[HACKS] Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version

[soccerd31]

lets talk about this.... manually edit files huh????? know anything about that???

 

[soccerd31]

or... could you tell me what my archos will read from the wifi department and i can figure it out ;-) ;-)

 

[furbearingmammal]

I could be mistaken, but to get the G1 to connect to an Ad-Hoc network requires manually editing some files on the phone. Not much has changed in Android connectivity in regards to Ad-Hoc networks since then.

Try this.

How to: WiFi Tether a Motorola Droid to an iPad - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

I know it's for an iPad but the principle might be the same on the Archos.

 

[soccerd31]

attempt 1..... barnacle no longer worked at all.. not even on the lap top...... uninstalling and making second attempt... maybe i did something wrong

 

[soccerd31]

FAIL.... who else has an idea???

 

[furbearingmammal]

Well, we're well past "root your d1", so why not start a thread here, or go to Android Tablet Forum and see if they have any ideas.

 

[JJ12345]

Hey guys, I am NOT new to rooting, had my OG Droid rooted since June 2010, and that phone had a hardware malfunction, so I filed the insurance and got a new Droid 1. Now, I successfully rooted my new phone and when I got it out of recovery, I downloaded Chevy No.1 5.1 Gingerbread, and flashed it using the recovery menu because it wouldn't install through Rom Manager.

Now it goes through boot-loop, and I can only get it to recovery, but every time I try to flash a new ROM from my SD card it just keeps loading the 5.1 Gingerbread build from Chevy No.1,

Any ideas? Please help.

NO IDEA WHY, BUT JUST NOW I REBOOTED AGAIN AND IT BOOTED SUCCESSFULLY... Not a freakin clue, these are tempermental. But now it rebooted into Simply Stunning 4.9, Froyo, not the 5.1 Gingerbread that I downloaded.

 

[unkrizzo]

Hi guys this is my first time rooting a phone and I have a noob question. In step 3 of the detailed instructions it says that I have to rename the MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.zip file to update.zip on the root of my sd card in the phone....but there is already a update.zip file there. Is it suppose to already be there? The file is 46MB and the MC1 is less than 1MB. I assume I'm not deleting the 46MB one for the smaller one??? or can I rename the 46MB one to update(2)???

Please don't laugh too hard to answer me back.

Thanks

 

[furbearingmammal]

You don't rename the SBF, you extract it and flash it with RSD Lite.

 

[PereDroid]

So, I've decided to finally take the plunge.

But:

RSD Lite 4.6. That's a "7 zip" file.

Link is dead.

Oh, and Moto I am curious what your Dropbox quota is up to? Huge right?

/EDIT// Just tried to sign up via your referal link and it is dead, too.

 

[teddyearp]

Hey guys, I am NOT new to rooting, had my OG Droid rooted since June 2010, and that phone had a hardware malfunction, so I filed the insurance and got a new Droid 1. Now, I successfully rooted my new phone and when I got it out of recovery, I downloaded Chevy No.1 5.1 Gingerbread, and flashed it using the recovery menu because it wouldn't install through Rom Manager.

Now it goes through boot-loop, and I can only get it to recovery, but every time I try to flash a new ROM from my SD card it just keeps loading the 5.1 Gingerbread build from Chevy No.1,

Any ideas? Please help.

NO IDEA WHY, BUT JUST NOW I REBOOTED AGAIN AND IT BOOTED SUCCESSFULLY... Not a freakin clue, these are tempermental. But now it rebooted into Simply Stunning 4.9, Froyo, not the 5.1 Gingerbread that I downloaded.

Can you please take this to a new thread as this question has nothing to do with the topic of this thread and it is long and cluttered enough already. Thank you and good luck.

So, I've decided to finally take the plunge.

But:

RSD Lite 4.6. That's a "7 zip" file.

Link is dead.

Oh, and Moto I am curious what your Dropbox quota is up to? Huge right?

/EDIT// Just tried to sign up via your referal link and it is dead, too.

Moto seems to have stopped maintaining this thread, though he has signed in to this site this month, his last post at this site was in Oct of last year. Anyways, I have the file(s) in my collection linked in my sig.

good luck

 

[bplewis24]

Hi guys this is my first time rooting a phone and I have a noob question. In step 3 of the detailed instructions it says that I have to rename the MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.zip file to update.zip on the root of my sd card in the phone....but there is already a update.zip file there. Is it suppose to already be there? The file is 46MB and the MC1 is less than 1MB. I assume I'm not deleting the 46MB one for the smaller one??? or can I rename the 46MB one to update(2)???

Please don't laugh too hard to answer me back.

Thanks

The file you rename is a different file (in #5 of "things you need"), and if there is already an update.zip file in your SD card root, go ahead and remove it or rename it. It may be from a prior install.

Brandon

 

[unkrizzo]

Hi guys this is my first time rooting a phone and I have a noob question. In step 3 of the detailed instructions it says that I have to rename the MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.zip file to update.zip on the root of my sd card in the phone....but there is already a update.zip file there. Is it suppose to already be there? The file is 46MB and the MC1 is less than 1MB. I assume I'm not deleting the 46MB one for the smaller one??? or can I rename the 46MB one to update(2)???

Please don't laugh too hard to answer me back.

Thanks

The file you rename is a different file (in #5 of "things you need"), and if there is already an update.zip file in your SD card root, go ahead and remove it or rename it. It may be from a prior install.

Brandon

Thanks a lot....and it works fine.

 

[Drucian]

I just rooted my Droid recently without any problems using this method, however now I am not getting a signal at all on my Droid. I think I read somewhere it's because I don't have a ROM installed? Is that right?

I used LauncherPro with the stock before I rooted, and I really liked it. If the problem is indeed not having a custom ROM and I get one, could I still use LauncherPro with that custom ROM?

 

[CJM]

Yes. You can use launcher pro with any rom. But it sounds like you don't have a baseband. You can check by going to menu/settings/about phone and scroll down to see what baseband is there.

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