Just bought this phone and need to root it already just to use titanium backup (which doesn't have non root version apparently). How can I root it?
Gingerbreak will do the job for ya.
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Gingerbreak will do the job for ya.
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Where is it? I don't have gingerbreak ,it came with froyo 2.2.2
Gingerbread will root it for ya. But there's no SBF file so your screwed if something wrong happens. If you want, go ahead, there's a guide some one posted, I think in the Motorola DROID X2 general forum. But im waiting on the SBF file.
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I rooted mine, no problems so far. If there are though, it will be a 3 lb paperweight until the sbf file comes out.
This the address you need for gingerbreak its really easy to use just load the apk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044765
I don't see how's this is development????
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I rooted mine, no problems so far. If there are though, it will be a 3 lb paperweight until the sbf file comes out.
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I've just froze my bloat so far, I haven't deleted anything yet until there a working SBF. Still, every little bit helps.
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I am thinking about running the MIUI room that just recently came out on ROM manager, but I don't want to flash it if I cannot get back to stock and not receive the GB update when it comes.
Is there a reliable way to get back to stock yet? I have tried making a backup of my current state but every time that I do my X2 restarts...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Yes you can get back to 100% stock.. There is a flashable SBF that does it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175300
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I am thinking about running the MIUI room that just recently came out on ROM manager, but I don't want to flash it if I cannot get back to stock and not receive the GB update when it comes.
Is there a reliable way to get back to stock yet? I have tried making a backup of my current state but every time that I do my X2 restarts...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I don't think MIUI is available for the X2. Check the X2 development forums. The SBF thread in particular. The answer yo your questions are there.
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I think the naming conventions of Droid's has caused a lot of confusion. Many things have been released for the Droid X and the Droid 2 at the same time, leading people to post about updates to the Droid X/2, which in fact is not the Droid X2.
I know MIUI is available, it is on ROM manager on my X2. And I found out about the imminent GB update on the X2 general forum.
So unless there are a lot more people than me "confused" by the names of Motorolas Phones, than I think it is probably true that GB will be here as a 2.3.4 build soon enough. I think that is why not much development has been done on this phone, why develop on Froyo when GB comes out so soon?
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Yes you can get back to 100% stock.. There is a flashable SBF that does it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175300
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Thanks for this by the way!
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I know MIUI is available, it is on ROM manager on my X2. And I found out about the imminent GB update on the X2 general forum.
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I haven't heard of any X2 owner using ROM Manager. A far as I can tell, to date, there are only derivatives of that chinese ROM floating around. I would research more before you flash whatever you see in ROM Manager. Unless you are skilled enough to un-brick your phone.
But hey... Let me know how that works out for you.
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I haven't heard of any X2 owner using ROM Manager. A far as I can tell, to date, there are only derivatives of that chinese ROM floating around. I would research more before you flash whatever you see in ROM Manager. Unless you are skilled enough to un-brick your phone.
But hey... Let me know how that works out for you.
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I will see what the DEV part of the forum says, but I will probably try to flash it tonight.
I will let you know how it goes.
Rom manager its probably seeing your phone as the atrix. You don't want to download a rom for the atrix, it will not work and you will be forced to sbf back to stock. There is currently only one rom fire the x2 and at least 3 others in the works.
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Miui is most definitely not out for the x2.... but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try since you can easily unbrick
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Yeah, it didn't work. Reflashed to stock. At least I tried I guess. I cannot wait until GB comes out on this thing. I wanna play with some roms and customize this thing.
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I am thinking about running the MIUI room that just recently came out on ROM manager, but I don't want to flash it if I cannot get back to stock and not receive the GB update when it comes.
Is there a reliable way to get back to stock yet? I have tried making a backup of my current state but every time that I do my X2 restarts...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I wish that that would work but miui's only for the driodx and droid2 ONLY
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I wish that that would work but miui's only for the driodx and droid2 ONLY
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Yeah I downloaded it from ROM manager and tried flashing it. It got about 2/3 of the way through the install and rebooted.
Had to go back to stock. A slightly annoying process, but i figured I may as well try and let the community know the results.
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Yeah I downloaded it from ROM manager and tried flashing it. It got about 2/3 of the way through the install and rebooted.
Had to go back to stock. A slightly annoying process, but i figured I may as well try and let the community know the results.
