[Q] How do we root on Gingerbread? - Motorola Droid X2

So now that gingerbread is rolling out, how do we gain root?
I'm sure no one knows yet, but we can use this thread to discuss ideas.
Lets just say, gingerbreak 1.2 doesn't work.

You don't, yet. This is pretty clear in the numerous other GB posts on the topics page. Patience.

I Haven't received the update yet. But, uh, has anyone atleast tried Gingerbreak? Couldn't hurt to try huh?

quadjacks said:
I Haven't received the update yet. But, uh, has anyone atleast tried Gingerbreak? Couldn't hurt to try huh?
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Several people have tried and it does not work.

digital0verdose said:
Several people have tried and it does not work.
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OHHHHHH ok!

I found some places online saying gingerbreak works, it definitely doesn't I tried it and let it sit for 15 minutes before having to kill it with task manager

EvilTim said:
I found some places online saying gingerbreak works, it definitely doesn't I tried it and let it sit for 15 minutes before having to kill it with task manager
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Gingerbreak does not work on 2.3.4

LancerV said:
Gingerbreak does not work on 2.3.4
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This is 2.3.3

We'll just have to wait for P3Droid who is currently working on it this morning, whenever his starts.

This was a waste on my part. Mods feel free to delete.
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Soo its the 24th...

Hopefully the ota DOES get pushed onto my Eris sometime today, its my only hope right now to get root...
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Hopefully the ota DOES get pushed onto my Eris sometime today, its my only hope right now to get root...
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DId you try *#*#checkin#*#* seemed to work for a lot of people
backroaddrifter said:
DId you try *#*#checkin#*#* seemed to work for a lot of people
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Worked for me, but honestly just root your phone its waaaay better! Because you can use the OTA 2.1 for your root which I have done and you can overclock your eris to make it run faster. Waiting for 2.1 seems kinda pointless to be honest.
lilbballer27 said:
Worked for me, but honestly just root your phone its waaaay better! Because you can use the OTA 2.1 for your root which I have done and you can overclock your eris to make it run faster. Waiting for 2.1 seems kinda pointless to be honest.
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Were you running the leak? No?
Verizon's Twitter has said that leakers should have the OTA today... Also those on the leak don't have root... So while you failed to add anything of value to the conversation we appreciate your contribution.
I have leak v3 and that's why I am hoping Verizon was telling the truth about ota
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lifyre said:
Were you running the leak? No?
Verizon's Twitter has said that leakers should have the OTA today... Also those on the leak don't have root... So while you failed to add anything of value to the conversation we appreciate your contribution.
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He never stated in the original post he was running leak so back off jackass. You actually added no contribution to this with being inconsiderate and ignorant.
To the OP sorry I did not know you were running leak, maybe state that next time, but hopefully verizon will push you the OTA.
I hope it comes out for you guys, even though its just v3 which you can flash over the leaks...but I wouldn't trust VZW's twitter page for accurate or reliable information.
WalkingTaco said:
I hope it comes out for you guys, even though its just v3 which you can flash over the leaks...but I wouldn't trust VZW's twitter page for accurate or reliable information.
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Yeah I'm not holding my breath... I'm sitting on leak 2 cause it's been good to me and I don't want to have to reload all my apps again for leak 3 if I have to flash it. Here's hoping either they root the phone or Verizon OTA's something to us... Root would be nice but I just would like an up to date phone...
lifyre said:
Yeah I'm not holding my breath... I'm sitting on leak 2 cause it's been good to me and I don't want to have to reload all my apps again for leak 3 if I have to flash it. Here's hoping either they root the phone or Verizon OTA's something to us... Root would be nice but I just owuld like an up to date phone...
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What nothing to say to my post? Because I'm right? That's what I thought.
lilbballer27 said:
What nothing to say to my post? Because I'm right? That's what I thought.
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Shut up and leave it alone, you're making yourself look like an idiot and an asshole
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backroaddrifter said:
DId you try *#*#checkin#*#* seemed to work for a lot of people
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Can you explain how/what the check in does?
From what it looks like, checkin looks at your system and if updates are available on either the market or the ROM, it will give you a notice accordingly.
Hope that helps.
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8on3s said:
From what it looks like, checkin looks at your system and if updates are available on either the market or the ROM, it will give you a notice accordingly.
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How can I go about using "checkin"?
*Edit- Nevermind i got it now
Just about 1 hour till its the 25th here and no sign of ota for leakers. I'm not worried though. I'm running v3 and have no problems so I'm happy. Google navigation was really they only thing I cared about in the update so I'm happy. Now if only they can get froyo working good. Too bad Eris can't do flash...
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no ota
Well the Verizon reps on Twitter, informed us NO we will not see the update LOL oh well... I tell you though, I just recently did a factory reset just to see if things would be cleared on a few bugs (just a thought) and well now I have been hitting more force closes than I have had the entirety of leak one or two... Its stabilized out, but thats a little strange. Anyhow back to my original reason for posting, NO OTA according to the Twitter guys.
Well the Verizon reps on Twitter, informed us NO we will not see the update LOL oh well... I tell you though, I just recently did a factory reset just to see if things would be cleared on a few bugs (just a thought) and well now I have been hitting more force closes than I have had the entirety of leak one or two... Its stabilized out, but thats a little strange. Anyhow back to my original reason for posting, NO OTA according to the Twitter guys.
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Typical I guess just wait for root from our devs or get a new phone my v3 leak is running fine when I stay away from the sense UI
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xxstaytruexx said:
Typical I guess just wait for root from our devs or get a new phone my v3 leak is running fine when I stay away from the sense UI
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Well its not going to get any better for you. Its been said time and time again. V3 Is the EXACT SAME AS OTA. NOTHING is different. If you are on V3, you will NOT be getting the OTA. V1 and V2, I'm not sure about. But V3 def wont be getting it. Its the same.
Typical I guess just wait for root from our devs or get a new phone my v3 leak is running fine when I stay away from the sense UI
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Well its not going to get any better for you. Its been said time and time again. V3 Is the EXACT SAME AS OTA. NOTHING is different. If you are on V3, you will NOT be getting the OTA. V1 and V2, I'm not sure about. But V3 def wont be getting it. Its the same.
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I know its the same, the only reason for me to want ota is being able to root the sucker because if you haven't noticed, v3 can't exactly be rooted
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xxstaytruexx said:
I know its the same, the only reason for me to want ota is being able to root the sucker because if you haven't noticed, v3 can't exactly be rooted
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Well I'm sorry to tell you this, but the OTA update won't downgrade your bootloader (I'm assuming you're a leaker). Even if you were able to apply the OTA update (which you can't) it still wouldn't allow you to root your phone. If you want root you'll just have to wait for it (which probably won't happen) or get an eris that hasn't been leaked.

