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[Motorola Droid X2] wamason:
Hi everyone,

EDIT: I feel like an idiot. I've been trying to flash roms for the Milestone 2... I just assumed that a Milestone 2 was infact an X2, perhaps due to abbreviation, or carrier/manufacturer naming variations. I was able to successfully flash Speedy v7 Universal earlier, which seems to support my claim of ignorance.

I recently traded in a nicely customized Desire running MIUI for a Milestone X2 running stock/motoblur/whatever 2.3.6.

I'm now rooted thanks to the OP's instructions and others' efforts to root the Milestone.

Superuser works great. I can boot into recovery just fine. I can backup, restore, clear caches, wipe things, etc...

Here's my problem: Anytime I try to flash a zip file, I get a generic error (status 0). I've tried several roms/zips and haven't had any success.

I've tried searching, I've triple checked the rooting instructions, and I'm sure it's something small that I've missed, or a step I've yet to complete. Any ideas? I'm having MIUI withdrawals... :)
[Motorola Droid X2] garybogwraith:
i have been working on this on and off for a few days, when i type in

C:\root>fastboot flash preinstall root.img

‘fastboot’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

it wont do that and after i do that and get to the step of abd it never asks for superuser acces. these directions are kinda hard to follow, i could use pictures or maybe even a video.

I have all the files in C: if that helps anyone help me with it.

Rooting my Hero and Desire CDMA was really easy, forgive my inexperience but i've never had to get this hands on with a root.
[Motorola Droid X2] Sippi4x4man:
Did you check to make sure you have all of the usb driver installed?
[Motorola Droid X2] cocky01:
Metter

Can you send / post the stock 2.3.6 alltel rom? I bought a phone that was not alltel flashed.

Thanks in advance
[Motorola Droid X2] skwoodwiva:
++ we want rom!
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
I just followed the OP's instructions and everything worked for me. The couple of hiccups I ran into were:

1. I didn't put my phone in USB Debugging mode

USB Debugging Mode - Motorola DROID X2 MB870

From a home screen, select App menu (located in the lower right).

Select Settings.

Note If the application icon is missing, select App menu filter (located at the top) then select All apps.

Select Applications.

Select Development.

Select USB debugging to enable /disable.

Note Enabled when a check mark is present.

Select OK.

2. I fat fingered a couple of commands and transposed some lettering.

After those 2 mistakes the root took.
[Motorola Droid X2] Sippi4x4man:
Having some issues after rooting my warranty replacement milestone x2. After I rooted the phone, I attempted to deodex my system. I keep getting adb remount failed: operation not permitted.

USB drivers are installed

phone is rooted properly

android sdk is installed properly

tried command adb root, says not available in production builds

usb debugging is enabled

superuser/busy box is installed and up do date, access is set to "allow all"

Any thoughts?
[Motorola Droid X2] skwoodwiva:
I just use Droid Explorer, it has a good adb/term. (xda) you need the latest BusyB for it as well as for that & maybe that's your problem anyway.
[Motorola Droid X2] Sippi4x4man:
Downloaded the latest busybox from the market and installed. Still running into the same problem.
[Motorola Droid X2] skwoodwiva:
DL MY nandroid it's the same & deodexed & the beta is tweaked.
[Motorola Droid X2] Sippi4x4man:
I'll give it a whirl. maybe something got corrupted somewhere during the process
[Motorola Droid X2] skwoodwiva:
Minor correction:

"Note do not install SU from the market. The root.img comes w/ the su.apk you need. Just install it with Root Explorer (from /preinstall) After step 6 & before step 7 ."

If you install a newer su apk then the binary may be out dated.

Also this will not root 235/418. You get permissions denied at #7 .
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
Ok I think I have finally found the right forum to ask my question. I am wanting to install CM7 on my Milestone X2 but everywhere I have read I need SBF 2.3.4 to do this correctly. As with most everyone else with a new MMX2 it came with 2.3.6 out of the box. I posted in this thread a while back stating I got mine rooted but I've still got issues with it and hoping a wipe and new mod would help. Has anyone gotten CM7 to install on their MMX2 that had 2.3.6? If so could you please tell me how you did it and the files needed (possibly with links)

Thanks so much.

