How To Root Any Motorola Device Working Android 2.3.x Gingerbread

A distich of days posterior, we brought you a universal rooting method for Gingerbread-based Samsung smartphones, courtesy of the tireless bloodline of XDA developers. Today, we immediate you a analogous brainstorm, this instance for Motorola devices running the Big G's sr. smartphone package.

The method, naturally, comes unbent from XDA erst again via member rodrigojfuentes, who has offered a oversimplified method which should effortlessly stem all Motorola phones currently spouting Gingerbread. One snag, however, is that you'll requisite to be running a Linux Software, though Windows and Mac users can simply headache Linux virtual machine. It is, unfortunately, a bit of annoy, but once the device has been rooted, you can preserve with your inborn OS and configuration.

Too, a mates of commodity commands and alterations subsequent - as elaborated in the step-by-step tutorial below - module love you on your way.  We strongly recommend you espouse to the steps religiously and chorus from dilution corners - we don't need to disorder anything up.

DISCLAIMER: As usual, proceed with caution and at your own risk. Although the chances of something going wrong are minimal, Sanjeev Rules is not to be held responsible for any loss of data or the damage of your device as a result of you following this tutorial.

Step 1: Presuming your device is running unrooted Gingerbread, you’ll need to ask for a rooted gingerbread userdata partition image (aka CG37), with a modified local.prop file and USB Debugging enabled.

Step 2: Next, you’ll need to alter the value of ro.sys.atvc_allow_all_adb from 0 to 1.

Step 3: Then, create a userdata partition image by typing the following in the shell (with root access)

dd if=/dev/block/userdata of=/sdcard/CG37.smg

or

busybox dd if=/dev/block/userdata of=/sdcard/CG37.smg

Step 4: Once your CG37.smg is on the SD card, you’ll need to boot into linux

Step 5: In Linux, you’ll need to extract the contents of the folder found in this .zip, after which, you should also copy CG37.smg and your original, non-rooted SBF into that same folder.

Step 6: Start terminal (with root permissions), and type in:

cd <folder>

(instead of  <folder>, write the location of the folder we made in Step 5)

Step 7: Resize that partition to 200 Mb, by typing the following:

efsck -f CG37.smg

resize2fs CG37.smg 200M

Then, type

chmod +x sbf_flash

Step 8: Start your Motorola phone into bootloader and connect it to your PC before typing:

./sbf_flash -r –userdata CG37.smg ORIGINAL.sbf

(change "ORIGINAL" with the name of your SBF)

Step 9: Once the device has booted up, type:

bash finishroot.sh

And that's it. If you followed all of the steps right, your Motorola smartphone should be rooted on Gingerbread!

If you find yourself in any difficulty along the way, please check out the original thread over at XDA here.

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