Wednesday 2 September 2015

How to root and unroot an android device

The Risks of Rooting

The risks of rooting are many, but fairly straightforward. You need not fear as long as you do your research before you do any permanent damage (the chances of which are very low, we just like to be dramatic).


First of all, and the worst possible outcome, is bricking your Android device. Though the term bricking is overly graphic, it’s of course, not literal.

Your phone is considered bricked if it essentially stops working, be it stuck in an endless Bootloop, unable to power-up, etc.

Do I Really Need to Root?

Now, before we actually get down to business, you need to sit down, take a deep breath and ask yourself a very important question: do I really need to root my device?

Think carefully! Not only is your first time likely to take a while as you get familiar with the inner workings of your phone, but research has found that an alarmingly high percentage of first time root users often can never go back to their regular lives.

Not everything is all fun and games when messing with your Android smartphone, of course, which brings usto the continuation of this topic

How to Root Just any android phone

IMPORTANT - BACKUP!!! BACKUP!!! BACKUP!!!

>>>>>learn how to perform full back up of your phone- even if it bricks it can be restored to normal

Rooting of Android device is now safe and easy because of easy to use apps that now allows you to root your device in seconds without the use of Pc. If you are still having problem rooting your android device, below are three apps that will root your device in a matter of seconds without any risk to your device.
FRAMAROOT
Framaroot is one of the best and easy to use rooting apps and is known to root most MTK devices without any problem. Framaroot has been tested and confirmed on TECNO M3, Q1, H5, N7, D5, P9, M7, D9, M5, P5, S3, S5, and phantom Z.

HOW TO ROOT USING FRAMAROOT
Before you proceed with installation of framaroot on your device, there are two things that you need to enable.

First, USB debugging (If you have never use this option before, then you will have to wake it up by navigating to your settings>>About Phone>>Locate Build number and tap it seven times and you will notice a message saying you are now a developer. Go back to settings,tap on the Developers options and enable USB Debugging).

Second, Enable Unknown Source so that you can be able to install apps from other sources apart from play store.
Now that you have enable USB debugging and Unknown Source, you can now proceed with rooting following the steps below.


  • Download Framaroot APK, tap on the downloaded APk to install framaroot app on your device. If you have anti-virus enabled on your device, it will report that framaroot is a potential threat to your device, ignore and proceed with the installation.
  • After installing framaroot app, you can delete its apk file to save memory.
  • Open the installed app and tap on Barahir or bolomir after selecting either ‘Install SuperSU‘ or ‘execute script‘ .
  • Rooting your device might takes some minutes, and if you have done the right thing you should see a pop up that "su binary installed".
  • Reboot your device and you have successfully rooted your device. Navigate to play store and download root checker to confirm your device have been successfully rooted.
  • To unroot your device, simply choose Unroot where you previously chose Install SuperSU and again tap on barahir or bolomir option and your device will lose root access.

KING ROOT
Kingroot is another easy to use app to root your android device, it is compatible with Android 2.2 and above. Kingroot is very easy to use and rooting your device only takes it 40 seconds but you must have internet connection to make use of this app.

  • Download Kingroot APK [res.kingroot.net/msoft/webapp_kingroot/image/KingRoot_Android_3.4.1.157-General_105001.apk] and install it on your android device.
  • Allow the app to fully load, then tap on the center button to initiate rooting.
  • If Kingroot successfully root your device, you will see a white mark inside the center circle button plus a blue tab at the buttom of the app.
  • Reboot your device and install root checker from Play Store to confirm your device have been rooted.
  • You can uninstall kingroot from your device and make use of Kinguser that will be installed during the rooting process to grant or decline root privilege to apps or file that needs it.

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