{"id":8397,"date":"2014-08-26T14:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:38:08","slug":"root-motorola-droid-maxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/root-motorola-droid-maxx\/","title":{"rendered":"How to root the Motorola Droid Maxx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[hoops name=&#8221;Rooting Guides Are No Longer Maintained&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7492\" style=\"padding-top: 20px; border-bottom: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flexispy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/rootingthemotoroladroidmax.png?resize=1024%2C617&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"How To Root The LG Optimus G Pro\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; padding-top: 20px;\">This guide will show you how to root the Motorola Droid Maxx phone.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f0f0f0; width: 70%; margin: 0 auto;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; margin: 1.5em 0; padding: 20px;\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">What is needed to root the Motorola Droid Maxx?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">In order to root the Motorola Droid Maxx you will need the following.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Motorola Droid Maxx you wish to root<\/li>\n<li>A PC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 1 \u2013 Set up the Android SDK environment on your PC<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Before you can run the rooting tools on your PC to root the Motorola Droid Maxx you must first set up the Android development environment correctly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">You can download the SDK from <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.android.com\/sdk\/index.html#download\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 2 \u2013 Download and install the Motorola USB drivers on your PC<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">So that when you plug in the Motorola Droid Maxx in to your PC to root it your PC recognises it you need to download and install the USB drivers which you can get from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymotocast.com\/download\/MDM?platform=windows\">here.<\/a> Simply download the file, extract it and run it and install the USB drivers and then you can move to the next step.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 3 \u2013 Download the Motorola Droid Maxx root tool<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Once you have installed the USB drivers for the phone on to your PC you also need to download the program that will root the phone. You can get it from <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/attachment.php?attachmentid=2266105&amp;d=1379514916\">here<\/a>. Make sure that you save the file to where you installed ADB when you set up the Android SDK environment in step 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">If the phone is running Android OS 4.4.x follow the steps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andromods.com\/root-unlock\/xt1080-xt1030-keep-root-droid-maxx-ultra-mini-android-44-kitkat.html\">here<\/a> instead as the root tool above is for Android OS 4.2.x and so it may not work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\"><strong>Note: This external site is not maintained or endorsed by FlexiSPY \u2013 use at your own risk<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 4 &#8211; Enable USB Debugging On The Motorola Droid Maxx<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">To enable USB debugging on the Motorola Droid Maxx do the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Go to <strong>Menu<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>Settings<\/strong> -&gt; Scroll Down to <strong>Development<\/strong> and make sure <strong>USB Debugging<\/strong> is <strong>checked<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; line-height: 1.5; color: #aaaabe; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 300;\">Step 4 \u2013 Root the Motorola Droid Maxx<\/h2>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">Now that everything is downloaded or installed it is time to root the phone.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Connect the phone to your PC<\/li>\n<li>Open up a Windows command prompt.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to your Android SDK folder where you installed ADB<\/li>\n<li>Type\u00a0<strong><em>adb install -r PwnMyMoto-1.4.3-Droid.apk<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wait for the program to be pushed to the phone.<\/li>\n<li>On the phone, under Apps, run <strong>PwnMyMoto<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The phone will reboot several times during this process.<\/li>\n<li>Once the process is finished go to the Play Store.<\/li>\n<li>Download and install SuperSU.<\/li>\n<li>Once SuperSU is installed update it and the phone is rooted.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"width: 70%; margin: 1.3em auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300;\">After you have followed the steps above you will have successfully rooted the Motorola Droid Maxx.<\/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-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397","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=8397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14801,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions\/14801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}