Ok my question is can The One Click Rooting method be used on the Bionic as well as other mods designed for the D3? Ive been bouncing back and forth from Forum to Forum with one thread confirming a successful Root using One Click!! Will have the Bionic in my hands tomorrow and would like to Root ASAP. Any and all help would be appreciated!! Thanks
According to P3Droid's Twitter feed, the Bionic has been successfully rooted using the one-click method that was uncovered last month. However, it's also been discovered (and reported on by P3Droid) that Motorola is patching that particular vulnerability in a future OTA update.
So if you plan on getting one tomorrow, you'll be able to root it. Just be very wary of taking any future updates. Check with the community first to make sure that the update won't take away root access.
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I purchased a Bionic from Ebay and was never rooted. Was at .886 and did a manual update to .901 because of 4g issues. Phone has never been rooted although was attempted unsuccessfully.
Would like to get root the easiest way if it is available or should i just wait a while.
It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to at least attempt the manual root method found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1395911
If .901 has introduced new complications in rooting, they haven't quite been sorted out. It's your best shot at the moment.
Will give it a shot, hope the brick doesnt come thru the window.
Please keep us posted.
negative on the manual root, typing the commands seem to work until the proggie attempted to gain root. I did attempt to finish the commands but no rw permissions leads me to believe root was not gained. I guess just have to remain patient.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13105-a-easier-way-back-to-the-update-path/
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...ade-path-retaining-root-901-installation.html
these two sites have all the information you need to get back to 896, root, for ever root, and then back to 901 with root
root root root for the home team.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420266
right there. root the 901
Last November I rooted and installed cheesecake. I don't remember what I used since that was a year ago but the info was from this site. It was done through recovery. Then when the OTA update came out in December I think it was I was never able to install it, it would fail half way through. At that time I did a lot of searching for a solution but never found one that worked. Now that ICS is rolling out I'm searching again, except now links for files are all dead and since nearly a year has passed maybe there's a better solution. When I check for OTA updates it gives me 5.5.893 and it fails half way through. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to ICS or at least back on track for OTA updates? It's rooted and has cheesecake and bootstrap.
MetalAZ said:
Last November I rooted and installed cheesecake. I don't remember what I used since that was a year ago but the info was from this site. It was done through recovery. Then when the OTA update came out in December I think it was I was never able to install it, it would fail half way through. At that time I did a lot of searching for a solution but never found one that worked. Now that ICS is rolling out I'm searching again, except now links for files are all dead and since nearly a year has passed maybe there's a better solution. When I check for OTA updates it gives me 5.5.893 and it fails half way through. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to ICS or at least back on track for OTA updates? It's rooted and has cheesecake and bootstrap.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33256361
Follow the directions in this post. Install 905 then 246. This will put you back on the OTA path.
From my EVOLVED bionic
Obsidian_soul said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33256361
Follow the directions in this post. Install 905 then 246. This will put you back on the OTA path.
From my EVOLVED bionic
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Thanks. After I made my post I kept on searching and came across http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...install-246-ics-fxz-updated-10-24-2012-a.html which ended up working for me. It used RSDLite to install 246.
I'm just curious if you had bootstrap or safestrap installed? OTAs won't install if those, or any other mods, are on your phone. You also can't have any of the bloat removed or frozen.
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I am learning and have gained alot of understanding from information I have read here.Thanks. I have used my Bionic as a practice root victim until my new Note 2 arrives and I can hopefully root that without bricking it. I rooted the Bionic with Razrs Edge successfully with help from threads I found. Safestrap was installed/uninstalled without flashing any ROMS except my stock ICS 6.7.2 that I rebooted from. The Bionic is now sold and I need to unroot. I have searched I think thoroughly for 3hrs and cannot find any method to unroot from rooting with Razrs Edge. The methods I found seemed to be for pre ICS .Root was verified RootChecker and Titanium. Thank you for any help or direction.
Hello!
Recently jumped shipped to AT&T moto x and am absolutely loving it. I was perusing around the forum, and really wanted to ask some questions on a specific thread but due to the fear and anxiety of sounding dumb and wasting everyone else's time, I'm just posting a question here hoping that even stupid questions are answered with lots of love. I'm pretty comfortable with rooting, flashing.....aka I'm really good at following instructions, but would really like to expand my knowledge further and am having difficult time getting the explanations I need. SO, hoping some kind soul on here with AT&T Moto X will answer my questions in one shot.
