Root What I Have Done With a Droid Now That It's Rooted

[barry99705]

Silly question - Once rooted can a phone be unrooted and brought back to the original rom?

Yea, just "update" manually with the 2.0.1 update floating around here.

 

[AllDroid]

Bump

 

[DjSmooth]

/system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg

need rooted permissions to modify this file (remane/replace)

Thanks, if only it was that easy when I had my BB Bold

 

[DjSmooth]

SCORE score SCOREscoreScOrEEEEEEEEEEE



For anyone having trouble deleting the default apps via terminal... or simply do not want to be bothered with terminal, there is a solution!

It will cost you $1.99, though.

go to market and download "Root Explorer". It is a file manager that allows you to edit your system files.

I was skeptical at first, since Ive been fighting with terminal for 2 hours and getting absolutely nowhere, but I just cleared off all of my unwanted programs.


I'm so happy... excuse me while I go do my "score" dance for another 20 minutes.



Ninja Edit: I'm not responsible for your bricked phones, so make sure you know what you are doing before you get too happy deleting apps.

And it works Great, Thanks!

 

[DjSmooth]

in "Root Explorer" App? I don't have anything on the top right.. i just have a list of all the folders in the root all from top to bottom, above that is the pull down notifications..

In Root Explorer there should be a white box just below the status line which is below the notification bar and if you don't see that box, than your Droid is not Rooted. The App does state in the market if you're not Rooted than the App will just be a Standard Explorer

 

[rich12313]

i cant root my droid for some reason, im following a tutorial and it says to navigate to the "tools" folder of the android SDK in command prompt. So i can get the the folder right before it by

dir

dir android-sdk-windows

then when i type

dir tools

it says it cant find the directory

any ideas? thanks,kinda new here

 

[DjSmooth]

i cant root my droid for some reason, im following a tutorial and it says to navigate to the "tools" folder of the android SDK in command prompt. So i can get the the folder right before it by

dir

dir android-sdk-windows

then when i type

dir tools

it says it cant find the directory

any ideas? thanks,kinda new here

If you've updated your Droid Manually with in the past couple days, then you can follow those same few steps and in less than a Min your Droid can be Rooted. Just follow the Simple Version Here

Did it and it worked like a charm

 

[rich12313]

If you've updated your Droid Manually with in the past couple days, then you can follow those same few steps and in less than a Min your Droid can be Rooted. Just follow the Simple Version Here

Did it and it worked like a charm

Thank you Dj, worked perfect.

 

[dimobius]

If you've updated your Droid Manually with in the past couple days, then you can follow those same few steps and in less than a Min your Droid can be Rooted. Just follow the Simple Version Here

Did it and it worked like a charm

I actually did that earlier today, I was surprised at how incredibly easy it was. Even though theres still not a whole lot to do with a rooted droid yet.

 

[Redflea]

I actually did that earlier today, I was surprised at how incredibly easy it was. Even though theres still not a whole lot to do with a rooted droid yet.

That's been my thinking...waiting to root for something worth rooting for, so to speak. So far I've resisted rooting just for the sake of doing it, which is pretty remarkable for me.

 

[droidpcguru]

I've seen a few interesting things.. I have to wait for 100% specific instructions though, as I am totally unfamiliar with Linux..

 

[J4S0NI2ICE]

SO this is weird... I did the manual update without a hitch last week. Now that I am trying to get into the boot menu to root the phone I can't do it. I'm pressing volume up plus the camera button once I see the !Triangle screen... but nothing... what gives?

 

[stainless]

Rooted !!
Mods await

 

[barry99705]

i cant root my droid for some reason, im following a tutorial and it says to navigate to the "tools" folder of the android SDK in command prompt. So i can get the the folder right before it by

dir

dir android-sdk-windows

then when i type

dir tools

it says it cant find the directory

any ideas? thanks,kinda new here

If you're having this many problems with dos, I really don't think you should root your phone. At the moment there's really no need.

 

[DankyDroid]

I think it would be useful to compile all the things we could do now with the rooted Droid, with procedures, in one place, so other people can decide whether it's worth the hassle.

I finally got rid of Amazon MP3, Visual Voicemail, Corporate Calender and Email applications, by downloading Terminal Emulator from the App Store and typing the following into my droid into the terminal emulator:

su

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

cd /system/app

mv Email.apk Email.bak

mv VVMStub.apk VVMStub.bak

mv com.amazon.mp3.apk com.amazon.mp3.bak

mv CorpCal.apk CorpCal.bak

mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

sync

reboot



As you can see, I only renamed the file extension, so if I ever need those apps, or something goes wrong, I can always just rename them back.

