[HACKS] Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version

[Dj Carpenter]

On a side note, your phone might just not be able to flash that certain kernel. I had a Droid that would not flash ChevyNo1's ROM or LFY. For whatever reason I was part of a select few that had that certain issue. Granted those were ROM's but the issue may be true about kernels.

 

[Dj Carpenter]

Thanks guys, I am such a noob. Yeah I just had to use rsdlite. I did it the nubby way and installed using the one click root and flashed clockwork using rom manager. Now i am back to normal... Thanks guys.

One click roots are not good. You're almost guaranteed to have problems later on

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not true, i have been on a one click root for months no problems.

That's why I said almost

 

[furbearingmammal]

Well, there's a new recovery out that seems to work great for most people.

If the cord came unplugged, though, you should reflash and hope nothing got screwed up in the whole system. Try that, then again.

Is your SD card mounted in USB Mass Storage mode while you're trying to flash? If so unmount it.

 

[mentaloaf]

When you say flash do you mean in rsd lite installing the alternate recovery? I think that is what may have happened that the chord disonnected momentarily during the process...if so is there anything I can do like flash back to stock or anything like that? Whats weird is that sprecovery seems to have installed fine

 

[furbearingmammal]

I was mistaken about the bad kernel. When the cable came loose you screwed your actual system up. You'll want to flash back to out-of-the-box-stock. Unfortunately this will cost you your texts and whatnot.

Using RSD Lite (and being VERY careful not to let the cable get unplugged), flash this SBF.

http://androidoverdrive.com/pete/OEM/VZW_A855_FRG22D_QSC6085BP_C_01.43.01P_SW_UPDATE.sbf

The upside is you can now use z4root to root if all you want is root access. The downside is if you do that you'll still get nagged to update. The upside is you can then use the update.zip MotoCache1 provides to fix whatever recovery image you want (in your case Clockwork, or the new RZREcovery just released in the last 24-48 hours) in memory with a battery pull and update.zip install and then flash whatever ROM you want over it. I can provide instructions for any of the above.

 

[Dj Carpenter]

I have a ROM he can flash that will completely unroot his phone so that he doesn't have to worry about messing anything up. If you want.

 

[furbearingmammal]

I'm just worried that SPR keeps giving errors like that with perfectly valid update.zip files. If the cable came unplugged during a flash he's lucky it doesn't just go to the bootloader and give an error about code being corrupt, so let's reset everything and start from there. Better safe than sorry, in this case.

Though if it were still giving the red light after a kernel flash that would have been my next step, so keep that ROM file handy!

 

[Dj Carpenter]

I keep forgetting that his recovery is giving him problems haha. I don't know why I even mentioned something that would require him to flash Haha.

 

[jjhiza]

I tried using Z4root again after exams 2.2.1 OTA and it wouldn't work. Even tried the apk from Xda, and it was also a no-go. Eventually, I just followed Motocache's guideand manually rooted in about 10 minutes! I'm keeping the Z4root apk since I'm getting the Galaxy Tab for Christmas, and want to try to root it, but I'm going to manually root my phones from now on.

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[jjhiza]

*The* not "exams"... lol

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[acceler8]

I'm having problems as well (Moto Droid 1). I used this method "Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version" originally on Froyo and everything worked perfectly. Now I am getting the truly annoying update message.

I have the file "bede60e851bb.signed-voles-FRG83D-from-FRG22D.bede60e8.zip"
I've unziped it, and edited the "updater-script" commenting out line 1054 "# package_extract_dir("recovery", "/system");"
and adding "set_perm(0, 0, 6755, "/system/bin/su");"
I then rezip the files into update.zip. In SBRecovery on my phone I get the following:

Finding Update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.

No real error, and no real results. I've selected the option to allow update.

Some questions:
Should I use Notepad++ ANSI or UNICODE? Are there any setting in N++ that I need to change?
I've used both WinZip and WinRAR to create the update.zip; which is preferred?
Are there any special settings I need to set for the zip archive?

I have a Droid 1
Rooted Froyo
Stock ROM
0 Customizations
I do not want to change ROMS, I don't want to stay on my current version. All I want is ROOT on FRG83D.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

 

[pistacio]

Go to custom roms section, under metickone, there is a stock rooted frg83d rom (odexed). Download update.zip and install thru Sprecovery.

 

[jjhiza]

I used winzip, and the 32 bit Motorola driver on my HP, and everything worked fine. Got my Droid rooted in no time.

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[rsdroid]

PLEASE HELP! I had rooted my phone (again) using z4root, and when the OTA update came, I had flashed SPRecovery 0.99.3b using the Flash Alternate Recovery option in ROM Manager. Then I accepted the OTA and it blocked it. A few days later it popped up again, so I accepted it again, thinking that it would block it again, but it didn't. So now I've lost root AND my phone has become incredibly slow and buggy.

So, I've been trying to Reroot my droid using this method. I have a Windows Vista 32 bit. I've followed all the steps exactly in the Detailed Procedure up to #6. The problem is I am unable to run RSD Lite as an Administrator. I did look down to the FEI #4 and followed it to post #48, but my User Account Control was already enabled. And my Run As Adminstrator option is still grayed out. It is located by right clicking on the shortcut, clicking on properties, and clicking on Advanced in the Shortcut tab. It seems to be the only place it is located in the properties, nor can I find it the Run as Administrator option anywhere else.

Any ideas to help please? My phone was running great and is now almost unusable!

Thanks!

 

[jjhiza]

I had the same problem. You might not like to hear this, but you might have to do a factory reset (like I did) in order to regain stability, before rerooting. Hopefully you have backups for your apps, otherwise you'll have to download everything again. After the factory reset, I had no problems getting rooted again...

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