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There is only one rom currnently availiable
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There is only one rom currnently availiable
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Affinity was released we are now sitting on two!
DO NOT FLASH ATRIX!
I Did That Last Week Hearing How Much They're Similar, They Are And Then They're Not.
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DO NOT FLASH ATRIX!
I Did That Last Week Hearing How Much They're Similar, They Are And Then They're Not.
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Well at least GB is here. Eventually...
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My DX2 is rooted on 2.2.2 and at least twice a day there's an update thing that pops up in order to update to 1.3.232 and I can either install it now or postpone it. I've been postponing it for a while now. I was just wondering if I try to update it, will the phone be fine. Will my root access just go away and the phone will be updated? Sorry if this question has been asked already. I looked around, but couldn't find anything about it.
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Just accept it, what's the worse that can happen? You have to SBF? Doubt it. You'll probably have an unusable SU icon in your drawer, but the 1-click root will fix that up.
Get crazy my man. Accept that update.
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Update using P3's rooted GB instead of take that update it will let you keep root
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Yes. Your phone will have Gingerbread installed and the root will go away. But fear not, just follow the instructions here on how to root GB on DX2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1234973
Alright. Thanks guys. I'll just try the update
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Okay, so I just tried to update it and when it was showing the progress bar it stopped about 1/4 of the way through and then the Android dude had an exclamation point, so basically, it failed
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Do you have any system apps frozen and/or deleted? If so, I believe that will stop three ota from downloading.
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yeah make sure everything is unfrozen. If you deleted apps you'll have to SBF. Which at that point you could just SBF to GB and avoid the OTA all together.
I did have some apps frozen and I unfroze them and tried again, but yet again, it failed
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like they said above... if would be easiest to do the neccessary app backups and just sbf with the p3 gingerbread...
I don't think it will update with root... Just sbf to P3's gingerbread rom and you will be set to go.
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I don't think it will update with root... Just sbf to P3's gingerbread rom and you will be set to go.
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This. For me this is the only way it has worked.
Tapatalkin' from my Alien, Atrix'd out DROID X2!
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I don't think it will update with root... Just sbf to P3's gingerbread rom and you will be set to go.
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Yes, it will update with root but you will then lose root. But all you have to do after that is use the one cluck root method. I would make a nandroid. Backup after that so it will save you time if you start flashing ROMS and need to restore again.
I don't even care about having root access anymore. I just wanna update, but it still fails even after unfreezing all the frozen apps I had:/
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You must have a few tiny changes still there that you forgot about. This is what happened to me on my og DROID. Just sbf P3's rooted gingerbread and you will be set. If you need help with sbf there is like 5 threads on it on this forum.
Cheers.
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Well, I was just trying to keep it simple you know just hit install and there I go, but I guess not. I even tried deleting all my root apps to see if that would do the trick, but still nope
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Yeah, root sometimes does some tricky stuff with your phone. And it isn't all that complicated to sbf, download the files plug your phone in and click start and your done. Its super easy.
Cheers.
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And um I think you can go into your build.prop and change your forward facing android version, so it tricks the phone into thinking it doesn't need to update. That is if you want to stay on froyo, look around on google if you want to go this route.
Cheers.
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sbf to 2.3.3
all you need is RSD and the sbf file for 2.3.3, if it doesn't work the first time try it again. sometimes ya gotta try it twice. and if you want to root it once more there is a one click solution for gingerbread.
here's the link for 2.3.3 sbf
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1201534
Here's my dilemma, I just went out and bought myself a Motorola milestone x2 which I have through a local provider. I believe this phone is the same if not very similar to the Droid x2. My problem is the fact I got it with the android version 2.3.5 and can't root with any sort of one click root off my computer. The plan is to sbf back to android version 2.2 or 2.3.3 but am not sure if I can use the Droid x2 files contained on this site and don't wanna turn the phone into an expensive paperweight so any input would be great. I've search for earlier versions of the milestone x2 but only can find phones w a slide out keyboard n don't wanna chance it.
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Here's my dilemma, I just went out and bought myself a Motorola milestone x2 which I have through a local provider. I believe this phone is the same if not very similar to the Droid x2. My problem is the fact I got it with the android version 2.3.5 and can't root with any sort of one click root off my computer. The plan is to sbf back to android version 2.2 or 2.3.3 but am not sure if I can use the Droid x2 files contained on this site and don't wanna turn the phone into an expensive paperweight so any input would be great. I've search for earlier versions of the milestone x2 but only can find phones w a slide out keyboard n don't wanna chance it.
