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[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
new ICS root method here:

http://droidbionicroot.com/droid-bionic-root/how-to-root-ics-on-droid-bionic-and-motorola-android/

ICS root video tutorial:

[YOUTUBE]SpowD1ALaAw[/YOUTUBE]

Below is for Gingerbread!!!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is older method below: (For newer method 5.5.893 and later, please see new root method)

Video I took while trying this first time on Windows:

[YOUTUBE]CiLwCKCz_Fo[/YOUTUBE]

Video I took while rooting on Linux/Mac:

[YOUTUBE]RzIYzNBwv_M[/YOUTUBE]

See Mac/Linux directions here

I just tried rooting my new Droid Bionic with Pete's Motorola Root Tool, works fine.

To root your Droid Bionic:

Step 1. Set your phone as "Charge Only".

Step 2. Make sure USB Debugging is checked on under Settings->Applications->Development.

Step 3. Connect your phone to your computer via USB Cable.

Step 4. For Windows, you need to install Motorola drivers.

Download drivers here:

http://androiddrivers.net/motorola-android-drivers/download-motorola-droid-bionic-windows-drivers/

Step 5. Download Pete's Motorola Root Tools here:

http://www.psouza4.com/bionic/

Step 6. Unzip Pete's tools and run the exe file for Windows and similar for Mac and Linux.

You can donate to Pete at psouza4.com and xda user djrbliss, I only used their tools and it worked.

Also see how to tether for free after you root, here.

Also see this cool ROM for Droid Bionic, comes with WebTop hack:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1273066

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[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
saved

saved for cute doggy photos.

she is what my dgtr wants:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] JimmyHACK:
He did make a bionic page if you want to update link... same tools currently, but if something differs in the future it may show bionic specific things http://www.psouza4.com/bionic/
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
dido

dido thankx!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mackentosh:
Does this actually Work with the Bionic
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
yes

Yes, it does, the small photo above shows my Bionic's SuperUser app, I am uploading video too so you will see!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mackentosh:
POW! Donation is ON THE WAY!!!!!!! Thanks :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ridleykj0:
Worked on my Bionic using Windows 7 X64. Very simple process...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jadsru1:
Anyone tried this on a mac OSX, I thought I was following the directions but all I get is a text file that's difficult to understand, no command, no instructions. any help. thanks
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
try

Try running:

sh run_to_root_your_droid3.sh
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jadsru1:
I must be retarted, I am sorry, I don't know understand what you mean. I have the zip extracted, when click on the file "sh run_to_root_your_droid3.sh" all I get is the text file.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
Open up a terminal, then browse to the directory where you unzipped the files to:

cd /directorywhereiunzipped

then do

sh run_to_root_your_droid3.sh
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zachpl:
Just rooted mine without a problem thanks.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jimmynov:
How long did it take for your phones to root? Mine seems to not be going past the "SEARCHING FOR THE PHONE" message that first pops up...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ridleykj0:
Did you install the appropriate moto drivers first?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jimmynov:
Yes. I installed the drivers linked above for 64 bit Windows 7.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ridleykj0:
With your phone connected to the PC did you switch the phone to "charge only" mode? before starting? You can verify this by using the pulldown menu in your phone and selecting the ongoing USB connection, then "charge only"
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jadsru1:
worked! thanks! I forgot to change directory...Thanks :-)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] DroidTh3ory:
Anybody try Bootstrap yet?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] yutzyscott:
I should have waited... I rooted mine this morning with the old method of entering all the commands manually. Oh well, at least its rooted. Now if only I could figure out a complete list of apps to be deleted without causing force close issues.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] geske001:
Root Error

I went through the root process, and everything SEEMED to be successful, but the phone says that I do not have su privileges. ANY ideas for this?

BTW I rooted on Win 7 with 64-bit drivers installed first, and all the processes seemed to have been completed ok.

I can open root explorer, but wireless tether claims that su is not installed, AND another tether program (Barnacle wifi tether) says the same thing about su not being installed and to make sure that I have root access.

Again, ANY help is greatly appreciated!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jimmynov:
Yes, I did. I'm going to attempt to re-install the drivers and see if that helps.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ridleykj0:
It took a phone reboot for me.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] geske001:
I tried that twice already! Thank you for the reply!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jimmynov:
Still no luck. :(
[Motorola Droid Bionic] geske001:
Jimmy, verify that you downloaded and installed the proper bit drivers. You can verify which one your version of windows is running by right clicking on computer and then left clicking properties. It doesn't matter if your hardware is 64-bit when your windows is 32-bit.

Use the drivers that the version of your windows is, and retry the root.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jimmynov:
Meh. Booted into Linux and just did it that way. Nothin' a lil' sudo can't fix. ;)

(It worked)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Superguy:
Rooted mine too. Thanks!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] geske001:
I am still stuck. Everything seemed to have been successful, however, after a couple reboots, my apps still say that I do not have su privileges.

