Tuesday, August 19, 2014

MOTO E (XT 1022) UNLOCK BOOTLOADER , ROOTING , RECOVERY

As we all know rooting voids warranty of the phone still people try rooting to gain more access to the phone. Moto E is a budget android smartphone which runs on android kitkat 4.4.4 with 1 gb ram 4 gb internal.


In order to root the device firstly you need to unlock the motorola device from the official motorola website which will void your warranty.
Download mfastboot-v2 extract its content and use that for unlocking 
Bootloader.

1) Unlocking bootloader will wipe your device, Backup your photos, music, contacts using applications in play store or which ever method you prefer

2) The motorola site tells us to download the android SDK, You can skip that big download and use the fastboot method.

3) Follow the steps on motorola site and request for an unlock key. The unlock key will be provided to you in email.

4)Clicking on Request an Unlock Key is the point where you lose your warranty.   

You can unlock your boot loader from here:-



Rooting

Flashing Recovery
1) Download The CWM recovery from here.
and rename it to recovery.img.

2) Download The SuperSU from here  and copy it into the root of your internal memory!

3) Put the recovery image in fastboot directory.

4) Connect your phone to PC and Reboot to bootloader by pressing VolumeDown+Power button for about 6-7 seconds.

5) Now in adb fastboot run following command
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
This will flash cwm recovery on your device. Now boot into the cwm recovery and flash the su zip u downloaded and kept it in the internal memory of your phone.

After flashing it successfully boot into your phone which is rooted now.

Check your app drawer, There should be SuperSU installed. Congratulations you are rooted.

In CWM Touch doesn't Work to scroll Use Volume Buttons and Use Power Button to select the choice.

Remove Warning

To remove the unlocked bootloader warning flash the logo.bin file by downloading the logo.bin zip from here.
put it in the fastboot directory and then type the following code :
fastboot flash logo.bin
after flashing it successfully the warning of  unlock bootloader will no longer be shown.

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