Using Droid's recovery reboot menu

Pt. 7 of 11 | 2:38 |

How to root your Motorola Droid

Tuesday October 5, 2010

In order to continue the root process. you're going to need to

perform a factory reset

. We show you how to use your

Droid's recovery reboot menu

so you can continue

rooting your Motorola Droid

. Specifically, we'll show you how to install the rooted ROM and

upgrade to OS 2.2 Froyo

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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.

- Power off your Motorola Droid.

- Now slide out the keyboard, then simultaneously press the X key and the power button.

- Suddenly, you'll see the Android system recovery screen with an android on it.

- Use the rocker button to move down and highlight wipe data/factory reset. Press the rocker in.

- You'll see activity on the screen and it will tell you when it's completed.

- Now, use the rocker to move down one more to wipe cache partition.

- This is generally fast and it will also show when it's completed.

- Now, move down and select install and press the rocker.

- Select Allow update.zip installation and press the rocker.

- It won't appear that anything happened, but it did.

- Now select Install /sdcard/update.zip (deprecated) and press the rocker. Let it go until it says it's complete.

- Lightly tap the power button and move the cursor to highlight reboot system now. Press the rocker and the phone will reboot.

- When it starts to come back up you'll see the Onix logo and eventually you'll want to highlight and select Setup menu.

- Your Motorola Droid is now rooted and running Android OS 2.2 Froyo!

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