How to Root the Droid Bionic

neil154 · 03-25-2012, 02:13 PM

I am trying to root my Bionic and in following the instructions I am trying to install the Motorola drivers (Ver 5.2.0) and I get a message that can not install because a newer version of the product is already installed. When I look at my installed programs (Win 7 64 bit) I see that I have MotoHelper 2.1.32 Driver 5.4.0 installed.

Please advise on how I should proceed.

neil154 · 03-27-2012, 10:11 PM

Does anyone have this same problem, any suggestions? I could uninstall Motorola drivers ver. 5.4 and then install 5.2 but do not know if that is a good solution.

Please advise suggestions

MrObinna · 03-28-2012, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by neil154

Does anyone have this same problem, any suggestions? I could uninstall Motorola drivers ver. 5.4 and then install 5.2 but do not know if that is a good solution.

Please advise suggestions

Neil, did you try just plugging your phone into your computer? If you have the drivers installed already, then you should be able to move to the next step.

neil154 · 03-28-2012, 05:11 PM

Yes, I had it plugged in. I believe I followed the instructions very carefully. When I tried installing the drivers from the root instructions it said that I had more up to date drivers and therefore would not install the "old drivers". I then tried using the root program and it finds the phone, reboots the phone, modifying local.prop, then reboots phone, then adding su, busybox, and superuser.apk then it fails and get message Error: adb could not be granted root access via local.prop methos

neil154 · 03-28-2012, 07:45 PM

I heard from the developer of root program (pete) and he said it no longer works. Please provide link for rooting that works

Cali_420 · 03-30-2012, 02:39 AM

i think this already posted here somewhere but here it is and it worked for me, [Only registered users can view links. ] , and good luck!!!!!

Muhsuperdroid · 10:26 PM

ive been trying to root my new droid bionic and it keeps failing with both types of root tools. i have win 7 64 bit. and using that tool after step 2 and its restart i get an auto fail (adding su,busybox and superuser. apk FAIL!
error adb could not be granted root access via local.prop method.

using the windows xp tool pretty much all of step 2 and 3 are fails tried the command prompt method and i can get as far as getting the $
anything after that says they are readable files only..
HELP??