I just got this phone today and would like to root it. I came from the (MyTouch 4g) thread and been using that phone over 1yr now. So if someone can point me in the right direction on where to go to do what I am asking I would greatly appreciate it.
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Get matts razr utility 1.82 and it is very easy to use
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Get matts razr utility 1.82 and it is very easy to use
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Where can I find that at?
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Hey Pix3l Viru5,
I just started using this phone as well. Here's the thread with the videos I followed to root my device. It also has links to the software you'll need to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342567
Before rooting, I also installed the Motorola Tools as drivers for the phone. You can find those at http://www.mymotocast.com/
After rooting, you'll want to install SafeStrap. It's a different recovery that will allow you to safely flash ROMs. There's a basic tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1847599
And the newest version of SafeStrap is linked to in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391900
I think this is the video I watched that showed how to install SafeStrap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8KOcnHJjHM
The ROM you choose will depend on which version of the phone you have (GSM or CDMA, also referred to as XT910 and XT912 respectively). If you're in the US with Verizon Wireless or Cellcom, odds are that you're using a CDMA phone, otherwise it's probably GSM. If you're not sure, you should be able to find other resources that will help show you which phone you have. Just make sure that you install the proper ROM for your phone.
Enjoy the Razr MAXX! Also, feel free to use the search tool provided by xda. It's quite handy!
And if you manage to brick your device, you only have yourself to hold accountable. Be forewarned that rooting can invalidate your warranty.
Ligor said:
Hey Pix3l Viru5,
I just started using this phone as well. Here's the thread with the videos I followed to root my device. It also has links to the software you'll need to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342567
Before rooting, I also installed the Motorola Tools as drivers for the phone. You can find those at http://www.mymotocast.com/
After rooting, you'll want to install SafeStrap. It's a different recovery that will allow you to safely flash ROMs. There's a basic tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1847599
And the newest version of SafeStrap is linked to in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391900
I think this is the video I watched that showed how to install SafeStrap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8KOcnHJjHM
The ROM you choose will depend on which version of the phone you have (GSM or CDMA, also referred to as XT910 and XT912 respectively). If you're in the US with Verizon Wireless or Cellcom, odds are that you're using a CDMA phone, otherwise it's probably GSM. If you're not sure, you should be able to find other resources that will help show you which phone you have. Just make sure that you install the proper ROM for your phone.
Enjoy the Razr MAXX! Also, feel free to use the search tool provided by xda. It's quite handy!
And if you manage to brick your device, you only have yourself to hold accountable. Be forewarned that rooting can invalidate your warranty.
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Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate all the help you provided me with.
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Is it possible? I've heard of one click root process, but I can't find that thread with the directions. If there is one, can someone link it for me? Thanks.
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CominWitDaSauce said:
Is it possible? I've heard of one click root process, but I can't find that thread with the directions. If there is one, can someone link it for me? Thanks.
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Search. It's a button, and I can confirm... it works.
Check the stickies in the dev section, everything is laid out right there for u, and one click works flawlessly ; )
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There is also a sticky right here in general forum made by moonshadow.
Easy as pie.
And we don't have a sbf that gives us root anyway. If u sbf at all u r going to need to use the rooting methods again to regain root
CominWitDaSauce said:
Is it possible? I've heard of one click root process, but I can't find that thread with the directions. If there is one, can someone link it for me? Thanks.
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Let's be clear. It's called Pete's Motorola Root Tools. ...and hyperlinks are your friend.
And just to clear some things up, SBFing has nothing to do with rooting. You don't SBF to root or root to SBF. One does not require the other.
SBFing means putting your phone back to a particular stock install which makes it no longer rooted. Hence, if you SBF to a stock image (2.2.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4), you'll lose any root privileges you had and you'll have to re-root your phone.
SBFing requires having an application called RSDLite as well as a particular SBF image (Froyo - 2.2.2, Gingerbread - 2.3.3 or 2.3.4).
