Rooting

Oct 10
24

How To – The Easiest Way to Root your Device

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Ok, I recently had to reflash my phone via the SBF file. I was trying several methods on getting the Root access reinstalled in the device took about an hour to find the right program. This program will ROOT Droid 1, Droid 2, Droid X and it worked flawlessly I didn’t have to type any ADB commands, I didn’t have to toggle my bluetooth/WiFi 30 times to get the root to take, simply just connected my device to my PC via USB and clicked on “Root” and viola !

Instructions:
1. Download the file below
2. Unzip the .zip file with WinZip, WinRAR or 7Zip
3. Run the EXE that you unzipped
4. Attach your device via USB to your PC
5. Click “Root” inside the Super1ClickRoot program.
6. Complete

Download Links:
Download via DroidPirate.com

 


Sep 10
6

How To – Root Your Device Running 2.2

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If you have never ROOTed your device and you are now currently running the 2.2 FroYo software. Rooting your device is different then the 2.1 how to.

1.) Download 2.1 SP Recovery sbf to your C: root directory (C:\)
2.) Download md5sum
3.) Place md5sum in “c:\windows\system32“
4.) Download in install RSDLite 4.6 for this file you may need an un-zip tool such as WINRar
5.) Download and install the correct motorola drivers for your windows machine (32 for XP, 32 or 64 for Vista depending on Vista version)
Current Motorola Drivers
6.) Run command prompt (Start->Run then type “cmd” and hit enter)
7.) Change directories to your C:\ root directory (cd c:\)
8.) Type in “md5sum SPRecovery_ESE81.sbf“
9) Make sure the sum of the image is EXACTLY “9b6a336cd8f067d4487935468c758d89″
10.) Connect phone via USB and reboot, while rebooting hold “UP” on the dpad
11.) Run RSD Lite 4.6

12.) Select the “SPRecovery 2.1 SBF” file
13.) Click Start and wait for RSD Lite to flash the SPRecovery image onto phone and then wait on phone to reboot.
16.) Your phone will boot now boot up and tell you that your battery is dead. Just pull the battery out.
17.) Put the battery back in and hold “X” while powering on your device.
18.) Download a ROM check the roms forum for roms The following 2 roms are stock droid builds and are confirmed to not require wiping data. So if you use one of these two you can skip steps 24 and 25 FRG01B or FRG22
19.) Back on the phone go to mount options. (Note you can use the volume rocker to navigate and the camera button to select.)
20. Then press Enable USB Mass storage
21.) Place the file in the root of your sdcard.(Not in any folder just on the sd card.)
22.) Rename the rom to update.zip. Be sure that you are only naming it update.zip. Windows often does not show file extensions and you will end up with files named update.zip.zip.
23.) Then Disable “USB Mass Storage“
24.) Wipe data/factory reset
25.) Wipe Cache Partition
26.) Click on Install
27.) Press “allow update.zip Installation“
28.) Press “Install /sdcard/update.zip” (deprecated)
29.) When the install is complete use the power button to go back to the main menu
30.) Reboot

 


Aug 10
19

How to UN-Root your Android Device back to Stock

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The first question I am going to ask is WHY? do you need to UN-ROOT your device? But anyways for those that need to for any specific reason please follow the following steps.

You must have the files below downloaded and installed to your computer before proceeding with any part of this tutorial. If you do not this simply will not unroot your device.

RSDLite v4.6 Download via DroidPirate.com
Motorola USB Drivers for 32Bit v4.2.0 Download via DroidPirate.com
Motorola USB Drivers for 64Bit v4.2.0 Download via DroidPirate.com

1. The first step is download the SBF file which will flash your device via Recovery back to stock/normal mode (unrooting your device). You can download this file by Clicking here.
2. Connect your phone to the PC via USB and turn it off then while your phone is booting hold “UP” on the DPAD
3. Run RSD Lite 4.6 as Administrator (For all you Vista and 7 folks out there. If you are using XP you may not need to run as Administrator)
4. If your phone is not displayed in the “model” column you may need to do the following:

– Select the “config” option from the upper left corner of the tool
– Select DeviceId Options
– Select one of the two options available. By default neither are chosen, and my phone shows up fine with neither one selected.