Stop new update from popping up

I made it into the beta testing but after further reading realizing it would remove root I decided not to download. I get the pop up every hour now telling me to update. Is there any way to stop this from happening?
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Just root again after the update!?
neither aRoot / superoneclick works after the update
Dont know that this really requires a new thread but you need to freeze the updater service.
Com.motorola.blur.updater
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xdaLurker said:
Dont know that this really requires a new thread but you need to freeze the updater service.
Com.motorola.blur.updater
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Will that work if it's already downloaded, but not installed. I'm worried that if I reboot my phone now, it still auto install
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xdaLurker said:
Dont know that this really requires a new thread but you need to freeze the updater service.
Com.motorola.blur.updater
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Can't find that in TiBU
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I'm using a program called Bloat Freezer from the market. I don't use TiBackup not sure why its not there
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xdaLurker said:
I'm using a program called Bloat Freezer from the market. I don't use TiBackup not sure why its not there
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Any free alternatives
Not really the best solution but install the webtop hack lol. I have the webtop hack installed and I haven't gotten a single notice after being accepted into the beta program. Also if I go to software update in the system settings I get an error so it seems webtop hack blocks this crap.
Mustang302LX said:
Not really the best solution but install the webtop hack lol. I have the webtop hack installed and I haven't gotten a single notice after being accepted into the beta program. Also if I go to software update in the system settings I get an error so it seems webtop hack blocks this crap.
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Thankyou! are you talking about the webtop hack from gingerblur, if so what version are you running
milesjohnson said:
Thankyou! are you talking about the webtop hack from gingerblur, if so what version are you running
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The webtop is a seperate addon hack that Ken added into the gingerblur script as an addon for Beta 7.7 (which is what I'm on). To me it's worth having this hack anyways as it saves you the cost of the laptop dock or the multimedia dock and it has prevented me from even being able to be told that there is an OTA for my device.
Mustang302LX said:
The webtop is a seperate addon hack that Ken added into the gingerblur script as an addon for Beta 7.7 (which is what I'm on). To me it's worth having this hack anyways as it saves you the cost of the laptop dock or the multimedia dock and it has prevented me from even being able to be told that there is an OTA for my device.
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I'm pretty sure I installed it but its still giving me the same error. Someone told me to download but install, reboot into recovery mode, press the four corners of the exclamation point and press reboot instead of apply sd:cardupdate but that didn't work for me as I am still getting the pop up
milesjohnson said:
I'm pretty sure I installed it but its still giving me the same error. Someone told me to download but install, reboot into recovery mode, press the four corners of the exclamation point and press reboot instead of apply sd:cardupdate but that didn't work for me as I am still getting the pop up
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Couldn't you just install the update and then flash the retail SBF afterwards getting rid of the OTA and the alerts both at the same time?
Mustang302LX said:
Couldn't you just install the update and then flash the retail SBF afterwards getting rid of the OTA and the alerts both at the same time?
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I guess I could try that, it would be a lot of work getting everything set up back to how it is now though. I wonder if anyone will come up with a fix for this?
milesjohnson said:
I guess I could try that, it would be a lot of work getting everything set up back to how it is now though. I wonder if anyone will come up with a fix for this?
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If you are already rooted use TiBu to backup all your apps and data. Restore to retail SBF re-root load TiBu again and do a restore.
I just wish there was a simpler way
milesjohnson said:
I just wish there was a simpler way
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Yeah but I'd rather spend some time fixing it then getting useless notifications ever hour lol.
Mustang302LX said:
Yeah but I'd rather spend some time fixing it then getting useless notifications ever hour lol.
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Lol true, wish I would have waited till I saw the reviews and realized the update was nothing big. I'll keep searching for a little bit before I SBF
milesjohnson said:
Lol true, wish I would have waited till I saw the reviews and realized the update was nothing big. I'll keep searching for a little bit before I SBF
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I hear ya I was waiting on the install till I found out what it included. I found out and realized no thanks and then realized my phone won't let me get to it anyways haha so it all worked out well for me. Good luck!
Mustang302LX said:
I hear ya I was waiting on the install till I found out what it included. I found out and realized no thanks and then realized my phone won't let me get to it anyways haha so it all worked out well for me. Good luck!
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Thanks! 10char