ANY help would be greatly appreciated!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] AvatarOfFrost:
Can we flash ClockworkMod recovery (from the Market) after rooting?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] geske001:
By the way, I got the the last screen shown at http://droidbionicroot.com/droid-bionic-root/how-to-root-droid-bionic/ . The caption says, "Your phone should now be rooted after one more reboot." "Be careful..." blah blah blah. Yet I still have no superuser app in my tray.

I tried running the rooting program again and it says that I am already rooted, but it cannot push su to my phone. Try to unroot the phone and try again. There are two options for download to unroot, but I do not know which one to get. Neither version matches what is already on the phone.

Sorry for blasting the forum so much, but any information is appreciated!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] geske001:
FINALLY!!!! For those who have this issue like I did. All I did was turn my phone totally off. I then plugged it into my wall charger until I got 100% charged. I then reran Pete's Motorola tools. It was rooted upon 3 reboots (the normal process, not extra reboots). I then confirmed whether my super user app was in my drawer. It was there. Then downloaded my wifi tether app, and ran it. Sure enough, it was asking for su access like its supposed to.

Thanks for the root. Whom do I send this donate to (the REAL person)?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
great

I was about to say you could install superuser app off the market sometimes u can be rooted just no superuser app.

Please donate to the creator of the one click root authors!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rascalee:
Rooting worked on my Bionic!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] itzmeehtimmy:
Just upgraded from my Omnia i910 sooo new to android and back to xda

If I root can I unroot? Incase I need to return the phone in 30 days

And to be clear once rootes wifi tether is free?

Thank you
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cromanorn:
Thanks. Worked like a charm.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] PhilDX:
have you had any problems after rooting?

has anyone experienced any problems after rooting?

i rooted my Bionic right away, then installed a number of apps from the market (all main stream apps that currently run fine on my Droid X). last night i noticed the upload/download arrows under the 3g/4g icon were constant on for a long time, a reboot fixed that. i set the phone to CDMA (3g) only and went to bed. this morning the phone was hot and unresponsive, and dropped from 100% battery to 30% battery in 8 hours. i could not wake up or turn off the phone using the power button. had to pull the battery so i could reboot.

i un-rooted and factory reset this morning, the only app i installed is system panel (to monitor battery temp), left it in 3g mode all day - phone is cool and battery drain is as expected.

trying to decide whether or not to re-root...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] robotsforeveryone:
Well I rooted with no issues.

Here are the issues I've had after rooting:

Market locks up, won't download

Can't get a lock on 4G

Gallery locks up

Screenshot It makes the images all garbled

Might just unroot and wait until the kinks are worked out.

Screenshot It:

Screenshot ER:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] PhilDX:
what does "it" and "er" above each screen shot mean?

i'm sure it's just too obvious for me to figure out :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] PhilDX:
EDIT: they're different screenshot apps, i knew it was obvious!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] robotsforeveryone:
Haha... yeah you beat me to it. :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tarheelmike:
Got rooted first thing this morning no problem. Thanks for the super esay root access. Coming form the Charge I am super excited to see the developers work on this monster. Bring on free tether!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Chopstix9:
Could someone download and try Open Garden wifi tether? Works great on my Charge where others were problematic. I haven't taken the Bionic plunge yet.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 24BlackMamba:
how safe is this? any chances of getting in a bootloop?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
safe

Pretty safe I think, no problems so far.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 24BlackMamba:
alright cool, you think we will be see'ing a " saftey net" anytime soon?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Timmay!!!:
Worked I'm my bionic running windows 7 32 bit. Thanks so much!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
go timmay!!! lol makes me happy everytime i hear someone who root their phone.

dont ask me why thats just my personal hobbies.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] willbur73:
Windows 7 64bit. Worked flawlessly. I was rooted withing 8 minutes of coming home from Best Buy lol. Thanks a ton
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
nice

Nice, that's the world record!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] scottb75:
This was so easy a caveman could do it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] SpartanEvo:
Getting my Bionic today then root. Coming from Evo 3D. Till then, here is cute doggy picture...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] networkmagician419:
Fixed: Just realized my emulator was on...

Running exploit step 3 of 3 (adding su, busybox, and superuser.apk)... FAIL!

ERROR: we have root, but couldn't push su

Try un-rooting first, then running root.

Please help
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
l.aughing M.y A.ss O.ff LMAF, xda wouldn't let me just post LMAF>
[Motorola Droid Bionic] denpad2010:
can i use the same program to unroot???? thanks
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ptronius:
Rooted, now bricked.

