[Mobile Education] Unlocking bootloader & Rooting your device!

maulgandhi

Rooting any Android device brings a lot of advantages. You will be able to install custom ROM, Custom Kernel, Remove Bloatware, Overclock your phone's processor and last but not the least is Mods. Keep in mind that unlocking Bootloader and Rooting your device voids the warranty and it may even brick your device.

Rooting your phone is very easy, but it all depends on your phone manufacturers and your carrier. Sometimes, your carrier and your phone manufacturer can make it difficult for you to unlock bootloader/root your phone. Nexus phones are easy to unlock bootloader and root your device. And that is what I am going to be using here as well.

What you need is...

Phone (duh..)

Windows machine

Drivers

Android SDK

SuperSu Zip file

TWRP recovery "https://twrp.me/​"

How to root your phone

The resources that might help you in rooting your device is XDA Forums and YouTube.

Step 1. Back up your device. (Note: unlocking bootloader will erase everything from your device).

Step 2. Turn on USB Debugging and OEM Unlocking. (See Picture 1).

Open Settings on your device. If  you do not see Developer Options toward the bottom of the Settings screen on your device, follow these steps to activate them.

1. Tap on About Phone and find the Build Number.
2. Tap on the Build Number seven times and the Developer Options will appear on the main page of the Settings.
3. Tap on the Back key to see the Developer Options.
4. Tap on Developer Options.
5. Check to enable USB Debugging.
6. Check to enable OEM Unlocking.

Step 3. Installing ADB and Fastboot

Step 4. Connect your device to your windows machine over USB. Allow USB Debugging on your Windows Machine. See the following image below

Step 5. Move the SuperSu.zip file to your phone's root directory. Basically Move SuperSu file to your phone, like you normally do to transfer songs to the music folder, this time to directory.

Step 6. Make sure ADB recognize your device by running the following command "adb devices" in Command Prompt. See the following image.

Step 7. Start the device in bootloader mode.

Turn the device off, then turn it on and immediately hold down the relevant key combination for your device. For example, to put a Nexus 5 ("hammerhead") into fastboot mode, press and hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power as the device begins booting up. You will be seeing the following screen. If you got so far, you are doing good.

Step 8. Unlock the Nexus device using the following command

Nexus 6 and older the command to unlock the bootloader is "fastboot oem unlock"

Nexus 5x/6p and newer the command is "fastboot flashing unlock"

Step 9. Your device bootloader is unlocked.

Step 10. Flash TWRP recovery or CM Recovery (Find the appropriate recovery for your devices here "https://twrp.me/​"

Step 11.  I suggest changing the recovery file name to just "recovery," it will be easier to flash. Flash recovery using the following command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"

Step 12. You can now get into recovery by navigating to it in the bootloader using the volume buttons and select Recovery option and press the power button. You will be greeted by the following screen

Step 13. The last step is to Install SuperSu, which allows you to root your device. Navigate the SuperSu file, which we put earlier in the root directory. Go to Install and search for SuperSu file and click on the file to select and Swipe to the Right to install the SuperSu. Now your phone is rooted.

Step 14. Once the installation is done, Revert back to main Recovery page and Hit the Reboot button and then Click on System

Note: No one will be held responsible, if you mess up while unlocking bootloader or rooting a device. Please proceed with caution. Please follow tutorials on YouTube and also follow XDA for specific model. Thanks for checking out the Content.

beenwaitingforthis

Great tutorial, thanks. You should update it WHEN the Axon 7 bootloader is unlocked...

AlexaTilbrook

Heck yeah! Thanks!

Just wanted to let y'all know that you can do this in Ubuntu also. Just type in a terminal to install ADB and Fastboot...

sudo apt-get -y install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

Then follow the instructions as above.

jimmy

To bad you cant do this on zmax pro

guimo

Y como se lo pude hacer root a un celular zte blade a310

dfc0117

Will this work on the Z982 Blade Max with MetroPCS. Everywhere I looked I read it was not possible as of last year.

sonyacorder

I was wondering if this could be done on zfive.its actually a z387vl.i downloaded KingRoot and twrp but twrp said it couldnt root my device and KingRoot said root unavailable.

sshasan

@sonyacorder There are no available options to root that device.