How to Root the Huawei Ascend Y H866C

Huawei Ascend Y H866C is a CDMA smartphone by Straight Talk that runs Android as its operating system and provides users Gingerbread experience. The device doesn’t have too solid specifications, but it’s got a 600MHz processor, 3MP Camera and the normal connectivity options that include Bluetooth and USB. If you’ve purchased this device and wondering if you could root it, well, it’s possible as a root method has popped-up on the XDA Forums that claims to root the device for allowing installation of root-only apps and eventually a custom recovery. This guide will show you how you can root your Huawei Ascend Y H866C smartphone, follow all the steps and you should have root access on your device.

I. Before You Begin:

1. This will void the warranty of your device. However, you can reinstate the warranty by unrooting the device if there’s any unrooting procedure available.

2. Your device should have at least 50% of battery life left.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Poot APK (Download link’s given in the first post)

III. Rooting the Huawei Ascend Y H866C:

1. Download and place the Poot APK file onto your Desktop.

2. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.

3. Copy the APK file over to the root of your SD card.

4. Once copied, unplug the device from your PC.

5. Open the File Manager on your device and tap on the APK file and install it.

6. Once installed, launch it from your App Drawer.

7. It’ll download some required files, so allow it to do so.

8. Once done, close the app.

9. Launch the app once again from your App Drawer.

10. This time, hit the Poot button and it’ll run some codes.

11. Once done, reboot your device.

12. Head over to Google Play and download the Superuser app.

13. You’re rooted now!

Excellent! Your Huawei Ascend Y H866C has been successfully rooted and you can now install some root-only apps on it to save it from dying!

If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.

How to Root the HTC One X on AT&T (One-Click Method)

The rooting procedure for the AT&T-branded One X is slightly different from that of its unlocked GSM counterpart, but both employ a method that is easy to follow – One-Click Root.  This guide will show you how to root the AT&T One X as painlessly as possible and without HTC having a clue that you have rooted your device using a One-Click Solution.

I.  Before You Begin

1.  As always, back up your data just in case.

2.  This rooting guide is Windows based, so make sure that you are on a Windows PC (XP, Vista or 7) before proceeding.

II.  Necessary Files

1.  HTC Windows Drivers.

2.  Root file.

III.  Rooting the AT&T One X

1.  Install the HTC Drivers you downloaded above.

2.  If you have HTC Sync installed on your device, disable it or uninstall it (you can install it after the root procedure is complete).

3.  Connect your device to your PC using the microUSB cable.

4.  Enable USB Debugging on your device.  To do this, go to Settings > Developer Options and check the USB debugging tickbox.  Windows should now install the necessary drivers automatically (if you are on Windows 7).

5.  Extract onxr.zip you downloaded above to a folder on your desktop.

6.  From the extracted folder, double-click root.bat to run the tool and follow the on-screen prompts.

7.  Your device should reboot several times during the process.  Wait until the tool gives you confirmation that the procedure is successful before disconnecting your device.

Congrats!!  Your One X should now be rooted with Superuser and Busybox installed!!

All credit goes to kennethpenn and sparkym3 for making things easy for us.  If you liked their work, consider donating by clicking on their respective names or at the least say thank you on their XDA Thread.

How to Unroot the LG Esteem

      
If you’ve rooted your LG Esteem smartphone but aren’t satisfied with the features it offers you and want to go back to that simple state, unrooted one, then here’s a guide for you. The process to unroot the LG Esteem is very easy, even your kid won’t have any problem doing it, let’s get started.

I. Before You Begin:

1. You should have rooted your device using the procedure given here.

II. Unrooting the LG Esteem:

1. On your device, go to Menu>>Settings>>Privacy and tap Factory Data Reset option.

2. If you get any prompts, just hit the Yes option.

3. And you’re done now!

Great! You’ve successfully unrooted your device, its warranty is back now!

SOURCE:xda

How to Install ClockworkMod Recovery on the LG GT540 Optimus

The 1-click Recovery Flasher supports the LG GT540 Optimus, that means installing a custom recovery on your device is no longer a process consisting of complex steps and all that stuff. Just get the app and flash the recovery, that’s all. If you’ve never flashed any recovery and a bit nervous, no problem, we’ve a guide for you below. It shows how you can install ClockworkMod Recovery on the LG GT540 Optimus smartphone.

I. Before You Begin:

1. In order for the following process to work properly, you must have rooted your device. Check out our how to root the LG GT540 Optimus guide.

2. You should have a decent Internet connection to get the job done faster.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. 1-click Recovery Flasher (Google Play Link)

III. Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on the LG GT540 Optimus:

1. Download and install the Recovery Flasher App on your device. It’s a 43k file, so shouldn’t take much time to download.

