yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] adendum:
Did you start RSDLite as an Administrator? RSDLite.exe -> Right click -> Run as Administrator, AFAIK this is the reason for this error message
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] H4s1:
Yes I also tried to flash fia RSD Lite using it as administrator.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] aussiebum:
Just two heads up:

1) Newer verison of Superuser from May 16th that's less ugly and more refined: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=682828

2) Newer version of GOT's OpenRecovery that makes rooting easy: http://groupoften.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/new-g-o-t-openrecovery-v1-02/
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] H4s1:
Please can anybody help me.

What I am doing wrong?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Qazz~:
Will This work with Singapore's Starhub branded Motorola Milestone? or must i get the open recovery for starhub by G.O.T.?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Skrilax_CZ:
It is in there (1.12c+ ). AFAIK there is no difference in rooting with the GOT's recovery.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Qazz~:
Tried to flash the vulnerable recovery but it failed, most probably caused I didn't set it to run as admin. Despite it, I still tried to flash the open recovery via the sdcard, however, I cannot access the recovery. It will just boot the phone normally when I hold down the camera button. To access the open recovery must I first flash the vulnerable recovery?

My Milestone is a starhub branded set, running Android 2.1
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Qazz~:
Just found out that I can enter the recovery by holding x and powering on. Does this mean my milestone is different in anyway way? and can I root my phone via the way stated in this thread?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] hydrochloric:
i just bought a milestone recently, i got to the recovery mode and selected the file downloaded above, but the start button doesn't turn black and stayed grey

anyone could help?

thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cbstryker:
Hi everyone, I have a Telus Milestone with 2.1. I installed the vulnerable SPF and got all that to work.

However I get the same error everyone else has been getting with the update.zip. And I can't figure out how to get to Open Recovery or if I even can. I'm more interested in rooting my phone that backing it up, but I don't seem to be able to even do that.

Anyone have any ideas?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] thho:
I buy the milestone yesterday in Hong Kong.

Android Version: 2.1 update 1

I tried to downgrade to 2.0 but failed at step 9.

Status show "Error erasing subscriber unit.Device API Error:"

Anyone can help??
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kie777:
i'm a bit confused by these steps, does it means that if i already on 2.1 my phone will be back to 2.0 or 2.01? then after i do the rooting process is there any way to get the 2.1?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Qazz~:
cant flash the vulnerable recovery, evrytime i try it says "error erasing subscriber unit" and then RSD stops rsponding
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Qazz~:
UPDATE!!

Finally rooted, I Found a solution for peoples who's phone are using bootloader 90.78.

If your boot loader is 90.78 pls use this recovery only sbf link: http://android.doshaska.net/rootable

then follow all the normal steps and it should work!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zgmf-x322a:
got it running on my milestone...thanks alot mate....hope u will continue to update this thread with newer updates :D:D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zgmf-x322a:
y do u need to downgrade to 2.0?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Coburn64:
Thanks for the Guide. Will try it out when I get my Milestone. I have the Droid CDMA verison of the two at the moment; it's rather useless unless I use it as a iPod Touch... lol.

Also, the recovery option: What's "Bash Settings" do? Does it show some ASCII art of an hammer hitting the Milestone a few times? (Bad pun, I know...)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] devildb:
Status show "Error erasing subscriber unit.Device API Error:"

Im also having this problem. Is there anyway to flash SHOLS-u2.01.14.0recoveryonly.sbf.

My rom is 2.10.update1
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] 4iedemon:
Hi all, I just want to add that if you have trouble applying Update.zip (signature failed) then do this:

When you flash the vulnerable recovery, the phone will reboot and quickly while still having the USB cable PLUGGED, press UP on the D-Pad (direction towards the screen) and you will be taken into the bootloader again. At this point, RSD-Lite should display "PASS".

After that just turn-off your phone and turn it on again while holding the camera button to get to the recovery and flash the Update.zip containing OpenRecovery mod.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] HacKreatorz:
I have a Milestone bought in Spain and it's sim-free. I would like to root it but I've never rooted I phone and I've got a few doubts related with this.

First, I would like to know what happens if the rooting process goes wrong like it happened to people from above post how the phone could be restored.

Second, my phone has Android 2.1-update1 with the following compilation number: SHOLS_U2_02.31.0 and I think I have to downgrade my phone to a vulneral version but I think I read somewhere that the only think that si downgraded is the recovery, or the bootloader or something like that and not the actual system. Is this true? If I have to downgrade the whole system, when my phone is rooted, can I update to android 2.1 again?

Is it possible to actually brick my milestone??
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zorxd:
can anybody confirm that these instructions work for a brand new Telus Milestone that came with android 2.1?

thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
Mine was bought with 2.0.1 from Telus and then upgraded using the official Motorola upgrade utility to 2.1. From that state I was able to get root with these instructions. I would presume the same is true of a Milestone that came with 2.1.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] nsane:
Hello

I would like to check if all is good.

