In serious need of help

[jonnylemons]

My goal is to completely restore my phone to how it was when it came out of the box, then to root it, back it up, and install a new ROM. Can anyone help? I have already done a hard reset and almost everything was erased except for some contacts and most apps. I already had my phone rooted using z4 root before the hard reset and I think it stayed rooted because I still have the superuser icon in my apps list. I also formatted my SD card and everything has been cleared from that. I'm getting frustrated trying to figure this stuff out so any and all help is appreciated.

 

[jonnylemons]

Sorry, I have a Droid 2 Global.

 

[corydunbar]

you're talking about doing an SBF back to the 2.3.20 default. Do you need instructions for that? or can you handle it? I'm hoping to do a complete step by step walkthough of how to SBF this weekend if you can wait.

 

[jocko]

I personally don't need to SBF right now, but it would be really nice to see somebody that I deem trustworthy and knows what is up and what they're doing making a write up. There's some pretty good info over on droidforums.net also, but in my opinion the post is a bit... well I dunno, its just not very well done.

In related news, by any chance do you know if they've got an R2D2 SBF? In the rare occurence I would have to bring my phone in to a Verizon store, it'd be nice to have the reassurance I would have absolutely nothing to be nervous about catching that my phone was rooted and such. I can get most of the themebits back from restoring my backup, but the only problem is that my stupid a*s forgot to copy over the boot animation to my SD card, and all links I try to use to redownload it are broken. But even if I did have it (from either option) I still would have lost the boot animation.

Haha sorry about the extended writeup of my woes.

 

[corydunbar]

Sorry, I have a Droid 2 Global.

sorry my write-up is specifically for the Droid 2 (non-global) but the steps would be the same. Just a different SBF file.

UPDATE: The write-up now supports The Droid 2 Global and can be found here

 

[jonnylemons]

Thanks corydunbar, that write up will help a lot. I'm gonna attempt it tomorrow than maybe you can help me with putting a ROM on?