How-To: Root your Droid

[scroogeko]

If its not to much trouble could some one give me step bstep instructions on how to root my g1.new to this.thanksin advance

[Wideawake]

Stickied the thread.....can't believe no one caught this maybe we need some android mods/promoters.
~mike

[blazingwolf]

Originally Posted by Wideawake

Stickied the thread.....can't believe no one caught this maybe we need some android mods/promoters.
~mike

That would be really nice.

[breakmyfootoff]

Originally Posted by Wideawake

Stickied the thread.....can't believe no one caught this maybe we need some android mods/promoters.
~mike

Yeppers, we need someone to help keep this area clean.

[parkjam]

Originally Posted by breakmyfootoff

Yeppers, we need someone to help keep this area clean.

You know, as many threads as i see you and Blazing post in, they should just make you two the Droid moderators

[breakmyfootoff]

Originally Posted by parkjam

You know, as many threads as i see you and Blazing post in, they should just make you two the Droid moderators

I'd support a nomination for BW, but I think I might be to "opinionated" sometimes to be a mod lol.

[banden]

I've downloaded the root app > renamed to update.zip > installed it > but still don't have super user permissions.

su: uid 10104 not allowed to su

I know it's not the 2.0.1 update file because during the installation of it, it does say something along the lines of 'your phone is now rooted' before rebooting.

Any Ideas?

EDIT:

Couple things: App called 'Terminal Emulator' in market doesn't work on Droid. 'Android Terminal Emulator' does (and it appears with just 'Terminal Emulator' in the app list.)

adb shell is working for me so the droid is rooted... just don't have su access from the device itself. clearing the cached didn't work either.

EDIT 2: I found an update.zip file that gave me superuser permissions here: http://www.4shared.com/file/16976650...er_update.html

I'm good to go now.

[HemDroid]

I rooted my Droid, but was having an issue doing a Nandroid backup. I kept getting this error:

E:can't open /cache/recovery/command

So, after I did some searching, I found this site:
http://rootyourdroid.info/?p=70

It has some really great guides with pictures every step of the way.

(Sorry for all of the edits, I was trying to link an image from my Picasa album)

[z0mbiexx]

spam? lol

[jamesvallison]

it gets thru the first couple steps then it says verification, then says its failed because there is no such file under sdcard/update.zip what do i do?
thanks and feel free to just text me if you want 864-491-2311