[Verizon Droid Charge] ztkryan:
Typed this up for a friend I thought it would be nice to share with any new droid charge owners looking for a guide to how to root FP5.

Major Credit goes to:

trparky

I learned how to do this from his website:

Tom's Android Knowledge Base -- Offline

Root Stock Droid Charge FP5:

First download this tool:

MD5-Checker

It will be used to run an md5 check on the files before they are flashed to your phone.

Next download this:

http://www.toms-world.org/android/download/ftp/ODIN3+v.1.82.exe

MD5: 3D8E8240F2A4F66E63A6622F65C7C909

This is Odin the *Windows* program used to interact with your phone.

Next download this:

0817_charge_recovery.tar.md5

MD5: 925D33E1AD40518AAC09B179DFDB0F76

This is CWM your main interface that will be used when loading roms, etc

Finally download this:

http://downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip

MD5: 6462AC14CD38ED7C539CE3E29A6B92A8

This is the file that you flash to root your phone.

Run MD5 Tool to make sure all the MD5's match the previous MD5 checksum!

1. Open the MD5 program

2. Select create an MD5 checksum

3. Browse to the file that needs to be checked

4. Verify that the MD5 created matches the ones above (if they don't re-download)

5. Repeat for all files

Now you have all the files downloaded to root your phone. The steps to root stock droid charge are as follows:

Copy files to SD card

1. On the home screen select settings

2. Select USB setting and turn on USB debugging

3. Plug in your phone to your computer (give it a min to install drivers)

4. Pull down your top bar and select "Connect storage to PC" button

5. Create a new folder called Downloads

6. Drag the Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip file into the Downloads folder that you just created

7. Hit the "Disconnect from storage PC" button on your phone

CWM

8. Turn off your phone

9. Once the phone is completely off take out the battery

10. Open Odin then while holding the volume button down plug your phone into the computer

11. When you get the Yellow triangle with android in it your in download mode, plug battery back in.

12. On the left under option uncheck Auto Reboot (you and leave F. Reset Time checked)

13. Once Odin picks up your phone (a yellow com box will show up) click on PDA and browse to the CWM file and select it

14. Click start (it should be a quick flash)

15. Once the flash says successful take out battery and unplug phone

Superuser

16. Put your battery back in the phone

17. Hold down volume up and home (button on bottom of phone that has an up arrow) and the power button

18. Once you see the Samsung logo release the power button but continue to hold down the volume up and home button down

19. Once your phone has booted into CWM(there will be a banana at the bottom of the screen) arrow down with the volume button and select mounts and storage with the power button

20. Arrow down to the option that says mount system and use the power button to select it

21. Arrow down and select go back

22. Arrow down and select install zip from sdcard

23. Select choose zip from sdcard

24. Arrow down and select Downloads

25. Select the file that says Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip

26. Arrow down and select Yes - Install Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip

27. Select Go Back

28. Select Go Back

29. Select reboot system now

Let the phone boot up go the market and install root check it should say you’re rooted. Then your all done your phone has root that wasn't so hard was it:)

If you still are unsure or run into any problems feel free to send me a pm I would be happy to help you through the process via skype.