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Rooting the Droid X
*IMPORTANT:* Don't update to .621 until you have root and OTA Rootkeeper installed. %TOC%
For .602 & .605
Go to this site Droid X ezSBF Files and download the .605 version. Boot the ISO with your phone connected and root with the ZergRush method. Your phone should reboot and you will have root.
For .621
1 Install Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper 1 Backup root 1 Temporarily un-root 1 Install the .621 OTA update 1 Run Rootkeeper and re-root
Loading the Bootloader
With phone off, hold the CAMERA button and VOLUME DOWN, then hit the POWER button
Loading into Recovery mode
With phone off, hold the HOME button and press POWER until you get an exclamation mark. Release the HOME button and press the SEARCH button
Manually removing unwanted applications
<verbatim> Current system mount: /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system ext3 ro,noatime,nodiratime,data=ordered 0 0
Command to remount as rw: mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
Kindle redding-7648-signed-zipped.apk
Skype Skype_mobile.live.apk
Madden 11 Madden.apk
AmazonMP3 amazonmp3_1.8.11_signed_zipaligned.apk
Blockbuster Blockbuster.apk </verbatim>