I am new to A116 but an old android fan so when I bought the mobile I thought of rooting it but as many have some problem, I am going to give the easiest rooting method which may work for any devices.
It works on the latest stock rom too.
Rooting:
Method 1: Can be done from mobile
Requirements:
Framaroot (search on Google )
Steps:
1)Open Framaroot
2)Select the exploit such as Boromir
3)It will ask you to restart. Just Restart
4)Now Ur Rooted. But the SuperSU is old.
Method 2:Can be done from mobile with Computer
Requirements:
1)SP Flash Tools (Search on Google)
2)TWRP or CWM (Get it from here)
TWRP : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2539763
CWM : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290174
3)Latest SuperSU zip (Search on Google)
4)Knowledge of Flashing through SP Flash Tools
Steps:
1)Copy the SuperSU zip to root of your SD card
2)Flash the recovery through SP Flash Tools
3)Now goto recovery and flash the SuperSU zip
4)Now ur rooted. The latest SuperSU is installed into the system along with the new binary.
Alternate Step:
1)If you have flashed CWM recovery and have not downloaded the SuperSU zip then you can still root the phone.
2)Just get into recovery and then click to restart system.
It will ask to root the device.
3)Go to the Yes option and when u restart, your phone will be rooted. But the SuperSU is old. So update from PlayStore
Updating to Custom Recovery:
Method 1: Can be done from mobile
Requirements:
1)U r Rooted
2)Mobile Uncle MTK Tools(Download from PlayStore)
3)TWRP or CWM recovery(Download from above given links)
Steps:
1)Now if you have the recovery downloaded then copy it to root of your SD card and rename it to recovery.img
2)Open the Mobile Uncle MTK Tools and grant SuperSU permission
3)Go to recovery update option and click on the recovery.img
4)It will ask to reboot. Now here is the critical step. Just wait 10-15 secs without rebooting because if you reboot suddenly then the recovery that the MTK tools is copying will be stopped and the recovery will get corrupted and when you boot into recovery, u will just see black screen.
This means take out the battery and do the steps again.
5)Now you have a custom recovery installed to flash ur zips
Method 2:Can be done from computer only
No need to be rooted
Requirements:
1)SP Flash tools
2)Knowledge of flashing through flash tools
3)Custom Recovery Downloaded
Step:
This is just like flashing ur rom but instead of choosing all the partition in the recovery, just tick the recovery partition and show where u have the recovery downloaded.
Now click download and after it is finished
U can go to recovery to see if it is flashed successfully.
Updating to latest SuperSU:This can only be done through mobile
Method 1:
1)Update from PlayStore.
2)Then open it and update the su binary
3)Now you can do it normally but if it fails you can choose the CWM/TWRP option to go to recovery and update the binary.
4)Now open SuperSU and go to option of installing it into the system.
5)Now reboot and check if installed because if not installed, root is lost and u have to root again.
Now 2nd method is the surest and best method to update to latest SuperSU and have the binary installed automatically
Method 2:
1)Download the latest SuperSU zip
2)Enter the recovery and flash the zip.
3)Now u can reboot to see that latest SuperSU is installed directly into the system
Q) Now users may ask why do we need to install SuperSU into system?
A) It is very simple. U may have a app that ask for root permission just after booting.
If SuperSU is not is installed in system then the permission will be denied and app stops working. This may be critical if u apps like Seeder or Greenify or Link2Sd or such installed and the permission gets denied.
Don't worry root is not lost but it is delayed to the time when your SD card is fully mounted by the system.
This type of delay can be experienced by anyone who has lots of apps installed.
Sometimes due to quickly booting the SD card gets mounted later thus the delay again.
So it's better if you install the SuperSU into system. This way no problem will occur.
Thanks for reading. Hopefully this will help everyone.
Hit thanks if it helped "YOU"
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Hey, i installed twrp and flashed the supersu.zip directory. but then when i press reboot, another screen comes up saying to install supersu, but it is never allowed to finish in time as the phone reboots. When i try and open supersu after rebooting it says the binaries are not installed. Its really annoying because i want to get my phone rooted badly.
