Very recently, Verizon rolled out an OTA (over the air) update for Motorola Droid to fix certain number of problems that the Motorola phone was suffering from such as autofocus problem and more. Currently Droidusers are dependent on Verizon to get the much awaited OTA update. A hack has been made available that gives you the option to manually update to Android 2.0.1 and eliminates the need to rely on Verizon to roll out the update (Steps listed below)
How to Root Motorola Droid
Following are the steps that you need to get the update to run on your mobile phone
- Download this file.
- Rename the file to update.zip and place it in the root directory of your microSD card.
- Power off the phone .
- Power on the phone while holding the ‘X’ key on the physical keyboard to enter recovery mode.
- When you see the triangle with the exclamation point, press the volume up key and camera button key (only press the camera key down half way).
- Navigate to apply update.zip and press the gold center button on the keyboard to select it. It will start the update process.
- Reboot the phone after it’s finished.
The root hack makes it possible to access the file system of Droid and works on both Android 2.0 and Android 2.0.1.
Do this at your own risk. Before carrying out these steps you are advised to take backup of all the important that resides on your very own Droid.
