I am interested in rooting my moto g (generation 2) and wanted to know how I would go about doing it, as well as what advantages a rooted device has over a device that has not been rooted.
Pros:
More control over you device
Mad Hacks
Cons:
Risk of brick (Very, very small chance)
What carrier is your phone and what version of android are you running, that is the most important piece of info when rooting your phone.
Easiest way - run the installer for Cyanogenmod - all you need is PC + phone + usb cable. Roots it and all. After that all you have to do to try new roms is download applicable zip, go to recovery mode, install from downloaded zip. Just be sure to follow the directions for certain roms - installing particular gapps zips etc.
Once you have rooted a phone you never go back. I thought i would just use cyanogenmod, but ended up falling in love with liquid smooth. Another big plug to rooting is that you can use multirom. Multirom is basically grub(but without any learning curve) and you can run multiple roms on one phone as a duel boot setup. so awesome...
When it comes to unlocking your bootloader and rooting, @deejeta is on the money. If that fails for some reason however you can allways fall back on xda developers and more specifically, This
You could see if towelroot works for your device, it's pretty much the easiest way to root a phone, just download the app and push a button.
You can rot your android phone with Kingroot.
step 1:Download and install Kingroot Apk on your android device download link : http://kingrootapp.org/
step 2: Once installation is completed, you will be able to see the following icon in the Launcher Menu
step 3:Tap in the Kingroot icon to open it. Once Kingroot application is launched you will be able to see the follow screen.
step 4:Now, Tap on the start root button to begin the root process.
This post was over a year ago, Thanks for your input however ive already rooted the phone.
We can close this thread as it is old
The necro is strong!
Check the date when posting and if it's still relevant to reply. As OP says it's a bit late in this context.