Flashing the SBF file

Pt. 5 of 11 | 3:16 |

How to root your Motorola Droid

Friday October 1, 2010

In this episode, we'll show you

how to flash the SBF file

to your Droid

using RSD Lite

. This won't

root your device

but it is one of the last steps on the way to

rooting your Motorola Droid

. This is one of the lengthier episodes, so be sure to follow each step carefully.

With RSD Lite installed, we can now flash the SBF file to your phone. This does not "root" it, but it paves the way.

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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.

- Make sure that your phone is powered off and still connected to your computer.

- Run RSD Lite that we installed in the last segment.

- Now, slide open the keyboard of your Motorola Droid 2.1.

- If it is facing you with the USB cable going off to the left, the rocker button will be located at the bottom.

- Press the rocker button up and hold down the power button for five seconds or so.

- The screen will turn on black and will have white text on it. At the very top it will say BootLoader.

- Now we go back to RSD Lite on the PC and just set your Droid down.

- Find the file with the .rdf extension that you downloaded earlier. Click Start.

- Watch the progress and wait until it reaches 100 per cent. If it says "in progress" but also shows 100 per cent, that's fine.

- Close down RSD Lite even if it tells you that the operation is still in progress.

- Reboot your Motorola Droid. At this point, your device is not yet rooted, but it's ready to be.

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