Motorola Fire XT / XT-530 / XT-531 ROOTING / SBFs / Custom ROMs / CWM

Arijit.Ray81 · Sep 21, 2011

Disclaimer:
I am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone, your computer or anything else while following these instructions. Proceed at your own risk.

NEW ONE CLICK ROOT

Special Thanks to rootdefyxt320

BAT version
EXE version

SUTLR method

Downloads:
Here are the apps/files needed for Rooting -
1. SuperOneClick 2.3.3.0
2. SUT LR 1.8.2 (Doesn't seem to be working on 64-bit systems)
3. FXX_PR3_NV.xml and NvDefinition.xml [ATTACHED]

Before Rooting:
Prepare your phone by doing the following:
- Go to Settings > Applications > CHECK "Unknown Sources"
- Go to Settings > Applications > Developer > CHECK "USB Debugging" and "Stay Awake"
- Connect your phone via USB, when prompted DO NOT select USB Mass Storage.
- Extract FXX_PR3_NV.xml and NvDefinition.xml from the attached zip file in to a folder

- Now, install SUT LR, run the app
- Select the FXX_PR3_NV.xml [ensure NvDefinition.xml is also in the same folder as FXX_PR3_NV.xml]
- Your phone will restart.

It does NOT erase anything on the phone, since it only patches the ROM.

Rooting:
After the phone restarts, open SuperOneClick and select root. It will take less than a minute to finish.

Credits & Special Thanks to 7amdoun for the New Instructions.

For Folks for whom the above instructions DO NOT work; please follow instructions at THIS LINK

UPDATE your Phone to the latest FIRMWARE HERE

* YOU CAN UPDATE UNROOTED PHONES ONLY!

Could someone take the initiative to MOD this phone? Create some custom ROMs and Themes? I believe Motorola is not providing an ICS update for this phone but some skilled developers can surely help us get the ICS feel on it. I would appreciate if someone could take their time out and get to work on this. I would extend any help I can give.

Increasing Internal Phone Memory

Credits to Pianorcar for this.

You need –

Rooted Motorola Fire XT530
MicroSD Card *Higher the Class of the Card, better it would be.
MiniTool Partition
Link2SD

Steps –

Download and Install Link2SD on your phone
Backup the existing data on the SD Card
Install MiniTool Partition and open it
Delete the existing Partition on the SD Card
Right Click on the “Unallocated” SD Card once again and select “Create”
Create a “Primary Partition”, File System as ”Fat32” and specify the “Partition Size”
Click OK
Right Click on the remaining “Unallocated” space
Create a “Primary Partition”, File System as “Ext2”
Click OK
Start Link2SD and select Ext2
Restart your phone
Start Link2Sd again
The SD Card should now be mounted and you can click “Create Link” on the apps you want to send to the SD Card
The App now will be completely moved to the SD Card

Which apps to safe to move to SD? Look HERE
Thanks to Kammii

Increase SD Card Speed up to 200%

Required -

Run SD Tools and test the speed of your SD Card
Open SD Speed Increase and move the slider to 1024
Save the Setting
Now Run SD Tools again and test if the speed has increased
Try different settings with SD Speed Increase and save the best setting to start at boot.

* 2048 worked best for me.

SBFs for Motorola Fire XT 530/531

NOT Custom ROMs

You would need RSD Lite 5.6 to flash the SBFs.

*NOTE: Chinese ROM does NOT have Google apps, Market. European ROM has everything

European 2.3.5: DMP-4480-0-4017-A01_RFM

Latin American SBFs:
Claro
Entel

Chinese 2.3.5: DMP-4480-0-7009-A02_RFM

Another ROM - DMP-454A-0-2010-A03_RFM(RETAIL) - Suggested by cmndst. Claims are that the ROM is excellent. I have not tried it personally so I leave it up to you folks to try and comment about it.

Credits & Special Thanks to 7amdoun for the SBFs.

CUSTOM ROM HERE

Ice Cream Jelly

JellySandwich TWO

BUGIS

Here is how you can flash CWM

saishibu38380 · Mar 31, 2012

i found something like motorola p2k tools. what is this actually??

tried all versions of RSD lite. my phone is not detecting in it

Arijit.Ray81 · Mar 31, 2012

saishibu38380 said:
i found something like motorola p2k tools. what is this actually??

tried all versions of RSD lite. my phone is not detecting in it

Not sure with P2K tool is.. may be you can Google and find out. RSD wont detect your phone until you get the Motorola logo.

