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Until recently the only method to root the Motorola Photon 4G was connecting it to the HD Dock. Now there is an even easier method that does not require the dock. We have only attempted this on one Photon and it worked flawlessly.

Root Instructions for the Motorola Photon 4G:

  1. Download photon-torpedo.tar (Download Link)
  2. Place photon-torpedo.tar into the “/data/tmp” folder
  3. Install “Superuser” from the Android Market
  4. Install “Android Terminal Emulator” from the Android Market
  5. Run Android Terminal Emulator
  6. Run “cd /data/tmp”
  7. Run /bin/tar xf /data/tmp/photon-torpedo.tar
  8. Run /data/tmp/photon-torpedo.sh
  9. Run /data/tmp/install-su.sh
  10. Congrats your Motorola Photon 4G is Rooted!

Thank you to XDA member edgan for posting these instructions in the XDA forums.

Photon 4G and Webtop

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:

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