An overview of the rooting process

Pt. 1 of 11 | 1:17 |

How to root your Motorola Droid

Monday September 27, 2010

With the growing interest in

rooting Android phones

, we thought it would be a good idea to show you

how to root your Droid

and tell you

what rooting means

. There are many

benefits to rooting

your Droid, like

access to new software and ROMs

, but there are also some risks if the process isn't done correctly, which we outline in this episode.

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Show Notes

ROM Onix Beta 20

RSD Lite 4.6

SPRecovery ESE81

Motorola Droid USB Device Drivers 32-bit 4.6.5

Motorola Droid USB Device Drivers 64-bit 4.6.5

Note: An improperly flashed ROM can often brick the device, rendering it unusable. Use at your own risk. Butterscotch.com takes no responsibility for any damage to your phone as a result of rooting.

- You must have an American Motorola Droid running firmware 2.1 that has not been rooted.

- Tap on Settings and then tap on About Phone.

- Under Firmware version, you should see "2.1-update1."

- Just to repeat, this process should only be done on a non-rooted Android phone that is naturally running firmware version 2.1.

- Follow this tutorial exactly and you should have no problems.

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