How to Root the Motorola Droid Mini

Ever wanted to root your Motorola Droid Mini but never found an easy guide to follow? No worries, here we have the simplest root guide for the Droid Mini. Once you’ve followed all the steps in the following guide, you’ll have root-access on your device. Here you go:

Rooting is the process of gaining administrative rights on your Android device.  Once we root our Android device, we can then make changes to it to customize it well beyond what it normally can do.

Once you have root access on your Motorola Droid Mini, you’ll be able to:

• Remove apps that were preinstalled by your carrier/manufacturer from your device.
• Free up storage space (because of the above benefit).
• Increase battery life (apps that might have been running constantly can be removed).
• Increase performance (after removing apps that are always running, the device will be less bogged down and run smoother).
• Update to a new version of Android (by flashing a custom recovery/ROM, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).
• Tons of other customizations when you use your new found administrative rights to flash a custom ROM (again, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).

Interested? Here’s how to root your Motorola Droid Mini:

I. Before You Begin

1. This’ll void the warranty of your device. You’re doing this at your own risk. We won’t be held responsible for the consequences of this procedure.

2. This should only work on Windows based PCs.

3. You should’ve appropriate drivers installed on your PC. If you don’t, head over to this link and get the latest drivers installed on your PC.

II. Downloading Required Files

1. Download PwnMyMoto and save it to your desktop.

PwnMyMoto (It’s attached in the first post)

2. Download ADB and save it to your desktop.

ADB

III. Rooting the Motorola Droid Mini

1. Extract files from ADB to your desktop by right-clicking on it and selecting Extract here.

2. Enable USB debugging on your device by going to Menu > Settings > Developer options > USB debugging.

3. Plug in your device to your PC via USB cable.

4. Launch a Command Prompt Window on your desktop. To do that, hold down Shift and right-click on any blank area on your screen and select Open command window here.

5. Type in following command into the Command Prompt Window. Make sure to replace filename.apk with the actual name of the APK file you have downloaded.

adb install -r filename.apk

6. It should install the PwnMyMoto app on your device.

7. Once installed, launch it from your App Drawer.

8. It should begin rooting your device, and your device may reboot 2-3 times during the process.

9. When it’s done, head over to the Google Play store and download and install SuperSU on your device.

10. You’re now fully rooted!

Cheers! Your Motorola Droid Mini is now rooted and has SuperSU installed on it.

You can click here to find all of the Motorola Droid Mini How To’s.

You can also find all of the Motorola Droid Mini ROMs we have here.