When my friend asked me to root his Motorola Moto G2, I was searching for a tutorial, but unfortunately, there is no such exploit which could root Motorola Moto G2 without unlocking the phone and installing a custom recovery. I then rooted his phone after unlocking the bootloader and installing TWRP recovery. Then after flashing the rooting zip, his phone was rooted. The method is just like rooting Motorola Moto G.
Motorola Moto G and Motorola Moto G2 (2014) both cannot be rooted using any application or software because the software protection in both of the phones is too high. There is currently no way of bypassing bootloader easily. Even the famous TowelRoot, which roots Samsung Galaxy S5 without PC fails to root this phone.
Rooting cannot be done without PC because we need to flash a custom recovery. Actually you can use another phone or tablet which supports OTG cable and connect it with Motorola Moto G2 and unlock the bootloader and flash the TWRP recovery in it, but the PC method is best and most of the times you won’t notice errors like faced in OTG method. So, I won’t talk about it and will continue to root Motorola Moto G2 with PC only, but in an easy way. Both Motorola Moto G and Motorola Moto G2 has same name, but Moto G (2013) is Falon and the latest, 2014 model is named as Titanofficially, so I will use the word Titanium so that user don’t confuse between 2013 and 2014 model.
Requirements To Root Motorola Moto G2 Titan :
§ Moto G2 (2014) Titan with battery charged up to 60%.
§ ADB and FASTBOOT drivers installed.
§ A USB cable for connecting Moto G2 with PC.
How To root Motorola Moto G2 (2014) Titan:
§ Get official latest TWRP 2.8.0.1 recovery for Motorola Moto G2 (2014) from here and place it in a folder in which you have adb.exe, fastboot.exe, AdbWinApi.dll, AdbWinUsbApi.dll files.
§ Unlock the screen of your phone and go to Settings. Move to About phoneand tap 7 times on Build numberas fast as you can.
§ You will see a toast message with some text related to Developer options.
§ Press back key and select Developer options which will be a new option.
§ In the debugging section, enable USB Debugging.
§ Connect your phone with PC using a USB cable.
§ Now open the folder which has those adb files and the TWRP recovery.
§ Hold Shift key and press right click in the folder and click on Open command window here.
§ A black window named CMD will open up.
§ Type these commands and hit enter:
adb shell
§ There will be a popup on your phone. Check that box and tap on OK.
§ Now type these commands and hit enter in the CMD:
adb reboot bootloader
· The phone will reboot to bootloader where we will be unlocking the bootloader.
· Follow these official steps by Motorola to unlock the bootloader.
· Now after you have unlocked your bootloader, reboot to bootloader again using
adb reboot bootloader command.
· Type these commands in CMD and press enter key:
fastboot flash recovery TWRP2801-titan-motog-2014.img
· Type and hit enter another time.
· Ignoring all the errors use this command in CMD:
fastboot reboot
· Now your phone will be in simple mode.
· Download SuperSU zip from here.
· Type these commands and reboot to recovery:
adb reboot recovery
· Now you will see TWRP splash screen and you will be in TWRP recovery.
· Select Install button and select UPDATE-SuperSU-vX.XX.zip.
· Now swipe from left to right in TWRP recovery to confirm the flash.
· When the recovery will be flashed, you will see a reboot option.
· Press on it and again swipe from left to right to reboot your phone.
You have rooted your Motorola Moto G2 finally.
If you are unable to do or follow steps written here, then please comment below. I will help you to solve the problem.
Surya Kulshreshtha 