Root Rooting the Droid without rsd lite up to and including FRG83D

[OMJ]

I just finished step 10, and I'm just sitting at a $ prompt. It's been there for at least 2 minutes, if not 5. Any ideas?

close the command prompt and open a new one. Go back to your adb tools folder then do the following.

adb kill-server
adb devices
adb shell


if you still see the $ then you will have to go back to step 9 and try again. If you see the # you can continue on with step 14

 

[brocja01]

I ended up just re-running step 11 and then after it finished running, it exited ADB like it was supposed to. Then finished up the steps and I know have a root droid again.

Thanks, great post.

 

[truesouthgirl]

After the battery pull and reboot, I flashed an old version of clockworkmod recovery (which didn't work) and then reflashed the latest version. It worked after that.

ha! that worked thanks!

 

[droidDIY]

Thanks for all the work you have put into this. I appreciate it.
I am new to this and I am having a problem.

On step #22 I receive a "..................failed on "/system/recovery - from-boot.p'-no such file or directory"

Is this correct or is something missing?

How can I tell if the phone is rooted? Is there an easy way to check even after it reboots?

 

[RDKamikaze]

That's normal, I still don't even know why OMJ put that command in to be honest. But the comment next to it says if it doesn't work, that's okay. It's not a super important step I don't think IMHO.

 

[paintball31390]

ok so I am lost, I recently lost my phone and I just got my replacement, I was looking to reroot it but found out about this new method, honestly this is kinda confusing to me, I understand how to follow the steps, but I dont see how to load a custom rom, how to setup a custom recovery, and finally and most importantly can you go back to the stock rom and recovery after this method is done, like you were able to with the older method.

 

[OMJ]

That's normal, I still don't even know why OMJ put that command in to be honest. But the comment next to it says if it doesn't work, that's okay. It's not a super important step I don't think IMHO.

Its in there cause it stops the install recovery script that reinstalls the stock recovery. I am not sure why it fails for people on FRG22D but since I dont have a Droid anymore I cant figure out a different solution.

ok so I am lost, I recently lost my phone and I just got my replacement, I was looking to reroot it but found out about this new method, honestly this is kinda confusing to me, I understand how to follow the steps, but I dont see how to load a custom rom, how to setup a custom recovery, and finally and most importantly can you go back to the stock rom and recovery after this method is done, like you were able to with the older method.

After rooting download rom manager from the market. It will flash the clockworkmod recovery for you. To go back to stock the best way is to use rsd lite and a stock sbf file.

 

[paintball31390]

Thank you that makes sense now, one more question... would I need to do the wipe when installing a new ROM like with the old version?

 

[OMJ]

Thank you that makes sense now, one more question... would I need to do the wipe when installing a new ROM like with the old version?

Depends on the rom but in most cases yes.

 

[KSutherland]

When i do step 10) i get "unable to chmod 0755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin: no such file or directory"
my file is right here "C:\DroidRoot\rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin" what stupid mistake am i doing wrong?

 

[OMJ]

When i do step 10) i get "unable to chmod 0755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin: no such file or directory"
my file is right here "C:\DroidRoot\rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin" what stupid mistake am i doing wrong?

something went wrong in either step 7 or 9. Try starting again

 

[KSutherland]

I figured it out, it was a stupid rookie mistake LOL. ok I made it all the way the through, is there any way to verify it has been rooted?

 

[Lock-N-Load]

I figured it out, it was a stupid rookie mistake LOL. ok I made it all the way the through, is there any way to verify it has been rooted?

sure, try to install an app like ROM Manager or look into Superuser as they will both advise you.

 

[OMJ]

run any root app and see if you get the superuser permissions pop up

 

[Deejay Apster]

This was an awesome guide, very easy!! thank you very much for the time and effort.

So question, just in case I want to unroot with this method, how do i go through with that?

 

[OMJ]

This was an awesome guide, very easy!! thank you very much for the time and effort.

So question, just in case I want to unroot with this method, how do i go through with that?

In this thread under the reverting to stock heading is directions for unrooting. Note that method will wipe your data.

 

[DLM]

I did step 8 and I get a $ that just sits there, is this right?

 

[DLM]

oh wait i continued through, I dont know if it worked

 

[droid2222]

when i do step 6 im not getting the long device number. what am i doing wrong?

 

[OMJ]

I did step 8 and I get a $ that just sits there, is this right?

oh wait i continued through, I dont know if it worked

Sorry I didnt see this until now. Did you get it figured out?

when i do step 6 im not getting the long device number. what am i doing wrong?

Do you have usb debugging turned on? You could try doing the following in the command prompt in your adb tool folder.

adb kill-sever
adb devices

sometimes the adb server needs to be restarted.

 

[Jinnai]

Every time I try adb shell (step 8), it just goes to the $--I have never gotten the #, running the Android SDK R7. I can copy rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin fine (or so it appears), but can't get the shell command to work. I've rebooted the phone twice. Any suggestions?

 

[OMJ]

Every time I try adb shell (step 8), it just goes to the $--I have never gotten the #, running the Android SDK R7. I can copy rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin fine (or so it appears), but can't get the shell command to work. I've rebooted the phone twice. Any suggestions?

on step 8 you should see $. Its on step 13 you will see #

 

[StrifeJester]

Before I start some of this here is some background. I had used easyroot to root my Droid pre-FRG22D. That was also before I found this awesome forum. Then without thinking I was in such a rush to get 2.2 all setup I lost root. Is there anything I might run into. Easyroot will not let me unroot my phone and a lot of apps think it is rooted but nothing works that requires root. Am I looking at a factory reset first to get my phone rooted do you think?

 

[OMJ]

Before I start some of this here is some background. I had used easyroot to root my Droid pre-FRG22D. That was also before I found this awesome forum. Then without thinking I was in such a rush to get 2.2 all setup I lost root. Is there anything I might run into. Easyroot will not let me unroot my phone and a lot of apps think it is rooted but nothing works that requires root. Am I looking at a factory reset first to get my phone rooted do you think?

no reason to factory reset or anything like that. Just follow the method in the op and you will be rooted just fine.

 

[StrifeJester]

OK so I followed all of the steps didn't seem to get any errors and I rebooted. When i try to run drocap2 I do not get any SuperUser permission requests at all and get a failed to execute error.