Robin Hoods Playground

I am not a developer or a contributor to anything posted below. I also give thanks to everyone that made this possible.
Note: I am note responsible if you brake your phone.

This is a tutorial on how to root your droid phone. Make sure you have updated your phone to the latest update of 2.0.1 firmware Before proceeding.

How To Root
1. Download byZinx Verituse Do not extract.
2. Rename the file to (update) or (update.zip). (please make sure that your computer
did not accidentally name it update.zip.zip).
3. Plug your Droid into your computer via USB. On the Droid go to the Notifications bar and select USB Connected then press Mount.
4. Once the device is mounted, the SD card will show as a removable device on your computer.
5. Put the update file into root of your SD Card.
6. Unmount the device from your computer, and turn the Droid off.
7. Hold down the X key on the physical keyboard and the power button at the same time until you see a Triangle with an ! in the middle.
8. Press the Vol+ and the Camera button together until you get a menu.
9. Using the D-pad on the physical keyboard,to select the option to update with the update.zip file on the SD card. let it do it's thing.
10. Using the D-pad,Once it's done, select the option to reboot the phone.
You now have a rooted phone.

Flashing
1. Download and unzip it
2. Copy the folder named Tools and the .apk file to your sdcard.
3. Next on your phone install the DroidRootHelper.apk
* you can use any installer app available through the Android Market
4. Now run DroidRootHelper
5. Mount system 3 then 4
6. Rename recovery
7. Install busybox
8. Install flash image
9. Flash boot animation
10. Flash SirPsychoS's recovery
11. then Reboot recovery
*you should see a yellow android as the background and “Patched by SirPsychoS” @ the top.

Congratulations you have successfully rooted and flashed your droid phone.
And also want to thank PeDe7 over at android forums.

For more help here is a video on rooting the phone.

Its important to note whether or not this is for GSM or CDMA phones, also which firmware this will work with. Some have been patched and can't gain root access.

Also, the first download link is dead.

well the link works for me
but
it a non-trusted link

it should have been uploaded as a attachment here at the site.

I never have like strait to download links

Yeah, it works now, but it didn't when I posted about it. My apologies for that. But still need to watch the differences in cdma and gsm phones and firmware versions. Some cell providers are learning to cook their own roms just so they can patch them their self.

sadalius wrote:Its important to note whether or not this is for GSM or CDMA phones, also which firmware this will work with. Some have been patched and can't gain root access.

Also, the first download link is dead.

ok guys sorry it has took so long for me to get back. i have the motorola droid whitch is a CDMA on verivon, rooted it about a week ago and have no problems.

silentj wrote:This is a tutorial on how to root your droid phone. Make sure you have updated your phone to the latest update of 2.0.1 Before proceeding.

i am running 2.0.1 firmware

CoFree wrote:well the link works for me
but
it a non-trusted link

it should have been uploaded as a attachment here at the site.

I never have like strait to download links

sorry about that. files made as a attachment

ok Irooted my droid but what is this flashing for

so you can Flash your boot animation and SirPsychoS's recovery menu.

The recovery is highly recommended if you get into playing around with roms and such. This way you can do whats called a nandroid backup (this is basically doing a backup of the current rom to your SD card) before flashing the rom. That way if you don't like it, or your phone starts doing wonky things like repeated force quites, you can restore it using the backup.

You can also use it to install certain things like theme packs, add on packs, and even install other roms.

I tell you what man, this thing is almost impossible to brick if you've got a good backup. I've jacked it up so many times and just ran a recovery nand restore and boom done good as new! I've rooted and unrooted about forty times gone to and from stock about the same to. I don't think I've ever had so much fun with a phone.