Root Motorola Droid 3: All Things Root Guide

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Motorola Droid 3: All Things Root Guide

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Quick note / disclaimer: as always, you are ultimately responsible for any root-related activities on your phone.

You should understand not only the benefits of rooting, but also any possible consequences (voided warranty, boot-loops, bricking, etc.) that might occur as a result of your root-related actions.

AndroidForums.com / Phandroid.com, its owner, and staff are not liable for any root actions you might undertake as a result of information used from this site.

Reading, researching, understanding, and carefully following the published steps and instructions can go a long way towards helping to make your rooting efforts a successful one.

General Information

• Root Terminology
• http://androidforums.com/faqs/443432-what-root-being-rooted-mean.html
• You've went and rooted the phone. Now What???

Guides

• For Rooting, Unrooting, ClockworkMod Recovery, & removing bloatware (and more!) check out this post: http://androidforums.com/droid-3-all-things-root/408712-root-ultimate-droid3-root-rom-thread.html

ROMs

Stable

• [ROM] Steel Droid: 4.5 Gingerbread - 5.7.894 - DEODEXED - 1-3-2012 - xda-developers
• [themed rom] Monster rom 1.2 UPDATE 10/17/11 - xda-developers
• [ROM] Droid 3 Deodexed - RootzWiki
• [ROM] DarkDroid [1.01] [01/20/12] [XT862] - xda-developers
• [ROM] ZERO narcotICS v0.3 [ICS THEMED] [AOSP] [ALPHA] - xda-developers
• [Rom] Liberty3 V2.0 For The D3 11/28 - Sunday Bloody Sunday! - xda-developers
• [ROM] Maverick Rom for the Droid 3 (MavROM) - V3.0

Unstable

• CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha
• CyanogenMod 9 Alpha
  

There is a ROM list maintained by imnotmikal here: http://androidforums.com/droid-3-all-things-root/494721-rom-current-droid-3-rom-list.html


Themes

• None as of yet
• N/A
• [HOW TO] Easy Theming
• Theming tutorial
• Ultimate Online Theming Kitchen

Overclocking / Underclocking / Undervolting

• overclocking / underclocking
• undervolting
• related apps

Kernels

• None as of yet

Radios / Basebands

• None as of yet

Tools & Utilities

• ADB (Android Debug Bridge)
• MD5 checksum verification
• Titantium Backup / Titanium Backup Tutorial
• Root Explorer
• Odin / RUU / RSD Lite / etc.

Downloads

• Google Apps Package
• Android SDK

Droid 3 IRC channel:
Server: irc.freenode.net:6667
Channel: #motodroid3

Or, you can click here to access via Freenode's webchat.

If you are in need of immediate help, feel free to contact imnotmikal via Private Message, and he will respond as soon as possible.
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