You mixed what said in post #1859 with something I later said in post #1869 here
So to putting back in context those separate quotations, I need to clarify here for sake of record and future readers that:
- in the first quote from post #1869, I was asking for help after following the instructions on post #1 to the T, with the only difference that I originally used RDSLite 4.9 instead of 4.6 which doesn't matter since they both work fine and accomplish the same task: flashing the sbf file with SPRecovery onto the Droid 1. By the way that steps works fine and gives no problems.
- the process described in post #1859 is indeed the same as post #1 because that's what I followed and the files I flashed were the ones downloaded from post#1 with exception for RDSLite 4.6 as that link is broken and I ened up downloading RDSLite 4.9 as said above. Although I do not spend time re-describing the steps I went through I did follow every single one as described and very carefully. It all basically boils down to flashing the SPRecovery onto the phone with RDSLite and then access SPRecovery to flash update.zip to root the device. In case of any doubt, the process I followed is what summarized in the "Brief Procedure" section.
Note: I must to point out that when I first purchased my Droid back in December 2009 these steps worked fine in their entirety. That may be due to the fact that the original Droid was running a 2.01 kernel at that time. The same steps did not work for me on a the same model phone (Droid 1) now that I purchased a replacement on ebay which was already running stock Android v.2.2.2.
<IMPORTANT NOTE!!!> (if nothing else just read this)
- If you, like me, are a reader who's trying to flash a Droid 1 running a 2.2 Kernel (or higher), then on post #1 YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN IN:
ITEM 5 in the section "Things you're going to need:"
5. My "complete root" update file. (Link)
AND
STEPS 2 and 7 in the section: "
Brief Procedure:
2. Copy MotoCache1_Complete_Root_v1.1-update.zip to the root of your phone's SD card and name it as update.zip.
7. Apply update.zip
If you will download and flash the update.zip provided in step#1's instructions, that will cause you the same issues I ended up experiencing (No Signal, No battery, Loop reboots about every 1 minute).
What caused the problem on my Droid 1 was that using the update.zip downloaded from MotoCache1 post#1, I ended up flashing a 2.01 kernel onto a 2.2 phone, like Guidot wisely pointed out in post #1862, something that helped me get to a solution later on (many thanks to Guidot once again).
Just be aware of this issues and you should be fine if you will flash your Droid 1 using a ROM with the latest kernel.
</IMPORTANT NOTE!!!> ;D
So in conclusion what I said in post #1859 (the first quote you showed in your post #1875) absolutely refers to the process in post #1.
And what I said in post #1869 mentions that installing MIUI ROM (which contained a 2.2 kernel, and could have been any ROM with Kernel 2.2 or higher) is what actually what fixed the problems.
Limited to what you quoted (2nd quote) from my post #1869, the issues I experienced did come from following the instructions on post #1 (limited to flashing the update.zip provided via the download link on post#1) and if you are advising readers otherwise you'd be misleading them into experiencing the same problems I did.
In order to prevent that readers who come along later will incur in the same issues I posted the <IMPORTANT NOTE!!!> earlier... something that should perhaps added as a disclaimer on post#1 since nowadays most Droid will have a kernel >2.01.
I hope this helps clarify the confusion that those separate statement you took out of context may have caused
Thanks again for all the help this community provides!
PS: forgive any errors has I had no time to go though the post with fine tooth comb and revise grammar... Besides it's not my fault, my "keyborad" is dyslectic! ;P
