[How-To] Rooting & Installing Recovery on X10 Official SE GB [Picture & Video Guide]

The rooting part is for Stock SE 2.3.3 FW...

The installing recovery part is for all ROMs based on SE 2.3.3 FW... if the Dev of ur ROM has not yet included the latest xRecovery posted by Z ONLY then install the recovery! else wait for the ROM dev to include it in that ROM..

i am posting this because many ppl are getting confused over the slightly "complicated" process...


i have personally verified all the below steps atleast 4 times! and it works properly! please follow the below instructions step by step...


[ Credits ]
Bin4ry & Androxyde for their work on Flashtool
aZuZu for finding this rooting solution! aZuZu u are super awesome!!!
zdzihu for fixed xRecovery-0.3 for GB! thanks Z u are a life saver
me, for making it friendly

PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO THANK THE ABOVE PPL FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE!


[ Requirement ]
Stock SE 2.3.3 firmware/custom 2.3.3 ROM (if u want to update/install xRecovery the simple way)
my modified Flashtool package posted below


[ Whats Included? ]
modified Flashtool 0.2.9.1 package
aZuZu's FTF files posted for rooting
zdzihu's xRecovery-0.3-GBready (with all fixes made by Z)


[ Downloads ]

FlashTool_0.2.9.1-GBready_root_xRec [ Mirrors ]
Just download and double click on the downloaded file
it will ask where u want to install/extract, browse to that folder then click on "Extract"
once its extracted go into that folder and u can now launch Flashtool using X10FlashTool.exe


[ How To: Root ] (all credits for finding this method go to aZuZu)

looking at the files posted by aZuZu i can tell u that this will work on ALL BRANDED/GENERIC/REGIONAL 2.3.3 GB FWs... provided that the kernel.sin file remains same (which it will for all 3.0.1.G.0.75 FW)


here is a video guide created by silveraero :


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