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. MobileCruze.Net Tips 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. See our guide on what is ADB and how to install it.

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, you may want to see our guide on installing ClockworkMod recovery on the MOTOACTV.

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