Installing ROM’s at Droid X

Sep 10th, 2011
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This guide may apply for many other Android devices, but with different bootloaders. In this guide I will explain how to install the ROMs (without buying ROM Manager). First of all, you need to know if you are running Froyo or Gingerbread with Froyo Kernel or pure Gingerbread.

First of all, download ROM Manager (free version) and flash the recovery, selecting Droid X if you are running pure Froyo, if you are using Gingerbread use Droid2 Bootstrap, if you are running Cyanogenmod or MIUI (why are you reading this in first place?) select Droid X (2nd-init).

Then download the desired ROM to the sd-card of your phone.

MIUI 1.9.9 | Direct Download | Forum (for newer versions)
CyanogenMod7 Nightlies | Nightlies List
Liquid Gingerbread 08.06.11 | Direct Download | Forum (for newer versions)
ApeX 2.0.0 RC3 | Direct Download | Forum (for newer versions)
There are many more, check rootzwiki.com to know about them!

The problem of installing the ROMs in this way is that you need to manually update them (and check the forums often if there are updates). Open ROM Manager, and click on Install ROM from SD Card, select the zip of the ROM you are going to install – select data/cache wipe if is your first time moving to Gingerbread, if is just an update rom ROM v1.1 to V1.2 probably doesn’t need that (but it may! check the forums).

I personally use MIUI because it goes fast, totally renewed UI, and great battery life! :)

David Barreda

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  1. NeuErko
    Sep 18th, 2011 at 23:59
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    Oye… para instalar MIUI 1.9.9 en mi DX necesito estar en Froyo .340 o en GB .596??? e estado buscando y no encuentro nada… Saludos…

  2. JuanMoller
    Oct 30th, 2011 at 21:21
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    Oye, el MIUI funciona en español? por lo menos el teclado y la ortografía?

    • David Barreda
      Oct 30th, 2011 at 21:33
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      Debes de instalar el “Gingerbread Keyboard” desde el Android Market asi como el “Language Pack” para el teclado :)

  3. Marco Robles
    Nov 6th, 2011 at 03:14
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    Excelente informacion…gracias!!

  4. Roberto
    Dec 28th, 2011 at 16:02
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    Hola que tal… una pregunta es posible cambiar el idioma de una Rom, en especifico la Liquid Smooth 3.2 ya que viene en ingles y no contieme el idioma español… gracias

    • David Barreda
      Jan 13th, 2012 at 04:08
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      Cambiar el idioma no creo, pero si puedes instalar el teclado en español… Busca Gingerbread Keyboard en el Market, tambien Spanish for GK