Root .902 Root Method!

[Somniferum]

I haven't tried this myself, but saw it on another forum. I know some of you lost root during the .902 update and would rather not have to FXZ to get it back. This should do it.

Motofail

Let me know if it works or not!

 

[DatacomGuy]

Isnt that for D4?

 

[Somniferum]

Isnt that for D4?

Also works for the Bionic. Several people have tried it out and it's been verified to work.

 

[bigjosh451]

i just used and work on my bionic

 

[Alex Wekell]

Can someone tell me what I'm going wrong? I've tried "Charge only" and "AB Fastboot", but all I get is a hang saying "Waiting for Device..."

 

[SirEagle]

Settings/Application settings/Development/USB debugging has to be checked.

 

[goldz28]

Worked for me took less than 10 min with two reboots.

 

[tehsusenoh]

I added this to the Sticky.

 

[cobra1100]

Just updated to .902. Lost root, obviously. Tried Pete's One Click Root and it wouldn't work. Tried a couple other hacks from posts here and other forums. This one worked first time. Took about 5 minutes total with this one. Thanks for the post!!!

Forgot to mention I have a Droid Bionic, not a Droid 4.

 

[tehsusenoh]

Just updated to .902. Lost root, obviously. Tried Pete's One Click Root and it wouldn't work. Tried a couple other hacks from posts here and other forums. This one worked first time. Took about 5 minutes total with this one. Thanks for the post!!!

Forgot to mention I have a Droid Bionic, not a Droid 4.

Yeah, never use Pete's. It was for old 5.5.886, but the simple permissions exploit it use was fixed in every later version.

 

[rogue_slc_vzw_rep]

This worked for me just fine I'm glad to be bloat free

 

[Thom]

My production Bionic is not root-ed, my test Droid X is root-ed, so I could not test this.

This new technique for root-ing 5.9.902 seems great.

Is there a method to un-root after it is used so the Bionic can meet some imposed restrictions (like soak test participation)?

Are restrictions from some vendors still in place (like movie rentals) when this method of root-ing is used?

... Thom

 

[johnbrown006]

works PREFECT!!!!

 

[Alex Wekell]

My production Bionic is not root-ed, my test Droid X is root-ed, so I could not test this.

This new technique for root-ing 5.9.902 seems great.

Is there a method to un-root after it is used so the Bionic can meet some imposed restrictions (like soak test participation)?

Are restrictions from some vendors still in place (like movie rentals) when this method of root-ing is used?

... Thom

Was just about to root, but then I read this.

 

[Somniferum]

My production Bionic is not root-ed, my test Droid X is root-ed, so I could not test this.

This new technique for root-ing 5.9.902 seems great.

Is there a method to un-root after it is used so the Bionic can meet some imposed restrictions (like soak test participation)?

Are restrictions from some vendors still in place (like movie rentals) when this method of root-ing is used?

... Thom

I have read that Pete's root tools work to unroot after using this exploit in .902, but I have not confirmed this personally.

As far as I know the Google Market video restriction is still in place. It doesn't really bother me because I use Netflix.

 

[Arsenic]

This does not work for me. I have the droid bionic. yes, i have usb debugging enabled. It just hangs and tells me that it is waiting for my device.

Any suggestions?

 

[Somniferum]

This does not work for me. I have the droid bionic. yes, i have usb debugging enabled. It just hangs and tells me that it is waiting for my device.

Any suggestions?

Do you have the Motorola drivers installed?

 

[Arsenic]

Yes I do, I had them installed since I last rooted it. I can tell because there is a system tray icon saying moto connect.

EDIT:
I re-installed the drivers and now it recognized my device and is working just fine. Thank you so much!

 

[Jazza09]

great find, i've been out of the rooting game since i got my bionic on release day and was starting to get worried when other methods weren't working

 

[goatboy]

I just used the motofail method to root my .902 bionic.

Two reboots and less than 5 mins later... I am free!!!