yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] gShnizzle:
it worked!

I had a few hit or miss invalid ip errors, (I had to run it more than once because I wasn't looking when it said press a button RIGHT NOW!!!) I'm guessing it's probably due to our flaky network here at work. It would display the error, then without changing anything, I'd run it again and it would work. Feels great to have root again. excellent work!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Strikslow:
Working fine. I have had no issues with 4 different bionics.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] firewater88:
Finally got around to trying a different computer. Went first try. Thanks.

Sent from this giant thingy
[Motorola Droid Bionic] its_Disco:
awesome! but...

So your process to root couldn't have made it easier. However, twice now I've successfully rooted my bionic but when I load any ROM in any slot (aokp, carbon, liquidsmooth, whatever) only ONCE was my phone able to even begin to use Wi-Fi. Usually it couldn't even turn on. Like I said, it turned on once and could pick up different networks but since then, nothing. If you need any bug reports or whatever, I'll gladly go through the necessary steps to get you that info. But I haven't seen anything about this problem affecting anyone.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] falcon165o:
Problems now fixed.

I was having problems around the Connect via USB. Tried for about 30 minutes switching USB ports and verifying settings and no luck.

After restarting my MacBook it worked on the first try. Should have thought of that first :good:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] alb73:
Method works on Mac?

UPDATE1: Got it, ROOTED! For some reason, the 1st 2 USB's weren't updating the drivers properly. Finally the 3rd one worked (on the PC). Please let me know if in fact the Mac method works exactly like the PC method. Would be good to know for the future.

UPDATE2: Does anyone know if this method will maintain root for OTA updates? Or does the VooDoo OTA Rootkeeper need to be installed on top of this?

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Falcon - on your Macbook did you follow the original download / installation instructions? They do work for Mac in other words? I dont have to change anything?

I'm currently on a WIN7 PC and continue to get caught at the USB connection step. Nothing seems to resolve it. If you followed the instructions as listed in the start of the thread on your Mac & they worked, then I might try it on my Mac instead.

Thank you
[Motorola Droid Bionic] guillmunoz:
Rooted Droid Bionic Android 4.2.1

Hello Mary,

Just want to express my thanks for your work, which worked the first time. Through experience I have learned to read all the messages before embarking on a new process, and I learned much from everyone. It would seem to me a majority of the problem is either connecting to the remote share, or connecting the phone to the laptop via USB. To this end, I would encourage everyone to install Motorola Device Manager here, and confirm you can access your phone and view any content which should guarantee you are connected. I have a Droid Bionic, just upgraded to 4.2.1 and now I have root access. If ever you decide to ask for monetary contributions, please send me an email and i will very happy to send whatever you need.

Motorola Global Port Customer Help dot com, ID 88481. Sorry - but I am not able to post a URL - too new to this site.. Just google Motorola Device Manager and go to the Moto

Just one question, does your change include FOREVER ROOT code, or will root access go away after the next OS upgrade. If you do not include FOREVER Root, do you have a recommended site for instructions?

Again - many thanks for your hard work and patience.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] simonbarsinistr:
Use voodoo root keeper, and also don't worry too much about the bionic receiving another is update. 4.1.2 is probably the last one for it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] azureblaze:
i cant get back root

so i got root from this and my phone had a lot of junk on the internal card so i was like i'll just format it and then redo the root process. Now that i formatted the root won't fully come back root checker will say its rooted but nothing will ask for root access. Also the I tried the other superuser and supersu. This last time i tried the program my superuser says su binary is out of date but it won't give itself root permission to update it, any ideas?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] osage:
thanks

many thanks for this VM and guide. very well done !

:)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Zaknaphein:
I first want to just say a big thanks to Marty for taking the time to put this together for everyone!

I went through the steps to root my bionic and kept running into the problem where the VM wouldn't recognize my phone being connected via USB. When I would try to connect my phone in the VM, I'd get the "device is busy with another request" error. So I did some Googling on the issue and it looks like the source of the error is the fact that VirtualBox doesn't support USB 3.0 and my laptop only has USB 3.0 ports After some more Googling, it looks like technically speaking VirtualBox doesn't support USB 2.0 out of the box either. You have to download their extension pack and then enable USB 2.0 support in the VM settings. But don't quote me on that as I haven't been able to test/verify it. But hopefully this might help out some folks who were getting stumped by the same issue I was.

