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toslowdroid

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My brother has a droid x and he is sick and tired of the phone not working right, im trying to convince him to root and flash a diffrent firmware and such

can some one tell me step by step on how to do this.. I flashed and rooted my fascinate and it works great. please can someone help

thanks
 
toslowdroid said:
My brother has a droid x and he is sick and tired of the phone not working right, im trying to convince him to root and flash a diffrent firmware and such

can some one tell me step by step on how to do this.. I flashed and rooted my fascinate and it works great. please can someone help

thanks
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Basically you need to get z4root [APP] z4root - xda-developers onto your X into the root directory on your sdcard. Then use explorer, astro file manager, an app installer or similar and run z4root. When it comes up select permanent root.

Here a list of what to do:
Root with Z4Root

Download Droid X bootstrapper. Go to app and hit the top button "bootstrap recovery" grant it superuser permission and then it will say success (then you know you are rooted).

From here you have 2 options:
1. Hit the bottom button to reboot into recovery.
It will reboot into a screen with green words and such. To navigate use the volume rockers and select by fully depressing the camera button.
Scroll down to backup and restore, select it, and then select backup. It will take about 5 minutes to complete. You can find your backup located at sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/'date of backup' which you can rename as long as there aren't any spaces or ()'s.

2. A different way to backup is download Rom manager. Open it and click the top most button "flash clockworkmod" after that scroll down to backup current rom, give it a name and it will reboot and do its thing. The backup will be in the same place as before.

3. Download Titanium Backup (I suggest purchasing the Pro version) and make a backup of all of your user data and apps. With the Pro version you can do batch backup and restore which allows you to restore single apps.

4. Once rooted. Find and download a rom and install it according to the directions of the dev. Once you get your new rom installed and all of your apps installed and everything set like you like it, then make another backup using BootStrap Recovery. Some rom's you could test drive are Apex 1.4.1 (probably the best for starting out with), Liberty 2.x, DarkSlide 4.2 (this is the one I am on and a good one to start out with as well).

Thanks for Aggie12 for the steps mentioned above (with a little extra added from me) from this thread http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/258395-best-backup-use-before-rooting.html

Here is a link that should help you http://androidforums.com/droid-x-al...ide-root-unroot-backup-rom-sbf-overclock.html
 
before you go rooting it though (and I highly endorse rooting), mind if I ask exactly what's "not working" about the phone? Because as I recall, out of the box, Droid X's pretty much do everything they're supposed to, and do it very well. Rooting gives you many more, fun options that let you enhance the experience and possibly get your phone to work BETTER... but if there's something that's "not working," it may be a problem with the actual phone, or in misunderstanding how to use it.
 
Agreed. Rooting and deodexing doesn't actually fix anything at all on the phone. It could well be that he has too many widgets running at the same time, and too much junk installed thats always running.

My wife's phone runs dog slow compared to mine, and its because she has so much crap running all the time that the response is slow, memory is short, and it drains her battery much faster than my own phone.

The best thing to do to is to just remove all home screen widgets, uninstall apps not used, turn the phone off, do a battery pull, reboot, and after things settle down, see how the phone responds. if it seems like things are better, then that indicates he just had too much junk running all the time.

If not, odds are he needs to uninstall some items that are always running in the background.
 
Yes, I agree with the others. If there is already a problem with the phone, then you (he) needs to address that first...i.e. return it or swap it for another one. If the phone is "not acting right" then I would not root it. I would get that problem fixed first and make sure I (he) has a solid phone before you start playing with it.
 
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