My first leap into the Android world was the 1st generation Motorola Droid. When it was released, it was THE droid to have. I still love the phone, but when my contract was up, I couldn’t resist the call to a newer/better phone.
Because I’m cheap, I upgraded to an HTC Incredible (it was free at BestBuy). A decent phone in it’s own right, but it’s last year’s technology. Even though, it’s a good bit above my old trusty droid. I wanted to hold out for Thunderbolt or Bionic, but it just didn’t happen that way.
So, now that I’ve got this shiny new phone, I can be geeky with the old one. Thanks to the folks over at Ultimate Droid, I’ve got Gingerbread up and running on the old droid. I must say, it’s amazing! It’s almost making me have a few second thoughts about my upgrade.
Perhaps it’s time for me to consider rooting my main phone?
How? How? Help me!! I NEED this on my Droid 1st gen!!
Well, first keep in mind that this process could kill your phone … proceed at your own risk. I will not take any responsibility for a dead phone :)
And, it will void any warranty/insurance/protection plan you may have. With that said, here’s exactly what I did:
There’s also lots of good information in the forums at Ultimate Droid.
Again, and I can’t stress this enough, if you do this wrong you will brick your phone (and I will be of no help then).
Have fun!!! :)