How to: Create a Droid Custom Boot Animation

After posting the Droid Life custom boot animation yesterday, we promised to bring you a set of instructions on how to create your own and you can consider that promised delivered.  These instructions are pretty simple to tell you the truth, but feel free to...

Download: Droid Life Custom Boot Animation

This site seriously has the greatest community of readers I have ever seen.  I woke up yesterday morning, checked out the Droid Life Facebook page and found an amazing custom boot animation that one of our readers had tossed together in his spare time.  Un-...

Waiting for DroidMod to Root 2.1? Stop Now.

The question of the month is hands down, "When will 2.1 be rooted?" and unfortunately we have no idea.  In fact, after the make-shift 2.1 root was put together last week, I was pretty worried that we may never see a true root exploit for 2.1.  Why would anyone...

Video: Installing a Custom Theme Using ROM Manager

The next video in our never ending series on rooting, custom ROM-ing and personalizing your Motorola Droid moves us onto the process of installing a custom theme.  There are dozens of themes available for your use, but we're going to keep this simple and use...

A Note on Stopping OTA Notifications

There has been a ton of talk and confusion surrounding users running rooted Droids with either SPRecovery or ClockworkMod Recovery and how they can deal with 2.1 OTA update notifcations.  For example, let's say you are running DroidMod1.0 and received the...

How to: Root Android 2.1

_______________________________________________ UPDATE: FULL GUIDE TO ROOTING ANDROID 2.1 HERE. _______________________________________________ This is a post I was attempting to avoid over the weekend, but I've received enough interest in the process that I...