I'm going to try converting the .ova to a .vmx to run in VMware player and see what I get.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mhlopez:
lost

Hey marty i keep getting a invaild ip address message on the display can figure out the problem
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Zaknaphein:
Just wanted to follow up on this. I tried converting the .ova to a .vmx file and while it converts, I lose all the auto mounting of the Samba drive and the auto run of the rooting script. I'm going to keep playing around with it to see what I can get to work.

I can confirm, though, that I'm pretty sure my initial problem was due to using USB 3.0. I used a different computer today that has only USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 and the script ran perfectly the first time. I think I was plugged into a USB 1.0 port since I didn't have to change any of the settings in guest to enable USB 2.0 that is provided in the VirtualBox extension pack. So I would say if you're having problems with VirtualBox not recognizing your phone as being connected and you checked all the other thing that have been mentioned, check to see if you're using USB 3.0.

Thanks again Marty for putting this together! I missed having root and being able to back up my phone with TB :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] KenanAlcorn:
Just wanted to say thanks for this; made rooting JB a breeze
[Motorola Droid Bionic] wrongitdoo:
Couldn't be simpler! Thank you. :)

Bionic Walkie Tapatalkie
[Motorola Droid Bionic] aashworth7:
Thank you man, works great!

Thanks so much for this. Worked flawlessly on the first try. :good: :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Nooter:
Thank you very much for putting this automated exploit together!

It took me two tries, but I now have root access.

I'm not able to backup my ROM or reboot into recovery, however. ROM manager reported that TWRP was installed, but couldn't boot to it. I've now installed ClockworkMod Recovery, but I still can't reboot into recovery. Rebooting via ROM manager just takes me back through the regular reboot process, and if I attempt to force Recovery to load (by holding down both volume buttons during boot), I get to the standard ErrorDroid recovery, not TWRP or CM Recovery.

Any ideas? I'd like to back up my ROM before I start tinkering with freezing apps and services.

Thanks in advance!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jrk190:
Whenever I do this method and reboot, I get an Encryption Unsucessful Error. This is a huge pain for me, I've had to erase cache and userdata twice, and I can't install safestrap. Can somebody give me a hand?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rdsimsy:
Doesn't work - Invalid IP

Hey. I tried to root via multiple methods and all have failed. I saw this thread and figured I'd give it a shot.

After following your directions to a T, when the VM runs the OVA file, it states, INVALID IP.... yada yada. My device and my computer are on the same network, so I'm not understanding why this isn't working.

I have Superuser on my phone from a pre 4.1.2 root that didn't take with the OTA update. However, this SU app states that root is unavailable, so there's not much that I can do.

Please help!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Droidnoobi:
Stuck at 'Daemon Started Successfully'

I followed the instructions on the previous replies carefully at least 4 times and checked the drivers on both pc and VB. I even did a remove and add drivers on both and to no avail.

The phone is connected as a media device.. Just stuck

:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:

Going to update vb to 4.2.16 and see if that helps and then DL expansion pack as well.. *shrugs*
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Porpoise Hork:
Thanks marty45714 for putting this together. Worked like a charm once I had the SMB share setup correctly.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] walter164:
It works!

Root method worked on my Mac and PC. Thanks!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] acf0726:
Amazing

AWESOME! I tried to do this several times before and gave up after getting the IP error. I read somewhere in this forum (sorry, can't remember who posted it) that you need to duplicate adapter 1. So all the settings that are in adapter 1, copy them to adapter 2. I did not change the MAC address, I left that with whatever adapter 2 came up with. This worked like a charm! First attempt and I have root access!

Thanks! :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Tap053:
This is an awesome tutorial, however I still feel it's easier to boot Linux from a livedvd or flash drive. To each his own I guess
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Droidnoobi:
Please Help

Greetings All,

I have gone through this at least 5 times. I have removed and added drivers, uninstall/reinstall virtual box.