I followed the procedure described in this thread.

I get the following result. When entering in the recovery mode I get the following message on my screen:

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

However, if i choose the "apply sdcard:update.zip" the OpenRecovery starts fine and I get no error messages (I am using GOT OpenReceovery).

Therefore I am wondering why I am getting the initial error message...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zorxd:
thanks for your reply

I asked this because I am not sure that this SBF recovery file is still up to date.

I think it only works with bootloaders v 98.73 and lower.

I found a new one (version 98.78 and lower) on other web sites such as this one :

http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-milestone/75460-milestone-2-1-update-root-guide.html

But I was asking, are there telus milestones with a bootloader newer than 98.78?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] kernelpicnic:
cant root

I live in Indonesia and I just bought motorola milestone. I read all forum to root my own milestone and already download all necessary tools and update my milestone. For your information my milestone built :

Firmware version

2.1-update1

Firmware configuration version

GAS_EMEA_USASHLS00RT1NT_P016

Baseband version

3GSMEPU91A_U_91.07.561

Baseband configuration version

UCASHLSMR2EMEAB1B806D.0R

Kernelversion

2.6.29-omap1

milestcm@il93lnxebld05 #1

Build number

SHOLS_U2_02.36.0

But I still got this problem :

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

-- Install from sdcard...

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package package...

E:failed to open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory)

E:signature verified failed

Installation aborted.

i did all kind of instructions about flashing etc correctly but still got that kinda msg, any idea to root my milestone or gain superuser access ?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] nicholasbgr:
Hello! Can I use OpenRecovery to root my phone to get the nice SuperUser app if I'm already rooted? I want to get JIT too, is it safe to use G.O.T.'s OpenRecovery to accomplish this?

Thanks
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
If you're already rooted and you run the "root phone" item from OpenRecovery, it'll replace your su and Superuser.apk with the ones in the OpenRecovery folder.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] TheSSJ:
Guys, I have a serious problem here:

I flashed the vulnerable recovery, put the G.O.T OpenRecovery into the root of my sd and managed to start it. I rooted the phone and then I also overclocked to 800MHz from this menue...Now the phone doesn't start anymore (it just shows the "M" symbol). When I try to enter recovery I get to the screen with the exclamation mark but when I then enter volume up and press the camera button simultaneously the phone doesn't enter recovery menue...is it now bricked or is there a little ray of hope?? I really need assistance here...:/

EDIT: Managed to get into recovery...one should really take into consideration that you FIRST have to press volume up and then press the cam button...Oo

I was so intelligent to make a nandroid before I modified ANYTHING...keep the fingers crossed that it fixes my problem :(
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] nicholasbgr:
I ran into the same problem. Good thing we made a nandroid backup first. :)

I think I read somewhere that you need to flash a SBf provided by G.O.T in order for their mods to work. I could not confirm this since their work lacks documentation.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] raikan123:
H i just bought motorola milestone in Singapore which is exclusive to Starhub and it has been upgraded to 2.1 beforehand/ hence can i just follow this thread to downgrade my phone so that i could root? i heard that ther are alot sbf and all of them are region specific... please help me.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] avggeek:
One of the HWZ folks posted a detailed step-by-step guide here [1]. I used it when rooting my phone when it was running the 2.31.0 firmware as well as after upgrading to 2.36.0. Worked flawlessly both times.

[1] forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showpost.php?p=44778334&postcount=1683
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CFORDv:
can someone post a video tutorial please and also is it possible to use this to root the motorola milestone uk
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] CFORDv:
probably going to try this, this upcoming week. is there a chance on bricking the phone using this process? if so can you unbrick it?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] robinsonsam:
Can anyone confirm that you can update the handset with no problems after gaining root?

I have a milestone coming to me in the post today and am wanting to gain root then update to 2.1

Is this possible or should i update to 2.1 first then try and get root?

Sam
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] denisquick:
i had the same problem and tried the same things.. but it happened to be a windows 7 issue so i had to flash it on Windows XP and that was with no error.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] indiacam:
Hi folks. I am not an expert but collected information from various places and successfully rooted my 2.1 uk edition.