Netflix update?

Netflix requires an update and won't run without it. Any1 know where to find it
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Paulb787 said:
Netflix requires an update and won't run without it. Any1 know where to find it
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Not trying to be rude, but if you use the search feature, there are a bunch of posts on it....
Man this thread is just oozing development! God, its all over my keyboard.
Paulb787 said:
Netflix requires an update and won't run without it. Any1 know where to find it
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Try this thing called google. I heard about it the other day and used it to try and find something. WOW, the information I was able to get from google was amazing, somehow they are able to find what I was looking for. It was like playing "Where's Waldo" and cheating...
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Try this thing called google. I heard about it the other day and used it to try and find something. WOW, the information I was able to get from google was amazing, somehow they are able to find what I was looking for. It was like playing "Where's Waldo" and cheating...
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Who uses google anymore I thought we all made the switch to Bing? I mean it gives you a background! Which changes every day! Damn, technology these days moves fast.
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Who uses google anymore I thought we all made the switch to Bing? I mean it gives you a background! Which changes every day! Damn, technology these days moves fast.
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But Google looks like a guitar today and YOU CAN PLAY IT OMG!1!!1!!1!!! #WINNING
g00s3y said:
But Google looks like a guitar today and YOU CAN PLAY IT OMG!1!!1!!1!!! #WINNING
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But Bing was made by Microsoft, I mean look at the WP 7. Microsoft is just the beast at everything they make.
try this,
it worked for me. thanks to who ever posted it to being with,
ganeshvembu said:
it worked for me. thanks to who ever posted it to being with,
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It won't install... stock and unrooted
gizzymo said:
It won't install... stock and unrooted
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Only works on GB.
yeah , you will need to remove the previous netflix apk, do it manually or use titanium
Edit:stock and unrooted???
thrs no netflix for Froyo.
wht r u waiting for, get rooted and get out of stock and on to GB.
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Only works on GB.
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This is a buzzkill. Netflix needs to stop being lazy and make it work on ALL Android phones.
I'm FAR too lazy to flash a GB ROM just to watch Netflix. LAME!
Posted file doesn't work for me ( I'm in bamf 2.0-5, mr2 radio, imo 3.0.1 kernel). Just says " application not installed".

[Q] Soak test 4.5.91 rootable?