Rooting requires running an application such as Pete's Motorola Tools that allows you to have root access to your phone. This means you are unlocking the phone so you can perform various other functions, such as running Titanium Backup so you can backup not only applications, but the data associated with said applications. It also allows you to make other tweaks under the hood to help make your phone run better, such as running Zepplinrox's turbo charger scripts, adding the init.d hack to allow you to run various startup scripts when you reboot and last, but not least, it also allows you to flash ROMs on the phone.
Hopefully that clears some things up for you.
I'm pretty experienced with unlocking Winmo 6.5 phones and running android non natively on them. But I've only had a Droid since Christmas and am not too experienced with these. I had rooted my phone to enable Wifi tethering but the new 2.3.6 has disabled my ability to root the phone. I understand that I may need to install a previous version of Droid and then do something before installing 2.3.6 but I keep reading about Nexus and OTA and have no idea what these are. So can someone walk me through this?
Absolutely! You more than likely need to restore back to a prev version using a fastboot file if you can't root 2.3.6. You have 2 options:
1 - Root the fastboot, use Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper to preserve root
2 - Use the root for 2.3.6 that is available.
Either way, feel free to PM me if you need a step by step. I've fastbooted 3 times now to try out different methods of restoring root.
If you have an xt912, didn't say in OP, I know that this works without fastbooting back to 2.3.5.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492708
And if for some reason you wanted to unroot then doomlords unroot method still works.
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The new motofail root method will root 2.3.6 directly with out having to use rootkeeper.
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The new motofail root method will root 2.3.6 directly with out having to use rootkeeper.
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aktrazer said:
Absolutely! You more than likely need to restore back to a prev version using a fastboot file if you can't root 2.3.6. You have 2 options:
1 - Root the fastboot, use Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper to preserve root
2 - Use the root for 2.3.6 that is available.
Either way, feel free to PM me if you need a step by step. I've fastbooted 3 times now to try out different methods of restoring root.
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Lot's of terms here that I don't understand. "Root the fastboot", "Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper", "PM", "Fastboot".
I would need a step by step, thanks.
Ronin3178 said:
If you have an xt912, didn't say in OP, I know that this works without fastbooting back to 2.3.5.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492708
And if for some reason you wanted to unroot then doomlords unroot method still works.
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Lot's of crazy terms here. xt912? OP? Who is doomlord? Did he create the DroidRazrRoot program that I had used before?
When in doubt, google. Having come from a WinMo background as I did, you should be familiar with that.
XT910 & XT912 are the model numbers for the two RAZR variants, GSM & CDMA respectively. It doesn't matter which you have from a root perspective.
As above, there is a new root method called MotoFail, which will allow you to root 2.3.6 without downgrading. Use that. Problem solved.
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onslaught86 said:
When in doubt, google. Having come from a WinMo background as I did, you should be familiar with that.
XT910 & XT912 are the model numbers for the two RAZR variants, GSM & CDMA respectively. It doesn't matter which you have from a root perspective.
As above, there is a new root method called MotoFail, which will allow you to root 2.3.6 without downgrading. Use that. Problem solved.
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I ran the Motofail and it seems to have worked. Sometimes though it would be nice to feel that you aren't going to brick the phone and would like information ahead of time before running a program that you've never heard of. That's why the questions.
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I have a Razr MAXX. I rooted it before the ICS 4.0 over the air update. I am not totally sure what root method I used at the time. I think I used "DooMLoRD_v4_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su" at least that is the file that I still have hanging around on my computer. But I would like to unroot. I rooted before I recieved the OTA upgrade.
Can someone tell me what Unroot methods are available to me?
My current ROM is 6.16.211.XL912.Verizon.en.US
I'm starting to sound like a broken record. You need to find the Droid RAZR utility 1.8.1. If you use option 1 it will fastboot flash the OTA. It doesn't matter which root method you used since it writes all the system files. Make sure your battery is fully charged and be patient it takes about 10 minutes and is very easy.
