Root Successful root access, unsuccessful ROM install

[mordo]

Droid 1 with 2.2 FRG83D

Neophyte root user here. Rooted with Super One Click using the psneuter exploit.

I cannot flash a new ROM to this device. In ROM Manager, I download Cyanogen, for example. Choose ADW Launcher, Backup + wipe data. When the phone reboots, I get the exclamation mark in the triangle. I have tried other ROMs like Bugless Beast and an earlier stock build, no joy.

Also notable, cannot reboot with X + power on. Get the same error screen.

I have done a lot of searching and reading here and elsewhere and am simply baffled.

Please advise.

 

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

Well, I don't know jack about flashing OG droids, but that exclamation mark in a triangle isn't an error screen. That's stock recovery. Open your keyboard and hit the search button, then use the arrow keys to move around. Choose wipe cache, reboot, see what happens.

 

[Triplanetary]

Go into ROM manager, press the "flash Clockworkmod recovery" button. Your recovery will now allow installation of custom ROMs.

 

[skilaufen]

The one big thing I see missing from your list is the flashing of clockwork recovery. You have to do that first then all the rest will work. That is why you are getting the triangle with exclamation point.

You can flash the new recovery from ROM Manager.

 

[mordo]

Thanks, people. That was the ticket. Sometimes the simplest things...

 

[teddyearp]

And this is what some of us don't like about the 'one click root' apps. Most of them do not follow up, nor install a custom recovery to your A855 phone.

And now I'm going to have to explore the "psneuter exploit", as I thought Super One Root used the RATC exploit . . . . Unless the OP wants to clarify . . . .

 

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

And this is what some of us don't like about the 'one click root' apps. Most of them do not follow up, nor install a custom recovery to your A855 phone.

And now I'm going to have to explore the "psneuter exploit", as I thought Super One Root used the RATC exploit . . . . Unless the OP wants to clarify . . . .

Expecting a one click root app to install a custom recovery to your phone is like installing Internet Explorer and expecting it to write a web page for you. The two are completely different. Root is simply obtaining super user permissions. A one click root app does exactly that, it gives you root. A recovery program is completely separate.

You wouldn't install a sunroof on your car and expect it to add horsepower to your engine.

 

[mordo]

And this is what some of us don't like about the 'one click root' apps. Most of them do not follow up, nor install a custom recovery to your A855 phone.

And now I'm going to have to explore the "psneuter exploit", as I thought Super One Root used the RATC exploit . . . . Unless the OP wants to clarify . . . .

The current build of SuperOneClick offers two option to root - psneuter and RATC. It opens with psneuter checked. Knowing nothing about either, I went with default.

 

[teddyearp]

Well I googled psneuter and found mostly references to it from HTC devices. It seems to be a different approach than RATC insomuch as it tries to trick adb to root through some manipulation of it's checking of ro.secure. Using it with supe one root requires the additional psneuter and one other file to be in your adb tools directory.