Trying to root 2.1

[honestlyx21]

I've followed every step on droidlife to get sprecovery in order to root 2.1

but when i click start in RSDlite, it executes then fails and says my phone did not re-enumerate.

can anyone shed some light?

 

[borgey401]

have you actually rebooted into recovery? because i have heard of RSDlite saying failed but it actually does flash the phone correctly.

 

[Pipester]

I would also check your drivers, make sure if you are running a 32 bit system you have the 32 bit drivers, or 64 bit drivers if you have a 64 bit system.

 

[dancingcrab]

I had this problem. I use Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. In short, what I had to do was reinstall the drivers from Moto about six times.

In more length, I ended up downloading the 4.5 drivers (Droid Life linked to 4.2) and installing over the old ones. This didn't work, so I uninstalled the drivers, ran CCleaner's reg cleaner, rebooted, ran the cleaner again, rebooted, installed the 4.5 drivers fresh. I then rebooted (third time in this sequence), put my handset into flash mode (or whatever the 'up' and power button mode is), plugged it in, opened RSD and, well, it worked.

Also, remember to run RSD in Admin mode.

You'll get there. I'm now running Pete's stock 2.1 update.zip with root, flashed with Chevy's LV 5 slot 1GHz kernel via SetCPU.

EDIT: I should say, my reported error was a string of zeroes with a seven at the end (something like 0x0007). I think.

 

[honestlyx21]

i got it working. i did reinstall the moto drivers. now im rooted. but idk what the first thing i should do is. haha.

 

[dancingcrab]

Install lots of beautiful things. Especially SetCPU (you'll need an OC kernel, mind). And Wireless Tether for those irritating moments when Comcast decides to shaft you with their crappy service.

And once you're OC'd, start running fun things like Helix Launcher 2 and the Gameboid and GBCoid emulators - all of which run better when your Droid is scaled up to 800MHz.