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have you tried zergRUSH supposed to work on 2.3.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321582
Yes I have v1-v3 actually. Everything seems to work fine until it gets to the point of writing su and busybox to the phone, claims everything is read only. my phone will restart while the program says I'm rooted but I'm not
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you should hop on the irc channel. people there that might be able to help real time... not sure how busy it is tonight though
http://webchat.freenode.net/
channel #dx2
Can't hurt to try, thanks!
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I would try to find specific files for that phone. There seem to be significant differences between the Milestone and the X2. I would check over at androidforums.com, they have a few milestone forums, but nothing for "milestone x2." Can't quite find that phone anywhere actually. I'm almost 100% that the x2 sbf file won't work properly if you flash it on that phone.
Thats odd..I had the choice between this and the htc merge...went with this because of the duel core, 1ghz processor and bigger screen..plus I had some problems with htc phones in the past. I wouldn't have figured this would be so difficult to root
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Thats odd..I had the choice between this and the htc merge...went with this because of the duel core, 1ghz processor and bigger screen..plus I had some problems with htc phones in the past. I wouldn't have figured this would be so difficult to root
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I googled milestone x2 and found nothing. Is it the milestone xt720?
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I googled milestone x2 and found nothing. Is it the milestone xt720?
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It is not.
Phone info and box both say Milestone x2.
Same specs as the droid x2 as same visual.
I really can't find any info on the phone online..a lil here or a little there with little to no responses about it.
Its very odd
To the op: could you post a screen shot of your system version thru build # on the about phone screen in portrait mode(or post the equivalent)? It could be you could try update.zipping the latest 1.3.413 of 235 found here in the "cheesecake" thread. You would do it from stock recovery and if it let you do it it might be the safest venture. Not recommending it as yet though.
Is this the phone ur refering to http://www.cellcom.com/device.html?id=247&categoryid=1
It looks like a replica of the droid x2 spec wise
Here a pic in the about phone settings
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Is this the phone ur refering to http://www.cellcom.com/device.html?id=247&categoryid=1
It looks like a replica of the droid x2 spec wise
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Looks exactly like it!
Looking at it now it seems that this is just a renaming of the phone for smaller service providers.
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More than likely..Tried unlocking it via fastboot but to no success.
INFOOEM unlock is not implemented error...
My info for 1.3.413 (updated w/ the latest cheesecake.
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More than likely..Tried unlocking it via fastboot but to no success.
INFOOEM unlock is not implemented error...
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Well here was to wishful thinking. Thanks for checking.
The phone wont work if he tries to update SBF with the droid x2s.. He wont be able to call n such.... The baseband will change and so will his PRLs....
The update.zip SHOULDN'T work on your device due to needed apk checks... you could try to edit it and remove the kernel flashes... that would be your best bet.
Well I'm hopefully meeting up with someone tomorrow before work who has the same phone and provider whose rooted..will post back with what I can
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kool kool man... keep the REFs and Mods seperate till they become tested fully. They should ALL work because none of the mods so far flash the kernel, but still be careful because(TO MY KNOWLEDGE) we don't have a SBF for that phone. And It would suck balls if your baseband n stuff got flashed over.
Just post in the OPs that its for the Milestone x2 and one of the guys will index it for you in the stickies. Also, PM me when you get it rooted, and flash another rom. I need to see if something changes if you dont mind.
Just got my hands on a Milestone X2. It came with 2.3.6 already installed. I've been searching for rooting information but most of it topped out at 2.3.4. Any ideas what to do next. I'm already missing apps like adfree lol.
I would try zergrush and/or petes one click root. May not work in that version but can't hurt to try.
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According to this thread, there is no root 4 u. Sorry boss.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405077
I have the moto droid x2.Over the last four days I have tryed every root method I can find.None will work,I need HELP PLEASE.
Thanks Mer.
Of course you can't root, by your post you did nothing- we need details dude!
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Of course you can't root, by your post you did nothing- we need details dude!
