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Root ***read this concerning the GB update***

trophynuts

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People of the DX2 community. Please know that if you choose to root your DX2 via ANY method you are walking on egg shells. Until there is a safe SBF file to use with the DX2 if you were to screw your phone up you ARE screwed also. I can tell from the threads that people are getting antsy and wanting to root using whatever method works but i would try and be a little more patient.


ALSO WHEN YOU DO ROOT DO NOT REMOVE OR UNINSTALL BLOAT. FREEZE IT INSTEAD.


***EDIT POST***

now there appears to be a safe SBF file for the DX2. However i would like to remind everyone that we still don't have Bootstrap for the DX2 yet. So your still at some kind of risk by rooting.

http://androidforums.com/droid-x2-all-things-root/363100-droid-x2-sbf-availabile.html


{updated}

Ok the GB update may or may not be rolling out soon. Just so the noobs understand that if your currently rooted and you want to KEEP root then don't take the update just yet. Wait till there is a method of rooting 2.3

Just so everyone knows that any VZW Moto phone with 2.3 so far does not have a Root method. On the DX1 you have to flash a pre rooted version. So just be patient.

Mods i hope you don't mind me changing the title to this.
 
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1. if you have insurance its not really a big deal if you mess up your phone it sucks but not end of the world
2. why would someone be stupid enough to return a phone rooted its easy to unroot as it is to root.
3. i disagree/agree about freezing freezing is alot safer, but if you BACK UP your apps and then uninstall the apps you know will not brick or make your phone a paperweight then you are fine.
4. i know many of you will probably disagree with me but its ok its up to you what you do.
 
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Personally, I don't think the risk is that great as long as you don't do anything that you aren't positive will work. Most of us are rooting to freeze bloat or tether or avoid the future OTA with proven (safe) methods. If you try to mess around with other things you don't fully understand... Well, some would just call that "thinning of the herd".
 
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2. why would someone be stupid enough to return a phone rooted its easy to unroot as it is to root.


there is no possible way to unroot a DX2 right now if you get stuck in a boot loop. No way to apply an SBF if you boot loop. So if your dinking around with your DX2 and brick it ....guess what you have no choice but to return it as a rooted/bricked device.

unless as you say you use your insurance and say it was lost or stolen.
 
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if you return the phone to aursion (i think that's name of insurance) they don't care how your phone broke as long as you send it to them i think you can even say you broke it rooting it i could be wrong because in not 100% but u just happen submerged it in water they let you trade it in to insurance for sure
 
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I probably won't root until there is good reason to. The bloatware hasn't seemed to slow my phone down (it's completely usable for me). When we have SBF and a rom or 2, then I'll jump in. I had my D1 rooted a few weeks after I bought it, but it had an unlocked bootloader and roms where quickly released (Pete - please develop for DX2!!!).

Loving the phone though (no 4G in my area yet anyway) and I can't wait until we start seeing roms. I have no illusions that the roms will be few and far between (when compared to the D1), but as long as a few decent devs get on board, we will be good.
 
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