How To: Root the Milestone

I. Before You Begin1. This ONLY works on the Milestone, NOT theDroid(you must have a GSM Milestone).BY EditAndroidII. Setup ADB and ADBRecovery1. Do our How To Setup ADBHow To Setup ADB2. Once you have done that, come back to this procedure and download ADBRecovery.ADBRecovery3. Extract it’s contents to somewhere on your computer.4. Plugyourphonein normally and mount theSDcard(so we can transfer files to it from our computer).5. Copy the just the update.zip file and the folder named “recovery” from inside the ADBRecovery > in_sd_root folder that we extracted rlier to the root of the SD card in your phone (NOT in any folders on the sd card just on the sd card itself).6. Turn off your phone.7. Turn the phone back on while holding the Camera button down until the ! screen comes up.8. Once the ! comes up, let go of the Camera button and then hold down Volume Up and press the Camera button until a menu apprs.9. Choose apply sdcard:update.zip and wait for it to flash the update.III. Performing a Nandroid Backup Through ADB1. Lving your phone in recovery mode after it flashes the update.zip, plug it in to your computer viaUSBcable.2. On your computer, open the command prompt (Start >Type in cmd and hit enter).3. In the command prompt type the following with hitting enter at the end of ch line:\
AndroidSDK\tools\
adb shell
nandroid-mobile.sh –backup*the — in the last line above is actually two hyphens side by side4. Once it is done with the backup, type the following and hit enter:reboot5. Let thephonerebootinto normal mode.IV. Load the Custom Android 2.1 ROM w/ Root via Nandroid1. Plug your phone into the computer viaUSBcable and mount the SD card (so we can transfer files to it).2. Srch your SD card for the folder “nandroid” and copy it to somewhere on your computer (this is so you can copy it back to your SD card later to unroot if you want).3.ÂDownloadtheAndroid2.1 Nandroid Backup here and save it to your computer.Android 2.1 Nandroid Backup (EU version)4. Extract the contents of the Milestone-Android 2.1 w RootÂ.zip file you downloaded above somewhere on your computer. Then copy all the files from inside the extracted folder (just the files like “system.img” “boot.img” etc. NOT the folder itself)Âinto the nandroid >Âconsole=ttyS2,115200n8 > Milestone-BbCcDMRS-20100329-2033 folder (your exact names of the folders may be different)Âon your SD card. ÂThen hit yes to Copy and Replace on all the files.5. Unplug the phone once it has finished transferring the files over.6. Turn off your phone.7. Turn the phone back on while holding the Camera button down until the ! screen comes up.8. Once the ! comes up, let go of the Camera button and then hold down Volume Up and press the Camera button until a menu apprs.9. Choose apply sdcard:update.zip and wait for it to flash the update and then plug the phone in to your computer via USB cable.10. Open the command prompt again and type the following with hitting enter at the end of ch line:\
AndroidSDK\tools\
adb shell
nandroid-mobile.sh –restore*the — in the last line above is actually two hyphens side by side10. Once it is done with the restore, type the following and hit enter:reboot11. DONE!