Rooting the Original Droid

Using an SBF file and RSDlite v4.6. From droid-life.com.

How To Unroot The Droid2

On a related note, here's how to unroot the Droid2, assuming no custom ROMs, and no deleting of stock bloatware apps:

• open your trusty terminal app (that's the terminal emulator you downloaded)
• you should see a $ symbol, now do the following (type each line exactly as writen after the "-" but do not type what is in the parenthesis)
• su (give a minute to ask for Superuser Permission. If it doesn't ask, go into Superuser Permissions and grant access to your Terminal Emulator and go back and retry this step)
• now you should see a # symbol (after each of the following steps is processed, you will see a #)
• mount -o rw,remount -text3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
• rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
• rm /system/bin/su
• rm /system/bin/busybox
• mount -o ro,remount -text3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
• reboot your phone. Tada, no more root! To prove this, try opening wireless tether or another program needing root access and you will be rejected.

Rooting The Droid2 Without a PC

From droidforums.net:

Download these and copy to root folder of sdcard:

• rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
• su
• Superuser.apk
• Terminal emulator

Enable USB debugging: Settiings -> applications -> development -> USB debugging

Open terminal emulator and....

• cd /tmp
• cp /sdcard/rage*.bin /tmp/
• chmod 777 rage*.bin
• ./rage*.bin

Wait for about 5 minutes. It may finish and return with a $ prompt.

Hit the Home button, then: Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Running -> Terminal Emulator. Force close terminal emulator.

Return home, then open terminal emulator. (You should have a # prompt. If not, and/or you phone is lagging reboot your phone and start over at "cd /tmp".)

• mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
• cp /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
• cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su
• cp /sdcard/busybox /system/bin/busybox
• chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
• chmod 4755 /system/bin/busybox
• mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
• exit

Reboot phone.

Check to see if you have the superuser app in your app drawer. Also open terminal emulator and type the following command: "su"

A window should open prompting you to allow it to have superuser permissions.

You now have root.

Also, another droidfurums.net reference here, with what to do after rooting.

Rooted Droid

Well, I've finally taken the plunge and rooted my Motorola Droid. Started with the SPRecovery and a rooted vanilla Android 2.1. Then really went for it and installed the cyanogenmod. Cyanogen installed easily but seemed to have google voice problems when not connected via Wi-Fi. So I reROMed to bugless beast, and decided to up the ante to the 1.1 GHz kernel.

With bugless my benchmark has me faster than the HTC Incredible. It's blazing fast and has been quite stable, with no Google Voice issues.

Titanium backup has been essential for restoring my apps after flashing new ROMs. It does however not restore desktop widgets correctly. It leaves a placeholder for each widget, but each one must be fully replaced.

Can't wait for a bugless based on Froyo.

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