patience

 

[blackngray70]

If you have Astro on your phone try the rename option and make sure the file is named update.zip and not update.zip.zip.

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I have it in the root of my sd. and I made sure to name it update.zip
it has META-INF and another folder called system in it. IS THIS THE RIGHT THING???
I renamed the folder I downloaded, which was called 20100429h_update.zip(then extracted it with the same name with winrar) than renamed that unzipped folder to update.zip...so idk if I was on the right track with installing the right thing...

You don't need to extract anything just put the downloaded zip file on your SD and rename it.

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