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[HACKS] Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version

Thank you so much for writing this guide, Moto! I had to get a replacement droid, and the one I ended up with had FRG22D, which wasn't like rooting any other Android OS I've rooted (2.0.1, 2.1, and the seemingly 4387 different builds of Froyo). This was a GREAT help! Thanks again!
 
i was wondering when someone was gonna do this. installed without so much as a hickup. love the "short guide" and imo the detailed guide is awsome for noobs...if anyone can't obtain root following your guide, they need to give up their droid. it's idiot proof. i would go as far to say that my 7 yr old grandaughter could do this...u da man moto! great job!
 
Oh okay. I was only wondering cause the app shootme keeps saying I don't have root. When one I have a custom theme on here so that isn't the issue. So i didn't know if it was just an old superuser version doing it.:)
Actually, that is an issue that has been reported to the developer. It has been out there for awhile with no updates. You might want to pop on his topic and ask him about it. He may be waiting for someone willing to work with him and give him logs and/or try test fixes he can offer.

Huh didn't know that thanks for telling me.:)
 
Ok I make it to step 9 and select the file G:\MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.sbf

I'm showing the device as connected model SE Flash OMAP3430MI (I've got a motorola driod).

I'm in the bootloader scree, but the "Start" button is shaded and unable to be selected.

Has anyone else seen this? (OS Windows 7 64 bit) Don't think it's the OS as others have done this on windows 7.

Also the RSD Lite v4.6 is being run as administrator I changed it in the properties to insure that I always open it as admin...
 
Ok I make it to step 9 and select the file G:\MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.sbf

I'm showing the device as connected model SE Flash OMAP3430MI (I've got a motorola driod).

I'm in the bootloader scree, but the "Start" button is shaded and unable to be selected.

Has anyone else seen this? (OS Windows 7 64 bit) Don't think it's the OS as others have done this on windows 7.

Also the RSD Lite v4.6 is being run as administrator I changed it in the properties to insure that I always open it as admin...
Read through the thread again. I'm pretty sure someone else has had this issue and I'm also pretty sure they found a workaround. If no luck, let us know, and we'll see what we can do to help.
 
Ok I make it to step 9 and select the file G:\MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.sbf

I'm showing the device as connected model SE Flash OMAP3430MI (I've got a motorola driod).

I'm in the bootloader scree, but the "Start" button is shaded and unable to be selected.

Has anyone else seen this? (OS Windows 7 64 bit) Don't think it's the OS as others have done this on windows 7.

Also the RSD Lite v4.6 is being run as administrator I changed it in the properties to insure that I always open it as admin...
Read through the thread again. I'm pretty sure someone else has had this issue and I'm also pretty sure they found a workaround. If no luck, let us know, and we'll see what we can do to help.


BAH!!! I thought I did that but what i missed was apparently the key is changing the filename in the RSD Lite interface. I moved it to the c drive and added a space to the actual filename.

Thanks btw.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/re...28-root-droid-1-regardless-os-version-10.html
 
Ok I make it to step 9 and select the file G:\MC1_A855_1282081087_Recovery-Only_SPRecovery_0.99.3b.sbf

I'm showing the device as connected model SE Flash OMAP3430MI (I've got a motorola driod).

I'm in the bootloader scree, but the "Start" button is shaded and unable to be selected.

Has anyone else seen this? (OS Windows 7 64 bit) Don't think it's the OS as others have done this on windows 7.

Also the RSD Lite v4.6 is being run as administrator I changed it in the properties to insure that I always open it as admin...
Yes, for some reason, my Droid showed up as "SE Flas..." for whatever reason (I would've thought "Droid" or "A855" or something similar would've appeared *shrugs*), but that is it. I just did it last night with zero problems. Just be sure to follow the instructions especially steps 9 and 10 if you are doing the detailed instructions; which is what I did because I'm new to Android programming, and never had to root something like FRG22D (if you've never rooted before, rooting 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.1, the 299,792,458 builds of Froyo that aren't FRG22D, require less work, but it isn't hard to root FRG22D either, it takes longer to read the instructions than it does to root it.) Good luck!
 
Motocache - have you had any luck finding a full system FRG22D yet?
Haven't seen it yet -- if there even is one. At some point I'll probably build my own, but a authoritatively signed one would be nice for folks with stock recovery.

Isn't the first link off rootzwiki Motorola Droid containing the full sbf for FRG22D? The file I got off from it VZW_A855_FRG22D_QSC6085BP_C_01.43.01P_SW_UPDATE_01.sbf looks like it.
 
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