Root How-To: MAKE YOUR DROID X FRESHHH

[irmac]

I've spent a few months on this forum and would like to give back...thus I am creating a guide on how to completely wipe your Droid X in order to start 100% fresh.

Disclaimer: I hold no responsibility if anything happens to your phone. Anything you do is your choice, not mine.

This Guide is mainly meant for ROOTED Droid X's.

• First step is to follow this guide: http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/254605-update-2-3-340-easily.html
  
• After rerooting, turn on the phone, plug it in, and copy your SD Card to your computer desktop. Unplug the phone from the computer and Bootstrap Recovery.
  
• In the Bootstrap Recovery, scroll to Wipe Data/Factory Reset and Confirm.
  
• Scroll Back and click mounts and storage, for anything that has a mount in front of it, click it and click confirm.
  
• Navigate back to main menu and then to advanced. Scroll down to advanced and select Wipe Battery Stats and Wipe Dalvich Cache.
  
• Reboot and plug in your phone to computer.
  
• Copy anything important back to your SD Card (launcher backups, photos, music, clockwordmod, etc.)
  
• Boot back into Bootstrap Recovery and wipe data/factory reset once again, and then mount cache and data again, and then wipe Dalvich Cache Again.
  
• Next, flash a custom Rom by "install .zip from SD)
  
• You should now have a fresh phone and fresh SD Card(SD cards are known to cause problems sometimes such and freezing/locking up so this is a good way to start over.)
  

If I left anything out or made any mistakes please correct me.

 

[Outlaw71]

So once I've done this will it comletely erase all the work I've done to fix the damn thing?




Bahaha haha ha ha hahaha ha....... ha!


I'm just playin man. I hit the 'thanks' button no so much because you helped me, but because I appreciate your efforts to help others.

 

[irmac]

So once I've done this will it comletely erase all the work I've done to fix the damn thing?




Bahaha haha ha ha hahaha ha....... ha!


I'm just playin man. I hit the 'thanks' button no so much because you helped me, but because I appreciate your efforts to help others.

Haha outlaw to be honest, after all of the steps above and then restoring a backup of liberty 1.5, all my freeze issues and battery life issues went away I truly recomend to everyone the fact that they should format their SD card about once every 6 months as I think its the culprit to many people problems, try running your phone without the SD for a few hours and see if things get better.

 

[Steven58]

I want to thank you for giving back. I have to move this to the root section, where I believe it belongs, even though it is a "tip." It's a root tip though and "all things root" goes in all things root.

Keep asking. Keep posting. Keep helping!

Steven

 

[VoidedSaint]

i have a newb/idiot proof method of installing roms lol, i just post it whenever they ask haha ^_^

 

[GandalfTehGray]

lol i feel like a newb now, how do i copy sd card to computer?

 

[VoidedSaint]

plug your phone through usb to your computer
select mass storage
open contents of sd card via computer
right click somewhere
select all
copy
then somewhere in your desktop, or a folder ^_^

 

[Deleted User]

If I left anything out or made any mistakes please correct me.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anything in that procedure that wipes the SD card? The implication is that you should have a formatted SD card when you're done with the process but factory resets, wiping battery stats, and wiping cache don't format the SD card...

Nice walkthrough, though!

 

[VoidedSaint]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anything in that procedure that wipes the SD card? The implication is that you should have a formatted SD card but factory resets, wiping battery stats, and wiping cache don't format the SD card...

Nice walkthrough, though!

i swear every time you post something, i have to read it, its either very enlightning, or very informative ^_^

 

[Deleted User]

Appreciate the kudos - always trying to help!