How to Root Motorola Droid 2 (Droid2)

Motorola Droid 2 is the successor to Motorola Droid smartphone, which together with Motorola Droid X, are the most popular Android-based smartphone that gives iPhone a run for money. Motorola Droid 2 comes with native Android 2.2 (Froyo) as stock operating system. For user who wants to take full advantage of the Motorola Droid 2, root the device seems like a must.

Here’s the guide on how to root the Motorola Droid 2 (Droid2) on version 2.2.19.A955 and 2.2.20.A955, and possible later versions. Note that rooting requires advanced skills, and may brick the phone, and all risks have to be assumed and bore by the owners.

Hacking and rooting the Motorola Droid 2 has become an easier job, thanks to works by several hackers and developers who compiled scripted 2-step program and even 1-step program which can do the rooting job automatically.

Prerequisites

Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.htmlMotorola Mobile Phone USB Drivers with MotoConnect (for Windows): http://www.motorola.com/Support/US-EN/Support-Homepage/Software_and_Drivers/USB-and-PC-Charging-Drivers

Root Motorola Droid2 in One Step

One Click Root Motorola Droid 2 for Windows

Download version 2.1.3: DoRootWin_2.1.3.zip

Instruction for Windows:

Extract and install or update Android SDK package to computer. The file comes in a zip file. Just open it up and drag and drop the android-sdk-windows folder to local C drive. Next, extract the files from the DoRoot zip file to the Tools folder of Android SDK. You should be moving 7 or 8 files into the Tools folder.Install Motorola Mobile Phone USB Drivers with MotoConnect.

Tip: To stop the launching of the Verizon/Motorola site when connecting the phone, right click on the MotoConnect icon in the notification area, and select “Nothing” as the option for “When phone connects”.Make sure the phone is in PC Mode with USB Debugging enabled:

PC Mode: Notification blind -

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How to Enable FM Radio in Motorola Droid 2

The tear-down of Motorola Droid 2 has revealed a built-in FM receiver in its hardware specification, although the FM receiver is disabled by the stock Android OS. With FM receiver, Motorola Droid 2 owner can receive and listen to FM radio, although an earpiece or headphone has to be attached as antenna in order for the FM receiver to work.

Unlike Motorola Droid X which has FM radio app factory-installed, Motorola Droid 2 does not include FM functionality. As such, a hack has to be done in order to enable FM radio receiving capability on Motorola Droid 2. slayher has published the FM radio hack for Droid2 smartphone on xda-developers.com forum, where some components have been ported from Droid X, and interested Droid2 owner can follow the instruction to make the Droid 2 stands out among the peer.

Note that the following instructions assume that you have Android SDK installed on the computer, and it’s your own risk to hack the phone, and it’s possible to brick the Droid 2.

Root Motorola Droid 2.Download the FM radio hack for Droid 2: FMRadio_droid2.zipUnpack and extract the FMRadio_droid2.zip, then copy then app, bin and lib folders inside system folder into SDK Tools folder.Open a Command Prompt window, and change directory to SDK Tools folder.Run the following commands to push the files to the phone:

adb devices
adb remount
adb push app/FMRadio.apk /system/app
adb push app/FMRadioService.apk /system/app
adb push bin/fmradioserver /system/bin
adb push lib/libFMRadio.so /system/lib
adb push lib/libfmradio_jni.so /system/lib
adb push lib/libfmradioplayer.so /system/lib

Continue with the following command to set the correct permissions on the files:

adb remount
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
chmod 0644 /system/lib/libFMRadio.so
chmod 0644 /system/lib/libfmradio_jni.so
chmod 0644 /system/lib/libfmradioplayer.so
chmod 0755 /system/bin/fmradioserver
mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system

Exit from the adb with the following commnad:

exit

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