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Agreed, anything methods, the steps you took, any output received, would be quite beneficial in helping you
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Agreed, anything methods, the steps you took, any output received, would be quite beneficial in helping you
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And when we ask for every thing, give us ALL of the things.
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Sush. All you guys are driving him away.
Go to this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315711
This is Moonshadow's Droid X2 Tutorials. It goes into how to root your X2 and other things as well.
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Go to this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315711
This is Moonshadow's Droid X2 Tutorials. It goes into how to root your X2 and other things as well.
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Search Pete's One Click Root. If that doesn't work I don't know what will.
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I'm curious to know. Did you happen to download the latest X2 update?
Um I believe its Pete's root tools.
Cyanogenmod
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Thanks to all who replyed.As you know I have the moto droid x2.system version-1.3.380.MB870.Version.en.US,android version-2.3.4,baseband version-n 03.13.28s,Kernel version2.6.32.9-00005-g2440abd,Eri version-5,PRL version-52644.I tryed[1]-petes moto root tools-v1.07... 2 times.[2] droid 3 easy root script v7.zip 2 times[3]doomLoRD-v4-root-ZergRu 2 times[4] Motorola one click root.Psouza...2times[5] GINGERbRAKE-V1.20.APK.[i WILL TRY bLUR-VERSION 1.3.412.m8870.each time after running the root my x2 said sorry this device does not have proper root access(Root Check Basic) Ti Backup Pro says I could not acquire root privileges.This application will *not* work
Mer
are you putting the phone into, charge only mode before you start the root script?
for 2.3.4 you can use one of three methods
petes one click
zergrush
motofail
all should work
make sure you have unknown sources and USB debugging checked in phones settings under applications and development(which is a subsection of applications settings menu)
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you might want to make sure you have the correct Motorola drivers installed on your computer
there are two different sets for 32bit and 64bit depending on your computers operating system
as mentioned above, check moonshadow root tutorial, follow every step to the letter
if you get an error message from the script u choose to root with please copy/paste it here, it will help us figure out exactly where it's going wrong if possible
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also
give up on gingerbreak
it will only work on froyo (go figure lol)
trust me tho
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Pete's one click is the best. Make sure you have USB debugging check under applications>development. And then when you have your phone plugged into your computer make sure it is on charge only mode under USB settings. Another quick setting that usually helps is make sure under applications you have "unknown sources" checked. That's all I got bud.
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i've got ezSBF with zerg to work when zerg and petes failed
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Nothiing works
Thank you all for helping.I have done every thing mentioned none will work for me.Now I was trying to up grade I got to the M and it stoped.The screen says started RSD PROTOCOL that is where it is now I pulled the battery as iy was getting hot.What can I do now?
47reed.
47reed said:
Thank you all for helping.I have done every thing mentioned none will work for me.Now I was trying to up grade I got to the M and it stoped.The screen says started RSD PROTOCOL that is where it is now I pulled the battery as iy was getting hot.What can I do now?
47reed.
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good ol starting rsd protocol = SBF that bad boy and bring it back to life!
question before you do that, are you on the Verizon Droid x2?
(also, you will want to have at LEAST a 50% fully charged battery before you sbf flash , you phone WILL NOT charge when on the,M, screen, so either use someone elses phone to charge your battery or use an external desktop charger)
rsd PROTOCOL support is for flashing sbf, you have to pull battery to get out of if you don't flash
not sure why it got hot
replace battery what do you get?
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Thank you all for helping.I have done every thing mentioned none will work
47reed.
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you keep writing that, but never give details about
did root work, how far you got
what update, nothing
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Thanks to all who replyed.As you know I have the moto droid x2.system version-1.3.380.MB870.Version.en.US,android version-2.3.4,baseband version-n 03.13.28s,Kernel version2.6.32.9-00005-g2440abd,Eri version-5,PRL version-52644.I tryed[1]-petes moto root tools-v1.07... 2 times.[2] droid 3 easy root script v7.zip 2 times[3]doomLoRD-v4-root-ZergRu 2 times[4] Motorola one click root.Psouza...2times:
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what happened when these root tools where running?
did they say successful
list the step you took and what happened
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I ran into the issue with the root tolls as well...while the tool is rooting and it says rebooting just unplug your phone then when it gets to the Droid eye plug it back up...do this everytime til the program is done. Note this is using psouza root tools and zergrush
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