Buying my wife an OG Droid for her birthday

[ThirdWheel]

I have a Droid X, I have flashed it / .SBF'd a dozen times. I am buying an OG droid from a friend and I want to .SBF, root and then install the newest stable version of MIUI.

I know I can get the MIUI from MIUI.us, but can someone point me to the .SBF and the current root option?

I may be searching in the wrong places but it seems like everyone has had their OG Droid for so long that no one needs the basics anymore.

 

[metalspring]

You don't really need to sbf an og Droid...just rooting and installing a custom recovery (easiest way is via rom manager) and wiping everything in recovery (wipe data, cache, dalvik cache, and system)
And as far as I know the easiest way to current root is with the gingerbreak.apk which can be found by searching www.*********** or on xda forums too I believe

 

[ThirdWheel]

Quick efficient answer, thanks!

 

[chewy74]

also, another thing to keep in mind is whether you want a gingerbread rom or a froyo.

since its for your wife and you wont always be with her phone 24/7 to trouble shoot it, that you go witha froyo rom. my wife has a D1 also and I've avoided upgrading her phone to a GB ROM for that very reason. GB causes too many issues with apps being killed, soft/hard boots, phone freezes, lost sms, inability to answer incoming calls...all due to memory issues.

The last thing i need in life is to give the wife anymore reasons to nag at me.

my wifes had UD2.5 since she bought an dI rooted a yr ago.

 

[ThirdWheel]

Interesting, is there still a MIUI ROM available based on Froyo?

 

[chewy74]

The last froyo released for MIUI is http://www.droidforums.net/forum/team-d1-miui/135804-new-d1-miui-1-3-25-0_2-2-a.html

its no longer being developed so support will probably be sparse

 

[metalspring]

Fyi, I'm running the newest gingerbread miui and its basically flawless...they've come a long way

 

[sstidhem]

It has come a long way and works very well but if your wife uses the camera a lot, you may want to reconsider. Not sure if everyone has this problem but my camera doesn't work very well at all and actually causes reboots. Just for pain avoidance, I got my wife an iphone. Not trolling -- just saying.