Rooting is generally safe and easy, if you read articles carefully. I tried to put the same as STEP BY STEP GUIDE IN SIMPLE WORDS on MOTOROLA fans forum

http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/...-milestone-users-we-have-root.html#post235635

Please go through it thoroghly and tell me if it helps.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dsixda:
Hi guys, I've updated the first page to include a link to the G.O.T.'s version of OpenRecovery.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] walterddr:
A question:

do i need to flash the update.zip everytime I go to recovery?

because I can get to OpenRecovery the first time i flash it, but after reboot to normal, then reboot back to recovery. the original recovery comes out again.

is there any problem with that?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] myers022:
Root My Moto Droid on Android 2.2

I just updated my Moto Droid with the Android 2.2 (FRG01B), and I want to root the phone, do I use the method on the first page or is their a new way?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dsixda:
I think that's normal, you can't flash the recovery because of the bootloader, I guess .. So you need to call it up every single time.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dsixda:
Droid is not Milestone, go to Droid forum
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
No, this is normal. The Milestone stock recovery cannot be replaced with anything that didn't come from Motorola. You'll always need to apply the OpenRecovery update.zip before getting into it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
Okay.... I installed G.O.T. theme and my phone is stuck in an endless Android splash screen loop.

That's kinda scary. I've heard things of G.O.T. features not working properlyl ike overclock and stuff. What have you guys experienced?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dsixda:
For the overclock, if you chose 1GHz and it was unstable, you need to change the vsel to a higher value ... I had to go from 56 to a 62. Any lower and I'd get reboots during Google Nav. Just modify the overclock script under the OpenRecovery/bin folder, copy it back to SD card and try it again.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] hhda2004:
Got my milestone rooted on 2.1-update1 - cheers

Downloaded the Vulnerable recovery for Motorola Milestone sbf file from http://android.doshaska.net/rootable

The started the RSD lite 4.6 and chosen the downloaded sbf file and it went great!

The followed the steps as explained in this thread:

1. Download Open Recovery from any of these two threads:

* http://modmymobile.com/forums/401-mo...07-2010-a.html

* http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/m...ed-v1-12d.html

2. Extract the contents to the root of your SD card.

3. Reboot your phone into recovery menu:

1. Turn off phone

2. Press Camera button, then press Power. Hold them both till you see recovery screen.

3. Press Volume Up and Camera button at the same time till you see the recovery menu.

4. Apply the update.zip

5. You are now in Open Recovery. You can now root the phone, do Nandroid backup/restore etc.

Except for step (3) the reboot: I have used the hadware keyboard x button method while the camera and power method was not working.

Now, I have a rooted milestone which looks great in performance.

Big thanks to the Author.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Silico:
What is the difference between our update.zip open recovery and flashing a custom recovery like developers are doing on the Droid X?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dijinn:
A possible update to instructions, users from Brazil should hold X while pressing POWER to enter on Recovery mode.

Using camera button or any other possible solutions don't work...

I lost like 2 hours to discover that...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
There are at least 3 different techniques I think going on here.

For phones like the Droid (USA), HTC Desire, Nexus One and many others: The entire recovery is reflashed to a custom one.

For the Milestone, we never reflash the recovery. We run an update.zip that branches off to a second custom recovery menu, and has to be re-run each time we want to get into it. And it only works when the recovery partition is the older vulnerable version.

For the Droid X I don't think either approach has worked. So what they do is launch a program from a booted-up and rooted phone, which makes a temporary modification to the way the phone boots. I think this is similar to the "2nd boot" workaround that is used for the MotoSense and MotoFrenzy ROMs on the Milestone. But instead of diverting into a second ROM, it diverts the normal boot sequence to a customized recovery-esque menu. Once the custom recovery launches, it repairs the boot modification so that the next boot will go normally into the OS.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] DannyDroid:
Anyone tried this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=747598
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] scaltro:
I can't understand what's wrong...

I have an italian Milestone 2.1 with last IT's sbh SHOLS_U2_02.38.0 and boot loader 90.73.

I'm able to correctly flash the vulnerable recovery sbh, but when I try to get into

Bootloader
90, 73
Err:A5,69,35,00,2F

Battery OK
OK to program
Connect USB
Data Cable

I've tryed with different vulnerable sbh, as well as with win7-64bit and winXP-32bit.

....Any ideas?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
Careful not to confuse the bootloader with recovery. You booted into the bootloader to flash the SBF file (power + d-pad UP or keyboard X). That's one step.

Now keep going - you'll see you're instructed to extract something the SD card and then reboot into recovery. Did you have a problem with the second part of the instructions? If you flashed recovery correctly then you should see "Android system recovery <2e>" when you boot into recovery. If the version number is higher then the flashing didn't work.

Not sure why the bootloader shows an error message - or are you saying it won't boot at all and *only* shows an error? If you perhaps tried to flash something that wasn't intended for the Milestone such as a Droid theme, then this would explain the problem. The Milestone has a LOCKED bootloader and there are certain parts of the phone that you can't modify without a Motorola signature.