2. After the app is installed, open it from the Menu of your device.

3. From the main interface, choose CWM Recovery.

4. Tap on Flash button and it should begin downloading the recovery file.

5. As soon as the download is finished, it should ask you whether you really want to flash the recovery. Choose Yes.

6. It should take some time to flash the recovery.

7. You’re done now!

Congratulations! The app has successfully installed the ClockworkMod Recovery on your device. The custom ROMs you’ve been waiting for to get on your device are calling you, go grab them!

SOURCE:modaco

How to Unroot the LG Optimus T

Going to return your phone to T-Mobile for any warranty kind of purpose? Make sure to unroot the device first and only then visit the T-Mobile employees. Unrooting should help you reclaim the warranty of your device and here’s how you can unroot, in other words, remove SU binaries from your LG Optimus T smartphone. Here you go:

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device using the method provided in this guide. If you used any other method to root the device, the following procedure won’t work for you.

2. Charge your device to have at least 60% of battery life left.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. z4Root (It is attached in the first post of the thread)

III. Unrooting the LG Optimus T:

1. Download the z4Root App to the Desktop of your PC.

2. Connect your device to your PC using the USB cable.

3. Copy the z4Root file over to the root folder of your SD card. It is the topmost folder you see when you open My files.

4. Disconnect the device after the file is copied.

5. Open My files on your device and install the z4Root App you just copied.

6. Launch the app on your device from the Menu.

7. Choose Unroot option in the app and your device should be unrooted in a moment.

8. Your device should be now unrooted!

You’re now safe to take your phone to the T-Mobile store, they won’t be able to know that you’d rooted your phone once!

How to Install ClockworkMod Recovery on the LG Optimus T

The T-Mobile version of the LG Optimus supports the ClockworkMod Recovery allowing you to play with custom ROMs and tweaks just like you’re now playing with apps on your smartphone. A custom recovery has become an essential part of a rooted phone and if you haven’t yet installed it on your device, here’s how you can do it. The following guide shows you how you can install ClockworkMod Recovery on the LG Optimus T smartphone.

I. Before You Begin:

1. You must have rooted your device before doing this procedure. Please head to our How to Root the LG Optimus T procedure first, finish it, then return to this procedure and continue.

2. Make sure your device has at least 60% of battery life left.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Flash Image (Download link’s given in the second post)

2. Recovery Image (Download link’s given in the second post)

3. Terminal Emulator (Google Play Link)

III. Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on the LG Optimus T:

1. Download and place both the archives on your Desktop.

2. Install the Terminal Emulator App on your device from Google Play.

3. Extract files from both the archives to your Desktop. You should get a Recovery Image and a Flash Image file.

4. Connect the device to your PC using the USB cable.

5. Copy the Recovery Image and Flash Image files over to the root folder of your SD card.

6. Disconnect the device after the files have been copied to the device.

7. Launch the Terminal Emulator App on your device from the Menu.

8. Run the following command using the app:

su

9. It should ask for Superuser permission, tap the Allow button.

10. Now, run the following commands using the app. Press ENTER after each line:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /system/bin/flash_image
chmod 755 /system/bin/flash_image
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
(IMPORTANT NOTE - If you get an error on the line above such as "file does not exist" ignore the error and keep going.)
mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-GNM-OPT-T-test.img
reboot recovery

11. Your device should reboot into the ClockworkMod Recovery Mode.

Congrats! Your LG Optimus T now have the CWM Recovery installed on it and custom ROMs are just a few taps away from you!

How To Unroot the T-Mobile G2X and Return it to Stock

                                        

Have a T-Mobile G2X and need to send it in for warranty? Or perhaps you just want to start over from scratch with the whole rooting thing? Either way, you need to get back to stock. Well, here’s how to revert your T-Mobile G2X back to the way it was out of the box when you got it.

I. Before You Begin

1. You MUST have done our How To Root and Load a Custom Recovery procedure for this to work properly.

2. This will return your G2X back to stock and erase all data on the phone.

II. Revert System and Data to Stock

1. Download the stock Nandroid Backup and save it to your computer.

Stock G2X Nandroid Backup (Original post with downloads)

2. Turn off your phone, then turn it back on by holding down volume down and power until you get to recovery mode.

3. Once in recovery mode, head to backup and restore then click on backup to perform a backup.

4. Once it says backup complete select back to get to the main menu, then select reboot system now.

5. Once the phone reboots, plug it in via USB cable and mount the sd card so we can transfer files to it.

6. Open the sd card on your computer and make sure there is a folder inside called “clockworkmod” and inside that folder is one called “backup”.

7. Extract the Stock Backup .zip file somewhere on your computer (so that it creates a new folder with the same name as the .zip file “LG-P999-V10f”)

8. Copy and paste the folder called “LG-P999-V10f” to inside the backup folder on the sd card that we found in step 6.

9. Unplug the device from the computer.

10. Turn off the device then turn it back on by holding down volume down and power until you get into recovery mode.

11. Once you get into recovery mode, scroll to Backup and Restore and select Restore.

12. Then choose the backup you just saved to it and wait for it to restore.

13. Once it is done, hit Wipe Data > Factory Reset.

14. Once the wipe is complete, hit reboot system now. Your phone should reboot to the setup screen you had when you first turned on the device.