A word of caution to all of you folks jumping on the root bandwagon. I rooted my phone four days ago, and yesterday my service disconnected unexpectedly. Now my phone reboots after about a minute, and all of my services are disabled.

Looks like Verizon has bricked my rooted Bionic. I believe I am screwed out of the $250 it cost to get the phone, plus I now have to buy another phone at retail if I want to stay with Verizon, or pay $350 for early termination on the service I can no longer use. Yay.

Anyone have any ideas on how to unbrick the phone? It would be nice to at least be able to use it as a MP3 player.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] denpad2010:
Kind of weird not trying to blame u but seems like you messed it up not Verizon

But of course we should be caution about it I noted yesterday my phone was losing data signal mmhmm
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ptronius:
What's to mess up? It was a one-click root. An expensive click, at that. Sucks to be me, I guess.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] denpad2010:
Well anybody experimenting the same situation ??? Cause if this is true Verizon is doing this have to be kind of illegal??
[Motorola Droid Bionic] DroidTh3ory:
Lol, They can't do it, they wont do it. The bill is paid either way, the may not honor your warranty IF they know, but the can't/won't brick your phone.

My girlfriend works for Verizon, and there a 5 employees there running my ROMs on their TB's.

Either the phone took a ****, or something just plain ole happened. Download the fast boot files and restore it to stock. If that doesn't work, go swap it out.

:)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] IronFists:
Sounds like something else wrong with the phone Ive rooted mine the day I got it. No issues here....
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ptronius:
DroidTh3ory, thanks for your post - I thought for sure I'd been busted by the Verizon Police or something.

OK, flashed with FXZ, but the phone was still rebooting about a minute after it boots up and I have no service. RSD Lite said that the load was successful, but the system still was rebooting a minute or so after booting up, and I still had no service. So I redid the process, this time using fastboot.exe to install boot.img and system.img. As I was going through the setup process the system rebooted again, so it looks like I have a hardware problem.

My question is this: now that I have restored using fastboot.exe to load boot.img and system.img, am I completely back to stock and safe to take it in for replacement?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] patelhj1:
Yes you should be safe right take back if you did it right.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] denpad2010:
I've heard that rooting the bionic mess with the phone o don't knowbis true or not but mine seems like is not receiving text messages any idea about it thanks in advance
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Stories:
This worked great!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ptronius:
I'm back in action, with thanks to DroidTh3ory for straightening my head out when my Bionic died a few days after rooting it. Flashed my phone back to stock with Pete's one-click tool and took it in to the Verizon store. It took a new phone and *two* new sim cards before they got me up and running.

In a nutshell, root had nothing to do with my problems - I had bad hardware. I fell prey to a classic case of bad logic: "post hoc ergo propter hoc" or "after this therefore because of this".
[Motorola Droid Bionic] bill.garrett:
Thank you. Very straightforward. I wasn't watching and it went through the process twice, failing the second time with step 3 since everything was installed. Checked it all out and I'm set.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mischief316:
Ok so i tried every step and got it working. I was successfully rooted. Then i tried installing the unleashed ROM. I put it on the SD card and got everything. installed bootstrap and when into recovery mode. i did all the wipes. but when it came to installing the ZIp i could not find it. i went back and tried to go into "install zip from SD card" and then all of sudden it just starting trying to install nothing. Now all i get is the moto logo and it wont go pass there.

HELP PLEASE!!!!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
sorry to hear that bud, will have a howto guide tomorrow.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mischief316:
Well i got it working. I used this to restore my phone back

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?6457-One-click-fastboot-restore-to-recover-from-bootloop-or-softbrick

now i am rooted and running unleashed. everything is ok for now. turns out there was a problem with the SD CARD. When i put the rom in the SD card it wouldn't read it so i was stuck. i had to reformat my SD card and phone internal storage. but works like a champ now.

thanks!!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
You have to use external SD card for installing new roms, see this video tutorial:

[YOUTUBE]DhZmyoPEayg[/YOUTUBE]
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BIBUBO BCJ:
Sorry for noob question ? But can this device use GSM bandwidth ? Or just stay in CDMA ?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hqa18:
This root work on motorolla droid bionic

4g LTE xt875

verizon phone .....
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
This phone can only use CDMA.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Stormes08:
Root error using Mac os

