{"id":270,"date":"2011-11-25T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulbegley.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2011-11-25T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T18:07:17","slug":"installing-a-rom-on-a-motorola-droid-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Installing a ROM on a Motorola Droid 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated the firmware on my Motorola Droid (version 1, two years told).&#160;&#160; Project Elite 5 was the first ROM I loaded after I rooted my Verizon Droid Version 1 phone.&#160; I updated to CynogenMod 7, but it appeared to be buggy, and I had performance issues, including the phone rebooting while using the GPS.&#160; I\u2019m currently running the Steel Droid 9.0 ROM.&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.cyanogenmod.com\/wiki\/Motorola_Droid:_Full_Update_Guide\" target=\"_blank\">Upgrade Guide<\/a> \u2013 the guide is very complete, but my notes are below<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Backup apps using <a href=\"http:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.metago.astro\" target=\"_blank\">Astro File Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Backup SMS using <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore\" target=\"_blank\">SMS Backup &amp; Restore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I used RZ Recovery ROM, but I\u2019m getting 404 on all the download links and I have ClockworkMod Recovery installed now.<\/li>\n<li>Follow the install guidelines and delete\/format all data and cache on the device.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>Install the optional ROM<\/li>\n<li>Re-install Astro and SMS Backup, and restore your apps and data.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy your new ROM!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Reference Links<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moddedlogic.com\/pe\/dl.php\" target=\"_blank\">Project Elite<\/a> \u2013 Droid 1 Only<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyanogenmod.com\/devices\/motorola-droid\" target=\"_blank\">CyanogenMod 7 for the Motorola Droid<\/a> :: V7.1.0 (9 Oct 2011)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steeldroid.weebly.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steel Droid<\/a> \u2013 V9.0 for Droid 1, downloads for Droid 2, Droid 3, and Droid X<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roms.miui.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIUI<\/a> \u2013 next one I\u2019m trying<\/p>\n<p>RZ Recovery ROM install<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated the firmware on my Motorola Droid (version 1, two years told).&#160;&#160; Project Elite 5 was the first ROM I loaded after I rooted my Verizon Droid Version 1 phone.&#160; I updated to CynogenMod 7, but it appeared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12,18],"tags":[32,39,58],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-2","category-mobile","category-technology","tag-droid","tag-firmware","tag-rom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YWFc-4m","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}