[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psixda:
As a noob I spent almost a day gathering all the informations needed to root and customize the Motorola Razr i.

Therefore I decided to write this guide.

And don't forget that as always I'm not responsible for any damage you can do to your phone.

Complete guide to unlock, root, flash Motorola Razr i XT890 (Android 4.1.2 JB).

All credit goes to team batakang.

In order to gain complete access to your Motorola Razr i (MRi) you have to:
1- unlock the bootloader
2- flash ClockWorkMod
3- root the beast
4- flash custom rom or whatever

1- Unlock the bootloader
- this process involves voiding all warranties from Motorola, so be warned!
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-a
- turn off your phone:
keep pressed the power button and select the appropriate option
- turn on your phone in fastboot mode:
keep pressed power and vol- buttons and as soon as the phone vibrates release the power button but keep pressing the vol- button
- connect the phone to the pc through usb cable
- download the package nedded for your computer OS (they contain all the files needed to unlock and root the phone without all the additional and unuseful stuff)
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1928551
- extract the downloaded package and run the appropriate command from command line, as example for windows:
fastboot oem get_unlock_data
- you'll get something like:
(bootloader) 1234567891011121314151617181920
(bootloader) 1234567891011121314151617181920
(bootloader) 1234567891011121314151617181920
(bootloader) 1234567891011121314151617181920
(bootloader) 1234567
- copy only the codes one after the other forming one unique string
12345678910111213141516171819201234567891011121314151617181920123456789101112131415161718192012345678910111213141516171819201234567
- go to the following motorola page to login:
https://accounts.motorola.com/ssoauth/login?locale=us_en&appid=ZI2FIY5LS7R8EE1WJBZ6MUBHXUF517H7&TARGET=https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/cc/cas/sso/redirect/standalone%2Fbootloader%2Funlock-your-device-b
- paste the copied string when requested
- after a few seconds an unlocking code will be sent to your email address
- copy the code and use it in the following command issued from your pc:
fastboot oem unlock WRITEYOURCODEHERE
- good, now your bootloader is unlocked and a new warning screen will appear each time you boot the phone just to remember you how brave you are :)
- reboot your phone

2- Flash ClockWorkMod
- CWM is an alternative recovery program which allows you to flash custom rom and goodies
- before proceeding you must download the following file:
http://batakang.com/ftp/RAZRi/RootUtility/RAZRiRoot2.zip
and copy to the external sdcard of the phone because you'll needed it later
- download CWM touch image recovery on your pc (in the same folder you extracted fastboot to unlock the bootloader):
http://click.xda-developers.com/api/click?format=go&key=f0a7f91912ae2b52e0700f73990eb321&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fxdaforums.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D1974097&v=1&libId=19fc86cd-efbf-446e-93f3-df1636f4306d&out=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropbox.com%2Fu%2F553461%2Frecovery-razri-tryAtouch.img&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fxdaforums.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D37518364&title=CWM%20for%20RAZR%20i%20-%20xda-developers&txt=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropbox.com%2Fu%2F553461%2Freco...-tryAtouch.img&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13731634047977
- rename the downloaded file as:
recovery.img
- turn off your phone:
keep pressed the power button and select the appropriate option
- turn on your phone in fastboot mode:
keep pressed power and vol- buttons and as soon as the phone vibrates release the power button but keep pressing the vol- button
- connect the phone to the pc through usb cable
- issue the following command from command line:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
- it will take only a couple of seconds to flash the image
- now you have installed CWM, but it's not persistent
- in order to make it persistent you have to root the phone
- do not turn your phone off or unplug the usb cable, proceed instead to the next step

3- Root the beast
- this process will make the CWM installation persistent and will give you root powers
- with the phone still in fastboot mode select "Recovery" (vol- moves and vol+ selects)
- now you are in CWM and you can use your fingers to select options
- go in "install zip from sdcard" and "choose zip from external sdcard"
- now choose the zip file previously copied on the phone "RAZRiRoot2.zip"
- let it run and eventually you'll get a message confirming that everything went ok
- now you can reboot your phone and finally obtain root permissions

4- Flash custom rom or whatever
- now everytime you want to flash something simply boot in fastboot, select "Recovery" and use CWM

5- Final thoughts
The first thing I installed was Droidwall, but it didn't work, so if you need a firewall (and you'll need it) use AFfirewall+.

Hope this helps, see ya.

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