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dave5777 said:
I'm starting to sound like a broken record. You need to find the Droid RAZR utility 1.8.1. If you use option 1 it will fastboot flash the OTA. It doesn't matter which root method you used since it writes all the system files. Make sure your battery is fully charged and be patient it takes about 10 minutes and is very easy.
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Please visit the droidforum.net select Droid Razr Forum and then Droid Razr Hacks. I can't post a link in here yet unfortunately.
Best Regards,
TSRV1
I have some issues going on with my phone since rooting. I use matt's utility 1.82 and seems like i have tons of issues with trying roms. Every rom i try has the same issue. Wifi doesnt stay connected and i cant get my cpu speeds to set.
So I have seen in other forums other ways to root your razr. Which root methods does everyone like best and have the best/most success with?
Thanks for the help guys.
do you have a gsm or CDMA version?
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prsterero said:
do you have a gsm or CDMA version?
Full-Throttle Team
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I have CDMA (Verizon XT912)
brex2040 said:
So I have seen in other forums other ways to root your razr. Which root methods does everyone like best and have the best/most success with?
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I would recommend you EasyRootICS, worked everytime for me without issues and takes only 1-2 minutes!
You can find it in the developer forum, just use the search function!
Motofail never gave me a problem
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Lokimitsu said:
I would recommend you EasyRootICS, worked everytime for me without issues and takes only 1-2 minutes!
You can find it in the developer forum, just use the search function!
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So i used EasyRootICS and it seemed to work fine, but i still have the issue where my WiFi wont stay connnected or if i leave the area where my wifi is, it wont connect back up. I have to reboot the phone to connect again. Doesnt matter what ROM i am using, they all do the same thing.
Ever user EasyRootICS successfully
brex2040 said:
So i used EasyRootICS and it seemed to work fine, but i still have the issue where my WiFi wont stay connnected or if i leave the area where my wifi is, it wont connect back up. I have to reboot the phone to connect again. Doesnt matter what ROM i am using, they all do the same thing.
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I often noticed that issue, too...
Which ROMs did you test so far?
I used Matt Goff's 1.82 utility no problems
I have tried using Wizzed Bean, Red Tide, and Full Throttle. I am currently running Wizzed Bean and everytime i restart my phone. all my setting reset. i have re installed the rom, wiped cache/delvik still same issues. I might just go back to stock ICS and wait out for Official JB.
Seriously, try Matt's 1.82, Safestrap 3.05, and the CM10 spyder. Running great for me, not going back to the bloat, secret data recording, and delayed updates.
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rhizomaticon said:
Seriously, try Matt's 1.82, Safestrap 3.05, and the CM10 spyder. Running great for me, not going back to the bloat, secret data recording, and delayed updates.
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Can't seem to find that one. Can you post link please. Thanks for info.
brex2040 said:
Can't seem to find that one. Can you post link please. Thanks for info.
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Sorry to take so long to answer-- need to get push notifications for this going or something.
I started with this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927747
But some of the information in that thread is out of date- so make sure you read the latest posts. Also, with Safestrap, I am not sure you have to root your stock install, but I did at the beginning just because I thought I had to before understanding the whole process. Also, Matt's is not the only way to root. So my sequence went something like this:
Rooted with Matt's 1.82 utility:
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...-182-windows-for-verizon-droid-razrmaxx-only/
Again, this is getting out of date. I did not install the Safestrap 2.X from here. Instead, I found the latest Safestrap with instructions here:
http://blog.hash-of-codes.com/how-to-safestrap/
Finally, you can get the latest CM10 spyder builds by Hashcode here:
http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/spyder/cm10
I am currently running the Nov. 1 version, but I see there's a Nov. 10 now. Now to figure out how to upgrade without blowing it all away!
YMMV, HTH, yada yada
Lokimitsu said:
I would recommend you EasyRootICS, worked everytime for me without issues and takes only 1-2 minutes!
You can find it in the developer forum, just use the search function!
