Root 1.49 Bootloader

[lukesdiesel]

My Droid Eris is running the OTA 2.1 and has the 1.49 Bootloader. I'm wanting to Root my phone only to overclock. Whats the best way to make this happen.


Luke

 

[danacorbin]

I hope I don't get flamed for cross-forum posting but the devs over at xda ROCK and I rooted my 1.49 hboot replacement eris with these instructions in about five minutes:

[WORKING] ROOT for all Eris' - xda-developers

make sure you thank them for their work!

 

[D_Sweet]

Can we get a collective, http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/127861-universal-eris-root-dummies.html

 

[lukesdiesel]

Thanks

 

[ljbaumer]

next time you should just look at the stickies first and then search and then maybe look at other forums before posting because this is a subject that i have seen answered many times on different forums.

 

[dragg5inbody]

next time you should just look at the stickies first and then search and then maybe look at other forums before posting because this is a subject that i have seen answered many times on different forums.

for real...i saw that dummies thread anad shit worked great!

 

[lukesdiesel]

Still didn't work.

 

[lennyjew]

Just keep trying, it took mine about 5 or so tries before it took and rooted.

 

[lukesdiesel]

I had finally got it to work. Ive tried 6 different ROMS so far.

 

[erisuser1]

I had finally got it to work. Ive tried 6 different ROMS so far.

Nobody is that unlucky - assuming they have normally functioning hardware.

Either you are corrupting the ROM .zip files when transferring them to your SD card, or you are forgetting to perform a "Wipe data/factory reset" in Amon_RA recovery prior to Flashing the ROM files.

Congratulations on your success, though.

eu1

 

[lukesdiesel]

No once I rooted correctly I didn't have any issues. I was just saying ive tried 6 different ROMS.

Luke

 

[erisuser1]

No once I rooted correctly I didn't have any issues. I was just saying ive tried 6 different ROMS.

Luke

OK, gotcha.

6 ROMs in three hours? I find it hard to evaluate ROMs without spending about one day with them - unless I discover a missing feature that I can't live without. (I dumped xtrROM3.1 quickly after figuring out that Gmail push didn't work).

Did you get your bootloader replaced, so that you have 1.49.2000 S-OFF? (I highly recommend it for safety reasons).

eu1

 

[lukesdiesel]

I'm still running the same bootloader. I just did the Root for Dummies.

I usually give the Roms 1 day unless it just totally messes up like the Droid Does Rom.