Motorola Droid X Now Rooted & You Thought It Was Impossible [Motorola Droid X Rooted A Week After Launch; eFuse Didn’t Brick It in the Process]

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One of the most important topics related to the Motorola Droid X was, at least for a few days, the discovery of that eFuse kill switch which was rumored to brick the phone in case of any root attempts. Then Motorola made it clear that no Droid X handsets will be bricked by eFuse and it looks like that was good enough for some anxious hackers to attempt to root it. And, voila, a week later the Droid X gets rooted.

And apparently the whole root-acquiring process is all pretty simple. Here are the 12 steps you have to go through in order to gain root capabilities for your brand new Motorola Droid X:

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)

The faint of hearth should really not attempt this in case they’re not particularly sure of what they’re doing. And just in case you do decide to pursue the root path, remember that you’re doing it at your own risk and make sure you backed everything up before following the steps above.

We haven’t rooted the phone ourselves, and while we’ll bring you all the Droid X updates as they come along, it might be a good idea to check the forum at the via link, where more root explanations will be available. Oh, and do let us know if the root process went wrong for your Motorola Droid X!