The worlds first Android based wrist watch gets rooted! Sporting a tiny 1.6” screen, you’d wonder why would anyone need to root the MOTOACTV. Well, it’s simple, because it can be done, and if you own this one of a kind device, you will definitely want to root it. Intended as a fitness device with an mp3 player and GPS, the device runs a highly customized UI atop Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Once rooted, you also have the ClockworkMod recovery available as well, but that’s another thing. For now we focus on rooting the device. It’s not your One Click solution so be very careful.
This will currently only work on the 8GB model and not the 16GB one.
Disclaimer: Please follow this guide at your own risk. Androidedz will not be liable if your device gets damaged or bricked during the process.
Requirements:
- Should be running the firmware version 4.55.78.
- Patched boot.img.
- SuperoneClick.
- ADB installed on your system.
Instructions:
- To begin, download the patched boot image and SuperoneClick.
- Copy the boot.img file to the folder where fastboot.exe is in the Android SDK.
- Boot the device into fastboot mode. (Turn off the device and hold the power key and the start key for 3 seconds then release.)
- Connect the device to the PC via USB and run command prompt or terminal and enter the following commands:
fastboot flash boot boot.img fastboot reboot
- Once rebooted, use run SuperOneClick and hit the Root button to begin the rooting process.
- Once rebooted, make sure USB debugging is enabled on your device in Settings > Applications > Development.
- Run command prompt or terminal and enter the following commands to make a backup image of your system partition:
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1p18 of=/sdcard/system.img bs=1024 exit adb pull /sdcard/system.img system.img
- Now to re-enable mass storage and sync with the Motorola Tools, run this command:
adb shell stop adbd
Now that you have your MOTOACTV rooted,
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