How to Root the Droid Bionic

[Joshcornkid]

Droid Bionic .893 DID NOT ROOT. In step 3 of the process I got an error about permissions. Luckily I was able to do a factory reset, and the phone did not brick.
-Bionic Users beware! I tried "MotorolaOneClick", "PetesOneClick" and the "All In One Root" from the guys over at AF and after following the instructions to the 'T' was not able to root my phone.

 

[DaleGriggs]

I have the same problem after I applied the 5.5.893 update. It says:
"adb could be granted root accessa via local.prop method"
Then it says the exploit may have been closed.
I guess I will live without root until someone figures out how to get around this.

 

[canbymontes]

Does doing a hard reset actually work to remove any OTA updates?

 

[LDubs]

Hard reset? You mean factory reset? Why do you want to remove ota updates?

Sent from my Ic3d Kin3txed Bionic with Hon3y

 

[neil154]

I see the instructions on rooting my Bionic and they seem very straight forward. There is also a statement which says "MotorolaOneClickRoot.exe can also be used to unroot the Bionic". Where do I get MotorolaOneClickRoot.exe and does it get me back to factory conditions or to the way my phone was just prior to rooting? Please give me more information. I new to Android (but not a novice to PC's or smart phones) and heve never rooted a phone so I am trying to know more about it before I proceed.

 

[canbymontes]

I was thinking of a factory reset to remove OTA updates, if it will remove them so I can proceed with root. I tried to root and was not able to root since the error I recieved "exploit closed", possible result from OTA updates..
Unless someone knows of another way to root a bionic!

 

[angman619]

tried to root got this message

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.

 

[Kcanete]

Has any one figured out how to root there new Bionic yet?

 

[themagicm]

I have 5.5.893 and its rooted.. I used MotoRooter-1.4 on Linux. Worked perfect. I think I tried what was in this thread and it didnt work.

 

[Kcanete]

For anyone else like me that has been having trouble rooting there phone with anything else. This worked like a charm! Manually Root w/ Zerg after 893 OTA - xda-developers

 

[junksecret]

For anyone else like me that has been having trouble rooting there phone with anything else. This worked like a charm! Manually Root w/ Zerg after 893 OTA - xda-developers

A lot of people are successful with THIS method. I was not and had to do the Manual Zerg Method coming from 5.5.893

good luck

 

[anthadog]

this crap dont work.. wast of time. its missing and everything.

 

[Kaliaila]

This method for post 5.5.893 update worked fine for me. It uses a one click root by p3droid. I just did it about 20 minutes ago.

 

[Goodspeed313]

This method for post 5.5.893 update worked fine for me. It uses a one click root by p3droid. I just did it about 20 minutes ago.

Did you have to do a factory reset for it to work? All it does when I try this post 893 is say:

"* daemon started successfully *"

It stops there and never goes any further.

 

[Drafter15]

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

I got this error 3 times after i followed the instructions to the letter. HELP!!!

 

[unknownBut2me]

Ditto Drafter15. Also see the attachment.

 

[teamsterguy]

Okay I am new to this so I use pete's tool and it said that I had the honeycomb version that cannot be done.. so with that new update on the honeycomb is there a way around it.... please help me.. I have been at this for the last 4 hours please I am a newbie

 

[deshidk1]

cannot root my bionic. it keeps failing at step 3. i've done everything step by step multiple times and it keeps failing. help?

 

[FNETHAN]

Guessing since 4 people have asked for help and no one has answered...that means we cannot root our bionics anymore?

 

[LDubs]

ask and ye shall receive - if you're on 5.5.893 OS, there are a couple of ways to do this -

this, http://forums.androidcentral.com/bi...5-updated-lost-root-1-click-root-working.html

and/or, go over to rootzwiki and do a search for ROTA893 from user realbbb. Both of them are known to work.

If you're on a Mac, go to the rootzwiki thread "Released..." and download the latest "bionicrestorer" from CRPeck - this works as well on 893 (I can personally vouch for this one).

So all is not lost....