Droid X Gets Rooted, Handset Owners Rejoice

The Motorola Droid X has seen a lot of press lately after its successful launch, screen issues and a small matter surrounding eFuse technology.

Today, news comes from the Droid X Forums signalling the high powered Android handset has been rooted, allowing users to remove pre-installed junk apps and theme their phones as they wish.

You might have remember the eFuse fiasco, stories centering around a technology that would prevent Droid X owners from tampering with the bootloader on the handset, restricting users to official Motorola firmware. Although owners will be able to modify their devices to a large extent, the rooting of the Droid X hasn’t paved the way for custom ROM’s, yet.

The following post appeared on the forum earlier this morning:

WE HAZ ROOTS!. Thanks to Birdman. Here is the directions.

Step 1: Set up ADB
Step 2: Push exploid to /sqlite_stmt_journals “adb push exploid /sqlite_stmt_journals”
Step 3: type “adb shell”
Step 4: type “cd sqlite_stmt_journals”
Step 5: type “chmod 755 exploid”
Step 6: type “./exploid” and follow directions on screen
Step 7: type “rootshell”
Step 8: type in password “secretlol”
Step 9: your in root!
Step 10: mount your sdcard to pc and put Superuser.apk and su in the sdcard
Step 11: unmount sdcard
Step 12: in adb (make sure your still in root with the # sign) type in:
– cp /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
– cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su
– chmod 4755 /system/bin/su

your done! feel free to kill the bloat apps snd such ;

NOTE: it might be a smart idea to do “rm /system/bin/rootshell” after you have su and superuser in place as ANY program will have access to your root if you leave it (cause everyone will know the password)

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It took just under a week to achieve root access, don’t be surprised if it takes the same amount of time to port a Froyo ROM on to the device.

Please note: As always, exercise extreme caution if you are contemplating rooting your Droid X, we take no responsibility for any damage caused.

[Via – AddictiveTips]