I was doing some homework and according to someone on another forum the Droid RAZR Utility 1.82 root still does work with the update. Sadly, I can't confirm it personally.

I know the update is being hosted a few places so you might be able to recover to ICS, root, use VooDoo, and then push the update through recovery.

Good luck!

 

I can confirm from my own experience with the 24th OTA on two different RAZR's..

Rooted before update.. Works if root is backed up with Voodoo..

Very important though.. Update SU before you update to JB or you will be out of luck..

I tried using Utility 1.82 to root the one I didn't update SU on and it failed.. So no root for that one..

 

Just an update on my experience..

I was able to fix my half rooted JB RAZR that I forgot to update SU on before updating. From some bits and pieces I found on xda:

Go to Superuser and download Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
Open up that file, and copy out the files Superuser.apk and su, put them somewhere on your desktop, say c:\tmp
cd c:\tmp
adb push Superuser.apk /data/local/tmp
adb push su /data/local/tmp
adb shell
su
(you should have the # prompt at this point...if you don't, you don't have "half-root" like I did, and this won't work.)
cd /system/bin
mount -o rw,remount /system
mv su su-backup
cp /data/local/tmp/su .
chmod 06755 su
cd /system/app
cp /data/local/tmp/Superuser.apk .
chmod 644 Superuser.apk

Reboot, then all should be good. Worked for me anyway. Hopefully it'll help others.

 

TheErMinE

I think i have similar situation as you. I'm sure as tech savy and don't really understand the directions that you typed out. I get to "put them on the desktop"... i'm not sure where i am supposed to type the rest. help would be great!

 

TheErMinE is suggesting you put the extracted files into a directory, for example c:\tmp

the rest are command line entries

cd c:\tmp - will change the directory you are in to c:\tmp

the rest are commands using abd to move files/preform actions on the phone from that directory

adb is part of the android sdk - don't know if you can set it up any other way


good luck

 

So i am able to navigate to c:\tmp in the command prompt.

do i open the adb shell from there?

 

If you never had root before, why worry about it now? Rather than go through all of this, wait until somebody has an 'easy' root for JB (working on the assumption that will happen). Update to JB and enjoy it w/o root.

 

well i was just screwing around last night trying to fix my phone which was "half" rooted, as i forgot to update the binaries.

i downloaded this restore root for jelly bean program. i plugged my phone in, clicked the batch file, it started automatically. The program rebooted my phone once and presto it was fixed. It may be just more dumb luck than anything else. but oh well!

 

This worked for me also.

 

Interesting... I tried that before anything else and it didn't work for me. Glad an easier solution works for some though.

 

Yea, I'd wait for a JB root, pretty sure reverting is not an option.

 

Didn't work for me when I was connected as mass storage, switched to MTP and it worked fine.

 

Still no way to root yet I don't think, but back it up with voodoo before and you should be good.

I had to download matts root restore thing to get mine to work right because for some reason voodoo didn't restore it right, but the program worked fine. Keep in mind in order for it to work through you need to have it backed up first.