Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Droid X Update problems - root lost

Uh, well, my 10 year old daughter accidentally updated the OS on my Droid X from 2.2 Froyo to 2.3 Gingerbread. I did not want to do this because I liked how my phone worked just as it was and I was afraid something would break. Sure enough, things broke and the battery wears down waaayyyy faster. There doesn't appear to be an easy way to roll back. So, first thing, the wireless router program no longer works; no more root access. So, need to re-root phone. Problem; Z4 exploit doesn't work. Did a little research:


  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga__L6Mwxfs
  2. http://droidmodderx.com/ 
  3. http://droidmodderx.com/one-click-root-for-any-motorola-device-running-gb/ 
  4. http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?3714-ROOT-UNROOT-Droid-3-root-instructions-%28One-Click-added-for-Windows-Linux-OSX%29/page15&p=77624&viewfull=1#post77624 
  5. http://www.mediafire.com/?2ugcdue4cw7dtc5


ok, sweet. it works.  Just go to link 3 above. If you had su before, then you will need to follow the instructions at link 4; but, the instructions at the very end at link 3 will guide you there. Link 1 is just a video that I think guided me to link 3. I just put link 2 there because it's the root of 3. And, link 3 will guide you to link 5, so I just added it here for convenience.

By the way, I used the Linux instructions. I used the Backtrack 9 distribution of Linux running as a VMWare virtual machine in VMWare Player on Windows XP on a Dell Latitude laptop.

I doubt anyone will see this, but if by chance you are here, then perhaps this may be of assistance. If not, then I'm sorry.

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