I can not get past the daemon started successfully stage.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] blackshoes:
I just got my new bionic this week. This root method worked perfectly! This thread should absolutely be a sticky.

Thanks!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strike3:
are you using a 32 bit version of Windows? you must run this on a 32 bit installation. unfortunately most of the windows computers sold in the big box stores are 64 bit. :(
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Droidnoobi:
*facepalm* I didn't even bother to think of that!

Is there another way this can be done? Or does I need to run through the cmd prompt and figure it out from there?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strike3:
I believe that in the other major root method, which this virtual box tool is based off of, there is an option for installing 32 bit drivers in a full blown 64-bit linux installation. That method is what I call the "long route", but if you wanted to partition off your hard drive and install 32 bit Ubuntu I think you could achieve your root using that method by following the instructions, of course. :D
[Motorola Droid Bionic] flyestAC:
Thanks so much for this. Back on my Bionic, which was not rooted, after I smashed my S3 screen :( This method got me rooted and on Carbon 1.8 in no time.

I accidentally thanked you... :thumbup:

Anyway I was stuck at that too until I rebooted my CPU.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Droidnoobi:
I have done the restart/reboot, uninstall reinstall of VB, old and new versions of VB and yet nothing.. My phone sees the files and such of the root..

I am open to any thoughts on how I can get this done on my Bionic, just not that...lol Its been almost 2 yrs since I have had it and it is time I start messing with it in order for me to learn how to root and repair and all that fun stuff I want to do and like to do. This just has me stumped.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] flyestAC:
Did you enable the MTP option under USB settings?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Droidnoobi:
Yes, MTP and Dev Options are on. I am going to try to do this on an older dinosaur of a computer..lol Maybe my new computer is too bad ass for all this 'old technology'..lol
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strike3:
You can do it the other way (or the long way, as I call it) by following these steps (link below). I don't mean that in a disparaging way at all. In fact, Marty's shortcut is based totally on their root. Take some time, install 32-bit Ubuntu on your system or make a bootable USB stick / bootable DVD of the Ubuntu install. Keep us posted with your progress.

http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/16518-root-motoshare-2-old-bug-new-exploit/
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Droidnoobi:
OK OK.. I got this to work!!! Woot! I had to break out my old computer in order for this to work..lol

Now what shall I do!! LOL
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strike3:
Maybe you should think about running for President!!!

LOL
[Motorola Droid Bionic] drstrangelove5:
Thanks so much. I initially had issues performing root, however I realized what might be causing some people problems. Like many I had root under ICS and lost it in the jelly bean upgrade. Super user was previously installed, but the root kept failing. I uninstalled Superuser and then performed the script again, and it worked like a charm. Hope this helps anyone who was having similar issues. Also I am running on 64 bit windows 7.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strike3:
mac

i did this successfully on my win xp 32 bit machine the other day for my bionic. now im gonna do my brother's.

is it possible that i could do this on Virtual box from my mac? Should it work just the same?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] strike3:
I was able to do it!!

Marty's VM would not run on Virtual Box for Mac -- however a 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 did. I hope to post more here (or in a more appropriate thread) later.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rlg999:
Thank you!

Followed your instructions and it worked like a charm. Thank you very much!!!!!!!! Great work.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] eggs467:
Will this screw up my flash to pageplus?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] drva1226:
VMWare Workstation

Can anybody that got it to work on VMWare Player or Workstation explain to me their process/settings? I've run it on both, but can't get the script to run past the screen showed on the attachment. I'm not sure what the issue is - I've messed with basically every setting for the VM, including the network adapters (where I suspect the problem is) but can't get it to go past this screen at all.

I would run this on VirtualBox, but my laptop has only USB 3.0 ports, and obviously that won't work either, so getting VMWare to work is really my only option.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] drva1226:
Additional Info

Here's some additional background info:

As far as my PC, I'm on a Windows 8 Pro (64-bit) laptop running an Intel Core i3-3217U, network adapter is Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200. It has 1 USB 3.0, and 2 USB 3.0 + Sleep & Charge (doubt that makes a difference, but can't hurt to include it).

