SBF to root and to unroot

[NemOmeN]

mmmm rooted droid goodness... sapphire 1.0.0 installed the long way lol booting fine now to apply the kernel and theme and see if it goes as flawlessly as so far

 

[NemOmeN]

Woot Woot couldnt be happier with these results! Sapphire booted with kernel theme and google apps no FC issues boots fast after first time and OC'd to 1Ghz not even getting hot! I think the issue was actually ClockWork MOD

 

[furbearingmammal]

ROM Manager is a great concept, and works beautifully for the majority of people, but once it starts glitching... Holy frijoles does it ever start messing up.

 

[Tallica]

I haven't looked at all of the posts here yet (because alot of them are praises), but a response to the issue of

"i did the SPRecovery and it doesn't reboot" problem is because you haven't upgraded to 2.1 (ESE81), which this SPRecovery is designed to take care of.

This should be put on the top of this thread because i had a problem with it until i realized what was wrong.

Here is how to manual update. Once that is finished, it works like a charm.

There's also a 2.1 SBF kicking around and Pete has a 2.2 SBF on his website for download. I've heard people having problems flashing any but the 2.0.1 onto their phone. SPRecovery works flashed onto 2.2, though, for anyone I've heard try.

Really, i've heard multiple stories of people trying to flash the SPR.sbf over 2.2 and having issues. I'd go back to 2.0.1 or at least to 2.1 before flashing.

 

[furbearingmammal]

@tallica

Yeah, I've done some looking and seen the same thing. Goes back to the every Droid is different thing: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like to go all the way back, Android 2.0 is old.

Rooting is risky, no matter how you slice it.

 

[Tallica]

@tallica

Yeah, I've done some looking and seen the same thing. Goes back to the every Droid is different thing: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like to go all the way back, Android 2.0 is old.

Rooting is risky, no matter how you slice it.

All true except the rooting is risky part. I'd be hard pressed to find a D1 with no hardware damage, that I couldn't get back from the dead with RSD.

That's why this phone is so great!:icon_ banana:

 

[furbearingmammal]

@tallica

Yeah, I've done some looking and seen the same thing. Goes back to the every Droid is different thing: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like to go all the way back, Android 2.0 is old.

Rooting is risky, no matter how you slice it.

All true except the rooting is risky part. I'd be hard pressed to find a D1 with no hardware damage, that I couldn't get back from the dead with RSD.

That's why this phone is so great!:icon_ banana:

I like the new avatar, by the way.

I hear you. I just worry about a cable getting yanked or a power failure during a flash.

 

[d.justins]

Does installing SPRecovery simply remove ROM Manager?

 

[Tanknspank]

@tallica

Yeah, I've done some looking and seen the same thing. Goes back to the every Droid is different thing: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like to go all the way back, Android 2.0 is old.

Rooting is risky, no matter how you slice it.

All true except the rooting is risky part. I'd be hard pressed to find a D1 with no hardware damage, that I couldn't get back from the dead with RSD.

That's why this phone is so great!:icon_ banana:

I like the new avatar, by the way.

I hear you. I just worry about a cable getting yanked or a power failure during a flash.

Tallica, guess you hadn't heard about my incident

 

[furbearingmammal]

Does installing SPRecovery simply remove ROM Manager?

No, it would overwrite ClockworkMOD Recovery. You'll have to uninstall ROM Manager separately.

Or you could use ROM Manager and attempt to flash in SPRecovery via the "flash alternate recovery image" option at the bottom. Do it a couple times if it doesn't take the first.

 

[d.justins]

Right, that's what i meant.

Good.

 

[Tallica]

All true except the rooting is risky part. I'd be hard pressed to find a D1 with no hardware damage, that I couldn't get back from the dead with RSD.

That's why this phone is so great!:icon_ banana:

I like the new avatar, by the way.

I hear you. I just worry about a cable getting yanked or a power failure during a flash.

Tallica, guess you hadn't heard about my incident

Forgot about that Tank, I heard you were able to brick a D1 but never heard the details on how you did it.

 

[Tallica]

@tallica

Yeah, I've done some looking and seen the same thing. Goes back to the every Droid is different thing: some like it hot, some like it cold, some like to go all the way back, Android 2.0 is old.

Rooting is risky, no matter how you slice it.

All true except the rooting is risky part. I'd be hard pressed to find a D1 with no hardware damage, that I couldn't get back from the dead with RSD.

That's why this phone is so great!:icon_ banana:

I like the new avatar, by the way.

I hear you. I just worry about a cable getting yanked or a power failure during a flash.

Thanks, but you can thank Tank for me changing it, haha.

But yes if the cord gets ripped out during tranfer that will do it.

 

[christim]

To get back on topic...

Some have said they have issues flashing SPRecovery on top of 2.2

I'm curious if this is everyone or just some people.

The last few PM's I've done (and I'd much rather someone send me a link to the thread they are stuck in than go back and forth via pm's because lots see a thread and only 2 people see a pm) have gone like this:

You are on 2.2 either OTA or manually having installed it via the stock recovery tool. You want to root. We are going to call the rom you want to use the ABC rom and you will rename it update.zip on the root of your card.

1 - install RSD Lite
2 - use RSD Lite to flash the sbf file for SPRecovery
3 - make a backup
4 - use SPRecovery to allow and then install update.zip
5 - reboot and you are running the ABC rom
OR....something happens and you can't run the rom...so:
6 - Use RSD Lite to flash the sbf file for the stock 2.01 file
7- Use RSD Lite to flash SPRecovery
8- make a backup
9 - Flash the ABC rom with sprecovery via the update.zip method
good to go.

When you do step 6, you have a stock phone, android 2.01 as well as the stock recovery tool, so we need to do step 2 (in step 7) again.
And yes...never yank the cord out while using RSD Lite to flash anything to your phone.

To be safe you could do steps 1, 6,7,8,9 to save time, but I'm also curious if 1-5 works for most people?

 

[AlBundy]

OK...so, I'm thinking about going over to the dark side (I hear they have great cookies). I've read the guide in the beginning of the thread on using RSD Lite to install SPRecovery.

I have a Droid running stock 2.2 (did the manual update a few days ago), and have a few (noob) questions :icon_eek:

Can I install SPRecovery on top of 2.2, and if so which SPRecovery file do I use (a link would be greatly appreciated)?

If I can, after booting into SPRecovery, and making a backup, do I just flash the FRG01B sbf file from Pete's website to get 2.2 rooted?

If not, what would be recommended the recommended path to get 2.2 root on my droid?

Or, do I just have no idea what I'm doing?

Thanks!