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Root Motorola Droid Bionic - All Things Root Guide

I just rooted my Bionic after 902 update. I use motofail form the first post in this forum. It worked flawlessly. A great big thanks to Dan Rosenberg @djrbliss!!!!!!!!!
 
adlerrot said:
I just rooted my Bionic after 902 update. I use motofail form the first post in this forum. It worked flawlessly. A great big thanks to Dan Rosenberg @djrbliss!!!!!!!!!
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Hi,
I have been trying to get my phone rooted. I downloaded the Motorola Drivers from the link provided. Once installed I downloaded Motofail. I ran the .bat file, and it got to this point and just hung up. It has been at this point for over an hour. Is this normal? Is there something else I need to do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

Thanks :) :)

[*]
[*] Motofail: Universal Motorola Android Root Exploit (Windows version)
[*] by Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss)
[*]
[*] Tested on Droid 3, Droid Bionic, Droid RAZR, and Droid 4
[*]
[*] Before continuing, ensure USB debugging is enabled, that you
[*] have the latest Motorola drivers installed, and that your phone
[*] is connected via USB.
[*]
[*] Press enter to root your phone...
Press any key to continue . . .
[*]
[*] Waiting for device...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
[*] Device found.
[*] Deploying payload...
1406 KB/s (501292 bytes in 0.348s)
[*] Owning phone...
[*] Motofail: Universal Motorola Android Root Exploit
[*] Copyright (c) 2012 Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss)
[*] Exploit complete.
[*] Rebooting device...
[*] Waiting for phone to reboot.
 
KiRyah said:
Hi,
I have been trying to get my phone rooted. I downloaded the Motorola Drivers from the link provided. Once installed I downloaded Motofail. I ran the .bat file, and it got to this point and just hung up. It has been at this point for over an hour. Is this normal? Is there something else I need to do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

Thanks :) :)

[*]
[*] Motofail: Universal Motorola Android Root Exploit (Windows version)
[*] by Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss)
[*]
[*] Tested on Droid 3, Droid Bionic, Droid RAZR, and Droid 4
[*]
[*] Before continuing, ensure USB debugging is enabled, that you
[*] have the latest Motorola drivers installed, and that your phone
[*] is connected via USB.
[*]
[*] Press enter to root your phone...
Press any key to continue . . .
[*]
[*] Waiting for device...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
[*] Device found.
[*] Deploying payload...
1406 KB/s (501292 bytes in 0.348s)
[*] Owning phone...
[*] Motofail: Universal Motorola Android Root Exploit
[*] Copyright (c) 2012 Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss)
[*] Exploit complete.
[*] Rebooting device...
[*] Waiting for phone to reboot.
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Ok I figured it out! I just had to put it in Charge only mode, like the instructions said. :eek:
 
Do you have to root the phone to remove the useless apps?
I found a paid app in the market called: root explorer(file manager). It says I can just use this app to remove bloat ware. Sounds to easy. Plus if the phone is rooted, will it still be able to receive updates?
 
johnnyblaze018 said:
Do you have to root the phone to remove the useless apps?
I found a paid app in the market called: root explorer(file manager). It says I can just use this app to remove bloat ware. Sounds to easy. Plus if the phone is rooted, will it still be able to receive updates?
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You have to root the phone. Root Explorer needs root (hence the name).

You can receive updates when it's rooted, but you can't have frozen apps at the time of the update. ROMs also can't update.
 
johnnyblaze018 said:
Do you have to root the phone to remove the useless apps?
I found a paid app in the market called: root explorer(file manager). It says I can just use this app to remove bloat ware. Sounds to easy. Plus if the phone is rooted, will it still be able to receive updates?
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Just an FYI don't delete the apps only freeze them. If you want to get an update and you deleted apps it will fail to install.
 
What are the benefits of rooting the Bionic? I got my Bionic when it came out and haven't rooted yet. When I had the Droid Eris, I rooted that puppy and was constantly putting new ROMs on it. With the Bionic, I notice the root procedure seems to be a little more labor intensive and there aren't near as many ROMs. I wonder if it's worth rooting since ICS is coming sometime this yr to the Bionic. I've not read any compelling reasons to root yet. Advice?
 
knitpurlgurl said:
What are the benefits of rooting the Bionic? I got my Bionic when it came out and haven't rooted yet. When I had the Droid Eris, I rooted that puppy and was constantly putting new ROMs on it. With the Bionic, I notice the root procedure seems to be a little more labor intensive and there aren't near as many ROMs. I wonder if it's worth rooting since ICS is coming sometime this yr to the Bionic. I've not read any compelling reasons to root yet. Advice?
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I root for the ROMs.