Running VMware Workstation 9 Version 9.0.2 build-1031769.

Again, I made it further than this on VirtualBox, so that would point to it being an issue with VMware, in my opinion.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] drstrangelove5:
Did you connect the Bionics to the external storage ?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] alvinprimo:
Great

:good::laugh: Thanx...it works....You computer have to have wifi for this to work
[Motorola Droid Bionic] CalvinAMi:
Awesome

This worked perfectly for me. I followed the directions explicitly with zero problems.

I was able to gain root on stock 4.1.2 from start to finish in under 10 minutes. (downloading files, installing on PC, configuring phone, etc)

Sooooooo easy!

THANK YOU :good:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tekrhino:
The VM method kept failing for me. It took me a bunch of tries with all the different methods until tried RSD lite and FXZ back to a stock version. Then I went back to VM running the script once more. I hit the network problem described above using a similar laptop. All I did was manually select the network adaptor being used for Wi-Fi in the VM settings, tried it once more and boom.. REAL ROOT! Safestrap finally worked and now I'm running CM on slot 1..

Yay.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] sabrewolf_rex:
XT910 Rogers 4.1.2

It worked fine for me too. Too bad that the VM works only with Virtual Box and not VMware Player.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Floydicus:
help

so my main problem is that the wifi on my bionic doesnt like to connect to the internet at my house, is there a way to get it to recognize via usb?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ishmael345:
Do you mean your Bionic has problems connecting to the home wireless?? You are not using "internet" only wifi/wireless lan/local connection.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mxracer9111:
Please help...!!!!!

I have been trying this method, along with booting up a 32 bit version of Ubuntu and trying to run the program myself. No matter what I do, the files app will not let me connect. My computer is on the same network. I even tried a different computer. I am going crazy over here. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Keep in mind: I am NOT leaving spacing after what I input. I have tried all caps and lowercase in the workgroup section. My Bionic is just being a pain. I even wiped the cache in the files app.

Please Help me...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] punter5500:
Superuser installs but fails to update binaries

I am trying to root my Droid Bionic system version XT875 Android Version 4.1.2

I have done the manual root method and the easy root method downloading Root_Bionic_JB_20130501.ova, importing that into VMware and running the script.

I have debugging turned on and the phone set to MTP, the phone is connected to the wifi and all the files get pushed to the phone (or so it seems). When I open superuser I get prompted to update binaries but that fails. I have connected to the phone manually verifiying that the remot folder mounts under rfs0, there are files located in there but when doiong 'su -' I do not get a root prompt. I press a hardware button when asked. I have tried this counless number of times and each time it does not work. I used to have root but had to do a factory reset and when attempting to get root back it fails.

CONFIRMED! Phone connected to USB.

Continuing...

[+] Waiting for device...

* daemon not running. starting in now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

[+] Device found.

[+] Pushing edploit...

400 KB/s (336952 bytes in 0.895s)

404 KB/s (1867568 bytes in 4.506s

372 KB/s (64498 bytes in 0.169s)

after this the script stops at a blinking curser for about 10min or so

2 KB/s (1578585 bytes in 554.559s)

Installing Superuser

378 KB/s (1578585 4.074s)

Success

[+] Rooting phone...

[+] You phone may appear to reboot, This is normal... DON'T PANIC!

[+]

[+] Motoshare 2 Motorola 4.1.2 root exploit

[+] Copyright 2013 Dan Rosenber (@jrbliss)

[+] Version 1.1

[+]

[+] Tested on Droid Bionic, Droid Razer (XT910)

[+]

[+] Getting root

DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP!!! VERY IMPORTANT!!! Please press one

of the following buttons on your phone RIGHT NOW: Volume up,

Volume down, or Power. (I press the down button)

[*] Cleaning up ... continue once the device has fully rebooted.