Lee
[Motorola Droid X2] skwoodwiva:
http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1520831.html

follow this miui guide. Cm7 is the same.

TWOBRARE did it. Wifi will not work. Better off flashing the new eclipse & all is good on a mx2.
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
Thank you very much! I am used to step by step even though I'm a computer nerd the phone stuff is still new to me, but I'm sure I can figure it out. If I have any other questions I'll post on that topic or back here.

Lee
[Motorola Droid X2] twobrare:
Yes, it works great. I booted into eclipse and it ran beautifully! The only thing I found is when I went into the market my paid apps I bought said I had to rebuy them.. But I just went on the website and downloaded from there to my phone. So I nandroided back to stock and the problem was not their. I think its a minor issue with Google and not the actual rom. Miui ran good there are just several bugs to work out with it so I am waiting for the update for it. There are several things I like about stock, I like about MIUI, so if I can bring them together that would be perfect.
[Motorola Droid X2] skwoodwiva:
The market issue is cuz you went from a.mx to a dx in your build prop. You could hack it- it's the fingerprint blah blah... Just copy & past your orig. & BU!
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
That page is giving me a headache, it reads worse than stereo instructions. .

A couple more questions: what is eclipse and how do I obtain it?

After I get eclipse how do I put a new custom ROM on my MX2?

Sorry for asking such noob questions.
[Motorola Droid X2] twobrare:
Eclipse

Eclipse is a custom rom that a developer has done. It runs really well on the MX2. Everything works except MMS.

To obtain Eclipse:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1198857

To install:

You do not have to do all the stuff that is written in the forum. You want to download the .zip file from eclipse 2.2 and place it on your sd card.

1. Root phone

2. install the BSR (boot strap recovery)

3. Load into boot strap recover

3. Then you want to do a back up

4. After back up you want to wipe Factory, cash, and Delvic (found in Advance)

4. Then click install from zip

5. select where the .zip is located

6. Install Eclipse

7. Let it restart and Good to go!

You just have to set everything back up.

If you do not like Eclipse then you can go back because you made a backup.

In Eclipse you can BSR by going to Settings --> eclipse parts

I Hope that helps.
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
Thank you very much for this! I will look into it after lunch. Hopefully this will improve the performance of my phone. It seems here lately it hangs on apps, takes forever for text messages to load, just sluggish.
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
I have Clockwork Mod installed for BSR but when I select reboot into bootstrap loader it just reboots my phone. Is there another app that does this better or maybe a key sequence?

Thanks.
[Motorola Droid X2] twobrare:
yes, this should help. It is a lot faster! It just needs some color.

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Yes, in this thread.

Page 16: 3rd post down. IT has a recovery you can download or just scan and it can download on the phone. Do not use Clockworkmod.

Just download that and it will get you into recovery.
[Motorola Droid X2] Citizen_Snips:
Edit: wrong thread
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
Got a sucessful backup I hope :) Got the wipe and everything completed, now about to install from zip.
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
Whoo Hoo! Success! Thank you twobrare and skwoodwiva for your help in this. I think I will like this mod, so far it is much more apeasing than stock. I actually had my phone backed up to Google so it restored my apps and settings, just have to change my ringtones again and add apps to the home screen, neither of which are a big deal.
[Motorola Droid X2] twobrare:
Your welcome! I am glad that you got it working! I hope you enjoy Nitro's rom. Eclipse was one of the first roms I first ran.
[Motorola Droid X2] unknownuseraccount:
It's me again Margaret :D LOL

Just another quick question with a quick fix hopefully. When I first bought my phone, it had wireless tether capabilities and functionality right out of the box. I had used it many times and enjoyed it, however after I got Eclipse installed and turn on the tether app, I get a message on the attached computer that CSpire wants to charge me $x.xx for 30 days or xGB of data. Is there a way around this without undoing the mod?

Thanks guys.