Since my Moto X automatically updated with the new camera update via OTA when I got it four days ago, I was able to successfully root it using JCase's new RockMyMoto method. So, now I'm rooted - great. Everything is set up perfectly the way I want. Then now I find out that AT&T 4.4 is leaked, meaning it's probably going to be ready for an OTA update in the near future (I'm not planning on using the leaked one). So my questions are as follows...
1. I'm going to keep mine rooted until AT&T has 4.4 available for OTA update. Can I simply just run that update when it's available (which will break the root), then just re-root it when that's also available (which it seems like will be rather soon according to Jcase's tweet...)? Or will running the OTA update on my rooted moto x cause more issues other than simply breaking the root? Should I be going back to stock, get the OTA update, THEN re-root it?
2. My understanding is that AT&T boot loader is still locked down...so to my limited knowledge, this means I'm not able to make a NANDROID back up using CWM...am I wrong here in any way? Is there a way to make a NANDROID-like back up (which I used to back in S3 days) without having my bootloader unlocked?
3. Tethering...I was able to use FoxFi fine on my S3 (I got that good old granfathered unlimited data plan....), but it does not seem to work on my new Moto X. Is there any known work around for this? I have Titanium Backup Pro as well, so thought I could maybe just freeze the tether provision or w/e by AT&T but seems like I'm also somehow misunderstanding that there as no such thing seems to exist.
Thanks,
Yoondroid
I can only respond to your first question. You can not take an ota while rooted. The exploit breaks the stock recovery. In order to take the update, you'll have to fastboot the factory images to revert to an in rooted state and then accept the ota. It's really easy and only takes a few minutes... Assuming you have adb set up and know how to use it, if not, an hour or so if searching and reading will get you up to speed.
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theraffman said:
I can only respond to your first question. You can not take an ota while rooted. The exploit breaks the stock recovery. In order to take the update, you'll have to fastboot the factory images to revert to an in rooted state and then accept the ota. It's really easy and only takes a few minutes... Assuming you have adb set up and know how to use it, if not, an hour or so if searching and reading will get you up to speed.
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You can also just flash the recovery.img back and take the OTA update while rooted.
You can install safestrap to make a backup and WiFi tether root works with some minor changes there's a thread somewhere.
Hmm, thanks guys I'll be checking out/learning more about the fastboot option
As for tethering, I've found some good information though for the first option, I haven't figured out a way to patch the at&t apk OP posted in his thread. Seems like quite the ingenious work around though, so hopefully I'll be able to figure it out soon! The second option seems to be a quick work around to get tethering to work, but seems way less secure...and I'll be using tethering to do work which I prefer to be on a much secure network, so we'll see.
First (tricking the phone to think it's not an at&t phone when turning on tethering in native app): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2443562
Second: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449534&page=3
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You can also just flash the recovery.img back and take the OTA update while rooted.
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just so the OP is led astray, if you only flash the recovery.img and you have made changes to your system apps or anything in the /system then you won't be able to take the ota and it will likely through you into a BL. If you don't know what you have changed, then go ahead and flash the system.img as well as recovery and you will be good to go. If you know what you changed then uninstall all of your root apps and change everything you change in the /system back to how it was and take the ota (after flashing recovery.img of coarse).
here is a great guide to adb stuff for you as well that got me started. still go back to it for reference occasionally. its a little old but it is still good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872128
So, I first received one of these after 4.4.4 was already on it. about a year ago successful root using ExtremeSlimRoot. Wonderful, beautiful little phone that is super snappy fast even today. So, as I use it as as secondary phone, thought it's been close to a year, why not see if boot unlock code avail or exploit has been discovered. Had a couple related questions
So, wanted to confirm, non dev devices with locked bootloaders and 5.1 have no exploit now or forever to unlock?
Additionally, phone has been rooted for quite awhile, SuperSU is constantly upset about a binary that won't update, likely because was injected into a read only section of system? Is there any easy fix or is only option to stock restore, and grab a newer root option?
Has there been any develops or recommended updates since slimroot, or is that still about what is available for this device?
Thanks!