How to Root And Install Custom Recovery On Motorola Droid 4 With One Click

Aptly named Droid 4 Utility Pre-Release for Windows, the tool has been developed for the Motorola Droid 4 and released by XDA-Developers forum member mattlgroff which, as the title suggests, includes more than just your one click root.  While we leave Motorola to worry about that, we’re glad they let their guard down, or for that matter, kudos to Dan Rosenberg for his motofail exploit that rooted the device. Coming back to the multipurpose tool, it also brings along a one click root for the Droid 4 on ICS 4.0.3 even though an update is not here as yet. More on the functions and how you can use this tool, after the break!

If you’re contemplating on whether to root your device or not, you should see our guide on the top 10 reasons to root your Android device.

From the screenshot above, you can clearly see the features that the tool currently offers. However, fastboot functions will not work as there are not fastboot files included as yet. The developer has said to include a full fastboot restore in the future as well. The addition of the custom recovery via Safestrap Recovery app, gears your device up to get started with all its customization needs.

Now the question is how to go about using this tool?

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:

• Motorola USB Drivers for 32bit Windows | 64bit Windows.
• Droid 4 Utility.

Instructions:

1. To begin, make sure USB Debugging is enabled under Settings > Applications > Development.
2. Once that is done, download the Utility from the link above and extract the contents.
3. Connect the Droid 4 to the PC via the USB cable and run the file named Droid4Utility.bat.
4. Once the utility is launched, you will see a prompt as seen in the screenshot earlier, and all you have to do to get started, is make a selection of what you want to do.

That is it! If you just rooted your device through this tool, you may like to see our guide on the top 15 apps to install on a rooted Android device. For further updates and queries related to this tool, head over to the forum thread at XDA-Developers.

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How To Root Verizon Motorola Droid 4 On Android 2.3 Gingerbread

The Droid 4 gets rooted! Motorola may have been trying hard to lock down its handsets lately but this is a seriously blow to all that effort. This comes in straight from Dan Rosenberg’s blog, but not much is known about the exploit or for that matter the success rate. What is known however, is that the root method is more or less a one click method, making it very easy for novice Android users to root their Droid 4.

So if you were lucky enough to get your hands on a Droid 4 and wished to root the device, here’s how you can do that.

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:

• Motorola USB Drivers: Download for 32 bit Windows | Download for 64 bit Windows.
• Root for Droid 4.

Instructions:

1. To begin, download and extract the root exploit from the link above.
2. Connect the device to the PC and make sure USB Debugging is enabled in Settings > Applications > Development.
3. Once connected, open the contents of the root exploit you extracted and run the file named run.bat, following the on screen instructions if any appear.

[VIA DAN ROSENBERG]

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How to Root MOTOACTV Android Watch On Gingerbread

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:

1. To begin, download the patched boot image and SuperoneClick.
2. Copy the boot.img file to the folder where fastboot.exe is in the Android SDK.
3. Boot  the device into fastboot mode. (Turn off the device and hold the power key and the start key for 3 seconds then release.)
4. 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

1. Once rebooted, use run SuperOneClick and hit the Root button to begin the rooting process.
2. Once rebooted, make sure USB debugging is enabled on your device in Settings > Applications > Development.
3. 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

4. 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, 

[VIA CWM.ME]

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How to Root the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet with Just One Click

Lenovo is the best known product all over the world and running massively in computer business. The ThinkPad laptops are sold worldwide and this shows the establishment of its product, competing with other devices available in the market. In the range of computer device the ThinkPad tablet is the first tablet released in ThinkPad version running on Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system. The tablet is embedded with NVIDIA Tegra 2 Dual-Core 1GHz processor and it has got 10.1” HD multitouch display with pen input and weighs 1.65 lbs. It has much more than you can imagine and now in this article we are going to teach you how to root it to get more than its limitations. Follow the guidance below and before that we gonna warn you that after rooting the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet will cancel your warranty. 

You must follow the steps but first keep certain points in your mind and they are:

• You must keep backups of all data separately.
• The device battery must be charged with at least 60%.

Pre-Requisites:

1. Computer running on Windows XP/7
2. USB cable for connecting to computer
3. Internet connection for downloading files
4. Computer installed with Android SDK with ADB

NOTE: Androidedz will not be responsible for any mishap or data loss.

Steps to Root the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet with Just One Click:

Step 1: Download one-click rooting package.

Step 2: Now in a folder extract the rooting package on your computer.

Step 3: Via USB cable connect the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet to your computer and make sure it is unlocked so that the computer recognize the device.

Step 4: Now open the rooting package folder in your computer.

Step 5: Among the file open the ‘run.bat’ or open the ‘run’ file according to your desktop configuration that hides the filename extension.

Step 6: You must double click the ‘run.bat’ file to run the script and start rooting.

Step 7: Follow all the prompted instruction that appears on your computer. Your tablet will also some process running on it but you must not interrupt it and just concentrate on the work going on your computer.

Step 8: After all the processes are finished with all information those are prompted and now the tablet is rooted.

Walla! Your Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is successfully rooted without any sweat. Isn’t it super fast? Tell us through comments if any problem occurred during process, but I would suggest you to follow the step 4 again. Have fun with it.

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How to Root Acer Iconia Tab A500

Acer Iconia A500 Tablet is a renouned device and it is my personal favorite. Currently it is running through Android 3.0 Honeycomb and it can be updated to Android 3.2.1 version  by flashed using  ClockworkMod Recovery. But before updating your lovable Honeycomb tablet, you need to root it first and the third party developer XDA has rooted this device and here are steps given below to get the work done. Follow the guidence below and before that we gonna warn you that after rooting the Acer Iconia Tab A500 will cancel your warranty. Techcular will not be responsible for any mishap or data loss.

