HOW TO ROOT THE KARBONN A111

Indian Android Smartphones manufacturer, Karbonn Mobiles, has lately announced its budget-friendly Android device labeled as Karbonn A111. The device sports a large 5″ inch screen and is equipped with a 1.2GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM. With these specs, you should be fine with running some normal games but the resource-intensive games, such as from Gameloft, won’t work as smooth as they’d on any high-end smartphone. Recently a root method has been discovered for the device so you can access root-level files and make customizations on your device. In this guide, we’ll show you how you can root your Karbonn A111 smartphone and unlock the true potential of your device!

I. Before You Begin:

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

2. This works on Windows based PCs only.

3. You should have appropriate drivers installed on your PC.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. SRSRoot (Download link’s given at the bottom of the first post)

III. Rooting the Karbonn A111:

1. Download and place the SRSRoot file onto your Desktop.

2. Turn ON the USB debugging function on your device by heading to Menu>>Settings>>Developer options>>USB debugging.

3. Enable the Unknown sources option as well from Menu>>Settings>>Security>>Unknown sources.

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

5. Double-click on the SRSRoot executable file and it’ll launch.

6. Click on Root Device (Permanent) button in the tool as shown below:

Click on Root Device (Permanent)

7. It’ll start rooting your device.

8. Once your device’s rooted, reboot it.

9. And you’re all done!

Congrats! Your Karbonn A111 has been successfully rooted and you can now run root-only apps on your device!

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

How to Install ClockworkMod Recovery on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet

The official version of ClockworkMod Recovery isn’t out, yet for the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet, an unofficial version’s there to help you with your flashing tasks, though. If you’re just curious to know how well custom ROMs work on your device, this guide is going to be useful for you. Here we have compiled all the steps to install ClockworkMod Recovery on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet. Here you go:

I. Before You Begin:

1. Your device must be running on the Android ICS.

2. It must be rooted in order for the following procedure to work. You can root it from here.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. ClockworkMod Recovery Image (It’s attached in the first post of the thread)

2. Fastboot

III. Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet:

1. Place both the files you downloaded to the Desktop.

2. Extract files from the Fastboot archive to your Desktop. You will get adb.exe along with some other files.

3. Enable USB debugging on your device. Head to Menu>>Settings>>Applications>>Development>>USB debugging, tick-mark the box.

4. Connect the device to your PC with the help of the USB cable.

5. Open a Command Prompt Window on your Desktop. To do so, press and hold the Shift button on your keyboard and right-click on any empty area on the screen, then choose Open command window here.

6. Enter following commands into the Command Prompt Window:

adb push recovery.img /mnt/sdcard/
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.backup
dd if=/mnt/sdcard/recovery-<version>.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

7. Reboot your device and the procedure finishes here.

Awesome! You’ve successfully installed the ClockworkMod Recovery on your device, although it’s a ported version, it works fine!

How to Root the Micromax A110 Canvas 2

The Micromax A110 Canvas 2 is the successor of the Micromax A100, which was launched back in August, 2012 with a large 5″ inch screen. Most specifications of the new device remain same as its predecessor, however, there’re some noticable improvements on the camera side in the new one. In Canvas 2, you’ll find an improved 8MP Camera while the original Canvas had a 5MP Camera, this surely promises for better still capturing. The LED flash has also been upgraded to dual-LED flash and instead of a single core processor, the Canvas 2 boasts a Dual-Core processor, obviously for better performance and no sluggish game playing environment. A root method’s been discovered for the Canvas 2 and you if you want to root the device, we’ve put up a nice guide just below. Follow it and you’ll have your device rooted.

I. Before You Begin:

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

2. The following procedure works on Windows based PCs only.

3. You should have appropriate drivers installed on your PC.

II. Downloading Required Files:

1. Root Package (Download link’s available in the first post)

III. Rooting the Micromax A110 Canvas 2:

1. Download and place the Root Package archive on your Desktop.

2. Extract files from the archive to your Desktop. Don’t launch any files just yet.

3. Turn ON the USB debugging option on your device by simply heading to Menu>>Settings>>Developer options>>USB debugging.

4. Once it’s enabled, connect the device to your PC via USB cable.

5. Now, double-click on RunMe.bat file you extracted to your Desktop.

6. When it asks to choose the mode, select Normal mode.

7. Rest of the instructions to root the device will be shown on your screen. Just follow them.

8. Once rooting’s done, reboot the device.

9. You should be rooted now!

Amazing! Your Micromax A110 beast’s now having the power of Superuser and your favorite root-only apps are waiting for you!