5. Click the [...] next to the filename box and browse to where you saved the .sbf file you want to use and double click the .sbf file
6. Hit start and below it should give you completion progress
7. Your phone will reboot and you will be on a stock 2.01 phone and your device should be successfully unrooted.
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Aug 10
19

How to ROOT your Android Device on 2.1

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So you want to ROOT your Android Device that’s currently running the 2.1 firmware. If you follow my instructions step by step this is the easiest and fastest and less complicated way to ROOT your device.

The first things you are going need are the following, make sure you download and install before attempting to apply any other steps in this tutorial if you do not it simply will not work.

RSDLite v4.6 Download via DroidPirate.com
Motorola USB Drivers for 32Bit v4.2.0 Download via DroidPirate.com
Motorola USB Drivers for 64Bit v4.2.0 Download via DroidPirate.com

1. Download the SBF file that will flash your device you can download this file by Clicking here.
2. Connect your phone to the PC via USB and turn it off then while your phone is booting hold “up” on the DPAD. (Make sure when you are looking at your keypad it is up and not right this is a very common mistake)
3. Run RSD Lite 4.6 as Administrator (For all you Vista and 7 folks out there. If you are using XP you may not need to run as Administrator)
4. If your phone is not displayed in the “model” column you may need to do the following:

– Select the “config” option from the upper left corner of the tool
– Select DeviceId Options
– Select one of the two options available. By default neither are chosen, and my phone shows up fine with neither one selected.

5. Click the [...] next to the filename box and browse to where you saved the .sbf file you want to use and double click the .sbf file.
6. Hit start and below it should give you completion progress
7. Your phone will reboot and you will be on a stock 2.1 phone with SPRecovery installed

You now have the replacement boot-recovery app SPRecovery installed. You can use this tool to perform backups, restore those backups, apply update.zip updates, kernels, and flash full replacement roms.
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Aug 10
19

Installing update.zip Themes, ROMs or Extras

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Alot of custom themes are update.zip installations because its the easiest and fastest. Also installing a ROM also uses the update.zip method as well as extra packs that come with the ROM that are not preloaded onto their package. Here I will explain what you need to do a quick and easy update.zip installation.

First things first!!!! Make sure that whatever theme, or extra you are trying to install is compatible with the ROM and version you are using! This is a must if you do not read carefully you can brick your device or you will have to wipe everything on your device.

1. Make sure your device is ROOTed
2. You will either need SPRecovery or ClockWorkMod Recovery installed on your device. Once you install a ROM either program pretty much comes preloaded with the ROM file
3. Boot your device into Recovery mode – Here’s how
- Completely power down your device
- Before you press the power button to turn the device back on hold “X” on the keypad
- (If you are using an Ultimate Droid ROM, you can easily press the power off button on your device and it will have an option to Reboot the Phone into Recovery Mode.

Ultimate Droid Recovery Mode

Continue Reading if you are using SPRecovery:
- Now that you are in Recovery mode through SPRecovery the next steps are simple.
- On the D-PAD, scroll down to “Install”
- Choose “Allow Update.zip Installations“
- Next click on “Install Update.zip“
– It should take a few moments for the theme to install depending on how large the file is. –
- Once it says it is completed or finished on the D-Pad select “Reboot“

Continue Reading if you are using ClockWorkModRecovery:
- Now that you are in Recovery mode through ClockWorkRecovery the next steps are simple.
- On the D-Pad scroll down to “apply sdcard:update.zip“
- Next choose “Yes – Install /sdcard/update.zip“
– It should take a few moments for the theme to install depending on how large the file is. –
- Once it say it has been completed or finished use the Power button to go Back
- Click “Reboot System Now“

Your new Theme, ROM or Extra should now be installed successfully if not there is something wrong with your update.zip file or the way you installed. Please post a comment or try the above steps again.