LOL. So this all came about when my Droid X began, for lack of a better term, "playing" with itself. It just started randomly interacting with icons and menu items and even the apps i was in. It got so frikkin annoying when i was trying to read in my Kindle app that I decided to call tech support. Since my droid is my only phone, I was limited in how to deal with their instructions. After going through several troubleshooting steps, it was decided to wipe and reinstall the OS. But the fun part was that my phone was still using Froyo (Android 2.2) and they wanted the newer version installed. The problem with that was I've had my phone "rooted" since day two. Any official means of updating was thereby negated and I was left to my own devices in how to accomplish this feat. I easily found all pertinent info with a quick search on Google. But the difficulties started then. Gingerbread (Android 2.3) doesn't have any means to be rooted. As I use several apps that require superuser priveledges this was a necessity. So deeper and deeper I dug until i found a wonderful article at DroidXforums that offered a prerooted Gingerbread that met Verizon's version requirements and even provided an easy to follow walkthrough. So I accepted the risks of bricking my phone and got to work. The only downside was having to purchase a bootstrap app to install the new software.
Now that all is said and done and spending nearly 12 hours of trial and error before finding that easy guide, I can say i feel it was worth it. It looks nicer, runs just as smooth, and i haven't found anything bad...yet. If I do run across anything I don't like I'll update this post so others know what to watch out for if they choose to do this as well.
*UPDATE* - It's been a few weeks and I can truly say that there are no issues concerning the update I made. It took a couple of days to get everything reorganized to the way I like it but in the end I've found it well worth it.
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