III. Restore the Stock Recovery Image

1. Remove the battery from your device (if you put it back in).

2. Right click OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe inside the NvFlasher folder inside the file you extracted from our How To Flash a Recovery Image procedure and select Run As Administrator (if such an option doesn’t exist, just select Open).

3. Now, hold Volume Up and Volume Down (and keep holding them through the next couple of steps).

4. Plug the phone in via USB Cable (with the volume up and volume down still being held).

5. While still holding the volume up and volume down buttons, click on Flash Stock Recovery on your computer.

6. Once it says “S/W Upgrade – Please wait while upgrading…”, you can let go of the volume up and volume down and just wait for it to finish flashing in the command prompt. (If you get ANY errors in the command prompt window, unplug the device, reopen the flasher and try again until it goes through with no errors).

7. Once it is done, it’ll say press any key to continue in the command prompt window on the computer. That means it is done, press enter then unplug your device from the computer.

8. Put your battery back in.

IV. Unroot the Phone

1. Open the SuperOneClick program you used to root the phone in our How To Root procedure.

2. Plug the device in and click the Unroot button in SuperOneClick and wait for it to finish.

3. So long as you have no errors, check in your device’s app drawer and make sure Superuser Permissions is no longer there. So long as it is gone, you are all set.

4. You are now back to completely stock and can send your phone in for warranty or head back to our How To’s to reroot and start over.

How to Root LG Nitro HD

                    

LG Nitro HD is an Android smartphone by LG which comes from the family of the first 4G LTE smartphone series. It was launched in South Korea in the year 2011 and then it became available in all the shops across the world. Being an Android phone, you can root it to gain access to system files so you can install the applications on this phone which require Super user access. The following guide will help you to root your LG Nitro HD smartphone.

I. Before You Begin:

1. Your phone’s warranty will be voided once it is rooted, you are rooting your phone keeping this in mind. However, you will be able to get back the warranty by applying either stock firmware or unrooting your phone.
2. Charge your phone to have at least 60% of battery to ensure a smoother rooting process.
3. You must have a PC running any Windows OS version.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Download the LG Nitro HD Rooting Package from here.

III. Rooting LG Nitro HD:

1. Unzip the files from the Rooting package you downloaded and place the files on your Desktop.
2. On your phone, enable USB debugging . To do so, head to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging and tick-mark the box.
3. Now, launch the SuperOneClick Rooting tool by double-clicking on SuperOneClick.exefile. See the following screenshot.
   
   

   Double-Click SuperOneClick.exe file
4. Connect your LG Nitro HD to your PC using the USB cable.
5. From the main interface of the SuperOneClick tool, click on the Root button to begin rooting your phone. You will have a screen similar to following.
   
   

   Click the "Root" button
6. It will take some to finish the rooting process. Once it is done, you will see the success message in the SuperOneClick tool.

That’s all. You have successfully rooted your LG Nitro HD smartphone using the simple method described above.

How To Root the T-Mobile G2X

                                       

So you have your shiny new T-Mobile G2X and you’re already bored with it, wish it was a little faster, and/or want to get rid of all the software that happened to come on it that you’ll never use (T-Mobile Mail? Really?!). No problem. All you have to do is root it and all that can be yours. Read below for how to root the T-Mobile G2x. (Also be sure to head to the next procedure to flash a recovery image and the procedure after that to flash a custom ROM to get the most out of your new device!).

I. Install the Drivers

1. Download and install the drivers required for the G2X (hosted by JuneFabrics.com)

G2X Drivers

II. Root Using the SuperOneClick procedure.

1. Head to our How To Root Your Android Phone (SuperOneClick Method) procedure and follow the instructions in Section II only (download the program, run it, and click root).

2. Done!

How to Root the LG GT540 Optimus

                                         

Enabling Root access on the LG GT540 doesn’t seem to be a complicated process, you just have to dial a specific number and enable the root access from there. It is as simple as activating callertune from your network operator. To make it more easy, here’s a step-by-step guide that will teach you how to root the LG GT540 Optimus smartphone. Here you go:

I. Before You Begin:

1. The warranty of the device will be voided once you root it.

II. Rooting the LG GT540 Optimus:

1. Open the Dialler on your device and dial the following number:

3845#*540#

2. You will have a few options on your screen. Choose the option labeled Module Test.

3. Now, select the Stability Test followed by Enable Root Permission.

4. It should ask you to enter the password. Input the following:

:SWIFT::GT540:

5. The root access will then be enabled on your device.

6. Reboot your device.

7. When it boots up, head to Google Play and install the Superuser app.

8. Your device should be completely rooted now!

The LG GT540 Optimus itself allowed us to gain the root access and with the help of the Superuser, we now have privilege to provide system access to applications on your device.

SOURCE: modaco