Lee
[Motorola Droid X2] Sippi4x4man:
I was told by a C Spire rep the other day that they are going to start charging for tethering. They wanted me to buy a data pass so that I could use this feature. I haven't tried another tethering app from the market just yet. Seems like no matter if you use the stock app or 3 party app that they would still be able to track your data usage. It would be cool if there was a way around this. I'm not sure how this works for Verizon customers on the Droid X2
[Motorola Droid X2] babygirl17_06:
See my post on this thread! Hope it helps! Now if C Spire would fix their crappy internet service! UGH, proxy server error 9 out of 10 times when trying to connect to anything!!!:mad::mad::mad:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25802583#post25802583
[Motorola Droid X2] skigill:
Worked like a charm for me!
[Motorola Droid X2] robertsneed:
Can you download the 2.3.6 for the droid x2. I already have the 2.3.5
[Motorola Droid X2] RyanThaDude:
This thread is for the Milestone X2 not the Droid X2.
[Motorola Droid X2] dvdrewinder:
Finally retired the old Cellular South Hero a couple weeks ago and now have the new C-Spire Milestone X2 and by following the op and all the great help in this forum, I managed to get it rooted. For the heck of it I just wanted to see if factory resetting it would unroot the phone and it did. After the phone started up I did notice that none of the C-Spire Bloatware was there. I also noticed that the C-Spire text is not there anymore on the notifications. It looks like maybe C-Spire forget to change the phones original recovery image with their own. Does anyone have any idea how to make it say C-Spire again? I tried the eri.xml trick that use to work with the Hero and Cyanogen, but didn't do anything. Almost forgot, When I bought the phone it was already loaded with 2.3.6.

Thanks
[Motorola Droid X2] Superowl:
Milestone X2 and teather

I use FoxFi to create a wireless hotspot on my

unrooted

Milestone X2. I connnect my ASUS TF101 tablet.
[Motorola Droid X2] exanimate:
Was the MMS issue ever resolved? Want to install this, but not sure I want to lose MMS capability.
[Motorola Droid X2] mettercomputers:
I have Alltel X2 and the attached file I made and flash in recovery makes my mms work with most ROMS.
[Motorola Droid X2] whojohnjones:
Im tyring to root but when I put into fastboot it gos to starting rsd fastboot protocall surport an stops please help
[Motorola Droid X2] Lrs121:
Taking into considaration that our boot loaders are quite fragile is it possible that using something like boot manager to keep our original build safe and boot into another from our SD cards or would that damage it cause of the way it might function
[Motorola Droid X2] Superowl:
Provicer name

dvdrewinder, I too have an unrooted CSpire Milestone X2 and do not see CSpire on

any

of my screens including opening and notification screens. :confused:
[Motorola Droid X2] Lrs121:
anyone have a rsd of inland cellular milestone x2 2.3.6. i goofed and could use it if not that ok ill just take it in and replace it if i have too. i have access to rsd mode and fast boot but thats about it

*edit*

Fixed it never mind
[Motorola Droid X2] SGSsudoer:
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Everyone! Thank you!

My drivers for fastboot did not install automatically but this post got me to were I needed to be.

Note: I did not install the android sdk. The drivers from here worked. Just make sure you have the phone in fastboot when you install the drivers. The rest is all the same. Thanks again for everyone's hard work. It is much appreciated.
[Motorola Droid X2] Gamemaster1379:
Pardon my ignorance, but I know little of rooting of newer models such as these, but I am looking to root my device. I just want to make sure of a few things prior to going through with it since I'm unsure about a few things.

Firstly, my model is a stock Alltel 2.3.6 Milestone X2. Will this work for it, or is this only recommended for Verizon Droid X2 devices that have been updated to 2.3.6?

Secondly, upon doing this, will it set my phones settings and applications back to stock, or will all my information remain as it is, just with a rooted device?

Lastly, is there anything else I should be made aware of? The instructions seem fairly straightforward, but the only sort of rooting I've done before is one click on an old Milestone (1), nothing involved such as this
[Motorola Droid X2] Booga Booga:
Hey gamemaster! So this is strictly for the Milestone X2 (which you have). No Droid X2 user should try this for rooting.

A few things you should know before you go ahead is that this will void your warranty so be aware of that.

Nothing will change when you look at your phone after you're done. You'll still be on stock blur. Check out a lot of the other threads about rooting and roms and flashing new roms etc. etc. The more you read the better you understand, the greater the knowledge.

If you follow the instructions to the tee you'll be fine. :)

Once you do get it rooted I suggest getting rid of all the crap that comes with blur (kindle, amazonmp3) etc.

ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!

Join the IRC channel #cm7dx2 on freenode and anyone there would be glad to help you (myself included) if you need any help. I have a MX2 myself just for future reference running CM9 Alpha 5 Super Charged :)

Once again, if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask. That's how people learn! Hope this helped!

~Booga
[Motorola Droid X2] RumpleGeist:
Dead links.

adbfastboot.zip and root.zip links at the beginning of this thread are dead. Had to restore my phone and lost root, can someone please re up the files. Thanks in advance.

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The links are dead, please re-up.
[Motorola Droid X2] Gamemaster1379:
Use at your own risk, but I found that these to replace the downed links.

s3.amazonaws.com/AAHOWTOS/downloads/atrix-4g-moto-fastboot-win32.zip from androidauthority.com/atrix-4g-android-2-3-6-firmware-4-5-141-root-63533

The tutorial is from an Atrix 4G phone, but I read up through this tutorial by a series of link that it's extremely close to, so I used the atrix 4G image when flashing my phone. It worked and thus far I have had no problems (yet).

dottech.org/downloads/adb_fastboot_and_other_tools.zip

Here is a link to the fastboot tools link. Pretty straightforward.

I extracted the adb fastboot materials into a folder first, and I then extracted the atrix 4g zip into the same folder, overwriting a few files.

Once I did that, I went through this whole tutorial and followed it as if I had the files from its own tutorial and it seemed to work. The ONLY change was this line

"fastboot flash preinstall root.img"

I changed root.img to preinstall.img and it worked.

Once again, I am not too terribly experienced in the whole rooting process. I don't consider these instructions "solid". I may have just lucked out that my phone didn't brick. Understand you are using an Atrix IMG and not a Moto image. It worked for me, it may not for you. Use at your own risk.
[Motorola Droid X2] RumpleGeist:
RE: Dead links.

Thanks, I had already found that and am attempting to achieve root. I happened to still have the adb tools but I am using the Atrix Root.zip Thanks for the reply, if it also works for me I will confirm it.

[UPDATE]

Rooting was a success and I am now running CM9 ICS on my MX2 with WIFI!! thanks to dragonzkiller.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1661572
[Motorola Droid X2] casedawg02:
Broken Links

Could anyone help by reposting "adb-fastboot.zip" and "root.zip" the links are busted for now.

Thanks in advance.
[Motorola Droid X2] Zannor:
The links for "adb-fastboot.zip" and "root.zip" no longer work. Does anyone have new link or could help with getting these files? Thank you.
[Motorola Droid X2] PotentChili:
I'm going to bump this too saying it'd be really helpful if someone could upload all the original files. My phone is from an Alaska carrier and if I do anything wrong it's perma-bricked, so I would rather not risk the Atrix Img method.

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid X2] clcrawl:
I have updated the original post with a link to files that work (I just verified this). Sorry about not responding right away guys.
[Motorola Droid X2] aldude999:
I can't find a root.img anywhere on any links off site, and none of the links here work. :(
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
atrix-4g-moto-fastboot-win32.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/?z8yb4acyjp08ahf

use preinstall.img
[Motorola Droid X2] clcrawl:
Sorry about that I didn't do a great job updating the instructions, I have changed the instructions to use preinstall.img versus root.img. Thanks to sd_shadow for clarifying this, original post has been updated with the new link and command.
[Motorola Droid X2] PotentChili:
Very much appreciated. I'm still afraid to attempt it though :P But I'll gather up the courage eventually.

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Another question. I don't really feel like going through all that SDK/ADB setup again on a Windows 7 computer, I'd like to know if I can just do this all from Linux without having it brick my device. Tried searching the thread but nobody mentioned Linux. I'm being extra careful because there is no way I can possibly SBF my phone back to this Alaska carrier i'm on.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
should be some threads about how to sbf when you don't have your carrier's sbf

i would back up apn with apn backup in market

should be able to use any milestone sbf, and restore apn settings

hopefully someone can verify that

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yes you can use adb in linux

and flash img wth moto-fastboot

both can be found in motofail root

not sure how to use though

edit: think i was wrong about motofail, know it has adb for linux, might not have moto-fastflash for linux

maybe able to use sbf_flash linux
[Motorola Droid X2] PotentChili:
Thanks for the info.. I think to be safe I'll just use Windows (even though Windows makes me feel unsafe ;))

