How To: Root the Motorola CLIQ (Updated 04.09.10)
December 24, 2009 in Android How To's, Featured, How To's, Motorola DEXT/CLIQ How To's
I. Download and Install the Motorola Drivers
1. Download and Install the Motorola Drivers:
II. Set up the SDK/ADB if you haven’t already.
Use our How To Setup ADB procedure and then come back to this once you are done and can see the serial number.
*Make sure you do the step in the ADB procedure (On your phone, click Settings > Applications > Development and make sure USB Debugging is on.)
III. Flash the Rooted Update
1. Download the update and save it somewhere on your computer.
2. Plug in your phone via USB cable.
3. Mount the SD card so we can transfer files to it.
4. Save the update.zip file you just downloaded it to the root of the sd card (NOT in any folders, just on the SD card itself). Once it is done transferring, leave the phone plugged in to the computer.
5. Turn the phone off
6. Turn the phone back on by holding down Camera and Power (keep holding it until it tells you to stop). Then press volume down to get into recovery.
7. Hit Alt L to bring up the menu. Then select Apply Update and wait for it to flash. Click reboot device.
8. NOW, GOTO THE HOW TO LOAD A CUSTOM ROM PROCEDURE AND FLASH A CUSTOM ROM TO GAIN FULL ROOT ACCESS! (FLASHING A NEW CUSTOM ROM WILL ALSO FIX YOUR KEYS BEING MAPPED WRONG!)
Thanks HandlerExploit!
Yeasu said on January 19, 2011
Do I unzip the update.zip file before copying it to the sd card or do I put the zipped file on the card???
Yeasu said on January 19, 2011
Do I unzip the update.zip file before copying it to the sd card or do I put the zipped file on the card???
Yeasu said on January 19, 2011
Do I unzip the update.zip file before copying it to the sd card or do I put the zipped file on the card???
cliq lover7 said on January 20, 2011
what window driver? and is there a place i can just take it for them to do it for me?
Voedinero said on January 25, 2011
man this shit fucked my cliq all the way up…. im sittin here reversing everything now…. all i wanted was for my shit to operate how the g2 operates… but fuck it…. i had the 2.1 upgrade before i fucked wit this shit.. all i wanna know is how do u get the keyboard back in its original state
Phillip said on January 28, 2011
how do i download the driver i cant seem to find a place to download at all
Howardinman said on January 31, 2011
DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE TMOBILE ROM ONLY FOR ORANGE IM TRYING TO FLASH BAC ILL REPORT WHEN IM DONE
Gtisss said on March 1, 2011
you guy’s are the best..thank you
Pinkehamma said on March 6, 2011
Hello here is my problem! I attempted to root my phone, and loaded the recovery one instead of the rooted file and bricked my phone. (so stupid) so I followed the directions on another site which I believe caused me to down grade my phone from 2.1 to which ever update was changing the date and time on peoples phones. So now my phone starts from motorola straight to motoblur log in. When I attempt to log in to motoblur it get the time and date error message. So I have tried step 6 and it takes me to the fastboot but when I prees the down volume it goes black and nothing happens? I NEED HELP
Matthew Caniff said on April 22, 2011
I would do a full wipe (ie from recovery), then reflash the orange update. That should hopefully fix anything else they had you do
AFTER that, do a search for cm4morrison and try out that rom…it’s a 2.3 rom that works pretty good.
Cris & Yazmin said on March 13, 2011
you suck instructions
VeryAgung said on March 21, 2011
Hi, I’m a Dext owner from Singapore. Can I root my phone using these procedures? I want to upgrade it to 2.1 (from 1.5).
Skinidud786 said on March 23, 2011
will i lose my unlock after rooting?
Matthew Caniff said on April 22, 2011
…your unlock? I’m not sure what you mean…
Joegateshead said on April 24, 2011
Hi everyone i think it is urgent that i clarify a few points
i just got my motorola b200/dext/cliq/…
i wanted to tether it to my computer through wifi i downloaded the app from market and it said i needed to root it
i just followed the instructions above i missed out the first bit on the computer of sdk/adb but i turned on usb debugging.
i put the update.zip on sd and followed the instructions now i want to know what the CUSTOM ROM IS AND IF IT IS REQUIRED?
also can i update the android from 1.5 to say 2.1?
can everybody with experience try and help please QUICK PLEASE
Iantyrer said on May 28, 2011
Blur_Version.2.1.5.MB200.T-Mobile.en.US.zip download this file find it in google… rename file to update.zip….. the it put on sd card….turn phone off ….hold power and camera key….press volume down button….you will get a triangle ….touch bottom right side of screen ….u will get three options ….press update.zip then press ok …….. all done …happy days…. have fun
Ramale said on June 17, 2011
does not work like that, it does not verify
Rivianer56 said on April 29, 2011
Problem : When I get to the bootloader screen and try to select apply update, it tells me that the ‘update.zip’ file is “bad” and goes on to abort update. I’ve redownloaded the ‘update.zip’ file and even unpackaged then repackaged the files and still no luck. ANY HELP?
