Root Helping a friend with Froyo

[gmjlopez]

My friend has a Droid and was bugging me to root it. I did and now he wants to put Froyo but we can't get it to work. Just endless reboots. Here is what we are doing:

We copy simplystunning4.0 (for froyo) into the nandroid root folder (uncompressed)
we go into sprecovery
select backup/restore
do advance restore
select simplystunning4.0
don't make any changes
run it and says it is done

then restart and get the blue droid eye with the blue nexus boot but that's it. It just keeps restarting endlessly.

I'm new to Droid hacking, I have a Samsung Moment and the Droid stuff is a lot different. Thanks for anything!

 

[Da Teej Masta]

If you are using SPRecovery then try this method:

1. Take the ROM you want to install and place it on the root of the sd card.
2. Rename the file to "update"
3. Boot to recovery
4. Scroll to "wipe data/factory reset" and select
5. Scroll down to "yes" and select to wipe the phone.
6. Next scroll to "wipe cache partition" and select.
7. Repeat steps 4-6
8. Scroll to "install" and select
9. Scroll to "allow update.zip installation" and select
10. Scroll to "Install /sdcard/update.zip (deprecated)" and select.

After it installs reboot. Hopefully the endless loop will cease, if not I suggest trying another ROM using the same process. Hope this helps.

 

[jyarbrough20]

well if I am reading your post right you are only trying to install a Froyo ROM, correct? you have to have froyo 2.2 prior to installing a ROM on it. This can be easily done via ROM manager premium under stock images. Good Luck

 

[GreedyBird]

My thought is it is the ultra low voltage kernel that SS came with. I believe they updated it to have the low voltage kernel.

For example, my droid will not boot with his ulv kernels, but will with lowV.. check his forum page, get the new updated version and see if that works