Well the Xperia X10 guide for rooting has been done if you have not checked it out then have a look at it because flashing a custom recovery needs a phone to be rooted. The procedures below will install a custom recovery called xrecovery on your Xperia X10 and this recovery happens to be one of the best recoveries for this device.
Flashing Custom Recovery:
Requirements:
- Phone must be rooted
- Install Busybox from the Android market
- Download xrecovery from here
Procedure:
- Download the xrecovery.apk from above and install it in your device and click on ‘install xrecovery’
- If it does not install then we also have an alternate manual method to install:
- Rename the above downloaded xrecovery.apk to xrecovery.zip
- Unzip xrecovery.zip
- Find the ./res/raw folder inside
- Check for these 3 files inside: chargemon, busybox and xrecovery.tar
- Take these 3 files and copy them in this location: /system/bin using root explorer
- Remount system/rw
- Xrecovery has been installed
How To access xrecovery:
- Power off device
- Switch the device on
- Hit back button continuously until a black screen with a smiling android appears with z written on it and stuff written in blue appears.
- Now you can toggle the options using Volume UP, Volume Down, Home to select and back to go back.
