Beginning the root process

Pt. 6 of 11 | 1:57 |

How to root your Motorola Droid

Monday October 4, 2010

Here, we begin the actual root process by

wiping your Motorola Droid

and

install a new rooted ROM

. We'll show you how to install the new rooted ROM, but we also recommend that you

back up your Droid's data

first so that you can restore it later. Once you've done that, you're ready to

root your Motorola Droid

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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.

- In these next steps, your Motorola Droid will be wiped and a new rooted ROM will be installed.

- Back up anything you want to keep and restore later.

- Take the onix-beta.zip file and rename it to update.zip.

- Make sure it is not named update.zip.zip.

- Put the update.zip file in the root directory of your phones SD card using Windows Explorer or any good file manager.

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