You must follow the steps but first keep certain points in your mind and they are:

• You must keep backups of all data separately.
• The device battery must be charged with at least 60%.

Pre-Requsites:

1. Computer
2. Acer Iconia Tab A500
3. USB data cable
4. Install Android Debug Bridge (ADB) shell on your computer. Here is the way to install.

How to Root Acer Iconia Tab A500:

Step 1: First you must connect your device to the computer via USB cable.

Step 2: In the Setting->Application, enable ‘Unknown Sources’.

Step 3: On your Acer Iconia A500 enable ‘USB Debugging’ , taping Setting->Applications->Development.

Step 4: Now download modified version of the GingerBreak app to save it in a selected folder on your computer.

Step 5: Open a terminal and run the following commands on your computer:

adb push c:/*[path]*/Gingerbreak-v1.20.apk /data/local
(where *[path]* refers to the directory location of the GingerBreak files. For example:c:/Users/user/Desktop/New Folder/Gingerbreak-v1.20.apk /data/local

Step 6: Now lock your tablet in portait mode by turning the tablet vertically.

Step 7: Download the OI File Manager and BusyBox and save them to the computer and copy them to the root of the device’s SD card.

Step 8: Now on the Acer Iconia tablet  launch the OI File Manager and search for the/data/local/Gingerbreak-v1.20.apk. and than install the APK file.

Step 9: After installation, than its time to launch the Gingerbreak app on your device and choose ‘Root’. The device must be in portait mode bacuse in the landscape mode it will automatically cloase the app, so keep in mind while going through the procedure.

Step 10: Once the rooting is finished the device will reboot, so keep patience untill the process is over of its own.

Step 11: Rebooting is finished and now get ready to launch the BusyBox and automatically it will install on your device.

Congratulations! Your Acer Iconia Tab A500 is totally rooted and now its turn to flash custom ROM and lift your experience the better use of this tablet.

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How to Root the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet with Just One Click

Lenovo is the best known product all over the world and running massively in computer business. The ThinkPad laptops are sold worldwide and this shows the establishment of its product, competing with other devices available in the market. In the range of computer device the ThinkPad tablet is the first tablet released in ThinkPad version running on Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system. The tablet is embedded with NVIDIA Tegra 2 Dual-Core 1GHz processor and it has got 10.1” HD multitouch display with pen input and weighs 1.65 lbs. It has much more than you can imagine and now in this article we are going to teach you how to root it to get more than its limitations. Follow the guidance below and before that we gonna warn you that after rooting the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet will cancel your warranty. 

You must follow the steps but first keep certain points in your mind and they are:

• You must keep backups of all data separately.
• The device battery must be charged with at least 60%.

Pre-Requisites:

1. Computer running on Windows XP/7
2. USB cable for connecting to computer
3. Internet connection for downloading files
4. Computer installed with Android SDK with ADB

NOTE: Techcular will not be responsible for any mishap or data loss.

Steps to Root the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet with Just One Click:

Step 1: Download one-click rooting package.

Step 2: Now in a folder extract the rooting package on your computer.

Step 3: Via USB cable connect the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet to your computer and make sure it is unlocked so that the computer recognize the device.

Step 4: Now open the rooting package folder in your computer.

Step 5: Among the file open the ‘run.bat’ or open the ‘run’ file according to your desktop configuration that hides the filename extension.

Step 6: You must double click the ‘run.bat’ file to run the script and start rooting.

Step 7: Follow all the prompted instruction that appears on your computer. Your tablet will also some process running on it but you must not interrupt it and just concentrate on the work going on your computer.

Step 8: After all the processes are finished with all information those are prompted and now the tablet is rooted.

Walla! Your Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is successfully rooted without any sweat. Isn’t it super fast? Tell us through comments if any problem occurred during process, but I would suggest you to follow the step 4 again. Have fun with it.

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How to Root Dell Streak 7

Do you owe a Dell Streak 7? Want to root it and get control over the tablet? So here is the rooting procedure which bit complicated but yet easy if you go through the steps thoroughly. Few users want to stick with their default setting in Dell Streaks and if you are one of them then atleast go through the course of action done below. You never know when you have decided to root your lovable Streak 7 one day. Below you will get handy tools for rooting and that is through SuperOneClick package.

You must follow the steps but first keep certain points in your mind and they are:

• You must keep backups of all the SMSs, contacts, videos, images, call logs and other files because they will get erased while rooting.
• The device battery must be charged with at least 60%.
• Enable USB Debugging through Settings->Application->Development->USB Debugging.
• Disable antivirus software and firewall programs in your computer because they might interrupt the rooting process in the middle. And in case you have security software in Dell Streaks they you must uninstall it too.

Note: Root with your own risk. Techcular will not be responsible for any data loss or mishap occurs.

Pre-Requisites:

1. Computer
2. Fully charged Dell Streak 7.
3. USB data cable

How to Root Dell Streak 7:

Step 1: Download SuperOneClick package.

Step 2: Now extract the Zip file into a folder on your PC. Don’t rename the file, leave as it is.

Step 3: Launch the ‘SuperOneClick.exe’ from the extracted files.

Step 4: Via USB cable connect your Dell Streak 7 to your Computer.

Step 5: When you are totally connected, click on the ‘Root’ button in SuperOne Click to start the rooting process.

Step 6: One message will appear on your device that the device has successfully rooted and the SuperOneClick also install Superuser and busybox on your device.

Step7: If any mishap occurs during rooting then reboot your device and again follow the step 3 to 5.

Walla! Now your Dell Streak 7 has successfully rooted with just one click. You can do anything with your Streak 7.

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