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How To Root The Motorola Droid Mini

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This guide will show you how to root the Motorola Droid Mini phone.

Disclaimer: 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.

What do you need to root the Motorola Droid Mini?

In order to root the Motorola Droid Mini you will need the following:

  • The Motorola Droid Mini you wish to root in your hand
  • Access to a PC

Step 1 – Set up the Android SDK environment on your PC

Before you can run the rooting tools on your PC to root the Motorola Droid Mini you must first set up the Android development environment correctly.

We show you how to do that here.

Step 2 – Download and install the Motorola USB drivers on your PC

So that when you plug in the Motorola Droid Mini 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 here. Simply download the file, extract it and run it and install the USB drivers and then you can move to the next step.

Step 3 – Download the Motorola Droid Mini root tool

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 here. Make sure that you save the file to where you installed ADB when you set up the Android SDK environment in step 1.

Step 4 – Enable USB Debugging On The Motorola Droid Mini

To enable USB debugging on the Motorola Droid Mini do the following:

Go to Menu -> Settings -> Scroll Down to Development and make sure USB Debugging is checked.

Step 5 – Root the Motorola Droid Mini

Now that everything is downloaded or installed it is time to root the phone.

1. Connect the phone to your PC

2. Open up a Windows command prompt.

3. Navigate to your Android SDK folder where you installed ADB

4. Type adb install -r PwnMyMoto-1.4.3-Droid.apk

5. Wait for the program to be pushed to the phone.

6. On the phone, under Apps, run PwnMyMoto.

7. The phone will reboot several times during this process.

8. Once the process is finished go to the Play Store.

9. Download and install SuperSU.

10. Once SuperSU is installed update it and the phone is rooted.

After you have followed the steps above you will have successfully rooted the Motorola Droid Mini.

Comments

11 responses to “How To Root The Motorola Droid Mini”

  1. motodroidrooter Avatar
    motodroidrooter

    certificates failed to be verified with installing pwnmymoto. im on 4.4.4 verizon droid mini.

    1. FlexiSPYBlog Avatar

      Hi Moto,

      We’re looking into this now!

      1. Tyler Avatar
        Tyler

        Anything?

        1. FlexiSPYBlog Avatar

          Unfortunately not..

  2. droidminiuser Avatar
    droidminiuser

    I saw something in these many pages of how to when it comes to rooting that led me to believe I would have this same issue with 4.4.4 Verizon droid mini. Therefor I haven’t attempted to root it yet. I think I saw something saying the flexispy software would work with devices running up to 4.4.3. Is this the case? I would think 4.4.4 is a higher version. Is this why the certs failed for this person? I see this post is a month old. Is there a fix? I can only assume I will have the same issue.

    1. FlexiSPYBlog Avatar

      Hi,

      FlexiSPY currently supports up to 5.0.1

      4.4.4 should also work.

      1. russo Avatar
        russo

        are you sure this will work for droid mini 4.4.4

        1. FlexiSPYBlog Avatar

          You can give it a shot, that’s as much a promise as we can make 😉

      2. KewlDawg Avatar
        KewlDawg

        I thought this method (outlined above) used PwnMyMoto?

        1. FlexiSPYBlog Avatar

          Hi Kewl,

          We are using PwnMyMoto in this guide.

  3. FlexiSPYBlog Avatar

    Hi Wesley, what’s wrong exactly?

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