China Man is definitely back. For me, he doesn't yet have an unlock for my May 27, 2014 X. So hoping that he has that in the coming month or so. Will try again, but in the mean time TowelRoot is definitely a blessing.
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Does Towel Root have any potential in the Motorola field?
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China Man is definitely back. For me, he doesn't yet have an unlock for my May 27, 2014 X. So hoping that he has that in the coming month or so. Will try again, but in the mean time TowelRoot is definitely a blessing.
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Triple tap "Welcome to Towel Root v3". After that change the last number in the string from "0" to "1". Then click "Make it rain". And bam you're rooted. No write privileges, but you're rooted for stuff like Titanium Backup and Root Greenify.
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Hooray for Towel Root and ad blocking, the only thing I really wanted root for. :good::victory:
I have read here or there about this middleman, but apparently don't have the search skills I use to have. Can you PM me his contact info (& what info I need to send him) or point me to the post/thread that includes it? Thanks.
No need to search or someone PM you. Just visit the General section and scroll through the tread list... trust me, you'll see it.
Removing write protection allows you to write to they /system partition. You can actually make most changes such as "modding" your phone without this, but in general they may not survive a reboot. PIE is actually a root method that jcase developed for the moto x. It essentially does the same thing as towelroot, but it requires you to be connected to a pc to use it. As someone else alluded to, you can install xposed after rooting with PIE, and it will survive a soft reboot. I haven't tried towelroot, but I would assume the same to be true there. The main problems with this are the lack of wp removal, and the fact that my moto x has a tendancy to crash sometimes immediately following a soft reboot, forcing me to tether and root again. I may try towelroot to see if it works the same. If it is successful, it may be preferable since it doesn't require a pc.
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1I saw somewhere that it doesn't work because of the system write protection on the Moto X, but geohot is looking into finding a way around.
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Same thing I did. SuperSU doesn't seem to work, since it tries to update the SU binary every time you launch it. Just keep it on your device and don't open it. Should work for giving Root access.1
Remove SuperSU, and try restarting your phone then applying Towelroot with 1 option again, and then check Titanium. I didn't need SuperSU to actually get root access. I only installed it because I wanted the power to deny things.1
PIE is the exploit/process that JCASE released to Root the X on 4.4.2 a little before Geohot released TowelRoot. Neither address write protection on the X, so there are some limits.
Since PIE was made specifically for the X, it will likely work better, more reliably.
But no matter how you root, if write protection is still enabled (which will be the case if you can't unlock your bootloader), you'll have issues with apps and things that rely on or require write permissions on /system, /system/bin, etc. That is the reason SuperSU is giving you problems.