PanagiotaroS · Apr 4, 2012

Is there any possible way to overclock this phone? I tried several apps but they didn't work.

Roqu3 · Apr 4, 2012

PanagiotaroS said:
Is there any possible way to overclock this phone? I tried several apps but they didn't work.

Not until we have a custom kernel with overclocked frequencies, but that's not the hard part, the hard part it's too get access to recovery partition to replace it with a custom recovery which allow us to flash the custom kernel, but because the bootloader is locked we can't replace the recovery or use fastboot to flash a custom boot.
And also we need someone who can build a custom recovery

Roqu3 · Apr 4, 2012

Aaaaaand we should pay attention to this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24423471&postcount=51

If that works on XT316 is pretty sure it work on XT531 and we could use that to have a custom recovery

Dr. Hurt · Apr 4, 2012

Roqu3 said:
Aaaaaand we should pay attention to this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24423471&postcount=51

If that works on XT316 is pretty sure it work on XT531 and we could use that to have a custom recovery

Thank you very much. Finally, someone is working on 2nd-init.

Unfortunately, I can't help him much. I sent him a copy of Motorola Defy's 2nd-init to help guide him in his effort porting it.

Dr. Hurt · Apr 9, 2012

As some of you might know, our cousin, the XT300 has finally managed to boot strap CWM

I've been analyzing our phones hardware and software to help me build cyanogenmod for it since we don't have the proprietary files needed for it. We'll have to start with a generic build, and optimize it the hard way!

Here are some of the things I found so far:

- system partition is only 178MB, so no ICS for us. Maybe we can make a stripped version later on.

- Although our phone is built on qualcomm, it has some texas instruments components, the most major of which is the TI WLAN!!! This might be tricky.

- motorola loads proprietary apks thru the init.rc. This would require replacing the init.rc before loading a custom ROM. (errr. this is not possible =we'll just have to add some moto bloat to our ROM

nesham · Apr 10, 2012

Swype

Does anybody have swype instalation?
Please.

Dr. Hurt · Apr 10, 2012

nesham said:
Does anybody have swype instalation?
Please.

http://beta.swype.com/

Register and you'll get the link for the latest version.

Dr. Hurt · Apr 10, 2012

Guys, please sign this petition to force Motorola to provide tools to unlock their botloaders.

HTC, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung respect their customers and allow them to unlock their bootloaders. Motorola is being really disrespectful by denying users free-will to modify their "purchased" devices.

http://www.change.org/petitions/motorola-mobility-inc-unlock-all-smartphone-bootloaders-2

aleks.sun · Apr 12, 2012

Deletei o motoswith

thiagomalcher said:
use google translate: provavelmente você apagou o motoswith, se tiver uma cópia mande um email com a copia do arquivo apagado e anexe nesse email, envie para a conta configurada no seu aparelho, se a barra de notificação está funcionando dará certo! Detalhe: recoloque o arquivo na pasta system/app de onde você apagou para voltar ao normal e não ficar como uma simples instalação!

Thiago, eu também deletei esse app motoswith, mas eu não fiz backup e não tenho esse aplicativo, o que eu faço? estou desesperado???

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brunofpm said:
PT-BR: Thiago, tem como eu falar com vc? Gtalk, Gmail...sei lá.
Essa sua soluçao não deve funcionar pq eu teria que atualizar o gmail. O meu nao tá configurado pra atualizar automatico.

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I entered the Titanium Backup with the notification bar and restored the MotoSwitch app. Thanks thiagomalcher!

Bruno,

Tem como voce mandar esse app motoswith pro meu emal, ja que voce tem um bakup dele?

Eu apaguei tambem mas nao tenho backup, meu motorola xt531 morreu.

pwel · Apr 14, 2012

aleks.sun said:
Thiago, eu também deletei esse app motoswith, mas eu não fiz backup e não tenho esse aplicativo, o que eu faço? estou desesperado???

---------- Post added at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:22 PM ----------

Bruno,

Tem como voce mandar esse app motoswith pro meu emal, ja que voce tem um bakup dele?