What else have you guys done (please post with procedures/download links/etc)

So this is one thing I want to do, but does this remove the apps completely no? So do they still take up space and just not work? I want them gone.

 

[DankyDroid]

Nevermind got it, got amazon off, and facebook, tried to delete visual voicemail, (vvstub.apk) but it's still there? Using root explorer...

edit, got it, forgot that I had the update for it even though i don't use it, got tired of seeing the damn notification, now, I am wondering about deleting the stock browser, unsure though, I use dolphin, but I don't want to delete it and have it have some unforseen bad thing happen, although I wouldn't think it would do anything bad...
anyone, what do you all think?

 

[DankyDroid]

Ok, anyone delete the stock browser, that wouldn't cause any issues I would not think? I use dolphin, don't see a reason to keep the stock one, what do you all think?

 

[messenger13]

Ok, anyone delete the stock browser, that wouldn't cause any issues I would not think? I use dolphin, don't see a reason to keep the stock one, what do you all think?

I LOVE the Dolphin Browser, but I'm going to keep the stock one. Lord only knows what the future holds. It may come in handy for something someday.

 

[messenger13]

I'm pressing volume up plus the camera button once I see the !Triangle screen... but nothing... what gives?

Try pressing and holding the Volume Up button first, then press the camera button. That seems to work the best on my DROID.

 

[eclipse0007]

where do i put update.zip on the file i downloaded and there r 2 other files inside

im new at this please help or does anyone have the file update.zip where i can just drag it to the sd card

do i put update.zip on the mail folder

can u help me with rooting

 

[CRPercodani]

All you need to do is follow some of the guides here, once you get the update.zip you just put it on your sdcard, not in any folders, and then turn your Droid off, then turn it back on holding the x key on the Droid keyboard. When you see the yellow triangle hit the volume up button and halfway click the camera button, then use the dpad to select apply update.zip, when it's done reboot your Droid and download Android Terminal Emulator and type su to verify it's rooted.

@DankyDroid - You shouldn't have deleted ANY STOCK APPS, if you use any normal update your Droid will become a brick for the most part. You will need to put all those apps back before applying any updates (custom made ROM's should be ok though) or else you won't get past the boot screen. Renaming the .apk to .bak is what you should have done like stated before, the Droid has plenty of extra space so they won't limit you from installing other stuff.

 

[alamoe]

Don't know if u guys know about this but 2 of the devs that made the eclair rom I run on my g1 are about to release the first rooted custom rom for the droid
BarakinFlorida and Eugenes New DROID ROM almost set to Make your Xmas

 

[Jaxx10]

Hi, I rooted my Droid ...and also added the SU update as well ... ok now ...

1. I see that i have a little ninja icon in my app list that says SU permissions ,,,, ummm is that supposed to be there?

2. I would like to delete a few stock ringtones and wallpapers THAT I WILL never use

3. Can we use the APPS2SD app and if so ... how do i format my SD card (with a MAC) and all that stuff ?!!? Thanks

 

[barry99705]

Hi, I rooted my Droid ...and also added the SU update as well ... ok now ...

1. I see that i have a little ninja icon in my app list that says SU permissions ,,,, ummm is that supposed to be there?

2. I would like to delete a few stock ringtones and wallpapers THAT I WILL never use

3. Can we use the APPS2SD app and if so ... how do i format my SD card (with a MAC) and all that stuff ?!!? Thanks

Format the sd card for ms dos with disk utility in the Utilities folder. I wouldn't bother deleting anything in the system folder, it's really not going to free up that much space anyway. Like the other guys said, some update might depend on one of those files and freak out when it's no longer there.

 

[DankyDroid]

All you need to do is follow some of the guides here, once you get the update.zip you just put it on your sdcard, not in any folders, and then turn your Droid off, then turn it back on holding the x key on the Droid keyboard. When you see the yellow triangle hit the volume up button and halfway click the camera button, then use the dpad to select apply update.zip, when it's done reboot your Droid and download Android Terminal Emulator and type su to verify it's rooted.

@DankyDroid - You shouldn't have deleted ANY STOCK APPS, if you use any normal update your Droid will become a brick for the most part. You will need to put all those apps back before applying any updates (custom made ROM's should be ok though) or else you won't get past the boot screen. Renaming the .apk to .bak is what you should have done like stated before, the Droid has plenty of extra space so they won't limit you from installing other stuff.

Oh...
Well do you mean ota or any update? I didn't think it would do OTA anymore and I thought I would always do manual, are you saying either would do it? Why is that forgive me I just know enough to be dangerous lol....