I have a Motorola Droid running 2.1.-Update 1 that is not rooted, nor has it never been rooted, and I can't get into recovery mode. (I'm trying to manually instal0 2.2, and I don't want to root)
My problem is that I can't get unto recovery mode. I pressed X at the boot up, and the phone freezes on the 'M' logo and does nothing. The phone boots perfectly fine and works perfectly fine, but the inner geek in me wants to fix this because it's a function of my phone that is not working.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

 

Yeah I'm holding down X while I press power. My finger is starting to get a bit sore from holding it down. How do I go into the bootloader and flash a stock SBF?

The odd part is that I manually update from 2.1 to 2.1-update 1 without problems months ago when the update came out.

Thank you for the response, I'm happy to accept any suggestions!

 

Awesome, I have access to bootloader, and I found the following webpage.... Video: Flashing SPRecovery SBF to Stock 2.1 | Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Would this be the correct path for me to take? (I feel like a child.... I can build computers and do basic programming, but I feel helpless when it comes to this Droid. Thank you both again for your help.)

 

Thanks for the link, I'm checking it out now.

Here's a funny thought, what if I use the above process, but flash with a stock recovery for 2.1.-Update 1??? In theory, that would keep it stock.....

Or I am just foolish?

 

On the page you sent me, unless I am mistaken, there is a section that states "how to revert back to Stock 2.0 2.0.1, or 2.1, and in there is a file named VZW_A855_ESD56_QSC6085BP_C_01.3E.01P_SW_UPDATE_03. sbf

Wouldn't that be the stock file you are referring to? If not, I'll put SBrecovery on here and use it in place of the stock recovery file... as long as my phone still works, I really don't care.

 

Before I forget, thank you for the help. I do feel like you have pointed me in the right direction.

 

That may be my only option then. it cetainly doens't hurt getting rid of some of my junk anyway, and I know that google has all my contact info in the cloud.

 

So it's working fine now, update installing as expected. I went ahead and used Slite to do a wipe of the phone, I didn't lose much thanks to Google's "cloud".

Thank you everyone for your help... sorry to be annoying about it.