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Agreed.
Used this method on my razr. Flawless.
Forgot how much fun a rooted phone is.
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I used Matt Goff's 1.82 utility no problems
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Matt's worked great for me as well
This goes against most thinking in regards to Jelly Bean, but it seriously screwed up my phone when I got it. I had to have Verizon send me a new device because it was unusable. plus loosing my wifi tether just sucked.
How can I stop this stupid update? I don't want it to auto download, I don't want it to install and I'm getting sick of getting notified about it.
Please help me
Verizon Rooted Stock Droid Razr Maxx.
I have never used a custom rom, but if that is my only option at this point, can someone please point me to the most reliable and some seriously detailed info on how to install one...I've never done any of that, just rooted to get rid of bloatware.
thanks
CappyLarou said:
This goes against most thinking in regards to Jelly Bean, but it seriously screwed up my phone when I got it. I had to have Verizon send me a new device because it was unusable. plus loosing my wifi tether just sucked.
How can I stop this stupid update? I don't want it to auto download, I don't want it to install and I'm getting sick of getting notified about it.
Please help me
Verizon Rooted Stock Droid Razr Maxx.
I have never used a custom rom, but if that is my only option at this point, can someone please point me to the most reliable and some seriously detailed info on how to install one...I've never done any of that, just rooted to get rid of bloatware.
thanks
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If you screwed up your phone, just reflash your system version's fastboot file using RSD Lite. It will reflash all of your system files, no root needed. You also can easily update to jellybean because there's already a fastboot file for the update
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If you screwed up your phone, just reflash your system version's fastboot file using RSD Lite. It will reflash all of your system files, no root needed. You also can easily update to jellybean because there's already a fastboot file for the update
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thanks for taking the time to respond and not actually read my question.
still looking for an answer, thanks
You have a cdma phone, I would go for one of these two roms.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-razr-roms/214917-simplex-v1-3-ics4-04-10-1-2012-revival.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1795493
I have been using these two roms for ever, and im always coming back to them after trying different roms.
These two roms are really tweaked with a lot of nice customing and NO Blur, marvelous battery and speed!
Simplex has more customations but is a little bit bigger and comes with Apex Launcher in it. Eclipse is a little bit smaller and comes with a smaller ''eclipse launcher'' baked into the rom. Eclipse also have reverted colours in calendar and gmail, this means black background instead of white. I would go fro Eclipse rom with maybe Nova Launcher, the standard launcher can be uninstalled with Titanium Backup. If you do not really care about customation just go for the rom clean
The two roms are so stable that I run them on my stock:slot in Safestrap, no worries...
- You need Safestrap to install, read this thread and install!
(with safestrap you can do a nandroid backup of your whole room when everything is just the way you want, this way you will never loose anything!)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073413
- After just read the rooms threads on how to install, it's really simple
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This thread is also a must read! Here you get deeper explanations about what you are asking, but I would still go for one of those roms i mentioned!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991253
A simplified answer is just remove a Motorola app and the JB download will not install because it requires ALL original Motorola apps to install. Even if you hit install it will not. That's what I did on my 2 razr's.
So if you removed the bloat it should not install anyways.
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blackops11252 said:
A simplified answer is just remove a Motorola app and the JB download will not install because it requires ALL original Motorola apps to install. Even if you hit install it will not. That's what I did on my 2 razr's.
So if you removed the bloat it should not install anyways.
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thanks...I heard that but didn't know if that was true.:laugh:
blackops11252 said:
A simplified answer is just remove a Motorola app and the JB download will not install because it requires ALL original Motorola apps to install. Even if you hit install it will not. That's what I did on my 2 razr's.
So if you removed the bloat it should not install anyways.
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If you hit install, It will try to install the JB update but it will fail half way through the install process and giving you the message "update failed, operation aborted" or something like that. I did it on both my razrs. The only way for me to install the JB update was to use the RDS lite and fast boot the original ICS files.