DO NOT USE THIS WITH ANY OTHER ROOT METHODS, THIS DOES IT ALL.
CONVERSATION WITH OTHER ROOT METHODS SHOULD BE IN ANOTHER THREAD
As people seem to be having trouble with this, heres a general walkthrough.
BEFORE DOING THIS - I recommend you install all updates.
THIS SHOULD WORK FOR BOTH CDMA AND GSM
General credits to Koush here - https://plus.google....sts/1Jsh9xPwnQP
Prerequisites:
Fastboot#LINUX#
Let us begin
How to unlock your phone
WARNING: Unlocking your phone does a factory reset. Everything will be erased.
Now to install the Custom Recovery and Root Manager
CONVERSATION WITH OTHER ROOT METHODS SHOULD BE IN ANOTHER THREAD
As people seem to be having trouble with this, heres a general walkthrough.
BEFORE DOING THIS - I recommend you install all updates.
THIS SHOULD WORK FOR BOTH CDMA AND GSM
General credits to Koush here - https://plus.google....sts/1Jsh9xPwnQP
Prerequisites:
- ADB installed and ready to go
Fastboot#LINUX#
- For proper set up of UDEV rules in case your machine doesn't recognize your device use this guide by dusinmj to get ALL device id's working.
- download and use these
- Alternate: download and install the drivers
- Alternate: DRIVERS VIA PDANET (install and select install all drivers)
- Clockworkmod Recovery Download Click Here
or - TWRP Recovery Download Click Here
- SuperUser Root Manager (includes binary) - Click Here
or - SuperSU Root Manager (includes binary) - Click Here
Let us begin
How to unlock your phone
WARNING: Unlocking your phone does a factory reset. Everything will be erased.
- open terminal (command prompt for windows) and change to directory of the fastboot binary (or add to path...but if you can do that then why are you reading this)
- power off your phone
- Hold your volume up and down and power button, wait for a vibrate and let go of buttons. (if in windows, wait for drivers to install)
- run:
Code:
fastboot oem unlock
- choose yes on the unlock option on your phone screen.
- press volume down till you get the "restart" option, then press power to select it.
- phone will reboot a couple times then boot up.
- Make sure phone has booted.
Now to install the Custom Recovery and Root Manager
- Copy the root manager zip to your sdcard in android
- power off your phone
- boot into fastboot mode
- Place the recovery img file in the same folder as fastboot
Note: For the next step replace "nameofrecovery" with the file name of the recovery you downloaded. - run
Code:
fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
- press volume down till you get the "recovery mode" option, press power to select recovery.
- select install zip from sdcard
- select the root manager zip you put on your sdcard
- in terminal run:
Code:
adb shell
- then run:
Code:
mount -o rw,remount /system
- then run:
Code:
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.bak