Thank you!
Seraphim Mb said on May 15, 2011
cant get past the step in the commands is there a quicker way do this with a cliq xt?
Currytuba24 said on May 19, 2011
I cant get this to work because i have windows 7.. what should i do?
Ramale said on June 17, 2011
i had a blur 2.1 i thought this is newer one and i rooted my phone, found that this was preety damm old, i can’t unroot it, i tried to master reset it, even master reset does not clear it. i bricked up my phone.
any help or suggestation.
Alx_sterling said on July 22, 2011
super one click follow the steps on there it has an unroot option
Jorge572009 said on June 25, 2011
ill have u guys know u guys messed up my motorola cliq
Alx_sterling said on July 22, 2011
the first time i did this it fucked up if it does that to you which it seems it has try and reboot into recovery mode again and re do the process with the update zip it should pop up with three choices again telling you what to do hold menu+back it should now reboot with the orange box (cell provider in france) your phone will load to the main screen plug in phone once it gets to main screen and go into usb mode delete the update zip and put on the custom rom you want (i used the superosr you can look for the one you want) and the flash image from the page in step 8 from there you now put the phone back into charge mode using your adb script type from the folder you downloaded your sdk tools into(you will have to cd into that folder ie : cd c:program filesandroidandroid-sdkplatform-tools <- this is the path where my adb is located in and then follow my steps) type
adb devices
your phone should show up in the terminal then type
adb shell
you should have a # on your computer terminal from there type
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-cliq-v1.5.2.img
once it finishes another
#
should appear now close the command window
next power down the phone if its plugged in its going to automatically turn back on and when it does
hold the power and camera button
this will put you back into recovery mode it should look different than it did before
from there hit the volume down key
you'll now either have to hit alt+l to get the options up or they will already be there
use the volume down key until you get to wipe click the home button then hit the home button again on the wipe to factory default setting that will run and complete then you go back to the 1st options list and click flash from zip use your custom ROM or the one i used and the itll flash through the setting youll probably have to hit menu+back to get it to reboot or something i just did it but dont remember if it did automatically or if i had to click something and presto your phone will turn back on and youll enter your google account and life will be good
Alx_sterling said on July 22, 2011
the first time i did this it fucked up if it does that to you which it seems it has try and reboot into recovery mode again and re do the process with the update zip it should pop up with three choices again telling you what to do hold menu+back it should now reboot with the orange box (cell provider in france) your phone will load to the main screen plug in phone once it gets to main screen and go into usb mode delete the update zip and put on the custom rom you want (i used the superosr you can look for the one you want) and the flash image from the page in step 8 from there you now put the phone back into charge mode using your adb script type from the folder you downloaded your sdk tools into(you will have to cd into that folder ie : cd c:program filesandroidandroid-sdkplatform-tools <- this is the path where my adb is located in and then follow my steps) type
adb devices
your phone should show up in the terminal then type
adb shell
you should have a # on your computer terminal from there type
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-cliq-v1.5.2.img
once it finishes another
#
should appear now close the command window
next power down the phone if its plugged in its going to automatically turn back on and when it does
hold the power and camera button
this will put you back into recovery mode it should look different than it did before
from there hit the volume down key
you'll now either have to hit alt+l to get the options up or they will already be there
use the volume down key until you get to wipe click the home button then hit the home button again on the wipe to factory default setting that will run and complete then you go back to the 1st options list and click flash from zip use your custom ROM or the one i used and the itll flash through the setting youll probably have to hit menu+back to get it to reboot or something i just did it but dont remember if it did automatically or if i had to click something and presto your phone will turn back on and youll enter your google account and life will be good
gabby said on August 9, 2011
i just want to root my phone and its not working idk what to do
Welcomechsm said on August 22, 2011
thank you very much for the guide
Josh said on August 30, 2011
When i click on download drivers it just brings me to the motorola company home page. What do i do?
Anonymous said on October 18, 2011
You have to find the cliq page and select driver downloads