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:
- HD Docking Station for the Photon 4G
- HDMI cable that came with HD Station
- Monitor or TV with open HDMI port
- Wifi connection on the phone
- Computer with network access to the phone
If you don’t have an SSH program on your pc download Putty (Download Link)
Root Instructions for the Motorola Photon 4G:
- Install Superuser from the Android Market
- Install SSHDroid from the Android Market
- Open SSHDroid and make sure its listening on port 2222
- Connect Photon to the HD Station
- Connect the HD Station to the TV/Monitor via HDMI
- Open Firefox in Webtop
- Go to http://higgs.cygnusx-1.org/~edgan/pulse.tar (do not save it)
- Instead of saving it open it
- Extract pulse.tar to /var/tmp
- Connect to your phone via SSH at the ip address in SSHDroid port 2222
- Type /var/tmp/pulse/pa_race
- Type /var/tmp/pulse/install-su.sh
- Type rm -rf /var/tmp/pulse*
- 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