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How to Root the Motorola Photon Q

By Brandon Orndorff · · 1 min read

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The Photon Q has an easy one click root method available thanks to XDA member OP. The one click root method is called “motofail2go” and is currently available to use on Windows machines only. If you have a Motorola Photon Q and want to root it to gain access to everything that Android has to offer the instructions are below.

Motorola Photon Q Root Instructions:

  1. Install the Drivers for your Photon Q
  2. Download and Extract motofail2go (Download Link)
  3. Put your Phone in USB Debugging Mode
  4. Navigate to your motofail2go extracted earlier
  5. Run “”run.bat” as administrator
  6. Follow the instructions in the batch file
  7. Congrats your Photon Q is rooted!

There has been only one issue that very few users have noticed where the device will give you an error “run-as: Package ‘com.motorola.bug2go’ is unknown”. If you get this error printed by the batch file then you will need to wipe your data and cache then start the process over.

Brandon Orndorff
I have been interested in Android from the moment the first devices were released. I love the fact that it's such a widely accepted mobile OS and that I can be a large part of the community as a whole.

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