I'm attempting to root using run_to_root_your_droid3.sh through terminal on my Mac with osx version 10.6.8. I keep getting the message, "ERROR: root was not obtained. You might want to try rebooting your phone and trying again." I have rebooted phone and computer several times with the same result. Any and all suggestions would be awesome.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] minmongoblin:
So is Bootstrap the only recovery app for Bionic? No ClockWorkMod allowed?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] knitpurlgurl:
I had hardware issues on mine as well.. it was stock and wouldn't turn on. When it finally did, it was stuck in bootloop and turned itself off. Verizon had to replace the phone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
You can try getting into fastboot mode by holding down Volume Down and Power button. if you can get into that at the least you can always use RSDLite to flash a stock ROM back: http://droidbionicroot.com/droid-bionic-unroot/how-to-unbrickunroot-your-droid-bionic/
[Motorola Droid Bionic] formerflyboy:
You can add me to the list of owners of rooted Bionics. Had me worried for a minute, though, because after the third boot I checked for the su app and it was there but it force closed when I tried to open it. One more additional reboot took care of that.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] iastonish:
Does it matter if you have a micro sd card? I just picked up my Bionic from craigslist, with no card. Can I root and save rome directly to the internal memory or would that be an issue?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Kingdombuilder:
The root did not work for me... I have Droid Bionic with Ginger 2.3.4 OS. I got my device the first day it cam out and just now decided to root. I followed the steps mentioned and when it gets to the last part it has problems pushing Busybox and Superuser to my phone. Here is the message:

After reading on other forums I learned that an update was sent to the Droid Bionic to block the exploit. I'm sure if an update came up I installed it. It is hard to keep track seeing that I have a tablet as well. This could very well be my problem. If this is true is there anything that i can do to get around it?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hogowner:
so....did you ever get rooted?

I am going to get a Bionic tomorrow....should I root before updating?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mattk_r:
I can confirm that this method breaks with the .893 OTA update, and re-running the utility will not work. Trying the 43V3R method now.

Edit: 43V3R worked great. Got an IM from a new forum member with some detail / suggestions:

From JavaChips:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kschang:
Lost root via the OTA update about 2 nights ago. When tried to reroot using 1.07 I got this in step 3:

ERROR: adb could not be granted root access via local.prop method

Try again from the start, but if the problem continues, check your version

of Gingerbread -- hopefully you don't have a version where this exploit

was fixed.

Already tried twice. Looks like they plugged the exploit. Looking into the other method(s) now...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Tucknology:
Hey everyone. This method from September is out of date. I've posted some easy instructions in the General section. If you have a new stock Bionic I suggest you look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1455888
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zedomax:
new method

Sorry, been so busy updating too many sites, please see here for new method:

http://droidbionicroot.com/droid-bionic-root/how-to-root-droid-bionic-new5-5-893/
[Motorola Droid Bionic] reganfin:
Thank you!!!

I had tried other methods on 2 different computers. Finally....this one worked.;)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ptronius:
Motofail rocks!

Just wanted to say that the motofail exploit worked without a hitch, but only when I ran it from Windows XP. All my home systems are Win7 and the script was just idling after starting up the daemon. Brought it to work and hooked it up to a WinXP machine and within 45 seconds or so I had a rooted phone.:D
[Dell Streak 7] ariosvelez:
I press the minus botton and power botton but the dell streak in windows is asking for a driver. Where can I find this driver in order to restore my device. SOS Help
[Dell Streak 7] TheManii:
try this

it should work for the s 5/7 and venue
[Dell Streak 7] AndroidOVERALL:
If you want to use NVFlash check out my thread. Let me know if you have the wifi only streak or the t-mobile version before you attempt this.
[Dell Streak 7] ariosvelez:
T-Mobile Version

I have the S-7 T-Mobile version
[Dell Streak 7] AndroidOVERALL:
Use the method in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1018809

It will restore you to t-mobile factory. Let me know if you have any issues or questions.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Splash Images, Boot Animations and Graphics

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How to use PG59IMG.zip files

Splash Images:

Location:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p14

Stock Splash Image PG59IMG.zip

download link

MD5: ca592905910bc238dd7f5a1c9299dc35

From this thread:

Splash Image

...you will find everything you need to know about splash images for this device. Quoted here for reference:

Thanks to:

-reukiodo

-AndroidAutobot

-TrueBlue_Drew

Related threads:

Splash Image

Replace your splash screen

Gallery Of Custom BootSplash Screens To Choose From

Possible to change/remove the splash screen?

Tool - EZ Splash Screen Flasher and Image Converter>>Converts jpg, png and bmp files

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Boot Animations:

Boot Animations:

Boot Animations
3 .zip files - 3.97MB total

452KB - /system/customize/resource/hTC_bootanimation.zip
784KB - /system/customize/resource/hTC_downanimation.zip
2.76MB - /system/customize/resource/TMUS_bootanimation.zip

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Graphics:

Beginner Level:

Part 1 of 3 - Custom Sense Lockring on the MT4GS - easy step-by-step.

Intermediate Level:

Part 2 of 3 - Edit .9.png files for the MT4GS - step-by-step.

Advanced Level:

Part 3 of 3 - Edit Mode10 Files for the MT4GS - step-by-step
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
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