[Droid 2 Android Development] freakboy13:
MY UNr00ting experience

This whole rooting thing seems to have the common phenomenom of a whole lotta people knowin a whole lotta nothin. No one or any thing in specific just seems to be a lot of confusion.

I couldnt figure out (through answers I searched/googled) whether or not you had to unroot to update. THere should be ONE single diffinitive answer for this period. I keep reading how lots of people messin up on unrooting. this shouldnt be, its just a bunch of commands to a computer more or less. Therefore it has to be user error if something isnt right, which can be easily done unknowingly.

First off i dont know crap about these phones, I just love this kind of stuff.

I got a droid 2 and after doig the go f yourself winmo , BUH bye!! i came here ....lol. so wanting to totally f up my phone, I of course rooted it and started messing around. of course i get the update and was ooooo i better check to see if I mess up phone or not.

long story short:

I decided to play iot smart, follow ALL directions, got TI back up ap, made SD copy to my pc, and what ever else I needed to do.

Win zip would not open the jpeg for those two files I had to use winrar.

I used rsd lit 4.9. now since i was rbooting back to the original system I used the older sbf file with "shadow" in it. NOT the 2.3 new sbf file.

No problems with rsd lite, no need to replace any ini files either. 4.9 worked perfect. Well except for one wierd glitch.

So I DL'd the sbf files to my desktop opened up rsd. Picked up my D2 no problems. I hit the " " button and flashed the file. Yes phone had all the correct settings required. I personally watched the phone flash from the cmd line all the way back to reboot. Phone came back. BUT as stated it had no 3g no service at all, just a blue triangle.BUT I had all my contacts, all my recent calls all my txts still saved. all my aps were there EXCept the superuser ap, SO... i am thinking this is proof I am unrooted. Yes? One thing. Rsd ran for about 3 minutes rebooted the phone (even the wallpaper was the same) BUT there was a message on the rsd screen that said "please manually restart phone". I was like hmmmm... Sounded dangerous doing this while still connected to the device...but im stupid so I did it. Nothing. phone was still on and perfect (other than no signall) but rsd screen still said phone was connected and running program. I ws like wtf...so yeah I got crazy popped out the battery while phone was on. Phone comes back ...no droid start up music, my home key STILL doesnt work ( see my other post in general) but every thing is still good. So F it I hit "stop" i get a message about you could damgae your device if you stop, so i hit yes.....

nothing.

NOw...rsd WILL not recognize my phone. PANIC. i try every thing reboor reset, on off pull out battery. will not recognize phone. I was like hmmmm,,,I do the*22866 or whatever it is and VOILA! phone is online works mint EXcept one thing. My original problem that occured after rooting is still there: home key will vibrate but has no effect on any function. Lock screen will not come up even though password/pin is entered. ITs annoying because my phone wont lock and if I hit the volume button while in my pocket I dial a call or buy an app ....lol.

SO: it is NOT neccesary to use the second sbf file the bld_235 one. I never flashed that and my phone is unrooted. or at least I hope it is!

You do not have to do factory reset....do you? I havnt done so and see no need to wipe data. THis was found out only due to the fact I could not get the rsd 4.9 to recognize my phone I took a chance and hit the sequence. Comments apreciated I still wanrt to know how to fix my home key and lockscreen issue. Thanks to every one who put in time figuring out these mods its really great stuff.