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You Can Now Root 6.12.173 Directly!

Started by mattlgroff , Feb 11 2012 04:26 PM

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#41 mattlgroff

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 03:11 PM

new to the site tried to root my phone on version 6.12.173 with above and it is not working can someone help says adb not recognized as internal or external command am i missing something

Did you install the Motorola drivers and is everything in the same folder as when you extracted it?

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#42 robgub

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 03:22 PM

got it to work didn't extract it correctly got it to work thanks for your help and fast response

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#43 krankie

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 08:32 PM

Im new to learning about rooting and what not on my phone. I had it rooted before my phone updated and now the root seems to have been lost. I've been trying to figure out how to re-root it but I keep getting errors. I know I'm doing something wrong...I just need to know what. This is the error..

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#44 mattlgroff

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 08:37 PM

Im new to learning about rooting and what not on my phone. I had it rooted before my phone updated and now the root seems to have been lost. I've been trying to figure out how to re-root it but I keep getting errors. I know I'm doing something wrong...I just need to know what. This is the error..
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I'd recommend trying out my utility to root it then. Use it to go to stock 6.11.748, update normally to 173, then use it to root and you will be error free. Also wipe data/factory reset before rooting with my utility.

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#45 Pego99

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 08:57 PM

Im new to learning about rooting and what not on my phone. I had it rooted before my phone updated and now the root seems to have been lost. I've been trying to figure out how to re-root it but I keep getting errors. I know I'm doing something wrong...I just need to know what. This is the error..
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The phone updated without your permission? Is this preventable?

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#46 krankie

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Posted 14 February 2012 - 09:02 PM

Is there a link for your tool? I really hate to be a bother but I like the options I have with my phone being rooted. Lol

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#47 SlammedDime

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Posted 15 February 2012 - 08:59 AM

The phone updated without your permission? Is this preventable?

Both of my phones asked to update, it was not automatic.

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#48 timdog68

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Posted 16 February 2012 - 08:08 AM

I'd recommend trying out my utility to root it then. Use it to go to stock 6.11.748, update normally to 173, then use it to root and you will be error free. Also wipe data/factory reset before rooting with my utility.

Hi Matt,
I'm looking to root for the first time and curious what the "wipe data/fatcory reset" clears?
will I lose all my 3rd party apps,contacts etc.?
Also I must be on .173 to root or can I root on .176?
Thanks
Tim

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#49 timdog68

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Posted 16 February 2012 - 08:09 AM

Is there a link for your tool? I really hate to be a bother but I like the options I have with my phone being rooted. Lol

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#50 groot

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Posted 18 February 2012 - 07:45 AM

Accidentally installed 6.12.173 and lost root. Was able to get it back today thanks to your link. I'm lost on how this works, but keep it simple for my kind. Thank you so much!

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#51 vareba

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 07:17 AM

I think we need to pay this guy to unlock the Moto Bootloader. Some one should contact him and we should start a fund for that!

I'll donate $500 to that. A little less what I paid for my GSM Droid Razr.

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#52 JustinP

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 11:24 AM

Rooted today on 2.3.6 / 6.12.173. Worked fine. Thanks for the link. Time to clean up my RAZR. Still having problems with wifi hotspot. Preloaded app doesnt work. Barnacle doesn't either.

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#53 thearranger

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Posted 15 March 2012 - 12:46 PM

Worked like a charm

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#54 fkduytarse

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 10:19 AM

So I did the OTA without unrooting and it seems to be working fine.......but I cant get the Eclipse rom to take. Do I need to unroot? then root again using your tool? Or is it too late since I' did the OTA?

Ran root check figured out that it did unroot. Moving forward will give this another shot now!

Edited by fkduytarse, 12 April 2012 - 10:46 AM.

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#55 tuner

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Posted 15 April 2012 - 09:36 AM

Thanks for the info. rooted and works great. Need to know what other things can I do now that I'm rooted. I have unlimited hotspot so I don't need that, but did
get apps to freeze stuff. thanks again

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#56 nfkoopmann

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 07:54 PM

Tried Dan's method (which may have been replaced by now for all i know), unable to proceed past "waiting for device" - all setting are correct, motofail extracted in full to desktop amd untouched, attempting to root a stock XT912... you know the black and *cough* red one *cough*

any advice would be happily snacked on.

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#57 mrbuilder

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 04:12 AM

I've used motofail on numerous Razrs and a Droid 4 over the last few months. Yesterday I attempted to root a D4 and it failed. Last night and this morning I tried a Razr and it failed. I'm at a loss to know what is going wrong. I'll copy/paste the info from cmd prompt in hopes that someone can help me out.

[*]
[*] 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...
[*] Device found.
[*] Deploying payload...
581 KB/s (501292 bytes in 0.842s)
[*] Owning phone...
[*] Motofail: Universal Motorola Android Root Exploit
[*] Copyright © 2012 Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss)
[*] Exploit complete.
[*] Rebooting device...
[*] Waiting for phone to reboot.
error: protocol fault (no status)
[*] Attemping persistence...
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
[*] Cleaning up...
error: device not found
error: device not found
[*] Rebooting...
error: device not found
error: protocol fault (no status)
[*] Exploit complete!
[*] Press any key to exit.
Press any key to continue . . .

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#58 mrbuilder

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 06:13 AM

Even though no one responded, I decided to come back here and give a report in case someone has the same problem later and I want to help in any way I can.
I ended up copying five files from the Motofail folder: busybox, motofail, run.bat, su and Superuser.apk to my Android-sdk\platform-tools\ folder. I then ran run.bat as an Adminstrator and everything went off without a hitch. Yay!!!
But please, can someone tell me why it worked. I would really like to use this as a learning experience because I just spent a frustrating 8 hours or so fussing with this.
Thanks guys!
mrbuilder

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#59 CameramanMatteo

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 07:39 AM

Hello Forum,

I am trying to root my RAZR on Android 2.3.6, and have been unsuccessful. These are my results:

[*]
[*] 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...
3423 KB/s (501292 bytes in 0.143s)
[*] Owning phone...
[*] Motofail: Universal Motorola Android Root Exploit
[*] Copyright © 2012 Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss)
[*] Exploit complete.
[*] Rebooting device...
[*] Waiting for phone to reboot.
[*] Attemping persistence...
remount failed: Unknown error: 0
3639 KB/s (22364 bytes in 0.006s)
ln: /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
3575 KB/s (1867568 bytes in 0.510s)
3281 KB/s (843503 bytes in 0.251s)
[*] Cleaning up...
/sbin/sh: /data/local/motofail: not found
[*] Rebooting...
[*] Exploit complete!
[*] Press any key to exit.
Press any key to continue . . .

Any ideas on where it's going wrong?