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Android 2.2 FRF84B on Motorola Droid

Filed under Guides by Kenneth Pennington on June 29, 2010 at 3:18 PM

An official stock Android 2.2 version has been released. Here’s how to get it on your device.

Yesterday, a test group of Motorola Droid owners received Android 2.2 Froyo on their phones. Today, that test build has been leaked as build FRF84B. Motorola Droid owners can now install it (with caution). This is a ROM with a custom kernel and root. Installation instructions from MyDroidWorld and Droid-Life are below:

  1. You must root your Motorola Droid. This ROM is only for rooted users. [Check out root instructions]
  2. Download FRF84B-Released.zip and put it on your SD card
  3. Open ROM manager and choose “Install ROM from SD card”
  4. Navigate to the location you just downloaded the file to.
  5. Tap on the file.
  6. Check the box to create a backup in case something happens with the install.
  7. No need to wipe data and cache if coming from another Froyo ROM.
  8. Allow your phone to boot into recovery and work some magic.
  9. First reboot could take a while so be patient.

If you have problems you will need to wipe data/cache:

To install BusyBox use Android Terminal or ADB Shell and type:

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
cd system/xbin
busybox –install /system/xbin/
mount -o remount,r -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

Now, you’ve got the latest build of Android 2.2 Froyo, but you haven’t lost root!

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