How to Root the Motorola Photon 4G with Webtop

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

For those of you that have gotten the Photon 4G and really want to root it there is already a way to do this.  The only downside is that you need to have the HD Station to do it for now.  This is a permanent root for the Photon 4G and hopefully we will have a method for those without the hd station.

What you need to Root the Motorola Photon 4G with Webtop:

• HD Docking Station for the Photon 4G
• HDMI cable that came with HD Station
• Monitor or TV with open HDMI port
• Wifi connection on the phone
• Computer with network access to the phone

If you don’t have an SSH program on your pc download Putty (Download Link)

Root Instructions for the Motorola Photon 4G:

1. Install Superuser from the Android Market
2. Install SSHDroid from the Android Market
3. Open SSHDroid and make sure its listening on port 2222
4. Connect Photon to the HD Station
5. Connect the HD Station to the TV/Monitor via HDMI
6. Open Firefox in Webtop
7. Go to http://higgs.cygnusx-1.org/~edgan/pulse.tar (do not save it)
8. Instead of saving it open it
9. Extract pulse.tar to /var/tmp
10. Connect to your phone via SSH at the ip address in SSHDroid port 2222
11. Type /var/tmp/pulse/pa_race
12. Type /var/tmp/pulse/install-su.sh
13. Type rm -rf /var/tmp/pulse*
14. Congrats your Photon 4G is rooted

Original instructions can be found at XDA in the forums located at:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16254545#post16254545

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