[HACKS] Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version

[Arogz0583]

that worked thanks

 

[furbearingmammal]

Glad to hear it.

 

[kbayer]

Just had to do this myself... worked like a charm!!!
THANK YOU MOTOCACHE!!!!!!

 

[gellpak]

Getting an installation aborted message myself on my D1. I had the phone rooted running CM6 for a bit but it started fritzing out on me so I flashed back to stock, not realizing I'd lose my root. Then, to make it worse, I accepted the OTA updates, so it's current.

Anyway, I run through your walkthrough, everything works (I have to rename to MC1.SBF but otherwise the flash goes well on win7). When I open sprecovery, I hit "allow update.zip" and then "install /sdcard/update.zip (deprecated)" and get this message:

-- Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
Installing update...
Installation aborted.

No explanation whatsoever of the problem. I've redownloaded the update file twice, made sure it's not update.zip.zip or anything, and dug through the forums. Any ideas?

 

[Dj Carpenter]

Look at the abort messages in the OP. See what it says. I'm driving so I can't help right now

Sent from a Droid to a Droid...forum

 

[furbearingmammal]

I've run into that problem too with another update.zip that should install. However, I do not as yet have a solution. Try flashing a full ROM onto your phone. If that will take then you know it's the update.zip in particular that's the issue. Then you can use ROM Manager to flash SPRecovery back onto your phone, do a battery pull, and then try another download of his update.zip to keep it on the phone.

 

[armopride07]

i'm having trouble having RSD lite v4.9 recognize my droid. its plugged in and everything, rsd is in the first come first serve mode, my droid is on bootloader, and still does not recognize my phone. any help?

EDIT: FIXED IT. downloaded the 32bit moto drivers instead of 64 bit.

 

[gellpak]

I've run into that problem too with another update.zip that should install. However, I do not as yet have a solution. Try flashing a full ROM onto your phone. If that will take then you know it's the update.zip in particular that's the issue. Then you can use ROM Manager to flash SPRecovery back onto your phone, do a battery pull, and then try another download of his update.zip to keep it on the phone.

I'm a little confused as to the process here... if I flash, say, CM6 or MIUI in place of the update.zip linked in the OP, is that all I'll need to do? Or will the phone still need to be rooted in another process to get full functionality?

 

[guidot]

No. More will need to be done.

You will not have recovery. He's just suggesting this to see if your phone is having trouble flashing an update.zip.

When you flash the sbf, that is what flashes recovery. However, the update.zip keeps it there. So once you install the ROM (named update.zip), you won't have a recovery option (well stock recovery, which won't help you at all). However, if you would like to attempt to continue from there you can install ROM Manager, flash sprecovery through ROM Manager, reboot and flash motocache's update.zip.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

 

[furbearingmammal]

What guidot said.

All custom ROMs are rooted, so by wiping and flashing the ROM on we see if it'll boot. If it'll boot then you'll be rooted and we can move on from there.

 

[R0o5Ter]

help

My droid will NOT boot into recovery. Ive done everything else correct but my phone will not boot into recovery. What do I do from here?

 

[guidot]

This is not the section for help on recovery.

Make a new post in the rescue squad and we will help you. We need more information than that.

 

[furbearingmammal]

My droid will NOT boot into recovery. Ive done everything else correct but my phone will not boot into recovery. What do I do from here?

Are you saying you followed the rest of this guide but you can't boot into recovery? That sounds like a real problem. Please create a new thread in the rescue squad section and we'll try to get you running again.

 

[Dj Carpenter]

All he has to do is flash the sbf again.

 

[furbearingmammal]

And if that doesn't work we end up cluttering the thread up while we work out what the problem is. Ergo the new thread suggestion.