Root Help: 906 Re-Root w/Motofail ...Fails!

[Ricochet]

HELP!
Droid 3 with newly pushed 906 has lost root.

I've verified that USB Debugging is checked.
Latest Moto drivers (5.4.0) are installed.
Motofail is in a top-level (non-whitespace) dir on C:
Phone is direct-connected USB in "change only" mode,

but it still fails like this:

* Press enter to root your phone...
Press any key to continue . . .
*
* Waiting for device...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Device found.
* Deploying payload...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Owning phone...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Rebooting device...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Waiting for phone to reboot.
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Attemping persistence...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Cleaning up...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Rebooting...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Exploit complete!
* Press any key to exit.
Press any key to continue . . .

Seems to be unable to start/connect to the daemon.

Another thing, the phone does NOT reboot at any time during the above
(same for Pete's One-Click, now).


Suggestions?

 

[doogald]

HELP!
Droid 3 with newly pushed 906 has lost root.

I've verified that USB Debugging is checked.
Latest Moto drivers (5.4.0) are installed.
Motofail is in a top-level (non-whitespace) dir on C:
Phone is direct-connected USB in "change only" mode,

but it still fails like this:

* Press enter to root your phone...
Press any key to continue . . .
*
* Waiting for device...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon
* Device found.
* Deploying payload...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
. . .

Seems to be unable to start/connect to the daemon.

Another thing, the phone does NOT reboot at any time during the above
(same for Pete's One-Click, now).


Suggestions?

Pete's One-click will not work.

ADB server will not ack is telling you that either the phone or the computer is not starting the ADB right. Try restarting both the phone and the computer. (It may be that you tried Pete's first and Pete's has a different ADB.exe that is running as a service and will not work with Motofail. Try restarting the computer and running Motofail before you do anything else.)

One last thing: when you run this, are you running from a command prompt, or are you double-clicking the "run.bat" file from explorer? If it is the latter, then start a command prompt (start and type "cmd" and hit enter); in the command prompt, enter the command cd "\nameoffolder" (the quotes are only necessary if there is a space in the folder name; if not, then cd \motofail is fine, if it is in c:\motofail) and when the prompt changes to show that you are in the right folder, enter the command run.bat.

 

[Ricochet]

Running everything from command prompt @ C:\motofail

I'll try the reboot when I get home. Although, I'd previously used this same install of Pete's to gain root, before. Maybe it's incompat with the latest moto drivers.

Looking inside run.bat, I can see why it's failing to reboot, etc.

Thanks!

 

[doogald]

Although, I'd previously used this same install of Pete's to gain root, before. Maybe it's incompat with the latest moto drivers.

No, the exploit used by Pete's one-click was patched with the 906 update, so Pete's no longer successfully roots a Droid 3. Motofail does work; I have used it several times, on both Windows and Mac, and it worked each time (with the exception of having to reboot the Windows machine that first try.)

Good luck!

 

[Ricochet]

Thought it was going to work, after the reboot, but it failed...

Then I figured it out:
Zone Alarm was blocking *this* instance of ADB!
(while allowing the one in Pete's folder & the one that installed with the Android DevKit).

Thanks!