How to root Motorola Moto E on Android 5.0 Lollipop

Hexamob | Alberto Mulas 12/7/2014

New rooting method for the Motorola Moto E on Android 5.0 Lollipop, the new Android phone developed by the American company Motorola, the company that specializes in electronics and telecommunications, established in Schaumburg, Illinois, outside Chicago. Motorola in 2011 was divided in two independent signatures from one another. Motorola Mobility that was born with the arm on Motorola phones, while Motorola Solutions remained with the team as part of servers and telecommunication networks. In August 2011, Motorola Mobility was acquired by Google for 12,500 million dollars and in 29 January 2014 was sold to the Chinese company Lenovo, after having purchased it for 2.910 million dollars.

Directions

1. Make sure you have the Motorola USB drivers installed on your PC.

2. Download and extract the CF-Root (available at “Download sources”) file on the computer desktop by right clicking on it and selecting Extract here.

3. Enable USB Debugging on your device, go to Menu > Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging.

4. Turn off your phone, reboot into bootloader mode. To do this, hold down the buttons Volume Down and Power simultaneously.

5. Connect the device to your computer via a USB cable.

6. Double-click the Moto-E-Root-Recovery.bat file that you extracted to the Desktop.

7. Follow the onscreen instructions to root the phone.

8. When the rooting process completes, flash the TWRP Recovery.

9. Flash Stock Android Recovery.

10. Flash CWM Recovery.

11. Remove unlocked bootloader warning.

12. Make full restore of the device for Moto E if XT1023 only.

13. Make full restoration and relock the bootloader if you have the Moto E XT1023 version only.

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Download sources

CF-AUTO-ROOT

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Sources

MOTOROLA

XDA-DEVELOPERS

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How to root Motorola Moto E