[HACKS] Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version

[teddyearp]

This is off the topic of this thread and a double post oif your problem. Let's go ahead and keep your problem in the thread you started for it:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/rescue-squad/123372-dns-server-not-responding.html

 

[ramblin guy]

I have a Droid 1 that is rooted with MotoCache1's guide and has the 2.0.1 firmware, the SPRecovery 0.99.3b, and works with a wireless tether. That makes me happy, but of course, I want to be happier and need some advice from people who know more than I do about this with longer attention spans. I'd like to go to the most current firmware update that is close to stock that still allows for my wireless tether. I'd like to not brick it. Is there a guide here to go from 2.0.1 to the most current (not sure what that is)?

Thanks,

Jim

 

[guidot]

As I am on my phone I can't link you. But you can go to custom ROM's>MetiCkOne and he has a stock odexed or deodexed 2.2.1 ROM available which is the newest. You should probably wipe beforehand so save anything you will need in the new OS (SMS/MMS). If you need help flashing, see the 2nd link in my signature.

Good luck.

Sent from my GimpDroid (Installed by RZR).

 

[ramblin guy]

As I'm somewhat of a NooB, what do I do to wipe the phone b4 I flash the new ROM (I'll probably use the SPRecovery method) and what will I lose by wiping? I'm guessing I'll have to reinstall all my favorite apps and username/password combos?

 

[guidot]

If you read the guide in the second link in my signature you will find information on what to wipe.

When you do wipe you will lose MMS/SMS and your installed apps.

The MetiCkOne's ROM has the new market, so I might suggest using Titanium Backup or MyBackUp Pro to save and restore your data (apps, SMS, browser favorites).

There are many other places in this forum for these questions.

Please pose any more questions in the respective threads.

Good luck.

Sent from my GimpDroid (Installed by RZR).

 

[teddyearp]

Please just use the thread that guidot linked you and keep this huge one on topic. If you have any other questions about how to flash a rom, start a new thread or ask in a thread about rom flashing, not this one which is about rfooting.

thank you very much

 

[brando56894]

Wow this was a lot easier then when I originally rooted my first droid (took about 2 hours because I did everything manually back when 2.1 had just come out). I just got my replacement and thought it was gonna take like a half hour, thanks to your guru's guide it took all of 5 minutes!

 

[mxrider103]

Every thing worked fine until i got to step 17 where I have to "install/sdcard/update.zip(deprecated)." When i did this it failed. I think it might have to do with putting the update.zip on my sd card. What I did was drag the file to my phone and made sure it was in the root and not in a folder. Could someone help me with this?

 

[TH3Dr3amstat3]

Thank You with all the hubub I thought I'd brick my phone for sure..... Thanks for this excellent guide I'm stock rooted Now and 5 mins. ago I wasn't

 

[furbearingmammal]

Every thing worked fine until i got to step 17 where I have to "install/sdcard/update.zip(deprecated)." When i did this it failed. I think it might have to do with putting the update.zip on my sd card. What I did was drag the file to my phone and made sure it was in the root and not in a folder. Could someone help me with this?

Did you allow before you told it to install? What error message did you get? Is the file named update.zip and not update or update.zip.zip?

 

[teddyearp]

Yes mxrider103, please give us more details.

 

[droid4607]

if i were to root my D1, i dont have to put custom rom on it do i? all i really want to do is change the theme, get a custom boot animation and maybe a couple of other things...is it really worth it for what i want to do? or should i just go for the custom rom along with everything else i want?

 

[guidot]

Well you can theme with metamorph but you would need a deodexed ROM to do it.

So if you want to theme you at least need a stock deodexed ROM.

Sent from my GimpDroid (Installed by RZR).

 

[droid4607]

i cant get the update.zip file to work. i can download it but every time i try to install when going thru the safe mode, it tells me there was an error.

ive tried a bunch of sites and tried all the links. i dont know if im doing something wrong or what. seems to me that the file should not stay as a zip file? or do i extract it and put the folders onto my sd card?

sorry to ask for prolly the easiest part of the steps.

 

[guidot]

It's recovery. Are you in stock recovery?

Are you "allowing" the update.zip?



Sent from my GimpDroid (Installed by RZR).