Birdman has successfully managed to root the Motorola Droid X. Droid X is a powerful device by Motorola and is the member of Droid Series. Rooting it will enable you to access more features of the device. A Rooted device allows you to directly access the file system of your device. Rooted Android Phone is just like a jailbroken iPhone as it allows you to modify the firmware of your device and you can easily install themes, apps and custom ROMS.
Follow the below steps to Root your Droid X.
- Download the DroidXRoot.zip from here and expand it to a folder you can find( e.g. C:\DroidXRoot)
- Set up ADB (Step-by-step guide for Windows Vista/7 here)
- Open a command prompt (Windows: Start, Run, “cmd”, OK; Linux: Terminal)
- Run “CD C:\DroidXRoot” (or where ever you expanded the archive)
- Run “adb push exploid /sqlite_stmt_journals/exploid”
- Run “adb shell”
- Run “cd sqlite_stmt_journals”
- Run “chmod 755 exploid”
- Run “./exploid” and follow directions on screen
- Run “rootshell”
- Type in password “secretlol” and press Enter then you are root!
- Run “exit” to drop back to your machine command prompt (instead of phone)
- Run “adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk”
- Run “adb push su /sdcard/su”
- Run “adb shell”
- Run “su” (now you should see the # sign which indicates you are root)
- Run “cp /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk”
- Run “cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su”
- Run “chmod 4755 /system/bin/su”
You are done!
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