Droid Has Been Rooted!

[sebgonz]

The wonderful minds over at AllDroid.org have finally found an exploit that will allow for rooting your Motorola Droid. Here's the breakdown.

HOWTO

Download the zip file (see mirrors in posts below)
Rename to "update.zip" and copy to the sdcard

Power off the DROID and power back on while holding the X key
When you see a "/!" symbol, press both vol+ and camera
Use the onscreen menu to install update.zip

Once installed you will be able to run "su" from your adb shell.

To get the update and THEN root, first install the 2.0.1 update, and then install the 2.0 rooted version. It will give you root on 2.0.1.

**REMEMBER**
You must rename both files to update.zip to flash your phone. So do one at a time.

Rooted 2.0
2.0.1 Update

Confirmation that it's working on my phone.

[16bit]

Hey what exactly can I do with a rooted DROID?

[cobra2]

You can do many things with a rooted droid, install busybox+dropbear for ssh on a local network, setup tethering, take screenshots more easily, access the root filesystem and modify it.... it's embeded linux, the possibilities are only limited by the hardware.

[luis30]

sorry I have the android version 2.2.3 as rooteo? my droid