RBburrus

i have followed the steps to a T that i have found on here in many places but i keep gettting to the part where you apply it and it says verifying update package.....
E:failed to read footer from/sdcard/update/zip
(is a directory)
E:signature verification failed
installation aborted



why do i keep receiving this instead of it loading up like it says in the instructions.........thanks for the help in advance

Icedemon

update/zip or update.zip?

RBburrus

I have tried renaming it both

Xritam

follow this 100% of the way it should work Obtaining Root - Root Your Droid

RBburrus

Already triedit very simple to work but gives me the samemessage when trying to upload

Xritam

wait so your getting the error just draging update.zip to the sdcard or when you update the system.

RBburrus

When I go to apply it from the sdcard it gives me an error saying it can't verify the signature and stops the update

Xritam

"I have tryed this method and its not working. I have done everything correctly. When I try and apply the update.zip file it says the signature failed and aborts the update. Any idea how to get around this? Thankyou…."

"Try downloading this update.zip and retry the process:
http://www.sholes.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/update.zip

It could be a problem with the embedded signature."

Sounds like whats happening to you, so give that update a try.

mr.miagi

When I did this I accidentally only downloaded the superuser tools instead of the droid root. Make sure you have the correct file renamed to update.zip unlike I did at first. If you did try to just download a different link.

shademar

Make sure it's update.zip and not update.zip.zip, and that the file is intact (the one I used looks to be 10.1MB, fwiw.)

RBburrus

what link did you use cause the ones i have seen have just 10 mb

RBburrus

does it matter if im using a mac or pc i can use either but i have been using mac does this matter?

shademar

In truth, I can't recall. I'm seeing 10,600 specifically. (I think it may have been alldroid, but the specific link seems to be down now.) I've had a folder full of root-related files sitting on my desktop a while waiting for me to get a little bit more familiar with android...

Google rootyourdroid and there is a very good resource on the subject by that name.

Last edited by shademar; January 25th, 2010 at 10:32 PM.

sdguy67

If I root my droid, will I have to reload all my apps?

johnlgalt

Just rooting, no - if you install a new image (say, the 2.1 image or a custom image with other tweaks from other places) then most likely yes.

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johnlgalt

Correction - I only lost a few of my apps, those that I specifically 'manually' installed - all others were still there. (this is with updating the OS with a new 3rd arty ROM).

Last edited by johnlgalt; January 30th, 2010 at 12:53 PM.

Dre2k2.0

hey guys ive followed the instructions to a T.....got through the update.zip part and rebooted fine....the problem im running into is that when i enter the command "su".....i get an error message saying "access denied"....so frustrating cause i know im right there....and cant seem to get around this.....

please help

Matth3w

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