Eu apaguei tambem mas nao tenho backup, meu motorola xt531 morreu.

You could get the original rom for your xt531.see http://modmymobile.com/forums/402-general-motorola-android/561090-how-create-update-zip-3.html

Sent from my XT532 using XDA

PanagiotaroS · Apr 18, 2012

I'm trying to install Flash Player (11.0 or 10.3, both for arm6) but it doesn't work. Any tips anyone?

Dr. Hurt · Apr 18, 2012

Some SBFs

NB:
To flash those, use RSD Lite 5.6
Chinese ROM does NOT have Google apps, Market. European ROM has everything

European 2.3.5:
DMP-4480-0-4017-A01_RFM
http://www.mediafire.com/?h73a80xuhs0ii8j

Chinese 2.3.5:
DMP-4480-0-7009-A02_RFM
http://www.mediafire.com/?20qf909peofbodn

Latin American SBFs:
[Claro] http://www.grupoandroid.com/topic/41195-firmware-spice-xt531-claro-chile-gingerbread/

[Entel] http://www.grupoandroid.com/topic/40427-firmware-spice-xt531-entel-chile-gingerbread/

Kammii · Apr 18, 2012

Thank you for this guide. It's been very helpful.

For anyone that is having problems when connecting their Fire XT via USB to their PC (with debugging mode enabled) due to Windows not being able to locate and install the necessary drivers, you just need to download and install the Motorola USB Drivers (Google it and it should be the first link – I can't post links as I'm a "new user"). I was having that problem with my XT530 on Windows XP Professional 32-bit. After installing the drivers rooting was a breeze.

You'll then want to download both a superuser management app (eg. Superuser or SuperSU) and BusyBox from Google Play. Install your superuser manager first, then install and run BusyBox to install it on your phone. If you want to check that your phone is rooted, you can install and run the app "Got Root?" (search Google Play for com.island51.gotroot).

Also, because the Fire XT has such low internal memory, I use Link2SD to convert certain system apps to user apps and then link them to the SD card. I do that with apps that I don't really use such as Weather, Swype, Qik Video, etc. If you find that this breaks an app you want to use, just go back to Link2SD and remove the link for that app and convert it back to a system app and it should work as normal again.

Note that when you link an app to SD, it may take a while for it to register the reduction in internal storage usage in the system apps manager (ie. Settings > Applications > Manage applications). You may even need to reboot your phone to get it to register the reduction in the usage of internal storage. In any case, you can just use the "Storage Info" feature in Link2SD for accurate usage figures.

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the guide. Much appreciated.

PS: Could anyone please tell me how I would go about unrooting my XT530 now? Just thought I should know in case I wanted to update the firmware of my phone in the future.

chen2011521 · Apr 18, 2012

why i can not download them？

Sent from my XT316 using XDA Premium App

Jiggerica · Apr 19, 2012

Kammii said:
I do that with apps that I don't really use such as Weather, Swype, Qik Video, etc. If you find that this breaks an app you want to use, just go back to Link2SD and remove the link for that app and convert it back to a system app and it should work as normal again.

What system apps you convert to sd card? (what is etc.....?) Any problems with your phone?

Thanks a lot!

prash4u007 · Apr 19, 2012

please provide a proper support to root motorola fire xt

please provide a proper support to root motorola fire xt.really this phone has a good specifications as a low rate device but runs out of memory very soon..its a heartious request from xda developers to provide the active links to download the softwares and help me to root this phone.

jaditya51 · Apr 19, 2012

solution for battery of fire xt

dude,......... got o the google play market and search for the app named "go power master.... and go task manager" these both app will surely resolve ur problem...

the go power master will adjust your phone usages as per ur interaction with the phone and also turn off the app or processes which are running in the background uselessly. and go task manager will manage the task as per need by the apps......

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search this app on google play "Smart SWF Player- Flash Viewer"

it will work... coz i m using it on my motorola fire xt

nesham · Apr 19, 2012

7amdoun said:
NB:
To flash those, use RSD Lite 5.6
Chinese ROM does NOT have Google apps, Market. European ROM has everything

European 2.3.5:
DMP-4480-0-4017-A01_RFM
w w w. mediafire. com/ ?h73a8 0xu hs0ii8j

This ROM is for XT532 or for XT531/530?

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