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All credit goes to Sebastian Krahmer at http://c-skills.blogspot.com/. Please see fit to donate via Paypal to 7-4-3-C@web.de
***NOTE: Proceed at your own risk. I and the providers of this code are not responsible for anything you do to your phone! Also, I would advise against removing any bloatware until we have a working recovery or sbf file.***
Setup:
- Install adb (here) and Motorola drivers (here)
- Download attached archive
- Extract to a directory, I used c:\Droid2Root
- Make sure you have USB degugging enabled
- Change connection to PC Mode
Process:
- Open command prompt
- cd c:/wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder-is
- adb devices (to verify the connection)
- cd c:/Droid2Root
- adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
- adb push su /sdcard/su
- adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
- adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
- adb shell
- cd data/local/tmp
- chmod 0755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
- ./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
- let the process run until it returns you to c:/Droid2Root
- cd c:/wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder-is
- adb devices (to verify the connection)
- adb shell (you should now have a # prompt)
- mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
- cp /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
- cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su
- cp /sdcard/busybox /system/bin/busybox
- chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
- chmod 4755 /system/bin/busybox
- mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
- exit
- exit
I'm sure there are certain steps that could be streamlined or eliminated, so please feel free to make a suggestion and I'll edit the post.
Additional thanks to @rainabba and AllDroid.org for the excellent Droid X rooting tutorial, which assisted me greatly in this process.
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This leads me to wonder if the Recovery methods for the DX will now also work on the D2?
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bmtbandit wrote:This leads me to wonder if the Recovery methods for the DX will now also work on the D2? I'd have to think there's a decent chance of that. Someone at XDA mentioned Koush would be working on it soon.
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Awesome! I had to adjust a few of the steps because my sd card was giving me read permissions from the shell, but other than that it worked great and I love that it didn't require flipping off and on any devices.
I'm starting to disable apps by renaming them (but not deleting so I can revert if needed).
I think I'll go contribute to the author of this, he deserves it.
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tforcram wrote:Awesome! I had to adjust a few of the steps because my sd card was giving me read permissions from the shell, but other than that it worked great and I love that it didn't require flipping off and on any devices.
I'm starting to disable apps by renaming them (but not deleting so I can revert if needed).
I think I'll go contribute to the author of this, he deserves it. Yes, he does. I made a donation this afternoon. Which apps have you renamed? I spotted a list of apps that were safe to rename on the Droid X here and it's probably the same for us
- CarDock.apk
- CityID.apk
- MyVerizon.apk
- Skype_mobile.live.apk
- Vvm.apk
- WorkContacts.apk
- amazonmp3_1.7.22_signed_zipaligned.apk
- Blockbuster.apk
- Mynet.apk (3G Mobile Hotspot)
- MotoGAL.apk (Corporate Directory)
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any ideas on if this will work on a droid x that's running unrooted Froyo?
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i got everything perfect except for after the process runs out and then you do adb shell, i dont get #, i get $ so the mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system command operation is not permitted. Any idea anyone?
ok nevermind i got it to work and have SU on device but now no apps will download from market. Keep getting download unsuccessful.
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je2345 wrote:i got everything perfect except for after the process runs out and then you do adb shell, i dont get #, i get $ so the mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system command operation is not permitted. Any idea anyone? This happened with others on XDA and they had success after trying it again. I would go back rerun the binary and hopefully it just works the second time. I'm not sure what the issue is since it works the first time for some people.
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je2345 wrote:ok nevermind i got it to work and have SU on device but now no apps will download from market. Keep getting download unsuccessful. Perhaps a reboot is in order?
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The hardest part was loading adb. LOL. Copy and paste into cmd. Nice job. Thank you.
By the way, I did have to run through a second time. Not sure if the issue was lack of patience? ie.
- let the process run until it returns you to c:/Droid2Root
- cd c:/wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder-is
or if the issue was same as above, where coming back into adb shell with $ instead of #. Running through the whole process again and waiting for the return to c:\wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder worked for me.
PS. I had a problem with the path issue. So I extacted the Droid2Root.rar files into the c:\wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder
Thank you...thank you...thank you
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I'm stuck at the ad shell part as I have getting a $ instead of the prompt #. Can anybody help me? Thanks.
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Okay I finally finished all the steps. How do I know if its root or not?
I clicked the superuser app and all I get a a blank screen. I never got the superuser accept screen.
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Patiently waiting for the one click root. All the comands and etries makes my brain hurt. lol
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jedidroid wrote:Okay I finally finished all the steps. How do I know if its root or not?
I clicked the superuser app and all I get a a blank screen. I never got the superuser accept screen. I am not the expert here. But if you read through my replay, you will see that I ran through all the steps a second time. regardless, unless you use a program that requires root access (ie Root Manager, easy tether, ROOT EXPLORER, etc) you will not have the asking for accept. Soon as you run one of the apps that require, you will get notification
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Augh! I did the android 2.2.20 update this morning. I can no longer root! I redid the steps above, with no success.
Edit: I had to run the steps again following the update. Including the reboot of the phone and restarting the ADB. You are still awesome :)
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Is there any video about Droid 2 root?
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I got some Droid 2 root video in Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhRM6ahSdSw
But, I don't understand that all. If you guys have any idea about it, please let me explain!
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rooted my D2 yesterday. It's not as hard as it looks. Pretty much just as easy as it was to root the D1.
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Android n00b here, can i remove the Verizon crapware with this right? And tether?
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