If your phone won't boot into the OS at all, then you need to reflash a Motorola SBF using RSDLite again from the bootloader while it's connected to your computer. Here are some sources for SBF files:

http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone - scroll down to the *service* version for Italy, SHOLS_U2_02.38.0

Or alternately from Group Of Ten:

http://groupoften.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/shols_u2_02-38-0-for-spain-and-italy-released/

They have a download link for an Italy SHOLS_U2_02.38.0 SBF that has already been altered to contain the vulnerable recovery.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
There is a one-click root working for the Milestone but it won't give you the ability to do nandroid backup/restores. The instructions here give you a bit more flexibility.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] scaltro:
No way to install any update.zip

Sorry, I was not enough clear... I can complete the vulnerable sbh flashing in both two way:

Waiting that RSD lite complete the process without doing nothing.

Immediately push the up button at first reboot of RSD flashing process (fastest process for getting PASS result).

But in both way, when later I'm trying to enter in recovery mode through the camera + power button, as soon I release the power button after Motorola loga apperars, I got the bootloader error message that I posted before.

Than I able to boot the phone correctly (without pushing any button at startup)... better than nothing... But I would like to understand how can I install unsigned.zip like for root or nandroid.

I have the same result with all the sbf file that I found in this thread.

Same result also after installing SHOLS_U2_02.38.0 SBF made by GOT that has already been altered to contain the vulnerable recovery.

The sbf that I installed the first time, is the one that I found here:

http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone - Italy, SHOLS_U2_02.38.0, but I installed the NO-Service version.

I lost my user data, but my phone was just buyed so it was not a big problem... Should I install the Service version now, or it's not more necessary?

Anyway only If I flash this firmware I'm able to get into recovery mode, but since with all the other I have the same problem, then I can't find a solution for installing an update.zip

The problems are:

1) from stock sbf, I can later install the vulnerable sbf but not get into recovery mode;

2) Install the previously vulnerable injected SBF but not get into the recovery mode.

3) Flash the stock sbf and get into the recovery mode, but every time that I try to install an update.zip file I got the signature error message (since I didn't install before the vulnerable sbf I guess)

Thank you very very much for the really complete tricks scenarios that you post for me and for all. ;)

Whatever else Can I try?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
No idea what to suggest. And by the way it's SBF (Single Binary File), not SBH, but not that it would make any difference to your root method ;)

You could always try the one-click root method which uses the exploid vulnerability (not posted in this thread). But it won't give you access to nandroid backup/restores.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] scaltro:
Unfortunately not, but thanks for the correction... ;)

I've tried that one but is not a really full root trick, I'm even not able to install BusyBox and a lot of related sw that needs full root rom.

What do you think if I'm trying to install the Froyo 2.2 sbh? Would I have same problems for root it or it might solve all?

I can't find other solutions... And I want to be root :p
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mousiope:
this error i kind of found a fix for it

"E:EOCD marker occurs after start of EOCD E:signature verification failed" error after you apply the update.zip in recovery means that the vulnerable recovery has not been flashed successfully.

It seems that the key to successful recovery flash in some cases is to not let the phone to boot to android or recovery until the RSD Lite will signal PASS. When the RSD Lite is restarting the phone during flash, hold the D-Pad Up, so the phone enters the bootloader again immediately.

i didnt used dpad up but camera button but it finally entered open recovery menu ... i hope this helps
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
There is no Froyo SBF for the Milestone. The MotoFrenzy "ROM" which uses the 2nd-boot method to launch Froyo over a 2.1 kernel is posted as a nandroid backup. If you can't flash an update.zip you can't install MotoFrenzy.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] scaltro:
[SOLVED] Can't get into recovery mode after flashing any non stock SBF.

I've tryed also in this way but I always got the same error screen after flashing the vulnerable sbf...

Does it be possible to upload the bootloader then? Do you think that it will be helful or not? It seems to be corrupted... I don't have other ideas in my mind... :confused:

In that case what is better the 90.74 or 90.78 from here

http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone#bootloaders

Yes finally it works....

I found this useful link:

Bootloader Error

First I've tried flashing v.90.73 bootloader again but I got the same problem, same also with 90.74, but finally with 90.78 I was able to get into the Recovery menu, and since I found another very usefull sbf from GOT team that already includes the vulnerable recovery now I can directly install any update.zip from my sd card :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mousiope:
i still get the error but when i do apply sd card update.zip it works !

i also tried a new sbf file in GOT´s page they have there several sbf files i choose the uk one and it works like a charm !
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] zankyw:
I got an error in RSD Lite between steps 9 and 10 which I managed to solve executing the file SDL.exe (from RSD Lite) as administrator.

Additional question:

I've found a sbf from GOT > 100 MB

and the one linked in the first post which is ~ 3 MB.

Is there any difference between them? Also, what's the difference between service and non-service?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Dricos:
How to downgrade ? (vulnerable recovery)

Dear all,

Could somebody help me to posting here step by step how to flash "vulnerable recovery".

Coz, I need to downgrade from 2.1

Regards,

Thanks for help..