Droid Eris Root? Confused.. help would be grateful =D

[lunarpoc]

Hi,

I'm a big noobie coming down to Droid phones... or phones in general. So, I just got my Droid Eris today, used on CL. I was thinking about rooting the phone since a lot of people mentioned about rooting the phone would open a lot of things to be done to the phone and also I wanted DroidWall.

When I got this phone, it came with firmware 2.1 already installed by the previous owner. I read that it would brick your phone if you tried to root your phone with 2.1 already installed onto the phone.

So, how could I continue to root the phone? Would it be now be impossible?

Here's some random info that you might need, (idk if it's important..)
hboot: 1.6
firmware 2.1

Also, I don't know if the last owner rooted it or not or did anything to the phone. When I got it, it wanted me to activated it was cleared of anything.

Thank you!

 

[jrozga]

As long as your eris does not have one of the leaked versions of the 2.1 update you can root! (just went from stock to evil eris 3.0 this weekend)

I used the steps in this link How To: Root the HTC Droid Eris (and Get Android 2.1)(Updated – 06.11.2010) | The Unlockr

Make sure you do both steps and read the directions very carefully BEFORE you start anything. After that I installed rom manager from the market and installed evil eris 2.0/2.0.1 and 3.0 just for kicks. I ended up going back to 2.0.1 just for the control over set cpu for over clocking.

This is my first post \o/

 

[Pesti13nce]

Can you root an eris without an SD card?

 

[Scrumbine]

Rooting a Droid Eris

Is it against the terms of service w/ Verizon to root a HTC eris? I think I have 1.5 on it.

Thank you all.

 

[671droid]

Same issue here. Not sure if I should root or not! Is FROYO availible for ERIS?

Quick question and I apologize for being a noob with little droid knowledge but:

What exactly is the main drawing point to root your droid?

Thanks again!