[LWX49K] Rooting made easy topic

I'm not believing my eyes just yet, but honestly... :eek:

Want root? Well, then I have some good news for you:

THERE IS NO REASON TO UNLOCK YOUR BOOTLOADER TO ROOT YOUR SMARTWATCH 3!

The fastboot mode is available on locked bootloader when your device has the latest ROM (LWX49K Lollipop 5.0.2) installed...

And the best news I can come up with right now? It allows hot booting custom kernels! :victory:

Code:

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~$ adb reboot bootloader
~$ fastboot oem unlock
...
(bootloader) : WARNING: Unlocking your device will void your warranty
(bootloader) : and erase your personal data from the device.
(bootloader) : Run "fastboot oem unlock" again to confirm.
(bootloader) : Device still locked.
OKAY [  0.008s]
finished. total time: 0.008s
~$ fastboot reboot
rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.001s
~$ adb shell
shell@tetra:/ $ su
root@tetra:/ #

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I can't believe it myself, but it's TRUE! :cool: :victory:

I have rooted my device using the TWRP from this thread, this is what I did:

1. Made sure I had the developer options enabled;


2. Enabled the ADB debugging option;


3. Made sure the device accepted my PC as authorized;


4. download the TWRP image from this thread;


5. Downloaded Wear-SuperSU-v2.40.zip from root junky;


6. adb reboot bootloader, saw it actually boot to fastboot... this is how I looked at that time: http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001...04_xlarge.jpeg;


7. fastboot boot unofficial-twrp-2.8.3.0-tetra.img (incredibly I saw it boot TWRP! Well... this is like the face my colleagues where watching me pull at that moment: http://mcp53.files.wordpress.com/201...cked.jpg?w=500);


8. adb push Wear-SuperSU-v2.40.zip /sdcard/ (installed the zip in recovery);


9. Reboot to system from TWRP;


10. Did root test;


11. Was seriously gobsmacked.

I'm investigating the possibility to have recovery on the locked device right now, which is actually something I did for many Xperia Z series devices already :angel:

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