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.
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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.
My wife just got a DROID 3 yesterday. I promptly used Pete's Motorola Root Tools to root the device, then used Titanium Backup to freeze a bunch of the bloatware that came on it. Today, she installed an OTA update and lost root. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get root back. I tried re-running Pete's Motorola Root Tools, but adb shows the device as offline, so it isn't working. Anyone know how to get root back? Thanks!
Edit: I forgot to mention that after I rooted the phone, I installed the DROID 3 bootstrapper and recovery. I took a full backup before I used TB to freeze the bloat. Don't know if recovering this backup is the way to go...
You wont get root for this version till it's been found, the root process has been fixed by Moto.
Just RSD back to 5.6.890:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1339816
Then follow the below link, install rootkeeper to keep root from previous version then update with Hashcodes OTA file pull:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334704
-smc
Thanks for the info. The phone shows that its currently at 5.6.890. Is this because the OTA update wasn't completely successful?
riot1031 said:
Thanks for the info. The phone shows that its currently at 5.6.890. Is this because the OTA update wasn't completely successful?
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I think you probably updated to 5.6.890 not the leaked OTA. Maybe check to see USB debugging is still on and run the 1 click again. FYI the leaked update 5.7 is not rootable at this point but 5.6 is.
Thanks alot guys!! I was able to get her phone re-rooted and everything looks good.
Since getting a D3 I've picked up a few more techniques and strategies for easily keeping my root and customizing my device. I've found that Root Keeper will ensure you keep your root even after installing a custom ROM
MerkXR4 said:
Since getting a D3 I've picked up a few more techniques and strategies for easily keeping my root and customizing my device. I've found that Root Keeper will ensure you keep your root even after installing a custom ROM
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Although most custom ROMs have root/superuser built into them...
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
ok very new to rooting just rooted 2 days ago on 893 now installed update to 902 lost root...but here is my concern my phone grants super user but cant gain root access and i didnt unfreeze bloat and the update was still successfull now i cant even access titatium to unfreeze cause root cant be established so i dont understand how i can partially be rooted and just to mention as far as i can tell there are no known problems with the phone anywhere else but what should i do to get root back or is it just a simple configuration problem thanks
There's an exploit available that will root the .902 update -- Motofail. It says Droid 4 but it works with the Bionic, RAZR and Droid 3 as well.
what are the risks im pretty new and dont wanna do something i dont fully understand or that i might regret later..and how did the update complete without unfreezing bloat and where is it now.lol i guess im asking does it matter i just wanna get it right
It's pretty straightforward, basically a one-click root method.
As far as the update, it depends on which specific apps you had frozen. Apparently the ones you froze were not on the list of apps the update checks for.
i can pm you instructions on step by step instructions to root from stock to 902 root if you like someone helped me today about to do it myself here in about 5 minutes
ok thanks for the input i did motofail and it worked back in root now does anyone know of an app to overclock without changing rom
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There's an exploit available that will root the .902 update -- Motofail. It says Droid 4 but it works with the Bionic, RAZR and Droid 3 as well.
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I just received 902 today and lost my root. I ran this and it's all good again. I have the Bionic. Thanks for the post!
Hello fellow of xda,
I had spend hours and hours finding solution rooting and manged it myself. I used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509590 then this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2538896 and write protection, but I was having problems about Telnet stage 1 where do I find it? I have bootstrap twrp installed and backed up stock rom.
Since Bootstrap was installed and if I take ota this will brick device? or have bootstrap removed prior to ota? I'm very very confused here
Can anyone help?