Root & Unlock for Motorola Moto 360: A guide

The Motorola Moto 360 is still very popular. This guide will help you root and unlock the smartwatch,

Root & Unlock for Motorola Moto 360: preparations

The fact that the Moto 360 is charged wirelessly and synchronized wirelessly makes the root and unlock of the smartwatch a little more difficult.

• Therefore, in addition to sufficient time, you should also have enough experience rooting Android devices.
• The key to performing the steps is the "Moto 360 Super Tool".
• You can download this tool from the xda-developers forum.
• You must then unzip the downloaded file. Now open the "Drivers & Programs" subfolder. Select the 32 or 64 bit version of the Motorola driver - depending on the operating system installed.
• To be able to connect the Moto 360 to your PC afterwards, you need some work and technical know-how: In order to connect the watch to the computer via USB, you need a special adapter. Follow the illustrated instructions to build your own adapter.
• Alternatively, you can also try the detour using a Bluetooth connection via your smartphone, but experience has shown that the connection is not always stable, and sometimes the Moto 360 is not recognized at all.
• After connecting to the PC in any way, navigate to the settings of your Moto 360 and activate the developer options. To do this, you must confirm the "About" option and then repeatedly tap the "Build number" entry (usually six times).
• Then go to the new tab "Developer options" in the settings and activate the option "ADB debugging". On the smartphone that is connected to your Moto 360, you should now see a message regarding the activation of ADB debugging, which you confirm.
• Now return to your PC and test whether the drivers have been installed correctly. To do this, open the "Moto 360 Tools for Windows.bat" file.
• In this file the message "daemon started successfully" and your Moto 360 should appear under "list of devices attached".
• Afterwards you should see various options after confirming with "Enter" in turquoise font, choose the first one, so enter "1" and confirm with "Enter".
• In the next request, enter "2" for the "Driver Test" and confirm again with "Enter". Your device should now appear.
• Press "Enter" and then press any key to start your device in Fastboot mode. A corresponding message should appear on the watch screen, including a code.
• Tap "Enter" twice more, your Moto 360 should now be displayed again, now with the addition "fastboot". From this, you conclude that these Fastboot drivers are also functional for the next steps.
• Press any key to restart your Moto 360.

Root & Unlock for Motorola Moto 360: Unlock bootloader

• If the watch is restarted, the watch tool should recognize this accordingly, confirm with "Enter" and should have the known turquoise selection options in mind.
• As these options say, simply enter "2" and confirm with "Enter" to unlock the boot loader. Attention: This step deletes all data and apps on the watch, it is reset to its factory settings.
• Then wait for the smartwatch to restart and press any key again to continue.
• The Moto 360 should now have started in bootloader mode.
• Then speed is required, because you have to confirm again with "Enter" in the tool, then press the Moto 360 power button within five seconds. Now the word "Confirmed" should appear on the display. You can also tell whether the process worked from the fact that "Device is unlocked" is displayed in the open boot loader mode.
• Then press and hold the power button until the display goes black. Then the Moto 360 should restart on its own. If this is not the case, press any key in the Watch Tool.
• Since the Motorola smartwatch is now reset to the factory settings, you must activate the developer options and ADB mode again as described above.

Root & Unlock for Motorola Moto 360: rooting

• Of course, the well-known Watch Tool also helps with rooting. Reconnect your smartwatch to the PC after re-setup, open the tool, press "Enter".
• Now the turquoise options appear again, this time enter the number "7" for rooting and confirm with "Enter".
• Then press any key to start rooting. If the "Waiting for Device" lettering appears, wake up the Moto 360 by pressing the power button.
• Rooting is now completely automatic, in the end your smartwatch would have to restart one last time.
• In contrast to an Android smartphone, you don't have a SuperUser app on the Moto 360 to manage root rights and to reject or confirm requests.

Another practical tip shows you what you can do if your Moto 360 does not want to connect to your smartphone.