brick questioning

[abocornwall]

Can any droid be rooted like know how everytime a new ipod/iphone comes out there's harder ways to jailbreak i just want to know if my droid is rootable and will your phone on ly brick if I change a main root file or something I just want to know on a scale if my phone will brick from doing just this all I want to do is get android wifi tether and root and I don't want any roms or anything like that so what do I need on my phone to tether using the android wifi tether app

 

[thebizz]

No it should brick from loading the update.zip for root now adding wifi shouldn't hurt you theirs a virgin 2.01 rom floating around with root such and wifi tethering
edit sorry meant shouldn't brick your phone

 

[abocornwall]

wait it should brick. then how could i root did you mean shouldn't

 

[abocornwall]

so i cant use this app android-wifi-tether - Project Hosting on Google Code with out a custom rom

 

[pops.comp]

I believe he means shouldn't..if you install the update.zip file, it will technically root your phone, still wont allow wifi tethering, for that you would need to load a rom, which is what he is referring to with the virgin 2.0.1 rom

 

[abocornwall]

Thanks but I understand flashing roms can be very dangeres but I posted a link to an app that let's you wifi tether would I still need the virgin 2.0.1 rom

 

[pops.comp]

not exactly sure, you could try..I don't know if it will let you though..if you're worried about the dangers of loading custom roms, you could always go through DMUpdater, which pretty much does everything for you, and loads a ROM thats not too far off from the stock..and has the option to load wifi tethering.. Here is the link, if you'd like to investigate..

 

[thebizz]

try using the app if it request su then it needs root
edit it needs root same thing you get when you load the virgin rom

 

[abocornwall]

Ok so your saying I won't need to have a custom rom to use that thanks guys I'm still kinda scared to root those of you who are rooted could you give me some assurance the thing is my dad finaly let me get a droid and I really don't want to brick my phone I see that you can use rsd or what ever its called the thing that verizon uses to unbrick your phone but I really don't want to use or have to use it

 

[abocornwall]

I have a jailbroken ipod touch and a psp with custom firmware so is this kinda the same thing or is it a lot more dangerous cuz with an ipod you can just restore using Itunes and with a psp you can use the. Pandora battery that you use to hack it to flash a official firmware so I just am asking so many questions but you guys are being very helpful thanks a million

 

[thebizz]

no need for a custom rom just load the root update zip and use the wifi tether app thats all you need

 

[abocornwall]

Ok thanks I'm still very scared to root I don't want to harm my phone like I said my dad just let me get it and I don't want to brick it

 

[pops.comp]

Ok thanks I'm still very scared to root I don't want to harm my phone like I said my dad just let me get it and I don't want to brick it

The fear is understandable, and you shouldn't do anything that you don't think you can handle, but the actual rooting process is alot easier than it sounds..

 

[abocornwall]

Yeah I know how easy it is I would feel differant if there was a simple way to restore it and just sync it like an ipod

 

[abocornwall]

Cuz even if you brick an ipod you just put it an dfu mode which is kinda like recovery on the droid but its just a black screen and you plug it in to the computer and it says we have detected an ipod in recovery mode would you like to restore its that easy so I just don't want to brick and then be like oh crap no way to restore. Isn't there a way to restore your phone in recovery? Will your droid sync with your gmail and get your apps/contacts back? And then all you would need to do is backup your music what else is there to backup?

EDIT music and most of all the other stuff is saved to the sd card

 

[pops.comp]

I've never bricked so I don't know exactly how the process would go, but as far as backing up everything, programs like Astro can backup apps onto your sd card, and you're correct in that your gmail account is signed up with your apps as well.

 

[abocornwall]

All I know is there is some thing that can unbrick you but its only for windows does anyone know what I'm talking about its like rsd or somthing like that they say its what verizon uses do you guys know if its. Any good

 

[thebizz]

dont worry about bricking your phone in the forums and sticky they have ways to unbrick your phone and flash back to 2.0, 2.01, or 2.1 it will wipe everything and you will have to activate your phone again but from their just sign into your google account and your emails and apps will come back. thiers is almost nothing to worry about. Have fun with modding your droid.

 

[abocornwall]

in the forums and sticky they have ways to unbrick your phone and flash back to 2.0, 2.01, or 2.1

could you post a link Unroot/Unbrick your phone using .sbf - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum is this what your talking about cuz he scares the hell out of me is there an easy way do do it other than this ?

cuz if there is i will root right now

 

[thebizz]

Unroot/Unbrick your phone using .sbf
this is the one ive found and its not hard