IF I was lucky enough to be selected as a beta tester for gingerbread for the Atrix.
AND I wasn't thinking and clicked 'download now'
I WOULD ASSUME that the amazon appstore would still working (a plus) - and a downside - I would lose root. IF I didnt' have any other mods running on my phone, and was using SU for titanium backup, reboot, MyBackup, etc. the update should install safely, but would kill root.
ASSUMING that I did that, would I have foobar'd myself... and root will be attainable again.
do you mean it looks different than the gingerbread that we've seen from leaks?
Just an FYI, Motorola does monitor this site, and as part of the NDA, it probably isn't the best idea to discuss it here.
Use preinstall method from what I've read it's the same update that we got off motorola's server.
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Gingerbread looks/works different from what was on the Atrix think it was Froyo, maybe? haven't seen the others that were leaked
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Haven't violated the NDA said I'm beta testing - but thats it - not posting anything from the private forums. Just asking if its rootable... and saying the gingerbread looks/works different from what was on the Atrix Froyo maybe? haven't seen the others that were leaked
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You aren't even supposed to say if you've gotten an email about a soak. You have violated your nda, maybe edit your post.
- Sam (tapped)
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Use preinstall method from what I've read it's the same update that we got off motorola's server.
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Just an FYI, Motorola does monitor this site, and as part of the NDA, it probably isn't the best idea to discuss it here.
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I would remove your comment cause it still has his old quote
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Also, it's "FUBAR".
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wvpianoman said:
IF I was lucky enough to be selected as a beta tester for gingerbread for the Atrix.
AND I wasn't thinking and clicked 'download now'
I WOULD ASSUME that the amazon appstore would still working (a plus) - and a downside - I would lose root. IF I didnt' have any other mods running on my phone, and was using SU for titanium backup, reboot, MyBackup, etc. the update should install safely, but would kill root.
ASSUMING that I did that, would I have foobar'd myself... and root will be attainable again.
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Just an FYI, Motorola does monitor this site, and as part of the NDA, it probably isn't the best idea to discuss it here.
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Good then Motorola should sit back and take notes while we fix their phone...
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You aren't even supposed to say if you've gotten an email about a soak. You have violated your nda, maybe edit your post.
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I find it funny that you quoted a post, then told him to edit it. He can't edit your post so there was no point of editing the original.
I have my 1.83 rooted w/ GladRoot 4.3 when this update comes live for everyone (assuming its the same) What would I have to do to root? (Stock AT&T Atrix w/ rooted 1.83 via GladRoot 4.3 locked BL)

Gingerbread is coming ASAP!!

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If I am rooted, will I still receive ota?
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Well this is good news!
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If I am rooted, will I still receive ota?
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if you want to keep root id suggest you wait on the update till its prerooted other wise you will lose root for good untill an exploit is found in gb
Yes, but sbf can still be done to root again.
I'll bet GingerBreak works on it. I've rooted a dozen of phones all different makes and models and versions with that handy all in one program.
RacerXFD said:
Yes, but sbf can still be done to root again.
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Not true we don't know if this update will break the sbf
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This is false information. On the 23rd testers where contacted and told the test was not ready but we would be be notified when it was. So no need to worry about going back stock just yet.
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This is false information. On the 23rd testers where contacted and told the test was not ready but we would be be notified when it was. So no need to worry about going back stock just yet.
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and your source?
http://support.vzw.com/system_update/droidx2.html
This is an official Verizon site for the haters
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hackthis02 said:
I'll bet GingerBreak works on it. I've rooted a dozen of phones all different makes and models and versions with that handy all in one program.
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In theory it could work, but the d3 can't be rooted, but then again its using the omap processor, so its time to wait and see
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and your source?
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I got the same message zak did, but as we see its now live on the VZW site, so hopefully rollout begins soon...
Color me excited =D
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In theory it could work, but the d3 can't be rooted, but then again its using the omap processor, so its time to wait and see
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Just wondering, it could be rooted (the D3) right? It's just not as of now. Is their any other GB phone out their thats rooted?
Elite49 said:
Just wondering, it could be rooted (the D3) right? It's just not as of now. Is their any other GB phone out their thats rooted?
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Every android device could be rooted, practically if you know mac, or linux its just typing su (super user, and i believe it might be sudo (superuser do)) does that answer the question, if not then yes
No word about MP3 or video recording issues, either that or I just read too fast and missed it
I think the OP's question was, can he update, or will he receive an update notice if his phone is rooted? I would like to know this as well.
Also, I am confused or not reading a clear answer, will this version be rootable? I think it is 2.3.3...Gingerbread.
I like root on my X2 too much to update right now if there is no root.
Thanks in advance for any clear answers and explanations.
I am so excited I am going to start my sbf now. If they are posting it on their website they have to be really close with it.
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I am so excited I am going to start my sbf now. If they are posting it on their website they have to be really close with it.
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I'm about to do the same!
Gingerbreak used to work for rooting Gingerbread but they fixed the exploit in the latest versions. So right now there isn't any way to root. Your best bet is to wait for a custom rom to come out with Gingerbread pre-rooted.

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