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[compuburn]

Yes!! I finally have acheived root with this phone. I've tried all the other exploits to no avail. Thanks everyone for the hard work and easy to follow instructions. Now to delete all the stupid bloatware....

[Hibish]

Yes, success using recent Linux Mint build on X86 64-bit platform.  Thank you!

[Dbrown]

First time rooter.  When I reboot via SafeStrap it doesn't bring up the SafeStrap boot screen, it just brings up my normal lock screen.  Any suggestions?

[salviKid]

Thanks a lot! This worked great, even while using a 64-bit Ubuntu version. I appreciate the instructions. 

[eduardogaytan7]

May be I am too ignorant but I cant find the Remote storage button in the file manager. All i can see is:

Device Storage

SD card

Favorites

Recent

 

when i open the options menu I only see Legal information ....Help please!

[Bratster2]

May be I am too ignorant but I cant find the Remote storage button in the file manager. All i can see is:
Device Storage
SD card
Favorites
Recent

when i open the options menu I only see Legal information ....Help please!

Are you on jellybean 4.1.2?

[ciphernemo]

OP, please add this command before trying to apt-get the samba package. It is necessary for many instances of Ubuntu, especially LiveCD environments, otherwise the user will get errors and samba won't install/run.

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Thanks.

[ciphernemo]

It worked just fine for me, thanks OP.

 

Note: I had to do a factory hard reset first (

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) to get the root to work. Before I did this I noticed errors when running run.sh related to pwn.

[codyh07]

Hellp it says indowsUtility.bat is not recognized  as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

[Memnoch73]

Hellp it says indowsUtility.bat is not recognized  as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

 

You did not extract the zip correctly. Use WinRar to extract it to your desktop

[codyh07]

You did not extract the zip correctly. Use WinRar to extract it to your desktop

thanks I figured it out im rooted on xt907 98.18.94 but I was wondering if I could unlock the bootloader to flash custom roms I cant figure that out or can u even unlock

[livinginkaos]

On the version you are on, you will not be able to unlock.

 

You can use SafeStrap and flash stock based roms however.  They are few and far between.  RageRom is one,

[codyh07]

On the version you are on, you will not be able to unlock.

 

You can use SafeStrap and flash stock based roms however.  They are few and far between.  RageRom is one,

thanks man

[codyh07]

On the version you are on, you will not be able to unlock.

 

You can use SafeStrap and flash stock based roms however.  They are few and far between.  RageRom is one,

also does using safestrap wipe ur memory and take away root when u flash a new rom

[Memnoch73]

also does using safestrap wipe ur memory and take away root when u flash a new rom

 

It will not remove root. What does wipe your memory mean?? Are you talking about your personal data?? Then yes a normal wipe of Data, cache and dalvik is always recommended when flashing a rom

[Int_Rnd_Pooka]

Does XT907 not have CM or AOSP based ROMs? I thought that was second gen RAZR (First being the flip phone ) and was supported with CM.

 

To clarify on the wiping memory and data, if you're using SafeStrap and flashing a custom ROM, on the Bionic, it's flashed to virtual drives that are stored on the internal SDCard, which does NOT wipe your data for the original stock ROM. It creates a new empty virtual system, data, and cache set of files in your SDCard and uses that virtual set to install the ROM to and run it from. I don't know if it behaves the same with the XT907, though. I don't own one.

[altspeed]

Actually a 907 is a 3rd gen razr, 1st was the flip, 2nd was the 910-912 RAZR and maxx, 3rd is the M, the HD, and the HD Maxx. A lot of us that have 3rd gen razrs are lucky enough to have cracked or developer models, so we TWRP instead of safestrapping Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk

[CompletelyVoid]

I feel sooooo close to getting this.

I get to the same spot.  I can't seem to "Add Storage" to go correctly on my Bionic.  The phone comes back with "The information you entered is incorrect.  Please confirm your information is correct and try again."

 

My phone is on My wifi.  The desktop is hardwired back to the router.  The ip addresses are in the same octet or whatever they say (desktop is 192.168.1.10 and phone is 192.168.1.8)  I have tried on two seperate pc's running hard drive installed Linux Mint.  I tried a CD boot of Ubuntu 11.04.  I poked around my router setup for some sort of obvious - click here to block samba shares....  I tried workgroup, WORKGROUP, Workgroup...  Changed my password a couple of times.

 

I even tried another droid phone and couldn't get it to add a "Remote Storage" location.  I get the same error.   I am at wit's end.  Any thoughts on what to check? 

 

Thanks in advance!

[livinginkaos]

I feel sooooo close to getting this.

I get to the same spot.  I can't seem to "Add Storage" to go correctly on my Bionic.  The phone comes back with "The information you entered is incorrect.  Please confirm your information is correct and try again."

 

My phone is on My wifi.  The desktop is hardwired back to the router.  The ip addresses are in the same octet or whatever they say (desktop is 192.168.1.10 and phone is 192.168.1.8)  I have tried on two seperate pc's running hard drive installed Linux Mint.  I tried a CD boot of Ubuntu 11.04.  I poked around my router setup for some sort of obvious - click here to block samba shares....  I tried workgroup, WORKGROUP, Workgroup...  Changed my password a couple of times.

 

I even tried another droid phone and couldn't get it to add a "Remote Storage" location.  I get the same error.   I am at wit's end.  Any thoughts on what to check? 

 

Thanks in advance!

If you get too flustered, just skip all that and use

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.  Much simpler one click style.

[CompletelyVoid]

Doh....

 

I seem to have forgotten this step:

 

sudo smbpasswd -a guest

 

Rooted now!

Thanks!