Yes i know that rooting the Milestone isn’t “news”, however I personally ran into some difficulties when trying to root after the Android 2.1 update. Why do I want root access you ask? Well that’s simple, I live in a country without access to the paid Android Market, and using root access i can use applications such as MarketEnabler to gain this access. Also having root opens the possibility to use wifi tethering, and changing system files (like moving/deleting the stupid corporate calendar etc). Anyway, here’s a easy step by step tutorial on how to flash your Milestone with a rootable recovery image, and then applying the root “patch”. You will need Windows to do this, preferably XP, but in any case it has to be 32-bit as the 64-bit isn’t very cooperative (It couldn’t even find my phone..)
Preparing
- Download the root update/patch, http://www.sera-apps.de/milestone_root.zip
- Download and install RSD Lite 4.6
- Download and install Motorola Mobile Phone USB Drivers (for Windows®)
- Download the sbf image we’re flashing, http://www.mediafire.com/?jzzjmmrvwkz
- Rename the root update in step 1 to “Update.zip” and upload it to the root of your memory card.
Flashing the rootable recovery
- Reboot your phone, and hold Directional-Pad UP at the very beginning to get into the bootloader.
- Open up RSD Lite, locate your image and hit start, when the phone reboots hold D-Pad UP again to get into the bootloader (if you don’t do this, the phone most likely won’t finish flashing).
- Okay, you’ve finished flashing and RSD Lite says “PASS” in the Result tab, the next step is very important.
- To be able to apply the root patch without doing step 1-3 again, you have to get into the recovery menu and apply it, without starting the android OS.
Applying root update/patch
- Turn off your phone after completing step 4 in the recovery procedure, now hold the camera button and press the power on button. Keep holding them both until you see a unfamiliar screen (recovery screen).
- Press volume up and the camera button a couple of times until a list pops up
- Press the “apply the update.zip from sdcard” (or something similar to that)
- When its finished it should say something like “applying root, finished”. If the message contains a error message, and says its aborted you’ve done something wrong.
- Reboot your phone and enjoy having root access.
I did something wrong *sadface*
- Re download the root update, change its name and move it to the sdcard again.
- Redo all the procedures, DO NOT SKIP ANYTHING (chances are, you did).
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