Any suggestions would be amazing.
Most of the custom ROM's already have supersu inside. If you want to install a custom ROM follow these steps in the tutorial section.
Hi friends
I found one alternate way to replace Kinguser with Superuser.
This can be easy for rooting phone without pc.
Steps.
1. Root your phone with kingroot app.
2. Install twrp recovery vial flashr or similar tools.
(Recovery are specific to phone model so double check before installing recovery)
3. Uninstall kingroot from app itself (go to unroot option in kinguser app)
4. Reboot to recovery twrp.
5. Install supersu.zip (can be found on https://download.chainfire.eu/696/supersu/
This method works for me hopefully it works on your mobile phone also.
I m new to XDA please correct me if something wrong..
Thanks
Tried everything else for past 3 days, I cannot get Root access.
1) Bootloader unlocked
2) Activated Developer options
3) downloaded Su
4) Flashify or such other options don't work.
5) Also installed Minimum ADB & Fastboot, renamed recovery file, (and I believe so installed the TWRP).
Still can't get to the option of Install Recovery, Take Backup of Stock ROM or Data.
Tried Vol up + Power button, but there is no option to install (despite having SU in a memory card). The only options I get ( on a touch sensitive screen) are to test the phone on some criteria (technical terms I can''t remember) along with an option for Chinese.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3391100
If you are using Android up to version 5 use KingRoot for rooting, otherwise use Magisk.
Download Magisk manager.
Install it and download Magisk.zip. Boot to recovery and install Magisk from TWRP. Done!
How to install TWRP without Root
Waking up with a sleepy head I wanted to swipe the new version notification away, but didnt swipe well enough and it actually upgraded. I need to downgrade to v23 again but for whatever reason, its not working. Here's what I tried:
1. Reboot to fastboot and do fastboot boot magisk_patched.img (boot img with magisk 23 I use after OTA's). This boots but its not rooted. Magisk mgr is 24 though.
2. Rebooted to system, uninstalled Installed magisk manager 24, rebooted and retried the above. Installed Magisk mgr 23. No root.
I then unpacked the latest full oos 11 for my phone with payload_dumper, copied the boot.img to my phone and patched it using magisk manager 23. Copied it back to the PC.
retried step 1. No root.
Rebooted to fastboot again, checked current slot, its A.
fastboot flash boot magisk_patched.img (the new one I patched in the step above).
Rebooted, no root.
What am I supposed to do to get Magisk 23 back on my phone?
The reason is I'm dependent on riru/lsposed for a couple of xposed modules. If I disable zygisk in magisk 24 I won't have root hide, if I enable that, riru/lsposed isn't working.
Thanks for the help!
Yeah I had a similar issue on A12 rom, Magisk 24 just doesn't allow me to pass safety net due to Google play services in Magisk 24 deny list unselects after a reboot, so downgrading to 23 which just works after using hide list.
I had to disable and remove any modules, unhide Magisk 24 then restart.
Use Magisk 24 uninstall in the app and restart.
Install Magisk 23 and Install to boot image file to payload Boot.img, restart to Fastboot and flash as you did.
Then again in Magisk install select Direct Install then restart.
Reapply Magiskhide to apps google pay/services etc restart and check root.
I still have an issue with Magisk hiding the app installs the proxy app but it doesn't open so isn't working, so still working on this. Root is working tho with the above.
Thanks, I still cant get it to work though.
I can patch the boot.img, but when I try to boot it I don't get root.
When I flash and boot it, there still is no root available.
Possibly i had the same issue, no root after flashing the 23-modified boot image. I solved it by, upgrading the app to 24.3, patch the boot image, reboot to fastboot, flash it, reboot it so i was back at Magisk 24.3 Then i did a full uninstall of Magisk, via the app. Then installed app v23. Patched the boot image etc as per https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html#patching-images
Key here was, i think the full removal of Magisk 24 before downgrading.