How-To: Root your Droid

[quadjacks]

Originally Posted by nerdherd

Don't use Eclipse. That's only if you want to write apps. You'll need to use the command prompt from Windows to run adb. Before doing that you'll want to add adb to your system path (that makes it so you can run adb from any subfolder on your computer, otherwise you would have to navigate to the Android SDK folder every time you wanted to use adb) following these instructions:



Once you've done that you can open command prompt and type in the adb commands shown above. Your phone will have to be connected and USB debugging will need to be enabled as mentioned above.

I feel like such a freaking noob it aint even funny.... I have the path correct. When i open a command prompt, i typed in adb but it only gave me like a table of contents or something.... What am i suppose to type to get to my phone?





Edit: Ok i figured it out, wen to cmd prompt, typed adb recovery shell, bam, Droid went to recovery, then typed in command to flash, but no help, went to mount options on phone, mounted the sdcard, ran commands again... BAMM! thanks yawl, now have lastest recovery thingy. OK no how to flash custom roms... any help????

[nerdherd]

Originally Posted by quadjacks

I feel like such a freaking noob it aint even funny.... I have the path correct. When i open a command prompt, i typed in adb but it only gave me like a table of contents or something.... What am i suppose to type to get to my phone?

Edit: Ok i figured it out, wen to cmd prompt, typed adb recovery shell, bam, Droid went to recovery, then typed in command to flash, but no help, went to mount options on phone, mounted the sdcard, ran commands again... BAMM! thanks yawl, now have lastest recovery thingy. OK no how to flash custom roms... any help????

Yea, don't worry about it. I was in your same boat just a couple days ago and it only makes sense now because I had to figure it all out. If you want to try a ROM I would say give this one a whirl: http://www.sholes.info/2010/01/08/an...ition-1-0-rc1/. It's a 2.0.1 ROM that has been optimized and it's working well for me. Wifi tethering is included also. It's really cool because when it's installing it gives you options of what things you want to install with it.

[kyrumo]

Is anybody successfully running wifi tether ?

[parkjam]

Originally Posted by kyrumo

Is anybody successfully running wifi tether ?

I am running wi-fi tether, unfortunately the kernel still has back light issues so it really chews on some battery

[kyrumo]

Originally Posted by parkjam

I am running wi-fi tether, unfortunately the kernel still has back light issues so it really chews on some battery

I have wifi tether installed but my computer is not seeing it

[nerdherd]

Wifi Tether is very temperamental at this point. I've gotten it to work for about 10 minutes max, then it just stops working for no reason (although my computer can still see and connect to it). It's still in alpha testing, so I guess that's the reason why. Hopefully we'll see the bugs worked out soon.

Originally Posted by nerdherd

Wifi Tether is very temperamental at this point. I've gotten it to work for about 10 minutes max, then it just stops working for no reason (although my computer can still see and connect to it). It's still in alpha testing, so I guess that's the reason why. Hopefully we'll see the bugs worked out soon.

I just got the Droid from VZW and used the free app "PDANet" to watch the Colts game on my drive from New Orleans to Pensacola, Fl. I didn't experience any problems watching the game. I was delay streaming (10min) on my HPdv7, and never got disconnected.

Back to the topic though, I really want to root my droid and have a couple of easy questions.
1. Will I lose the apps I have installed on my Droid.
2. Is there a way to increase the bandwidth of the phone.
3. And I use windows 7, one of the first instructions mentioned not to rename
using .zip, what does that mean for me?

Thanks.

[z0mbiexx]

Originally Posted by jlr40

I just got the Droid from VZW and used the free app "PDANet" to watch the Colts game on my drive from New Orleans to Pensacola, Fl. I didn't experience any problems watching the game. I was delay streaming (10min) on my HPdv7, and never got disconnected.

Back to the topic though, I really want to root my droid and have a couple of easy questions.
1. Will I lose the apps I have installed on my Droid.
2. Is there a way to increase the bandwidth of the phone.
3. And I use windows 7, one of the first instructions mentioned not to rename
using .zip, what does that mean for me?

Thanks.

rooting just gives you the root access and the superadmin program..

as for the renaming to .zip it means just don't add a .zip you need to go into folder options and unclick "hide known extensions" and then rename it to .zip

[nerdherd]

Originally Posted by jlr40

I just got the Droid from VZW and used the free app "PDANet" to watch the Colts game on my drive from New Orleans to Pensacola, Fl. I didn't experience any problems watching the game. I was delay streaming (10min) on my HPdv7, and never got disconnected.

Back to the topic though, I really want to root my droid and have a couple of easy questions.
1. Will I lose the apps I have installed on my Droid.
2. Is there a way to increase the bandwidth of the phone.
3. And I use windows 7, one of the first instructions mentioned not to rename
using .zip, what does that mean for me?

Thanks.

1. No, rooting will not affect the apps you have installed. If you root and then install a custom ROM and choose to overwrite /data then you would lose them, but otherwise no.
2. Nope.
3. By default Windows hides file extensions. So a file named "update.zip" will just show up as "update" in Windows Explorer. So you don't want to add a ".zip" to the end of if otherwise you'll have "update.zip.zip" (even though you don't see the second ".zip"). If you open Explorer and select "Organize" then "Folder and Search Options" then the "View" tab you can unselect a checkbox saying "Hide extensions for known file types". Then you'll always see the full file name (which I highly recommend doing).

thanx guys, kinda had some free time so actually searched, i am rooted now. I appreciate the replies.