And the rooting procedure is not taxing whatsoever. Just install the drivers, check a box on the phone, and run a file. That's it. And there are many ROMs. There is Eclipse for Gingerbread, then AXIOM, SELFKANG, AOKP, Gummy, and MIUI ROMs for ICS.

There's no shortage of ROMs for this phone since ICS was made to work.

Nightlies for SELFKANG/AOKP: https://twitter.com/#!/droidhiverombot
AXIOM: http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/files/file/39-aokp-m4-axi0m-kang-bionic/
Gummy: [Rom][Aosp][Beta][4.0.3]Gummy 0.8.3 - 03/13/12 - Resurrection Duo - RootzWiki

Exclipse: Roms and Development

All of the ICS ROMs are over on DroidHive: http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/forum/5-bionic/
 
I really appreciate all of your hard work on this selected topic.

I have a droid bionic and I have no clue how to root my phone. I assume go to the first post in this thread and follow the instructions.

When you tell me to download these files, download them to my pc or phone?

Also, once rooted will I be able to broadcast wifi?
 
USCRugbyNo1 said:
I really appreciate all of your hard work on this selected topic.

I have a droid bionic and I have no clue how to root my phone. I assume go to the first post in this thread and follow the instructions.

When you tell me to download these files, download them to my pc or phone?

Also, once rooted will I be able to broadcast wifi?
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To the PC.

Yes, but it's against Verizon's TOS.
 
If I only use the hotspot maybe once a month, do you think Verizon will know and care? Has anyone been TOSed for it? That is my only reason for rooting the phone. I am on the unlimited plan.
 
USCRugbyNo1 said:
If I only use the hotspot maybe once a month, do you think Verizon will know and care? Has anyone been TOSed for it? That is my only reason for rooting the phone. I am on the unlimited plan.
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I'm not sure about any of this, but as long as it's sparingly used, probably not... I don't know anyone personally.

I'm going to leave it there as I'm not going to be advertising free tethering. :D
 
LOL Sorry but I'm still confused. You have to do 7 things to root the phone? All those links go to other forums as well? Is there an easier way?
 
USCRugbyNo1 said:
LOL Sorry but I'm still confused. You have to do 7 things to root the phone? All those links go to other forums as well? Is there an easier way?
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All you need is Motofail to root.

Go to the first post in this thread and click "show."

Then just follow the directions. That's it.

I'm not sure where the 7 things come in :P.
 
Worked like a charm! Thanks!

One noob question... I used the Motofail root method at the begining of this thread to root my version 902 Bionic. It installed Superuser. Do I need to periodically update Superuser? Does the Google Play Store do this automatically? Or... Do I just not worry about it?

Thanks for the help!
 
ts47 said:
Worked like a charm! Thanks!

One nube question... I used the Motofail root method at the begining of this thread to root my version 902 Bionic. It installed Superuser. Do I need to periodically update Superuser? Does the Google Play Store do this automatically? Or... Do I just not worry about it?

Thanks for the help!
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The app 'Superuser' will update through Play. Inside the app is where the actual su binary is updated. There is an option that should be enabled that will notify you of su updates, so make sure that's checked. You can manually update the su binary as well.
 
tehsusenoh said:
The app 'Superuser' will update through Play. Inside the app is where the actual su binary is updated. There is an option that should be enabled that will notify you of su updates, so make sure that's checked. You can manually update the su binary as well.
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Thanks for the quick response! Inside superuser>preferences>su binary there is a spot where you can manually check for updates. I could not find a checkbox anywhere that would allow for a notification of su updates. Am I missing something? I just have the su that was installed with the root, not the elite version. Am I missing something?
 
ts47 said:
Thanks for the quick response! Inside superuser>preferences>su binary there is a spot where you can manually check for updates. I could not find a checkbox anywhere that would allow for a notification of su updates. Am I missing something? I just have the su that was installed with the root, not the elite version. Am I missing something?
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It's called "Outdated binary notification" right underneath the binary version number.
 
that's about it, the drivers seem to work, the motofail .bat file starts up, but it just stays on "deploying payload..."

i am using windows through virtualbox though. is there any way to do this through linux?
 
Having trouble with getting motofail to work:

I extracted to desktop, tool appeared to run successfully, but did not root the phone. I'm running android 2.3.4 and firmware version 5.9.902. It did the two reboots and didn't give me any errors, so I'm stumped as to why the root didn't take.
 
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