[*] Exploit complete. Press enter to reboot and exit.

when the phone reboots before I can let the phone fully reboot I get:

tc@box:~$ Ausb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device number 3 using ohci_hcd

tc@box:~$

I am not sure why the script ends before I hit enter but looks like everything goes through but the exploit does not work.

any help would be appricated.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] :
i have done this method and downloaded rootchecker pro and it says that su and busybox is installed but not the superuser app???

the app that appears in my apps will not let me update binaries? any way of doing it?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] zeropopular:
Its possible that the share is gone it's a bit outdated... however I have this phone... possibly even the files... and somehow I got unrooted... so I plan on doing it this week soon... I would just run the ova... it's easy.. however I remember getting the sync being a pain...

I probably have the files somewhere if the dl is gone

I'll message if I can get it done again... and walk you through it

TheZeroWorld Team Zero ZeropopulaR

Eliminate Risk by Being The Best...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tydiamond11:
So is this the only way to root the bionic on jellybean stock?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] :
just a tip when using this method, the way i got root was doing as suggested in th op,but, when the terminal begins and says pushing exploit i constantly tapped these buttons,power,vol+, and vol-. not together but numerous times even while rebooting until it fully booted up then i stopped. finished up cleaning and rebooting in terminal and once rebooted i had root. persistance takes you far if you dont give up. try again and again,
[Motorola Droid Bionic] trblmkr4:
help

I am able to go through the entire process without flaw, phone starts vibrating, i hit the hardware key, finishes rebooting, press enter and restart begins. I should be rooted yes? I'm not, and my phone keeps telling me to install superuser, but then I get an error saying that the SU binary is out of date.

What should I do?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] :
follow what i mentioned in the post above yours
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ElmoRapz:
Allowing root with qualcomm processor?

I found that devices with a qualcomm processor aren't able to root too well. Will yours work with an XT875 running stock 4.1.2? I'm really wanting to root my device and i've seen that most users are getting root access when using this method. I just don't need to brick my phone, that's the most of my worries.

Than you.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] marty45714:
Yep! That's the idea. Rooting the Droid Bionic with stock Jelly Bean. Wasn't the title of the article good enough that you could figure that out? :laugh:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ICANSEEYOU7687:
Doesnt work

I get a "Switching to clocksource tsc" on the vm when trying to load it in virtualbox. Will not boot past that.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] edfritz:
It WORKED!!!! A few stumbles, but finally went smooth...

Yes, I did everything that was mentioned here in this post as well on the Linux Machine (aka: my Windows 7 desktop) running the OVF file.

I initially had trouble getting my phone to connect to the share file. My problem was that I had long ago 'Frozen' the 'Files' app with Titanium Backup...I couldn't find the 'Files' app to run and make a shared connection so I was stuck. After finally getting into Titanium Backup I was able to unfreeze 'Files' and get the shared connection working as described in the VirtualBox instructions. After that, everything went as prescribed.

ALSO NOTE:

My phone was rooted before the latest OTA update to 4.1.2. and had Voodoo OTA RootKeeper set as well. I did run RootKeeper to restore my root after the OTA update. I thought the root was fully restored. But it wasn't until recently that I began noticing my root wasn't quite right. I ran Root Checker and discovered that my root was only a PARTIAL ROOT and was not actually considered rooted anymore - even though some of my root based apps kept functioning properly.

So, when I ran this root exploit my phone was already partly rooted. I considered wiping the root first, but decided to just give it a shot first. It seems to have rooted just fine even with the remaining partial root. Everything is working right so far - both in the root system as well as the rest of the phone.

I even received a call on my cell phone during the process (I didn't answer it, but it rang for a while). Everything went off without a hick-up. All my root apps are asking for permission and Root Checker give a Fully Rooted clean bill of health.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR TIME, EFFORT AND SMARTS THAT YOU PUT INTO THIS EXPLOIT. IT IS VERY APPRECIATED!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jahosimafiah:
ubuntu 13.10

Hi,

I'm trying to get root for my droid bionic. I am currently running ubuntu 13.10 and downloaded the minimal linux. The problem I am having is that I cannot get the computer to link with my phone. I can set up the remote storage fine, but when in vb running the minimal linux, it does not see my phone. I've tried going into the settings of virtualbox and under the usb tab, my droid is there, but still nothing when it's plugged in ;( Any ideas? Maybe something I'm overlooking?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] qqzwc:
Oh,it's really wonderful.So easy to root!