[Tutorial] How to root your Droid Eris (Leaked or OTA)

The back up is in case you want to go back to your original 2.1 settings. Everything will be saved, including how you had everything set up (your home screen, your settings, all that jazz).

If you ever want to flash a different ROM always back up in case you don;t like the ROM or there is a problem. That way you can always just go into recovery and get everything back!

My phone is officially running kaosfroyo v34.

Thanks to everyone who helped with my first root. Loving every minute of it! It's like a brand new phoneeee!

Having a problem...I followed the directions to a T, loaded the nonsensikal rom and it rebooted.  But now its just showing the cyanogen boot splash screen for the past 5 or so minutes...what can i do!?

Thank you Sik, I got it!  And it made a phone I wanted to throw into a Brick wall into something I can enjoy! 

First, the only way to get FroYo on your Eris is to r00t. I only recommend to r00t when you really want to have something the vendor is not able (or willing) to give you.

To r00t, see these instructions

http://www.droid-eris.com/tutorials-corner/one-click-root-for-eris/

To load a FroYo ROM, my personal preference is Nonsensikal. Currently on v10.1 is really solid, fast and with very good battery life. 

http://www.droid-eris.com/the-fantasik-rom-project/(rom)-froyo-alpha-test-'nonsensikal'/

There are some other nice FroYo ROMs, like Kaos or Tazz, but Nonsensikal is my favorite.


To flash the ROM, just copy the ZIP file to your SD card. Don't put it on any folder, just on the SD card.

Reboot the phone. Select RECOVERY and the phone will boot on recovery mode (green menu)

Select WIPE and do a Dalvik wipe and full wipe (did you remember to backup?)

Press the VOLUME DOWN to return to the main menu

Select FLASH from SD card, select the Nonsensikal ZIP file you copied there (will be the one to select).

The flashing will take about a minute.

Reboot and you are good to go. 

Hope this helps

Off the top... Im a viiiirgin at this. 1st root ever! or at least trying... I know early in the thread it talks about the track ball not working on the recovery screen...
Ive pushed what i needed and ran the script only to sit at "reboot.." on the recovery page.
I went to the website stated and looked for a recoveryimg and couldnt find it..? Am I doing it right? I thought id copy and replace the recovery.img in my sdk/tools folder!?
This is where Im stuck.  I just need someone to "walk" me through repalcing the recovery.img that the post is talking about.. How and where!?!

Im loosing my mind and I know this thread is old but im trying to root and hit up GSB.

Help Please!

Used root checker and I am rooted though I wasnt at first, just wouldnt go past the cecovery screenmaily becaue i could move the track ball.. So I used a different method (PB00IMG) and though my eris is back to factory (worry about that later) I am rooted now.

...and still cant get the track ball to work on the android recovery screen..(mind that the track ball works great everywhere else)  still need to wipe all and flash my ROM..

Any ideas on getting the track ball rolling... literally

Praise the GODS...  I did it..  10 hrs later and reading every forum in world!  I had to fastboot flash a new recovery image from pc via CMD ( recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img) and PRESTO!  I could use the trackball...  though it took a hundred turns to move one line.. oh well.  THEn..  ROM cherry popped! Flashed CM7's GSB... 10 cups of coffee and a masive headache and Im done!

.......... Im going to sleep...