{"id":10021,"date":"2014-12-08T17:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:22:51","slug":"root-motorola-moto-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/root-motorola-moto-g\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Root The Motorola Moto G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintained&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>This guide will show you how to root the Motorola Moto G Android phone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer: FlexiSPY is not responsible for rooting the Android device in any way. Before performing any of these steps make sure you back up your Android device completely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rooting is done entirely by you at your own risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is needed to root the Motorola Moto G?<\/p>\n<p>To root the Motorola Moto G you will need the following.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Motorola Moto G you want to root in your hand.<\/li>\n<li>A PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step 1 \u2013 Download the PC USB drivers for the Motorola Moto G<\/h2>\n<p>Before we begin you need to download the USB drivers for the phone to your PC so that when you connect the Motorola Moto G to your PC to perform later steps the PC will recognize the phone.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the USB drivers from <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/k3MH1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2 \u2013 Enable ADB and set up the Android SDK environment on your PC<\/h2>\n<p>You need to set up the Android SDK environment on your PC which you can do so by following the article <a href=\"\/?p=9493\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 3 \u2013 Enable USB debugging mode on the Motorola Moto G<\/h2>\n<p>Now that you have installed the USB drivers for the Motorola Moto G on to your PC you need to enable USB debugging mode on the phone itself so that it is recognised by your PC when you plug the Motorola Moto G to perform later steps.<\/p>\n<p>You can enable USB debugging mode on the Motorola Moto G using the steps below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><em>On the Motorola Moto G tap the Settings option.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Tap the About option.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>On this menu tap \u2018Build Number\u2019 seven times continuously.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Once you have done that go back to the Settings option.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Tap the new Developer Option menu that has appeared.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Make sure the USB Debugging option is checked.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Tap OK to confirm.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now that you have enabled USB debugging on the Motorola Moto G it is time to move on to the next step.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 4 \u2013 Unlock the Motorola Moto G bootloader<\/h2>\n<p>In order to be able to root the Motorola Moto G you need to unlock the bootloader. Once the bootloader is unlocked it allows you to then connect the Motorola Moto G to your PC and perform the rooting process.<\/p>\n<p>You can start the bootloader unlock process <a href=\"https:\/\/motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com\/app\/standalone\/bootloader\/unlock-your-device-a\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How it works is that you have to connect the Motorola Moto G to your PC, run a command to get a unique token and then you put that in to the Motorola bootloader website and get a response back which you enter on the PC and then the Motorola Moto G will do its magic and unlock the bootloader ready for the next step.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 5 \u2013 Download the Motorola Moto G root program<\/h2>\n<p>You need a special program on your PC to root the Motorola Moto G which you can get <a href=\"http:\/\/api.viglink.com\/api\/click?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_14179994537507&amp;key=9b4efad421c8b103b2c94b796db973b0&amp;libId=9a8ad340-5f72-4dec-8f4d-93e6a8c8bc96&amp;loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modaco.com%2Ftopic%2F366771-root-your-moto-g-option-1-superboot%2F&amp;subId=b0ec8f07a9b2e76d29cd641fde2b9d0d&amp;v=1&amp;out=http%3A%2F%2Floadbalancing.modaco.com%2Fdownload.php%3Ffile%3Dr2-motog-superboot.zip&amp;ref=http%3A%2F%2Fandroidadvices.com%2Froot-moto-g-android-phone-firmware-guide%2F&amp;title=Root%20your%20Moto%20G%20-%20option%201%3A%20Superboot%20-%20Motorola%20Moto%20G%20-%20MoDaCo&amp;txt=DOWNLOAD\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have downloaded the file extract it to a folder called \u2018<strong>Moto<\/strong>\u2019 before continuing.<\/p>\n<p>You now need to open a command prompt window on your PC and navigate to the <strong>Moto <\/strong>folder you just made.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 6 \u2013 Put the Motorola Moto G in to Bootloader mode<\/h2>\n<p>On the device itself you need to put it in to Bootloader mode which is done as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure the device is turned off completely.<\/li>\n<li>Press <strong>Volume Down and the Power button<\/strong> at the same time and wait for the device to boot in to Bootloader mode.<\/li>\n<li>When the device is in bootloader mode connect it to your PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step 7 \u2013 Root the Motorola Moto G<\/h2>\n<p>Using the command prompt window you opened in step 5, make sure you have navigated to the <strong>\u2018Moto\u2019<\/strong> folder that you made previously and then type the following and press Enter when done:<\/p>\n<p><strong>superboot-windows.bat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wait for the process to be completed.<\/p>\n<p>Once the device has rebooted it should now be successfully rooted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14744,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions\/14744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}