I had no idea you can back up your APN. I'm assuming that means I flash with some other carrier's SBF and then I can put my APN settings back? I thought only the carrier was able to accomplish this.
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
apn settings should look like this http://androidforums.com/android-applications/310080-alaska-communication-systems-acs-apn-settings.html

but you should verify with the settings on your phone

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also your milestone x2 is cdma with or without sim card? no sim card right?

if you need to sbf, may need to use verizon's dx2 sbf for the cdma radio

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APN Settings Shortcut seems to work well to view

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.naskit.android.apnsettingsshortcut&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uYXNraXQuYW5kcm9pZC5hcG5zZXR0aW5nc3Nob3J0Y3V0Il0.
[Motorola Droid X2] PotentChili:
No SIM card :( When I had my first X2 back in April i tried sbfing to the verizon one and it ruined everything, i had to replace the phone and pretend like i had no idea what went wrong with it :P

So I have root and CWM, are there any ROMs I can use for 2.3.6 that won't screw up my APN (Edit: PRL also) and all that? I tried searching this forum but it's pretty hard to find MX2 specific information.

Edit: The PRL is actually the thing I'm worried about it messing up. Is that information saved onto the device or the rom itself? So if I nandroid back to my stock ROM would the PRL be in place again too?
[Motorola Droid X2] clcrawl:
There should be an nTelos SBF out there. I used this on one of our MX2's here and it SEEMS to have worked, however we haven't reactivated the phone yet so I can't verify if 3G was functioning. It certainly did come up on the network however.
[Motorola Droid X2] PotentChili:
Ahhhh. That was actually the SBF that made me have to turn my device back in. It just thought I was roaming and couldn't even activate. The lady at ACS couldn't even fix it. The Verizon one just failed during flash. So I'm pretty much stuck with stock ROM? I guess rooted is good enough though.
[Motorola Droid X2] clcrawl:
Gotcha, well you can try this, it has sped up my MX2 a fair amount it isn't by any means as awesome as having a custom ROM, but it helped me some:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1501666

One note, it appears Bloat Freezer uses Air Push for adds. You can opt out of the adds or simply install it, freeze apps, then remove it. I have yet to find an application that freezes apps as well as Bloat Freezer. Titanium Backup and App Quarantine do not actually move the APKs so they really can't freeze some of the "system" processes.

Please remember if you get an OTA you MUST unfreeze all the stock apps or bad things could happen, and never try and factory default it with a bunch of system apps frozen. Make sure you do a Nandroid backup however because freezing some apps could brick the device, and restoring the Nandroid would fix that.
[Motorola Droid X2] PotentChili:
Thank you, I actually stumbled upon this while I was searching for "acs." It's pretty crazy that the 2nd post was someone with the same exact small carrier as me. I froze everything he suggested and then I was no longer able to add contacts to my phone, so I'm going to re-do it and try to figure out what prevented that.

It did make my phone WAY faster though. Seriously I've hated this phone since I got it, and found the dualcore model to be slower than the single core model, but after freezing 48 or so apps/services my phone was insanely fast. Finally this phone isn't a POS.

Thanks for all your help, I really do appreciate it.
[Motorola Droid X2] clcrawl:
Ya some people did not have any luck freezing the Yahoo Contacts for some reason, not sure what is different about my carrier. I believe that is the only one really in question in reference to your Contacts app breaking. Hope it helps some.
[Motorola Droid X2] ashclepdia:
There are a couple things on there with potential to break contacts.

Not all of the "authentication" apps are safe to freeze (i know they aren't all listed, you just gotta go thru and see which one when frozen will break it)

And work contacts used to break it for some.

I believe accounts storage could also depending on your set up.

Best thing to do is freeze one, or a couple, do some testing, then if you have an issue it's easier to pinpoint instead of trying to figure out which one or multiple frozen apps broke it.

Can be time consuming, but once you finish just write em all down and if you every need to do again you will know. It is definitely worth it to. Can improve battery, make phone faster, smoother, all that jazz :)

Good luck!
[Motorola Droid X2] aldude999:
Awesome! Everything worked perfectly!