Sapphire 1.0.0, a superlative custom ROM for the Motorola Droid, was just released. You can upgrade to it via ROM Manager using the steps I previously wrote. Just substitute build 1.0.0 for 0.8.4. You still have to downgrade to ClockworkMod 2.0.1.3 to update using ROM Manager (i.e. ClockworkMod 2.5.0.1. won’t reboot your phone when installing this [...]
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For the past several months, I have been a huge fan of running CyanogenMod (CM5, mostly) on my rooted Motorola Droid. Unfortunately, the ROM’s latest incarnations (CM6 RC1 and RC2)—which correspond to its move to the Froyo source code base—have not run stably on my phone. Despite my efforts to fix the problems (reflashing, wiping [...]
Here are instructions on how to overclock your Motorola Droid. I learned how to do this through various forum posts and a blog posts, some of which were a confusing mess of information and misinformation. My goals is to summarize what I have learned in one place, to act as a more-or-less definitive guide.
Root your Droid. [...]
I bought my Motorola Droid the morning it was released to the public. The first app I installed on it was Locale, which promised to automatically set the phone’s volume, wifi settings, and so on, based on its current location. I thought this was a great idea: I could automatically silence my phone at the [...]
I never thought I’d root my Motorola Droid. The typical reasons for doing so, such as creating tethering (serving as a wireless access point for a computer) and overclocking didn’t appeal much to me. What finally pushed me over the fence to the rooting side, though, was when Google released Android 2.1. I really wanted [...]
This morning I updated my Motorola Droid to Android 2.1, using a custom ROM. You have to root your phone first, which isn’t actually that big a deal. Check out this forum thread for instructions and download links for Adam Z’s Smoked Glass ROM v6.0.1. After downloading the ROM, be sure to rename it so [...]
As many of my friends and Twitter followers know, I rushed out to buy the Motorola Droid—the new Android phone that works on the Verizon Wireless network—on the morning it was released. I love the phone, and planned that day to write a review of it.
This phone is so popular, and was covered so much [...]
