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Root the Droid X on Gingerbread Update 4.5.602

By Brandon Orndorff · · Updated September 7, 2011 · 1 min read

If you have a Droid X and haven’t updated to Gingerbread because you want to keep root access its finally here. Most of you need the Gingerbread update to fix the many bugs on the Droid X that have been fixed with the Android Gingerbread update.

Important Step:
Your Droid X must be Rooted on the Official Froyo 2.3.340 using z4root. If you aren’t on this version and rooted then use the following article to flash your Droid X back to the stock ROM: Flash the Droid X back to the Froyo 2.3.340 Stock Rom

Important Step:
If your Droid X is running the stock Froyo 2.3.340 ROM but not rooted then use the following article to root the device: Root the Droid X on Stock Froyo 2.3.340 ROM

After you have flashed back to the stock ROM and rooted your device using z4root continue the process using the steps below:
Install the Droid 2 version of Bootstrap (Download Link)
Download and place the following files on the root of your SDcard (Link 1)(Link 2)
Run bootstrap and reboot into recovery
Install part 1 then part 2 before leaving recovery
Reboot your Droid X
Congrats your are Done!

Brandon Orndorff
I have been interested in Android from the moment the first devices were released. I love the fact that it's such a widely accepted mobile OS and that I can be a large part of the community as a whole.

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