Is your Droid X currently rooted, but you want the latest Gingerbread version for all the bug fixes? Well, you’re in luck! MyDroidWorld has posted files and instructions for your Droid X rooting pleasure. Here’s how the rooting process is going to go down:
WARNING: Proceed at your own risk. If you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer in the comments.
- Flash your phone back to the official Froyo 2.3.340 (you’ll need to use RSD Lite with the Froyo SBF file)
- Turn on your X while holding the volume down button and the camera button at the same time. Connect to PC, load the SBF into RSD lite, and click Start
- After the flash is complete and the phone restarts, pull the battery and power the phone back on into stock recovery by holding the home button
- To see the menu in recovery hit the search key
- Do a factory reset from recovery at least 3 times (I like to do this to make sure everything is totally clean) and restart the phone
- Once you’re back to Froyo, root using z4root
- Install Droid 2 version of Bootstrap (Droid X bootstrap will NOT work)
- Download 2 files to flash from recovery. The first one here and the second one here and place them on the root of your SD card
- Run bootstrap and reboot into recovery
- Install part 1 and part 2 before leaving recovery
- Reboot and relax because your done
If this is your first time rooting your Droid X, I would suggest you read up on how to do this or ask in the forums. If not, and you have all the tools ready to go, rock on!
[via mdw]